#lof ramblings

[zerachielamora]

Yeah I'm totally normal about the Layers of Fear couple

[zerachielamora]

FAM I'M WITH YOU THERE I PLAYED THE GAME OVER 3 TIMES AND I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND IF I ALSO ADDRESS YOUR LONG TAGS LIST AHAHA

-The extra voice acting for the old notes and the new notes are so good! Lots of extra info for the Painter and his family I LOVE IT

-Ghost wife's new design is very melty, I think I prefer her old twitchy one but this one is still creepy as fuck

-Yeah Idk why the Rat Queen called the daughter a rat out of the blue there? Does she hate her? Hard to say haha

-So cute that the Wife/Musician also played the flute and loves the color green! But yeah, she definitely has brown eyes in her portraits (not to mention the game art for 2023 has her with brown eyes too so far as I know that's canon lmao I mean the Painter has brown eyes as well)

-The Actor's gloves are pretty cool

-The Writer is great! I love her, I should draw her sometime but rn I have Painter/his family brainrot

-Yeah the 'just leave the house' endings for the Painter and the Wife I found bizarre, especially since his ending where he did that had no dialogue or whatever? Like cmon give us something haha but I suppose they're supposed to be like 'joke endings' or something?

-I'M STILL BAFFLED THEY CHANGED HOW MR. SCOOTER LOOKED?? LIKE THEY EVEN LEFT IN THE OLD DESIGN AT SOME PARTS I DON'T GET IT (also salty he doesn't meow in Inheritance)

-"I loved him the most when he lost himself" like dude the Rat Queen is so effing creepy and her talking about the painter is like BRUH

-I'M DOWN WITH THE LOVECRAFTIAN SHIT tho I'm still unsure who we're supposed to think the Director is, been trying to find that out ever since 2 came out (I have a number of theories but any of them could work)

-DUDE SAME I WANTED TO KNOW HOW THE PAINTER AND WIFE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE RAT QUEEN AND MADE CONTRACTS WITH HER! Also did they know about each other's contracts or just their own?

-OMG the agency I made a possible theory about this the other day! I was thinking how in the Final Note that the Wife mentions going abroad to see her family and the agency was formed after her suicide, and the contest had a bunch of American writers in it, so I'm thinking she has family over in America? Either way if her family started the foundation/agency that started the contest that means her family knows about the Rat Queen!!

Spent the past few days watching Layers of Fear (2023) walkthroughs

[skyward-floored]

It’s botw’s birthday and I think we should all be very loud about Wild and what a cool guy he is

Happy birthday champion! 🎉

Look at him go!!! what a guy <3

[mechagic]

People who are "recovering" from antishipping are so weird

Like what are you recovering from being hot and sexy? You didn't want to get any bitches but got too many as an antishipper? You don't want a shitton of bitches so you became a proshipper?

[theydoctor]

There are some enlistment posters among them, which. yk. it would be kinda weird to have a poster proclaiming "fight for king and country - enlist today!" hanging in your room, but it's not like i think it's a good thing, i just fkng adore those replicas for portraying my special interest, if that makes sense. anyway pls vote <3

[dea-marte]

Well Initially i was thinking about romancing Lucanis but i did saved Minrathous over Treviso

Broke my heart to see Antiva like that but Im commited to the Role 😤

Davrin has my whole heart 😍😍😍

[chiara-hotel]

𝒟𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓂

Characters: Blade, Dan Heng, Robin, Jingliu

Warnings: Pre-plotline Jingliu (back in the quintet, spoilers for various quests, penacony spoilers (Robin), Pre-plotline & during plotline Robin, Small spoilers for Luofu questline(?) (Jingliu)

Part 2 Here: (w/Aventurine, Acheron & Boothill)

Part 3 Here: (w/Sunday & Black Swan)

- Main love languages is gift giving & acts of service

- Whenever he’s on a mission and sees something that reminds him of you he immediately buys it

- As for acts of service well he’ll help you out all the time, cooking, cleaning, opening the door for you etc.

- A quieter person also, but blade enjoys just sitting there and listening to you ramble on about life

- Most times you do a bunch of things and then blade follows you around like a little lost puppy… Its adorable

- Cuddles are not uncommon but not common either-it really depends on blades current mood for if he decides to cuddle with you (or if you ask him 100 times)

- Blade gets both Jealous & Possessive quite easily

- All it takes is one look from a man, not even suggestively, even if it’s looking at you for 0.5 of a second, blade is already on their throats

- It did depend on who you prefer to date, if you only like males he’s a little less jealous around women, although if you like both he’d ready to murder everyone in the world

- Blade doesn’t show much emotion, often you can’t figure out what he’s thinking

- His favourite date spots include picnic dates or small cafe dates

- Remember he’s a wanted criminal so he can’t go anywhere too public, that said he dislikes PDA a lof

- Blade would rather keep any affections between the two of you only, not even for the other stellaron hunters to see

- Some gifts Blade gives you include souvenirs from different worlds he goes to, a sword to protect yourself (if you need it) and some cute stuffed animals he saw that reminded him of you

- Hes the quiet type in the relationship most of the time

- Likes affection in private, but in public he loves kisses (on the cheek, or small kisses on his lips), hugs or even holding hands

- Cuddles are his favourite, he doesn’t care too much in who hugs who

- Especially loves physical touch & giving you gifts

- Its adorable seeing your face light up when he gives you something

- You both have a shared room in the express so most of the time you both just cuddle while you sleep

- Loves forehead kisses, especially when you give them-it makes him blush every single time

- During the trailblaze mission of the Luofu he tried avoiding you in his Imbibitor Lunae form (but he knows he can’t hide forever and you guys have to fight together so you end up seeing it)

- His tail gives away his emotions away whenever hes in that form (its adorable)

- Oh and March is your #1 shipper

- Shes gotten a lot of pictures of the two of you when you guys weren’t looking

- Robin is similar to the other two, fairly quiet in the relationship

- As a popular singer you attend all of her concerts and help give her some luck

- As well as calm her nerves when needed

- Loves cuddling! Its her favorite pastime (small spoon)

- Physical touch means a lot to her, cuddling, handholding, hugging, anything

- In public Robin loves holding your hand, keeping you close to her

- In private, she enjoys cuddling you, hugs again, but she adores when you touch her wings (watch her get all flustered from that)

- Also enjoys giving you gifts

- Many of her fans adore you, some are very jealous though…

- Speaking of jealousy she doesn’t get too jealous-if you spend too long ignoring her though she’ll start sulking just a little bitbit

- Her fans are definitely jealous at you both, they wish they were in your place all of the time

- You’ve met Sunday plenty of times, the first time you both met he threatened you if anything happens to her

- But he understands how much his sister loves you and ends up accepting you

- When Robin “dies” in the Penacony dreamscape you and Sunday teamup to find the murderer as the ultimate duo

- Of course he makes you do most of the labor

- In the end, you end up like Sunday when you both confront Gallagher

- Jingliu adores her partner

- Naturally, the other 4 members of the quintet love you aswell-you often hangout with eachother

- Jing Yuan tells you stories about Jingliu on missions, Yinqing is quiet yet you both chat about smaller things like food or tea, Dan Feng is most likely the busiest out of the 4

- Around the Quintet Jingliu doesn’t mind if you hug her, hold her waist, hold hands or even kiss

- Most likely she’ll have her arm around your waist to keep you close

- Other than the quintet, she generally doesn’t do any actions of PDA except hand holding (+ an occasional kiss)

- She actually isn’t a jealous person, even if she is (which never happens), shes great at hiding how she truly feels

- With her, you’ll wake up to her arms around you, forcing you to sleep and stay with her longer

- One adorable thing she does is she always kisses you on the forehead before leaving for a mission

- As she returns from a mission, she is often tired and loves to cuddle you

- In those moments shes a small spoon-but usually Jingliu perfers being the big spoon

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[radical-rigatoni1]

What the hell is in this fanfiction?? I fckin animated??? What the shell man what did you and alighterwood put in that @erinwantstowrite

Ramblings, 80% unimportant 20% abt the video

Remembered how fun lip synching in and remembered how frustrating lip synching is. Some words, one go bam bam. Some... not so much.

Also erin ignore the ask i sent you ignore itttt i needed that for this but then realized YOUR PROFILE PICTURE! 0 for me- 1 for noticing obvious things. Maybe more. Lost track 15 years ago

. Also i know i keep putting peter's little jacket on but i am having trouble with drawing arms without fabric and i know its technically he does have fabric but i mean LOSE fabric. If i take it off that would make me lose motivation way sooner if i was just like "UGH THIS DOESNT LOOK RIGHT!!!!" 24/7. I have learned to just go fck it, as long as i have fun the lip sync looks good and i get my main idea across... good enough but im still TRYING to hit myself w that mindset doesnt mean it'll switch immediately 😭👍 still thats gonna be my new mindset for the year....midway through. I would love to say im gonna shut up right now but at this point we both know im not really gonna.

ALSO, I HAVE SOMRTHING SLIGHTLY PLANNED for LOF again, so mayb possibly more fanart. No guarantee bcs im on the fence about how it'll look and how much I'll like it once i get that idea on paper. It's about the new chapter 😌 Dink and Peter are really sweet. I liked that they were both rly awkward on how to take the next step. Eager to, but not entirely sure in the other's stance. It's nice from both POVs ❤️❤️ once again. The writing in that fic is beautiful

Quadruple also!!!! I wanted to put more stuff around where peter was by the graves but then my titi's came by and i completely forgot the crazy idea i was grasping on to and had to scrap. I think it was super crazy though and my limited animation skills can only do so much before my brain turns to mush.

Quintuple also!!! YEAH!

[erinwantstowrite]

ERIN!! TELL US ABOUT THE ONE PIECE AU AND MY LIFE IS YOURS.

Also tooth gap Peter fits sm I’ve never seen anyone do that before??

ok ok ok because i love you guys,,,, I don't have a lot about the au and it's mostly just ramblings, but it's a mix of LoF with the OP (unless later, I decide I like a different au to base it off of, or I go compeltely original) story wise

Bruce Wayne watches his parents get murdered, and he becomes a vigilante for Gotham Island. He ends up collecting a bunch of orphans like usual, of course. Dick was still in a travelling circus (they weren't pirates), and he becomes a vigilante right alongside Bruce. The world government declares them as pirates to make them stop, and Batman doubles down. Hard. He buys a boat (dubbed the Batboat, by Robin!), and they protect Gotham. The citizens don't care that their heroes are pirates, they just know they need heroes, because nothing gets done about the criminals there.

The others are brought along in succession as usual (though Jason doesn't die, die, I think? details fuzzy on that). But none of them have eaten devil fruits, they're all just "normal" people. Gotham is NOT under control by the world government. Jim Gordon is still working in law enforcement, blah blah. The other heroes are pirates or they have their own system set up in different islands.

And on the other side of the world are the marvel cast. This is a lot more spotty because I hadn't thought as hard about it. But while Bruce collects orphans, Peter is out there collecting mentors in the way Luffy collects his own crew. Idk exactly the details on that just yet, but I assume it would be based off the LoF au. I just really like this version of Peter (mine)

[strkyoo]

GHHHRRFF,,,, 101 NOTES RRATAYYAYAYAYA THANK U SO MUAJJJJ 🧎🧎🧎🧎❤️‍🔥

HOLY SJISEJSHAUHS 52 NOTES ON MY KAEYA ALBERiCH??? TYANK U SO MUCHHHH 🦅🦅🦅💐💐💐💐💐💐❤️‍🔥

[bryndeavour]

thinking about Alan Wake 2 in both the actual literal timeline (how did this happen and when and what the timeline is) but also in a bigger sense - what all lof this says about creativity and mental health...

I truly relate to Saga's experience in the dark place! As soon as I saw her mapping out her own fears and doubts - managing them in a LOGICAL way so as to not invalidate them - but accept them and move on. THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. And this is also how my brain works. She doesn't 'defeat' Other Saga because that darkness is inside everyone, but she logically breaks it down that no - its not the end and I can do better and these doubts are not the definition of me. It's really important o say - yes this one thing is true but so is this other thing and THATS OKAY AND BOTH CAN EXIST AT ONCE.

Meanwhile - proclaimed 'manic depressive Alan Wake has been broken in two and his worst fears doubts and angers are POWERFUL AND REAL and he has never been able to move aside from those emotions to logically work out that it was all just HIM THE WHOLE TIME. 13 years his greatest villain - stalker of his life - was just a version of himself.

And as a writer I do think it's nifty to put a face on the 'other' part of our creative self. Mr. Scratch hasn't just been terrorizing... hes also been writing (but again - hes just Alan) BUT ALSO anyone I know who is a writer has multiple versions of their writing self. I have NIGHT ANGE and DAY ANGE. And night ange is UNHINGED and rambling and daring and dirty... and Day Ange? She has to reread and revise and add the SENSE to things and tie them together. Many of my writer friends have similar angles and personas to their writing life. We aren't insane.. we're just creatives that have to reconcile all of these angles of ourselves.

Alan isn't able to. NOT YET. But Alice know - cause she's his wife and knows him and his method better than anyone and will be able to steer him in her way to help him get out of this. ALSO AS A MARRIED PERSON I FEEL THIS. I am tuned in to my husband like no one else. Even when he can't see the steps he's taking to improve, I can. I dont know.. ITS A LOT AND ITS SO MEANINGFUL.

ANYWAY. I don't know. It speaks to me so much about the self and creativity and how our mental state can take us to dark places and creating through all of it AND JUST WANTING TO SLEEP but the story dear god the story has to go on and get out.

God I love this fucking franchise so much.

[zerachielamora]

Does anyone actually want me to post the Layers of Fear removed content or does no one care-

[nerdee-blondee]

can i interest y'all with a ramble for my rook while i build upon the LOF background that they gave us ? 🥺🥺

(certified yapping under the cut)

SO for Valeria, the Lords aren't a place that she initially wanted to end up; but when the seekers and templars stormed their way into the circle of dairsmuid and were killing mages, she was quickly shoved onto a LOF ship to escape the chaos to survive (changing her name to rook and all that).

now, years later, she's found a new home with the Lords and is rising up the ranks. she has a carefree attitude and cares deeply for every crew that she's with. she is very popular with other members of the Lords for her carefree attitude on the seas when issues arise. (and she has a knack for finding the best kinds of treasure in lost tombs and graves so other members like being on the same crew as someone who gets them the most loot LOL)

now where the background starts, this opportunity is a golden one. this "dangerous artifact" is her chance to possibly even becoming one of the top members of the Lords. also this is her first time as leader/captain of an expedition. anytime before when she was offered a leadership role, she always turned it down. she has never seen herself as a leader. she is comfortable in a supporting role and not having to make "the big decisions". but this Rivaini noble asked for her personally, so how could she refuse?

(now also, in my head, this ruin that they are excavating could be of course a lair of the Dreadwolf {because connections and symbolism and all that} when they first enter she'd probably make some snide comment about Fen'harel because of course she would LOL)

spirits were high has the expedition started. crew members were excited. and Valeria was feeling confident. until a few days in. there were whispers that the artifact that they were looking for was even more incredibly dangerous than they initially thought. and that the noble they were working for had other plans. but Valeria kept her team together and told them they had a job to finish. until they finally found the artifact. some of the elven members of her crew looked at it and theorized that in order to unlock its gifts and power, a bountiful blood sacrifice would need to be made. and most likely the crew were the intended sacrifices.

to say that Valeria was enraged, would be an understatement. something you should know about my girl is that she is one of the most chaotic good people you could probably meet. she could be a sarcastic and unserious asshole-ish type, but she has peoples best interest at heart and will defend the helpless no matter what. so realizing that her first expedition as leader was to lead her crew into a slaughter. not only will she be literally incensed and seeing red, but that would be a huge blow to the way she views herself as a leader (making her more reluctant to the title when VG comes around)

when she realizes this, Valeria's first goal is to secretly get her people out of that ruin. and when she does that she intends to have "a word with her superiors". and it goes as well as you'd expect. a lot of fighting ensues and probably venatori show up, and she takes them all down by herself. she is fueled by rage and betrayal frankly.

Valeria is not one for murder, she has killed before in defense but she never goes out of her way to end people's lives. this however was different. she slaughtered all the venatori. basically tore them apart with her magic (probably enhanced by her rage and hell maybe even being in Fen'harels temple). she was cruel in a way they probably didn't expect. and she enjoyed it. how dare they? now they will pay for this. and when she finally go to that corrupt Rivaini noble, she drew out his death

(like the picture shows) she drowned the noble slowly, and watched him sink slowly to the abyss without ever taking her eyes off him. after that, she probably unintentionally started unlocking its power with the bloodbath she just committed. she starts to sense the power she can have and she without hesitation she discards it. she crushes it or somehow destroys it and throws it into the abyss where the noble is in his watery grave. and with that she decides to also destroy the ruin she is in. so hopefully no one else is tempted to return.

this whole ordeal traumatizes Valeria. Yes, she saved her crew and they viewed her as a hero. But she uncovered a dark side to her self that she never knew she had. and when her superiors suggested that she step away from the Lords until tempers calmed down, she jumped at the chance.

and in VG when varric makes her the leader of the group, this group that is charged to save the world from not only a double blight but 2 once trapped and powerful elven gods: she is frankly, not thrilled.

[teal-skull]

Watch me ramble about finnish culture and language again

One finnish phrase I like a lot is:

"Se ei ole mistään kotoisin"

Meaning: Worthless, insignificant, " it's not worth the paper it's written on."

Literal translation: It is not from anywhere

There's also possible variations to this. You can ask "Onko se mistään kotoisin?" (Is it from anywhere?) to ask if something is worth it or if it is good.

From Kotus' website I also found a variation of saying "olla jostakin kotoisin" (be from somewhere) to mean talent or excelency in something. "Hän oli vähän kaikista kotosin" = Hän (he/she) was good a little bit in everything. (literal translation: Hän was from everywhere a little bit.)

I like this saying because it is fun expression. I personally also like to use it to mean that something has no personality (because if it has personality it wouldn't feel homeless but like it was from somewhere)

Another reason is that it's an examble of finnish culture being hidden in plain sight in the language we use: The finnish regional loyalty. I talk about this behind the cut.

(hate to use Käärijä as an examble again but a good examble of regional loyalty and city rivalry was when he, a Vantaa man called people of Espoo "rich bastards from Espoo" multible times while having a gig there. Vantaa and Espoo are neighbour cities but completely different in their profiles: Rich/happy Espoo and poor/dirty Vantaa.)

Roman Schatz, a german-born finish author who has been living in Finland since the 1980s, writes about this as well in his book From Finland with love / Suomesta, Rakkaudella. * His observation actually made me pay attention to this phrase. It has been a while since I read this book, but I think Schatz wrote that finnish people are obsessed about where some one is from and it is visible in the sayign "olla mistään kotoisin".

I have witnessed this in my own life as well, because Finns love making fun of their neighbouring regions and cities and mocking them. (Turku and Vantaa especially get a lof ot hate in my experience). Stand up comedians often make jokes about the citizens of certain cities/municipalities and there is even a kinda popular tv game show "Stadi vastaan Lande" (Stadi aka the City (Helsinki) against the countryside (rest of Finland outside Ring III motorway and capital city region) Where teams from both the capital city area, and the "lande" answer trivia questions about the area they are not from. The whole show rests on the competitiveness and friendly bickering between stadi and lande.

Your own hometown is always the best and people often ask where are you from and you are proud of being from Savo region for examle. This also means that when there's a punch of finns from different parts of the country we become competitive and if there is rivalry between the cities (and there are many of those) dissing is curanteed to ensue.

*. In his book, Schatz writes about his observations about Finland and Finns and our culture in a humoristic, almost complaining tone. I really recommend this book for all you suomeaboos out there because the printed book has both the original engoish edition and on the flip side the finnish translation and that is propably helpfull with learning finnish s well. Maybe it is not the deebest posible insight, but at the time of reading the book I felt like he was able to be both hilarious and shed light into what Finland and finnish people are like.

[wyta-tidalhound]

Finally gave Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon a go and so far I’m having kinda mixed feelings.

Expand for big ramble

I’m excited we get to play as other characters again and exploring the island with them is pretty fun. But their gameplay feels a bit off? Unpolished? A lof of their platforming sections feel like I’m performing some kind of difficult glitch in an area I should be careful not to clip out of. I often feel pretty directionless too and only figure out things by accident. Or I find a way to fly over the challenge to skip it completely. This might just be me not having played for a while and being rusty, but after looking online, I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed quite a difficulty spike.

At first when I switched back to Sonic I felt relieved. The spin dash is really cool and I figured that since the game is mostly designed around him, I’d get less frustrated. That quickly changed once I started my climb on the first tower though. After maybe ten tries or so I decided to put the game away for the time being cuz of getting too frustrated.

I don’t mind a challenge every now and then, but if I keep going “just gotta get through this and then we’re back in the flow again” over and over without getting in that flow again somewhere in between, that’s not fun to me. I really wanna enjoy playing this, but I dunno if that’s possible if the entire DLC keeps feeling like that for me

[the-bjd-community-confess]

I know that I need to stay focus and just keep posting on whatever doll stuff I do. But sometimes I'm kinda hating myself for being too late to join the hobby network and social media, especially as a faceup artist. Felt that in the past, it is way easier to get recognized and not many competitor. These day, lof of similar post are swarming and I felt mine is lost in nowhere. Sorry for the rambling, but my doll motivation is a bit plummeting

~Anonymous