#I'm assuming it's pretty clever tho

[green5quirrel]

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[106alibi]

RATING THE DREAMIES' IG USERNAMES

disclaimer: this is a shitpost. and very much my own opinion. it's not that deep what their usernames are, this is just for fun!! also I thought if this at 2am and I'm not sure if it's had been done before

mark: onyourm__ark

the underscores make it kinda weird but it also makes it very loser and very mark so 10/10 (yeah no shit this is biased he could name his ig asscrack200 and I'd say it's perfect)

renjun: yellow_3to3

I love renjun and I think using yellow for huang (黄) is so clever and cute but the 3to3 is throwing me off bad 😔 I feel like something along the lines of yellowjunnie or smth would be cuter!! 8/10

jeno: leejen_o_423

WHY IS THE 'O' BY ITSELF would've looked so much better if it was leejeno_423 but I'm assuming someone took that name so he was forced to do that 😔😔 would've just paid for the username ngl. 7/10

jaemin: na.jaemin0813

no complaints. very simple and straight to the point, but works well and everything is together. 10/10. also what's with people putting their birthdays in their username.

haechan: haechanahceah

I LOVE THIS USERNAME SO MUCH!!!! the forward then reverse is so unique, cute, and visually pretty as well and it's just SO haechan I love it so much 11/10

chenle: kh1000le

another banger I think the cheon (1000) was so smart but I have no idea what the kh stands for... it's okay tho it looks pretty good and I have no complaints 9/10

jisung: the__and.y

jisung using his english name as his username sends he's ALL about ANDY PARK!!! and to be so honest I think Andy is such a cute name and it suits him so well (it constantly reminds me of toy story). I usually get peeved by underscores and periods in usernames but this one doesn't peeve me for some reason?? 10/10!!

[acheronist]

........so what do u think peglar's childhood was like? 👀👂

WELLLLLLLLLL......

so his dad was a gunsmith in westminster & henry was the younger sibling of two (elizabeth was a few years older than him, and she also received henry's arrears from the franklin expedition after everyone was pronounced lost & dead. she was married at this time and was henry's immediate next of kin. so presumably their parents had died by this point...) but he and elizabeth got dunked in a 2-for-1 baptism like john torrington & his sister did tho which is so funny. pov you have one baby and underestimated how much work babies actually are, so you forget to get it baptized on time, and then by the second baby rolls around you've got a better grip on parenting, so you take both kids in on the same day. lmfao.

anyways back to the childhood tho. they lived like... a few blocks away from the river thames so he'd probably already had a fondness for water, i think, just based on my own childhood of having two older brothers and living near a semi-important river (lol)

but that made me wonder if like... he and elizabeth ever played army...? because i definitely was made by my brothers to play army and soldiers a fair amount. and if my dad was a gunsmith and i was an opinionated little freakboy who wanted to be a navy sailor when i was older, i'd definitely try and sneak into dad's work and play pretend a little bit. and i wonder if sarah peglar (mum) ever scolded him for not including elizabeth or vice versa when they was out playing with the neighborhood kids...

they lived in a pretty well-populated neighborhood and he attended the blewcoat school "for poor families" WHICH ALSO ALLOWED GIRLS TO ATTEND so maybe henry and elizabeth went there together. cmon get up we have to walk to school on timeeeee. i think he was probably a little bit dyslexic tho based on how his spelling was in 1845-47... i think the only formal education for reading and writing would have been at this blewcoat school in westminster , so i wonder if the writing backwards was a trick he pulled out to impress his classmates... don't notice how bad his spelling test grade was!! just look how cool and clever harry is!!! he can write a whole paragraph backwards!!!! whoaaah!!!! idk i just hope he had a gang of friends he was running about and causing silly lad antics with. i hope elizabeth followed them around and was begrudgingly included in the antics because they were supposed to be keeping an eye on each other during the afternoons or something. based on the amount of times he mentions keeping an eye on his friends on terror / mentions tom by name in the wallet papers i think it's not too hard to imagine henry was protective over people he loved.... i assume this extended to his sister, too. also like.. not that this was his childhood necessarily, but his dad's gunsmith shop was literally down the road from the big ben clocktower which would have been under construction (1843) during the same time he was ashore between ships (post hms wanderer & pre hms terror) so i wonder if he ever went home to visit the family and was like FUCCKKK SORRY I'M LATE FOR DINNER TRAFFIC SUCKED. CONSTRUCTION FOR THAT CLOCK IS SO ANNOYING. that would be very funny to me.

ok anyways back to childhood: john peglar (henry & elizabeth's dad) voted for francis burdett so there's at least some indication that their household was like... fine with being politically radical and heavily opinionated. (i would also point out that there's a fair amount in henry's wallet and diary that's just him having a gossip session by himself. opinionated indeed.) but also henry doesn't seem the type to really get into trouble tho... based on his career history he generally rolled his eyes kept his head down and did his job unless he was pushed hard enough, in which case he had no problem speaking out. in 1833 on the marquis camden, henry was lashed two dozen times for "drunkenness and mutinous conduct" but i've also read that the captain of the ship at the time was a Notorious Asshole Who Loved To Use Lashing As Punishment? so jumping to conclusions without real evidence, i think henry probably saw his fellow ABs getting treated badly by the captain, had 3 more beers than he should have, and said FUCK THIS GUYYYY!!!!!!! and then got punished for it. we're not going to think about the lashing scars opening back up again in the arctic btw. so anyways the point of all this is to say i think henry was probably fine with protesting when things suck, which he probably learned from his dad. maybe there were nights when john and sarah were talking politics and henry sat on the other side of the wall listening when he wasn't supposed to. maybe elizabeth would come sit with him and he'd have to shush her because neither of them were supposed to be listening because it was past their bedtimes but they sat and listened together anyways. scurried back into bed trying not to get caught even though john and sarah definitely knew they were there.

but also he was 13 when he entered the marine society ("a charitable organization for helping destitute boys and training seamen") so maybe he saw the navy as a chance to help out his lower-middle class family..... maybe they had a hard time and henry wanted to help out now that he was sort of almost grown up!!! and he clearly excelled thru this sailor training camp because after a month they tossed him onto hms solebay where he would have learned more hands-on stuff about working on a ship. knots and such. maybe this is where he realized how good he was with ropes... he could have been the best lad in his "class" when it came to knots etc. he also would have learned properly how to use a gun here, but again, his dad's a gunsmith. he probably would have had an experience advantage over most of the other boys w/ shooting and loading and managing a gun as a tool. so it's not surprising i think that he was in and out of 'training camp' really quickly. his first real ship was hms clio and he was a spare ship's boy and quickly got transferred to hms magnificent, WHICH WAS A HOSPITAL SHIPPPP and worked in the sickbay as a ship's boy and was earning a real paycheck. in my heart this was probably a very formative experience, and gave him a basic understanding of medicine/nursing? which i bet came in handy during the expedition when things were getting desperate and everyone was sick. i know amc had bridgens playing pinch-hitter nurse for terror camp but i wonder if in real life, maybe henry took up that role? maybe he even managed to keep his own illness under wraps for longer than most of the other expedition men Because he could recall things he learned on hms magnificent... idk.....

anyways at this point we start getting into henry's teen years. does this count as childhood? he saw two men get killed by lightning strike at age ~16 and he jumped around between ships pretty often and his conduct was generally either 1) bored and unremarkable or 2) normal and good :) and then he got lashed for being a petulant "mutinous" teenager who likes beer too much, as previously mentioned, and afterwards he just kind of hangs out until he's 22 and joins the gannett and meets 💞thomas armitage💞 and now i need to stop typing . lest i begin rpf-ing on main a little bit too much.

ok thanks ummm he's my most special guy unfortunately. henry my best friend henry :-(

[sixtysixproblems]

disaster ramble about my headcanons for how the batch got their names & etc*

*this is related to a fic of mine (fluorescent mistakes/mistakesverse), tho having read it is 100% unnecessary to understand the post, and I'll likely use some of these for other fics as well.

the only HCs you (sort of) "need" to know is cody, fox, and wolffe are "triplets", and i say fuck canon and Rex is 3 years (1.5 years) younger than CC batch. bits in italics/blue are less applicable outside of the fic itself, but still make sense without the context or i give the context.

Cody (Kote) - got the name Kote pretty young, changed it to Cody tho around 16-17ish?

>Jango gave it to him, when he was 10ish..? Possibly even a little younger. Jango intended as more of a nickname for just him to use, but obv it didn’t stay that way. Was very proud of "earning it" for a long time. >Changed it to Cody later in a not-so-subtle rebellion against Jango/the Kaminoans, and partially in an attempt to choose something for himself/have a part of his identity outside of his skill as a commander. >Still uses Kote on very rare occasions with the batch and other old friends from kamino ONLY (only exceptions to use it more being Fox who gets to call him Kot'ika, Rex who get a free pass for anything/everything) >his name backstory is probably most plot relevant cause his arc deals a LOT with identity issues & such. Might even have a flashback to him snapping at Jango that "it's cody now" > The final nail in the hammer for changing it was probably Ponds getting reconditioned**, and him partially blaming Jango for it :(

Fox - before rex was around (so pre 13)

>Got called a “fox” due to him being a sneaky clever bastard, but it wasn’t a nickname until he made it one >chose it not long after cody,  probably? >this was a pretty big deal since it wasn't a) widely used by trainers, mostly other vode, and b) he made it clear it was his name. not a nickname, not a title, his name, as opposed to his designation number >I'm considering backstory that him & colt worked together to come up with the idea to bulshit the kaminoans with "it's actually more tactically useful in battle to have recognizable nicknames for the clones", which is true, but also to limit consequences for getting caught using names. >in addition to joint guilt in the creation of Ponds's name, he's also responsible for Thorn's name by repeatedly calling him a "prick" and "thorn in my ass" on kamino (tho that's it's own post lmao).

Wolffe - before rex was around (so pre 13)

>inspired by fox, but also spells it that way to spite fox (cody gave him the idea for it lol) >cody was annoyed that wolffe clearly chose it to match fox (bitey twins, lol) since they're supposed to be triplets. wolffe enjoys pissing him off but didn't want him to feel actually left out...so cody got to help with the god awful spelling. >confused some people into thinking it was pronounced "wolf-y". this is brought to you by my friend reading fluorescent before any other piece of star wars media and assuming that. >i love the potential meaning u can take from it of him being family/"pack" oriented and how that translates over to him being very loyal, protective, etc. Aka on the surface level he's this scary grumpy guy, but deep down is just a bit of a softie/just wants to keep his family safe. >but on a less serious note, i also love all the jokes i can make cough cough omegaverse

Rex - age 10-11ish

>encouraged to pick a name out by cody to help cope with being newly reconditioned/placed with the CCs as i imagine there’d be some identity issues after that :(  >perhaps nicknamed king or little prince or smth and that's where he got the rex idea. tho tbh i have no idea >abridged fluorescent lore is that he was a particularly talented/borderline defective CT, tho albiet from a "troublesome" batch. consequently he was reconditioned pretty heavily around 9-10ish, and Jango came up with the great (sarcasm) idea to use him sort of as a "test" of what CTs were actually capable of, and had him mixed into CC training. >this is how he met the batch, after not remembering his own/many details of his life pre-recon. they were supposed to train him once or twice, but predictably adopted him.

Bly - after rex arrived (and rex got his name) but not long after, so 13?

>litterally just chose a name they liked the sound of and thought fit them like a sane person. literally the only one to pick a normal name a normal way out of the whole batch. we stan >i like the hc being short for smth (like butterfly, etc) but i dont think it works for fluorescent :/ maybe in another fic. >possible them & rex worked together to find names that fit them bc i think that'd be sweet. i dont focus on their relationship much at all so maybe a little bonding, albiet in backstory only, is in order. >she's very likely gonna be trans (mtf) in fluorescent (tho it wasn't always the plan + she is not out yet (to herself or others) in the fic itself) so I'm considering implying Bly is traditionally a female/gender-neutral name in whatever star wars culture it's "from" (aka i make shit up) >considering a joke where someone asks her if she's picking a new one after she comes out and she's like "absolutely not, it was so hard the first time i refuse to do it again".

Ponds - last to get one, 14-15ish?

>went by “four” or 54 before he got his name. >Bly sometimes jokingly called him “squared”/ ”square”/ ”cubed”/etc when they were tweens cause of the two fours in his designation number + 64 is a perfect square in math. the vode assumed he'd pick one or one would eventually catch on permanently. >...and then he shoved three separate trainers in a pond, on three separate trips no less, during off-planet training (and since I'm guessing off-planet training was very rare, wtf buddy) >and the triplets went “you know what would be funny” and just. Picked it for him, and wouldn't stop calling him that, and eventually it caught on. And there was nothing he could do about it <3 >**yes, he was reconditioned at 16-17ish. Yay....Not much of a spoiler hopefully? this may somehow be related to why he was the last to "choose" (read: accept defeat) a name, despite being a outspoknen/protective ori'vod nightmare for the Kaminoans. >dw it's not too angsty. they didn't fuck with his memories much, and were trying to change his behavior to be "less inclined to rebelliousness/contempt for authority". And if you've read his arc in fluorescent, you know they failed spectacularly at making him less likely to break the rules. >tbh I think its fitting for (how I write) his character that his name was chosen by his siblings. i think he was and is "salty" about it, but not-so-secretely touched and/or proud about it.

this whole thing was very ramble-y and i'll be surprised if more than 2 people read it, lmao, but i couldn't stop myself. a lot of this is sort of "background" and may not be actually referenced in the fic itself...but who knows.

[generalsdiary]

you won't get disappointed in kuro games when it comes to their fanservice lol their other game, punishing gray raven is basically like a hack & slash game with a side of dating sim lmao, the pining and yearning and looooots of angst. the plot is good too and very dark.

though the downside is there are few men, they only release one male character a year and im hoping they won't do it to wuwa :")

dear anon you had me in the first half ngl TT

the downside just might be too harsh for me lol. ofc I don't only play for the characters; but to go into more detail, zzz is a good example. zenless zone zero has a rly good world built, and the story telling is v well done, it is just so enjoyable and light and easy and... there wasn't a single new man/masc character on banner since release (until this one with the 4 star Seth Lowell). I honestly had to bench zzz and wuwa (I did jump into wuwa the other day to check up on stuff), cos playing 4 gacha games as a min-maxer isn't something I could afford timewise. for the case of zzz, where the MAJORITY of the game is combat and I basically have low choices with masc characters, it made it less enjoyable for me ngl. I get it, fem characters make them money, and sadly the characters themselves also suffer for it. how many times are they made shallow, without depth or any good characteristics and history, just cos it is enough to slap abnormal bodily autonomy to attract people who only care about the physicality? (I'm talking about gacha games in general, & I'm not saying that this is every fem character).

whereas when it is about masc characters they make more of an effort. (patriarchy keeps hurting the world even when the games have more fem than masc) and when they do make fem characters without the "assets" they make them a foggy age (basically many ppl assume the character is a minor), and they develop a much better story surrounding them. ex., Huohuo (hsr), Furina, Hutao (gi).

my point being around zzz/wuwa; I may come to play the game for the world and the story and the lore (I'm huge on world exploration and the story) but once I complete everything and there's a whole month before the next update, I'm left with the characters I got, and building them. and when it lacks characters that appeal to me and my preferences it sucks asf and I'll keep playing, but to have low to no (hi3) options of masc characters- it does affect my motivation to continue playing it.

regarding wuwa they have really good and diverse masc characters (genshin could make more men like that), moreover in comparison to zzz, they (wuwa) actually release new masc characters. I can say I'm quite satisfied, as a Jiyan/Calcharo main (Xiangli Yao has my attention atm he's a pretty one+clever) tho I wonder when we will meet Calcharo in game (did I miss something help?).

but you are so right anon, it feels a tiny bit fanservice-y (luckily not in the icky way!), but I don't have experience with kuro games like you do- I would love to hear your predictions regarding wuwa in comparison with their previous games owo. ty for the ask!

[leviadraws]

Since everyones asking for your thoughts, and I do like to hear them- what do you think of the idea/au where SDRA2 Yuki brings back everyone who died in the simulation w/ his newfound luck? i think its cool to think about cause theres just so much to conseptualize but what're your thoughts?

Ahh I'm glad people aren't getting annoyed by my silly thoughts <3

Under cut as usual, SDRA2 spoilers

So obviously, I'm all for an ending where everyone lives (if DR2 can have it so can we, Yuuki's divine luck is a decent explanation for this too! Linuj just wants us all to be miserable).

So! We're assuming that Yuki still lost his body, and that the initial events of chapter 6 still happens so Yuuki uses the divine luck to escape. So why don’t we say that the divine luck brings everyone back, their pods start opening and he uses the distraction to escape.

So, Sora remains with him in his head, and we could potentially extend that to include Utsuro too. It would make further interactions real interesting, especially with Shinji, Yoruko, and potentially Tsurugi too

Most of the cast would be immediately arrested by Tsurugi lmao. All the voids, Kanade and Hibiki (Tsurugi would see Hibiki as an accomplice), Yoruko, Syobai, Kokoro, and if the events of the sim are seen then it’s possibly Teruya would hand himself in too. I’m not sure if kinjo would outright arrest him tho.

Speaking of Teruya, I think the events of the game will have had a lasting effect on him. At the very least he would have problems with food for a while, but having everyone see his lowest moments would probably make him pretty uncomfortable.

Rei and the rest of the kisaragi foundation would be ecstatic that Teruya and Setsuka are alive. Setsuka would likely jump straight to it and defend Hibiki and potentially some of the voids? I think Shinji would try to appeal to Hajime too, try to make him a better person.

The voids have effectively succeeded in their plan, divine luck has been restored and by extension so has their luck. So it doesn't take long to break out of prison and get into hiding. They take Syobai with them but they split with him pretty early as he needs to cut some old ties as his betrayal gets out.

I think Kanade would be very quiet, she’s a clever girl, she knows when to watch and wait. Judging by the void theatre, and the “real” Shinji appearing in Yuuki’s utopia I think even people who died before chapter 3 would know what happened, and so everyone is cautious of her. I’m gonna go as far as to say even Yuri, for all his thoughts on women, would not defend kanade, but especially since hibiki is a victim of her.

Speaking of Hibiki, I’m unsure of what state she would be in. I’d like to say divine luck gives her some independence/freedom so she can think for herself a bit but there’s a good chance she’s not quite all there. She can now start healing, but she has a long road ahead of her. Thankfully Setsuka and Yoruko step in to get her all the support she can get.

Shinji would spend a lot of his time trying to keep in contact with Yuuki, it's weird for a bit while he has the body of Akane/Sora. But he's determined to adopt that poor kid.

Mikado is fated to stare at a windows “something went wrong :(“ screen for all eternity

[blye-flower]

Me again on the DNAngel au!

One! ...What exactly is a "Principality" ? Do the angels like, represent different principles? (And what were/are they if so?)

Two! So an Angel can fall, but regain their prior status, can demons do the same? Also, why wouldn't Leo "I'm nothing without them" sabotage himself to get kicked out too?

(Unless something else bad would happen instead..?)

And, does April tell anyone about Donnie, and so they ever get like... Found out? (I assume the relationship is frowned upon) (They are SUPER cute btw!!!)

Thanks so much for being open to questions!!!!

Hello again!! Good to see you lol

So, I'm not gonna get too much into the question regarding the principalities here only cause I'm gonna make a post explaining the hierarchy of angels (and maybe demons, tho theirs is slightly less put together because "chaos"), but I will say that they govern the principles of large groups! Their job is to make sure the morality of leaders in groups stay straight, and to report to heaven when/if it doesn't.

And yes! Demons can work to regain their angel status (that's what Raph is trying to do actually, but he's too good at being bad, so he's struggling qnsbsnd) As for Leo, of course, he could sabotage himself, however, while I consider Leo a clever character, his wants are so painfully written on his face that the heavens know becoming a demon would be a grace to him, not a punishment. While the hugher-up angels are very impersonal, they're not so impersonal that they can't figure out someone's desires. So, at best, they would demote him into a fallen angel, and unfortunately fallen angels can't stay in Hell long or else they'll begin to molt and their wings become useless. Besides, there are two pretty angels in heaven that Leo has the intentions of wooing, so he can't risk being wingless in Hell for the rest of his eternal life. And since his brothers hold nothing against him and they're all still able to see each other, an angel Leo remains.

And surprisingly yes. She tells Sunita and Leo finds out because of Donnie. Initially, Donnie pulls the old "I wanna follow after you because I want to become an angel again 🥺" ploy on her, and she's so excited that someone recognized her skills as a do-gooder that she can't help excitedly tell Sunita about it. She starts to get shy about it when Kendra kinda figures it out, and for a while, she treats Donnie like a dirty little secret (which is not easy to hide because her halo would literally form a heart whenever she's lost on cloud nine about Donnie).

Their relationship is frowned upon, yes, but not in the sense that she'll necessarily have to become a demon or a fallen angel, because demons are essentially just angels under new management in this AU. So in the end, it's a slightly less intense Romeo and Juliet situation.

But it does mess with April's already ruined reputation, but going along with her canon character arc, April kinda learns to accept the fact that she's a bit unorthodox, but there are people who are gonna love her regardless of it.

Once again, thank you for the questions!! The interest in this silly little au has me so motivated to make more of it ^^

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure 02: Tag Tamers - First Impressions

Woohoo! I'm so excited to get back to the Wonderswan games. I actually didn't know Anode/Cathode Tamer had sequels, but it does. For some reason I assumed "tag tamers" was going to be a fighting game lol. Also, it's a bit funny to go from color to black and white, but I guess this game came out before the Veedramon version of Anode/Cathode Tamer, so it makes sense. Initial thoughts after one hour of gameplay below.

Notes:

-Damn, why does this game get no love?? There's like one single walkthrough and every time I google "Tag Tamers," the 3rd game comes up instead. Pretty random, but oh well.

-Excited to go back to pixel graphics and old timey gaming music. Nostalgic to my childhood when I played the OG Pokemon games. Also happy to be playing a simpler, shorter game after Digital Card Battle threatened to go on and on for 100+ hours. (Some games are just too damn long!)

-Already see that they've added some quality of life features (digimon daycare) and new stuff to make things more interesting (jogress, armor). I'm glad it's still pretty simplistic though.

-They changed the battle system from that tactical style where you move your digimon around to just basic turn-based combat. I feel like this is kinda a downgrade, but also easier to turn my brain off to, so I guess it's fine...

-Sad that I have to put up with random encounters now. I don't feel like they add much to the game. If I wanted to grind I could just replay dungeons.

-Love all of the continuity nods! The game starts out during the events of Our War Game and then moves onto Ken's backstory. He meets Ryo and Wormmon, as shown in the anime. I wonder if the whole Digimon Emperor stuff will come up...? (Probably not).

-I was very excited to play as Ken for the first time since he's my fave from 02. Also good to see his early relationship with Wormmon, so cute!

-The "mirror site" concept is interesting. I like how it plays into the "digital world" theme in a clever way. I guess "tag tamers" refers to the fact that I'll be switching back and forth from Ken to Ryo. Is Gennai in both worlds though? That part's foggy at the moment...

-Felt pretty weird defeating Diaboromon with Veemon lol. Don't really get why they started the game like that.

-It's cool to see that you can buy the higher powered items from the start of the game. That really makes it feel like a continuation of Anode/Cathode Tamer.

-Millenniumon's design is hella ugly. I like his name tho lol. Very Y2K

[stemmmm]

for someone whos made that may sex jokes i dont think beato knows what sex is. good for her

ahh. this baby story explains the weird phonecalls. question becomes are they real or also hallucinations. im assuming hallucinations.

god who do you think you are, anthy? tho this brings up a thought i'd been having which is that... if we are to say beato isn't a witch and natsuhi's (or someone else is) making all this shit up anyways, then this "beatrice" within the game board is just something that will say anything that whoever is imagining her wants to hear. the perfect scapegoat. the perfect vessel in which to scream "a witch did it! it was a witch's curse!". hm. ok yeah all the demons are saying it to her outright. god every time i think i've pieced something together on my own and think i'm so clever the game goes right ahead and wacks me over the skull with it lmao.

very fun, very ooky spooky for the implication of the 1st twilight to be that battler slept in a room full of corpses without a clue.

very fun also for it to straight up be lambda doing a voice for the phonecalls, not even pretending like there's some other person, she's just rustling shit up

i love to see erika getting her shit kicked in for being an absolute bitch no one likes because she sucks so bad. even bern hates her ass in a way that makes me think bern made her in a moment of "oh you know what would be sooooo funnnn :3c ive never played a detective before detectives are soo fun and cute :3ccc" and then instantly got bored. erika will absolutely become someone sympathetic at some point im certain but not now lol.

i know she has a voice but the instant dlanor showed up and started talking in a strange, kind of robotic manner my hc for her voice instantly became this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/yhrho1/uwu/

i was also astonished i was able to find that video so easy by googling "giant robot warhorn welcome to the maid cafe" because 1. the only version i knew of was the majorly crunched tumblr version and 2. i got the phrase completely wrong

i will also say of dlanor, in addition to my distaste for increasing magical bullshit, the shitty leotards all of the characters get put in makes me hate them on sight because it means when they show up i have to see their awful outfits, so she had a major disadvantage starting out but she was able to instantly come around in my mind by being soooooooo cute. :3

thank god battler clarified after the fact that the wack shit with him jumping out a fucking window was his piece being controlled by lambda because while i sincerely had no problem with his actions or reasoning, i just couldn't forgive him somehow shattering the 4th wall to interact with the "phantom" team or w/e (love that we've got a 3-way battle also. very excellent development for how things are going). everything was absurd and fun but i was just screaming the whole time "wait battler isnt playing right. he's not- he cant be- is he??? he hasnt shown up as not a piece in so long, when did it switch, when did he come in???" so PHEW!

every single person, especially everyone who's a piece seems like they hate bern and lambda pretty fucking bad so I've got a feeling that this shit is gonna end with the entire game revolting against those two. battler and beato don't even need to be involved for that i think.

part 5 (+?) thread

ep1 ep2 ep3 ep4

erika furudo is bern's fucking self-insert oc................ i knew they had to be the same person because they Look Like That and also. Name. but. oh my god this is funny. she's managed to say a single line btw, this is just spoiler knowledge and inference running

ah! ok so we are doing answer arc-ass answer arcs. cool i'm fine with that! makes things a lot easier to follow especially since more inane bullshit's gonna get thrown in

hate haaaaate seeing beato like this tho :(((( this is miserable, she makes me so sad, and battler saying over and over again "dw boo i'm gonna kill u for sure" also makes me so sad. get well soon queen!!!!!!!!

i may be wrong but i get the impression that this was kind of the same as the evolution of the real life beato's situation/personality.... and in that sense i can't imagine any of this ending well but i want it to so baddd because i love herrrrr she deserves the worllldddddddd

it's nice of them to rewind things for battler's sake but uh. erika's a bit of a fucking cunt huh. no love in this game, indeed. we are bringing out peoples worst and making sure battler has as miserable of a time as possible. it's interesting to see that the epitaph is solved before any murder but know that people still die in the end tho.

also love that we're saying kinzo's dead for real, none of this with natsuhi is happening. open your eyes battler, look. nothing's there. really good moment.

battler's been confronting the epitaph in terms of why it exists rather than solving it, and there's definitely been much spoken of miracles, added onto by lambda saying there'd be no point in the riddle if it wasn't hard which would add ammunition for a miracle to happen, though there's still the insistence that beato has nothing to gain from the riddle existing... at least materially. and she doesn't kill for pleasure. so there's the obvious point that she made the epitaph because she wanted to play with someone, specifically battler since he always lives, and battler himself mentioned the play aspect though I dont know how serious he was about that. beato's very obviously just wanted to play with him from the beginning, even though her kidnapping and torturing of him in the first place pretty heavily obscured that. if we accept play as her reason for it existing and doing the murder games, that still leaves the miracle up in the air. does the chance of a miracle occurring not count as a potential material gain? is doing something purposely to try and create a miracle not... a reason for doing it? is the miracle that beato could Actually be revived in some way or is there something else?

[littleeyesofpallas]

BBS went and ambushed me with this one... I didn't even know there was a 6th SAFWY set coming. But since I did most of the other Beyond Bankai([Yamamoto, Ukitake, Kyoraku][Urahara & Hirako][Unohana & Zaraki]) already. So, I guess I'm back on my Bleach bullshit today...

A curious fusion of elements of Sui-Feng's actual bankai, and the not especially canon anime filler design of Suzumebachi. The little headpieces seem silly, I'd have rather she worn the shoulder shield(that little extra bit on the one pauldron that helps shield the face... you see them in jousting, on the lance arm. what do you call those?) like a mask rather than, what, just hair clips?? The fur feels silly too. I do love her little drippy poison energy wings based on her shikai's target pattern tho.

I know I brought up her shikai because of her name's hornet theme(geez, that's an old post for this blog...), but I guess I've never actually mentioned her bankai before?

Jakuhou Raikouben[雀蜂雷公鞭] is a bit of a weird one, even by general Bleach standards.

Jyaku[雀蜂]: is just the same "Sparrow+Hornet" that makes up Suzumebachi. It's the name of the real world species of "Giant Asian Hornet," Vespa mandarinia, aka "Yak-killer Hornet."

Raikou[雷公]: means "Government Official+Thunder" generally translated as "Duke/Lord (of) Thunder," and specifically refers to the mythical Leigong, Chinese thunder deity. (Oddly out of place for Bleach, he's not actually a Buddhist deity, even retroactively; he has no adopted role in Chinese Buddhist cosmology. He's pretty distinctly Daoist and traces back to pre-Buddhist and regional Chinese folk religion.)

Ben'[鞭]: "whip" I feel like this was kind of mistranslated. It does mean "whip" as in a lash or a crop, but it also refers to things like a "cane" or "rod" or "baton," which he stinger missile sort of resembles. It's not about describing or identifying the shape of the tool, it's about its use to strike someone with —implicitly as a kind of punishment or enforcement or drive to labor. (And I don't know that a heavy metal rod would really fit this part, but if you've ever heard someone get caned, it has a very sharp sound, similar to a whip crack or a crop lashing, which is where I assume the association with "thunder" comes in.)

Anyway her new attack is Suiran Jyakusetsu[遂乱螫殺]

Sui[遂]: "Final/End", "End of Life/Death"

Ran[乱]: "Revolt/Rebellion/War"

Jyaku[螫]: "BeeSting"

Setsu[殺]: "Killing/Put to Death", "Butcher/Slaughter"

So something kind of like, "Rebellion Killing BeeSting Execution"? I assume the first half describes the "End of Rebellion" and not "Rebellion of The End"/"Final Revolt." Sui-Feng doesn't strike me as a rebellious type. The Last half though is pretty cut and dry, "Put to Death (by) BeeSting."

I like that they made a homonym out of Jyaku[雀蜂] and Jyaku[螫] in order to keep the name's linked end to end like dominos, since the kanji are all different. Because I don't think that's normally how the word for "bee sting" would be pronounced.

Also the implication between bankai's name, her role as head of what are basically privatized secret police, and now this new form is that she's basically a riot cop. A corrections officer, armed with a baton, putting down rebellions. As ever Soul Society's implicit world building is... not great... Really shame we danced around that fact so often in the manga yet never got any actual direct addressing of the issue.

For one, love the throwback to the Shihouin royal family procession from Sui-Feng's flashback way back when. And it's not in the art itself but the attack animation also brings back the weird flying tool Ichigo used all of once, before everyone just started shunpou standing on the air for the rest of the series.

The actual attack name is fairly mundane though...

Tenshi no Mai[天賜の舞]

[天賜]: "Heavenly/Imperial Gift(s)"

[の舞]: "Dance of"

Nothing weird or clever about it.

As much as I do wish we'd gotten some kind of hint about her zanpakutou, I do kinda like the idea of her just whipping out a whole treasure trove of weird family heirloom weapons and tools.

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[somin-yin]

Halo ,I'm kinda new to romance club and I just finished the rott season 3 and waiting for the new chapters,but I literally have no idea what to read while waitinv ,can you give any suggestions?😌

Hi, welcome to the RC fandom and thanks for the ask!! I will make a list of the stories I would personally recommend and enjoyed the most during my RC journey:

Must read stories:

Theodora: It's the best outgoing story in my opinion and the writing is top quality ❤️ the genre is historical drama with supernatural/fantasy elements <- highly recommended ❤️

Arcanum: It's horror genre and the MC is one of the best in the app, one of the most mind-blowing stories here.

Legend of the Willow: It's mostly based on Japanese mythology and folklore with fantasy elements and this story really transports you to their world which is based on ancient Japan.

Shadows of Saintfour: Horror genre, the story is very clever and at the end you'll realise how everything was tied up. Also if you liked Choices It Lives you may like this one too.

Sails in the Fog: The genre is adventure and it has elements of prehispanic mythology too, very interesting story.

Other stories worth checking out too are:

Gladiator Chronicles: I HIGHLY recommend it, it's the only RC story with male MC so far so let's support it. Also the story is so good!! The genre is sci-fi with Roman elements (a very interesting and original combination). Plus the LIs in this story are all top tier ❤️

Sins of London: the genre is mystery, it's set in Victorian England and it has some elements of celtic mythology, plus the MC is very charismatic and one of the best.

Heaven's Secret: Genre drama, fantasy, it's about an academy of angels and demons.

Path of the Valkyrie: Since you read ROTT, I assume you like mythology? Then you may like this story since it's about Norse mythology and very well executed.

Love from outer space: This one is sci-fi genre and it's a very fun and chill story, the friend's group is very wholesome and gives found family vibes ❤️

Heart of Trespia: The genre is royal drama and the story is very intriguing, the scenes are very well written and really convey the emotions, plus it has equal screentime for female LIs!! and equal ratio too, 3 male LIs, 3 female LIs.

Kali: Call of Darkness: It's set in India and the genre is mysticism, mystery and horror. This one is controversial but the LIs make it worth it, specially Ratan and Lima, tho I'm very intrigued by the new LI Amrit too, I'd recommend checking it out and forming your own opinion.

Chasing You: The genre is detective, this one has some problematic topics too and many can feel uncomfortable about it but the characters are really well done and funny, I love their banter, I'd also recommend checking it out and forming your own opinion.

On thin ice: The genre is drama and tragedy (maybe). This story is very good and I enjoy it a lot but it covers very heavy topics, like s*xual assa*lt, addiction and so on, the story is sometimes hard to deal with so IF you're depressed or sad then perhaps reconsider whether reading it or not, I would mostly recommend reading it if you're in a stable mental state, but as always it's up to you to decide.

Those are pretty much the stories I enjoy the most in RC, I hope my list can give you a better idea on the stories and help you find one to your liking!! ❤️

[kaasknot]

Please take this as an offense but I am absolutely fascinated by your current obsession with Buster Keaton and went back through your account to figure out what rabbit hole led to this but couldn't figure it out. If you're okay with sharing can you tell me the rabbit hole that led to this?

OFFENS TAKEN no but okay it's really kind of dumb. this past january someone reblogged a buster keaton post, i assume a stunts gifset because those get numbers, and i hit up his tag on a whim to see what was what.

now, at the time i was writing an OC character for star wars. and while i knew just about everything else important about this character, i didn't have a clear idea of what he looked like. but i was scrolling through pics of this old-timey comedian and it slowly dawned on me: my character looks kind of like buster keaton. official facecast made.

and honestly, that's why i came back to the tag a second time. if it hadn't been for that association, i probably would have forgotten about buster and moved on. but, once a month or so i'd jump back in the buster keaton tag, refresh my memory on my OC's face situation, and then jump back out.

till eventually i guess it hit critical mass, and all of a sudden in late may i'm hitting up the buster tag… because i'm thirsty for buster. i pretty clearly remember a series of gifsets around The General that made me go "…damn, son."

gonna wax rhapsodic here for a bit. let's get the most obvious point out of the way: buster keaton is pretty. he's got cheekbones and big eyes and a profile to die for. and he's ripped, because he's a goddamn acrobat. like, his vastus medialis continually makes me go "that can't be real." also, he's a short king. a small little guy. 5'5", and perfectly willing to make jokes about it—and that kind of security is hotter than the surface of the sun.

he's also ridiculously funny. he made his career on that, you'd kind of hope he would be; but specifically it's funny to me. his sense of humor matches mine perfectly: wry, ironic, a touch of the absurd/surrealistic, leaning to black humor, and with minimal use of sticky substances or stupidity. i have so much trouble with modern comedy because 90% of the time it's just so dumb. buster keaton movies are not dumb. his hero is a clever little shithead—if somewhat naive and literal-minded—with abysmal luck, who gets into awkward situations and does his clever best to get himself back out. i vibe with it.

and then obvs his stunts. the more of his movies i watch the more i mutter "how did he not die?" and "is he made of rubber bands and cotton balls??" his physicality is so satisfying to watch, and not just in a prurient way (tho i am definitely also watching in a prurient way). this is a man with supreme control over his body and a thorough understanding of physical comedy. he was pulling out pratfalls well into his 60s, yo.

and the more of his movies i watch (especially in comparison to roscoe arbuckle's movies), the more i appreciate how good of a filmmaker he was. he let the story do the talking, rather than clutter up the screen with intertitles. his precise use of camera angles, the astonishingly good cinematography, the use of the camera itself to sell a gag (i.e. the dream sequence in Sherlock, Jr.). i saw a letterboxd review call The General "mad max fury railroad" and i haven't been able to get that out of my head, because y e a h, his editing was as precise as margaret sixel's. i watched "One Week" after watching all of the arbuckle shorts he was in, and lemme tell you, my third eye was blown wide open. "oh," i said to myself. "i get why people call him a genius."

and from a frothing fangirl perspective, he has built in artificial scarcity. his smile is rare, his voice is rare, shirtless scenes are rare. (in reality, none of these things are particularly hard to find in his films, but like i say to everyone who sits still long enough for me to yammer at them, their perceived scarcity makes them so much more compelling. when you hear him say "pass" in Sunset Boulevard you quiver like you're catching sight of ankles in the 1800s). it encourages thirsting.

the more i learn about him the more obsessed i get.

[overthinkingfandom]

YOOOOOOOOO YOU WERE RIGHT!!! YOU WERE RIGHT!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Holy shit, I did not expect for it to actually get confirmed during the prison break. At most I assumed we would get some more clues pointing in that direction like we did with the blueprints... but now we got an actual confirmation!!!!

Honestly, it kinda feels like nothing changes. In a lot of ways I've always been analyzing dsmp as if staged finale was a fact and just waiting for the explicit reveal, simply because nothing else make sense.

On the other hand, I now get bragging rights :3 (+ extra confidence in my read of c!Dream as it ended up being accurate enough to correctly predict him, unlike a lot of other interpretations.)

I'm a bit sad about the timing tho. Wrote a lot of words about the inconsistencies during the finale but I don't exactly need to argue my case anymore lol. Gonna still publish what I have as soon as I'm done with the finishing touches (which should be tomorrow or the day after that for the first one) cause I don't want to let all that effort go down the drain.

Gonna still talk about staged finale but less through an evidence angle and more as an analysis of what exactly c!Dream did there and how he pulled it off, cause it's pretty clever. A lot of made made the twist so effective from an ooc perspective is stuff that exists in-universe.

Until then-

HOLY SHIT DREAM IS A BRILLIANT STRATEGIST AND STAGED FINALE IS CONFIRMED.

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

I am completely stumped with what they’re going to do with Steve’s character pertaining to romance. His love life is set up to be something hella important this season, but I can’t imagine who they would would be pairing him with? Originally I was thinking something like, him and Robin start crushing on the Vickie character. I don’t know if that work long term tho. In the interview I read the word “crushes” so I assume it’s either two separate people or it’s being used a broad term? Again, idk.

Short version, what do you think they’re going to do with Steve love-life wise this season?

Honestly? I was thinking that Steve may be interested in Vickie.

"A cool, fast-talking band nerd" makes her sound a lot like Robin. If Steve is still harboring some feelings for Robin, then a suspiciously similar girl (clever blond band nerd) might catch his eye. I'm to understand that a certain piece of merchandise did reveal that Steve will take some time to see to his love life this season, not that this is a huge surprise.

Robin may like her, also, but, based on this description, it'd almost sound like she'd be dating herself. I know we all want Robin to get some love. That could be a twist if Steve's love interest ended up with Robin, but it'd be a pretty mean thing to do to our king.

[eroticcannibal]

tbh getting labeled as gifted in primary school resulted in everybody assuming to this day that i just Get Everything Instantly and nobody actually helping me even though it turns out my developmental disability is actually pretty severely disabling at everything that isn't playing math board games to win esteem for the school board and even though i ended up in special ed as soon as i was like a grade higher than that everyone in my family still just Doesn't Look At my deficits in cognitive processing even when they're blatantly obvious so i can get behind that, lol

Oh mood

Like I guess I'm "lucky" in that there's a lot I get instantly but I still lack like. Basic skills. Like I had to drop out of uni cus sure I understand the material but I just fundamentally do not understand what they are asking of me. My mum basically cheated me through coursework GCSEs cus she knew I knew everything but I just. I just don't understand coursework. I dont get it. I also do not know how to learn if I do not get something immediately. I do not know what they want. I can barely prepare food. I cannot clean (tho I can organise like a beast). I cannot manage money. I cannot organise and keep appointments. I cannot even do jobs that are """simple""" enough to not require qualifications and I cannot get the qualifications to do what im capable of. I can sound eloquent enough online and with scripts and I can get through casual conversation but anything else makes my brain fucking freeze. Full on blue screen.

But apparently I've always just been lazy or difficult or uncooperative or attention seeking because I'm CLEVER cus I independently worked out scientific theories at a stupid young age (cus its fucking obvious keep up scientists) and read every book I could get my hands on and spent my school time in primary playing teacher to the other kids so I'd have something to do. Cus apparently thats all totally normal behaviour.

I am just so grateful my mum turned down all the "amazing opportunities" I was offered because 1. Jesus that would have gone so much worse. That was around the time hothousing related suicides were becoming common knowledge also she kinda went through the same to a lesser degree and 2. Can u imagine if id have to have gone to school with fucking future tory MPs

BUT. ON THE OTHER HAND. Glad I learned the hard way cus I sure as shit go fucking feral if anyone even STARTS with the "oh arent you notably intelligent" at the child. Like no, praise its effort and fucking passion and then shut the entire fuck up thank you.

[niche-bitch]

So the Kimura vs Mashiba fight.

I have thoughts. Many.

First, Kimura, I always saw him in the anime until now as a funny guy, pretty decent, nothing else. This hour+ of Hajime? Grabbed that and just, didn't deny it, confirmed part of it and then. Built upon it.

My gosh.

Kimura first of all is seen as very human, he fears Mashiba at first, asks for help from Miyata (which btw, Miyata agrees to help very tsundere-ly, love that, Miyata tsundere agenda). Then he takes that help. And ROLLS!

With the advice Miyata gave and some reflection/inspiration (which is great that he was open enough to see) he acted, trained himself and made a plan. Fantastic.

Second, the anime does well in highlighting each of the most important characters assets. Miyata's fast eye and analisis and footwork. Ippo's heavy punch, diligence, grit and humility. These characteristics even color the way they see matches and the parts where we see from their perspectives visually.

In here, we even see remarks on how Mashiba's desperation to win is his most dangerous feature. The thing that gives him that wild, inhuman aura. But beyond that, we see it's fueled by his sister. She's her drive, she motivates him to be the World's best brother (and can I just say that's super cute? I now find Mashiba to be adorable because of this, the softie).

With Kimura, not only it's remarked that he's really well rounded (which I assumed already actually) but that he's a clever fighter. That last one came as a surprise to me but it was treated really naturally, it didn't seem out of nowhere. He knew where he stood in regards of strength at first, he searched for ways to cut that gap using people around him and used that help to help himself go forward with his own perception and discipline. He trained with a plan in mind and throughout the fight executed that plan perfectly, just as he expected mostly, never doubting it. He made a plan! And it worked!

Third. It worked, until it didn't. Damned 3 cm. He was close, so close. But he lost, turned into an organic statue on the ring for a moment too much. He lost and that meant he'd have to retire.

And this is the part that makes me admire him more. He retires. And then, he unretires.

He recognizes that he is filled with love for boxing and he can't stop thinking about those stupid 3 cm. He thinks he might regret them forever (he would). He doesn't want to tho. So he just, makes it so he doesn't have to.

And he even finds a loophole (debuting again but with his name in Katakana) to make it comedic! Just to take the edge off and even technically not go back on his word.

Just, I felt the whole "In my career I'd never had confidence or pride, so now, I'm gonna put 5 years worth of it here". They really grabbed his character and lifted it in less than 2 hours. Oh my gosh I love him now.