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cheap-jumpscare · 3 months ago

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here's my thinks on the Natlan update

[PT: Here's my thinks on the Natlan update /end pt]

disclaimer i do not support hyv i simply like genshin let me BE also spoilers (mild- I haven't rlly done the archon quest yet) obviously. and typos too I just don't care much. the Grammarly browser extension hates me :3

p.s. i added image descriptions just to make this as accessible as possible! it was difficult but I hope it works aa

NEW FEATURES

[PT: new features /end pt]

FIRST THING I DID was check the free character. you can choose between jean, diluc, qiqi, mona, keqing, tighnari, and dehya. if you don't know who to pick; TIGHNARI IS EXTREMELY STRONG FOR A STANDARD. just a nudge in his direction

I also wanted to mention; CHARACTER TRIALS ARE DIFFERENT FOR KACHINA AND MUALANI. you collect pyro particles while beating up dudes along the trail. not too difficult but MASSIVE WHIPLASH. For other characters you get the old trials, which are really nice. I didn't want to get TOO many changes so it's something they ease you into.

Next is our awesome artifact thingy; the Artifact Transmuter. To get it, you open the 'book menu' (someone tell me what the actual name for it is) and it'll be there after you complete a prerequisite or two that I.. Did not pay attention to. I cannot find WHERE I got it exactly, I just received it for free. Afterward it'll appear in your gadgets.

As for how to use it; you use up your existing 5-star artifacts to get Sanctifying Elixir, which then can get turned into the artifacts you want. You need a LOT to get just one. Two highish-level artifacts brought me up to 29 points, and you need 100 to get ONE sanctifying essence.

After you do that, though, it's pretty straightforward! Lucky me, because I am admittedly not bright. The flowers get fixed main stats; otherwise, you can make custom artifacts! As far as I can see, every artifact set is craftable. Good news for us! Checking the wiki we run into an issue, though... You can only make one artifact of each set every cycle. Okay, not too bad hearing just that, right? This cycle is gonna last for over a month. 41 days as of this post being written.

Now that's absolutely fucking insane and kind of the dumbest thing ever. Seriously genshin you were doing SO WELL. But admittedly, I understand why they thought such a long wait would be necessary. To be entirely fair, it makes building characters HUNDREDS of times easier. You can just pick their best stats immediately and not have to perform more gambling than just leveling up the artifacts. Still.. That's not reasonable at all to me. I don't think the Chinese fanbase will be normal about it.

THE OTHER STUFF (NATLAN ITSELF KINDA)

[PT: the other stuff (natlan itself kinda) /end pt]

So.. We're here. The meat of the update. Oh boy. Where do we start.

Another disclaimer; I HAVE NOT REALLY PROGRESSED ALL THAT FAR IN THE STORY! I HAVENT MET ANY CHARACTERS OTHER THAN KACHINA AND THE VILLAGE SHE LIVES IN THATS ITTTTT. Regardless.

I'm starting with a funny visual bug that I really want to know if anyone else's experienced. My daughter with every disease. She looks so stupid oh my fucking god.

Like.. Kachina what did they do to you. POV my little sister watching me explain things (she has no idea what any of the words I'm using mean). This is a sticker in me and my sister's discord server now because she looks SO SILLY. Kachina I love you forever and ever you're now the funniest child alive to me. Diona prepare to gain a sister.

After that conversation YOU GET HER FOR FREE!!! Giant surprise to me as I had not intook ANY Natlan content prior- completely blind going into it all.

For me personally, the map itself was easy enough to unlock. There's one creature you can take control of that can sort of grappling-hook around like those specific spots in Sumeru, so it was easy to get around. That being said, I have only gotten the Statues of the Seven and not the TP waypoints.. I think I'll do my sister's in exchange for her doing mine.. (And also bc she got me Kirara's costume and pulled Yelan for me)

Moving on to pyro traveler; You do not get them immediately. Or at all. Until you beat the archon quest maybe? (Or at least get to a certain point? I wouldn't know.) Regardless, Kachina shows you the Statue of the Seven, which does not grant you pyro powers like we originally expect it to.

That's really all I have for Natlan itself. It's good, what can I say.

IN CONCLUSION..

[PT: in conclusion /end pt]

I love the Natlan update. It's fun, the new features are fun, the ability to just SKIP TO NATLAN is AMAZING (because I will admit I still haven't gone through Sumeru's storyline.. Sorry) and also the characters are all really fun so far! Kachina my daughter. I love her so, SO MUCH. She's adorable and I'd kill and die for her. Amen.

I am very loudly and proudly dissappointed in the lack of melanin, but I've noticed that is a fandom-wide complaint with the natlan trailer. Where are the darker skinned characters, genshin.. Where did you hide the fucking melanin. WHERE ARE THE BLACK CHARACTERS.

One thing I am very very "HOYOVERSE WHAT THE FUCK" about is that one of the NPCs you first see when meeting Kachina has locs. Both NPCs talking to her are black (albeit horrendously ashy). The chief of her tribe has an afro. I just. How is it so easy to do with NPCs but so hard for the playable characters. Yes, Kachina and Mualani have tans which I HAVE NOTICED and admittedly do like, but oh my god how hard is it to make a character that's darker than Xinyan or Kaeya. How hard is that. I'm screaming at you, Hoyo.

That's the end. Hope you all enjoyed my screaming into the void.

#shut up uta!#genshin impact #genshin #natlan #natlan update #review #genshin impact fandom #image descriptions included #genshin update #genshin 5.0

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elizabethshaw · 7 months ago

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20 questions for writers

i was tagged by @riversofmars (thank you!!)... feel like a little bit of a fraud doing this as i've had major writer's block for nearly two years now and have written virtually nothing during that time, but i'm gonna give it a go anyway 😅

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

14 :))

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

46,344

3. What fandoms do you write for?

doctor who! mostly leaning towards dweu/big finish stuff but i've written some new who fic as well in the past. (i've also been wanting to write something for the pleasant green universe audio series for a while now but as my major fixations on it have all coincided with the aforementioned writer's block that... hasn't happened lmao)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Wy' ti'n dal i weld cysgodion yn y nos? (67 kudos)

in it together (23 kudos)

The Security Guard, The Scholar, And The Giant Stone Cube (22 kudos)

I Lie Awake And Watch It All (19 kudos)

og um vitt aldrin síggjast meir (18 kudos)

predictably, this includes all of the new who fics i've written, and (bar the third) almost none of the fics i'm actually most proud of lol 😅

(also feel a need to clarify here that the foreign-language titled fics are not actually in those languages, i just use song lyrics as titles a lot and for various reasons over half the music i listen to at any given moment is Not In English, hence the titles being as they are)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i try to! sometimes i'm a bit delayed with it (i know there's a couple i need to get around to answering rn but before today i hadn't been on my ao3 for... half a year at least?? so i'm a bit behind oops), but i like to get back to everyone who leaves a comment, just to say thanks :)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

probably hver fer sinn veg - it's set during "the war doctor begins", it was never going to be a happy one lol

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

gei di weld y byd mewn lliw, i think :)

8. Do you get hate on fic?

thankfully no! i've been lucky enough that my experience with fic writing/sharing has been very positive so far <3

9. Do you write smut?

no, it's not really my thing. smut is very honestly just kinda there to me, i don't have strong feelings about it either way, and so it's not something i've ever felt compelled to write yknow??

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

nope! i mainly prefer playing around with canon/canon-adjacent stuff tbh, i've got a couple of unfinished aus hanging around that will probably never see the light of day, but no crossovers that i can think of

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not as far as i'm aware. though to be fair, i don't venture onto fic websites other than ao3 so i'll never know for certain. i doubt it though

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

again, not as far as i know! i'd probably be chill with it though if anyone wanted to translate a fic of mine, provided they asked beforehand and it was one i was comfortable with being translated :)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

nope! the closest i've got is participating in an event run by a discord server i used to be mildly active in and am technically still part of, which was a lot of fun :D

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

i don't know if i really have an "all-time" favourite as such, but i've written a fair bit for liv and helen from the 8das, and really love their dynamic. i'm also a big fan of leela/romana, but for whatever reason i've never been quite able to make writing them work :/

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but probably won’t?

there's a fair few 😅 the main one I can think of atm is the eldritch helen fic i vaguely remember being asked about on here a couple of years back, it's a concept that i still have a lot of interest in and love for, but i've never quite been able to get the fic itself to work and i fear it may be doomed to the wip pit for eternity :((

i've also got quite a few unfinished pieces of varying lengths with the war-veklin-albert tardis team from "the war doctor begins" hanging around my drive that i'd a) love to finish and b) probably won't; their dynamic and their whole deal as a team whose story takes place mostly off-screen and which we only see the ending of fascinates me. maybe one day i'll manage to do something with it

16. What are your writing strengths?

description :) this is the one thing i am ever consistently happy with in my writing (i am my own harshest critic <3), and i've got a couple of nice comments about it before. so!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue - even with characters i know well and whose voices i have clear in my head, i do find it difficult to make dialogue feel really authentic, and it's definitely something i tend to overly fixate on when i'm writing because i'm so conscious of wanting to get it right

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i'm totally fine with it! as long as it has a reason for being in the story, and isn't like. getting in the way of readers understanding what's going on, i don't see the problem.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

doctor who :)

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

it's probably a tie between The Security Guard, The Scholar, And The Giant Stone Cube (a fic i wrote back in 2021 based on this post about rory and helen theoretically being able to meet each other at the national museum during the pandorica arc, which i loved writing and am still really happy with nearly 3 years later), and mae cuddio dagrau yn fy ngwaed (a bit of a weirder/darker dreamscape-type story; it took a lot of puzzling things out to piece all the different parts together to make something that was cohesive but still felt strange or off in the way dreams do, but i was really pleased with the end result!)

can't think of anyone to tag off the top of my head who hasn't been tagged already, so i'll leave this free for anyone to take part if they want to! :)

#tag game #thanks again for the tag!!#feels a bit odd posting about my writing on here as i don't do it all that often but this was fun!! nice looking back on everything :)

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insanepoll · 1 year ago

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hi. here's another blaseball fan trying to get more people into blaseball

to understand what makes these guys insane, you need more context about blaseball. blaseball, just as a website, is a baseball simulator. except people die sometimes. other things happen too, like a player will siphon another player's blood in bloodrain, players get encased by a giant peanut (aka getting shelled), players change teams in feedback weather, etc etc etc.

blaseball fans make the entirety of the blaseball lore. all headcanons are excepted. like, jessica telephone is usually depicted as a girl with telephone features worked into her somehow (like a keypad on her face, giant phone for a bat, etc.), but you can just decide that you think jessica telephone is a lion and that's an official IRM (interdimensional rumor mill, a term used to describe all of these different interpretations). the wiki has irms for some of the players. i say some, because 1) more popular players don't really have an IRM section. players like jessica telephone, jaylen hotdogfingers, and nagomi mcdaniel have widely-accepted irms, so they kinda just get one. older players that aren't super popular but well-known by a specific team will have this as well, like reese clark of the houston spies. but lesser-known players will have multiple. for example, brock forbes has eleven rumors, terrell bradley has two, etc.

teams also write lore about the team itself. for example, the baltimore crabs live in baltimore, maryland, but the original players on the team killed Big Deb (the giant crab goddess that ruled baltimore) and now her carcass is used as the stadium :]

there's 24 teams, and all of them have their own culture and vibe. it can be a lot to try and figure out which team you want to go with. here's a cool hint: even tho the website makes you pick one team, you can join as many teams as you'd like. personally, i am on both the houston spies and baltimore crabs.

the teams: atlantis georgias, baltimore crabs, boston flowers, breckenridge (broken ridge) jazz hands, canada moist talkers, charleston shoe thieves, chicago firefighters, core mechanics, dallas steaks, hades tigers, hawaii fridays, houston spies, kansas city breath mints, los angeli unlimited tacos (the "los angeles" is plural), mexico city wild wings, miami dale, moab hellmouth sunbeams, new york millennials, ohio worms, philidelphia pies (everyone just calls them the philly pies), san francisco lovers, seattle garages, tokyo lift, and yellowstone magic.

so yeah! a lot! some teams you can get a vibe for immediately, but even then there's bits and pieces that aren't as obvious. for example, the tokyo lift is a gym-themed team, but they also have past lives as pirates.

if you want more info on individual teams, the houston spies bit together this slideshow. it's a little outdated, but the general vibes stay the same. for most teams, you can visit different team channels in the maincord, but some teams mostly or only use a sidecord, like the baltimore crabs. the maincord is huge, but you can mute most of the channels. i have every channel besides my team channels and announcements muted.

for finding more info: someone else mentioned the wiki, which is helpful, but hasn't been outdated for the new era (coronation). it's still not fully updated from the expansion era (because the expansion era was hella hectic). most teams will have their lore in their own discord server, since it's not allowed in maincord anymore (because people were being Weird when making lore and there's only so many mods). most if not all teams have links to their servers pinned in one of their channels.

going thru all of those channels and finding links can be A Lot. finding a team can be A Lot. but don't worry! there's no wrong answers and everyone is excited to have new people.

when i was picking teams, i considered these questions:

what size team do i want? i prefer smaller teams, so i went with the spies. some teams are big but don't feel too big, like the crabs (although i have most of the Crabitat channels muted).

do i like lore or stats more? i definitely prioritize lore but i ended up on two stat-heavy teams lol. every team needs a balance, though, so no matter what you want to contribute, you'll be welcomed (even if you don't feel like contributing anything). i definitely have a place within the spies for Making Lore

how much do i care about winning? i do not give a singular fuck, which is how i ended up on the spies.

how competitive of an environment do i want? some teams are much more cutthroat than others and that's important to think about

what aesthetics do i like? this one isn't as big for me personally. im not too attached to the aesthetics of the spies or crabs, and they aren't really aesthetics-driven, either. but some teams, like the lovers and the garages, have very established aesthetics. even if you don't "fit" within the team aesthetic, tho, the team itself can still be a good fit.

i think that's all i have for right now. i mean. its a lot. lol. but i may add more later :3

huh thats kinda cool. collaborative lore. love when people come together to make something<3 even more when that something is kinda fucked up<3

#insane character poll #propaganda #asks #orbleglorb #blaseball

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amber-reblogs · 1 year ago

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Making this post cause idk, I want to talk about my sense of self for a bit but I kinda just need a void to scream into if anything. I’ve tried to convince myself to speak up about it with close friends in the past, had elaborate fantasies about doing so, but sometimes I feel like no one will engage me in my niche issues and if I say anything it’ll just sound like daydreaming bullshit.

But really, I don’t know how to describe myself. What am I? I don’t really know. I’m so many opposites at once. Gender, Sexuality, Age, Personality, everything. Sometimes I start to wonder if I’m really a girl, so many of the things I dislike about myself and how I’ve been forced to present are feminine; and yet many more of what I like about myself is also feminine. I want a deeper voice and lots of body hair and to be tall, but I want long hair and to be soft and I like having boobs.

I’ve had many fictional crushes, two boyfriends and consider myself bisexual currently, but sex makes me feel weird sometimes. I flirt with people jokingly a lot but after my last dating experience Im not looking for a serious relationship anytime soon, but I want to be kissed and I want to be held and I want to be touched and I want someone to pet me on the head and tell me they love me but I also don’t really want to live with someone so I can have my own schedule and comfortable safe space.

I feel like a child sometimes, and too mature in others. I’ve had deep existential conversations on the nature of humanity and talked people older than me out of depressive episodes, but at the same time I feel like I’m floundering for the intelligence and maturity to handle my own emotions and form opinions without the input of others. I like to enjoy things people much younger than me do, but I also hate the feeling of being seen as “not old enough for something” or invalidated because I’m “too young”.

I have conversations with myself and refer to myself in the second person a lot. I feel less like a person, and more like a hollow shell with two people sitting inside me arguing with each other on what I should do when I allow myself space it think. They don’t really have names in my head, but they have appearances to me. One’s a short girl with black hair in a giant ponytail and a comically large paint stained scarf, and the other is a tall guy with light brown hair, tired eyes, and thick zipped up jacket. But often times, like when focusing on something else, they’re gone. And I’m just… me. Confusing mess of a me.

I don’t know what else I’d talk about and this post didn’t really have a point to anyone but me so uhhh thanks for reading if you did??? If you’re someone who’s also on a discord server with me Uhh surprise, I probably considered talking about it with you at some point but didn’t, sorry. Anyways, I need to go get my ass to bed before the sleep deprivation gets worse

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whentheskittlesfightback · 11 months ago

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im going to give you all of my dreams. theyre crazy and i have them all in my notes app

ok so i had a dream were were like.. in my room. there was kanaya and terezi and vriska and rose and me. i saw a really long tumblr post about someone saying shitting 2x harder made them less sick. then me and the girls were hanging out. the boys were in my moms room, idk abt the other girls anyways there was alcohol and also a really big bottle of seltzer water that we were not expected to recognize but i did. anyways after drinking our not child drinks as children we were getting silly goofy. i said (basically) "shits crazy. some guy had a big thought and then made like jolly ranchers" and kanaya was like nuh uh anyways later we were getting lanched to the moon by terezi but the thing that was launching us was at penis level so it was funny. anyways right before being launched my terezi my dresm ended. also i said "i only have a coochie so i cant get dicked to the moon"

i dreamed that i was in a school assembly but i was on discord and i joined a server and it qas a server for an event from astrixs server and i sent tome of ypu cont fight the homestuck.in the gen chat and people started singin while i was at school and when i got home they were still gping and it slowly turnef into an au with slimesicle as john and amanda from thst one gamr as a cow and she did a thinv and killed everyone at once nd one of the ppl in the server sand this absolutely banger of a piano song reffering to slimecicle as slimeboy

i had a dream that i was just fucking chilling with like a group of 5 people. also before this i was in a store, that store i keep dreaming about. anyways there was a bunch of slides and they were red, green, blue and yellow. two of the people there were like "we gotta keep this toddler from going down the slides" and i was like "yeah ok good luck" and went to hang out with these to kids. one was blonde and tjevother had black hair. we were sitting on a bench and one was like "are you driving home " ane the other one awnserd and o said "were not old enough to drive" also the 2 girls at the slides saw this weird metal cat spider and they were annoyed by it but it cleaned their "weapons" (a scalpel, a knife, 2 butter knifes, 2 forks, and 2 spoons) and then my dad, some old guy and some tguy came over. the tguy said that they said they needed help and i said "suck it" and i thought "yeaj well you should suck it" and then suddenly we were in a restaurant and we just kinda there but just me n my dad. and then we were in like a school gym and the old bald guy was the teacher and i thought he looked weird and thats all i can remember

i dreamed i had an account called "eebydeeby" with a pfp of a white character and i replied to a comment that said ":33<english, please" with "sorry i was tired". the comment was originally replying to my comment which said "idk. prove it bt giving food to me and all the homestuck characters and uh..." the video was of them dancing with the text "im free"

i had a dream i was goin to the gas station but there was like 5 fucking tornadoes and that all merged into to one huge fucking tornado and everyone got sucked in and then we all died but the dream kept going. this guy tryin to revive us accidentally opened a door and behind it was someone he knew, and boom the end. (also i had a dream i made a binder,+there was a kelideo scope and dolphin museum?????

someone made a sculpture of will wood amd kept saying ross federman idfk

some bitch was afding sobgs to my spotify playlist and i got mad at them and texted them to stop

i dreamed i snuck into an oliver tree concert

and there was a bouncy house slide and left bc why tf would i care and i was striggling also it was like a GIANT empty room with like pale tan floors and white walls and then i was at a skate park w some radom ass kids and i also bought some soda at a gas station

i had a dream that it was cristmsd eve an we were praparing but apparently somthing terrible wad gonna happen and i was eating chicken wing (in hell) but like absolutely DEVOURING THEM becaus eu was panicking. also there was discord from mlp and some random bfdi characters in bubbles ans they were in hell. there wad also a buch if other people. then i wrnt into the bathroom panicking repeating "itsfineitsfineitsfineitsfineitsfineitsfine" and then i woke up for context we were gonna have some kind of celebration so there wad alot of people involved. also ther was this fight scenebat soem point where i pushed some1 off a bridge. he was evil tho. anyways it was kind hard to get up to where he was but i was used to it ig??? it was a store so we just needed some stuff. i cannot under any circumstances remember what the fuck the big terrible tragedy that was gonna kill us all was. also hell was in my bedroom and idfk where the store was. apparently the bfdi character in bubbles (one of which was bubble) bounced into hell where fiscord was just chillin ig???? and were also participating in oir conversation a noticable amount of time kater, like days, weeks, months, idk.

its had karkat and he was nice and also very stupid and suddenly a child and there was jade and she was just being jade and really cool and there was green and orange and a pool and a braclet and sand i think??

i got cool shirts but they werent real :(

meteor shower

i watched a gacha music video and it magically turned into the sisters that kidnapped bob opening a giant present and the nice one running away in one of those weird stripes bgs from gacha life

i tjink there was an asshole cat at some point but idk

i had a dream i was chillin w these random couple at home (nobody else was here exept us) they were really bad a t taking care of kids, rhey let me drink. but we played rhis weird game qhere i ended up having to wear princess shoes and cat ears. but it was kinda fun soo

i had a dream that i was just chilling at my gradmas. (the one with cats.) it was mislty normal but that more cats than usual camoe out. the cats were mostly normal cats but one of them was named blur and it was blurry. i was too scared ro touch him. i also couldnt see shit cause it was too dark. thwre was also this cute orange amd balck kitty woth big green eyes. and one wearing a cowboy hat, and the two real cats. also we werent allowed to turn the lights on and every time we opened our phones to read aomthing it turned on eye comfort and we could do nothing about this. and it was a bad thing. anyways i think the cats could understand humans, and i almost asked blur if i could touch them (maybe i did? idk its all blurry ;3) also blur was gray and magbe har blue eyes?? andbi think they couls teleport. rhe one with a cowboy hat was orange. i think theyre was also a glitchy cat but i think i just mistakef blur for that one.

ok this dream is hard to remember cause its from this morning but ill just say what i remembered. so i was walking on a tral and this like slenderman lookin girl with curly blonde hair (future me here, you KNOW who that was) said she is a cashier at a cafe . i went thru this weird dream transition into the cafe where my mom was (,i was meeting her there) and thats basically all i can remember dor a while. suddenly im in someones house. idk whos but i "decide" (there were absolutely no thoughts in my brain) to eat some random pills! anyways i realize what a just did and decide to chill in the bathroom until i die. yeah so ig i died and thats the end?? idfk

i had a dream i was looking at tiktok about trans boy and yelling abt it for some reason. then i realized i wasnt out to the people aprund me and ran and hid and posted a tiktok about it

i dreamed that i was watching spongebob at a pool and they mentioned gary and a braclet that i apparently owned appeared that said gary. it had little indents that you could put different letters in. there was also a book that had pictures of forests and they were pretty. then the pool started having HUGE ASS WAVES. after a while of that i decided it was too much and ended the dream.

i had a dream that it was mlp but a shadow twilight came and twilight was like "wow i used 2 look like that" and it was just kinda weird cause idk but ??? anways there was like a shadow rainbowdash too and fluttershy suddenly wasnt shy and didn't care about what shadow twilight said bc she changed her name and made it so she cant hear any sentences containing "fluttershy" (also, "i hate you, fluttershy" is a terrible insult.) also trans fluttershy real?! anyways lets talk abt before shadow twilight. it was jusy like normal mlp and i had a dream be4 this that i just remembered that i think transitioned into this one, so yeah

i had a dream me and a group of people were on some sort of school feild trip?? i thing it was normal for the most part, xept when we left. they made us jump into a hole to bring us into a room cause "ut was quicker to leave" but there was no exit and there was a video to watch and i didnt watch. i also kept forgetting ineant alone in the room. there was a window that was covered with slightly transparent material.i could see houses out rhere, and thought if i had an axe i would break out. anyways that transitioned into thr mlp dream so yah, i think it just faded into the other dream like google slides lmao

i had a dream that i was in a car and it was raining so hard and then i woke up into another dream where i was too scared yo open my eyes bc i might be blind. when i eventually got up i was stumbling around and went back to sleep. i was scared of something and then i turned my head 2 the side and opened my eyes really fast but i woke up fr starin at the wall. absolute whiplash snapped my head 90 degrees

i had a dream where there was these foir guys who looks like those isflatable guys tht flap around in front of the places that sold cars. they were red blue yellow and green i think. anyways thwy took carevof me but were really creepy anf it gave backrooms vibes. i think i ran away bc the blue guy made me swim and i almost drowned and also i was coverd in cuts so it hurt to swim

i dremed that i was goin 4 a walk up alot of stairs. there was thousands if the same phone charger sticking out of a tree which the stairs were on. somw kids asked for one. they were numbered so i wrote down the number so i could but it back later. i thnk it was like 2673. i woke up the bext day.then i got in a bus so i vould eat fiod i had.it was empty but became crowded eventually. it started moving. i went to ate my food. it was moldy and mostly yogurt tbough so i didnt eat it. i heard lwt i grow from the lorax being sung cause we were passin through thneedville. my dad called my name bu i thouth it was part if my dream. granny norma was being weird and saying thisbthat old people say when thyre tribg to sound cool while every1 was singing. she mentoined a homestuck character and that she was sad bc she didnt have kids and didnt knos what young people liked. but then dad called my name again and i woke up

#thats like every dream i ever had #these are all cop pasted directly from my notes app and have terrible grammar bc i disnt try when i woke up

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sigmxnd · 2 months ago

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OKAYYY UQHSISHQIWJODWJOEJSIQI3IDH :33

so to actually answer your question, my favorite before Gnarly in terms of just smiling friends characters was probably a toss up between charlie and allan (i genuinely can't pick one)

before him in terms of my previous hyperfix, there were a few, but the main three were Duncan, Ezekiel and Scott (oh boy i wonder what they're from......)

but a definitive list, as much as i can remember with explanations to couple, way way back when i was just a wee lad to now, lets go gamers

kid gohan, i was 5 and it was my first fictional crush that i can remember, so he counts as a silly

vegeta goes here too even though it was a few years until i started liking him

sonic, i had a giant crush on him (tails & knuckles too for the same reason, but tails has been more of a silly favorite than a crush)

foxy, i really liked him/had a crush on him (the animatronic) and i never stopped talking about him alsjzojw

boris & sammy lawrence, i thought boris was cute and i wanted him to be my friend, and i think i also had a crush on sammy

sans, self explanatory (SPECIFICALLY swap and fell. yeah i was that kid)

asriel, i loved his designs and i drew him constantly and used to post my drawings on musical.ly (we dont talk about my past on that app.)

the entire main cast of eddsworld, my best friend got me into eddsworld and immediately i just latched on. my favorite was tom though (ask no further questions, im very embarrassed aojxowjwid)

i was into sleepykinq/twisted-docter's characters for a bit, but i haven't kept up with the lore changes enough to be as (un)informed as i was, so its now just a vague spot on this list

ed & kinda the entire cast of ed edd n' eddy? its complicated, but this was a kinda weird starting point for my chain of hyperfixes after this? im not quite sure how else to describe it, but this was like a VERY vivid hyperfixation for me. aside from that i just liked ed, he was just the one that immediately called out to me and everyone could just fucking disappear, give me my undiagnosed neurodivergent now

^ trick question. all 3 of them are neurodivergent

it gets a little blurry here (pandemic years) but i think it was numbuh 1 & 4 from KND at this point. idk honestly, i can't remember why i liked them except just that i watched operation z.e.r.o. all the time and it just kinda was that

wander over yonder, its one of my favorite childhood shows and while i wasn't super into it, i had a small period of intense :D i like wander & sylvia ofc but i like emperor awesome cause he's funny, something the so-and-so cause he's silly looking and lord dominator cause i like her design a lot :3

dib & gaz, zim & gir. this is all i will say (some of my fandom times were very dark times) (its no longer like this but since im providing past explanations, im not gonna talk about the past jdbaishoxb)

danganronpa. we don't talk about it.

I REMEBER THIS PART THOUGH. SIGMUND THE SORCERER, fanboy & kyle. this show. was my SHIT for the majority of 2020 and 2021, and fun fact you might've already known (idk if i've talked about it), i named myself after Sigmund the Sorcerer :3 he was my absolute favorite, i changed my old discord username to sigmund which turned into using it at school and then the name just stuck and i can't change it. i've tried, hasn't worked. but yeah :3 (don't ask further questions)

friday night funkin which turned into pico's school cause it was just pico (then cassandra) that i liked pretty much. i had fat crushes on both him and cassandra, i have little to no shame

after that it was camp camp i think? (going off of disc server memories at this point) i liked the main 3 and daniel and david and a lot of characters. yknow how it is

then it was south park, i liked kenny. nothing else to it

i genuinely can't remember what came after this. i think it was korey from being ian?? emphasis on i think....... it was another one of the shows from my childhood but i actually didn't really like this one until i got back into it at this spot on the list akshzsejd (AND DID YOU KNOW, korey and ed have the same voice actor. matt hill. :3)

GORILLAZ. I LIKE MURDOC & ACE 5rv4r

after this it was ppg, the gangreen gang is always on top, and my favorite will always be Snake, free my boy

superjail, i like the twins and the warden :3 (the fanfics for the warden get actually fucking insane, its almost a surreal experience reading them)

SCREAM. I LOVE SCREAM. BILLY AND STU ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE MUTUAL PINERS <33

i like chop top and nubbins from the texas chainsaw massacre 1 and 2 :3

duncan, ezekiel, scott, mike, brick (except for that one episode), shawn, cody, noah, and svetlana from total drama, though yknow idk if people are really aware that i was into that show...... /s (also i haven't watched the reboot but axel looks....... pretty.... :3)

and now we're here!!!!!! this definitely isn't the end of my list, and i probably forgot a few, but its pretty much the masterlist of sillies up to now. :33

can we get sum sigmxnd lore? who was ur fav stinker before gnarley

AUFJIAHWIXBAIWOXJQOWJDIJ OKAY SO

are we talking sf characters or character from the last thing i was hyperfixed on. very important question (it doesn't really matter because i will list every character that has been my silly little guy since as far back as i can remember)

#sigmund silly sessions?!?#this is very important

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prince-les · 2 years ago

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I didn't expect so many people to want to hear about my theory ramble lmao

But here you go, I honestly tried my best to make this as tidy and as easy to read as possible ngl.

As usual, trigger warning: A lot of cursing, I'm getting a little into it, kinda, mentions of biological experiments, mentions of death, and honestly dark stuff in general.

Theory about how Sky Kid are possibly just a current of energy keeping the broken Kingdom 'alive':

So my theory came from the discussion about the experiments that are happening in the Abyss area. I was discussing about how the 'Scientist' there were perhaps trying to biologically modify light creature to unbelievable sizes.

So then I ask myself, "Why would they even want to make mantas bigger?" Which loops to an idea that I heard once, where apparently the Kingdom have been using light creatures as sources of energy. So it would make sense if they have an entire laboratory to research, grow and experiment on light creature in general, right?

Then the talk about energy made me think about the small, diamond shaped trinkets that Sky Kid collected throughout the season. Those are worth a treasure, right? Then I ask myself what the hell are those things anyway?

When you look at the shape it's definitely a diamond, right? And diamond shaped stuff like that are often used to power things up, (door, the elevator in vault, etc).

So then I suddenly remembered this one guy in Sky discord server that said Diamond in general are symbol of power in the Sky Kingdom, like how we use bolts as a symbol of electricity and stuff.

And then THAT got me thinking, aren't Sky Kid's wings are diamond shaped in default? Don't they have a slight, diamond shaped outline around their 'heart'?

So that got me thinking, what if Sky Kid is just a being of 'power'? Not power as in strength that they're really powerful, power as in energy.

What if Sky Kid is a creature of Energy?

What if they're, and the shiny boys (wing lights) are just energies? What if wing lights are the energy and Sky Kid's body are just.. The thing that can contain and carry this energy?

So where does the Sky Kids take their energy to? To the Diamond in Eden.

What happens after they give away their energy? They came back to gather more. What came after they get more? They gave it away again and they get more before giving it away again.

Then my thoughts went back to a few steps back: Electricity.

What if Sky Kid are just energy current used to keep what's left of the Kingdom alive?

What if they're just a current of energy, surging through a specific path, to a specific direction, only to act as a spark of energy to keep the empty world alive?

What if Sky Kid are just fucking batteries made by.. Whoever it is that made them to keep the world running?

Are they alive out there just watching these children running back and forth to face death nearly everyday to keep the remnant of their world alive so that they can return whenever the hell they want after they deemed the world suitable for living?

Then there's also this question about whether Spirit's are actually alive or not. If they're dead, how come their Spirit can interact freely with the Sky Kids? Hell they even ask for their help and stuff and GIVE them more power if Sky Kids reached certain level.

Look I get that they probably doesn't have a say in the whole thing and that they can't really do anything to help the children but.. The whole idea that they CAN'T do anything just made this whole thing more depressing.

I don't know, the thought that these supposed adults just watching children died repetitively to keep their world afloat while they just spectate up there from the Orbit, giving Sky Kids pretty accessories they used to wear when they're alive as a form of 'entertainment' and 'compensation' because they're children just sounds a lot messed up for me.

Don't forget Willy (the giant dark dragon in the Abyss). He was an experiment, possibly an amalgamation of mantas and dark dragon itself that gone rogue. He was put inside an aquarium with observation chamber for God's sake, these are the equivalent of trying to recreate fucking.. Manticore, stuff.

Don't get me started on the possibility their God damn messed up science experiments —

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky children of light #prince does ramble #sky: cotl #tw death #tw mention of death #slaps lore vent at you #eat these #@ everyone who were asking for it in my previous post

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edendaphne · 4 years ago

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“Discordant Sonata” Chapter 19

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CHAPTER 19: ATTACCA

Music glossary: Attacca - "To attack at once"; used as a direction in music at the end of a movement to begin the next without pause

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(Mood music: "The Conversation" - Pearl Django)

Being mere months away from graduating lycée meant that their group of friends didn’t have as many classes together, due to their diverse individual interests and talents. However, they always made sure to make time to hang out after school before their extracurricular activities began.

And thus, Adrien, Nino, and Alya made their way to the classroom where the art club gathered to meet up with Marinette. From there, Adrien would make his way to either fencing lessons or Chinese, depending on the day of the week. Marinette would join him on days when he had Chinese (as she’d become determined to master the language ever since her uncle visited from Shanghai a few years back), Alya would go to her journalism club, and Nino would travel to his part-time internship at the local recording studio.

“–and the backlogs just keep piling up!” Alya spoke as they walked, voice full of vigor and excitement. “I’ve had to recruit yet another mod to help me keep order in the forums! Especially since the Ladyblog has started going international and we’ve had to organize servers in different languages. You wouldn’t believe how crazy it’s gotten in there recently!”

“Dang, babe,” Nino interjected. “Sounds like things are super rough for you right now.”

“Not really, more busy than anything. Especially because I have that big research article due next week, there’s just not enough hours in the day to try to read everything that goes on in there. But I have my mods report to me daily, ‘cause I always like to stay on top of everything that goes on in the chats!”

“What’s gotten everyone so riled up in the Ladyblog lately?” Adrien chimed in. “I don’t recall it being nearly this busy last year.”

The trio entered the art club’s classroom and settled down at the table where Marinette sat, getting her various sketches organized. The art teacher was quite easy going, so they didn’t have to talk in hushed whispers and could come and go as they pleased.

“Well, to be honest, it’s because of Chat Noir,” Alya replied.

Adrien tried to contain his surprise. “R-really? What– uhhh, what do people have to say about him?”

He winced inwardly. He knew he shouldn’t ask. But curiosity got the better of him today. Maybe learning the news through the filter or Alya’s paraphrasing instead of reading the negative comments firsthand would lessen the sting of what people said about him.

Marinette whipped her head around at the mention of his alter ego. “Wait, what about Chat Noir?” she inquired.

“Girl,” Alya replied, her voice filled with renewed exuberance. “You would not believe how much we’ve had to censor and moderate all the inappropriate things people have been saying!”

Adrien flinched in his seat. “Wow… do people really hate him that much?” he asked, trying to conceal the dejection in his voice.

Alya busted out into loud guffaws. “Hate?! Dude, most people don’t hate him; they LOVE him! By ‘inappropriate’ comments, I mean the kinda stuff you wouldn’t want your grandma to catch you reading! There’s a whole giant section dedicated to his new fan club!” she said as she removed her glasses so she could wipe away the tears of laughter.

“WHAT?!” Adrien squawked in confusion, his face feeling hotter than the ovens back at the bakery. “A fan club??”

Marinette burst into uncontrollable snickering. “Has it really gotten that bad?!”

Nino joined in, “Bro! Adrien, I can’t believe you haven’t heard Alya rant about these rabid fans before! They call themselves the ‘Noir Nation’, and the kind of things they’ve been writing would make adult romance authors blush like schoolgirls!”

Alya nodded, thoroughly amused. “And that’s not including all the fanfiction people have been writing.”

“Wait– the WHAT?! There’s fanfiction?!!” Marinette gaped in shock, as if she’d been hit in the face with an enormous pie. “Alya, how come I never knew about this?!”

“Why? You wanna read em? Girl, you’ll get no judgment from me. If you wanna check ‘em out for yourself, just go check under the hashtag ‘Ladynoir’.”

Marinette stammered as her arms flailed in her bewilderment, accidentally knocking her phone off the table and onto the floor, her eyes bigger and rounder than Adrien had ever seen them. “They have a ship name?!” she screeched.

“Just mind the ratings though,” Alya advised. “Some of them can get pretty steamy. You wouldn’t want someone to catch you reading those in public,” she added with a wink.

Marinette continued to sputter incoherently. “NO, I am NOT gonna read it!! It would be different if they were fictional characters, but I could never read fanfiction about real people!”

Alya raised a skeptical eyebrow at her. “Mm-hmm… Sure.”

Marinette’s hands flew to her face, trying to hide how red her entire face had gotten, and released a long squeak that resembled a hamster on helium. As shocked as Adrien was about these rather unexpected news, seeing Marinette’s over-the-top reaction brought a wide grin to his face and he busted out laughing.

He bent over to retrieve Marinette’s phone, since she was too busy being mortified to notice it had fallen to the floor. As he was about to hand it back, the screen lit up and Adrien saw the lockscreen wallpaper: it was the same photo of Ladybug and Chat Noir that he himself had saved earlier that day. He smiled, not exactly sure what to make of it, but finding it adorable that she’d liked the photo enough to set it as her lockscreen.

He tapped her shoulder, waiting for her to respond. She emerged from behind her impromptu hand shield and turned her head, then her eyes widened once again as soon as she saw what Adrien was showing her. She jolted straight up, stiff as a board, and her eyes met his, cheeks turning tomato red. He winked at her, amused about this little secret between them, and handed back her phone without a word.

Marinette accepted it with a meek-sounding, “Thanks,” looking like she wanted to explain the photo, but not able to do so unless she wanted Alya and Nino to find out that she was potentially a… ahem– “Ladynoir” shipper.

Switching the conversation to something else (which Marinette seemed to be eternally grateful for), the group chatted until it became time for them to scatter to their next destinations.

With a wave, Adrien exited the classroom and headed towards fencing practice, one of the few activities he decided to stick with despite not being forced to participate. Fencing, along with Chinese lessons, were not only enjoyable, but were also quite useful. Sadly, he didn’t have access to a piano anymore, so he wasn’t able to pursue that hobby for the time being. Hopefully later down the line, when things had settled down and he’d found his own place to live, he’d be able to finance one.

Thinking about the future had become an exciting pastime instead of an anxiety-inducing one, and it was all thanks to his friends and those he cared about. He smiled as he reached the door to the locker rooms, continuing to daydream of what was to come.

(Mood music: "Recollection 3" - Shirō Sagisu (BLEACH OST, "The Diamond Dust Rebellion")

Adrien finished getting dressed for fencing, his head still blissfully floating in the clouds. He stored his belongings into his assigned locker, shutting it with a loud clang, which echoed through the empty room.

Huh...? Empty?

He swiveled his head around, surprised that there was no one beside him. He stood up and began walking down the large room, peeking down the other locker rows looking for his classmates; but there was nobody.

Where was everyone? There’s no way that every single one of them was running late. Had his lessons been cancelled and he’d somehow missed a text message or email? He began heading back towards his locker to check his phone for any schedule changes.

Before he reached his destination, however, heavy thudding footsteps broke the eerie silence. Adrien whipped his body around to greet whoever they belonged to.

The owner of those footsteps was one of the last people Adrien expected to meet here.

“Gaspard?!”

Adrien stood agape, face to face with his old bodyguard, whom he hadn’t seen in a couple of years; not since he’d resigned and moved out of the country. Nathalie had mentioned that in his resignation letter, Gaspard said that he’d become involved in an overseas business venture involving the market of rare action figures. Nevertheless, Adrien couldn’t help but suspect that his father’s ill temper and poor treatment of their employees was the true reason for his departure.

Adrien’s first reaction was surprise and joy, and he rushed forward to greet and embrace him. However, as he approached and got a better look at the man’s face, Adrien’s mood instantly morphed into confusion and apprehension. There was something odd about his eyes.

Something wasn’t right. Why was Gaspard here? And why now?

He came to a halt about a meter before reaching him. An oppressive weight seemed to press in all around him, and he had to suppress a shiver. “Wait. Gaspard, did–” he gulped, “–did my father send you?”

His old bodyguard did not reply, but took a heavy step towards him. Adrien stepped back.

“Please… I can’t go back. I live somewhere else now, and I’m very happy there. Whatever he told you about the situation, it’s a lie.”

His bodyguard continued to approach him, his stare vacant and unsettling.

Fighting the urge to panic, he pleaded, “You don’t have to do this. If he’s offered you compensation, I can match it; it’ll just take me a bit of time. But we can work something out, right?? For old time’s sake?”

He continued walking backwards until he bumped into something firm, but it wasn’t a wall; it was another person. Before he could turn around, they grabbed him by the shoulders, detaining him and preventing him from running away.

He was about to shout for help when something sharp jabbed him on the side of the neck, injecting a cold liquid. Adrien’s eyes grew wide in terror.

Shit.

Adrien swore as he jerked away, elbowing whoever was behind him and managing to break free. Rubbing at the spot where the syringe had stabbed him, he glanced back to take a look at his other assailant, only to see... another Gaspard?

Why are there two of him??

This was wrong. Gaspard didn’t have a twin; he knew that for a fact. He’d worked for the Agrestes ever since Adrien was a toddler and was too young to even pronounce his name correctly (hence the nickname “Gorille”, which stuck around for years afterwards). Additionally, there was something uncanny, otherworldly, even, about the way these two men looked and moved.

He shook himself out of his stupor. He didn’t have time to contemplate any possible explanations. He had to get out of there fast.

He sprinted towards the exit, but only managed to travel a few paces before he lost his footing and tripped. He fell to the ground hard, almost hitting his head on a nearby bench. As he struggled to get up, he realized that his fingers and toes had already gone numb.

Not good.

Time was running out. Adrenaline coursed through him and, with a grunt, he hefted himself to his feet and scrambled towards the exit, as fast as he could despite a heavy limp. Though his heart was hammering and his legs felt like they were filled with sand, he pushed himself, concentrating on reaching the door.

After taking a few steps, however, he realized that even if he did manage to exit the locker room, the area beyond was an open courtyard. Meaning he wasn’t going to be able to reach someplace safe before getting caught. He had no choice but to transform into Chat Noir, and hopefully Plagg’s powers and strength could help him escape and find somewhere to hide.

He’d scarcely uttered the first syllable in the transformation phrase when he was tackled to the ground. A giant hand swiftly covered his mouth and Adrien felt his hands get bound together with thick zip ties behind his back. A muffled scream of writhing frustration made its way up his throat as his limbs became more and more useless by the second.

No… This can’t be happening! Please, this can’t be how it all ends!

Just when his life had finally gained a semblance of normalcy and he’d found happiness again, it would get ripped away and he would disappear without a trace, leaving everyone to wonder what had happened to him. Leaving his friends to think that Gabriel had pulled him from school and they would never see him again. Leaving Ladybug to wonder if Chat had abandoned her forever. Leaving her to fight Hawkmoth alone. Again.

He couldn’t let that happen. He thrashed and struggled as furiously as he could, fighting the feelings of overwhelming helplessness that threatened to consume him. Nearing despair, he was too distracted to notice Plagg phrasing through the wall, away from the skirmish, in search of the only person who could save him.

(Mood music: "Run" - Ludovico Einaudi)

Marinette fidgeted with her pencil, her feet wiggled and bounced under her desk. She didn’t understand; when she’d arrived at the art club, her head had been filled with inspiration and ideas that she’d been excited to draw and execute. However, at the moment, her mind was filled with noise and disquietude.

Having had enough, she excused herself to visit the restroom. Once she’d walked far enough from the classroom, she opened her purse to talk to Tikki about her current dilemma.

“It’s the same feeling as last night, Tikki! Except that would mean one of three possibilities. Option A.) It’s nothing and I’m going crazy. And— don’t give me that look, Tikki! I can see what you’re thinking and I don’t have time for your cheeky sass right now!” The kwami snickered while Marinette cleared her throat and continued, “Option B.) that Chat is here, at this school, which is impossible because his school’s on the other side of the city, that’s why he always leaves the house super early for his long commute.”

Tikki opened her mouth and looked like she was about to say something, but then didn’t (...or couldn’t?).

Marinette resumed, “Or, C.) that my–– what do I even call it? My ‘Spidey sense’??–– that it’s got a long distance mode, and Chat is all the way across Paris and he’s in trouble! But what am I supposed to do about that from here?! I wouldn’t even know where to begin looking!”

Tikki shrugged. “Follow your instincts, Marinette. There’s no harm in taking a quick look around the school, right?”

Marinette groaned. “UGH! It doesn’t make sense!! Am I going to get interrupted like this all the time from now on?” She shook her head resolutely. “No. I can’t just go off on random field trips every single time I feel a random fit of anxiety. I’m sure it’s just leftover jitters from last night. I’m supposed to call Master Fu after school anyway; he can help me figure everything out. I’m just gonna go back to class and forget about it.”

Tikki frowned, not quite convinced, but deciding not to press further.

Marinette made her way back to the classroom in a frustrated huff. But as her hand reached to turn the handle, the feelings of danger and urgency multiplied tenfold. Without a word, she sprinted away in the opposite direction, not even knowing where she was running to, only knowing she had to get there immediately.

She reached the large common area of the school downstairs. Her head whipped around, frantically searching for something, anything. In her haste, she didn’t notice a small black creature zoom into her open purse.

A few moments later, she felt a frantic tugging at her shirt from below.

“Marinette!! Over there! Check the locker room, quick!!!” Tikki whisper-screamed as she peeked outside the purse, her tone uncharacteristically frantic.

Marinette nodded, then sprinted to the locker room.

“Wait! You should transform first!” Tikki added.

No time!

“Marinette, wait!!”

Despite Tikki’s protests, Marinette raced towards the double doors, tackling them open.

Three sets of eyes landed on her as she skidded to a halt, but only one pair consumed her entire attention. She gasped in horror, hands flying to her face as she stared at what was occurring in front of her. Adrien let out a desperate, muffled scream urging her to run.

His panicked voice snapped her out of her dazed shock; but instead of running, she stood her ground, eyes darting back and forth across the area searching for something useful. The room was remarkably barren except for a lone broom a short distance away from her. She grabbed it and leaped towards the closest attacker (the one holding Adrien down), swinging it like a baseball bat.

The man didn’t even try to avoid the hit; the broomstick merely bounced off the side of his face where Marinette had hit him. She frowned in confusion, then tried hitting him again, bringing the stick down on the top of his head like an axe.

SNAP.

The end of the broom flew off, and Marinette stared in shock at the broken broomstick.

“What the hell are you?!” Marinette exclaimed, shifting her grip on the shortened wooden stub.

She pounced at the second bodyguard, bringing her weapon down in a stabbing motion; but he swatted at her hand, disarming her. She yelped in pain, leaping backwards to get some distance between them.

She was outmatched. The only strategy available was to use their own size against them. With a feint to the side, she shot at his legs for a takedown, hoping to catch him off balance. He called her bluff and shoved her backwards with his giant palm, then kneed her in the stomach.

Winded from the impact, Marinette doubled over with a gasping wheeze, fighting with all her might to keep herself from collapsing onto the ground. She forced herself upright and attacked again. With a clumsy jerk, she lunged forward, swinging wild punches at her opponent. The shots connected but his expression barely changed; it was like beating a breathing punching bag.

The bodyguard backhanded Marinette across the face. Pain shooting across her cheek, she staggered, almost losing her balance. In her daze, she watched helplessly as the man reared his arm back. There was no chance to dodge. His fist connected with her abdomen, delivering a liver shot that shut down her entire body. She crumpled to the floor as if boneless. She tried to call out Adrien’s name, but her mouth merely opened in a silent scream.

Marinette could hear Adrien’s distressed screaming, but it sounded distant, like they were underwater. The edges of her vision grew black and fuzzy, the entire room dissolving around her. She had to consciously force her lungs to inhale, but couldn’t fill them all the way, as if a boulder had been placed on top of her chest.

Faintly, she felt herself getting picked up off the ground and carried away over someone’s shoulder. Disoriented and semi-blinded, the sudden movement and rough jostling made her head spin and gave her vertigo. She gritted her teeth and squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block it all out.

A few moments later, they stopped moving, and she heard a door burst open. Where were they? Before she could gather her senses, she was in the air, thrown several meters away, landing with a hard thud. A sharp pain traveled down her body as she rolled into the wall across them. The shriek that tried to escape her throat emerged as a strained, shallow whine.

The man stomped out, leaving her alone in the room. “Stop…!” she rasped out, managing to tilt her neck upwards, head pounding.

The bodyguard slammed the door shut, followed by a bang and a clattering sound that could only mean he’d broken the doorknob of whatever room she was in.

Marinette's vision became more and more blurred. At the verge of losing consciousness, she fought to keep her eyes open as tears pricked at the corners of her eyes.

No, she couldn’t pass out! She had to save Adrien! Stay awake, Marinette, stay awake!!

She bit down on her lip hard, focusing on the sharp sting, on the swelling that was already forming around her right eye, forcing herself to feel the pain her body was in. At this moment, feeling pain was better than falling unconscious. She concentrated on her breathing, slowly regaining her senses.

She reached down to open her purse and get Tikki’s help… only to be met with emptiness. Panic settled in her gut as she realized that sometime during the skirmish, the purse had slipped off her shoulder. She sat up, slowly, so she wouldn’t risk feeling faint again from the change in positions.

She squinted, adjusting her eyesight to the darkness of the room. It seemed to be some sort of supply closet. After a failed few attempts to stand, she crawled towards the door instead, careful not to bump into the crates and shelves that filled the area.

The girl eyed the broken doorknob wearily. She was pretty proficient at lockpicking and breaking into things, but not as good at breaking out. Her only hope was that Tikki would be able to find her… if she was even nearby.

She swore to herself. Why had she rushed in and attacked two grown ass men (who, incidentally, may or may not be supernatural to boot!) instead of hiding and creating a strategy?! Now she was useless, Tikki was gone, and Adrien was surely on his way to get auctioned to the highest bidder in the criminal black market and ransomed off for an enormous sum. Great job, Marinette. Adrien’s been abducted and it’s all your fault.

Gathering all the determination she could muster, she tried to call out for help. But her voice was still too hoarse, and only a weak croak came out. She clenched her fists, grumbling irritably. Time for a different approach. Somehow, she needed to make noise.

After a brief search, she found a hard, metallic object that she could use to hammer on the door. She tested it out; it was surprisingly effective. She doubled her efforts, making as big a racket as possible. Hopefully, it would only be a matter of time before somebody heard her, let her out, and she could go find Adrien.

She couldn’t let anything else happen to another loved one. Not again.

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I'M REEEAAAAALLY SORRY FOR THAT CLIFFHANGER JSHDKFJHSKDF ᕕ(╯°д°)ᕗ I tried splitting up the sections differently but it didn't really flow as well.

But the next chapter is almost done, so I'll have it ready by next weekend!!

#Miraculous Ladybug #Ladynoir #Enemies AU #enemies to lovers #Marinette Dupain Cheng #Adrien Agreste #Chat Noir #Ladybug #fanfiction #Discordant Sonata #ML AU #aged up #Eden writes

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splintered-emotions · 2 years ago

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astrid's giant marvel complaint

this will encompass age of ultron, civil war, infinity war, endgame, loki, eternals, and multiverse of madness probably in release order so spoilers ahoy

also i'll just do it in bullet points for general ease and plus subpoints work so much easier that way

there's a few disclaimers that i should put in before i get too far in this:

i am a tony stark stan so that has almost assuredly colored my perception of these movies, however, given the fact that my next two favorite characters were bucky and loki, it shouldn't be too bad

some of these realizations i only made after i exited the marvel fandom post endgame so originally i did enjoy all of these movies

i have read like 2 comics so don't expect that to really factor into any of this.

there is a mention of rape within it because of a joke made within age of ultron that i fucking loathe so keep your own mental health in mind if/when you get to that section because this is just something that i'm doing for fun and it isn't necessary to harm yourself to read it

and finally, this is all my own personal opinion and if i disagree with any of your thoughts, that may be because i haven't watched a couple of these in a while

anyways the people who wanted this: @yellow-feathered-faerie and @beenovel i hope you have fun reading the efforts of a few days

okay so starting off with age of ultron (i've already done a dissection of this with @yellow-feathered-faerie on a shared discord server so if any remarks are recognizable, it's from there) just a warning before we get into this, this is the only movie mentions rape in a joking manner, so if you would like to avoid the discussion of this topic, just skip ahead to civil war sometime before the final bullet point for aou

so this is what i kinda like to call the start of the decline

the first symptom is honestly wanda’s arc and therefore pietro’s a bit too

more specifically her arc throughout all of her material, but for now specifically age of ultron

i don't dislike the characters in theory, i just don't like what was done to them

because they could have worked with the comics characterization from what i can tell from sources online, but the whole thing with them still being x-men characters make it worse than it would have been otherwise

and the whitewashing and making them work with fucking hydra when their comics iterations were literally jewish make it so much worse

so first off all, we have them blaming Tony Stark for killing their parents because two of his bombs crashed into their home. already i hate this reasoning but i can acknowledge that at a young age, this probably made complete sense to them. but given that they're 24 in the actual movie, it makes far less sense

especially because i’m younger than them and i have slightly more sense than blaming the person who likely only built a prototype (albeit a working one) rather than fire the fucking weapon

they quite literally volunteered for HYDRA (a literal nazi organization) when they were teenagers in order to get revenge???? when like there was literally a whole thing about how Stark only sold to the US military and that his advisor/semi father figure was literally selling weapons under the table to terrorists about 7 years before this movie took place. and even then, it wouldn't have even been him who built or even fired the damn thing

because Stark weapons were used because of their efficiency and the fact that they worked basically every time

because a weapons company would not have been that rich via just the US military without some extremely high quality shit being sold

anyways somehow this changes in basically a split second halfway through the movie because some ai was trying to end the world (normal marvel shit) and they're both suddenly okay with him

Oh yeah after this wanda literally agrees to join the avengers a team with stark as one of the literal founding members (not technically

also wanda just fucking set off the hulk onto a civilian target casually and never gets any repercussions for that

if you��re gonna do that, why even imply real world consequences in the next movie.

there’s also the whole thing about nat being a monster because she can’t have kids because of an invasive surgery she did not consent to which is just fucking ridiculous because people with uteruses aren’t defined by whether or not they can have kids. it should be their own actions and shit like that that actually affect who they are as a character, not their reproductive status

and anyways they fucking scrap this relationship anyways with only the barest of hints to it in ragnarok and infinity war

the fact that they only blame tony somehow for this

as if the movie itself does not show that he just wanted to test it a bit, not fucking awaken a murderous AI. like the writers do kinda attempt to show this as a negative thing with like thor literally choking tony when he’s creating vision with bruce, but it honestly refuses to acknowledge that wanda and therefore hydra have some fault in the matter as well because she literally gave him a vision of everyone dying, which directly led to ultron being a project in his mind.

i’m not saying that tony does not play any role in this, but he plays less of one than the other characters choose to acknowledge

also let the characters be friends for fucking once. like in avengers we had a thing where they could possibly turn into friends, but with iron man 3 and ca:tws, there was no hope. however, they could have made a fucking ATTEMPT

THE FUCKING RAPE JOKE

for context: tony says that he wants to reinstate prima nocta, which is just a really fucked up policy done by noblemen on the wedding nights of women who lived on their land, during the scene where they are all attempting to pick up thor's hammer

wikipedia states "[prima nocta] was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women" which gives you a clue as to what exactly the fucking writers wanted to bring up in their supposedly family friendly movie

and just deadass what was the need because there’s literally so much else that you could joke about and yet the writers chose THIS the man is supposed to be someone that we are rooting for not actively hating because you couldn't think of a good fucking joke

and that’s it on age of ultron so onto civil war where my blood truly begins to boil. once again this is something that i have discussed on the server so some remarks will just be copied from there.

i don’t like this movie for several reasons

and all of them can be laid at the feet of the people who wrote the damn thing

we begin with the fact that there are technically two things moving the plot forward the entire time

the sokovia accords

zemo and his framing of bucky

first problem: we know literally nothing about the sokovia accords other than the fact that superpowered people are required to sign them to continue fighting crime and threats and shit

not looking at agents of shield or any other supplementary material, just the fucking movie

and any other information that we are given is from thaddeus ross, an american politician/general i think, who is notoriously unreliable given the fact that he literally tried to hunt down bruce banner in the incredible hulk movie

therefore, using the information that was confirmed by other figures who weren’t ridiculous enough to fucking try and hunt down a man who will literally become bulletproof if he gets angry or scared, all we really know is that they need to sign it and be overseen by a UN approved committee

this kinda results in the thing that’s supposed to move the plot for at least part of the movie from what i can tell (it’s very unclear whether this is supposed to be relegated to a subplot once we reach the ⅓ mark of the movie) being fucking useless past this point

there’s like a mention of it in infinity war with rhodey telling ross to fuck off, but deadass, there’s no lasting effects beyond them just splitting the avengers up using this as a device to kinda do so, when i think it could have been more compelling and establish zemo as a stronger villain if it was his own actions that actually broke them apart rather than sheer coincidence because one dude, no matter how rich, could not have fucking manipulated over 100 countries into signing a legal document

so basically this could have been done away with if the writers knew that you don’t have two main plots within a single movie without either fucking over one, or managing to weave them intricately, which marvel has never been known to do particularly effectively without one sticking out like a sore thumb in a field of what should have been actually good writing with how much these movies fucking rake in

OH ALSO they never really explain why steve’s so deeply against them. yeah i get that tws was meant to be like sometimes the people in charge don’t have the purest motives/are fucking nazis. but they fucking defeated those guys and strucker was supposed to be the last one in age of ultron. so like who the fuck was he afraid of being in charge? because 1) the UN is a hell of a lot different than the league of nations that cap would have grown up with and someone should have fucking told him that at some point so it shouldn’t be that unless we’re going the route of shield tells no one fucking anything unless they deem it necessary and for that i’d like to point to the fact that fury fucking mentioned tony worked on the project and not once mentioned him when the plans to destroy the helicarrier were made and 2) there’s no one that he could have possibly recognized that was on the fucking project other than thaddeus ross. and he would be kept in check by ya know the other people on the panel because this is not a purely US panel because that’s what the fucking purpose is you dumbass.

plus it’s not like a governmental body as big as the fucking UN can keep their meetings secret. like someone should have known realistically. and then to just have the completely fabricated deadline just ignored casually after emphasizing the three days crap is just ridiculous

and just as a last statement regarding the accords, to quote Fae: “It really says something when one of the most vital parts of the plot is left for fans to figure out”

before we get too far into the movie, let’s discuss what you probably were not expecting me to bring up as a tony stan: peter parker

first things first, i don’t have a problem with the character, i have a problem with how he was handled.

because why the fuck was he introduced like that i get that his backstory has been run through over and over again, but this was so much worse than any other possible intro

we don’t know how he got his damn powers

we don’t know what the fuck his great power moment was because that only shows up in no way home

which makes no fucking sense, with the timeline that has been given and only further serves to traumatize this like 17 year old who has been through far too much already

which then forces the question: what made him want to start fighting crime? like if his great power moment only came like 7 years after he was introduced as a hero, then why the fuck did he start?

one interpretation is of course that he looked up to stark and that’s why he went oh i have superpowers? better go fight crime, but there’s nothing in the actual movie that tells you this. or any of the other ones for that matter. he says that he looks up to him, but not really why he began superheroing when he was a high school student.

will we ever get the question of how the fuck is he superheroing with like 50 ap classes (the kid wants to get into MIT, there’s no way he’s taking normal courses) and the homework that comes with it answered? because i know how much homework comes with aps rn and i barely manage to get in some writing for my fics before i fucking conk out at like 1am so how sleep deprived is he?

also he was never fucking told why he was fighting, which may be a character thing more than a writer thing, but it’s sure as hell as problem that the writers could have fucking fixed so it’s being included

i get that movies have like fixed time lengths but like there’s so much information that you actually need to include in this movie for half the plot to make sense

like for any noncomics readers, actually for just everyone who watches this trainwreck: what the fuck are the accords, how are they meant to be implemented, how long has this been going on, why have we never heard of them before, shouldn’t there have been some fucking mention if they were in the works since fucking 2012 and shield was literally a spy organization and two of the avengers are fucking spies, are the avengers too far up their own asses to notice shit like this happening, so on and so forth

because there sure as hell weren’t any explanations about this in canon.

also deadass how do you explain Steve, Sam, and Natasha never telling tony about the whole winter soldier thing

because the writers sure as hell didn’t try

they just shoved that in there without even once bringing it up in a previous movie, making steve’s villainization of tony in age of ultron even weirder.

also how is it not a bigger thing that hydra killed howard? because that seems like a pretty big thing for them to just never acknowledge. because this also make steve someone who covered up a crime this big. there should be some kind of fucking consequences for it. because like there’s suspension of belief and then there’s just complete fucking nonsense.

another thing is the fact that none of the characters are particularly likeable in this movie

it’s literally just relying on everything built up from the previous movies to try and convince us that oh this is the good team and this is the bad one and yet each one of them makes terrible decisions. the only one i can actually see myself siding with is team iron man because it means that there’s actual oversight on superpowered beings coming into a country that isn’t america. because as it is, they’re an american team through and through. their actual origins don’t matter, but the fact that they were sponsored for all this time by shield and their base of operations is in new york, means that them just casually invading another country could put all of them in especially hot political waters. and this would just be a way to actually ensure that no politics are interfered with AND that they can’t come in fuck things up and leave without having at least something in place to provide some kind of clean up for these attacks.

honestly the accords and the bucky mess should have been two different movies

and yes i know that it’s gonna be a politics mess rather than the action that marvel’s known for, so then just don’t try and do an accords plotline. like i said earlier, just have zemo split them up so then it makes the plot less cluttered with what was supposed to be the logical consequence of their actions. we’ve already disregarded it enough for suspension of disbelief, the audience sure as hell doesn’t care now. we want a compelling story. and that needs a villain whose plans don’t just fall into place by sheer chance.

and because she’s here, i cannot help but complain about how fucking terribly the writers seem to treat wanda

first of all, they show her with a lack of control over her powers when hydra (an organization which would not have taken less than perfect execution from her) were the ones who gave her her powers and trained her in them

and like at this point, all we’ve seen of her has been hatred and mishandling of situations which for someone that we’re literally supposed to be rooting for makes no sense

and the whole thing with putting vision through like 5 floors because he was kinda trying to protect her from the reaction that would erupt from her going out into public when she needed the backlash to come down even a little bit more, especially because she is a person with powers and people are assholes to the things that they fear

but i mean i kinda get it, but not to the extent that she did it if you get what i mean

ALSO why the fuck were wanda (ex-hydra with mind control powers) and bucky barnes (previously mindcontrolled by hydra) put in any close range. did he even know her past? because he would have been a hell of a lot more against literally being on the same side as someone who willingly joined (there’s no clear evidence in canon that she did it unwillingly based off of the comments made in aou but that’s a whole other bucket of worms) the organization that fucking tortured him for 70 years of his life.

ant-man. it’s just why’d you have to tie him in like this. i like that nice little oh he has kinda met the falcon at the point thing, but like the whole thing with the conscience and “you can never trust a stark” is just so over the top. like has he ever met tony stark. or even howard stark. no??? then why have him be like oh it’s your conscience speaking when you have not met this man at all. his conscience is the fucking reason why he’s a superhero dumbass. do you think that he became one for fun? no it was because his weapons were in the hands of people who were using them to fucking hurt others and terrorize more and he wanted to do something about the events that his own trust in obadiah stane caused (yes i have strong feelings about tony stark, you cannot stop my power because the russos have already done worse to me. all you can do is make me hurt in new and interesting ways)

also there’s like 50 thousand better ways he could have been introduced to the rest of the avengers, this was honestly the worst possible one. you could have gone a route like sam where he’s introduced at like a party or implied to have met them before at a low scale battle. something that doesn’t make me want to cry at how much of a shift this was from the first ant-man movie where he refused to just believe everything that hank said.

and finally: the final battle.

i honestly don’t understand how tony’s meant to be the villain in this one. because had steve just fucking told him the truth at fucking any point in time, there would have been no need for this smackdown. there would be no “did you know?” necessary. but no, the russos just wanted to “flip the script” and have superheroes fight each other because it’s not like superhero movies are supposed to be a form of escapism in which the audience doesn’t have to deal with bullshit like this.

and this is pretty much just a reaction to fucking batman vs superman which, from what i’ve heard about it, wasn’t particularly good either.

oh and the letter. the bane of my existence (derogatory). it’s so fucking arrogant too. like this isn’t the same kid from brooklyn who didn’t like bullies. he IS a bully now.

honestly the main thing for this movie is that the creative team on this genuinely don’t seem like they care about the characters within this movie. like say what you want about things like iron man 2 or thor dark world, at least they felt like they had a soul.

#i'm not tagging this because i refuse to have an angry mob who will find me eventually #but i want peace for now

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anueutsuho · 2 years ago

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10. favorite fan game?

I haven't played many, but I've heard Fantasy Maiden Wars writes the characters extremely well.

As far as the few I've played, Megamari. It's to the point. Just megaman gameplay with Touhou characters. Nothing more, nothing less. No weird shoehorned in fanon jokes or anything, no gratuitous fanservice.

12. favorite remix/fan song?

Well, that's really difficult, but I really like this cover of Utsuho's theme.

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Also check out Hooded Edge on Youtube he makes great SNES covers of Touhou songs.

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14. favorite/least favorite fanon interpretation?

Favorite is a weird one: "Armadillo-san". I really like people portraying Mayumi as an armadillo girl to fit in with the animal motifs of the rest of the game. It works so well with her outfit and it's really cute. In general the fans have done so much good with Mayumi. This, making her a giant robot, showing her get blown or smashed to pieces and getting rebuilt, giving her a proper sword, it's all good.

Second place is everything the fans have done between Miko and Saki. It's rare I genuinely believe the fans have surpassed ZUN in some way but actually giving them a constant relationship is one example.

Least favorite is Utsuho. People keep making her just this kinda innocent bimbo womanchild type with the nuclear fusion as just a side thing or not there at all. I love Okuu but I've become rather picky in regards to fanworks with her in them (and speaking of, even in fanworks she's not usually the starring role, huh?). Usually the rest of the Palace of Earth Spirits is extremely out of character in these works as a consequence, too.

Second place is Junko being a yandere for Reisen. It feels like something that would have permeated Touhou content in 2007-9 or something, not something that came out in 2015 and still persists now.

15. what do you love/hate about the 2hu fandom?

I love that there's so many different interpretations of the setting and so many people are able to see them.

I don't like the discource and how pretty much every social media site's Touhou fandom feels like it's a fandom for a completely different series. I've got a Discord server that I go on all the time and I really like it though.

That, and I genuinely blame the pedos and old memes for causing a lot of people to think of Touhou as just another "pick a waifu otaku-pandering thing", when it's so much more.

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danpuff-ao3 · 3 years ago

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2021

This year was not the best for me, but it will be ending on a very good note!

[read on for some self-contratulatory rambling]

For a lot of the year I was very miserable. I struggled so much with my anxiety and faced a lot of my fears. So I want to take a moment to celebrate my wins of the year! I'm very proud of my accomplishments, especially considering so many of them were achieved in spite of poor mental health.

> Interacted with people more/DMed people more: When I say I have anxiety, I mean I have Anxiety (with a capital A, yes.) Talking to people is very scary and I'm forever worrying that I'm bothering people or that I'm being weird or blah blah blah. But I worked really hard to meet new people and talk to people more and even -gasp- messaging people!

> Went on a podcast (multiple times): I agreed to a podcast interview with Snape Chat, then continued joining on the podcast to chat about my man Snape! Which, as stated above, big move for a gal with big ole fears!

> Joined new servers/met new people: Now I'm in way too many Discord servers, probably, but it's fun seeing different spaces and meeting different people and learning about different parts of fandom! I'm pretty used to staying in my own little corner of the fandom, so it's been huge to explore more!

> Reached out to someone about a cool opportunity: I don't wanna say too much, but there was a cool opportunity and I swallowed my fear and inquired about it! The person agreed, and so a very cool thing should be happening next year!

> Got out of a bad situation: Probably my biggest win of the year! I felt very stuck and very miserable in a situation and I left it. It was very hard to do and very scary, because I don't let go of things easily, but I got away and I feel all the better for it! I deserve to be okay. I deserve to be happy. And now I am!

> Kudosed/commented more: I went from never commenting to leaving huge essay-length comments on fics. Oops. Longer comments are very emotionally exhausting, but I felt pressured to leave either giant comments or none at all. I've gotten better about it. Just because I don't have a lot to say, doesn't mean I didn't love or enjoy something. And I still want to support people and give love, even if my own personal standards are a bit skewed! I've improved here a lot, and hope to improve more next year! (Also does not help that I do most of my reading on my Kindle and have to remember to go hunt the story back down to leave love!)

> (Side note, commenting is kind of scary because I worry about sounding silly or being too excited and weirding people out. But I figure most creators love getting love, even if it's from an overexcited fangirl.)

> Lots of writing! 23 fics written and posted this year. 3 others that are ready to go for fests next year. And plenty of other words I can hopefully spruce up and post for 2022!

> Won NaNoWriMo: kinda related to above, but I kicked NaNo's behind! Goal of 50k. Finished at 70k+!!!!

> Gifted Fics: this might sound silly, but c'mon...It's scary putting your work out for the world to see! Let alone handing it to a specific person and hoping they don't hate it!

> Fic Recs: I started recommending fics here! Why is this a win? Well, like all things on this list: Anxiety. But! I love reading fic. I read a lot of it -- like. A lot. And I care so much about this fandom and the stories out there, and I just wanna share that, dang it!

> And plenty of IRL wins, too: setting boundaries at work, taking more time off work, starting therapy, asked for help when I needed it, and more! Many little, special wins this year.

> And most of all, I'm ending this year happy. I am working really hard to take time to take care of myself. I deserve to give myself the same love I give to everyone else. And all of the love and kindness people have shown me lately, I deserve that, too. I am also really grateful for it. So thank you to everyone who has made this year better! Thank you to the people who have been part of my journey. And all of the people here to see me through the next part of it. 💛

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crafty-business4130 · 3 years ago

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so to expand upon this lets go in some ideas on what helscraft is like

i like to think that helscraft is a weird glitched copy of the overworld and the nether mixed together. for the cannon of my hermit duplicate’s AU (of which i will be referring to within this post) the dimension of helscraft isnt really a full dimension that always appears in every world like the end and nether. it only spawns into a world after a year or so of players putting all of their love and care into the world. the world builds up enough of all that good energy and then causes a opposite opposing Force to form. thus helscraft spawns into existence. in a way you could say the whole dimension of helscraft is a duplicate as well.

now one thing that kinda throws a a wrench in the works of this idea is that every year or so the hermits move into a new world, though since its normally has been roughly the same amount of players in each season we can go with the hermitcraft dimension of hels is carried over with each world jump. the world of hels change to match the new overworld but its still the same helshermits. though for the hermits that leave the server their hels counterpart disappears. this may also work in reverse as well. only have one example so far so who know :) cOUGHCOughNHOcOUGh

with the the hows and whys on helscraft existence out-of-the-way let's get into some worldbuilding!

as ive already mentioned, helscraft is somewhat of a glitchy mix of the overworld and nether. what i havent mentioned is that a good bit of the April Fools updates and removed features for the overworld ended up floating over to helscraft but unlike the overworld in which these features disappear pretty quickly they ended up sticking around in helscraft, for better or worst.

heres a list of examples of this, of which i then expanded upon them to make them more fleshed-out.

the list got really long so the rest of the post is under the cut! :D

Pig and cow sized horses, if fed too much will cause the animal to grow dangerous mutations that can not only kill the animal but make its remains toxic and unedible. You can make a green book via using toxic leather (the crafting book)

A common spell is to summon flame that then can be used for new crafting recipes. one such recipe is flaming barrels, if someone walks too close it will explode, another is chainmail armor

if you put too much fuel into a furnace it will explode.

torches burn out an hour or two after being lit

chickens are deadly, do not provoke them. it is extremely rare but the is a very small chance spawn in a blue chicken. only able to spawn via throwing eggs. it drops lapis and diamonds instead of eggs. beware tho, all chickens in the immediate vicinity will protect the blue one with their lives and will attack anything that gets too close.

eating or feeding an animal a god apple will cause it to float upwards for five minutes before slowly descending back to the ground.

Wheat if not chopped after fully grown will go bad and die, same thing with other crops. though you can make Iron infused melon and pumpkins, it insures that the stem won't die over time after its first produce

Powered Redstone causes redstone bugs to spawn, it can be stopped by combining lapis and redstone dust together to make bluestone dust. asifhfsssdhv only a noob uses redstone.

Redstone wire, another alternative of redstone made with redstone dust surrounded by cobwebs. it insulates the redstone and stops bugs from spawning. pretty much the same thing function wise but is a pretty cool thing to use to flex on others

Villagers are instead piglins, not the tanned ones added into the nether update but rather pink skinned ones.

Glowing obsidian, a glowing red version of obsidian. Only found in trades with piglins

In helscraft there are lava oceans instead of water, water can only be found deep underground. Lava instead of water is infinite, water is no longer infinite.

The world of hels first looked like the indev world theme of hell, with following updates to the overworld helscraft changed and evolved as well. There is no sun nor moon, just a forever floating layer of lava that acts to light up the dimension.

Frostwalker is instead, Magmawalker, turning lava into magma blocks shortly before melting back into lava

Boss fights arent the same in helscraft as in the normal overworld and its closely neighboring tied in dimensions of the end and nether. Not found in helscraft are Guardians, the ender dragon, and technically the Wither as well. Instead you can find Giants, the red dragon, the four horse men(much more difficult to defeat)

Giants unlike the ai less ones you can spawn using commands are living and breathing monsters that roam the land. During their travels any ghasts they cross will join them on their wandering

Ghasts can be somewhat tamed in helscraft. If you can successfully capture a baby ghast from its parents and raise it yourself the ghast will be malleable enough, somewhat like foxes but just a bit more wild. If you happen to accidentally harm them it will turn on you and fight you to the death, be it your’s or theirs.

It's a very very rare find but huge brick pyramids can spawn into the world. in season 7 helscraft’s cubfan took up residence within one that spawned in Incredibly Close to spawn

There are alot of different nonsensical potions that can be brewed for interesting drinks. some have a use, most dont tho. all of em have amazingly different tastes and smells

instead of honeycomb there is crystallized honey, it functions as pretty much the exact same thing. has its block too, call the wax block.

Killer bunnies spawn in more often than normal bunnies

Og stonecutter, can cut blocks into half. Not only used for stone. can cut doors, beds, and much more into halfs

Nether reactor core, could be the key on how to jump between the hermitcraft and helscraft. will need to think on this idea some more though

Petrified Forest, a biome within helscraft that has wood as hard as stone and a texture reminiscent of a mix of acacia and crimson planks color wise.

unsure as of yet on what to call it but the volcanic biome the Rempirer had Rendog make is a biome within helscraft as well!(the Rempirer is ren’s helscraft counterpart... he wasnt always evil as he is now)

the mobs that lost the vote found their way into helscraft, not just the moobloom all of them. the three mystery mobs from the 2017 and the ice illager. (i voted for the glow squid and while i do still stand by my decision it is truely a shame we might not see any of them all in the game ever )

Studded armor and plate armor, alternatives to leather and chainmail. studded armor is made with leather and stone and plate armor is made with smooth stone slabs

stained glass looks a bit like this

and colored wool like this!

and thats everything for now. ill probly be working out some more ideas since theres a surprisingly large amount of features that have been added to minecraft either hidden away in the background or removed.

also if anyone wants a some links to where i found these old and mostly forgotten facts ill post em in the notes when i get the time to do so. theres a lot of them tho so i might forget a few

hey also if you like these you might also like my Discord! i made it for this au and i tend to share my ideas a bit more over there than over here. theres a lot to see :DD

#hermit duplicate au #hermitcraft #helscraft #worldbuilding #odd facts board lmao #also #only a noob uses redstone #kjladcknac #only cool kids use blue stone #if i knew how to code i would 100% make all of this into a mod

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dana-chan-the-control-brain · 4 years ago

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Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I know 2020 has been hard for everyone.

And I want everyone to know, suffering isn't a contest and we all suffer in different ways. But I feel I should give my year in Review. Just some things that happened to me personally.

This was an intense, and long and spiritual and emotional journey for me...

I really discovered what it meant to have community, family and what my life means to me.

But I feel I need to get this in writing cause I can remember the year with vivid detail and I will probably forget if I don't get it down.

Do I have to share this publically online to my tumblr account for a bunch of strangers to see? not really.

Do I want to?

Yes. I think so. Just from how so many people on tumblr and real life have touched me.

This is kinda long and no one needs to read this.

(idk how to do a readmore on mobile. But this is where I would add it later. No one needs to read if they don't want to.)

January/February: (and some background on the last five years of my life cause.....well. it's important.)

As people knew, I got way into Invader Zim last summer. I spent most of my waking life working a dead end job at a grocery store. I lived a sad lonely life, going straight home to a single dark studio apartment. With not many material possessions outside of games, my laptop and my tablet to my name. Half of my material loves, such as home furnishings and books were still in boxes from when I moved in. In case I ever had to move again, or get some "big screenshot or copywriter" job in the city.

....

I lived in that city in the same dead end job and apartment for five years.

No friends. No social life. I often refused to make doctor appointments or attempt to establish myself in that city. I didn't even talk to anyone in my workplace.

Work. Go online. Go to sleep.

I lived like that for five years.

I thought it was good.

Even my therapist thought I was doing well.

When I really wasn't. My main character flaw I struggle with is motivation.

I can talk to someone about very detailed plans I have to fix a problem... But I tend to never follow through.

Just because I can describe in detail how to fix my personal problems, it doesn't mean I will do it.

(I have gotten better at this but it's a major struggle)

I might have been a Zombie during the day...

But by night I was pouring my soul into my AU and my analysis.

After being so thoughly ignored or overlooked by the Naruto fandom and the Undertale fandom, I felt like I had finally found my home and was settling into a community there.

I just loved that people loved what I had to say.

Especially my AU.

It's no secret that a lot of themes in my au revolve around found family, grief, and loss.......

Fatherhood, in particular.

What it means to be a father, how much do you need to try when you mess up, how willing should a child forgive their parent, especially those that have wronged you and how much of it is factually accurate and simply a self projection of what children want their parents to be and visa versa... What amount of forgiveness and change is nessasary...is it needed?

....

It's no secret that a lot of my AU is a giant coping mechanism for my Dad's death. Espessially the falling out and growing closer with a lot of my family members throughout the years following his death. (Most of the time I keep it ambiguous to how it relates to my personal life unless I include a readmore that states so outright. I feel my au can be enjoyed by a variety of people in the fandom who don't need to know me as a person or my life story.)

My Dad passed away in 2016 in February and my family still feels the aftershocks to this day.

It's part of the reason I moved to the city, alienated myself from my family and people that loved me and refused to experience life for five years.

My entire world was Zim, and I was okay.

March: When America finally realized and started to feel the effects of the pandemic....

A lot of people got scared.

Me included.

I didn't have any streaming services or access to the news. So I only heard accounts from my mom.

I didn't understand why the store was so dead quiet and empty for a few days, then it went into mass chaos and panic in the span of two days.

It felt like Retail black friday in the worst way. Everyone was packed like sardines. Everyone was yelling. The lines at the registers bled into the clothing department.

I was witness to customers shoving others for toilet paper, being rude to cashier's and just overall unpleasantness.

At the time, I didn't even fully grasp what the pandemic was, and I feel a lot of people at the time didn't either.

I ended up absentmindedly scratching my eyebrow in front of a customer and she screamed and villanised me for it. That they didn't want groceries touched by my "unclean hands"

I ended up breaking down into tears.

The customer behind me gave me a hug and told me I was doing a great job.

But the damage was done. It was the final straw, I couldn't stop crying and I was breaking apart.

Thankfully my Boss (the one who likes me) pulled me aside and asked what's wrong.

It was then that I quit. No notice. Same day. I had to get out of there.

I was planning to move to an apartment with my sister in the summer, but my Mom offered for me to move back in with her temperarily just so I can get out of the city and away from the pandemic.

So I did.

I got scared, broke my lease a month early and quit my job of five years that gave me nothing back.

He told me, "take care of yourself and your family, I won't keep you here, do what you need to do."

So I did.

April-June:

A very eventful few months.

My mom offered for me to live at her place, but for some reason she was acting like I would live there forever. That this wasn't a temporary arrangement, and that I didn't have an apartment set up already.

This was in large part to my sister, who had lived with my mom taking advantage of her for years.

Even though my sister and I were going to move in together, I was just never sure about it cause of how she never packed her stuff or made any effort to find a job.

My mom often acted like I was lazy and not searching and was treating me like... Well, an unruly teenager instead of a woman of 29 years. She acted like I was a failure for returning home when it was her idea in the first place.

I would have just been petrified in the city.

Like usual, I retreated to my au again.... And in the spring, something eventful happened.

In may, 8th 2020:

I was invited by @rissynicole to join an invader zim discord.

Now, I've never really used discord before. I always thought it's interface is too confusing.. and I'm a member of a few other iz discords and I usually don't follow them that closely.

Rissy assured me it was different cause some friends of thiers made it and it was smaller.

Before I knew it, I was sharing memes and getting to know everyone there.

It wasn't long after I invited my partner in IZ crimes, @paketdimensioncomic who was genuinely wary of iz servers due to a bad experience with the last one they were a part of.

But soon they were sharing memes and laughing with everyone else.

My eyes were starting to open and I was able to connect to fans of my work in an interpersonal way. And I was able to discover new artists and aus I never knew about.

I was also able to meet so many others of the community and invite them to the server myself.

The moo-ping 10 server kept me sane while I was living with my judgmental mother.

Not only that, the summer was very productive for my au.

Drawing was all I did, and it was a huge break from the job as a cashier I had.

Not only that, June came, and with it, me and Ceph's first collab fic:

A result of us just going back and forth in our DMs constantly about Professor Membrane and how he changed in ETF for the better and how much we adamantly stan "trying-to-be-a-good-dad-brane" and how much of his ETF development has to be implied off screen in order for the emotional resolution in the movie to matter.

The only reason I never professed my love for Membrane as a character in the fandom before the fic dropped was.... Well....

Membrane can be a decisive character in the fandom and I was so worried people would hate me if I did an analysis on him, simply because he's not the best parent in the world. (As an understatement)

Ceph and I really encouraged each other to scream our love for the science himbo loud and proud more frequently and so often.... I actually start to see less Membrane hate posts and breakdowns then their used to be.... I like to think it's a combination of Me and Ceph's influence, along with ETF and the Quarterly's painting Membrane in a slightly more nuanced light then he was previously.

I never wrote a collab fic before and it's such a rewarding and fun and unique experience that I don't think I'll ever have again. And I love working with Ceph on our fics so much.

So much so we did it again...

July-August:

I never thought I would be one of those people who writes NSFW IZ fic... But here I am.

The Brainbrane au started.... An au of my au where Membrane and the Computer fall in love and Membrane makes him a body.

This ship was based around the idea where we joked that Membrane and Zim's Computer would have funny interactions if they ever met, under the pretense Membrane thinks Computer is Zim's parent.

Our headcanons morphed and shifted until we just full blown started shipping them.

Just because Membrane and Zim's Computer have overall REALLY entertaining chemistry.

It's a character dynamic never seen in the show or comics (yet) and I imagine thier interactions to be nothing but entertaining banter.

The fic was also born from spite... Making fun of the troupes and cliches that we found personally destestible in some questionable zadr fics.

So an angry ace and a demi-bisexual collab on a porn and end up blessing the fandom with

Compapa headcanons,

Computer being recognized as a more common used fanon character,

The ship of Brainbrane.

The fandom having a crisis of "oh God, not only are we xenophiles we're technophiles too!!!" Or "why you gotta give Zim's Computer an ass"

More android Computer designs

It was an eventful summer.

In the midst of all this, I moved into my new place, got a new job, and I was able to see my friend (who is def my platonic straight soul mate) who lives in Indiana.

She came to visit, showed me how to decorate and how to take care of my body better! Things were looking up! It was great.

September-November:

My job was at a boat store. If was approaching the fall and my hours were being severely cut.

I was getting into a rut of depression again.

I thought things were changing but the same routine I was trying to escape from was the same thing coming back.

But instead of letting it take hold, I decided I was going to do something about it... I was gonna visit a museum and go with my sister. Just... variety stimulation.

Well that didn't happen.

I talked about this shortly in my au itself...but..

My sister had a complete mental breakdown.

She stopped taking her meds, went off the deep end and was in the hospital a total of five times throughout November.

A lot of it was acting out and the perfect storm of environmental factors that made her scream and act out so she would keep going back to the hospital.

It was traumatizing for me.

I just can't explain what it's like. For her and for me to be in that position.

I'm not telling the full story and a lot of bullshit things happened I won't share here.

She got diagnosed with bipolar one and my mom expected me to be a caretaker for her.

I threatened to disown my family and move away out of state.

It was just too much for me to handle.

So much I was a nervous wreck.

I tried to pick up a second job... Cause my sister was in the mental ward so frequently and couldn't pay the bills.

But I was fired within a week cause I was so stressed I couldn't retain the basic information they were training me for.

It was an office job.

My dream.

It could have been.

I was fired from something I really wanted.

I was only there for three days.

I could not retain any information.

I was a mess.

My sister was a trigger, my mom wanted me to live with her. I couldn't live like this.... I had to get out.

I had to get out.

December:

Remember my Indiana friend?

Well the first week of December is my birthday.

My 30th to be exact.

While I did pick up a seasonal position at Target (not my first pick)

I took the first week of December off so I could spend time with her. Cause she agreed, I needed a break from this crap.

Surviving 30 years is cause to celebrate and if I had to celebrate with my sister I would have cried.

I know there was a risk traveling out of state during a pandemic...

But I needed out, I needed a friend..

And I kinda wanted to look at the place since I was considering moving there.

My friend's mom was sick so she avoided me and her daughter and got us a hotel room.

It was fun! I got to swim in a salt water pool, we talked about Naruto, I showed her the iz and su art books I brought, also Computer and Membrane tea.

I also got to meet her other friends and get crunk. And her bf who is super nice and funny!

I had a super fun birthday....

Until her mom told my friend that her grandparents had covid and that was what she had. And my friend got sick within that same day.... As did I.

I owe so much to her family.

I was an entire state away...about a ten hour drive from home.... She let me stay at her house. "The covid house" we called it.

Cause everyone (except the father. He avoided everyone and booked a hotel immediately cus he was an ER doctor) had covid within a day.

I called in, the test results were positive and I had to stay with her family for ten days quarantine before I could work again.

Which would have been fine....

If my tumblr didn't log me out perminately of my old account. @dana-chan325 .... Which really sucked cause I had a constant headache and was too sick to engage with tumblr or much of the fandom. I didn't want to make a new account when my head was in a bad fog and I could barely breathe or smell.

It's not like I saw much of my friend either.... We all slept at different hours and she had more symptoms then I did.

It was just netflix, danganronpa v3 and cry.

I was miserable, but at the same time.... Not?

I really feel like God himself was the one who pulled me off from tumblr, and my living situation.

Maybe a whole extra week feeling like a bobblehead was what I needed.

It gave me some much needed clarity on my relationships with my mom and sis and friend.

Running away to Indiana was not the solution here.

Once I was better within ten days and no longer had a leave of absence, I drove home.

I am glad I fully recovered (but from how I understand it, my dear friend is still ill. I'm praying for her)

I might have gone to work a bit too soon, cause I had an asthma attack after trying to unload a single cart in the span of six hours.

My boss lectured that my speed was unacceptable, and even though I explained the covid situation and breathing problems many times, she threatened that I'd be fired if I'm that slow again.

Que the next few days of work where they put me on register.

Instantly I was sent into a panic remembering the last time I was on the register and how that panic attack caused me to quit.

I even asked if I could go back to stocking, since my breathing had improved. My boss assured me that I was put on the register cause they needed help and nothing to do with my covid thing.

Then as December concluded and the new year began, my boss said that this was the last shift for me cause my position was seasonal and they were letting a lot of people go.

I then asked why I was on the schedule for Sunday, and he told me to ignore it and I'm free to reapply for full-time.

I mean.... They can act smart about it...

But putting your general merchandise stocker onto register after she had an asthma attack and missed working the first two weeks of December due to covid.....

Not a good look.

So once again, I'm jobless once more.

Will probably continue to live with my sister for awhile.

But I do not feel as if it's a bad thing....

I met so many good people this year....

My friend's family even gave me 500 usd to cover my rent since I couldn't work for a majority of December.

I've seen evil and good from humanity this year. I've seen acts of god, good friends and what my real family means to me as well as friends I consider family.

This year really made me look back at the person in the mirror and say,

"I deserve better."

And actually worked for it this time.

Oh and after Christmas I got a horrible yeast infection that burns over most of my body currently.

Very accurate doodle to the pain I'm in right now.

(seriously my body is a fungus.)

But hey, good news, I respected myself enough to go to the doctor about it!!

So that's progress.

I really hope 2021 holds good things for me.

Thank you to the mooping 10 server for always being there and keeping me sane,

Thank you tumblr for liking my au and everything.

AND A SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU TO @evartandadam and her family for housing me and my dumb diseased ass. Everyone, she is an angel and I can't express how much she means to me. Please check out her art and buy her stuff on redbubble.

Anyways... Byebye 2020.

I look forward to what I can accomplish for myself this year.

#danachan's posts #personal stuff #new year post #tw: covid #tw: yeast infection

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