#for making this a reality

[divinityunleashed]

( I'll continue my existing RP's in the story arc, naturally, but I had inspiration to write this so here goes. )

BGM: Megadimension Neptunia VII - Decision

After all the help that people had given Chronoa; the Vacosian Ruby Rose, the Sangheili Thel'Vadam, IF of Lawain City and strongest ally of the CPU's, and the slight boost of assistance from Fu, the project was able to be brought into effect.

"At last... phew."

Chronoa breathed a sigh of relief as all the work she was putting in was about to pay off. Lowering the shoulders of her robes, she fell onto the grass plains outside of the Time Nest with an exhausted smile on her face. It was now time to give the CPU's their home back.

-=-=-=-=-=-

Escorted by Whis and Vados, the four CPU's arrived at the Time Nest, with Green Heart being held by the shoulders with Purple and Black Heart. White Heart approached Chronoa with hopeful eyes.

"Please tell me you have something for us."

"I do. It took a long time, and a lot of help from your allies."

"Our... allies?"

"Yes. Those who you made allies and friends with in the past were contacted by her and they all did their best to help her with her plan."

"It was quite the undertaking and everyone wanted to ensure that you had a place to live after Zamasu's incursion."

"You guys..."

Slight tears formed in Purple Heart's eyes particularly, with low smiles from the other three. To think that those they lost connection with did their best to help them get their home back was heartwarming and breaking at the same time. They couldn't believe it. But they wanted to.

Chronoa showed them to one of the many Rifts scattered across the Time Nest, until they stopped at one of them and took into the air.

"Follow me please."

Whis and Vados remained as they needed to return to their duties. Chronoa and the four CPU's floated into the rift and were transported to a whole new area. They were surrounded by clouds and were told to keep flying through them, staying behind her. Until they got to their destination.

All four of them gasped as the image appeared before them. Four floating islands surrounded by skies, with a central floating island in the middle with a Rainbow Bridge connecting to the high heavens. On one island was a circular utopia of technology, with smaller outlying settlements.

On another was an entire industrial complex, an industrial metropolis with numerous factories working hard. The areas surrounding the city was rocky and mountainy with numerous warehouses scattered around storing various mechs and machinery.

On another was a frosty paradise. Some of the houses were mushroom shaped, whilst the others were fantasy themed with magical colours and bright atmospheres, with eternal snow. In the centre was a fantasy castle where the majority of the Government presided.

And finally the last island was a medieval style city with numerous smaller towns befitting that of ancient times. With horse carriages and sprawling marketplaces, it was like the whole nation itself was plucked out of a fantasy isekai anime.

"T-This is..."

"Incredible..."

"It's breathtaking..."

"It's... beautiful..."

"Purple Heart of Planeptune."

"Black Heart of Lastation."

"White Heart of Lowee."

"Green Heart of Leanbox."

Chronoa then extended her arm to the side, pointing towards the floating archipelago.

"Welcome to Gamindustri V2."

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[notherpuppet]

Sloppy comic based on me and my friends conversation on my bday last week 😝🥳 this is pretty much verbatim hahaha

[mourn-and-watch]

ekko describing jinx from his timeline to powder as someone who's just different but whose ideas change the world. jayce saying to machine herald!viktor that his imperfections are a part of everything that made him so admirable. powder getting mesmerized when she sees different timeline!ekko before he leaves. jayce building his whole life around the idea he got from different timeline!viktor when he saved him. love does transcend reality after all

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[aurosoulart]

Local Wizard Goes To Store, Casts Duplicate On All The Items

aka I went to the antique mart this weekend and did a bunch of art studies in augmented reality! SUPER fun way to hone the ol 3D brush skills

[hinamie]

new official illust of them with puppies healed something in me

[the-meme-monarch]

was thinking abt how anya sleeps by the polle statue. which is motion activated to start talking.

+ i like drawing polle as a Character

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this fucking site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

[kausparty]

historians will say they're masov and nilsen coded..

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[grapejuicegay]

Eddie Diaz + self-exploration 8.06 | 7.06

[esotericesther]

‼️shifting proof

please read everything that’s on here.

i have more if you want it!

i hope this motivates you to another try.

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[crystallizsch]

yknow that one meme

[robiscuit]

I've played this game three times now and wanted to create some fanart of one of my favourite characters, Martiniase.