#mentions of Kiki

[randowwriter]

What To Do When Boredom Strikes

@ans-arcade I realize I don't know how to write pranks nor do them really, so here's a hopefully decent fic. Obi might need to find something else to pass the time with, actually.

[liltaireissocute]

biblically accurate beersaurus

[fumifooms]

Dunmeshi memes pt 7

Parts : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - (7) - 8 Specials: Canaries - harsh - valentines

[kindlythevoid]

May 11th, Letter from Miss Lucy Westenra to Miss Mina Murray

Dracula by Bram Stoker // @fairycosmos // Pinterest // Us Against You by Fredrik Backman // Daniel F. Gerhartz // To My School Friends by Nivya // Old Friends by Ben Rector // Pinterest // Dracula by Bram Stoker // butterflies rising // Passion by Francisco Soria Aedo // Strawberry Blond by Mitski // Paul and Virginia by Alessandro Puttinati // Pinterest // Dracula by Bram Stoker

Jonathan Harker's Insta Begins Here, Mina's Interlude (prev), Next Insta Post

[monkey-d-lusional]

my fellow zolu-ers, might i indulge you to listen to Tightrope by Michelle Williams (an OST from The Greatest Showman). the lyrics... it's as if they came from Zoro himself

this song talks about choosing to risk your life to AND WITH the person you can trust the most. the lyrics even say, "some people won't sail the sea 'cause they're safer on land... but i'd follow you to the great unknown, off to a world we call our own"

it's as if this song narrates Zoro's zeals: from Luffy inviting him to pursue their dreams together, to them now constantly facing their unknown and dangerous fate.

if that doesn't scream zolu, IDK WHAT DOES!

[kaiser1ns]

hear me out cuz chika reminded me so much of someone and when i was clearing my gallery I saw a picture of akura-ou I CAN'T UNSEEN IT NOW they are both evil and pretty red-heads, chillin like a villains

even tho im speaking mainly visual wise because they personalities are kinda similar in some ways but the thing they have in common is being blunt, violent and confident in their powers, taking parts of doing meaningless and bloodthirsty fights.

also their clothing style too please see what i see ‼️

[kafus]

my orre colosseum team

i spent the past month or so on-and-off breeding this team for orre colosseum in XD gale of darkness, a postgame challenge i've never played through before. the long time was mostly due to being in bagon hatching purgatory for weeks

i planned out the whole team before breeding it. orre colosseum is basically like gen 3 VGC - bring 6, pick 4 with team preview, no repeating held items, battles are in doubles format. there's not anything else quite like it in gen 3 especially because team preview wasn't the standard yet, so i was kind of in the dark when it came to teambuilding. i knew orre colosseum NPCs had preplanned teams by the devs, not randomized out of a pool of pokemon sets like the tower/frontier , which is more in line with the original stadium games, and it was usually considered a fairly difficult challenge, so i had to give it some thought

this is what i ended up with after skimming some resources for the orre colosseum format played by real players, but not checking orre colosseum teams in advance as i wanted to be surprised. the IVs here are weird since like i said, i spent like a month breeding these pokemon manually (hatched around 2000 eggs overall give or take, i wasn't counting all of them) so their IVs aren't perfect across the board.

the main two things i was keeping in mind while teambuilding were speed, protection from explosion/self-destruct, and spread moves that affect the whole field. tailwind and trick room don't exist yet and speed control options are very limited in gen 3, so base speed and training in speed is really important. additionally spread moves that affect the whole field like earthquake and explosion don't have their damage cut the same way moves that only target both opponents do in this gen, so they're extremely powerful and a team needs to both have access to these options and be able to defend from these options.

i was also hellbent on not using any legendaries (box legendaries and mythicals are banned from orre colosseum AKA restricteds, but legendaries like the kanto bird trio are allowed) and not using metagross or gengar, two of the gen 3 doubles GOATs and... idk i'm just tired of using them frankly, i feel like i have enough skill to beat NPC opponents without them, even if they're tougher. so that's why i don't have pokemon like latios on the team, etc.

i will admit that while teambuilding i completely forgot about rock resistance which is pretty relevant in gen 3 in general... i have THREE pokemon weak to rock and no resisted switch-ins. BUT all rock moves in gen 3 are physical, and i have three intimidate users, so instead of changing up the team i was already attached to after realizing this, i just decided to roll with it.

anyway with all that out of the way and the acknowledgement that this team isn't perfect, i'll explain the pokemon one by one:

first up, tangerine! she was actually the pokemon i teambuilt first and was most excited to use since i got really attached to the persian i used in my recent firered nuzlocke named after my friend zur. in fact, she stems from zur's bloodline so i let zur name her, and they picked tangerine lol. other than just wanting to use one of my current favorites though, persian actually has really nice moveset options for doubles - fake out is not common but is incredibly useful in any doubles format, and icy wind is one of the very few speed control moves in gen 3. double-edge with silk scarf rounds her off with some big damage and shadow ball lets her hit ghost types... though i'll admit protect is definitely more optimal here instead of shadow ball, i just really wanted to use shadow ball because of an ongoing inside joke with zur & co about it (look up the tag #/freakylocke on my blog and you'll find it eventually)

i've played three rounds of orre colosseum so far, so the easier ones, but tangerine has been popping off, she's very useful i'm so proud of her.

tenchi the arcanine is next, also a pokemon i was hellbent on using. during my firered nuzlocke i was really excited to use arcanine since it's a version exclusive and i almost always play leafgreen, but my growlithe died early on from a careless crit, and after that i was determined to use arcanine in the battle tower or something to make up for that disappointment. i ended up routing that desire to orre colosseum instead! the aforementioned dead growlithe was also named after a friend, my friend babs, who picked out the name tenchi.

he's pretty straightforward - overheat does massive damage and ideally he gets to use it twice for free because of the white herb. hidden power grass provides extra coverage and extremespeed lets him pick off weakened opponents. protect lets allies safely use earthquake. also my first intimidate user!

next up, firegreen! bulbasaur was my favorite starter for most of my life until sprigatito came around and venusaur is still one of my most beloved pokemon. his name was recommended to me by my friend note. i was just really captivated by the comedic nature of his name, lol.

he's the team's weather control and has access to sleep powder. synergizes nicely with tenchi who can throw out really powerful overheats in the sun, even with a stat drop. and of course solarbeam is great in the sun.

his EV spread is really specific compared to most of the other pokemon on this team - he has enough speed to outspeed uninvested base 85 speed pokemon, he has enough HP/special defense to live a modest max special attack latios psychic, and the rest i dumped into special attack. this bulk has proven incredibly useful in some battles already so i'm glad i did his EVs the way i did. the slower sleep powders is also convenient for the following guaranteed sleep turn.

now louie the gyarados (named by my friend Serena who was once again a nuzlocke encounter from my firered nuzlocke lol) is kind of a weird one. at this point i knew i was probably going to use salamence, a flying type, and i wanted a second flying type (or levitate haver) for double earthquake immunity. i had also already added arcanine and venusaur to the team, fire and grass types, and fire/water/grass is a known good type combination on a team. so i combined these traits with gyarados - having yet another intimidate user isn't half bad to have either!

i bring him to battles more situationally, ie. in the first round i brought him against lovrina's obvious full stall team because taunt just absolutely decimated hr and prevented her from doing literally anything, even with taunt's crappy 2 turn length in gen 3. he's really meant as a support pokemon - speed control with thunder wave, taunt - and he's meant to stick around as long as possible and be annoying, hence protect and brightpowder (gen 3 doesn't have a lot of hold items so i figured i might as well). but of course i have at least one damaging option and i picked earthquake for that.

i don't remember exactly how i EV'd him but i do know i calculated his HP/defense to live... some rock move... so yeah his EVs improve his match-up into rock type attacks. i dumped the rest into attack, but i may adjust later to give him some speed if necessary, dunno. haven't needed it thus far.

now here's scramble, the only pokemon i actually named myself... her name takes after the sheer amount of eggs i hatched for her, over 800. it was torture. don't ask (lighthearted)

she's the premier damage output of this team and i often lead with tangerine and her so tangerine can use fake out and allow her to get off a substitute, which keeps her safe from most status moves and an attack, and then she can set up dragon dances and absolutely go to town with hidden power flying and earthquake.

i actually ran into a battle with a ditto out of the few battles i've played so far and wound up in a situation where i had to deal with the ditto copying scramble's own singular dragon dance and posing a huge threat to the rest of my team. intimidate really came to the rescue there lol

somehow she ended up being the only non-kanto pokemon on this team. that was not intentional.

and last but not least, scoop! my friend rat recommended the name ice cream scoop, which obviously doesn't fit within the 10 character limit, but i got really attached to the "scoop" part and went with that. he's very straightforward - incredibly fast max speed coverage that hits decently hard and can clean up games from the back. the lum berry is there to prevent him from getting paralyzed or otherwise have his cleanup stopped by status, an d he has protect for ally earthquakes, explosions, etc.

and yeah that's the team. i love them. they took such a ridiculously long time to put together but totally worth it. i'm excited to get back to more orre colosseum when i get the energy

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The Magic Circle – John William Waterhouse // Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy Part II) – Kiki Rockwell

[beedreamscape]

I love how Marisha makes her characters obsessed with Charcuterie Boards

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

kiki & kaka are so wild cuz when they describe their backstory in the adventurer's bible they mention that their parents are nomads who had problems with money so there was a chance that they were left behind on purpose but it's equally likely that said parents just. died and couldn't come back for them. but there's like no bitterness when they say it it just comes across as incredibly matter-of-fact. either they don't care or they've just accepted that their bio parents are gone from their lives for good and that there's no point in dwelling in it. it comes across as a bit cold hearted, but also being able to put that part of their lives behind them so successfully is proof the flokes really loved them despite the difficulties the interspecies/racial adoption created

[shkika]

so how does sliver and moon's first interactions go? is it during moon's early days, during pebbles' construction? or after pebbles?

Oh this is such a fun ask actually.

Hardcore brainstorming and headcanons on Moonie and Sliver’s interactions below!

Firstly my Sliver disappears shortly after NSH and Wind are built (those two are finished at an unusually similar time). She never gets to meet Pebbles or Innocence.

Secondly she meets Moon waay before the local group is a thing. Way before local groups as a concept were even a thing. In the beginning there were just too few iterators for that to happen.

Moon was one of the first. She is OLD. Moon is a senior supreme. Sliver comes perhaps one or two generations after her so the difference isn’t all that big there.

At the time, local groups weren’t a thing and different cities talked to each other and had to nudge their children to interact and be working partners (or even groups if there were enough participants for that). All in the hopes that the great problem would be solved faster.

This is kind of what happened to SOS and LTTM! Their colonies started talking and so those two were nudged to become working partners of sorts.

Moon at the time was a bit less willing on the whole group work shenanigans, because she felt fully capable of working on her own. But it is what her parents wanted so she went along with it.

Too bad Sliver saw that as an opportunity to make a friend and not a working partner. She didn’t care all that much about focusing her processes on anything more than getting to know Moon better. And when Moonie didn’t really open up to her proposals of friendship, she just started being annoying instead and poked her.

Thas was only their for first few interactions though. Maybe not the most pleasant at first, but Sliver would soon gain a lot of respect for Moon’s determination and perfectionism. That is a person who always tries very hard no matter what, something she never manages to do herself. And she, from being slightly jealous, starts really looking up to her for it.

Moon on the other hand starts finding Sliv more and more genuinely entertaining and fun to be around. From being stuck in her own thinking box and fulfilling a certain purpouse, Sliver teaches her there is a lot more fun and wonder to be had in the world. Purpoused organism this purpoused organism that, Moon is her own person with her own autonomy. Life isn’t what others want from you. She really opened another way of thinking for Moon which that early in the timeline was something she’s never even considered properly.

Both get to learn a lot from each other and form a relationship out of mutual respect and care. Augh they are just so wonderful.

[christiangeistdorfer]

MARKKU ALÉN at the 1979 RALLYE AUTOMOBILE MONTE-CARLO

[renegadeknight]

@oliviassunrise tagged me (ages ago) for nine favorite movies so here they are!

No pressure tags: @sixhours @bumblepony @becomethesun @captainredspade @ameerawrites

[horn-of-leo]

[indilaras]

VR-LA's Delivery Service!

ID: a digital illustration of VR-LA from Rolling with Difficulty. He is dressed up like Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service, but he keeps his hat and his scarf. He is flying across the night sky on a broom based on the Clockwork Staff.

[kafus]

as a CSA survivor and pwDID i found the premise of HZ015 to be kind of mortifying. i don’t know how intentional or unintentional it was, but the imagery of an adult man luring a young girl into an alleyway, wiping her memories/fogging her brain and in the midst of that, stealing something she was wearing on her body, and then pretending to be a good guy and walking off leaving her with amnesia, confused and alone, is like. it’s a lot actually.

and i’m incredibly emotional about liko being able to reconnect her memories through sprigatito, and the adults rushing and doing their best to save her, and the first faces she sees after all of it are roy and dot’s… shit makes me want to cry dude, HZ015 and HZ016 mean so much to me i think about them a lot. seeing liko get help. seeing so many people worry about her. she’s not alone even if she temporarily can’t remember. and then she’s even able to rescue what was stolen. symbolically i just. Sobs in a puddle. this post is getting incoherent