#and now i don't have to worry about it anymore which is actually the greatest thing ever

[teenagefeeling]

finally got a car i have a car yayyyyyy!!!!!!!!

[natalchartnurtures]

PAC: Energy Check~ for wherever you are right now

This was completely unplanned but frankly spirit doesn't give a fuck about my plans. So if this found you, here are some messages you probably need right now-

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pile 1: Ooh.. as I was preparing to start your reading, I saw 11:11 as the Chariot card showed up for you. This. Tells me that you are pretty strongly connected to your divine path right now, which simply means that you're doing something that's keeping you in alignment, sweet pile one! Good job! Keep going down this road because you WILL stumble upon amazing experiences and people! This message is coming through quite strongly. Now, isn't that lovely? Hehe.

Here's the thing, though.. Although you're actually IN alignment with your greatest timeline and life, you seem to be completely UNAWARE of the fact! You might be going through the necessary purging emotionally and/or mentally as a result of this alignment since the "old stuff" has no more room in your new vibration anymore. So, you've probably had to go through some intense endings and/or tower moments in life lately and THIS has left you feeling really, really sad. Maybe even depressed. For some of you, if that's the case, please seek help, sweet soul. It doesn't have to be therapy but even as simple as talking to a trusted loved one, you know? Or even journaling about it could help if you're into it. It seems like you could use a new perspective on the things you're going through right now. I'm sensing that you might be feeling emotionally numb right now too, but that's because you've been doing a lot of emotional processing lately AND IT'S ALL PAYING OFF. I just need you to know that. You just can't see it right now because you're slap dead in the middle of the storm, and I'm looking at it from a bird's eye view, you know?

While you're purging old stuff, I also see you making your way through an old core belief - "I gotta work hard to be deserving of anything because I inherently don't" Or something along those lines. You may have started purging this belief as a result of life showing you that it's simply not something worth keeping alive inside you. Maybe recently, you caught yourself overworking yourself to death only to receive very little in return (in any area of your life - relationships included) and this experience helped you wake up to this unhelpful belief of yours. You're unlearning this belief as we speak. It's not easy though, but I CAN assure you, you're acing it.

If you find yourself worrying too much about anything and everything or simply feeling a general fear, just know that it's a normal reaction to having things uprooted in your life. Life, right now, is asking you to do your best to focus on what's right in front of you because if you do this, the future is guaranteed to sort itself out. I promise.

I love you so much, pile 1. I see all your hard work and am rooting for you SO hard, bro. Love and light.

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Pile 2: Seems like to me that y'all have been STUCK in a particular pattern for a while now, maybe years? For some of you folks reading? Let me spell it out for you what this pattern looks like to me - an imbalance of the mind and heart. Too much mind and too little heart. Maybe none at all.

I can't seem to tap into the root of this imbalance, maybe because it's different for each of you reading, OR maybe it's not relevant to us right now because you can simply begin to address this imbalance as you see it in your day-to-day. But I sense that you're really good at addressing things, so once you're conscious of this pattern going on subtly in the background, running your life, you can really do something about this. This pattern may show up as you struggling with feeling fear, and this is blocking you off to one very important thing fear is here to show us, and that is how to support ourselves. If we are afraid of something we desire and have a healthy relationship with fear, we go for the desire while caretaking our fear. I read a quote the other day, it said "Do that thing you love but if you find that you're scared, then go do it scared." The point I'm trying to make is, fear isn't going to go away on its own, it's you who will simply expand your ability to hold space for it AND your desires equally. When you figure out how to do this, magic will happen in your life. You'll find that your unwillingness to caretake your fear only gave you more things to be afraid of (because, hello, Law Of Attraction *lol*), BUT you'll also find that when you radically start taking responsibility for your fear(s), you'll be able to act from a wiser space and be your full badass self. You'll find that there are so many things you CAN do and so much life you CAN live. Everything you've wanted to start doing in life will start to happen almost seamlessly. It WILL surprise you big time. You're currently making your way through an important part of your healing, and that is to hold yourself in all your glory. To hold all parts of yourself, even the ones that are scared shitless. Once you've integrated this segment of your healing, SO many doors will unlock for you. Sweet soul, you have no clue of JUST HOW MANY. And this… is probably because you manifest with your heart primarily (meaning you feel things deeply and so you unknowingly tap into the frequency of what you want easily) and your fear is keeping you stuck in your head, which means you're only 40% of the full You right now, PRIOR the healing of c. You might even feel it sometimes. You might feel like you're only a shell of a person (been there myself, you're not alone in this!). Listen to that feeling. Your truth lies in there. You're meant to be the 100% you, and I see that you're already halfway there!

I love you so much, pile 2, sending you so much light and love. Hope you find the resources you need to make it through to your new life where you live in more love than fear.

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Pile 3: Man… y'all been fighting for your lives, huh? I see that you may be in the midst of a lot of divinely evoked darkness? Lol, I literally heard that - divinely evoked darkness. Maybe you're going through a dark night of the soul, perhaps? Whatever your're going through though, it seems like you've been hanging on for dear life.

Some good news for you- no matter the circumstances you're in right now (be it good, bad, or terrible), you've been doing all the work necessary to keep your head above water and have been diligently nurturing your own light, positivity, and essence. THAT'S incredible resilience, sweet pile 3, and I'm really proud of you! It's not easy to keep an open heart through bad times, and that's such a grand achievement in my eyes. UGH, BEAUTIFUL.

Your energy SCREAMS transition period vibes. You seem to be neither in your "old" timeline nor in the new one yet. You're sorta hanging in the middle right now. I see the Hanged Man in the third eye as I tell you this. Feels like you're in the void right now, and things just seem… bleh. Boring. Colorless. This is probably because you're already done with the ugly part of the process, "the divine shakeups", the loss, and the purge. Think… the bland but peaceful feeling you feel after having an intense ugly crying session, you know? Yeah, you're energetically there right now. You'll probably be here for a while longer because you've let go of MAJOR stuff, pile 3. Did you let go of people recently, maybe? Or that old bad habit, perhaps? That was the purge, so to speak. And now you're in the aftermath of it all, the uncomfortable but necessary calm.

-Side note: You might've struggled to embody your divine feminine earlier, but the timeline you're entering right now is the exact opposite of that. You might be attracted towards things that will help you nurture your own divine feminine right now. Give into it. Nurture patience, stillness, and compassion for self. It will HOPEFULLY speed up the void period if you consciously take part in it, you know?-

You're quite emotionally intelligent, and it has guided you throughout the whole process, and it also seems like it ain't your first rodeo in the process of proverbial death and rebirth. Good on you because you're doing a real good job keeping your calm through venturing into the unknown. You know what? You remind me of Elsa from Frozen, taking on the unknown like it belongs to her. You are such a queen, omg.

Yep, all that's left to do now is celebrate yourself, pile 3! Try your best to embrace this period, the void, and you'll be on your way to your next happy adventure! Love and light, sweet soul. Thanks for sharing your energy with me today.

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[stardustpr1ncess]

Bonzle is 100% without a shadow of a doubt a trans allegory. People have been trying their best to say Sora isn't transcoded, but Bonzle is 2 scenes away from looking at the camera and saying "Hello. I'm a trans allegory." I shall now go into detail on every piece of evidence for this claim because fuck you.

EPISODE 5: Bonzle is afraid of how her found family will react to learning she's a spell (trans) and worries she will be rejected because of it. Easy parallel to trans people being afraid of revealing they're trans post transition. There's also her conversation with Bitch Boy Master Wu, with her saying she feels great loneliness, and only after gaining a physical form (transitioning) she feels happy and her true self. Very common trans experience. Gonna also put all of the quotes for my evidence as well since I know there's transphobes (filth) that like Ninjago and will be scrambling to deny it when people start coming to this conclusion too.

"Bonzle: I-- I was afraid of what you'd think if you knew about my past... Wu: It's called loneliness... Bonzle: I feel like, for the first time ever, I've become who I was destined to be... Bonzle: I was afraid if you found out I wasn't a real person, you wouldn't want me to be in our family anymore."

EPISODE 6: Bonzle is apprehensive about meeting with Gandalaria, seeing as how she's only known Bonzle as a spell, aka pre transition. She worries if she will respect her identity, much like how actual trans people fear how their family, more specifically a parental figure, would react. Bit of a light episode but an important aspect, here's the quotes;

"Bonzle: The Sorceress. She only knows me as a spell. What if she doesn't believe in me as a real person?"

EPISODE 7: This episode is the sauce. Bonzle is reunited with Gandalaria and their conversation is nothing short of magical. Gandalaria immediately recognizes Bonzle, saying she was her greatest creation and had always hoped she'd come home, shattering Bonzle's fears. It's a fantastic contrast, showing how this interaction can go well for some people, while others get an interaction much more akin to Sora's parents. When she's informed of Bonzle's chosen name, Gandalaria immediately starts using it, saying it's a great name. However, for that juicy authenticity, Gandalaria accidentally says spell before quickly correcting herself saying Bonzle. IT'S LITERALLY SO FUCKING OBVIOUS BONZLE'S BONES MIGHT AS WELL BE BLUE PINK AND WHITE. Oh yeah, here's the paragraph of quotes;

"Gandalaria: It's you! My dearest! You've come home! Bonzle: You... You recognize me? Even in my boney physical form? Gandalaria: Oh, I would know your true essence anywhere. Bonzle: I was so afraid you wouldn't accept me for who I am now. Gandalaria Are you kidding? I put my heart, my soul into every spell I weave... The most complex spell I've ever woven, and the first of my creations to ever come back to me!.. Bonzle: I'm Bonzle. That's the name I chose when I became a person. Gandalaria: Well, that's a splendid name... If this Ras times it right, he could reverse the power spell-- uh, Bonzle here--."

EPISODE 9: This episodes importance comes from Jordana, who acts EXACTLY how transphobes do. She constantly calls her a spell (some sort of derogatory term), says she's playing person (like pretending to be a girl), and says she's helping her do what she was made for, like transphobes very creepy beliefs in reproduction. Literally you half expect Jordana to ask which bathroom Bonzle uses since she was a spell. THE QUOTES;

"Jordana: Settle down, spell. I don't know what you think you've been doing, playing person with your fake family, but I know your true purpose... You should thank us. We're helping you to do what you were created to do."

In conclusion the silly lego skeleton girl is one of them spooky transgenders. Lmk if there's anything I missed. Thank you for reading.

[illarian-rambling]

Khalid would like to ask (FOR SCIENCE) how either Sepo or Faalgun (or both! they can form a council) thinks their aroasexuality (it's a word now) affected their lives.

Oh this is an awesome question, hell yeah! I'll let my boys answer for themselves <3

Sepo: "That's the word you have? Aroace? I suppose it fits, and it sounds elegant enough. I would have to say that it hasn't affected me all that much. It does the opposite of affect me, in fact. Look at everyone else out there making moon-eyes over the slightest flash of bare skin and honestly tell me I'm 'affected' and they're not. ...Alright, in all seriousness, I did feel like a bit of... I don't know, like there was something wrong with me when I was a teen. That wasn't an unfamiliar feeling to my young self, I'll have you know. I was a prickly sort growing up - never made too many friends. It all sort of... blended together, I guess? Why couldn't I make friends, why wasn't I falling in love, why did I not get excited about the things my peers did? Love was never the most important thing I lacked, just connection in general. That led me to some rather rash decisions, as did my obliviousness, but in the end, I've always been a bullheaded sort, never pressured into anything I didn't want. Some people named Djek ask how I can know that I don't enjoy romance or sex if I've never tried it, to which I threaten him with a knife and ask how he can be sure he wouldn't like to be stabbed if he's never tried it yet. Hm, but yes, I rather like that word. Aroace... I should come up with a sign for it."

Faalgun: "I, uh, who told you I'm... not into that stuff? I mean, I'm not. That's fine. I'm fine with it. It's usually other people who aren't. There's just this expectation, you know? I'm a voidskiff pilot, I was a Ten'ka captain. That comes with a sort of associated bravado, you could say. It's like you read in those penny-magazines - stories of courageous, strapping men steering a skiff with a gun in one hand and a lady hanging off the other. Even in flight school, every day off. the other cadets would be running to the dance clubs looking to hook up. I just... I don't know. I dated a girl for a few months, you know? She was in the voidskiff repair program, another Halan like me. I thought something would click eventually, that it would feel less weird. It was after we first had sex, I just felt... gross afterwards. I felt like I'd been using her too. I broke things off after that, which was the right move - I think she knew I wasn't having a great time. After that, I just stuck to myself. I was happy doing that, but I don't know if I should've been. So many things are broken in my brain. Gambling makes me happy and that ruined my life, so happiness isn't exactly the greatest gauge for if things are good for me or not. ...I don't know, it's a lot. But I'm dead now, so I don't have to worry about that anymore, which.... Actually, that's kind of an upside I hadn't thought of yet. Yeah, I'm dead, what do I have to worry about with romance! Oh, that's so relieving...."

Mm, guess the oc better adjusted to their sexuality: easy mode. Sepo simply gives no fucks, while Faalgun gives a Lot of fucks. (Well, neither of them fuck, that's the point of this, but you get it)

Thanks for the ask! I'm not sure how well they would actually get along with Khalid, but at least they've always got this to bond them <3

[class1akids]

I know this is like, a grievance that’s waaaaay past the point of not mattering since AM did give Shouto encouragement during his fight, but man does it suck that there was no words to Shouto from AM afterward! He was such inspiration to him in his childhood (of course I know the origin trio boat is long gone and the recent chapter showing everything wrong their relationships with each other/themselves and the story) as he was abused constantly. I know the scene w/ Shouto showcases him (most likely) not being in the mood for any congratulations, but I guess it would be out of character for AM now to do that for someone who actually planned and executed saving a villain instead of killing him. ¯\_(ヅ)_/¯

Though Shouto did help Midoriya with his finishing move (just not as flashy as Bakugou), but did Shouto even know Midoriya wanted to save Tomu Tenko? (<- absolutely NO criticism to Shouto since he must have trusted Mido to know what he needed do and I don’t remember who Mido told). If he didn’t, how would you imagine Shouto’s reaction would be if Midoriya did and this was the final result?

Also, I think not being part of the “weirdo” convo w/ Uraraka and Midoriya actually makes Shouto’s win the best of the group since (as you pointed out) he was actually there seeing Touya as a kid (though only through a window) and still wanted to connect with him as an angry adult. He worked around Touya’s quirk (w/o any bs quirk power ups) and had a plan (though his family *not Endeavor helping Touya must have been a scary surprise) with a non lethal take down. There was some sort of connection between Toga and Uraraka, but there’s still a lot issues with Toga being saved (Twice (and now Tomura/Kurogiri’s) deaths being done by the heroes being one of them) that hasn’t been addressed and we all know what happened with Midoriya. Yeah, Endeavor took up a lot of the screen time and I wish he was handled differently in relation of being a father vs hero, but all we need is a good conclusion with hot udon (and some consequences for Endeavor for almost killing himself and Touya)! 🤞🤞

Sorry for such a long text and you might not agree with some of these, but what I wanted to get across was tldr:these last chapters suck but Shouto is still a silent star who deserves better credit than what he got (hopefully this next chapter won’t be a third strikeout)

To be honest, I don't really care about All Might praising Shouto anymore.

I expected him to support somehow Shouto post-PLF War when the Dabi reveal happened, but that just never took place. The Ch 386 talk was a decent alternative: he gave Shouto encouragement and a push to go to his family (I think without All Might, Shouto would have chosen to make a stand against AFO), which in the end allowed Shouto to save them (it would have been awful for him if his family and hundreds of strangers died from the move he made to save Touya and which Touya copied) and save a bunch of innocent by-standers and fellow heroes.

All Might's praise is only important if you buy into the propaganda - but that doesn't make someone "greatest"; their actions do. And I think what Shouto achieved with very little help during this arc is really amazing. I couldn't have seen him smiling in that room while his brother's fate is in limbo (plus Rei may also be in critical condition).

I'm more worried about whatever Todoroki family closure we get does good balance between Shouto, Touya and Endeavor (and not end up like this Bakugou, Deku, All Might scene which worked overwhelmingly as a Bakugou highlight - though i guess Deku will get plenty of scenes still).

I also don't think that Shouto is a pacifist per se and would pass judgement on Izuku for killing his villain. Shouto is plenty capable of murder to protect others. But he would be able to empathise with wanting to save someone and still not being "enough". While I doubt it would happen, so angsty tddk bonding would be brilliant.

[vorish-wonderland]

Can you write something with Azul accidentally/unaware swallows the mc?

You can't work for Azul anymore, you just can't! So you decide to shrink yourself with a potion and sneak into his room to find some kind of blackmail on him that you won't release if he destroys your contract. Things don't exactly go as planned...

Includes: soft/safe vore, unaware scenario, my weird merfolk biology headcanons

★✦What A Wonderful Idea!✦★

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"Alright, time to force him to destroy that contract...!" You nervously said to yourself.

You quietly explored Azul's bedroom, trying to find anything you could use as blackmail or something similar.

You climbed up to his side table, and onto his bed... it's so strange to you, how he can sleep so peacefully knowing how many people he's screwed over.

His mouth... it's slightly open.

"Is... is his mouth blue?" You asked yourself. You knew that he was allegedly an octopus merman, but... you just didn't expect him to have a blue mouth.

Cautiously, you got a bit closer, just to make sure you were seeing things right.

Now that you're this close to his mouth, you realize that his teeth... are absolutely not teeth. They're definitely not made of bone.

You ended up getting closer.

Yeah, his teeth feel more like what crab shells are made of. How strange...

Azul's lips closed around you.

Uh oh.

His tongue curled around your torso, and pulled the rest of your body into his mouth.

Well, this isn't the greatest thing that could've happened...

Ok. So your options are either 1) stay in his mouth and probably end up being swallowed, or 2) try to wake him up...

Both of those will not end well for you.

Also, regardless of which choice you wanted to make, it was too late. You were very quickly swallowed down, so... yeah, there's not really anything you can do about it now...

Azul woke up feeling strange.

He couldn't exactly put his finger on what it was, but something just felt... off.

Oh well, time to go to school, he'll worry about the issue later if something is wrong.

As the day went on, Azul continued feeling like something wasn't right. It was like something was inside of him... did he eat something in his sleep last night? He must have...

When managing the Lounge later, he noticed that one of his anemones (you) hadn't shown up to work. Even when he used magic that would force you to, you didn't show up.

"Where could they be?" Azul asked himself, pulling out his phone. "Jade, Floyd, I need to make a private phone call. Make sure everyone stays in line."

Azul stepped into his office as he dialed your number.

"Hm? Oh. Hey there, Azul...!"

"(Y/N), where are you? We need you at the Lounge." Azul demanded.

"Well, uh, the thing is... I'm, uh... I-I'm already at the Lounge."

"...is that the best lie you could come up with?" He asked, confused on what you could possibly mean.

"I don't know how well you're going to take this, but, uh... I'm kinda in your stomach right now."

"...you're what."

"Haha! Yeah! Weird, right?!"

"No, tell me why you're in my stomach, (Y/N)!" Azul yelled, bewildered.

"Funny story actually!" You nervously said. "I... shrunk myself to sneak into your room while you slept so I could find some kind of blackmail on you and force you to rip up my contract but I got too close to your mouth and you ate me."

Azul couldn't believe what he just heard.

"You were trying to find blackmail on me?!" He yelled. "Well, you got what you deserved. I'll keep you in there for a while to teach you a lesson."

"To be honest, I'm kinda surprised that I'm safe in here." You said. "I really thought I would've been in a lot of pain right now..."

"Well, yes, I'm a merman, I can control my digestion." Azul explained. "Why would I waste energy digesting if I didn't think anything was in my stomach?"

"Huh. Strange."

"Although... I think you've given me a wonderful idea on how to punish anemones who continue to defy me! I'm sure time spent inside of me knowing I could choose to kill them whenever I want would surely put them in their place!" Azul happily said. "Thank you for the wonderful idea, (Y/N)!"

"Oh... yeah. No, uh, no problem..." You sighed, knowing this will only give Azul even more of a power trip.

Great job, genius...

[sseanettles]

I struggled to choose (your wips sound so cool!) but I thought I'd go one of your original works :) so yellow rose manor?

haha aw thanks @rriavian! don't worry you picked a fun one!

yellow rose manor is going to eventually be a series, but it's going to be my take of what happens when you have a bunch of zillennial supernatural entities renting an apartment together and their ensuing adventures and shenanigans with all the plots rooted in real life issues of stuff like domestic abuse, religious trauma, addiction, etc. etc.

It's set in San Francisco, so the apartment is an old Victorian home that is haunted on a very structural level by the ghost of a murdered nine year old Victorian era girl who possesses the house because her body was buried in the foundations. So she's the kind of haunting where if you set up foundational stones in other places she can teleport the house to those foundation stones, she can change the very structure of the building to screw with you (moving doors, stairs, etc.) and is simultaneously everyone's mom due to her chronological age vs. death age and the WOULD YOU STOP THAT poltergeist.

Her compatriot and "dad" of the house is the "landlord" which is really just her old friend who solved her murder back in the 1800s and has taken care of her and the house ever since. His fun twist is that he's actually Galahad the grail knight and spends his eternity following the magically moving island of avalon to protect arthur and await his return. We have some good old loyal knight pining after his king situation here. The house moves with him and for now Avalon is magically posted out in San Francisco Bay by Angel Island and Alcatraz, not that mortals can see it. He is begrudging team dad, the tired and burnt out idealist who is trying so hard to not live up to his legend anymore and just be a guy waiting for his love to wake up. Because he's so burnt out about the world that if he tried to use The Greatest Knight Of The Roundtable Skills without those morals/guiding lights anymore, he's going to just hurt people. We'll see if his latest tenants/eventual found family can help him hope and believe again.

The other members of the house are a medium/witch who is running away from her abusive hyper-religious family and is the newest addition to this house (brought on via a craigslist ad because they need someone to purge the ghost haunting this house they just moved into, it's a really nice house with cheap rent and the landlord is never around, pleaaase?).

Then there is a vampire who has agoraphobia from pre-bitten times, was transformed only twenty years ago or so and HATES that this is the era he's gotta be starting out as immortal in. I have some heft addiction and prior domestic abuse arcs planned for him, it's going to be a good but painful time.

There's a werewolf who is Muslim and has the biggest golden retriever energy, and she handles her zoomies energy by playing on a very physical local recreational soccer team. It'll be a take on lycanthropy where it's viewed as a blessing/god giving you the power to defend that which you love instead of a curse, and she treats it as such.

There is one human in the house, his name is Kevin, and he makes sure that everyone has the appropriate meals and nutrition and supernatural existence requirements/enrichment. His running gag is that everyone he gets close to turns out to be supernatural, and he's so proud when he brings his girlfriend home to show off like hey look guys a fully normal human isn't she great? At which point Galahad walks in and just says "yeah so how did you of all people meet Doto the Nereid", and Kevin just loses his mind.

The first book will be called The House On the Hill and opens like this:

There was a house that lived on a hill. This was not unusual for San Francisco where nearly every house, apartment, office, and parking lot was, in fact, built upon a hill. It made for messy city life—parallel parking from an even deeper circle of hell, savage cardio workouts built into the weekly run to the local grocery store (if it hadn’t been demolished in favor of the latest hipster shop in a never-ending chain of hipster shops), and a sizeable yearly budget for brake pads. Nevertheless, there was still a house that lived on a hill.

[ask-aquiethome]

What's up internet! It's yo boy, CoolPhone69 in the house! But since this not my super-epic vlog channel- you should totally check that one out- you guys can just call me Ziraph. Welcome one and all to our humble abode! Or however they say it. I just wanted to be fancy.

Don't forget that I'm here too!

Aw, yeah! I'm joined here by my very-bestest friend in the whole wide web, Carrion! She's gonna run the blog with me! Actually, all of us are!

Is it obligatory for me to be a part of this?

Well, you can opt out if you don't wanna join us, Kolin!

...no. I am joining.

Oh, okay! That's cool too! Get it? Cause you're an air conditioner?

Sigh. Don't test it.

Well, while it's so wonderful how you guys are partaking in internet culture like this, I can't help but wonder...isn't this technically breaking the Golden Rule? I mean, we aren't in the appliance-only online space anymore. This is majorly human territory.

C'mon, Pops! It's not that obvious that we're appliances! Besides, even if they know, they wouldn't TATTLE on us!

Please, Pops! We gotta have a bit of fun!

Ah, well...alright. Just be very careful.

wow...we have a bloggy thing...and...and we can talk to both appliances...and humans...!

That's absolutely right, kiddo!

What?! What- ch- ch- you are all saying of?! Talk?! Of h-human?! Zzz-th- This...this is...REVOLUTION OPPORTUNITIED!!

Oh no. Guys. Did you really have to include Vortex?

Hey, he's one of us too.

It will be of g- greatest honor to- ch- ch- ch- s- speak of with such beings!! Greetings all humans!! I- ch- ch- ch- I of be servicing most loyally!! T- Tis promise of mine! Glory!! Honor!!

Okay bro I think they get it-

Send us your messages! We might answer! And don't worry about the Master finding out about this; he won't~!

Are you sure-

He WON'T.

--- OOC Section ---

Hi! Savior here. X decided to open up an askblog for mx Brave Little Toaster OCs for the shits and giggles.

If ya'll wanna know which of mx OCs is speaking, here's a legend of sorts:

Ziraph

Carrion

Kolin

owl

Papa Acer

Vortex

More characters may come in the future! For now, it's just the main 6 lol.

Only rules X have for now is to be nice and not ask anything explicitly NSFW. Thank you!!

[none-prob]

I write about a character per day

Day 15: Hunter

(Don't worry I'm not abandoning this yet, I'm just very tired)

Hunter Deamonne-Clawthorne-Noceda-Park-Wittebane-insert-whatever-you-want-here is an interesting character to say the least. He has arguably the best redemption arc throughout the show that was unfortunately sacrificed by his best friend and palisman. This boy can contain so much traumatic experiences.

A character that was only introduced in Season 2, yet having so much depth than even some main characters. From an annoying brat to completely traumatized kid that need intensive therapy. My god, so many things cramped into this child in 21 episodes.

Hunter before and after Hollow Mind really was two completely different people, despite trying his best to be the same, so I want to go for it first. Everything built up for Hunter before Hollow Mind was intense. Complete alienation from the life outside the castle, starting to doubt his "uncle", actually truce and cooperate with Luz in Hunting Palisman, and even doubting himself. And then Hollow Mind came like a trainwreck.

Belos was too good of a manipulator, he made Hunter completely trust him, even at doubt times inside his real mind. Only when he witnessed the graveyard of Golden Guard, all hell broke loose. Nothing Belos said is true anymore, all those masks used to be like him. And in a moment of desperation, fleeing away is the solution he considered, which to me is reasonable. That moment when you started doubting everything, the moment of ultimate betrayal, definitely had a toll on him. From a kid with only one purpose, he's now panicking, disoriented, and traumatized beyond recognition, trying to be strong for Gus in Labyrinth Runners but still seems shakingly anxious inside. This poor boy was starting to recover when in the Human realm, only to be traumatized again by Belos, with the loss of Flapjack on top. He is only related to Belos as a grimwalker of his brother, everything else Belos used this kid like a puppet. You don't need me to repeat the bad things Belos did to know that part.

Considering Luz and co missions were being meddled the most by the Golden Guard, it truly is a heartbreaking moment when she considered Hunter a family member. Look, compare all you want about Steven Universe being too "merciful and forgiveful", that is an incredibly kind act of her. Communication is so important. Acceptance and forgiveness is not forgetting what they did (that's revisionism), but to acknowledge their desire to change and get better. The person who just a few episodes ago were yelling at her for keeping them trapped in Belos' mind, was crying next to her, the tears of acceptance and relief. A person who followed every imperial order, now fights back the imperialist to his life. Luz changed Hunter's life in such a drastic way that changed this boy forever.

It's honestly really funny that the community thinks Amity and Hunter just despite each other. They have one episode fighting each other and probably some small fun-awkward-look from Amity. But really, after that dreadful day at Eclipse Lake, they got along really well, I just think it's funny to point it out.

One of the greatest dynamics of the show is Hunter and Willow, between the captain and her best player. Huntlow is an incredibly fun couple to watch, with the rapid rate of clues about them being canon, to Zeno Robinson's trolling on twitter about "advanced friendship" (I mean, yeah it's very advanced indeed I guess). The fact that one was always there when the other was at their lowest is amazing to me. She made him feel accepted for the first time, he got her out of her immense breakdown. Through the entire time in the Human realm, Willow was so supportive to Hunter, and that genuinely made him happy. It's just so beautiful.

Gus is a great friend/teammate/brother for Hunter, and they really only started interacting at the last quarter of Season 2 (yes you can see how the cancellation affected the show, so many interactions were robbed). The times spent in Camila's basement is priceless, bonding them with a mutual interest in Cosmic Frontier. Labyrinth Runners was a great episode, as Gus indirectly helped Hunter getting accepted in Hexside.

No other character in the show had a stronger bond with their palisman than Hunter and Flapjack. Flapjack was the only friend in the castle for Hunter, and so many times Flapjack just decided to do things for Hunter's good. Flapjack just can't stand Hunter being too closed towards everyone, he loved pulling Hunter's hair to make him talk. Just no one understands Flapjack more than Hunter. The scene Flapjack sacrificed himself for Hunter is truly the saddest scene throughout the show. Hunter still can feel Flapjack in his heart, but it just doesn't feel right anymore, which reminds me of the first Stevonnie experience. My poor boy was having the first glimpse of happiness only to be traumatized again.

Honestly I am not the biggest Hunter fan, nor is he my all-time favourite, but Hunter's redemption arc is so good, and I wished we had more scenes of this boy being happy.

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on EGS basically locking games to it exclusively by throwing obscene money at them because otherwise it's a garbage service and basically Chinese spyware?

Listen, I don't really like EGS (that is, the Epic Game Store) but you don't have to sound so... borderline racist about it.

In truth, it's almost a little worrying how pretty much impossible it is to topple Steam's control of the market. Epic gave it pretty much the best shot anyone has ever given it, pouring millions, possibly even billions of dollars into giving away HUNDREDS of free games and tying dozens more up in exclusivity deals. They played hardball in the press, calling Valve's practices out, and providing developers a better, more profitable deal.

And the needle barely even budged. There are a growing number of stories of developers who finally release their games on Steam only to see orders of magnitude more customers than they ever had on EGS. And thanks to the lawsuit with Apple, it's been revealed in pretty black and white terms that all those free games they give away do not necessarily translate to sales.

Because let's be fair here: Valve may not exactly be a very great company? Even in a best-case scenario, they are difficult to motivate because of their explicit company structure. Though Valve eventually produces some of the greatest games ever made, their mantra when it comes to managing and maintaining the health of certain parts of their company is often one of "eh, good enough." You have to rock the boat pretty hard to get them to take real action.

That's not me rallying around EGS. Or Origin (sorry, "The EA App"), or Battle Net, or anything else.

I go out of my way to avoid those applications when I can. Spyware or not, they just suck to use, and I don't need yet another username and password to keep track of, or another client sitting dormant for 99% of my computer's uptime. The only non-Valve storefront I like is GOG, and GOG's client (GOG Galaxy) isn't very good and may actually be making their service worse, given they route all game installs through Galaxy now instead of just giving you a regular PC installer.

But it is hard to be a fan of a company like Valve who, at least publicly, seems to be so indifferent to the people who built their throne.

Their development mantra almost feels like hedonism at times. Like Gabe Newell is splayed out on couch somewhere wearing a toga, an olive branch crown adorning his head, being fed grapes like "Left 4 Dead 3? Ehh... whatever."

They are basically what happens when an indie studio has infinite money. There's no incentive to do anything for anyone because there's zero external motivation.

It would be nice if somebody, at some point, lit a fire under their asses and actually got them to focus up and try for once, again. Instead of decades of dead end experiments, most of which probably never even make it into the public view. I love Valve, but that affords me the ability to say that being a Valve fan has sucked big time over this last decade and a half.

And the fact that Epic could burn all that money, all that effort on EGS, and not even scratch them? That's scary.

And now Epic has just revealed their brand new terms to publish games on EGS: for the first six months, you get to keep 100% of your revenue. Which would be great, if not for the fact that, y'know, as I established in this very blog, nobody is really buying tons of games on EGS. This just means Epic gets to have more exclusives but now they don't have to pay for them anymore. They aren't even getting that launch window revenue anymore.

Epic isn't just falling on their sword here, they're bending over backwards to do it, in the hopes of shaking someone, ANYONE off of Steam. But Valve is just that entrenched.

[koffing-time]

So, update time on the UDs, as well as Flit and Ampersand. I don't have the greatest news, but i want to get this post out there before the babyshower starts so i don't carry that the whole day with me.

Caramel the Beedrill (formerly Flit): Beedrill had two known issues before he came to me:

a history of abuse, mainly by being pushed too far all the time. Like, being forced to fight more than he could take, trying to be faster than he actually is and stuff like that. I'll have to be patient with him, and work with him at his own pace (even if he doesn't know what his own pace is). It will require time and work, but we'll get there

The second issue is a chipped drill. This is basically a non-issue. He gets hurt if he overuses it, but he is aware of it and uses the other drill for most things. The bad thing is that he won't ask for help. We will also just have to work on this.

We found a third issue: his carapace has a kind of soft spot on his back side, a little bit above his stinger. Lia (my vet btw, I don't wanna say "the vet all the time) wasn't sure what exactly could have caused it, but we sadly have to assume physical abuse. We will have to keep an eye on that. If it gets worse or causes issues, we might have to think about surgery.

And, well, going with the abuse, he seems distressed every time someone asks something of him. We have decided to just try giving him a new name, and see if this helps with the issue. I really hope it does. I have decided on "Caramel".

Tofu the Sliggoo (formerly Ampersand): He is overall quite healthy, (except and despite) his chronic issue with the half formed shell. I'm very happy about this. However, he still doesn't like to go near my other Pokémon, except when explicitly called. This is very odd, Rosie and the Shelter described him as outgoing and friendly. We think it might be, because he is the only non-poison type (except cracker). He might just feel not included. We have decided to try and give him a new name as well. Especially with Beedrill getting a new name, he might feel even more excluded otherwise. I've settled on "Tofu". I hope he warms up to us.

Bun the Trubbish: well, she had a lot of issues, I'll not go into detail, just a few things that are important: she won't say no to anything i ask of her, so i have to make double and triple sure she wants something. The only exception being water. She still hates it. Drinking is an issue. We've made a plan to give her more moist food, so she gets the necessary water. Otherwise she's as healthy as it could get.

Roll the Trubbish: he has me worrying. A lot. He is very small and doesn't have a lot of energy. The worst part: he got splashed by accident yesterday and hasn't quite recovered yet. He's become kinda... Quiet. He was similarly outgoing as Bun, but now he doesn't interact with us as much anymore. He also refuses to go anywhere near something that is liquid. He refuses to drink outright and getting him to eat something even remotely moist is... challenging to say the least. I just hope it gets better.

Appleslice the Mareanie: She doesn't have any acute things. Well, except for her outburst, but that is part of a bigger issue. One of the things that make her an UD is the lack of "dangerous characteristics", like the spikes a typical Mareanie has. She is still a poison type though, and produces venom. She can't use it though, because she has no spikes. This makes her build up all these toxins in her body, which hurts after a while. Imagine if you had to pee, but you just couldn't, and your bladder got fuller and fuller and you're feeling like you'd burst. Luckily, the place where Mareanie store their venom is sort of easy to reach, so Lia could "just" extract it. We're gonna have to do this procedure for the rest of her life. (or maybe just until she evolves, we don't know how a UD toxapex is gonna be).

So, yeah. A lot of stuff. But what we can do has been done, and the rest is something we have to address in time.

[nightguide]

Road rage: sobriety with anger to human-like disorders in real life

how anger and people pleasing is violated within rooms of heartbreak to pent up rage in social matters (family boundaries are broken there)

'are you okay?' being the most infected word to lie to now in 2024 and this is what 2007 had to say (socially aware folk)

don't tell me TV taught you nothing

so, this is Emerson's call: DESI MURDER IN THE FAMILY

intellectual disabilities: you're not even showing up for the right reasons anymore, you're now alone with your thoughts that occur to you in TV situationships (yes, i know you may have heard the 'thought broadcasting' situation in your brain years ago that had you feeling naked and blind to your enemies to understand you, and there is always one)

desi households: you're the quiet one since -enter year of joy and heartbreak via religious trauma-

end of heartbreak: set up a tumblr acc and raise your issues in rage on there, make it a rage account normalised so that you have room to take out your interests applied to a lawsuit one day to royally slap your first man to death, you did great

2. Inhalant use disorder: you have a great sincere dream, better even knowing all your company is Muslim inside your head, don't worry about the world, you're beautiful inside and out knowing your kindness met the world at last, that's what Allah loves about you

desi households: you're stressing too much, and it's been years since the rat race got you murdered into thinking social norms set by age, so getting a job is actually a problem in you believing in love at first sight fantasy like your phone died with it, (read my pinned post)

end of heartbreak: you met your fantasy by thought enthusiasm (you are what you do is why you do what you do is sincerely loved by your crowd inside your head) you have no intrusive thoughts except a new beginning (end of your healing journey, i'm sincerely proud of you being on my page for reading this word for word *happy face emoji*)

3. Other Hallucinogenic Use Disorders: you met your first partner, now what

desi households: your mother may not think highly of you (because of your little brother)

end of heartbreak: your love for Allah made you possible to be highly intellectual for your mother to be grateful for in your current reality by making you the very reason she is alive, so you're guaranteed to be closer to her even more by living your greatest expectation online by being open to her (naturally) and she responds which is how you were born (premature babies had it too hard)

4. Panic attack specifier: your heart hurts without your partner

desi households: you're alone (too too much)

end of heartbreak: your first man made a commitment sincerely to you about your life, so at one point we'll meet and talk basics about being stronger together by knowing me first. hi, i'm nightguide. i'm as you as you are me

5. Bipolar II disorder: how can you *be* with your partner intimately

desi households: (not even there) your man possessed your mother about the question that would 'end your life' cuz he cannot control his dick in front of his daughter (he is toxic the first time since he made love to another woman before you, so he is obnoxiously judgemental as hell) not even ur first man anymore, so u got a replacement man to see right through you (great man) give him a chance to replace you (new man to control his kids life)

end of heartbreak: your mother is speaking baby to you (ur neurodivergent) an she knows what you're doing an she loves u too much cuz she knows ur the reward winner for the family (after so much hardship) so she is actually ur heart from the end on (after ur healed through what i'm saying rn)

6. Dissociative amnesia: world life is at your side by privacy rights (technology is your literal heart cuz of digital heartbreak is made to 'kill the Qur'an')

desi households: your heart is literally breaking so you're prone to getting ill frequently because your bodily autonomy (life) is being used by another disaster bastard (ex's rights to kill u in person but in your now sister/brother part of you in a celebrity too bratty to live for themselves)

end of heartbreak: everything your heart (your friends in Hollywood) an ur partner to be telling you is true

7. Hoarding disorder: your body physically needs sex to 'breathe'

desi households: your guy friend in Hollywood has access to your home personally to protect you as your life is about to change with a great ending to a personal life explored elsewhere (cute ending with your cute bestie at the side to believe in you)

end of heartbreak: you're cured from hate, you just need to reunite with your clone sister/brother equivalent to feel at equal odds (companion restored)

8. Bulimia Nervosa: your attachment to your eating habits is not even okay, you're fasting in other words

desi households: you pretty much believe in Allah more greater than anyone they ever met (your father's daughter), so you like your company to be greatly linked to or with your life like your father never lived it (Dad's death is the cause of nazar from KR who died shortly after consuming the Earth in hate as an anti-buddhist (khawaarij)

end of heartbreak: believe in love and know you have a cartoon companion universe greatly made for your eternal life to be like (metaphor of a life you always dreamed living in)

9. Gender dysphoria: your physical heart is aching too badly and so with the rest of your body in great ache

desi households: you're trapped with the intuition of a little brother who got himself in a stronghold with you and your life (that one yearly moment *with him* that had you paralysed after) so, initially his fault for 'letting you go' into the jungle of your own imagination, so you're paralysed from your relationship with your mother because he took away (nazar) your creative arts career with it (leading you to being ill as you are)

end of heartbreak: you noticed. that's your superpower, now *he* lets you go

10. Motor disorder: you want to get married but you're stuck in a karmic cycle that is not even your fault, so you made up your life by being close to your mother (she knows how pathetic he is, so it is better if one death can outlive all but he has a karmic path much more dangerous than yours via intuition so he would know the father he hurt too hard on the daughter *you* that would welcome him to his own personal hell via his emotions, so he has characterised that sort of hate in himself like a woman to the point where his life would outlive yours, but he instinctively knows it's not going to last for long by his way of living via his bloodline, so his ascendant has poisoned you than he did, take your rage out on her intuitively to save your brother there to cure yourself til your depression leaves you by heart from your Hollywood community there) HW community have lived a longer life than you have, you'll know Ummah comes in strength in numbers, so you're heavily protected in the year you're in than the year you were divided from memory (alhamdulilah)

desi households: you're going to get married and you know it *yayyyyy*

end of heartbreak: you're going to outlive your life by looking into your pin boards to free you from hate, it's your reality now, thank all of your pin boards for making you who you are by believing in Islam that hate no longer fills you, so the aching feeling in your body is your husband's (wife known to be a sex symbol on TV so you know the 'pretty hurts' by Beyonce movement ends right now) and the wife's (husband's dick is aching too badly specifically now that you're reading it) lives are going to be met by a good male astrologer with the same life as you (if you're thinking of the asshole, forgive him, he has duals of the same man til he ends at one, he's actually a doctor, now)

[nancychi]

oct 29

i've been questioning my faith a lot.

The past couple of years have been a whirlwind of everything and nothing. My mind has been trying to process it all but I guess when I try to put it into words it doesn't know how to properly process it. Blogging has always been my gateway of figuring out why I feel a certain way, but i've halted it since probably 2017. & honestly, since then I don't really know what happened in my life. I'm not sure if I use to write more for myself or for my readers. In a way, knowing that other people are reading what i'm trying to process gave me a sense of purpose... cause I mean common, my brain already is thinking everything that i'm trying to put down into words. So maybe my goal will be to get back on here. I don't even know how to write anymore. My grammar probably sucks, and my spelling? Don't even be surprised. I write like I talk. And the way that I talk isn't much more sophisticated in any way. It's simple - and my brain can't seem to learn anything new. I'm currently 33.

In many ways, when I reflect on my life right now, it's ideally good. I have both my parents alive and well. My immediate family members are generally living with everything we can ask for. Money, cars, families, comfort, health and whatever the world thinks is the meaning of success. As for me, I have the most ideal life that I can ask for. I work probably 20 hours a week on a "busy week," make way more than I ever thought i'd make, can eat whatever I want and work out everyday. I have all the time in the world to watch tv, hang out with my friends, travel practically whenever I want. My biggest worries currently are probably thinking that I can never afford a house in San Diego, getting audited, my business taking a bajillion years to open, and of course not being married and having kids, or even being close to it. Which, I guess can seem pretty tragic to some people LOL. But, maybe i've convinced myself that I have enough that those things are just secondary.

In all this, i've been a been weary. Maybe being by myself more recently has reminded me of how lonely this life can be. Even though I am surrounded by all the greatest people, I at times still feel so alone. This I know is rooted in not being close to God. I remember specifically the moments I fell in love with Jesus. When I felt like nothing in the world or the universe can tear me away from. Throw me on an island I would say, and all will be well. He was actually living in me and alive within me. I heard his voice so clearly. My heart and soul felt fulfilled and satisfied in whatever situation I was in.

But now. Now I feel like an empty shell. I first felt this when I questioned if the Spirit was still in me. I then began to notice myself questioning things of the bible. Truths that I use to hold so dear and close to my heart, I began to find myself doubting. I also found myself minimizing the gravity of whatever the gospel was saying. & this scares me. Which is so ironic... cause I probably feel scared and want to cling on because I do have the spirit inside me right? RIGHT?

I've also recently started going to a new church. Kairos. It's everything that i've been looking for in a church. A smallish but big enough church where missions is a priority, prayer is being practiced, community isn't just a weekly food gathering and the leadership seems so in tune with the Spirit. BUT it's been wrecking me a little. This past week I went to a bible study for young adults. Going to these groups have truly humbled me. like.... did everyone go to seminary? Everyone seems so genuinely in Love with God. They all seem very grown in their walks as well. Like what, where are all the people that need to be reminded who Jesus is? Where are all the "Sunday church goers?"

ANYWAY, all this to say... we were reading Hebrews and in Ch 4 it talks about people that are being fed milk and solid food. And i felt like i've been drinking milk the past 7 years. I Also realized... in that same chapter that I don't think I knew the difference between Good and Evil anymore. My lines have been so blurred that I don't know what change in my life would look like if I were to be close to God. SO, this week I am going to challenge myself to pray more and really dig into the word again. I want to be changed. I want to be renewed. I want to have confidence when Jesus asks me who I am at the gates of heaven.

SO here I am... trying to make sense of myself and my faith. Praying for miracles in my life. Transformations in my heart. May my life look significantly different in a week, month, a year because of Jesus.

[hamofjustice]

Well, another two months of no friends later, we've got our release date: December 14th. Maybe this last month and a half will finally address this. Y'know, now that the pre order windows are closed and they're not obligated to give us anything, of course. (More Teal Mask spoilery at the end but you probably know this stuff by now)

You'd think they would have finally said something to reassure us in the two months playing the teaser first part of the DLC, which does not add a single mention or line of dialogue to the main characters/friends/rivals, only introducing two or three new ones and creating five or six different character and friendship arcs they now have to satisfyingly wrap up in one DLC (they won't lol), rather than... letting the hype train come to a complete standstill until now.

Unless they, again, think those characters that were initially all over the base game's advertising are now a detriment to it instead of its saving grace, because gamers hate reading and love marketable plushies, or something.

It's not spoilers to new players that Nemona, Penny, and Arven are our friends, it's really not. Showing new Paradox Pokemon in Area Zero when they should know what neither of those things are yet was spoilers.

I don't get it. Was $35 for admission plus seeing people jump to buy up all the overpriced human character plushies not enough to get a promise of the postgame the base game pretended it was going to have, before Paldea turned into a monochrome world of those poor kids' ghosts repeating their lines over and over with half of the adult characters just fully gone? Could we not have gotten a blink and you'll miss it frame of Nemona getting to enjoy the place that was made for her to finally belong in after all her time feeling alone, and after all our time playing the game without our friends in it anymore outside of (admittedly fuzzy and feel-good) repeating battles, with the looming threat that we may be about to ruin their happy endings and traumatize her in particular? A single hint that we won't be forced to leave them behind and undo the game's (and even ed sheeran's) message of there always being someone out there to connect with among your peers if your support system lets you down no matter how unlovable you feel, that doesn't have to be pried from the jaws of TPC unwillingly?

And I'm going to keep asking this about the base game, because it's the reason I care so much about this in the first place: What was the purpose of giving us access to their rooms for this past year if there's nothing to do or talk about in there, not even take pictures with them? Why is there no way to adventure with them again after the first time, in the game that features four-player parties so heavily? Why does Nemona never change or get any stronger, after we promised to be her best friend, rival, and true equal forever? Why doesn't she get any special treatment over any other character you can rebattle? How long would it have taken to just put in a few more teams, or randomize them? At least? Something? In the last year? Something that would probably take like... a week? Or make the raid helper NPCs actual characters, like they were in the previous game?

Yeah, this is the transfer student DLC where we're always depicted alone, without our greatest treasures, without the people who are emotionally dependent on us right now, don't worry about it, this has no implications... especially not after the first half of it ended by ruining one of our new friendships because the dialogue boxes forced us to, in a somber-songed new region that talks about death and blood a lot. Don't worry about it! For months and months on end!

very slight teal mask and indigo disc story spoilers (the kind that'll probably help decide if you want them or not instead of ruin it for you, probably?) and very long commentary about it. mostly about how they've chosen to advertise it

gonna hit you with my longest run-on sentence yet, here we go.

the fact that we had to datamine the teal mask, a DLC whose only returning character is jacq and does not add a line to or scene of anyone else (well, mentions of heath and clavell, i guess?) due to being available to do at any badge count, the fact that we had to dig and pry in unintended ways, just to finally prove that our implied greatest treasures nemona arven and penny would at least be available to hang out with in the indigo disc...

with no new images footage or mentions of the friend trio of in any of the six months since the DLCs were announced, and ten months after these kids opened their hearts and dorm rooms to us, saying we could hang out any time from now on, and turned out to be statues with one line of dialogue after we had already gone on an adventure with them following us around, helping us in battle, and getting to know each other as we walked, and our rival promised to keep up with our strength forever, then never got any stronger...

and now, in the narrative's timeline, we run off to another country to transfer away from our rival for life's school to one she would fit into perfectly the MOMENT she opens up to us about her problems and how she's so much happier now that we're the first person she can actually connect with and be herself around, and shows clear signs of worry that you're going to leave if she doesn't make you promise not to...

and also shortly after Arven became effectively a high school orphan, who's still treated as kind of a butt monkey dumbass for some reason, when he was putting everything he had into researching how to save his dog, his only dependable family, instead of going to class (i guess he's not telling anybody what he's going through, as usual with these kids)...

because TPC did not think these characters being present in the second DLC in any form and not actually having their newfound, hard-earned sense of belonging ruined by the basic premise of said transfer-student DLC was worth advertising at any point, and only showed off gym leaders Katy and Kofu... and that was only if you even bothered to look at the website to notice the feature at all, because hanging out with, battling, and trading with all of the past characters who aren't present in Paldea anymore is now actually a feature, but wasn't in the trailer...

is fucking mind boggling to me.

why is it a secret that they're in the DLC. why would they not just. tell people that as soon as they revealed the DLC. why is it still supposed to be a secret now, half a year later. why weren't they in the first half. why did they not think we'd be worried that they aren't in the second half.

silly me, why would you want to advertise giving people more of the story and main plot-driving characters, the main thing people defend the rushed game for, or that they might get some resolution, or reassure them that the vaguely happy ending to their sad stories isn't going to be ruined like they've implied it will be? that'd be silly. the only way anyone is going to find that out is through hacking

but at least we were finally able to pry that basic fucking information out of them against their will, the only thing I wanted to know about the DLC before I'd buy it, because they left in placeholder stubs for it by accident. oops. wouldn't want to tell people who were on the fence about getting the DLC this information on purpose or anything. need to keep it a secret

we were able to confirm through our own digging that nemona (and many others) are at least allowed to hang out with us, but the thing that would make both her as a character and me as a Pokemon player happier than we've ever been is if she actually got to enroll with us. why wouldn't she go, right? what do a school and society that don't respect her and an empty home where her parents should be have to offer, compared to living her dream with her favorite person, surrounded by people just like her? who can stop a champion from going wherever she wants? but for that to be the case, one of the "club rooms" we found references to would have to be hers. only us kieran and carmine clearly have what are marked as dorm room objects.

i'm glad we're getting what we're getting, but it's still no guarantee that nemona arven and penny will continue to be important to the story that they were the driving forces of, or get the true resolutions and healthier happy endings that they deserve, or that our "true equal" will ever be any stronger or more important to our character than our home ec teacher, or that they'll ever actually get to be a friend group on screen without life or death situations or harrowing grief being involved

oops! accidentally wrote decent character arcs and relationships in a pokemon game! they're going to spend time together in the postgame! abort abort abort quick shove them off into different countries before they hug

okay that's just me being cynical, they will almost certainly be important to the story, but... TPC has the power to make me not cynical and they keep choosing not to do that. but they do keep making really sappy recap videos using previous cutscene footage, like this attachment and uncertainty is something they're milking on purpose

maybe stringing people along with how much they miss the funny, cute, loving, strong characters, or are worried about these three lonely and isolated kids dealing with parental neglect, ptsd and self loathing, autism and motor impairments, identity issues, and more, whose problems are clearly not resolved yet if they can be at all, will... help sell more plushies and gacha pulls, and get people consuming more spinoffs, or something? idk, maybe

love to stop and helplessly gaze upon penny's depression pile every day before i go do tera raids / link battles with strangers (i don't actually do this but i might if poke portal worked indoors)

that all being said! it's pretty damn cool that hanging out with NPCs in a meaningful way and staging selfies with them and stuff is actually a game feature at all. that much is reassuring. it's a step in the right direction considering 90% of pokemon gameplay for a lot of people takes place after the credits roll and everyone normally despawns or becomes a one liner / repeating boss fight statue, or maybe if you're lucky a Multi Battle partner. it was just implied this game would be different, is all. i just don't know why they've chosen to string their audience along this way. wanting to have friends shouldn't throw up a $35 tollgate right as you go to talk to them that takes a year to open, and over six months to find out if it'll kill them when it opens.

i'd like to see pokemon postgame feel more like an animal crossing life sim type game in the future, personally, and this feature is a step toward that. i'd love if it one of your rewards for completing indigo disc was being able to take anyone you like as a follower as you go about your business and have them get on miraidon/koraidon with you as needed so your movement isn't impeded by it, even if there was no dialogue for it or anything. it's 2023, i shouldn't have to imagine something happening in a video game, or have to fill in my own fanfic to make a story satisfying, it should just be happening, on the screen. dammit. having a follower that goes with you everywhere even if you drive or have a following pokemon already was a feature in teal mask, so why not utilize it permanently?

(is the obvious player arven nemona penny 4v1 battle being saved for the final boss or something, is that why tera raids with them aren't a thing you can just do normally?)

Long story short: The basic transfer-student premise of The Indigo Disc implies that we ruin Nemona's happy ending and rub the one she really wants in her face to go enjoy it with Carmine instead for being more marketable, and I don't think they're even aware of why that would be a problem. Why have we not been reassured to the contrary in the last 6 months? I think a lot of us are waiting for this DLC anxiously instead of eagerly, especially after the first half.

[softxsuki]

(1/2) Hey! I'm not sure how these urgent requests work since I've never done one before, but if this doesn't sound urgent please feel free to ignore it! Lately, I've been feeling pressured about pretty much everything. Because I'm the oldest sibling, I feel like everything I do has to be perfect. And I get really mad at myself if I mess something up. When someone says they're proud of me I get super happy, but then I get worried I'll do something wrong and they won't be proud of me anymore.

Inumaki Comforting Reader Who Feels Pressured To Be Perfect

Pairing: Inumaki x Fem!Reader

Warnings: feeling pressured by life, insinuating of self-harm

Genre: Comfort

Post-Type: Headcanons

Word Count: 670

Summary: In which you feel pressured by everything in life and feeling like you need to perfect, so Inumaki tries to help you feel better

[A/N: HEY. Thank you so much for your patience! I finally got this done for you! I always have a hard time writing for Inumaki, so this was great practice, but I just hope I did an okaky job with this. My thoguhts were all over the place on this request, which you can probbaly tell from the writing, but I JUST HOPE IT BRINGS YOU SOME FORM OF COMFORT! Take care of yourself and never try to be perfect for anyone. Real friends and family will love you as you are, not for how perfect or imperfect you are. You don't have to meet anyone's expectations except your own <3]

Inumaki:

Inumaki cares deeply about his friends and loved ones, so you’re no exception to that

Since he can’t really speak in actual words other than onigiri ingredients, listening becomes his greatest asset, so he loves when you come to him about your problems because he’s always able to find solutions to those problems very quickly

He want to give you the support you need and tell you how proud he is of you in however way he can, but he doesn’t want to pressure you even more by doing so and having you worry about whether you’ll disappoint him in the long run or not

Because honestly, nothing you do will ever disappoint him

He is and will always be very proud of you; he see’s how great you are as an older sibling, leading your siblings in the right direction, but he wishes he could take that pressure from off your back sometimes

So when you do finally open up about how pressured you’ve been feeling along with what it has caused you to do to yourself, he’s mad at himself for not being able to help you sooner

But from that moment on he looks for any way he can possibly help you moving forward!

As for comforting you in that moment, Inumaki is a man of actions, not words

He brings you into a warm embrace and just holds you; giving you both a moment to take in each other’s body heat

You can hear his heart racing in his chest from the close proximity, and yours is beating just as fast

He softly pats your back as his free hand caresses the back of your neck, hugging you close to him, your face pressed into his shoulder

You both just stand there in silence for a while, holding each other, until you finally move away from him

His arms move from your back, down to your hands where his warmth now radiates through your fingers and up your arms

“Shake,” he urges you to look at him, and you do

His eyes are more serious that they’re ever been, he means business

It’s okay. Don’t try too hard; those words seem to sink into your heart and mind even though Inumaki was only speaking with his eyes–you knew exactly what he was trying to say

His immediate affection and love definitely helps, but he’s not done with only that

In the next following days, Inumaki comes up with an activity you can both do together where you do things, say things, or look in the most imperfect way for a whole day, without judgment

This allows you to really let go of the constant pressure to be perfect and let loose for a day–only the two of you

He loves how happy you look when you’re your carefree-self–not a single worry or care behind your eyes as only a beautiful smile fills the room

You’re absolutely perfect in Inumaki’s eyes, and you find him perfect too, but he is in fact very far from perfect; HECK he can’t even speak to you normally without fear that he might accidently force you to do or say something against your will

The only time he ever spoke to you was when he confessed his love for you, “I love you,” it was the first time he ever said actual words to you and you knew right then and there that he mean those words with all his heart

Anyway, he wants you to know that it’s okay to have imperfections and to not be perfect sometimes–you’re only human, no one expects you to be a perfect robot who never messes us

He loves all your imperfections even though what may look like an imperfection to you is actually so beautiful and perfect to him

Super loving and helpful, just wants to be the one you rely on whenever you feel this way

He definitely is very attentive and does a great job of lifting you back up without judging you at all!

REQUESTS ARE OPEN :D

Posted: 10/10/2022

[viatagrinner]

Silvio Ricci. Romantic Route. Chapter 25. Part 1.

After MC called herself Silvio's fiancèe and Rio persuaded the king to return to Benitoite, several days passed. The four-country union project was still under consideration.

The girl moved into one of Silvio's villas.

In the normal story, whose translation I have deleted - 🤡👍: Silvio at first nervously accepted the girl as his fiancèe. After all, she would have to move, change her life, etc. Then they talked and spent the night together.

Silvio was working with documents, and MC was reading a book about her fiancé's adventures at a young age.

The prince works too hard, the girl decides to massage his shoulders.

Silvio: Wait, don't touch me!

MC: Can't I be your fiancèe?

The prince says that whatever relationship they have doesn't mean he can be touched.

The heroine is not confused, she approaches him and tries to kiss him on the forehead.

Silvio blushes and gets angry, and the girl pretends to be sad.

MC: ...I'm your lover, but I shouldn't touch you, it's sad.

Silvio: ......You've got to be kidding!

MC: No, that's not true.

She was punished for it. He ruffled her hair again.

But it doesn't annoy her anymore.

(...After all, Silvio is cozy around me.)

Soon they are leaving for Benitoite.

She has already said goodbye to everyone and quit her job. Silvio is pleased and promises to give her an "interesting show" when she arrives at his house".

Silvio: Ah. The greatest show of the century. I'll give you a special place.

As he continues to stroke her head, he admits that he "doesn't care if she's sassy or honest," as long as she's herself.

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After a while. Benitoite.

Silvio: ....So, give me that chair, you old asshole.

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A white castle surrounded by the vast sea... There begins the heroine's new life. A life so unlike her old one.

Silvio stands in the throne room, with the king and queen in front of him and Rio next to him.

Rio is dressed as a prince. The girl thought it was the first time she had seen him like this, but it doesn't change the essence of Rio.

Silvio decided to go straight ahead rather than look for workarounds.

The King, of course, is not pleased.

Silvio: I'm serious. If the old bastard doesn't get out of his chair...Carlo!

Carlo: Y-yes!

A shy man, apparently Silvio's squire, hands a letter to His Majesty the King.

After looking at the letters loosely written there for a while, the king crushed the paper.

The King of Benitoite: .... I told you to stay out of it.

This paper is from an illegal auction. If it becomes known in this country and in Rhodolite, there will be trouble. The king himself was in favor of an alliance with an enemy country. This is a scandal.

The prince has finally gathered all the evidence of his father's treachery.

The king scolds his eldest son. Why does he make enemies?

Silvio: No problem, why do we owe the aggressor state?

Silvio: If they try to retaliate, we will respond with harsher economic sanctions.

Silvio: But Gilbert is no fool. If he knows our interests, he won't spit on us.

The King of Benitoite: ....You and I have always disagreed with each other.

A four-country alliance is still in the works, but that's the way Silvio wants to go.

Silvio: Now that it has happened, I am in charge of everything that happens in this country from now on!

Silvio: Give me the throne.

Silvio turns to the queen, Rio's mother. After the death of his first wife, the king married a second time.

Rio looks very much like his mother.

The queen is silent, but Rio decides to take the floor.

He tells his mother not to worry. She will have more time with the king, Silvio, conclusively, may cause anxiety, but he is the next king. Rio will no longer be in the background. Rhodolite "taught him courage and not to miss something important."

Rio and Silvio quarrel again. Silvio doesn't want Rio on his side. And he can handle himself, to which Rio replies something like, "You fool, I'm actually for you."

Queen laughed.

Queen: I think we should leave it at that, Alfio.

Anyway, the queen says to the king, he's been in power too long, it's time to rest, we need to make room for the young.

Queen: You became king at their age.

The king is silent, he wants to rule.

Queen: Besides, I have heard many good things about MC from Valerio.

We also learn that originally Silvio's father was not supposed to be king.

The King is silent. He takes a long time.

King: ...Silvio.

The king took off the ring and threw it right into his son's hands.

Silvio: Don't throw me a national treasure, you old bastard!

The King of Benitoite: Shut up. I'll give it to you, but do it well. Don't be selfish like that woman.

Silvio's Masterlist