#leah’s list of lollicking

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Yay, I’m 22 now!! I think I’ll do a drawing to commemorate it later, but for now I guess here’s my take on the Wild Robot:

OMG IT’S SO GOOD LIKE AHHHHHHHHHH

Please give this film a watch, I have nothing now but mother robot, adoptive father figure and goofball goose now stuck in my head 😭😭

For real though, I wanted to say thank you for anyone who has already sent a birthday wish to me, I greatly appreciate it, but I also wanted to thank you to everyone in general. Life’s been quite a whirlwind for me in the last few years, and now since I graduated from uni back in July I’m still trying to figure out what makes me… well me. I’m not going to have the answer to that question right now, nor in the immediate future, but if I can make a start now, then I hope that one day I can look happily with a full smile on my face being proud of myself despite the many (and I mean many) mistakes I’ve made growing up. From me now: I simply want to say thank you.

Wishing you all well on my birthday. :)

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Oh god, I turn 22 tomorrow (Sunday is already here in the UK and since mine is on the 4th, ahhhhhhhhhh) 🗿

How has my birthday come up so fast like aalsjdbshaokashsh XD

In other news, I’m going to be seeing The Wild Robot in the cinema with a friend later. Can’t wait for emotional devastation woooooo!

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I’m officially doing art fight for this year! Apologies for the really scuffed presentation, trying to get this together on my phone was really awkward 😭😭 But either way, I’ve been randomly allocated Team Seafoam! Looking forward to attacking some of you fellow artists! >:) If you want to know more about my characters I have for this art fight, you can find them on my main profile using the link below!

Art fight profile:

Let the games begin! :)

Artist credits:

@/s0upjuice: Design of Cormac

@/smolnoko: Design of Nova

@/rusty-eevee: Design of Harmony

Team Star Shiners, Sprout and the Cormac profile picture are drawn by myself.

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3 and 9 for the PMD ask game, if you’re still taking these!

Of course, happy to answer any further asks for this ask game! :)

Favourite partner character?

I’m biased because I started with Super, so for me it’d be the PSMD partner, not just because of the story being centred around them and not just the hero, but also their story arc, theme and just all around goofiness heavily plays into how I can sorta see myself in them and how they behave. Super’s story resonates a lot with me in the early stages as it reminded me about my childhood growing up due to being Autistic and being alone, with barely anyone to really talk to cuz I thought of myself as weird. Fast forward a decade when I played the game as a teenager and I still feel the same way even now. PSMD partner holds a special place in my heart for that, as eventually you become friends with them in the game and you realise despite their troublesome personality, they have a good-natured heart, and so for that reason I feel they’re my personal fav in general.

Special shout-out to the Rescue Team and Explorers partners for being great in their own right even if I didn’t grow up with those games (minus the former in its remake), but a close second for my favourite partner is Gates. It’s a similar kind of nature with how they’re all alone and them meeting you finally gave them purpose in life, plus the ending imo is the best out of any PMD game. Partner’s message to the player as soon as they leave is such a gut punch and also playing as them in the post game and not coming back instantly after the credits? Oof, that’s a real double gut punch.

Fair play on the emotional levels Spike Chunsoft. 🫡

What do you ship in the games in general?

Future trio polyamory couple babbbbbyyyyy!! For real though, I ship Dusknoir x Grovyle for the sole purpose of special episode 5 (I really need to give that a rewatch), alongside Grovyle x Celebi as a close contender, but personal headcanon makes me ship these three goofballs because fellow folks on Tumblr have permanently altered my brain chemistry of how I see them, hellllllpppppp

For individual games though, I do ship Hero x Partner in Explorers, mainly due to how they personally grow throughout the course of the story, and even if PSMD is my personal favourite, I will contend that both Gates and Explorers have the stronger stories of all four mainline Mystery Dungeon games. :)

Emolga x Virizion is another obvious candidate for shipping purposes, and I absolutely love the teasing each of the other main characters have whenever Emolga blushes and is caught in the act andndjndfirndi XD Ampharos/Mawile, Wigglytuff/Chatot and even Hero/Gengar are a few others too due to the various natures of what can be explored, but for the most part I’m a friendship sort of guy who appreciates the extremely closely bonded tight knit characters trope! Those have a hold on me unlike any other 😭

Thanks for the ask too! :)

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A fig huh? That’s interesting haha. This is certainly accurate to say the least though I think in terms of personality. :) Thank you for the double tags @driftingballoons and @earthykinous! ^^

For people I tag, I’ll go with @decibelcoatl, @that1sprig, @summermonths, @graminos, @memorywhosshe, along with any of my other followers or people who just simply want to have a go. No pressure if you don’t. :)

Which fruit are you? Find out here!

Tagging: @actuallysaiyan @beneathstarryskies @akiraiscute @randoimago @multi-fandom-imagine @iambilliejeanok @icycoldninja @abellaheart-blog @terabyteturtle @philistiniphagottini

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1 and 10 for the ask game?

Have I played all of the PMD games?

I have not and therefore I’m not actually really a true PMD fan, I guess I’m gonna die-

For real though haha, the ones I have beaten are Rescue Team DX and Super, which was my introduction to the series after having watched a playthrough of Gates on YouTube. I do have a emulator copy of Sky which I hope to eventually get around to playing as well as a digital copy of Gates I bought just before the 3DS eShop got shut down, so hopefully I’ll get the time to eventually play them whenever I get the chance.

Hopefully soon.

Very hopefully soon.

Definitely hopefully and maybe very well truly soon.

*looks at backlog of games*

…Ah shit.

Opinion on Nuzleaf’s character? Also were you surprised by that twist?

Yeaaaaaaahhh, Leaf Dad my beloved! I love Nuzleaf’s character in Super and eventually beginning to warp into beating Dark Matter just to love his surrogate child is probably one of the sweetest things a twist antagonist has out of any of the PMD games. He reminds me a lot of Gengar and Dusknoir who become both unlikeable in the main story but gradually both attached to the relationships of redeeming themselves to the ones they love.

For Gengar, his relationship with Gardevoir as her former partner makes his warped heart finally gain rest as he proves he has love inside of him even after making Hero suffer through absolutely horrible conditions based on nothing than pure conjecture. It’s his love that breaks the curse placed on him and that’s his redemption.

For Dusknoir, him betraying Hero and Partner and the player realising that Grovyle was a main antagonist allowed I feel headcanons to grow about what came after in SE5 and then PSMD which canonically comes after all three other mainline games (I think?) in the series. Dusknoir realising that he has something to fight for makes his love for Grovyle more apparent after their talk, and him even being willing to fight for an unlikely future just to see a sunrise means to me at least he grew into the person who would eventually care for Hero were they ever to reunite.

Nuzleaf’s plot twist definitely hurt when I saw it, as for Hero, the first Pokémon they met is also the very one who supposedly “wiped all their memories” and him going as far to turn them to stone made me go “holy shit” and sit there for a minute to process what happened. After you realise that he’s been nothing but a pawn for Dark Matter the entire time, I feel once he eventually reconciles with Hero and sacrifices himself to attempt to defeat Dark Matter means he would really end up showing love for his child much in the same way Carracosta did. And I really, really want to imagine during when Partner leaves, that Nuzleaf pours his heart and soul into looking after his grieving child.

Hero’s lost everything.

A purpose in the world, as they already fought Dark Matter. Their lifelong friend, one they knew in TWO different eras, and one which they fought alongside as their shared story. Their will to see into the future (hence my PSMD fanfic title 😂).

And rather than kidnapping Mew to reunite themselves with Partner before eventually connecting with them once you reach Master/Grandmaster rank in the game, I think he just wants to do nothing more than to support his lost child for as long as it takes.

Giving everything he has just to make his child happy again. To smile again.

I never really liked the epilogue depiction of his character (the cream gravy line makes me laugh though), but the welcome home line and the found family trope always makes his bond feel really special and hopefully if I can eventually get around to doing it, I definitely want to write a chapter or a one-shot focused squarely on just those two.

Then it can just as much become the Hero’s main story after the Partner had their turn. :)

Waffling aside, thank you so much for the ask!

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Wishing everyone a happy Valentine’s Day, whether you have a special someone in your life or - if you’re like me - loves having both the friends I’ve made on here and my family who’s supported me throughout my life up until now. Hope it’s a good one for you all! 😄

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Wishing all my American moots, followers and anyone who sees this a happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow and I hope y’all enjoy it! :D Never have celebrated it myself cuz I’m British, but hey, nothing stopping me from wanting everyone to have a good one nonetheless. :]

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So I’ve been playing Hollow Knight for over 50 hours now and I’ve just now finally beaten the true Dream No More ending of the game as my first and only ending, and holy shit, I think it’s the hardest game I’ve ever played for my Autistic brain 😭😭 Although I’ve also beaten Another Crab’s Treasure (another really hard game and my only Soulslike I’ve beaten lol), Hollow Knight takes the cake as the most punishing, most frustrating and overall most rage-filled game I have beaten. Some of the bosses absolutely whooped my ass (fuck the Collector, I absolutely despise that boss with a passion lmao), but after however many deaths and attempts I had against the Radiance, I’ve finally beaten her and rolled credits before Silksong even exists, wooooooo!

Without a doubt though, the artwork for the game, the music and the feeling of finally beating some of the hardest platforming challenges (the White Palace - I’m looking at you) and bosses makes this game a 10/10 from me and for only less than £20, it makes it an absolute steal! Now I guess I’m on the hype train for Silksong (haha clown nose go honk), and may do some funny Ghost drawings (rather call them that than just “The Knight” lmao) to seal the deal (maybe).

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How about 4 and/or 7 for the pmd ask thing? :3

Woo, first time I’m taking a crack at this so do expect scuffedness ahead, but let’s see what I can do!

What did you name your hero and partner characters? And why?

In most of my main PMD playthroughs, I would often stick to my main name and go with a default nickname that would come in my head because my younger self was very by-the-numbers, and my existing copies still have my irl name on there as it felt similar to the RPG spirit when I played games like Skyrim and KOTOR, before eventually then settling down on the OC names I got below. I guess I begin giving the rundown of all my OC names, starting with my first PMD game.

Super:

Cormac is based on my irl self, so he shares my name as I thought it would help for immersion, but looking more into it and I realised that my name has a lot of meanings like “son of the raven” and “legendary charioteer”. However, there was one meaning out of pure random spite that I happened to look up and my name had a relation to “tree trunk”, which immediately made me think to the Tree of Life and its role in the story. Whilst the hero’s background as a warrior who fought Dark Matter felt honestly really cool to have as that’s my own first name, my take on his character being that he grows vengeful to those around him and being angsty and very self-doubtful also goes to how it can relate to “corruption”, which I would eventually imagine as the reason why he has his scar over the right eye.

Sprout came from my partner in PSMD in my one and only playthrough of the game which was just simply Bulbasaur and “Bulbs” in Rescue Team DX, before I eventually went with it due to the cabbage dino having a plant on his back (he’s such a dork) and how he sprouted as being a kindred spirit into the reincarnation of Mew that he’s known as today.

Explorers:

Harmony (Explorers Hero) is what I’d like to have if I eventually get around to playing and beating EOS via emulator, but in my mind he would become the deuteragonist of my PSMD fanfic that I think I probably want to rewrite at some point so I have a clear goal in mind where I’d like to take it. His name is supposed to be irony due to Cormac’s only existing harmony scarf and his species as a Riolu of being able to sense aura, but I wanna write the both of them being a one-sided into a temporary two-sided rivalry before they become equal and shared friends.

Flurr (Explorers Partner) essentially begins the trend of being trying to think of a name for the characters as I was unsure of where I wanted to go from the main three I had in my mind, but I guess her name came from Zelda and the “Flurry Rush” ability Link is able to perform in the games, and her rapid nature to attend to Harmony’s ever-increasing sass is what lead me to I think picking her name. She’s also my only female partner character so my mind went “AWWWWW YEAH, HERO X PARTNER TIME” and headcanon flurrfy comments were born. These two goofballs I gotta draw, and also I NEED to draw Flurr’s design, I do wanna imagine what she looks like <3

Gates:

Cormos is again based on my irl name but the last two letters are changed, but he’s my hero and he’s a Tepig. Tepig was the first Pokémon I ever used in any Pokémon game for a starter due to a leant copy I got from one of my older stepbrothers and the rest is history. His name I eventually decided to go with on an as-of-yet started playthrough of KOTOR 2.

Tusk (Gates Partner) came from one of the Club Penguin villain characters you find as the main antagonist of Card-Jitsu Snow and I loooovvveeed playing that as a kid. Often I’d spent upwards of tens of hours playing the parties and virtual worlds and the fact that Tusk is an Axew makes it so much better as it’s as close to a walrus-like creature you can get from the game’s available starters XD

Rescue Team:

Scrald and Planker (Torchic and Totodile Hero and Partners) only came to my head when I wanted to try writing a story prompt for the Hero and Partner week that took place earlier in the year, and because my canon playthrough simply just used my irl name and Bulbs from an OC PMD team I made aggggeeesss ago, those two names popped into my head and they’d eventually stick. Scrald’s name is based on what I imagine is his firey personality, often liking flamed berries and getting very flustered whenever someone tries to help in or puts their confidence in him, often flailing his feathers about without a basic care in the world XD Planker came from the snapping jaws he has when he too gobbles up food, so if they ever went to the Expedition Society or Wigglytuff’s Guild, the two would probably compete in food completions to see if one of them could outlast the other by one-upping them.

Spoiler alert: they both fail.

A lot.

But on the plus side, come the fugitives arc, Scrald (when not eating) becomes the most insecure fire type one has ever laid eyes upon. I like to imagine it much like Harmony that since his name sounds like the move “Scald”, that he’d be feeling warm on the inside whilst they travel to see Ninetails. Only it’s more like “Screw this!” and it being cold. Poor hero has it tough in those games, and that’s where his personality is based on. Planker is more of a blank slate for me, so eventually I’d like to flesh him out, but my brain go brrrrrr

How do you interpret the future trios relationships to each other?

I think all of them ship each other and Dusknoir and Grovyle have something called B E I N G G A Y when special episode 5 comes around, whilst Celebi is being mischievous pink cabbage gremlin with the time travel abilities to play ring-a-ring-a-rosies with the funny ghost man and has to endure his 6+ long hour cardio session of flying around before his Sableye lackeys can even do a thing. If I’m gonna be perfectly honest, seeing yours, Scribz’s and some other people’s perceptions of the future trio have permanently altered my brain to not see them as nothing more than three peas in a squished pod and you can’t change my mind, they’re all poly-coded and love each other that much.

That took a while to write lmao, but thank you for the ask!

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I’ve gone ahead and now made my own art blog based on a poll I did a while ago! You can find my art posts and anything else I do now on @leahveshavefallen!

Hope to see you there! :)

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AHEBDHEBSYWVSGAVWSG I STILL AM VERY HAPPY IT TURNED OUT THE WAY THAT IT DID 🥲 IT’S HIM!!! HIM WITH THE THEME!!

For those unaware of who Cormac is, he acts as my take on the PSMD hero that I’ve been meaning to get back into after a long time because of uni work, and so I’m (hopefully) planning to release the next chapter in the next few weeks to commemorate the 8th European anniversary of the game’s release. Who knows, you may even see my own take on what he looks like… 👀 Hope you guys can stay tuned! (even if I feel like the world’s most scuffed person 😭😭)

here is a character theme i made for my friend @whentheleahvesfall for his character cormac! i tried to capture all of his angst and sadness, and also tried to emulate the super mystery dungeon OST as much as i could. cormac is from leah's PSMD fanfic "To Look Upon the Future", which you can read here along with his other works. he's also an artist and you should check out his blog as well!

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Hi folks, whilst I’ve now officially graduated from uni on Wednesday (yeeeeaaaahhhhh!!!), I’ve been now wanting to catch up on doing Art Fight attacks since I’ve been busy up until this point to try and get some time to myself 😭😭 However, an idea cropped up in my head that I’d like to ask you guys. A lot of the time my main blog has now mostly taken up a lot of reblogs for artwork that I really like the look of and any I find that I enjoy a lot, I use tags to try and allow myself to find the post again if I ever want to allow me to smile. As a result, art that I’ve posted in the past has often gotten obscured by my tendency to often go overboard (Autism go brrrr), and so to think about it, I wondered if creating a separate art blog going forward would be the right choice so then that way my posts can have a better structure to how they appear. I’ve seen a lot of other people have accounts dedicated to specific things they like, so for me, I would only use this separate blog for art that’s made by me or if it involves my OCs in gift art and commissions, and this would only be its intended purpose, so no reblogs from any other places as then that way people can find something I post that if they want to share, then they can. I’ll go ahead and post a poll for the next day as I post this, and I want to see what you all have to say :)

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Ask game :)

Share/talk about 5 things that make you happy and ask the same to the last 10 moots that reblogged one of your posts.

(if you want to of course) 

Huh, I’ve never tried one of these things before. Thanks for the ask @driftingballoons!

I don’t know whether I can do the reblogging part because I haven’t really posted anything in a while due to mostly doing it for other people’s posts, but for things that make me happy, I’ll say:

Music on Spotify (British Pop, EDM, Country and VGM)

Pokémon - specifically Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. I have an appreciation for Super the most because it was the first game I ever started playing, but I like all the games equally based on what I’ve seen. :)

Splatoon. I started with Splatoon 3, but since then despite not having played 2, I’ve become obsessed with the series and it’s become the second thing I absolutely enjoy, most of all squid parties XD My main Splatoon sona is an Octoling that I want to get around to drawing in my own style after Art Fight 😭 XD

Writing & Drawing - I love doing stories and drawing to my heart’s content, because it’s always good to see what can come out of something done by my own hand. Completing an artwork or a story chapter just feels very satisfying 👌

Gaming - Playing games since I was a kid is the very reason I’m attempting to gain a career in the field I’ve now graduated from, which is a BSc in Computer Games Technology. Becoming a developer and playing a multitude of different video games is something I hope I can use as inspiration moving forward as a part of me that hopes to improve himself as time goes on as much as possible.

And there’s my list of five things, peeps! :) Anyone else who sees this is more than welcome to have a go and take part! :D

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Haven’t fully finished setting up my profile yet, but I now have an art fight account and I’ve let myself be randomly allocated to Team Seafoam! Feel free to give a follow if you’d like! :D

https://artfight.net/~WhenTheLeahvesFall

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Me in the future on an average 9-5 when doing game dev work (I’m in the office hopefully not suffering long arbitrary decisions)

But there’s only thing you need to know here… it’s a:

Goose

Goose-sona, look!

But first tag game of 2024 wooooooo! Thank you @graminos and @driftingballoons for the tags!

To tag anyone else who wants to have a go at this, I tag @cyber-wildcat, @memorywhosshe, @thatonekid7617, @thatsadeevee, @aimervee, @cometchasr, @summermonths and anyone else who wants to have a go who is a mutual of mine or just simply wants to participate!

picrew chain!! goosesona time!!

you should totally do this and tag people! here's mine to start:

/nf tags!

@dazed-moth @peckforlovingheck @sssebastion @fionacle @alex-supremacy4 @call-me-frosting-or-not-idc