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nekojaf · 4 years ago

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Idol! Au's soul boundary and reproduction info

(this may come off kind of awkward to the sensitive??? I tried to write it as normally as possible and I'm pretty sure I succeeded but ay I'd say 14+ for parents sake.)

The souls in Idol!Tale are used for several things. Fighting, Magic, and reproduction.

The reproduction is normally used for creatures who can't reproduce normally otherwise. This is one of the ways humans forgot that their souls existed because they were so used to reproducing the normal way. Meanwhile monsters like skeletons, or ghosts have to use this method.

Boundarys around souls are complicated. It's soully based around intent and what the soul bearer is use to + the situation.

Fighting is fighting. The soul is shown and used and no one thinks twice about it. Attacks of pure malice are more likely to hurt then attacks of play or if you're training.

As for Magic it's a little more thought about in an attractive sense but it's more like viewing someone in a pretty gown or suit. Only a pervert would think more about it. The magic is used for it's intent of it's trait and if that requires the soul exiting the body it's like a show or a spectical of beauty. Perhaps a means to lure a mate if the situation is correct.

For reproduction the souls have to bond and fuse. By bonding it means that the monsters have to really love eachother or feel very connected. This can be done normally by the normal acts of passion and lust.

The feeling have to be mutual though other wise the fusing will not go naturally and is quite frankly dangerous to attempt because the weaker soul will suffer. Especially if it's Boss monster x grunt monster will not be good for the grunt monster but the Boss monster will usual come out fine. It's not impossible for the stronger one to be harmed during it but the souls would have to be closer together strength wise. The closer they are the more both will suffer.

As for the fusing and reproducing the two souls will fuse together and use their magic to attempt making a small "pocket" of their magic mixed together. If it is a success the pocket will be left in the mother hosts soul and will stay their to form into it's own soul by feeding off the mothers magic until it's ready to separate and become it's own being.

(Soul fusing is not to be mistaken for soul combining when two souls combine and become one strong soul that works as its own being until separated again. Soul combining is a spell as well as something you have to learn.)

The mother host role will mainly go to the female's hosts soul. Mostly because the female soul is more biologically nurturing then a male soul. But it's not like this all the time. There are rare occasions when the male is the host. If two male souls succeed in making a child it would have to be left in one of the male souls. Of course it's harder for souls of the same gender to reproduce because they don't mix as well biologically. It's possible but rare.

All this leads us back to boundaries. Yes I'm sure you've figured it out and I'll be frank, soul fusing is basically monster sex. It's pleasurable and stuff assuming there's consent and luv. Ayy I said the horny word. I will wash out my mouth with soup don't worry.

In which case isn't the soul inappropriate to simply show people or let them touch? Well no not really. It depends on the situation. Touching souls for example isn't exactly horny, unless it's two souls that are touching each other in which case eeeesh awkward. But if you're using your physical body it really does depend.

Touching souls with the physical body isn't really inappropriate. (unless you're intentionally trying to be that way) Just keep in mind that they're sensitive and delicate so you shouldn't just squeeze as hard as you can because that'll just equal death.

Spells that require you to show your soul just pretty. If someone asks you if they can touch your soul and that's scenario it can either be awkward or casual. If it's a stranger then you should probably refuse because you don't know if they're going to simply try to fuse with it the moment they got it. If it's your best buddy who's always outgoing and curious you're most likely going to say yes because you trust it isn't like that. (Unless you're an edgy mc edge Lord or shy bean.)

Though sometimes asking to see or hold someone soul is supposed to be a flirt. Something that could progress into something more. You should probably clarify that's not what you mean especially if you're asking in private in a bedroom or something. Unless the two of you know you're just friends and nothing more than that. Something you could trust them with without thinking about it. For example,

Friends:

Pop: Hey Star? Can I see your soul? I don't think I've ever seen it and I'm curious what kind of magic it radiates.

Star: Huh? Uh... Sure I guess so.

People that could be potential partners:

Rock: Hey Pop? What's your soul like? I don't think I've seen it before.

Pop: H-huh..? W-why are you asking..? If you don't mind me asking? ^^;

Rock: What- Wait no I didn't mean-

Idol, Star, and Beat: HALT! You're under arrest for being horny!!!

Rock: I DIDN'T MEAN-AAAUGBHHJ (tackled to the ground)

Also do not simply grab someone soul without permission. That'll result in you getting hard slap on the face, a punch in the throat, or a kick in the crotch.

So ey that about wraps that up. Hope you enjoyed the ins and outs of it. Feel free to use this info for your own au. Because I assure you many have this head canon already. If you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll see if I can answer.

#soul reproduction #idol!tale canon #birds and the bees #I'm sorry i had to. i found it interesting

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scarmuses · 4 years ago

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olivia info dump.

name. ― olivia tabitha porter nicknames. ― liv, tabby cat (by her dad only) age. ― twenty five occupation. ― personal assistant hometown. ― providence, rhode island orientation. ― heterosexual / heteroromantic gender. ― cisfemale faceclaim. ― sydney sweeney

zodiac. ― cancer birthday. ― july 22nd, 1995 mbti. ― infp “the mediator” mbti subtype. ― infp-t alignment. ― neutral good temperament. ― melancholic ennegram type. ― the reformer biography. ― can be found here. verse. ― dependent on partner / easily adaptable headcanons. ― click. musings. ― click.

general breakdown

is an actual cinnamon roll

likes: people, art, reading, music, gymnastics, ice skating, travel blogs, and abandoned antiques.

liv’s the type of person who finds beauty in practically everything. even where beauty may not seem to exist or is impossibly hard to detect.

she’s fiercely loyal, to an almost self-sacrificing degree. meaning: she’s super altruistic.

as kind and sweet-hearted as she is, once you damage her trust it’s very hard to get that back. not saying it isn’t possible but it takes a great amount of #effort.

is an only child so she tends to look at all of her “friends” as extended brothers and sisters. it’s her own little quirk/habit so chances are if you’re her friend = you’re family.

grew up in a very conservative household to semi-religious parents. was forced to attend catholic church every sunday, was kinda sheltered, not really “allowed” to date or participate in typical teenage traditions.

was a virgin until she got to college, so she doesn’t “put out” easily.

attended harvard and studied english/literature and entrepreneurship.

spent 3 years after graduation just trying to get her life together but it’s still a work in progress. she’s a little lost but slowly and surely finding her way.

interesting fun fact: olivia is an excellent ice skater. she started at age 7 and participated in it up until she graduated high school. was once told she could’ve made it to the olympics had she furloughed on college. she didn’t, obviously. because passing on college was not even an option she could consider. on account of the fact that her parents would’ve never allowed it and she’s a people pleaser so.... she went to harvard, got a degree and kinda lost touch with that part of her but is working on getting it back and may/may not pursue it in some way in the near future.

is a hopeless romantic, eeeesh. she loves love and just wants to be loved, truly.

always sees and wants to believe the best in people. (it’s a curse)

her parents are recently divorced / liv’s mom had an affair with her younger colleague and it caused a rift in their relationship but they’re in the process of mending it and liv’s very close to her dad now, who she moved to be closer to after the separation.

is finally moving out!!! and on her own.

forever learning how to love herself as much as she loves those around her.

in a nutshell: liv’s the sweetest ball of sunshine you will ever meet. and she honestly deserves the world because she’s been through A LOT.

connections

romeo saint james ― ex boyfriend / first love / won’t admit it to anyone so don’t even try it buuuuuuut he may still be the love of her life.....

river kartal ― friend / like a brother (sometimes) / fluctuates between love and "you annoy the fuck out of me but i deal with you because i have to”

rose (tbd?) ― best girlfriend / secret keeper / sister from another mister / soulmate

winnie blythe ― close friend / the little bro she never had / liv’s favorite person ever

if you want to plot with olivia or learn more about her, just message me here or on my personal: @scarrps. discord: scar#4967 is open for plotting too.

#olivia*hc #breakdown: olivia porter #reference: olivia porter #just some facts & stats most of this is general knowledge

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harinezumiko · 5 years ago

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SU Movie Meta n Notions

Courtesy of @thoughttrainderailed putting up with my half-not-awake ramblings and chiming in to pour more gas on this shit.

This could be complaint-flavored but it’s also fic notes flavored, except it’s like three goddamn fix-it-fics worth of notes for more Nanowrimos than I’ll ever complete. :’D

Harinezumiko:

unrelated

but

I wonder if Lion adopting Cotton Candy Garnet is related to the fact that Garnet became a cat person and Cat Steven adopted Lion

Jaakusan:

I dig it

Harinezumiko:

since NOBODY ELSE WAS TAKING CARE OF THIS EXTREMELY LOST BUBBLE at that point

I am willing to accept Lion recognizing her as regressing to a kitten

you know what would've been a fun angle that we won't get

and perhaps goes against the supposed Intention of Spinel being toxic

but I would still find it more interesting than the nothing we get

Jaakusan:

Harinezumiko:

1) I would like Lion being a goddamn cat and therefore Capable of Therapy When Compelled to be a Thing

2) I want Spinel to have made An Attempt at fixing her hair for the Diamonds, only for Lion to immediately ruin her odangos

3) I would also like the fact that HEY SPINEL LOOK LION IS ALSO SOMETHING PINK JUST FUCKIN' DITCHED :| :| to be a Thing

4) also I still want Pearls Brigade On Earth, but I like the imagery of Lion knocking Spinel's attempt to Make Heart Odango because quit your shit

Jaakusan:

hahaha

Harinezumiko:

5) since we don't get a Hey Solidarity With Pearl Because Pearl Doesn't Count Rite Homeworld Elites Fuck U Spinel, I want her to accidentally end up with literally anything from Earth that she has attachment to and incentive to Suck Less for?

like I know she's a movie character and likely I won't have to deal with her again

but

I am still angery that they made as little attempt as possible at hiding that writing Spinel and the Diamonds off was just convenient and lazy, Spinel doesn't care that she fucked up the Earth with apparently her own stupid toxin and doesn't care about anyone there and that pisses me off.

I don't even care if she made a vague excuse about coming back to visit just Lion

I think that would've been a better end note than getting whisked off by the Fairy Tyrant Godmoms to live in the Castle in the Sky forever and never have to deal with things again

also I think it would be nice if Spinel, y'know, had any interest in any of the characters she hung out with except Steven during her reset day

because only Pink caused your problems you dumb shit

you still owe Garnet an apology and frankly everyone else too, but GIVE A SHIT. ANY OF A SHIT. EVEN A SMALL TURD OF A SHIT. ABOUT SOMEONE OTHER THAN PINK

Jaakusan:

yeeeaaaah

I would have liked

like okay keep her going off with the diamonds, my feelings about how that can so easily go Wrong aside

but when they pop up have Pink Pearl with them

and PP talks her down

because you know who is exactly as new to grieving Pink as Spinel?

Pink Pearl

Harinezumiko:

yes100% this

Jaakusan:

who thought everything was hunky-dory and is now cast adrift with nobody to cling to?

Pink Pearl

Harinezumiko:

also I am really pissed that like

yeah we got some fun Reset Pearl Nonsense

Jaakusan:

who fucking enjoyed the silly side of Pink that she probably copied from Spinel?Pink Pearl

Harinezumiko:

but we are still facing Pearls Have No Agency And Nobody Finds That Bad Except People Who Know Our Pearl Personally

we still don't see YP or BP for more than a cameo where they don't interact directly with anyone

and they're just being another Utena reference anyway

like they seem to be happier and more comfortable but they don't interact directly with anyone and they literally only get like one off the cuff remark about Steven who doesn't count and isn't part of Gem Society

dude seriously Pink Pearl has so much room to be interesting adjacent from Spinel

but the lack of anything from Spinel even acknowledging that any Gems that aren't Diamonds exist beyond being props doesn't yet bode well for me?

because Spinel is an invitation for the Diamonds to resume something familiar and comfortable, but it's with a literally toxic person who wants to change and is being put in a world where change is not a thing

Spinel has never been part of Homeworld society either, she's been Pink's garden playmate

Jaakusan:

YEAH

(brb closing up to move computer)

Harinezumiko:

(ngl though I would totally take Pink Pearl showing up and fuckin' Asuka Slapping Spinel)

kk <3

Jaakusan:

and back

I just

sigh

it's weird to phrase it like this but

I just want characters that aren't Steven or the immediate antagonist to get significant interactions

the memory sequences still don't count

Harinezumiko:

I agree 100%

Jaakusan:

that's just bringing them back up to par

Harinezumiko:

I also think like

while I would've had even less fun with the movie it. literally squandered so much room for Steven to work with the Barn Gays

Jaakusan:

YES

Harinezumiko:

like... why. what was the point. stop increasing the cast and bringing people back if I don't get to see them do anything

Jaakusan:

YES

Harinezumiko:

I get that RS trapped herself with the stupid Steven Limited POV thing

I still think it's stupid

I think the movie could've cut away from that

I think we could've done away with that in Change Your Mind

I think we could've bullshit excuse handwaved it with some garbage about how Steven re-integrated with Pink Steeb and it allowed him to grow and broadened his worldview because the limited POV was something something Pink Steeb 'shielding' Steven and thus the viewers from Other Stuff

we have a two year time skip because RS was struggling to write things in Steeb's POV and for fucking what, to STILL have a limited protag POV?!

and I know the show is Steven's story

but if it's been something the crew has struggled with

since

I think they said somewhere around like season four was when they started being like "fff" about it

THEN FIX IT

Jaakusan:

eeeesh

Harinezumiko:

FIX IT IN THE MOVIE

FIX IT IN THE TIME SKIP

NOBODY FUCKING CARES IT WON'T HARM THE VIEWERS TO GET AN EXPANDED EXPERIENCE?

like I know that was a Thing RS Wanted To Maintain

and I suspect the rapid writing deterioration of MLP in later seasons didn't help

but fuck everything to do with this like... oh whoops nobody else can do anything protag is the only one who's not an NPC thing

Jaakusan:

YEAH

SO MANY PEOPLE COULD HAVE DONE THINGS

T H E Y H A V E A N A R M Y

Harinezumiko:

THEY HAVE AN ARMY

THEY HAVE NANEFUA

MISS ME WITH NOBODY IN BEACH CITY CAN DO ANYTHING, THE ONLY ONE THERE WHO SUCKS IS RONALDO

Jaakusan:

YOU CANNOT TELL ME IN TWO YEARS NANEFUA DIDN'T INPUT ANTI-GEM MEASURES IN CASE THIS BULLSHIT STARTED UP AGAIN

Harinezumiko:

dude you can't tell me other Gems didn't help

Jaakusan:

other paranoid just-got-out-of-a-war gems

just got out of a war gems living with gems they were fighting against

Harinezumiko:

you can't tell me that CGs that did believe in Pink's cause outside of Avoid Homeworld Live On Earth Forever would just

be totally cool

with this threat on their Earth, a threat that exclusively targets the organic life there

they're not even proactive in protecting the fucking humans?

are you shitting me?

someone please go fetch the Famethyst they APPARENTLY need to teach the rebels how to not just LET GOLDFISH DIE

Jaakusan:

SERIOUSLY

WHERE THE FUCK DID ALL THE GEMS GO DURING THE CATASTROPHE

WHICH STILL SHOULD HAVE EFFECTED MORE THAN. JUST BEACH CITY.

Harinezumiko:

they went to the concert and were totally unperturbed that Amethyst turned into Rose, duh

Jaakusan:

Famethyst would have been another acceptable Deal With Spinel cameo

Harinezumiko:

all of me as a person would like that

Jaakusan:

they have experience with being abandoned disappointments AND with wrangling people who are Upset and don't want to cooperate for their own good

Harinezumiko:

I also think that, y'know, STILL NOT DEALING WITH THE ROSE QUARTZES which I still think are rhinestones is bullshit

Amethyst could've at least lampshaded it

STEVEN could've

fuck, dude, Blue is like OMG A PINK TREASURE??? like yes like the zoomans how the fuck's Holly's stress level btw

Jaakusan:

seriously

WHERE ARE THE ROSE QUARTZES, CREW

WHAT DID THE DIAMONDS DO WITH THEM NOW

Harinezumiko:

where's Jasper

lmao

also host and I were talking about like

Jaakusan:

y u p

Harinezumiko:

Jasper having more room for redemption than Holly

because duh

but also because Holly has been trapped with a bunch of Remarkably Well-Adjusted War Veterans Who Are Extremely Friendly for thousands of years and the stick is still firmly up her ass

and Jasper is... apparently Gifted Child Who Can't Escape Her One (1) Big Failure And Is Branded By Being The Best Of Trash?

which is why she's a bully?

but you can't tell me Bismuth wouldn't brawl it out with her

or that they wouldn't be able to bond over Pink/Rose not trusting of them

or that it's fucking hard being on Earth where you did all this fighting, and you liked fighting, but the reason is Gone and your anger's still thereYou can't tell me that Bismuth doesn't ever have to deal with Gems now who think she's still in her little box and won't see past it, or that it pisses her entirely off but she can't kick ass and take names because Peace Time

bullshit they don't both have war PTSD

bullshit Jasper wouldn't have to grudgingly respect that Bismuth is demonstrably more useful and capable than her intended purpose

and like let's be real

it would be much easier for Jasper to swallow that pill than that Pearl isn't just brokenPearl keeps getting painted as abnormal by everyone's standards for not being a purse

as much as I want Pearl to kick Jasper's ass and have Jasper have to reassess things, canon isn't really setting Jasper up to have that epiphany, not even counting the show's unwillingness to just LET PEARL NOT SUCK AT FIGHTING

but also Bismuth is why Lapis happened

Bismuth was in Beta to kick quartz ass and attacked Lapis who was there to check the results of the hasty terraforming job done on that Kindergarten

Jaakusan:

yeah

Harinezumiko:

there's so much room to close that story arc

and for Jasper to have to get her head out of the sand and reassess things because the world doesn't make sense anymore but who cares because she and Bismuth can punch the fuck out of each other for hours and Bismuth doesn't think less of her for it

Jasper doesn't have a peer she can 1:1 with because apparently even Garnet wasn't strength-equal to her, but Jasper's going to need several kicks in the head before she can accept that Garnet isn't 2:1

but Bismuth isn't a superior officer, her quarry of origin doesn't matter socially the way Jasper's does, and bullshit they won't get along like a house on fire if Bismuth can make friends with Lapis

Jaakusan:

seeeeeeriously

Harinezumiko:

and Bismuth would 100% be like

Jasper I have a suggestion

MAKE THINGS

shut up I know you hate art because it's frivolous but DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE WITH YOUR ENERGY

you'll FEEL BETTER and maybe you'll even find out you like doing a thing and if it's not something you were designed for then who fuckin' cares if you're not instantly the Best At It bitch that's good for you, learn to make stuff.

Jaakusan:

yessssss

Harinezumiko:

hell, like

they even could've lampshaded Jasper being MIA in the movie

Yellow for Some Fucking Reason cancelled her war plans Everywhere even though their whole empire relies on it

Jasper's off Doing That

they could've had several CGs offworld to handwave that too, like

they're not here and yeah we could call their ship with Lars' fuckin ship (where’s Emerald at?) but even if they could get back in time they couldn't evacuate Beach City because the warp drives would need time to recover that we don't have

Earth's not exactly a place teeming with non-organic energy to just power Gem ships

also in that vein likeI think it would've been good to have like

something

about Yellow not having to just dismantle everything she's ever done on her own?

does Blue

not have diplomats

was her one (1) skill really just Pushing With Crying

Jaakusan:

shrug

I can't imagine she needed diplomats with how they treat alien life

I could maybe see her trying to create a diplomatic corp now

but they had no reason for one prior to reformatting the empireI do wonder if they just

stopped kindergarten production and pulled out

or if they tried to rebuild the planets they ravaged

Harinezumiko:

right?

well and like

it sounded like Sapphire was somewhat that kind of Aristocracy

so like

why not

have sapphires who are fairly Revered and also can at least theoretically guess if diplomacy rolls will fail

go help... with peace efforts...

Jaakusan:

at a guess

because they haven't actually reformed yet

they're still at the stage of "we're doing this because we love Pink/Steven and we want Steven to stick around" and not "we've internalized the teachings and Believe we were Wrong"so they're doing like

the bare minimum to meet expectations

because they don't actually care about the results outside of "Steven said we're doing good"

Harinezumiko:

oh no I agree

I think that's more believable

but I think that's not convenient for the writers who keep trying to cut corners

so most likely they'll offscreen epiphany if they don't backslide instantly and in a way Steven can yell at them for in his lifetime

and then Steven will at some point be Happily Surprised by undue progress

Jaakusan:

probably sigh

Harinezumiko:

I'm willing to believe like

Jaakusan:

the Diamonds are getting the Barn treatment

Harinezumiko:

Blue might actually Get It

not because she really Gets It

but because the Oh My God Pink Is Gone Because Of Us, I think, left an impact

and she otherwise did somehow come to the conclusion that Not All Organics Are The Worst likely because they remind her of Pink

but while she thought Pink was literally for real dead, she did get to find out that something as fragile and short-lived as an Um Greg Universe can potentially understand her feelings despite being literally immune to her miasma sadness

and now that she's making a conscious effort not to do that, and following having Yellow's breakdown during their fight in Change Your Mind, I think she'll be more proactive

and possibly more willing to take interest in other species and cultures and their Ways, even if I'm sure at first it'll still be motivated by Because Pink

and as long as she can be empathetic and help Yellow on that front, Yellow can potentially afford breaking down sometimes in private, because they've now also both seen what Constant Facade turned White into

and they both want White back

none of them can have Pink back but they can keep each other together, so Fairy Godmoms can get their shit together, and maybe Blue has a shit ton of notes somewhere about sustaining the Zoomans that can be implemented toward other planets and species and families they broke up

Jaakusan:

nodnod

Harinezumiko:

but realistically, if they were living on human time, it would take the rest of their natural lives to get their family shit together

and they don't get to do that because they're royalty

Jaakusan:

(I want Greg and Blue to be friends and Yellow to be like are you fucking serious Pink chose this and just eternally stink eye him)

Harinezumiko:

they're the entire ruling class of an immortal race of Gems who've spent millennia not only Doing War Things By Design but also who've been made only to Do War Things

like, how do you even dismantle that without wiping a clean slate

we saw how useless it was trying to give a day old Pearl choices

how the fuck are these emotionally constipated Broken God Queens supposed to unlearn their own shit and lead by example

they can't un-design Gems predate Pink

(I mean the solution is to step down and put other Gems in charge but that's still not an instant solution and we still won't fucking get to see it in the show)

(But the point remains that short of some deus ex machina hivemind available to make all the other pearls not overwhelm if you ask to be called Pink Lasagna you don't even have direct underlings that can sit in for you, like, fuck guys, you lost one of your set and made no contingency plan for if it happened again)

(you fucking honest to God thought Something could shatter you and you didn't properly wipe out the entire planet and star system it came from? you're asking for a second round.)

Jaakusan:

jesus, right???

real talk

as soon as the movie introduced the concept of concentrated organic murder juice

my first thought was

okay why the FUCK didn't they bomb Earth with that when they lost the war????

have fun on your useless fucking dead rock you'll never have the resources and tech to get off of, rebels

those that survive the earth collapsing because apparently it also breaks up the actual planet rather than just poisoning Everything

Harinezumiko:

right??

well and like

clearly

they just MAKE PLANET KILLER AND STORE IT SOMEWHERE

which I mean I guess if it weren't pink and clearly custom and if it hadn't been a literal fucking hour tops Spinel could've nicked it if the Diamonds really had just pulled the plug on things and abandoned projects

which is still bullshit

but it's still bullshit they should've addressed

Jaakusan:

yeeeeeaaaaah

Harinezumiko:

likeI know it's something Pink likely wouldn't know shit about

but Steven after working with the Diamonds to dismantle the shit?

yeah

he needs to know that shit

Spinel also can't be the only Gem that takes this bullshit badly

Jaakusan:

no reckless dumping of toxic chemicals

Harinezumiko:

not everything needs to be a response to Pink

Jaakusan:

YEAH

Harinezumiko:

that was one of the few things I did like about Steg

not him specifically

but that the first attempt failed because it hinged on Rose Is The Answer

Jaakusan:

but Pearl's whole memory sequence?

yeah

Harinezumiko:

but I maintain the entire movie fails hard at what this show is allegedly about

because no one except Garnet exists because of interaction with friends or family

no one is a product of love

Steven spends the entire movie trying to recreate the traumas that he thinks are the Defining Thing despite that literally not being what worked on Amethyst and despite getting Rupphire to fuse not fixing Garnet for ?? reasons

I am still mad that we finally get Garnet being Wrong and it's swept under the rug, like? Garnet apparently DOESN'T exist on her own. there is, allegedly, no Garnet if Ruby and Sapphire don't remember it? Are you fucking me?

like A Garnet exists but it's not This Garnet even though as long as Ruby and Sapphire's love exists she should also exist because she's the embodiment of a concept

at the very minimum they should have given Garnet an in-movie explanation for not Remembering Herself

and that explanation doesn't get to be that she finds out that truth is a fucking concept

Jaakusan:

SERIOUSLY THAT WAS SO DUMB

Harinezumiko:

if Garnet's going to spend the entire movie asking stupid shit and getting nowhere then her epiphany should come from finding an answer, and we've already established Garnet's answer IS LOVE

we literally could've had it triggered by something else too like

address the future vision thing

fucking have Steven ask it outright

have Garnet admit she doesn't know

have Bismuth point out the visor thing

hell, you can still have Steven leave Toddler Garnet with Anthy Pearl if you want to

Have Garnet looking for something, have it be her visor, have it be clarity, have Garnet's uncertainty addressed by anyone literally at all

have fucking Amethyst after she gets her shit together remark that Garnet looks weird without her visor

have Pearl who at least KIND OF ends up on Babysitting Cotton Candy Duty for all of 5 seconds afterwards suggest her visor helps her focus

Jaakusan:

maybe based off a Sapphire having only one eye

Harinezumiko:

have Spinel's pot shot not be that Garnet is cute and stupid and trusting, but that she's a three-eyed freak who's still blind to what's happening right beneath them because the Earth's definitely going to fucking explode now and have Garnet make her glasses

have Garnet find her fucking goddamn truth if you're not going to let her answer be love, have Garnet make a decision in the same way that Pearl is allowed to make a choice, and tie it into Amethyst making a friend in Steven

Jaakusan:

YEAH

Harinezumiko:

there's a post about how Steven's failure is defining himself and the Gems by their trauma, as if trauma isn't part of what shapes you

but the post doesn't fucking even TOUCH on the fact that the movie doesn't supplement this traumatic shit with any of the supposed Family Bonding Crystal Gems Values that the show is allegedly made of

you know

the ball

they dropped

in Change Your Mind

:| :|

okay in all of S5

Jaakusan:

Y E A H

Harinezumiko:

no one in this fucking movie does any soul searching at all and it Pisses Me Off

we get some from goddamn Spinel and while the number was enjoyable it has no impact on anything

she learns nothing

she still tries to kill everyone the second she stops getting her way

and she gets a Happily Ever After

and Idgaf that it's more true to Real Life why am I watching a cartoon if you're going to tell me Steven will never get to rest but Spinel gets to live in a castle with no consequences

why does Spinel get a fairytale ending if she's toxic, Sugar

Jaakusan:

YEEEEEAAAAAAAAH

the memory wiping literally had no point other than filling time

time that could have been filled with better, more meaningful things

Harinezumiko:

I even liked the memory wiping! Except nobody learned anything after

I would love a well-done amnesia season

I would love Slice of Life season: Everyone Learns What Life Is For

Jaakusan:

ooooh

Harinezumiko:

like, since we don't fucking HAVE SEASON SIX YET, there's no. reason to pin the movie as "vaguely adjacent to the timeline but don't worry about it"

I know it's because Movie and whatever

but you could just use the movie to launch the next season, mang

you could have Spinel apologize to Steven because she can't fix what the scythe did because the scythe isn't even fucking hers

it's a known weapon and it should've been the goddamn shoe-drop for Peridot being afraid of being harvested

have the movie lay the foundation for Steven trying to rebuild his home and his friends and his family without the Diamonds' intervention

the way the Crystal Gems deserve

give Earth a fresh slate since we don't know the goddamn background Gems

give the OG Mom Squad the chance to be welcomed by friends they don't know anymore, dismantle the Homeworld Defaults that they've been left with, let the secondary characters shine for two hours, and open Season Six with things being Different and Steven having to learn that It Be Like That Sometimes

in the same way the corrupted Gems have to

let Mom Squad become nurturing by choice this time

let Steven be the person in the forefront of their memories, not millennia of Rose

and drop Jasper on the beach in a space pod only to find that Garnet can't fight, Rose's base is taken, her army is lost, the Pearl's not even defective anymore, and Amethyst is. kinda honestly the most functional person here and why the fuck is that the case

Give Season Six the chance to be the Barn Squad + Jasper helping Steven pick up the pieces of his life while Jasper occasionally chimes in still stuck in her ways, have Jasper get uncomfortably attached to this half-feral runt Amethyst that won't let go of her shins

have Jasper be aware that the CGs are Broken and Wrong and have that be what prompts her to fix it. Give her the excuse of wanting to kick Garnet's ass. Have her land on the beach in her Saiyan Pod totally visibly uncorrupted

have the season include the other remaining CGs trying to find themselves too

(and obviously reveal mid-season that Jasper's putting on airs and hiding her horns and spots in her costume change+hair, have her unwilling to admit it might be permanent for everyone, have her invested at that point enough that she doesn't find it acceptable)

(and then have her get the fuckin Piccolo treatment. have her get better as she becomes a better person.)

Amethyst can still be the first to really Get It, even

Amethyst accidentally shows it by shapeshifting without horns

because she knows Jasper doesn't have them anymore

have Jasper lapse back into being a Rampant Bitch sometimes at characters who don't deserve it and have Amethyst, the feral child not long enough ago, react badly

Jaakusan:

yesssssssss

Harinezumiko:

like I know this suffers from I Just Want Jasper Screentime

but the writers ALREADY SKIPPED SHOWING US BARN GAYS DEVELOPING ON SCREEN

have Jasper be an outsider who thinks it's Weird and Wrong for different reasons than Steven but have them join in their goal to make Earth home again because they've both lost that

also have literally every other quartz on Earth awkwardly defaulting to assuming Connie's mom and/or Barb are agates

#so many opinions #long post #steven universe movie #steven universe spoilers #steven universe #steven universe meta #this is like three hours of spitballing #I slept maybe three hours #rip me this is like 50 fics I should write #thoughttrainderailed

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blaperile · 6 years ago

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Homestuck Epilogues - Meat - Page 7

#Homestuck #The Homestuck Epilogues #Meat #reaction #Dirk #Rose #Seer #Hero of Heart #Seer of Heart

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infinitycircuit · 3 years ago

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and summer yet may bloom again | guy 2.3 | RE: akaji, katashi, arachnida, lindsay

He glances over to Lindsay and lifts a hand to his mask to pull it down, showing a reassuring- if tired, smile. He smacks his lips and then speaks up, still looking at him. He's trying to show that no, he's not mad, nor disappointed-

just that his help might not have been for the best.

"... As Arachnida said, Lindsay's lying about it. I appreciate him trying to cover for me. It was..." Pause. "How many bloody countries was it..." He tilts his head and thinks. "Oh, uh. Six? I think it was six. Let's go with six. I'm indirectly wanted by law in six or so countries." Pause. "I know that sounds bad, but like I said. Indirectly. They want my parents, and since I'm their child, its... Complicated. Arachnida can back up that I'm not making this up off my arse right now."

He keeps his mask lowered to keep his expressions more clear, and right now he looks a little bothered, but fine.

"I'm telling this because I want to lay my cards on the table, right? I'm a free man from my parents and their legacy. Sure, it'll be inconvenient if it goes out, but... I've changed names and professions like gloves at this point." He smiles a little bit, but it has a sad twinge. "What's one more at this point. Not something I'd take anyone's life over. Besides, ideally I'd stay out of the public eye and in a train for as long as possible." Beat. "... Besides the fact that I have a job to get back to, haha."

Okay, that's the context Karasu was nudging him to provide. Guess he should go for the actual other stuff first. He takes off his backpack and rummages through it for a moment to pile up about five different brands of wet wipes on the podium. Of course, the mop is gone from his head as this is done.

"I've got the goods." He nods towards both Akaji and Katashi. "About five different kinds. All unopened- but uh, that won't mean much, since I could've just taken from a secret sixth one and then washed the rest down the toilet." He chuckles... It is nervous. He's nervous- or rather, uncomfortable. He doesn't like the vibes here. "I keep them in my backpack, and I take it off pretty often to leave it in my room while I go about. Its not like I'm dressed for work every day." Nod. "... Not that I'm implying someone from my quad stole some from me, uh. Just saying people with access to it could also take from there. Considering these are wet wipes, there might also be some in the quad bathrooms, if someone wants a deluxe experience wiping their arse."

He puts the wipes back into the backpack and slings it back over his shoulder, mop naturally nudging back into its natural place.

"... Ech, this doesn't feel right. Defending myself, I mean." He cringes. "You know that feeling when you feel like everything you say makes you more suspicious no matter what you do? Eeeesh... Especially when blokes are implying you're a serial killer, hahah... Do I look that scary? I guess I do." More nervous chuckling. This is not helping the mood, Guy. He coughs. "I just want to put down that, uh. Which do you think I would do? Clean the scene thoroughly and ensure people thought someone knocked Koyo out with some weapon and then choked him, or do a sloppy work and start this whole cleaning discourse in the first place?" And Guy has had cleaning discourse, believe me. The fights he has had over which brand of detergent to use or how to hold a mop efficiently with his co-workers could fill a whole page twice over. "What I'm saying is that intentionally leaving a messy scene to clear myself because I'm so neat feels more implicating than just... I don't know, cleaning it properly and trying to create a fake weapon to knock Koyo out with."

Pause.

"... And I bloody definitely wouldn't be such a pillock as to step into blood and spread it about all willy nilly." This is what bothers him the most. "I can show you my shoes if you want to: No blood."

#ch 2 #trial #gonbe #meatcopter69 #sweeper #arachnida #iustice

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abundantchewtoys · 7 years ago

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Hiveswap ‘17-09-20: x2 Combo combo!

So, once more, with feeling.

Combining our inventory with stuff in the house.

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I wonder what it's going to be like going down, how much more items there are around the house and how many of them we can bring upstairs?

The batteries to be found downstairs (presumably in the clock radio) would probably spur much of the same reactions as the AA type cells for the walkie talkie.

POGS + WINDOWS: I wonder if Jude's pigeons would try to eat his pogs if they saw them.

TREATS + WINDOWS : N'aww. So Tess often (mostly?) is outside when Joey's in her room. I wonder if she comes in all that often?

TREATS + BEANBAG : beanbags are "but(t) seats", oh the pun. :D

POINTES + BEANBAG : "you have a lot of interests, actually" Join the Homestuck Club, Joey. :P

POGS + MANTHRO CHAP : Crack theory: Doc Scratch does not percieve pogs, they're one of his dark pockets. :P

TREATS + MANTHRO CHAP : "Suppurate definition, to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate." Eeeesh. Tamagotchi got zip on these guys re: specific needs.

Okay, it turns out you CAN combine things with the ceiling, but only in the other part of the room, where the door is!

POINTES + MURAL : Awwww. In a sad twist to Dad and his children, Joey also practices dancing to get closer to her mom.

POGS + ANIMAL POSTERS : First "Gentlemanthro", now mom-imals.

It just occurred to me that on the giraffe poster you can clearly make out the reflection of the light that falls through the large windows of Joey's room. It's reflected of the floor onto the poster. Such details! ... Meanwhile, the tiger poster catches the reflected light that fell first through the window above Joey's bed!

TREATS + ANIMAL POSTERS : Another animation! N'aww, feeding time at the Poster Zoo! These animations keep being fun surprises.

Hey, is that a little stress ball on Joey's desk, to the left of her keyboard?

POGS + PC : Heh, yeah, eBay didn't exist yet back then, in the 90s. ... Wait, in fact, it wasn't that long apparently! Founded in 1995, September 3rd.

POINTES + PC : Heheheheh, we saw the tap dance shoes give a pun like this too. It's not just enough to make every combination, sometimes you have to go back and read related combinations again for the best experience!

POGS + CLOTHES CLOSET : Joey: Engage Sarcasm Mode.

TREATS + CLOTHES CLOSET : Okay that is adorable. Joey loves, loves, LOVES her dog.

POINTES + CLOTHES CLOSET : Kind of 4th wall bending here. Yeah it's weird the pointes were high up there, out of her reach, if she actually uses them daily. But that's the puzzle universe for you.

TREATS + MEDKIT : Oh, yeah, I figured she would have treats in there too, but it's actually sensible she doesn't, with all the medical equipment. Also, the medkit seems to be quite useful in fact, I thought it would be full of duds to be honest.

POGS + CLARISSA : ... Ah, Ferguson is a Clarissa character. That makes sense. Would be a funny name for Joey to give a random lusus she befriends though. A rabbit lusus, perchance?

TREATS + CLARISSA : ... Pet baby alligator? What even was that show.

POINTES + CLARISSA : ... I just now looked up what the synopsis was to Alex Mack, the follow-up to Clarissa, and THAT one I used to watch, I now remember it!

POGS + STUFFED ANIMALS : Aaawwwww, Joey. She doubts herself so much. She just wants to know what a 'normal' kid is like, but... that's what she already is, she just doesn't know! It's going to be good for her to see on Alternia, even through a twisted, alien mirror, that she's not weird at all. Also, note how Joey also objects to the sitter's heartfelt compliments, thinking they're not sincere, like Rose. And so we learn that Roxy babysat them from, well, diapers onwards. So she could be anywhere between 16 and 26 at this point! Since this means she's probably been babysitting ever since Ms Claire's... departure.

TREATS + STUFF ANIMALS: Protect them! Protect them at all cost!

TREATS + BED : I... think that maybe this response should have gone with, like, a kitchen cabinet instead. To 'improve' on the treats with herbs or something.

POGS + PUPPY SURPRISE : OOoooooooOOOooooh! Didn't think that would happen! Joey just put the Scully pog in here. I wonder if we can actually see it though, when looking at the stuffed animal closer?

...

It is! :D AWESOME! Didn't think this would actually be possible with these combinations, but there you go!

TREATS + PUPPY SURPRISE : Ah come on, that also works! She also put a treat inside!

... Yup, there it is. Blocking the Scully pog from view, so I'm glad we first used the pogs! I was wondering, before, why the pog was put behind the diary key, but it was to keep room for a treat!

Also, this gives us a nice size reference for the treats - they're ginormous!

Oh, so that's why Tess is such a big dog. :P

I like the detail of the treat crumbling. I mean, soft as it is, it's not the best hiding place. To think that, perhaps, in Hauntswitch, Dammek could find these here. Or, at the very least, on Alternia, Joey could contemplate that at least the prized Scully pog is safe.

TREATS + BOOKS : You won't find Joey reading any officially esteemed books, since she's afraid/knowledgeable that a lot of them just feature Young Adult drama like beloved pets dying.

POINTES + BALLERINA DOLL: Heheehehh, "shadow ballet". And a "it's fun to pretend" reference! And indeed, it IS fun to pretend ballerinas engaging in dance offs not unlike those found in tv dance shows. In fact, there's one in the Ballerina animated movie, in case you're looking!

TREATS + WIZARD : ... That could be an excerpt from Complacency of the Learned for all I'm concerned.

POINTES + WIZARD : Twerlin' Merlin makes a return(in')! That could actually be a decent show!

POGS + OVEN : Okay, unlike the oven, that sting burns.

POINTES + OVEN : Suffice to say, there is no hard line between boy stuff and girl stuff. Nor should these stuffs even be seen as separate.

POINTES + CALENDAR : Ooooh, so she has ballet practice on Monday and it kind of serves to kill her Monday blues. That's... hard but smart. Makes me wonder though, how UNnatural Hauntswitch will turn out to be - whether all her feelings regarding school and such might at least have a supernatural explanation beyond... well, high school.

This marks the end of the possible combinations in Joey's room! (So far.)

To go about it in an orderly manner, we're going to the attic stairway next.

TREATS + JUNK : Squirrels are like reverse pumpkins, they spontaneously appear around treats left unattended in cluttered areas. Biology 101.

TREATS + CATERPILLAR : Okay, now I'm SURE it must be a pre-existing toy. Magnetic apples that stick to its mouth? No immediate results on Google though.

POINTES + CATERPILLAR : All these times she mentions it's so dangerous to dance near or on the stairway, and what does she do? Dances on the stairway! For shame, Joey. :P

TREATS + SLINKY : Ironically, consider Slinky the Dog from Toy Story.

TREATS + ATTIC DOOR : Surprise attic bat pets. Surprise attic bat pets out of nowhere. (No not really.)

POINTES + ATTIC DOOR : Blaperile pointed out that, this time, her ballet dance was different, just a pirouette! Makes me wonder what other tap dance she might have in store?

Back to the hallway now.

POGS + PRINGLES : Pringles boxes filled with pogs? Joey unthinks that thought immediately and abjures the hell out of it.

POGS + SUFFERER DOLL : A dud again?

... Oh freaking hell no. I just noticed that there's an actual black-and-blue dart lying near the doll. That's got to be the experimental "foamless dart" (aka arrow) Jude made - and it looks just the Executioner's arrow! My god.

POINTES + WATERGUN:

... PFffffffff.

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Well, that's as good a note as any to stop tonight's round on! Next time, the other side of the hallway.

I’m still surprised those two bolded combinations actually did what they did!

#homestuck #hiveswap #reaction #spoiler alert #joey claire #jude harley #puppy surprise #upd8 #hiveswap liveblog

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ellynneversweet · 4 years ago

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Eeeesh yeah that makes sense. For me it seems to come down to a wider lack of understanding of specialisation within ‘arts and crafts’ professions, which is really weird for an theoretically ‘arts’ industry like Hollywood? If you get that a stuntman and a hand stand in for a scene where your character plays the piano are not interchangeable roles, why not: - novelist is not a scriptwriter, a courturier is not a jeweller and neither is a blacksmith, a scene painter is not a portrait artist etc? Buuuut it seems they get shoved into these Jack-of-all-trades positions and then it really shows.

As an aside, imo that’s why the jewellery in LOTR was spectacular (made and designed by jewellers) and was both visually cohesive and comfortable-looking and the jewellery in GOT was mostly ugly and looked practically painful (designed by a costume designer, I think, who for some reason seemed to think that highly skilled artisans working for the nobility would use brass and pewter rather than gold and silver) except for the dragon necklace that was iirc made as a merchandising opportunity with actual jewellers. And even then the dragon necklace looked like it would scratch the shit out of whoever wore it if they moved their head wrong, which may have been intentional.

I’ve been studying portraits a lot lately and I’ve found for the lost part you can absolutely tell when and often where a painting was done, not just from the clothing and the hair and whatnot but the handling of the mediums themselves and the way in which the features are drawn, the use of focus (and whether that focus looks like they’re copying how a camera works or not) and how they handle certain stock images — like, as I mentioned, a pearl necklace, WHICH WOULD NOT FEATURE HEAVY OUTLINES BECAUSE PEARLS ARE LUMINOUS THAT’S WHY THEY’RE VALUED. And by consequence of that now when I see contemporary art masquerading as old art on screen (this movie, portrait of a lady on fire, the borgias, outlander) I find myself going ‘looks wrong’ because the thing is representative art/realism is not actually a single cohesive category that starts and ends with ‘this is a recognisable depiction of the actor in costume’ but rather something that displays trends over time and location. I get that it’s hard, and training tells, but if other people get to bitch about how the costume construction is wrong, I’m going to bitch about how the art construction is wrong.

I can’t screenshot on my phone (WHY, Netflix?) but I suspect I’ll rant more on this later if I do get some good close-ups, because identifying what doesn’t work and why is sometimes as useful as identifying what does, etc.

It will probably surprise no one to learn that bad art (either badly done or not matching the styles of the time) in big budget movies is a real pet hate of mine.

There are lots of excellent artists out there. Hire one who can do a convincing imitation of the styles and techniques of the time, for god’s sake.

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lynxgriffin · 8 years ago

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Undertale Yellow Demo Playthrough!

HEY ALL. I downloaded the Undertale Yellow demo, so now I’m gonna go ahead and play it here! And as I usually end up doing…running commentary below!

I think this will just be the one post, since it’s the demo and should be short.

Okay! 3-2-1 LET’S GO

EEEESH TOOK AWHILE TO GET IT RUNNING BECAUSE MAC BUT FINALLY GOT IT UP

Okay intro time! Pretty similar to original.

Aww music is a little different!

Hey there Yellow! Do we get to name him or does he already got a name

Been awhile since I played, let’s see if I remember the controls

Nope no naming, it’s just Yellow

No Flowey? A Froggit already

Let’s go pacifist this route! And Toriel you’re dressed a bit differently here.

No save point! WHY U NO DETERMINED, YELLOW

Oooops

No wonder that switch doesn’t work anymore

Aww poor goatmom, lost her kid in the first dang room

Man the graphics are kinda nicer now

Oh, THERE you are, Flowey. Showing up kinda late

Wow this is like a somehow doofier version of Your Best Friend

…Flowey I’m kinda suspicious of how HELPFUL you are being now, what with the bullet avoiding and the saves

OH his name is Clover! Okay

…I’m going to think of entirely different characters named Clover for inside joke reasons that only a few people will get

Interesting that Clover can’t save on his own, though

New enemy! Let’s see what we have to do to win

Damn forgot how much I suck at bullet hell

Well I have no clue how I solved that puzzle but I did

Hello who’s this fellow?

…Well, guess that’ll stay a mystery for now. BYE CLOAKED STRANGER

New monster, but crud I have like no health and no items left

I done got drawn to death

Frig dangit now I have to do that puzzle again and I don’t know how I solved it!

But no seriously how do you solve this puzzle I have no clue what I did last time

Damn right I’m overwhelmed with depressing vibes, I dunno what mechanics actually solve this puzzle

WHELP fuck me I died again

OKAY I have no clue why that is the solution but I’m using it and moving on

Okay now that I survived it, that’s a cute monster with a neat attack

I’VE NEVER BEEN SO GLAD TO SEE FLOWEY GEEBUS

WE CALL IT A MAIZE / I call it a corn

I’M GOING TO BE ATTACKED BY CORN AT EVERY TURN NOW AREN’T I

Whoooo aaaaaare yooooou

Bye again horned and/or eared stranger

“Don’t let this ruin your impression” DO HO HO HO

IT’S GETTIN DARK

Oh that bat is hella cute

That was a frickin cute boss with nice use of orange and blue attacks

Flowey checking how many times I died of course

I DON’T JUDGE YOUR HEADCANONS

That was, indeed, super crispy

OH NO NOT THIS PUZZLE AGAIN

OKAY I. I SEE HOW THIS WORKS NOW

Well now that we solved that let’s save and move the heck on ahead

Aww man now I need a Pokemon that knows Flash

Bye-bye batty, hello again cloaked mysterio

There’s corn on the cobweb DO HO HO

Doobie doobie do are you our first major boss

Wait is this a Homestuck troll

Is this a vampire homestuck troll

Well that was another pretty fun boss!

“It’s a sponge covered in frosting”

Goodbye Pops the balloon

Hmm guess we’ve seen all that we can here

It’s true, everyone does need a little corn in their life

Ah I guess that’s the end of the demo for now!

Well, that was enjoyable! Even if I couldn’t figure out some of those puzzles off the bat

I’ll certainly give the full game a go whenever it comes out!

#undertale #undertale yellow #spoilers #ut yellow spoilers #why do I always suck at bullet hell

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random68mailcom · 8 years ago

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Update on the decision... and a reflection.

Nope... this isn't about smoking... kinda... It is about life.

My last post was a rant about my kid disrespecting us (parents). It was an uncomfortable decision space I had to enter and work through because the choices we have are limited when treating a child as an adult.

At the end of the post I claimed my 'smobriety. I've learned that stress is not an excuse to smoke or run to a bottle or relax in isolation or eat a jar of peanut butter spread on a 10lb bar of dark chocolate with a side of icecream and cheetos. (where the cheetos came from I can't figure....but that is what my fingers typed)

So... the continuation.

My daughter came home, more or less when she said she would. After I was in bed. Me? I'm too considerate, because I'm laying awake in bed at 4am.... imagining the worst and worrying that she isn't home yet. I get up and instead of looking in her room... I step outside to confirm that her car is in the driveway. Whew... one less worry, kinda.

Next step is the 'big confrontation/connection'. Dread, worry, angst, what do we say? How do we express our worries and our desires? What will be the reception? Are we going to make her build that f*cking wall thicker and taller to the point we won't be able to see her anymore?

Eeeesh.... I am not smoking...at least not in that way. Steaming maybe....

In the few hour before I go to work, the wife and I converse to create a united front. We wake the kid up... We have the conversation. We have a brick wall response with the end result of questioning statement that she will notify us as to her whereabouts in the future. It is a mexican standoff.

Rather than sit is uncomfortable silence, I put an end to the conversation. I went to work. I did my day. I didn't smoke. I din't drink. I worked 14hrs.

And I am open to what the future brings in this relationship and treatment of my kid as an adult. I will respect her and demand her respect in return.

The line is drawn. The choice is placed before her.

...And I still didn't smoke. I went to sleep when I got home instead of retreating into a shot glass.

Quitting is easy. Handling life is where the challenge is.

What are you doing in your life that makes your quit hard??? Seriously. Think about it. Answer the question. Then fix it. Research it. Then fix it. Or fix your response to it. Change is never easy.

Quitting is.

Staying quit??? That is another story.

Life is happening, ~Craig (still 'smober)

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blaperile · 7 years ago

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Hiveswap Episode 1 Reaction Part 10: Battery combinations everywhere + Living room Exploration Part 2

Okay, day 10 of playing! Starting at 8:45 PM today. We were exploring the living room and then suddenly found these E-cell batteries in the universal remote. Let's see if this gives any unique item combinations in Joey's room or if it will be the same bits of narration like with the other type of batteries. If not, we'll go look at the item combinations in the other parts of the house!

So okay, it indeed gives the same bits of narration for the things in Joey's room. In that case, let's start with the item combinations just outside the attic and work our way down from there! Batteries && Slinky ==> Wait... do slinkies really need batteries to operate? I never knew that. E-Cell Batteries && Flashlight ==> Oh man, the struggle is real. I've had this issue lots of times in my life, where I think a particular type of battery fits and it turns out it doesn't. xD Batteries && Caterpillar ==> Uh... 6 pairs of eyes? Where are the other 5 pairs then? :mspa: Also, she mentions them sensing the light, so for a second I thought the caterpillar's eyes might have looked differently in the dark now than they were in the light, but I don't immediately notice a difference. Batteries && Golden globe thingy ==> Pfff, another combination that prompts her to spin it. This time no Joey animation though, sadly. :( Batteries && Sufferer doll ==> Oh boy, can we not? xD "He looks like he might enjoy it" ... ... LET'S CARRY ON. 0_0 Batteries && Statue ==> "voice modulator that makes you sound like a skeleton" If that actually exists, dear god, point me to it because now you've made me curious. xD Batteries && Lite Brite ==> Haha, so there's an outlet right behind it! Actually, have we even seen any other outlets in this house yet? ...Oh, plainWonder's right, there were outlets beneath Joey's gaming television, I forgot about those. Anyway, this reminds me of what I was wondering yesterday after the power went out, about whether or not the lite brite worked on electricity or on batteries and thus if it would still be on or not after the power went out, haha. Batteries && Jude's door ==> I highly doubt these batteries would even be small enough to slip them under the door in the first place. :P Batteries && Universal Remote ==> Eeeesh, some more frustration towards Grandpa there. Interestingly, this implies that Joey and Jude don't use the remote, and the tv for that matter, very often? Anyway, that's it! We've done all the possible item combinations so far featuring the batteries, so let's move on to examine some new items! Batteries && Beanbag chair ==> Yep, (un?)fortunately, the beanbag chair isn't a massage chair that runs on batteries. :mspa: Pogs && Beanbag chair ==> Can't possibly get more 1994 than this, am I right? :P Cherub Key && Beanbag chair ==> Shocking revelation! You decide not to have a mental breakdown about it though. :mspa: Ballet slippers && Beanbag chair ==> Beanbag chair rises up on their echeladder to the highly-touted rank of BALLET BLOCKER. xD Ooooh, so that's a cassette player over there, not a walkman! And this seems to be one of the few things in this house that Joey and Jude actually share with each other. Huh, we can "salvage" it. Oh god, are we getting another pair of batteries here? xD Cherub Key && Cassette player ==> Oh boy, insert spooky music here! Because of the key's presence, music comes out of a cassette player that isn't turned on and has dead batteries... Yikes! Just like how it seemed to have some mysterious effects on the slinky as well... Jeez, what the hell is that key even made of? xD I'm also suddenly getting Revolution (the tv series) vibes, what with a magical trinket that activates devices that have become powerless. Tap shoes && Cassette player ==> Pfff, when she started talking about tapes I first thought she was going to make a tape/tapping pun, haha. Also, I don't think I've ever heard of Enya before, but I just looked her up on Wikipedia and it seems she's pretty famous in any case! Ireland's most succesful solo artist, that is pretty impressive. And yes, it wouldn't work to listen to that music with those dead batteries... unless you've got a mysterious Cherub Key nearby, of course! :mspa: Ballet slippers && Cassette player ==> I assume a rose in an iceberg is a reference to Enya? xD Hahaha, okay, so scavenging the cassette player doesn't actually make Joey put those batteries in her inventory. Aww, but I wanted to see a battery + battery item combination! :P Hey look, there's a gameboy! Which we can apparently ALSO scrounge for batteries, haha. So, this confirms that Joey isn't the only gamer here, Jude does like playing videogames as well! Batteries && Gameboy ==> Pfffff, I hadn't even caught it until plainWonder pointed it out to me, but "lil' hombre" is probably meant to refer to "boy" as in Gameboy. xD Ahahaha, I just love the lengths to which they're going to avoid literal namedrops. Pet treats && Gameboy ==> A third option would be to press it against your screen and try to feed a virtual animal on it, like a Tamagotchi or something. :mspa: Ha, "the illusion of choice"! Oh man, that is giving me so many Homestuck character select screen flashbacks. Tap shoes && Gameboy ==> Wait, Tatanga? Who's that? *looks it up* Oh, it's a Super Mario villain! From a few really old games. I've played quite a few different Mario games, but none of those coincidentally. :P Alright, looks like we're finished in this part of the room! I thought there was only one way to progress further (by clicking somewhere further in the background to move there), but plainWonder spotted very nicely that we could also click near the piano! And oooooh, that makes us look at the room in an entirely different perspective!!!! So apparently the front door of the house is right there! I bet we probably can't/won't exit? I wonder what it looks like outside on that part of the house, though. And there's a coat rack over there! Some pretty colorful clothing over there! I wonder who it belongs to. Dear god that's one giant trophy hanging right above the front door. 0_0 And it looks like there's even a picture hanging on the wall of when Grandpa killed it. :/ Hehehe, "Pet Vet - The doctor is out"! That immediately reminds me of Aranea's "the sylph is out" silly business in Openbound. That stuffed wolf though... that doesn't look too good. One of Grandpa's earlier experiments with taxidermy? :/ I really like that we're now getting a much closer look at the universal remote. That is indeed a preposterous amount of buttons! :o Also, that stuffed bear right next to the door reminds me of the bear behind the clock on the other side of the room. (I am also conveniently going to ignore that deer bear monstrosity on the other side of the front door) What's with all that dirt right in front of the doors though? Examining the bear trophy now... Yeah, Grandpa sure does like leaving a lot of useless/terrifying crap around everywhere, doesn't he? :/ Of course, opening the door doesn't actually work. Wait, Joey's scared of running into weirdos both outside and inside her home. I wonder who she classifies as weirdo, considering other than the monster there's nobody else inside and only Jude outside. Are Jude and his pet the weirdos? :mspa: Oh yeah, almost forgot to do the item combinations here! Batteries && Bear trophy ==> ...It's indeed a good thing that this bear can't be activated to actually move around. 0_0 Pogs && Bear trophy ==> 10 points for coming up with amazing puns on the spot go to Joey! Pet treats && Bear trophy ==> ...I think it's the latter, Joey. xD Cherub Key && Bear trophy ==> THE PUNS. THEY DON'T STOP. Tap shoes && Bear trophy ==> JOEY. STOP. YOU'RE KILLING ME WITH YOUR PUNS. XD Pet treats && Front door ==> Hahaha, "guardians"! ...Actually, there's the deer trophy, which of course reminds me of Dammek. For a second I was entertaining the thought that these 3 were all refereencing actual Guardians, but eh, probably not because what would those other two even reference? And anyway, what is it even with all these deer motifs throughout the house? Is that just to get hilarious/sad reactions out of Dammek in Hauntswitch? xD Cherub Key && Front door ==> Wait, there's not even any lock on this door, like, at all??? That's really weird... and also unsafe. Maybe Grandpa just always loses his keys and decided it would be handier if none of his doors would need keys at all? Honestly, I wouldn't even be surprised if that was his reasoning. Batteries && Deer trophy ==> ...Yes, let's also file that idea under "can we not"? xD Ballet slippers && Deer trophy ==> Oh deer (yes) god, I hadn't even realized yet how Grandpa and Joey both have stuffed animals, though in a totally different way. Eeeeesh. Alright, that's enough for today. It's already 10 PM, and I'm kinda feeling the tiredness settling in. Tomorrow we sadly won't be continuing our playthrough, because of certain IRL stuff, but hopefully we should be capable of playing some more on Wednesday!

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Re: Hiveswap ‘17-09-16: JoeysRoomStuck the Sequel

Third playthrough!

Today we're mainly going to combine all items currently in our inventory with everything in Joey's room, hahahah. I wonder what more little tidbits of information are going to come forward out of this?

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Okay wait, there was still a bit left to explore: the closet!

After appreciating the HIGH ART on the door, we open it and...

All these games! I recognize a Rubik's Cube, that crocodile-tooth game and... Simon Says!

The lights are blinking, making me think it's important! Maybe we get some well need BATTERIES here, since I remember seeing some before in concept art. I think the walkie might be empty.

"You really get a CHARGE out of this game" HACK*cough**cough*

Hahahah, so she really took the batteries from the walkie to power it. Guess it really IS one of her favorite games. I like the fourth wall reference in that every important NOUN or VERB is CAPITALIZED.

Heh, I feared the mini-game might have taken longer. It can be quite a challenge, after all. Enough nostalgia indeed!

Heheh, combining the BATTERIES with the CHERUB KEY prompts her to talk about the 'spiraling' energy emanating from the latter. "Like a seashell warmed by the sun" A green sun, perhaps?

Seriously? :P

SHOES + BATTERIES? "That would be cheating!"?

"You don't run on BATTERIES, you run on RAZZLE-DAZZLE!" PFfffffffff.

SHOES + JOEY is also a little gold nugget regarding them enabling her to tap dance, and how perhaps her TAP DANCE LESSONS deserve a little credit for it.

I've started a file for combinations we remember we missed doing, like the Keys and Simon Says.

Meanwhile, the ballerina poster is a real treat to combine stuff with, it gets Joey all philosophical. She even mentions that she got her diary SPECIFICALLY to write all the ideas in that she got from looking at the poster! ... But it failed.

Ooh, to remember: use the ballet shoes on the ballerina poster, it should prompt her to dance!

Cherub Key + Hot Steppin: Ms. Claire danced with a lot of girls and wouldn't mind this poster. Well, the first thing is obvious enough, since ballet is primarily practiced by women.

Diary Key + Hot Steppin:

Cue the theories about Joey's romantic inclinations!

Shoes + Hot Steppin: "like doing taxes at church" compared to the dancing in this movie, hahahah

Batteries + Neverending Story: someone's not a fan of the movie ending halfway through the book. I can just imagine the pain she would feel re: the final movies being split in Harry Potter, the Hunger Games, Twilight... To say nothing of The Hobbit.

Cherub Key + Neverending Story: Heheeheheh, yeah, I remember the key being likened to the Avaryl, or whatever the amulet was called there. So the key seems to predate it be a few years, according to Joey. Which according to Wikipedia would mean she got the key BEFORE she was five, wow. Guess she still remembers some stuff from her earlier years, unlike what she first said. :P

Shoes + NS : Pfffff, 'the not-stopping routine'. Seriously, all these synonyms beating around the bush! :D The big, copyrighted bush.

Cherub Key + Goosebumps: OOOOOOh, we found a combination that doesn't work!!! Heheheh. Maybe that's SUPPOSED to happen. Spooky, isn't it? :P

Shoes + Goosebumps: JOEY CLAIRE, EXTRAORDINAIRE! :D

Batteries + Acorn's Shadow: Huh. The world of Acorn's Shadow is pretty low on tech but pretty high on magic. That... Kind of debunks my idea that Bro wrote it. It almost seems like more up the Sitter's alley!

Cherub Key + Acorn's Shadow: Hah, "she usually finds out within 22 minutes". Meta! Also, what is even up with that common episode length, right? I know it's probably because the commercials pad it out to a half our, but still.

Diary Key + Acorn's Shadow: "How can you keep a secret from your own shadow?" Man, Acorn's Shadow is a really wild show. It sincerely seems rather disturbing for a kid's show. Then again, in my day it was Beast Wars, X-Men and Spider-Man, and they got pretty dark at moments too.

Shoes + Acorn's Shadow: Acorn's Shadow is to busy burning the land with... "galloping green flames"(, Batman)! Again, wow, dark much?

We forgot to click on Connect Four before. Guess Joey is really good a whiping the floor with Jude in games. Then again, she has the age advantage.

Diary Key + C4 : Okay, secrets "tumblin'" all over the floor? Now I'm thinking of people using Tumblr as a personal diary. That's putting yourself in a vulnerable position, too.

Shoes + C4: Huh, I don't remember there being a handle to make the checkers fall. Welp, I see it being used a lot by people ragequiting.

Oh yeah, sure Joey. I believe you.

Ahah, hah, heh.... Well, if she could imagine the world we live in today. Electronic picture frames are a literal THING now.

Eeeesh, yeah, them snakes are anything BUT friendly and wise.

Shoes + Shika : Shika has deer hooves. Or maybe only her Princess Shika form does. Well then. Even though she might not be good at tap dance, as Joey thinks... I think she could get a good rhythm going.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Shoes + Bounty Hunter: Ah, yes, the good old "turn into a ball in mid-air" dance routine... Confirmed for Metroid!

Cherub Key + Ginger Rogers: Ms Claire and Ms Rogers knew each other! Where Grandpa was the only of the B1 guardians to have such a public life, he went looking for a partner someone that understood that struggle, I think.

Diary Key + Ginger Rogers: Turns out her book came out in 1991, so it's actually, like, relevant for the times! It could've been Ms Claire had the dang thing in her library for ages, but no.

Cherub Key + Block Hustler: Hehehe, yeah, well, I think an F would be an even-better shape to compare a key with, personally.

What is this "TETRIS" you are talking about? :P Someone slipped up, deliberately or not, in cleaning up that reference. And slowly but surely, we are getting more info about Jude's superstitions, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Also... https://www.google.be/search?q=tetris+tap+dance

Cherub Key + Bubsy poster: Hah, okay, so Bubsy really is at the bottom end of her interest list, I wondered, since the poster still hung there.

Pfffffffffffffffffffffff, never mind.

Cherub Key + Second Mom: I wonder if the yo-yo ACTUALLY was Ness' heirloom, heheheh.

Now I'm reminded of the time Jane was apparently teleported across town by GCat, and Dad had to come pick her up and got lost following the GPS.

This is too meta.

Combining the Diary Key with the Console unlocks another animation for Joey! Hah, I like this little easter eggs! As does the combination of the Cherub Key with the TV! N'awww. Wouldn't there be a combination where she speaks about dreaming about one day ending up inside a TV fictional universe?

Tap Dance + TV: Alas, Joey does not possess a personal version of Dance Dance revolution...

Cherub Key + Beanbag: Huh, so the beanbags are 20-years-old, and it was the sitter that distributed them, not Grandpa! She got them from the attic, and Blaperile has a good point - it means she was near the portal! Bet she was not interested to look under the sheet, though... Or too drunk to notice it.

Batteries + Manthro Chap: ... They vibrate. THE MANTHRO CHAPS VIBRATE. DEAR GOD THAT IS HORRIFYING.

... Huh! We just tried to combine the items with the ceiling. The batteries give a normal enough response, but the Cherub Key prompts something about the Walkie Talkie, instead!

Diary Key + Mural: Yeah, if she took the cherub key from the jewel box when she was just about four years old, she must've been little older than a baby when her mom died. Still, she remembers her so fondly. :,(

Heirloom + Animal posters: Animal moms giving animal babies animal presents, like rays of sunlight? N'awwww.

Cherub Key + Clothes closet : Actually, that would make a nice accessory for We Love Fine!

I just had a thought regarding the Junior Veterinarian's Medkit: Maybe it was Mom that left the Junior Ectobiologist for John to find in the meteor lab? :D

Shoes + Medkit: N'awww, Joey's opposing career paths at the moment: world-class dancer, or animal vet? It would be nice if she could find a common ground between the two career paths, unlikely though that is. Maybe... Choreographing a dance act with animals? :D

Clarissa + Shoes: Hah, okay, I was wrong: it's an American sitcom. I like how much What Pumpkin did the research regarding air dates, as is shown in the prompt for this combination.

Batteries + Bed: "DON'T WAKE DADDY" I ... I think I remember the commercials for this game. Dear god. Parker Brothers they say, huh. My first thought was it was from Hasbro. ... Wait, we just looked it up, and Parker Brothers has a spiral symbol... and was actually renamed to Hasbro! Hah, okay.

Diary Key + Bed: "punctuated incorrectly", because that's her style.

Hehehehe.

Ah, we just tried to see what happens when you write in the diary, to see whether the key ends up back in Puppy Surprise. It does, but... You can't take it out again. Guess we'll hang on to it a little longer.

I suppose Pa got her the Snork because it's a (fictional) rare animal. Kind of thoughtful to her interests, at least? Unlike the shotgun for Jude. Which I don't think we'll see again.

Heirloom + Plushes: :( Joey really didn't know her Mom at all, right? It seems most of it is just wishful thinking.

Shoes + Books: She's got a few books on tap dancing! And... Apparently the subject used to be kind of snuffed by the snobby elite. Welp.

Diary Key + Ballerina Figure: pffff, that gives the combo for Diary Key + Cherub Key. As does Cherub Key + Figure, huh. Kind of like the Escher-reference in the combo goes for the figure, too.

Wizard + Shoes: So many possible dance routines. So little time. The Pyromancer's Hotstep would be a good name for a fraymotif or some such.

Shoes + Oven: Lukewarm-stepping. I just.

Diary Key + Calendar: JOEY CLAIRE, EXTRAORDINAIRE! The writer really had a field day writing all these prompts, like we already knew from her interview.

Batteries + Calendar: Yup, like I thought, Skaianet was a megacorp, not only into science but also video games. Of course we knew already that Skaianet was behind SBURB, but at least in Hiveswap we learn it wasn't a one-off endeavour. It's in this way that they grew a fanbase that bought SBURB. I wonder if Joey knows her Pa runs Skaianet?

Calendar + Shoes: Ooooh, tap dancing class is Saturday morning??? Does that mean we'll get to see Sitter coming to pick her up (as she apparently does?? meaning she's old enough for a driver's license??) ... Maybe not, as Joey indicates sometimes the Sitter's too sick. Hung over from Friday night... I can see it happen she leaves a message on the answering machine "too sick, won't come in today, sry :( :( :("

Posters + Keys: Okay, so her diary and the posters were created by "L.F.", apparently. Which I guess is real, maybe? Possibly.

We got almost nothing left in the room to check now.

The computer seems like it might be the least plot-inducing?

... Yup, we just boot it. Hah, the operating system is... Panes 1994? No, Fenest-somesuch. An obvious play on Windows, of course. And it occurs to me that she wouldn't really know "internet" as we know it now! That's why she keeps talking about Jude's "webring". Hahahah. She's not getting any kicks from the internet, for sure. Even her posters are bought from a company, not printed herself.

Diary Key + PC: LiveJournal reference!

TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP. I see what you did there, What Pumpkin.

Next, I want to try the door. See what excuse she comes up with to not go out. Well, excuse, I suspect she'll just mention the monster, duh. ... Oh, she wants to alert Jude to the monster's presence. Because, you know, it's not like there's a garden full of them by now. ... It just occurred to me Joey hasn't noticed the winged monsters at all yet, so there would be no way for her to know.

Now, onwards, to the window!!

... WOWOWWWWWWWWW, look at that beaut! Those swirling clouds look AMAZING.

... N'awww, Tesseract is still hiding in the dog house. Guess she dug herself into the ground or something, since in the opening scene, it turned out she couldn't really fit inside. Tess' dog house is Japanese themed, the fountain has that Mother Grub theme, and the garden bushes are cut into the shape of monsters. ... Grandpa is anything but fashionable.

A lot of interactive parts here too!

Skull Fountain: "MONSTER CHIC". Hahahahah, yeah, it would be, right? They probably feel right at home inside the mansion, too, between all those props and mummies.

Tesseract: N'awww. Gotta work on your threats, there, Joey. Blaperile wonders whether we'll even get Tess out in Hiveswap. Maybe not, maybe that's a task for Dammek!

Monsters: Ah yes, the real monster here is GENTRIFICATION. Although... Does that mean that in the town of Hauntswitch' community, Jude and Joey aren't the real snobs, even though they live in a literal mansion?

Tree House: OOOooooh, so Joey's never been up there. It might not be sized to her, too, if Jude's a lot shorter than her. I like that we start to get even more insights into the relationship between them now.

Batteries + Window: oh got yes, the Problem Sleuth / Homestuck reference I wasn't expecting but am still super glad to get! :D

Well, that really only leaves the Walkie Talkie!

Better get this show on the road and trucking!

D'aaaahh, really? I thought the Walkie wouldn't end up in our inventory, but immediately became part of the interface. This means... This means we have another bazillion more combinations to comb out, hahaahhahhah.

Shoes + Walkie: What, this ISN'T a tap dance powered machinery? Preposterous!

Walkie + Calendar: "Throw 'em off your trail" Dear God Jude, the paranoia!

+ "Shelf Buds": "Tree Brother", real respectful of you Joey!

Bed + Walkie : Oooh, seems like this prompt can be different if you don't have the batteries yet! Also, Joey is an aspiring puzzle-solver AND an aspiring webmaster! So many career paths to choose from!

Walkie + PC: what would an interface like that even DO??? Also, heh, sneaky Alternia teaser.

+ Controllers: Welp, so meta. Joey loves SAVES. As do we, for this game especially. :D

+ Console: Whoops, another unremoved reference, this time to Mother 2.

+ Tetris: Something BLOCKING the signal, Joey? ... Yeah, I'm tickled by that pun in the prompt.

+ Shika: ... I ... Japanese shows are the WORST. :P (No they're not.)

+ Dresser: Oh, this solits a response too! Heh, combining the Cherub Key and the Dresser: "everything's still kind of ... monsters."

Since this is about everything we could do before talking to Jude, I decided to press the Hint button for the lulz and...

Yeah, it gives a different message everytime, making the hinter sound excessively smug each time. Making it almost seem like Doc Scratch.

I... I sure hope Doc Scratch isn't meant to be 'helping' Joey navigate Alternia.

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That is as far as we came tonight!

At least, tomorrow, we'll finally be leaving Joey's room. Or we'll leave Joey IN her room, and start being Jude instead. That could work, too.

Wow, all these world building and character building though.

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