#her name is Cricket

[sofiaspeaksart]

I made a little sheep!!!!!! A baby!!!!! A lamb!!!!

Found the free sheep pattern here

[sunshinecassette]

Look at Jack and his wife aren’t they cute. Say yes

[furryfricker69]

bitch fell asleep in my hand

must be exhausting to sleep and eat all day

[notjanine]

full of love and so annoying, she’s just like me fr 🥹💗

[liv-iathan]

how most interactions with my cat go

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[emivizx]

Good morning!

[etrosgate]

i finally went through ds re:coded (i didn't actually play it bc platforming brings me to tears, i just watched a playthrough) and this game really doesn't deserve the terrible reputation it has...

it's especially a shame that ppl only have the cutscene movie cause it's actually really mechanically wacky and creative. like it's an action platformer. then suddenly it's a turnbased rpg? in the final hour it's a adv visual novel?? it's constantly throwing something new at you.

and like, yeah it doesn't have much in the way of major plot progression or lore, but i still find its story fairly interesting and charming. in some ways it feels most like a glimpse at the post-kh3 trajectory of the narrative?

anyways, it's actually something of a sora character study, through the lens of a sora that never went through the interpersonal betrayals the real sora has (primarily kh1). we see a sora that's never been told to repress his sadness, a sora that's never had donald and goofy leave him behind cause he lost the keyblade, a sora that's never had riku become so cruel to him.

and because data-sora didn't experience these things+had good support network throughout the narrative, he's like. a lot psychologically healthier. most noticeable in contrast to the real sora.

and in the final act of the game, data-sora learns how to do something the real sora still hasn't: face his own pain, and accept it.

i would not be surprised if in the future sora's arc involves actually learning how to deal with the shit he's been through and talk to his friends about it

additionally...

kingdom hearts has always had a strong throughline of how people/things being "fake" does not mean they don't matter. from replicas to nobodies and sora's memories of namine.

like data-sora isn't real, he's just a piece of programming. but he develops a real heart, and a real keyblade, through the emotional connections formed between him and data riku and the real mickey donald and goofy.

in this way, i find coded in particular to really feel metatextual, and reminiscent of the relationship you have with a narrative (though specifically video games here). like sora from kingdom hearts isn't real, but does he not inspire real emotion from us? do we not find ourselves invested in his story, even though it's fake?

i really think it's likely that the quadratum unreality stuff will continue to follow that line of thought.

kingdom hearts is just video games, but it's also real. because we love it ❤️

wtf i intended to just write a little bit but i rambled a lot... oh well, anywayyys if you haven't played ds coded, i recommend it 👍

[pigeocore]

Found some weird bugs outside

[iwatcheditbegin]

Thinking swiftes have legislative power is wild. Some social media activists really need to get real. Taylor nor her fans have the ability to create and pass laws.

[softichill]

Experimenting with a biker girl design

[valewritessss]

Should I sneak into the kitchen to get a cookie at midnight yes or no

[deejayponethree]

I don't often do fankids but this design wouldn't leave my head

[stinkrascal]

hes so happy lol

[keepthemacramesecret]

u ever think about Out Of Paradise/The Last Word (Ernest William Hornung, 1904/5)

[changingplumbob]

This morning, I can't even remember, ta fatigue. Umm, oh I wrote another part for the Foster household! Basically I love Kayleigh and Harvey but they've both completed two lifetime aspirations and are in a good financial place so I'll mostly follow Carson for the week since his parents don't have any grandkids to dote on yet.

Then in the afternoon I played some SBL, I'm at a bit I can mostly speed through but that doesn't stop me taking too many screenshots does it? Then a bit of Glenn to get some more photos because why not interact with all three of my main storylines in a single day?

I also caught up on some Paralympics, particularly the gold medal a New Zealand woman got in the 200m sprints. The news interviewed her and she was so happy. The previous day when she was defending her gold in long jump she got knocked out of the medals just before her final jump which was then a foul. So the 200m sprints were her "for me* race but then bamn, gold. It is such a good reminder to keep going because things can turn around unexpectedly.