#i put way too much thought into it

[pastafossa]

pasta you should know we know need to know about matt and janes pokémon 🎤

YOU WANNA KNOW SOMETHING, I gave WAY too much thought to it because it WOULDN'T LEAVE ME ALONE and it's ANNOYING because I've loved pokemon way too long for it to be a SIMPLE thing I can just WAVE AWAY, no, I have to add MEANING, which means

Jane and Matt each have FOUR, and unbeknownst to THEM long BEFORE they met each other, they each end up with a pokemon that represents the other.

Jane leans dark type obviously, of course she does, and there's a lot of focus on getting away type pokemon, pokemon who scare others off, and avoiding a fight.

Absol, because absols sense disaster ahead of time and attempt to warn people - not only does this alert Jane, but it carries the metaphorical extra - people are afraid of absols and therefore avoid her. Sadly this also means that, to all appearances, disasters follow her wherever she goes, and that's not incorrect for a lot of those she's left behind.

Zoroark, because they use illusions to trick people and keep them from entering their dens. Naturally with all of the ways Jane disguises herself, a zoroark makes sense. Zoroark is out with her quite often since it can disguise itself as whatever it needs to be, and therefore change faces/blend in just like she does in city after city.

Ninetales, because A. psychic and she needs at least one psychic (Edit* pointed out: not psychic type, BUT just has psychic abilities) to journey with her into thread places, and B. vengeful and places curses upon those that harm it, which feels very fitting for how Jane sees the Man in the White Coat. Especially relevant if it's an Alolan one, and is therefore icy.

Our DD representative: Houndoom, because she's the Hound, duh, but ALSO because it represents Matt - it's a fire type, it frightens people, it's got a Devil aesthetic, and yet is absolutely loyal. Also sniffs and tracks things down with ease.

Matt, our boy MATT. He's got a little more variety, partly because he's torn between two halves of himself, but his pokemon would generally have some variation of enhanced senses.

Lucario, inherited from his dad after his dad died. Noble, reserved, prideful, but incredibly loyal, and can use its aura abilities to sense foes at distance. Excellent fighter, but also encourages Matt to remain calm and play it smart and focused.

Espeon, our Jane representative, but even beyond that, I stand by Espeon being a surprising but accurate choice for one of Matt's pokemon. Jane reasons - Espeon's not about brute force, it's about psychically outwitting. It requires sunlight, and helps to soothe Matt (much like Jane does later). Just plain Matt reasons: "Espeon's velvety fur is so sensitive that it can sense minuscule shifts in the air, allowing it to predict the weather and its enemies' movements." In other words, Espeon has a similar sensitivity to its surroundings that Matt does, and it's small enough to be out with him everywhere. He often lets his Espeon ride on his shoulders during the day, and whenever he 'slips' and uses his senses to do something he shouldn't be able to do as a blind person, he can tell them that his Espeon is essentially operating as his guide pokemon.

DEVIL POKEMON #1: Blaziken. Yes, the fire chicken - because FIRE TYPE which is very Matt when he's furious, and also fighting type. They practice a form of martial arts, and the stronger their foe, the more intensely they fight, their determination growing.

Devil Pokemon #2: Greninja! It's a NINJA, it's a dark type and is incredibly agile, has a propensity for leaping around, and its water stars are sharp enough to cut metal. Also knows the meaning of stealth, and can take out those farther back while Blaziken and Matt and Lucario focus on close quarters combat.

BONUS: Foggy has a dragonite, fight me.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

[potato-lord-but-not]

more of my favorite monster hunting duo !!!

also thank you @ofthecrown for sending me the gun, which everyone should look at bc I did NOT do it justice.

[inkskinned]

you were raised in comparison.

it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.

you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.

you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.

what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.

it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.

you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.

you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?

a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.

you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.

it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.

something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.

[wardingshout]

I'm also having a lot of fun with this game!!

[strawberijasper]

so... sapphic cheerleader!deku x jock!bakugou right?

I want to actually properly finish this eventually but my wrist has been acting up so it might be a minute until I can, so y'all get a sketch for now.

[iceagebaby]

say hello to a stupid ass fallout AU, Fallout: Nowa Rzeczpospolita/Fallout: New Republic of Poland, developed with @kondz1u

for now vulpes and arcade, in a typical PRL polish setting

without background, with notes, and some additional text, under the cut

Arkadiusz Ganonowicz, overworked doctor in NFZ, which you may recognize from NRŚ (Nowa Republika Śląska/ New Silesian Republic), also the grandson of Mengele. Next to Arek, his 'friend', Inkuldzki, child from the divorce between Edward Saloński and Janusz Grahamka, and a member of the kibole Legii Cezara, a notorious football fans, who alywas get into fights with everyone.

yeah sorry its in polish, but those most important ones say:

"slouches like hell"

"those medical flip flops"

"harmony of the design completes itself"

"tactical glasses for blue eyes"

"both pale, no vitamin D"

"each Pole in the 90s"

"height perfect to see some teats"

[eggsplice]

whyd you have to do all that man

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

[crunchchute]

my attempt at a bunch of my fav artists styles :] idea by sootnuki!!

i would love to do more but this was already a huge challenge

if any artist here dislikes this/is uncomfortable with it/any reason i can take it down or turn off reblogs etc. otherwise i hope its ok 🫡 im not gonna tag anyone just gonna let it do its thing in the wild lol

[theminecraftbee]

for anyone wondering where i've been: i got... distracted... by a potential huge project. I was considering running a mcrp project/smp project, inspired by stuff like fan life series servers, with the rest of the sexyman team! but... a different one. a very specific one, even.

now, I'm aware there are probably outstanding questions, so if you're uncertain, please read more event/server details below the cut and see if it interests you!

I don't know anything about Survivor–what would this show even be like?

so if you know nothing about survivor, it's easy to think it's a show about surviving on a deserted island. it is that, but it's not mainly that. survivor, at its heart, is a social deception game, about making close alliances, betraying people, and social dynamics under pressure–hence why i suspect it would be a great fit for mcrp.

the way the show would be structured is this: a certain number of contestants would be placed on a (slightly modified) survival server, set up to be difficult to survive on. they are placed into two "tribes", the teams for the first half of the show. every episode, they would spend time with their tribes bonding, surviving, searching for secrets, and base building. then, they would compete in challenges. the tribe that loses the immunity challenge must go to tribal council, where they vote on which member to send home. this continues with the tribes eventually merging together into one tribe and immunity becoming individual before there are only two contestants left. at that time, they go in front a jury of their former fellow contestants, who will determine who the sole survivor is.

while challenge performance is one key to winning (as it prevents you from being a target in the first place), the other, bigger key, as you can likely see, is forming alliances and voting blocks strategically to get your opponents voted out and yourself kept in. this makes a great vehicle for social emergent storytelling, where narratives emerge about who is honest, who is a liar, who is good at the social game, who is bad at it, and what people will do in order to become sole survivor.

in other words: it's kind of like what current-day mcrp is ALREADY about. except its a gameshow also, and the very construction of the thing is designed to cause tensions by its very nature.

it's great! and you wouldn't be required to know anything about survivor–our host would explain to the audience all of the mechanics as they came up, as would production staff to the players.

You keep calling it "a show"–what do you mean by that?

the result of this project would be an edited youtube series, like survivor, of likely around twelve episodes. each episode would show footage from the game, as well as a lot of "confessionals" shots of the players explaining their opinions, before ending in tribal council! unlike most mcrp series, this would not be a multiple pov affair. it would be one tightly edited project. (this editing, for the record, is the largest overhead; we expect the amount of footage to go through to end up being in the hundreds of hours combined between all the players.)

it's possible that after the show's finale releases we'll release the players to make their own highlights from any footage they take. but the product we're hoping to make is just a single TV show's worth!

what exactly does applying to be a contestant require?

if we get enough interest, once we have enough of the required plugins and builds created and have a better sense of gameplay, we will put out a casting call form. while this will ask a number of questions to help us get to know you as a potential player, you're going to be REQUIRED to have the following things: a tumblr blog that you can link us to, the ability to record an audition tape in minecraft to send to us (so that we can get an idea of what audio we'd be working with, mostly), enough free time for us to be able to schedule recording sessions into, and a willingness to agree to some rules about keeping things secret until the finale airs and about rp etiquette. that's it! there are no other requirements–you don't have to know survivor, you don't have to already do mcyt or stream, you don't have to have friends, none of it, and while we'll ask you for those details, we're going to be looking for a large blend of people from across mcyt! anyone (who can send us mostly clean audio) can be considered!

EDIT: we would ALSO REQUIRE YOU BE AT LEAST 18. sorry i forgot this before! this is for a number of reasons i don't want to get into, but will be prominent on the actual applications.

what exactly would being a production staff member entail?

we're mainly looking for two things in production staff: a willingness to run replaymod for us and act as cameramen by following contestants around getting footage on the actual recording days, and a willingness to work with us on what's likely to be a fairly intense editing and "scripting" period during and after recording, during which we're going to have to scrub through massive amounts of footage and form it into a coherent narrative. we may, depending on how bad we realize we've bitten off more than we can chew, also end up looking for build team members for the production crew. if these things sound fun to you (they sound fun to me god help me), then go ahead and select this option! just know it's mutually exclusive with playing; no one in the production staff will be considered for the contestants. this includes my friends and myself who've already agreed to help me.

these applications would come out before the casting call, since even before casting call we're going to need to do playtests and dry runs and have things mostly ready. so keep an eye out!

will this be run on your blog?

nope we're going to make a new blog (and youtube channel) (and branding!) for this eventually, just want to interest check before we go through all the branding steps. (also, i've even gotten us a specific gmail for this that we will likely end up using for certain communications.)

for now that's all the FAQ i think that is required. let me know if you have more! and i hope you all are interested in this baby of a project that's taken over my mind for the past few weeks!

[heartorbit]

the star you've longed for

[hydrachea]

Explorers of Sky is a good game.

[casualavocados]

"Who is Ai Di to you?"

Nat Chen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[cardo-de-comer]

under the linden tree alt version