#free lessons time to shitpost

[boruwa-sranie]

spits this out like a cat would a dead bird

[guinevereslancelot]

i never spoke or understood a target language better than when i was unemployed and just spent hours bingeing tv in that language

[heartfullofleeches]

Thembo Shark Reader...

Just this massive behemoth who clears out entire beaches in mere seconds - because they smelled raw meat cooking at one of the pits.

Shark Reader can't catch a break. They're hunted by schools of merfolk, fishermen, and royalty at sea - pursued by life guards and people they've dragged to shore on land. Shark Reader is a passive giant just looking for their next meal and resting place. It's easy to pick up on their docile nature within a few minutes of meeting them - unless they got something in those chompers and asking their new companions if they see the cause of their parallel. That exact scene is what lead to them gaining their little following of merfolk who tailed them from coast to coast. While the meats and other good had been a fine meal, plastic coolers weren't the best thing for a shark's diet and had gotten stuck in their gums. They reworked a net conveniently cast out to sea into floss, freeing the distressed goldfish in the process. They were prepared to swim off and go about the rest of their day - ambushed by the teary eyed school the mermaid belonged to. It's easy to keep their big lovable shark around by catching a couple fish or luring humans out to sea. As long as they fillet their catches properly - Reader can't tell the difference.

Some shitposts under the cut

Yan Sea Captain: Today will finally be the day I catch that beast. A new frame will hang on my wall when its finally mine.

Crew Mate: You mean like that oil painting of you and it in your bedroom.

Yan Sea Captain: Another word and you'll be the bait

-

[Shark Reader carries a surfer back to shore and sticks their board in the sand]

Shark Reader: Not Safe that far out. Sharks

Surfer: o-ok... [frantically searches for that "lifeguard for hire" poster they saw at the entrance to the beach]

Yan Lifeguard, standing on a boat: Are you ready for your first swimming lesson?

"n-no?"

Yan Lifeguard: Fantastic! [yeets their victim into the water and swims back to shore waiting for someone to notice]

-

Yan Researcher: All that time wasted. Had I know this would be the way to win your heart, I'd have done it the day we met, my love

Shark Reader, on their twelfth tuna sandwich and fifth raw steak: I thought it would be pretty obvious

[raayllum]

i desperately need your sweetest headcanons of ez and rayla being Siblings

Mandatory Rayla&Ezran brotp tag drop here & first some rambly meta cause like, a lot of this is based on the concept(s) of Ezran and Rayla fundamentally being more like each other than either of them are like Callum

Like they both grew up friendless (whereas Callum seems to have a lot more ease in actually interacting with new people & I've always HC'd him having less friends out of choice, cause those potential ppl didn't get along wit his brother) and feeling perpetually different, they both (like Claudia) take on their parents' previous paths and feel the weight of it. They also tend to have a lot of similar esque insecurities and hangups ("I feel like I'm letting everyone down" 3x03 —> "I failed them, I let them all down" 3x04 / "It's not fair you have to go through this alone" 5x02 —> "I knew I had to be strong alone" in 5x04 / self blame tendencies with "You knew? I'm an idiot! I should've figured it out" 2x08 —> "Ugh, I'm such an idiot. I should've figured it out" 1x09) and are both very much bleeding hearts. They're also willing to pivot away from prior missions (bringing Zym home) for causes they see as more worthy in a lot of ways — going home to rule (the individual collective) and freeing Phyrrah (the individual stranger) — even if that separates them from others and/or puts them more at risk, cause they're just loyal to causes and ideals and self-imposed responsibilities tethered to those concepts like that? I love them

Like they both are like Callum — Ezran is emotionally open and inclined towards vulnerability, like him, which Rayla is not, and Callum and Rayla, esp in arc 1, take on responsibilities that Ezran do not & all their stuff with adoptive dads and communication etc etc. — but they're also more similar to each other than they are to him. More on that here & here + bonus S5 hammering that in more than ever (Rayla going with Ezran's plan in 5x05 anyone?)

Now onto the actual headcanons

Rayla doesn't have a lot of patience for games (cards, chess, etc.) and will be a sore loser/give up when playing with just about anyone else (including Callum) but she can never say no to Ezran over it, and he's so earnest/having such a great time she can never be a total grump when they do play games together

Ezran is the one who primarily took care of her Shadowpaw, for obvious reasons, in the castle stables until she returned, hence why sweetie pie was waiting for her & ready for the Lux Aurea trip

The little archangel lunaris on his backpack was absolutely chosen with her in mind <3

Both Rayla and Ezran possess an abundance of faith in other people, and this is shown best when they're being supportive of or defending one another ("She'll know what to do" —> "He can do this, we have to believe in him" —> "She's alive. And wherever she is, she loves you too")

Rayla weaving a little braid into his hair and having Ezran weave one into hers as well because braids are for love and family, and they are certainly both to one another

This shitpost, which is really just them getting stuck on and continually adding to dumb bits for each other to laugh at

Playing pranks back and forth on Soren and sometimes on Callum

Mostly they just tag team chores like "making sure Callum has eaten and slept and left his study recently" / keeping their favourite mage out of his head

Rayla giving Ezran stealth lessons and Ezran having Rayla bake jelly tarts with him

They always insist on being on the same team when it comes to snowball fights at the Banther Lodge

Ez loves to infodump about certain things and Rayla loves to let him, especially since his trains of thought and ramblings are a bit easier for her to follow than his brother's (most of the time)

Rayla having Ezran teach her how to notice things about illusion animals so she can have an easier time telling the difference (Soren teases her about it and she socks him in the stomach)

This isn't really so much of a headcanon as it is a canon observation but in battle sequences Callum doesn't really usually focus (outside of when he's using said magic to protect Ezran) on getting Ezran away from the danger, instead trusting Rayla to do so — and she always does (1x06, 1x08, 1x09, 2x04, 5x09)

Because she's just his friend and not his subject (or for now, an official member of his council the same way), Ezran finds himself seeking out when he just needs to have dumb kid fun, and Rayla is always down to help him

On that note she's very good at knowing when he needs space vs when he's okay being fussed over (Callum, Opeli) and telling people that even when he may not be able to express it himself because non-verbal times / feeling overwhelmed

Whenever they go on roadtrips in the future, Rayla does her best to bring special snacks around for him (and teach him how to forage, which animals can help him with too)

Eventually when Ezran is a little older, Soren needles him about learning how to defend himself, and Ezran dreads having to hold a sword and initially refuses. But Rayla plops down beside him and talks him through it and reaffirms that they just always want to make sure he's safe, and that's what gets him to come around to the idea

Ezran and Rayla both being physically affectionate people — Rayla slinging her arm along his shoulders, Ezran often grabbing her hand as a sign of support (most often the one she was going to lose to the binding) and squeezing gently, like a reminder that they're both still here and everything's okay and/or going to be alright

Rayla tears up when she realizes that Ezran is finally taller than her, much to his mild annoyance and amusement

Ezran helps Rayla with her proposal to Callum, and does not tell her (or his brother) that Callum is also planning to propose lmao

[generative-adversarial-nitwit]

what are you using/studying to learn japanese? I've always wanted to learn but duolingo is famously bad for learning.

if you want sort of a firehose of knowledge, this doc from reddit was super helpful to me for sorting through strategies and resources and picking a few ways to start. it’s definitely worth checking out to see what sticks for you. most of what i’m using now actually came from there!

my main goal for right now is to be able to read decently. the “tangible” (sort of a joke, but somewhat genuine) goal is that if i look at a japan travelogue video on youtube, i want to be able to read the restaurant menus/signs haha

i’m currently using a combo of: wani kani (for kanji/vocab), duolingo (mostly for drilling kana), and Genki textbooks (grammar).

honestly duolingo is perfectly fine for kana, if a little slow. i’ve also found that i don’t need to be hardcore fast on the draw with kana just to be able to proceed with stuff like wani kani, and doing those things in tandem with kana practice helps to strengthen my memory of the kana.

wani kani is like a much more approachable, curated version of SRS utilities like Anki. it has a built-in curriculum that focuses on teaching kanji radicals (the building blocks of various kanji), then teaching kanji that build off those radicals, then vocabulary that use the kanji. since it has a built-in schedule, this is the main thing i’m structuring my learning around. typically i’ll do a review, then set an alarm on my device for the next review that’s at a reasonable hour, and then repeat, so i remember to do them. i do kana and grammar learning to pass time in-between.

i really like wani kani; it has a very friendly interface and will programmatically determine how strong i am on a given “card” (this is one of my hangups with anki, which depends on self-evaluation). the built-in mnemonics can seem silly at first but are genuinely helpful. more than anything i think the focus on radicals REALLY helps with efficiency and retention in the long run rather than rote memorization of JLPT vocab. the drawback is that some of the kanji/vocab might end up being a little esoteric in practice. it’s also slow to start — you have to keep at it to get a fuller review schedule. wani kani is also completely free until level 4, which is legitimately very chill of them because 3 levels is a crazy amount of knowledge to get for free and many people will quit well before that point. they also have an active community and a public API which means extensions and apps galore if you want to customize the experience

genki is good to read through at your own pace for at least the grammar. it can be found at a variety of booksellers or maybe other ways if you don’t have the budget. it has practice activities you can try if you like! i personally like to read through a lesson and then practice typing out my own sentences using the vocab and concepts that it introduces, but i’m not stressing too much about doing each chapter top to bottom. i really like having it as a reference text. the illustrations are cute also

listening/immersion can be anything you find interesting. in particular i like dogen’s channel because the dude writes/speaks very eloquently and is also just very funny (the thumbnails might seem a little bit annoying. the content is good i promise). he’s a foreigner who’s lived in japan for a long time and he has pretty insightful commentary from that perspective, which he delivers as like… comedic rakugō shitposts. he’s also a good introduction to the idea of pitch accent. my personal favorite of his is Uncle Magnet

OH also jisho.org is a very good dictionary resource. ok i think that’s all! がんばって!

[the-symphony-of-lydia-brown]

Why I propose utilizing battle cries in sport lessons

Let me start by saying that I am not a very athletic person.

Until recently, I haven't been able to serve a volleyball for the life of me, which sucked, because I always ruined the game of volleyball in PE for my team by failing to serve and giving free points to the other team.

My schoolmates were super civil about it, and when it started to be really annoying to them, they opted to express support to me aggressively. They gave me tips, one in particular being "Get angry! Imagine (insert enraging thing) over there!

So one day, one of them had the brilliant idea of saying "Imagine a balrog over there!"

And I said to myself, "I'm gonna fail anyway, why not make this a real life shitpost." So I readied myself, and while launching, I yelled at the top of my lungs:

YOU

SHALL NOT

PASS!

in my best Gandalf impression.

Of course the ball didn't go over the net. But it was pretty close, and weirdly enough, my schoolmates seemed pretty surprised at the fact that I, of all people, could do something a little unhinged, actually.

So I started utilizing that attitude more. (The coming of spring and partially re-reading the Silmarillion might have also helped, I don't know.)

And boy, is it exhilarating to yeet a ball with wild abandon. I usually come off as timid/unthreatening and it gets pretty annoying at times. I love seeing people's surprise when they find out I can also be a little intense, because it's a surprise we absolutely share.

I think sport should help people explore that side of themselves, and I think battle cries would help significantly. Plus, who would yell words profane and undignified during football when they have a chance to yell something epic instead?

[asterdeer]

my hypothetical ao3 collection of midnights-based songfic, no other unifying factor - 40% serious, 50% if-i-was-good-enough-maybe, 10% shitpost.

“lavender haze” this one is a jonmichael fic purely off the “talk your talk and go viral / I just want the love spiral / get it off your chest / get it off my desk” bridge. that’s a mostly canon compliant jonmichael bridge if i ever heard it. they are holding hands at jon’s desk

“maroon” I'm going to ask you to hang with me for a second: richard maxwell/greg kelly. look it's canon that they knew each other (i can't remember if they knew they both worked for blackgaard? don't make me reread any of the blackgaard chronicles again ffs.) and if there's anything i love doing in fic it's turning a single line or two of throwaway canon into melodramatic soap opera nonsense. they lived together in chicago and did sketchy jobs together and fell in love and it was messy when richard left. and then waylaid in the windy city happened. yeah the blood is definitely just talking about a blush

“anti-hero” THEE richard maxwell character study of all time. i can hear i have this thing where i get older but just never wiser in his voice fr.

“snow on the beach” this is a steveloki song and specifically in my ideal stoki fic where it's loki who saves steve instead of the other way around. this pairing IS peak ‘weird but fuckin beautiful’

“you’re on your own, kid” i want to make this about morgana so bad. idk how but this should be a morgana fic.

“midnight rain” tbh i hate this song, no fic

“question…?” ditto

“vigilante shit” this is sheer richard maxwell revenge bait. idk how the fic would actually go but suddenly i’m picturing nb!richard and connie screwing blackgaard over and driving away in his car and making out at a fancy beach house, and it’s making me really happy

“bejeweled” this one gave me the most trouble but listen: IRONIC VILLAIN SONG FOR MORGANA. morgana wins au, she glows up and reclaims the throne and she does, in fact, polish up real nice!! she has been too good of a girl!!! it is time to teach some lessons!!!!!!

“labyrinth” look this song bores me to death, go queen give me nothing, but like. obviously it’s a steveloki song, the bit about the plane? the bit about everyone expecting him to bounce back? this one isn’t clever but it would make a cute enough long fic concept. probably in my loki-saves-steve idea as well, definitely the ‘oh’(tm) chapter for steve’s pov.

“karma” sorry that i think this would make for the funniest steve-centric anti-tony fic in the whole entire world. sorry that i'm objectively right. sorry that i will never write it but like, imagine. IMAGINE

“sweet nothing” this would be the epilogue fic to my jonmichael misophonia fic series. after a certain point, jon being the archivist means everyone wants something from him, usually something destructive or hurtful or just plain something he doesn't want to do, but now jon and michael are free somehow and jon gets to be loved by someone who wants nothing from him except himself.

“mastermind” this is richason to a TEE. a cute little “i am secretly Courting You, haha you’ll never find out until it’s TOO LATE” fic, richard thinks he’s so smart. jason does too but def not about this.

“the great war” i read the lyrics for this one time and decided it would make the most steveloki fic of all time and i was and still am correct

“bigger than the whole sky” this is the fic where jason and richard have a whirlwind romance during DBD but richard dies when he gets caught (either murdered or dies when he jumps out of the car). this song also bores me to tears but the sentiment of jason not getting to know richard the way they should have been, after richard has finally been able to clear his name and have a more peaceful life sans regis, is a pretty compelling one to me.

“paris” nah this is my least favorite song on the album

“high infidelity” i love this song but i can’t imagine a character/pairing/situation that i’d want to write about with actual infidelity?

“glitch” EUGENE/RICHARD FANS COME GET YALL JUICE. i know i know, it's tacky and gimmicky, but, come on, it's adorable! geek love! this is a "falling in love while deep-diving into the imagination station's code" fic. literally the cutest. i haven't quite figured out how i would actually write eugene/richard but y'all have convinced me that it would be adorbs.

“would’ve, should’ve, could’ve” the spiritual sequel to the "you're on your own, kid" morgana fic. i mean the line about spitting out poison??? there's a lot here that could make a good uther angst fic but tbh i want to zero in on a morgana vs merlin dynamic where morgana knows about his magic and that he still chose to turn his back on her. not in an anti-merlin way but still in that "how dare you betray me like that" vein. god "give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" in a morgana context absolutely KILLS me.

“dear reader” oh man you could write the most crushing jon jarchivist study off this song. and by you I mean someone else who isn’t me. but i can pretend i have the competency to make this work

[jaythelay]

Basically if you're really good at something, you need to make a smaller pie using those skills so that people don't feel intimidated by the inability to do it themselves, but put out enough talent and show off some prowess occassionally so people can see you're better than the average set, and that average appears as equally impressive as it is attainable.

That seems to be why the dumbest content takes off for creators who pour souls into their usual work. Relatability is a strong tool. If it's incredibly well edited it pushes people away, and if it's not enough then there's better. Shitposts work for this reason, you can imagine yourself conjuring up something similar.

For example, I still haven't played Shadow of the Colosuss, Signalis, Crow Country, and an avalanche more, solely, because it's not "chips for the brain" but a 5 course meal. And tbh, I don't feel up to it, dressing up, putting on a face, going into unknowns. Scary, what if I get so turned off from it I never try again? What if it reaches expectations but I can't keep up with it?

Some videos I'm certain I forgot to go back to despite having them in my tabs for probably nearly a year, no memory, gone for good.

Comics, games, all of it wants to be 5 star, and the truth is most of the day, most of the week, the year, I just want chips. That doesn't devalue your work, but it's something to bare in mind when creating content, and the soul crushing lack of recognition from it.

That's not anyone's fault. The truth is the sheer amount of work does not equal the same in visibility. A river has alot flowing through it, sometimes it's just obscured, sometimes people try and it doesn't get pulled out. This is the way creation with visibility in mind has always worked and it really can't be changed. Don't take low view counts negatively, take any number of comments positively. Keep creating.

It's why pilots and beta content, earlier drafts, have that "atmosphere" because really? Nothing matters. You're just free to explore, fail, trial and error. It's simpler, and more approachable with moments of innaccessibility being a freeing moment for your creative mind. What lies beyond?

There's an odd magic to the development process where it goes from simple to something complex, and sometimes that's just not want people want most of the day.

I really think the problem with "chips for the brain" content is the low hanging fruit of issues that really feel unneccessary. The talent is restricted in dumb ways when at times it's best to let a chip being Really Covered in it's seasoning.

Or to simplify, the cheddar chip bag has many moments of pulling out a really orange chip, most of the time it's vaguely orange with bits of that vibrance here and there. I'd prefer them all to be bright orange until I've had too many. The less orange pieces are a filler of actual content, while the more orange is the build up's commupence, the reward of continuing past the first or 3rd chip.

There's no lesson here. I just like to ramble.

If you want to create and in the front of your brain is ever involving numbers you can't control, you're never gonna feel fulfilled as a creative. You may bullshit your way through into popularity, but as we've seen time and time again, unless you Actually Passionately Want To Create, you will never hold onto it.

So, build up your talent, knowledge, catalogue. You can control that and that may lead to a different path in life, that, honestly? Probably is a more realistic one too.

[roxannepolice]

Inside me there are two wolves

[iturbide]

thinking about the multi-lingual headcanon’s so fun because it doesn’t need to apply to just Robin

Tharja gets so done with Frederick’s bullshitTM that she starts speaking only Plegian whenever he’s around just to mess with him.

Henry almost immediately joins in because he’s also done. Robin takes a bit more time, but eventually reaches the end of their rope and starts doing it too.

Frederick walks into the barracks? Tharja looks him directly in the eye and says something shitpost-worthy in Plegian that makes Robin and Henry do spittakes.

this spreads to the other Shepherds. Gaius knows some Plegian (enough to comfortably hold a conversation anyway) and joins the “passive-aggressively call Frederick out on his shit” club. the club ain’t Plegian-exclusive either. you speak Chonsinese, Valmese, ancient Archanean? sure, why not, you’re invited. can’t speak anything other than modern Ylissean? that’s cool, as long as you don’t condone/promote what Frederick does, you’re invited. and hey, free linguistic lessons!

Chrom and Lissa decide to dust off their old foreign language textbooks just so they can join in on the fun.

the Shepherds start to feel more comfortable speaking languages other than Ylissean around each other; people start learning other languages, and as they do so, about other cultures. eventually everyone celebrates the cultures they represent with everyone else.

tl;dr Tharja accidentally started a “fuck you, Frederick, we’re multilingual/multicultural now” club and everyone else is invited

(btw i don’t totally hate Freddy, but i also don’t feel bad about bullying him lol.)

the idea of Tharja spiting Fred by openly speaking Plegian in front of him. kinda spiraled woops

I do love the multi-lingual promise of the Shepherds, it's so under-utilized. We've got people from Plegia, Ferox, Valm, Chon'sin, Roseanne...being able to celebrate one anothers' cultures and languages really isn't explored enough. Picking up at least a few different words, like greetings or cheers and curses, let's be real, everybody's gotta be able to swear in as many languages as possible is something that should happen, without question, and I always want to see it.

I definitely see Tharja as the kind of person who would express her dislike of someone by shifting over to a language they don't understand, and Frederick is definitely someone who warrants that treatment in her book.

Henry, though...I can't see Henry expressing his dislike of people in sidelong ways. He's very direct: if he doesn't like you, he will make sure you know it, probably by hexing you. (He joins Tharja in the Plegian only because it's his native tongue and he'll answer in it when addressed on instinct -- and probably ask later why they switched over, not realizing it was a dig at Frederick).

Robin, while certainly vindictive, I can't see being that petty. As much as they dislike Frederick, they would insist on keeping the conversation in a language Frederick can understand for the sake of politeness. (As soon as Frederick's gone though they would absolutely trash talk the man in Plegian to blow off steam though because good gods Frederick drives them up the wall). When they're fully done with Frederick, they will tell him to his face, likely publicly, in a language Frederick knows so that he understand just how fed up Robin is and how unacceptable they find the great knight's behavior.

It's worth mentioning that Frederick does hold a position of power in the Shepherds -- he's not the Captain, but he generally seems to take charge of day-to-day affairs. Tharja couldn't care less if she pisses him off and gets scolded for it -- but other people, who do care about their position in the Shepherds and can't risk potential dismissal, might not be comfortable sticking it to him so brazenly. Sharing languages is one thing -- using them to spite someone in a position of power is another entirely, and could even be dangerous: Gaius, who has already been to prison and left branded as a thief, probably wouldn't want to take the risk despite his discomfort with Frederick's behavior.

Which is kind of a long way to say that I'm always a fan of the Shepherds embracing their multiculturalism, but I'm not really a fan of them using it in such a petty, spiteful campaign against someone, no matter how much he tends to deserve it for how prejudiced he is. It should instead be called out directly and dealt with.

[still-a-morosexual-help]

L e s s o n t i m e .

-Lesson 48 Anon

@lesson-anon

LESSON TIME!

As Usual;

• Links (to screenshots and theories) are in bold!

• Dialogue is HEAVILY paraphrased & the events are HEAVILY summarised/edited so this is in no way a substitute to playing the actual lesson

• Each paragraph represents one chapter of the lesson, I write each paragraph immediately after playing the chapter and so in one paragraph I might theorise what's gonna happen in the next chapter/paragraph

• Solely gonna focus on "Mammon's Route"

LESSON 66 SPOILERS

Lucifer-Solomon-Mephisto are arguing about their clue (aren't yall grown ass adults!?), Thirteen says they should solve the riddle in the meantime. Raphael says it sounds familiar and MC tells him it's a Japanese poem, to which Raphael says he's heard Simeon talk about it before. He then wonders why only their team got a riddle, MC suggest it's because they'll be at each other's throats trying to solve it and that the actual answer will be very simple. Thirteen at this time is gushing about her "octopus trap" and yeah you know where this is going. Raphael realises that to make the answer simple it's possible that instead of the actual metaphor behind the poem it literally means a trap shaped like an octopus and that Lucifer's team is after them. Obviously these idiots are being loud af and Lucifer's team overhears them. (Foreshadowing)

This is one of those chapters that I can't possibly hope to explain it's so fucking chaotic (the three LIs)  ,   (In which Raphael is the golden child)   ,   (in which Raphael is still kinda pathetic)   ,   (Solomon & Thirteen's rivalry). Thirteen fires her trap (Mephisto is pathetic too help) and Raphael asks MC to bind Mephisto (Mephisto vs Lucifer)   ,   (Mephisto vs Lucifer shitpost)   ,   (dicks out).  After lucifer frees Mephisto, MC's team runs away only for Solomon's team to teleport and cut them off. Solomon asks them to hand over Thirteen's trap, Thirteen refuses and MC and Solomon start fighting using magic and holy shit that's so cool????? (Solomon is of course very proud of his apprentice) and (Thirteen gets jealous???) , (theory about Solomon and Thirteen). Thirteen fires a weapon, Solomon pushes MC out of the way, the weapon blows a hole in the side of RAD and Lucifer starts trying to murder Thirteen for it, Solomon goes back to engaging with MC to stop them from going and calming Thirteen down (and Raphael is desperately trying to stop everyone from killing each other). Mammon comes running, yelling at them all to stop

Mammon comes running (Raphael, you bitch) in telling them they need to resolve their problems without fighting and that all they're gonna do is destroy RAD at this rate. Since it's a sports festival he suggests a "demonpede" race where they everyone in a team ties their legs to each other and races the other team. There's some initial suspicion as to why Mammon who wasn't interested in the sports festival at all is suggesting this and Barbatos says that Mammon wants to win and pester Diavolo for a prize. So the two teams agree and Mammon ties their legs together and then he enchants the rope, laughing about how they all fell for it and how the spell and the rope can't be easily broken (Mammon, my beloved)

Mammon steals Solomon's book of incantations and starts gushing about the prize he'll get from Diavolo. Solomon & Barbatos try to get him to calm down and check if it's the right book because they don't think two teams will be sent after the same thing but he's too caught up in his head and runs off. MC can't break the ropes through brute force (remember they kicked down Levi's locked door) or magic. (MAMMON WHY ARE YOU JUST ME)   ,   (Mephisto being a fucking hypocrite)   ,   (Solomon starts planning out his will after millions of years of being alive)

Raphael asks if they really were looking for the same book because Mammon was talking about a "book of incantations" while they were looking for a grimoire. Mephisto asks Solomon to let them go and Solomon seems disappointed that they're not going to actually race. He can't remove the ropes either because they've been elaborately reinforced. Lucifer & Raphael start reminiscing and when MC mentions  they seem close and Lucifer says they've known each other a long time Raphael gets quiet (satan's influence). Solomon remembers he told Satan how to reinforce the ropes but is surprised that he did them so well (Lucifer's proud of his kids). Done with all this shit Mephisto tries to chase after Mammon and ends up falling and pulling Lucifer and Solomon on top of him (Diavolo's a protective boyfriend apparently). Thirteen starts trying to run after them too and falls over and MC can either catch Thirteen before she pulls all of them down (Thirteen's personality) or grab Raphael and fall and end up straddling Raphael.

Mephisto yells at them to get off him but their legs are too tangled up. Thirteen yells at Raphael to do something but he tells her they shouldn't just rely on angels when it's convenient for them. Lucifer finally gets pissed off and transforms and tears the rope off with brute strength, snarling about hanging Mammon up when he finds him. MC uses magic to break through the barrier and the rope and Thirteen is impressed and happy. Lucifer demands Thirteen's octopus trap and she refuses, pulling another upgraded octopus trap to fight him off but MC teleports the traps to the coloseum where Mammon and the book are headed

So yeah Mammon took the grimoire instead of the book of incantations and when Diavolo says it's the wrong book and disqualifies their team he just decides to peace out and toss the book aside. The book however has a summoning spell & drawing for a chimera tucked inside it, on q piece of paper and the impact activates the spell. The book lands beside the upgraded octopus trap and it makes the chimera summoned even fiercer. Solomon is very impressed by it all. The chimera goes to attack Simeon and both Lucifer & Barbatos yell and rush to him. Mammon asks why though because an angel like Simeon should have no problem stopping a chimera before realising that Simeon actually can't seem to use any magic, and he ends up trailing off with wide eyes

As the Chimera goes to attack Simeon, Raphael yells and defends him and then worriedly asks if he's okay. Mammon asks why Simeon couldn't just use his magic but Raphael deflects saying it isn't the time for questions. Lucifer tries to rally Barbatos & Solomon to attack the chimera but Diavolo stops them. Raphael says that since it's the octopus was theirs, his team shares the blame for what happened and that they should take care of it. He also wants revenge for it going after Simeon (aww but also aren't you supposed to be angel? But then again they said he was more like a demon when pissed so....). Raphael takes the leadership role - commanding both MC & Thirteen. He asks Thirteen to use the octopus trap (a new one called 2.5) to make an illusion of what the chimera desires the most to stun it (the same thing that happened to Mephisto earlier) then Raphael finds out it's weakness is water (because angels have the ability to find out the weaknesses of others and isn't that terrifying) and asks MC to attack it with water and then bind it. He then summons a load of arrows and yeah...Thirteen says it vanishes but I'm 100% sure they all just murdered it. Diavolo is impressed by how they all worked so well as a team (so I'm guessing MC passed the first trial) and in the commotion Lucifer hands him the octopus trap and his team wins the race which immediately leads to Raphael, Thirteen & MC arguing about whose fault it was that the other octopus trap was just left lying around for Lucifer to pick up. Diavolo laughs happily about how the exchange students are getting along so well and Lucifer side eyes him.

About Simeon & Raphael I really like this theory by @raphaaelism , I don't know how much I agree with it but it also makes a lot of sense right now. Though I don't know how active God is, I figured he was like the Demon King. And about the prejudice the angels still have - since they're reaching out they probably do want peace (or at least not to go back to a war) but a lot of what they do is still really shady (hiding Lilith's death from the younger angels, straight up lying to them about the causes behind the brothers' Fall, still seeing demons as wholly wicked and being surprised when MC by association isn't wicked) and moving away from literal millions of years of prejudice will be hard and Raphael still comes off as very self-righteous (meaning the older Angels' attitudes haven't changed either) which is why it's still being passed down to younger angels. And even if Raphael really is working against Simeon (because Simeon seemed nervous around Raphael in S3)  their past is probably really long and complicated so even if he believes it's best for Simeon to be stripped of his powers he wouldn't want him to actually get hurt.

The locked lesson is Satan & Belphie plotting about the rope

In the hard lesson they show Mammon's team. Levi runs past them sobbing at the top of his voice about how he can't take MC to the finish line, then Asmo, Luke, Belphie and Beel run past chased by a pissed off demon form Satan. Mammon stops Satan and calms him down until he goes back to his human form and then he steals the rope Satan has and runs after MC's team to find Solomon. Barbatos & Simeon chase after him too. Satan reveals that the book of incantations that Mammon's team is looking for is with him (Mammon & Satan)

Overall thoughts of the Lesson

[mcklunkers]

Welcome to day 5 of random Star Wars shitposty headcanons!

Y’all ready for todays mess? Let’s GOOO:

-When Eli first met Thrawn, he taught him music in the empire. But Eli was biased and taught about his favourite first i.e Country music. This led to Thrawn wandering around his quarters in a cowboy hat singing “baby lock them doors and turn the lights down low” at various points in his career despite not fully understanding the words.

-The officers in charge of the security cameras on the chimeara watch with popcorn when it happens. Whole ship viewing parties because honestly? That shit is glorious.

-Grogu translates to Greg. That’s it, that’s the whole headcanon.

-Padme likes cheesy horror movies, Anakin likes musicals. They can never decide what to watch.

-Kallus used to figure skate while at the Academy to “help with his fighting.” He was pretty good, and still likes visiting ice planets to show off with his friends.

-Wolffe will bite his brothers without hesitation if he’s losing during a spar.

-Kix did Jesse’s tattoo and Jesse did Kix’s. When he wakes out of carbon freeze, Kix keeps his hair long because the tattoo is a constant reminder of his lost brothers.

-Thrawn had a manbun at some point in his life.

-When Obi-Wan cut the mullet, he told people it was to look more professional. It actually just kept getting in the way, but when he tied it back it reminded him of Qui-Gon and he couldn’t deal. Plus it got in his food and that was not a vibe.

-Qui-Gons hair was long because Dooku kept talking him to cut it and he grew it out of spite. He also wore shades, cargo shorts and flip flops at every possible opportunity. The one constant in his off time is that he will wear the most obnoxious, disgusting brightly coloured horribly patterned shirts he can get his hands on. Because he could. I just imagine Dooku walking around in a fancy suit with this long haired hippy gremlin dressed like a Woodstock attendee at he beach, wishing he picked a different padawan.

-Like Jedi go to the crèche, clones teach lessons to little clones when back on Kamino to “help train the future of the GAR.” The thing is though they just play with them. Fives and Echo compete with each other to make the cadets laugh, Wolffe sits and helps them with homework, Bly will doodle with them. Cody and Rex will tell them stories - never about the war though, always about dumb shit their brothers got up to. It was one of these days that Rex and Fives first met Hardcase and Tup.

-Maul can’t drive for shit, so Savage has to drive him around all the time.

-Ahsoka runs all of the temples social media. It’s supposed to be glorified propaganda, but it’s actually just pictures of Jedi doing dumb shit. Kit Fisto doing pull ups in just shorts, Quinlan Vos getting slapped by a local after he flirts with her husband, Yoda eating weird stuff, Mace Windu conked out in his council chair just sprawled out completely. Anakins weird faces when he falls over, clone troopers having impromptu dance battles as obi-wan drunkenly sings karaoke while on leave. Support for the republic gets a lot louder while the accounts running.

-The account got taken down though after she posted a selfie with Plo Koon that accidentally had Ventress sneaking around in the background on one of the ships without anyone noticing.

I need to find a hobby? But enjoy, and if you have any shitpost-y thoughts or criticisms, feel free to let me know lmao 😁

[gxmonth]

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Month 2020

IT’S ON!

We start on August 31! I realize this may be a bit short notice for some, so I’ll be sure to get the word out earlier next year. Just do your best, take breaks when you need to, and most importantly have fun!

Draw/write/create, it’s your choice! All creativity welcomed!

Please remember to tag you posts with #gxmonth2020. If I miss a post please let me know.

And special thanks to @crystalbeastruby​ for creating the awesome banner!

Day 1 (August 31): “Game on!” It’s Judai/Jaden Yuki’s birthday today! Let’s celebrate!

Day 2 (September 1): “Red, Yellow, Blue!” Ah, the tier system at Duel Academy. Which dorm is your favorite?

Day 3 (September 2): “Rule the School” These kids might be saving the world, but they’re still students with homework to do and exams to pass. Celebrate the school life today!

Day 4 (September 3): “Sometimes I Can’t Believe We’re Related” 10Join! Today is all about the iconic brother-sister pair, Fubuki Tenjoin/Atticus Rhodes and Asuka Tenjoin/Alexis Rhodes!

Day 5 (September 4): “Pass The Salt” No story is perfect. So what is something you wish you could have seen in the story of GX?

Day 6 (September 5): “Going Down With The Ships!” You know what I’m talking about. We all have an armada parked in the bay, but there’s that one ship, that one ship, that you would die for. Today is all about OTPs and OT3s!

Day 7 (September 6): “Bring the THUNDER” Ichi! Juu! Hyaku! Sen! Chazz it up! Today the world does in fact revolve around Jun Manjoume/Chazz Princeton.

Day 8 (September 7): “The Power of Friendship!” Favorite dynamic duo, two characters you think would have been friends if only they met, how friendship saves the day, or maybe a friendship fail. It’s up to you!

Day 9 (September 8): “Born to be Bad” Inherently evil, brainwashed, misguided, or misunderstood. GX boots a colorful cast of villainy. Who’s your favorite bad guy?

Day 10 (September 9): Free Day/Introductions Tell us about yourself and your GX experience! Your favorites, why you like it, how you got into it. Or leave the day open to do whatever you want!

Day 11 (September 10): “Cyber Legacy” No Yu-Gi-Oh! show is complete without a pair of brothers. Today’s stars are Sho Marufuji/Syrus Truesdale and Ryo Marufuji/Zane Truesdale!

Day 12 (September 11): “But What If We Had Bikes?” That’s right! It’s time for the GX crew to rev it up on their very own D-Wheels/Duel Runners!

Day 13 (September 12): “And You Are...?” Got a favorite OC? Or one you’ve been hiding in the closet? Introduce them to the world today!

Day 14 (September 13): “The Perfect Formula” He duels with the power math and science! Today, show the world that you still remember Daichi/Bastion Misawa!

Day 15 (September 14): “Insert pun here” It’s meme day! Recreate your favorites! Make some shitposts! Be the troll you’ve always wanted to be!

Day 16 (September 15): “Creation and Destruction” The Gentle Darkness and the Light of Destruction. The eternal struggle. And also the Darkness that tried to drown the world. Huh. Feels a little unbalanced.

Day 17 (September 16): “Putting the D in Destiny” Pro duelist by day and crime fighting vigilante by night. Today is Edo/Aster Phoenix’s day!

Day 18 (September 17): “In Another Life” It’s AU day!

Day 19 (September 18): “I Was Here Too!” GX has a vast array of unique characters, some of which we only saw once. Pick a “one shot” character and show them off!

Day 20 (September 19): Free Day 2/Support Fellow Creators Show some love for your favorite creators, or leave the day free for whatever you please!

Day 21 ( September 20): “Prehistoric Predators” The dino duelist with a fossil in his leg. Today is all about Kenzan Tyranno/Tyranno Hassleberry!

Day 22 (September 21): “Stop Blowing Holes In My Ship!” Some ships are popular and some are...not. Today is all about rare pairs and crack ships! Give those underdogs some love!

Day 23 (September 22): “And For Today’s Lesson...” The teachers at Duel Academy have their work cut out for them, but they still take care of their students. Show the DA staff some love today!

Day 24 (September 23): “Legend of the Seven Gems” Resurrect the greatest light in history today with Johan/Jesse Anderson and the Crystal Beasts!

Day 25 (September 24): “For The Glory of Academia!” We got to see Asuka/Alexis and Edo/Aster over in Fusion Dimension, but what about the rest of the cast? Show us some Fusion counterparts today! What are these dorks up to and what part do they play in the war?

Day 26 (September 25): “Dream Team From Overseas” Austin O’Brien/Axel Brody, Jim “Crocodile” Cook, and Amon/Adrian Gecko. Today is all about them!

Day 27 (September 26): “Duel Monster Spirit Day!” The world of GX is full of spirits. Do something fun to celebrate your favorite!

Day 28 (September 27): “Gold Eyes in The Darkness” Today’s all about the Supreme King! Unleash the Darkness and create your content!

Day 29 (September 28): “Don’t Forget Me!” Have an underappreciated character you wish you’d seen more of? Give them some love today!

Day 30 (September 29): Free Day 3 Share anything. Anything at all. It’s free game.

Day 31 (September 30): “Gotcha!”  The series ends with Judai/Jaden running off another adventure. But where is he going? Today’s the day to share your post-GX headcanons!

[luminecho]

Vios wurmple/cascoon/dustox is such a funny concept to me because in your essay you made him sound like a "no thoughts brain empty only love" kinda bug but now, after hating Shadow and getting dunked on by the colors i started to imagine him as a Angery Boyo who hates everyone but Vio

No thoughts head empty no room for love only rage and spite /j

Ok but in all seriousness I never reeeeally figured out a personality for him, but I know for certain that I want all of Vio’s pokemon to either compliment or contrast him in some way.

Allow me to use this opportunity to use the shitposts to turn this into character analysis <3 dropping another essay on yall

So Wurmple starts off as very much the former. “No thoughts head empty only love” because… well, he hasn’t seen much else. Once he’s with Vio for a bit longer though, a bit of resentment starts to settle in towards Blue and Green specifically. Red is the odd one out. I think it would be hard for a pokemon to not like him. But I digress.

Being Vio’s only confidant from pretty much the very beginning, Wurmple probably grows pretty protective of Vio pretty quickly. Vio confides in him because talking to a pokemon is infinitely easier than talking to a person, especially when admitting your own flaws and vulnerabilities.

Now, Wurmple may not be capable of very complex thought right now but even it can acknowledge that Vio closes himself off around pretty much everyone. That makes him a little sad, because he likes it when Vio is super excited and geeking out but recently it seems the only thing Vio’s been has been aloof and calculating. So maybe it’s a bit of the world’s fault.

All things considered, he doesn’t… hate Green and Blue. Aside from the relentless teasing and the playing-Basketball thing and Blue’s tendency to be rude and push the others around, they’re not the worst people ever. Besides, Vio seems to care about them, for some inexplicable reason. Cascoon has always loved people and tried to have a positive outlook on humanity. But Cascoon are naturally spiteful creatures by instinct and he can’t help but feel that revenge would be so, so sweet.

Red, on the other hand, may have contributed to the teasing at first, but he very quickly starting doting on Wurmple/Cascoon and he treats his own pokemon well and, just like Vio does, it finds it hard to stay mad at him for long.

Time passes, and Wurmple’s evolutionary line doesn’t take long to evolve, so it’s not long at all before Dustox is free from its cocoon.

First order of business: beat the shit out of Blue & Green. They learn their lesson pretty fast. All is fine again.

The adventure continues, Dustox can finally follow through with its protective instincts toward Vio because it’s no longer quite so helpless as it was before.

Then Vio is met by Shadow in the Lost Woods, and Dustox’s reality starts to shift.

Vio’s pokemon are the only ones who know that he’s planning something, know that he doesn’t intend on remaining on the side of the dark. However, knowing that they have a cover a keep, Dustox can’t help but despise everything about Shadow. By this point the shade has shown himself to be nothing but a nuisance who keeps hurting Vio and the others, and Dustox doesn’t trust him in the slightest. He distrusts him and doesn’t really want to be on the side of the dark at all, and he has no reservations with making that clear, despite Shadow’s strange and inexplicable fondness for him.

However, Dustox is one of the few that witness Vio and Shadow together and realize that the two are beginning to grow closer— far closer than Vio ever intended. Vio even admits to such one night when he’s sure the two are along and won’t be overheard.

Dustox isn’t sure where Vio’s loyalties lie anymore, but it knows its loyalties lie with Vio, regardless of what his choice will be.

He still doesn’t like Shadow, but it’s far less of a hatred than it was before.

I haven’t quite decided how much of an importance the pokemon will have over the overall story in either of my AUs yet, as far as fighting goes. So it’s unclear if the duel between Green & Vio will remain a sword duel or if it’ll be a pokemon battle. If it’s a pokemon battle, though, there’s a few key factors that would play into this:

Green very much has a Shogun Protagonist style of battling. Not quite to the level of “I’ll win with the power of friendship” that Red is, but it’s close to it. Vio, however, relies heavily on logic. He’s extremely thoughtful with every move he orders and he can be a deadly force in the arena for this reason because it’s near impossible to figure out his plans. So Vio would end up wiping the floor with Green’s team pretty easily.

Pokemon battle or not, the two would probably still end with a sword duel on Shadow’s order to kill him— which would be a lot more spontaneous this time around than it probably was in canon. Still, things play out the same, with Vio making it look like he killed Green.

This is a point where several of Vio’s pokemon stop listening to him out of protest of his actions. Some are more aware of the plan to betray than others, but Vio hasn’t exactly made his loyalties clear recently what with how close he and Shadow are, and now that it looks like he just murdered Green… there’s a lot of rebellion. Vio’s team is mostly full of incredibly smart pokemon, so it’s not a surprise they have minds of their own. Dustox is not one of these pokemon. It’s never been super intelligent and it’s never understood human morals. All it knows is that it’s loyal to Vio as long as he’s happy.

Vio figures telling them his pokemon truth would be too great of a risk right now, and all things considered he doesn’t seem happy anymore. If anything he seems stressed out. So Dustox isn’t sure how to feel.

Then the rest of the manga events play out. Vio gets caught trying to break the mirror, nearly gets sentenced to death by Shadow (which his pokemon break out of their pokeballs and try to protect him from, most of all Dustox, which doesn’t work out in their favor and they all end up injured for it), and is rescued by the other colors. They have their reunion, apologies are exchanged, pokemon are healed up, and they head up to the Tower of Winds.

The winds are too strong for any pokemon to be out of their pokeballs for long, and this has always been the heroes’ battles, not theirs.

Shadow smashes the mirror. Dustox breaks out of its pokeball in time for Shadow to reach out and pet it before disintegrating into light.

Dustox isn’t used to feeling very complex emotions. He’s not a fan of them.

TL;DR Dustox started off as “no thoughts head empty only love” and slowly became “hates everyone except Vio (and maybe Red) because the world is against them, so it seems.”

[basilesroom]

Check in tag!

thank you to @jungcinema for tagging me!!

1. Why did you choose your url?

Because Basile's my name and the idea was that this is a studyblr and I was gonna be doing some studying... that didn't happen..i should change my url. But it's meant to be Basile's Study, as in this virtual office where i could study and just chill out. I still like the idea

2. Any sideblogs? If you have them name them and why you have them

Yes! I have one where i just reblog whatever i want, its mostly whatever artist i'm listening to atm though.... its @royallynotoverit !

3. How long have you’ve been on tumblr?

oh boy i have no idea, 2018? I know its january 14 but if its 2018 or 2019 no clue

4. Do you have a queue tag?

Nope! If I had to add a tag i would simply never reblog anything

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

To motivate me through college!

6. Why did you choose your icon?

I just traced over a picture i took of myself i liked.

7. Why did you choose your header?

I fly planes and it's the sectional i used during my lessons so I thought it was fitting!

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

I think it's a dumb joke I made about writing essays in highschool vs college!

9. How many mutuals do you have

A lot! I should talk to more of you I love you all...

10. How many followers do you have?

13k!! which is AMAZING I still can't wrap my head around it

11. How many people do you follow?

752.

12. Have you ever made a shitpost?

Depends what you consider a shitpost...

13. How often do you use tumblr each day?

I scroll through when i'm bored here and there

14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Who won?

Not any specific blog thankfully!!

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

If someone tells me to do something then i won't do it so

16. Do you like tag games?

yes! I love them very much

17. Do you like ask games?

Yes, I want to share the love.

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

@problematicprocrastinator very much gives me those vibes

19. Do I have a crush on a mutual?

I love all my mutuals. Recently my heart was broken for the third time so I can’t feel love right now? Please feel free to talk to me though, I’m nice when I remember to/ have the energy to reply!

20. Tags?

@dingdonghun @problematicprocrastinator @rivkahstudies @staedyhan and all of my mutuals!!! (brain is mush i can't remember urls)

[inevitably-johnlocked]

I feel so terrible saying this because I don't know if there's a better way, but after reading the reply where you mentioned that you feel bad your art isn't getting out there, I went and had a look. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into it, but there really seems to be a bit of an uncanny valley effect when you draw people - it might be an issue with the level of detail/realism you're trying to go for, or perhaps the shading? I love your use of colour but the characters feel creepy.

Hey Nonny!

Thanks for your honesty; I’ll take it to heart and try to improve. This is the proper way for constructive criticism, and it’s appreciated.

I think it’s just more frustrating because this has been something ongoing for literally decades. I used to draw anime/manga style, my art was considered shit. So I tried a little more loose and fun style, my art was considered unoriginal. I focused on a chibi style, it was considered unoriginal. My last style, people hated it because they said my heads were too big / feet too big (funny thing about this one, another big name artist in another fandom actually stole my crooked tails/big feet style, and everyone fucking praised them and my art was still ignored).

I switched to humans AND digital art a few years ago, and I still have troubles with noses and mouths, and I can’t do either of those right either. 

You can actually see my art progression over on my deviantART. There’s over 1000 pieces up there, I think. Just so much of the gallery is old stuff that I cringe when I go to it, LOL. But I’ve always found passion and love in fandom, and I’ve always wanted to do a comic, but time is something I’m in short supply of.

I can’t please anyone, anymore, honestly. I have other qualms regarding certain... styles... but I’m not going to publicly say it here, because I already get enough hate in my inbox. It’s mostly all a self-esteem issue these days. People like my art fine when I do stuff for them. But as soon as it’s not for them, I get shit on. I’ve seen other styles similar to mine, and they get lots of traction, so I dunno. And as I said, people have down right stolen my art before (hence the big watermarks), and yeah.

I’ve never done bad in art classes in high school and college (90+, deductions were always because I was always late with assignments), and I’m a professional graphic designer, so I guess I just have a hard time with... thinking beyond the confines of a social media shitpost piece? Newspaper design destroyed my creativity, Lovely. Because almost 20 years of design jobs “everything has to be just so” has pretty much erased the creativity I used to have, LOL. I like it when my freelance clients let me work beyond “photo, name, call to action” LOL. My day job is great but we have to pretty much have to stay on-brand all the time.

I know I need a lot of learning to still do re: digital art, and I do lessons online here and there from time to time. It’s just hard when my current job demands so much time from me, and depression and feelings of self-loathing leave me constantly just... not up, you know? I used to have a lot more free time than I do nowadays, which is ironic given I’m at home all the time. 

Anyway. I know those aren’t excuses. I just want to make people happy with my art, and it’s hard when work and my own anxiety bleeds me dry, y’know? I do art for myself more than anything, just something to break up the ennui of my day job and loneliness.

Thank you for your respectful comments. I’ll try from this point forward to tweak my stuff, and I hope you’ll come back in a few months / another year and let me know if you think.