#issue in translation

[ahavaas]

babygirl, not gonna lie: with a name like that it'd be a little weird if it specialized in anything else.

[ofswordsandpens]

I really am obsessed with this Medusa iteration. The snakes styled into a 1950's low bun? The red lip? The hat and veil just covering her eyes? Her voice, soft and beguiling yet always as if she's on the verge of tears? So good.

[translator-anon]

HAAAAAANK!!!! HANK DONT USE DISCORD IMAGE LINKS FOR YOUR ARG! THEY EXPIRE AFTER 24 HOURS AND ARCHIVAL IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE IF SOMEONE DOESNT POST THEM! HANK NOOOO! USE AN ACTUAL IMAGE HOSTING WEBSITE LIKE FILE GARDEN! HAAANK!!!!!!!!

[14dayswithyou]

Olivia fell asleep in one of the aisles again...

how do you feel about ren being used in an ai chatbot advertisement?

⌞♥⌝ Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I genuinely despise everything about this so much, and if anyone comes across this ad on TikTok (or anywhere else), I'd really appreciate it if you could report the video and not give it any further engagement.

I'm vehemently against the use of AI that negatively impacts artists, writers/authors, developers, creators, etc., and I don't condone the use of my art and IP without my knowledge and explicit consent — especially when it's being used in a paid ad/sponsorship. It's extremely disrespectful and I have no respect for those who do it.

[gaydrienagreste]

honestly if toby fox pulled one of these re: kris pronouns id completely understand

[fycoren]

Fearless: Year of Shadow

...I just like Shadow ok?

some close-ups under the cut

[gillionmeowstrider]

riptide triton hc: whale fall festivals

Charlie and Grizzly have spoken a bit about how the Undersea gods aren’t like, typical celestial godly figures but moreso just really big and really ancient creatures. We can also assume that they can in theory die.

Charlie mentioned in the Jonah Scott Rolled (#68 ~16 minutes in) that the Trench is loosely based off of a whale fall, so if an Undersea god was to die, would the population hold a celebration? This is getting really into headcanon territory, but I like to think that if an ancient god were to die, the power they accumulated goes back to the sea. The population may hold a celebration of life kind of festival, and maybe Gillion would’ve been expected to hold some kind of ceremony. Full circle moment.

[glith0]

Phil lives in a glorified Pizza Hut...

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[lowoliet]

ok look i understand the point that the "superman isn't woke you're just evil" posts are trying to make but superman also very much is woke. like. by definition it is woke. that's the point. it's not just saying 'be kind' it is deliberate political commentary

[fayzart136]

Buy myself redemption with my bloodied hands In service to the family as the favoured son

[rubberduckyrye]

I apparently need a transcript of V3's Japanese dub in English because--

These say almost the same thing, but--

LIKE THIS CHANGES THE WHOLE FUCKING TONE OF THE LINE.

WHAT THE FUCK.

[t-u-i-t-c]

"Man, you sure do whatever you want."

[tanadrin]

Sounds like the DNC fully alienated the pro-Palestinian voting contingent. Combined with RFK jr. endorsing Trump and getting the right-wing crazies all on the same page, I imagine that's the election in the bag for him.

anon are you high

[sleepyorchidmonster]

So, considering Genshin's latest trend of revisiting past storylines that had been mostly glossed over for the past 4 years or so (seriously, I remember freaking out over these things back in 2021)....

Since they've focused on Liyue (Hu Tao's role as a Director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor), Inazuma (Raiden's dead friends, especifically Chiyo, that was MIA) and now Mondstadt (Albedo's fear of turning evil and destroying the nation + hints at whatever the fuck Venti is hiding), then they'll probably set their sights on Sumeru soon enough.

Sumeru and its unresolved issues of *checks notes* Collei having a vision of Dottore literally BURNING DOWN IRMINSUL at the end of Winter Night's Lazzo.

And, since we're talking about Collei, why don't we address the fact that she wasn't given a major role in the region's Archon Quests, even with her connections to Cyno, Tighnari and Dottore, or her ability to directly empathise with both Wanderer and Nahida, not to mention that line in her trailer "Even if it's a life-or-death situation, I'll never need to rely on their power again" that's not foreboding at all what do you mean haha...

Almost as if the Sumeru Archon Quests we got were a way to save Nahida, redeem Wanderer and heal Collei's Eleazar, establishing key players and setting up the board for what's to come in the future.

And about the whole "Burning of Irminsul Thing", like, I get that it's the fastest way to "Burn the old world for me", as per the Tsaritsa's words in the Shivada Jade Gemstone lore, but what would happen to Nahida?

Since she is a branch of Irminsul, is she technically safe from the flames burning away said branch? Will Mini Durin and Wanderer have to frantically locate the branch that represents Nahida and remove it from Irminsul while the others frantically try to keep the flames at bay?

(I've kind of always interpreted Rukkhadevata's (and Nahida's) connection to Irminsul as something akin to a dryad, so she's an avatar of the tree, and said tree is also directly linked to her life force, so if Irminsul dies, they die.)

Either way, letting Irminsul burn to the ground is all kinds of bad for Teyvat's lore and record-keeping (even if said lore can be easily edited via Irminsul), so everyone will do what they can to stop Dottore while Nahida is preparing for the worst and creating a bunch of fables (Venti has also saved some important details via songs and poems).

Anyway, while we probably won't be getting Sumeru that soon, since we're still in Mond and will probabky end up crash-landing in Nod-Krai soon enough (also you can't just turn such an important detail as the Burning of the WORLD TREE into a flagship event) here are some predictions and rambings:

- We might get a special appearance fron Albedo, Muni-Durin, Amber and maybe Ragbros, both as a nod to the manhua being placed i Mond, as well as Mini-Durin and Wanderer's connection;

- Collei and Wanderer friendship over their mutual dislike of the Doctor;

- Candance and Nilou, Sumeru's only hydro characters that were also heavily featured in the event "Chromatic Ode to Candies and Roses", where they took on the role of both Deshret and Nabu Malikata at Nahida's birthday party, now make up the main line of defense against the flames, once more representing the God-Kings of Sumeru;

- Eremites. Just the eremites. It's been almost 3 years since we've freed Nahida, so I want at least part of the quest delving a bit into how things have improved over this short amount of time. Like, it's impossible to fix so many sistemic issues in so little time, but Nahida has the determination and wisdom to pull it off, so it'd be nice to see the general public's opinion of their archon, especially considering how the eremites went from hating her to being qbsolutely crucial to the success of the 3.2 quest;

- LAYLA ARCHON QUEST APPEARANCE! I still can't fathom how in 3.2. we got a new character that we had never met before, not to mention a student from Rtawahist, A.K.A. the same Darshan as AZAR. Like, can you imagine if Layla's somnambulism somehow confused the Akasha system, to the point where they're technically still capable of dreaming, which allowed Nahida to befriend Night Layla? And Layla's erratic night behavious were part Night Layla shenanigans, part actual reconaissance for their archon? 3.1. Ending but Night Layla crashes the party by showing up at Aaru Village with a bunch of classified documents she stole from Azar? Day Layla being convinced she just traveled there for a project, but also helping Candance defend the village while the others are out?

- Amurta and Vahumana collaboration (they're trying to see if they can use Shouki no Kami to transplant Irminsul, results are still inconclusive);

- The fight plan would basically be Alhaitham, Dehya, Cyno and Sethos vs Dottore, while the others attempt to save Irminsul from the flames. Nahida is protecting Aaru Village with Faruzan, Layla, Jeht, the Pari and some other eremites while offering remote support (the last thing anyone needs is Dottore setting her on fire as well);

- Collei using the Archon Residue to suffocate the flames, which ends up killing two birds with one stone, since the fire may also weaken said Archon Residue;

- Apep appearance (let's say part of her agreement with Deshret involved assisting his allies in dire circumstances, also she is just repaying a favour);

- Dottore versus Aranaras (he's somehow losing).

[realareturns]

A bunch of NiGHTS stuff from vol. 10 of Game Hihyou - under the read more is an interview with Sonic Team that covers a bunch of stuff: game development, music/sound creation, publicity for the game, etc.

The posters on the left were made to count down the days until the release of Futabasha’s NiGHTS strategy guide, not sure if there are color versions as I’ve never seen these anywhere else (that strategy guide isn’t available online either)

Also some NiGHTS concept art, Naoto Ohshima posted these to Twitter in 2017 but this is the first time I’ve seen them in a magazine

Some interesting stuff from the interview (all pages are below the read more):

The process of creating the game’s sound effects was difficult, as the team had to create sounds that “don’t exist in this world.” Hataya gave the example of creating the sound of NiGHTS flying through a ring: “There’s no right answer, but if it makes the player think “huh?” then it’s a good sound.”

The Japanese packaging of the game included a white background to keep with the designs of Sonic game packaging. They also mention that a white background is rare for game packaging, so it would stand out more.

For the design team, there was a struggle to balance “the characters we wanted to make” with “the characters that would sell.” They mention that NiGHTS was initially criticized for “being scary” and “having harsh eyes,” among other things. “There were voices saying that in order to get people to buy the game, the chatacters had to be two-dimensional and cheesy. However, that was not what Sonic Team, and Ohshima, the designer, wanted.”

[theoreticalfishsticks]

I love all of the Primarch children content people make, especially the discussions about how potentially horrific the pregnancy would be for the baseline mother, and I wanted add my own little spin on it. So here's the pitch:

What if they weren't perfect? What if, instead of superhuman demigods like their father - or even a normal, healthy baseline like their mother - the Primarch’s child is a weak and sickly little thing; the natural gestation process having been unable to properly compensate for the extraordinary weirdness that is Primarch genes?

'Cause, they were made in a lab, right? With each gene painstakingly implemented and worked to compensate for oneanother in order to create a viable being. So, what if without outside intervention their genes just can't healthily gel with a baseline's?

So, what the couple had thought was the baby sapping their mother of her vital nutrients to fuel a Primarch's level of growth and strength was actually their baby fighting tooth and nail to develope at all. And even after having taken such a steep toll on their mother's health, the child still comes out small and underdeveloped, barely clinging to life.

That's it, that's the idea. Primarchs with chronically ill and disabled children because of their fucked up genes. Send tweet.