#i know yall are trying to figure out who my blorbo is

[divine-swag-summit]

Is it ok if I ask how many submissions the Mighty Glow Cloud (all hail) has?

The Glow Cloud(ALL HAIL) has 5 submissions so far! That’s enough to qualify for the tournament!

[majorproblems77]

Recalled updated! Okay okay okay im very excited about this lets gooooo!

HI!

How are yall doing? I've been freed, (then I got sick haha.) We are back with the final part of Directionless and we find the main group inside Hyrule castle trying to figure out what to do next.

With some shenanigans along the way.

Okay, time for the important things! Recalled and all panels belong to @recalled11 and its wonderful artist @l3ominor. Go check it out!

You can find the comic page here!

Now, it is time for snacks and drinks, Let's do this! :D

Backgrounds my beloved, you get so much story telling from just this one shot it's great.

MAlon and Time and helping Wild gather information, Sky is resting his leg while flower and Sun discuss something.

Hmm, Sky's looking very serious right now. What's on your mind blorbo?

Look at him run. I love him.

Yoink.

This makes me chuckle. I love when we get Wild shenanigans.

I love how casual he is about this. But I'm gonna note something here.

The orange glow of what I assume is ultrahand. Which would be it, If this next panel didn't exist.

Wild's eye is glowing orange. The eye which changes colour when he's looking at the orb.

So Wild's eye changes colour based on what ability he is using.

Confusion and joy.

Like ust look at these guys

These two are just cackling at Time's expense. And Wild's shenanigans and I totally agree.

The man is still holding his hands out like he's still holding the books.

Flower's little pen for her pura pad. I love it. I can only assume She's got a little diagram on her screen which is just chaos

What's on the paper captain? I hope you didn't tear it out of your book.

I wonder if it's a group drawing of the war heroes looking at a reference picture while trying to find information would make sense. Depending on the length of time it's been since he was fighting that war.

Hiding something are we captain?

I reckon he's trying to figure out just who Time is. And has dug out a picture from the war. (Im unsure, do we get Big Brother Captain? Because I live for Big Brother Captain)

interesting we get symbols for these heroes.

What's the problem Time? Are you looking at someone who you recognise and now he's mentioned your hero title you dont want to talk about it?

Look at Malon, She's like 'You have gotta tell him.'

And Captain looks sad about it. Which tells me that he knows and that he's waiting for Time to approach him.

Thats interesting. We know we get Midna as a companion in Hyrule Warriors. And I assume that Fi mentioned Sky at one point.

I sense some Angst in our future.

Sun putting her hand on Sky's shoulder like that gives me life. i love these two a healthy amount okay.

Also these backgrounds are pretty, I love the triangle behind Sun and Sky here. Thats' Wisdom On the triforce (If observed on the left hand). And considering that sun is in the centre of the frame. I find this interesting. Maybe because they are learning a lot of information right now?

Okay, so you may be wondering who says this line on the left here. I was too. I reckon it's Sky. As a shock response to being mentioned by Captain.

Mainly because From the angle of the speech bubble and the location of the heroes in relation to Wild, it only gives a few heroes. Mainly Sky and Sun.

Sky asking this makes sense as he and sun are the newest to the group at this point.

Okay now its the time for the big one'

The orb. (Or compass,)

I've taken the time to translate the words I can identify and have extrapolated the rest of them from there. The language is Sheika, and most of these words are what (From what I understand) Is what Wild himself identifies each hero as.

So we have, (Rapid fire style)

Hero of Wind

Hero of Spriits

Hero of Sky

Hero of Time

Captain

Me

These all say, Unknown.

A little more on this as well.

This circle around this orange arrow. I believe this is the arrow that Wild has chosen for them to approach. Orange if I had to give you a guess is Twilight's colour. Mainly from this bit before.

Backgrounds give a lot of information by themselves. This looks like a Twili portal.

The reason Wild chose that is unknown to me. During one of his adventures, he encountered Wolfie. So it makes sense. Maybe he was able to identify his name as Twilight. Or called the wolf that himself.

I suppose the next arc will give us more information!

Woo! Adventure time! :D

Okay, thats enough of me rambling.

Thanks for hanging out with me today! I love this comic so it's always a pleasure to write these!

:D

Now I hope you all have a wonderful day!

[blueskiesandstarrynights]

M, S and U for the Fanfic Ask Game please!

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Ooo ok so I've kinda talked about this one a little bit before, but I've kinda retooled it since then, so I wanna reintroduce it.

So I've kinda jokingly titled this au will byers has main character disease because it resolves around a theory I have that Will was taken into the upside down for a reason, so the story revolves around a character who time traveled back and has hindsight and goes to save him on Nov 6, 1983, but the demogorgan just keeps coming back to get him. s1 plot divergence ensues as our tired time traveler keeps trying to save will and figure out why he's constantly being targeted.

Originally Steve was gonna be the time traveler because he's already used plenty for similar style aus and I was working with some very early ideas BUT THEN I thought about El, and how she'd totally work instead. One of the reasons throwing steve back in time is so fun is because he doesn't really have anyone in 1983. But El? She has no one. the only people who know about her are the lab people. Plus, playing with el's guilt in regards to the consequences of upside down things because she accidentally opened the portal in s1 is so interesting. Also I'm a sucker for the willel dynamic, so that'll be extra fun to play with.

This au isn't at the forefront of my mind rn with mortifying ordeal going on and the npmd 30 day gif countdown, but I am constantly jotting down ideas, so if you have any questions I'm totally open to answering them!!

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Ooooo good question! Obviously based on what I've written/have planned I'm a sucker for time travel and ghost aus, there's just so much potential for me in both aus. I also find character has powers fics to be quite interesting. Powers often work as a way to add to a characters sense of self or identity or serve as a really interesting metaphor for something else. Also, the strong stoic character breaking down is such a classic I cant resist. there's def others, but that's all I can think of rn.

U: Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

Oooooo helll yeaaaa

@wizisbored has so many cool and unique ideas, and executes them so well, and has an extra special talent for putting the blorbos through the wringer and making them suffer congrats bestie

@brionysea (bloodofgods on a03) has such an excellent grasp on characters in a way that few do and I respect her for that. She has so many thoughts and yall arent ready for her s4 rewrite

@moosemann404 isnt on tumblr much but dear god are their fics so good, I'm always looking forward to them. Such fascinating concepts executed in such an interesting way that keeps me on the edge of my seat, def recommend

[anqelbean]

#you know i try so hard to keep my mouth shut bc i fully understand that fandom is about having fun#and i respect any silliness or fic ideas ppl have--that's their right and they deserve the freedom to have fun with their blorbos. however.#there's a part of me that gets eye-twitchy when people just completely either disregard or obfuscate the insanely complex ->#politics that underlie literally every single one of mxtx's series.#i dont say that because it always needs to be interpreted in that light every second#but its frustrating to watch when its clear there are certain radical messages she refuses to be equivocal about--that other authors ->#often shy away from or don't care to engage with bc fiction is supposed to be abt “fun” or are afraid to challenge#when so much of being able to create worlds where things can be different and better via the power of what we can imagine#is a radical act in and of itself; it is the beginning to change#all that said--the idea that binghe is beholden to authority figures is LAUGHABLE at best#literally he doesn't give a single fuck. he constantly hisses at and attacks lqg. he doesn't care much for yqy at all.#he literally turns hhpm into a fucking human stick and basically leaves his father to rot bc he's too busy being ->#ancient pussy-hysteria levels of insane trying to keep sqq!sy by his side#like. on what level is this about wanting to be close to power. he cultivated his own for YEARS for fuck's sake.#this is what i can't stand about fanon!bingmei sometimes--it has clouded so many people's perception of lbh#it is not that binghe is incapable of violence and rage and destruction#but rather that he does not want to treat the person he loves that way--especially given sqq!sy needs time to feel safe around him#luo bingmei is still junshang. he is still the young man who leveled the entire demon realm and enforced bloody order#he is still the young man more than willing to lay siege to his former home to force everyone's hand into getting what he wants#its not that lbm has no potential to be another lbg. its that he no longer has any reason or desire to when he has love. REAL love#so much of who lbh is is the outright refusal of conventional power structures bc of the very nature of his oppression#he had the greatest potential on qing jing peak and he was deliberately sabotaged beaten and humiliated for it.#it was by pure virtue of his capacity that he was left drowning in unwarranted resentment and controlling disparagement#mxtx LITERALLY created lbh wwx and hc on the basis of their refusal to engage with abusive power structures and yall still out here#spouting this constant stupidity. ITS LITERALLY IN HER WORKS. SHE IS NOT SUBTLE ABT IT AT ALL.#anyway time to go read fic bc i will never stop if i start going

@mewtwo24 WHY WOULD YOU EVER LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS THIS IS SO WELL ARTICULATED!!!

The "Binghe fell in love with Shen Qingqiu because he was an authority figure and he has abandonment issues" jokes are funny and all, but my GOD if I see another person actually believing that's the whole reason Luo Binghe fell in love with SQQ I will go insane.

[malevolententity]

join me on my latest adventures in crocheting! watching a new ttrpg! and passively absorbing a language! blacklist "a ordem crochet" if you dont wanna see these updates

SO TO CATCH YALL UP SINCE I DIDNT DO IT FROM THE START

i have started watching ordem paranormal (portuguese horror ttrpg actual play) after staring at it for about 2 months going 'i should watch you' but not being able to. i have figured out how to get myself to sit and read subtitles for hours at a time and ive decided that my trade off to actually pace myself with the story instead of bingeing it is crochet during it! because i tend to loose track of time while watching interesting things and while crocheting; i figured a good way to keep track and to pace myself is to tie the activities together! and i figured after finishing season 1 that maybe i should document it as i go so i know how long certain projects took and! keep a collection of my reactions to AOP. so with that preamble done time to catch yall up on the projects ive made so far and where abouts in the story i finished them! obviously. this means there are spoilers but i dont think anyone here really cares about AOP spoilers.

SEASON 1

so first off! surprise surprise i made another beanie and its a pattern ive done before! this piece took me the first 2 episodes of season 1 to complete so about 9 hours went into this hat!

at this point i was really loving the entire cast. the world is fascinating to me as ive played in a campaign with a similar concept so the hook was very very easy for me to get invested in the stakes and all the characters. at this point liz was my favorite, gotta love a queen in stem<3

SECOND PROJECT

i decided at this point to start doing new patterns because i may or may not have a bit of a hoard on ravelry of patterns i like but dont have yarn picked out for yet. AND i have a lot of yarn with no projects planned for yet. which is also a big factor in why i tied these activities together! because if i want to watch more AOP i have to make decisions and actually use my yarn instead of hoarding it waiting for the perfect project that doesnt exist.

so i made slippers! ive never made slippers and had to frog one of them about 4 times to figure out what was off with the pattern and ended up figuring it out and even with all those frogs the total time for both slippers was about 2 hours or the first half of the final episode of season 1!

the stress was starting to creep in about the finale! the whole gang were gearing up for the final confrontation and the first Proper Proper combat of the series! i was worried about my little guys because i knew going in that the series was not going to be a forgiving one. at this point daniel was shifting to being my favorite little guy. its hard to pick favorites because i genuine love all the characters from season 1 equally but he was my interesting little guy. i love a weird author type character who goes from writing about the paranormal as pure fiction to learning Hey Its Real.... Do Something About It. hes soooooooooooooo, to me, yknow?

SEASON 2

i then started my third project! i was halfway through the project when season 1 ended and i was not having a good time. my sweet sweet boys daniel and alex were dead. and i got glassy eyed when daniel died because he was becoming my blorbo. and then he was ripped away quite literally. m still not over him dying but man m happy luba came up with a great second concept because i am. in love with joui. i can Feel him taking over my brain and blorbo thoughts and ive only had him for 2 hours. i am so sorry for who i am going to become when i allow myself to tag crawl properly and just go Ham with the reblogs assuming theres an active fandom on here. BUT ANYWAYS THIRD PROJECT

i made this tarot pouch! i think m gonna be using it to hold one of my character journal projects that uses this specific tarot deck! i got to try new things like colorwork! m very comfortable switch colors to start new rounds but doing colorwork Inside a piece for 2 stitches and then dropping has always been intimidating but i figured id give it a try because the worst that could happen is it looks weird! i also! tried doubling up yarn! i needed bulky weight and the only bulky weight i have is the accent color so i was very brave and took two identical skeins of worsted and just doubled the yarn so itd be bulky and Prayed that the colors would blend well because even though same dye lot their starting ends were at different points in the pattern and honestly i think the color and the marbling came out beautifully.

this is a pattern m really tempted to do again and modify with changing the emblem from a moon to another simple shape or even downsizing the yarn to just be worsted so i can have smaller of these roll ups because i really like it and am tempted to try and make one thats like a switch pouch in the future! OH AND STORY POINT WHERE I FINISHED THIS was 2 hours into the first episode of season 1 when the new gang was breaking into uh rafaels house? the initial dead guys house. i love the season 2 crew so much. liz and thaigo coming back warmed my heart, joui is taking over my brain, and i am Loving the dynamic between cesar and cris. i wanna know what went through calango and luis' heads when they were making characters and went "we should be a complicated father son duo" m obsessed with all the new dynamics emerging from the larger group AND all the characters being here from the get go.

and! ive started project 4 already! but that will get a post when ive finished it! i think its gonna turn out cool but time shall tell!

and then i say Passively Learning a language because. i am actively learning spanish BUT because ive been listening to so much portuguese i am slowly absorbing what some words and phrases mean which is fun! every day i am tempted to switch my duolingo course to portuguese because its the language i interact with way more. but i am not yet because maybe with enough spanish i can bullshit my way thru understanding BR-PT, since i dont have an interest in speaking just understanding (this is def not fueled by the vowel sounds being intimidating to me, not at all)

[hyperfixationspam]

ok im just gonna give a summary of my opinion on the situation re ofmd and historical stede bonnet. not bc i think my opinion matters but just so ppl know and if anybody wants to unfollow they can

basically i think it was a shitty ignorant decision but it was likely made in good faith. im pretty sure what happened was that david jenkins thought "haha wouldnt it be cool if i named some characters after real pirates like a cute little reference" and just... didnt analyze that any further. like this is the guy who said he doesnt care about pirates and refused to look up when pinocchio was written. the producer read one sentence on wikipedia and closed it forever. knowing the shows approach to historical accuracy as a whole, he probably just went with his standard "who cares im not doing research" approach which. sometimes works! and in this case it very much doesnt! like im all for 1700s leather jackets but like maybe when it comes to fucking SLAVERY just think about it a little more before you decide its not relevant to the story so it doesnt matter?

my main concern is HOW DID NO ONE POINT THIS OUT TO HIM. the writers room is like. half poc if im not mistaken. and within the show itself racial issues are handled decently. so why did no one say "hey can we change the characters names?" bc thats literally it thats all it wouldve taken. best case scenario no one else thought to look it up. worst case scenario someone did point it out and got shut down. if something comes out that thats the case, then thats a whole different situation. but for now im leaning towards thinking that this was a snowball of laziness

and listen im very hesitant to declare ANY media "irredeemable" so i find it impossible to put a show where the main issue that the characters have insensitive names due to creator idiocy in that category. and as warranted as the criticism is... some of yall have no idea how to process gray areas. the show can be both progressive and problematic at the same time. bad things can be done with innocent intentions. and that goes for you too "we stan david jenkins he did nothing wrong shut up" crowd!!

but like its not really a fixable mistake bc like. its the characters names. how the fuck do you retcon that. you dont. i mainly think the best course of action is this. to the fandom: STOP FUCKING EQUATING THE CHARACTERS WITH THE HISTORICAL FIGURES. thats it!!! its very easy!!! just fucking separate reality from fiction as much as possible. dont even bring up the historical figures unless its to point out how awful they were. your blorbo isnt a slaveowner? cool stop fucking comparing him to one then

and for the show going forward? really the main thing is that david jenkins needs to apologize. if youre pissed about this, @ him on twitter. preferably politely bc no matter how justified it is pointed insults make ppls brains shut down from criticism. he really needs to understand that he fucked up on this one. i dont think hes a bad dude i think hes just an idiot with good intentions. ofc if he defends his decision or makes some passive aggressive apology this is all out the window. i dont know the dude, i cant say for sure whats up with him. but im leaning towards hanlons razor on this

there are also some little steps for the show to make. mainly straying even more from biography (which considering the way hes talking about it im 100% sure is going to happen to some extent, but the more the better). honestly just dont introduce any more characters with historical names unless theyre completely ~unproblematic~ which. idk if an unproblematic famous pirate actually existed but they can try. idk what was up with anne bonny

so tldr love the show bully david jenkins