#i dont care for the custom much

[saelterlude]

Very random Bai Zhuoming appreciation because I really wanna say it so why the hell not.

So there this part in the lc musical right at the end of the rock-paper-scissors song and before 'Dive Back in Time' where each actors jump on the table and bow. The 'curtain call', where each actors get their own spotlight. It starts from the side characters to the lead which means Cheng Xiaoshi's actor always goes on the table last before all of them hold hands and bow together.

Bai Zhuoming has this really endearing and polite habit during curtain call. Where before he jumped off the table to join the rest of the cast, he would always individually points to each of the other actors before beckoning them forward together and its very nice to see. And trust me, I do mean always.

Some Cheng Xiaoshi actors jumps immediately, or do a general sweeping motion to beckon their co-actors. But Bai Zhuoming always points to them one-by-one. I'm not saying the other actors aren't polite, but this extra step is very much appreciated and i love him for it.

[fadetouchedsilk]

im not sure how to parse this exactly (probably since the thought hasn't marianted fully yet) but i wonder if the tone of veilguard's writing is less about appealing to a younger audience and more of a response to falling media literacy rates

kind of thinking out loud here but like.

i'm recalling the girl on booktok who proudly annouced that she only reads the spoken dialogue in her books, not the narration & the people in her comments laughing and agreeing (no wonder they can 'read' so many books per year, they're only reading 25% of the words). or 'starting to think some of you don't like media or characters, just fanfiction tropes.' you can hand someone like that a complex narrative, but what are they going to do with it aside from completely & happily misunderstand things that are very obvious context clues & themes? we can joke about the fandom mischaracterizing our blorbos & trying to be cool about just scrolling past but idk, personally i feel like i've seen an uptick in completely off-base takes in the last few years (probably some fandom bias there but this isn't my first time playing dragon age or narrative driven games in general so i don't think i'm entirely wrong)

it doesn't help that this group also loves to be loud online & the bioware devs (to their ongoing detriment) seem to be unable to distance themselves from fandom. we saw larian's response to this type of outcry, i wonder if bioware is just trying to get ahead of the curve. they make some questionable decisions, but they aren't stupid & i don't think people like that are especially hard to market to from their standpoint.

i don't think that older titles like dao are perfect or anything but i sincerely doubt that large swaths of current audiences would 'get' it. like, there IS a lot of narrative hand-holding in this game & i'm not talking about things like the map markers or accessibility features. 'do the companion quests!' you get told multiple times, more or less outright, & i'm still seeing people confused about getting 'bad' endings despite ignoring this incredibly obvious series of hints. there's a fair amount of information to be found in the codexes, but are people going to read them? we don't know, so we're going to repeat the relevant item name several times over on the off chance you might end up remembering it. like yes this is some people's first foray into rpgs, but you would think that progressing the story would be intuitive (especially given the structure & the journal itself).

the 'the curtains were blue!!!' crowd is unfortunately a very large audience these days, ea is a corporation who wants to make money & they do need that if they intend to keep making games. it might not even be intentional, it truly could just be the result of following market trends.

don't take this as me making excuses for bioware or anything, but there's definitely some sort of reason we ended up the way we did. i see the scaffolding of something interesting here with a lot of potential to be better than what the final product was, a lot of hooks we could have spent more time chasing & that leads to me wondering just what the hell happened.

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

Oop here we go! Time for something messed up!

Oooh here we goooo! 

Time to figure out if the thing she finds sickening is the "concept" of eating food you cooked yourself, or if she can TASTE the sentiment that ends up in all her food, and so assumes that’s the same for everyone. 

Maybe that’s why she’s coming to cooking lessons in the first place - not because she doesn’t know how to do it but because She can TELL the taste is off, but only for her, and now for Doumeki. She’s added an awful vibe to the lovely meal that only she can taste. Some type of deep seated resentment that’s only coming out in the cooking?

And this is such a foreign idea to Watanuki that he has absolutely no frame of reference. 

[peacheenie]

pov u r going to comicon in a few months so u went charity shop hunting for a cosplay and found half of it in a singular day :)

[ravengales-glade]

So for THIS week's Medieval event update we get... pets. Awesome

[13lizardsinatrenchcoat]

The fact that inscryption wont let me delete my save file on switch to start a new game even though i havent played in a year and a half and therefore have 0 recollection of the lore or the gameplay so im hitting a wall against an end game boss and not having fun is. A choice.

[arttsuka]

Quick question... I know you don't draw OC's but... Do you draw like, custom au's, like gravity falls au's? I'm tryna sound genuine here.

Quick answer: no.

Long answer: it depends on what the 'custom au' is I guess. If it's a part of these big, known ones that are a thing in the fandom (like monster falls or relativity falls for example, since we're talking about gravity falls) or if it's an au I made (or saw and liked in general), then I probably will draw. But it has to appeal to me. Otherwise I probably won't bother drawing for it.

[skitskatdacat63]

Re: Chair Lore: Where is the Chair From?

I was joking about the seat looking like a sim chair, but after doing some research, I'm almost 100% sure they just took seats from a 2012 Ferrari 458 and put them on plexiglass platforms 😭

I couldn't find any pics that look *exactly* like the chair itself, but I think these are pretty similar, no?

It's going to bug me so much that I can't find the exact chair UGH, like with the white stripe in the middle, you know? But yes anyways, this is my theory.

*fyi, I'm planning a drawing with this chair and my thought process with finding reference is always "this has to be exactly perfect and 100% accurate" so thats why I'm being incredibly specific and over-detailed about this 😭 please don't think I'm weird

[plumbogs]

i want to make my own custom hood full of my own original sims again... but that requires that i use my dried out and slightly fermented brain to come up with original concepts sigh

[liquidstar]

my middle name is dimitrius and as a kid i had so much fun when people were surprised by how incredibly masculine it is. my parents worried that it would upset me when ppl commented on it, but it never did, i always hoped they would. anyway thats foreshadowing i think

[itsalwaysdark]

like i wouldnt mind like. Not having new linear games post 5 its judt that sims 4 wasnt even supposed to Be The Sims 4 it was a last minute pivot and the base code is so outdated and was broken On launch so like. i just wish we could have the final actual sims game be like. one that was always intented to be a major sims release AND be intended to be so long term . yk

[venomgaia]

what's good about a pilot falcon?

HI! The Pilot Falcon (older generations were sold in the US as the Namiki Falcon for whatever reason) is a japanese fountain pen manufactured by Pilot!

it's often referred to as the best modern flex pen, or the best gold nib for a beginner! Tldr for people who aren't pen nerds, a flex pen is a pen that...well, flexes! Most pens have some sort of "flex" to them that results in some sort of line variation, but flex pens can handle a relatively higher amount of pressure. Think like a G nib used in a lot of manga. Old pens were the MASTERS at this, and a good bit of that is due to the nibs being made of gold, which naturally has a "bounce" to it that modern steel nibs have a really hard time living up to. Most people wax poetic about Waterman or other vintages like that because of it. Even modern gold nibs can't really keep up with the gold nibs of yore, but the Falcon is considered to be one that can. I do think legally it's considered a "soft" nib, meaning it's not truly a flex pen but has a lot of flex qualities to it, but some terms that get used are used interchangably so. idk. True flex nibs aren't really a thing in fountain pens these days outside of Noodler's Ahab and Konrad (which are their own nightmare and a half tbh).

The Falcon prized amongst artists for it's very fine nib, which Japanese pen manufacturers like Pilot and Platinum are known for. A Japanese Fine is comparable to a Western (Kaweco, Lamy) Extra fine, and a lot of these pens come in an EF, F, and M. It gets alot of nice line variation despite being so small, and is really an all-around great pen, if legend is to be believed :] An alternative to buying the Pilot Falcon would be getting the Pilot 912 FA, which has something called the "Falcon Nib," not to be confused with the actual pen. They actually look pretty different. The FA nib (right) has these weird cuts on their side that help with flexing and allow it to mimic a full-flex nib, but again. According to legend, modern pens don't flex like vintage pens do, but it IS pretty close.

(sources mentioned in alt text)

I've never used either myself, but I'm pretty picky about my pens and so I don't know if I'd ever pay upwards of $200 unless I got familiar with the nib first tbh....The falcon's nib isn't offputting to me like many feel about it, but I'm particular about aesthetics and the feedback on paper and I can't tell if I like them just from looks alone lol. Right now, I don't have much experience with pilot nibs, but if i were to get a pilot pen, tbh I'm looking at the Pilot Elite/e95s in a fine or medium, or a vintage platinum pocket pen.

Anyways that's that and this is also that. *twirls so elegantly and then collapses onto the ground in slapstick fashion*

[puppyeared]

MAN your art, but especially the latest pieces of Walking Fire Friend and Sparkle Dog really have the vibes of like, sanrio?? I want stickers and half a dozen accessories with them plastered all over so bad

!!! thank u for the kind words!! im playing around with the halftone effect, i like how it makes it look like a newspaper comic ^_^

[tsukasalover]

(credits to ssruis)

This song is the only thing keeping me going I do not play about mr showtime 😞 nothing ruined me (made my life better) the way this song did

(Sendn. Me songs to do this with in my ask box… sniffle…)

[vampirecatprince]

Ughhhhh

I'm all out of sorts bc I just had a gas station manager imply I was a thief for just trying to let them know a part of their air pump was missing

I was trying to be nice and I get some random dismissive rude middle manager who insinuates that I'm trying to steal money from them even though I had to repeat multiple times that I didn't care about a refund

[ritualvirtuality]

ive been trying a crutch… and the support from the cuff is really nice but god the handle hurts my hand…. and then i put padding on it and its too large to grasp so it hurts my hand and also still hurts my hand from the pressure on the heel

i predicted this months ago when i was thinking about trying a crutch bc round handled canes just hurt my hand. i have that palm grip cane which is the only one thats comfortable but it has a handedness so i cant switch hands, which has become useful recently. so ive been using a round handle offset cane which is the only one ive found that has the right balance of handle diameter and amount of padding. its ok but still hurts and doesnt really provide enough support tbh. its better than nothing though i think

so im stuck in this place of these aids help me stand for longer and more comfortably but also they hurt my hand (and wrist, elbow, shoulder eventually) and so i sit on the floor in line at cvs. something i have done multiple times.