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alexandriteobscuraarchive · 2 years ago
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Your Crown of Leaves writing and roleplay (both in character stuff and out of character observations and especially your stuff with @guardianofyesod ) is absolutely *incredible* and I want you to know that I got into the game because of you guys! I can't wait to read more of your stuff and see what you do and how you react to new chapters as they release!
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((Aw that's really nice to hear, thank you ✨💚✨ I hope you enjoy the new content too, meaning both on this blog and the game proper!))
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mintmoth · 2 years ago
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OKAY I'm gonna do a big ask response here! There's a few I didn't grab which are mostly just people saying sweet things- to which honestly I can't thank you all enough 😭 it's so wild to me to see people enjoying my art so much
I'm gonna keep most of the replies under the cut since it's gonna get a bit long but I wanted to touch on this one real quick-
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Absolutely anyone is free to use my art as an icon wherever! Just be sure to have something crediting somewhere and yeah absolutely go for it!
OH ALSO my submissions don't work on mobile for some reason? The formatting messes up I guess, but check out this awesome coloring!! I love how the layers of shading look 😭
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LMAO okay so I've seen a good handful of older/mafia au designs for Floyd and Jade and a lot of them have either both of them with double sleeves or Floyd with sleeves and Jade with a back piece- though I've also seen somewhere both of them having one sleeve on the opposite side
Right now I'm just messing around so I don't have any official tattoo designs for either of them, but I do know I want Floyd with at LEAST the double sleeves, and Jade with some pieces he keeps hidden by mostly wearing business attire lmao
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XBSISNK THANK YOU 😭😭 honestly drawing hair is one of my absolutley FAVORITE things to draw lmao, most of my ocs have long hair I just can't help it honestly
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YES ABSOLUTLEY probably not too often but I could definitely see Azul going to bed and waking up to a very full bed lmao. Funnier yet because I think all three of them are the type to cling in their sleep when they have someone else beside them. They're just weird sea creatures used to small comfy spaces
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I actually haven't thought about this! Honestly I think that would be really cool! Or even if he found that he had a specific shade range of color blindness as a human- though I could see Jade and Floyd taking advantage of that by doing something like giving him the wrong color shirt to wear that day or something lmao
Though you also reminded me! Eels also have terrible eyesight! So I've seen people both having the headcanon that the twins wear contacts, and also the headcanon that Azul needs glasses now because he did a deal to give part of his vision to both of them
Honestly it's really cool to think about! I don't know which headcanons here I like the most, but I love seeing them
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Okay honestly I absolutley have to draw this because I LOVE this idea and part of why I'm answering this is to mentally catalogue that I need to draw this lmao
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I also love this idea! Like at lunch, after classes before they go to work at the lounge, and after the lounge closes up for the night it just becomes the twins' gossip hour lmao
Because yeah they do spend a lot of time together, but they're still apart a lot, and there's no way they're not telling each other about all the nonsense they're getting up to once they meet back up
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DBSISNSK DONT CRY LMAO I got a handful of questions about Niles I want to try to touch on here
Absolutley he wouldn't mind helping anyone set up games on their computer lmao, especially if it's a hard to get visual novel that he's a fan of because he's the type to want everyone to play and love the games he loves
He's definitely dropped hundreds of hours into "creature crossing" with one of those islands with tons of customization and cute shit, and his "island creatures" are mostly cats with a couple dogs and the pegasus LMAO
Also while he's not directly inspired by any specific character, since he's in Ignihyde he does have a little Greek mythos theming and has some inspiration from Eros, which is also why he's very "love" themed/romantic
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OH MAN I'm actually not 100% sure which moray I think the twins would be, I'd have to look more into them specifically
But I did want to mention that my idiot self is tempted to make Yet Another Oc (though I probably won't post this one since I feel very oc heavy already) that's also a moray- but specifically a snowflake just because wow I want to make a design around the coloration they have 😭
ALSO!!! Regarding Eel Anon!
I wasn't able to screenshot everything you sent but it was absolutley fun hearing about the dorm idea you have!! I love hearing about new dorm concepts and I've seen a couple nightmare before christmas dorms so it's neat to see the different ideas people have! Also no way do Eri and Rika sound like knock offs of the twins lmao they both sound really fun and I like how they juxtapose one another- also how you have their whole family worked out??? It just reminded me I need to do some more backstory work for my group lmao but honestly it was really cool reading about them so don't even worry about long asks or anything!
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yukipri · 1 year ago
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I joined Threads! Unfortunately my reach on Insta is still the most limited of all of my socials, and that’s the account Threads is directly attached to.
If you’re on either Insta or Threads, would love if you could stop by🙏
Direct linking to Threads doesn't seem to work...so here's
my Instagram
through which you can find my Threads account!
Edit: You actually can link to Threads, ironically through the icon at the top of individual Instagram account pages on desktop. Though Desktop viewing is currently limited to individual pages, and you can't necessarily scroll the feed. So here's my Threads page!
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Next, some initial thoughts on the platform for those who are kinda curious what this new thing is. Not at all an expert, just some info I've gathered myself, that I'd personally have liked to know before joining:
On Threads
・It launched July 5~6, 2023. Rollout varies by country.
・Twitter's already upset about it, apparently there's a lawsuit. So I guess it considers Threads a possible threat.
・It's run by Meta, same folks as Insta and Fb.
・The accounts are directly linked to Instagram, which has its pros and cons. You need an Insta account to make a Threads account, but if you already have an Insta account, it's very easy to make a connected Threads account. However, once linked, they're linked; you can't disable your Threads account without also disabling your Insta account. You can also automatically follow all the accounts you're already following on Insta, to be activated as they make Threads accounts. You can also share Threads posts to your Insta stories.
・Currently only on mobile app, hoping the'll make it desktop accessible soon
・The current audience mostly seems to be folks who have come direct from Instagram. This means yes, a lot of official/influencer accounts, but also a lot of artists/small creators too.
Functionality
・Right now, the "feed/dashboard" is a hot mess. It's just one massive algorithmic spew, no way to curate it, no way to see just the posts by the folks you're following, not even chronological. These are things that i personally require in a social media, so yeah it sucks rn. HOWEVER, they did state that they're working on a "followers only" feed, much like the one on Instagram. If they implement a Followers Only feed like Insta, it'll at least be much better than Twitter's current "Following" feed. There has been no timeline provided on when this may launch.
・It functions much the same as Twitter, with options to create new posts, and like, retweet, quote retweet, and reply to posts made by others. (There's still a lot of floundering about the exact terminology to use, since it's not twitter so you can't "retweet" etc)
・500 Character word limit per post, which is much more than Twitter, ey!
・Up to 10 images per post, doesn't seem to cause image quality reduction either. Rather than being able to arrange the images like on Tumblr though, they're all automatically in a carousel that you can see by swiping.
・Your bio can be the exact same as what's on your insta, but currently only shows followers. In order to see who you follow, you tap "followers" and then when the menu opens, swipe to "following." Then, you can tap on the individual accounts to view their pages. This is currently the only way to ensure you see the posts from certain accounts, because there's no guarantee they'll show up on your feed, and it's a huge pain. But again, they're hopefully working on a fix for this.
My understanding is that the app rushed to launch now, since Twitter is a dumpster fire and people are fleeing. (why is it a dumpster fire? Well, Musk implemented a randomly fluctuating tweet view limitation, which is dumb af, but means it's essentially become unusable to folks who use the platform a lot)
I'm hoping that there'll be improvements to Threads and it'll become a viable Twitter alternative, but until then...yeah we'll keep an eye on it.
Now that I've probably completely turned you off from downloading the app, if you do, a nudge that again I'd appreciate if you stopped by my account, YukiPri_Art on Instagram, and/or YukiPri_Art on Threads!
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infernal-general · 8 months ago
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Okay! With finally getting my mind in order, time to do the same with my blog(s) as well.
First of all, my Discord is
thathungarianhistoryfreak
You might want to add me there as I'm blog jumping like crazy and might not see your message.
Secondly I somehow manage the feat of being semi-active on 4 (will be 5-) blogs. If you're interested in more of the Véghváry madness/lore the other relatives are: @lightningdamned (sideblog to @phoenixduelist), @deathshadowed & @phoenixborn . Each fits into the Hazbin/Helluva verse; pls follow me there if you want to ♡´・ᴗ・`♡
Also the blog hopping completely destroyed my following page so dash commentary is/will be very hard for me to do as the timeline is beyond messed up on mobile.
Now, the To Do list:
Throw myself back into people's messages to plot out starters. @arachnaemboss & @r-adio I'm so sorry for the wait I swear I'm still alive
Actually spit out said starters.
Schedule posts. I don't use queue because I'm too dyscalculiac to fully understand that.
Start the multiple story arc rolling with @infernal-feminae
Throw @ashortdropandasuddenstop into the very depths of this family.
Finish the Walking Dead sideblog's Carrd + make Eva Green icons as live action Rozy
I have 23 drafts on @phoenixborn ?? Finish majority of them and of course start new ones. Love my cosmic rocker pls
Give more attention to Raia @lightningdamned and Karma @deathshadowed .
Finish secret fifth blog carrd and tags🤫
Write out missing verse information on ALL BLOGS (ha that's going to be a good one.)
Find more writing partners/friends
Sleep sometime I guess??
Declare VWU (Véghváry Writing Universe) official
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boundlss · 6 months ago
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what ( who ) was your first muse?
we do not want to dig up my extensive pre-tumblr roleplay history so for my own sanity we're going to limit this to muses i've written on tumblr hahaha...
my actual first muse was koichi haimawari from bnha: vigilantes, which i've talked about some time before. i had ran a few of those sketch-answer askblogs before but his blog was the first i ever properly used for rp and it was a mess hahaha. all my icons were just cropped from the manga and differently sized and i didn't know how to cut posts because i was on mobile ... i think that blog probably still exists but i'm not going to dig for it. i'd be too embarrassed.
but! in the case of muses i still rp today ... chronologically, i first started writing shirogane kei from log horizon! i picked him up actually only a couple months after koichi, and he had his own blog for a little while. a lot of people think my first still-active muse is twain over on antisatiric but he'd actually be second after shiroe. nobody ever really interacted with that blog though.
( actually, i wrote lee seung-gil from yuri on ice before i ever properly wrote shiroe too, but that was off tumblr so we won't talk about that either ).
munday! / accepting.
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blu3b3rryj4mp1r3 · 1 year ago
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okie dokie lokie! I finally decided on a theme!! this is the one I used ✭ and I decided I'd go back to using this sunpie icon from this icon set! because as soon as it gets just slightly colder I go into autumn/winter mode and that a) for some reason makes me think of sunpie & b) this is the icon/colour scheme I had around winter last year i think, and I kind of missed it ( ˊᵕˋ 。)
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this is what it looks like on mobile:
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anyways I'm really happy with this! ✮ the only issue I noticed with the desktop theme is that the pinned post is kind of messed up below 'read more' but that's okay, I can always come up with a solution to that some other time + I'm sure most people use mobile/view blogs on dashboard nowadays anyway and I'm not gonna go bother someone about a glitch (that let's be honest, I probably caused) in a theme they made in 2015, I was only 10 in 2015 lol!!
hope u like it! 🍬
♡ ˢᶠʷ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒⁿˡʸ ♡
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androdragynous · 1 year ago
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slightly strange question, feel free to ignore if it's too weird/makes you uncomfortable in any way.
hi i'm also a mobility aid user who loves character customization and also video game design. i kinda. collect? posts ppl make where they talk about how character customizations have excluded them or failed to account for the true range of human experience (ex, weight sliders that go from thin to not-quite-as-thin, lack of black hairstyles, lack of mobility aid options, no limb difference options, no hearing aids, etc). and i know that no character customizer could ever TRULY cover the entire range, but i also am fueled by spite and don't like assholes telling me what is and isn't possible.
so. with that as the background, i would genuinely love to know 1, what kind of mobility aid you use, 2, other grievances you have found with character customizers in the past, 3, other things you don't think are included often enough even if it's not something that applies to you/that you would ever use, and 4, anything else you don't see enough of in terms of video game accessibility
no pressure to respond, of course, and feel free to only respond to some of these (again, zero pressure at all!) but i love collecting data from ppl who don't see themselves in character customizers, and i love knowing what can be done to help 💖
I don't mind answering, at least the basics!
At the moment I have a cane and a rollator, though I'm hoping to get a wheelchair for prolonged outings; I mainly end up just using the cane when I go out for transport convenience, to the chagrin of future me
I don't think I have any unusual sentiments on character creators. I don't usually try to make myself or specific characters, so I'm usually just messing around with what I'm given rather than trying to replicate options that don't exist. Don't like that eye patches usually take up the single head accessory slot, even though you can stack them with other things in real life, including other eyewear.
The ones you mentioned are definitely ones missing a lot. I don't think I've ever seen a game that lets you have a service animal even purely cosmetically, like a seeing eye dog. Not a lot of options for facial asymmetry. I think it would be neat to be able to select the amount of facial expression your character does in games where that's shown, like Dragon Age or Fallout, or to be able to select sign language for your character rather than speaking.
Is "everything" a sufficient answer for missing accessibility? Honestly, there's not a lot that's in there to start with. Flash / strobe toggles, distortion filter toggles, particle effects toggles, UI and caption font + scaling options. Hmm. Button mapping obviously. Motion controls or one handed controls when possible. Sound cues for collisions with walls / objects, or sound cues to indicate you're on the right path to a destination or something important is nearby (Nirnroot, for all of the jokes about it, makes a good example). Color / contrast adjustments beyond just overall brightness scaling - being able to darken the backgrounds so objects and NPCs stand out more, for example. Spoken UI options. Sound effect + directional captions. Saving at any time and pausing at any time. Volume scales broken down into sections instead of just one master volume slider. Ui dark / light modes. Icon-heavy UI having text along with the symbols. Warnings for anything that might have to be toggled (like flashing) so it doesn't come as a surprise later. UI for accessibility settings being clear and accessible in itself - if I can't find the settings for limited vision because I have limited vision, it's not accessible.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head; hope it's useful to you!
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steakout-05 · 1 year ago
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Halfbrick Lost Media: Fruit Ninja Flash Version
so after i made that post about some lost JavaScript games on HB's old website from 2001, i was thinkin' that i'm gonna make a sorta series of short posts about little bits of lost media i've discovered relating to Halfbrick to just bring a bit of attention to them and also document them here, cause i think they're super interesting!! i'll compile a little checklist here of some topics i might make little posts about and then i'll get onto it:
Fruit Ninja Flash
Fruit Ninja Tencent
Fruit Ninja Kakao
Fruit Ninja Frenzy
Monster Dash for Chrome
Lost Trailers for Old Games + Unconfirmed Jetpack Joyride Android Trailer
alright enough stalling, i'll get to the point now :P
The facts:
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This is the icon listed on this page belonging to a game simply known as 'Fruit Ninja Original Flash', which, as you might've guessed, is a flash version of Fruit Ninja which is presumably very old, being created back in 2010 before the mobile version's release. This game was up on Halfbrick's website likely around Fruit Ninja's anniversary, but now leads to a 404 page when the link is clicked. The game has no footage available, nor any blog posts on Halfbrick's website relating to this version of the game I could find.
Trying To Find The Damn Thing:
While messing around with the Wayback Machine, I snagged an archive of the wiki page this game's listed on and clicked the link provided on that page, which lead me to this:
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(apologies about the dodgy screenshot, i was on mobile at the time of taking it)
Not a good sign. This archive is from 2021, which is a little after Flash was discontinued at the end of 2020, which is... also not a good sign... Yikes :(
I didn't give up though, and I thought of taking a look into the website using Inspect Element and manually finding the .swf file just in case it wasn't loading correctly.
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There definitely is something here, and this also confirms the game was made in 2010 by the filename there. It just doesn't load correctly on my browser, probably because Flash is blocked in some way (I use Brave). If only I could actually, y'know, download it....
Luckily though, I do have an extension called Ruffle on my Firefox browser. I thought I could at least try running it before downloading it, so I opened the page and clicked the big orange play button on the Flash embed, but...
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... That's not good. That's not good at all. On Brave I tried having a look in the Network tab to find if any .swf files were being loaded in, but the only thing I found was an index and a JavaScript file. I went and tried to nab it from Firefox but I got a 404 when trying to load the .swf object directly. Seems like it's trying to access a file that doesn't exist anymore on the server because it wasn't archived and thus can't run 'cause of that. I also tried using Flashpoint's search too and the program, but they only turned up some HTML5 versions of the game and VR and whatnot. I did find the 8-bit version though, so, uh... yay...?
The Verdict:
Yeah, the game's lost. More lost than the 20¢ coins my dad dropped between the couch cushions. Halfbrick themselves might still have the game on them considering it's a super old version of their most popular game, and who knows! It might turn up again someday. But for now, you can't play it, unless someone has saved the .swf to their computer years ago and decides to upload it of course.
I did find something really interesting while trying to get this to work though, and it's this page by one of the devs who made Fruit Ninja named Aaron Green. It contains some pictures and information about developing the prototype of Fruit Ninja, including the low poly watermelon model seen in the Flash game's icon, meaning that this prototype is the Flash game I'm looking for, which is pretty cool! Interestingly the image with all the fruits and their gibs show a tomato model instead of the kiwi fruit one, and, well, tomatoes aren't in the final game. Thought that was pretty cool :D
I wouldn't recommend contacting Green about this, as this game was made years ago and I don't want anyone getting bothered and I don't even know if he's still at Halfbrick. It sucks that this game is lost but y'know....
thank you for reading all this way :) i hope this game will get found one day, i really wanna play it because it's a cute old flash game and i'm such a sucker for old flash stuff from decades ago :P
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badass-at-fandoming · 2 years ago
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I posted 6,055 times in 2022
179 posts created (3%)
5,876 posts reblogged (97%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
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I tagged 6,053 of my posts in 2022
#vtm - 2,653 posts
#vampire oc - 1,157 posts
#ikevamp - 875 posts
#lovestruck - 670 posts
#ikerev - 586 posts
#fictif - 389 posts
#vtmb - 307 posts
#cuthbert beckett - 296 posts
#text post - 291 posts
#lol - 282 posts
Longest Tag: 68 characters
#i re-read the date night short and all these feels came rushing back
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
List of Amusing Beckett Facts We Learn in the Year of the Scarab Trilogy, which I read so you don't have to (really, it's Bad Art)
About mid-March, I finished the Year of the Scarab Trilogy and…honestly, it's second worst White Wolf book I've ever read. To save everyone the pain of drudging through it, I wanted to share screenshots, but typing those up inflicted psychic damage. So, instead, here's a list of cool Beckett fun facts. If you have a specific question about the Trilogy and its plot, characters etc, my ask box is open.
Beckett gets ensnarled in the novel's plot because he wants to interview Mother Inyanga about her personal history and the history of Kindred, as she knows it. She agrees to the interview if Beckett writes a book report on the Chicago hunter community.
Beckett handles his financials through a "small, private Swiss bank" in Geneva. It's called Witz-Kohn, which I think translates to "joke?" Anyway, Manfred Von Reis handles his account. The bank wires Beckett money on demand and auto-pays off his credit card bill every month. Cuthbert has a credit card!
Beckett flies American Airlines, first class preferred. I'm guessing Cesare's character was invented later. For reference, the novels take place February 2001 to March 2001. Don't worry: there IS a prophecy-written-on-the-subway-walls-esque joke of "hehe what if an iconic American tower blew up would that be fucked up or what"
Beckett has learned "some thaumaturgical rites." Unclear how many. He uses two rituals in the book. One's a tracking spell, which he uses to find a person who previously ingested his blood. The other enchants a murder victim's finger to point at whoever murdered them. That ritual sounds creepy, and the author intended the scene to be a ~creepy blood magic~ moment. But what happens is Beckett pinky promises to avenge this dead Gangrel, and braids his own hair into a necklace, so he can wear the pinky close to the skin. That's like Addams Family wholesome, bro.
Beckett thinks email is pretty neat. He frets that laptops are too big to meld into him when he transforms, so he hasn't purchased one yet.
Beckett (on accident!) finds Menele's haven, and our Gangrel boyo just. Turns right the fuck back around. He goes through all this effort to find who's emitting this massive, looming Presence over Chicago, only to decide he will Not Mess With That, No Thank You.
Beckett lectures not once but /twice/ on how Caine can't possibly be real. He gets miffed when someone inevitably interrupts him.
Becket clarifies he's not after the Heart of Osiris (the book's MacGuffin) for power, but for knowledge. His ultimate goal is to repatriate the Heart to the Egyptian supernatural community. Once it's clear the Heart's headed to Egypt anyway, he ends his pursuit.
Beckett starts the novel with No Fear and ends the novel with One Fear that Menele's influencing his actions. Like, he has a whole crisis over it, as a treat. Given what happens in the Diary, Beckett and Chicago really don't mix well.
Beckett has a cabin in upstate New York, not far from the Stillwater Reservoir. The cabin stands on an outcropping far from the nearest road and is only accessible via game trails. The nearest town is Big Moose. Towards the end of the story, Beckett spends upwards of a month there, recovering from a weird ghost stabbing. He's cranky about it.
Beckett gets his first mobile phone in March 2001. He asked Von Reis to shop around for satellite phones, buy what Von Reis thought best, and ship the phone to Beckett at his PO Box in Big Moose. I didn't realize that was a thing you could ask a bank to do for you(?). After carefully reading the instructional booklet front to back, Beckett made his first call to Nola.
I'm mildly dazzled by Beckett's Look™️ throughout the book. He wears a sheepskin jacket, which he changes to a leather one once it gets too ratty. Of course there's the little round, red sunglasses. His hair is long enough to braid, loop around his chest to the opposite shoulder, and dangle an enchanted pinky from. Nola gives him a silver charm bracelet, which he likes aesthetically. My brain shorted out.
In the novel's epilogue, Beckett searches for hidden tomes around the fjords of Norway. The books belong to an elder Kindred, and nobody knows exactly what they're about. Theories include (a) journals of the Kindred's contemporaries from the time of Carthage's fall; (b) a translation of the precursor to the Book of Nod; (c) Lapplander mating customs; or (d) musings on vitae's powers, a treatise that might bestow insight as to where Kindreds' abilities came from and what else Kindred might be capable of. Beckett thinks (d).
Thanks for reading! Onto Nights of Prophecy.
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#4
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"William Shakespeare loves waking up to the sight of Vincent's face" and "Leonardo fucks Comte to the point of exhaustion" is not what I thought I'd learn today, but here we are.
109 notes - Posted October 5, 2022
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Source: https://twitter.com/outstarwalker/status/1016805107986587653
Artist: https://twitter.com/outstarart
112 notes - Posted March 26, 2022
#2
Jean's route: You have atoned enough. You deserve love and joy.
Arthur's route: Failure neither defines, nor determines the worth of, a life.
Will's route: Your productivity doesn't determine your value. We love you for you, not your art.
Charles's route, probably: Some people deserve to get murdered.
333 notes - Posted February 9, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
Have you ever wanted to run away from your problems? Kiss girls?? Become a werewolf???
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Now you can!!!*
Experience the heartwarming terror of Moonrise! In a video game made by a queer woman and for queer women and sapphic folk, this supernatural celebration of queer femininity takes you into the darkness and lets you own it. Use your compassion and sense of responsibility to make connections and fall in love. Or use your newfound fangs and claws to rip, shred, and tear through your problems. Is this the start of a satisfying, shape-shifting life full of romance, or the blood-soaked birth of a new deity of the forest? You decide!
Play as a trans woman, cis woman, or nonbinary person; lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or asexual. Polyamory options included!
Date your nonbinary best friend, the ruthless Rogue leader, or the lycanthropic goddess amongst werewolves.
Build up your Empathy, Bloodthirst, Snark, Responsibility, Uncanny Valley, and Defense to survive lethal encounters and protect those you hold dear.
Pledge allegiance to the tradition of the Masquerade or the desperate, volatile Rogues.
Expose the supernatural underground to the blistering light or keep their secrets in the deep dark.
Embrace the feral monster within or hold fast to your humanity.
Get your spooky time on for the low, low price of $1.99. Available on iOS and Android, plus inside the Hosted Games app!
Play the demo here: https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/moonrise/
*Moonrise is a 49,000-word urban fantasy interactive novel by Natalie Cannon, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Cannot guarantee real life girls or werewolf transformation.
337 notes - Posted October 25, 2022
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ukyokuonji · 1 year ago
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Rip, I'm screaming rn. Anon that asked me like a month ago what my name is, I thought I answered and realized I didn't and answered on mobile today and somehow lost the ask, so lmao here is both my name and a mini landing page as I am working on my current landing page!!
Quick about, byf/dni, and things to tag.
Again my landing page is a wip, should be here soon!! Mayybe under a cut who knows I'm on mobile.
[Icon ID: Akane from the 2024 Ranma 1/2. She is scowling and wearing a yellow shirt-dress reading "Caribbean Sea." End ID]
About
Call me Ami or Katara!! I'm 20 (almost 21), a fat disabled queer nb woc (no being non-binary and a woman of color is not an oxymoron). I use she/they pronouns.
I'm latine and desi! I live in the US (New England lmao 😔) which like I don't think is important then I find out that some of my mutuals are canadian or british or something and I lose my mind.
Puedo hablar español pero tengo difícil escribiendo en español. Y entiendo que eso no tiene sentido porque leer en español es más fácil de leer en inglés. Pero cuando estoy escribiendo en inglés estoy pensando de las reglas de español, y en español estoy pensando con las reglas de inglés 🙃. My extent of speaking in any sort of desi language is saying hi, bye, "I don't know", "hurry up", food names, and family titles in my family's language. And even then I mess up because my cousins are all married now (and have been for years) and I'm meeting their spouses now and being told there's a word for sister's husband, I don't have to call them bhai, and yeah
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euphoricfilter · 2 years ago
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hehe* alright then. if i'm 🎀 anon, then ur darling. it's a deal 🤝😌
i think the links are working now too :) ! but ofc u never know when it comes to this site lmao but still thinking positive thoughts ofc !! i honestly feel u on the updates tho. i think this recent update has been all over the place- i mean,, not to be be mean,, but i wanna know WHO thought it was a good idea take the home button out of the main navigation and put in such a random ass spot then proceed to not give the home button the home icon???? like bfr😭😭😭 and don't get me started on whatever that tumblr live mess is💀- sweeties just pack it up
okay cool cool, i'll request in a different ask since this is getting a lil lengthy lol. but oooo what puzzle did u end up doing ! puzzle are always fun .. sometimes frustrating .. but still fun haha*. i hope u have a good rest of ur day ! 🎀💕
yay yay okie!!
i’m slowly collecting cute nicknames 😋 you guys have me giggling, kicking my legs, twirling my hair or whatever
this hellsite needs to sort itself out 😭 secrets out i’m a massive hater, so i hope tumblr takes full offense on this one
no seriously like i know they want to promote their crusty ass merch but no one wants it for a reason.. sales aren’t gonna shoot up just because you put your store in the most convenient place, like please just change it back 🧎🏻‍♀️ the only good thing that came out of the update was polls. I HATW TUMBLR LIVE i’m never gonna use it, please please please get rid of it!!!!!! there’s like a million other apps people can go live on, we don’t need it here 😟 the most infuriating part is the ‘read more’ fucks up posts, like i cant even write on mobile anymore because the readmore line completely changes chunks of text 🧍‍♀️ and i had the worst night of my life when i posted ‘star girl’ because the read more had glitches the text and just yeah, it’s super lame
oooo a couple of years ago i think, my parents bought me this bts puzzle for christmas it’s like the love yourself/ speak yourself tour one, it’s really hard because there’s a shit ton of flowers that all look the same and they’re tiny so i was sat there for hours trying to figure it out 😭 and i still only got the easy white border done. my dad said that i should try and piece together all the boys and then work around them and maybe that’ll make it easier so i might try that today after i get a little productive 🧍‍♀️
i hope you have a nice rest of your day too!! however long of it you have left!!! and i’m excited to see your request 🫶
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cwispydev · 2 years ago
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11/01/2022
Long time no post. This time, I have a valid excuse. That is: the holidays. I spent it with insufferable family members and with my very wonderful very special friend.
I've not really done a lot of stuff with the game that I needed to update you guys with. Really, I've just been writing and doing the same shit I've already written about.
Right now, though, I wanted to update you guys about making a custom GUI! I've been practicing with a different game, not the one I'm currently working on.
I've only really customized the preferences/settings page. All of the stuff I'm about to say is literally super basic shit and stuff you can find in the cookbook but, if you wanna stick to it and keep reading, power to you!
So, first off, most of the GUI stuff you need to edit is going to be in the GUI folder of your game.
First thing I edited was the window_icon. That's the icon of the game and it's what appears in the bottom bar of the computer. I think it also appears in the corner of the window?
The bar folder holds the bottom, top, left and right bar images. Those (I think? because I ended up not touching it at all) are for when you're doing the VN version of Ren'py? Where it's just a huge block of text?
Next is the button folder. The check and radio buttons are gunna be the things that get ticked off next to the display and skip options. For me, I did the outline of a star and then a filled in star. The check button is the one that appears for the skip buttons and then the radio buttons are the ones that appear next to the display.
The difference is that you can select multiple of the check buttons but you can only select one for the radio buttons.
Next are the choice buttons. Self explanatory. If you don't change the options in the gui.rpy then they might squish it. just make sure to change the choice button width and height. If your text isn't centered, change the border.
The (quick_)hover_background and (quick_)idle_background are for all the other buttons. They'll appear behind text buttons like the start, load, preferences, quit, etc. buttons. I didn't touch those either since I was going to practice making image buttons.
The slot images are for load and save functions. You can customize those by searching slot in the gui.rpy file. All of those are self-explanatory. If you need to squish the text (the one that says like the date and time and stuff), you just need to add a button_text_xmaximum. You can't squish it too much but you can at least squish it enough to be able to put a border if you need to. Here's a comparison that shows what I mean by border.
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Overlay folder holds the main menu and game menu backgrounds. It also holds the confirm background. I was going to mess with that later so I'll have a post about that. But it's basically the background that appears behind the confirm text box when you try to quit.
I want to mess with the phone folder also? But that's absolutely hectic and complicated and I don't want to deal with that. But, basically, it's the GUI for the mobile game.
Scrollbar is really only used in the history page for when people need to scroll up and down. For me, the image I wanted to use was square so I had to make it so that the scrollbar tiled. Not tiling it will have the game stretch it out. If you search scroll in the gui.rpy, you'll find the options pretty easily. I tried to make move the scrollbar but didn't have any luck. The rest of the options are pretty much self explanatory.
Slider folder is for the sliders. These are used for the volumes and stuff. The options for these are self explanatory as well.
That's pretty much all I've done! Have fun customizing your menus! I'll update with more stuff later!
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sephirthoughts · 5 months ago
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First of all, @rosy-crow I love all your analysis so much I want to yell YES THIS! at basically every point. Anyway, I started writing a response and it got completely out of control, so here are my ramblings.
Let me preface this by saying that purely from a storyteller’s perspective, I really like Glenn. What a fantastic character. He’s an interesting, compelling, three-dimensional character his own right, with his own life and problems and motives, and he gets done so dirty by the franchise, by compressing his story with Sephiroth into a mobile gacha game (the games-as-service model is a cancerous blight on society but that’s a different discussion). 
When I say I talk a lot of shit about Glenn I mean I like to pretend to be anti-Glenn, because most of what I see posted about him is so overwhelmingly positive, it looks like he’s being proposed for canonization as a saint, and that’s not my experience of him as a character. To me, he’s not a hero, he’s not a selfless icon of nontoxic masculinity that should have taken little lost cub Sephiroth and raised him as his own son (this is meant tongue in cheek don’t burn me at the stake 😂). 
Glenn is a total mess, and in the end, he winds up being yet another destructive influence on Sephiroth. But I still love Glenn. Because none of that is his fault. Do I think he kinda sucks as a human? Hell yeah. Do I blame him for kinda sucking? Hell no. Would the story be better if he did not suck? Well, no, because there would be no story because he’d have saved Sephiroth and there would be no game series.
Glenn is technically the adult in the situation…but is he? When he meets Sephiroth, Glenn is 23 years old. TWENTY-THREE. He’s legally an adult, sure, but he’s not a stable, matured person who’s been through ten years of therapy and now knows how to properly contextualize their own trauma and use that hard-won experience as a lens through which to wisely and compassionately perceive others. He’s a barely-not-child who is trying to scrape together an existence and chose a terrible, terrible way to do it. 
If I was faced with the situation Glenn finds himself in when I was a 23-year-old trauma ball with anger and impulse control issues who grew up dirt poor and joined the military because I was in desperate financial circumstances and it was the only way I could make something of myself (that’s all real I relate to Glenn on a weirdly personal level) I’d have fucked it up at least as bad, if not worse. 
So what makes my brain go "ugh fuck Glenn" even though I don’t actually feel that way about him? It’s not a reaction to Glenn, the character, it’s my brain’s response cognitive dissonance when I see him being labeled as an overwhelmingly positive influence in Sephiroth’s life, because that’s not the feeling I personally got from the story. 
I think @rosycrow hit the nail right on the head with this: 
"Glenn was far from perfect, but he did more for that kid than anyone else had ever done, apparently. Sephiroth needed so much more, he needed them to stay, but the story demands tragedy, so there is conveniently placed ignorance, carelessness, abrasiveness, and lack of communication."
I'm not mad at Glenn, I'm mad at the story. He has such a great arc and all this character development during the mission makes sense, and shows that he has a good heart, despite being a brash young hothead. But because the story is already told, he can’t be allowed to actually be a positive influence on Sephiroth. Cause then who burns down Nibelheim? 
I’m not saying meeting Glenn wasn’t a positive experience for Sephiroth—it was unquestionably a hugely significant experience in his life. Sephiroth made his first friends, he learned to interact with humans, he opened up about not wanting to be what Shinra is making him into, Glenn hugged him more than once! He's certainly never had those experiences before and he thinks fondly of those people for the rest of his fucked up life. But did it have lasting positive influence on him? No.
Unfortunately, for all Glenn’s three-dimensional writing and character development, he can’t contradict the story demanding tragedy, and thus reducing all his positive influence on sephiroth to…yet another adult in Sephiroth’s life who completely failed him (as @saintcarlyon said, and I heartily agree, every adult in Sephiroth’s life failed him).
Glenn becomes yet another adult who has compassion for him till he stops functioning 'properly'. Who sees what is happening to him and does exactly nothing about it. Who has no intention of understanding his motives and blindly punishes his perceived bad behavior, by doing something in a fit of emotional overreaction that is downright malicious and horribly cruel (yes the locket thing). And Glenn, for all his good intentions and personal development, hurts and abandons Sephiroth, in the end. 
Is it Glenn’s fault he failed Sephiroth? No. He is an also an emotionally stunted trauma-ball, who is in no way equipped to deal with the massive and systemic eldritch-horror of a situation baby Sephiroth is in. He has neither the emotional maturity, nor the power, to do anything lastingly meaningful, because he's just a barely-not-kid, and only one tiny powerless cog in the giant Shinra machine. 
It's exactly because Glenn’s character is so realistic and imperfect that I really like him and have sympathy for him. I personally love when characters are deeply flawed and those flaws run up against other characters’ flaws within a situation to cause huge problems (that's what a plot is). However, it is also because of those flaws (and the way the games consistently shortchange their own storytelling) that the net effect he has on Sephiroth (whether Sephiroth winds up blaming him or holding a grudge or not), is not positive. 
At best, it’s a no-fault train wreck. Glenn's powerlessness and his personal flaws collide with Sephiroth's abuse trauma, within their highly tense and complicated situation, and this only winds up (unintentionally) confirming to Sephiroth yet again, that what is happening to him and the way he is treated is somehow deserved or acceptable. Because if it wasn’t, then people who were kind to him and became his friends surely would have helped him, right? Right…? 😭
DISCLAIMER: this is all my opinion and is subject to complete and total change, and also i won't be mad at anyone for disagreeing cause having very strong opinions about it just means we all care a lot about the same thing and we should be friends
i've talked a lot of shit about Glenn but the poor guy. he was literally just doing his job. he took one mission with a supposedly big reward attached, only to have it fail spectacularly, through no fault of his own, and also wind up ruining his literal entire life. and then getting him a bullet sandwich courtesy of rufus shinra, to top it all off, like.
bruh.
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lovebecomeshim · 3 years ago
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hello! your zutara posting today has finally motivated me to ask this question because I came to atla very late(last year, to be specific) and I Love It Very Much but am 1000% out of the loop as far as why what remains of fandom (at least that I've seen among my friends) is so very strongly zutara. I'm not opposed to it per se I just don't really know what has driven it to apparently be such a popular ship? can you help me understand and maybe convert me a little bit?
Hey!! Your ICON! :D I can try but I’m not sure how coherent I’ll be; however I AM sure someone a lot more competent will be willing to add to this. Either way, I’m glad you asked because my plan was to drag down as many people as possible with me.
*smacks the hood of zutara* this baby can fit so much mutual love and support!
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This got so long, I’m so sorry. I don’t know how to put it under a cut on mobile and it already got deleted once so I’m scared to mess with it lol. Moving on.
I’m gonna start this with a disclaimer that im on mobile so formatting is tricky and I’m also really new to atla in that I only completed my first watch through in like 2019??? So some of my info is all just based on what I’ve picked up from Discourse 👀 so anyway the sparknotes version: zutara was wildly popular from the beginning. To the point where the atla crew internally disagreed on which ship should be endgame. (Ex. Bryke [showrunners] asked the writers to rewrite The Southern Raiders to make Zuko seem less ideal for Katara than Aang [which failed, depending on who you ask]; the animation team purposefully created a visual parrallel between Oma and Shu in the Cave of Two Lovers and Zuko and Katara in the catacombs under Ba Sing Se in the Crossroads of Destiny; etc.)
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The ship was popular enough that Bryke actually chose to display zk fanart at a con for the sole purpose of mocking the fans, but that’s neither here nor there. The entire episode Ember Island Players, while a love letter to/parody of the whole show, was an opportunity to address zutara’s viability as a canon pairing (while, again, mocking zutaras for romanticizing that catacombs scene). Point is! It’s always been popular but with it not being endgame, there’s got to be something that’s given it staying power.
And that’s honestly got to do with three things: their dynamic, thematic cohesion, and potential.
(You know what... you know what, it’s four things. The fourth is they’re so aesthetically pleasing together and individually. Like, they’re just good looking people [specifically when they’re grown but they’re also cute kids] and that absolutely doesn’t hurt) (but it’s not the Point, it’s just nice to point out sometimes)
The dynamic is hard to get into without also looking at the canon pairings, but I think I can do that without unnecessary bashing. It’s just that part of the magic of zutara is really highlighted by what they give to each other that their other relationships don’t.
First off, it’s classic enemies to (would be) lovers. The absolute truest form of it. It’s not too different from how CS started out: a rogue antagonist with a job to do—but no personal vendetta against the future love interest—who is deeply and emotionally invested in his personal storyline (revenge/redemption) with little regard for how it effects other people after his entire life and genuine good nature are marred by suffering, and a fierce warrior girl with a strong moral compass and her own personal investment in stopping him (protect her family and save the world doing it). Obviously frustration and animosity grew between them by the nature of them being on opposing sides, but that just lends itself to the sweetness of their later reconciliation.
The thing is that while they’re wildly different on the surface (he’s a hot-headed prince of a fascist regime who is trying to capture the Avatar to please his father; she’s a nurturing daughter of the chief who is trying to protect and train the Avatar in order to topple his father’s throne) they find out that they have so much more in common both in their experiences and their personalities.
(What follows is an excessive use of the word “both” and I’m sorry about that)(I can edit it. I can do that. That IS an option............)
They both have an innate sense of justice that they are determined to see done (zuko, at the war meeting, sticking up for the Earth Kingdom kid when the guards torment his family, choosing not to steal from the pregnant couple despite his circumstances, abiding by his word to leave the SWT should Aang come willingly, etc.; katara, literally.... at any point). They both have pretty one-track minds at accomplishing certain goals once they’ve put their mind to it, regardless of a lack of support in that endeavor (it goes without saying I guess, but zuko’s entire hunt; katara’s determination to get the earth benders to fight back, her determination to absolutely destroy Pakku until he agrees to teach her, etc.). They both lost their mothers at young ages. Their worlds are war-torn and traumatizing to them both, if in different ways, but that ultimately forces them to grow up too quickly to be wholly independent individuals. They both have issues with their fathers (for WILDLY different reasons, but). They both hold extreme prejudices that they need to learn to overcome (which ties into thematic cohesion)(bit like Lizzie and Darcy in that way but magnified by a million). They’re both extremely emotional and empathetic—which can and often does result in loud outbursts. Katara’s a bit better adjusted and can temper her anger for longer than S1 Zuko can, but they both feel that anger deeply and have no compunctions expressing it (Katara is, usually, more justified, particularly in S1. Again, S1 Zuko is severely maladjusted but at the point when they could’ve feasibly become a couple, he’s so much better off with the way he carries himself). They both struggle with feelings of inferiority in their bending abilities when confronted with prodigal benders like Aang and Azula, but have the work ethic required to double down and become two of the most powerful benders in the three remaining nations. This is a little more minor but it is a parrallel that appeals to some shippers that they both have these alter egos in the Painted Lady (notably fire nation coded) and the Blue Spirit (water tribe coded) that are pretty different from who they are day-to-day and are useful in accomplishing a purpose that they as themselves cannot.
(I’m.... I just realized that this could potentially get very long. Should I have made a slide show with bullet points??????)
Anyway, similar. I know there’s more but there’s literally so much to love about zutara that I’ll drive myself a little crazy trying to compile all the ways they’re similar. (Just gonna say that at this exact moment I went back to add more similarities.... so okay then)
Once they’ve reconciled, we see how all of these things only lend themselves to a deeper intimacy together than they share with literally anyone else. There’s a steady partnership that positions them as the mom/dad of the gaang, while also providing the support necessary to allow the other to not have to carry so much responsibility. A lot of zutaras will point out how zuko is actually depicted doing the more domestic chores that are normally relegated to Katara once he joins the gaang, since the others in the group are two 12-year-olds and sokka. The one that sticks out the most is how he makes tea for the group and then serves them, while Katara is able to just relax with her friends around the fire. Fanon expands upon this a lot to Zuko helping with the laundry or the cooking or whatever else needs doing since he, as a once-refugee, is used to doing his own domestic tasks. Before Zuko joined, Katara was the one mothering everyone, sewing for them, cooking for them, etc. She’s always tending to the needs of the group, and that includes emotionally. She does the emotional labor for the gaang 99% of the time, but when she’s the one falling apart, she’s usually doing it alone and without the comfort that she normally provides for others. Until Zuko. And that’s before they’re even friends.
Which is WHY people romanticize the catacombs of Ba Sing Se so much. Katara is verbally attacking Zuko out of her own righteous anger but also her own prejudice when Zuko, surprisingly, chooses to be vulnerable with her. He’s been on a journey that’s opened his eyes a bit, but he’s never actively chosen to expose the rawest parts of his past to anyone. But for some reason he chooses to do that with Katara of all people. While she’s yelling at him. He sees her humanity, and for once can look past his prejudice and empathize with her. And this time, when she breaks down, she gets to be comforted. Katara normally talks about her mother when she’s trying to explain to someone else that she sees and understands they’re pain, as a form of comfort to them. Here, Zuko uses the exact same tactic. He sees her and he understands. And for zuko? He’s not being shut down. He’s allowed to articulate his pain regarding his mother without being ignored and made to internalize it, and he’s allowed to process how he feels about his scar out loud without being told that he deserved it. And then he lets her touch his scar, something we’ve seen him actively avoid before. He’s completely open to her and she’s completely open to him and all it took was one five minute conversation. She was about to use the little bit of Spirit water that she had, that she was saving for something Important, to heal the scar that still daily causes him pain just because they had, somehow, connected.
Plus there’s the whole parallel to the star-crossed lovers forbidden from one another, a war divides their people—
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And then zuko messes up, he regresses, he gets what he wants and he HATES it. And the sense of justice he had as a child has been restored to him against his will and he can’t think of anything he wants to do more than the Right Thing, so he joins team avatar. Before he does that though, we get to see his relationship with Mai, which is where comparison really comes in. And what we see is Zuko, fresh off of his encounter with Katara in the catacombs, trying to be emotionally honest with Mai... and getting shut down and dismissed. Which is just how Mai is and it’s fine, but not for Zuko. Still, he keeps trying, and he keeps getting ignored or scoffed at or yelled at. Which is really a larger symbol for how he doesn’t fit in his old life anymore, but again that’s about thematic cohesion. He tries to articulate his anxieties about returning home, he tries to make romantic gestures, he tries to explain how morally conflicted he’s feeling—and Mai diverts to some kind of physical affection to shut him up and a parting comment that is pretty much always, in essence, “I don’t wanna talk about this.” So they don’t. On the other hand, once zuko and Katara are friends, we see him again emotionally distraught and caught up in his anxieties about facing Iroh, and it’s Katara who comes to him and listens to him and comforts and encourages him.
Similarly, we have Aang clamming up and getting uncomfortable whenever Katara shows any negative emotion, usually resulting in him making excuses or running away. Or, in the case of the Southern Raiders, lecturing her on how she needs to just let go of her anger about her mother’s murder. People have talked this episode to death and usually better than I ever could, so imma... keep it brief. There’s a serious disconnect between Aang and Katara in his ability to empathize with Katara and her needs that has her tamping down her vulnerability and amping up her anger. He tells her that he was able to forgive his people’s genocide and appa’s kidnapping (petnapping? Theft??), which is blatantly not true but also not an entirely equal parrallel to Katara’s situation, and continues making these little remarks throughout the episode. But it’s Zuko that Katara opens up to. It’s with him that she’s able to talk about the most traumatic day of her life, and it’s with him that she’s able to get the closure she needs, cementing their bond as friends and partners. This disagreement between Aang and Katara is then... never resolved. They just never bring it up and hear what the other is saying.
There’s a fic called The Portraits of Ember Island that has a line that so completely sums up the heart of the matter for why people love their dynamic. For context, zuko has woken up early to help Katara with the cooking and they spend the whole time just letting one another talk, and zuko stops to ask why she always just lets him talk. And so she stops to ask why he’s always helping, and it goes as follows:
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There’s just... so much mutual support! Trust! Intimacy!! And it just continues like that from the Southern Raiders on, listening to each other, advising each other, watching each other’s backs! And then! Literally saving each other’s lives!! I will never be over the last Agni kai. Not ever. Zuko may have been willing to jump in front of lightning for anyone, but he actually did it for Katara. And in a show, that’s the thing that really matters. It’s a fulfilled trope usually exclusively applied to romantic pairings, and it ended up applying to Zuko and Katara. And then she ran out into the middle of a fight with tunnel vision just to get to him.
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Also!! Also Zuko pushing Katara out of the way of the falling rocks at the Western Air Temple!! And Katara catching him as he fell from the war balloon that he fought Azula on!! Before they’re even getting along, they’re the ones reaching for each other. They come to this place of equal ground, as partners, who watch each other’s backs, call each other out but still listen attentively and understand, and provide the support that the other has been sorely lacking up until they knew each other (whether that be from lack of effort or lack of understanding from others, or an unwillingness to accept it for themselves).
Then, trailing along under the surface of this, we see the themes of the show totally embodied by Zuko and Katara as individuals and in their relationship to one another. There’s a YouTuber, sneezyreviews, who has a, like, 2-hour explanation on why she not only loves zutara but also believes that their endgame would’ve actually elevated the writing of atla to new levels particularly because of thematic cohesion and resolved character arcs. It’s the zutara dissertation I never knew I needed, and it’s funny and eloquent and effective, so I’m just going to sum up her section on thematic cohesion to the best of my abilities and then link it for whenever you have the time. And I HIGHLY recommend it, especially if you want a full understanding of what makes zutara so great and gives it such longevity.
Guru pathik has a line that goes something like this: separation is an illusion; things that seem different are just two parts of the same whole. Iroh also tells Zuko something similar: balance and strength are achieved when the different nations come together and influence one another and celebrate what makes them each unique. And this lesson is a massive central arc that both Zuko and Katara go through, moving past a black-and-white, good guys-vs-bad guys, us-vs-them mentality and into a greyer, more nuanced view of the world. Zuko sees the fire nation from an entirely new perspective and while he still loves and hopes for his nations future, he surrenders his blind loyalty to them in exchange for an unflinching loyalty to peace and love. Katara too had to come to terms with the fact that cruel people exist in the earth kingdom and water tribes, while some fire nation citizens are just regular, kind people who also need and deserve to have someone speak on their behalf. And this is honed in directly on how they view each other. They grow in their individual journeys to be open to the humanity in the other and then, once they’ve found that, they’re able to grow more in compassion for others in a beautiful feedback loop. And this is all matched in the symbolism repeatedly and intentionally associated with them in canon: sun and moon, fire and water, yin and yang, Oma and Shu who found love despite their warring nations. Their individual arcs are completed in each other and complement the themes of atla beautifully.
The canon pairs... just don’t. Which, again, is fine. But the very things that give atla longevity and popularity are anchored in zutara. Kat@ang doesn’t accomplish this. They’re... nice. Sweet. Especially when you erase a good portion of their interactions in S3. It could’ve been just a sweet love story. (Personally, the dynamic between toph and aang accomplish the same thing that zutara does, with complementary personalities that fulfill the theme of opposites blending in harmony) M@iko, on the other hand, is less sweet but I think wasn’t even supposed to last. Zuko’s relationship with Mai seems to represent his relationship with his old life as a whole. He can’t be emotionally vulnerable, he’s goaded into abusing his privileges, his agency and opinions aren’t respected. They just don’t have common ground with which to discuss anything that matters, so they don’t. As far as themes, the relationship doesn’t fit with atla. It’s zuko returning to and sticking with what is (on the surface) like him, what’s expected. Fire nation with fire nation. Fluid water bender with the flexible air bender. Like with like, separated from what is different and challenging and complementary.
And all of these things combined of course lead to the potential for the ship. I don’t know how familiar you are with the post-atla canon but... well, miss “I will never turn my back on people who need me”, miss “I don’t want to heal! I want to fight!” ends up living quietly in the SWT as a designated healer who turns a blind eye to the water tribe civil war happening right outside her front door. Which can be fine! People change! Some people just wanna stay inside. I just wanna stay inside! But the potential future for zutara is so much more satisfying, with Katara becoming the most unconventional Fire Lady the uppity old cads who are stuck on the old ways have ever seen. Fanon has her serving as a voice for the other nations within a kingdom at the point of its biggest political upheaval, as a confidante to Zuko who can actually help him while he’s trying to figure out how to move forward and make reparations. They have the opportunity, together, to accomplish what they both have set on their hearts to fight for: positive change that lends itself to harmony and balance. And the steambabies! A popular headcanon is that their firstborn daughter, the crown princess, is actually a waterbender, which causes such an uproar among the people who are adamantly clinging to the old ways. It’s just a future full of potential to be forces for good together, full of trust, intimacy, joy. The exact era of peace and love and balance that zuko announces that he intends to ring in with the start of his reign as Fire Lord is, again, magnified by the very personal zutara relationship. And we love to see it.
tl;dr zutara isn’t for everyone. Some people just don’t vibe with it. Some are nostalgic. Some love the canon they grew up with. Some have been disappointed for years. Some just see themselves in other characters and want their happiness instead. Whatever the reason, that’s fine. But for me, I love the way these two, from the moment they give each other a fair chance, are able to lower their walls and prejudices to see the other for the kindred spirits they are. They see each other’s humanity, and their response is to pour out love and support and compassion. I love that they’re a power couple in battle. I love the symbolism and, honestly, soulmatism that colors their every interaction. I love that they embody the whole storyline of atla in their relationship and how it develops, which is notably why their seasonal arcs always culminate in each finale with how they relate to one another. I love that zuko adopting a waterbending move is what actually saves his life and then katara’s. I love the chemistry! And I love the future they could’ve had, instead of the ones they were given.
So, in conclusion: I just think they’re neat and I hope you do too, at least a little bit. Even if it’s just respectfully from a disinterested distance cause you do you. And now here is the video I mentioned. I’m sorry this post got so long and then I gave you an even longer homework assignment, but I can’t recommend it enough. She says it all better than I can.
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superpixie42 · 5 years ago
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F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
Hi @kirrtash sorry this took me so long. Asks on mobile are a pain and so I had to wait til I could get back on desktop.
SO My favorite dialog is from the first chapter of “Forsake All Others” which I originally posted for White Day last month. 
He also found himself surprisingly willing to answer her questions as the night went on. He couldn't help it, no matter what his answer was she always responded in a way that made him want to keep talking just so she would keep laughing, or blushing, or dramatically flail about a little longer. He told her about his job at the restaurant 
"Oooh does that mean you can make fresh oden?" 
"It means I can, but it doesn't mean I will."
about his preference for movies over tv
 "What do you mean you don't like Joss Whedon? Buffy is a cultural icon!"
"She cries and she kills demons, I'm not exactly the target demographic."
“Fine, but Firefly! Or what, are you jealous of how Nathan Fillion looks in those pants?”
“I would look better in them but that's not the point…”
and even about his foster mother who tried to teach him to knit so he would have a hobby that traveled 
"Wish I had that kind of dexterity"
"Yeah well the claws made a mess of the yarn so I switched to crochet and I swear to God Miroku if you tell anyone about that I will put a knitting needle through your face.".
This girl just didn't make any sense. She was pretty, she was smart, she was talking to him of her own free will and wait she was leaving?
So I’m proud of this for two reasons. 1- it was the first thing I ever posted and it took me mooooooonths of psyching myself up writing different scenes and deleting everything before finally making something I wanted to share. 2- This scene was hard because I wanted to show this hours long conversation without...actually having an hours long conversation and I thought this was a good way to get the playful tone across without sacrificing style. 
Thanks for the ask :)
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lacefuneral · 2 years ago
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i'm gonna keep bitching I'm having a wonderful time. So another thing about Tumblr desktop is that there is also a store icon. And for a while users had come up with specific codes that you could input on ublock origin to hide the store button,  because when it was introduced it had a huge "new" sign on it in yellow and everybody hated it
 But then Tumblr realize that people were blocking the store button so they brought it back without the word new on it, but now they're making it through this really annoying glitter animation. And I have tried over and over again but I cannot for the life of me get that element to disable anymore.  I can get it to go away for a little bit then it immediately comes back.
tumblr also removed the ability to do things like very basic HTML in the text editors. Like you literally cannot even center text on tumblr.com
i'm pretty sure they removed it because users would break the website sometimes by messing around with HTML but. that's beyond silly. you wont let people center their titles? you have to make them upload pngs with the text they want?
and I will never forgive Tumblr for the way that they are trying so hard to prevent people from accessing the desktop versions of their blogs.  There is so much you can do even with Tumblr continuing to crack down on more and more types of code over the years,  and the fact that Tumblr is trying to obscure this from their new users makes me so sad.  Every Tumblr blog comes built into it the ability to have a website with its own theme and it's own pages and a custom cursor and a custom favicon and custom backgrounds -  and people have even figured out how to make music players without the use of flash or javascript. 
fun fact you used to be able to install Tumblr themes that came with their own mobile versions. People used to advertise their Tumblr themes by assuring you that they were "responsive" (would automatically convert the layout to be mobile friendly)
I understand why they standardized the mobile websites for their app because there's no way in hell that they would be able to accommodate custom CSS for every blog.  But like.  Tumblr still has a desktop website that works (well. "works")  and there's literally no problem with displaying these blogs because they kind of exist in their own little pocket dimension spaces. but Tumblr desktop insists on only showing people the mobile versions only.  And when you copy a post link it links to again the mobile version of the blog by default.
 Like no.  I mean as much as I enjoy my little Stede banner,  that's not really how I want people to view my blog especially if they're using Tumblr on a computer. I have a custom cursor I have a little sidebar gif I have music.  There's only one aspect of my desktop website that doesn't work and that's that I couldn't figure out how to re-enable infinite scroll. Because shocker, Tumblr has rewritten this code like three or four times. And I cannot get it to work on my blog. Now if the infinite scroll worked, you could theoretically spend a good 20 or so minutes on my blog, scrolling through posts and listening to the built-in playlist.  Which is the user experience that I intend. But not the one that I'm able to deliver on. Because as soon as you click on the button for next page, the music stops because you've reloaded the page essentially.
I think it's fucked up that you can edit tags on desktop but not on mobile. If I make a typo on my tags and desktop it's no big deal. But if I make one on mobile I look like a clown
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