#I'm like nearly done with it there

[grandkhan221b]

I've been slowly obsessing more and more about asoiaf fashion in the past 6 month, and really developing in details how it would look in different regions, classes, etc (the North being the one I have the most complete picture on). And I wanted to put some of this to paper instead of endlessly turning it in my head before I go to sleep. Usually when I costume design it is confined to a specific character, I've never done like worldbuilding fashion design, but idk asoiaf really gets me going.

So here's the North ! I could have kept going and added more stuff, but if I try to spew all the shit that's in my head I'm never gonna finish this x) So I focused mostly on great houses/nobles fashion for this. Maybe I'll do a sheet for smallfolk or practical clothing like battle armour after I'm done with all the kindoms. I already have to continue the anti AI quest...

More asoiaf fashion

[grey-viridian]

DTIYS for @tizeline

Congrats on 10k!!! (love your artstyle btw sooo soft and beautiful i wanna look at your art all day!)

The original outfit was perfect but I still felt like something was missing...

[burnlikeastar-writelikeanauthor]

The world shifted...

Frostbitten Feathers

Prologue

The Fall of Man was a decade ago. Humans created their own demise. Avians, half human and half bird, were a result of genetic tampering, but the five avians humans had created escaped and multiplied. And suddenly, there were more than the scientists could handle.

 They kept it quiet, trying to take care of the problem without informing anyone.

But the avians were smarter and faster than humans. They heard and smelled better and their skin was thick and sensitive to the touch. After a few weeks of existence, the original avians developed powers, making them even harder to control or contain. 

Some could move so quickly you couldn't see them. Others melted into shadows and completely disappeared. Still others developed into mind readers, while others could move without a sound. More learned to control fire and touch it unharmed. Others could speak to animals, befriend them and retain a loyal army.

One could speak and control the minds of whoever heard them. Some say it didn't matter if you heard, you'd be forced to listen.

Oh, the avians bided their time. They kept quiet about their very existence. They only revealed themselves to the humans they claimed as their mates. Pure avian children were rare and scarcely seen. Half-blood human and avian children, however, quickly outnumbered their purebred relatives and delicately connected the human and Avian worlds. 

No one saw it coming.

Before the Avians, humanity had gone back to a caste system with all of the Highers sitting in a floating city. The cities were easier to access then, with elevators, beautiful arches, and stairs. Even the people who lived below lived comfortably. Few went without. It was simply a two caste system—those who lived above and those who lived below. 

It didn't matter what your job was. It didn't matter how you got up there. You were either above or below. It's not that the Belows were looked down upon; they just couldn’t afford or simply didn't want to live above. Everything was paradise.

Until it wasn't.

The avians came without warning. They attacked the floating cities and made rings around the cities below, preventing people from leaving. All at once, every city seems to be surrounded.

There were so many of them. Humanity couldn't fight back. The humans might have outnumbered the avians, but with their enhancements, a single avian could control a group of five humans alone. Escape was impossible.

The world shifted.

There were still two castes, but they were vastly different from what the humans were used to. The avians assumed their place in the sky cities, and every single human was forced to be below. Now you were either avian or human. There was no in between.

One of these sat between scenic mountains and rolling fields. Cora, the lower city, and Cordelia, the floating paradise (The city as a whole being called The Core). Cordelia was soon called the Gilded Cage by the humans, and Cora became ‘the city’ and nothing more. Humans were three things to avians—slaves, servants, or Pets. Pets were human mates to the avians, or that’s what the original intention was. . While some avians were traditional and only kept one Pet, some had upwards of ten. 

Humans had no choice. Humans couldn't refuse and they couldn't get out. The avians tore down every arch, every staircase, and every elevator but one. There was only one, but it was so heavily guarded it was impossible to get to it without avian intervention.

And there was only one way for humans to get to the Gilded Cage. They were taken. The avians came down and chose their mates. The humans could do nothing to stop them. Cora was overcrowded, overwhelmed, and left to fend for itself.  So many people died.

Avians thrived in their floating city. Several groups of avians chose their avian mates from Cascade, the avian built city. But the humans were left to work below while the avians lived above in paradise.

They had gotten their revenge.

They hadn't asked to be created. They had been changed and asked to bow to an inferior people that hurt others for their own gain. It needed to stop. So it was.

[forgetful-nerd]

Mikey has three types of siblings

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[thelonelynindroid]

I cannot believe I'm posting art on here again bc I am a generally a phantom on this acc but. Scully study hello xfillios

[walkawaytall]

Also, also, why is it that Yoda straight-up says the Luke's anger reminds him of Anakin's in The Empire Strikes Back and the movie very subtly shows Luke's face under Vader's helmet and fandom just glosses straight over that and says that Luke is just like his mom, but Leia yells about a plan being dumb and likely to get everyone killed a few times, and suddenly she's got the same anger in her that turned Anakin evil for twenty-some years?

[blackbackedjackal]

I've been organizing for days and I'm nearly done. Been through several boxes and binders that were just time capsules of Pokémon through the years.

I'll also be listing a good chunk of what I found for sale :>

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[claitea]

forgive this for looking a little rough i just wanted the idea out. anyway i was thinking, i've never seen a protag joins volo thing before so now i gotta

volo is simply doing this because it would be convenient to have such a powerful ally on his side. it has nothing to do with empathizing with this outsider. this is just another transaction. nothing more.

[pushing500]

What do you even draw when your asexual, misanthropic colonists won't stop talking about crushes and lovers and stuff? Idk random backstory and irrelevant lore??? I hope Xina leaves soon.

Anyway, in more interesting news, Kwahu made an arm for himself, which was very clever of him to do with only one hand. Huzzah!

Soon, he'll be fit as a fiddle and ready to help Mechi get "back on his feet"— literally!

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Wow! We're doing charm as well now, are we? Which one of us is dying?

[greensagephase]

hiii, pookies!! I just wanted to wish a HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone who celebrates!! 🥰🍁 And, a HAPPY THURSDAY to those who don't (I'm wishing everyone happy vibes regardless 😤)!! 🍂✨ Since today is about showing gratitude, I want to take the moment to thank all my moots and followers!! I was thinking earlier about how I've been here for two Thanksgivings now and I'm still writing for Miguel (shocking, but yet again, that man lives rent free in my head😩). I honestly don't know if I would still be here if it wasn't for you incredible, talented, sweet, and kind ppl. So, thank you not only for showing love to my writing, but also for the friendships, support, and kindness ❤️ I hope you all have a wonderful day/night and that these last whispers of November treat you kindly❤️

Alondra❤️

and thank you to my husband, miguel, who is always serving...