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malfestio, the hypnotic owl of nightmares
#hey capcom quick question uhhhhh. why tf are the backs of malfestio's wings made of SOLID FUCKING STEEL?!???!!#i got a great idea for a monster!#it scrambles the controls. in a game that requires EXTREMELY COMPLICATED CONTROLS. lol#and also it knocks you unconscious with massive status ailment AOEs and nigh unavoidable sleep ray attacks.#and then thwacks your helpless little body into the nearest loading zone.#let's make players fight it uhhhh i dunno like 6 times if they want to progress. lmao#masterclass in excellent design and horrible execution. oh malfestio my beloathed......#monster hunter#monhun#mh#malfestio#my art <3
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#aroflare art#doodle#splatoon#splatoon fanart#splatoon art#lethal company#i fucking LOVE the coil head design i made btw. it's meant to be the museum d'alfonsino statues that got thrown out#the other 2 r great im happy i came up with ways to turn the monsters into salmonids while at least keeping the vibe#ie loot fish even without having wings was designed to be weird as possible. or eyeless salmon keeping as much as the red as possible#maybe ill do more. who knows. i have no idea what the hell to do for nutcracker#company building is pretty obvious tho. big fuckin ooze pile behind the wall that consumed nearly an entire planet#OK BYE sorry my. splatooning syndrome is strong
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I'm really enjoying seeing concepts repeat now that new fans are finding billford.
Seeing new takes on themes that OG billford fans from before the book of bill enjoyed like:
🔺 Ford joins Bill AUs
🔺 University AUs
🔺 Jekyll and Hyde parallels for Bord
🔺 Bill reincarnating to be a human pest in the shack as part of his redemption dues
🔺 Ford building a puppet body for Bill rehashing Pygmalion
🔺 Lots and lots of Ford traps Bill early on ideas
🔺 And lots of "what if Bill wasn't evil and actually was nice and circumstances contrive so they stay together in a healthy way" AUs that stretch realism (which Bill is all for so go off I guess)
The one new thing I've seen with the new wave of Billford fans is Bill and Ford meeting as children and that panning out. That's a new fun one.
It's really nice to see patterns repeating and all this new content for ideas that folks have been churning out. Billford fans, we are being fed well!
#billford#book of bill#i remember seeing old art of people building bill a wooden puppet body#lots of bill living at the shack as part of redemption arcs#one of us au was popular but there was lots of monster overlord ford#ive got a chapter in my fic that uses song lyrics from abba mentioning jekyll and hyde#its all great stuff#its wonderful how across different timespans people can look at something and bring together similar ideas from completely different minds#probably how mythologies across cultures can all have similar facets#human collective consciousness is fun like that
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I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.
It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.
#my fics#SWORDS SWORDS SWORDS#would you like a story about the years of background of this fic?#I was not very well-versed in metallurgy until recent years but my study of the Japanese language goes back to#well#longer than some of you may have been around#I always liked samurai and swords for the aesthetic but started to take more of an interest when I lived in Shimane#and on a day when I had a friend taking me around to rural sites associated with a legendary monster she was like#let's go see the sword museum while you're out here#but that museum was closed (it comes back into this story though)#so we went to a different one that no longer exists but that was my first encounter with how much work it takes to make the sword ore#fast forward years later#I am writing this blog and it becomes known as a fun place to read about Japanese culture as seen in KnY (thanks glad you enjoy)#I decide that I must tell people how hard it is to make the ore and finally visit that main museum on a trip back to Shimane#I collect material and struggle to do more research and wrap my head around it#and I write the first version of Teppi's story that focused mostly on the smelting and glazed over the forging and polishing and stuff#meanwhile I am in a job situation I have already long since wanted out of and soon I want out a lot more desperately#job searches were disheartening but then I found THE ONE I WANTED#and on that first interview when I was already like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE#they asked if there's a Japanese cultural topic I could suddenly explain in great detail if asked#and without mentioning this blog I said I had recently written up something for fun about tatara smelting methods (and they forgot this)#fast forward again and I very happily got the job and was very nervous as I got the rundown on a very large annual nerd project#and when they announced the topics for that year I saw that tatara smelting methods in the region I knew them from was on the list#and I was like#asudyaiusdyuasdyuahduahduhsdhuPLEASE GIVE ME THAT#and i got it and when I went out there for research people were like#...why do you know all this...???????#and since I dared not mention my KnY blog I was like#...I lived in Shimane...#it seems I broke the tags because the rest of the story got cut off but hi yes you get the idea
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wrote 1.3k words today. i'm incredibly proud of myself. i'm also so fucking behind on my assignments
#somebody sedate me#who ever decided college was a good idea anyway??#i wanna read and write about my silly little gay men doing silly little things#like battling monsters and kissing#is that too much to ask?#*she says even though it's been 60k+ words and the characters haven't even held hands yet*#at least they've fought some monsters#anyways i finally got a move on my plot so that's great#we're one panic attack closer to finish this fic#to clarify it's not my panic attack. i just use stiles' panic attacks and mental breakdowns as landmarks for my fic#sterek#stiles stilinski#derek hale#my fic#writing#my writing#rewrite the lines au#teen wolf#wip
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Freddie correctly guessing the combination to Anthony's lock in the Seattle live show... Freddie correctly guessing the combination for Normal's locker... There's something here...
#I FINALLY LISTENED THAT WAS SO FUCKING FUNNY#😭 East coast tour when#dndads#Seer Glenn served no purpose but I like the idea of him. Rotating him around#Seer of Anthony's plans ig!#Oakson RIGHTS from this one omg#:0 There was no doubt in my mind that Mercedes is a monster fucker already canon to me#idk there was just a lot of great one-off bits that really got me#I miss the S1 dads all being goofy silly together aw#dndads live show#do or dice tour
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Rambles and small ideas for a Batfamily Bloodborne AU
(It is not that cohesive I am sorry and I was forced to make some lore changes. Especially with how it begins. Don't beat me up about it.)
Gotham gets enveloped by a dark shroud that covers the whole city and makes it near imperishable, let alone letting people pass through. The city is forever shrouded in a dark loom with merely a everlasting full moon shining upon them. With no sun and the isolation, it soon takes a tool on the people. They grow sickly and depressed, if not that they become near deranged and highly irritable. Crime rates in the already vicious city steadily increase.
There is a sudden shift then - for the worse. A blood moon occurs and people begin to change. Their bodies twist, grow and even rot away. Meanwhile their humanity seems to decrease. A few attempt to research the phenomenon and hold them captive in facilities like Arkham Asylum or Blackgate Prison, however those are halted when the victims fully cease being humans and transform into eldritch monsters that lash out when the old blood gets overused by the Healing Church. A mass outbreak occurs and the monsters roam the city from then on.
Tim Drake is still in the position of the CEO Wayne Enterprise after the mysterious disappearance of the Gotham Prince (Bruce Wayne) and openly funding doctors and scholars in his tower to research their Gotham phenomenon and the monsters. He takes over the Role of Provost Willem and does not shy away from finding out the truth by any means necessary. He isolates himself because of his hunger for knowledge and shuts people out.
Researchers of his discover the tombs/Labyrinth and the usage of the old blood when coming across Ebrietas, some desperately trying to change his opinion and use blood healing to attain a new beginning. Tim is forced into a position where he needs to give up on his constant desire of evolution and progress, which goes against his nature, for the sake of the people and instead how far he can go sacrificing himself in order to attain knowledge that makes him look beyond the "now". His good-hearted start for the peace of humans turns into a obsession to achieve something which is beyond the capability of a mere human.
Damian has been put in a dire position, a child that hears and dreams of the voices of those beyond that nobody else can comprehend. With his artistic skills he puts down the words after transcribing them, he holds the Role of Runesmith Caryll. He desperately attempts to hold on to sanity as he hides himself away from all prying eyes despite the praise of those around him. He only ever hears the words of the Great Ones now.
Two people Tim trusted most "betrayed" him, Tam and Cass that take on the Role of Laurence as his trusted students that end up leaving him. Cass knew that Stephanie must secretly be alive and after having grown immensely close to her not-sister-not-lover, she could not live with herself if she didn't rescue one she loved. She had lost too many already and followed Tam, along with others. Tam had noble intentions much like Cass, although Tam held more resentment for Tim. Her father was affected by a terrible illness that was since then called the Ashen Blood and even after dozens of years where he was loyal to the Wayne family he did not wish to use the old blood to heal him. He actively even discouraged her. Tam gave her goodbyes one day to never see Tim again and began the Healing Church. To her disappointment Dr. Leslie Thompkins was not one of those that followed after them and when the blood failed to heal her father, instead actively killing him, it were Tim and Leslie that got blamed. Since then Tam began desiring evolving into something greater through the use of the blood in order to bring him back. While Cass worked as a blood minister (later on white Church hunter), Tam focused later on at the work of seeking contact with the Great Ones and became the leading figure of the Choir.
Leslie Thompkins suffers a cruel fate. Her loyalty to save the people and towards Tim cost her greatly and when Tim gets the epiphany that more eyes are needed to understand the Great Ones and evolve, she is one of those that get affected and turn into one of the many hundred eyed monsters roaming the tower and trapping Tim there.
The Healing Church grows in power as their influence in Gotham rises because of their special infected blood that heals those in dire need should they come to them. Gotham citizen began to practically worship the Healing Church when gods they previously believed them did not act and show mercy, others turned away out of fear and that soon enough began to rule the city. The Healing Church becomes a belief, a bloody beacon of hope in their endless night...a cult.
When the sickness of the Ashen Blood spreads the people falsely believe in The Healing Church and that they will save them. Instead the bridges connecting the lands to each other get torn down when they least expect it and watch on as the other half gets overrun by beasts and the ravaging sickness alike. To make sure nobody ever passes through the remains get bordered up. Tim remains on the other half in his Tower overlooking the raging City with a faraway gaze.
They mainly reside in the abandoned underground of Gotham and at the edge of the Bowery, planted right at the opposite site of the Wayne Tower, and gets called the Labyrinth as the layout changed under the influence of the shroud. In time the Healing Church began to change and it split into various branches, the Choir, the school of Mensis and the Hunters of the Workshop that evolve into the Church Hunters.
Jason and Dick had been getting Damian out of old Gotham when the great fire happened and they were unable to return to their left behind sibling. They desired to hid Damian from the Healing Church because of his connection to the Great Ones and there was no better hiding spot than directly under their nose. As such they've become hunters for the Church.
One faithful day Barbara after a long search discovers Damian when he is having one of his seizures, when he dreams of the Great Ones, and she desires to help him. She has been kept in the dark as she had been stuck in the Clocktower until the Healing Church came to free her, which causes her to make unwise decisions by mistakingly trusting Tam and Cass. Unknowing of what occurred with the lack of still functioning technology she was part of the School of Mensis. However upon touching the Great Ones overwhelm her mind and her sanity crumbles. Barbara holds the Role of Micolash. After she becomes aware of herself again she causes the School of Mensis to break away from the Church and just like Tim to find and use an unbiblical cord of the Great Ones.
Stephanie was one of the few that broke through the shroud even when nobody knows why she was permitted through. Trusting her idol and not-lover her ignorance of the state of matter makes her join Barbara. The use of the Cord brings blocked memories back to Stephanie as she recalls that she faked her death because of her pregnancy, just shortly before the shroud fell over Gotham. In fact she does not recall what she had done those months outside of Gotham, neither were the supposed baby was. That is when the Great Ones enlighten her when she connects to Mergo. That child was never born as she went through horrible complications early on and lost it, although there was no body. The child was not of human descent, but of a Great One. Broken apart by this knowledge the Cord pulls Stephanie, Barbara and others of the School into a nightmare state where they remain forever trapped while their physical bodies die. She is the Queen of Yharnam.
Alfred was thought to have died that night when the Great fire happened as he had been away from the Wayne Tower, yet neither with Damian in the Manor. However, as it turns out Alfred had gone to seek out Tam and Cass in hopes to change their minds. When he thought all his wards dead when the land was burning there was no other way than to stay with his last remaining: Cass. And as someone who only ever knew how to work through grief by helping others, he had become the leader of the old Hunters Workshop. He was Gehrmann. Still caught in his own grief the purpose was ripped from him again and he was left alone, a mistake. Like many he called upon the Great Ones and as such started the dream, the start of it all with a promise that needed to be fulfilled.
#batfamily#bloodborne au#tim drake#dick grayson#jason todd#damian wayne#alfred pennyworth#barbara gordon#tam fox#stephanie brown#bruce wayne is trapped in the timestream#he could be the final boss in the moon because he too got affected by the great ones#i am not that familiar with bloodborne lore but damn it this idea took hold of me and made me watch a video about it#please dont beat me up bloodborne fans#this is just pure horror and angst#eldritch horror implied#stephs baby but make it creepy in a way different way than in canon#I ran with that awful comic storyline and made it tragic#how could Jason and Dick not be hunters beating up monsters tbh#and I am sorry Damian but someone needed to suffer some madness and be forced to live
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Hello scarian nation. I am reading There are Monsters Nearby by the lovely @/uhohbestie and so I don't take over the place I normally post My fic Reactions. I am going to scream to the void here.
SO firstly. I am Chapter 11 .
Firstly love the writing, Secondly ACTUALLY murdering G in this. Like why bitch and NOT EVEN A SORRY YET????
bro thinks he gets his rocks off ONCE he will be forgiven...
AND THEN THE GAUL OF HIM BEING JELAOUS?? brother you are the one who fucked this up. what do you mean.... brother YOU DID THIS
#kris rambles#hermitblr#scarian#hermitshipping#the actual rage I feel when ever G is jealous is like insane#Like as the local scar kinnie#brother you GOT to lay into him and be ACUTALLY MEAN#like g isn't taking anything scar says actually to heart#or that he even hurt him and im so#IM KILLING HIM NOW#anyways great fic Lock and Key the art is great and IM making some soon#Ive got ideas COOKING#there are monster nearby#fic posting#liveblogging
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Hey, hey Shockwave? Your fucked up clone is digging through the butcher's off-cuts
AKA I watched a video about Tarrare and also found a similarly hungry lad during the same time that apparently ate 174 cats dead or alive
#predaking#tfp predaking#transformers#tfp#humanformers#maccadam#horror#blood#ask to tag#this is where the gaunt part of the muscular gaunt fucked up dragon clone predaking comes in#i wanted to draw his teeth and more specifically his gums just to emphasise that he has black gums#something something necrosis yada yada shockwave has no idea what happened to cause such confounding variables#but i think i just got too into the idea of predaking eating offal and just made a horror piece#plus i don't even think the black gums so up that great in a black and white (mostly) scheme#which i wouldn't have resorted to if i didn't just straight up make predaking eat mystery meat but- idk#again- ask to tag- already got blood here just wondering if i need something like eating or unsanitary#i think humanformers (baseline not shattered) shockwave has got a lot more to deal with with this predaking#(bot shockwave just needs to feed the predacon energon and shattered shockers is actually a parent to predaking-)#(and also let's him grow like a human and not have a fully adult fucked up human dead supernatural monster thing)
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I want! I want to be able to tell people i make art wnd write comics and have something to Point Too y'know?
Like sure i have art but it's not like... Art (not in a self-degrading way, just in a way that says a majority of what i've made is very casual and disparit, and lacks a cohesion of intent I see from many of the artists I admire)
And there's an embarrassment that comes with telling people 'oh yeah i'm an illustrator and I'm writing comics when i'm not at work' and then being able to show... Nothing of serious import.
(again not to degrade my work, I like what i draw otherwise i wouldn't habe drawn it. It's just most of it does not necessarily satisfy the set up of "I Illustrate and Write Comics")
#monster noises#now you may ask yourself;#Bartholomew.#what the friggity Fuck does 'cohesion of intent' mean#great question!#not sure i can answer it in words!#but the idea i think i'm trying to convey is... not consistancy of Style per-say#(I think i've got that okay)#but... having a gallery that looks Properly like a Body of Work#and not an assortment of odd sketches that are definitely all drawn by the same person but carry no memorable weight as a unit#i think that explanation makes about as much sense as the initial phrase#but sometimes translating a feel that exsists as a picture in your head into coherent speak is Hard
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Just watched Ugly Dolls for the 1st time.
That movie went about how I expected story/plot wise. Gotta say Lou was obvious but I'm a bit disappointed they didn't go the route of him being like...well meaning and sticking to the parameters of expectations for how they're "meant to be" and not realizing he's wrong or causing harm by not being a free thinker and actively going against the concept and then being taught how to change and do better instead of yknow...diabolical and slightly deranged because he's somewhat broken.
Kinda funny that he's completely disregarded after being thrown in the wash when he was practically a cult leader. We only see him a mess as he tries to mop in the credits.
BUT ENOUGH OF THAT!!
I kinda wanna talk about the brief display of raw emotion Lou gave when ranting like a lunatic at the end of his rope at the green bunny thing: Mayor Ox.
According to both, they're old friends.
According to Mayor Ox they were like brothers.
According to Lou....well...he took the fact that Ox wanted to "leave him" like every one else SUPER personally.
I'm curious 🤔 on how the fandom for this movie (is there a fandom???) handles the relationships, consequences, and interpretations of Lou's mental and emotional state.
Like before I watched the movie I only ever saw bits of commercials and that song of Lou's, Ugly Truth?
That song was a hilarious whiplash of overly high expectations, blatant insults/mockery, showmanship and narcissist traits done in a blend with a good dallop of civil politeness and carefree/careless congeniality on top. And just a sprinkle of flirtatiousness, for good measure I'm sure.
I just find him lowkey interesting.
#ugly dolls#that movie was ok#i found some things interesting#Lou was one of the most interesting#also the fact they have a literal portal that puts them in boxes#why boxes??!#lou from ugly dolls movie#just watched#my thoughts#rambling a bit#his song is still great tho#like he's not at the level of lord dominator- whose song got me OBSESSED with her but it did get my interest peaked about him#too bad there's probably not a lot of content about him#I'll dip my toes into content about him later to get an idea#Lou just felt left out and developed abandonment issues#I'm not saying he did no wrong- dude was lowkey a monster#but i fuck with it tho#character study impending
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observations from people watching at the therapist thanksgiving:
everyone seemed to like each other
no one mentioned a single thing about politics
there was not even a small argument or passive aggressive comment made
the cooking and set up and clean up was not only done by women
there was alcohol and weed but consumed "normally" rather than in mass amounts. also had the experience of my therapist offering to pass me the joint and that was unique (i didn't take it though)
not one, not two, but three dogs
#it was crazy tbh#like ohhh right you're all enlightened#GREAT houseplants also#i'm not posting pictures of someone else's house on the internet obviously but he has this begonia that is the same kind as mine but it's s#huge that it extends out on the ceiling towards the middle she's insaneeee#he's got a really nice oxalis too and a huge palm or something that basically makes a plant cave around the computer desk and a big monster#*monstera#and a shit ton of other ones. i covet their plants but the whole house is really cozy and nice. and the food was good#also his wife is SO fucking cool i want to be her friend#anyway i probably wouldn't have guessed that a dinner invite from ones therapist would be a good idea before but it actually did go well#although there were four pumpkin pies so most of the one i brought didn't get eaten 😔 but that means i get some so it's fine#me
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ngl seeing everyone clutch onto one(1) photo and then "speculate" on it is hilarious because everyone is coming to "conclusions" and they're all contradicting each other asdfajas. just with the Finn pic today alone, i've seen people say he looks "older"? (not shit they didn't film for a year) so it has to be a time skip past 1987? (no idea what the reasoning for that is supposed to be other than that the actors look different than 1 year ago), i've seen people explain it could be a flashback to pre s4, i've seen people say it's a "byler win" for some reason?? and so on and on
not shaming at all but also holy shit i need everyone who's feeling "we lost" about something to shut up right now, no one can even agree on what they're seeing in a photo, i Assure you whatever you're upset about happening has a less than 5% chance of actually happening, it's a still image my man
#not shaming theorizing at all there's some cool ideas going around#i'm just laughing at how many people are treating whatever conclusions they're drawing from one behind the scenes pic like a fact#''ooooh so this means xyz. great!'' and then you see the image and it has nothing to do with that akdfjal#and then there's no elaborating either. brother you are unintelligible to me#maybe it's just worse for me than usual bc i've been out all day#so whenever i check tumblr for a minute or so my dash is full of reaches and people going through the highs and lows#meanwhile we got one picture#words of someone who was touching too much grass today and then went to therapy#feeling too normal to understand why people are upset over a hc they just came up with themselves#but the next year is going to be Rough if i've seen 3+ we lost takes come from one grainy paparazzi shot#the first 'mike and el get married will gets sacrificed and there's no monster/dragon' fake leak that we'll eventually get will be Rough
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people who still make Joey the ink demon despite canon steering far away from that being the case this is for you I am sending u kisses XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO <3
People who make Joey well-meaning, sympathetic, a lighter shade of morally grey than canon I am also sending u lots of love <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!!
And people who generally steer wildly from the direction Bendy takes with its characters and has fun with it I hope to see more from all of ur aus and rewrites!!
#ramblez#batim#batdr#this is not me saying aus that don't do this r bad blah blah I just personally have a super soft spot for Joey being the ink demon#since I really like the idea storywise the symbolism of Joey becoming the ultimate monster of this story#joeys who also take a very sympathetic role who are more morally grey than canon also hold a special place in my heart#joeys who think what theyre doing is right not just for them but for their staff who genuinely care abt them who love them mwah#I just love to see very unique takes on these characters I kinda miss when it was only like chapter 2 so everyone had this wildly#different but very unique and fun takes on where we thought the story would head hell for a while we didn't know if Joey was evil or not#thats what spawned Encore it was originally just a collection of theories I thought would come true#esp since I dont think bendy is a particularly well written story its fun to see the fandom have such fun wild ideas on where to take#the concepts and idea presented in bendy that never really panned out into anything interesting or were discarded or retconned#yknow? I miss the days where the aus were wildly out of sync with the actual story when all we had was a few names a few tapes#and we all went wild making our versions of the story and characters and then got so attached to them we doubled down#when canon didnt deliver on em#umm oops this is long have a great new year folks! Get wild get weird with ur bendy aus and rewrites#lets have fun this year and take canon as optional bc lets face it Bendy isn't great but man is it fun and I care abt that way more than#the quality of the story tbh#it had great ideas and executed them uh badly! But idc bc I can stir those great ideas in my head all day and see others do the same <3#anyways yeah thats it love ya guys have a great 2024 <3
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#(this is just going to be a tag ramble; feel free to ignore)#don't mind me -- just having very loud (not necessarily coherent) thoughts about tiracchana today#both the canonical doppel and the more...vaguely human-shaped design i'm working on for it#'human-shaped' in the way that a bloodborne beast is human-shaped; do not misunderstand me#'anthro' is probably a closer description than 'human' but i digress#i really want to get around to properly drawing her and working out the kinks of the design#because i've got so many gruesome ideas and i'm excited. i *love* designing horrifying monsters#i will get there. i swear on my life that she will be drawn soon#it's wild to think that i used to not be the most fond of tiracchana; when now she's one of my favorite doppels in the entire game#easily top 5 if not top 3#i love how horrible she is. she's so viscerally *disgusting* and it's perfect. my raw beef baby...#i'd usually be too shy to post something like this but i have got to talk about tiracchana *somewhere* or else i'll explode#luckily i have a blog for doing just that#i'll end this post here to avoid going on forever about her (though it is my blog; so i'm subjecting you all to this much anyway)#but i'll leave you all with the fact that 'demon of hatred' from the sekiro ost is a great song that makes me think of#tiracchana/general monster!yuna
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SO I finally started dumping my stuff on my geocities.ws account that I made like a year ago but it turns out that this site SUCKS but at least it can send .txt files so here's a fossil fighters card game that I made WAY more cards for than I thought I would
#asks#fossil fighters#i actually didn't bother much with making vivosaurs#i just had a million ideas for the other card types#the vivosaurs were kinda just Work to design since i was taking a lot of their stuff directly from the games#so it was a lot of looking stuff up and adjusting the numbers to work better#and i STILL don't know if i made the damage numbers high enough because i've never used this kind of defense mechanic before#inspired by me thinking about the pokemon tcg and thinking “hey that's a really good system to focus on Monsters Battling”#and my thoughts drifted towards my Braithia card game for like 15 seconds before i wanted to make fossil fighters#also all the mechanics that don't involve cards are lifted directly from the game#the various Zones and such are copied straight from fossil fighters 1#the only changes i made were lowering the numbers and changing support effects to be flat numbers instead of multipliers#also changed elements from multipliers to flat numbers#multipliers: great for video games and annoying for physical games#also i wrote all the rules before coming up with the fossil deck idea which i'm still really proud of#and i was able to just kinda staple it on with no changes to the rest of the rules so that was nice#and then once i had fossil rocks as a mechanic i got started writing cards and i simply didn't stop#so many things to take from the games#like when i came up with the fossil deck one of the first ideas was taking the worthless normal rocks you dig up#and just chucking it at an enemy for damage#there's a lot of ways to spend fp so i felt kinda pressured to make everything low cost#which was a problem because of the Durable mechanic i put on the dark fossil rocks#like durable 3? there's literally only 3 cards in the main deck that cost 3 or more#and it made the Fragile mechanic pretty meaningless too#high costs would prevent you from attacking that turn so it was just pretty awkward#might just remove the durable and fragile mechanics if i come back to this#they were mainly just for flavor anyway#because wondrous/miraculous fossil rocks need to cost a lot but i want to represent how fragile they are#fuck i spelled it wonderous instead of wondrous. english is stupid
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