#light/dark adaptation

[bathask]

自閉症スペクトラム障害,光るもの魅了DSM-5診断基準でキラキラ光るもの好きだが視覚優位ASD感覚探求で明暗順応1人遊びし感覚過敏の視覚過敏で日差し避け幼い頃は日陰探し樹蔭見てたの思い出す。自閉スペクトラム症の月1の精神科通院。大人の発達障害やアスペルガーとか無い為,誤診の時からこの病院通院

[linkedin-offficial]

me when i get the opportunity to think about speculative biology and non-existent game mechanics in media i like

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[radioroxx]

headcanon that people of the islands sleep schedule is like, four hours later than average.

they wake up at mid day, and sleep well past midnight. kids begging their parents on weekends to pleeaaase please let them step up just a little longer to watch the sun rise. early-riser visitors / tourists having to adapt to their horrid schedule because stars forbid theyre up and about at 10:30.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lmao Frank would absolutely keep a list of everything they tried to do to fix this situation. He has his work cut out for him with poor wally as well. Does he know what happened to Sally?

Frank does know what happened to Sally! ofc he caught his first glimpse of her when he sorta woke up, then after he Actually woke up, Wally made sure to sit him down and be like "she will kill you if you go near her <3"

still, Frank didn't really believe Wally. so Wally showed him proof:

and Frank quickly changed his tune.

and honestly, it's more like Wally has his work cut out for him with Frank lmao. cause by the time Frank fully wakes, Wally's pretty much given up. and rightfully so, there's... not really anything he can do except protect his sleeping friends.

so Frank's initial attempts to make a plan kinda went like:

Wally is very earnest about saying "that's nice". it is nice. it's refreshing to have someone around that still believes something can be done, however futile that hope is. Frank will catch on eventually.

[monsterbrush]

A Dark Elf that grew addicted to the light of Alfheim, and a Light Elf who grew repulsed by it.

[typewriter-worries]

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Persuasion, Jane Austen 

[fleurral]

“we accept the love we think we deserve.” — the perks of being a wallflower

[isfjmel-phleg]

No, Goodreads, rereading Ozma of Oz does not mean that I want to read Wicked next. In fact, being a fan of the original series makes me extremely less likely to want to pick something like that up.

[starlostlix]

SPOILERS for the Dark Era LN because i'm slightly rambling about stuff they missed.

Finished the Dark Era light novel a few days back and why did the anime choose to omit the fact that Mori was the one who orchestrated the whole Mimic Mafia and Special Division conflict, and was the one who tipped Mimic off with the location of Oda's orphan children?... Because that's kind of important since it's the REASON WHY THE ENTIRE PLOT OCCURS.

There's so much more depth here with the reason for Dazai leaving the Mafia. Mori's decision to sacrifice Oda and the orphans in the pursuit of a Skilled Business Permit and him trying to find a reason to live in amongst death and chaos of the Port Mafia turning into trying to save people as a reason to live. The whole conversation Dazai and Mori have adds so much to their characterisation and it makes us able to understand the key differences between the two - and why Dazai could never in this universe be Mori's successor. It shows Mori to be very cruel and calculated in the pursuit of benefiting the Mafia where he trades human lives for those benefits, something which in this case Dazai doesn't agree with because Oda is his friend and matters more to him. Dazai's friendship with Oda (and Ango) is an example of genuine human empathy and connection that transcends the roles they are boxed into, which in part makes him in this universe unable to continue with the practices the Mafia utilises. This is especially interesting in comparison to Beast - where B!Oda is not in the PM and therefore B!Dazai never makes this friendship and also never gets told to be on the side that saves people, and without this realisation he is moulded into the next PM boss (or something like that).

We also lose so much of Dazai's emotionality in the anime, which portrays him in a very monotonous emotional state in comparison. I mean think about Oda's description of Dazai's face when the Mimic soldier has the gun to his head - his expression being that of an upset child or something on those lines. Those little details are really important for him and for the reader understanding Dazai (at least to me.)

Also some of the scenes change the literal setting - like before Oda's orphans blow up there's a literal CAR CHASE in the book with Oda literally jumping onto vehicles. Insane stuff I only wish I could have seen animated.

The conversations Oda had with Gide too, which actually helps understand WHY Mimic do what they do to some extent. They're actually really interesting (also yet another example of BSD's anti war messaging which I may eventually have to do an analysis on because it's really intriguing) and I found it really cool that we actually got some backstory for them.

And the Ango details. Just the stuff about how he ended up in the Mafia (which was eventually revealed to be orchestrated by the Special Division) shows how truly capable he is and yet we kind of don't get to see that at all?

Sometimes I think the anime adaptation is like just fine or something but then I read these LNs and see how much they just didn't include that is genuinely so important to either the plot or the characterisation of people in these stories. So then I'm just annoyed.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

okay but maybe instead of a Stormbringer movie, we'll just get Stormbringer as season 6 eventually to fill the gap until there's enough manga content for more??? Would it be possible to stretch SB out to 10 episodes or something, since it's so long? If not, maybe they'd do both SB and 55 Minutes in the same season instead...? or maybe The Day I Picked Up Dazai haha please please- *cries*

[13eyond13]

I hate to say it but a lot of the fucked up stuff in Berserk is what makes it good actually

[ach-sss-no]

Prompt: sailor

I don’t think he sails, so here is Gollum on a paddle log. 

Sometimes I get around the ‘only night and underground lighting!’ thing by putting him outside at dawn or dusk where there’s some natural light... I think he was sometimes out with the hobbits in the early morning in LOTR and only starts freaking out when the sun is over the horizon. 

This here is probably evening, because his attitude is more of someone who’s lazily eyeing a candidate for second breakfast than someone who’s going to be panicking and fleeing the Yellow Face in the next few minutes. 

That bird is something called a ‘bar-tailed godwit’. I looked up UK-region marsh birds, saw that name, and decided that was the bird I wanted to use.

I want to finish this challenge up tomorrow so that on the 25th I can post a collection of the prompt art, so tomorrow two prompts will go up, and on the 25th two posts collecting the highlights of this challenge will go up. Tschuss!

[note-boom]

Azure Apostle was for the disappointment of the Kunikidazai shippers

Dark Era was for the heartbreak of the platonic trio lovers and Odazai shippers

Fifteen was for the annoyance of the Soukoku shippers

Now we have Untold Origins for the found family lovers

[gothamcityneedsme]

gonna.... buy fingersmith soon.

[aparticularbandit]

So I started the dub of Fruits Basket again.

Forgetting, of course, that the primary theme is about life changing and having to be okay with letting go of the past even though the future is uncertain.

More importantly, forgetting that one of the main threads of this throughout the series is Tohru's grief (and guilt) over her mother's death.

....

Well, you know what, my therapist told me to engage with grief as homework the past couple of weeks, so between this and starting Anohana again I THINK IT COUNTS.