#GMD BUT GO???

[dramalove247]

Going wild for Caged Again

Just because we love steak and wine doesn't mean we can't enjoy Doritos and Coke. We aren't interested in ripping apart Caged Again for not being steak, we knew we were eating Doritos. The flavor was a bit weird and unexpected with LOTS of cheese, but we hadn't realized how much we were craving this junk food watch and it hit the spot! We went back again and again and are highly satisfied.

Since the two of us have been talking nonstop about all the things we loved about this show, we decided to share with the class. And we want to hear about your favorite things!

Spoilers ahead... (warning, we used fast pass and watched all 10 episodes)

❤️We loved the unexpected layers to this show. The explorations of being human, connecting with others, learning to love and be loved. The gems about being yourself and found family. How life can be hard, scary and sad, but it's part of being human and to avoid it means losing the best parts of life as well.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 LOVED the Queer Love

We could go on about the queer representation and messaging in the show for days, but we won't. There's a lot there and this post is already going to be a novel. But we HAVE to talk about the AMAZING representation of queer relationships and family.

First, OMG! You had us at Porsch and Arm!!! That was already everything we needed, but then they showed them living a beautifully normal and domestic life together, plumbing included. For Junior and Sun to see this as an example of what they could be, to have this relationship as model, was eye opening for them and showed them they could be a family. This makes our queer hearts and mama selves so happy to see this. We want to see our children and the young people see these messages more often.

Plus the conversation around children... my heart!!! It was so precious to see their daughter in the last episode. We were obsessed with this couple and what they added to the show. This kind of representation is so important and refreshing.

❤️ Game over. We were 100% hooked when we saw Junior in these scenes. These were the moments when we realized we had needed a penguin boy in our life and had never known.

GIFS by @heretherebedork

❤️All the cute touches and explorations of their feelings and being human together 😍 They got us every time.

❤️Junior in a penguin suit... enough said.

We lied. We have things to say. This entire scene... realizing Sun is holding back his instincts to be around Junior... because he want's to eat him. Junior understanding clearly what that means and having no fear in exploring how to awaken those feelings. Plus there was a literal closet. And "babe". And roleplay clothes. We loved it all.

❤️OMG! They gave us CATNIP!!! We died the second we saw it.

Now... as hilarious as that scene was, and knowing that Junior was being thoughtful by giving Sun a gift he would love... did he just drug Sun? We're just going to ignore that so we can enjoy this scene without guilt.

❤️Sun talking about what it would be like if he could get Junior pregnant. DEAD. That was NOT in our bingo card for episode 10.

❤️We're obsessed with Mina "I'm even carrying the show now. Let's rescue our BL boys." "It's too late now. Only 3 episodes left." "Be boyfriends now!"

❤️Shout out to Jay Sorathon and his incredible facial expressions! He could have his own Junior emoji line. This show got so many instant replay moments because of those hilarious expressions and he deserves an award. And when Benjamin Greenwell started showing Sun's full smiles... melted. It was beyond precious and brought so much to Sun's character growth.

❤️The Jodd and Jeng confession was perfect! And hilarious.

💔Where is Junior's pebble??? That was a missed opportunity and we barely forgive you... but we do because you gave us catnip... and pregnant Junior musings.

What were your favorite things about the show???

[vidavalor]

Another image/scenario my brain gave me, submitted for examination...

Crowley, brooding like heck after TF15, is at GMC/GMD, or maybe some random cafe with outdoor seating, when Shax shows up looking horrendously smug. In a moment of petty, spiteful foolishness that's apparently strong enough to override her self-preservation instincts, she tosses a slightly heat-damaged ring and pocket-watch-and-chain onto the table and gloats to Crowley about how his ridiculous little angel is Satan's new favourite toy, so why shouldn't he (Crowley) take the opportunity to get an upgrade? [gestures to herself]

Crowley stands up, but otherwise goes very very quiet and very very still; Shax somehow fails to notice just how volcanically furious he is even though he's emitting rather a lot of smoke. She clues in somewhat when a red glow begins pulsing under his skin and he snarls, "An upgrade? YOU??? After ssssssix thousssssand yearsssss of Aziraphale?????" The penny really drops when Crowley smites her with lightning hard enough to outright discorporate her and leave the pavement where she was standing glowing white-hot.

Crowley flops back into his chair, picks up the ring and considers putting it on his finger, but then miracles up a chain to wear it around his neck instead, on the grounds that for anything involving rings and fingers, Aziraphale should be both physically present and lucid enough to provide input.

He turns his attention to the pocket watch, turning it in his hand and running his fingers over the so-familiar surface. He opens it, and receives rather a shock when he sees the photograph from 1941, miraculously shrunk down and fixed inside the lid! Once the emotions have worn off sufficiently, he closes the watch and attaches it to his own waistcoat, while planning a recklessly daring rescue mission.

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Not sure how in character any of this might be for Crowley or Shax, but what the heck! I really like the idea that the photo's in Az's pocket watch -- hidden in plain sight, in possibly the safest place in all Creation :D (No-one's going to be taking that watch from Az easily!)

...And I literally only realised while typing this that the scenario parallels a certain other shenanigan involving important memory-related things hidden in a pocket watch, with DT in a lead role! :D

This was wild in a great way, @jotun-philosopher! Shax really needs some work on romantic overtures... 😂 I love the idea of the photo being in Aziraphale's pocket watch! I know some people think they destroyed it and I could see it both ways but I'm a sap and hope they still have it hidden somewhere. Love the idea of the magician having it hidden secretly on him this whole time.

Your post had me a bit 😭 though (in an angsty, good way lol) because I realized that while I have thought about the fact that I think that S3 Aziraphale might look a bit different in the present, I haven't been thinking that much about how him getting to that point means the clothes he's been wearing for over 200 years and his watch and his ring are going to be gone. I know we had a short taste of that a little in S1 when he's discorporated but then when Adam brought him back, the full Aziraphale starter kit came back with him. There is the possibility that Aziraphale remains in the same outfit but it seems more likely to me that it'll change for a bit.

I'm thinking maybe it won't be quite so dire as him never having the option of recovering any of it that he might like to have if only because I feel like we can't have been looking at that angel ring for the last two seasons without it being given to Crowley but I have the feeling that while we'll undoubtedly love whatever Aziraphale's look in the present is, when the flashbacks start, we'll be all THE TARTAN BOW TIE, THE VEST, THE WATCH 😭😭😭for a bit.

[windienine]

hello!

you said to ask about Chuubo’s so um, here I am!

I have pitched Chuubo’s to my primary playgroup and when the time opens up we’re going to at least start session zeroing a few arcs of Glass Dragon. Which leads me to my questions:

1: how long did the prep for your OneShot episode take? How does that compare to like, usual session zeroing?

2: the things my playgroup knows about Chuubo’s are a collection of my incoherent excited screeches about how cool/strange the world is, that it’s diceless, and that it’s roleplay heavy with a greater emphasis on knowing the ending then they’re used to. Two of my players are into it, one is hesitant, and my maybe player is politely resistant to premade characters with premade arcs. How would you suggest introducing the system to new players?

3: any general HGing tips?

This might be less “in the weeds” than you were hoping. I would love to discuss lore when I have a campaign properly going.

the oneshot podcast episodes were a project put together with a series of people who run, play, and design games for a living. putting together your first session with friends is going to have different prep time, prep needs for individual players, and different overall scaffolding. APs take a different manner of prep than RPG sessions played with friends. however: i planned the general premise of the campaign beforehand over the course of a week and made up new quests between sessions. i had a roughly hour-long session zero with the players before our first recorded episode. in a regular session with friends i'd probably take more time to get them acquainted with the world and read through their playbooks with them, probably with more hands-on examples of how to play, and i'd mostly stick to the quests in gmd rather than make up my own quests wholesale to start with.

for my part i try to introduce the setting, premise, and characters first, and only use a basic framework of mechanics for the first little while. let players focus on accumulating experience points (and literal experience) before throwing the whole kitchen sink at them. my general advice is give them their quests, and let them futz around taking XP actions and stumbling into quest goals and develop a dynamic with each other before throwing any real obstacles into the mix. let them play. if someone doesn't seem into it during session zero/session one, i don't know if you'll get them to pull through for a longform campaign.

talk out scenes beforehand. ask players what they want out of a given scene (characters they want involved, xp goals they want to hit, etc.) and provide scaffolding for it, and if they have no ideas, provide some options for them until they get the hang of coming up with scene ideas on their own. let players explore around and interact with the world. try to keep scenes 30 minutes long or shorter, if you can, to start with (scene bloat is real and preventable). it's okay to end a scene and then decide what kind of xp action it counted as after the fact. take lots of breaks. talk about what you liked about a scene after the fact, if that makes you feel good. keep things quick, light, and casual. this isn't an exam, you're not being graded. have fun.

[wickedgodmother]

This is for my tabletop RPG folks. I am in mourning for my Pathfinder group, and it is so painful. I am wondering if other people have had a similar experience.

I was in a group of friends that regularly played tabletop RPGs together - D&D, Numenera, long games and one-shots. There were two people who GMd, and they were both amazing storytellers and some of the best GMs I have ever had in my many hears of tabletop and live action gaming. We were roommates with one of them, I’ll call her R, and for the last year we had been playing a game with her, our other roomie, my partner, and the best GM ever, H. It was a pathfinder game, but set in the D&D Eberron setting. It was such a good game. H had worked with each of the players to create backstories that were complex and full of interesting trauma, and better yet connected to the main plot. I was only beginning to see how they all connected, and the ways that all of our player stories were intertwined. It felt like a novel - like our stories were inevitably twisted into a greater story within this world that we could not escape. I could see the complex plot coming together and I was SO EXCITED. The section of the story we were in, we were heading towards Stormreach, where my character was from. I was so ready for her trauma or people from her past to rear its head and force me to reveal her backstory to the rest of the party. I was so excited to see if the theories I had as a player about how it was all connected were correct.

But then things soured with the roommates. For our own emotional, mental, and physical safety my partner and I had to leave that house fast. And R did not take it well. I don’t want to go into the details, but it was horrible and messy, and R and a third roommate who was not part of the rpg group became strange and distant and iced us out.

The tabletop group fell apart. At first I was sure we would start playing again, once things calmed down and we all had some space from each other. But then I contacted H (they live out of state, so we have never met in person, and talk mostly over discord) And they completely ghosted me. I did not expect this. They are longtime friends with R, and I suppose she told them some story of what happened from her point of view, and made my partner and me out to be the villains. But I did not expect H to react this way. We are all in our 30s and 40s, and H is a very grounded, drama-free adult. Them just ghosting me is like a punch to the gut. Were we not also becoming friends? Did our game and our friendship mean so little to them?

The reason I am posting here is that my family and friends are sympathetic, but don’t seem to understand the depth of my mourning, except maybe my partner. It feels like a piece of my soul has been ripped away. It feels like someone taking a novel you were reading that was so good and you were so invested in out of your hands and burning it. Except you are also the author. And you will never be able to finish writing it, since you are a co-author. And the community, the friends, the sense of camaraderie, the monday nights you always looked forward to - gone. All gone.

I don’t know where I am going with this. I have played for years, but the loss of a group has never hit me this hard. I miss being my character every week, she was so cool. I miss the other party members, they felt like real people, like my friends, who I may never see again. And I miss the players behind them too. The greif of losing a party is so real. Monday nights are hard.

[joelywoely]

@frogg0th

I nearly died while making this animatic, it's based on my desert duo au

(song: Emilie Autumn - nothing)

[necroneos]

Babygirl

I did this because I find it baffling how the Persona dance models seem to have 0 head and face bones but bodies have all bones

which is understandable but at the same time ridiculous since they're making faces in and out of dancing mode. Note: these are the original .gmd models, not MMD ones I've tried another dump somebody here on Tumblr did and WukiWakoto's models @ deviantart (which aren't in mmd format and for some reason they didn't have the head models as well...?)

does anybody know the reason for this? I am mystified. I tried looking up the problem but all i got was everybody going oooo and ahhh in awe over the quality of the models. or just a listing on where each model is located

[hostess-of-horror]

I'm having so many ideas and not enough energy to do or finish any of them AAAAAAAAAAAA-

Just so that I don't just wallow in my inability to get off my ass and do this shit, I'm going to type it all down!

1. The Haunted Mansion movie (done right!)

- This one is actually based on a slew of Discord convos between me and AJ (@sneklover). It was mostly just me ranting about how God awful Disney's live action remakes are getting and what I would've done if I were to make the iconic attraction a film or t.v. show.

- I have seen the original live action Haunted Mansion movie with Eddie Murphy but not the newest one, BUT MY POINT STILL STANDS! Both are literally the same thing where the story focuses more on the Foolish Mortals than the Happy Haunts and I do not like that.

- If I were to film a Haunted Mansion movie/show, I would make it an anthology horror movie. Think Tales From The Crypt or Creepshow but with Master Gracey telling the stories behind iconic characters such as the Hatbox Ghost, Constance Hatchaway, the two Dueling Ghosts in the ballroom, etc. At some point towards the end, Master Gracey would then tell his story, of how he inherited the mansion, was cursed as the Ghost Host by the mansion itself, and how he tried in vain to lift the curse.

- I remember telling my mom about my idea and, while she loved it, did say that Disney would not like it because they want to put out a more broad demographic. "They're not catering to us," she said (paraphrased). Which makes sense, I just jokingly mentioned to AJ how Disney wouldn't hire me for stuff like this lmao.

- My Haunted Mansion would be a love letter to the Gothic Horror genre and dark humor. An old Louisiana mansion that's haunted in more ways than one, its owner an unwilling slave on the brink of insanity, and all the tales of death kept within its walls. And these tales are nothing short of harrowing, as well as hilarious!

2. Vincent Price x Self-Insert Fanart

- I love this old man so fucking much I wanna kiss him I wanna dance with him I wanna cuddle with him I wanna slowly drive him into insanity so that I can see him smile lovingly at me I wanna be the harbinger of his downfall and his eternal bride aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa- 🖤🖤🖤😩🙌🥴🥴🥴

- So yeah, pretty much what it says on the tin. I was inspired by the very talented @theboarsbride for the idea and Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, starring the Handsome Devil of Horror himself Vincent Price, and wanted to make an AU.

- Masque AU where Francesca (the main character) does give in to the dark side, but of her own volition, transforming into the Red Death. The Red Death is both a Reaper and a Resurrection - a purveyor of plagues and a damsel turned demon. A Bride in Blood...

- It's basically a sort of rewrite of the original ending and now it's sorta... 🌶️spoicy🌶️ so, um.... yea. smexy monster lady x human stuffs.

- ANYWAYS...!

3. Walt Disney's The Great Mouse OC

- I've been wanting to do something with the GMD fandom for a long while now, and I think a hypothetical OC from an hypothetical sequel fanfic would be a good introduction!

- So, in a nutshell: She's a mad scientist spider who is the new secondary villain of said sequel. She has no name as of yet, but she is mute (either from an injury or is simply nonverbal), extremely passionate about her grotesque experiments, and very, very lonely. Unlike Ratigan, the Greatest Criminal Mind, she is more somewhat spontaneous, preferring the tasks of stitching her family together over anything tactic. In other words, she's the brawns while Ratigan is the brains (and brawns). Her goal in villainy is to build and destroy - to build her long lost family and to destroy all of micedom.

- While she is the one who caused the whole case, the main focus on the story is mainly the ✨tension✨ between Basil and Ratigan. In other words, opening up old wounds... by resurrecting the dead!

- Yup, Sherlock Holmes: Furry Edition is now becoming a Gothic horror story. Heavily inspired by Little Nightmares II, Jack the Ripper, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the sequel is a tale of murder and madness, with a bloodcurdling case and a rivalry that won't stay dead.

- In this fanfic, I interpreted that Ratigan did die in GMD and so that he could be resurrected by my OC in the sequel! I also wanted to have Fidget resurrected but AJ doesn't like to think of her lil guy dead, so... Yeah, Ratigan is the Frankenstein's Monster and Phantom of the Opera of the plot. (POTO because I thought of the sequel's climax being set during an opera)

- Meanwhile, Basil and Dawson are having a Very Bad Time, with Basil constantly being haunted by the professor and Dawson mentally reliving his days at the regiment.

- Disney will never hire me.

[dailypersonamodding]

Friday, March 31, 2023

In Persona 5 Royal, just before New Year's, Joker has a strange dream in Shujin Academy as he transitions into Maruki's Cognitive Reality. But how does this scene work, on a technical level? Strictly speaking, like this. Gross.

Let's go step by step and cover what exactly is going on here. In P5R, every time slot of every day is controlled by a "Scheduler" BF File. BF, otherwise known as Binary Flowscript, is a low-level bytecode scripting format created by ATLUS back in 2004 that most Persona games use. The game loads a Scheduler function based on the current timeslot, and each function is named after the timeslot it occurs on, so we can determine this takes place on Year 1, December 31st in the Late Evening.

It's important this takes place on the Late Evening instead of next morning, as the shading and coloring data of Shujin Academy at night is much more moody and appropriate. Additionally, at night, all NPCs in Shujin are despawned.

After turning off the Date UI, the game loads Event ID 485_310, a sort of precursor where Joker wakes up confused in Maruki's Office.

Afterwards, the script sets COUNT values 18 and 22. COUNT values are special integers stored in the game's save data but often come with special properties. 18 and 22 set Joker's current field model ( .GMD ) and animation set ( .GAP ). 18 parses the integer as several arguments, in this case loading c0001_117_00.GMD, while 22 loads the requested field animations in BF0001_212.GAP. c0001_117_00.GMD is his Velvet Room Prisoner attire with GAP 212 being a slow, shambling walk.

After setting many flags in the game's memory linked to specific features like disabling the main Triangle menu, the game sets COUNT 0X10 ( A.K.A 16 ) and calls Keyfree Event 651_103. While a regular Event in the game is a regular cutscene, a Keyfree Event is a sequence where you're allowed to walk around. Take for example, any chase scenes or special sequences. Keyfree events work by essentially overriding every file associated with a specific field, whether it be trigger data, npc placement, script functions, etc, and replacing it with special curated Keyfree files.

Interestingly, this Keyfree chose specifically not to include a modified INIT script, so the scene where joker glances around and assumes he needs to go home is actually performed by the normal Shujin Academy INIT script every time you load into the field. This is why COUNT 16 is set before loading the Keyfree, the Shujin Academy INIT checks this value to determine which of several Keyfree story sequences it's in to pass onto MAIN_65110100_MidnightSchool_Ready()

After setting the Place Name from Shujin Academy to ??? - ??? and redundantly setting Joker's model and animations, EVT_CA_START() applies a wavy Chromatic Aberration to the screen, making it appear hazy.

The rest of the script is dedicated to making joker walk into the hallway and setting up the Blue Butterfly you chase, which is actually an NPC!

Set along the hallways are various invisible trigger boxes that activate the function EVT_CA_BUTTON_ANIME(), a special function created mostly just for this scene that temporarily paints the screen blood red while increasing the strength of the hazy Chromatic Aberration.

This is how the Keyfree event mostly plays out! Various invisible triggers exclusive to this Keyfree are hit that tell the game to move the butterfly farther away while playing specific voicelines and at the very end the last trigger plays a normal Event showing Joker rejecting the new reality before proceeding on with Year 2, January 1st! That's all for now, see you soon!

[fumifooms]

Hi I adored your chilchuck/marcille fanfic, "grind me down sweetly", that was so lovely!! i ate it up with like no hesitation! i was wondering if you were considering writing more of them? thank you so much for all your work and thank you for sharing it with us!

First of all thank you so so much!! Every nice word and kudos mean the world to me, and for rarepairs they're all the more cherished 💖 And yes anon, I absolutely do plan on making more for them! As much as I can manage, a library's worth if possible. They're my absolute Dungeon Meshi OTP and Dunmeshi’s been my obsession for like 10 months now, I'm a huge shipper & I love making fancontent and yeahh it's not stopping anytime soon. Though I am a slow writer... And I really should get around to finishing my older non-dunmeshi wips too 😫

I’ve talked about marchil fanfic prompts/wips a couple times on here, and very recently even about a sequel to Grind Me Down Sweetly actually! The fic’s a lot about having a familiar routine with someone and sort of growing used to that, to knowing someone like that and with sharing his days and his living space with someone again, about growing open to the idea that maybe just maybe he and Marcille could have something in the first place. And it’s kept pretty platonic due to that and whatnot, but I recently thought that, since the arc of him becoming more aware and open to the relationship got done in GMDS, doing a sequel where we actually see the relationship grow more romantic would be cute!! Warming up to the romantic nature of their relationship like settling down into a cozy couch. And this time rather than coffee it’ll be centered around what all the best cafes have… Cats!

Gonna summarize the concepts of some of my marchil fic wips under the cut, if you’d rather go in blind when they… Eventually get written, then you can just stop here and safely be assured that I am 100% planning on writing more for them! Oh, btw I also take prompts and requests, though I can’t promise anything.

Alright so GMDS sequel: I think in canon both Marcille and Chilchuck have a special dynamic with Izutsumi, where they care after her, not unlike Senshi but with more feelings attached. With her traveling around, I feel like every once in a while they’d talk about her, dealing with the worry and the uncertainty. Marcille is like "My fragile baby bird out into the world… She needs to at least live to be 100 years old 😭" while Chil knows how it’s like and just trusts her to be alright, like with Puckpatti. And so!! Every time she sees a stray cat while strolling out her heart pangs… There are many strays in Chilchuck’s neighborhood, and with her pushing for it they start leaving some food out for them. At one point she sees one standing out in the rain all pitifully in front of Chil’s shop and she invites it in (to Chilchuck’s despair), and from then on it’s still a stray but it has a home to go back to… Until Marcille officially adopts it. And it can showcase Marcille and Chil’s growing relationship alongside that metaphorically, where she sorta moves in and they grow more boldly affectionate, and it’s like… Domesticating love… 😌 Man didn’t want a cat, a cat daughter nor a new lover, but they took a liking to him and were stubborn about getting close to him and now there they all are. I like to say that post-canon despite Chil living alone in his shop he gets a second family of clingy asses, and this is exactly what I mean. Vibe wise I’d like it to have that cozy energy of spending a slow afternoon at a nice quiet cafe on a rainy day, but we’ll see how I manage it! It’s not the highest on my writing priorities currently though.

Other marchil fic ideas I’ve talked about are… Following them on that time pre-canon where they went to shop for a pouch together would be cute. I have a long post talking about them being sick and caring for each other would be like and that’d make a fun whump fic too. He gets sick and she dotes on him, she indulges herself and kisses him anyways, and then of course he passes it on to her right as he gets better so then it’s her turn getting taken care of hehe.

This one’s more convoluted, so either Marcille invites him to a fancy social event at the castle as her plus-one (aka emotional support) maybe already dating maybe on the verge of confessing, OR they’re already dating and then Marcille’s mom visits them and it’s very sweet and maybe marriage talks happens~, but in both cases Chilchuck is going through SO much stress. Just Chilchuck’s heart being on the absolute edge of giving out, going through the five stages of grief over the banquet not having his favorite kind of alcohol and Marcille not letting him be an ornamental plant in the corner of the room and doing the bare minimum. Or having to engage with her mom and seeming worthy of being her lover as his shit is only barely pulled together after they hurry to ready his house to host her as a guest. And I have a bunch of wips where I tackle them properly doing a confession or a proposal… I was planning on making a comic about it even. Here’s a lil taste of them talking about getting into a relationship together~

And you know what, here are some new exclusive ones I hadn’t shared yet that I’d really like to get around to making

In the meantime if you want I have a ton of analysis and headcanon posts about marchil on this blog, and fanarts here, and @fumiku is my fanfic blog with updates + for fanfic related asks (which rarely gets used rip).

I have non-marchil dunmeshi fanfics I want to prioritize too, but idk idk I’ll see what I end up getting around to… I like having a new vision to offer with each fic, so I tend to prioritize fics that take a new angle for the same ship or tackle different characters and themes, so I can see myself pushing myself to do other stuff before falling back into my marchil comfort zone.

[dramalove247]

Yes we are still watching Brewing Love. Why do we have to have a job and sleep?

Omg! Why is this show so freaking great?!?! ❤ We are enjoying Brewing Love so much and it keeps getting better and better! This show seriously was like "how can we take this super adorable show and make it cuter???" We love everything about it. And these scenes 😍 Min Ju and Hwi are the best!

The face Hwi made!!! 👇 Totally unexpected and that needed an instant replay...

The drunk pouting...

Bed head...

And our favorite..... (drum roll please)

👆 this scene had us dying! HILARIOUS! Also... we NOW need that to be a series. pleeeeeease

Shout out to @dramatictrajectory for posting all the GIFS we were looking for!!! 😍

[ifuckingloveryoshu]

Bleh. Not really tagging I need to un-blorbify Ryoshu in my head but also, I want to be selfish and keep thinking self shipping thoughts. What a hassle. I already tell people that I write her or characterize her too nice. That is my bias, (not that I am writing anything at all even, its all just imaginary again) and what have you. The rest of this post is more about my thoughts on what I've read about the book Violence: A Writers Guide by Roy Miler, and vaugly rambling.

I have a pdf of the book, Violence: A Writers Guide. I still haven't set the time off to read it because I am infamous for managing time and acting on impulse. Anyways.

I feel when people do dislike Ryoshu or just see her as only sadistic murderer, they are here. I guess. Contrary to the name, I can understand why people not like Ryoshu. Honestly, as long as she continues to be written well, I will keep loving her even if her views don't align with mine. I'm prepared for if Ryoshu turns out to be the greatest artist of all the lands but ends up not the greatest mother. Hard to vocalize but you can dearly love your child so, so much, but activly be hurting them. I never want that to be forgotten because LOVE itself is a double edged sword. Never the end all be all. To open youself up to others and to live loved and loving means opening yourself up to getting hurt or hurting them. Someone else who has more life experience then I do, more experince with living, and one who is more sure of themselves could explain it better. I am not in the right place. Oh, but it is still varying from person to person, as lot of things dealing with humans tend to do.

Its too late to be typing so much but, from what section of this i've read are the levels of agression as followed: Nice, Manipulative, Assertive, Agressive, Assaultive, and Murderous. Nice are pacifist who don't use any agression. Manipulative takes advantage of nice people by passivly getting their way (maybe think blackmail or just good 'ol manipulation.) Assertive will set bounderies and use soft power to inforce those boundaries, Agressive will make threats of violence and yell out (think heavy verbal abuse.). Assultive will actually hit the aggressive person and feel justified about it. Murderous is just good ol murder.

Ryoshu is murderous but all the people on that bus have to be knocked down to the assultive level by default. They can't activly go around murder hoboing all the time. Outis is the only other sinner who I'd put in murderous because she can openly advocates like a professional. To quote the book, "A professional does not fight you, doesn’t even think about fighting you. He takes you out." And I think that fits Outis well if she weren't just stuck to Dante. Or I'm overestimating Outis' capabilities. Meursalt just doesn't apply to this scale at all. He is a special case that just does as hes told with little to no fuss. Hes not suggesting murder but he'll just do it if hes told. Even if hes not told, even before the bus, I still haven't read his book but come on. We kind of know the sun in the eyes thing.

Side Tangent: Hong Lu, Gregor and Yi Sang are in assertive. Hong Lu, im skeptical about because he is confusing. I have no idea what's going on in his brain, he has lived in an enviornment of high violence probably while being in a Nest which is strange. He just acts so care free, but there's something else there. We all know. Sinclair is just being forced gradually up there to assultive. Yi Sang has been persecuted but violence is not his first answer to things. Even if Gregor was in the Smoke War as a war veteran, his attitude does not strike me as assultive because he tries to talk things out, he was more of a PR boy, and what his bug arm does unvoulentarily is diffrent from what Gregor himself wants to do. Sinclair just keeps going from agrressive to assaultive, then to murderous with Kromer. He's developing and breaking out of his shell so he really isn't set.

I'm going to bed but

GMD: Not Limbus but uninvited guest in uhh Library Of Ruina

EBD: Virgilius and Don Quinnote scene. Virgillius just to any sinner. Maybe N Corp and Kromer and Sinclair to teach Sinclair a lesson. Uh. Erliking Heathcliff to Heathcliff roughly.

SSS: Anything sydicate related honestly.

Predatory Violence is just The City. It's just the way of the City, at least the areas outside the Nest.

There is a lot more intresting stuff in this book. Maybe when I decide to read more, ill just screw around I guess. uh. Thank for reading.

[arttheclown]

i don’t know if i want to main-tag this because i have no interest in fighting with disney adults or rabid shippers or w/e but since i’m on the topic, fidget is just… really treated badly by the GMD fandom in general. his presence is just Erased or he’s reduced to being a non-person who doesn’t get to say or do much beyond lingering in the background in fics. when he IS involved, i’ll sometimes see people infantilizing him (as if he isn’t shown drinking, going to burlesque shows or implied to be a hired killer). it would be one thing if he was just a funny side character but he does play a very active and prominent role in the film. his presence is integral to ratigan getting what he wants/needs, they clearly have Some kind of relationship even if it’s just a working one… and people just. idk. they cannot be bothered with fidget and as someone who found him to be one of the most endearing and compelling characters in TGMD it makes me sad

[aryburn-trains]

Only a few months old at the time, shiny GO Transit F40PH 511 heads up a westbound 9-car train of new bilevels and an APCU on the tail end, passing by Spadina Avenue just west of Toronto's Union Station. GO 511 was part of a six-unit order of F40PH units built by GMD at their London ON plant in April-May 1978, a change from GO's previous orders of freight GP40-2W units. New F59PH deliveries a decade later would result in GO flipping the six orphan units to Amtrak in 1990. 511 would see another decade of service on Amtrak as their 411, and would go on to work AMT's commuter operations out of Montreal. It last saw service on the the Saratoga & North Creek Railway (via LTEX) with another ex-Amtrak F40. The bilevel cars trailing are also new, part of the first order built by Hawker Siddeley and in service for a little over a year since introduction in March 1977. Since the first bilevel order included no cab cars, another locomotive, APCU, or old Hawker Siddeley single-level cab car had to be used on the other end in the early years. This scene off Spadina Avenue is notable in that it's under transition: the old CN steam-era freight platforms, team tracks and yard trackage east of Bathurst Street yard are still present, but truncated for the new CN Tower's parking lot (note the yellow bridge crossing the rail corridor near TTR's John St. interlocking tower). In later years the RBC's new data center (325 Front St. W), the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and CN's L'Hotel would fill much of the vacant land along Front Street in the 80's. The usual downtown office towers of the day including the TD Centre, Royal Bank Plaza, CP Hotel's Royal York, and the CNCP Telecommunications Building (151 Front Street) are quite unobscured compared to today. July 30, 1978 Bill Mischler photo

[itskobold]

Since my shirt is once again going around: I am very much looking forward to being able to post about Chuubo’s when my campaign ends. Unfortunately engaging too closely with the community right now makes me absolutely insane. I can’t cope with my own ideas, the ideas I glean through a deliberately cursory glance into fanart tags and comprehensive discussion with other people who have active GMD campaigns and are making wildly different choices. The scope of GMD is so expansive that I have to draw the line somewhere. My level of preparations for this game already border on “mildly to moderately obsessive”.

[ohmystaxk]

Hey everyone! A wanted to give a little update.

First of all, thank you very much for reading the first part of Goodbye, My Dear Stranger we are getting closer to 300 notes and you guys have been so sweet and nice, seriously thank you so much for the support.

Part 2 of GMDS is currently finish but since my English isn't as crisp as I would like it to be, I have a friend of mine editing it, but since she is a little busy with college it's taking longer than I would like it, but thanks to her the first part looks so much better. (Thank you so much sweetie!)

I am currently working on part 3! Which I am super exited for you guys to read. At the moment I am sick, so I am using this time to write since I am not able to go to work until I'm clear to do so.

Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[darkhorse-javert]

The Veiw from the Cellars- A crumb of Comfort

'The Great Mouse Detective' x 'Granada Holmes'- but following the Granada timeline rather than GMD setting. (spoilers for The Final Problem)

No idea where this came from suddenly, but I like it.

After that night of fragmented chaos, when Holmes comes back and then is gone again out the window, Two humans leave Baker Street

Weeks and weeks later, only one returns. The doctor. But of the tall one, there is no sign. For a night and a day after he we convince ourselves, or try to that Mr Holmes must merely be out on a case, he has been even more chaotic in his presence before both went away.

"But there is the incontrovertable fact, Basil points out, in a hollow voice, "that Mrs Hudson does not cook or fuss, but looks as if she has been stunned, sitting there in silence. And Dawson, note the Doctor's shift in cloth, blacker than a bat's wing. And the cravat at his throat, which he does not normally wear, is also black. I fear," the inestimable mouse slueth bows his head "that Mr Sherlock Holmes is no more."

Holmes... gone? it was almost inconceivable, even for me, who had seen war. But the great Holmes, he was not a sensible human, inspite of his intellect, but to be dead.

"it was most likely Moriaty," Basil muses softly, "That thoroughly reptilian character who visited a few days ago. He had the eyes of the worst sort of cat and rat combined, Dawson, it was good you and Mrs Judson were both absent, or you both might have been scared out of your fur."

Basil's admission to snooping notwithstanding, we are supposed to generally keep ourselves out of the way of the two-legged inhabitants of Baker Street. Most humans being how they are about mice, it's safer that way.

And yet I find myself creeping up the house late that night, through the little sneaks and passageways, drawn by sound until I am in the Great Sitting Room, where poor Dr John Watson sits in his accustomed armchair by the fire, weeping equal to a winter downpour.

His eyes look anywhere but the chair directly opposite him, so horribly empty. One hand is clenched painfully tight, only a glint of silver showing through the fingers in the low light of the room.

Oh Doctor. I creep forwards, paw by paw, slipping out onto the Mantlepiece, to the very edge.

"Hello little one," Watson croaks around his tears, lifting his head to look up at me, "Come to see what's going on? Hope I didn't wake you."

I sit up as tall as I can and shake my head. He half rises, and reaches out a hand, i patter onto it, and he lifts me down to sit on his chair arm. He touches me gently with a finger tip, just brushing down the back of my jacket.

He knows of me, a little seen me in his wakeful nights. he doesn't know quite how many times I ran over his hands to wake him from the paralysing nightmares that I too know so well.

Watson's breathing is hard, ragged and wrenched

"He's gone, little fellow," he whispers, "I left him, I fell for that message luring me away, and he died... He's gone." He's crying again, and I press against his hand, reaching my paw, as if a little mouse such as myself can offer comfort to such pain as he is feeling. But from the fact he does not flinch away, I think even my offering, small as it is , may be welcomed.