#hooooo big post

[ask-serafinas-harem]

"..is that it? for some magical wish-giving pokemon that everyone was so exited for, they don't look like that much. i've seen flashier from a geodude."

"shUT the hell up you bonehead! i'm not gonna miss my chance to get legendary-level presents, just because you can't keep your damn mouth shut for five minutes!"

"alright boys, that's enough. now, did everyone write their notes like i asked?"

"well, it'd be kinda stupid if we didn't. that's why we brought the berries, right?"

"well, anyway, i hope this will suffice. we've got quite a large group here, so we went with a large basket.

(it's a variety basket. there's some notes in it.)

"i want to make sure i'm a more proper leader this year. you're all so big and important, i want to be someone worth celebrating to my subjects too." -serafina

"i've been so busy training every day to be able to protect miss serafina, i've never had time to explore any hobbies of my own. i want to learn something new, and make myself better for it." -arsine

"i need to learn more about people. i'm not good at people in general, i just wanna open up someone's brain and find out what makes them tick." -azidoa

"this island looks so interesting, there's so much life here! i would love something that could teach me all about the fascinating history and stories of this world!" -dichloro

"i've never been one for super extravagant wishes, but i wanna try just one thing. one small pleasure of the world that might go overlooked. something to smile at when i wake up." -kindle

"i guess if i had to pick one thing, it would be security. i like to know what's coming, and be ready for it. something that would keep me safe." -phosphine

"i can never tell what people are really thinking.. i'm always wondering if i can really trust someone, or if they're just putting up a front. i need to make sure we don't get caught in a trap again." -sialia

"i don't understand it. i've done all i can, and been training since i hatched, but i still feel like i could be MORE! do you have some super-santa power that'll make me unstoppable? maybe i'm being too hard on myself.." -sirius

"if i'm going to be a super-contest star, i'll need something extreme. give me anything i can use to dazzle the crowd and be the most elegant pokemon on the stage!" -tellurium

@pokeask-magi-retreat

[leoxxii]

being an artist and Legal Adult is just like. oh i can just draw my blorbos doing and wearing whatever

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

THE HUNDRED LINE: LAST DEFENSE ACADEMY - Journal #2: Route 0 Days 19-29. [MASSIVE SPOILERS]

//HOOOOO MAN THINGS PICKED UP QUIIIIIIIICK in this game!

//So, if you read the previous journal entry that I made on my experience with this brand new, brand spanking gamey thing the Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, you'll know that the story already had me pretty gripped even in the early stages.

//But HOLY HELL did the very next arc of the first route grab me by the throat and NOT let go. I already thought the game was good, but the sequence that I'm about to detail to you, particularly days 28-29, got HYPE!

//With that said, as per usual, I have to remind you all-

DO NOT READ THE REST OF THIS POST IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED/SEEN THE HUNDRED LINE: LAST DEFENSE ACADEMY. I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT VERY SPECIFIC PLOT POINTS AND MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE GAME.

//So let's get started:

DAY 19:

//So right out of the gate, we wake up and Sirei is doing some new shit. This time he's on an exercise bike and doesn't really make a big deal of it? I guess he kinda does just random shit sometimes, and it's never clear when he's gonna do it.

//Either way, as of today, we have access to two more rooms in the academy building. The library and the garage.

//The garage is pretty simple, you can go there if you want to upgrade your class weapons and make your characters stronger. But what I found weird is that apparently you can do the same thing in the VR Training room. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I don't really see much of a point in it besides introducing the new mechanic.

//It was nice to see Tsubasa bring out her inner Miu though. Well, I guess Mei Hatsume would be more accurate considering who we're talking about. Pop off girl.

//The library...confused me a little bit more. Because they didn't outright say immediately what the library was for on this day. This is something that I discovered the day after today, but since it's a small thing, I might as well bring up here that you can go there and read books and stuff, and doing so increases your social stats by quite a bit; more than you usually would do with hanging out with people.

//It does take up time though, obviously.

DAY 20:

//Apparently Sirei wears his suit every 10 days that we're here. The day starts off with Takumi and Eito having a conversation about how Hiruko's gone missing, and because of that, the team is severely without a...well...I was going to say moral compass, but Hiruko most definitely is not moral.

//Because of that, everyone is kind of being lackluster about their time. They're all off doing their own thing and no one's really reinforcing the morning cafeteria meetings anymore. Eito and Takumi suggest that each other be the new leader in Hiruko's place, but neither seem up to it.

//The more I look at these two, the more I'm starting to see that the yaoi fangirls had a point, lol. There is some kind of underlying hot tension with these two characters. Which makes me even more sure that Eito might turn out to be an insane dick. But more on that in a bit.

//I also found out today through the upgrading thing that I now have the option to teach new abilities and attacks to my squad, which is brilliant. To sort of set your expectations here, within the span of these 10 days, the combat mechanics go NUTTY. SO many new tactics get introduced, not just from the new characters, but from other stuff, as well as what the old characters can do now.

//For example, Tsubasa gets an AOE speed buff now, and Takumi now doesn't need to slash horizontally; he can thrust his sword two spaces in front of him. I gave basically everyone their secondary attack if I could, but I needed more resources. Turns out you burn through them pretty fast when you're trying to upgrade 6 characters and climbing.

//Anyway, I did some VR training for the day, because we unlocked two more challenges, and I decided to just get them out of the way from the get go. But when I did, something pretty interesting happened.

//The next two VR challenges only unlocked after the final fight that I talked about in the last part, when both Tsubasa and Gaku joined the team. And they're in this fight...but so is Hiruko.

//This does make sense, since it was established before that the teammates in the simulation are digital copies of people Takumi has fought before, so her still being there even though she's not with the group in the real world wasn't totally random. I just wasn't expecting to get to use Hiruko again, if only briefly.

//It really does kind of suck not having her in the team anymore because her ability to get easy kills and regenerate AP really helped for a lot of the battles. But I guess we kinda just need to get around that by making everyone else tougher.

DAY 21:

//I planned on hanging out with Gaku and Tsubasa today, but Tsubasa wasn't available to hang out in the afternoon. So I hung with Gaku in the morning, and did the library thing in the afternoon, which boosted the stat that Tsubasa normally boosts.

//The library system kind of reminds me of Persona 5's reading system. In that game, you could also spend time reading a book, and usually, it took some of your time. Once you were done reading the book, you gain boosted social stats.

//Hundred Line's is a lot more detailed though. Like P5, you read books to gain social stats, but in P5, you only got the stats if you finish the book. Hundred Line gives you the boosted stats by just reading through the book, but it takes you two timeslots to finish reading it (at least the one I did) and apparently, once you finish reading a book, if you use that book to increase your stats again, the boost is not as effective.

//What I'm starting to see is the books should kind of be a one-and-done deal, unless you're trying to boost a certain social stat, and the person who boosts that stat is currently unavailable to hang with. That's sort of how I see it.

DAY 22:

//This is the point where things started to get insane.

//First off, Sirei jumpscared me in the morning with having red paint on his face, and I still don't know why, but he kind of looked like he was trying to make himself a Daruma Doll?

//That aside, I only had free time in the morning on this day, and since I needed to increase some social stats in order to help me unlock higher tier attacks for my weapons, I planned to hang out with Darumi to increase the one I needed.

//However, I decided that now would be a good chance to give the Gift-O'-Matic a shot, and turns out, it wasn't what I thought it was. It's actually a LOT better than I gave it credit for.

//My dumb ass thought that the way the system worked was like how Danganronpa's system worked. In Danganronpa, typically what you do during Free Time is you spend time with a person, and the more you deepen your bonds, you get to see their Free Time Events. And typically, these gifts are pulled out of the MonoMono Gacha Machine and completely random. Then you need to guess what gift would work best for what character...Or google it.

//But what set me off was that the gift system in Hundred Line takes up one slot of time, and I initially thought that it took one slot of time to make the gift, and then another slot to hang out with that character, and give it to them.

//Turns out that's not the case.

//When you make an item with the Gift-O'-Matic, you put in the materials and it generates the thing. You then get the option to pick which character you give it to, and then it immediately triggers a scene where Takumi gives that character the gift. Then the boosted stats come through, and turns out, they're VERY good. I gave Darumi a present I knew she'd like, and that boosted the stat I needed pretty much instantly to where I needed it to be.

//So yeah, now that I know how this works, I can get behind this.

//The afternoon event was taken up by a pretty funny and heartwarming event where we had a celebration feast outside, and Gaku made us a barbecue.

//Gaku himself plays the straight man to the Tsukumo siblings, who eat raw fish, and Darumi who says that the chicken tastes like human flesh, and both interactions were pretty funny.

//Other than that, we also had a moment during the party where Shoma mentions he unlocked a repressed memory. Something that Takumi has kind of been having throughout the game every time we flash back to his scenes with Karua.

//Speaking of which, we do get quite a few of these throughout the days as they go by, but I'm realizing that all of the scenes subtly hint and what events are going to come next.

//For example, Takumi has a flashback of when they were kids where Karua ran off and he was always able to find her. And then the next day, Takumi, after remembering that same ability, uses it to help track down Eito.

//But yeah, I remember this scene from the character trailer that introduced Shouma, where he started to talk about some time he spent in a hospital.

//By the way, that hospital is apparently named the "Kamukura General Hospital." Which I'm almost certain is a reference, but FAIRLY certain is a RED FLAG.

//What Shouma says here kind of reinforces my primary theory before this game came out in that we all come from different time periods in the TRC, but were cryogenically frozen and preserved until the day that we are currently in. He does say that he remembers being put into one of the pods, and that similar pods are here on campus.

//But that's neither here nor there for the moment, because despite the lightheartedness, the day ends on a very tense note. By the time Takumi gets back to his room, his body seizes up to the point of paralysis, and he collapses. Which leads us into...

DAY 24:

//No. I did not make an error here.

//After Day 22 ends, the game SKIPS Day 23, and this was no mistake. This is the point where things started to go VERY VERY WRONG...

//Turns out that the food we ate at the barbecue might have been spiked with some kind of muscle drug, which means everyone who ate it (which is everyone except Shouma), passed out for two days straight. And by the time we wake back up...

//...all our food is GONE!

//This gave me vietnam-level flashbacks of Danganronpa 2 Case 4, and I'm pretty sure they even make a reference to it. But essentially, whatever we had left in the pantry, which was supposed to be enough to help us survive 100 days, is now all gone, which means if we don't find something to eat, we're all going to starve to death.

//Gaku is very quick to accuse Shouma of the crime, since he's the only one who didn't eat the food, and was the only one who could have been up and about to destroy the rest of it, but while I don't think it was Shouma, I DO think by now that SOMEBODY in this group is actively working against everyone else.

//Everyone is pretty sure that the Invaders are behind it, since they are our enemy here, but I think it's more likely that one of the students who was brought to the academy, for one reason or other, really doesn't want us to succeed.

//As for who I think is behind it, Eito is the obvious candidate. For a few reasons:

//Firstly, right from the get go, Eito was suspicious to me because he shares far too many similarities with Nagito from DR2. They have the same, or at least similar, likes and dislikes, both are pale, white haired characters with some kind of medical disorder, Eito's Specialist Skill is luck-based, just like Nagito's Ultimate Talent, and Eito himself appears very similar to Nagito's beta design. There are too many similarities to not make me think there's nothing wrong here.

//But the other big reason is that for everything that's gone wrong in this academy, Eito is the one character who was present for basically EVERY situation.

When Sirei was about to explain the truth about Last Defense Academy to everyone, he suddenly vanished. A few days later, Eito tried to incite everyone into leaving the academy to little avail, and then the next day, he goes out himself, and we're forced to bring him back. The next day, we find Sirei's dismantled body COINCIDENTALLY near where we found Eito.

When Hiruko planned to tell everyone about her past experiences, in an eerily similar manner as above, she went missing too before she could give any answers. And the only two people at the time who knew she was going to open up were Takumi, and of course, Eito. I'm not sure how he did it, especially since we haven't found Hiruko's body yet, but it's quite likely that unless Takumi did it, Eito intentionally silenced her to prevent her from revealing the truth, just as he might have done with Sirei.

Eito notably helped prepare the barbecue with Gaku, and in fact, unless I'm misremembering, the whole thing was his plan in the first place. He would absolutely have had the opportunity to drug everyone, and eat the good food all on his own. And Shouma admitted that he stayed in his room all day, so he wouldn't have seen Eito leave.

//I have no idea what Eito's agenda is. If we're keeping the Nagito thing in mind, then maybe he's setting everyone challenges for their hope to overcome or some bullshit. But I think even HE'S going a bit too far. As insane as Nagito was, he wasn't THIS aggressive when it came to forcing the issue.

//These acts are FAR more spiteful, and if Eito is responsible, it makes me wonder what kind of person we're really dealing with. And it's especially worrying since it seems more and more likely that Eito himself will end up being the new group leader in Hiruko's place.

//Anyway, with little other option, we're forced to go out scavenging for whatever scraps we can find in the wild, even if it's not exactly fresh.

//What surprised me most is that Takumi takes the opportunity to tell everyone about the fiery ghost boy he keeps seeing. In any other game, I would expect him to withhold that information until it becomes relevant, but I guess now he figured that things are desperate, they should consider every possibility they have.

//Not much really comes of the scene though, weirdly enough. Much less any indication of what the fire boy actually is. My current working theory is that he might be a student who already served his 100 day quota at the academy, and something happened which meant he became tied to the school.

//There isn't any indication that suggests there were people here before us, but then again, anyone who can give us those answers is dead.

//Anway, Takumi heads out with Gaku and Tsubasa, but for the first time since we arrived, a storm is hitting them. And it's especially rough because these kids have NEVER seen a storm before; since they spent their lives under a giant dome that, according to, again, the Karua cutscene that happens before this, only has one weather condition all year round.

//Which...must suck! Like, that feels WRONG to me!

//But this part of the story ends on a very tense cliffhanger. As he seeks shelter from the storm, Takumi gets assaulted from behind by an unknown assailant with a pipe...and is knocked unconscious.

DAY 25:

//Nothing really happens after that. We get another cutscene with Karua which ends rather weirdly. She asks Takumi what might happen if he woke up one day, and she didn't remember who he was.

//Jeez, I wonder what THAT'S hinting at!!??

//But briefly, after being knocked prone, Takumi comes to for but a moment, realizing how helpless his situation is...and as he slowly slips back into his sleep, he sees something...familiar...

//Oh yeah motherfuckers. It's TIME!

DAY 28:

/Again, we skip two whole days while Takumi recovers. But honestly, I don't mind so much, because THIS, my friends...THIS is where this story gets A+++!

//There's a few cutscenes here and there where we're finally introduced to Nigou, but the location that we're in is not Last Defense Academy. Apparently it's "Second-to-last Defense Academy." Which I guess is kind of like a sister school of sorts?

//But apparently, this is where the other 5 students we've yet to meet have been hanging. But we'll get to them.

//One thing that I found funny is that despite the feminine voice and appearance, Takumi recognizes Nigou as male, and...yeah, Nigou IS a boy, but like...I didn't know that upon seeing him for the first time!

//Apparently he's just got really big lips, unlike Sirei, but also, Nigou is voiced by a woman in both dubs of the game, so I don't blame people for getting confused by it. It just baffles me that Kodaka and Uchikoshi thought that this character was in any way masculine enough.

//But anyway, the next rousing round of introductions happen, and it's time to meet the B-Team.

//Although, to be honest, these guys are way more like the A-Team even though they turn out to be the backup squad. This does kind of get shown in combat later, but if you think about it, this squad consists of an assassin, a swordswoman, a military weapon specialist, a wrestler, and Nozomi who is essentially a combat medic.

//Looking back, it does make sense why they keep the better fighters on the backup campus, but it was still weird to me on first experience.

//So...how about these guys then?

//First of all, Kurara, the girl with the Jack-O'-Lantern head, gave me emotional whiplash that only these types of games by Kodaka can do. I am fairly certain that she is under the umbrella of characters he wrote, along with Kako and Ima.

//This is kind of how I think it's divvied up so far:

//There's a fair bit to say about her as we progress, but one of the things I want to begin with is that Kurara herself is voiced by Elsie Lovelock in the English Dub, making her effectively the only English VA that I'm actually familiar with. She's previously voiced Uzi Doorman (Murder Drones), Mommy Long Legs (Poppy Playtime), and did the vocals for Charlie in the pilot of Hazbin Hotel. Among a few others.

//So it's funny hearing her as Kurara, especially given the type of character she is. Because if you somehow want to play this game and are willingly spoiling yourself for the future of it, here's some word of warning...she shouts a lot and insults you a lot, oftentimes with slurs.

//Like, it's not like this is the first time we've had a character from Kodaka who, at least in the beginning, is a completely toxic piece of shit, but CHRIST this one goes HARD into that factor! I can only imagine how some of my favourite YouTubers are going to react to her when they see her for the first time, like NicoB and Crystaaahl.

//Kyoshika also had a pretty comedic introduction where we got to see how gullible she is. Namely she doesn't know what a migraine is, and Kurara tricked her into believing it was some kind of incurable breakfast-based disease. Other than that...there's not much to her yet.

//And then there's Yugamu...Oh man did this guy have a GREAT start!

//If there's one thing that Zero Escape and Danganronpa both have in common (particularly Zero Escape and Uchikoshi's other games) there's always going to be one character in the cast who's some kind of weird pervert, but when I saw the initial lineup of characters, I didn't know who it would be, or if there even was one.

//Turns out Yugamu of all people is that character.

//I just want to say that his dialogue, and most of what comes out of his mouth, even over the course of the two days I've gotten to know him, is GOLDEN. He speaks surprisingly casual, but has a very...intimate...connection with death. The kind where he willingly misconstrues pain and pleasure.

//I honestly thought he'd be more like Kiyo based on his appearance and mannerisms, and there are SOME similarities, but not enough where I can directly compare them. Honestly, Yugamu kind of feels like new blood, and even though he was the character I was least interested in when it came to the initial lineup of students, I am happy to say that he as quickly become my favourite of this new batch.

//Of course, in terms of the story, the real highlight of this new group is Nozomi.

//I don't really have an awful lot to say about her as a character, but I feel like she's going to be one of the one's who gets a lot of screentime going forward. Comparing this to Danganronpa and Zero Escape again, she's definitely our Kyoko/Chiaki/Akane/Phi.

//This is by far the mystery that puzzles me the most out of the MANY that this game has to offer. Without going into too much detail, there are too many similarities between her and Karua, not just appearance wise. For example, Nozomi herself speaks and acts just like Karua does, barring her willingness to jump into danger, and she admits that she has a fear of sirens, just like Karua did.

//Speaking of which, I remember there was a scene earlier in the story where it's shown Karua had a huge scar across her body from the accident that killed her father, and I feel there might be a point where we see Nozomi has that same scar or not, proving or disproving that they are the same person.

//Assuming Nozomi ISN'T Karua, I'm really interested to see how they might be connected. As I said before, my current working theory is that this takes place in the far future after all these students with Hemoanima powers have been preserved until this point. Nozomi herself could be in the same boat, but given the sheer differences between her and the rest of the cast, which again, we'll get into, my guess is that she might be a descendent of Karua; specifically one from the modern time that we're in, and who didn't have to be preserved because she already lives in the present day. The only thing rejecting that theory is the name Karua clearly isn't familiar to Nozomi. She's not like "hey, that was my grandmothers name" or anything, so maybe she just is this game's resident amnesiac.

//Now, one thing I noticed about this sequence that interested me is that there's supposed to be 5 other students that we didn't get to meet immediately, and Nozomi, Yugamu, Kurara, and Kyoshika are only 4 of those 5. The 5th character, Moko, is currently not present, as she's apparently been kidnapped by the Invaders, so I guess we'll have to wait a little bit more before the burly girl joins the squad.

//We have a bit more dialogue getting to know these characters, but right when Takumi plans to risk his life to push Nozomi into answering his questions, Second-to-last defense Academy gets raided by the invaders, and Takumi goes to help out his new friends.

//I feel really bad for Takumi in this part of the story, because Karua was the whole reason he was fighting in the first place, and every interaction he has with Nozomi just sends him spiralling through the 5 stages of grief. And christ almighty, kudos to Jay Rincon for selling that perfectly in his line reads.

//There is a LOT OF FIGHTING in this last part of the story, but good, because we get to try out the new characters, and learn their own individual gimmicks. Although I honestly have...mixed feelings on some of these.

//First of all, Kyoshika's unique ability is that she attacks in a V-shape, and she does extra damage to enemies that don't have any other enemies adjacent to them. And this ability is great because it allows her to take most heavy hitters out in one-shot, kind of like how Hiruko did it.

//The downside is that said attacks are for VERY specific situations that don't often happen. And what's worse, her Ultimate SUCKS!

//It hits in a fairly small area, and kind of has a honeycomb area of effect to it. So even if she's surrounded by a bunch of foes, she's going to take out about half of them, because through all her slashing, there'll be some annoying ones who just straight up don't get hit by her attacks. She's strong, but she's also really awkward.

//And yes, I know that Gaku's Ultimate has the same sort of hit range, but the difference is that not only does Gaku's ult cover a more concrete area, but he fires from a distance and doesn't have to be surrounded by foes for his ability to take full effect.

//Considering her ability, being surrounded is a situation that Kyoshika typically wants to AVOID. To having an Ultimate that hits everyone in a honeycomb grid around her makes NO SENSE.

//Yugamu is similarly weird because I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what he actually DOES. HIS gimmick is that he is the debuffer character. His normal attack has a the side effect of reducing the attack of the enemies he hits, and it hits in a small area, which is good...but also does barely any damage.

//I thought I red somewhere that Yugamu does more damage on enemies the more debuffs they have, but I'm not certain of that, and it definitely didn't show. However, his Ultimate is really strong, and hits in a good area too.

//But while those two I have my qualms with, Kurara is FUN AS HELL!

//I somehow didn't imagine there being a character like this in a top-down turn-based game like this, but Kurara's gimmick is that she is the sentry character. Her primary weapon is a shovel of all things which she floats on like a witch, which is adorable honestly.

//But while she can do pretty good damage with that shovel, her main trait is creating sentry turrets that fire on enemies within it's radius at the end of every round. Something that is REALLY effective at taking out the smaller foes.

//The downside is that the turrets themselves are pretty weak, and only have 4 HP, so if they get surrounded, they're pretty much done for, because they can't hit enemies that are right next to them. But Kurara herself can replenish their HP by using her main attack.

//But while all of these characters have their own individual charms and interesting playstyles and gimmicks, they all pale in comparison to the absolute MVP that is Nozomi Kirifuji.

//Nozomi has always been interesting, because even before the game came out, people were quick to point out that her Hemoanima transformation is different from everyone elses. Mainly that her uniform is white and takes the form of armor, while everyone else's is black and takes the form of a school uniform. And she and Nigou actually explain it outright when we get into battle.

//Most students in the Hundred Line manifest their battle gear as a physical expression of their willpower through Hemoanima. However, Nozomi's powers don't function the same way for what are currently unknown reasons, and using Hemoanima is actually harmful to her. As a result, she relies on artificial replacements instead. Because of this, the Revive-O'-Matic doesn’t work on her, meaning if she dies, she can’t be resurrected.

//I don't imagine she can permanently die in the battles though. She probably just retreats until the next wave.

//However, even that lore dump aside, and the explanations given...Nozomi's combat ability is COMPLETELY FUCKING BUSTED!

//Nozomi is the HEALER. Her abilities mainly consist less of damage dealing, and more providing allies with health and shields; something that I think actually is useful, because at this point, we're encountering enemies that kind of need to be ganged up on to be effectively killed. So while previously, just sacrificing your low-health allies was the way to go, now there are instances where you sort of need certain people alive in order to win certain fights, and there's a whole OTHER layer of strategy on top of that.

//But what makes Nozomi so good is that her healing power is CRAZY for a level 1 ability! Not only does her healing restore your health, not only does it cure any stat abnormalities, not only does it get rid of fatigue so allies can move further across the board to attack...but it also REMOVES! STUN!

//Stun is the status effect that the characters get when they unleash their Ultimate's, and it's by far the most crippling status effect in the game. If you use an Ultimate, not only can you not move for the rest of that turn, but you're stuck on the NEXT turn too, leaving you wide open for attacks.

//Provided you've got enough AP, Nozomi can just...GET RID OF THAT! AND Fatigue!

//Which basically means that if you take out the right enemies and manage your AP and/or get enough meter, Nozomi can just help you chain attacks and ultimate's, and put the smackdown on enemies.

//And yes, she can also do this heal to herself. Although, I haven't actually tested her ultimate yet, so I don't know if she gets stunned after using it.

//Granted, there are several caveats to this that kind of reduce her in terms of capability. And a lot of them largely have to do with how her powers manifest differently. Not enough to make her low value, because the skill alone carries her, but I think because it's so powerful:

//Firstly, Nozomi herself has the least amount of HP in the whole party. While most of the students generally have around 10 HP, possibly more depending on their class weapons, she only has 8. Meaning if she gets gangbanged by a bunch of enemies, or by a boss, it's pretty likely she's going to die.

//Second, as good as the heal is, it's range is very limited. It only hits in a 3-3 space, so you kind of have to huddle your characters together if you want to heal them en masse, which isn't something that's typically warranted for this game's combat system.

//And third, as good as the strategy that I've said is, Nozomi burns through AP like a motherfucker. Of course, if you want to use the heal a lot, coupled with having your allies do damage, that's two down already, but also Nozomi herself cannot move very far, and her range is VERY small. So you need to make sure you have a sufficient amount if you're going to spam her ability. She does have a Specialist Skill meaning that her healing ability also heals allies adjacent to her, but again, movement speed is low, and with everyone moving around so much to attack enemies, that's not always possible.

//However, even with these weaknesses, some of them are actually countered by the NEW GAMEPLAY FEATURE WE UNLOCKED!

//It seems to me that every time we have a defense battle, we unlock some sort of new mechanic to use in the fights, and every time, it makes the combat system way more interesting. Most of the time, this is just new strategies with new characters, which again, we have this time, but this time we also have PROVISIONS!

//In this fight, you gain access to items that you can use in battle. You get three of each item per battle (which I'm hoping we'll be able to increase as we go along) and most of them are just potions that give whoever drinks them a stat buff (Attack+, Movement+, or Shield), but we also have barricades that can block enemy paths, meaning they either have to break through (which even for stronger enemies can delay them for up to a whole turn, because the enemy side moves first and THEN attacks. So even if they break down the barrier, it does get them stuck before they have a chance to break it,) or go around it. And what makes this mechanic great is that you can use it OUTSIDE the turn order, and it doesn't cost AP. Thank FUCK!

//But yeah, we have another sick nasty fight here where we get to test out the characters, and seeing as she did most of the heavy lifting in the fight, I gave Kurara the finishing blow. Her animation of it is really creepy btw. Turns out that stupid Jack-O'-Lantern can be pretty scary.

//Anyway, despite all we did, fighting an enemy commander that, to it's credit, had a pretty awesome design, just as things seem to be looking up, ANOTHER commander shows up, transforms, and THIS one is so much scarier looking.

//I'm guessing that this one is like...maybe not THE leader of the enemy team, but A leader of them, because this fight was 100% scripted, and in a way that was...honestly a little stupid.

//After the first turn, this commander, fighting on the field by themselves mind you, gained 100+ armor, making them invincible, and then unleashed an attack that not only covered the ENTIRE PLAYING FIELD, but dealt maximum damage to us all.

//The fight is obviously scripted, but this still freaked the hell out of me, because this is the first time that we actually lost a fight, even if we had no choice but to lose. And the weight of that loss made me feel sick to my stomach, especially because the commander just casually strode up and took down the school's defenses in one strike.

//The day ends with Nigou dropping the twist that Second-to-last Defense Academy was actually just a decoy building the whole time, and is protecting nothing. Which makes more sense why the actual strong fighters are here, because it was to trick the Invaders into thinking that whatever was here was higher priority, compared to the actual Last Defense Academy, where, to be honest, most of the students besides Hiruko were just regular scrubs before this point, with no real training.

//But apparently it was always the plan to have the B-Team join the A-Team, so after grabbing as much grub for the gang as we can and getting on the school bus, Takumi and the others ride off to Last Defense Academy, while Nigou sacrifices himself, blowing up the school, and taking the powerful commander with him.

//I don't think that commander's dead though. I'm betting they'll come back a lot later when we actually have the strength to take it down.

DAY 29:

//This leads into the next day at Last Defense Academy proper where we see Eito and the others struggling to get by, since all they were able to find as provisions were canned bread. And unfortunately, the very day after Takumi and his squad fight at the sister school, the main campus gets attacked, meaning we have two defense battles, two days, back-to-back.

//What was cool is that we actually kind of protag switch for a moment here, because we still get the transformation cutscene like we normally do, but this time, it's from Eito's perspective, since Takumi isn't here yet.

//Before that though, there was a scene we got that interested me. Even when shit is on the line now more than ever, Ima still refuses to fight. However, because she begins to realize how desperate things are, KAKO actually seems to want to go in and help.

//She knows that Takumi will be back soon...somehow...because she's apparently a fortune teller?

//These two are just a whole mess of tropes, aren't they?

//But even though Kako wants to help, Ima just straight up refuses to let her. And the way he talks to her is strangely...domineering.

//Again, Ima is the one with all the power in this relationship. As much as he gasses up Kako, he never ever lets her DO ANYTHING, even when Kako is more willing to actually stand her ground against the enemy invaders. You could say he does this to protect her, but it's scarily domineering the way he does it.

//To be honest, what unsettles me most about Ima so far as that even with his sister complex, he kind of comes off as a goofball who's very flippant. He kind of carries himself with an air of someone who believes everything is under control, even when people's lives are on the line.

//And while that's certainly positive, there's this underlying sadism to it, because COME ON! ^^THIS is GASLIGHTING, and very obviously so!

//It's honestly unnerving not knowing enough about this guy, because he's not a BAD person, but he's definitely not a GOOD person either. And it makes me really curious as to why he even gasses Kako up so much if he's ultimately going to disregard her feelings like this. And as Tsubasa even points out here, Ima has a new excuse to not join the fight every time it happens.

//Unfortunately, it feels like it's going to be a while before either of these two jump into the fray, so it'll be a while before we get answers on that. But the relationship between these two is getting progressively more concerning, and not even in the way people were initially worried about.

//Anyway, that aside, this fight was BALLER!

//Our adversary this time is a blimp-like enemy that drops eggs that hatch into smaller enemies, and if there's one thing I can count on this game for, it's to get my adrenaline pumping in the tense boss fights.

//This battle is four whole rounds of combat, which is the longest battle we've had so far. It starts of with the A-Team fighting off the invaders, only for more to pop up thanks to the blimp, and then Takumi and the B-Team burst in on the bus in a really climactic, awesome, and kind of funny moment when we see the initial clash of personalities.

//Then the stakes change up a bit in a unique way. Kurara is briefly taken out of the fight while she builds a turret to take down the blimp, and we have to defend her for three turns.

//One thing that I do have to put against the game is that there is an enemy on this field that is really really REALLY annoying. And it kind of made my experience not as fun.

//One of the foe types you face in this fight has an ability where every time it gets hit, it regenerates armor, and that stacks until regular attacks basically can't hurt it; they just make it stronger. I was hitting one of them with Eito, and honestly, I might as well have been healing the damn thing.

//Frustratingly, the only one who can actually KILL it, is KYOSHIKA, because her attacks bypass enemy shields. And at the start of the fight, they put Kyoshika on the literal opposite side of the field.

//Speaking of which, I kind of started to realize it here, and I take absolutely no pleasure in saying this, but Kyoshika's English Voice Acting honestly isn't that great...

//Unlike the others, Vanessa Milchrahm doesn't have any power behind her voice. Even in moments where Kyoshika is supposed to scream out an attack, her voice just comes out so soft in the delivery that it just sounds overdramatic and fake. Which is not great for a character who is supposed to be anime incarnate, and a real shame, because every other VA in this game is doing an absolutely banger job.

//But yeah, there's not much to talk about. After the turret shoots the blimp down, we now bring it to our level and fight it proper, and this time, I gave Yugamu the finishing blow, because I feel like he needed the stat buff the most.

//Like I said, the debut fight for Tsubasa and Gaku ended up being genuinely awesome, but this one managed to actually outdo that for me. Especially when you couple it with the fight at S.T.L.D.A the day before.

//We have a brief bit of banter between the two parties as the B-Squad finally get admitted into the school, and almost immediately, Kurara goes in hard.

//The way that she talks to people kind of reminds me of Hiyoko when she's at her worse, though...perpetually.

//Though considering how some of these character arcs are working so far, I am expecting a quick turnaround for her. I feel like we'll be able to humble her fairly soon, otherwise team morality is gonna be shot.

CONCLUSION:

//But yeah, that's where I'm at now, GOD the introduction to this group was AMAZING. But my main takeaways:

Eito is just progressively getting more and more sus, and I'm really worried that we're gonna have a Spider-Man: Far From Home type of deal where he's gonna be put in a powerful position in the group, and only then is he going to reveal his true colours.

I'm sitting strong with my theory that we all got transported into the future, but it does leave me wondering where the motive to save the TRC actually lies then, because Sirei claims that it's still standing at the beginning of the game, and I'm inclined to believe him.

The students from Second-to-last Defense Academy have debuted, and I already have a lot of good things to say about them, even though one is rude and spiteful, one is deranged and perverted, and one is gullible and silly. Of the new squad, Yugamu is my favourite as a CHARACTER, but in terms of combat prowess, Kurara and Nozomi are the highlights for me. Kurara especially is the most fun character to play so far.

I have no idea how Nozomi fits into the story, or how she might be connected to Karua. I can't even begin to guess either.

//Anyway, this has been my discussion for this arc of the story. We have the whole squad now besides Moko, so now it's just a matter of getting her back, and getting Shouma, Ima, and Kako to fight. I'm guessing the Tsukumo Twins will be next to join the fray considering Kako's apparent willingness now. And everything is awesome.

//If you couldn't already tell, I am loving the fuck out of this game.

//If you haven't played the game, and you ignored my spoiler warning at the beginning, and just wanted to hear me give a plot summery of the events, I still implore you to pick up this game and play it.

//Because I'm telling you right now. Nothing I have said is doing this game ANY justice.

-Mod

[helluvapurf]

*deep breathes* Sooo, those last couple mins from the latest "Full Moon" ep... lets talk about that🍵🍵

Welp, here it is folks... the ep that finally gave us that hyped up "Asmodeon crystal" exchange teased at in the S2 Pt. 2 trailer. And... hooooo boi, I have formed so. many. thoughts. upon rewatching that scene a few times. Some that are... kiiiinda on the rant-y spectrum the more I lingered on 'em, so how bout I share them here lmao

Fair warning in advance, this maaaaay not be particularly "nice" to Stolas in these rambling thoughts, so if anyone out there's a big Stolas(+itz) fan... yall might wanna skip reading ahead- lol .w.;;

*claps*

Okay, so to start things off on a (semi?) positive note, the animation & lighting here is quite beautiful to look at. The glittery curtains, the shine in Blitz's eyes throughout his shifting emotions, even the shots of that one broken chandelier (which I thiiink might've been the same one him & Stolas played under as kids?) was a neat bit of symbolism ngl.

Props to Brandon Rogers as well for his voice-performance on Blitz here cause... gawd did it hit me in the heart how much hurt you feel from his yelling ;-;💔

Curious to see more of the use of Blitz's new Asmodeon crystal in future adventures (esp from that one shot in the trailer w/ him using the portal effects against the DHORK crew), it looks cool~ ✨👍

....ummmm, ok I think that about covers my positives atm. Onto the problems I have with this exchange:

Stolas... okay, you were this close to actually doing a good job ending the Full Moon deal. Admitting to how "wrong" the transaction part of their dynamic was, allowing Blitz more "freedom" via-the crystal (that could also help avoid any legal issues that the Grimoire gave), even wishing him good luck with his I.M.P. business as the night drew to a close... ...buuuuut then Stolas just had to muddle everything up by his whole "even tho you don't have to be with me, I want you with me if you want it~🥺" ...which honestly came off selfish to me than anything else?? Like, dude... if you really ARE regretful of how long you let this deal go for, and truly DO want to let Blitz go... you CAN'T throw in such sappy, lovey-dovey words on top of that?? Otherwise, how can one blame Blitz for getting as confused & flustered as he was throughout that convo... you've basically just sent even more mixed-messages in the grand scheme of things, my dude-🤦‍♀️

"I have wanted you for SO long, the fact that you couldn't believe that I might have these feelings about you, that your first instinct is that its always about sex..." ...Ummmmm Stolas... did you seriously forget HOW this whole deal of yall's started?? 🤨 Waaaay back in the initial-series pilot, to the first official ep, and pretty much the majority of Season 1:

As far as I checked, Blitz wasn't the one who kept making everything about sex... that. was all. YOU. 😒Heck, literally one of the first things you told Blitz upon reuniting as adults in "The Circus", was that you expected he wanted to "ravish" you-

-so like, get outta here with the whole pushing-the-perv-responsibility-bs onto Blitz... you ain't helping your case >>

Finally... like, it was already getting bad enough by the point of Blitz begging & pleading out of fear he'd lose his livelihood without the book, AND not being allowed space to breathe after getting further pushed away (and thus, more pissed off-)... but THEN on top of all this, Stolas just haaaaad to throw in this lil gem: "Blitz... I think so very highly of you. I didn't realize you think so low of me..." ...Stolas, with all due respect... stfu with that lousy, last-minute uwu-ing self-pity party crap😑Just because you TRIED to show more attentive care & concern post-"Ozzie's", outside of the typical bedroom stuff... that ain't gonna prove shit if you're not gonna be consistent with it. Where was that "high opinion" of Blitz during the two of you getting stuck in the sitcom set during "Seeing Stars", when Blitz was having that panic attack performing live, where all you ended up doing was... just hitting on him/praising his bedroom skills again?? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Like... couldn't you have just, I dunno... TRY to actually cheer him up/comfort him like an actual friend, would? Encourage him on his jokes, "just be yourself", promising another way out of there on his own merit... literally, anything could've worked fine and it wouldn't have come off so skeezy imho >>;;

...*sighs* so, yeah... thats basically what I had to get off my chest regarding the ending of "Full Moon". Honestly, had the writers actually committed to Stolas cutting off Blitz (even if harsh), giving the crystal with no strings, then going about their separate ways afterwards, I would've been totally fine with the scene tbh. But all this... odd lowkey-blaming of Blitz thrown in, the sappy words, and Stolas not once actually-apologizing during all this (Like, literally I checked and the only utterance of "sorry" seemed to come from Blitz's end before he got kicked out... for what, I dunno- 🤷‍♀️). Sorry for the length btw, but hopefully that about covers my thoughts on the matter-

[midnightmoodlet-art]

Do you have any personal headcanons for Affogato? Little things that you apply to him that makes you happy?

You fool! YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY YAP CARD!

I will focus on random hcs or else this will become a 30 page word document

❧ I personally see him as mixed race: half Cacaonian and half Vanillian (particularly since Vanillians have a strong ice cream imagery) ❧ He has freckles all over him from his Vanillian ancestry (the vanilla bean spots in french vanilla ice cream do you see my vision) that he's a bit insecure about, so he covers them with clothes or makeup

❧ He's a BIG fan of anything high fashion, fancy makeup and extravagant nails ❧ high key would run a fashion blog to yap about it, maybe even has half the Pinterest results be his posts there ❧ He's also really into experimenting new looks, so for special occasions, expect to see some WILD looks ❧ In modern AUs, his sims 4 mod folder is at least 100GB big and it's just CAS items aka bigger than the game itself and all its totally legally obtained expansions

❧ Halloween is his fav holiday for no reason it's because it's the best excuse to get free candy in ridiculous amounts ❧ Would constantly be in top 3s for Halloween costumes, he goes nuts ❧ His home will also be heavily decorated full of trinkets for Halloween, as if his home wasn't already a maximalist paradise

❧ He's big into aromatherapy and incense, and makes his own incense sticks based on medicinal properties (ex: lavender and calming properties), but also some would be based on the very few positive memories of his childhood. ❧ In modern AUs he's a Bath and Body Works candle slut, like holy fuck do NOT let this man enter the store he still has 52 3-wicks to burn through!!!

❧ He never had romantic relationships, and doesn't really prioritize them either ❧ Like unless he really REALLY cares about a specific cookie, he's indifferent about that whole aspect (basically he's demisexual) ❧ He's a strong independent man who need no cookie! ❧ He's 100% bisexual, like his requirement is literally just "be beautiful" ❧ Good luck finding out what he thinks is beautiful though lmao ❧ If you catch his eye though, and by sheer miracle you manage to gain his trust, hooooo boy he's gon be obssessed, he's a very jealous man after all (bonus points: in private [key word] he'd be really cuddly, a direct contrast to how he portrays himself in public)

Ah fuck I wrote a novel again

[trtfposting1987]

i love trtf3

another one of these posts because likkeeeee ?? yah

I absolutely love trtf3. i didnt have much to say about 2 but by contrast 3 i actually have too much to talk about! i dont wanna do this intro anymore lemme get into it baaaaa!!!!

So firstly lemme talk about lockjaw; yeah the design aint perfect and blah blah blah but how they build up to him is so COOL because hes like a shadow lockjaw in only trtf1 and 2 and in this game you actually get to see him for yourself. like THATS COOL. he was literally being pulled out of the shadows and ????? Waaat

AND THE GAME LOOKS SO GOOD TOO. i was always a fan of the fnaf 3 aesthetic and this game has SO MUCH OF IT and yeahhh i know the models arent the most high quality things on earth but man idk i still like looking at it so thats what really matters to me.... oh and by the way funny story i used to think that the phone guy in this game was voiced by scott cawthon.... like idk what was wrong with my ability to recognize people's voices cause he sounds nothing like him but thats just how ill i was haha

same goes for the models cause yeahhh they arent perfect but they have a kinda style to them thats very nice to look at

also vigo. i like vigo :3

dedicated to my best friend murmurokka

I LOVE GRON!!!!!! from the very beginning I've loved gron as a sort of friend to the purple guy. i made a whole post about this but to sort of flesh purple guy out in a way by giving him cohorts he has different relations to is so COOL. in this game he arguably has the least known about him but idc hes still really cool to have. i also just love his design and i kinda miss the era of fnaf where people would make their own color guy designs.... im sure some still do it but its just not the same.....

also i love vincents sprites in this. he kinda looks like hes slouching a lot of the time which. yea he would do that

im pacing around a lot but i just wanna say that i really love this game because of how... much there is in it...

theres minigames, there's a good, a bad, and even a sad ending, it's got a big location, it's got some entirely new mechanic which are honestly pretty cool (love you view animatronic) and yeah its still buggy and messed up but again!!! i !!! dont !! care!!!! its just so COOL that this game attempts to try to be one of the official titles with all it does. nowadays its unsurprising for this to be the case but back then with how much this game did it was like a one-in-a-hundred thing it was so so so so COOL!!!

not to mention how there were gonna be content updates for this like adding lynda into the game and man theres just something about having all this high fidelity new stuff added onto an old fangame like this i also find so cool. that sentence didnt make any sense BUT i will say that i played TRTF3 legendary edition once which is a cool game in of itself but hooooo my god the fact that it actually RESTORED lynda to the game along with adding a nightmare mode thats completely new????? liiiike fans restoring unused content to trtf games is like bvwaaaaaaaaghhhhhh anyhow moving on

shadow lockjaw returns and i like him too. come to think of it it kinda doesnt make sense for him to be here? but whateva a shadow is a shadow

by the way this is just a small thing but foxy is so funny here... tiny man.... tiny little man...

generally though i just really really love this game and every last thing about it????? it does so much and while its not perfect as always, it does it. it did everything it set out to do and thats AWESOME. i said i liked trtf1 the most because of it being the first year of fnaf but i like THIS one because it honestly feels the most like TRTF to me. it has lockjaw, it has a cool inversion of the fnaf 3 location where its more like a fantasy attraction than a horror attraction, it stylistically is so cool to me and i ccccan NEVER get it out of my head i love it so verry verrrry muchcchchch. i really wish i could just go back in time and relive TRTF all over again because seeing this game was such a magical experience....

[magicalmysteryperson]

I LOOOOOVED BETTER MAN!!! Angles was my favorite song and one of my favorite sequences. What was your favorite song and/or musical sequence in the film?? (I know it's hard to pick just one 😝)

Ah yes, his hit song, Angles.

Truly the greatest math ballad of all time.

Ok I'm just having fun with a typo here, let's actually answer the question.

What was your favorite song and/or musical sequence in the film??

I already answered the favorite song one, and it's GOD ABOVE DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE, so let's answer the sequence one.

WARNING. SPOILERS FOR BETTER MAN BELOW.

Ooooh, that's a tie between Rock DJ and Let Me Entertain You.

I'll probably talk about Rock DJ later, but I really want to talk about Let Me Entertain You first because... oh I don't know....

IT'S FREAKING KNEBWORTH?!?

That whole sequence is not only an awesome recreation of that legendary 3-day concert, but it is an excellent yet heartrending climax of one of the movie's major conflicts: the pressures of fame.

Hell, this sequence not only references a lot of the movements and actions from Robbie, but it also uses ACTUAL FOOTAGE AND AUDIO FROM THE CONCERT.

Not only that, but it perfectly encapsulates how overwhelming his self-doubts can be, especially since this man has to perform to 125,000 humans for three separate days BACK TO BACK.

I kinda discussed this a little bit in this one post, but I'll copy-paste some of it again for good measure:

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Most biopics would celebrate the super big concerts and make it the pinnacle of their career. Not here.

Knebworth went from being the moment where he became a god to his personal hell.

Knebworth '03 was three whole days of back to back 125,000 person attendance. A total of 375,000.

Knebworth made him so anxious that he wanted the helicopter to turn around and leave.

His fears of messing up are amplified to the point where he can't afford to screw up. If he isn't able to recover, he's dead meat. And no one will ever see Robbie ever again.

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I also used images from his book "You Know Me", and hooooo boy does it show the freakin' anxiety this man had when he had to perform at Knebworth. This page captures it pretty well:

And don't get me started on the goddamn army of Robbies.

They get activated once he says these lyrics:

I interpret this as his mental scars getting ripped open again, leading to his self-doubts slowly overwhelming him. He pushes on and tries to keep a brave face, even using this anxiety as a way to unleash bombastic performances.

It won't be until this lyric when he starts attacking his own self-doubts.

"You gotta get high before you taste the lows"

Ohhh we are definitely tasting some lows alright.

And by lows, I mean killing a whole bunch of yous while every future tour you will have is the battleground.

In the screenplay, the rebuilding and debuilding of concert sets represents his world tour:

....but I see it as not just the world tour mentioned in the film, but his whole damn career. His whole 25+ year long solo career as a pop artist. Which makes perfect sense, since Angel Robbie is in attendance.

And he attacks right when the concert that gets manifested has a hybrid of Robbie's outfit from the Take The Crown Tour of 2013 and the hair from the Let Me Entertain You Tour of 2015, no less!

And the layers of self-depreciation go deeper than this.

Before I saw the movie, I discovered something really interesting that gives this chant a whole new meaning.

The chant used in the second bridge and the outro is the same chant from "Take That and Party" by Take That.

When the Robbies say this chant, it's not a chant of encouragement.

It's a haunting reminder of his past mistakes. How he screwed everything up with Take That.

The mirror match between Robbie and his own "self-reflection" makes this fact perfectly clear.

One Robbie uses it as encouragement for himself while the other uses it to mock the enemy.

Both sides are equally matched and mirror each other's movements... so the only way to end this madness, to end this cycle of pain, is to Kill Robbie.

......

Woooof. That was a lot of words. Thanks for asking!

Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna flop onto the floor and pass out.

[flower-boi16]

Im wholeheartedly agree that Zhan tiri is the most boring villain in cartoons. Not to mention Cassandra's questionable betrayal like gurl you got better life and better family than living with Gothel.

TTS kinda fell flat when it came to its antagonists. Like, Varian was the one good antagonist the show really had and even he has a few issues (though none are too big to hamper my enjoyment of him as a character). The other two....they kinda suck. Zhan Tiri is a disappointment of a final villain with a really one-note motivation of just wanting power and being incredibly boring and uninteresting of a character that's not even that fun to watch.

Cass's villain arc meanwhile is such a complete mess that I'm currently writing a post tearing it apart. Because hooooo boy, Cass's villain arc is the show's writing at its absolute worst.

TTS is a mostly good show but man did make some questionable writing decisions at points, especially in season 3.

[lunarle-old]

Hiii!! I just binge-read all of love letter, fever frost, and impermanent atttachment in I kid you not 48 hours. I'm running on redbull and my danganronpa special interest rn... anyways, came to say your fics are amazing and life changing and I like Shuichi a lot more now

Also why does he keep getting kidnapped and tortured??? Lunar you may need a therapist 😥

O_O hooooo boy. gee willikers. please drink water

Im glad you liked those fics so much !! :D it's always nice to hear someone enjoyed my little tidbits of insanity (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡ must spread my shuichi propaganda.....yess....... its growing .......

I've actually had a few therapists, all of which I cant see anymore. Those I did have though have suggested that writing is actually a good outlet for me !! The only reason I ever posted my stories onto ao3 was because I wanted to try to work past some of my social anxiety (which at the time, was so bad I couldnt even talk to my teachers without freezing), and I only continued to post because of the support I got. I love writing stories and I love Danganronpa all the same, so getting to share that joy with people who shared my passion was super awesome (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+ .

To put it shortly, writing is my therapy, in a sense. I dont do well talking to people about how i feel or whatever, so expressing my feelings and ideas through characters is really the only thing I can do. I write for fun! But I also write to express things I cant put into words in the real world. Namely, my fears. And thats a whole nother conversation I dont mind getting into but wont right now since its not relevant xD

The reason Shuichi keeps getting kidnapped and tortured is because hes my favorite. I resonate with him and his trauma a lot. But its not just that. It's not that I like seeing characters get hurt!! The only reason I can write such things is because I know there will be a happy ending for them-- or at least, as happy as there can be. I enjoy the comfort part of things!! The initial rescue!! I like knowing that despite everything, no matter whats thrown their way, theyre going to be okay!!! (⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♡

yeah i'm just a big sucker for hurt/comfort idk LMAO. There were hardly any Fucked Up shuichi fics out there as far as i could find in my heavily filtered searches so i just. wrote my own (⁠个⁠_⁠个⁠) be the change you want to see in the world or something like that

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

hey lary!! since you run so many askblogs for paw patrol, what are your opinons of humanized AU’s of the pups? in your opinion, are they cool or too out of character for you?

and if you do think they’re cool, do you have any headcanons on what the pups would look like?

Hooooo man ahsuahshahsha okay let me see

PERSONALLY I am not a big fan of this kind of AU, but that's probably because I prefer animals to people (I'm not a people hater). Besides I always liked more the way how animals can be so expressive, use a lot of body language and you don't need to guess if they're in a good mood or if they'll try to bite or kick you - they make it evident. I'm absolutely AWFUL to understand human body language or social cues, it got me in so much deep trouble several times I literally avoid staying around a bunch of my relatives because of that - and that's because I love them, imagine how it would go if I disliked or hated them???

Also I tend to gravitate towards animals the most because they're sincere and won't lie to you on how they feel. And about cartoons/movies/etc, animals usually represent fantasy, a fantastic different world, another point of view I live for and love to explore. They're an escape for my mind to take a break from our chaotic real world and just... Go back to our roots, y'know? All those jokes like "When I was a child my only worries were my school grades, what we would have for dessert and to finish homework in time for watching my favorite cartoons on TV, I was happy and I didn't know it", like now I have too many "adult worries" such as monthly bills expiring, being unemployed, spending hours at the supermarket doing maths to buy the most I can with little money... Being a freelancer artist is hard as hell, I can barely make a living for my parents and little brother and my pets (I've gone hungry to bed several times before bc I spent my last savings on cat food instead of dinner for myself, also my cat and dog share the cat food bc dog food is more expensive and thank God they eat the cheapest kibble just fine). Right now it's been three weeks I'm staying at my friend Pablo's home to recover from a crisis of malnutrition. I am literally here to be properly fed and regain weight and strength. I think I can go back home next week.

So, sometimes I just... Don't want to worry. And then I go for animals. Their only worries are when I'll feed them, if we can play together now or in five minutes, and if I'll sleep next to them in the living room that night or not (they can't sleep in the bedroom XD). Their life is so much more simple and I like that kind of simplicity.

Also I draw animals better than humans too LOL (even if my mom will disagree with me on that, she says my humans are just as good nowadays)

With all that being said, I also find humanized AUs interesting in their own way when they're well written. Sometimes it's hard to adapt things, a lot of stuff that works with animals won't work with humans just as well or will be viewed as weird. I like to come up with furry AUs sometimes, they're sort of humanized, but still retaining their animal traits. But when people do their research, pour their love and soul in it, work on the little things to make it all click together, a nice carefully written human AU will appeal to me almost as much as the original source any day.

As for appearance headcanons? Oh well XD I'm not sure I can answer that so quickly - I like to take my time and do a lot of research, try sketching stuff to see if it works well or not... I'll owe you the answer for now, alright? I'll show up someday with another post listing my headcanons for a human AU on the pups.

After I do the same for a furry AU, as a warm up XD

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A read through of the Eight Doctor Adventure book series with screen caps and personal impressions of each story - [Master Post] #Kida's EDA Experience -> for the block tag

#32 The Fall of Yquatine

30th April 2025

This book really was a run on series of different characters reacting in anger and/or panic which then caused more problems.

Hooooo boy, you fucked up big time Doctor. Be glad Compassion had to go through all those decades of trial and error to ice her temper or you'd be in pieces by now.

Her murder spree was understandable I'm just saying

I get he did it with good intentions (the road to hell is paved etc etc), but he forgot, as he does with a lot of people, that she isn't a machine to be fixed or adjusted to solve a problem. At least he immediately knew what he did was wrong and was rightfully cowed by her anger to await judgement. I hope that contrition continues in the following books.

Fitz gets his lil moment to shine only to have his actions eventually bite him in the ass, despite, once again, doing them with good intentions.

Even if the author didn't want to make more of a joke out of this, I was certainly able to fill in what wasn't said here

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Marika for the bingo plz plz plz

Hooooo boy

I was writing rambles about her before the DLC, and I sure was writing them afterwards XD She was still a very interesting character for me even before her backstory got solidfied, and not for the "noble rebel against Greater Will" reasoning..! She was bad-bad in my eyes, not manipulated-bad. I just always saw the potential and how far motives went in the grand scheme of things! Granted, Ymir kind of confirm that a lot about her evil IS the fault of the Two Fingers that gave her a HAND (haha.... ha-). Unless unreliable narrator effect? guys?

I jokingly call her 'MILF Gwyn' but in reality, analysing where she shares the type of a character with him and where she is meaner different legit DID help with an insight too! Honestly one of the best villains Fromsoft ever had! Like not villain or antagonist to us the main character; a villain to the setting's WORLD xD

^ Also I never meant to post this but the checkbox of "literally would kiss them" is not even a joke as I doodled this once dsjhdfhs It was after one hell of a DS-ish dream that made me think about her much more than before (if not what STARTED the big interest)

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3, 17, 19 fart kink ask please 🙂

3. What’s your favorite type of fart?

Oh god there's so many types. But man low, bassy, rumbly farts that drone on are really good, especially in jeans or against a bed or a couch. Wet farts are super hot too. I really like seeing those in white pants (cause it makes me think something else is gonna happen🥴🥴🥴). Ooh and I also really like squeaky farts and farts that sound kinda cartoony. And little quick, loud braps and small airy toots. Speaking of airy I also like those farts that sound like a mix of airy and wet uugh. OOH but I'm also a BIG fan of silent farts. There's just something about a hot hiss from a hole that stinks to high heaven that really turns me on hehehehe

17. Would you ever consider recording your farts?

I've actually recorded some of my farts here on tumblr. But I haven't done it in a while. I might record again soon but I don't have many good natural farts.

19. Are you good at farting?

Uhhhh well I guess I'm pretty decent with my natural farts but when it comes to my on command farts, hooooo boy, they are something else. I'm really good at controlling my hole and making them come out as wet or as loud as I want. I can make them silent if I want, and the more I do it on command, the wetter they get on their own hehe and sometimes if I take in too much air, I'll accidently fart if I press on my stomach (I start having a gas leak uuugh)

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OBLIGATORY TATORT REVIEW POST ZU: DER MANN DER IN DEN DSCHUNGEL FIEL

(keep in mind dass ich die Folge vor mittlerweile einer Woche gesehen hab und leider keine Zeit für nen rewatch hab. So if there's anything i misrembered: idk was dann actually)

Where to begin. Die Folge war zur Abwechslung mal wieder durchaus akzeptabel. Ich hab sogar mehrmals gelacht weil's lustig war :)

Die Title card und die Font für die credits waren eine. Bold stylistic Choice to say the least. Ich persönlich finde dieser stil passt irgendwie wie nicht in einen Tatort aber für die Folge geb ich nen pass, hat doch ganz gut in das Gesamtkonzept gepasst

Visuell war die Folge jetzt nicht überragend aber auch nicht schlecht. Kann man durchaus so machen. Ich fand gut dass die Handlung sich wieder auf eine überschaubare Anzahl von Drehorten konzentriert hat, nich so wie in Magic Mom oder so wo die irgendwie ziellos durch ganz Münster rennen und alle 3 minuten woanders sind. Plus die guten alten Münsteraner Originalschauplätze waren besser in die Handlung integriert. Like endlich hatten sie mal wieder nen gescheiten Grund warum sie ständig über den Prinzipalmarkt rennen

KF is back!!! Ich mochte die characterisation von Boerne sehr in dieser Folge!! Diese Figur die JJL in den vorherigen paar Folgen gespielt hat hatte für mich so gut wie nix mit dem original KF zu tun. Who even was he. Sehr refreshing wieder good old fashioned bratty gay KF shenanigans zu sehen!

Ein Aspekt der mich persönlich sehr gestört hat in so "Folgen" wie Magic Mom, Rhythm & Love, Lakritz, etc. war die Art wie Boerne mit Frauen interagiert. Lack of queercoding mal kurz außer Acht gelassen jz, in den frühen Folgen war Boerne eher jemand der gern und oft bisschen flirty unterwegs ist, entweder einfach weil es ihm Spaß macht oder weil er tatsächliches Interesse an seinem Gegenüber zu haben scheint. Im Vergleich dazu war er in letzter Zeit the cringiest clumsiest MFer jedes mal wenn er mit einer Frau im Gespräch war, und kam einfach nur komplett sozial inkompetent rüber. Imo it makes for a much more compelling characterisation dass Boerne eigentlich durchaus charmant sein kann wenn er möchte, und sein weirdes Verhalten was er sonst an den Tag legt ganz einfach aus seinem massively overinflated Ego resultiert. Also imean dass er sich durchaus bewusst ist dass er oft incredibly rude und weird ist, aber es juckt ihn halt einfach nicht dass andere das komisch finden. Anyway. Im glad flirty chad KF got to make a return, i hope he's here to stay.

Boerne und Thiel jeweils sehr gut geschrieben dieses mal, sowohl einzeln als auch deren Beziehung zueinander. Like everyone else on here fand ich den Bruch mit der permanenten Gegenwart schön, auch in der Hinsicht dass in den Interactions von KF und Thiel deutlich wird dass sie sich mittlerweile sehr lange und gut kennen. Big married couple Energy 10/10

Die anderen Figuren leider größtenteils wieder eher schwach, once again hatte ich hier das Gefühl dass Herbert und Klemm einfach iwie am Rande der Handlung existieren und nur vorkommen weil das halt zu ner typischen Folge dazugehört. Ich würde mir wünschen dass die beiden mal wieder mehr in die Handlung integriert werden und n bisschen Personality bekommen, nicht nur einfach jede Folge nen gag einbauen dass Herbert Gras verkauft und n paar Szenen wo die Klemm streng guckt und raucht. It's like they don't know what to do with them anymore.

Über Mirko muss ich nen extra Post noch machen hooooo boy

Frau Haller in der Folge fandich hingegen nice. Die war auch wieder mehr die Alte, loved that. Plus das silberne Kleid am Anfang? Slay

Detlev Buck hat seine Rolle phänomenal gespielt, insgesamt fand ich seinen Character auch cool, aber man hätte noch mehr Potenzial aus der Figur rausholen können. Für mich war das viel zu früh klar dass er sich seine ganzen Geschichten einfach nur ausdenkt. Imean das gründlich und frühzeitig andeuten ist gut aber ein BISSCHEN mehr Spannung hätte deerHandlung doch gut getan.

Stichwort mehr Potenzial: Die anderen Nebenfiguren hätten ruhig noch etwas mehr Raum in der Handlung einnehmen können, vor allem diese Gisela und die Tochter. Damit hätte man gut noch ne falsche Fährte legen können die das ganze ein bisschen spannender gemacht hätte. Im Vergleich zu vorherigen Folgen waren die Nebenfiguren aber hier deutlich besser geschrieben und hatten endlich wieder ein wenig Tiefe. Va die bisschen melancholischen atmospherically lit scenes haben mich da positiv überrascht.

Was mir NICHT gefallen hat war die Auflösung am Ende wo das Tatmotiv basically Feminismus war? Also hier mit der komischen blauhaarigen Bayerin und dieser dubiosen App und allem. Was sollte das. Ich glaub ich muss hier nicht lang und breit ausführen warum das scheisse ist wenn Feministinnen als rachsüchtige Männermörderinnen dargestellt werden, die nebenbei zum Spaß noch Hunde erschießen. Like. Vor allem diese Bayerin, die kommt einfach von sonstwoher, man weiß nix über sie oder ihr konkretes Motiv warum sie ihren Mann und dessen Hund erschießen will, sie sagt einfach ja hier i did it because Feminism! Das sind erstens lame misogyne Klischees und zweitens lazy writing. Do better. Ich fand das erst recht bedenklich vor dem Hintergrund of the fucking disaster that was Magic Mom, also ich kann daraus jetzt nix direkt zitieren als Beispiel weil ich mich weigere noch mehr meiner Lebenszeit an dieses dumpster fire von Folge zu verschwenden. Aber da hat das auch schon angefangen dass sich beim Münsteraner Tatort neuerdings gerne über Feminismus und Frauen im allgemeinen lustig gemacht wird. Needless to say find ich das kacke

Dreist auch dass sie dabei noch den callback an Summ Summ Summ gemacht haben, eine Folge in der es ja um ne sehr ähnliche Thematik ging, in der diese aber sehr viel besser und sensibler gehandlet wurde. Überhaupt gab's früher so viele gute Weibliche Charaktere beim Münster Tatort, darunter auch viele Mörderinnen und Verbrecherinnen, deshalb find ichs ganz besonders schade dass es jetzt auf einmal in sone eklige sexistische Richtung geht. I guess man braucht halt die Quoten von den ganzen sexist Almans die sowas lustig finden

Junge der Witz "san sie überhaupt a Frau" war so hart daneben? Ich versteh auch nicht dass so viele hier in der community den so funny fanden. It's literally just transmisogyny there's nothing clever or funny about that

Look im sorry dass ich ständig immer nur sag waaaa Tatort Münster used to be so much better. But im right. Aber es ist apparently noch nicht alles verloren, die neue Folge war in vielerlei Hinsicht ein Schritt (zurück) in die richtige Richtung! Lets hope dass sie diesen Ansatz weiterverfolgen. Or else 🗡

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This might be too many but, for the MacGyver ask game:

4, 7, 15, 16, & 18?

(:

There's no such thing as too many. 😂 It's just a matter of how long it'll take me to write something for all of them. But here goes:

Do you have any favorite fandom media you’d like to recommend? (Fic, edits, art, etc.)

Hooooo boy, am I ever bad at picking a favorite of anything and sticking with my opinion the next time I come across something shiny. Has anybody not read Turkey Day yet? Everybody's surely read it. If anyone hasn't they should immediately run over to AO3 right now.

How did you discover the show?

It was October 2021 and I was suffering Peak Pandemic Loneliness. Friday night I watched a couple episodes of The Americans because one of my writing forums was having a big plotting discussion about it. I love spy shows generally and I really enjoyed The Americans the first time through but it was just NOT the mood I was in right then, it was too dark and too bleak. So at the end of episode 2 Amazon popped up a list of “also recommends” stuff and there was the MacGyver reboot, first thing on the list. I loved OG MacGyver, watched it after school and in the summers as a kid, there are episodes I managed to see enough at a time when you were stuck watching whatever the TV wanted to show you that I could easily recall major plot points and characters like 30ish years later BUT. I hadn’t seen the reboot because I’d seen friends panning it on Facebook when it came out. (I’m sure I’ve posted Rosie’s Theory of Why Middle Aged White Guys Hated MacGyver 2016 before. But I didn’t realize it at the time.) So I thought to myself, well I’m already in a bad mood and bored, why not watch something crappy that I’ll probably hate? and started up 1x01.

Obviously that did NOT go as anticipated because 1x01 is really a pretty awesome pilot episode and I enjoyed it enough to immediately start up episode 2, and by the end of episode 2 I was in love with the whole thing. Like, obsessively in love with it in a way I rarely get. I stayed up until 2am watching the first 5 eps in a row.

Have you learned any Mac Hacks?

Oh definitely, although I’ll admit my favorite (and most useful) Mac Hack of all time is from MacGyver 1985: the time OG Mac magnetized an iron pole by hitting it in the same way over and over, a trick that can also be used to magnetize a screwdriver. A few months ago I accidentally locked a door at the youth group where I volunteer. No one had a key and we really needed to get back into the room, and I got it open by user-testing an idea I’d come up with for a fanfic. 

What’s your favorite cold open?

Definitely 1x12, the truth serum cold open. The 1x02 North Korea escape is also pretty high on my list of favorites. 

If you could wish an episode tag/missing scene fic into existence, which episode would you choose?

Jack taking Mac to Texas to meet his family. We got a family/backstory episode for Riley, Bozer, even Desi, but we have to headcanon basically everything about Jack’s family.

[tending-the-hearth]

You seem cool to talk to! :D

Just got into transformers less than a week ago and Bumblebee is already my favorite yellow boy! Since you seem to like Bumblebee a lot too, what are your favorite Bumblebee moments? Also, WHAT'S THIS ABOUT HIM DYING TWICE?

(Also, I know you posted this like 3 days ago, but if you still want to talk about your ninja turtle angst, I'm also a turtle fan and I will listen!)

you think i'm cool omg giving you forehead kisses

BEE MY BELOVED <33333

favorite Bee moments!!!!

*shows up late to the big battle to save my planet* lol sorry there was traffic HE'S SO SILLY FOR THAT

also i really really loved Dylan O'Brian as Bee's voice at the start of the Bumblebee movie! Seeing as it's one of our only times hearing him within that universe, he did a fantastic job immediately adding the usual Bee mannerisms with his own twist!

all the Bee and Charlie hugs, they're soulmates your honor

the "oh captain my captain" line in the RotB movie 😭

Optimus confirming that Bee likes going to drive-in movies while he supposed to be on patrol

the Bee and Noah team up in the final battle of RotB

In Transformers Prime (one of my FAVORITE tv shows ever, and highly recommend if you're getting into Transformers!) Bumblebee's relationship with his human, Raf! They are THE big brother little brother duo

and yeah.... spoilers for the newer movies but he dies in the Bumblebee movie, gets revived by Charlie, THEN he dies in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and he gets revived then as well! my poor boy is getting put through the wringer!!! let him rest!!!

NOW PIVOTING BECAUSE YOU'RE ASKING ME ABOUT MY ANGST AU??? BLESS

the Mutant Mayhem universe becomes sort of like the "home base" for whenever the four groups get together, because they've got the biggest lair and it's very fun to hang out with all the other mutants as well without having to worry about getting hurt!

omg i have THE idea of the 2012 boys staying over in the MM universe, and ending up going to school with the MM boys, and being pleasantly surprised when they're greeted with smiles and handshakes and high fives, it's another reason they favor the MM universe

the Big Confrontation between 2012 Splinter and everyone else takes place on the 2012 boys' birthday 😌 that's all i'm saying

i want to write out a conversation between 2012 Leo and Bayverse!Splinter, because i love the idea that they click super well, so I can see Leo really opening up to him about everything that happened, especially considering the fact that Bayverse!Splinter, like MM!Splinter, was a rat before he was mutated

Because RotTMNT!Splinter was human before he was mutated, and therefore had a human history, i do think the 2012 boys take the longest to connect with him, just because they're worried history is going to repeat itself. they do have an emotional conversation with him that leads to Mikey calling him Papa Lou for the first time, and that's when that name catches on!

added angst is that Kirby died in this AU, so April gets some angst to since she's kind of always felt like a replacement for Karai, so dw my girl is gonna go through it as well!

the Bayverse boys + Bayverse!April and Casey are so so protective over everyone else, they are the most older siblings to ever older sibling, they love having little brothers and sisters, but hooooo boy during the Big Confrontation there is some cursing out and Bayverse!Casey may or may not have to be carried away by Mikey and Donnie