#but this is a fantasy world so fuk u i can do what i want (within reason)

[justshapesandshitposting]

Random lil concept i’ve thought of (worldbuilding)

Concept: Flower Shapes are flower mimics, they’re still animals, but evolved to look like flowers/plants to avoid predation, and considering how small animals get larger on islands, and how i hc paradise to be a sorta island continent/island chain... yeah i can def see that paradise’s flower/plant shapes are much larger than their mainland cousins, and there might even be a totally unique breed or two of flower shape on paradise as well. 

they likely dont have as much of the natural chitinous armour as other ‘breeds’ of shape, which makes them far more flexible and likely faster in the process, which again, would make sense if they were closer to the bottom of the food chain originally on the mainland. 

their mainland relatives are prolly generalists for the most part, with a prevalence of insects in their diet, after all, bugs get attracted to flowers defensive AND aggressive mimicry- 

[elibean]

elianna’s best anime of the decade!

best of is here, under the cut is a lot of word vomit and honorable mentions and stuff

2010- princess jellyfish

2011- steins; gate

2012- tsuritama?? idk i didn’t really have a best for this year

2013- uchouten kazoku

2014- barakamon

2015- noragami (this only works bc im including aragoto, the first season was in 2014 but shhh)

2016- 3gatsu no lion

2017- made in abyss

2018- yuru camp (probably, i didn’t thoroughly go through my 2018s but)

2019- i’m still behind on this, but as of right now it’s vinland saga and i don’t see that changing tbh

spoilers to follow for steins;gate and made in abyss!

EDIT: i’m editing this like 2 weeks later bc i cant believe i forgot the promised neverland. i don’t have anything intelligent to say other than GOOD. the mystery was great, the suspense was great, the character animation was great. all good. i’m reading the manga so i’m excited to see what’s next!

ok so summer 2019- given. one of those shows so good that it got me to read the manga (only a handful of shows have gotten me to do that) so. its good yo. the character drama and the way characters interacted with each other was so much fun to watch, and also like. canon queer characters, so bonus points for that. but what really got me was towards the end, when mafuyu finally sang his song and it just destroyed me in the best way possible. the raw emotion (when he screams in the middle of the song, just *chef’s kiss*), the storytelling, i just! so good. i’m so excited for the movie but also terrified because 1) they could fuck it up so easily and 2) non-manga readers will inevatibly watch it and then say given is “cancelled” and . there’s already enough people reading the manga for the first time and doing that i really don’t want more of them

spring 2011- steins; gate! slow start, but absolutely worth it. i was hooked after the ending of episode 1, and it continued from there. but what really got me was towards the middle, when mayuri died, and then there was that episode after of just scene after scene after scene of okabe trying and failing to save her. it was so emotional and raw and GOOD, and it really raised the stakes for the following episodes. so good.

there are multiple seasons so im not giving this one a year but- natsume yuujinchou! one of the most soothing, but also emotional shows i’ve watched. the found family natsume finds with his friends but also his adopted parents after enduring abuse previously is just. ;_; all the youkai stories are done so well too, and it’s just. very good. my favorite seasons were san, shi, go, and roku (three, four, five, and six)! i still haven’t watched the movie yet tho bc i’m never in the right emotional state lol (in other words: i’m never ready to be depressed for a full day afterwards)

fall 2012- this boy caught a merman. no explanation here, i love soubi yamamoto. also assume everything she’s made 2010-2019 is on here save for meganebu and this boy suffers from crystallization

fall 2016- a silent voice. duh. have you SEEN this movie? 

fall 2015- noragami! i’m completley biased but fuk u. i adore noragami and its world and its characters and its story and i. bones season 3 when

march 2016-  kanojo to kanojo no neko: everything flows. this is 4 episodes, about 8 minutes each and i cried so

summer 2017- made in abyss. look i know this show is contreversial and rightly so. it’s got Issues, and i can’t reccomend it blindly like i can some of the others on this list but god if i didn’t love it. the music, the background art (animated by a former ghibli animator!), the story, the lore, the emotion (when reg and riko had to say goodbye to maruk...when reg finally killed mitty, and nanachi’s wails afterwards...) its Good, what do you want from me

summer 2011- no. 6. good and queer. also when am i getting my reunion. god

fall 2011- chihayafuru. hoooooo boy are my thoughts on this one Complicated. i adore chihayafuru, the sport of karuta is fascinating and thanks to this anime i learned how to play the game and joined a karuta club. even participated in an official comp in japan. .....also got my ass handed to me and was so discouraged that i quit the game So

summer 2013- uchouten kazoku. a hidden gem! i liked season 1 more than season 2, but it was such a fun show!

spring 2015- kekkai sensen. this show was so much fun! remember how the last episode got delayed for like a month+. that was fun. again i liked season 1 more than season 2, but whatever. black was my favorite! and black and white’s relationship was so sweet ;_;

winter 2015- assasination classroom. this was such a ridiculous show, but a lot of fun. karma was my fave! cheeky lil bastard

winter 2016- doukyuusei. it was queer and good

fall 2016- 3gatsu no lion. yet again i enjoyed the first season more than the second, but still an amazing show. rei was such a good main character, and his battles with depression and just his inner-mind in general were so interesting to watch. 

winter 2017- miss kobayashi’s dragon maid. this was such a feel-good show. also involved found family and was also queer and good. like made in abyss it had Issues (and like made in abyss the issues were similar....sigh), but if you can ignore those, it was really good and wholesome.

spring 2018- liz and the blue bird. i went into this having not watched hibike (besides like 2 episodes back when the first season was airing), but naoko yamada is amazing so. the raw emotions were SO GOOD. also the fantasy scenes were so much fun to watch.

??? 2019- vinalnd saga. does this count? i mean it STARTED it 2019, even if it finished in 2020. anyway this was really good

[resonance-chatroom]

What would you do if you found a genie and got 3 wishes? (In the term you each get 3 wishes)

Comic: three wishes huh?

Red: ded assgore ded alphys n my bro immortal

Edge: YOU FUCKING DICK HOW DARE YOU!! OBVIOUSLY THE CORRECT ANSWER IS THE BARRIER BROKEN, MYSELF KING OF THE SURFACE, AND- WELL THAT IS REALLY ALL I NEED.

Red: bro be immortal

Edge: I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH STUPID FUCKING ANIME TO KNOW WHERE THAT WOULD GET ME AND FUCK THAT SHIT RIGHT TO HELL!!

Red: boss dat shit aint real

Edge: AND I WOULD PREFER TO KEEP IT THAT WAY!!

Slim: dont need nothin i dont got

Razz: I MIGHT HAVE ASKED FOR A CLONE OF MYSELF BUT I THINK THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM RUNNING AROUND, ALL OF THEM USELESS. SO INSTEAD I WILL ASK FOR IMMORTALITY FOR MYSELF, THE MUTT, AND THEN GIVE MY LAST WISH TO THE HUMAN FOR WHATEVER.

Edge: ENJOY BEING SHORT AND USELESS FOREVER

Razz: FUCK YOU

Edge: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GAY IN THE MULTIVERSE TO MAKE ME WANT THAT

Dance: if only because red, slim, and lust stole it all

Red: go fuk urself

Lust: dibs~

Comic: back on track

Comic: i’d want a ketchup bottle that could never empty no matter how much i drank, and a never ending supply of ‘dogs… and my dad back to how he used to be, all unfragmented

Rus: I WOULD WISH SANS WOULD ALWAYS BE CLEAN, THAT SANS’ ROOM ALWAYS BE CLEAN, AND ALSO WORLD PEACE!!

Blue: A MOTORCYCLE!!! THAT WOULD NOT BREAK!!! NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES!!! ALPHYS TOSSED IT AROUND!!! ALSO TO BE TALLER!! AND ALSO FOR THAT DARN CANINE TO LEAVE MY SPECIAL ATTACKS ALONE!!!

Rus: I CHANGE MY MIND I WILL CLEAN SANS’ ROOM IF IT MEANS KEEPING THAT ANNOYING DOG AWAY FROM MY PANTRY WHERE THERE ARE BONES AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE!!

Lust: i’d wish away the lt from everyone in my universe who didn’t want it. then use the other two wishes to live some of my fantasies…

Slim: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Lust: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Pink: WHICH ONES??

Red: i c u typin u kinky fuk n u cn just delete it all cuz nobd wanna see dat

Dance: for once i agree

Lust: tell ya later bro

Slim: me too i hope

Lust: gladly~

Dance: i dunno what i would want, other than maybe to take the brat’s reset powers away, give toriel back her dead kids, and have an endless supply of ketchup

Suave: WORLD PEACE SOUNDS GOOD TO ME TOO!! BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE SANS SO SEE THE MOON UP CLOSE!! AND MAYBE AN AUTOGRAPH FROM THAT NAPSTATION FELLOW BLUE INTRODUCED ME TO!!

Stretch: ya realize we can getcha that right? i work with the guy

Suave: REALLY?!?! WOWWIE!!

Stretch: i’ll look into it this week.

Stretch: as for me? infinite honey, a bigger bed, and a way to take pictures without a camera

Pink: I WANT THE BARRIER DOWN, TO MARRY METTATON, AND HAVE LOTS OF KIDS TO LOVE AND SQUEEZE AND TEACH HOW TO COOK!!

Lust: bro… i want that for you too

Lust: and i will teach them how to annoy you like the naught uncle i was born to be~

Pink: YOU WILL NOT TEACH THEM HOW TO BOONDOGGLE!! BUT YOU MAY HELP METTATON TEACH THEM SCIENCE!!

Tori: i’d wish my anxiety was gone, and to… have something else back…

Gory: I WOULD WANT TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE!! AND SEE MY SIS SETTLE DOWN!!

Tori: omg bro why 0///0

Axe: i wanna box that always has food in it every time i open it, a tool that can fix anything broken, and undick ta get hit so hard by karma she cant see straight

Red: y not ded

Axe: too quick. shes hotta suffer

Red: i can respect that

Chara: i want sans and paps to make up and be a happy family again, and endless supply of chocolate, and for every iteration of my bro ever to get a happy ending

Stretch: sounds like you

Slim: … k i might like da idea o endless syrup n endless weed…

[bam-monsterhospital]

questing in skyrim areas in elderscrolls online is always a bit of a mixed bag for me... 

i have no love for the nords in general, don’t often play as part of the ebonheart pact, and as such when questing in skyrim i’m met with a bombardment of ‘oh man nords are the besssttttt’ from npcs and the world - because it’s the nord zone nord-group-alliance area of nordness so of course horns will be tooted.  Normally this is whatever, since eso has been surprisingly good at balancing out and digging at the fantasy racism throughout the elderscrolls universe, not disguising the fact that all the human races are terrible towards everyone (especially orcs) and people can just suck.  There’s usually no pretentious moral myopia shoved in your face until you’re forced to accept it or quit the game (looking at you bioware).  The themes of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and decency and shit are usually nice and grey and open, and i dig that.  (EDIT: 2023 Alyson here, I was blind and an idiot, and didn’t see the grotesque racism eso DELIGHTS in detailing while also condoning.  The anti-elf racism glorified everywhere.  The lazy leaning into racism for altmer and dunmer because ‘oh that’s just what they’re like’ meanwhile the entire map has a festival celebrating elf-genocide. it’s EVERYWHERE)

but boy. mmmmm. i can’t always have what i want, because sometimes the obnoxious boring face of standard-western-fantasy-xtian-coding-ideology just slaps you in the teeth and you’re forced to go along as it drags you through its bullshit.

spoilers for the kynesgrove questline below the cut.

so like. it’s about kyne right? kyne as in a deity worshiped a lot by nords, blah blah blah. In oblivion kyne = nature. in skyrim kyne = the sky, nature, and like... some sort of prime goddess.  Way back in eso times kyne = athena. Kyne is just a super jack of all trades deity you pray to for help in war and she also covers the snow and weather patterns of skyrim and whatever. 

So i get wrangled in to helping these rando nord npcs because ‘sure i’ll go look for your dumb soldier friends who are praying at this kyne retreat or whatever, even though technically doing so would help your war alliance to the detriment of my own....... but whatever’. You get there, shit hits the fan, there’s daedra worshippers everywhere, the usual. The panicked nords inside one of the cabins are freaking out about ‘oh no the witches!’

witches you say?

I wanna be a witch ouo

well, no eso says bad player, witches = bad, obviously. So you’re forced to bumblefuck your way around this disappearance mystery and whatever until one nord just goes apeshit and gets possessed

you learn the kyne-lovin wardens here are the now-daedra worshippers, and it’s like ‘oh hay cool, you had a faith crisis and then found something that works, good for you’

later. lay-ter dawg. my work is done. byyyeeee.

but of course, no. the nords are all “ohhh man well....... wE JUST GOTTA KILL THEM ALL I GUESS. SINCE Y’KNOW, NOW THEY’RE EVIL WITCHES”

i was so done. you’re tasked to kill the leader who lost her sons in the stupid alliance war (like yeah lady war IS stupid, you’re totes right) and.. your choices....

are “oh let’s fuckin kill everyone! because nord faith! hnngghgh” and “she has a living son right? let’s bring her back to the liiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhttt”

-_- i’m so tired. of light = good. of good=light and alllllll the associations and baggage with it. 

meanwhile i just........ want to leave this lady alone? or maybe give her her son to help combat the misery? jfdhksal;fs

Oh btw, being all evil and not a good god-fearing nord turned her into a hagraven.  Because of course it did.

i literally reflexively u-turned and started walking away from this bullshit

boooo

booooooooooooo!

and of COURSE she’s super young and meets the standards of straight-male-attraction. 

BOOOO

oh! look who gets to live another crazed reactionary day. it’s the terrible possessed nord captain!

just

aughgh. fuk dis quesssst

But alyson, if you hated the quest, why didn’t you just abandon it?

... because i need the experience and monies ;_;

[toomanyskeletons]

do all the oc asks ALL of them for AT LEAST two of your ocs (evil laughter)

“evil”

you act as if talking extensively about my ocs does not bring me joy (i’ll only do two probably bc i do have some asks from other people so i’ll have to do those with other ocs, and i’ll try to stick to the same two for the most part.

or three. maybe three.)

anyway let’s begin

1. if they had a tumblr, what would they post about?

Sam: hmm i think probably some blog like. Mostly trans positivity posts with scattered posts abt how much she loves her gf

Amelia: considering her popularity status she’d run some blog like. U kno the blogs tumblr celebrities run i guess? So like. Reblogging a few general funny posts and answering select asks while getting like 200 every day.

 2. what’s their favourite colour?

 Sam: she likes blue :o like. Light blues. Also she keeps her hair dyed light blue as well

Amelia: purple. Honestly idk much more i can say about this.

 3. What makes them laugh?

 Sam: shitty puns and memes, mostly. The type of person who laughs out loud when u just say ‘egg’. She’s probably still into ‘xD tacos’ random humour.

Amelia: the polar opposite of sam in this regard. Laughs at intellectual humor. Like. rich fancy people. I know it exists but i cant think of any specific examples. Politely laughs at things people say are funny but she does not find them actually funny.

 4. If they had one day left to live, how would they spend it?

 Sam: “lmao dw i’ll probably just go to hell anyway” wait no context is important. She’s like. Actually how do i make this not sound bad rip. Uh. basically she is a business partner of lucifer who is actually p chill but that’s another story

Anyway that means like. If she dies she’ll probably just come back as a ghost or a higher tier demon.

O fuk now i really wanna draw that

Amelia: panicking and trying to find a way to not die. She had things she wants to do and a public record to maintain and jeez  i just realised how much ames has changed compared the the first universe she was in. i mean YEAH completely different life experiences but rip

 5. Do they have any annoying habits?

 -this is really subjective bc of what different people consider annoying but

Sam: people say she laughs too much. That is not her annoying habit is, her annoying habit is tellling lucifer when people say that so lucifer can like. Ban them from reincarnation or put a curse on them or something like that. Also sometimes when she cant be bothered to go that extra step she might go into the past and become that person’s grandmother.

...that second one isnt really an annoying habit to most people but to the one guy who has to help keep control of time, it is a very annoying habit and what makes up like half of his job doings.

 Amelia: sometimes goes very over the top with things. One time she stole a magic book by becoming a security guard at the place where it was kept and then took the book and ran. So like, instead of doing things illegally, she did it also illegally and got a month’s pay from it as well.

I guess she’s like. Extra™

 6. What’s their favourite movie genre?

I s2fg i have mentioned this sometime in one of the long texts i have written involving these characters but i cant remember so

Sam: tbh probably more realistic/contemporary stuff, rom-coms, slice of life, coming of age etc. Like. her life is a science fiction/fantasy movie she’s a time traveler working with the dark lord lucifer ffs. Also she’d probably get annoyed on tiny details while watching historical stuff like

“That never happened”

“Sam it’s fiction, it’s a movie, how would they have known that”

“Well maybe they didn’t know it but it’s still fucking annoying”

 Amelia: probably similar to sam, her life is fuckin busy and always people and she’s famous so like. Escape from her life is to indulge in the normal things.

 Just as a side note this does take place in a modern-ish fantasy world so idk what fantasy movies would be considered there but. They exist. I’ll work this out sooner or later

 Also bonus character bc its fucking funny - Zeph: zephyr likes horror movies. She also likes to watch horror movies with her brother. Her brother does not share her same passion for horror movies. He has a certain threshold before he has to flee the room and cuddle someone. This is mostly why zeph likes horror movies. She is pretty picky with what she considers ‘good’ and spends most of her time making fun of horror movies.

And, like the rest of us, secretly freaks out when she is alone at night and hears a sound outside. But for significantly less long because she knows exactly how to make fun of it.

 7. What are their religious beliefs?

 Alright i might not (read: will not currently) answer this bc i’m still working out how to handle religion in this, bc basically there is historical evidence for how the world was created. But obviously that’s not the only component to religion?

Another point would be that actually i still havent got around to creating any religions yet.i still gotta get around to getting down a more detailed history of the world first but i am planning it

 8. What’s their current job (if they have one)?

Yes BITCH i have been WAITIGN for a question like this

 Sam: basically she made a deal with lucifer and runs many errands for them. But also they helped her a LOT when they helped her escape a shitty transphobic environment and also the two became best friends? So i mean she doesn’t get paid but that takes up a lot of her time

Also she, at one stage, becomes part of this thing called the council which i haven’t quite worked out how they work in this universe yet. Theyre a bunch of strong magic people who work in coordination with the Champion (more on this below) to put down rules about magic. Theyre a reused concept from this story i made when i was like. 10. So the idea does need some reworking.

 Amelia: amelia is the champion, which is basically the title given to the person who wins at a big magic competition. Its a p big job, lots of publicity and pr and often regretted by the people who do end up getting there

(like? This one guy? He was kinda like “oh yeah sounds fun” and then he fucking won and he was like “lmao i’ll lose next year” and then he kept the position for 7 years and after that got so fucking sick of it he faked his assassination and became a reclusive mysterious millionaire)

Anyway she enjoys it for the first while until there is a real threat of her being assassinated unlike the aforementioned dude

But she enjoys being around people to an extent, and like. She enjoys making people happy, so

 9. How do they react to confrontation?

 Sam: similar way to what i described before. Like. jsut the little things. Cursing them with the help of lucifer, becoming their grandmother, you know. The usual ways people deal with confrontation.

Amelia: curiosity, further questioning, keeping calm, kinda just. Being chill about it. She wants to make herself a better person, in general, and if someone is deliberately being a confrontational asshole she prefers to just state her point calmly.

 10. Do they have a criminal record?

 Sam: you know? Probably? She kills a bunch of assholes where it’s required, but also she legally doesn’t exist? So? Idk? She’s been arrested a few times, but considering there is no information on her existence at all-

*shrugs* idfk how the law works.

 Amelia: well, technically, no, she only did illegal things last universe and had a pretty fancy upbringing this universe, so there was no reason for her to do the illegals and also like. Public image and stuff. She worries a lot about public image.

 11. What’s their favourite plant?

 Another thing which i feel i have mentioned somewhere but idfk where

 Sam: likes hydrangeas. They’re pretty.

Amelia: can i just say. It is definitely not catnip. Actually. Maybe? Like. she had some pretty fuckin negative experiences with catnip where she destroyed reality for like a solid five seconds by accident and went to purgatory, but also she made two life friends out of it, so? Maybe catnip after all.

 12. Can they play any instruments?

 Sam: “does the kazoo count”

Amelia: nope

 But because this was boring, i’m going to do a special guest feature from her half brother ryan who is a semi-popular youtube vlogger/musician-y dude. or . whatever this world’s equivalent of youtube is. Uh. metube. Yotube. I’ll think about it.

 Ryan: he plays the guitar and sings and he’s damn fucking good at it and he knows it. Also he shares the same combination of forgetting how to outlet his anger in healthy ways + poor impulse control which means that about once every six months he has to buy a new guitar because he couldn’t get that song right and he hit the guitar against the floor.

(his dad is a writer and also an archangel,and one time he couldn’t work out how to start off a scene right so he exploded his laptop and had to use a typewriter for the four weeks while his other archangel buddy was fixing it - i’m getting off topic here)

 13. What are they proudest of?

 Sam: i guess just. Her life in general? Like. she’s survived up to this point, she’s doin shit, maybe not the shit she expected to be doing or the shit she imagined she’d be doing but she’s still doin it. Like. fuck you life. I survived. And she’s proud of that.

Amelia: that one time when she managed to keep her champion title the first time? And also when she made friends with the guy who she thought was a girl and also dead who turned out to be not a girl and alive and also was the champion for seven years rememebr that guy yeah that’s this guy. Anyway she made friends with him after settling some differences. And also when she stopped a whole organisation from murdering her yeah that was good too.

 14. What’s their biggest insecurity?

 Sam: okay this is Definitely Not Me Projecting here (hint: it’s me projecting) but she hates being seen as masculine at all and is very insecure when people refer to her or see her as masculine? Like if u call her butch She Will Cry and also why would you do that bc her and her girlfriend are femme as heck

Amelia: public image public image public image public image

Like. she doesn’t want to look bad, or like a bad public leader, but also, she just wants to do her own thing, u kno?

 15. What do they most often dream about?

Like. literally dream or daydream?

 Sam: probably. Mostly happy stuff. Plus random occasional vivid recollections of tramatic experiences.

Amelia: honestly who the fuck knows (i’d answer this properly but I am Almost Out O f Time)

 So yes almost out of time but thank you so much and doing this has inspired me to just completely rework my first book to make it more interesting

I know that sounds bad btu its not i promise i love oyu

(also there was a bunch of different formatting like italcs etc that was lost when icopied from here to docs sorry)