#This isn't my Rose though ^^;

[redr0sewrites]

i will forever defend these two- NOT to start discourse but they are both so heavily mischaracterized by the fandom its INSANE like omg yes they are flawed but they are also trying their best PLEASE leave them alone 🙏🙏🙏

as usual im yapping in the tags if anyone cares

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[pocketramblr]

Inspired by this post: give Bruce a star sapphire ring

I've never met anyone who cared as deeply for his fellow man as Bruce Wayne

[toonagi]

OCTOPUS BLAST

looklooklook it's my first fan character since chai the flareon and that one kingdom hearts oc i made in high school

paprika as a concept has been bouncing around in my head like a dvd screensaver for a couple months now, i just wasn't able to draw them until recently. they're a pacific octopus and an extreme gear racer & mechanic and also a huge dweeb who wears pants over a wetsuit like a FREAK. everyone say hi paprika

[rosewilsonravager]

I find it really hard to get back into comics these days, DC specifically. I've tried, but there doesn't seem to be any internal consistency with stories and characters. It all seems to operate on a specific writer's whim to determine what in a character's history is canon/relevant at any given time, and character development or important events may be dropped without a word. Characters go through so many different writers that they may end up completely different than they were 5 years ago, or become flanderized version of themselves. Their histories might get erased, some parts of their histories might randomly come back, relationships they have with other characters might be forgotten about, etc.

DC seems to want to operate on the idea of "everything is canon", but that doesn't… really work, when there are direct contradictions to what's come before—things that couldn't be canon if other things are. And honestly, I don't enjoy that. I don't like the idea of all these stories happening in a vacuum, aand having to decide for myself what stories have or have not happened for each specific character I like (at least in official media, because that's what fan fic is for). I will always prefer fully developed narratives, and characters who are allowed to grow and evolve, and maintain internal consistency to their stories. I like beginnings, middles, and ends, not the constant state of stagnation these characters always seem to be in, because god forbid the status quo ever change.

As an example, my favorite DC character is/was Rose Wilson—but specifically from before Flashpoint and the New 52. Nowadays, even after Rebirth, she's just a different character to me. Most of what I loved about her has been written out or forgotten about, and I have tried to enjoy her for what she is now, but I haven't been as engaged by her stories or how she's been written. In my own opinion, most of what made her so compelling for me is gone, and with the exception of a couple standout moments here and there, she's been mostly a nerfed caricature of herself. Her backstory has been changed, her ethnicity was changed (from Khmer to Hmong), her dynamic with her family has changed, she no longer has the same relationships with so many characters, and even if you want to say "everything in her past and all her stories still happened", there are direct contradictions now that prevent that from making sense.

I have had to come to accept that, while I find the present-day Rose "okay"—not great, not bad, just okay—the character I fell in love with and who became my favorite of all time ended in 2011 when DC decided to reboot things. And that makes me a little sad.

This is, of course, only my own opinion. I will never knock on others for enjoying these comics or these characters how they are, and if you do I'm happy for you! I wish I could too, but unfortunately it's just not for me anymore. I have since taken solace in fan works and my own writing, where I can get that kind of concrete development and narrative consistency, and that's okay with me.

[honorary-fool]

if I've learned anything from trying to make those sunburst halo-thingies for my Halovian Argenti cosplay,,,

nail clippers work really well to cut zipties

those ziptie pieces may or may not become projectiles at some point

there's a reason people airbrush the zipties instead of fucking up their paint pen's plastic nibs

the paint pens Splatter

I hope it lasts til the end (it should I've never seen it used but y'know)

[alostchord]

To a dying rose

O, dying rose, the perfume that you wear,

That mixture-scent of bloom and putrefaction,

More bitter than the human nose can bear,

Yet sickly sweet beyond all satisfaction,

Is like the last farewell unto a friend,

Whom one has shared both memories and passions.

Both bitter, in that one must meet an end,

And sweet, rememb'ring love and one's distractions.

Yet you bear nobleness unto the end,

For you can show no signs of grief or sorrow.

My sympthies to you I need not send,

Though you may not survive until tomorrow.

In any case, farewell, O friend of mine!

I know not how, but I'll move on in time!

[intertexts]

goob evenibg

[savingthegeneration]

My sister and I finished Glass Rose today! I believe I got ending 3 which is the good but not perfect ending. I'm grateful I got a decent ending though. If I got a bad/open-ended ending I can't guarantee I'd pick the game back up ever again. I got some thoughts that I'm going to put under the cut. Just a little mini review.

I have a couple of problems with Glass Rose and I think it's biggest problem is that it tries too hard to be a game. The game is full of gameplay mechanics that were unnecessary or clunky. From the time limit in each chapter, to having to catch butterflies for your health, or even walking around the mansion.

The game could have been more efficient if they changed a few things. I found a lot of the characters useless and unnecessary to the plot. (Like seriously, what was the point of the cat??? Or Emmy?? Or Emi?) Also, I didn't really love Takashi as a character. I would have loved for him to have a little bit more personality. He was a little too chill with the residents thinking he was a member of the family the whole time. Some internal dialogue would've gone a long way in making me care about Takashi as a character. Also, I kinda wish Takashi was related to the family in some way. It wasn't enough that his friend, Emi Katagiri had a tiny connection to the family. Honestly, Emi should have been the main character if Takashi isn't going to be related to anyone.

I was very upset when I first started Glass Rose and was made aware of the time limit for each chapter. Granted, it was never an issue my entire playthrough, but it did deter me from exploring the mansion or finding any of Denemon's notes. Now that I have finished the game though, I imagine getting those notes would be easier the second time around now that I have a better idea of the layout of the mansion. I believe they set the game this way because the story is very streamlined, but if you cut out player exploration, you may as well just make the game a visual novel. The thing that makes point and click adventure games fun games is the adventure part, and they effectively removed that from the game.

The pre-rendered backgrounds are beautiful but the point and click nature of the game and the constantly changing camera angles made it very easy for me to get turned around. Also every time you walked into a room or hallway, a giant sign would show up letting you know where you were. While not a terrible design, it did seem to last a few seconds longer than it should and it got annoying in the latter half of the game. They could have saved the player some time if it had a similar gameplay style to either Ace Attorney, Jake Hunter, or even J.B. Harold. It deserved to be a visual novel but they sure tried their darnedest to make sure it wasn't.

If I had a PAL-based PS2, I would like to try and play the game with a mouse! I think that's a really cool idea. I can only think of one other PS2 title that let you plug in a mouse. Which is Resident Evil: Dead Aim, I believe. I wonder if the game would have played a little better with a mouse or if gameplay would be pretty similar either way. I'm not sure if the emulator I used could make that work, but it's not like I have a mouse lying around either. I can't help but feel like maybe the mouse would have been useful during the suspense events the game has.

So finally, is this game worth owning/playing? For me, it's probably worth playing if you're a Cing fan and enjoy the premise of the story. I think this story is some of Rika Suzuki's weakest work, but that might be because of the gameplay too. I was invested in this game when I was younger so I had an interest from the start, but I did need my sister's enthusiasm for the story to help me through the latter half of the game. I did a brief glance of some UK copies and they range from anywhere between $30.00 to hundreds of dollars. So unless you want to add to your Cing collection or just like physical copies, this may be a miss. Or you could emulate it like I did. I didn't say that.

Anyway, I may come back and reorganize this better, but for now enjoy my word vomit.

[prodkeiji]

so like. rwby volume 9 season finale

[nounpolycule]

My toxic trait is like I mean Blink is good but I can't wrap my head around it being the highest rated episode of Doctor Who on IMDb. Top 30 fine but #1?

[prosebushpatch]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like). 

I was tagged by the wonderful @rebrandedbard!

This is actually the last line in a chapter for an og story in which a poor guy goes on vacation with his friends only to wake up one morning on the beach transformed into a siren! Of course, he has no memory of how he got there!

"He lunged underneath the railing and dove into the sea."

I shall tag the lovely @lemonadesoda, @thewiltingdaisy, @nerdy-aroace, and @damianwho! As always, no worries if you'd rather not but if you do, I can't wait to see your sentences! :D

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

It is easy to get midnight munchies if you have a cool car. Or a bunch of eager young drivers.

[zincbotted]

homestuck is being too good rn

[foldingfittedsheets]

Before my beloved and I moved in together they were living with roommates in a place that didn't have a bathtub. Now, a reasonable person might conclude from this that baths would be out of the equation in a home with only one standing shower and no tub.

But these people weren't quitters. Naturopathic doctors and acupuncturists they were dedicated to treating their bodies well and one of the ways they liked to do that was hydrotherapy. Most people are familiar with this through things like polar bear plunges. You sit in a hot tub then jump in freezing water.

It's supposedly good for you and they were way into it. But again, no tub. They'd do hydro showers but it just wasn't the same. These people were not quitters, though. (One of them is the boob soap person, so it really isn't a surprise that she goes hard on everything). So they got what looked like two big metal old timey tubs but which were actually animal food troughs and set them up in the garage. They set up a water heater and god knows how they emptied the tub after, I think there was hoses involved? A pump maybe? I honestly can't remember. Anyway! Voila, hydrotherapy on demand.

I was not aware of this. So when I came over after a long day and my beloved said we should take a bath I was extremely puzzled. I only knew about the one shower. They showed me the garage tubs. I did want a bath and I wasn't really sure about the setup, but honestly I'll try anything once if only for the story, so I agreed.

Fun fact about me though. I haaaate being cold. I've been 0% body fat most of my life with skin barely keeping my bones enclosed. I'm always cold. My favorite activity at the time was sitting directly in front of space heaters. My shower temperatures turn me lobster red and make my beloved cringe. Willingly dunking myself into cold water is the antipathy of my entire deal.

On the night in question I happily submerged into the warm tank, pleasantly surprised by the big silly improvised tub. Which again was meant for livestock. My knees bumped companionably against my beloved as we soaked in the hot water. After a while they rose to go into the cold water. "You don't have to," they told me.

But I was haunted. I wouldn't be doing hydro if I just stayed in the warm tub. Maybe hydro was amazing. It has all these health benefits. I desperately didn't want to but I stood up with them. We were having this nice intimate evening in the garage, just us, I felt safe. I was gonna do it.

They stepped easily into the cold tub, dunking matter of factly into the frigid water. I went to step. I did. I really really tried. My foot went in and I started shrieking, my progress arrested by the total state of shock I entered when my warm toasty foot hit that smug arctic water tension. My beloved started laughing as my pitch ascended the deeper my foot went into the cold water.

I started loudly narrating my discomfort as my foot touched the bottom and I willed my other foot up to join it. "THIS IS VERY COLD," I yelled, "IT'S SO COLD I THINK I MIGHT DIE HOW ARE YOU JUST CASUALLY SITTING IN THIS FREEZING COLD WATER?! I'M DYING- I THINK I'M DYING! I'M DYING BUT WE'RE HERE, TOGETHER! I CAN DO THIS! I CAN DO THESE EVEN THOUGH IT'S SO COLD ALL MY MOLECULES HAVE COMPRESSED INTO A SOLID STATE!"

I ended up with both feet planted in the cold tub, water up to my shins, bellowing and panting while my beloved laughed so hard they couldn't breathe. I hunkered over the cold water, squatting like a frozen gargoyle.

My beloved was trying to psyche me up while I willed my body to obey me. In a sudden jerky drop like a puppet whose strings have been cut I plummeted my body into the cold and let out a shriek that I’m sure could have shattered glass and then leapt up out of the water at a speed relative to a rocket achieving space flight. I didn’t like it.

When we got back inside my beloved's roommates were collapsed on the ground with tears in the their eyes from how hard they'd been laughing. They and probably every neighbor down the block had heard my pterodactyl screeching and narration because the garage was not remotely soundproof.

[theveryworstthing]

SpaceDancer's request for parasitic roses and Camille Alexander's request for unicorn fops created Angelique.

i now present my newest Charming Little Freak ✨

Angelique is one of those beings that isn't cleanly classified as a fae or a demon. he/it/whatever (roses are perfect plants and so it mostly goes by the pronouns common for the additional sex of his host body in human society because they couldn't care less) is a Rampant. a type of sapient parasitic rose that, over time, transforms the body of their host from a simple quadruped beast to bipedal humanoid (kinda) monster. every Rampant seems to mold themselves into unique forms, and designs often carry over if they somehow manage to get "uprooted" without dying and have to start over with a new flesh body. if Rampants stay rooted then they're borderline immortal even though their hosts are...dead? it's unclear. the Rampant certainly carries memories of what it was like being an animal and their flesh and blood is altered, but alive. the body keeps the score whether they like it or not. but the beast itself, its mind, dies quickly after a Rampant takes root. either from the trauma from becoming a Flowerbed or from the Rampant purposefully putting a thorn through its brain. whether fae or demon, Rampants take. they do not possess. they do not imprison.

Angelique currently lives in a small dying village, spending his time checking in on the aging population as a kind of town housemaid/caretaker and tending to his flower shop/apothecary. most people would say that having a creature like him around isn't a great idea, but this eldritch horror has basically been adopted by every lonely old person in town so good luck getting rid of him.

Fun Facts:

he loves nice soft clothes, meat (blood sausage is his favorite), and (in spite of his goth everything all the time) sunlight.

buzzing sounds make him flustered while prolonged exposure to cut grass smells and cold weather make him anxious.

he's an scary good climber and will forgo a door if he knows someone is on a higher floor of a building and he sees an open window.

always well hydrated. carries around a flask of water at all times and likes to sit outside naked when it rains.

he has many little leafy assistants which are also just him. he's like an octopus. the people in the community assign them all little names and give them unique decorations and he thinks it's really cute.

what is he getting out of staying in this village? none of your business.

he's currently in a weird situationship with 2 local gravekeepers from rival graveyards/religions and the recently widowed agnostic town doctor. everyone in this polycule hates everyone else but him. he's also friends with benefits with my character Brooke, who finds all of this hilarious and is eager to hear about the latest disaster every time he passes through town.