#asterisk answers

[askterisk-asterisk]

beat them up four!!!

Why do you want him to beat me up so bad???

Look, we can talk about this!

And why should I trust YOU?!

[braisedhoney]

May I have a little *muah muah* from Valentine Narrator? *blinks innocently*

- GG anon

... ah, what the hell! why not. requests are closed atm, but it's valentines season, so I’ll do this one for the people who want it!

genuinely didn’t expect to draw this guy again but lovecore themed narry is probably the only one who’d do it sincerely, so you’re in luck!

(once again this lovecore theme is vaguely based on the love bug au concept by @things1do.)

[meirimerens]

hey sending you another ask since i was apparently eaten in the womb (your inbox), i just made a new post relaying dybowski's abuses with updated info from former HSE students/IPL members I've been working with and they hope it gains traction, you can share it if you're interested (warning, it's a lot of text) thanks for all the support!!

you were indeed eaten in the womb of my inbox i was checking in emails to see if the asks had showed up and i was about to screenshot yours and reply like that when you sent this one ^ so. perfect timing. mr electric and so on

[nibwhipdragon]

god, dear fucking god, the monster hunter movie was worse than humanly possible

WHY IS THE US MILITARY HERE?! WHY IS IT AN ISEKAI PLOT? WHY DOES THE HUNTER NOT KNOW WHAT CHOCOLATE IS?

if they wanted a monster to fight the military at least use a Bazelgeuse cause it's right up their alley

I'm putting this all under a cut because I ranted much more than I anticipated. All my thoughts on this stupid film are under the cut.

Anon this sounds like you've watched the film for the first time and. Man I am So Sorry. It was worse than what I expected it to be and my expectations were already at rock bottom. They used Gore in the advertising but it was only used as sequel bait??? Nasty. And there was gonna be a scene where it and Rathalos would fight in a shopping center or smth and MAN. That would've made the film a little bit enjoyable. The tiniest bit.

The film REALLY didn't need to be an isekai. If the director wanted to make his wife the protag (again. Why does he do this all the time. Give someone else a chance will you) why couldn't she have been a hunter? Either learning the ropes a la Legends of The Guild (a much better mh film you should watch if you haven't already) OR already a top tier hunter investigating an odd phenomenon. Not. That.

And the way the guns were useless on the Diablos??? (Why were the monsters so oddly big too) Hello. Bowguns. Ballistae. Barrel bombs. Gunlance. They could at least do SOME damage.

Also the hunter not knowing what chocolate is is INSANE. They have donuts canonically. They have coke canonically*. Is chocolate really that far of a stretch??? It's sugar and cocoa beans and milk. Not that hard to make and they sure have a lot of jungles so it's not like they can't find any cocoa beans.

IN MHW THEY LITERALLY HAVE CHOCOLATE COVERED APPLES AND DONUTS. COME ON. It's like the director just treated the entire world as this sort of primitive place, rather than a place that's just different to ours. They're quite technologically advanced: They have airships, sandships, the dragonator and dragonrazer, and massive boats that can have up to 3 dragonators at a time on it. Steam trains*² too. All highly complex mechanisms. Yes they all seem to run on steam pressure but honestly? I don't think they'd plunder oil from the earth the way we do, so it makes sense. And all the knowledge on all these monsters and how they work and stuff? That's certainly not primitive. Also how did the Admiral know English. No I'm not taking that stupid timeloop paradox quest that used to be in MHW as canon. Because What Is That.

WHY DOES THE ADMIRAL LOOK LIKE THAT, ACTUALLY?

Like cmon man. I can barely even see a resemblance. $60mil budget is actually fairly small for a film but COULD YOU NOT HAVE SPENT MORE OF THAT ON THE ADMIRAL'S DESIGN??? There was barely even any monster action in the film it was just Artemis and the hunter fighting. Surely the CGI didn't cost that much.

OK I went onto Wikipedia for that info and it led me to find out the director is British. Having a moment of silence to mourn the fact this scourge came from my home country.

Moving on. The insect glaive was shown at the end of the film. No kinsect. My brother in Christ THE KINSECT IS LIKE HALF THE WEAPON. IT'S IN THE NAME.

Another nitpick but the desert is so ridiculously empty I'm convinced the director doesn't know what a desert looks like (I know he wouldn't have been a concept artist. But he both and directed and wrote so I assume he has quite a bit of control over the other parts of the film's creation).

Like cmon. Sure some parts of deserts are quite empty, like the Sahara, but I doubt a big monster like Diablos is going to be chilling in a place with no shade and no cacti. It can go underground to avoid the heat when traversing but in no way would it hang about as much as it did in the film. No reason to there are more optimal environments for it within the desert. At least make the background visually appealing on basis of it being a film. Can't the sand at LEAST be orange-yellow?

Also Bazelgeuse bombing them in the film would've been hilarious to me I wish that happened

Anyways. Go watch Legends of The Guild. Purify yourself. Great animated film that expands on pre-existing characters and also gave us the great indication that the games seem to take place in chronological order. I love you Legends of The Guild

* As one of the meal items in one of the games, I can't remember. Coke is cinnamon and vanilla flavoured so it isn't too outlandish for them to have it as a drink imo

*² The felynes in Elgado use a mini one near the dango food place thingy. Sure it's small but the fact it exist makes the concept of large ones used for transport and the like not too far-fetched

[habitual-creatures]

*oshebtis whisperinfg*

Wacky, but okay

Alwayshavebeen,Frost. Shouldn'thavetakenyouthislong.

[dynamitekansai]

aew: Who are the women that inspire the women of #AEW?

[doomedyuri]

i don't give a shit lol

[the-typing-dragon]

sending you on a quest to collect the fossilized hard drive of the meat computer

i will tear through heaven and earth to provide it to you

[mcrololo]

Rolo I really am so so sorry like I honestly feel so terrible about that. I just want to clarify that I don’t support her views at all! I just love hp it was my childhood and a massive part of my life but again I’m so sorry

It's totally cool!! In fact, to show you how cool I feel to you anon, I want to offer you some owl house crossover instead:

“Beca told me that I need to know two,” Chloe held up two fingers exasperatedly, “spells before I’ve proven myself to join Hexside, and I only know the one.” Gail flipped the page of a book that stood propped against a set of bottles (full of questionable contents) and followed a random sentence with her pointer finger. She squinted, briefly, and hummed a troubled ‘hm’, before she continued to stir in the cooking pot in front of her. No doubt also filled with questionable contents.

Chloe paced around the counter and settled behind said book, which forced Gail to at least acknowledge her. “I need you to secretly teach me another spell, Gail.”

The wooden spoon whirled around once, twice, before it ended on the counter with a loud clack. “Now why would I waste my time on that?”

Chloe perked up, beaming. “Because if you don’t, you will have to teach me the entire summer.”

Gail sighed. Groaned. She turned off the stove with a flick of her wrist and left for the door. “Fine. Follow me.”

Chloe bounced after her with a squeal.

***

Training in secret ended up being not so secret.

Gail took her to The Knee – a spot where magic overflowed and even a little noob like her human heart should be able to feel it, according to Gail – and much to Chloe’s surprise they weren’t alone. Bundled up in a thick coat and an adorable woolen hat stood Beca Mitchell, wooden wand swinging between clutched fingers as her older friends instructed her in using it.

Gail snapped her fingers repeatedly in front of her face and Chloe finally came back to herself. “Look, kid, if you want this to work out, I need your full attention.”

“Um, yeah,” Chloe said, her eyes drifting from Gail back to Beca’s skilled hands and focused stare. “Totes.”

There was a heavy sigh as Gail pinched the bridge of her nose. “Titan, give me patience. This is going to be a long day.”

[istherewifiinhell]

actually can i say. if u keep consistently watching city planing traffic engineering vids on yt and yes specially that one guy. you mind find that they quickly become repetitive on the same subjects like. u will already have the tools to understand these concepts and get what the problems or successes are yourself

but im honessssssstly not sure thats what their for. like in the way u could watch endless... cooking videos or smth and hear a larger percent of new stuff. i think their fucking agit-prop. likeeee. i watch em and im yeah yeah its a stroad the roads to wide the speeds to high its not built at ppl scale. but it also REALLY MAKES ME WANNA RIDE MY BIKE! seeing like. gopro mount footage of commute cycling being commentated. and makes me notice the cyclers when im out walking <- im not brave enough yet. and go. SHIT I WANNA BE DOING THAT! And i think helpfully builds ur skills to like. look at a place u COULD cycle and figure out how dangerous it could be.

i hope they make the speed limit everywhere 30km per hour and we all get protected bikelanes. amen.

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

i remember when i first saw the poster for thunderbolts* i thought yelena was a beautiful androgynous man and literally searched high and low trying to find out who was in the movie so i could find him....sigh

[askterisk-asterisk]

Little Pink Thing™️ do u like pink, do u like green too? I like green it's my favourite color!

...Not too fond of green.

[84reedsy]

HAPPYYY BIRTHDAYYY!! 🥳🥳

I hope you had a great day! I didn't realise it was yesterday 😅 I hope you also have great year ahead 🎉🎉💐🩵

TBH I celebrate for the entire month of August so you're right on time!!!

Thank you so much 💚💚💚💚

[doodles-of-a-nerd-kid]

Are any of your characters super epic gamers? If not, do any of them have interesting or unique hobbies?

If i were to pick out outta my currently revealed characters these guys probably contain the most potential to be gamers lol

put in a comfortable scenario Caret and Asterisk would 100% play videogames, while Asterisk plays your usual popular completive games (like Overwatch(?), Call of Duty or uh... League--) I think Caret is the more casual gamer, and for some reason could still win against Asterisk (which greatly annoys her)

Canonically Akane is just, the gamer outta my characters... she's had a lot of free time lol

But she's also a sort of "child prodigy" with videogames so she's a cheater in that regard

these losers do not play videogames really put in any scenario:

While Polka would have the opportunity to be a gamer in the most comfortable scenario, she would deviate to other things anyway. (Though I'm sure she would keep her interest in a certain, puzzle survival horror game...)

Polka does always like writing her own poems (and maybe even singing them...), while Tilde just enjoys taking strolls and easygoing things like fishing. Aside from that, they both don't really have any interesting hobbies either, lol

[iwtvdramacd18]

It’s me I’m back 💀💀 I was wondering do you have any OCs for iwtv (or just vampire OCs) cause I’d love to know about them! If that’s cool.

Hey! So I don't have any ocs for iwtv but I do have a vampire story of my own called Here About the Graves that mostly deals with two vampire siblings: Darius (she/her; older sister and the super fucked up skull face one) and Gaul (he/him; younger brother vaguely more bat-like one). Their vampire clan (the Graves) is relatively new to the global vampiric court and has been invited to join officially because of their prowess in shapeshifting, and their story takes place in the fallout of a ceremony tied to that "interest" the Vampire Court has with their family. I won't say too much about the actual plot here but it deals a lot with self-identity and what it means to have to contort that in order to live in a racist order, the myth of "black exceptionalism" (what does it mean to be exceptional in the eyes of white society? What do we carve away from ourselves to achieve that? How do we harm ourselves and others in the process? Why must anyone be exceptional in the first place?), and how our relationships with our families change over time.

Also I did draw them with Louis and Lestat real quick once and never finished it. I don't think any of them would actually get along fjkdknajkdsnajk Louis might cry seeing black vampires that can actually like. age

[rainsyru]

Is Xin a kitsune by any chance?