#it just... completely KO'd me

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Okay, we gotta talk about how these images were set to these lyrics.

When SKETCH first came out, lots of fan translations were floating around and getting analyzed. I have my own translation and interpretations of the song that I wanna share, at least of these five lines.

The lyrics of the chorus, which are sung as we pan over these two images, are as follows:

「居なくならないでね」

「君こそね」

能天気に約束して肩を叩く

きまってどちらかが破るのさ

今回もまた僕じゃなかっただけ

My translation would be:

-

"Don't you disappear on me, okay?"

"Not you."

Promises made in a carefree way with a pat on the shoulder.

Which of them will break, like they always do?

This time, too, it wasn't just me.

-

The first two lines are in quotations, and in my mind, they are both spoken by the subject of the song (Izuku), not the singer (Katsuki). There is some ambiguity with the use of koso (こそ), which emphasizes the word before it, often in the sense of "definitely," "for sure," or "specifically because it's [blank]." Koso is used in a lot of ways, though, sometimes as a rebuttal of sorts--

Person A: どう？ 考えは？ (Well? What do you think?)

Person B: 君こそ教えるよ (You tell me first!)

So, there is a possibility that these two lines are actually an exchange:

A: "Don't disappear on me, okay?"

B: "Hey, speak for yourself." (You're the one who might disappear.)

This would be a promise made between the two of them. You won't disappear, and neither will I.

Both lines have ne (ね) at the end, which to me suggests the speaker of the first line is continuing their train of thought, in the sense of saying "you know? ...because like, ... right?"

Inakunara (居なくなら) means to disappear, to go away, to leave, to stop existing. This line is saying, don't leave me, don't go away, don't disappear from my life. I see these lines as Izuku, the sweet little nerd, casually, lightheartedly saying, "Kacchan, don't go off and leave me, okay? Because it's you, you know? Never you." And whether Katsuki verbally reciprocates the promise or not, the feeling behind it is mutual.

The verb used for break in the fourth line is yaburu (破る). (Fun fact: The kanji used to write yaburu is the same kanji used for Katsuki's Quirk name, Bakuha: 爆破.) This is not the word you would usually use for things like "that broke his heart" or "they broke the table," which is kowasu (壊す); the meanings overlap, but yaburu is also used for broken promises.

This makes the fifth line sound like, "This time it wasn't just me who broke this promise and disappeared--you did, too."

Which... sounds a lot like Katsuki saying, "I ran away, I tried to keep you at a distance. But you are putting yourself in danger again and again--now it's you who's leaving me."

Those carefree, loving lyrics of the first three lines pan over the image of little Katsuki smiling at little Izuku. The last two lines pan over Katsuki now, reaching for little Izuku's hand as he wishes he did all those years ago. Katsuki is desperate for Izuku to not disappear, to not break that promise--but one way or another, the promise will be broken, because without a thought he chooses to give his life to save Izuku's.

Not you.

[keeps-ache]

little soup cans are some of the neatest things we have, wish there were more soup-can-like things in this world

[dogbunni]

idk who I should draw next for the DND AU. cleric!teruhashi or rogue!kuboyasu

although. could do bard!toritsuka u KNOW he'd be a bard. the absolute worst bard ever

[ponett]

hi! sorry if this is a silly question, but how did you make a skill that gives an effect to a specific actor?

So Melody and Allison's kiss skills in SLARPG are set up in an odd way. There may be another way to do it, but this was something I figured out how to do very early on in my RPG Maker career and it's worked for me this whole time.

The skills actually listed in Melody's and Allison's skill lists only do one thing, which is launch a common event that will, in turn, handle the actual kiss skill, which is how I can force it to only target a specific party member. The event logic for Melody kissing Allison looks like this:

(There's also a bit of logic to trigger some dialogue in a certain fight, but for the sake of this explanation we're ignoring that.)

To break this down:

A conditional branch checks to make sure Allison is in the party. If not, a "Kiss Failed" skill will be used, just to display a message that the kiss failed. This part is kind of redundant for reasons we'll soon see, but I keep it there just to be safe.

If Allison is in the party, then it will also check to see if Allison is KO'd. If she is, then the kiss fails.

If Allison is both in the party and conscious, then using the "Force Action" command the game has Melody use the actual Kiss skill, targeting the party member at index 2.

And then I also make the kiss counter variable go up by 1.

So, there is no way to have a skill target a specific actor and only that actor - at least, there isn't any way I'm aware of. So instead, I have Melody kiss whoever the party member in the second position is, which just so happens to be Allison's spot. If the party order was altered, this would completely break. Melody would just kiss whoever's in Allison's spot. So for parts of the story where the first two active party members aren't Melody and Allison, in that order, I just have them unlearn their kiss skills and then give them back when the order is back to normal.

(I believe in testing there was a solo Melody section where I forgot to remove her kiss skill and there was no check to see if Allison was in the party, and the result was that she would kiss herself.)

[weepinwriter]

Apologies for the slow replies, college has been kicking my ass since day one and today I was KO'D instantly by our law and legal awareness paper 😭 WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED TO WRITE AN FIR FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WHEN WE'VE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE ON IT AND WHY IS THERE AN OUT OF SYLLABUS 10 MARKS QUESTION HOVERING OVER ME- WHYS TIME MOVING SO QUICKLY I JUST COMPLETED AN ANSWER AND ITS ALREADY AN HOUR DONE WORT M8

ahem sorry for the rant I'm just irked by our exam papers and their sheer ridiculousness 🙂👍

[lime-bloods]

Not an Enigma, and Certainly Not a Curse: the "Ultimate Self" in Hussie's Own Words

I've found myself, lately, in several conversations in a row where the other guy and myself weren't on the same page about what the Ultimate Self meant; and though I welcome the opportunity for discussion, explaining my position over and over again has cost me minutes of my screen life that I simply won't win back. So this post is a departure from my usual fare in that it's more for my own benefit than that of anybody else.

I've been over Davepeta's "superceding bodyless and timeless persona that crosses the boundaries of paradox space" enough already, so if you're interested in the Ultimate Self as it is in Homestuck, I recommend you read "Homestuck's Gnosticism: The Conflict", and then, if that piques your attention, you continue with the follow-up "The World/The Wheel". For the purposes of this post, though, I want to keep analysis, interpretation and hypothesising to a minimum. As the title indicates, this is the Ultimate Self not as I describe it, or as characters describe it, but - so to speak - straight from the horse's mouth.

In Andrew Hussie's commentary on Homestuck: Book 6, p. 312:

Oftentimes, when characters lose certain qualities that came to define them, there's this sense of liberation they seem to experience. They become a happier, more relieved, easier-going version of themselves. When Aradia ditches a defining quality we came to know her by (being dead), she becomes a much happier and self-actualized Aradia. Sollux also seems to be chilling out now that his defining properties (bifurcation, etc.) have been KO'd. He had a mouth full of gnarly teeth that gave him a wicked lisp (gone), eyes full of nasty laser beams (gone, along with his eyesight), and a brain full of doomsday visions and bipolar disorder (also gone—well, maybe not the bipolar thing, because that's probably not how that works, but whatever). You get more of this kind of thing in even higher degrees with some of the fusion stuff that happens later (Arquius, Davepeta), where characters become almost euphoric versions of themselves for having been completely liberated from certain self-limitations which previously defined them. The concept of an "ultimate self," which appears much later, probably has its roots way back to stuff like this, which got the ball rolling on the idea that a more complete or fulfilled self is one that becomes free from mortal limitations, or the idiosyncrasies which comprise a specific instance of one version of yourself. Hence an ultimate self is an aggregate of someone's full potential. It's not just doing away with negative traits, but summing up all iterations of yourself, including ones without those traits, allowing you to move beyond them. Or maybe more accurately, to view them as insignificant in the grand totality of what a person really is.

Importantly, what Hussie does here is draw the conceptual line from the themes of Acts 1-5 to what are often interpreted by some as radically different, even left-field themes through Act 6. Think of this as an extension of one of Homestuck's meta-themes, where the comic undergoes a series of escalations that take simple conflicts to their logical extremes: we start the story worried about a Reckoning which might destroy the Earth, then end up with the more pressing concern that a Rapture is about to end reality as we know it. The Ultimate Self is the end result of the exact same kind of escalation; where the God Tiers are a method of becoming a better version of oneself by merging with one's "ideal" dream body, the Ultimate Self is the logical conclusion that one can become the best version by unifying with every body.

To draw my own conceptual line back to Homestuck: Book 5, page 409:

This connects to the basic question of whether to embrace the regimentation of a heroic path conveniently laid out for you (the expectation), or to reject it as the shallow and rigid confinement of personal destiny (the deviation). These issues are expressed through the fundamental language of platonic idealism: perfect ideas of things, and then specific, imperfect instances of those ideas, or varied permutations, evolutions, or hacks of those ideas through alchemy. The way Sburb "should" go is an ideal (expectation), but the disastrous, chaotic way it actually goes is an imperfect instance (deviation). An "idea" of a person, such as Rose, along with her regimented heroic quest for growth, and all the great things she might imagine herself to become if she followed it, is an ideal (expectation). The messy, flawed, yet more genuinely human individual she does become resulting from her errant choices and rejection of formalism, is an imperfect instance of an ideal (deviation). What's the bottom line here? This is a lot. I know it's a lot. Homestuck is, in fact, a lot.

I've added some of my own emphasis there again, but that whole extract is worth reading. The reason I bolded that part is because this "Platonic idealism" is something Hussie talks about a lot in his commentary, and I think that commentary is essential reading for anyone who wants to even get their foot in the door on this topic. Again, this is something I've blogged about extensively already, so there's more than just Hussie's word to take for it if you're really interested; but for the sake of this post, I'll finish off with, again, what Hussie himself has to say on the matter, all the way back in Homestuck: Book 1, page 123:

With things like Athenums and Perfectly Generic Objects locked and loaded, Sburb architecture seems to be circling widely around a game abstraction-based systemization of Platonic idealism. Homestuck deals with what I am going to roughly characterize as THEMES.

[adachimoe]

Adachi calling Izanami a bitch, and how this is related to... Sho

I have some thoughts about how the English game localized this line lol.

In Japanese, Adachi's line is only directed at the protagonist and does not include Izanami. He ribs the protagonist for giving up so easily while he is being forced to atone for his crimes. You didn't let him give up or take the easy way out, so why should he let you off the hook?

The way in which Adachi ribs you for giving up easily is by saying that you "went to sleep early", and the word he uses for "sleep" is a Japanese baby talk-esque word, similar to how we might say "night night" in colloquial American English when talking to a baby. This specific word choice is very in-character. He uses age when he talks down to you cause he calls you and the Investigation Team a bunch of dumb kids. But this scene is more like playful ribbing.

On one hand: I'm not someone who is usually bothered by localizations or rewrites. Even up above, I phrased it as "giving up so easily" even though that is not what he literally says because it just isn't my natural inclination to be so literal. I think Adachi is a character who would cuss in English too.

On the other hand: The English version of this line makes me cringe LOL. Between the release of Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden (where this scene was added), Adachi became known as the Bitches and Whores guy. And this line reads like, "Someone really wanted a line in Golden where Adachi gets to call a woman a bitch". It reminds me of how the X-Men movie had the Juggernaut say "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" because of a parody fan dub.

But what bothers me more about the English version of the line is that they weren't *consistent* about it.

In Japanese, this victory line of Adachi's from P4U2 reads like a callback to his lines from the social link scene during Izanami's boss fight.

It's not the exact same line, but with how he talks about sleeping and even telling Sho "get up dude" like he tells the protag... Yeah, this is supposed to remind you of the social link power up scene. While he does comment on Sho being a dumb kid in his internal dialogue, he doesn't quite have the same repartee with Sho as he does with Narukami and the Investigation Team, and this is reflected in how he uses a normal verb for sleep instead of a baby talk word.

In this case, the English version opted to play it straight and translate it from Japanese normally. If you were to rewrite it in the same way the line from Golden was written, then the resulting line would involve Adachi calling himself a bitch since he's the one who KO'd Sho.

So, here's what I'm thinking. The English version of this particular line in Ultimax is terrible because:

The player won't be able to recognize it's a call back to Golden because the line is completely different than what was written in the English version of Golden

We've been denied an opportunity to have Adachi call himself a bitch

Actual tragedy.

[glassvines]

Now that it's been a little over a week since the finale was released, I'm going to give some of my final thoughts on Murder Drones.

While I'm going to miss this series a lot, I really do think it's for the best that it ended here on a high note, as all the mysteries being setup throughout the series concluded in ep 7/Mass Destruction.

Absolute End was twenty minutes worth of satisfying wrap-ups.

Thoughts/comments in order:

⋅ Nori and Uzi briefly interacting at the beginning of the episode was great. LOVE that there was a little semi-realism here: no sound can be heard in space. Nori and Uzi having to find ways to communicate was clever.

⋅ N finally getting to pilot a spaceship :').

⋅ The VERY CUTE convo between N and Uzi that they are, in fact, dating was perfection. While they're falling through the atmosphere. While on fire. This was so good you guys. They are such a great main couple. Have loved their slow burn throughout the show <3.

⋅ V IS BACK. Was already 100% positive Lizzy's "secret friend" was V, so this was not a surprise.

⋅ Now, while I was hoping for J to see the light in the final episode, I was happy with what we got instead. Confirmation that she knows what has happened to Tessa, and that she has ultimately taken the cowards way out. She won't fight the inevitable.

Love the brief hint that she has TRIED to make things right with V in the past; warn her about Cyn's plans.

"If I promised you anything, it tricked me too."

:(

Also props to Shara Kirby here. J didn't play a huge role in the series, but the few lines she did get in the finale were great.

⋅ Legit my favorite part of the episode is that corny bit N and Uzi do while they're still falling towards Copper 9. Uzi blasting Cyn with the solver (null-solver? blackhole-solver?), THE WINK, Uzi and N: The Drone Killers, and the final sunglasses pose.

ABSOLUTE DORKS ILTHEM SO MUCH.

⋅ I also love that they are IMMEDIATLEY completely fucked up beyond belief by Cyn moments after this. That was devastating holy shit.

⋅ CYN IS SO SCARY IN THIS EP. Cannot believe how good the "call back ping" scene is.

⋅ N has never had problems with panic attacks throughout the series, so I can only assume this is due to him having access to his own memories now? Cyn could keep his personality intact by, as Uzi put it in ep2 "turning his memories to soup".

Which gives me the impression that he could potentially go comatose without Uzi there to hold his hand.

JFC.

⋅ V's heartfelt confession that everything she did was to keep N safe was a fantastic scene too. I went into this episode assuming 99% of the cast would survive, but I was definitely panicking here.

Me: "Do something N. DO SOMETHING."

N: *does something and is immediately ko'd*

Me: "NO, NOT LIKE THAT!!!"

⋅ Khan was redeemed early on the series for me, given how much effort he immediately put into trying to be a bigger part of Uzi's life after the pilot episode.

That being said, it was nice that he managed to come through in a clutch and save N :).

⋅ "Weirdly hot robots" Uzi lmao. Further confirmation that this entire show really is YA/Twilight spoof.

⋅ "I think dumb things are figgin' cool and I. AM. FREE." Yeah no, I can understand why this is a very niche show. The humor is very. Um. Look, I love her so much, this was so funny to me. The final message of the series is literally "be your dopey, cringe self - get the guy" hahaha. Teenage-me would have made this series my entire personality. Or, I would have at the very least appreciated the message.

⋅ BOSS BATTLE!! It's insane how good this scene looks. This was an absolute joy to look at. Adored the addition of Nori's ipod nightcore mix as the main battle song.

⋅ Allanah Fitzgerald is a riot actually.

⋅ I was not fooled by the N fake-out death lol. Good setup to further prove the trio are absolutely in sync now though. Probably my favorite part of the fight scene.

⋅ The fight against Cyn ending in a very grounded way was...interesting? Literally just Uzi making an appropriate strategic decision in a split second.

⋅ Tessa's ribcage oh my God.

⋅ Nori still being infatuated with Khan is so funny.

⋅ Uzi not coming out of this scot-free makes sense. The setup for that reveal was great.

V: "Oh, she's still a cringelord it's her UGH".

⋅ N twirling her around and squeezing her and crying into her shoulder omfg why are they so cuuteee.

⋅ Uzi coming full circle from the pilot scene presentation, complete with an updated "protag/heroes journey" slide:

"Forget about all of this insanity. Get tunnel visioned on spooky corpse robot reveal. Work backwards from there."

LMAO

⋅ Khan excitedly cheering about the fact that Uzi essentially decided she should have never gone outside. Blink and you won't notice that Nori is with him, but she iiisss.

⋅ Final classroom scene and end credits were fun:

- "THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND!" - N is learning to draw manga (from one of those awful Western "how to draw manga" books from the early 2000s) - V is very affectionate/proud about this - V and Lizzy are very close now - Doll's body is for some reason there too (??) - V is definitely drinking from a dead worker drone in this scene lmao - The group shots of Lizzy, V, Thad, Uzi and N together were cute - J is STILL ALIVE. Why is she obsessed with leaving via the ship...? - Gin Rummy game finally happened. Also Nori again. - "Pog in chat!!" Why. - Doll's funeral (or well - memorial presentation by Lizzy) at the prom. I love how pissed N and Uzi look lmao. - V playing chess against the sentinel

⋅ AAANND we get the final confirmation that Uzi is in fact, permanently stuck with Cyn/the Solver, as it can speak to her. I'm not buying the "everything's a hologram and everyone's actually dead" theory because the show is simply not that cynical. But I do love that this certainly leaves the audience with questions at the final moment.

Again, I'm gonna miss this show and these characters. Would love to see them explored more in the future *emoji eyes at Glitch*.

Cannot wait to see what Glitch has in store, in terms of new shows. I'm shocked at how high quality indie animation has gotten in the last half decade, and I'd like to see more of it.

[ryuichirou]

Replies

A couple of replies today.

Anonymous asked:

Hell yeah, I’d get a daki from you. Also, Edmund as a body pillow? I’d eat that right up! (You can take that literally or figuratively.) Also a Lilia daki would be sexy af. Hmmm, depending on my cash situation later, I’d love to get an Idia dakimakura. The thought of his over flustered face makes me positively FERAL.

Ahh thank you so much, Anon! <3 Of course, feel free to message me about an Idia dakimakura or anything else whenever you want. He is the most perfect fit when it comes to characters to be put on daki, to be honest…

I am also very happy to see you feel that way about the possibility of Edmund as a body pillow hehe I would also love to eat it up both literally and figuratively. This boy is very eatable.

eh-nonnie-mouse asked:

I am sending this ask in super late but your guys piece with mountain Jade killed me. Like seeing the canon art was so cute and handsome and then the groovy had me on my knees clutching my heart and then your interpretation just KO'd me , just like he probably KO'd the poor soul who found him. I could see that one sketch (I think it was you two) where Jade and Rook pass each other in the woods with unidentified long black bags that suspiciously look like people.

But I was revived with the latest cute fucking Octo Trio in Isle of Lamentation and ASFGKJ I am so FERAL for that group of characters. (Not me up here crying in the club at Orthos HUMAN?! cute excited face omg 😭)

Is this Idia's dream and that's why he looks so shocked or is he super concerned because EELS are going to corrupt his baby bro!

Oh and how soft Azul looks at Idia, like they are group of highly disfunctional people who are a little (a lot) crazy for each other in all sorts of ways 🫠 but they are so pretty!!!! and WHY can't Floyd keep his clothes on ahahaha. He's just waltzing around half naked like a gladiator of old and everyone else is dressed appropriately. Orthos excitement over shoes is so cute! Is he looking at Floyd showing off his cool kicks (cause that eel is a certified sneaker head(?) Shoe fanatic?)

And as a last thing. Kalim is like an Asian parent in the way they show their affection through 'You vaguely like something? Here's a lifetime supply because I don't know how else to show my feelings'. Like I know it's just how Kalim is, very open with his affections for Jamil and he probably thinks money and gifts are the best ways to display that. Especially if Kalim can't get as touchy feely and handy as he would like but it just reminded me of that behavior.

No worries, thank you for sending asks!! I am always replying after like 4 months, so “late” doesn’t exist here; time is a flat circle lol

I am very happy you liked that Jade drawing, and YES it was me who drew that doodle of Jade and Rook lol We really love a forest as a creepy setting in general, so I just keep defaulting to something spooky whenever I draw anything related to it. And Jade’s new card was the perfect opportunity!

Jade really is a cryptid from the mountains… And apparently a very charming one 😭

Igni+Octa is such a good combination, I can’t get enough of them! I’m happy you also like them together!! <3 Ortho would always get along with Floyd lol The Tweels are bad influence on him.

It isn’t necessarily Idia’s dream, it’s kind of like an AU? We just wanted to put them in a setting that has vibes similar to Ancient Greece. But you are right: Idia is terrified because while he was talking to Azul, Ortho got completely enamoured by a pair of cool sandals… what else these creeps (fellow shoe fanatics!) are going to give him??

It’s so funny that you noted that Floyd just can’t keep his clothes on, we were wondering the same thing. I drew this sketch a while ago and coloured it the day we posted it, and the entire time I was unsure if I should dress him a little… I guess nah… he really is a gladiator at heart lol

You also completely nailed it about Kalim! I do think that he would love to shower Jamil with gifts, and to him it’s just like little ways to show appreciation and affection… when you are used to your family buying a whole-ass amusement park for one day just because you wanted to hang out there once, getting your beloved Jamil a lifetime supply of chocolate doesn’t feel too crazy at all!

Thank you as always for your kind review of everything that we post <3 I’ll reply to your other ask too!

eh-nonnie-mouse asked:

PEAKED NIPPLE ALERT!

ok sorry sorry but is Deuce going to get stuck again? Because that would be hilarious. Jack can't help himself when his Athletic rival is under him. Do you think they do this frequently? Working out does increase the blood flow and those running outfits are pretttttty tight.

YES!!

Also yes, this is very likely lol It’s a bit difficult to say if it’s them getting too riled up because of them training together, or it’s because Jack would develop a Pavlovian reaction at some point… He sees Deuce in those shorts – things happen :”( <3

Anonymous asked:

If Deuce tugs on Jack's tail, will Jack-

1. Yelp

2. Growl

3. Moan

:3

Anonymous asked:

Hi, I'm the "Deuce pulling on Jack's tail" anon. I forgot to add-

He does it at a random point during the day. Like, just walking behind him and just grabbed it and pulled.

(forgive me for forgetting to add this, I feel bad for sending in two asks for one question....)

I think it depends on what is on Jack’s mind at that time. It’s not entirely impossible for him to produce a sound that is too close to moaning… that would be embarrassing…

But in all honesty, I think he would yelp. Which would also be embarrassing because this is too much of a puppy-like reaction. He isn’t a kid anymore..!

If it’s someone else or Jack doesn’t see it’s Deuce who’s touching his tail, I think he’s going to growl though. The boy’s ready to attack lol

[tangledbea]

hey, Bex! How you doin’? do you have an opinion on the best movie parallel the show made? (and the worst? 👀)

Howdy! Oh, you know... hanging in there. Can't say a lot better than that. lol

The best (by which I mean, my favorite) is when Pascal and Ruddiger do the "head down, arms in, knees apart" thing in "Day of the Animals". It took me completely by surprise, not to mention it was somewhat subtle since they weren't using actual words, and I freaking adored it.

The worst (by which I mean worst in every way) is when Cassandra one-hit KO's Zhan Tiri with the pan and says, "Frying pans! Who knew, right?" Because 1) That was Eugene's line (which she wasn't present to hear) and they felt the need to give it to Cassandra, the last in a long line of movie character parallels they had Cassandra do, rather than develop her own things she could have called back to throughout the series. (Actually, not the last, because she also gets pulled into the hug at the end of the battle, just like Eugene getting pulled into the hug at the end of the movie. Do not get me started.) 2) She had seen a frying pan used as a weapon throughout the course of the entire series. This wasn't news to her. 3) ZT should not have been able to have been one-hit KO'd with a frying pan. And, most egregiously, 4) she said it to the person who introduced fighting with frying pans to the kingdom, as if RAPUNZEL HERSELF did not know about them!

It wasn't cute, it wasn't funny, it was just trying way too hard to make us like Cassandra with last-minute parallels.

[lavendertrash39]

Oh no, you've gotten into Freebird... Absolutely devastating, rest in peace your heart, give me your Neil Watt takes vis a vis bingo card immediately

HAHA YESSS Freebird the beloved. To The Moon series has had a death grip on me for uhhh... 5-6 years now??? Neil especially 😎 yes the beach episode did wreck me. And then I got KO'd again when I played it with my girlfriend a week later and tried not to give away any spoilers. Also beware if you haven't played beachisode bc there will be spoilers in this response!

But the Bingo!!! I'm about to go on a bit of a ramble don't mind me-- I think that since Neil has like... been one of my favorites for so long if you asked me at different points of time to fill out this bingo it would be completely different. But I think the MAIN two squares in this which are the ones I could say more about are "Canon isn't real if I don't look at it" and "I fuck with this aesthetic so hard"

So. For the canon one... so the thing is I do appreciate the Beach episode and it's ending, I think it says a lot about certain topics and it portrays the like... side of death that is really difficult to swallow so it's not typically portrayed in media. I accept this (and also EXTREMELY look forward to The Last Hour RPG. PLEASE.). But there is always going to be a place in my heart where they did get their garden. Which, honestly, whenever I say stuff like that, I know that's the whole point-- that it's not accepting the reality as it is, just like Eva-- but also... maaaan.

The other one is a lot more simple and less like an analysis-- and literally just the "aesthetic" is the type of character that he set me up to love for the rest of my life ig 😭 I permanently will love the "silly, sarcastic, kind of an asshole characters that have another, sadder side to them that they're hiding." While it is a trope that can be a bit. well. cheesy. I think it's also something that can be done really well, and I get attached to those characters very easily :]

SOoo yeah!! you got a LOOONG ramble from me oops-- but I hope you enjoyed my answer! Thanks for sending me the ask! I always love to talk about the to the moon series hehe

[messydiabolical]

hey gaymer! 5, 13, 27 pls!

Thank you for the asks <3 5. Most memorable gaming moment? The Mass Effect fixation. Firing up LE2 straight after 1 and being like 'oh shit it's getting even better' and realising that playing wasn't enough. I'd always been a lurker in fandoms and never directly interacting. Mass Effect broke that, I had to find other fans and talk about it, I had to learn to write and draw for the first time, I was hooked. Honourable mention for the sims 1 which I played at a friends house one weekend in 2001 and set me on the path of PC gaming for life. I was absolutey bewitched, I needed a PC, I needed to get that game myself. 2 years and a lot of saving up and begging family later I did. 13. Coolest enemy/boss design? Shit that's a tough one. Mr House in New Vegas, perhaps? For an unconventional boss. The fact that you can side with him adds an interesting dynamic and Rene Aubergenois' voice acting is stellar. That and the surprise reveal that he isn't just an AI but a real dude. 27. A popular game that you just can’t get into. Cyberpunk. I want to like that game so much. One day I will give it another shot. I played 5 hours. 5 hours of constant overwhleming tutorials one after the other and feeling completely lost, only to finally start playing the game proper and immediately being lost again, having no idea what the hell was going on, not knowing why I had the missions I did or where they were, and getting ko'd by some randos on a street. I quit and uninstalled 😅 I also enjoyed my Baldur's Gate playthrough but did not get hooked in the slightest the way it seems to have gripped so many. Like, I played it, enjoyed it, and immediately moved on.

[hottakehoulihan]

"My Hero Academia", otherwise known as "Boku No Hero Academia" or BNHA, is a story about a world where EIGHTY PERCENT

(what the fuck)

of people get a super power.

In Worm (the story that matters. ...but I'm trying to be nice here and to have an open mind) powers end up with about one person in FOUR THOUSAND.

(oh, and for those of you on the outside? Wildbow has brain problems when it comes to math and numbers. I sympathize.)

Right, so I'm liveblogging this shit.

I mean stuff.

I'm five minutes in. Holy holy fuck but the dub is unendurable I had to stop and websearch to figure out how the new version of Crunchyroll lets you switch to Japanese language (which might also suck but I'm insulated by not actually knowing the language very well)

Somehow people are treated as being special for their powers even though....like everyone has them?

At least in "The Slime Tamer Goes On A Journey To Pick Up Trash" (or whatever it's called) it wasn't treated as unusual when a hugely normal thing was hugely normal.

Yeah; already I'm seeing some major logical flaws. Right now we've got a "Spiderman" fighting a "Big stompy" who is raging because he (I feel bad for him already) was stealing a *purse* and got cornered and ended up entering big stompy changery form.

Good luck to him, I wish. But I don't think it'll happen. I need alcohol for this. I might have a problem.

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Nope. Before spidey's web could wrap the big guy up some other giant butt-lady jumped in and KO'd him. Looks like villains are an exception to the post-scarcity situation.

Episode one, and the biggest, stupidist, most unforgivable flaw is this "80%" bullshit.

Okay, classroom scene and...well the kids are all prima-donnas and maybe that's power-related but I think it's just because they're kids.

This series would at least pass the "guess who the protagonist is" test. Because the protag is no more odd-looking than anyone else.

That wasn't praise, but it wasn't a damn either.

I am NOT gonna judge how quality the drawing or animation is, BTW. That would be unfair. Even though the fan-animations Worm has (including "A Completely Normal Amy...") are better. Because Wildbow is a writer not an animator or sketching artist.

We're just looking at the story here, folks.

(Except for me, alas.)

(Sorry. I really don't want to hatewatch this.)

(There's a spiky-headed blonde guy being framed as a villainous hero-wannabe and...I bet our hero will be best friends with him eventually.)

No seriously, if only two out of ten don't have powers, why is it that ANYBODY is revered as amazing? That's like being amazed at people who can put their hair in a bun!

Thing is? 80% is also flawed because it's too SMALL. Boyo is treated as special at the moment because he didn't get anything, but that's also absurd given how he's in the 20%. That's like being "Whoah! A boy!? With BLUE EYES!? Fuuuuck. Wildbow's struggles with numbers are small potatoes compared to this stuff. ...and this stuff? Had a team of editors and assistant writers working on it.

Fail. Sauce.

But no. I must be strong and give it a chance and try to like it.

Boyo is crying because he isn't getting powers. Well. It does suck to learn you rolled a ...shit, we don't even have a good metaphor for a this. This ain't rolling a one on a 20-sided die. This isn't snakeeyes. This is more like getting a spade when you wanted any other suit and no game works like this.

Bleh.

He's getting tentacle-violated and I'm bored.

I have watched every Urotsukidoji movie ever made. This is unlike me.

A new hero has stopped it before it happened. I won't bother remembering them. They won't come up again. So to speak.

I'm not wired to care much about porn, but...shota ain't my thing and I can't remember the plot of Boku no Piko. And

No, actuallly I'm having fun now. Some goofy hero has the power to suck people into small bottles and imprison them. And before the protag can ask for an autograph, he finds out he's already got one. That's actually cute.

This is 100% the best part of this episode. It's pretty great.

This is a goofy gag anime like Love After The End Of The World or something.

And...the first episode doesn't count.

Nothing I've said so far counts.

Because the story hasn't started yet, really.

And this isn't the same genre as Worm no this is a gag anime. Like "Love At The End Of The World" (bad camel-case but I'm drinking and IDC) (Also it's called 'Proper Case" in this context)

Okay, episode end. Still bored, but I know from pre-reading the Wikipedia analysis that this weird boring hero will give powers to the kid-protag maybe?

[redtyrannoranger]

McKnight & Oliver pt. 2

Alright so I previously mentioned brainstorming the Power Rangers version of Deadpool & Wolverine here and now having actually seen it (excellent movie btw) I can see the vision even more.

Tommy being PR's Anchor Being makes complete sense to me

Conner would totally be expecting some of the TVA pencil pushers to be checking out his spandex clad ass

Meeting an over the top nice variant of Conner and asking "Why don't you ever wear your helmet?" and he just says "C'mon" and points at his own face. Regular Conner would be like "Excellent point."

(minor spoilers ahead)

And then since they teamed up with a bunch of people from a bygone era of superhero movies and people from series that either died or never got off the ground to begin with, my version of the team they find in the void would include:

-One of the Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (they'd be the one that gets KO'd early like Johnny)

-Jo from Beetleborgs

-Donatello from Saban's live-action Ninja Turtles TV series

-A Power Ranger from one of the Super Sentai seasons that got skipped/unadapted, like for example they meet some never before seen Orange Train Ranger using the Toqger suit.

-Either JJ Oliver or Olivia Hart from the comics, who convince Tommy he can still become the hero they knew him as

And they'd all roll up together to whoop ass against a collection of villains from the Zordon Era. LFG 🤘😎

[daidonzo]

Chapter 15 - I'm still right here [Chishiya x Reader]

"How could you?"

Your voice was cold as ice, sadness having been replaced by anger. And then by sadness, and then anger again. Around thirty minutes had passed since you were crouching behind an armchair, praying to whatever deity was available at that particular time that no one would see you. And no one had. But you were stuck in a cycle of being sad, angry, sad again, and angry again.

You had been wandering around, trying to find where they had taken Arisu, or Usagi. To no luck. And, also, if you had found them, what would you had done? You had no weapons, and it was not as if a walkie-talkie to the head could have KO'd anyone.

But you had found Chishiya. He was by the exit of The Beach, where you were supposed to meet once this was all over and you had stolen the cards.

He looked at you. Unreadable, as (almost) always.

"I knew you wouldn't be willing to go forward with the plan if I told you everything."

"Of course I wouldn't! What I don't understand is how could you? They trusted you, Chishiya! They are good people, they just want answers!"

"You haven't shared more than a few sentences with them."

"That's not the point! The point is… being a good person!" You lifted your arms above your head, clearly exasperated with him. You were screaming, but you didn't care. "Look, Chishiya, they don't deserve what's coming to them. They took them! They will kill them! Seriously, we need to help them. Don't you feel sorry for them!?"

"Feel sorry?"

You looked at him in the eyes. You wanted, no, you needed to see… Something. You didn't know exactly what you were looking for, but you didn't find it. His brown eyes were as cold as ice.

"Is there anything we can't do in order to survive?" He asked you, holding your gaze.

"There should be limits! The end doesn't always justify the means, I thought you had realized that!"

"Only when it comes to you."

"Don't you dare tell me you did this for me." You scoffed in disbelief, eyes still on him, your jaw clenched in indignation.

"What if I did?"

"This is not what I wanted."

"You hate this world. You have said so yourself, plenty of times. I tried to come up with a plan to get you out of here."

How could he be so calm, when you were fuming? You noticed you couldn't see him anymore, only a blurry figure, and realized tears had started to fill your eyes. Oh, so it was time to be sad again.

"Shall I remind you I was also a pawn in your plan not that long ago?"

"You were. Until caring for you was not something I could avoid doing any longer."

You loved him. But you hated him at the same time.

"It's not fair. They don't deserve it."

"This world is a cruel place, and we are here only to win games, until we lose. You don't deserve to be here, either."

"You should have told me, at least."

"I told you. You wouldn't have agreed to proceed."

No, you wouldn't have. But at least you wouldn't feel as betrayed. As hurt. He grabbed your hand, and you let him. How was it that, no matter how devastated you were, you couldn't help but notice how good your fingers fitted intertwined with his? A perfect match.

"When Kuina comes, we have to go."

You looked at him, moving your head from side to side, negatively. So Kuina was in it, as well. And he had managed to steal the cards. Not as if you had any doubt, but it was nice to have confirmation. You didn't want to ask him how he did it.

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay, to try and help them."

You knew that, if he asked you to go away with him at that particular moment, you would have done it.

But you also knew he wouldn't ask.

"It's your choice." He looked hurt. But you had made up your mind.

You couldn't move, so he was the first to let go of you, walking a few steps and turning around so that he would be facing the exit. Kuina arrived a few minutes later, minutes you had spent in complete silence, you weeping without a sound, Chishiya just standing there.

"Ah, finally here! That maniac with the tattoos almost caught me. I do feel sorry for Arisu, but I'm glad we are finally getting out of here…" She stopped when she realized this was not the victorious atmosphere she had been hoping for. "What happens?"

"I'm staying." You said, a knot in your throat that wouldn't go away no matter how many times you swallowed.

"But… No, please, come with us!"

You looked at the woman. Your best friend. Someone you could only describe as a ray of sunshine in this dark, twisted land. You gave her a hug, which she returned.

"I will go find you, but I need to help Arisu and Usagi first." She nodded, understanding, both of you realizing it was highly unlikely you would meet again. "Take care of him." You added, using the hug to whisper those last words in her ear.

You both let go, and she joined Chishiya by the exit, her taking the lead. You watched them go, feeling heartbroken. You didn't regret your decision, but if it was the right one, why did it have to cause you so much pain?

Chishiya suddenly came to a halt. "STOP!" He took off his bracelet, the one you had been given when you arrived at The Beach and that all residents were supposed to wear at all times, and threw it forwards, so that it would cross the door that led to the outside world.

It got lasered.

"Seriously?" Kuina whispered.

"It can't be…" Another one of those insane games. How you despised them.

Chishiya walked in your direction, grabbing your hand again. His free hand moving towards your chin, so that he could move your face towards him. "Hey, it's fine. We will get through this."

You were clenching his fingers so hard, he must have been in pain. He didn't complain, though. You were very, very close to having the second mental breakdown in just a few days and his presence was the only thing to keep you stable.

"Don't leave me." You begged, realizing how stupid it was to ask him that, when you were the one who had decided to let him go just now.

"I won't. I promise."

"Thank you for staying at Seaside Paradise Tokyo." You heard a male voice through The Beach's speakers. "As a token of our appreciation, we will now commence a game for all the guests in the hotel."

You stood there, just listening.

"Difficulty, ten of hearts." You knew that robotic female voice. It plagued your nightmares. So, the card you were missing had finally appeared. "We will now be explaining the rules. All players are to assemble in the lobby. I repeat, all players are to assemble in the lobby."

"Come on, we must go." You let Chishiya guide you to the lobby, Kuina also by your side. You were so grateful the game had started before they had left. You decided, at that particular moment, that you never wanted to be separated from any of them. They were family.

The Beach's entrance hall was incredibly crowded. Your left hand hadn't left Chishiya's, your right hand was now holding a phone. You couldn't think. The higher the number of the card, the greater the difficulty. Hearts meant psychological games. So betrayal, emotions, manipulation. But they could be completed without killing anyone, sometimes. Maybe, now, it would be one of those.

There was a woman in the middle of the lobby, named Momoka judging by the scream a friend of hers emitted when she saw her. You didn't know her, but had seen her around. A knife was in the place her heart was located.

So, a corpse.

All of your phones' screens illuminated.

"Game: Witch Hunt. The evil witch who took the girl's life is hiding among you. The witch role is not limited to women. You clear the game if you find the witch and burn them in The Fire of Judgement. Time limit, two hours."

A great, burning pyre, could be seen from one of the hotel's windows.

GAME START.

[crushes-georg]

Okay I just kinda one-hit-KO'd myself by imagining sleeping next to Cross. The sound of his breathing, the rise and fall of his chest (he strikes me as a back sleeper because he doesn't seem to be the type of man to ever leave his back exposed, just habitually), the gentle knit of his brows as he dreams... the warmth of being next to him, curling up at his side with one arm slung over his middle and the other curled up against my chest, while he keeps his arm laid under my head to cradle it as we stay curled up together. Just... being with him while he sleeps. Memorizing every crease in his face, the ridge of his cheekbones, the stark lines of the tattoo around his eye. The tufts of silver hair mussed by sleep. The slight part of his lips. The dip of his neck as his head turns to the side. The feeling of complete and utter peace.

I'd never be able to fall asleep because I just wouldn't be able to stop looking at him.