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[lucabyte]

obligatory ramble about postcanon loop ask

also your art is amazing

Hiiiiiiiii :D thank you :)!!

and thank you for the excuse to post the. just absolute wall of text that i truncated down to form the tags of that post. (i did,,, hit the tag limit. i forgot tumblr had one of those...) so let me just paste that and tidy it up a bit...

I am putting this under a readmore because it's a bit long. but:

This is like. The General Context for all* of my postcanon doodles? (Except AUs obviously) Like this is the base idea I've been drawing them all in. So, feel free to backread with this in mind. I've basically had this 'postcanon' timeline set in my brain since finishing the game...

My general thoughts are that I like the idea of Loop (even if through dubiously ethical means) being able to slowly reintegrate with the party as a whole new person, because they are, in fact, their own person.

It's a muddle of thematic threads im pulling on and "wouldn't it be fucked up if", but. (at its core, it's powered by the fact that like, while narratively isat's theme of 'the only person who can truly take the first step to help you is yourself'. (wrt: loop helping the party help siffrin in act 5) which i LOVE AND IS GREAT NARRATIVELY…. would be super fucked up irl to learn that your friend 'learned as a lesson' while you stood by kinda uselessly. I know i'd be upset about it. but thats mostly background here. doesn't really come up. at least not until loop has to explain who they are and the party realises they had to fall back on literally themselves again for help, but i digress,)

The real core concept is: Occam's razor. It is like, inherently, a buckwild thing to accuse a person of being somehow a clone or copy of your friend. Even if they start vaguely alluding to a backstory it's far more likely they were some other person before all that. (I still think Odile has that theory in the back pocket but she's rational enough to know it's a really long shot without a solid explanation. and i think Loop deep down knows this, and would, if cornered into confessing, turn the situation around to go J'ACCUSE and make HER explain it instead. Ever longer dodging being direct with their emotions...)

And the party are nice! And if someone has changed and wants to keep stuff secret it's kind of not their business? (Though it's hard not to speculate… see: the main joke of the doodles) And they seem important to Siffrin so they just try to accept them abrasive quirks and all. And eventually the question of their prior identity just fades away since, well, they're Loop. Their friend Loop.

but yeah. personal headcanon is that a few months/weeks after picking up and getting aquainted with Nille** (since that was presumably the IMMEDIATE TASK postgame), Loop reappears (either after a literal period of nonexistance, or just spending a few months wandering the french countryside alone being attacked by wild dogs). Since Siffrin has had a while to be therapised by the party they're doing mostly okay, but Loop showing up and still being agitated/aggressive pulls them both into a bit of a backslide behaviourally and puts the party on the back foot again.

Hooowever, I do think that due to no longer being literally stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time together, the two do mostly actually sort themselves out with productive conversation. (Via a cycle of: genuinely distressing argument -> weeeird lovebombing -> ok we're good -> repeat, that gets less intense over time)

Thus, allowing the party to just. Integrate loop as a new person. They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches (Loop taking over stuff Siffrin is now too squeamish for, etc (see: hunting, mostly)), and while it's not exactly what Loop wanted they generally get that beggars can't be choosers and it's a pretty good deal. And the rest of the party does straight up just like them as a friend, especially when Loop quits trying to actively antagonise them after a few weeks of being around them, since they just can't keep up being mean to people they like forever.

As for how I think the truth eventually drags itself out. This is where I invoke The Isabeau Torment Nexus™. So its gonna get shippy here for a bit hold on.

Which is, I think giving them time before Loop reappears long enough that Siffrin and Iseabeau actually manage to become established, Isabeau has to be the one to nudge the pair of them and go. "Hey. You know we're in Vaugarde right. I'm okay with polyamory if we all communicate." Before Loop and Siffrin actually even acknowledge that whatever the fuck they have going on kinda looks a lot like a relationship of some kind. (or have already been agonising about that via fighting and arguing, depending) (Obviously this comes after Isa "Emotionally intelligent enough to keep a lid on the jealousy" Beau has managed to use that big brain of his to Not just go Scream somewhere on the daily because oh godddd they keep talking like theyre suicide-baiting each other jesus chriiist. is it overstepping his boundaries to bring that up?? god)

This, taking a bunch of the tension out of Loop and Isabeau's relationship (Since I imagine Loop is a. being weird for the obvious reasons and b. feeling kinda guilty about 'getting in the way of' Siffrin and Iseabeau), allows them to actually get close in a normal friend way. (I think an interesting turning point could be Isabeau actually taking Loop's side in an argument vs Siffrin, which would absolutely break Loop's brain. Especially if it's an argument that matters. Like what do you mean he isn't just going to play favourites. What?)

Then Isabeau, just actually open minded and charmed by Loop (and maybe even somewhat at Siffrin's suggestion?) tries to close the final open side on the polyamory triangle here and that's the final straw for Loop on "This lie by omission is too unethical to keep up, this is just actually sick and wrong. I can't do this while he doesn't know who I am." Though. Obviously it probably goes. Very poorly with emotions high like that. And the added element of several months of deceit. Getting dark here for a second but that dagger is going MISSING and so are THEY for a hot minute.

Then yaaay everything works out in the end 👍 yippieee!! all it took was maybe a lot of harrowed recontextualisation of all the weird shit your new friend said and did when it turns out they're your old friend. It's fine.

But yeah. this is basically the context all of my postcanon doodles have existed within? And those exist to give other people something to chew on. So this does too.

I suppose TL;DR: Imagine if sloopis almost fucking happens before isabeau knows who loop is. can you fucking imagine. can you imagine having to navigate that. nightmare.

*Yes this includes the implied cannibalism comic. Uhh. Comes part and parcel with headcanoning that Loop went way off the deep end similar to A5 Sif But Maybe Worse before giving in. Add weepy half-asleep confessions to murder wherever you see fit in your mind palace. 👍👍👍

**Re: Nille footnote. I don't have anywhere to put this besides here! I have some thoughts on Loop and Nille having an odd dynamic. I don't imagine Nille to be super gung-ho on trusting a bunch of adults (even if they are majority around her age) given their implied backstory. It's probably a big shock to the system, especially since Bambouche is a good couple hundred Kilometers up north from Dormont and these guys don't seem to have trains. She would've been unfrozen and without Bonnie for some time....

Which is to say: I think she's suspicious of them. I think she may be looking for excuses to distance herself, keep Bonnie safe. SO.... A new guy showing up? And antagonising the party? What do they know that I don't...? I should find out.

And since... Loop didn't ever know Nille, they have no ammunition or real reason to be cruel. Plus, if they're trying to stay on Bonnie's good side (SINCE... if Bonnie thought Loop was cringe they may as well kill themselves. In their mind.) they SUPER have no reason to antagonise Nille.

Mostly, they might be able to open up to each other easier than they can the rest of the party?

I feel like this resolves with Loop feeling compelled to apologise for what they and Siffrin let happen to Bonnie, though... Hmm... Depends on how you interpret Nille that they'd be glad nobody else had been told about that yet, or furious it had been secret this long. I lean toward the former.

[contraryclock]

stupid ass Don Quixote ramblings

hi this is my first tumblr post but i really wanted a good place to put this

spoilers for all of current limbus company, including Murder on the warp Express, the Don Quixote book (( kinda )), and a musical (( i'll get there ))

please humor this deranged rant about a character i havent read the source book of

so basically ive had a theory since Don was even teased that she's less so based on book Don Quixote and moreso based on the Man of La Mancha musical which is. an insane thing to suggest but hear me out here (( ive since changed how i word my stance to the much more mild "it will most likely delve into the themes of both works and reference both" because suggesting they would discount the book entirely is TRUE insanity ))

her quote (( from teaser tweets that i cannot find anymore? they seem like they were deleted which sucks )) was "To reach the unreachable star!" or something which is notably not a quote from the original book ((as far as im aware at least?)), and suggests. a lot i think!

One of the most notable differences between Man of La Mancha and the original Don Quixote is their tone and attitude towards Quixote. In the original text, he's shown to be a fool who is ignorant to the vastly more interesting world around him, and prefers to instead sink deeper into his delusions of reality equating to chivalric literature. This makes sense as Don Quixote was written as a parody and mockery of the genre

La Mancha is, notably, much more forgiving on Quixote's character, showing that while still a fool, and his insanity often detrimental to those around him, he is still a good person at heart and that he truly wishes to pursue this justice he posits

I usually say it as "Don Quixote is about how reality is beautiful, and La Mancha is about how sometimes one should strive to make reality a little more fantastical" although i dont know if that. is the most accurate comparison. both Don Quixote and La Mancha have a lot of themes and stuff going on

one of the things that made me scream was learning about "Miguel" being written on don's LCB combat spritesheet instead of her listed name

which if you've seen or read a summary of la mancha is a huge alarm bell

In La Mancha, the whole thing is shown as a Play within a Play

Miguel de Cerventes is sent to prison, awaiting trial by the inquisition, and is tasked with defending himself in a mock trial with the other prisoners so they dont take his belongings. His defense is Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha! With the prisoners acting out the various roles he assigns them, and him acting as the leading man, Don Quixote himself!

that was most of the things that made me think "Oh, maybe it'll be La Mancha!" and then this happened

and i sort of lost my god damned mind

because like what if this is miguel... what if shes simultaneously playing out her life as don quixote as a her delusion, and as her dream, but also as a statement...

idk but this isnt JUST about Man of La Mancha bc i think this has a few implications for how don's canto is going to go

In both don quixote and la mancha, they send someone to cure quixote of his delusions

The final thing they try is setting up an act where a "Knight of Mirrors" duels with Quixote, which ends up working.

The Knight forces Quixote to see how he is perceived by others, to see the truth that he is no knight.

ignoring the stuff with vampires and mirrors for a second, i feel like this could be more mirror world shenanigans, where either the knight IS a mirror world don quixote, or is someone who will show her mirror worlds. Whatever that will imply!!! i dont know its exciting!!!!!

Her being absurdly old and powerful, plus bloodfiends having a whole familial adjacent hierarchy makes me think theres a LOT of bloodfiends out there that would want her back

I dunno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im insane!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! i just wanted to get my thoughts out before her canto actually happened so i can say that i did indeed have an opinion on this

-limbus assets taken form Lunartique's asset google drive go look at it -text written by me and not proofread

ok thanks bye dont follow me byeee byeeeeee

[utilitycaster]

Apologies in advanced for the long ask, but i think it is telling that the sort of people who argued for Predathos to be released, and that the Prime Deities deserved to be killed, are the same type of people who would turn around and argue that Solas has a point and that the Veil should be rent open. Hilarious, considering that the talking points usually used to argue in favor of either one are at complete odds with the other.

Both fandoms are guilty of ripping characters agency away so that they can't be blamed (that wild take from a few weeks back that Solas' whole deal was that he was basically manipulated by Mythal into trying to take down the Veil vs. The arguement Bells Hells "had no choice" regarding their decisions in Predathos' lair), arguing that both parties goals is to "save the little people" and then not being able to actually put to words how their grand plans would actually help against systemic issues (also, in both situations, no one actually asked the "little people", who are portrayed as NOT being on board with either plan), and would rather risk a cataclysmic event to "change the status quo" (and feeling antagonistic towards storylines where people are doing that work to dismantle systems because it's "not enough"), it's just more of the same.

Both fandom groups having a history of not being able to handle anyone who does not share their opinion can't be a coincidence either.

Insanely, I also can imagine that if, say, Taliesin says something less than positive about Ashton during the upcoming wrap-up (and he very well might, considering his history, that he was likely playing with a similar theme that he has with many of his characters and never intended for Ashton to always be "right", but to have the assumption that they are "right" and putting a force of personality behind it and seeing what happens) that any diehard Ashton stans would immediately disavow Taliesin of having any understanding of the character a la how the DA devs obviously have no understanding of Solas (a character they wrote) because they made him a villain.

Anyway, you don't have to post or respond if you don't want to. Just wanted to vent to someone who understands the frustration, being in both fandoms, and how annoying it is to see this approach to interacting with media, but, if you have the time: what do you think draws this type of fan in? What about both these stories appeals to them? Why do they inspire such strong feelings?

Hi anon,

Re everything pre final paragraph, agreed. I mean, we've already seen this re: Taliesin saying, repeatedly, in character and out, that Molly is dead and Kingsley is a separate person and this is very much his intention, and people ignoring that. They may not disavow Taliesin but if they don't, they'll either decide secret messages are being sent to them via Morse code blinks or that others in the cast made him do it, or attack other fans who have absolutely no control over this.

I started writing out a very long and in-depth answer to what draws this fan in/why they like these stories, but I think it comes down to something much more simple. It’s not confined to Veilguard nor Campaign 3 by any means, but it certainly does exist there: To quote @burr-ell in conversation, “too many people want RPG to mean ‘im the specialest birthday boy and god's favorite princess and if you're mean to me i get to blow the whole building up’ and not like, playing a role in a game.” 

We are also very specifically talking about the responses to these works on Tumblr, and there is a specific culture here of "our modern world is uniquely awful and my life is harder than that of a medieval serf [it’s not] therefore the only valid response to bring about a better world is drastic and often violent complete destruction of the status quo without any interrogation of what specifically to keep and what to destroy [it’s not], but because anything less than perfect and rapid action is problematic [it’s not], doing things is bad [it's not], so I balance eternally in a space of miserably doing nothing and telling myself I am virtuous for doing so [they’re not]." It’s a uniquely ignorant, ahistoric, self-absorbed, and utterly ineffective mindset for achieving any material goals in the real world, which I do think is why they are so drawn to fictional options, where they can briefly escape this entirely self-imposed powerlessness without having to like, work on themselves as a person.

This leads to this idea that agency is something that only the most privileged have, so if you have agency, you are privileged and therefore bad unless you use it to prop up their belief that they're the most special birthday boy. And finally I think the immersive nature of RPGs attract people who really want to sink into and over-identify with a character, though again that’s not exclusive to fantasy nor RPGs.

And so: the world needs drastic change, but change has to come with someone with agency, which can only be the domain of privilege (old white man) but maybe a little bit other (elf) so that he Gets It. But he would have stuck to the Status Quo [which in this case is specifically the Veil and the Gods but not like. Other problems, because Status Quo is what these people use to mean Big Impossible Problem That Only The Specialest Birthday Boys Who Never Did Anything Else Before In Their Life Can Solve and not like. Tevene slavery or Dwendalian Imperialism] had he not experienced Trauma or Manipulation. This gives him a Motivation, and also, because Trauma or Manipulation confers Total Absolution by removing Personal Agency But Permitting Action, he is never to be questioned in his goals [Until it’s Critical Role Campaign 3 episode 119 and you realize with the sickening crunch of the single cell of your brain falling to the base of your skull that your pure as driven snow agencyless yet still battling the gods babies Bells Hells have suppressed the story of Aeor for apparently no effect other than to almost get Liliana killed; have just stopped Ludinus; done what he was going to do anyway, and come up with another answer after the gods gave them a bunch of presents and now suddenly they are such good people for saving the gods (that they themselves put at risk, because to not put them at risk is to perpetuate the status quo, and the gods are bad because Bells Hells specifically are not treated by the gods as their favorite princesses except they definitely are, at least compared to the common people whom they don’t talk to, and also the good thing to do about bad people is to suppress the story of what you think their crimes are; anyway how dare the people of Vasselheim not weep with gratitude and kiss their feet when Bells Hells point a nuke at their lives' purpose. Extremely rude of them.)]

In short a lot of people project onto/identify very strongly with a character or characters whom the narrative, deliberately (Veilguard) or who the fuck knows the intent (C3) portrays as selfish and entrenched in their own pain to the point that they see pain inflicted on others as not just a necessary evil in the pursuit of their goals, but also their birthright to relish in, as the specialest birthday boy who was denied this. And if you as a viewer are like huh! Solas (or Ashton, or Laudna, or Imogen) is being an asshole, then first off, you are DENYING THEM THEIR BIRTHRIGHT, OPPRESSOR and second off you are PERSONALLY ATTACKING THE TUMBLR USER WHO IDENTIFIES WITH THEM and therefore you are EVIL and ATTACKS ON YOU ARE JUSTIFIED and thus they can feel like they are tearing down the status quo of evil bnfs [arbitrary term for people who sometimes maintag a coherent argument these fans do not like that gets more notes than their post did] because they will never, ever, do anything in real life other than uphold the status quo through inaction and an inability to care about other people, and post online about how revolutionary they are while better people actually do the work.

[skyrim-forever]

EVE! HELLO!

From the "Firsts" list...

Might I please get a 2 for Theo

An X for Theo and Ondolemar

And a 🔥 (First time writing romance/spicy scenes, and how you felt about it) for you?

Hello Winter <3 <3 <3 Thank you so much!

2. First time meeting their best friend

Theo's first time meeting Phy happens when she's 11. around this time her father is doing a lot of totally legitimate business in Northern Valenwood. Theo begs him to take her along because she's bored of always staying in Anvil, save for the few trips she has made around Cyrodiil. She wants to get out of the province, go somewhere different! So he brings her along and while stopping to purchase new armour and materials from a bosmer leatherwork he's bought from a lot, he introduces her to this woman and her daughter. Ricardo was a very proud father so this woman already knew a bit about Theo. Turns out her daughter is the same age and while they talk shop, the girls get to know each other. Theo's first impression of Phy is that she's cool, she lives in the woods with her mom, she knows all the plants, the best hiding spots, etc. Phy asks about where her mother is and she's like "I don't have a mother" and Phy's like "I don't have a father." That's it, they are besties bound together by missing a parent. Now that Theo has a friend here, she gets to come back with her father a lot <3

X. First major hardship they got through together

This is a tough one because the whole relationship is not premitted so they have that hanging over them as their feelings start to develop. But as a consequence of that, the Rulindil situation happens. Which I have written about here. It starts off with them thinking its under control but then things spiral. Theodora goes through a traumatic experience but at least Ondolemar is there to help her as much as he can. Need to write the third part and how their relationship changes.

🔥 - First time writing romance/spicy scenes, and how you felt about it

My first fic was a smut fic actually! I had been wanting to write fanfic and then the Skyrim Tumblr Sexyman Poll happened and people were shipping Teldryn/Serana and someone had put out asking for someone to write a fic. So I thought Hey! Just go for it! What's the worst that can happen!

I wrote it in public, at a library on campus. I struggled as you'd expect but oddly enough, my background in linguistics helped me. I started to look at it as just data, it's just words and throughout my grad studies I have seen all kinds of language. I particularly used to work on stories and they were not all appropriate haha. So I just did it and since then it's been easier! I really like using smut as a way to explore different themes and it's also one of my favourite things to read for this reason also im a degenerate but y'all knew that

[roadyblr]

okay.. I’m so sorry for not saying anything for lil forever but I’m BACK!! I’m back. and.. DONT BE MAD. AND DONT TELL ANYONE.. but I like &TEAM better now

LE GASPPP

“who said that…” me. IM SORRYYYYYY IM SORRYYY.. but I promise. I PROMISE. I got scared when I saw the theme change (it EATS) and I scrolled down and when I tell you I SCREAMED.

(I think my parents think I’m going insane..)

IM SO HYPEDDD ARGHHHHH (&TEAM HAS A NEW COMEBACK IN APRIL TOO AHHHHHH)

let me tell you.. the change I have gone through.. Jo is my #1 of all… no more Lee know.. no more yechan on top.. JO. I mean…. LOOK AT HIM. deer hunter is his ERAAAA!!! he served absolute C*** UGHHHHH

OMGGGG HES SO FINEEEEEEE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

(I’m so sorry for yapping and putting a whole ahh photo collection…)

HES JUST SO FREAKING FINEEEEE!!!!!!!! I’m tweaking. my board of him went from 100 to 4000 REAL FAST.

(I already got an album of his face AND I GOT HIS PHOTOCARD. FIRST TRY!!! ARE YOU PROUD OF ME???)

I have too much energy right now AHH🤭🫣😫🫢😉😏😣😔

okay thanks for letting me YAP

(please don’t be afraid to yap back we haven’t chatted in TOO LONGGG!! and I love when you yap😋)

☺️💗😘😝😊🤭

love ya!!

adding a break because word vomit but i'm hoping tumblr takes pity on me does a show more because if not aaahhhhhhhhh 🧍🧍🧍good luck whoever wants to read me talking about the theme for ages and also mentions of groups outside of xikers if that bothers you (i'm sorry 🙏)

tumblr user roadyblr when redsunvibes comes back only to tell them she's into another group

BETRAYAL‼️ ON THIS, THE EVE OF A XIKERS COMEBACK AND MY (AND SUMIN'S) BIRTHDAY (all three are weeks off i'm just dramatic)

lee know and yechan left out in the COLD, in the ALLEY (so wild that lee know is my bff's ult and yechan is my second ult and here you are 🫵🫵🫵 traitor)

i know absolutely nothing about &team (we'll get there, taking things in order)

✨theme talk/ad break✨ i'm taking like, a stab in the dark at the colors because i usually make it match the albums (started this blog like right before trial and error so i had like a good week of light blue & yellow before everything was GREY and BLACK and then watch out had... some color colors that worked on the album and not so much for my theme because that was a RED red and BLUE blue like tumblr font color blue doesn't match how BLUE that was you don't understand [you probably do]) so i kinda color picked from their new banner (to... a degree, because wherever you color dropped on that you're going to get a different tone so like choices had to be made) and then tried to find something complimentary to go along from the teaser image it actually worked out because i haven't changed the actual blog color since how to play because while grey would've worked it was depressing me and again watch out had such a RED red and BLUE blue that it hurt my eyes in a different way

usually there's a white space between the colors—like color, white, color, black—but that was when they did two versions, which they didn't do for watch out, they did three and i know kq they're gonna do three again (which is like... FINE, that's signed album chances, even though i sense Seeun in my signed albums pulls and if not that's rude i've had a Seeun signed album in every era) glad we're still in silent hill according to the teaser poster, those who were around for me reblogging my xikers/sh edits say nothing unless it's nice >: 3 that was like two of my worlds colliding

does this mean it might change when the actual album colors are revealed.... xikers don't hurt me like that 🌀🌀🌀🌀 you wanna keep these colors so bad-YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CHANGE IT WE'RE SO CLOSE TO MY FAVORITE COLORS❗

did anyone need the breakdown of how i choose the colors for all of this no, am i still talking yes

&TEAM TALK and by &team talk it's me reiterating i know next to nothing 🙃🙃 in that that i know A. That they're named &team (slay) B. that i went on kprofiles and was like "oh i know these names" because they've come to me organically (read: came up on twt) and most importantly C. that XLOV covered deer hunter and YES I DID HAVE TO GO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS &TEAM THAT DID DEER HUNTER because i was 100% convinced i was gonna be talking out my ass and say that with my whole chest and be proven WRONG (it's happened before)

which side tangent XLOV?? XLOV WUMUTI??? (credit: yeol__fox on twt yes i did sift through all my twt posts/likes for the past 3 weeks to find this)

MOTHER?? THE MOTHER??? SHE??? that's my wife- i need a minute... AND RUI? THIS PIC OF RUI? (credit: xlov_on1y on twt)

yea.... *deep breath* y e a "this is my wife beomgyu, and my wife wumuti, and our shared son yechan" and that's about as insane as i'll go on this account because i'm v chill and normal- (technically it goes beomgyu, yechan, wumuti because i feel like collecting—using that term loosely—for wumuti would drive me up a large wall and into a financial hole)

but back to &team!! and jo, a few of these pics if i scroll past too fast he gives enhypen niki but like baby niki you feel? my infant son (my history with enhypen is being there at debut and then forgetting them until dark blood and then sayign "i have to lock in" don't look at me 2020 was a weird year i don't remember it)

I'M ALSO SO HAPPY YOU GOT YOUR BIAS IN A PULL??? THAT LUCK EXISTS IN DREAMS (my dreams, specifically, as beomgyu is sometimes fucking allergic to me, which is rude, to me, who has to deal with member economy)

but yea 100% if you wanna come yell in my main inbox about &team feel free too!! i like learning about groups people are into even if i know zilch and nada about them, like come give me songs you recommend :3

also speaking of my main i get my xikers winter house card packs today so if you, redsunvibes, see me screaming on main in the next 24 hours, that's the reason

[riddlerosehearts]

HELLO it is the idia anon from like almost two months ago i think. idk if u remember bt i only just saw your response post bc i lowk forget i have tumblr sometimes (adhd so its out of sight out of mind). tbh i completely forgot about my own ask and i was scrolling thru the idiavil tag yet again when i saw your post and i was like "wow, me too anon." and then i realized it was me. IM TYPING THIS IN AN IDIA SHROUD JACKET BTW THE FIXATION HAS CONSUMEDME. i think abt twst so much. I HOPE U DO NOT MIND ME RAMBLING I WAS GOING TO GET TO AN ACTUALLY IMPORTANT THING.

I LOVED READING YORU HEADCANONS THEY GIVE ME LIFE. i have a tonn of idiavil hcs and au ideas but ive not rlly written any of them (band au that im mega obsessed with is collecting dust in my notes app. i just can't form coherent thoughts). i could soend hours talkign abt idiavil I LUOVE THEM.

ur mention of xenoblade chronicles and kingdom hearts rlly makes me want to play both of them... i know a bit about kh and i want to play it but i know nothing abt xenoblade chronicles... ANYWAYS THANK U FOR THE LOST. I THINK I MIGHTHAVE UNDIAGNOSED AUTISM o(≧▽≦)o

oh i do remember you!! i wish i could forget i had tumblr sometimes LOL, instead i'm way too active on here and keep making myself so busy with different creative projects on my blogs that i'll never have time to post everything i'd like to post. i love when people ramble in my inbox though so no worries!!

omg if you ever post any headcanons or fic about that band AU i would love to see 👀 i have so many ideas that i never do anything with because i'm not much of a writer but i too could talk about idiavil and my other twst ships for hours so i totally get that lol. here's another bonus idiavil HC for you: idia feels really embarrassed about saying affectionate things face to face so he sends vil cute texts disguised as game notifications. things like "congratulations! you've reached max affection with idia! ❤". he also sends vil love letters with roses attached... in animal crossing. and then he secretly hopes vil never finds the time to open up his game and read them because he thinks he might die of embarrassment, but unfortunately for him, vil does read them and he sends a letter back every single time.

and okay so. iirc i made a kingdom hearts reference in that post but just mentioned xenoblade in the tags because it's so much less popular/recognizable. but i was originally going to make a reference to xenoblade chronicles 1. i love the whole series and if you like lengthy JRPGs with unique combat and wild stories then you'd probably love it too! but i feel like idia would love XC1 in particular because a major theme of that game's story is that it's about fighting for the freedom to choose your own future. it's about spending your life feeling like you're powerless to change anything, and then allowing yourself to see that that isn't true--that if you keep looking forward and choose not to give up, you can create a world where you can shape your own destiny. you can go the distance. i think it's a story that would really resonate with idia. now, do i think he would see these themes as being applicable to his own life in a realistic way? absolutely not lol, at least not before the events of book 6, but he'd love the fantasy of it. he'd also relate to shulk--the main protagonist of the game--partly for spoilery reasons and partly because shulk is a fucking nerd who resents having to go outside and would rather spend all day in his research lab working with machines. and now i've rambled on about a game you haven't played lol, but if it isn't obvious by now i highly recommend it! and kingdom hearts is my favorite game series of all time so i highly recommend it as well. fun fact: idia's voice actor, kouki uchiyama, also voices roxas in the japanese version of KH!

[dakogutin]

fic writer questions

tysm for thinking of me @squintclover<33 this was so much fun! i'm so late to this but here we goo

🍓 How did you get into writing fanfiction?

-read fics at first then craved specific flavours so decided to provide for myself

🍇How many fandoms have you written in?

-2

🍈 How many years have you been writing fanfiction?

-oh god. i started in 2017...

to be fair it was p inconsistent like how rarely im active here lmao

🍎 Do you read or write more fanfiction?

-atm i read more as i dont have the headspace to continue my wips

🍌 What is one way you've improved as a writer?

-my overuse of adverbs/adjectives lmao. it's quite the challenge writing in my non-native language so i used to overcompensate a LOT and i noticed it turned out to be painfully obvious oops.

🍑 Do you have any bad habits as a writer?

-how i over stress about perfection so much that it would keep me from finishing scenes and sometimes even whole projects. i'd go back again and again to reread and edit and it'll become an endless cycle

🍍 What's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

-how chamber pots and the pipes worked in regency era houses lmao. there might be something weirder but it's the only thing i rmr off the top of my head

🍉What's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

-that they reread it or that they really appreciate my plot or characterizations

🍐What's the most fringe trope/topic you write about?

...im going to assume that's actually 'cringe'.

-it was prob the daddykink one or any wip of mine with the presence of a very alphamaleChristianGrey!dom character lol i cant do it

🥭What is the hardest type of story for you to write?

-this is going to sound bad for me, but it's the stories where everyone is happy and it's all fluff no plot. i found it soo difficult. feel free to decide what that says about me.

also infidelity and pregnancy tropes. and anything with themes of sexual abuse.

🍏What is the easiest type?

-hurt/comfort, banter, the angst where i get to go into a deep dive of their thoughts and emotions

🍑Where do you do your writing? What platform? When?

-gdocs in my pc, usually during the night where it's the most quiet.

🍋What is something you've been too nervous/ intimidated to write, but would love to write one day?

-i'd love to do a canon divergent and do my own take on the canon plot and the worldbuilding... someday

🍇What made you choose your username?

-it used to be something else but i wanted to separate my tumblr acc with that username so i changed it into something so random and stupid, which is 'bigdick' in my native language

no pressure tagging @thomasbrodiesandwich @asterhaze @pinklume @welshremus and anyone who hasnt done this yet:")

[textualviolence]

um what else am i currently or have ever been ashamed of or felt pressure to disavow ummm...

i liked good omens both seasons. Writing on season two couldve been better but those two actors have good chemistry & comedic timing its entertaining to watch them on screen and the little cringe love story did tug at my heartstrings a little like i do care what happens to them.

I was also very much a bbc sherlock fan during the peak of tjlc and i believed in it with all my heart and when the last episode of s4 came out i was in denial for 4 months and then i pretended id never heard of the show in my life for the following few years...hbomberguy made a whole video calling me a stupid idot loser for falling for it and it felt like a knife to the heart. & you know what i rewatched it recently with a lightened soul & no karmic debt & now recognize the pain behind the vitriol cause he was clearly also a disappointed fan though i could not see that at the time. maybe not tjlc who's to say but he loved bbc sherlock & hated himself for that once the last episode came out and we all realised it was bad its pretty obvious in the way he talks about steven moffat like an ex-lover who betrayed him. But i think its not even bad i still like it ill rewatch it and have a good time,

and yes i am a johnlock shipper. those ugly british men have a handle on my psyché though with the shifting tides im feeling like i would enjoy a wider range of pairings and themes from that show. I am generally very susceptible to outside influence when it comes to these things its part of why i find it hard to ignore when the trends oscillate wildly between loving something absolutely and hating it with a passion i find it very tiring because i feel it in my heart as if the urge came from the inside...sometimes something is just okay and its okay to like it an average amount without having to wildly overcorrect to atone for having liked it more than it deserved. maybe i was too intense about bbc sherlock and got my heart broken even though it was obvious i was projecting something that was not there on a cryptic blank screen, and so it is mostly my own fault but i don't have to hate myself for it either its all fine.

Loving something a little too much and being heartbroken when you realise it wasn't actually what you thought is painful but its part of life its not something to bury into the earth its fine....and im uncool to the extreme ive never been cool not once in my life im sort of embarrassing in most of the things i do and say and thats okay too i don't have to change because i can't anyways and besides its not hurting anyone. I'm literally a theater kid and theres something very freeing about being in the middle of a gaggle of nerds well sort of like being a tumblr blogger but the two balance each other out. I can't be cool on here because im a theater kid to my core in real life in the hamilton fan sort of way and i can't be cool in really life because im literally a tumblrina of the superwholock variety and in both there is a kind of peace and relief knowing that i will never have to be cool and am always lamer than most people around me at least in my heart of hearts...

[velvetwarfare]

stares at one of my oldest ocs that im definitely about to drag back as a hazbin oc

originally she was just fandomless and a start to tumblr when I first freshly joined anyway but now I have an actual reason to use her again considering candle’s a whole ass virtue angel

old art but honestly best art I’ve made below and some facts

- Her actual name is Candlelight (go figure), but she also adopted the name Eleanor for the humans.

- Soft, old English accent. Speaks similar to those vintage movies.

- Isabella’s Lullaby theme.

- Very motherly. Will adopt anyone, any age. She’s old as FUCK, so really, anyone is a child to her. Loves children. Loves humans, thinks they’re silly. Loves hell too, thinks the sinners are funky looking things but in a good way because A+ for Lucifer’s creativity. Low key sick of heaven because it’s all the same and boring now.

- Melts when under stress. Melts in general, she’s a fucking living candle HFHDHDGG but it’s okay she smells like a Yankee candle shop.

- 7’6.

- Fights with a giant candelabra.

- Virtue of temperance. Very patient. Very calm majority of the time. Her office has a lot of wind chimes and fluffy things like a therapy office or meditation retreat. Angels come here to relax and vent. Her wings, despite feeling like candle wax, are very soft and smell nice! Speaking of scents, she can change the scent to whatever the person desires to help them relax more. Fan favorites are lavender and green tea.

[mamaangiwine]

Hi, it's me again, i have another dream i thought you'd find cool! If you don't want to interpret it because you've done one for me before it's totally fine! Its just so wild i wanted to share.

I was God, or a God, and i came down to Earth. When i looked at Earth and it's people i didn't see a blue planet, i saw a giant room shaped like a cube filled with randomly placed, basically shaped, columns and platforms which people stood on. People looked like people, but they also looked like simplified shapes. It felt like i was looking at code when i looked at the world and people. I placed myself in an upper middle platform in the bottom left of the cube with some people, and when i did i became more human. I held onto a piller and looked over the edge and said something like "wow thats a scary drop" to which someone behind me responded "yup, I'd hate to be pushed of that ledge" i turned towards him and said "now that you said something im worried!" And we laughed, like a big laugh, and i physically felt my real body giggling and smiling in my sleep. Thats when i realized i was in some weird half asleep half awake stage. I could move and feel my real body but i was dreaming. At somepoint i ate some food that tasted SO good i swore it was real. Then i realized i had powers. Powers like whatever i wanted to happen, happened. Snaping away something in the blink of an eye, moving something with my mind, ect. So i decided to help everyone i could. With my powers i protected and saved people from evil forces. One guy had some evil thing in him and tried running right at me but i froze him in time and exercised the thing inside him. With every interaction i make, i made a joke and made myself laugh in the dream and irl. I was GENUINELY funny but don't remember what i said. Eventually these Spanish speaking people spoke to me and i actually understood them! They said something like "death is coming" i said "don't worry, buenos noches". Then a much bigger evil force started taking over Cube Earth, so i did my best to evacuate people. Thats all i remember of that phase. Next i was looking at tapestries, but they represented human souls, and changed everytime i looked at them even though it was the same soul. Looking at the tapestries gave me such understanding and clairty of that person, i knew them like i knew themselves. I think i was guiding them to the afterlife and said things like "i understand, i know you did your best, its okay" and i woke up all the way.

It may be fair to mention, right before falling asleep i was contemplating the afterlife, and my insomnia meds didn't work for a while so I've been up all night and waking up early so im pretty sleep deprived which might be the cause of the vivid dreams I've had lately. The night before was also a strange dream. One thing they both had in common was they were very vivid and actually very coherent and not just a bunch of random stuff.

Anyways, do whatever you want with this info, hope you have a great day!

Heya,

So, yes. This is very, very cool. The theme of "change" is very present here.

I get this too sometimes, especially if I'm having fitful sleep, lol. Anywho- oof. There are definitely some symbols that I think I would not be able to fit into the space of a single tumblr post.

Like, you know, the whole "God" thing. Too much, dude. Too much, lol.

Anywho, I think it's interesting that you said Earth didn't look like 'Earth' but rather a cube/room. Cubes have four corners. Four, in western occultism, is considered a perfect number because it is the number two repeated. It is a solid number of solid foundation. It also represents knowledge and so it makes sense to me that you would have this sensation of looking at things as though they were data. Four is also the number of the elements, and I find it interesting that you found yourself in the lower left corner because, at least in my rituals, that is the corner in which the element of 'earth' resides.

This makes me wonder if you currently feel as though you are growing more knowledgeable in terms of spirituality, or perhaps you're getting better at navigating your own life- the mechanations of your own "world". That right now you have a good foundation, or if you're on the cusp of that kind of experience.

With that in mind, I feel like the "I'd hate to be pushed off that ledge" then acts as a congratulations, and a gentle warning. This, paired with the element of "earth", makes me feel as though you are/have been approaching this knowledge, and stage of your life, in a very grounded manner. Aware of the "fall" if you are to get ahead of yourself, and careful not to stretch yourself too thin (as seen when we compare the exorcism of one man, in comparison to saving the world from destruction- in the first you are capable of the whole of the task at hand, while in the second you focus on doing what you can).

Regardless, however. There will be a change ("death is coming") and this moment will have to pass into the next, as seen in the ultimate destruction of the world itself. As symbolized by the evacuation, you must take what you can in this "world" and go forward into the next "world". To the next moment. Remain grounded. Remember that, no matter how careful you are, eventually you must fall, and that all things end.

Moving onto the soul aspect of all of this- a tapestry is cloth woven to tell a complex story, but yeah, even that can't capture the complexities of the human soul. It's too stagnant. It would have to change. I particularly like that you are so affirming to these souls that you are directing into the afterlife. For me, it feels like you are capable of taking on that change with an air of understanding and humor, as seen initially with you laughing about falling in the beginning. Knowing that things can't stay the same, that energies must be redirected without negating the beauty of what has already transpired. That the tapestry must shift.

Thanks for sharing this, friend. I know it's been a minute and I really appreciate that you thought of sharing this with me.

[hearteyesmcgarrett]

26, 31, 37 about Daniel

26. what would they do if stuck in an elevator with ___?

i think you were supposed to give me another character here, but since you didnt im making the executive decision to go with my other fave, John Sheppard. The answer to this question then depends on what theyre doing 😂 obviously they'd do a lot of talking because that's what daniel does best, but i think he'd be more than a little frustrated with John, lets be real. he's like Jack on steroids. hes reckless, self sacrificing, military oriented, etc. I do think that if/once he realized that john is so much smarter than he lets on he'd be really intrigued and want to have intellectual discussions with him

31. If they had a tumblr, what would it look like?

ooo i think it would be an archeology themed blog, interspersed with occasional out of context quotes from Jack. It wouldnt be super awful, but i think the theme/colors would be pretty simple and basic. imagine your professors website/blog but its actually been updated since 1998.

37. What they really think about themself

oh boy do we have enough time in the day for this?? 😅 Daniel needs... so much therapy. i think a lot changed between s1 and s10 daniel in regards to how he views himself. i think s1 daniel was still really traumatized and lonely and probably didn't think a whole lot of himself, and we see him kind of project this onto others as he always fights to protect the little guy, even when jack/sam/the military feels otherwise. does that makes sense? like i believe that a lot of daniels desire to protect and learn from the planets comes from the fact that he knows what its like to be the outcast or weirdo and he doesnt want to walk all over them like has happened to him. s10 daniel i think has a lot more internalized anger and grief and hatred. he's way more jaded by the end, and due to all the shit that happened to him + he did to others (esp while ascended) i fully believe that he has a lot more internalized self hatred. the hope and "naivety" of early seasons has been violently beat out of him

thank you so much!! Here is the ask meme these are from

[sexybritishllama]

i finished in stars and time! i think overall the game was like, a 7.5 out of 10 for me. very good but had just a couple things that knocked some points off for me personally

spoilers and more blab under the cut

the good:

i looove a good timeloop game and i love the fact this game was all about the psychological impact of a timeloop that's such an appeal for me (<- played majoras mask as a kid and has never been normal since)

love the art style! the character designs are all really distinctive even just in black and white, gets across their archetypes without being cliches, good character expressions, good stuff

it’s a relatively simple combat system but i did think the rock/paper/scissors theme was fun and unique. i liked how it affected the way the enemies were designed as well with their hands showing what type they actually were. also the jackpot system was really satisfying and helped to make strategic buffing/debuffing flow with actual attacks

i think the way siffrin got gradually more and more disillusioned about everything through the acts was really well done, i loved the little touches like the way so many of the object interactions or even your own bio would change according to where you are in the game

in general the characters were all well done and i liked spending time with them, i could buy that they were an actual party and all had their own things going on as well

the ???:

this is kinda more nuanced than good or bad so it goes here. the game gets VERY repetitive and frustrating at times. this is both a strength and a weakness.

on one hand, it works super well for putting you in siffrin's state of mind. when they're like YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE i'm like god yeah ikr. you really experience that building exhaustion and frustration from doing the same stuff over and over again, sitting through the same dialogue, etc so you totally understand how they’re feeling

HOWEVER, i don't think the game can get out of all gameplay critique by being like 'it's meant to be like that!!'

a game that is meant to be frustrating is still frustrating. and while some of that frustration works in the narrative's favour, some of it actively took me OUT of siffrin's mindset and made me instead very aware of the fact i was Me, sitting on my couch playing a video game

particularly notable examples of this for me:

oh my goddd why does every fight take so long to load. and i have to wait for a whole turn even if i want to escape the fight

the fact i can only equip one memory at a time and it takes several button presses to get to the equip menu to change

the 'nodding off' mechanic SEEMS good for skipping dialogue but it only seems to work half the time. other times you have to sit and wait for dialogue to load through, even if it's stuff you've seen a million times before with no new additions? not really sure if that was intended or a bug, i couldn't really find a pattern in it

that one part in act 4 (i think?) when you have to read the books in the castle in a specific order except the order seems completely arbitrary and siffrin will just refuse to read the relevant info if you don't follow it. i got so annoyed with this that i had to look up a walkthrough for the specific order because i had read all of the texts MULTIPLE times but just wasn't getting the right order for siffrin to actually read the goddamn text. i love him but i did want to throttle him at this point (particularly because at that point you as the player are already very aware of what the mystery is and you're just waiting for them to catch up)

i think you could smooth the experience for the player significantly and still keep the ludonarrative harmony of the repetitive time loops, fighting enemies over and over, etc.

the bad:

im aware im saying this as a veteran tumblrina but the dialogue felt a bit TOO tumblr-coded at times. idk how else to phrase this but like the puns, the excessive exclamation and question marks, the general vibe just felt like i was reading my own text posts from like 2016 and that did put me off

while the decline of siffrin's mental state was done super well in the first 3-4 acts (imo), i found the actual breakdown in act 5 weirdly sudden and... unconvincing i guess? idk it just really didn't hit for me and everyone's reactions to siffrin's outbursts ALSO felt weird

mira's reaction to frin's comment in act 5 was particularly excessive imo. this itself isn't a critique of the game because i don't think characters have to have perfectly acceptable rational responses to things, and there was obviously a lot packed behind what frin said that made it hurful, but it did seem weirdly unbalanced. for comparison of what they said to each other (actual quotes):

frin: you don't have to be bonded to anyone, you should just accept that you'll always be alone

mira: (literally slaps him) that's horrible, you're lost and useless, you've hurt me, you're awful, you're not my friend, not my ally, not anything, you never were

like... jesus mira. what frin said was bad (even though it was mostly poorly worded) but that's one hell of a reaction. particularly when quite frankly he was much ruder to basically everyone else in the other friend quests and none of them reacted nearly as harshly.

i liked the whole thing siffrin and isa had going on for most of the game, the whole thing with siffrin's touch starvation and general poor self esteem vs. being stuck in a timeloop with a guy who keeps hesitating to confess to you was good stuff, good tension. BUT the final actual confession scene was really questionable. isa's response of 'i was actually pretty flattered you paid enough attention to me to insult my character with pinpoint accuracy yesterday! :)' is WEIRD. that is not a healthy start to a relationship and i need these two to get a lot of therapy before they go into that

tbh in general i found the whole plot went downhill in the last 2 acts. the whole resolution felt rushed, nobody seemed to react to the timeloop reveal with the horror i think it really deserved, we never found out what the deal actually was with the country siffrin and the king were from despite that being such a central (and interesting!) plot point, siffrin felt way too okay in the epilogue considering what he had been through. i get they wanted to go for a happy ending, and i'm all for that, but weirdly i think i would have found it more satisfying if it was messier and we saw more of the fallout from what siffrin went through

ANYWAY i'm aware the bad always ends up looking like a much bigger list than the good but i did genuinely enjoy this game. siffrin is my child now.

[slaymitchabernathy]

BESTIE EXCUSE ME CHAPTER 74?!?!?!?

you are SCARING me 😭😭 watching this man CHANGE over the last 74 chapters has been a wild fucking ride. I remember the first thing I said on here when I started reading it was that he reminds me of “call it what you want” HOW HAVE WE STRAYED SO FAR??

coryo please come out of your reputation era and back into lover I’m begging

soarynn loml I have become far too attached to her for my own good that is MY GIRL she’s the OG soarynn 😭.

I’ve been reading since I discovered this at chapter 40 🥹 I can’t believe it’s almost over.

This man needs to be humbled and I fear canonically he goes UNhumbled for about 80 years 😭.

I stand by my point that MEN AINT SHIT 😭

I am about to throw hands at that man HITTING OUR GIRL??? A crime.

Soarynn with her babies melts my heart. I love them so much. About to listen to the playlist and sob.

omg i remember you being like: “omg it’s giving call it what you want’!” & in my head i was like bless your little heart bc it’s abt to be ‘call the police.’

also i lowkey feel like the whole lover era was fake now that we have ttpd…like our girl taylor was talking abt old songs & facing denial so i was lowkey a year ahead of being on theme. love that for me.

i also love that we have the OG soarynn :,) i was talking to my friend today who actually told me to start tumblr, thank you shelby <3 & i was like soarynn has been in my head since eighth grade & now so many people care abt her which still blows my mind. she’s our final girl!!!

she also is so ‘loml’ like that song makes me think of her every single time :,)

it’s been such a long ride & i can’t believe we’re getting so close to the end but trust me when i say that there is still so much ahead. like he’s just getting started, that little bastard. coryo goes through like fifty stages of denial, grief & anger all at the same time.

that being said, im glad you enjoyed the latest chapter—but at what cost?—& i can’t wait for you to read the next one!!!

[courtesanofdeath]

[Black Lagoon Anon]

Honestly? I don't know. I know Rei Hiroe has a lot of different stories, including Black Lagoon, so I don't really know why his work is always so completely underrated. Yet a lot of his stories have everything that people who mostly enjoy.. Minus the controversial themes (like in any Black Lagoon stories). So the controversial themes is understandable in my opinion. But there's interesting stories, characters and music.

Sometimes I'm lucky to find "rare" pictures of Black Lagoon, so I have reblogged and even posted some. But! But I would only post pictures (not fanart) if I never saw anyone else post those pictures. There's the times I'll find rare pictures to reblog on here too. I don't know why any posts I have aren't in the search? I don't know what to do about that.

Actually... I don't know your opinion about Chang? But I think the new volume involves his backstory, more of his backstory I mean, since he is the featured character on the newest volume. So there's that too.

Part of me still hopes that they do continue they anime despite some details were changed from the manga (like Roberta's Blood Trail arc).

Oh! Have you ever watched or read Gangsta.? That has a really similar concept.. I'm not saying you have to get into that series. But that's an option if you're curious though. But because of the author's heath, it's a slowly ongoing series. Just to let you know in advance if you're even do decide to get into this series. Another crime drama series I enjoy.

Did you watch Black Lagoon in English dub? I know everyone actually does have their own preferences in which languages they watch, that is understandable, but I do love everyone's accents and languages - it makes the whole Black Lagoon universe very realistic in diverse ways.

I've been conversing with an acquaintance. And I've told her that I am thinking about creating my own simple posts of celebrities who I may imagine as some Black Lagoon characters. Personally, I'm not always into live action adaptions because they never live up to my standards, my expectations, but I still have my own version of any live adaptions from time to time. If you're interesting in that. But I don't know when I will post those posts. But that might really be something I'll do soon.

And I'm not surprised about explicit fanart of the female characters - especially Revy (mainly when she's a dominatrix). That doesn't bother me. In my opinion. But I do get annoyed when people repost anyone's work.. Stories, art, gifs, and anything else. Stop stealing from people.

{My essay is longer than yours.}

yeess official art are always fun to see! i've seen a couple of good ones already but still not that much sadly, so it's nice of you to post them when you find some rare ones! and yeah tumblr likes to do that thing where it doen't show posts on tags just for no reason at all, and they still haven't fixed that issue. i guess the only thing to do is keep trying to post it with the tags, until it finally shows up. that's what i do lol

i started watching the anime in english dub and everyone sounds good! but then i got curious to how the sub sounds and i ended up watching the rest in sub just because i really liked how revy and rock sounded in japanese lol (also i just love when im watching an anime in sub and i recognize a voice actor - this happened with tomokazu sugita who voiced lotton ~ the wizard ~ i heard his voice and i was like GINTOKI ????? his character was so funny lmaaoo)

but i did constantly switch from sub to english dub to hear the accents since you said they were good, and i absolutely agree! everyone did such a good job at acknowledging the language diversity and barriers!

and ooh so the anime changed some things from the manga??? i had a feeling that was the case when i saw how it ended. i have to read it and see how things actually went down!

i'd love to learn more about the characters, including mr chang! i actually love his character! at first i thought he's just so cool, with how he shoots and everything! then later on we see a different side of him which was really interesting! i just love his overall vibe actually (and he's voiced by toshiyuki morikawa in sub so that makes him even cooler to me hehe)

i'd also like to check out gangsta if it's similar to black lagoon! this series has so many things that i love in a story, so if there's more of things like that, i'd love to check it out!

and yeess making a post of celebrities that you think would be good as the characters sounds super fun and you should definitely do it! with black lagoon and its diverse characters, i can imagine a really cool cast! let me know when you make that post, i'd love to see it!

i also expected the explicit fanarts but i didn't think it'd be like 90% of the content i'd find 😭 it doesn't bother me MUCH because like, yeah those women are hot as hell, but i was also hoping to see a variety of fanart too that doesn't just focus on their bodies, ya know ??? but yeah, like you said, im down with that but at least post your own stuff and not steal other people's art

also going back to black lagoon being underrated, even though it's similar to other popular anime, i kinda feel like it's because the action hero is a woman. not to bring the men vs women talk into this, but i feel like that might be a factor into why its audience isn't as big as other similar anime.

it's rare for a non-shojo series with a female main character/hero to be popular. i guess rock could be seen as the main character of black lagoon? but it's revy who does the action scenes so she's more of the lead to me.

but anyways maybe one day, the anime could continue! lots of older series have been making comebacks, so maybe black lagoon could do it too! 🙏

[helreginn]

For sure! We used to greeters to make people feel welcome. I understand why we don't anymore, as most sit unanswered but it was something!

And we used to reblog memes from each other, not the source and it was how we engaged and it made us more aware of reblog karma. Rebagle a meme, send a meme.

And I'm gonna be REAL contentious right here and say that some MuMus simply have too many muses. A lot of them, actually.

When you have that many muses across so many fandoms it can feel very difficult to track and gauge which fandom you are even part of. Sometimes I click on muse lists and I just close the entire blog because there are about 200 subheaders/categories before I even GET to the muses.

I think it's very impressive that so many people CAN rp so many beautiful and exciting muses at once. A lot of my favourite RPers, I just sit in awe of how they can so fluidly change between ten muses an hour but when blogs used to be themed, even as far as MuMus (Eg, all Supernatural muses or all Viking muses) it was a lot easier to engage with those blogs rather than ones you follow and you even sorta have to check back every 2 months to be sure the muses you liked writing with that partner are still even on the roster. (Not to mention unless you're making a promo for each tv show / fandom you're losing half the opportunity to interact with those fandoms because they ARE so small now. And few people are gonna do that)

And half the breakdown of the RPC, I don't even think is the RPCs fault.

Every fix we got for what Tumblr took from it's previously functioning website is kinda clunky.

As a whole, you can see where the userbase has really grown up a lot. We're busy we're tired and our tags don't work. I love pages like @indiestarter that are helping to broadcast peoples' opens because the tags just don't cut it anymore as far as finding and being found in the RPC.

And then we can't have themes easily anymore so it's all google docs and carrd and that's great but it's just not the same as being able to click through someone's tumblr and read their threads, read their bios etc all on one page.

Tumblr as a whole has shifted from a reblogging website. Nobody reblogs peoples' gifs/art etc anymore. Across RPC and just general tumblr. But that carries back over to us in that we are now afraid to reach out. To busy peoples' notifs.

It's fairly obvious the people that have the most fun are the ones that DO reach out willy nilly and just fuck around and be cracky and jokey and talk ooc. But we're all chicken butts (Myself included) and don't reach out very much anymore.

And THEN when we do, tumblr hates us and we don't get notified of our IMs anymore either.

TLDR, we can't go back to that tumblr culture because tumblr itself is broken now. :T

hello my loves! i've been having this conversation on my main rp blog for a few days now, and so i decided to bring it here and have it with you guys too. before we go any further, please respect one another in the comments, this is just a little conversation about our thoughts and opinions!

so i've been on tumblr since 2015, meaning i've seen a lot of different eras in the rpc here! and it occurred to me that even back in 2018/2019, things in the rpc felt a LOT easier! we had dash events, group verses, people seemed to find it much easier to interact with their mutuals, we were a lot more relaxed about out absences and just generally seemed a lot happier and more of a community!

my question is this: do you think the rpc was better in the past? and if so, what do you miss specifically? what do you think needs to change for the rpc to be more of a community?

[yemilnisu]

hi!! if you feel like writing again definitely go for it :D

HELLO ANON!!

Yeah, I will definitely when I have the time. I actually already, I just need to proofread and edit it and such. But, thank you so much for this hehe I really appreciate it though I apologize for the super late reply 🤧