#I have at least 4 more that I want to add

[howlsofbloodhounds]

hello howl! do you have any favorite hcs of killer that you or someone else created? do yap if there's a lot, my brain is deprived of killer🥺

Alright, this are mostly about Stage 2 because he’s on my mind. Feel free to add on with yalls own killer hcs.

1. That Killer has ADHD. Probably a stereotype born from fanon killer’s personality, but I like it if it’s done well. (Which i rarely see, but that has been changing recently!)

2. That killer is some degree of blind or in general has a hard time seeing. Makes me think his other senses would be a lot better than his sight—especially his vision worsens depending on what Stage he’s in.

3. That he and Chara did pinky wears and the pink swears were sacred—not capable of being broken or the other has the right to kill or torture the snitch however they want. (My HC.) (Alexa play secret)

4. That Chara gave Killer Asriel’s half of the heart locket/golden locket, the one that said “bffs forever.” Especially if Killer has come to associate it with control, and it’s the only way to gain control over a Killer who has been stuck in Stage 4.

5. That his SOUL is a record player of all his victims dying, fearful, hurt, painted, angry, hateful and frantic words. Or at least Killer thinks it is—as he constantly hears them in his head whenever he attempts to resist killing or hurting anyone in Stage 1, and the constant flood of internal degradation is overwhelming enough to trigger Stage 4. The last part seems be somewhat canon, but the record player isn’t.

6. Cannibal Killer, started by me, holds a little place in my heart.

7. Cathearted and Angelkin Killer. Love it. Angelkin was @justanidiotartist’s idea.

8. Princess Killer. As in there is a timeline where he and Chara overthrew Asgore’s rule and became the royals of the Underground for a time.

9. That a part of Killer’s conditioning and training was being taught royal etiquette by Chara. It was framed and hidden under the disguise of learning something new, and a game— a way to keep Killer entertained and avoid boredom, therefore keeping him stable while implementing further rules and structure—but of course it had its typical violence and the use of Resets was often if Killer ever made a mistake or forgot a single thing.

He was taught to hold himself and carry himself as “something more,” above the others in the Underground, but never above Chara and not as real as anyone else.

His spine is always straight, trying to maintain a composed demeanor even when leaning into his silly behavior and extroverted mask. He eats his food in a very specific practiced manner without conscious thought, using his hands and utensils in a specific way.

He only eats when the “Queen” (Chara, Nightmare) eats, and stops when they stop—regardless of if he’s finished or not. Sarcastic, overly exaggerated bowing and signs of deference towards Nightmare—“Your Majesty,” “Your Highness,” in a deadpan, sarcastic manner.

And this one’s a bit more canon, but he copies and mimics Chara’s ways of speaking in a formal manner— such as how he says “greetings” instead of “hello” or “hey.” Often more obvious when addressing those he views higher and above him, or when stressed.

Maintaining old habits of perfectionism and cleanliness despite appearing outwardly apathetic, as if he doesn’t really know why he does it, he just does. His spaces are to be ordered and clean, all gear and weapons done in a certain way, and it’s probably more than once he’s corrected the others gang members postures and manners of eating or speaking.

One thing Chara never managed to make him stop doing was putting his hands on the table. He did that then and he’ll keep doing it. (Somewhat canon. Bro always has his hands on the table.)

10. Killer has the same fascination with the number 9 that Chara does. My HC.

11. Killer with schizoid personality tendencies. My HC. (Bit more complicated than that.)

12. Killer is subconsciously drawn to heart imagery—especially upside down hearts. He will often absentmindedly trace them on his bones/carve them, or draw on paper. It calms down his body. Especially after having failed some type of mission—both when killing or refusing to kill.

13. He stims. They’re small and not noticeable if you aren’t looking, easily dismissed as something else, but he stims. My HC. (I like to think his whole clasping hands over the soul/chest in prayer gesture is a happy stim and a nervous one. And also finger guns.)

14. He is a romantic. But only in his own head and fantasies.

15. Golden flower tea..yum.

16. He treats his weapons and animals better than he treats actual people or himself.

17. Stage 2 will blatantly ignore you if you try to call him Sans. (Somewhat canon.)

18. Stage 2 is mostly apathetic and indifferent but also distrustful of children. My Hc.

19. Chara and Killer’s relationship has been through just about any type of dynamic you can think of. Creator/creation, parent/child (both have played this role), teacher/mentee, enemies, friends, partners. Anything but equals.

20. He is actually very good at knife tricks. Will only fail when he wants to cut himself on purpose, or wants to make someone laugh.

21. Actually a pretty good caretaker, at least physically. Mentally and emotionally tending to a patient needs some work.

22. GNC fashionita.

23. Believes having no needs will make him invulnerable and free.

24. That a more humanized Killer would have long black hair he styles in many different ways. Also that he has a hooked nose and still doesn’t look entirely human.

25. The idea that he gives himself something like tattoos that remind him of Color in his Good Ending. Gradient flaming heart rainbows like Jinx’s blue cloud tattoos. My HC.

26. Catlike behaviors. Yeah. Including being very petty and causing problems for no obvious reasons.

27. Various forms or presentations of pet or age regression depending on the Stage.

28. Hates feeling too exposed physically. ✨ body issues ✨

29. Would’ve thrown the comfort plushie Color gave to him for when he’s Stage 1 away if it the plushie didn’t have an excellent texture. (Is the reasoning he gives.)

30. Acts of service. Just come to him instinctively. Very parentified eldest daughter coded I think.

[moomeecore]

Here's some more GoFundMe's I've donated to recently - Please try to match at least one of my donations if you can, and share if you can't! If you decide to match my donation, I encourage you to reblog saying so, in order to help encourage people to donate by showing them that other people on here are donating as well!

Smahan and family - vetted here - Smahan and her three children (ages 11 months, 5 years, and 11 years) have managed to evacuate to Egypt and later Morocco, but Smahan's husband, Hashem, is still in Palestine, because they didn't have the funds needed for the entire family to evacuate. A friend of Smahan's has made this GoFundMe on her behalf, with the goal to collect the money needed to help bring Hashem over the border and reunite the family. Their cat, Lulu, is also stuck in Palestine, but she went missing and they don't know her whereabouts, but are hoping that if she is well and is found in time, that she could be brought over the border too. It sounds like Hashem and his kids are very close, and they miss him a lot. This includes their 5 year old son, who has special needs. You can also learn more about them on their Instagram and their tumblr @support-hashem. They have raised £2,152 out of their £50,000 goal (usually I donate 5$ but I bumped it up to 10 for this one because their funds are unusually low - only 4%)

Ayaa and family - vetted - Ayaa is 24 years old and worked as a language teacher. The fundraiser is to support her, her parents, and her eight siblings after their home and later their car were destroyed. It will be used to pay for their continued survival and hopefully evacuation to Egypt. The current goal is a short-term goal, as the full price of evacuation will cost them around $60,000. They have raised $16,630  out of their $35,000 goal - Donated some extra (7$) for this one too because their funds are so low. Ayaa's tumblr is @ayooshgaza if you want more info (although it seems she has multiple accounts)

Mohammed Aldeeb and family - vetted - Mohammed is a doctor who specializes in emergency care. His home and the hospital he worked at were destroyed. The funds will be used to help him and his family evacuate to Egypt. There isn't much information about them, other than that they are a family of four, and include his brother. His tumblr is @mohammedaldeeb. The family has raised €44,653 out of their €55,000 goal

Mohammed Tahsen and family - Can't find a vetted page but I trust he's real. If anyone can find him on a vetted list PLEASE send it to me so I can add it here! - From this post! People accused Mohammed of fishing for attention just because he posted pictures of cat who had gone missing after he found him... Which just feels so incredibly mean. It's unfair to accuse people in need of "looking for attention" for posting about their pets and children. Mohammed and his family (which includes his 12 year old brother) have $61,817 raised out of their $75,000 goal

See my other posts about donations here and here

[strab3rr]

hi love,

How did you induce pure consciousness xx

i know u guys love big stories -i love those things too- but im sorry i don’t have any

but i can try to make it seem bigger 4 u.

it was a sunny day

it was a normal day

at least i thought it was…

i make a brunch w my mom and then we go buy some groceries

did i mention it was a sunny day..

there was so much sweat blood and tears(i was on my period)

then we got home

i dayreamed while i study russian and math(tears again)

than i watched my fav show(supernatural)

and finally dinner time w my family 🎉🎉🎉🎉

i got dishes and go straight to my room

usually we have some tea after dinner

but i had cramps so i just go to bed w a pill

when i realized the pill worked i tried to sleep and get some rest

but i couldn’t so i thought i can do pinteresting🎀

i add some pins to my silly little boards(therapy)

then i saw a pin/tumblr post(wait im gonna try to find that)

after reading this pin, i remembered the posts i was readin on tumblr (b4dprincess’s posts)

then i opened tumblr and continued to read those

when i was done w reading i was like 👍 ok this is it

its my reality how hard can it be?

i put my phone down and take one deep breath

(oh noooo theres only 10gif/image allowed on mobile, i was havin fun aaaaa)

life saving emojiiiss

😮‍💨

and thats it

i did nothing but taking that one deep breath (physically)

i focused on everything but my body

i think about the dates i will have w him

i think about my house, neighborhood

i daydreamed my pets

the clothes

friends and the more i think about these things i was feeling closer

some point i felt like im levitating and drowning at the same time, this is the part i got scared but be cool abt it

affirmations ive said while being cool:

i am detached from any realities

i am here and there, everywhere and nowhere

i am everything and nothing

i am, i am, i am

i am nothing but my soul

i am beyond of any physical world

i am i am

i induced my pure consciousness within seconds

i am

i am

i am

i said ‘i am’ till i felt nothing

for a second i thought i didn’t make it but again be cool abt it (bc: dont let them know ur next move)

i felt ready and opened my eyes and finally i was there and just as i imagined i felt everything and nothing at the same time

it felt forever and not even a second at the same time

guys

it-was-awesome 👏🏻

(for the clarification: i didn’t mock w anything with all those gifs)

its just im trying to tell you, i mean u want a recipe but there isnt any

there’s nothing literally nothing to do for enterin your void

well theres one thing: relax.

just relax, you got this, stop overcomplicating it. its inside of you not in the space, not in the underground not in the air not in the fuckn atmosphere its within you, so you dont have to worry about anything because its there. its always there and it will always be there

stop searching for some magic key. because you are the key. you are the void you’re searching for.

i know, having a lot with your life and everything is hard and you have goals to achieve, moments to live

well good news

you can change this and you should because you deserve better

only you can change this

(i talk a lot and most of them are nonsense but i am right abt one thing, and that is, you deserve better. so act like it)

loves, siena.

[cruel-acid]

BIRTHDAY BOY OC CARD

A birthday is the perfect chance to introduce a new OC to you, right? This is Raud, he’s a first year from Scarabia and he’s twisted from Hookfang from How to train your dragon! Yes here I am making OCs inspired by Dreamworks for a Disney game hehe

Voice lines below the cut

When summoned: Wow, a party just for me?.. Yeah, no. Sorry, not good at playing pretend.

Summon line: I don’t have much experience with birthday parties. Is it always this crowded?

Groovy: [LOCKED]

Home: Are birthdays really that big of a deal for people our age? I’ll keep that in mind then.

Home idle 1: I know Kalim wanted to make this a “surprise party”. But he planned it so loudly I knew about it a whole week before.

Home idle 2: I don’t like sweets, so I usually skip on them. Ruggie was happy to have my share of the cake.

Home idle 3: Ace and Deuce almost got in two fights already during this party. What muttonheads.

Home idle - login: You here to celebrate my day, too? Enjoy the party, I know others put a lot into planning it out.

Home idle - groovy: [LOCKED]

Home tap 1: The Hunter gave me the skull of Cinnyris loveridgei. Should I be more concerned on where he got it from or how he found out I wanted to add it to my collection?

Home tap 2: I don’t understand the purpose of inviting so many people. Isn’t it supposed to be a celebration with your closest? I can tell at least half the Scarabia students here don’t like me….

Home tap 3: This origami looks complicated. Must have took a lot of time and effort. I should thank Evan… Later. In private.

Home tap 4: Back home, we weren’t able to get any celebration with the previous chef. Sad I can’t have my second birthday party there with family.

Home tap 5: Jamil gave me a new axe. That’s a good present. Very practical.

Home tap - groovy: [LOCKED]

[nemo-in-wonderland]

I have 4 artworks out of 10 ready for the Anastasia!AU and my gods, I want to share them so badly.

MUST.

RESIST.

FROM.

POSTING.

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

[cubedmango]

episode 12 // movie

[your-resident-boat-person]

Here are some non-pokemon DS recommendations!

1. Ghost Trick - Phantom Detective

It's a puzzle game visual novel. Imagine you need to stop a rube Goldberg machine where someone dies at the end, but you're a ghost and can only manipulate objects in a very limited capacity. It's my favorite game of all time, and it was created and written by Shu Takumi, the creator of the Ace Attorney franchise. Speaking of,

2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

A mystery visual novel series where you need to use critical thinking to find contradictions in testimonies and solve each mystery. The writing and comedy are fantastic, the mysteries are excellent, and the characters are really engaging.

3. 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors

Another visual novel, but this one is different. One of the small handful of M rated DS games. Do not play this game if you can't handle gore. Anyway, 9 people are trapped aboard what looks like the RMS Titanic, and have 9 hours to escape before she sinks with all of them trapped inside. This game has escape room puzzles. The gameplay is pretty good, but the story is definitely the highlight.

These 3 games all have remakes. Personally, I'd recommend the DS version of the Ace Attorney games. At least for the original trilogy and Apollo Justice. The HD graphics just make the art look revolting. For Ghost Trick, I'd day that the remake is pretty much 50/50 with the original, but if you play the remake, go into the settings and change the soundtrack to be the original, not the new one they did. For 999, it's a bit tougher. In the original, on the top screen, you see dialogue, and on the bottom screen, you see in-depth descriptions of things like you'd see in a book. In the remake, there's only one screen, so you have to pick between which one you want, and it's pretty clunky. Most people just set it to the regular dialogue and play it like Ace Attorney without those descriptions. This would make it sound like the DS version is the way to go, right? WRONG. Well, maybe. The remake adds voice acting. Really good voice acting. It's really difficult to pick between the two. Honestly, I'd recommend playing both, but which one you play first is up to you. The voice acting might leave a better impression if you dont know what they're going to say already. They're both pretty radically different experiences, and thankfully, the game has pretty great replay value, with lots of different paths to take.

Alright, more DS games now.

4. Fossil Fighters

Most people just kinda file this one under "pokemon clone" and carry on with their day, but it's SO much more. Unlike pokemon, you only get one of each Vivosaur. Now, I know what you're thinking, "but what if I want one with better stats?". Well, friend, Vivosaurs are VERY different from pokemon. The Vivosaurs stats are determined by how well you clean its fossils. If you damage the bone, its stats will go down. Each fossil cleaning is graded out of 100, and you can always go out and find more fossils and try again. But rare Vivosaurs will have fossils that are more difficult to clean. You can actually perfect the stats of every single Vivosaur you have. The battle mechanics are unique, and the story is fantastic. And I hear this games sequel is even better, but I haven't played it yet. Also, the 3D models of the Vivosaurs are dope as shit, and seeing them fight is rad as hell.

5. Club Penguin - Elite Penguin Force/Herbert's Revenge

What?! A shitty licensed game?! What's going on here?! Well, the secret to these games are that they're actually good. If you've played the EPF missions in the browser version of Club Penguin, you'll be familiar with these. They're point and click adventures. Actually, a lot of the missions are actually just upgraded versions of the EPF missions in the browser game, but they added lots of new ones, too. The story is okay, nothing nuts, it's a kids game, but the characters are pretty strong. Especially Herbert. He's written shockingly well, and I think he's a pretty complex villain for a kids game. The gameplay is pretty good, too, albeit nothing revolutionary. Just standard point and click adventure puzzles, but without the moonlogic of Sierra games. The music, though. Oh my god, the soundtrack to these games is incredible. I'm sure many of you are already familiar with the gadget room. But other songs like Robot Battle, Epic Challenge, and One Very Grumpy Polar Bear are all standouts. These games are criminally overlooked, and I'd highly recommend giving them a go.

So anyway, yeah, if you've always just thought of your DS as your Pokemon machine, give these games a go! The DS's library is criminally underlooked. The DS had a lot of really cool and unique features that make porting these games to new platforms really difficult. Hell, even emulating these games can be a pain. The DS has a really cool and creative library full of unique games, and it's easily my favorite console of all time.

top 5 ds game recommendations!

pokemon black

pokemon white

pokemon black 2

pokemon white 2

replay pokemon black

[axolotlclown]

So I finished Moominvalley season 4 and here is my review:

Of course, spoilers ahead! It's long. It's detailed. It's a bit much, and I spent hours writing it.

I greatly disliked this season, not just from one particular angle. When Moominvalley first came out, it was advertised as the first narrative-style adaptation. This would imply one concrete story that ran throughout the show. They said the story would take time and required patience, but there was a larger narrative story. What was that story exactly? In the beginning, each character was established with certain flaws that they needed to grow from.

For Moomintroll, throughout season 1, we see him struggle with his father's expectations. He never quite makes his own decisions—either doing what he's told or what other people in his life would do. In the last episode of the season, Midwinter Ancestor, Moomintroll is told by Too-Tikky to not open the closet door. Going against her wishes, he does so anyway. This is the first instance of Moomintroll making a decision for himself. In the end, it was a bad decision, and he regretted it, but it still was a big moment. We understand the importance of this journey when he changes out the picture by his bedside table. It was a baby photo with his parents; now, it's a photo of Moomintroll fully grown. This was meant to denote a journey of independence.

We see him continue with this struggle in season 2. The Hobgoblin's hat adds to the internalized identity crisis. During the lighthouse arc, Moomintroll is mostly doing his own thing, somewhat. Although, I think that cutting out his glade from the book sort of hurt this theme of independence. I hoped that they would revisit that somehow, but they never did. In season 3, Lonely Mountain, we see a sort of regression with Moomintroll. (Ignore how this affected Snufkin, I'll come back to this later.) When Moomintroll unpacks his things, we see a collection of items that represent Moomintroll's past. One of these items was the old baby picture. Aside from this episode, we don't see any notable growth from Moomintroll this season.

In season 4, we watch Moomintroll fall right back into his father's shadow. He continues to struggle to carve his own path. The set up for Comet in Moominland was promising, but ultimately did not deliver. When Moomintroll goes against his friends to make a decision for himself, it turns out to be a bad decision that he regrets later, and someone else has to guide him out of the situation.

Moomintroll ends from the same place he started as a character. All growth is erased and ignored. While this is the most egregious example—with him being the protagonist—he is not the only character that this happens with.

Snufkin probably upsets me the most, as he had so much potential to be the most interesting character in the series. In season 1, The Spring Tune, we see where Snufkin is starting as far as his strengths and flaws go. What particularly intrigued me was his relationship to attachment. We see that Snufkin ultimately fears abandonment, and he copes with this in conflicting ways. He wants to be with Moomintroll out of fear of being left behind, but he is afraid that he feels this way. He tries to create distance between him and Moomintroll in an attempt to ease what he experiences as pain. This is demonstrated further in the next episode, The Last Dragon in the World, when he frees the dragon. We see his struggle with responsibility and commitment in Snufkin and the Park Keeper.

In season 2, The Hobgoblin's Hat, Snufkin is explaining to Moomintroll what the King's Ruby is. The ruby functions as a metaphor for love throughout the season. Moomintroll imagines that the Hobgoblin must love this ruby, while Snufkin argues that he only wants to possess it. While both may be correct in their own ways, they fail to understand each other. As a result, Snufkin decides to leave Moomintroll out of fear of being possessed himself under the false pretense that he is helping with the hat (he did not). We never visit this plot point again.

Snufkin has some large developments in season 3. In the Lonely Mountain, we see Snufkin break down his walls and let Moomintroll in. He acknowledges his responsibility to him and his longing to see him. Unfortunately, this aspect of his character is completely abandoned in season 4.

Back to season 1, Snufkin and the Park Keeper, we get a flashback in which Snufkin is enjoying a party with Moomintroll until he is overwhelmed by the presence of others. He winds up abandoning Moomintroll and the valley. He does this again in season 2, The Hobgoblin's Hat, as discussed above. In season 3, Snufkin and the Fairground, Snufkin chooses not to abandon his responsibility to Moomintroll or the valley. When faced with an uncomfortable challenge, he chooses to stay and support Moomintroll.

In season 4, The Great Cold, when faced with a crowded challenge, Snufkin abandons Moomintroll again. While he appears later in the episode, it felt disingenuous to me. The original problem had already been solved. In Comet in Moominvalley, Snufkin does not abandon Moomintroll. In fact, he makes an active effort to stay by his side. But it feels strange, almost undeserved? We saw so little of Snufkin this season, and when we did, he spent his screen time backtracking his progress.

In season 3, Lonely Mountain, Snufkin has a small monologue about listening to the campfire as the sparks dance and fly. Well, the whole episode was about listening. Anyway, that was a call back to the season 1 episode, The Invisible Child, in which Too-Tikky tells Moomintroll that there are many lost souls in Moominvalley that needed to be heard. The screen then cut to Snufkin leaving the valley. It would have been really cool to find out what that meant!

His abandonment issues never really get addressed. Refusing to let Snufkin meet his father was just baiting the audience. It was also just bad writing! What's his deal—where's his lore?? Who made him like this? Why is he so afraid of intimacy? Why are basic fundamental questions about this main character being left unanswered?

It really is disappointing. Every adaptation (and the books, if we're being honest) treat Snufkin like a stoic hero. He doesn't want to be looked up to, yet he's always painted as a character that you should. This is the first adaptation that gave him flaws. He felt like a character that needed growth and time. He was never given either.

I won't spend so much time on Snorkmaiden, even though she was robbed, too. She never grew to be more independent apart from Moomintroll. In the same vein as Moomintroll and Snufkin, her character ends exactly the way she started. All of her character growth vanished in seasons 3 and 4. I love this version of Snorkmaiden. I certainly prefer it to her other portrayals. But the writers screwed her over so bad, it's heartbreaking.

None of the characters actually learn or change. Everyone sort of becomes a static character, which makes any semblance of a plot impossible to write. For the fun of it, I will try to decode a plot, anyway.

So, you're not crazy. Moomintroll and Snufkin were set up to be endgame. There was a way to make Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden endgame in a satisfying way, but the writers chose against it. It's a very suspicious backtracking that reeks of queerbaiting, but let me explain the narrative romance angles first.

I feel unsatisfied with the ending Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden got. Throughout seasons 1 and 2, they would frequently lie for each other's approval, and jealousy was a common player. They would ignore each other when someone more interesting came along. Ultimately, what led to the break up in season 2, Farwell Snorkmaiden, was the understanding that Snorkmaiden was just more mature than Moomintroll. In her own way, she was ready for a serious committed relationship, and Moomintroll was not.

However, there was never a formal conversation of them getting back together. They just sort of were? And all of the problems in their relationship were never resolved. They still lied to each other and ignored one another for something shinier all the time. It was irritating. These two became no better than Sniff in the end. I'm standing on business with that.

I'm also not convinced that Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden can have a healthy relationship after the finale. They will definitely break up again. They haven't resolved any of the issues that led to their original break.

Okay, so Moomintroll and Snufkin. Let's chat about that for a while. The first three episodes establish Moomintroll, Snufkin, and their relationship together (in that order). We, as viewers, are led to believe that their relationship (either romantic or platonic) is the key to understanding the story. Throughout seasons 1 and 2, every single motif for love (lanterns, fires, the ruby, etc.) that is introduced is done with Moomintroll and Snufkin. Regardless, different expressions of love and intimacy were the focal point of the show. That was almost completely abandoned in seasons 3 and 4. While turning the focus on the greater community could have added depth, it ultimately detracted from the close personal relationships that were driving the narrative.

So, the Groke. She does not just represent fear, she is a reflection of each character's own fears. I loved this! I thought it was a really cool concept, and the ways that she was portrayed in seasons 1 and 2 were excellent. Here's the thing. In her introduction in season 1, Night of the Groke, we are also introduced to lanterns/fires as a motif about love. The Groke is chasing love and craves acceptance. It's not quite something you can catch, and trying to is a failed endeavor. Brilliant episode. We saw what Snufkin's greatest fear was earlier in the season (loving Moomintroll), but we needed to pay more attention to see Moomintroll's fear. I think it was complex. On one hand, with the lanterns, Moomintroll could also be afraid to love Snufkin. However, as we saw at the end of Moomintroll and the Seahorses, he needs to learn independence before he can love someone. This was also reinforced through Snorkmaiden in Farwell Snorkmaiden. The fires and lanterns were constant reoccurring motifs (not just for Moomintroll and Snufkin, though that's where the focus is right now). Rewatch the season 3 episode, Lonely Mountain, and that one monologue that Snufkin gives will start to make sense.

By abandoning these important motifs, the Groke's conclusion feels unfinished. It just felt wrong. In the end, she did just represent fear. This completely erased the layer of depth that she had to start.

For Moomintroll to learn to be more independent and self-reliant, he needed to learn from Snufkin. For Snufkin to learn to accept love and responsibility, he needed to learn from Moomintroll. They were the keys to each other's growth. When they were together, the plot moved. When they weren't, the episodes felt like filler for the most part.

Also, small detail, despite the change in one photo (the baby photo to grown Moomintroll) the photo with Moomintroll and Snufkin never changed. Which narratively makes no sense.

The writers originally set this up for them to be romantically involved. Which, given the context of their dynamic in the books and comics, makes sense. It's not as much of a stretch as people are trying to gaslight themselves into believing. These characters were originally heavily queer coded. However, the original text is sort of a tragedy. No matter what happened, Moomintroll and Snufkin could never truly be together—no matter how much they tried. This mirrored Tove Jansson's relationship to her first fiance Atos Wirtanen as well as her relationship to her own queerness. However, it looked like Moominvalley wanted something different. Queer people had enough tragic stories told already. This one would tell queer kids that it was going to be okay, and that they were going to find love. Tove Jansson's original message about love and freedom was finally going to be understood.

Instead, not only was this potentially beautiful story abandoned, it was mocked. In the season 4 episode, Midsummer Meddling, there was a scene I found quite shocking. Sniff had convinced himself that he was to fall in love with somebody. One of his "love interests" was a male scarecrow. This is the only openly queer semblance of romance that we got and it was played off as a joke. In the final season. They didn't even backtrack Moomintroll and Snufkin, they just completely ignored everything that was set up.

In the final episode, Comet in Moominland, there was an incredibly brief exchange between Moomintroll and Snufkin about who looked up to who. This would have been a fantastic place to give these characters some sort of conclusion, but we don't get that. In all of the 45 minute special, the characters are never prioritized. In the whole season, even. Really, not a single character got a satisfying conclusion, but Moomintroll and Snufkin were the most important.

This is a powerful and historic piece of queer media. Tove Jansson's queer legacy was so iconic that she was directly cited as an influence in the legalization of same sex marriage in Finland. Her work proved to further the queer community. Despite sodomy laws and fear of incarceration, Jansson continued to do what she could to tell her own queer story. That is what Moomin is. That is its legacy.

I was prepared to defend Gutsy if Snufmin didn't go canon. At the end of the day, it's usually TV execs threatening to pull the whole show off the air. The show was too costly to risk any interesting writing. However, the writers didn't recover, and some of the writing just felt downright melicious at times.

Anyway, if you love slice-of-life content, you probably loved this season and the show's conclusion. It is such a shame that the creators promised something completely different from what the show turned out to be. It's no surprise that viewers are disappointed.

I do have one more thing to say ☝️😀. This is going to hurt Moomin's mission to expand to the US. It's been very obvious that they have been trying to expand to North America. Brave and bold writing would have caught the attention of new viewers. Instead, few Americans are going to recommend this show to others. Aside from that, the next logical move is to make an American adaptation. Good luck trying to find a competent YA cartoon creator that won't threaten to walk off the project if they can't have Snufmin. That being said, they'll have better luck making that canon here anyway. (Everybody say, "thank you Rebecca Sugar and Pendleton Ward.")

Well, in the end, I don't think the fight to make Snufmin a real, transparent queer story ends with Moominvalley. I can say, though, that the prioritization of profit over respect and love for others is not at all what Tove Jansson would have wanted.

Seasons 1 and 2 were peak, and season 3, episode 8, was batshit insane. That is all.

[aroaceofthesea]

sometimes i forget that i live in a world where most people see ads everywhere and im the weird one in this little island of using 10000 adblocks and i get really sad for all those people

[lilleputtu]

Lille's Kingdom Events Generator

It is done-ish! And by that I mean the most basic form of this lil idea I had is ready to be unleashed on the world.

But Lille, what even is this?

Why thank you for asking, audience in my head. This is a random generator that reads in a list of events and a list of kingdoms and gives you random events that make sense to happen to said kingdoms based on requirements. Kinda like everyones beloved ROS, but instead of being for single households usually, it's on a more neighborhood scale and has a few more ways for you to influence which events roll.

I am bad at explaining it, but I promise it makes sense.

Is it necessarily a sims thing? Absolutely not! I am sure you could use this for writing prompts or random events in a TTRPG campaign or whathaveyou. But my main thought was "medieval simmers would love to have a random thing to throw natural disasters or war refugees from whatever fictional 'other' kingdoms are around in their minds at them" because I AM that medieval simmer.

So here's what you get:

An .exe which randomizes things, ala ROS, but while taking requirements into account.

An XML with sample events to generate. Are they good? Eh, they'll do. This is why it's an XML, so you can edit it and someone smarter than me can make a cooler version.

An XML with sample Kingdoms, upon which the requirements for the events are tested. They are named A,B,C,D and E and just had random-ish values thrown at them. Edit them. make them your own!

A Readme, which explains things in more detail.

Huge thanks to @clouseplayssims for throwing some inspiration in the form of every single ROS list in existence at me and being one of my initial guinea pigs, as well as enabling the silly little idea in the first place.

Alrighty, to the download, yes?

DOWNLOAD(SFS)

Note: Due to how I turned the base python code into an exe, some antiviruses flag it as a possible Trojan. I do not know how to fix that. I can only say that me and my 200 lines of code do not want to damage your computer or steal your monies, I promise.

Further note: I compiled and tested this on Windows 10. It might work on other operating systems, but i make no promises. If anyone is running into issues like that and or knows how to compile a python script, please let me know, i am more than happy to pass you the sourcecode so more people can have a functioning version of this.

I will happily answer any questions, take suggestions or try to do tech support, just let me know!

Also definitely feel free to share your edited events/kingdoms files. My examples are thrown together haphazardly and it SHOWS.

Also - you can totally use it for non medieval things. Just write modern events and ignore the fact that the program calls things in the kingdom file kingdoms. They could be cities, or planets, or whatever else you can come up with!

[cambriancrew]

I also want to add that, for most of the novel, the first person point of view character (who has a few different names but is for the most of the book the titular character) is functionally blind, and as someone who is also functionally blind without glasses and is prepared for her vision to progress to the point where even glasses can't fix it anymore, Hawkspar was amazing representation. Yes it was magical blindness, and she did regain enough vision to tell vague shapes apart (which is what I mean by functional blindness - not total blindness, but still not quite able to really see) and it came with terrifying yet useful visions of the future, and yes it was (sorry for spoilers but it's relevant to the discussion) magically healed at the end as was the rest of the people with Hawkspar who like her also had their natural eyes replaced with eyes of stone ... But it never felt like tokenization, and the recovery was earned and necessary to the plot, and overall it just felt like a beautiful representation of what it's like to be functionally blind.

I went until age 14 with uncorrected legal blindness, when my parents were basically forced by the school to get me glasses because even at the front row and peering through a slit between my fingers to see better I still couldn't read the board or see anything clearly more than about 8 inches in front of my face. (Down to about 4 or 5 now.) I got around about as well as the blind main character, able to discern basic shapes but that's about it. Unlike her, I could still see splotches of color, and can still see very close up and obviously now with glasses, but other parts of her blindness felt really spot on.

I want to do as well as she did with blindness, but with plurality - the experience of being many individuals sharing one body and brain. The main characters who become a plural system together will be of magical origin too, and there won't be a magical fix of it back to how things were before, but otherwise I want the experience as revealed in the story to ring true. I want to show the struggles, the joys, the frustrations, the discoveries that make you appreciate each other all the more. I want to show what it's like to have been, or thought you were, one person all your life and now suddenly you're not. I want to show what it's like to have to lean on each other, and to want to not need to. I want to show what it's like to feel like you don't have as much time to be yourself anymore. I want to show the beauty of being able to communicate with each other without words, just emotions and pictures and pure concepts. I want to show the frustration of not having an easy way to express to people around you which one of the system you are. Just like how in Hawkspar Holly Lisle showed functional blindness, I want to write something that shows functional plurality.

And it won't be just those main characters. There's another system in the series, of traumagenic origin. And a wide variety of dragon characters who are also a type of plural - two or three heads, one body, one shared identity, and how some dragons choose this and some do not, and neither choice is lauded above the other. And another human who accidentally creates systemmates in one of her magical experiments. And maybe more, but those for sure.

Functional blindness is rarely seen in fiction, and when it is it's usually the butt of a joke - the character with glasses that make their eyes look ginormous, or Velma Dinkly feeling about on the floor because she can't see well enough to find her glasses without her glasses. (Which is a regular occurrence for me! Thank God for phone cameras now which make it so I can look around and see better.)

Similarly, plurality is almost always shown as either a joke - "Which of your personalities is it this time?" or much MUCH worse, as the reason someone is a murderer. Practically every single police procedural or who-done-it murder mystery since the 80s has had at least one case where the culprit is a plural system, usually one with Dissociative Identity Disorder. There's multiple horror movies with it, most notably and recently Split.

There's a rare few examples of it where it's not a scary thing or a joke: The season 2 Chicago episode Theseus's Ship that had a really well done side plot of a plural system comprised of a host and a tulpa. There's Yu-Gi-Oh, with several characters being systems. There's the game Celeste, where the main character Madeline comes face to face with another entity that's normally inside her called Part of Me, dubbed by the fandom "Badeline", who really isn't all bad at all. There's the book series The Hybrid Chronicles, which I really need to read, about a world where everyone starts out as a system of two but one emerges as the sole person with the other one gone away some time in childhood, and the main characters are a system that decide they don't want either of them to go away.

Anyways. Thanks, Holly. Your words and your example will live on.

One of my favorite authors, Holly Lisle, died recently from cancer. She wasn't my favorite due to her books, though I return time and time again to Hawkspar. She was my favorite due to how she inspired me to write. One thing she did wonderfully in Hawkspar was juggle two different PoVs, one in first person and the other in third, which is how I'm doing the Cord of Three novels. Another thing is that the climax of Hawkspar isn't an epic battle, though there is one near the end. Instead, it's a masterful speech in front of the world's version of the United Nations. One day, I will write a climax as satisfying to me as that speech.

But mostly it was her blog that made me love her as an author. That and her books on writing.

There's a blog post of hers that has been in my favorites for years, and I've come back to it more times than I can count. Its advice has been the best way to recalibrate my motivation for my writing, better than anything else. It's called Writer's Block: Losing and Regaining Writer's Hunger. I do writing dates, rekindle my love of writing through reading books that make me want to write my own, and write things that are outside of my comfort zone just to break free of my internal censor, all on the advice from this post.

Holly, I hope wherever you are now, you see the outpouring of love from your fans and your writing community. You were amazing, and you will be missed dearly.

[rotisseries]

inspired by elli's poll lol cause this seems fun actually but if you guys have bad answers I'll kill myself on your doorstep or smth

[icewindandboringhorror]

It always seems a bit unbalanced on The Great Food Truck Race when there will be multiple teams who are cooking a wide variety of complex dishes with 10 different components and a bunch of prep work, and then there's that one team who like... exclusively serves plain crepes with some premade nutella on them, or plain waffles with just some whipped cream and cut up strawberries lol...

[geraiodli]

this little thing for artfight so i can actually use it on there

[kandibatz]

btw. one of those ocs i never post