#also?? This is a squad I would die for

[blaithnne]

Why is no one talking about my BABY?? My ANGEL? MY AUTISM CREATURE??

[timethehobo]

Scribbled him yesterday before I got too sick.

[cogneartive]

visualising the man i have to become

[ladyaster]

After Isa's redemption in KH3, I'll never find it not funny as a huge fan of FFVIII that the fanon consensus is that the new "nemesis" of the Seasalt Trio or at least Roxas and Xion is Seifer.

I dunno how much of the KH fandom has played FFVIII, and in-universe it makes sense given Seifer is the "neighborhood bully" of Twilight Town. However, given what VIII players know about him, it's hilarious and cathartic to see these two kids either bonk him with copied claymores in response to him trying to intimidate them into giving him their ice cream money, curbstomp him at Struggle right after calling them "lamers" or "chicken wusses", or accidentally drop half-eaten popsicles on his face when, in his universe of origin, Seifer was a major war criminal who, among other things, dropped all sorts of horrible endgame monsters including actual malboros onto a hugely populated city (which like any VIII fan can tell you, malboros are already nope on a stick in general, but in VIII in particular they're excessively brutal).

Roxas and Xion are just delivering Seifer some belated karma from 1999 is all and I'm loving every second of it.

[spacedace]

Random DP x DC idea/writing prompt:

Amanda Waller takes over the GIW and uses all their research & tech to make a suicide squad style thing with Ghosts. Maybe even managing to get ahold of Danny or Elle at some point in the process

[zannies-joestar-hut]

i really think Acca might be a twist unvillain

[maxpaulll]

I beat Pokemon Sword after 4 fucking years so here's what my champion league card would look like if I had it my way >:[

[goldiipond]

love love love the way clothing in tpn is used as a symbol of oppression with the plain pure-white gendered dress code at the farms but also as a symbol of rebellion and liberation post-escape with the bunker uniforms that, while still plain on their own are no longer subject to a rigid dress code and can be modified by the kids however they please, such as gillian altering the longer skirts into short pleated ones to suit hers and other girls' styles and covering hers and the younger kids' shirts in patches and even smaller things that set kids apart like don's short sleeves and nat keeping his shirt tucked in etc etc.

clothing as a rebellion against gender roles where the girls are always shown wearing skirts at gracefield even in the middle of winter, and how they're all dressed exactly the same as the boys during the escape. many of the girls choosing to wear skirts with the bunker uniforms but wearing pants in situations where its more practical or comfortable to do so. emma, the protagonist, never wearing a skirt after the escape. paula, violet, and barbara never being seen in a skirt at all. violet's entire character being a rejection of gender roles.

colored clothing as a form of rebellion in only seeing monocrome button-up uniforms when the kids are on the run and then getting to goldy pond, the first arc where they fight back against the demons head-on, and everyone is wearing unique, brightly colored outfits. how ray specifically is one of the people who have suffered the farm’s oppression the longest due to knowing the farm’s secret from the beginning, and how post timeskip he’s always seen with a blue scarf that sets his outfit apart from all the other black and white uniforms. seeing bright unique clothing again with the lambda squad while they go around blowing up farms and liberating kids.

clothing as a symbol of personal growth with norman wearing a suit during his minerva meltdown because he has taken on the responsibility of protecting and saving every cattle child despite the fact that he himself is only a child, and how afterward he is shown matching with emma, ray, don, and gilda again. main story ray wearing bright white because thats all he was able to wear vs post-canon ray who is always shown wearing black/dark colors because those are the colors that HE likes. i love clothes in tpn

[note-boom]

You know, as much as I love Wan and as much as I recognise how non-canonical it is, I gotta say....they were so wrong for making Dazai, Yosano, and Kouyou the preschool teachers. All three of them are unhinged and traumatised and two of them canonically. taught children and scarred them horribly.

The only two qualified to even be associated with teacher-hood are Fukuzawa and Hirotsu, you cannot change my mind.

[cryptvokeeper]

Fudging the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Timeline so that I can pretend Giorno and Okuyasu could have interacted as kids

[shiniestcrow]

I kinda have lost all motivation for drawing digitally... I don't really know why. Objectively, it's easier to make stuff look decent but it's, at least at the moment, not fun anymore. So. Paper it is lol

[opens-up-4-nobody]

You don't understand how unhinged I feel trying to construct an ending for Bleach that I personally would enjoy while knowing Bleach does not deserve my time and also not remembering enough to actually make anything coherent. And yet here I am.

[couldbebetterforsure]

BRUH…………

Sou’s acting in that last part of Mary Jane 👁️👄👁️

Also I love the Quartz crew so much! This sweet and funny and absolutely precious gang, they are all angels and I love their relationships with each other so much and and and and AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! I love you Quartz!!!!!!! (Jury’s still out on you for the moment Otori…)

[felikatze]

This is exactly why I feel like (without spoiling) Engage is just a weird sequel to Awakening in terms of ideas. I can really tell they noticed the problems in the other stuff and regardless of how people feel about it going BACK to examine FEA with Engage's lens is actually really useful bc it gives us a bit of a hint at what they WANTED to do. gotta remember FEA was almost the last FE game *ever* so i dont doubt they did all they could at the *time*.

good for them i haven't played engage :thumbsup:

I've osmosed some of the plot via memes and such so i know about alear's whole fell dragon situation and also that the general consensus of engage's story is "very deeply silly but at least half of it is good" which matches the consensus on awakening how "the midgame is lame but early and late are cool."

ngl despite the complaints abt awakening i've voiced i do find the emotional core of it deeply compelling. i had a blast when i played it. yeah, the midgame dragged because say'ri was suddenly the protagonist, but elsewhere i found the plot engaging (pun not intended) and brisk. brisk here is a compliment- things were always moving and never dragged.

the status of the maybe last game is a biiig influence on the structure. i'd argue that's why the midgame valm arc even exists. everything else is already a fe1 reference, so they threw in fe2 where they could. whenever i get around to actually playing any version of fe1 i can probably offer more comprehensive thoughts on this, but i feel awakening works well as a deconstruction of those early FE titles. or at the very least, it tries to be.

there's of course how the big bad dragon is actually the protagonist's best friend, instead of just some shadowy emperor. and in the valm arc, you have walhart claiming the legacy of alm as conqueror, which reframes alm in fe2, because yeah, he did take over the entire continent. (actually, comparing how awakening frames alm vs how echoes frames alm is super fascinating. there's such a drastic shift in interpretation of alm's character between the games and i love it. it's exactly the type of thing that would get twisted in history.)

if awakening were made as the FE franchise stands now- entering the mainstream thanks to three houses' popularity and with the eternal cash cow of heroes, it would prolly be drastically different.

but that's true for any game. everything is a product of its circumstances. that's why and how remakes exist and differ, after all.

[perenlop]

ok so i know ive complained abt shadow and infinite’s backstory in sonic forces but can i also just say how uncomfortable it is that shadow allegedly murdered a ton of people in a facility... kinda like what happened in the ARK

like i already think him joining GUN was kinda a bad writing choice but cmon

also the fact that infinite going sicko mode was not bc his squad died but bc shadow called him weak is the perfect example to point to for how WEIRD forces’s writing is. say what you want about how batshit the adventure games and 06 got with their plotlines but at least all the death and violence in those games were taken seriously and had narrative weight. here its just like “SEE we put VIOLENCE in the game guys!! we TOTALLY nailed what made our earlier stories so good!!”

[officialzevran]

i'll say it, fine! caterina dellamorte they could never make me hate you