#i am clearly out of touch

[thelediz]

Hello!! I'm really sorry to interrupt your Sonic kick, it's been wonderful to follow your rewatch of Underground, but I've been wondering this for a while so I thought I'd ask...do you have any thoughts on Paldea as a region, and what Ash's journey through there could look like?

...bc to be honest, I'm incredibly sad that MY region (paldea is based on the iberian peninsula and I'm from Spain) has a sucky design (region design has always been one of my favorite aspects of the pokemon games) and is the only one so far Ash hasn't gone to :(

I loved your thoughts on ash-in-galar and how the regional style would be like and stuff, so I'd be super happy to learn my favourite pokemon (and sonic!) writer and worldbuilder had poked at it some :) and if not, that's prefectly okay! I know I've been avoiding all the more recent pokemon stuff myself haha

Oh, wow, I so wish I could answer this, because I love talking about any franchises - I'm just trying to focus on Sonic because the FIC MUST BE FINISHED SO HELP ME.

But unfortunately I just... haven't been in Pokemon, and I don't really know the Paldea region. From what I've heard about the games, I actually suspect I'd have more to say about it on a literal professional level (projects and development are my thing, and the whole thing reeks of someone trying to enforce agile iterative development without having an actual roadmap - total budget crunch to user experience detriment).

Yes I appreciate that sentence probably doesn't make any sense to normal humans. I'm sorry.

But from what I do know about it, I'd say it would be a pretty poor fit for Ash. There have been Pokemon Schools since the first games, but the reason people objected to Ash attending the Pokemon School in Alola is because he's supposed to be a traveller and explorer, and keeping him confined to a single city felt wrong. It proved doable, kind of, but...

Whereas Paldea seems quite... -vague gesture- contained. The fact the main character is a student of an ACADEMY enforces a kind of rigidity that doesn't fit with Ash. He would be the problem child, and that would derail him back away from being the strong hero that he has been since X&Y.

You could expand on the world, definitely. Grow it beyond what was in the games. But then some people would cry foul, and... egh.

But I'm talking out of my ear. So... I'm afraid all I can offer are sympathetic winces that your region is so poorly represented. Hopefully we'll see better in the future.

[padfootastic]

can’t help but think of how, if we choose to go by sirius’ characterisation as a private, arrogant teen who only lets a select few into his circle, sirius’ post-azkaban life just have been such an utterly humiliating experience for him.

especially OoTP. when he has all these near strangers in his childhood house, that he hated and loved and ran away from and couldn’t ever escape. if he spent his entire pre-azkaban existence building a cold and aloof persona, not letting people know what his home life had been like, then to have all of these people get a front row seat to it because of kreacher and portrait walburga’s shenanigans must have been near unbearable. to have the entire order, including snape whom he disliked and mistrusted, hear the kinds of names he’s being called.

not only does he have to deal with the retraumatisation of his childhood, but also the fact that he’s flayed open for everyone to see. it’s not only his freedom, innocence, dignity that has been snatched from him but his privacy also. it’s such a cruel thing to experience, on top of everything else.

to have literal children, his godson who he has been kept away from all this while, whom he presumably wants to be able to look up to him, to have him see into the deepest parts of his soul. to have to be so weak in front of him. not only is he subjected to such vileness but he also cannot do anything about it.

sirius has not had a moment of peace in all the time we knew him. it is indignity upon indignity that is heaped onto him. every other character has gotten a moment of respite but him. it fully breaks my heart.

[buttercupshands]

I started drawing this next day after I finished Act 6

13 or so days and it's finished!

Main things are traditional and Loop's body was edited digitally after

Unedited it looks like this

I've been torn on how to do Loop's body for the entirety of lining, also

A bit sad the main lines are visible only as a wip, most of this thing is literally just a ton of sharp lines

I think it's also my first day of drawing, Loop is just a sketch here (feat. my leg)

I even finished the beans before it so they were a moral support, because if you let me things like this take a year

[teawithghosts]

fellas is it gay to remember your lover as a corpse of the man he used to be?

[casualavocados]

You should stay away from me. I'm no longer with the gang. I didn't agree. Our boss already agreed four years ago. Pull over and let me out of the car. I'm your boss!

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 01 / Ep. 09

[oneluckydragon]

Started writing a fic back in early October and had to abandon it for a while due to IRL situations. But I've started working on it again little by little, and I am so excited to eventually share it with my mutuals and followers. I hope you guys enjoy it (I am trying my best to get it done)!

TBH my only motivation anymore is thinking about my friends having a good time reading it when it's finally posted (I love all of you very much). I cannot wait for all of these ideas to be fleshed-out on paper at last.

Over 16,000 words and I am nowhere near satisfied yet. I feel like I can write WAY more. Stay tuned!

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

[ofbardsandmen]

nothing ever excites me more than a spontaneous genshin, or more particularly, mondstadt discovery. i sat diluc upon the barbatos statue as a nice spot to go afk on without being interrupted by repetitive idle animations and voicelines (sorry diluc, this is nothing personal). my volume was turned up more than regularly by accident, and my in-game music was off despite how much i like the original game soundtrack. aNYHOW- i was about to go afk when i heard some strange noises that i didn't recall hearing in mondt before. it made me pause and turn my volume up even more. in the video above, it's kind of hard to discern the brief sounds over the noise of the wind up on the statue and in mondstadt in general, but when the wind dies down a little, you can distinctly hear voices of people, and what shocked me the most – neighs of horses. i have no clue whether it is just me discovering this only now, after 4 years of playing this godforsaken game and clearly not having paid enough attention to mondstadt's sfx before, but i still felt the need to share this terribly interesting tidbit in case there's other clueless mondstadt enthusiasts like me.

[fleething]

i do not care how they make it happen but aziraphale and crowley deserve tenderness in s3. Not necessarily another kiss but just… az putting his hand on crowley’s neck as they look at each other, crowley being allowed to run their fingers through the angel’s hair, sitting together on the sofa with crowley’s head in az’s lap, az calling crowley ‘darling’ or ‘my dear’, crowley bringing their angel flowers, they deserve the opportunity to show the other how much they love them

[petrow1tch]

They weren't lying, this psychological recovery journey got hands

[frozen-fountain]

Everyone tag yourself as a line from this iconic comment I just got on one of my fics, I'm "the failure is gay now".

[messrsbyler]

[in the middle of the rink-oh-mania fight]

mike: [clearly frustrated] well, i don't know! maybe you should've reached out more! why is this on me? why am i the bad guy?

will: [clearly in distress and looking sad]

mike: [immediately activating his will's voice] look 🥺 let's just 🥺 find el, okay? 🥺 [stares a second too long to check will is okay and then turns around]

[carnage-cathedral]

genuinely convinced that this house is sucking the life out of me in order to power the christmas decorations

[jjinpang]

disorganized honest thoughts on angeal and genesis

Read someone's view on crisis core as "a strange game where I only remembered charas from ff7 proper". And I thought to myself. that is an accurate review.

really long ramble-y thoughts from a person who has not kept up with ff7 past crisis core under cut you have been warned

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I have learned to like both of them quite a bit after rolling them around in my head for several years, but on first playthrough I did not like angeal or genesis. and I don't think back in a "what a fool I was" way. I think my original view on the two is actually still valid. I think angeal and genesis are both pretty badly written and have very little substance in game.

I understand the limitations of the psp greatly restricted the amount of story they could cram in. but then you write a different story or change your game system. This is not a valid excuse.

My understanding of how they WANTED to position the characters is Angeal, zacks' heroic ideal, a bar for him to gauge whether he's made it or not. While sephiroth was genesis'?????

because angeal barely spends any time NOT in the opposition, or even coming UP in conversation I really can't tell.

Genesis was positioned to b a foil to zacks. which still rings true in crisis core, but not straight forward enough???

Both Genesis and zacks were fixated on being a hero. I could see it being a clash of ideals. "what is a true hero" type thing. but in that case genesis being a peer of both angeal and sephiroth makes the connection muddy.

This is just a completely biased counter suggestion to the story we got but:

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I feel like we could have gotten more bang for our buck if genesis was actually a peer of zacks, maybe even excelling where zacks was not, but feels threatened by the growth zacks is showing empowered by his sunshine puppy attitude. Both look up to sephiroth.

genesis continues to idolize sephiroth even when sephiroth proves to be not as perfect as advertised, while zacks has his qualms. it's about becoming a hero for zacks while it's about becoming sephiroth for genesis.

Later there is some drama surrounding who gets promoted to class 1st ( only zacks / only genesis / both but genesis causes some trouble and has to leave etc etc)

zacks and genesis eventually have to duke it out one heroic ideal to another. zacks wins -- we still get basically the same conclusion we got at banora in crisis core proper.

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You might have noticed this suggestion is Angeal-less. While Angeal is probs one of my fav of the charas introduced in crisis core he did not need to be there methinks. (save on disc space, leave him on the drawing board) HOWEVER In my haphazard suggestion above, maybe it could have been that zacks idolized angeal while genesis idolized sephiroth -- the two class 1sts. But for whatever reason angeal has an "accident", that way sephiroth can still have his "oh no all my friends are gone" dilemma. and a good reason to start going down a dark path.

Meanwhile Genesis had more of a reason to be there -- it's 2007 and GACKT is RIGHT THERE jk jk -- Zacks needed his own foil. that said this "Angeal maybe didn't need to be there" opinion is a bit colored by how square has handled zacks throughout the years. Positioning sephiroth as his heroic ideal over angeal. However even in game they didn't really paint a clear picture of how Angeal was zacks' mentor.

Everyone knew the PSP has limited resources throwing new characters at the problem was kinda a bad solution.

I say this having actually loved playing the game, and knowing full well if they actually did something like what I wrote above I might have enjoyed it less. who knows, nagging about a story that's already written is something nerds(me) do to fill the void in their hearts.

anyhoo have nowhere to put my thoughts so putting them here.

[itsjustdotsandcrosses]

Archmage Vishalny, Arcane Diplomat and Master of Enchantment (DND NPC)

#5, Vampire and blood/gore stimboard

Themes of blood on the hands, gore/hearts, corsets and spooky fashion, spraying calligraphy, fangs (smiling). A vampire stim board, touching the feelings of satisfaction of blood finally being presented. Expressive conflicting emotions, dark and spooky fashion.

xxx.xxx.xxx

[callixton]

i can never complain abt people spending lots of money on fashion bc if i had the chance to buy something from orttu i would take it in a second. but also if they're regular sweatpants $400 is stupid