#cancel ask game

[gale-gentlepenguin]

👀…Luka- finding out LB and CN’s identities and then not telling them

"Thats nothing" | "Ehh Slap on the wrist." | "Thats Questionable" | "It was accidental." | "Morally Gray." | "Yea... thats kind of Bad." | "Thats hard to justify." | "Thats Really F***ed up." | "How is this character not a Villain?!" | "Cancelled." | "Cancelled BEYOND Cancelled."

The thing is, its not really the fact he didnt tell them that made it bad. Its that he LIED about finding out to Ladybug. I would put it higher but he does (albiet later) tells Ladybug the truth. But its pretty effed up

[problemduetest4life]

Everyone's making polls and I feel left out!!

(p.s. this is just considering the context of the first book)

[highlordofkrypton]

Popular character you hate in ACOTAR

and

Least shippable character in ACOTAR!

oH NO IM GONNA GET IN TROUBLE WITH THESE QUESTIONS

From this ask game

Popular character I hate in ACOTAR: Feyre, and this is solely because the fandom made it 1000000x worse. I took issue with her while reading because she's just not relatable to me, but I never hated her. Every Feyre fan I have seen except for @feyres-divorce-lawyer (and maybe a handful of mutuals who haven't shared with me that they like Feyre) has been... something. Not a good something.

Least shippable character: Elain and Cassian. I don't dislike either of them, and I have ships with them, but I just don't actively ship them as much as any other character. I also headcanon that Cassian is asexual more often than not, or think about him platonically.

[orphiclovers]

The Divine Three Questions and Answers has begun!

–Send an ask to a blog containing 1 to 3 questions from either column (ex. "1.😈 and 😇10.,3.") and recieve answers. –The blog can refuse to answer any questions. –Try not to get cancelled 🥰! Good luck!

Constellation questions 😇: 1. Fave quote(s)? 2. Fave character OUTSIDE of kimcom? 3. Fave character from kimcom? 4. Most impactful scene you're still thinking about? 5. Fave arc in early novel? 6. Fave arc in late novel? 7. Did you read webtoon or novel first? Which one do you like most? 8. Fave fanart(s) you've seen? 9. Fave fic(s) you've read? 10. Character you want carnally? 11. Which character had the best development/arc? 12. What is an ORV song(s) to you? 13. Relationship (romantic or platonic) you want to see more of? 14. fandom theory that is a hill you will die on? 15. What is your most RARE/underrated obsession (character, ship, scene, etc)? 16. OTP(s)?

17. Fave AU?

Demon King questions 😈: 1. Character you would love but can't for some reason? What is the reason? 2. What do you wish (character, arc) was handled better? 3. One critisism of Singshong? 4. do you have any orv related tags excluded? If so, which ones? 5. Discourse you can't help but have an opinion on even though you don't want to be involved in drama? 6. Discourse you find funny/ridiculous/have no stake in and just spectate on? 7. Fandom thing you hate? 8. Character the fandom gets wrong? 9. NOTP(s)?

[kerubimcrepin]

What do we know about Joris le Sans-Pouvoir (Joris the Powerless)?

Aka, addressing the "cancelled Nintendo DS game"-shaped elephant in the room.

While this blog has gone deep into the show and character dissections, I think it would be remiss to proceed without addressing the elephant in the room — the game, the myth, the legend, the 2007-2009ish cancelled game Joris le Sans-Pouvoir.

There isn't a lot that is known about it, and all the data in this post comes from two developers.

The only videos of it we have available are uhhh......,

...Please say "Thanks Ronik!" for this video in particular.

I spent hours trying to convert these two SWF animation video files, — which demonstrate how the game was supposed to look, — to something actually viewable. There were many issues, with at least seven different programs.

I suffered for crepinjurgenology studies, but I did it.

Instead of recounting the story in my own words and omitting anything on accident, I will simply present to you, what the portfolios of two different developers say (these two pages are the source of all the images, gifs, and gameplay):

Joris Le sans-Pouvoir is the main character from a feature film Ankama due in 2013. It’s a new character IP situated in the DOFUS universe. I had the chance to work on a platform game prototype that was all about delving into of the character’s backstory. We wrote a lot of background and had a lot of fun designing and developping a cute and quirky platformer with a hint of metroidvania elements and a dash of Grow gameplay elements in-between levels. It also was a great opportunity to work with Jono Takeshi-san of Radiata Stories fame who worked with me on the art direction. (SOURCE)

Joris was the first Nintendo DS project developed at Ankama (in partnership with Magic Pockets). I began working on the project as narrative game designer, then took on the role of Lead Designer and Project Manager. Game design on this project involved boss fight, level design, minigame design, UI… I also designed an original collecting system where collectible items were used in a minigame inspired by the “Grow” series. The developpement has been put on hold to match the release of the animated movie with the same character (scheduled in 2013). (SOURCE)

Neither the movie nor the game, survived their development, due to circumstances. (shorthand for: I have no idea what happened, man. Maybe one day I'll write a post about the history of the movie, and truly open that can of worms, but god, not right now. I don't want to spend more time on this.)

Eventually, The Wakfu film turned into three OVAs instead, and the Dofus film changed its plot a bunch of times, and became Livre 1 : Julith.

...For some reason, in some version of it, Joris had a tail. Yeah, I don't know what that's about either. Cool clothes, though!

We don't know anything about its plot, and unlike cancelled projects Dofus Donjons and Welsh et Shedar (which was cancelled for years, until its recent resurrection), the lore of this game carries no relevancy in modern canon.

The name, Joris the Powerless, as well as the log-centric gameplay, both seem to reference the early concept that Joris had log-based powers, — and that without his "magic wand," he couldn't do much.

(Joris and his weird fucking "magic wand" were, in turn, borne out of the idea of a warrior who had a woman's voice. Which makes me chuckle.)

(The following quotes are machine-translated and may contain errors)

(SOURCE)

This is, by the way, the reason why I personally headcanon Joris to be really bad at huppermagic. So bad that he dropped out of the Huppermage Academy, and almost never uses magic in combat. It's a homage to his original idea.

(Yes, there is an actual reason why I headcanon Joris to be godawful at magic, besides just projecting my neurodivergencies onto him.)

I suppose that, even at this time, Joris was meant to be a store owner:

The gameplay loop involves going from boutique, to missions, and so on, while those two pieces of concept art involve the said boutique section, and show a female character saying «Pas mal, boss !».

In my opinion, it might be this character. Proto-Simone, perhaps?

Since the store seems to be the centerpiece, and the Grow-style minigames involved collectibles, I would assume that the plot involved Joris going around and finding artifacts for the store. That would also explain the concept art gifs of him adventuring.

(Though, the adventuring would probably just be the inciting incident/a vehicle for plot development. Nintendo DS games loved using the jobs characters did for that purpose.)

This is the extent of what I can surmise about the plot.

The developer portfolios also included these example documents, but the image quality is too bad for me to make sense of or upscale. I am including them here solely for some French people who are very good at reading blurry text. (If you learn anything, let me know, okay?)

Overall, my verdict is that this game's cancellation was both a blessing (Joris without Kerubim and Atcham is like tea without water and a cup. How am I meant to drink leaves? Are you stupid? Why are you giving me leaves with nothing?) and a curse (THEY CANCELLED A GAME ABOUT MY BLUE-COLORED YOINKY SPLOINKY (who has a THIN, GRABBABLE WAIST)????? FUCK!)

Hope this was a fun read!

[skeletalheartattack]

hi I like gelato a lot

[pocketramblr]

Au where quirks exist ever since the beginning of humanity but thought the last 200 years they started becoming rarer for no explainable reason

"for no explainable reason"? Not "because someone born two hundred years ago started eating them all"? Well, both can be true I suppose

1- humans have always had quirks so just go ahead and disabuse yourself of the idea that world history looks anything like ours now. Any boundaries humans have drawn between themselves or their spaces are totally different. Anyway, our story is set on the island nation of Akitsuba, which has begun to receive reports of children who are born without quirks- it seems impossible, but apparently the child born in Canton Province to two glowing parents but had no light himself was not the result of an affair. He is genetically both his parents child - just, without any unique plus alpha factor at all.

2- when the news breaks, Setsuji looks over at his twin brother. The two stay in a group home, and on the record, they have a spike quirk, just like their mother did before she died at their birth. In truth, Setsuji can take others quirks. He assumes he took his brother's in infancy, which why the boy can't use them, but now he wonders if his brother was in fact simply born without. He doesn't say anything, but his brother does- whispering it at night, apologizing for assuming his brother took it all this years ago and refused to even try to return it, but there's simply nothing to return, is there?

3- more people are born quirkless over time, and more people lose their quirk to AfO over time. Ujiko theorizes that quirks would get too strong, so both quirklessness and AfO are evolutions to prevent plus alpha self destruction. That is, sadly, a generous view- quirklessness is largely viewed as a horrible strange disability, and suddenly quirks become more important. Few people before had jobs that specifically used their quirks, but now no one wants to be mistaken for not having one. Many people campaign to treat and 'fix' quirklessness, trying to force activate one, study and prevent it, etc. Just go ahead and assume all the terrible things that can happen with this mindset, it all happened.

4- by the time of canon, however, quirklessness has been around for two hundred years, and it isn't going away- clearly the opposite. about half the population of the world has no quirk, and the number's hanging around 45% in Akitsuba when our main character, Akatani Mikumo is born. He's quirkless, and lives in the capitol of Higakyou, as schools there are required by law now to no longer require certain or any quirks. It's an election year, so his first semester of high school all anyone can do is talk about the candidates- especially Yagi Toshinori, a bit of a symbol for quirkless politicians and one people thought would run years ago. Mikumo, who helped Yagi carry groceries home one day and didn't recognize him outside of the bright suit, camera lights, and makeup, makes friends with a few kids at school. (Ochako, and the twins Tokoyami Fumikage and Kuroei- while the latter has a quirk, the former does not).

5- Then one day, Yagi is kidnapped, vanishing on live tv through a smokey warp. Mikumo doesn't know what to think about that, until he runs into the man on his way home from school- clearly in bad shape, with strange dark eyes that glow with some quirk he shouldn't have. Mikumo helps Yagi hide, and asks what happens, and how he can help. (AfO decided to end Yagi's use as a symbol by forcing a quirk on him and controlling him, but one of his brother's successors managed to break Yagi out first and give him his brother's quirk, allowing him to fight against AfO's quirk and withstand them safely. As for what Mikumo can do to help... he's done far more than he should already, a kind boy, but that answer isn't going to be good enough for him- he's determined to do more anyway.)

[gutfaced]

haysilee + prompt: fingers in mouth

- - - - - - - - - - ✂ prompt under the cut:

content warning: not sugesstive but it's awkward. so! don't like don't click. anna forces me to write at her leisure 2k24.

At his instruction, Maysilee holds still. Blood wells up through the bitten side of her cheek, and the metallic taste gushes in a small tide-pool of red. If it wasn't for Haymitch's fingers, re-wrapped in bandages previously by her own hands which openly examined the bleeding flesh, she'd bite down on her tongue at the intrusion. A testament to her boundaries and what she happens to allow in the living degradation of the Games. Stooping low enough to meet hell, and lower still. She still had time to debate taking a finger or two, albeit sparing him the simple mercy.

“Would your girl approve of her boy poking his fingers in someone else's mouth?” Maysilee finds herself in retort, and the quality of the sound is warbled by the active site of what lay on her tongue, and better yet quieted all together by his hushful sark.

“She's not my girl anymore, and it wouldn't matter. We're both dead out here, and I'd rather you wouldn't choke on your own blood.” His response is smooth, and the merchant girl finds herself racking her brain for when that development came in tow. Haymitch Abernathy, completely single as if there wasn't always a flower blooming open at his dispense; some femine desires always reaching him through glances and cacophonous giggles of flirtation as he moved down academic halls. She can't say it doesn't floor her that the boy was now for the taking, if not for the fact he were one of many tributes sentenced to death. It almost insites a feeling unforeign to her, stirring like a cup of warm brew in her body — the spoon making its reverberating clinks in her head.

“You seem eager to avoid my death.” She mumbles out around him, and he prods the cloth he had slipped in with his two digits against the bite mark, just about shutting her up.

“Yeah, well. You're all I've got out here, so your best bet is to keep quiet and at least avoid being decently bled out. You nearly bit a chunk out of yourself there.” It'd sweet her, if it wasn't for the caustic sounding croon he held, which writhed with kindness and affection riding its coattails in some place. If she had a mirror, Maysilee could bet all of her hereditary dimes that her face was ruddy with some sort of appreciation at his honesty, growing ever so ruptured with blush as he finally moves his fingers away, allowing her to cradle the cloth to the internal injury herself.

A last spot of blood makes a droplet right by the corner of her smile line, and as if automated by some drive, she feels a thumb wiping the carmine away, and grey eyes trained on her being.

It was foolish, the sickening feeling welling up inside of her as she turned away from him, still holding her half of an apple he willingly shared with her at his own expense, now branded by bites of shallow gore. But she was greatful, and could at least tick off another tally on her internal scoreboard: Maysilee, II — and his girl back home, none.

[quatregats]

Hornblower: Math Dad Edition, please!

Oh boy, this one is some version of Hornblower Math Professor Modern AU which is a very extended universe that I like to go to in my head when I start getting too horrible and depressing with the Hornblower fics, because I have decided that while Hornblower may be possibly more miserable as a Math Academic he is at least married to Bush which makes some things better. This particular episode is him generally having a nice day with Bush and Richard but also, because he is Hornblower, having a breakdown because his (4-year-old) son doesn't want to start learning topology and how will he set him up for the possibility of a career in math academia if he doesn't start at 4 years old (he doesn't even want him to go into math academia, he's just worried that if he does then he will forever resent Hornblower for not setting him on the path to win the Fields Medal at the age of 20, thereby protecting him from a mid-level position teaching calculus at a random university in Kent). This of course is all completely ridiculous but what Hornblower brainmonologue is not...Needless to say, it does all work out in the end, and is all-around a general silly little story that is mostly fluff.

[gumy-shark]

what are ur thoughts on gay ppl

i think they should stop making minecraft youtube videos

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Cancel game: Kagami for telling Felix Ladybug's identity behind her back.

"Thats nothing" | "Ehh Slap on the wrist." | "Thats Questionable" | "It was accidental." | "Morally Gray." | "Yea... thats kind of Bad." | "Thats hard to justify." | "Thats Really F***ed up." | "How is this character not a Villain?!" | "Cancelled." | "Cancelled BEYOND Cancelled."

I mean sure Kagami was never told Ladybug’s identity and ladybug never told her to keep it a secret. But it really wasn’t her secret to tell. So I say it’s a bad look. Not awful but still kind of bad

[familyabolisher]

🔥 fanfiction

the distinction between what does and does not constitute ‘fanfiction’ is almost entirely dependent on site of publishing/identification as such on the part of the author. whilst ‘dante’s inferno is fanfiction’ is an incorrect statement because it misunderstands the relation between the commedia and its plethora of source materials & misattributes this relation to what is in fact a contemporary phenomenon that exists relative to the rise of IP, this is v rarely the terrain that people are fighting on because the ‘is/is not fanfiction’ property is applied as a metric of quality rather than a value-neutral statement about the political economy of a prose text. (ie. inferno/the commedia is ‘not fanfiction’ because it’s Good—under a particular metric which defers to hegemony—your 400k destiel coffee shop omegaverse au etc etc could Never be dante because it lacks an intellectual quality with which dante has been imbued—do you see what i mean about quality being the qualifying metric here, rather than the actual nature of the text? plausibly, under this framework, someone could write fanfiction of a quality sufficient to transcend the category of ‘fanfiction’ and become, in fact, ‘canonical.’ by this logic, there exists a scale of objective ‘quality’ running from ‘fanfiction’ to ‘canonical’ such that that is what those categories describe. like, you see why this is incoherent.) anyway, these are silly terms to fight on & i think key to an actual politics of literature (far beyond this v parochial argument) is interrogating all the assumptions about meritocracy + artistic value + particular forms of ‘publishing’ as legitimising or delegitimising a work that seem to be making up the base of this discourse whilst managing to go totally uninterrogated.

also, it’s very weird that people treat fanfiction as a wholly discrete category completely shut off from the critical practices we bring to our understanding of what gets called ‘real’ literature (which is in itself a very poorly thought-out umbrella). fanfiction does have significant reactionary currents running through its attached culture and it’s dishonest and lazy to try and dismiss that fact, but there exists a particular cognitive dissonance which jumps from here to the idea that the way we ought to think about ‘difficult’ subject matter in our ‘real’ literature (as deployed to a particular end that could look like any number of things far beyond the boundary of tacit or explicit endorsement; as potentially unethical in its depiction, but also as potentially thoughtful and discursive and ethically viable) has no crossover into how we can think about fanfiction. the idea that fanfiction alone is a discrete category in which everything depicted makes for a 1:1 articulation of the real-life ethics of the author with no possible room for ambiguity of the kind that we allow other forms of prose fiction is as silly as saying that lolita is sufficient evidence for vladimir nabokov having been a pedophile, and leaves us with a stupidly limited and pretty easily refutable scope for what fanfiction actually is and does.

that being said, hot take #3 is that people interested in fanfiction & how it can be situated within a discourse of literary criticism & production need to be prepared to actually address the fact that the culture around it can be vv reactionary, most often racist, and decrying all criticism as coming from quote-unquote “antis” (silly term) or as people trying to project “moralism”/“puritanism” onto a fandom space is itself also racist.

[epersonae]

You've made me mad with power. Director's Cut of "I Spit On Your Grave", please.

Obviously I wanted -- no, needed -- to write a fic where Stede finds out what actually happened with Izzy while he was gone.

It is a key aspect of my Bad Ending fic in case I never make it through to where you are that Stede does NOT know, because I think otherwise he would have actually killed Izzy in that fic. I had a lovely long conversation with my therapist about that, both that fic generally and this question of knowing what was done to someone you love who is gone. Because HOOBOY did s2 kick up all my feelings about Ryn's parents, especially their mother; there was a piece of information that I found out after Ryn died that made me so angry I did seriously have a full-blown panic attack about it.

So yeah, I was always going to write something, but part of my writing process especially with shorter works is that I need a hook, something to get me into it -- an image or a sentence, something concrete to pull together whatever messy ideas have been spinning around in the blender.

And of course, I might have written it sooner (and it would have been a different fic) but I did break my leg right before Christmas, and that basically took me out not just physically but also mentally for about two months. I actually started making some notes in late January but I didn't have any stamina to do the writing until late February.

I knew the hook was going to be a bit back from the actual harm -- I've been fascinated by this question of how Izzy never says that "his captain" is actually Blackbeard since way back in my first watches of the show, and then there's kind of a running joke around here about how Stede always leads describing the meet-cute with "so I'd been gut-stabbed" like babygirl what. And the phrase "just happened upon our ship" or whatever that is, when MY DUDE HE'S BEEN FOLLOWING YOU THIS WHOLE TIME. The whole thing has this mix of Izzy having been lying through his teeth and Stede being hilariously oblivious that cries out for something to dig into.

And then I saw this post by @iamadequate1, and OH OKAY. Because weaponized therapy language and isolation in emotional abuse is something that, well. Yeah. Plus it had all the relevant bits of dialogue in one post! Plus I'd been thinking about Izzy as an unreliable narrator for almost two years, and I'd been thinking specifically about people with uhhhhhh a "flexible relationship with the truth" (to use a line from the fic), and a tendency to say different things to different people in order to evade responsibility.

So I made some notes, according to the document history at the end of January, and then probably either went back to sleep or back to watching Perry Mason. Came back to it in late February, and the first two-thirds or so came together pretty quickly and then I got stuck. I knew I wanted something with Stede yelling at the grave, but I'd sort of written myself into a corner where that didn't seem to be happening. (Basically, got to the point where he holds Ed while Ed is crying.)

And then I saw THIS post by @celluloidbroomcloset, and something clicked together about "doggie heaven" and the parallel with Ned Low, and somehow that was the rug that tied the room together. Probably because also they're both dead, Izzy and Ned, and that leads to this question of the impossibility of revenge, and that so much of the time there's just nothing you can do, really, and that also hurts. Even if they're not dead; there's just no point, like what the fuck are you gonna do, exactly? Which is sort of where the Mary parallel comes in, I think, and also not giving Izzy credit for bringing them together, because that's all them.

All in all this is a really special fic for me, trying to find this balancing point where things are pretty good for them, actually, but they still need to work through their respective hurts and be properly seen -- fill in all the blanks so they can move forward.

[mymarifae]

have you ever considered that jade's hot

all of the hsr women are hot, man. this is a hoyoverse game. of course they are. what does this have to do with a discussion about her character

[lauronk]

currently using an online wheel spinner to pick the next ficlet i work on because i’m indecisive and want to work on them all immediately

[pedripics]

yeah gavi’s little woes during the preseason were so funny last year (i felt bad for him but they were so 😭😭), back pain, tummy ache, and i think he also had tooth pain

no because he was truly going through it