#i feel like an influencer posting this lmao

[dseval]

ArchiveVerse Delta

Finally, he's here.

More under the cut.

Although It's a bit half-assed, Delta's character intro is finally completed. I feel a sense of satisfaction for myself because.... Well... His old design was ugly asf and I felt bad. Anyway, expect Dream or Reaper next because I think their designs are also terrible (though probably in like a week or more sksksks)

Infos are subject to change. Who knows maybe next morning I'll be extremely dissatisfied by this.

To understand most of the things I write here, please refer to my ArchiveVerse post.

★Info★

Delta is a student from Ordenance. He is a hot-headed person with a strong sense of justice... Whose method of solving injustice seems to be jumping head first into fist fights.

(That's all about his backstory... Actually.)

Quick Facts:

His height is 173 cm

The energy coefficients of his powers: Physical and Fire. Meaning he has exceptionally strong physique and... A little bit fire powers, I guess.

Whenever he's frustrated or flustered, puffs of smoke can come out of his mouth, occasionally even actual fires.

Had wanted a cool jetpack.

He is initially not a fan of Ordenance's fancy dresscode, but eventually relents and finds himself liking these frilly shirts.

Has a very stiff face, as in most of the time it's a smile plastered onto his face.

Can get lost very easily in places he's unfamiliar with.

He had won every single arm wrestling competition... For now.

Character Relationships:

He and Color are both students from Ordenance, the academy has a dorm system, and they're neighbours

He and Epic often talked about action animes a lot

Delta, along with Cross, Color, and Epic, often hung out at the arcade during after school hours on in the weekends.

Is very skeptical about most students from Juvie, due to the fact that they are criminals. Even so, unless they do something bad, he wouldn't act out on it

Sometimes bumped into Horror and Cross at the gym, they also spar sometimes

Bonus: delta in a skirt jumpscare, this is his alt design lmao

Credits (please tell me if there's a typo or if i missed anyone!):

Delta Sans by AnimatedZorox

AU Inspired and heavily based on Blue Archive. Artstyle heavily influenced by Mx2j, one of the artists for Blue Archive

Mentioned characters: Color (Superyoumna), Epic (Yugogeer012), Cross (Jakei), Horror (SourAppleStudios)

[eff-plays]

The way Astarion reacts depending on how you compliment him in the mirror scene (I have no interest in insulting him so I won't be covering that here, have fun though!) drives me fucking insane.

"I want to know what the world sees when it looks at me. What you see."

And you get two types of responses. First, your choices for compliments are

Strong, piercing eyes.

The creases when you laugh.

Pick the first, and he's pleased. "Go on," he says, sounding very seductive. You're giving him exactly what he wants, and he's encouraging it.

Pick the second, and he gets upset. He's an eternally young vampire, not your doting grandmother! You can do better than that. Even if you meant it as a compliment (I know my Tav definitely did), he doesn't seem to take it that way.

Your second options are

That dangerous smile.

The way your hair curls around your ears.

Once again, the first one pleases him, and he even praises your efforts. Very good. Now finish the scene and tell him he's beautiful.

But if you say the second, he gets exasperated. This is meant to be flattery, not poetry. Just tell him he's beautiful and we can call it a day, he says with a dismissive wave of his hand. He doesn't need to hear this crap, just tell him what he wants and fuck off.

Of course, it doesn't matter how you get to this point, and every dialogue option at the end of the scene nets you the same amount of approval. If you call him beautiful, it's +1. Call someone else beautiful, it's +1. If you ask whether he just wants shallow praise (aka don't call him beautiful), you get +1. So this is me pulling this out of my ass I guess.

I always choose to call him beautiful becuase 1) he is and 2) my Tav thinks so too and would oblige him if he asked for it that directly.

But I am obsessed with the different routes you can take to get to this point and what they imply.

Strong, piercing eyes and dangerous smile pleases him more outwardly, but doesn't actually affect the outcome. He's satisfied and confident with these compliments. They confirm what he's trying to project into the world, what he aspires to have and to be.

The creases when he laughs? The hair curling around his ears? Those are things he can't control, can't use against someone else. But he asked to be seen, and if this is what Tav sees, then what does that mean for him?

Why are they complimenting his laugh lines? Why are they speaking poetry at him? Why are they seeing things he has no control over, and why are they revealing them to him?

He doesn't want shallow praise. Questioning this nets approval, and giving it to him doesn't increase approval. What he wants is assurance that what he's trying to be is what the world sees, that he's in control.

And if you actually act as a mirror, point out the things unique to him that you see, he gets uncomfortable, because you're showing a reflection of someone he thinks he's not, of someone he has no control over. And that's scary, even if it's supposedly complimentary.

Because what's scarier than losing control?

But then, compared to how genuinely upset he seems when you insult him (I looked these up on YT for context), the laugh lines and hair curls are still accepted as compliments. So what does he think when Tav says these things?

They see past his piercing eyes and dangerous smile. They see something else that they like even more, things he's not aware of or doesn't appreciate as much. What does that feel like, to cultivate such a perfect image of oneself for the purposes of seducing and tricking others, and then be stumped when someone walks past all that and points out something entirely different that they noticed and found endearing?

Do you do him a favor, and tell him you see only what he wants to be? Or do you speak the truth, and show him what he actually is? Which one is better? Which one is worse?

[jula483]

asked dan and phil yesterday to sign pics of rhett and link and they loved it lmao

[reasonsforhope]

Future Crunch just paywalled their good news for "Energy" and "Technology"??? Which it looks like is about half of all their Good News?? (x)

I'm not particularly surprised because I WAS wondering how they made enough money to stay solvent, but I am dismayed

Partly on my own principles and partly because this kinda feels like it does/should go against their whole ethos??

Like if your big mission statement is "If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves" (x) ....maybe you shouldn't paywall those stories???

That sounds very counterproductive and like you're taking access to good news away from a lot of people who need/want to hear it the most??? Esp in people in countries whose currency is much weaker than the US dollar??

[ahappyphjl]

1 week until TIT helsinki!! if you see me there and feel like saying hi pls do! i’m bringing some bracelets so i can give u one or we can just chat, it’d be so fun to meet some of u there 💙

[pynkhues]

Gotta ramble a bit. The new trend of Louis 'the rockstar girlfriend' really starts to irk me. Mostly it's all fun and jokes but a lot of people really think this as a fact. And imo it's such an OOC concept. He's more of a "wealthy patron" kind of a guy, the record label owner etc.

He will NOT be standing in the middle of a sweaty screaming crowd, he will be in a private booth. he will NOT dress in low rise pants and slutty tank tops while waiting to sit on Lestat's lap, it's the other way around.

Am I missing something? Feels like yet another version of Louis the housewife and Lestat the patriarch but with 70s music scene terminology.

Yeah, I mean, we literally ended s2 on the note that Louis just wants to be left alone with the exception of mind calls with Daniel and the metaphorical door he's left open ajar for Lestat, I can't imagine he's going to want to be in a crowd of sweaty, fawning humans and pissed off baby vampires watching Lestat try to peacock his way out of a nervous breakdown, haha.

That's not to say I don't think he'll be around for the tour, I do, but like you said, I think it'll be in pretty specific contexts (and honestly, I don't even think they'll be back together until the end of the season, even if they do hook up).

I do think the fandom has problems with flattening Louis' character or cherry picking what they want to take from him, and of course, it's also indicative of that broader issue with same-sex ships where characters get forced into very constraining gender roles which can come across both as deeply sexist and homophobic, but I also think there's probably something to be said about mmm, a show that suddenly attracts a demographic of young fans? This is going to sound super weird probably, but I kinda put it a bit in the same category of people who think Lestat would like Taylor Swift's music - like, hoping not to rattle the cage with this one, but this man is a) 300 years old and b) bullied and murdered a tenor for being a bit pitchy lmao, I feel like there are better odds of Louis respecting her business acumen than either of them being a stan.

This isn't meant to be shade to younger fans (or Swift!) at all, of course, fandom space is for everyone and I've been that fan at points in my life, but, y'know, you bring your lived experience and ideas and fantasies to these sorts of spaces too, and I think that applies to how you might interpret or want to think / write about a character. To me, that idea of being that sort of rockstar girlfriend doesn't align with my interpretation of his character, nor with what I personally enjoy about him, but y'know, if people are having fun and being respectful, good for them. But yes, I agree that it's not my bag.

[jamiethebeeart]

Sketches

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

[moe-broey]

Also just such a small thing but like. In the F!Lumera FBs when Henriette and Ashe are waiting on backup from Alfonse, and Alfonse is the only one she mentions by name. Like yeah I could be reading into that, maybe he's on his own, maybe it's just shorthand like "Eh they come in twos no need to mention them both it's unspoken/expected that if Alfonse is here, Sharena is close behind him" like. Idk idk that barely tracks for me actually cause personally unless if I'm speaking about a specific sister, I'm always saying "my sisters" or saying both of their names. And esp before getting their own places, the two of them v much felt like a set.

Idk idk just weird to me. I think we should blow her up with our minds

[ainelane]

i love stories set in dying worlds, i love stories about the end of era's i love the melancholy and bitter sweetness of seeing the end of something great. and watching the last people born into it coming to terms with the fact that they are the last that'll experience something like this ever again. maybe it's the end maybe it's the start of something a bit less magical or even more horrifically magical. they don't know but they are the last of a previous era and the pioneer's of a new one

[fairy-orchid]

2023: A year in review

I was tagged by the bestie @seokmingming <3

rules: link your favourite and/or most popular post from each month this year (it's totally fine to skip months!) and tag some CCs you love!

I only started creating in Nov 2023 for dramas so this should be easy lol but if you want to see what I made pre Nov then I have done one for my kpop blog too <33

Nov favourite: Wei Wuxian name meaning edit ⚔️✨ actually I change my mind and it’s this one -> untamed as lotus’s 🪷💜

Nov most popular: Li Susu + Tan Tainjin sun moon edit ☀️🌔

Dec favourite: colours of the untamed (locations ver.) 🎨🗡️

Dec most popular: Word of Honor WKX running up that hill edit 🌄💚

also I like this one because it was my first edit for dramas :') -> untamed wuji lyrics edit ♪❤️

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I will be tagging -> @fydramas, @krystaljungs, @dengswei, @pondsphuwin, @minnarr, @khaotunqs and anyone else who wants to do it <33 (of course no pressure)

[katyspersonal]

People that headcanon Maria as butch lesbian and/or Eileen as black woman and still are kind and respectful to different takes are good and beautiful and lovely and Great Ones can't even help them to ascend any further because they are already perfect and they get so many bitches.

People that headcanon Maria as butch lesbian and/or Eileen as black woman and trash on different takes while accusing people of bigotries are terrible and dumb and absolutely repulsive and do not take homophobia/racism seriously if they think having different headcanons on fictional characters is any of these bigotries, they should stop using the pretense of caring about real world issues to get away with shunning, passive aggression, bullying and cruelty in the fandom for the "awful sin" of being different and Rom would never want to be friends with them

People that started to dislike these headcanons just because of bad experiences with toxic fans should temporarily stop keeping track on fandom updates so they can heal and rediscover them, contradictory spirit doesn't make you free from bad people but makes you another side of the bad people coin and true freedom lays in raging individualism, don't let them claim headcanons as their weapons because butch lesbian Maria and black Eileen did nothing wrong to you and exist to make people happy, it is their enforcers who are bad.

[brainrotdotorg]

The reason I don’t make a lot of very insightful posts about studying characters and the world they’re in is because I don’t know enough about jean everything I have to say about Harry and Kim has already been said I feel like I don’t have as much to say about the student communists because I am a bad communist who hasn’t done any of the required reading (lmao) my only thoughts on the RCM as an institution arent very well-developed (and also are through an American bias of what police are like rather than how they exist in Elysium) and I don’t know fucking. ANYTHING about the innocentic system.

But I sure can tell you a lot about the skills and piss/fuck. Which isn’t actually a lot but boy I can tell you

[grocerystoreanxiety]

hh found another band that’s a very HIM-esque but to the level it’s like,,, suspiciously similar (like they have a song called ”lovekiller” vs. HIM’s ”heartkiller”, their ”The Kiss of Death” vs. HIM’s ”The Kiss of Dawn”. And in their bio, they say the fans of HIM will probs also like their stuff) so now idk if I can listen to them without being annoyed abt like ”are they trying too hard”. Like I obv like it, bc it’s a knock-off of my fave ever band but this feels like cheating ????

[darkseldarine]

Still baffled that I’ve met people who’ve been of the “drow are inherently evil” opinion. The word ‘indoctrinating’ is literally in Homeland to refer to how drow children are raised. Chapter five sentence two it’s just RIGHT THERE. It’s not even subtext it’s Just Text. What is going on.

[redgearsmovin]

whoah movers in casual outfits ,,,