#infodumping tag

[glitchyred]

"(though honestly I have no idea why the implication that SoMS as a cheat code was seemingly created with the express purpose of traumatizing children isn't explored more in the fandom LMAO)" PLS talk more about this

Sure! The thing that always stood out to me about Snow on Mt Silver is the explicit implication from the title that this isn't like, a hack or cursed cheat code made by some weirdo, it's an "Easter Egg". You know, those secrets programmers put into games with the intent of eventually being found?

Creepy Easter eggs are not unusual even in Nintendo games, look at the ghost people throughout Pokémon or Mario Galaxy's Hell Valley Sky Trees, so that sort of thing was probably the inspiration for the phrasing. The thing is Easter eggs are usually some one-off thing that, if it's a spooky one, is meant to creep you out for a minute and doesn't serve much other purpose. Snow on Mt Silver is. Like. A whole Event.

It's definitely possible that whatever it was was scrapped or never meant to be found, given how its unlocked, but why was it ever made in the first place?? Why is it in the game in this hypothetical universe where it exists. What purpose did it serve. Aside from the contents of the Easter egg, it's clear that this has some form of Severe psychological side effects on the people who play it - the narrator's brother was put into a state of severe shock and the narrator themself was traumatized. Gore shit aside, the intense flashing patterns and extremely loud noises bring to mind hypnosis and brainwashing (on top of the obvious threat of seizures). Which again calls into question why this was meant to be found, at some point, by its players - the target demographic of grade schoolers.

I like to put SoMS in the same timeline as Lavender Town Syndrome and Ax Candle Rope even if they aren't really related because it creates this timeline of like. The Pokémon Company experimenting with brainwashing children. Kind of like Polybius. Throw in some other Nintendo creepypastas like Personalized Mario 64 and you can really have a field day with this hypothetical universe where Nintendo is straight up running psychological experiments on their playerbase LMAO

Anyway I like thinking about SoMS's game story in a vacuum as much as the next guy but i really wish people talked about the external story of it more because it has some uh. Implications

[remxedmoon]

HAPPY (kinda late oops) BIRTHDAY MIWA!!!!!!!! ignore the other two LOOK AT HER!!!! IT’S MIRABELLE MSUNDAY!!!!

greyscale versions + my very normal color ramblings below!

ok full disclosure i already had this post drafted before realizing that mira’s birthday was coming up. i kinda debated just posting the mira doodles on their own but!!! i want to talk about my craft/general color headcanons still. and the mira art is part of that!! so be warned. also, this is going to reference my post about my craft headcanons a lot so like. read that if you so desire.

i personally think that mira’s healing craft is some form of creative craft, since the game describes her holding her palms up when she uses it (iirc anyways). this doesn’t really have an effect on anything, but it’s why i decided to color it yellow!

(also i ended up making mira’s scissors craft a lot more orange than i initially planned but that’s ok!!! i think both of her crafts would be pretty Orange. just thought i’d mention that since it’s a bit different from my first post)

i already explained sif’s craft in my last post so now i get to talk about the change god!!!!!! this is like. probably the most out there in terms of my color headcanons? but i have a reason for that. since the change god is, well, a deity, i thought it would be fitting for their design to match the colors of the 3 craft types (red, blue, and yellow)! this was a little hard to work around given that i also try to give my vaugarde designs warmer color palettes, but i think it worked out!

i also gave them a few slightly different palettes, since i think it’ll make sense for the change god’s colors to be variable. they never look the same, so why would their palette look the same? + i’m indecisive and liked all of these palettes lol

sorry for the ramble! i really like talking about character design and i’m not. very succinct. thanks for reading all this (if you did, perfectly fine if you didn’t!), here’s the greyscale versions as promised!!!

[musashi]

this youtube thumbnail is killing me i want to respond to anon hate with it from now on

[dizzybizz]

"this is regrettably the best kiss of your life, you understand?"

[mommyclaws]

if not already done, what's Ravenpaw's reaction to Tigerclaw being the new kittypet's mentor?

love your art btw!

Thank youuu! I don’t have the energy to finish this but the wips i had get the point across

Shortly after the sunningrocks battle, Ravenpaw requests to become a medic apprentice. He saw how Spottedleaf stood up for him and that Tigerclaw obeys her, it felt like his only hope for protection. Since Tigerclaw just lost his apprentice after fighting so bravely, Bluestar feels the need to reward him by giving him a new one as soon as possible- aka, Firepaw.

Fire and Raven are on good terms. Firepaw’s blind eagerness to impress and Tigerclaw’s rough, violent training often leave him in the medicine den with mild injuries, where Ravenpaw gets lots of medical practice caring for him. He’s intelligent, kind, and more welcoming than the other apprentices, and Firepaw appreciates it. Though he can’t help but wonder why he seems so jumpy around him…

Ravenpaw is terrified and guilty. He sees how much Fire looks up to his mentor but he’s too scared for his safety to say anything. The rest of the clan has grown a generally negative opinion of him, because how they see it, Ravenpaw experienced a single battle and then became this paranoid, jumpy mess. He looks cowardly, like he was running away from life as a warrior. Tigerclaw has threatened him and now his tarnished reputation makes him seem unreliable. No one truly understands his truama- except for Spottedleaf. She and Tigerclaw have a bit of history in this au (read here if interested!), so even if she doesn’t know what happened to Redtail, she knows that Tigerclaw is turning out like his own mentor and tries to keep a careful eye on his apprentices, hoping she can keep them on the right path. Spottedleaf can see how terrified Ravenpaw is of him, and even without an omen from Starclan, she accepted Ravenpaw as her apprentice to protect him.

[jellitchi]

some paranormal au stuff

[tealgoat]

Dialogue from the wonderful @wonder-of-the-stars !!

Taking notes

[etanow]

Why Gangle invoked a Demon? XD

IN HER DEFENSE SHE DIDN'T MEAN TO-

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[littlefankingdom]

Justice League meets the Batfam, but they already knew about them because of Batman ranting about his kids.

In the comics, Batman has implemented that Nightwing should be in charge of the Justice League if something happened to him BEFORE he had adopted Dick (so, when his only legal son was Jason). When Dick is called to help, he learns that people think he's Batman's son because of how Batman speaks about him, and how he is proud of nothing in his life but the man Nightwing has become.

So, let's imagine the batfam thinking they are so secretive and mysterious, and "B, it's time for you to trust your friends and colleagues more", and going to the JL to officially present the Batfam, only for them to cut them and be "You're Batman's kids, everyone knows that. He doesn't shut up about you."

Bruce doesn’t realize he does it, btw. He didn’t clearly stated that they are his kids, that he is their dad, he just starts to talk about them and how proud he is, and how competent they are, and how much he cares about them, when the discussion seems appropriate to do so. But for the rest of the JL, Batman talks about three things: the mission, his kids, and his interests if you are close and it's useful rn (him starting to rant about dinosaurs to Hal when they face dinosaurs is cute). They probably tell new recruits "Batman may seem scary, but he is really just a protective dad. Soon enough, you will hear about his kids".

[glitchyred]

I think ARGs are a really fun storytelling format that works really well sometimes but I also think it's rarely utilized well. I think a lot of ARG creators get really caught up in trying to be mysterious and unpredictable and end up creating an incoherent narrative. There's cases where that in-and-of-itself is done well, like if a story is Intentionally supposed to be very vague and up for interpretation, but it's clear some of these projects are supposed to tell a complete and concrete story and just like. Do not succeed. Because in the process of hiding everything in coded messages, vague terms and riddles a bunch gets lost in translation and you wind up with a lot of Nothing. ARGs are a format that discourage transparency between creator and consumer so you risk ruining the Vibe and breaking immersion if you're too blatant about correcting or clarifying something

I think games/movies with ""ARG elements"" for lack of a better term fall victim to this the most. Probably the most popular example is FNAF. Because of how FNAF's story is told I don't think we'll ever get a concrete answer on what the story Is from its creators. We're supposed to figure it out ourselves but so much is hidden in codes and symbolism and Easter eggs and references that it's borderline impossible to tell what the story Is. It's impossible to tell when things are retconned or are just references for the sake of being references etc when it's kind of the point that it's creator Won't Tell Us. It would be fine if FNAF's plot was up for interpretation but we've been told multiple times that it isn't, there is a "correct version" of the plot that will still likely go unrewarded should anyone figure it out

So like I enjoy narrative ARGs or stories with ARG elements for what they are. It's a really unique and fun form of viewer engagement that you can't really encourage any other way. But I think way too many people get into them trying to tell one wholly coherent story which isn't really something the medium lends itself to very well - it can be done, but I think there's only a few stand-out examples of it succeeding. It just works better when the story intentionally doesn't have an answer for everything, because otherwise you risk putting your fanbase through an endless goose chase you can barely aid them on

[hubriswest]

heavy thoughts about dan accepting meg's heart from herbert only to reject the same heart from the bride. hm.

[paanzermensch]

Stuff from today ^_^

[zaxlotl]

I had this posted on twitter but apparently a lot of phighting fans are also ultrakill fans so i might as well post these here too!

[turtleblogatlast]

Imagine the boys getting cursed to bear witness to “some of the most negatively impactful things in their lives” and they’re terrified, thinking it’ll be stuff like the invasion or Shredder or something-

Only to be met with multiple scenarios of their family. Saying offhand, but hurtful things. Doing hurtful things. Lots of scenarios that were inconsequential to everyone but the one most affected.

And they’re all scrambling, desperate to make sure the others don’t look too deep into it haha it doesn’t really bother them- but they all know the truth. Because they’re all in the same position here. It wasn’t on purpose, and they all know it wasn’t on purpose, but it still hurts.

It’s almost a relief, that they’re going through it all together. That they can apologize for mistakes, and accept that they’ve held onto hurt too long when they could have dealt with it sooner.

And that’s how they break the curse, reversing it into something different, as they’re told that before it leaves them for good they’ll bear witness to the most positively impactful things in their lives. And now they think they’ll see some of their best victories, some of their grandest adventures-

The scenes they see then are of the same cloth as their negative ones. Simple scenes, ones that most wouldn’t remember. Times where someone managed to make someone else smile, times where they were just so content to exist by the other’s side, times where they were just happy being there with their brothers, their family.

It’s the little things that go the farthest, because that’s what you experience the most in life. And they’ll mess up again, of course. Things happen, and they’ll never really know how their actions and words will be taken. But through the good and the bad, they’re family.

Besides - turns out, there’s a lot more good.

[anglerflsh]

Honestly I know the medieval Hype is about knights but I feel like we are forgetting that monasteries, if you didn't go into those with a benedictine rule or something, were places that the nobles put their sons and daughters in and were generally considered pretty opulent. Like I know the idea we have is of benedictine or augustine ora et labora type deal but I know some of them must have been Great places to live in