#i LOVED that desk. it was perfect

[mbat]

i think ive been a little bit depressed lately

[timothvy]

i love my mob lookup

[intramoon]

Work in progress on Wednesday's teen bedroom (lots of eclectic nicknacks from her mom & NANA posters) ... 🦋

[that-butch-archivist]

Making a birthday cake for a friend tonight (something I haven't done for a while), and I forgot how much I love baking & cake decorating. I'll post pics when I'm done, I'm very excited. 🥰

[desceros]

ok this one's better. ignore any previous villain donnie's left in your inbox oooo

[meteorologist voice] well folks if you look to your night sky you'll have a chance of catching a special treat tonight! looks like tumblr user desceros has fucking exploded and will be ascending to become a star in our cosmos. wow, what an opportunity to see spontaneous human combustion in real time. truly something special. anyway, back to you, janice

[earthbovndmisfit]

jonawagons marcianitos 🌌🛸💕

(og base/reference by @/lilalienz4ever on twt!!)

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a digital drawing of sandra lynn and sklonda from fantasy high. sklonda is sitting on sandra lynn's chest in her underwear and caressing sandra lynn's face. sandra lynn is naked and holding sklonda's thighs. neither woman's face is visible as they're looking at each other. the background is pink and says, how did you get infected? End ID]

[dadvans]

today i was ignoring work emails and instead i texted my wife about a frustration i have with how fandom passively explores and swerves sexual intimacy and identity within erotica, and she responded with this and i have never loved this woman more

[allthatdivides]

pressed flowers in the so much (for) stardust CD case | mine, 2023

[fagbearentertainment]

Gahhh it pisses me off so bad that stayed gone is a banger >:(

[missmungoe]

kurokawa & kyoto

And my little haul of merch! A beautiful little wooden model of Red Force that I can assemble myself, a keychain of Ben's wanted poster, and my favourite: a tiny Makino<3

[cherry-pop-elf]

Hagrid 100% Has A Major Crush On Shouren

And Why You Should Ship Them To!

They both have umbrella wands. Imagine how normal Hagrid feels, when he see’s Shouren take his wand out of his umbrella. They are Umbrella buddies.

Shouren holds nature, and dragons, at a very high regard. Something Hagrid does the same. Someone who finally understands his point of view, and won’t call him insulting names for it

THIS-!

They can both relate to being not seen as equal by society

Big x Smol

They both are very loyal to who they belong to, and their causes

Hagren rolls off the tongue

You know Hagrid would spend hours just listening to Shouren explain his world travels, and Shouren is more than happy to talk about said travels

They are already established friends so fluffy friends to lovers

Look me in the eyes and say Hagrid isn’t currently hiding Shouren in his hut, when Shouren ‘leaves’ Hogwarts. Like Hagrid is hiding dangerous creatures all the time. A fugitive isn’t any different, if you think about it

Imagine Charlie, Shouren, and Hagrid all having tea together

Big chubby dad figure being gentle and sweet to this exhausted man that deserves a place to call home for once

Yes I’m in the middle of writing a fanfic about them on AO3 and I will make a post when the first chapter is posted

HAGRID DESERVES TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS CRAZY ABOUT ANIMALS LIKE HIM AND WONT SEE HIM WS A STUPID OALF!

Shouren 100% gets along beautifully with Gwamp, and definitely is invested in whatever his younger brother has to talk about

They both would constantly steal dragon ages from the black market, and send them to Charlie to take care of. So they have a side hustle super hero business

Just, come on. LOOK AT THEM-!

[wildsaltair]

today my boss came in to help me with something and saw my Maximus computer lockscreen. I then had to download an app on my phone for the project in front of her, and she saw my phone lockscreen. also Maximus. had to pause the Gladiator soundtrack that had been playing in my headphones. my Maximus poster was on the wall beside me. I don't know if she noticed or if she was just too polite to mention that I may have a problem

[merakiui]

MERA!!!! AZUL TSUM CARD!!!!!

(● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)���ꠥ⁾⁾ COOL!!! SO COOL!!!!!!! REALLY THE COOLEST….. !!!!!!!!! UUUUWWUWAAAAA OTL tako is stunning as always. >0< The classic smirk… the little peek of wrist we get… SLENDER FINGERS. LAP. THIGHS,,,,,,,, WAIST.

AAAAAAAAAAA I NEED TO BE UNDER THAT DESK RIGHT NOW GIVING HIM THE BEST HEAD OF HIS LIFE GRGRGRGRRRR ANYTHING FOR AZUL ASHENGROTTO!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE CONTRACT AND PLEASE LET ME SIGN MY SOUL AWAY. WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET A CRUMB OF TAKO PLEASE…. OTL on my knees forever and always for him.

[gamebunny-advance]

On Today's Episode of Sammy Only Plays Mediocre Games: "Sensei! I Like You So Much!"

AKA "Fangirl Simulator", AKA "Sensuki"

Originally, this post was written as like a full "game journalist" style deep-dive, but I wanted to cut it back and just talk about my experience with this interesting little game that I found. If you wanna see what the gameplay loop is like, you're better off watching a let's play and deciding from that if this is the kinda game for you.

So, I actually found out about this game while stalking the Ita Bag subreddit, where the creators promoted the ita bag feature in the game. As someone who likes decorating things both IRL and virtually (hence why I was stalking that subreddit), I thought it sounded interesting enough to check out. So shortly after getting the game on a whim with some Christmas money, I got addicted to it for a couple of days before dropping it for about a month and then coming back to write this post.

Anyway, the gist of it is that it's a management sim/visual novel where you play as a fangirl, making friends with other fangirls by writing fanfic and making merch of your OTP.

And when I say "your OTP," I mean your OTP. You can't customize the player character outside of her name and online handle, but you can customize the characters she (and her friends) ship through the in-game character creator.

I did my first play through with R.O.B. & Watch (becauseIwastoolazytodrawandimportpartstomakeTatiKliff).

As a "game" I don't know if I'd call it "fun" exactly. As someone who easily slips into doing menial tasks in games, I did find a rhythm to the management part of the game as I debated against writing fics that would be popular vs. finishing my commissions, and I'll always love decorating virtual spaces with cute knick-knacks, especially if I get to personally design said knick-knacks.

But, it being a buggy early-access game with a shoddy English translation did hinder my enjoyment on occasion. I don't think a game can do anything more to sour your opinion of it than to *make you lose all of your save data trying to troubleshoot it~

*Strictly speaking, the game didn't *make* me do that, it's just one of the last resorts I went through to try and fix the bug, and that didn't even work.

Things like that piling up took what would have been a 7 out of 10 game to a 6 or 5 in its current state.

All that said, I still had a good time (before losing my save) because where it lacks in being a good game, it makes up for by actually being the ultimate "rare pair simulator". Because when your ships have zero content, you'll really take whatever you can get XP.

For me, it was very amusing to experience a world where something like ROB & Watch matters to people and I get to read all the cheesy fanfic that never got to exist for it.

Slight spoilers for the main story, but I just couldn't replicate my (internal) laughter from one of the characters starting fandom drama because they originally rooted for the "rival ship" and me thinking, "Oh, she's a Pac & Watch enjoyer. XD". That's something that could only happen in a game like this.

For people who's OTPs are popular and already have an abundance of fan content out there, I don't think this game will have much to offer you that couldn't be accomplished by just *being* a fangirl (gender-neutral) IRL and consuming the fan content that already exists. But if you like any sort of ship that's niche, whether due to unpopularity, self-shipping, or heck, you can throw your OCs in there too if you really want to, I think that you might find a game like this to be at the very least amusing.

This is a game that's really going to benefit from custom content that just doesn't exist while the game's audience is in its infancy. But I truly think that it has the potential to be something really special with enough time and development, and I leave it up to you if that's a gamble you want to take.

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Other thoughts:

There was actually a recent update that added a bunch of features that really upped the customization features, added a few minigames, and even a new "tamagotchi mode" where you can leave your ship idle on your screen while you do other stuff.

I haven't gotten to mess with all the new stuff in depth, but the addition of these kinds of features tells me that they're really committing to the bit of making a space where you can do anything you want with your blorbos in a single package~ If they could just iron out all the bugs, improve the translation, and add a "free play" mode, this game could be amazing.

Speaking of... the other little things that bug me:

Even though you can set the character's gender and pronouns, the stories don't always use them properly. This seems to be a programming error which might have happened due to the shoddy translation, but I do hope this gets fixed on final release.

Similarly, for most of the illustrations, they currently don't have alternate outfits which change with gender. Most of them are neutral so it doesn't matter too much, but there are a few which are clearly femme/masc which may be bothersome for some ships/characters.

I know it's a small team, and that's what stock materials are for, but I hope this team can pull together enough funding to hire (besides a proper translator) a composer and another artist. I would love to hear some original music because there aren't a lot of songs in the game, and the few we do have get grating after a while. I ended up muting the music entirely in the first few hours of playing it.

I say another artist not because the current ones are bad, but because for the new minigames they added, they are clearly using stock images for the assets, so I dunno if their current artists just weren't getting paid enough to make the assets, or if they're just placeholder while the artist makes new assets to replace them. Given that most of the artists in the credits are listed as "cooperating organizations", I get the feeling that most of the art in the game was on a by commission basis rather than having an in-house artist that gets paid to make assets.

I know that these are just little side things, but the cohesion of the entire product should be pretty important, so while I think all the new stuff is neat, there's still some polish that could be added.

[howlingdemon13]

There’s only like two other staff members dressed up for today’s spirit day.

But you know I wouldn’t let that stop me.