#Obviously this isn't aimed at OP

[bored-trans-orchidsexual]

Also like, we don't *know* there are no trans/hebrew people involved in the creation of the show, do we? Or do people really assume the players and DM are the only ones deeply involved in the creation of the show?

Needing to out the genders and ethnicities of an entire crew to please the internet sure sounds a lot more racist than just doing a show taking down HP without an affirmative-action level casting a trans person or hebrew person only to fill an arbitrary quota. ...I Typed before I remembered ERIKA ISHII is on the fucking cast are you *kidding me* their character literally transitions to nonbinary in the show god I need to wake up before I respond to shit

NON-BINARY PEOPLE ARE TRANS DAMNIT I'm sorry it doesn't slot into the clean "man become woman" or "woman become man" but my fucking god if you can't figure that shit out you're closer to JKR's mindest than you think

i think it's strange that D20 fans are/were upset that no trans women were involved in the making of MisMag because JKR is a TERF when JKR's primary targets were, for the longest time, AFAB trans people. that's where all this bullshit started. it was her fake concern for poor beautiful young women mutilating their bodies & taking evil hormones & becoming nasty ugly men.

I saw someone say the show needed a trans woman or a Jew. So people don't even think JKR harms AFAB trans and intersex people to the extent she does Jews with the goblins in her book and denying non-Jewish elements of the Holocaust.

[serenhob]

Jttw Percy Jackson Au

(Jttw is fair use, this is possible) Btw this is me thinking of things as I go along So I was thinking, Hazel had been previously dead for ages so wouldn't it be nice if Frank and her (potentially others, like maybe Leo or someone) took a gap year to travel and show Hazel everything she's missed, in a calm no stakes environment. So they go touring round the states and eventually come to like, idk, Toronto or smth and suddenly are beset by monsters who come to kidnap one of them, idk who but one of the members of this roadtrip. And lo and behold when they go to rescue them who is also trying to save someone, Sun Wukong Now why would Sun Wukomg have trouble saving Tripitaka Here's what we know about him Sun Wukong: -Mischievous -Secretly very wise -Op -Except in water -also that one time that guy had an artifact that kept eating his hair monkeys

So reasonably speaking, they could totally be underwater demons stealing tripitaka to eat him (idk how he would be coping with that, water can't kill immortals right? Probs) So maybe Percy is the one getting kidnapped, which could be interesting as he always tries to be the one to save everyone else and i don't think, correct me if I'm wrong, he's ever been in the damsel position. So obviously, he can breathe underwater so he'd be fine. The underwater demons would need a motivation but isn't 'its the guy who killed Kronos and defeated Gaia' enough, probably not but we can work that out later. It could also be really interesting seeing Percy, who would probably want to escape by himself and be self sufficient, with Tripitaka who normally just hangs put waiting for monkey to save him.

Why is Tripitaka even there and getting kidnapped in the first place: Well I'm imaging he's immortal and he decides that him and Wukong could go down to the mortal realm to do...something idk maybe it could be related to someone or something in the percy jackson verse. Anyway, so they haven't been there in centuries so miss the mark, aiming for China but getting really lost and ending up in the middle of Missori (honestly I haven't got a clue about the states, I'm not American) so their off to complete the mission even tho modern 'China ' is really strange and different. And boom Tripitaka gets kidnapped. Cause of a combination of eating the golden cicada and whatever he was doing. So they all have to struggle with the water without Percy and come up with action plan to save him + slowly uncover what the demons are up to. We can have alternating chapters, with Sun Wukong and the Road trip buddies and then Percy in the water cave.

Maybe they want to sacrifice them or smth. Idk Please add to this if you want, or correct me on anything I got wrong :)

[rillyfrilly]

rillyfrilly rambles…! ୨ৎ

♡ ‧₊˚ ⋅ ౨ৎ ‧₊ .ᐟ

rebuilding my wardrobe: part one ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊

welcome, cuties~! it's so wonderful to be writing about this particular subject as i'm fresh from a ton of research..! some new readers may not know much about my personal journey as a lolita so i'll give a brief run down before we start with the topic of today's post. (˶ˆᗜˆ˵) i started buying lolita fashion a year, going on two now, so i'm still quite new building my wardrobe up.. this also coupled with the fact i was gothic lolita turned sweet in the middle of last year.. (ᵕ—ᴗ—) while i have some semblance of a sweet wardrobe from my change, it is not in line with the specific color scheme i'm dreaming towards. obviously my blog as of late has been all about setting goals, revisiting coordinates of my new style to see the improvements, and discussing the future of my newfound style. but making plans to plan around my signature style hasn't quite yet occurred to me.. (∩˃o˂∩)♡

while i've stated the kind of style i aim for (2000s - early 2010s sweet) as well as the color schemes i have planned, i realize i need to choose pieces to get my wardrobe started and work with what i have. i haven't seriously dissected my wardrobe to see what ACTUALLY fits where i'm wanting to go with my whole pink x black / black x pink wardrobe. the concept isn't hard to grasp, neither the chosen years for my looks, but i have been looking too forward into in general versus actually making moves to plan my wardrobe further presently, and invest in pieces that i could use everyday as a lifestyler while hoping to get my hands on my dream items..! so today starts the day i map out coordinates and exactly what things i need to get a capsule wardrobe started that will eventually turn into a more fleshed wardrobe in the future! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

i think planning a capsule wardrobe currently is the best decision for me at the moment as my wardrobe isn't as cohesive as i want it to be, and it definitely gives me wiggle room when it comes to budgeting for personal spending on lolita. thinking smaller rather than the bigger picture is definitely grounding and a great place to start..! a capsule wardrobe also allows for me to have versatile coordinates from casual to ott if i wanted!◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ i researched capsule wardrobes today via youtube and other lolita's blogs - all of which i'll leave at the end of this post! serious shoutout to them for being lifesavers.

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starting point: what do we have?

the most logical starting point for me is asking, "what do we have?". asking this is a great way to get a good look into making sure i'm not investing in something already similar, and even help me free up some space if it's something i can sell to make room for an item more suitable to my wardrobe. the colors for this capsule wardrobe is black with pink accents or vice versa, so we can base pieces around this while trying to keep the looks inspired by my favorite years of lolita! (๑´>᎑<)~* things i have current in my wardrobe that are suitable for my capsule wardrobe plans (below):

(not pictured: a white lolita blouse, black platform shoes with heart buckles)

so, obviously it isn't much, but it's a definite start! let's move onto the next phase of action..! (,,>﹏<,,)

next: what do we need?

the begrudged question.. what do we need? judging by the starting point.. a lot, but that's alright! that's the joy of lolita is that planning really does make it perfect. from the videos i watched to the blog series i read there were some similar takes on how many main pieces and non-main pieces a capsule wardrobe could start off with / consist of. main pieces things being - 1 op, 2 or more jsks, 1 or 2 bottoms of choice (in my case skirts), 2 or more blouses, 1 or more outer garments (anything from a bolero, vest, or cardigan), 1 or more pairs of shoes (different colors obviously, but for me pink and black), and finally at least 3 different types of head pieces to get that variety into your capsule wardrobe! those headpieces can be (for sweet lolita anyway) headbow, beret, or smaller bows. non-main pieces are petticoat / hoopskirt, bloomers, otks, ankle socks, or tights, as well as one or more purse. a bonnet is also a choice for more ott sweet looks! i made a note of this as i would like to have an ott sweet look if i ever was able to get involved in community lolita activities..! (♡ˊ͈ ꒳ ˋ͈) now that it's noted we can plan accordingly and layout a visual of what we need to pair with what we already have and build upon.

i'll keep this as a mini-series of building my capsule wardrobe with me, but it'll be fun! in the meantime i'll work on a visual for next week that will display the "vibe" i'm going for while not necessarily showing the pieces i own or will own. i really can't wait to see where it goes, and to see my wardrobe grow from a small one in the future to a bigger one.

material for research: how to build a sweet lolita capsule wardrobe

how to build a lolita capsule wardrobe: step by step

building a lolita capsule wardrobe: what is a capsule wardrobe?

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afterword: obviously i am no fashion genius when it comes to lolita, so i hope me documenting my journey doesn't come off as such. i really want to use my blog to show growth, share tips i've come across, and research lolita history as it's a huge fixation for me -`♡´-

anyways, hope to see ya soon!

♡ ‧₊˚ ⋅ ౨ৎ ‧₊ .ᐟ

riri ❤︎₊ ⊹

[justagalwhowrites]

So those two twisted the OPs words though. Her post was about people who write a reader who's 30+ years old but feel the need to be all "but don't worry this isn't a regular 30 year old woman she looks like a teenager so it's fine". That is ageist as fuck and was the point before people turned this into a weirdly defensive age gap rant.

There are a lot of people in this fandom who don't think women over the age over thirty should be in the fandom. They only want twenty year olds (readers & writers) since apparently 30 is ancient.

Ray never said "don't write young readers" in fact she encouraged people to do so if they don't feel comfortable writing older readers. She was calling out ageism and people turned her post into something it wasn't.

Hi there!

I may have misinterpreted the OP’s post but that could be because I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone make that kind of note on a fic. Also, as someone in their mid-30s, I (obviously) think there’s a place for everyone in fandom. Anyone who thinks otherwise has lost the plot IMO.

That being said, the post rubbed me the wrong way. For me, the initial post felt pretty condescending. I definitely think there’s space to talk about the portrayal of women - especially middle aged and older women - in popular culture, I just don’t think fan fiction is the appropriate venue. Creators are obviously influenced by popular culture and societal pressure around women’s physical appearance but fan fic authors are (hopefully, in theory) creating for themselves and sharing it out of a love for the original work. They’re not profiting off of it, they don’t have any influence on broader culture, they’re just individuals making something and sharing it. I don’t think hobbyists should bear the brunt of solving society’s problem with sexism just because they’re the creators who are most accessible to other fans. We should aim these conversations and criticisms at the people making these attitudes part of the zeitgeist, not fic authors.

I like to think I’m pretty receptive to criticism of my own work (I’m sure I could be better about it!) but I know there are plenty of creators who don’t seek out criticism and I don’t blame them. Hobbies aren’t there for you to get better at them unless you want to. They’re there to be enjoyable and cathartic and whatever else you want them to be! When there’s a fic I don’t like (or a trope or whatever), I generally try to not say much about it. Not everything is for me and that’s OK! I just seek out the stuff that is and leave it at that. There’s nothing wrong with having a preference, there’s nothing wrong with going “I’d love to see some more of Joel with older readers, anyone have some good recs?” My problem comes with comparing fic authors to predators because they’re writing an age gap story or have fallen into pervasive cultural messaging around women and aging (which, like I said, I’ve never seen a message like that on a fic that I recall. I’m sure they’re out there, I just have never seen one.)

I hope this gives some context! Thanks for reaching out!

[notthatcount]

Instead of working on the half dozen pieces i've promised people i spent all day making superheroes out of characters from medieval poetry, but anyway this is The Virago and Condwiramurs, I'll put character info, powers, and design ramblings under the cut-

I like the idea of doing more superheroes based on ancient/historic lit, if anyone has ideas for characters to pull from lmk I have one more in the tank but after that I could use suggestions, I'm aiming for pre 1200s ideally

The Virago (she/her)

Virago isn't based on a specific character, more just on the trope, but I imagine her as sort of a loner antihero, weirdly the first thing I'm thinking of as a reference is early Silver Surfer.

Design is pretty obviously based on the phantom of the opera and Batman. I wanted a dramatic, tailored look, but ultimately something simple. Went for a subtle "V" design on the belt and under the collar.

I imagine Virago's powers involve something similar to the abilities that the Virago trope tends to expound, so precognition, reality altering, op stuff like that. Her club isn't special or anything it's just a really heavy club.

Condwiramurs (she/her)

Condwiramurs is based on the character of the same name from Parzival, although I took most of the inspiration from the theorized translation of the name: "to guide true love".

Condwiramurs' design was obviously based a bit on Cupid, and I also wanted it to be more functional than Virago's. Her tunic/scapula thing is both a reference to early comic book archer designs (namely Hawkeye's original getup) and a reference to dress styles in the middle ages and how they're described in the poetry.

Condwiramurs' powers involve enhanced sight and hand eye coordination that come as a result of having the ability to see the best path forward. This is vague, but I imagined her being able to see paths of light guiding her- not quite seeing the future, just getting a nudge. Her arrows are non-lethal, mostly trackers, grappling hooks, and stuff like that.

I really like it when superheroes are used as a medium to tell deeper stories about marginalization and social structures (enigma, x-men, the watchmen show... even sandman a little bit), and I think any story I'd put these two into would be like that, but I don't have anything concrete yet.

[courtana]

I finished the MWIII campaign and here are my thoughts 💭

Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS below. Remember to filter #mwiii spoilers if you want to avoid them from me.

The Structure & Ending

I finished the campaign in one sitting, which I usually never do with games. So, my initial complaint that it felt short might be because I literally rushed my playthrough of it. But if others felt the same, l'd love to know!

The ending felt incomplete. I feel like it's basic/traditional writing knowledge that you don't end the story on the climax unless it's like a major cliffhanger. This was not a cliffhanger. We ended it after Soap being killed in cold blood by Makarov, and we see the rest of the 141 mourning and spreading his ashes. The only way I could be nice about this, is if we just describe the story not as a triumphant story of military victory and defeating evil but as a tragedy. A story that ends in failure (a la Ghosts [2013]). But the rational part of my brain says, no, this was just the writers cutting the story in half so that they can bank on a Modern Warfare 4 in the future—and use MP seasons and co-op/raids to tell the rest of the story.

Still, I'm glad we're actually moving along with the Makarov story and what was actually the story for MW2. The reboot timeline is so slow and slow delayed because of adding Farah's backstory and Los Vaqueros. We're finally getting to the good stuff from Modern Warfare, that classic story that everyone loves. So, that's a plus.

Los Vaqueros & El Sin Nombre's Absence

My major complaint about MWII (2022) was that for a game that bases itself on a lot of real-life geopolitical conflicts, the inclusion of Valeria's storyline as a female narco boss in relation to Hassan, an Iranian villain, didn't really make sense (and this is from me, someone who has multiple degrees studying Latin America). So I'm glad Valeria and her cronies did not re-appear in this campaign. They just do not fit.

I liked Los Vaqueros in MWII, but I think the writers were right not to include them either—at least for this installment—just because they would've had to juggle too many things at once. Already, we have to juggle a lot with Farah's forces and Shadows being our allies. Having to deal with additional characters would've made the game lose its pointed focus. I wouldn't be surprised though if for "modern Warfare 4" both groups make a comeback.

It's just funny how much fans and Activision were hyping up Valeria so much, including in MWIII's live-action trailer, just for her to not make even one appearance.

Open-Combat Missions

Not gonna lie these missions stressed me the fuck out. I could NOT stay in stealth no matter what. But I think that's somwhat good, since a lot of grouchy fans who follow COD complain that every campaign is essentially the same—just move up, aim, and shoot—with just a slightly different plotline about either some Russian or some Arab villain. And I think we can commend COD now for try to shake up the campaign a little, even if I'm not a fan of Warzone (lol) and OCMs are essentially Warzone-ified campaign missions.

But mixing traditional campaign missions with these Open Combat Missions felt like a bad idea. I get that they're trying to gradually gauge our reaction to them by slowly introducing it. But it also felt disorienting switching between just following directions in one mission to in another having total liberty to do whatever by scavenging for guns or certain field-upgrades.

Either make them mainly all OCMs or all traditional.

Makarov as a Villain & Soap's Death

Yuli's work as an actor is totally praise-worthy! It's hard to step into the shoes of Makarov after the notoriety the OG Makarov gained in the original games. I think he isn't as cartoonish and weak as some of the other COD villains have been so far in the reboot—a complaint I once again have of how the narco villains were written in MWII. He actually generates fear and intimidation and we can see his power and resources—unlike villains like Hassan and whoever the generic Russian general was in MW2019. They were not memorable at all. If MW4 gets developed, it'll be great to see Yuli work with that character more.

Now, Soap. I AM HEARTBROKEN as well as PISSED. I'm pissed because we got to see Soap in the OG games grow & develop so much. Hence why so many veteran COD fans love Soap, perhaps more so than Ghost even though the latter has gotten more popular recently. We saw him going from just entering under Price's wing to becoming a Captain; and that growth of him as a character made his death so much more painful. It warranted Price yelling out in horror and shock when he realized Soap was dead before his eyes in the OG MW3. Even the background music to his OG death has become so iconic too.

We only got introduced to reboot!Soap last year with the release of MWII. We did not get to see him in the campaign in MW2019. He's still a very new character and the writers did NOT develop him properly enough in my opinion to warrant a tragic death/killing scene. I think that's part of why his death here hurts so much for me. Because it was also a killing of his potential as a character. And it sucks that Neil won't get to work with this character more in a MW4 storyline unless they do more memory/flashback scenes.

Hell, Farah gets more development and more screentime than Soap and the rest of the 141 task force aside from Price. I understand she's a main character now, but it sucks that first in MW2019 we sidelined Price as a character (in my opinion) for Farah's storyline. Now, Farah is taking up a lot more of the agency and space in the story once again at the expense of other characters taking less charge. This is honestly just me having a hard time accepting this new dynamic with Urzikstan with the rest of TF141 that the writers have been trying to cement with the rebooted series.

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In sum, it does feel like some of the grouchy COD fans who were saying off before release that this was going to be a glorified DLC were right in hindsight. It's clear they put a lot of work into the geography, the missions/game-play, and I genuinely enjoyed playing it. And of course, the VAs put a lot of work into their craft. But plotwise it does feel like they gave us only a partial campaign with a very abrupt ending... but I also liked it anyway and had fun. And that’s what matters :-)))

[sqbr]

In Pursuit of Ethical Argumentativeness

Assume I follow you on tumblr, and you have posted an original or reblogged opinion that I wish to express a strong disagreement with. It's not anything super personal, nor likely to cause horrible Discourse from other people (I already try to avoid those sorts of reblogs).

NOT arguing isn't an option because I have tried that in the past and it was Bad For Me.

But I know some people can feel REALLY hurt to have their posts reblogged with disagreeing commentary by someone they are friendly with, at least the way I do it, and I don't want to make people unnecessarily unhappy. But also I just have all these opinions!

I am SURE I have forgotten some obvious option but so it goes.

More rambling thoughts under the cut.

So I already sometimes use methods other than directly reblogging people if it feels like the right choice. But I largely base this judgement on what I would want, and afaict I am more comfortable than most when it comes to being directly argued with in a good faith way by people I know. I enjoy being able to have an open back and forth where we share ideas and opinions and I know where people stand with me. Also, I don't like the idea of anyone being afraid to argue with me. On the other hand, sometimes it DOES hurt my feelings or make me anxious, and I'm always a little worried I'm misjudging my tone and would actually feel bad if many people argued with me the way I do with other people. Also, even though it's not my intention, there's always the possibility that my reblog will put your opinion in the path of Discourse and Mean Strangers etc.

When people vagueblog me it sometimes feels passive aggressive and sometimes like politeness and I'm never sure where that line is so just avoid doing vagueblogs myself.

I don't mind the idea of people arguing with me in places I don't see, especially if they're expressing intense but petty annoyance (I take that stuff off tumblr too) But idk it feels uncomfortable to do that ALL the time, like I'm being duplicitous and only able to be friendly with people by hiding my real self.

This is tumblr specific since I avoid arguments on microblogging sites (mainly by heavily curating who I follow) and dreamwidth doesn't have reblogging.

My aim with this poll is just a general vibe check. Obviously individual opinions will vary, and will depend on whether you're a close friend or we have literally never spoken directly before etc. If you have strong personal opinions one way or the other let me know and I will do my best to follow them! (Except maybe private messaging, I included it because if that IS what people want it's good to know, but I'm too shy to do it much)

The ethics/expectations for strangers are different, so I made this post unrebloggable to get a vaguely representative sample of relevant people. But it's fine if you vote even if I don't follow you, if you're seeing this post at all you're in my radar enough for your opinion to be relevant.

[thehollowprince]

hi! you weren’t the OP and i don’t expect every person who reblogs a cute pic to be the one to identify someone they don’t know. boysappetit and the other blog that get hundreds of notes didn’t even credit her for the pic when they obviously took it from her insta and her name was right there. it was aimed at them not you. enjoy your day!

Just for the record, you're telling me that it's targeted at these other creators, but you didn't put up a picture of their tags. You specifically used mine because I tagged her as "a girl" because I didn't know who she was. Kept my name attached and everything because you wanted to play at having some sort of moral high ground on Tumblr, of all places.

It's a public platform, and you are more than welcome to do what you did, but in the same breath, maybe just reaching and saying, "Hey, this is who that person is" would be better than trying to publicly shame people because we didn't stalk someone's Instagram. Because that picture, isn't immediately obvious on her Instagram. You have to actively look through a sideshow to find it.

Oh, and out of basic human decency, I'm not going to tag you in this and let you remain anonymous, even though the entire reason you're sending me this is because I commented on your post.

[esoanem]

(OP acknowledges the grammar here has some mistakes, and that we can/should pretend it's vulgar or medieval Latin instead. I thought I'd take a stab at a more classical translation though)

egō, tangente miēttam leviter latere pedis: miētta dēmovē sīs nē tē incurram

miētta, oculīs ingentī: CALCITRĀS tū miēttam? calcitrās corpus eius sīcut follem? ēheu! ēheu! carcer mātrī! carcer mātrī Mīlle Annōrum

Translation notes below the cut:

Generally disjunctive uses of "me" in English (and also French) would use the nominative in Latin (and the descendant of this is still used in those environments in Spanish or Italian). Hence I begin with egō rather than mē

The "touching" here isn't being used a present progressive in the English, but rather as an adverbial phrase, which in Latin would typically be formed with an ablative absolute and participle, effectively "at touching"

I've decided to make Miette a regular 1st declension feminine noun, as these are the usual source of French feminines ending in -e

For the "with the side of my foot" I've used an ablative of instrument. I've also not included the "my" as explicitly marking possession of body parts is generally only done for emphasis, or where there might be confusion as to who the body part might belong to. In this instance, I'm clearly not touching Miette with the side of her foot, so it's clear who it belongs to, and at this point the tweet has a casual unemphatic tone

As a command, dēmovē is in the imperative, but if I wanted to emphasis the politeness, a subjunctive dēmoveās could work. I've also opted to include sīs "please" (ultimately a contraction of a phrase meaning "if you please")

I've used nē "lest, so that ... not" here rather ut and nōn because it seems slightly more concise, and whilst incurrō can take in, a plain accusative seems to also work here

Miette's eyes being wide are another opportunity for an ablative absolute, and again I've not marked the possession explicitly. I have gone for the more emphatic ingens "extraordinarily large" rather than magnus "big" though, aiming to better mimic the "enormous" of the original

I've fronted the verb in Miette's initial exclamation, as this emphasises the verb, i.e. it emphasises that Miette is being kicked rather than loved/fed/amused. I've also included the pronoun explicitly for some emphasis of the betrayal

In the second complaint, I've dropped the pronoun again because I feel like including it would emphasise the "you" too much compared to the "kick". I also have stated the possession of the body explicitly, because obviously the fact it's Miette's body being kicked deserves emphasis

In "jail for mother" I've gone for a nominal sentence with a dative, as this can have a more immediate sense

In the "for One Thousand Years" I've used an accusative of time rather than a preposition and, instead of stating the "One" explicitly I've gone for the archaic way of using mīlle, with it as an indeclinable neuter noun governing a genitive plural, rather than the later form where it is an indeclinable adjective governing a noun declined as normal

An overly literal translation back into English would be something like:

I, touching Miette lightly with the side of the foot: Miette, move please lest I run into you.

Miette, eyes extraordinarily large: you KICK Miette? You kick her body just like a ball? Oh! Oh! Jail for mother! Jail for mother for a thousand of years!

mē, tangō leviter Miētte cum latus pedīs meī: Miētta, dēmovēre ut nōn incurrere in tē

Miētte, cum oculōs ēius magnōs: tū CALITRĀS Miētte? tū calitrās corpus ēius sīcut follis? ēheu! ēheu! carcer prō Mātre! carcer prō Mātre prō Singula Mīlla Annōs!!!!

[thestickbin]

Initial Research

I see this game as a 3D Pikuniku. The entire game is built with the player's enjoyment in mind. They're aiming to create a game where you can just have fun with you're friends. The gameplay it's self is just a bunch of little activities you can do to get bones, rather than a solid story. At it's core, it's a playground game that uses strange physics to make everything more fun, which is exactly what we're trying to achieve with our own game. The other thing I love is that some of the things you can do in this game completely take you by surprise. You could be on a completely separate mission and a dog will do something you've never seen before and you'll start trying to copy or follow him around leading you to something else to do. love the movement and the art and the sound, but it would be nice to have some semblance of a story for the story based unit. I also think the timer wasn't needed and slightly contradicts the rest of the gameplay but I understand them trying to add some structure to an other wise, extremely chaotic clash of mechanics.

People playground is almost exactly how it sound concerningly. It's a sandbox that allows you to attack ragdolls. The reason I've chosen to research this game is that it uses a lot of the mechanics we could be using in our game. Firstly, the active ragdoll; You don't see a lot of active ragdolls in 2D games so it's quite useful for us to look at as many examples as possible. People playground uses it's physics partnered with gun crime to create fun for all players. The active ragdolls are arguably the most important part of this because ragdolls are funny. The main thing I'd like to take from this game is exactly that. The stupid physics and ability to use them against your friends.

Although this isn't a co-op game, our game is pretty obviously going to share a lot of similarities to stick fight. This is the general gist I want for our game. Active ragdoll stick people, stupid physics, simple but really cool level design and the ability to hit your friends. The only difference of course, that ours would focus entirely on puzzles and story.

[thatstormygeek]

Hooray. It's time for all the posts telling people who are not doing a thing that they are somehow even more evil than the people actively working to make things worse. And this is somehow a good, progressive message.

Look, I get it. Voting is a thing we should all do. I have been voting longer than a lot of people on this site have been alive. And I've voted in the vast majority of elections in which I could (yes, I have missed the occasional oddly-timed special election). Believe me when I tell you that the get out the vote messaging has not meaningfully changed in four decades.

For my entire adult life, every big election has been The Most Important World-Changing Election of All Time!!!! (tm)

Are things bad right now? Yes, obviously. Is the upcoming election important? Of course. Is human nature suddenly going to change in a way that makes the same, threadbare Panic! At The Voting Booth line suddenly much more effective? I have my doubts.

If you want to blast out some epic, over-the-top threat against nonvoters, or tell them they are responsible for the actions of people they didn't vote against, it's not like I can stop you. I do wish you would admit (to yourself, if no one else) that your post is more about virtue signaling than actually increasing the percentage of people who go to the polls.

It'll be like "if you don't vote, unfollow me!" And then half the notes are op adding clauses. So if your post isn't aimed at people who are kept from voting by the various barriers thrown up by the system, who is it for? The people who just don't care? Think a lot of those folks are gonna re-examine their actions so they can keep following you? (assuming they'd even do as asked anyway)

And why don't these people care? Did their education fail them? Are they burnt out on the endless election cycle? Do they just not give a shit about other people? Each of those scenarios would call for a different approach, but that would require getting as far as actually talking with nonvoters. And, well, that's hard.

It's much easier to make a self-righteous post about how not voting us the evillest of all evils.

It's also emblematic of how we put the most responsibility for effort on those with the least power. Rather than demanding the Democratic party do more to show people why they should vote blue, folks are out here yelling at people to vote in the hopes that maybe the party will decide to do something that helps them. If we can just get 60 62 64 Dems in the senate. You have to VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO and we'll push them to the left once they win the election but once the election is won we'll tell anyone who dares criticize a Dem that they are the reason things suck and actually everything is good and fine thanks to the Dems but there's an election coming up so we can't risk implying the Democrats aren't perfect and give the GOP ammo so hold your criticism until after this election because it's the most important election of all time and if you don't vote blue you might as well be murdering trans kids yourself but we really promise this time that we'll push them to the left after the election...

So yeah. Vote. It's the most basic way to exercise your voice. But maybe, just maybe, some of you diehard Dem defenders could swivel your cannons 180 degrees and use some of that energy to actually agitate for meaningful change from your party instead of screaming at random individuals about their personal decisions.

Or not. After all, what you're doing has been working so well.

[irrealisms]

i have to disagree with your read of the op, even as i agree with everything being said-- the thing that i read op as saying isn't "You cannot [believe things about a fictional story] [if those things diverge too greatly from that fictional story]" or "You cannot expect others to agree with the things you think about a fictional story if those things diverge too greatly (and that point of divergence may be different for different people, [etc.])". ; it's something more along the lines of "You cannot use (for example) Diverse Headcanons to make a story progressive, if the story's themes are regressive and bigoted and you are leaving those themes unexamined + unchanged." or perhaps "You cannot use headcanons as a way of avoiding the idea of the source material needing to be criticized." it's not that you physically can't headcanon things that are too divergent from the original, which is obviously false, or even that people won't always agree with your headcanons, which is so blandly generic as to be meaningless; it's (to my reading) about the fact that many headcanons that aim to "fix" something about the original text (and which often get deployed to ~dismiss criticisms of the source) are in fact slapping a layer of paint over it without at any point meaningfully engaging with the problems in the original text that they want to fix!

you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

[everythingshinesunderthesun]

There's this post I absolutely hate that starts going around every once in a while where the OP talks about how "all of these GAME DESIGNERS and CRITICS that dare SPEAK ILL OF GREAT DADDY NINTENDO obviously don't understand that the reason their controllers are cramped and suck is because they're aimed at children!!"

Which like, hey, fair, children should have gaming peripherals aimed at them, I acknowledge I'm not the target audience of Nintendo's products. It's still a stupid argument to make though, because

The main criticism the Switch controllers get isn't over their size, it's over the fact they're made of paper mache and dreams and break if you look at them funny.

The GC controller, which many believe to be the pinnacle of ergonomic and intuitive controller design, was created by Nintendo back in 2001. I was 5 years old and already combing mofos in Melee like it was nobody's business. Incidentally, I can still use that controller today and find it perfectly comfortable. Clearly this isn't an either or situation.

Anyways, the multi-billion dollar mega-corporation doesn't need you to put the mean critics in their place for them lol trust me people can objectively state how much Nintendo sucks for a multitude of reasons until they're blue in the face and it's not going to affect them in the least.

[knowlessman]

beggo no heggo acabamia (bnha) s2e1-3

I know he technically isn't going "ho ho ho" but I still swear all might sounds like santa clause when he does the laugh -- I thought I skipped the recap episode

random pull/shoutout: I love Shady Cicada but these intros remind me of his "how to do an anime intro" videos (affectionately meh, if that makes any sense)

…hm. 100% thought we were watching one of the villains read a stolen letter but I guess not; the establishing shot (?) of, I think, the bar from the last episode confused me

ohey mccrassidy's here again -- I guess it is good that we have a prominent quirkless character in the detective here (unless he turns out to be Rampo in disguise) -- "a man-child that oppressed-feeling villainous people listen to" …something something trump

bird man has teeth. fancy that

"we're already seated" iida what did I tell you about spongebobbing it 'XD

"hello, this is my other pokemon cosplay, dusclops"

…I never went to high school, is "homeroom" usually just one announcement long?

-- also I think I can see how this's gonna be a good arc 'XD

uraraka have you been watching kill la kill

-- …speaking of kill la kill. is uraraka just whatserface. best sidekick. mako mankanshoku, that's her name. …googles to see if they have the same VA; they don't

yup. he put too many chips in, only got some back. (I did learn how to play poker once; didn't retain a thing)

no pressure, huh. anyway next one

"those who are always aiming for the top, and those who aren't." beh. ambition.

"that's kacchan in neutral" alright.

-- "move, fives. a ten wants out."

idk why this blue hair guy is giving me homestuck troll vibes but he is and I wanna like him

DAGOBA BEACH. IS THAT A COINCIDENCE.

I still wanna know how invisible girl beat deku in the fitness test. deku was training to beat saitama, was she training for goku???

what is Korg's ability? I don't think we know anything much about him.

(kyoka is fucking around with darts) holy fuck did kyoka wander in out of naruto? o_o

lol whotf is that with no shirt and the pikachu helmet

wait you're giving vegeta the mic? wtf for, do you guys not share notes or something

(random-minigame-looking thingy is on the screen) is this fucking mario party. wait what am I saying, obviously it's gonna be fall guys.

-- correction: mario kart? …uh, on foot? idfk

…this fucker is like if zuko was saitama but also carrot but also cooler than any other character I can think of. just like matter-of-factly hypercompetent with no humility but with dignity but on his own side. like "yes I'm OP and I hate it but differently than saitama." I know, like, SOME spoilers about his general deal but like… damn.

-- …is he sasuke if sasuke didn't just come across as an edgy idiot?

dang, next?

okay quiet can just make a mortar bc why not

I was wondering if they had gadgeteers.

ohey it's gamzee again. I knew those eyes and that hair were making me think of someone in particular. we about to see some motherfucking miracles?

(deku's gambit) WHAT? 'XD

-- (deku's gambit part 2) WHAT

vegeta's not gonna like that

get a chapstick, you weirdo

cavalry whut

-- …??? so, it's not like a three-legged race but carrying somebody then. wtf is a cavalry battle

oh goddammit, "cavalry battle finale" isn't til the episode after next. gonna cut it here, then.

[genshingorlsrevengeance]

(GFL) WA2000, RPK-16, AN-94, M4A1, and M16A1 with a frontline Commander

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH TIME TO SIMP FOR THE GUNS

(WA2000) "You idiot, what are you doing here?! Do you want to die that badly?!"

Having the Commander fight alongside their Echelons is terribly distracting. It's already enough they have to worry about their own heads in a firefight, but now they have their CO on their mind.

WA supposes she should be grateful that they can surprisingly hold their own, on top of still being able to give orders to everyone.

She was already a deadly sniper, but having the Commander on the field focuses her aim tenfold, knowing she has to protect them.

After the battle, she plays it off as if she didn't care the Commander was there.

(WA2000) "Whatever, just make sure you don't get killed, moron. We can't have dead commander give us orders."

On the inside, she breathes such a huge sigh of relief, knowing the Commander is okay.

But if they're even remotely injured, they are going to get the screaming of a lifetime.

(WA2000) "You got hit?! Do you have a deathwish or something? WE are repairable, obviously that thick head of yours doesn't remember that!"

Despite her harsh words, she is always the first one to see them out of the Infirmary.

(WA2000) "D-Don't get the wrong idea, I'm just here for my debriefing. Now hurry back to your room so we can get this over with."

It doesn't take long for the Commander to notice the obvious relaxation in her shoulders as she checks their bandages, knowing they're safe.

(RPK-16) "Oh, now this is quite interesting. Welcome to the fight, Commander."

16 has to admit, she didn't think her Commander would oversee their ops personally.

Was it smart? Not really, but it was certainly an intriguing change of pace.

She doesn't change her demeanor much during the firefights, one wouldn't be blamed for thinking she wasn't even affected.

But there is only one subtle change, that being she and her team always stays in close vicinity to the Commander.

Once the op is over, she keeps her smile.

(Commander) "Thank you for directing us, sir/ma'am. Another successful mission, as expected."

She asks them why they feel the need of wanting to join the T-Dolls during their missions, but there's certainly no complaints.

Having their CO in the field made things all the more exciting. They certainly weren't like all their other humans, that's for sure.

If they were injured during the mission, 16 makes a note to visit them.

(RPK-16) "It's too bad that you can't repair yourself as easily as we can. Oh well, I guess I have to be with you as you recover~."

She doesn't mind being inside the room with them. Not that they have the option of asking her away, anyways.

(AN-94) "You're joining us, Commander? ...Acknowledged."

94 is horribly confused. Why on earth is their CO coming along with them? This was incredibly dangerous.

Though, AK-12 gives her the order to protect the Commander, which she happily obliges.

During missions, she goes back and forth from protecting AK-12 and her Commander, not even hesitating to take a bullet for either.

She does her best to ensure nothing even comes close to the Commander, and appreciates the extra backup. Besides, having the Commander there on the field boosted morale.

(AN-94) "Commander, objectives have been met, and the area is clear. What's our next orders?"

Her face doesn't change expression, but there is a noticeable shift in her shoulders slumping when she sees the Commander safe.

But 94 feels great shame when the Commander does manage to get hurt, feeling personally responsible.

After being ensured that she was not at fault, 94 patiently awaits their recovery from the Infirmary.

(AN-94) "Welcome back. Do you require any assistance? I'd be glad to help."

She's super glued to their side for the next few days after.

(M4A1) "C-Commander?! Why are you here, this area still isn't secure!"

M4 is thrown off when she sees the Commander fighting alongside her.

It's greatly appreciated, but it's the Commander's job to direct, not get down and dirty themselves.

She fights her instinct to worry and instead, makes extra sure that nothing in the battlefield can even zero in on them.

M4 orders the AR Team to focus on their objective, although she can't help but orbit around the Commander.

She's so glad to see them still standing, a soft smile appearing on her face.

(M4A1) "Area secure, sir/ma'am. Thank you for the assistance."

She gets visibly distressed whenever she sees or hears the Commander getting injured during the fight.

Her first thought is that it was her fault, but after a while she has grown accustomed to seeing them a little beaten after each mission.

She's not sure if that's a good thing or not.

(M4A1) "With all due respect, you should hang back. We are able to sustain worse injuries than a human. If you were to perish, I'm not sure what we'd do."

Even when they leave the infirmary, M4 is always worrying about her Commander.

(M16A1) "Alright! Now this is what I'm talking about, let's kick some ass, Commander!"

M1 is a bit headstrong, but seeing how her Commander is just as reckless as she is, it sends her morale sky high.

The Commander says jump, M1 asks how high.

She's having a quite a significant amount more fun on the field with them, being able to synergize well with the Commander's fighting.

(M16A1) "Good job, couldn't have done better myself! Now, let's go for a drink! You're paying, right?"

M1 isn't surprised to see the Commander injured after a battle, they fight like her after all.

She visits the infimary, Jack Daniel's in hand as if to tease.

(M16A1) "Too bad you can't drink this with me. Your medicine would get all mixed up and you would drop dead. I, however, don't have such weaknesses! Now, let's get to waiting."

She pats them on the head with her free hand, laughing at their reaction.

On the inside though, she is thankful nothing worse happened to them. She confides in M4 about the relief she feels after every successful operation that her sisters and Commander are safe and sound.

[dadumtss]

Hii I'm new here I love your slenderman au it's so fascinating!

OK OK HEAR ME OUT!! what IF shapeshift cryptids exists in this au?? & if so that must be very rare right? powerful!!? dangerous!! unknown to most? UNKILLABLE EVEN??? & possibly be unwanted in the cryptid society?? the capabilities of its powers could out-matched the greatest? the real form undescribable?? possibly doesn't come from earth even? dimension, universe?? it just pop into this universe & be like: Ah, yes. my new home now, I be here whether you like it or not lol.

The forms they take might not look exactly identical to another already existing creature, but rather a form of how they could look as that cryptid species.(or any species)

with very noticeable (or not)

markings/symbols all over the body (colours whatever readers choice) that could glow when exposed to moon light, or while using magic, or other? it can give themselves away.

they could be fertile to all? or unfertile for whatever reasons. doesn't have exact gender because it can be whatever it wants, even possibly learn a magic traits, that's only possible through that particular species, & could use that magic OUTSIDE OF THAT FORM?? this.. would that be considered the most rarest cryptid species, MAYBE NOT EVEN A SPECIES BUT ONE OF A KIND!!??,

the slender brothers meeting someone like that? & possibly having love interest? or try to kill it??

the possibilities are endless. sorry obviously I LOVE OP things, is it to much? idk do whatever with it, it's your au <3

Hello, anon! I did a little explanation of shapeshifting in the AU followed by matchup headcanons / scenarios for each of the brothers. Feel free to skip straight to the matchup scenarios if you like and apologies if that wasn’t what you were looking for.

Thanks so much for your ask and your kind words! I'm so happy that you like my AU and I love the enthusiasm you have for your OC!

(I use it/its pronouns for the OC and call it a “creature” instead of a “cryptid”. Hope that’s ok!)

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Preamble

Shapeshifting cryptids do exist in the AU! There are cryptids that can transform into animals or other beasts, cryptids with monstrous forms that can alter their appearance to something more appealing and trickster cryptids that can take the forms of others. The ability isn't very rare or dangerous in-and-of itself and there are magical safeguards that protect against more mundane issues that can arise with shapeshifters, like identity theft.

I have a feeling that's not what you're going for, however.

If you're talking about something like an Eldritch God who's true form is unknowable but takes on a 'baser' form to walk among us lesser creatures; An unfathomably powerful creature that regards all on the mortal plane as mere playthings; Nyarlathotep come to life or the great Yog-Sothoth in all his might given form on this physical plane…

Then that changes things.

I can see all the brothers being wary of such a powerful creature, regardless of its intentions.

If this creature is looking for a relationship, its best bet is to hide the extent of its abilities. If it does I could write cute headcanons about how the brothers trace the creature’s markings as they cuddle, how they go on midnight strolls just so they can watch their S/O light up (literally) under the moonlight or how they pepper the creature’s face in ‘kisses’ whenever it expresses loneliness for being the only one of its kind. I could even write spicy headcanons about how their shapeshifting adds to their sex life.

But that’s not as fun. So…

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Slender Brothers X Super Powerful Shapeshifter

Slenderman

He’s extremely wary.

A creature that strong is a threat to not only himself but to cryptid society, the society he fought to establish and one he helped build. This creature could do whatever it liked and no one could stop it.

Even if its intentions were innocent and its only aim was to live peacefully in society he would spend ample time and resources researching ways to destroy it.

Depending on how cooperative the creature is he uses the registration of a new species as a guise to learn more about how it functions and possible ways to kill it. He oversees the study himself, spending long hours in the labs with his best researchers as they work on collecting information on the creature.

The creature seems to pay him extra attention, giving him strange looks when it thinks he’s not looking and sometimes when he obviously is. What does it mean? What game is it playing?

Then one day it approaches him in the hallway when no one else is around. He tenses, ready for an ambush that he knows he can’t win…

It confesses its feelings for him and asks him out?

?????????????????

Is it a ruse? A ploy? Why would it need one when it could just kill him here? Is it just some kind of game? Does it want something from him? Should he go along with it to find out more about its weaknesses? Will it retaliate if he says no? Is it actually sincere? It’s certainly not bad to look at in its current form… but what if-????????????

He short circuits.

50/50 chance on whether the date happens or not.

Offenderman

He’s reckless but not a complete idiot. A creature that powerful should not be trifled with.

At first he keeps a weary eye on the creature and doesn’t engage as much with it as he does others. Then when he feels he has a better grasp on its intentions and demeanor he approaches. He’s casual and friendly though he’s not as bombastic as he usually is since he’s cautious about setting it off by being too direct. He’s also curious, trying to get a more direct read on the creature’s intentions.

The more ‘chill’ the creature turns out to be the more he opens up and lets his guard down, returning to his bombastic self around it.

Offender is curious about how strong the creature actually is and asks for a spar. He gets his ass handed to him and he knows that this person could kill him easily yet here it is, offering a hand to help him up.

That gets Offender to trust it more.

Thus, the seduction starts in earnest. Railing a super-powerful entity that could snap him like a twig but chooses not to? Extremely sexy.

Trenderman

Also extremely wary.

He tries to avoid the creature and has uncharacteristically little to say about its fashion choices or overall looks.

He acknowledges to himself that it would be very fun to make outfits that compliment the markings, both when they glow and when they don’t, but he does nothing with those thoughts.

The creature comes to him to talk (perhaps about design perhaps not) and he complies, less obviously irritated about being approached by this stranger for conversation because he knows of its vast power. The conversation moves to fashion and the creature asks for clothing help.

Trender complies. While he’s usually irritated at people asking for his services so brazenly, he’s fearful of what would happen if he says no and a little bit excited at the possibility of designing for someone that looks so unique.

Through the process of making the creature a new wardrobe, he looses some of his wariness. The creature not only has a respect for fashion in general and his abilities specifically, but is a delight to talk to and inspirational to design for.

The creature becomes a friend and his muse, as the ease to which it can shapeshift making it a never ending source of inspiration.

Eventually, the creature admits its romantic interest in Trender, admitting to trying to get his attentions in other ways that Trender overlooked in his focus on his work or assumed was playful banter.

Trender is taken aback but not against it. He says yes to a date and they see how things go from there.

Splendorman

Wary but not unfriendly.

He knows that a creature that powerful is dangerous to him, others, and the world as a whole; whether or not it says that it just wants to live in cryptid society.

But that’s no reason to be rude.

He makes friends immediately. He asks about the creature’s day, how it’s settled in, how it’s liking cryptid society. He recommends foods, shows, activities and experiences that one new to the moral realm should try and offers to be there as it tries them.

Initially, Splendor is definitely jumpy around the creature and is quick to soothe it whenever there’s so much as a possibility that the creature may react badly. However, even though it’s obvious that Splendor doesn’t fully trust it, the creature can’t help but open up to him.

Splendor listens earnestly to its thoughts and opens up about his own experiences eagerly, making it easy for the creature to confess its feelings about being the only one of its kind while they look up at the stars from Splendor’s meadow; makes it easy for the creature to think of Splendor’s feelings when someone insults it and it gets the urge to harm; makes it easy for the creature to appreciate all the smallest insects, plants, snowflakes and rocks that Splendor points out excitedly as they walk together;

Makes it easy to fall in love.

For the both of them.