#fan aspects

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CULT ALTAR of DREAMS

Ann in her godtier attire

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master aspects concept bc homestuck has master classes

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[ The Glitched Aspects ]

Happy 200 days until Sovereignstuck! (og post with the transparent versions of these for good measure)

[obsessed-aqualo]

So, I've been thinking about fan classpects.

Yes, I know, funny Piss and Shit, Waste and Nick, haha.

I am aware that fixating on this kind of stuff is probably pretty pointless, but regardless, I've been investigating, and I have found myself unable to stop thinking about it, specially after finding this thing.

One obvious problem with that system is that, well... It's kind of redundant? For example, the Soul aspect. That's just Heart. There's no way around it. As well as Death falls under Doom, Stars under Light, Links or Lips under Blood...

But what if what I then tried to understand is not if it makes sense, but instead, how can I make it make sense?

And then I had an idea, what if the classpects had what you could call 2 tiers?

To exemplify, let's try to remember the 'Squiddle Session'. I don't really know how known exactly this thing is, so I'll try to summarize it. Andrew Hussie made an statement talking about how the trolls were apparently created by a session of 48 squiddles, with the 48 dancestors of said squiddles being the horrorterrors. This is not exactly canon, but there are neat coincidences sprinkled here and there that could add weight to the idea. For example, the fact that the trolls had 48 zodiac signs total, according to Karkat.

If said session were to be true, we could either assume one of two things. Either aspects can have duplicates in the same session, or more aspects exist. For the sake of whatever this is, let's roll with the second one.

If a session as large as that one existed, it would be indeed redundant to have a Light player and a Day player running around in the same session, so what if the canon aspects actually worked the same way the Lord and Muse classes work, but at a larger scale? If the Lord and Muse serve to replace any active and passive role if the number of players is too low, the canon aspects might be a conglomeration of smaller aspects, that only pop up if the number of players is too high! Meaning that a large session would not have any canon aspect, but instead a group of aspects that serve as an alternative to each canon aspect.

So, after all of that rambling, I announce that this blog will be officially about fan classpects now.

TL;DR: I like fan classpects and from now on I will not shut up about them.

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painted my brother's fave as a christmas gift

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TOTK Inks

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in which hunter’s possession goes a whole lot worse

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the imperial accountant baru cormorant, and the duchess of vultjag

[beargregor]

wait i'm curious, what makes you say that gregor doesn't like everyone else (if i read that post right)? just curious since i've never seen anyone else say that

i don't necessarily think gregor dislikes everyone else at lcb but i do think that gregor is an incredibly petty person that isn't nearly as close to the rest of the sinners and even outright dislikes some of them cough cough rodya cough cough which a lot of people just Refuse to see because he's as much of a doormat as he is. there's several examples i could get into to try and prove my point however i'll just focus on what i personally think to be the biggest ones.

additionally, this is going to be kind of long, so i'm adding a read more. read more! read it. sorry for being so wordy. i have several diseases.

Pt1. gregor is the type to try and get along at least decently with everyone, especially if he gets a good first impression from them.

this is less a point in favor of gregor's distance w/ the rest of the sinners and more just a contributing factor to it. once again there's several examples i could point to here but i think the most in your face one happened in canto I with yuri, as several people have pointed out. even before gregor comes clean about growing attached to her as quickly as he did because she reminds him of his sister, we get this interaction.

i'll go ahead and make the disclaimer now that i don't necessarily think gregor is the most reliable of narrators, especially when it comes to his feelings and interactions with most people, but from the way he acts when the topic of yuri comes up (and the way we still see him act even all the way up to c7, nearly a whole year after yuri's death) i don't see reason to question his sentiment here. gregor immediately got that aya and yuri were close, potentially even taking note of their traded belts, and went out of his way to get something nice for yuri despite hardly knowing her.

i feel like a lot of people have forgotten as much, especially since it's been so long since c1, but gregor actually spent a good bit of season 1 doing the exact same thing with the other sinners! gregor reads a connection between him and ishmael pretty quickly despite getting off to a rocky start

mostly because gregor can tell that ishmael is pretty sardonic in a very similar way to him. there's been multiple instances where ishmael and gregor have essentially expressed the same sentiment at different moments, most notably gregor's little argument after ishmael got shot with a decay ampule in c4

and ishmael's response to pilot talking about self-sacrifice in c5

i could go ahead and pull up more examples, but in general pm has gone out of their way to show us that gregor and ishmael are pretty similar, so it makes sense for gregor to assume that they're friends, right?

this will be pushpin 1. keep note of this for Later.

ishmael's only the first sinner we see gregor trying to do this with in s1, we also see him try it out with heathcliff, sinclair, and ryoushuu

he's tried to get along with charon, being one of very few sinners that we've seen actually try to establish a connection with her at all

even rodya, despite my insistence that gregor doesn't like her nearly as much as the fandom thinks he does

all of these seem pretty fine and dandy, right? sure it frequently leans towards self-degradation, micromanaging, and commiseration, but gregor can at least be pretty chummy with most of the sinners, can't he?

Pt2. hell's chicken was more than just comic relief guys please

i'm fully aware that this is quite the hot take, but i think hell's chicken deserves a lot more credit for character writing than the fandom gives it. hell's chicken gave us foreshadowing for several events, such as the donqui bloodfiend reveal

heathcliff's distortion in c6 (as well as hong lu's highly speculated distortion at some point in the future)

and ryoushuu and sinclair's continued connection by making him the odd one out on her team

which, hey! that implies something about gregor's odd one out, don quixote, too, doesn't it? yes. yes it does. that's pushpin 2. keep note of that for later.

speaking of pushpins, hey! that's pushpin 1!

splitting into teams is one of the major events in hell's chicken, and most of the sinner's choices are either motivated by very little, backhanded, or motivated primarily by not wanting to be on the opposite leader's side. i didn't include all of the picks, just because i feel like including most of them already gets this across, but i think gregor took one major thing from this: most of the sinners, when push comes to shove, will only side with gregor when they refuse to or can't take his opponent's side.

now, don't get me wrong, i'm fully aware that this is primarily intended to be comedic relief, but when gregor is being described as having his trust broken by ishmael or nearly crying because no one on his team properly sided with him for him, i feel like it's pretty fair to read into this.

something that i think is pretty important to remember in conjunction with this is that we know that gregor is the type to hold a grudge, both from his general attitude towards the G corp soldiers in c1 as well as his continued distaste for vergilius

even beyond the splitting into teams of hell's chicken, the sinners have given gregor plenty of reasons to feel bitter. i feel like this is something people have noticed but haven't really put a finger on, but it's kind of wild just how often the rest of the sinners make gregor the butt of the joke

and sure, we could argue that a fair few of these aren't really made with any ill intent. quite a bit of it could have been meant as harmless teasing, but with gregor being more sensitive than most, it coming from nearly all sides, and as often as it does? yeah, i think he's prone to taking it a bit personally.

Pt3. yes i do still think gregor was the third most important character in canto VII you guys gotta hear me out okay

of course, all of this leads up to the bit of the story i highlighted, doesn't it? c7? i totally get why people haven't really picked up on all the gregor things i did in it, seeing as they were mostly not *directly* said about him or by him.

personally, i think that gregor's distaste for talking about himself on any serious level and thus leading to him getting sort of "sidelined" narratively (which i take issue with that claim, but still. it's effective for getting what i mean across atm) is supposed to lead players to take a deeper look at the times gregor gets held up to other characters and compare and contrast what's being said about them by the matchup. as i showed earlier with his immediate latching onto ishmael, i think this is something gregor himself is at least partially aware of too.

so, that begs the question, who was gregor compared to in canto VII that makes me think it's one of the most critical pieces in understanding his character?

really, i'd like to avoid getting too lost in the analysis of this canto specifically, since i'd like to do a proper post about this later, but i figure i can bury the lede a little before doing it properly.

c7 features several characters being made to perform in sansón's play, acting out the relevant backstory for this segment of the plot. a lot of these characters have rather direct, degrading reasons for playing the roles they do.

outis, a character with an inflated ego who wants her journey to have a purpose, is made to play an aimlessly wandering villager with a single line.

hong lu and ryoushuu, two characters for whom families and the expectations placed upon them are likely going to play a major role, are made to play bloodfiends.

rodya, a character who resents her lot in life and is constantly shown to be eager to leave her destitution behind her and become someone special, is made to play a helpless villager that's too poor to even offer any money to the hero that saves her.

heathcliff, a character that has spent most of his life getting dehumanized by comparing him to beastly animals, is made to play a literal bear whose sole purpose in the plot is to get beat up and then quickly left by the wayside.

sinclair, a character that has two opposed parties essentially treating him as a macguffin to procure for their side, is made to play the character who was arguably the catalyst for this entire canto, not to mention playing a decently major role in ruina.

our star don quixote is made to play her father, the first kindred, but there's someone by their side the entire time, isn't there? don quixote's dear, steadfastly loyal companion. a character which don quixote has tasked themself with getting to come out of their shell?

hello again, pushpin 2.

gregor has been made to play our unreachable star, sancho. someone had to, of course. you can't really tell a story without it's main character, now can you?

now, i should once again give a disclaimer. i am not trying to say that i think adapting what happens to donqui/sancho in c7 to gregor is the road pm is going to take here, not only would that toe a bit past the line of foreshadowing, but it'd also just amount to rehashing that plotline again, which i don't think would make for a particularly exciting story.

what i DO think is that we can take a lot of the things that are said to either directly be the case for sancho and use them to inform how we see gregor.

and god, does playing sancho have some fucking implications for our favorite ossan archetype.

starting off, the earliest moment we get to see of sancho is quite literally her just waiting for death to take her in a pile of ashes.

which, i should remind everyone, is actually pretty damn close to what happens to gregor's literary counterpart at the end of the metamorphosis. gregor samsa experiences one final breaking point that pushes him over the edge and makes him decide to just wait for starvation to take him.

gregor and sancho both consider themselves to no longer be human, something which sancho goes out of her way to highlight repeatedly throughout the canto and gregor is quick to get defensive on her behalf for when outis starts really tearing into her

sancho spends quite a lot of this story denying herself the joys of community and friendship, despite knowing that, even with the rest of the sinners frequently making jokes at her expense and outright insulting her, they were things that she desperately craved.

and, while this is getting into my "outis is a red herring meant to distract us from gregor's eventual betrayal" theorizing, i also think it's worth noting for this discussion that sancho's fellow kindreds, her family, all seem to be under the impression that she dislikes them and ultimately her departure was an act of betrayal

and that, despite gregor being one of LCB's resident mood makers and attempted conflict de-escalators, one of the sinners that's most prone to making appeals to the bonds they've all forged together, only him and faust remained silent during everyone's speech

so yeah, i think there's quite a lot of little details and hints building up to the reveal that gregor's not quite as fond of everyone as he presents himself to be. i do think a lot of this ultimately comes down to gregor getting in the way of his own happiness, similarly to donqui, particularly because he's been frequently portrayed as something of a self fulfilling prophecy, especially by giving him as many christ allegories as they have by way of priest and garden of thorns. gregor is convinced that the rest of the sinners don't like him because he's not convinced anyone could like him, so he convinces himself that he hates them because why should he care if someone that he hates hates him too?

a lot of this ultimately ties back to my personal interpretation of what happens in the metamorphosis as well as my own theories regarding all the times gregor has made weird callbacks and references to lobcorp and ruina, but yeah. i think about this guy and his deeper characterization a fairly normal amount, i think.

to end this off i'll highlight one of my favorite little "gregor is fucking seething and trying so hard to keep it cool" moments, in the credits CG for c7 we see rodya teasing him by drawing a little horse on his window and actively pointing and laughing at it, which gregor really doesn't seem all too pleased about.

i personally think this ties into the other cruel part of sansón forcing gregor to play rocinante, which is the more literal "he's actually just straight up playing rocinante" side of things. gregor was quite literally made to play something less than human, less than even animal really, as he was reduced to nothing more than the shoes don quixote wore as she got to play the leading role. sansón directly makes jokes about gregor being nothing more than shoes in the play twice, which adds to this reading, i think.

this, imo, really plays into the adaptation of the metamorphosis! i've seen a lot of readings for the book that posit that, despite being the protagonist, gregor samsa can't really be considered the main character due to nearly everything he experiences in it being used to further his family's character development at his expense, which i think fits nicely with limbus gregor seemingly having the most said about him through indirect means by holding him up to other characters. also it's rodya carelessly making fun of His Big Major Insecurities™ again like she did in c1 which i always find fun. rodya i love you but god you're the worst.

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[marisatomay]

The Interview with the Vampire movie had its 30th anniversary this week so here is the portion of Tom Cruise’s 1994 Interview Magazine interview in character as Lestat

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the one thing that will always make me furious is the way marauders fans downplay what happened in snape's worst memory. they had snape in the air, in front of a whole crowd, and exposed his underwear to everyone obviously against his will, then threatened to remove that too - which we have no reason to presume they didn't do. james was riled up and being cheered on, there was nobody there to stop him, no teachers nearby and we all know that remus wasn't going to say anything even though he was a prefect.

that is a form of sexual harassment, even if the underwear did stay on, and regardless of intention. and if you still can't see it, imagine how it would look if snape had been a girl. not a prank or joke or argument. call it what it actually was!

there is just simply no excuse for it either. snape was not a death eater, he hadn't done anything to them. he was a child simply sitting under a tree and minding his own business. and i truly believe that this is part of why it was his worst memory - yes, partially because he lost lily in this scene, but that's not the only reason. what happened here could leave anyone traumatised. he did not deserve that, in fact nobody does. this scene already disgusted me the first time i read the books way before i even liked snape. hell, it disgusted harry too. if harry, who has every right to hate snape, can see that it was horrible and call out sirius and remus who he loves so much, why can't you?

[obsessed-aqualo]

Time fan aspects!

Yee haw.

Time is probably one of the most important aspects out there, specially since you can't really win the game without one, unless you manage to pretty much pull a perfect run of the session.

This aspect represents the passage of time, death and decay, different possibilities, creativity, rhythm and also the time from a narrative point of view.

The fan aspects that fall under this category are:

Waves

Heat

Force

Art

Loops

Clockwork

Rot

Garf

And now, a more thorough explanation.

The waves aspects is tied to reaction, resonance, consequences and literal water. A seer of waves would be usually very skilled at figuring cause and effect, knowing the consequences of their actions on the short or the long run, whereas more offensive classes might just be capable of "water go WOOSHHH". It depends, but generally, a wavesbound will have an overall calm personality.

The Heat aspect is representative of actual heat, energy or ideas. Being tied to everything that has an effect on the world around it, but can't be directly sensed. A heatbound will be usually be well versed in art, science or both, and they can be pretty powerful if paired with the right class.

Force has to do with activity, creation and power in both the literal and metaphorical sense. It might be confused with the Heat aspect, and to that I say... Uh, yeah... It does get confusing... Just try to think of it this way, Force represents the capability to change your surroundings, while Heat represents the actual change. You could technically say Force causes Heat, and you'd even be scientifically correct!

The Art aspect has to do with creation, chaos, as well as color and paint. This aspect shares a lot of similarities with the Sketch aspect, since both of them represent creativity, the difference being similar to the one between Heat and Force. While sketch represents creative freedom, Art in a way represents the result, hence why the Sketch precedes the Art.

Loops has to do with cycles, patterns and recursion, while also managing to have a connection with Jujus. A player that starts with a lot of Loops will be someone used to follow the exact same routine, either finding the familiarity pleasurable, or completely hating the monotony of their schedule.

Clockwork also has to do with patterns, but this time being more on the form of rules, reliability and predictability. They excel in figuring out the probability of something happening based on known rules, albeit rules of physics, math, board games, whatever they're familiar with enough, really. They are also pretty good mechanics.

Rot represents decay, obfuscation, and is often associated with moss, illness and tumors. It's tied with the slow but steady disappearance of information, life or thought, which itself was a pretty integral part of the Time aspect.

The aspect of Garf has to do with corruption, destruction, betrayal and dark magic. In a way, Garf is like Rot's weird twin, since they both deal with the same kind of subject, but Rot is more about the cause that the repercussions, and viceversa. Garfbounds are usually reluctant to trust others, since to them, every friend will become a foe when enough time has passed.

(The Garf aspect also seems to be tied to the concept of daily comic strips. We do not know why that might be, but our researchers speculated that the daily recurrence and renovation might have to do with time in a way.)

[gaylactic-fire]

I feel like the only difference between the FNAF timeline and the LoZ timeline is that FNAF fans have gaslit themselves into thinking Scott Cawthon is some genius cryptic storyteller. Zelda fans I think at least have the self-awareness to understand the timeline / cohesiveness is an afterthought to Nintendo

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This is an art trade I did with a moot on TikTok- her Handle is luxlett3 and y’all should check her out

I’m pretty happy with how this one came out so I’m posting itttttt ✨✨✨