#compared to how i draw like 99% of characters in this game lol

[finelyagedlemons]

post ep7 cope shitposting

[hopeymchope]

How would you rank the 18 Class Trials from THH, DR2, and V3 from worst to best?

This is... virtually impossible for me, lol. Comparing the trials from each game to each other?

How about I just rank them within each game? That'll make it a little easier for me to deal with...

DR1

6) 5th. It's driven by lies and ultimately rushed to its end before the characters can draw any solid (pointless/meaningless) conclusions. So of course it's last for this game, and it’s probably last for the entire series as well. If there are any saving graces to this trial, it’s the surprise when your closest ally is willing to let our protagonist die... and that this trial contains the fake/bad ending route.

5) 3rd. Although the main culprit is pretty obvious from the jump, it requires some surprising twists to explain how everything got to be the way it turned out. But did I always find those twists plausible? Errrrm... not really. 

4) 2nd. Pretty good trial that's hurt for me by the fact that there'd barely be any need for a trial at all if a certain third party didn't dick around with the evidence for no reason. Also, the dual nature of Toko is an incredibly predictable reveal. Without those two aspects dragging it down, though, this could easily go higher.

3) 1st. Sure, the major hint given and, subsequently, the eventual culprit are pretty obvious, but this one establishes so much about how the trials work and how much the details you observe will matter that it’s still pretty fun that first time around. The initial surprise of the first victim makes for a great way to keep you invested in the trial experience. This trial is damn near iconic now, so it feels almost mandatory to respect it.

2) 6th. DR1 still has the best "final trial,” easily. SO MANY great reveals, and they all totally work for me. Nothing rings false or disappointing, and it also features Makoto finally coming into his own and taking the lead. I nearly labeled this my top pick for DR1, but...

1) 4th. It's easily the most emotionally dramatic/satisfying for me, and there’s something weirdly inspirational for me about Hina’s incredibly harsh stance during it. This one GOT ME IN THE FEELS, and in part that was because I saw so little of it coming. After the more predictable elements of the first and third trials, this felt like the writing was firing on all cylinders. 

DR2

6) 2nd. You have to accept a couple leaps of logic to make this trial keep flowing, and the fact that trial is ultimately reliant on someone noticing a candy that’s very small and hard to see while the person is also in a stressful situation and they are groggy from being drugged/asleep and it necessitates the person retaining this seemingly useless detail inside their brain .... that’s always bugged me.  The “escape route” conversation even retroactively raises questions about the first trial. Oof. On the upside, the reveals it brought us about Fuyuhiko and Peko were incredibly important, satisfying, and legit surprising turns. And it’s pretty cool how it’s basically a two-for-one combo trial because you have to solve the Twilight Syndrome case before you solve the current case. 

5) 3rd. Other people have pointed out the leaps of logic and missing pieces of this trial, but at the same time, the candlelight hanging is so intense and the ultimate reveal of the culprit is such a brutal turn that I have to give it some props. The culprit’s primary plan is ultimately one of the most ingenious in the series, IMO, and definitely one of the most twisted/fucked-up, which earns it some points. 

4) 4th. This is probably the single murder case in the franchise that I understood the absolute least about when entering the trial, for better or worse. On the one hand, that made it really fun to see the mystery gradually unfurl, but on the other hand, it made it tough for me to provide the right answers at certain points in the trial, leaving me fumbling. A big part of those issues was how it was initially hard for me to wrap my head around the nature of the funhouse via the provided 2D graphics... but once I eventually got there, I had to respect the creativity that went into devising such a “weapon.” Also, it can be hard to tolerate Komaeda in this trial. He’s even more of a know-it-all-but-reveal-none-of-it jackass than ever before, and his turn towards overt cruelty towards the others (and Hajime in particular) left me raging. The culprit reveal is good, but the motive does beg the question of why he didn’t just come forward from the jump.

3) 6th. There are a lot of great reveals in the final trial that totally reframe how you see the characters, and some of them are deliciously twisted. There’s also a ton of great dialogue provided, and in retrospect, it’s actually sort of neat to have one endgame mastermind reveal in this franchise that doesn’t involve the “They were hiding among us this whole time” trope. All that plus the surprise return of our surviving heroes from the first game! However, this is also where they officially reveal a core element of DR2 and its setting that I've never liked. This knocks the trial down a few pegs for me. Of course, by the time you reach the trial, I'm sure 99% of players have already figured that particular "twist" out. There’s adequate evidence to predict it in the first freaking chapter, and I know this because I DID predict it in the first chapter of my initial playthrough... which further hurts the supposed “reveal” of the island’s true nature when it comes around. 

2) 1st. Probably my favorite of the “first trials,” there are lot of components that go into this one. There’s a combination of two premeditated killers plus one spur-of-the-moment accidental victim, there’s a satisfying (though admittedly maybe too easy) reveal of the killer being one of the most unpleasant people to be around during the first chapter, and I really dig how audio became a very important component of the mystery due to the total blackout. This is also the part of the game where we learn just how twisted Komaeda really is, which is HUGE both in terms of its immediate shock factor for a total newcomer and in terms of its impact on the game as a whole. Of course, since it’s a “first trial,” it can’t be too complicated... but they still manage to confuse so many of us with “MEAT ON THE BONE” :P

1) 5th. Again, I will almost always give the most emotionally intense one the top slot. The “traitor reveal” is obviously THAT MOMENT in DR2. I also love how this one used the strange internal logic established early in the game RE: Komaeda’s luck to develop the eventual solution. And forcing us to make use of evidence gathered in multiple locations outside of the immediate site of the body/murder? That more complexity of that type that I see relevant to a trial, the more I appreciate it, and this one has loads of that stuff. Although I guess the investigation isn’t technically part of the trial itself... but it’s still very relevant to it. 

DRV3

6) 4th. I found this whole trial to be just... extremely predictable. Maybe it’s because I was so far into the series that I’d gotten used to its tricks by this point, but this was the most predictable trial for me since the first one in the first game. The whole looping/rollover map setup of the VR? Obvious. The murder weapon? Obvious. Our culprit’s ongoing confusion at everything discussed? Obvious. There were only a couple of points I didn’t have already figured out when I walked into the trial room, and those turned out to be basically irrelevant (such as the bottle of poison). The eventual motive is at least a surprise, but I also found it hard to accept that this culprit would really kill people over it. Overall: Super lame. 

5) 3rd. Another double murder trial, and once again one murder overshadows the other. The séance murder is definitely clever. Sure, you know the culprit pretty early on, but the methodology is the good part. However, the real fascinating one for me is the art lab “locked room” murder. Going into the trial, I couldn’t fathom how they were going to explain that one, and I found the answer both smart and satisfying. It’s funny to imagine how many times the culprit had to try that stunt with the lock before it actually worked, heh. This is probably the best of the three “double murder” mysteries in the series, but the trial isn’t as emotionally affecting as the 3rd trial in DR2 to me. Moreover, the trial loses points for the most infuriating Hangman’s Gambit of the series and especially for the motive reveal. When the killer’s motive can be boiled down to “they’re basically just a psycho serial killer,” it’s not very interesting.

4) 6th. The first part of the trial, which deals with re-assessing the first case? It’s pretty damn on-point. That leads to the mastermind reveal, which... isn’t great, really. It’s not a terribly interesting character to make the mastermind, they have no interesting motives or characterization to unevil, and they’re ultimately just a pawn behind another, off-screen group of masterminds. But then things get uproariously funny to me. The metatextual stuff is just so goddamn ridiculous. It’s frustrating and annoying how much of our not-mastermind’s explanation is clearly full of lies and half-truths that we’ll never have complete answers on, but that’s also part of what makes it all fascinating. We get to swap protagonists like four times! There’s a fake-out Game Over! These are really cool things. But it all leads down the road of our protagonist arguing that fiction does affect reality (yes, good), that fictional people can still matter (definitely) and that... fictional lives are equal in value to real ones? Uhhhhh slow down there, champ. That only works for YOUR universe, where fictional people can be made out of living, breathing individuals. But in light of the metatextual stuff you’re surrounded by, you kinda sound silly AF right now?

3)  2nd. Look, this is still incredibly irritating to me. Also, if you go down the alternate “lying” route at one point, you are forced to accept that these piranhas were somehow trained to only eat dead things, which is just... so deeply dumb.  But what is good is the entire ropeway conceit (which is a very significant part of the trial!) and the idea of the partition inside the tank. This was a murder with an elaborate, intelligent plan that is very well-executed. And the motive reveal? It’s one of the best in the series! I respect that stuff. (If I had the right to toss the execution in as part of the soup, I’d say that it’s also one of the series’ best. Let’s call it the icing on the cake.)

2) 1st. The writing that made this trial work is undeniably clever. The way the narration told us exactly what was happening without really telling us what was happening? It was a masterstroke of both great writing and perfect localization coming together. When it becomes clear during the trial what is about to happen, it’s a huge shock. The transition to another protagonist with the lights flickering out and back on is beautiful. Even the core concept of a protagonist who was willing to step up and try to kill the mastermind immediately is just deeply interesting. And obviously this one made my emotions run high. HOWEVER! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kaede Akamatsu was a more interesting, unique, and compelling protagonist than Shuichi Saihara ever was. Ultimately, the protagonist-swap, no matter how well-written, was a mistake because they shifted us from a unique character with an interesting new perspective to a character who is, in many ways, “Makoto Naegi with even less self-esteem.” Yes, I know he has aspects that make him distinct as his own person, but there’s still just too much there that feels like we’ve done it before, and he never fully escapes from that. It feels like a massive waste and a huge missed opportunity to ditch Kaede like this. Now, if they had just done the protagonist swap in reverse — making us start out with Shuichi before flipping things over to Kaede — we could’ve had ourselves something amazing here.

1) 5th. I know I decided that I couldn’t rank all among each other, but if I did do that, I feel confident that the 5th trial in DRV3 would rank very high indeed. You go into the trial unable to even determine who the victim was due to the fact that two people are missing and there was nothing left of the body that spoke to an identity. Going into it, you naturally figure that one of the two missing parties has to be the victim and the other one is probably the culprit. But even with just two friggin’ suspects, the amount of turnabouts in the case that made me rethink all my assumptions was insane. Sure, the explanation for how the person inside the Exisal can maintain “character” is pretty damn thin, but once you get past that, I don’t think there’s a single false note in the trial. It even breaks unprecedented ground by continuing into another Non-Stop Debate after everyone has already voted. And of course, it culminates with a lot of intense emotion. Even the execution is emotionally satisfying! ..... although I’m not sure if I should count the execution as part of the trial, but hey, still. As far as Dangan trials go, the fifth one in DRV3 is basically a masterpiece.

[itsclydebitches]

Did u watch the RWBY panel earlier today? If so, thoughts? If not, then ignore.

Hello! I was not able to watch the panel (out all day), but I did just watch the teaser and game trailer. Btw, an upload of the teaser is here if anyone, like me, was having a bit of trouble finding it.

My thoughts... my first thought was confusion about why I wouldn't have much to say about it (don't I always have things to say? lol), but that became clear once I actually watched the vid. Why is our teaser a PoV reenactment of everything we've already seen? Yes, of course this won't be all we're getting in terms of promos, but imo RWBY has continually struggled with the early content they release, a trend that has become more and more worrisome as fans ask exactly how much of each volume they have completed and when. The only thing we learn from this, plot-wise, is that Ruby was still conscious for most of her fall through the void. It's a rather... non-teaser of a teaser, 99% of which is just rehashing what we already knew.

I find first person cinematography to be really awkward, but that's a personal preference, not an objective knock against the choice. The blinking cutting into the visuals, listening to Ruby's constant whimpers, and trying to figure out if such-and-such shot actually works from her PoV (like throwing Neo in the void) takes me out of the story, rather than drawing me in, but for those who are more emotionally attached to Ruby (as I once was) will likely really enjoy it.

Why is Neo transforming into everyone Ruby knows? She uses her semblance to a) actively trick people (pretending to be Oscar) or b) cruelly play on their emotions (pretending to be Nora against Ren). But what is she trying to accomplish by cycling through Ruby's teammates when Ruby knows she's Neo and they're both already emotionally compromised? They're supposedly falling to their deaths! Is this just supposed to be Neo's version of panicking? I find it a strange characterization choice and I'm inclined to blame it more on the teaser itself. Meaning, they wanted a non-spoiler moment that included more characters, but since it's Ruby's PoV and she's not currently near anyone else on the island, better have her relive the fight we already saw and then have Neo show a bunch of other characters.

I'm already seeing people claim that without the slow motion Yang fell too fast for anyone to do anything. Nah. C'mon. RWBY is built around superpowered characters and even putting their unnatural speed/reaction times aside, Blake did do something. Blake nearly caught her! Ruby was written badly in that moment, standing like a statue and then having a non-reaction to her sister's "death." The constant crying we hear in this teaser? We saw none of that in Volume 8. This teaser is working to make the fight look better than it originally was.

Interesting that Ruby's own vision changes when she's using her silver eyes but, again: why didn't she set them off? Unlike the above where the teaser makes some aspects look better, this makes that moment look worse. We now know that Ruby was absolutely hanging there, listening to Cinder monologue, her eyes poised to save her... and just didn't use them for currently unestablished reasons.

Something something Pyrrha turning into gold dust when she died.

Given the difference in color below Ruby, it looks like everyone fell through some sort of portal-esque thing.

And their fight separated them a fair bit, which explains why Ruby didn't wake up with Neo on the beach. There's some logical continuity!

Does anyone know who's calling Ruby? To me it sounds like Ruby's own voice, but it's distorted enough that I'm not sure. Honestly, that's the one part of the trailer where I #feltsomething lol

I'm liking the giant flora and two suns! We knew they were in a different realm, but it's nice to have that confirmed. Right now, I'm reading this as evidence of this being the Gods' world. They're MASSIVE compared to other people, so it would make sense that they came from a world where everything is bigger too; normal sized for them. Plus, two suns, two brothers, everything in balance, etc. etc.

Where did Ruby's emotions go?? We just spent nearly two minutes watching, as the fans are already saying, her having a panic attack and now it's like... nothing? She wakes up in a new world, having just "died," and all she does is give a little frown and march determinately into the woods? No moment to collect herself? No crying? No calling out to see if someone is there? Like her sister? No checking if Neo is still around and a threat?? Please, media Gods, don't let Jaune be the only one reacting to Penny and all the things that have just happened to them. Giving us voice over of Ruby's emotions in a recreation of the plot cannot be a stand-in for getting them originally and after the fact.

I don't have much of anything to say about the game except it looks boring and it's super weird to have them going on buddy-buddy missions for Ironwood post-Volume 8 lol. Unless friends tell me otherwise I think I'll stick to playing WoW ✌️

[pkselfship]

Fuck it. If you feel up to it, gimme all the video game asks for one of your lads. I wanna hear PK talk about her boys.

👀 OH REAL SHIT????? TIME TO TALK ABOUT KYO, BABYYYYYYYYYYY (putting this under a cut because this is gonna be long as hell)

1) Does your f/o’s game have any other adaptations (i.e. animated, theatrical)? Do you like those too?

god there is so much KOF manga its ridiculous and there’s also that korean webcomic that came out recently. so in terms of manga i’ve only read KOF: Kyo and the first volume of the KOF: A New Beginning and I like them both a lot! The Korean webcomic, KOF: R’s Letter is also good (from what i’ve skimmed through and picked up from context clues lol) and dear god i love how each artist draws kyo JUST LOOK AT MY MAN

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2) Which genre of game is your f/o from?

He’s from the fighting game genre! More specifically, the 2D, ground-based classic arcade type fighters like Street Fighter.

3) Show me some concept art of your f/o!! How much different is it from how they look now?

So, the headshot, front shot, and back shot all the way on the left there are kyo’s very VERY early concept designs. Hell, his name was actually gonna be Syo Kirishima before the developers decided to base the series’s first story arc on the Yamata No Orochi myth. but yeah kyo looks so different compared to his final design. i definitely prefer how he looks now lol 10/10 would smooch.

Oh and fun fact about syo, he makes a cameo as a striker character in KOF 2000 and KOF ‘99 Evolution so that’s pretty cool

4) Does your f/o show up in every installation if they are in a series? What was their first appearance like?

oh dear god yeah he’s in every single game he’s our main boy after all! oh, but fun fact, the developers planned to give him the boot since a new story arc and new protagonist was introduced in KOF ‘99. even though kyo wasn’t part of the main roster in that game, he still showed up as a secret boss and he became a series main-stay ever since. i mean his clones showed up in the main roster in ‘99 so i guess you can technically say he was part of the main roster in terms of actual gameplay but not the point

But yeah kyo was basically Mr. KOF champion, claiming first place for basically every KOF tournament during the first arc. and he’s a cocky bastard. always was and always will be but i love him

5) Is your f/o a boss battle?

Like I said for the last question, yes! A secret boss for one game, but a boss, nonetheless

6) Is your f/o a playable character?

yup yup yup! and of course in kof ‘99, you gotta unlock him, but yeah he’s still playable!

7) Is your f/o from a classic arcade game or more of an indie type game?

Classic arcade game, of course!

8) Does your f/o even have a speaking role? If not, how do you imagine they sound?

YES HE DOES. HIS VOICE AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And he has image songs too!!! My fave image song of his is Pieces

9) Do you actually like your f/o’s combat/play style?  

I do! Like Iori, he’s pretty easy for a beginner to pick up and play. However, I’d argue that he’s a little more difficult and a little less beginner-friendly than Iori. Well, depending on the game because holy hell they keep changing his moveset from game to game. Generally, he either has a projectile similar to Iori’s as his quarter-circle-forward move or a punch that can chain into another quarter-circle punch which can, in turn, chain into ANOTHER quarter-circle punch OR quarter-circle kick- aoijemdf;oaknbr;n HE’S NOT AS HARD TO PICK UP AS I’M MAKING HIM OUT TO BE, I SWEAR but yes i love playing kyo he’s fun

12) What is your f/o’s idle animation? 

It pretty much never changes from game to game, but god yeah i love KOF XII’s sprites they’re just so clean i love them

13) If your f/o is from a fighting game, have they always been your main player of choice? Are they even your main player now?

Yes!! I was first introduced to him in the KOF: Allstar mobile gacha game and you had the choice of him, Terry, or Ryo as your starter fighter, and I picked Kyo right off the bat because he was the cutest boy! Even now with the main games, he’s my main along with Iori and Terry.

[polyx]

Get to know me tag:^)

I was tagged by @criminalmastermine

Name:

Polyxeni

Gender:

Female

Star sign:

Virgo/Sheep

Height:

170 cm

Put your music on shuffle, what are the first six songs to pop up?:

Ok because I listen on Soundcloud, Spotify and my folders on my phone, I’ll do 3 separate :^) Spotify 1) VIXX LR – Chocolatier 2) BTS – Lost 3) MOBB – Hit me (feat. KUSH) 4) Taemin – Thirsty 5) VIXX – Dynamite 6) BTS – Moving on (Ok it’s pretty obvious that I use Spotify mostly for k-pop lol)

Soundcloud 1) Sunday – Only 2) Sofi Tukker – Hey Lion 3) マクロスMACROSS 82 - 99 - 葛城 ミサトYEBISU (YUNG BAE EDIT) 4) Vantage // - Patrick Converter (ft. Chrollo)

5) M.RUX - Rembetiko Mon Amour // ρεμπέτικο αγάπη μου 6) Seiun – otogibanashi My folders on my phone 1) Lorde – Liability 2) Clueso - Achterbahn (Handgepäck Version) 3) Incubus – Pistola 4) Lana Del Rey – Once Upon A Dream (Maleficent OST) 5) Little Boots – Working Girl 6) Banks - Haunt

Grab the nearest book, turn to page 23 and write line 17:

“(…) because “a realisation that comes from society itself” could “already contain a reform (…)“. (roughly translated from German)

Last time you played air guitar?:

Uhm… I don’t know ^^° I rarely do it tbh… I usually dance

Celebrity crush?: The first person that comes into my mind is Lucy Lawless :^)

What’s a sound that you hate/love?:

I love it when it’s 4 in the morning and my window next to my bed is open, and the rain softly hits the glass and no car drives by, or when you sit by the beach at about 7pm in Greece in the summer, when most people had their share of sun and leave the beach, and the water softly hits the shore and a seagull are audible somewhere in the distance, or when you float in the water and your ears are under the water and  you hear the water and your heartbeat… also the soft flat breathing of the person laying next to you, or the rustling of the fabric of your bedding when you lay down to sleep… Idk I like a lot of subtle sounds. I hate hearing my joints cracking because I feel like I am breaking apart or something (?)

Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens?:

Ghosts not so much, aliens? Definitely.

Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?:

I’ve had my licence for 5 years now and I never crashed :3 I don’t drive much though.

What was the last book you read?:

Simon Beckett – Totanfang / The Restless Dead (original title)

Do you like the smell of gasoline?:

Hm… kinda.

Last movie you saw?:

Fack Ju Göhte 3

Worst injury you’ve ever had?:

Broke my left arm.

Any obsessions right now?: A lot, although I should focus on studying: k-pop (like the biggest obsession atm), writing/reading fanfiction, drawing (my go to instant stress reliever), gaming (I still need to finish Hellblade!!), music overall, manga, my succulents (my babies)

Do you tend to hold grudges against people who’ve wronged you?: Yes. I try to forgive or forget (or both) for my sake, but often it doesn’t work.  

In a relationship?:

Yes.

_______________

SECOND VERSION

Appearance:

I have long brown and blue hair, brown eyes and a long thin nose. My face is quite rectangular, and I have olive skin tone (but pretty light compared to others). I am chubby and well-proportioned I’d say. My nails are always short (except for holiday season because my nails won’t constantly break like during work) and usually some kind of varnish is on it. 50% of the time I wear clothes with some kind of pattern on it or colourful stuff, 25% of the time black and 25% pink shit, and always my casio on my wrist. I have 2 tattoos and 4 piercings, one stretched earlobe. Usually I wear make-up, and everyone knows me for wearing colourful eyeshadow.

Personality:

I am quite outgoing and like spending time with my friends and family and partner, but as much as I love having people around me, I need time to be alone. I just need to. I try to have an open ear for other people’s problems, but be prepared I might cry along with you because I am a very emotional person (like on Friday I was in a concert and started crying because the song was so touching lol). I’d say I am quite confident, but I need time adjusting in a new environment before returning to my confident self. At work I am the most patient person, but with my family I tend to be impatient a lot and I hate myself for it, but it’s getting better. I am very creative and love dwelling on details on random stuff (like I could tell you for an hour why I like a particular song for example). That’s also a reason why I can’t get shit done sometimes because I daydream a lot. Like… a lot… one person told me I remind them of Luna Lovegood because I seem trapped in my own bubble. I love arts. I used to be super tidy as a child, but now I am quite messy. I am often late (sorry to anyone affected by this v.v°). I love travelling. My bag is always ready for my nomad life, as I am always on the go.

Abilities:

I speak 3 languages! Also I draw and make jewellery. Also I have the ability to make a mess out of my room in the shortest amount of time, just watch me :^) professionally I am a druggist (but not the one working at a pharmacy, mind you) and I have a bachelors degree of trade and commerce. Also I’m a certified trainee instructor.

Experiences:

Well? I don’t know what this refers too… Maybe some random shit: -I used to do traditional greek dance as a kid. -I’ve never left Europe (sadly), but I’ve travelled to London, Vienna, Paris, Berlin and other cities. -When I was a smoll bean, I went to the central plaza of my dad’s village in Greece and returned with a puppy in my arms. My grandmother kept the pupper. -I love freaking LOVE technology, when I used my huge ass multitalented wireless printer for the first time and printed something via my phone I almost cried in excitement. -I can stop reading a book if it’s boring. -Once on my way home I sat in the tram, and there was a group of friends, drunk, pretty loud and happy, they were wearing traditional Bavarian clothing (Tracht), and they were …deaf! And one of the girls sat opposite to me, and complimented my hair, like we talked without using words, only by using our facial expressions and our hands, and she grabbed on piece of her hair and pointed at mine and we laughed, and then she offered me some of her vodka and I was so yolo at the moment I accepted, although I don’t accept drinks from strangers usually. I had such a blast these 10 minutes we spent together on the tram, I often think about her, and hope she is doing fine :’) - I remember as a young girl, I was sitting on an old faucet which was built in the short wall framing my grandparents’ house, and I was starring at the sky in disbelief. There I was, a young city girl, born and raised in Munich, sitting on an old faucet somewhere in an small village in Greece starring at the beautiful nightsky, seeing something I’ve never seen before. There were so many stars, just…so… so many stars… thousands and thousands of shiny dots across a black canvas. And they seemed to be alive. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Till this day, I remember this night, and I hear my mom asking what I was doing out there alone, surrounded by the wild noises of thousands of bugs around me. It has been more that 10 years, and this night is so vibrant in my memory. I will never forget this moment till my dying day. Still, I often spent time in Greece watching the stars, always in the back of my mind what my grandma told me once: don’t count the stars, it brings misfortune. - I pierced my ears on my own (…stupid). - I pretty much had my hair dyed any colour of the rainbow (except yellow, but I guess blonde counts?). - I’ve been to A LOT of concerts.

(I have some negative experiences too of course, but I don’t want to dwell on them) My life:

I still live with my parents, because I cannot afford anything on my own atm, but also due to other circumstances. Till the end of September I worked full time, now I started studying sociology (BA). I have been employed in the company I work for for 10 years now, and I love my work although it’s tough :’). I have a little sister who I love dearly, and she is making me a proud big sis:). My parents are the best parents, seriously you could not wish for better parents. I am super grateful to them for all I’ve been able to do in my life and all the love and support they have given, and are still giving me. Also, I’m so proud of them. The thought of what my parents have gone through makes me cry. I used to think I don’t have a lot of friends, but I do! And they all are beautiful unique personalities, I love them! I live the nomad live, as I feel I’m rarely home, always on the go. My co-workers are the sweetest people, I love seeing their faces light up when they see me :’) (ILY!!!) And my partner… there are no words to describe what sweet of a person he is. A puppy is nothing against him. I want to cuddle him forever. I am online a lot, but I don’t get involved with a lot of people online, safe for… 2 :’D Rach and Mine! I usually admire from afar, and fangirl in the tags for example. Overall I wake up everyday being thankful, my life is good! I appreciate every moment. I am blessed.

Relationships: I’ve only had 2 lmao, and I’m still friends with my first partner. Random stuff:

Ups I think I answered this earlier already…

THIRD VERSION

Relationship status:

In a relationship. We have an imaginary daughter lol.

Fave colour:

All hues of blue! Basically every colour but blue is the most dear to me.

Lipstick or ChapStick:

Lipstick for sure. I always have one in my pocket.

Last song:

Shahmaran by Sevdaliza

Last movie:

Fack Ju Göhte 3

Top 3 shows:

I don’t watch TV, neither do I have the time for series (I have GOT on halt, as well as “Halt and Catch Fire”) … But “The Vision of Escaflowne” is my favourite series of EVER. The story, the characters, the music, the art, the world building, I could cry it’s so beautiful. Also the whole ATLA and TLOK Series, it is so good!!! *cries*

Top 3 ships:

Oh man… ok. I’ll go for Amorra (Amon and Korra, TLOK), Truhan ( Gohan and Trunks, Dragonball Z) and basically every possible VIXX ship, because I love them all (but Wontaek though…)

I’d like to tag @valkerymillenia, @abnaxus, @coolera but you don’t have to do it if you don’t want to :’)

[itsclydebitches]

On fanfiction and fanworks in general. Do you think people should be able to make money on only fanworks? On 1 hand it is their original works(story,drawing,ect), but it's based on a original IP they don't have the rights to. Is using Patreon or commissions to make works based on IP's they don't own an ok thing to do?

Oh man, all you anons are asking me the hard questions lately lol. This one is complicated--I’m talking full blown research mode if I wanted to give you a more decent answer--so in order to avoid writing a whole paper I don’t have time for, let’s just chuck out some bullet points that seem relevant to me. 

People are already making money off of “fanworks” 

It’s human nature to consume and then revise, critique, question, and expand on stories. Every person publishing novels with characters in the public domain, everyone working for Disney as they re-imagine oral fairy tales, everyone involved in the comics industry--now writing characters whose original creators have passed on--and everyone claiming “inspiration” from other works (like Fifty Shades, Wide Sargasso Sea, etc.) is engaging in transformative works, or a version of “fanworks.” Everyone does it, it’s how we naturally engage with texts, it’s just that the stuff mentioned above are considered legal by our current copyright setup. However... 

Copyright is a relatively new thing 

This is a long and complicated story, but the summary is that our current understanding of copyright hasn’t been around very long (comparatively), and Disney screwed us over a lot by extending copyright five billion times (exaggeration lol), and we still haven’t figured out how to legally distinguish well between owning ideas and owning property (i.e. owning a character isn’t quite the same as owning a house because you haven’t offered the house up to millions of people in a way that encourages active involvement in its re-decoration), and overall the line between ownership and fan involvement is muddied as hell. Anyone that says “This is 100% illegal!” is too confident in their stance because we haven’t had enough court cases to decide what is and is not legal yet. Especially in the digital age. Ultimately I’d prefer to see a copyright model that ends when the original author dies and then their work automatically enters the public domain. I don’t think we should be passing down characters and worlds to children in the same way we would that house. 

Copyright is meant to (partly) protect the original author’s own income 

One of the biggest criticisms of fic in particular is that it’s a threat to the author’s livelihood. After all, if these people are writing Harry Potter stories then their readers won’t continue to buy Rowling’s work! However, these arguments display a fundamental misunderstanding of how fans (and consumers in general) function. 99% of the time you’re reading fic because you already read the canon--you want more--meaning this new material exists under the expectation that you already gave the author money to access that story foundation. Or you become interested in the canon because of that cool fanart you saw (the “free advertising” argument). Or you decide that you’re not interested in HP anymore but, guess what? You might have come to that decision whether fanworks existed or not. Fanworks are no more a threat to the author’s work than people just saying, “Eh. I’m over this series and don’t plan to buy it anymore” is. We can’t dictate when and if and how a consumer will give up on a franchise, but giving them more material related to that franchise--continually renewing their interest--probably isn’t a negative... 

Fans already make a decent amount of money from fanart 

In this moral debate we have to acknowledge that there’s a double-standard currently at work. Artists of all sorts (drawing, GIF-making, plushies, knitting, etc.) are given far more leeway than fic authors are, able to make good money off of commissions and use things like fanart for mainstream advantages (such as putting your work in a portfolio or on your website). Part of this is because of the gendered stereotyping (traditional and digital art is upheld in a way that “Ew you’re one of those teenage girls writing porn??” still isn’t) and because of that supposed threat mentioned above. Someone draws a picture of Rowling’s characters? That’s cool. That’s a different medium. People will look at it and move on with their lives--it can’t replace the books. Someone writes 100,000 words about Harry’s next adventure? Now that feels like more of a threat. But if we’re actually going to attack all fanworks--which we should not--but if we were we can’t continue separating things with, “Yes, the 25yo grad student drawing Game of Thrones art is making enough money to help pay for groceries and that’s awesome. The 25yo grad student writing Game of Thrones stories though? Immediate cease and desist.” 

Modern fanfic/fanworks are recognizable largely because they belong to a gift economy  

Regardless of what we might want our media landscape to look like, we have to acknowledge that part of what makes fandom spaces great is the supposedly “free” aspect. Meaning, it’s not technically free (we “pay” in kudos, comments, reblogs, rec lists, fanart given back, etc.) but it’s not a traditional consumer model--which is largely why we get such a HUGE, wonderful amount of creations to browse through at our leisure, confident that there are no barriers to us accessing these works and that the author feels no barriers in making whatever they like. I think all fans should be able to request money for their work without fear of legal action, but I don’t want that model to threaten the one we have. That is, let fic writers freely open commissions with the expectation that yeah, they’re still going to keep posting that other fic for free on the side. Fans put SO much time and effort into their work. Let them make some money off of that when needed, but don’t make that the overall expectation. Otherwise fan spaces risk becoming just as privileged and homogenized as mainstream media.