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A big scary creature for the spooky month! :3
#my art#tws#the weird story#the curse#-> placeholder name#Originally it was a modern depiction of the Wendigo just in my universe#But I don't wanna be disrespectful to the tribes and stuff you know?#Since I've heard it kind of is#Soooo I'll try to come up with some original name :3#Also yes this is Cryo#Or well... An additional form#I could talk about it more... If you ask 👀#Creature
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#ribombee#one of my faves. look at that face. they're so kind. so sweet#i love how they're going :>#it's wonderful. look at their face now and appreciate it yes?#also love the fuckin beat of how bdg used “ribombee” in the perfect pokérap. been a while since i've heard it but i distinctly#remember “ribombee” standing out to me
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Bruno Week 2024
Day 1: Sway
Kicking off with the first day of BrunoWeek2024 :)
#my art#bruno buccellati#bruno bucciarati#brunoweek2024#vento aureo#jjba#jjba part 5#WHEW OKAY#First of the two days I managed to finish on time#Been a while since I did digital art but with my current skills I'm happy how these came out!#the two days I completed follow some of the lyrics of the songs chosen for the prompts#I tried to tie them to different events and aspects of Bruno's life#songart? Is that a thing? Is this kind of art called songart?#I've heard of songfic#ANYWAYS I hope fellow Bruno enjoyers like this :''''')))
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Thank you for answering my Origins Dragon!Marinette and Turtle!Adrien question! Please don’t worry about disagreeing with the idea; I asked for YOUR opinion and analysis on why it would OR wouldn’t work, and that’s what I got. 😌 It also made me consider meta and in-show stuff that I hadn’t before, which is cool. You mentioned wanting all of the Kwamis to be part of some sort of set of two or more, and I’d love to hear what those sets are in your head going down the full Chinese Miracle Box list and why you’d pair them together with consideration towards both the Kwami themselves and their Powers.
(Post this ask is referring to)
Oh good, I'm glad that you found it useful and not discouraging!
Talking about how to pair the Kwamis is a little tricky because of an issue that I've discussed before. That issue being that the "Chinese" miracle box seems to be about as Chinese as fortune cookies. That makes me uncomfortable because - as far as I'm aware - the Chinese zodiac is a major part of Chinese beliefs and traditions. As such, I personally feel like the box should reflect those beliefs and traditions, but I also don't know those beliefs and traditions, so I can't tell you how I'd effectively group the zodiac Kwamis in order to honor their cultural origins. I can't even be sure if my criticism is valid or just me being overly cautious!
In an ideal world where I had money to invest in this sort of thing, I'd hire a cultural consultant to work with me to design a Chinese miracle box that feels Chinese (or to tell me that I'm overthinking this and to just do whatever I want). Assuming that I'm not overreacting, this would probably mean redesigning a lot of the powers and looks so that they honor Chinese lore and not Western lore.
For example, one thing that I know for sure is that black cats are not unlucky in China. They're actually symbols of good luck (all cats are), so a Chinese box would not have the implied good luck/bad luck thing that we get with Ladybug and Chat Noir. My limited research has also raised some doubts about ladybugs being a go-to symbol of good luck or creation in China, but I'm a lot less confident about that one being a bad choice as the association may exist. I couldn't find anything definitive one way or the other. This leads me to think that, if the association exists, then it's probably a bit obscure, meaning that a Chinese box would probably go with a different animal if we were trying to be culturally accurate to what a Chinese-inspired box would really look like.
I can say with reasonable certainty that Creation is associated with the masculine yang and Destruction is associated with the feminine yin, so Tikki should possibly feel masculine to feminine Plagg. At the very least, their spots in the miracle box should probably be reversed with Plagg in the black and Tikki in the white since yin is black and yang is white?
[Image Description: center of the original miracle box showing that ladybug earrings are placed in the black part of the yin yang symbol while the black cat ring is in the white]
I also known that white rabbits being associated with time, watches, and umbrellas comes from Alice in Wonderland and not China. Are you starting to see why I'm doubting the cultural accuracy of the miracle box?
The alternate way to approach this is to remove the possible issue of Chinese culture being treated as "mystical" or nothing more than ornamentation by making the Chinese miracle box into the miracle box of no specified culture. Since that's kind of what the box already is in terms of deeper meanings and cultural ties, I think we can go that route for this discussion since we have taken a moment to acknowledge the potential issues with the box's existing design and why that's leading me to take this route as - to me - this seems to be the only way to stick to canon's lore while avoiding potential further insults to Chinese culture.
If we went to my ideal extremes with this approach, we'd actually massively cut down the number of miraculous in the box because I think that there are way too many miraculous! Who needs nineteen "unique" powers to arm and fight one villain? This is extra true since there's no real theme to the miraculous beyond the initial setup of Creation/Destruction + five random powers followed by the addition twelve more random powers with no clear ties to any culture or theme other than the look of the Kwamis that grant the powers.
But that's getting real extreme, so for this ask, we won't go there. Instead, I'll talk about some general ideas for grouping the powers that we already have and some ideas for how you could fix the randomness of our current powers to make them feel like they make sense.
To start, I love the fact that our two main heroes are supposed to be a pair power wise. That's a lovely way to approach your lore and is why I think that they should have grouped the other miraculous, too. Why are Creation and Destruction the only set? Why aren't the others in any sort of group? Why do these miraculous have the powers they do? What ties them to this box and not another box?
There are a few ways to approach pairing the other miraculous. You can come at it from a theme perspective such as the fact that both the snake and the rabbit are all about time. You can also look for opposites such as the turtle being all about defense and the dragon being more about offense. You can even go more broad and say that a given group of miraculous is all aspects of one type of power such as the peacock, the goat, and the ladybug all feeling like aspects of creation. There's really no clear way to go about this because the current powers are so freaking random!
When I approach this stuff, I don't just come up with powers. I come up with the lore and let that help guide the powers or I shape the lore around the powers I want to use until both things make sense. For example, it makes sense that Creation would have some magical being guiding it. It also makes sense that Creation would either create Destruction for balance or that they both popped into existence together so that there was always a balance. Once you have that, you say, "Okay, what other Forces would these two want in order to help guide the universe? What can't they do or what do they do consistently enough that they might want to hand it off?"
Going from there, you start to come up with ideas like maybe they wanted Time to have a physical embodiment so that they could get some guidance on the long term effects of the things that they were making, so that's Fluff coming online. But Time is a lot and they liked their balance, so maybe Sass was brought online too in order to balance Fluff with Fluff being focused on what was and what could be while Sass is focused on what is, thereby giving Fluff someone to ground her. Or maybe you even add in a third Kwami to be some sort of historian who remembers the past while Fluff is the future and Sass is the now.
Another thought path is that most things are not pure Creation or pure Destruction. You must destroy to create. When you make bread, yeast consumes sugar to create air bubbles. Creation and Destruction working together. So maybe Tikki and Plagg wanted to make "children" who could do what they couldn't do solo and that's how we got the peacock?
No matter how you go about this, I really don't think that there's a great way to explain/group all nineteen miraculous, especially if you add in the eagle and Fei's wacky prodigious with it's animal abilities. It's just too random! But I do think that there's a lot of potential in strong subsets of the ones we get in canon, especially if you're allowed to edit the powers or the Forces a bit to make them fit their supposed Force or granted power better. I've talked before about how I'd mess with Lucky Charm to remove the odd Luck association and focus on Creation and that's what I'd do with most of the miraculous because, right now, most of them don't make much sense.
For example, Ziggy - the goat - is supposed to be the Kwami of Passion and that somehow gives the power to create anything you want? I know creatives are passionate, but that still doesn't fit in my mind. It would make more sense for this to be an inspiration power like the pig or for the Force to change to Creation and Ziggy is just a lesser ladybug for some reason? And Stompp - the Ox - is Determination, but I'd actually label his shield power as an aspect of Protection, making him in some sort of pairing with the turtle. Self defense verses defense of others?
In short, the canon lore is a disaster that needs major work to feel solid which leads to lots of paths for fixing the mess. In my opinion, the best way to go about fixing it is to take the element that worked best - the Creation/Destruction pairing - and expand that out to make strong, logical lore for the other Kwamis and their associated powers. Lore that probably won't be rooted in any one culture because no culture seems to be a solid match for the lore that canon is using, which is only concerning because of the current obvious associations with China and that's not even touching on the whole Tibetan monks + Chinese culture issue. Go check out the post I linked at the start for my thoughts on that which basically sum up to, "I am not even remotely qualified to talk about this one, but it seems like a terrible idea."
(Once again, reminder that I'm not Chinese or otherwise deeply informed on Chinese culture. I'm just a person who tries her best to respect other cultures and the miracle box sets off a lot of warning bells for me. Those warning bells could always be a false positive, so you shouldn't take my thoughts as some sort of final say on this topic. Please feel free to look into this on your own and form your own opinions.
If you are Chinese or otherwise educated in these topics, then please feel free to reblog this or send an ask giving me some additional context as I really do love learning about this stuff, but it's near impossible to research! I spent a good hour talking to a local librarian trying to find books or articles in our library that talked about the Chinese zodiac from an academic perspective and we found nothing. I've got a few interlibrary loan requests out to academic libraries in our library network though and I'll follow up on this if those books end up having information that adds to the discussion.)
#ml writing critical#ml writing salt#anon ask#lore discussion#I kept thinking I should bite the bullet and do more serious research on this topic since the box really does bother me#So thanks for getting me to finally do that anon!#There's a good chance that this will go nowhere though#I've heard elsewhere that it's really hard to research this kind of topic in the west#Most of the good resources supposedly come from China and are not translated#If they're even available in the west
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Literally so embarrassing to feel embarrassed ever. Not very top energy of me
#got my first driving theory class today and felt painfully shy. painfully#tbh I think since that panic attack I had last week my anxiety's been worse#maybe it's the fear of having another panic attack? I've heard this kind of thing can happen#and I've had panic attacks before but like. it had been a looong long time since I had one#like. years maybe??#and then suddenly I'm scared of being scared again#and of my emotions getting out of control when I really need to stay calm#idk. it sucks#sleep.txt
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recently got to give bg3 a try n kinda just used it as an excuse to work on a design ive been struggling with. reminds me a lot of making murder lizards in skyrim as a middle schooler it's fun :3
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#bg3 fanart#dnd#dnd art#dragonborn#fursona#dragonsona#oc#oc: lizal#isekai'ing in my fursona was kind of a joke just to figure out how the game works and NOW i'm trying to make an actual durge#it's. uh. an interesting game to say the least lol#i'm wondering if there's a reason i've heard so much about the romances but not hardly anything about the gameplay#but that might be an unfair thing to say since i've only ever played the same Kind of rpgs before and i've NEVER played dnd#or other games based on its mechanics#i'm honestly just glad i can try it for free on my brother's library cuz i wouldn't have been interested otherwise hfgkfdg#''what characters do you like'' the durge. that's it. i like this freak and only this freak so far.
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so like. i like abigail, she's kinda cool, but she literally asked shawn to introduce her to his dad, he said no because his dad is henry, and she went behind his back and showed up at his dad's place? and had coffee with him? and made dinner plans? when he literally a few hours ago told her it's complicated and makes him uncomfortable.
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#stupid#i heard something recently that's really been on my mind since#it was like 'the only thing you HAVE to do in a relationship is be kind' or smth#and...that's not kind. that says 'i understand you have issues and i appreciate that you communicated them but i've decided to ignore them'#'yeah i get you don't want me to do this thing that is more yours than mine but i don't care actually?'#now that im thinking about it actually#i think shawn would do that too?#so maybe it's good for them#it's just not good for me#but im not dating her so i guess maybe it's good
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The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.
#em draws stuff#travel light#this image has been about a year in the making (I wanted to draw it when I first read it but I only got to it now)#my thoughts on travel light are. well they are this image primarily.#been a while and a while since I drew in this style and it feels GOOD to be doing it again!!#wish I'd figured out a way to fit steinvor into the composition but it was a hard squish even to include tarkan der (and he's very tiny)#the way I've done the mountains are purposefully referencing one of the earlier covers of the hobbit as I love jirt's painting style#and it seemed apt for various things about the way travel light exists and the kinds of things it has to say#it is right on the edge of where legend meets life when it comes to depicting early medieval europe and it's. well. read it actually.#book that makes you want to listen to 'to holmgard and beyond' by turisas except exactly backwards#(in the varangian way they are going the other direction and also they are much more (to put it as halla would) dragonish about it)#song I first heard in the context of an absolutely wild 8tracks playlist in 2015 which changed my music taste forever. anyway.#really I must read more naomi mitchison except that no library in the entire state of california appears to have a copy of the big house :/#anyway anyway. if I ever get my own copy of this book I Will be rebinding it to have this for a cover I like it so very much
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The work achievement I am most proud of is "F.U.N.", and you all can have it too!
"We're having F.U.N. This is F.U.N. Everything is F.U.N."
Sounds innocent and innocuous.
Drives the CEO insane.
Because everyone in the building knows F.U.N. means "Fucking Unbelievably Nuts".
#the ceo has been trying to figure out where that started since he was hired#and the last ceo also made it his mission to figure out who started it#demanding people tell them where they heard it from#but my image at work is so squeaky clean and pure that no one believes I do anything wrong and thus no one asks me#it's a curse i've carried my whole life#i have an honest face and even though i don't like lying- because i believe STRONGLY in karma#if i feel the need to- like lying to hide the union stuff and protect other employees- i don't even blink#covering my ass for the F.U.N. thing is just because I love the F.U.N. thing and it was born of a day of immense suffering#plus to outsiders we just sound kind of terrifyingly upbeat when everything is going to shit#so i say it's a very win-win pressure valve that keeps our IMAGE as a cheerful and professional crew to outsiders#while also letting us vent
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if jake isn’t firestar’s father, is tallstar still just as obsessed and parental with firestar?
imo, the funniest headcanon in warriors is that jake isn’t firestar’s father but tallstar is such a pining idiot he looks at any orange cat and sees his former crush. if he was alive to see all the fire spawn he would absolutely lose it.
noooOOOO I know everyone likes that but (quickly pauses to check ur pronouns, sees no pronouns listed) FRIEND i don't like that retcon at all, not even a tiny little bit
In TPB, Tallstar doesn't softball Fireheart until he's proven himself as someone very different from a standard Clan cat... even after he goes to fetch him from exile, he's standing firm that WindClan cannot forever be in ThunderClan's 'debt'. He even repays ThunderClan's "kindness" by attacking them over not executing a blinded Brokentail.
He ISN'T obsessed with Fireheart, he barely even speaks particularly nicely about him until Fireheart goes against Bluestar's DIRECT orders to stop war with WindClan, trying to rally ThunderClan for peace and broker a peace deal. I think it's actually a very good, touching development that Fireheart's actions end up causing peace with WindClan in a way previously unseen by Forest Four.
What sucks most about TPB is how they pivot, in the end, to say "status quo good" when the whole arc before that is a testament to how Bluestar and her protege Fireheart challenge that idea. Dethroning Brokenstar, fetching WindClan, feeding RiverClan which Blue only slaps Fire on the wrist for...
But it makes it a better story that Tallstar was always going to have a good opinion of Fireheart because he looks like a gay lover he had in his 20s???
I feel like it makes TPB worse and makes the WindClan Rebellion pathetic
Why couldn't it actually be that Tallstar truly wanted peace, but misjudged Onewhisker because he barely knew him? Why are we stripping away the tragedy that is Tallstar making a hasty, naive decision in the hopes of a better world, only to plunge his Clan into even more chaos? Not realizing that friendship is only easy when it's not under pressure, forgetting to consider how insidious Clan culture can be, and what sorts of horrors he was about to shackle Onewhisker to?
Why do we have to turn this into Tallstar trying to giving his ex-lover's son a political freebie, because they're both gingers? I don't like it at all. I don't like Pining Idiot Tallstar. I like it most as a naive choice which, up in heaven and far away, he now deeply regrets.
Thinking about it, you could say that BB!Tallstar's theme is naivety. Naive to think that he always understands the rules, and that he can 'have his cake and eat it too.'
He couldn't bring his son Fly to the Clan and expect him to stay innocent. He couldn't end the Shadow/Wind War while claiming the Mouthermouth Moorland. He couldn't wait until the last minute to change his deputy and expect the new leader to be what he wanted.
ANYWAY YEAH lmao sorry, got carried away. TLDR no. I know it's a popular headcanon and I don't knock on folks who like it, but it's not my cuppa tea. I very intentionally am retconning the retcons. Retconception if you will
#Thinking about it... I think I want to like#Have people in the universe think he was very wise#But towards the end. Somehow. He's able to speak to someone (maybe onestar. I think onestar deserves an apology)#And say#''I've heard it said now that the more you know. The more you know you don't know''#''I was a naive cat and I made very selfish choices''#And if it's onewhisker he finally says to the poor fucking dude ''I never should have thrust that upon you.''#Maybe include some kind of Clanmew pun like#''Just before you became (whole amount)whisker... I forced you to become (just one)star.''#Arrahussk/Ularrashai#Oogway ass moment#Cat Oogway#Since BB!AVoS is about breaking cycles and redemption this would actually be a very nice end to Onestar I think#Also also (Autism) I am not mad I don't know if I came across as mad in this reply#what's tone
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I have Got to get more transgender
#100% секретный дневник левы НЕ ЧИТАЙ#transmasc#trans ftm#transgender#i like 2 say i'm very trans already but unforch i am Not Really. mostly boring ftm Guy Ever#so tempted to cut my hair again but my sense of what i look like is already so fuzzy i dont think it'd help..#want to dye my hair anyways. at this point i'd take whatever color i can get if not purple LOL#it's almost everything i could want and yet ... still me. still the same life. stuck.#soooo high functioning like you wouldnt believe EXCEPT istg i need an emotional support human who will guide me through tasks#such as 'pay with your Moneys Card at the Store'#or... idk that's it really. maybe go grocery shopping without feeling like i'm not meant to be there also#or like. exist in general maybe#reasons why not emotional support Animal: creature cannot understand capitalism. and also is not as necessary as a service dog specifically#idk! every time i come on here i fall apart (in text) and then pull myself back together for another day of ... this i guess.#i'm not even having like crying breakdowns or anything to go along with it i'm just held inside this shell of a body. typing away again#i'm soso tempted to make things worse. progress wouldn't matter anymore... at least maybe it would feel real that i'm like this#i wish my face fit on my body right. and also that i did not look quite so much like a vaguely gnc lesbian#like at LEAST let me look butch as hell but no. curse of sad hair & uncertainty#miss my little mullety thing from that brief period in october... miss my short hair from back in 2017 ...#just dont feel satisfied with what i am now. in general.#top surgery is literally Within my reach but i'm not sure about cost and i need to wait because of doing guard now......#my list of do i want t i kept for the past month turned out to be a bunch of maybes#partially cause i got sick. partially cause it stopped being shark week and i forgot about it#as always happens...#still unsure in my new(er) name. only heard it once#didn't feel the same way as with my old one? but idk. just don't know.#missing guard also but feeling conflicted about not having time for other hobbies...#since winter season is over i've had so much time to play guitar! that's insane! mostly cause i stopped playing for unrelated reasons...#just tired again. wonder if i need more sleep than what i always get. kind of restless.#there's nothing else to say i guess. just wish i could be a person the way everyone else seems to be.
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hm.
#did some research. Eric Nam is like. nowhere near the levels of zionism I have seen on Tumblr (💀though I have seen. this brand) he seems to#be like. pussyfooting around calling it a genocide. 'prayers for both sides 🥺' kind of shit. unless I've missed something else he's said#<- doesn't really change my opinion on him from when I heard he's a zionist but. still I'm happy I did my own research. however after doing#said research I really dont think this is enough to get him kicked off any projects since he's been purposefully so vague and wishy washy
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god it's only day two of class and i feel so so so so very behind
#without the adhd meds i'd be more behind#but now i feel behind for non-adhd reasons#like my task list for my research project is really long rn because i have so so so much background to look into#because i have no experience with machine learning#and i kind of feel a little behind in my classes#because i don't have very much of an astro background (especially compared to a lot of the other first years who are coming in with full#astro degrees while i'm just physics)#and that's still a solid background!#but so much of the stuff they all seem to know about is not stuff i've ever heard of#idk#and now i have to review stuff to TA because it's been so long since i've done algebra based physics and i can't just roll up unable#to help the students#and that one student who didn't have an interpreter in class stresses me out because i want to be able to communicate with all my students#and i don't want to leave them out or not be able to help them because we can't communicate#ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#zip quips
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I feel like I'm losing my irl friends, one of them works so much she's barely able to text , the other went backpacking and even though she's back in Australia she's not really answering me, and my other friend only talks to me when I initiate the conversation.
Which is fine, but when you're constantly initiating, it begins to feel like you're being bothersome, and so I decided not to initiate for a couple of weeks and yep. Radio silence, from everyone. I genuinely don't know what I've done to offend them
#about me#like. I can't even say that i feel close to them anymore because i haven't heard any work stories. I've heard 1 travel story. and that's it#and it was MONTHS ago since I've had any kind of communication apart from ''happy new year''
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Remember kids, don't procrastinate on your fics.
#fanfic meme#scott the woz memes#in case the quality's too crappy the dvd's i recently got are futurama season 1 simpsons seasons 4 and 5 and blue seed#funny story with the last one if had never heard of blue seed until i saw the complete dvd set in the middle of a barren goodwill dvd wall#no clue how it got there but since it was just $2.19 i scooped it up even after seeing the first disc was somehow missing#and btw i've never really watched anime#so i just ordered volume 1 on dvd for my birthday on ebay but it just came in like it had been left loose in a filthy barn for 7 months#so now i gotta get off my ass and return a guest ebay order#but i still need to finish these chapters!#meta knightmare fanfic memes#i love writing this but i kind of hate it too#oh and i've also got a lot of games on the backlog#(now i feel like i lucked out with my n2dsxl's r button starting to stiffen lol)
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shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals
Thank you so much for asking!! Had fun with this one too because it came from my "main" playlist (titled: 90.3 WYX - Apocalypse Radio w. Bart Brady, because I like coming up with fake radio stations 😊).
[transcript below]
No Big Deal - ALICE
Unleashed - Thomas Bergersen, Two Steps From Hell
Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Tommee Profitt, Sam Tinnesz
My Beloved - Lee Hi
Confetti - Charlotte Cardin
#bit of lore#the fake radio station is the result of its host#the wonderful bart brady#getting trapped in a radio station during the zombie apocalypse#he's the only one there and since he has nothing else to do he keeps the channel going#it's kind of like the one in fallout that i've heard of but didn't know of when i made the little plot 😅#i did think he would make for a good npc in a video game though who sends requests over the radio and warns of where hoards of zombies are#it's not very fleshed out to be honest#i should make him in sims now lol#😄#ask
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