#i was weirdly dedicated. for a pony game

[flutt3rb4tz]

my little mercenaries (blood death gore explosioans 💥💥💥💥)

[suckitsurveys]

Do you share a name with any celebrities? I think there's some Hannahs. I can't think of any right now though. Except Hannah Montana ahaha. What’s your birth stone? Blue Sapphire. Do you read your horoscopes every day? Nah. What’s your favorite drink? Barq's Root Beer.

What color is associated with your Zodiac sign? It's an earth sign, so probably earthy tones.

Have you ever been hit on by someone way too old for you? Yes. Have you ever worked in fast food? Nope. Have you ever flirted with a friend’s mom? Nah. Do you ignore people often? In what regard? Do you drink a lot of water? Sure. Do you like fireworks? They’re visually appealing, but I wish they weren’t so damn loud. Is respect given or earned with you? I respect people in general, but it can be lost real easily.   What’s your favorite snack food? Chips with or without dip/salsa/guac. Do you text a lot? Sure. What’s your favorite color to wear? Black and Blue. Do you like wind chimes? Sure. They can be soothing. Are you any good with Photoshop? Eh. How many megapixels does your camera have? I have no idea. Do you use the right shift button or the left more? Probably the left. Do you like remixes? Some. Do you put stickers on your electronics? Yeah. Are you homophobic? No. What’s the last gift you received? Various Christmas gifts. Have you ever forgotten someone’s birthday? Yeah. I am usually really good at remembering birthdays though. Do you wear your hair up or down usually? Up. Do you hate anyone for no reason? No, I have reason. Are you ‘in the closet’ about anything? Nah. Do you lie to make yourself feel better? Nah. Are you a social butterfly or a wall flower? Wallflower. Do you wear a lot of make up? I don’t wear any makeup. Are you missing any teeth? Well, do wisdom teeth count? Because I got those removed. Weirdly, I only grew three, but I had all those removed. Have you ever been to any of the Great Lakes? Chicago is on Lake Michigan. I've also been to Lake Erie and Huron. Not sure about the other two. What’s your favorite number? 24.

Do you have any pictures of family around your house? Yes. Do you like scrapbooking? I don't hate it. Did you just lose the game? Dammit. Are you one of those girls who have a “wife?” You can say lesbian, it's 2022. What was/will be your first tattoo? A little bat on my shoulder.

Do you have any tattoos dedicated to someone special? I do. Do you style your hair often? It's usually in a bun or high pony. I'll occasionally do space buns or braids (or my sister will french braid it every once in a while). If I wear it down I don't "style" it. Do you shave your legs? Yeah. Not super often, mostly just in the summer, and even then only once or twice a month. What is the next piercing you want to get? I've been kinda thinking of getting a few more holes in my ears. Do you like ghost stories? Sure.

What was your favorite movie as a kid? The classic Disney movies, Nightmare Before Chritmas, The first Pokemon Movie. Did you watch Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers? I did. What color are your eyes? They’re green. If you could dye your hair any color you wanted at all, what would it be? I'd get it blue and black again. Do you know anyone who was born in a different country? Yeah. What state do you live in? Illinois

[phoebehalliwell]

don't know if you answered this before but in what order would you rank the endgame couples - piper/leo, phoebe/coop, paige/henry? very curious

oh hmm i actually have never been asked this!! hmm this is difficult. okay so like. obvi before we begin i must offer a disclaimer here. i am a paragon of bad taste. let’s not forget my entire valentine’s theme was dedicated to prue & jack. we’re starting at rock bottom here. i also love projecting my own idea onto incomplete pieces to fill the gaps. like. like i get how there’s not a lot to love for paige and henry and phoebe and coop but in my lil brain they are all very complex and like fleshed out and i gotta a lotta beliefs. in fact. like. hmm. no i’ve already said i have bad taste like piper/leo are probably gonna sit at the bottom of the list for me just because i cannot craft them how i want bc they’re already solidified in canon. like. idk they’re an adorable couple all that the full nine yards or whatever but like. well for starters they’re not my favorite ship tropes and then on top of that again There’s A Lot Of Canon. and i am a narcissistic diva okay i wanna be able to fill in these gaps. so like. hmm at the top based solely on coupleness and the versions of them that live in my noggin it’s

phoebe/coop bc like hear me out man they’re like the embodiment of love. we’ve been hit over the head so many time how they’re the embodiment of love and like salvation and rebirth and renewal like!! like part of me wishes that we had introduced coop in s5 and given him more skin in the game but also if they fucked up this relationship i would have been so bummed bc it really is. it’s love!! like it is the embodiment of falling in love like phoebe is stone cold right and she’s kind of starting to accept that maybe she just doesn’t get it you know. maybe that’s it. she gets her column and she gets to help people find love and see like piper and leo at peak domesticity and like engage in love, but like, remotely.because it’s not for her. and then here comes this cupid who’s like no i’m gonna find you love which is a cute gesture but like she genuinely doesn’t believe she’s made for love she genuinely doesn’t believe she gets to have love but then you know like. like her eyes get reopened to the world around her yes she engaged with love remotely but she had become so far removed from it that it lost the feeling. she saw it but she saw the individual brushstrokes and then here comes coop and he helps her take a step back and see the painting. and like!!! it’s beautiful. and then of course there’s the added trope of like. falling in love with coop he’s supposed to help you find love and now you know what the hell you’re trying but like. you’re in love with him. but you can’t be but you are. like!! and then on coop’s side you know he’s a cupid he’s been doing this for centuries and his love for humanity is obvious and his love for love is obvious but this is new. and he doesn’t know what it is!! like he knows love obviously but he’s never like you know fallen in love. and he can’t recognize it because he thinks it’s impossible but the next think you know he’s got all those lovesick symptoms he sees in the couples he puts together and oh my god he’s in love with phoebe. and then of course both believe the other won’t reciprocate bc it’s out of the realm of possibility. but then the other does reciprocate!! they also just like. i mean all three couple do but like phoebe and coop maybe the most. seem like the type of people who just kinda get lost in watching their partner work. like when phoebe is having trouble with a letter for her column she like paces and mutters the letter out loud to herself like she’s the one asking it and like bareface in pajamas like a crazy person is just repeating the same thing over and over again and coop’s just fucking in love with her like look at her!! and vice versa i don’t think coop has really spent that much time being human i think he takes absolute delight in small things phoebe has just forgotten about but to see coop’s face light up like at so flea market or something finding something that was undeniably crafted with love like he can feel it imbued in the item and his face just lights up and he wants to tell everyone how like it’s love!! love!! it’s all around us it’s in here can’t you feel it and phoebe just looks at him and remembers how pure love itself is and just how happy she is that you know. this is her life. and she gets to fall asleep and wake up next to this man like hello?? hello??!???! and then i’m gonna go 

paige/henry bc like i feel like they’re criminally underrated again bc we spedrun what should have been a slowburn but they gave me the legos and i will built the death star like. like these are two people who struggle with family and identity so much who have learned against their nature to lean into and grow with one another. like what we see of paige is a woman who loves her independence and loves her freedom and yesh has a complex relationship with family bc she was given up at birth but it didn’t matter because she found a loving family so who needs the ones who gave her up not her but she couldn’t help but wonder but she didn’t care she had her family. until she didn’t. until she was seventeen alone and scared and what are you supposed to do with that?? and let’s not even get started on the fact she only gains her new family through death as well. like. there’s so much there there are so many reasons to stay guarded and fearful and just overall pessimistic about the concept of family especially as something built to last. and then henry!!! who never knew his birth parents and on top of that never got a home like paige paige got a home she got a family who loved her hell she actually got two henry never had that henry always had nothing and like he kinda grew up in that shell said he didn’t want to leave when people started getting close he had to push them away bc he didn’t know who he was if he wasn’t alone and paige is like hey hi?? you wanna be alone so bad be alone but i actually fucking like you and i know you like me too so don’t just push me out because that’s what makes you feel "comfortable” when you know you’re miserable in your comfort. and she’s right but it’s still a hurdle for henry and it’s this push and pull of the tides where bit by bit they kind of have to learn that it’s lonely up on the pedestal of independence and it can actually be nice to be vulnerable with somebody yes it’s fucking terrifying to just like show yourself to someone honestly because like!! they can turn away what if they turn away but to experience the rewards of love we must first subject ourselves to the morifying ordeal of being known. and it’s a painful process for both of them but the fruits of those labors man it’s well fucking worth it and it’s a relationship especially on henry’s side that is plagued with external insecurities other people telling him that he is not cut from the right cloth to be with paige but like. it’s like he’s already torn down his walls to be with her and she’s done the same and he realizes he loves her like He Loves Her like. like!! who gives a fuck what anyone else says he loves paige. and then paige reciprocates omg!!! haha fuck yeah. and then like i also think henry’s just super fuckin corny levels of domestic like makes french toast every sunday and fingerpaints with his kids and is in the dad’s club at the elementary school and just does all the things that he fuckin prayed for as a child  just a constant stable feeling of home of love and like. like!!!! i’m gonna bite someone like. paige&henry man.

piper/leo though as previously established is like Thee charmed couple you know they are there all eight seasons they get points for that but obviously from reading my first two ones i kinda just fill in a lot of gaps there which i am able to do bc each couple probably checks in at 150min of screentime total. piper and leo don’t get that so like i don’t get to do that. and like. the origins of them i just don’t quite get you know which was really just cause it was such a new show and this was a new lil relationship they weren’t sure what they were gonna do with it and then again like issues with canon and the whole whitelighter thing but what i would have loved to see more in the early stages is just like why. like obviously they both found the other cute but we never really got the Moments bc it was all so preferrial and then next thing you know leo’s dying in the attic and piper loves him like i would have loved the in between and a bit more of the internal monologue the jump then fall especially on leo’s part which is like canon’s fault but like. you know like why if he was a whitelighter and knew the rules blah blah blah and it was because the writers didn’t know but like. still you know. and then s2 was bogged down my dan and i just really didn’t care for it that much because like. idk i didn’t love a lot of leo’s vibes early s2 were he was trying to keep it strictly professional and just ended up coming across as weirdly bitter and possessive however i Loved him bonding with dan in pardon my past that was a nice touch. of course later seasons pleo really makes up for the lackluster of the early seasons bc they are just so domestic like they know each others strengths so well and leo loves piper’s cooking and they’re corny n cute and they have their little moment and i do mostly like their relationship therapy bits i like that that was incorporated bc like. it happens man it’s not something to keep taboo it happens. but i do feel like that shit was often resolved too quick and then the same shit dredged up ten minutes later like some one trick pony. i also love how ride or die they are points for that. leo’s like i killed an elder and piper’s like alright. they’re really in it through thick n thin n i respect that

[humanperryfic]

Historical AU???

I want to write a historical AU since I have some free time and also I love all of these time periods and doing research is weirdly fun. But I have too many ideas and I can’t decide between them, so I’m putting it up to a vote!

Here’s what I’ve got: 

The London Crime AU

Heinz Doofenshmirtz is a thief-taker rather low on London’s crime stopping totem pole who wants to make it big. And the best way to do that is to capture the infamous Lolliberry Duo- Perry and Lyla. Of course, they’re not going to make it easy for him...

The Speakeasy AU

Perry Fletcher is a Prohibition-era detective in New York City, notorious for being the absolute best in the game. Nothing gets past him. Right up until a certain Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a lackey for the mob trying to make it big in the world of organized crime, starts getting in the way...

The Titanic AU

Being the bodyguard for a wealthy family like the Flynn-Fletchers has its benefits. Like getting to accompany them aboard the Titanic on its maiden voyage, which leads to falling for one of the engineers when his young charges take an interest in the mechanics of the ship. All goes well until the ship starts to sink...

The Pony Express AU

Perry is a dedicated rider for the Pony Express, delivering mail to all sorts of remote locations in the Wild West. On his routes, he keeps running into Heinz Doofenshmirtz, a bandit with a heart of gold who’s trying to provide for his daughter while being on the run from the law...

So...vote here! I’ll probably close the form by in a couple days (or earlier if there’s a clear winner) and get started! 

There’s also a section to put in your own ideas if you’ve got them :D

(oh and I’m still accepting art requests until the new year!)

[myfriendpokey]

i made a thing for the Visual Essay jam on itch.io https://thecatamites.itch.io/sky-friends

also wrote some slide notes below since walls of text will remain my one true love and since putting it together gave me some new things to think about. sky thoughts:

1. yume penguin monogatari. the penguins represent happiness while the aeroplane represents world piece. in the background, a starry night.

2. some sidescrolling games. the horizon in videogames is often a point of yearning since, as ungamified “background”, it often comes to represent all the things not contained within the game system - wide open skies instead of closed systems, sprawling cities and hills instead of linear levels. hence the daydream about videogames where you can step into the horizon itself (”let’s go to that hill over there...”).

3. the melancholy effort to drift off into the horizon as expressed through a series of coda screens - the point where the game stops and imagination takes over, the final frontier.

4. the characters themselves seem hypnotised by level backgrounds they’re forever closed off from. is this the end of our sky journey...? opa opa’s open canister a message of hope.

5. wizardry. the brutal maze that launched a thousand careers.

6. famously a breakaway hit in japan particularly where as is inevitable it generated many various successors, particularly on the PC88, each dedicated to extending or varying the basic formula - including that eerie narrow perspective. here the two pc88 games on the top in particular (”dungeon” and “dimensional fighter epsilon-3″) find something mysteriously evocative in the movement towards infinity seemingly implied by this fixed perspective.

7. elaborations on a formula, which becomes increasingly ornate though still within the bounds of the original structures. note the new presence of character profiles, though.

8. riglas. a wizardry-style corridor perspective is wedded to a sidescroller, offering a new suggestion on ways to finally grasp the evasive background panorama and incorporate that too into the game. the slightly baffling viewpoint angle suggests tensions remain within the synthesis.

9. further developments on the little-cartoon-people-moving-towards-the-background development. friday the 13th and foton allow this more directly while cosmic soldier 2 has a more mysterious juxtaposition of various first person, sidescrolling and UI modes.

10. moving out of the shadow of wizardry, green skies within our midst.

11. animal attack gakuen, a space harrier clone from pony canyon. scrolling green fields stretch out of sight while a schoolgirl with a gun (representing you, the player) flies headlong into it while striving to catch up. a new optimism far removed from all those dungeon corridors.

11. again, elaborations on a theme: space harrier, alantia, harley davidson: the road to sturgis and 3d world runner. and similarly to those wizardry corridors we see an increasingly baroque turn in alantia particularly while it tries to make the most out of the structure without fully being able to escape it. as the crashed motorcycle suggests there could only be so long you can fly headlong at that horizon.

12. vamping on a theme as more advanced graphics only heightened the sense of frozen stasis, the appeal of the distant background image now firmly grasped and aestheticised, as in the friendly pink clouds of magical taluluto.

13. the cradle level of goldeneye, a very weird abstract maze of narrow metal corridors suspended in a sky void. the relationships of first person shooters towards their horizons (later developed into the more flexible “skybox”) go unexamined here although my own feeling is that a new flexibility of camera helped mitigate things somewhat - a skybox is a horizon permanently centered on and enclosing the player, now the center of their own ptolomean cosmology. but it’s a weirdly beautiful image to me that sums up the perverse appeal of incomplete synthesis, of a format that had to grow over certain problems of representation in the way that skin can grow over a splinter rather than resolve them, and which remains slightly askew as a result.

14. from the level map of “big nose’s american adventure”, the abstract modularity of the level structure strangely matches that of the clouds behind it - the two unified after all, even if in the opposite direction to what was generally intended.

15. the inimitable franko: the crazy revenge. against the unresolved but alluring questions of the horizon, two muscular bros stand smiling and resolute, backs turned, but nevertheless framed against it - ready for further wanderings.