#instead of actually revising

[touchlikethesun]

incomplete list of things i am going to write/work on once i'm done with uni:

my eros and psyche au (i'm 2 ch in and i have an outline for ch3 and i literally love it so much i just don't have the energy/time rn)

marylily friends to lovers/only one bed (kinda) oneshot

rewrite my dark!james fic cause it's the first jegulus fic i wrote and i'm not happy w/it anymore

regulus x fleamont in something because reasons.

ghost!regulus one shot with massive massive black brothers' angst

bitchkiller frenemies with benefits

maybe actually finish my wolfstar single parents wip that's been sitting on my laptop for like a year

aro james aro james aro james

[anewp0tat0]

I tried but not very hard to see what the anniversary date was, and i decided to just prepare myself for the 16th or the 18th... it was the former. so, as always, but this time truly by accident... happy belated 17th birthday Black Butler!! I truly hope this year is amazing for us.

this year, I decided to use an idea I had wanted to try for a while but I never thought I would be able to pull off. and I still probably couldn't in the best way.... but regardless, here is a made up last chapter scenario.

you can also see this comic on webtoon here. whatever your fancy, if you please :>

[tj-crochets]

Links to my crochet patterns! I'll update this list when I make new ones, so if you're seeing this as a reblog it might be worth clicking through to the original post to see if any have been added - round bee pattern - spider buddy - little axolotl (for sale on Ravelry or free on tumblr) - fluffy mini bunnies - little t-rex - little llama - lemon earrings (free on Ravelry and tumblr) - moth (but no wing pattern, so it's more of a creature base??) - Marie Kondo (aka a doll pattern base) - a tooth - squirrel - tiny scythe - tiny punk - spinnable dreidel - mini blorbo - peas in a pod - happy pill - void cat - mothman and the skeleton - Pride Moth (different full moth pattern, including wings) - mini cauldron (with or without potion inside) The rest of these patterns are for sale for $2 in my Ravelry store: - mini manatee - fluffy baby seal - little crow, phoenix, and peacock - mini cthulhu - Velociraptors (based on Jurassic Park not on real science) - basket the fish (idk why I put this one behind a paywall, someone remind me and I'll make it free when I have more time) I wrote these over many years and at many different points in my pattern making journey, so if you are trying to make one and it doesn't make sense, please let me know. I've learned a lot about making patterns since I wrote some of these and I don't always remember to go back and update them (the ones that are for sale should be fine it's some of the earlier free ones I'm not sure about lol)

[realbeefman]

stacy is sooo interesting because she's in love with house but knows that they will never ever be able to have a healthy, stable, sane relationship because they're too similar so. she finds house-lite instead and marries him and. essentially moves on with her life! and is successful in this because she's a moderately well-adjusted person!

wilson, in contrast, never manages to escape the inevitable, in spite of his best efforts to find a house-lite of his very own, because he's an absolute fucking freak and ends up glued to house to the bitter. bitter end

[mansplainmanipulatemalewife]

Unrepentant spoilsport Kim Kitsuragi

[zhuoyichenpretty]

*sighs loudly*

[ceiling-karasu]

Uncle Gom and the Chuseok part two: Later Years

[tar0star]

I HATE PHYSICS SO MUCH I HATE ELECTRICITY SO SO SO MUCH WHY IS EVERYTHING INTERCONNECTED

the way this gif moves makes me uncomfortable

[girlcaelius]

dead cato at the club not clickbait

[theyellowhue]

PrapaiSky fic idea!!!

Prapai might be the possessive type but jokes on you because Sky is the jealous one in the relationship. don't get him wrong, he trusts Prapai; what he doesn't trust are people who think that they could put their dirty hands all over his boyfriend with no consequences. Sky has no qualms on bearing his teeth and pulling out the claws if need be and Prapai eats it all up because his lovely, sweet Sky is defending his honor 😍

[kayatoastkkat]

IT IS TIME IT IS THE MOMENT OF TRUTH

oh dang…he sounds as dry as @oneconfusedpenguin describes my texting as(stop complaining ok I do that because I don't know what am I supposed to respond with otherwise). guess we all saw that coming: that "cheerio old chap" repressed gentleman response

OHHH MY GOD?? NO WAY LANYON YOU AREN'T THE ONLY ONE LIKE HENRY ACTUALLY KISSED ROBERT HIMSELF NO WAY

oh haha what if that was actually true …hahaha yeah totally that'd be so crazy am i right haha…

brooo so Jekyll was able to turn his Perfect English Gentleman switch on and off since uni even before Lanyon taught him before it was cool man that exllains a lot

JEKYLL WHEN. ARE. YOU. GOING. TO. FUCKING. TELL. HIM. YOU. LIKE. MEN?! COME ON AND SPARE US FROM LANYON'S FLASHBACKS FOR A MINUTE WHAT ARE YOU D O I N G

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

In case it's hard to read/understand: "If I had a nickel for every time I had a story with a blonde girl named after a plant, who has a German father and a French mother but absolutely hates said mom, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."

weird, extremely-specific tropes in my stories: pt 1

[claire-starsword]

Authentic Story of the Shining Force - Saint Fencer Max - Chapter 2

Translation notes:

The map in the first page is not the one seen in the final game, but the early version released during development. More info on my pre-release page as usual.

The enemies in that page are also enemies announced early before release: Rune Knights, Dark Priests, Dark Dwarves, Goblins, and the scrapped Mimic of course! That's fun to see.

Save for Lowe's odd age here, the training with Varios is very similar with how it goes in the actual game, with Lowe singing praises of how Max is on par with the knight captain. If none of that sounded familiar to you, you are welcome to hate the localization as much as I do.

Like, you think we're done with this? No way baby, Max's speech on memories is also a reference to a NPC in the start of the game! I legit got angry while doing the comparison on that one, it's a very iconic line that matches both Max's amnesia plot and the series' whole theme of forgotten evils resurfacing, it did not deserve to be replaced by generic slop. I'm glad I get to bring it back here and that it gets space in the manga as well.

Nova seems to have ears instead of horns in his brief cameo during the castle audience scene. Could be an old design, or the manga artist taking liberties or misunderstanding things. I find it curious though, because in the final version he's classified as dragonewt, however the GBA version will notoriously declare Elliot the last dragonewt on earth instead. This would make sense if Nova was intended to be something else at some point, and the GBA version tried to restore that, though it was nonetheless very badly explained.

Let's talk a bit about Max's speech patterns. In the original game, he obviously doesn't speak much, but the ending still shows him using the formal pronoun "watashi" for himself, and speaking casually to Adam, while more politely to the stranger they meet there. This continues in Final Conflict, where he's pretty casual to the team but sticks using watashi at the same time. This changed in the GBA version, where he switches between the more casual and masculine pronouns "boku" (softer) and "ore" (rougher) depending on who he's speaking to. I'm not knowledgeable enough to discuss this in depth but I do get the feeling that the choice of "watashi" for him in the original was a bit unusual. In any case, this manga just makes him use "ore" constantly. At the same time, he's pretty much always polite, even to his teammates. So he definitely doesn't come off as rough.

As example of this politeness, Max here also uses the usual "-san" honorific for basically everyone except Lowe, a literal child. I usually ignore those since they don't flow very naturally in english (at least for dialogue between friends/close teammates), but I did keep a couple instances when he has barely met Tao and Hans, because it felt fitting for a first meeting, especially with him being so notably polite in this version.

Let's talk about the rest of the team now! I've translated their in-game introductions in case you're not aware of how their personalities differs from the english version.

Hans was announced since the early coverage of the game, so every design difference you see here is the artist's choice. At no point was his personality touched upon however. So could it be that we were meant to have edgy rival Hans at some point? I find it unlikely given Hans' cute face, but my theory is that Hans had zero official personality at this point, so the manga artist just threw some elf stereotypes in and tweaked the design to fit that. It's hard to not associate Hans' attitude here with Mae's in the final game though. There's a lot of evidence in the pre-release page I keep linking to for Mae and the other centaurs' prejudice against Max to have been added late in development. So could it be that at some point elves were supposed to be the arrogant ones? Maybe! Could it be that the artist just shoved Mae's personality on Hans instead to erase her instead? Also possible! It should be clear already that the guy is not decent about female characters, and mild spoilers but, Mae is simply not gonna be around for this one save for small background cameos, which is mind boggling when she was clearly the main female character at this point in development. But could it be this has nothing to do with Hans and it's just a coincidence that his personality matches hers here? Also maybe! If it's not obvious I'm just rambling ideas at this point. To close the topic on Hans, he would eventually be confirmed as a noble in Shining Force Gaiden, as his son is mentioned to come from a noble family in the manuals. Though this is just the standard background for most characters in this game.

Tao is a curious case. She is seen in screenshots since the game's announcement, but it took longer until her art and profile were revealed. Said profile also says nothing on her personality, so my take on her here is the same as Hans. I doubt she was meant as the spunky girl we see here, but it's possible that the artist isn't warping her final personality, and she was just a blank state at this point. But it's hard to tell for certain.

Ken, on the other hand, was announced from day one to admire Max, which is probably why he's very much the same as his game version here.

Luke is the only one of the starting team to not be seen in early screenshots, and there's some evidence that Gort was meant to be the first warrior of the team instead. So the manga here gives us a better idea of when Luke was worked on during development.

The fighting tournament Ken mentions is brought up in the ASCII guide book as a tradition of Guardiana. Always fun to see little worldbuilding tidbits like this were planned from the start. And while nowhere else mentions this as the place where Ken first saw Max, it makes a lot of sense.

Finally, the battle at the Gate taking place on the inside, so dark it needs to be illuminated by torches? That's how the place looked in early builds as well.

[butchjesus]

I love you world-building I love you fantasy world lore I love you random-ass historical facts for a fictional world that will never ever come up in the story ever <3

[bbyboybucket]

Kicking my feet and squealing bc I get to have a hard copy of my all time favorite book, the DSM-V 💅😍😍😍

[i-write-hurt-not-comfort]

Lost Eden - Kino Kill Count

so @dialovers-translations​ made this post yesterday about wanting somebody to go through kino’s LE and count the amount of times he’s killed. obviously i made a MASSIVE cry count a while back so this was a piece of cake for me. i used the translations from dialover TL’s and other routes from this masterlist. credits to all the translators as always!!

so here’s the raw data:

there’s a total of 31 kills, often by other characters. honourable mentions to subaru killing kino for kou’s sake, and yui being savage. where kino was killed before the endings, as with kanato and azusa, i counted it as 3 kills because kino is dead in all 3 endings. so i guess if you consider there as 3 story routes, kanato and azusa kill kino in all 3 versions of the story. i had trouble understanding whether kino actually died in reiji’s manservant ending, but i’m pretty sure he was alive and had just run off. 

to visualise this a bit better, i made a bar chart of kills per character: 

as we can see, ruki is the only character who doesn’t kill kino at all! “political” deaths counted as seiji, the viboras/adlers, and kino’s manservant ending whereby the cause of death is unclear. kino killed himself once too, that’s why he’s on there.

hope this answers your question!