#hope you're enjoying the blog ^^

[inkblackorchid]

I just found your blog today and thank you for putting to words some weird feelings I had towards 5ds’s direction after the dark signers arc. I never got to actually watch the post dark signer arc stuff until adulthood, but it feels almost like the writing team decided they wanted to work on basically a different show altogether and were just kind of stuck with 5ds and its cast.

You're very welcome! I was talking about this with someone just a few days ago, and yeah, absolutely. The thing about everything post DS is that regardless of what camp you're in—whether you love, hate, or just feel kinda meh about the WRGP and everything surrounding it—I think we can all agree that it feels very different from the Fortune Cup and DS arc. The 5Ds cast is, at least in my opinion, extremely solid, but with how everyone's set up in the first half of the show, the second half almost feels a bit like the writers put their own characters in an AU of sorts. The cast is still the same, but you can feel the difference. To this day, I'd pay a good amount of money to know what sort of decisions led to that change tbh. I've seen it suggested that they shifted gears because 5Ds' ratings weren't good and they were hoping to course-correct in order to cater more to their intended target audience, but while I do find that believable, I wouldn't want to spread it as gospel seeing as I have no source. And with how many issues the 5Ds fandom has already had with rumours in the past, I really wouldn't want to contribute to that. So many secrets left in that show's writers' room...

The sad thing is, I don't think making the second half of the show work better with the already established cast than it did would have been impossible—far from it. This is why I like to suggest rewrites in my theory posts and why basically all my fics are (mostly) canon-compliant add-ons that flesh certain characters out (and notably take place during the pre-WRGP and beyond), after all. But for some reason, everything WRGP-adjacent ended up being a bit rough in canon. Who knows, maybe someone will uncover an obscure interview that gives us the reason some day.

[abyssal-ilk]

wish we knew more about what vivienne was like as first enchanter of her circle. her insistence that the most dangerous thing to a mage is lack of knowledge is soo... cronching on it. i wonder how she handles the harrowings in her circle, since they traditionally rely on secrecy. especially given how badly her own harrowing rattled her and she was so young when she underwent it. many thoughts.

[martyryo]

Marla I love you viscerally.

You all better be respectful and normal about her or I'll explode 😡

Anyways I like adding text on drawings, even if it's simple things like this. It's from wikipedia also cause I'm only using it as a graphic element rather than something intended to be read.

Without text 💥

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Decided to take the leap and post the little fanfic I wrote at the start of the month to AO3. The Yiling Laozu takes a break in the burial mounds. Also, there is a worm.

[deep-space-lines]

can't wait til I start this stupid job so I won't have to be doing commissions all the fucking time to buy groceries, this shut sucks the joy out of art so much. I wanna be drawing ultrakill stuff & personal art & doing crafts & reading books but every time I sit down to do something for me I'm thinking about the fact that I should be doing commissions. I'm so glad I didn't go into art as an actual career, I would hate myself so much forever

[askthejigsawpigs]

LAWRENCE: ...It's been exactly as hectic and infuriating as you might be expecting. LAWRENCE: Everyone attended. As per John's instruction. A true """family day""", if one was so inclined to refer to this merry group as such. LAWRENCE: Which. I don't know why you would. God forbid. LAWRENCE: ... LAWRENCE: In any case, it could be worse. Amanda constructed a new wheelchair for John, a blessing with his declining condition. Various other gifts were exchanged, some 'secret'. LAWRENCE: Insults and objects alike, hurled. LAWRENCE: Sigh. Merry Christmas and a blessed day to all.

[rat-n-atty]

Chat, in comes another birthday because today marks James Bailey's evacuation of the womb day!

EHEHEHEHHEHEHE THIS WAS SO FUN TO MAKE BUT THESE ARE ONE OF THE TIMES WHERE I HATE BEING A PHONE ARTIST

[justepilepsy]

Because of current frustration

Happy fuck spiderverse year.

The art direction is in part ableist.

You can enjoy the movie and still say that.

Note: it's ableist because it's using common animation and color choices KNOWN to cause seizures (and death) in audiences. This includes people who don't have epilepsy.

I will never not be bitter about this because the first movie message was about "anyone can wear the mask" when it clearly was excluding people by simply making it impossible to watch this film in a safe manner.

If you got a headache after watching that film. That's a photosensitive reaction and it means you're not immune to these effects. A movie you love should not give you a headache or dizziness or disorientation. It should not give an above average amount of people seizures.

And those effects causing these symptoms should not be hailed as the reason the film is good.

Spiderverse utilises other aspects of comic art to already stick out.

Rapid Glitch effects, large bright high contrast red and blue areas covering the screen, prolonged moving patterns, and flashing lights are not what make this film look good.

[lakesbian]

im on 16.13 now and its so funnysad how analytically paranoid taylor is. it reminds me of that part of the hunger games where katniss is trying to figure out peetas scheme when hes crying abt being picked for th games, meanwhile dude is just sad. the difference with taylor being that she is absolutely right to be trying to think 18 steps ahead of whatevers happening lmao

taylor rocks because she is obscenely intelligent and analytical in an exceedingly neurotic and dysfunctional way and some of the time she's 100% right to be hyper-analytical and then some of the time she's just doing the most ridiculous unfounded armchair psychological analysis you've ever seen of someone who really is just crying because they're sad. like it's an incredibly tragic indicator of how traumatized and hypervigilant she is from the bullying & neglect she's faced from every system of power or social group she's depended on, but also she's just autism staring into space constantly ignoring people around her while doing some death notes calculation shit in her head, and that's really funny

[im-s0rry]

Bird

Bird?

Bird.

[alisterix]

Have been reading lots of Asterix comics lately and fell in love with Cacofonix.

Finding this blog about the adventures of Asterix and Obelix and seeing you're a Cacofonix stan is a blessing for my eyes :)

may the magic potion give you eternal strength ✨

IF CACOFONIX HAS A MILLION FANS, I AM ONE OF THEM

IF CACOFONIX HAS ONE FAN, THAT IS ME

IF CACOFONIX HAS NO FANS, I AM NO LONGER ALIVE

IF THE WORLD IS AGAINST CACOFONIX I AM AGAINST THE WHOLE WORLD

TILL MY LAST BREATH, I WILL STAN CACOFONIX

[princess-hope-selfships]

hey you know what, while I'm making myself unlikeable, here's another ~hot take~ of mine.

people with cluster b disorders are allowed to romanticize "yandere" themes however they fucking want and if you don't like it then block me and anyone else who thinks so instead of acting like we're fucking insane. We already get told we're insane enough lmao

signed, an exhausted borderline personality selfshipper who just wants her f/os to obsess over her and/or for my s/i to obsess over my f/os, in thought scenarios that I fucking control that don't hurt me or anyone else.

[pushing500]

Hey! I am new to Rimworld, and I absolutely love the looks of your blog!

Would you happen to have any mod recommendations for people jumping in? I don't even know where to start on Nexus! If you take the time to answer this question, thank you!

Aw, I'm so happy you like my blog, and so happy you're getting into RimWorld! It's such a good game. I'm sure you're going to adore it <3

As for recommended mods... that's a tough one! Usually, I'd say stuff like Wall Lights or Colour-Coded Mood Bar, but that was all added with the 1.5 patch, so they're not essential anymore. I think they still do stuff, though, if you want to use them.

If you're playing with Biotech, I have to say that the 'Toddlers' mod is one of my "can't-play-without" mods. I don't like using the growth vats (though I suppose Mechi probably will if he ever chances upon a baby by some stroke of tragic misfortune) because I like watching the kids grow up. They take aaages to grow from baby to child, though, so I like having the toddler stage as a cute in-between.

[ednaeflowers]

hello ~ i am alive !

for those who still do not know about my situation, i live in c.alifornia and i am literally one city away from the e.aton fire that's currently happening there, which is also unfortunately reported as the most deadliest of the wildfires right now 🙃 me and my area/neighborhood are safe for the time being, but e.aton fire is still pretty close to me, which has been affecting my motivation to write these days. i've been kinda quiet this week since i wanted to stay lowkey about it, but i thought i should say something since i know i randomly vanished from here after my previous ooc posts about the fires, and i didn't want y'all to think the worst happened to me 💀;; as of today on jan 18th, e.aton fire is 73% contained, so while the fire is still very much active, it has reassured me enough to write again, so i will Attempt to write (•̀ᴗ•́)و

edna has the lowest draft count out of all my blogs so far, so i don't think my activity here will be that affected, but i thought i'd pop in today since today's her blog anniversary ♡( ◡‿◡ ) i also wanted to say thank you to those who reached out to me to check if i was okay !! i look forward to another year together with all of you ! 💛💛

[habitual-creatures]

Literally me whenever someone sends an ask:

/pos, y'all make me so happy.

[king0fcrows]

I'm alive; I'm just dealing with the immense stress of needing serious home maintenance repairs that can't be tackled until June at the earliest and will likely cost me literal tens of thousands of dollars as we go into an extremely turbulent economic period.

(I'm actually lucky because I have a plausible financial path through this mess, due to a windfall I received after my estranged father died two years ago. If not for that, I would just be stuck with a slowly rotting house and no hopes of repairs. However, that doesn't mean I'm not extremely stressed out. That windfall was suppose to be a cushion I stretched out over years--now it will be gone by next winter and I'll possibly owe some money on loans to boot.)

This--combined with seasonal depression and mounting work stress--has left me (frankly) pretty fucking unwell mentally.

(I'm not so bad you guys need to worry about my physical safety, and I'm not going through this alone--my spouse is always my biggest supporter and my rock in life--but I'm definitely in the darkest place I've been in many years.)

I don't want to go into it in too much more detail here because dwelling on a problem I know can't be tackled for another few months will do nothing but make me have an anxiety attack--but I wanted to explain why I'm pretty much absent from this blog these days.