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[insert-the-4thwall-entity]

bit of brainstorming for object-formers thanks to a tag in @randomationality's repost of approval

Most object shows are similar to gameshows or competition driven, but the idea i have for object-formers is not really competition driven, like modern objects and some parts of hfjONE. The main question i gave myself was 'If transformers prime was a show with objects as their cast, but not in the same way that BotBots did it, what would it be and how will the plot change?' and from there i sorta just go from there try to make something out of it.

If i were to make a object-formers shows was a thing here's how i'd portray it:

The genre would be action-slice of life, cause it will alter between dealing with the antagonists and dealing with life. Also, may or may not incorporate some g/t tropes in it -

In this world, there are two main types of objects - normal objects and utiliterians(this au's equivalent to cybertronians), which are giant object who are semi-biological androids/robots in disguise from elsewhere in the galaxy that have moved to earth. Not sure how to rename the autobot and the decepticons, so they're just gonna be called bots and cons for now. The plot follows the lives of Stopsign(Jack), Flipphone(Miko) and Monitor(Raf) as they're now involved with the utiliterian war and under the protection of the bots. It will be half-similar to the original plot of tfp.

Idk what else to put, so here's concept art of Aximus/Axe(Optimus)(ft. Stopsign Jack and his mom Dangersign):

anyways hope y'all enjoy this -

[tesnuzzik]

Wrapping up a big project this weekend, so from then on I can shift some focus to getting the Raven and the Runaway comic up and running again :) It's a bit of a rough ride and the story has changed massively but I'm also much more satisfied with the result so far, which is a much more sense making first story than what I was originally working on

[samglyph]

As a horror guy I vehemently do not support hatred towards romance girlies. Sister genres in my opinion. We both enjoy familiar tropes. We both enjoy interesting relationship dynamics explored between two or more people. We both enjoy werewolves.

[inkdragon42]

Here's Martin Luther King Jr's "Tough Mind," from his book Strong Love

I feel like the points he's getting at are very relevant (even if may be put off by the fact that it's from one of his sermons) First encountered it in a Sociology 101 class...

sorry the text is kinda small, but it's really worth a read

(my crappy sparknotes-esque summary beneath the cut)

He challenges people to be "wise as serpents and gentle (his translation says 'harmless') as doves" (which is from the Bible)

basically, saying that people need to be able to hold both critical thinking/reasoning (cutting through lies, seeking truth) and to keep love/empathy for others (to care about the people around them) at the same time

and yeah, there's tension between the two, but that push and pull is a vital part of bringing about change and encouraging human flourishing

as opposed to complacency

[deaddriv]

Translated with permission!!

Here's the author's Twitter (achu_0u0) and the original post!

Note from author: Wouldn't it be hard for half-foots to go to the movie theater?

[dredgesnails]

so... wild life, huh?

[hauntedhamster]

[wtfforged]

my campaign hiatus has gone on for too long so to cope ive combined my interests at their maximum potency and had some dnd-strawhats thoughts

thoughts in depth under read more... :)!

this is SO self indulgent. their designs literally did not change. but i am a firm believer that dnd doesnt have to be european high fantasy. and also one piece literally IS fantasy. no changes are necessary to fit into dnd. ive already imagined plenty of campaign/oneshot ideas inspired by one piece. so this was basically just an exercise of trying to replicate their canon abilities in dnd 5e as much as possible without totally homebrewing everything. well. aside from luffy. you just cant take away or change his stretching.

LUFFY: (human monk. drunken master subclass. outlander)

the only plain human of the crew to balance out with the fact that he still has rubber powers. obviously a monk. but drunken master subclass specifically because i think the flavor(not the fact that its about being a drunkard) and abilities both fit him really well. this line in the subclass' flavortext especially fits him: "A drunken master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe."

ZORO: (tiefling fighter. samurai subclass. bounty hunter)

a fighter with the samurai subclass is so very incredibly obvious... but i actually had a lot of fun geeking out while comparing the abilities to what he can do in canon; Fighting Spirit, Rapid Strike, and Strength Before Death especially! tiefling is also pretty on the nose for his demon pirate hunter shtick and asura form, but i thought he'd be really human-passing for a tiefling and theorized about his tail getting cut off at some point or another before joining the strawhats. initially wasnt gonna give him a feat, but i gave sanji a feat so i thought itd be unfair to not give him one as well, so sentinel fits the bill pretty well i think!

NAMI: (tabaxi rogue. arcane trickster subclass. criminal)

cat burglar -> full grown literal humanoid cat. this one is INCREDIBLY self indulgent... i love... cats... theres nothing deeper to this and no other reasoning. i took cat burglar and ran with it. can you tell that i love izutsumi dungeon meshi? rogue for the aforementioned burglar-ing as well, and the arcane trickster subclass for when she picks up climatact! the mage hand will be very useful for her pickpocketing. in the future as she levels up with timeskip, i can totally see her multiclassing into wizard as well! weather wizard!

USOPP: (lightfoot halfling artificer. artillerist subclass. urchin)

I HAD SO MUCH FUN THINKING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER SHEET. halfling's Naturally Stealthy ability lets him hide behind his crewmates since theyre (almost) all bigger than him, so its perfect for hiding behind zoro or sanji all the time. Lucky is also perfect for him, and I think Brave fits pretty well too when he puts on the sogeking mask. artillerist artificer is also very fun! tinkering and making magic items for his crew, and i think Eldritch Canon or Arcane Firearm could both be easily reflavored as kabuto or any of his inventions. for emphasizing his sniper-ness, the spell sniper feat was also necessary. i think hes my favorite of all the concepts. big ears and long nose combo is so cute to me.

SANJI: (half-elf monk. drunken master subclass. guild artisan (cook!))

race was mostly based on vibes i wont lie. squints. and that vinsmoke balogna or whatever too ig. but mostly vibes. along with the idea that i think a dwarf zeff raising him would be really funny and cute. monk is also obvious, and same subclass as luffy for mostly the same reasons. though the flavor fits him much less, i think the abilities still fit him perfectly, and this blurb specifically; "Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer." i really wanted to give him a different subclass from luffy, but i dislike all the other monk subclasses a lot and i found none of them fit him as well anyways, so to try and give them SOME differences, i gave him the crusher feat.

CHOPPER: (awakened deer(shifter statblock) cleric. life subclass. hermit)

this ones definitely a mouthful im sorry. awakened deer for obvious reasons, but due to magic instead of devil fruit stuff. when i was struggling with his race, i looked a lot at shifter because of his forms, but it occurred to me that itd be super cool if he could shift between all of the different shifter options instead of being stuck with just one to replicate his rumble balls. something like heavy point/guard point=beasthide, horn point/arm point(?maybe?)=longtooth, walk point/jumping point=swiftstride, and brain point=wildhunt. hed definitely need some kind of nerf though to balance out that homebrew... and cleric for class. duh.

ROBIN: (high elf wizard. order of scribes subclass. criminal)

robin is definitely the one i struggled the most with just because of her class. elf came pretty easily- shes very elegant and i think shed look cute with super long ears- and i landed on high elf instead of wood elf for the int-based abilities. i was really on the fence between sorcerer and wizard for her because i knew shed be a full spellcaster, but i didnt feel that any of the subclasses really fit her. i ended up going with wizard for order of the scribes since it focuses on texts and knowing everything. but also because robin with a flying talking sentient book would be crazy cool. it could also be similar to how she spawns mouths and eyes places to talk to or watch people. my "fuck it, why not. this would be rad. its my house" mindset kicked in with her i will admit. also the One with the Word ability made me cackle out loud when i read it. thats the funniest ability ever. anyways, i cant really think of a way to replicate her powers, but maybe we could just reflavor a bunch of spells to be her limbs or clutch; hold person, maximillian's earthen grasp, or evard's black tentacles. thatd probably work okay, and theres a handful of spells to replicate her ability to spawn eyes or mouths. unrelated, but i imagine nico olvia to be a drow. why? her hair is white. i am a simple man!

[billiewena]

my favorite tweets about the situation™️

bonus:

[wofflebot]

I love these people

[computercreature]

something i see a lot in the dungeon meshi fandom is attributing izutsumi's personality traits to her being a cat. and while ryoko kui definitely gave her cat-like traits intentionally, she's a talented enough writer to also give her a backstory with reasons for those traits. for example, her tendency to only do and eat what she wants.

izutsumi's character arc revolves around freedom. she grew up caged in a circus. and although she was fed enough to survive, this was only because a living catgirl attracted more customers than a dead one.

[id: first image is izutsumi as a child framed behind bars and standing on all fours, making it clear how skinny she is. a hand in the foreground holds out a bowl of what appears to be kibble. narration says “thrown in a cage and given food every once in a while… is that what you would call ‘being raised’?” in the second image she is now sitting on the floor of her cage and eating a rat. end id]

look how skinny she is! we see her eating what appears to be... kibble? oats? and then a rat that she possibly caught for herself. she had no choice but to eat anything she could.

[id: part of the dungeon meshi manga. a slightly older izutsumi is tied to a post and tade sits next to her to say "we've got a roof over our heads, beds, food, and clothes. they've got everything here. is there someplace nicer than this out there?" izutsumi thnks for a moment and says "i hate that someone's already decided what i'm going to eat tomorrow. my name, the clothes i wear, where i sleep, where i go next... here, all of that's been decided by another person... even though, come tomorrow, i might want to eat something else instead. that's why i'm leaving." at this, tade cries out in shock. end id]

when she's taken into the nakamoto household they begin to treat her much better. she's on about equal footing as tade, who also had a rough living situation before being taken in, and tade loves it there! they get healthy and tasty food and they're not sleeping in cages. but izutsumi still isn't free. she can pass off her chores and vegetables to tade and disobey in any way she can but she can't leave. maizuru even put a collar on her, further dehumanizing and trapping izutsumi.

when izutsumi joins laios's party, she's finally 'free', but it's not the kind of freedom she wants. she has to eat even more food she doesn't want or else she'll starve. but the difference now is that she's can leave at any time, and if she stays, she's treated as an equal. they're not feeding her monsters because they see her as inferior. they're all eating the same food so they can reach their goal(s). and this is part of izutsumi ultimately learning that in order to do what she wants, she has to be willing t do the things she doesn't want to

[insert-the-4thwall-entity]

some concepts on the new ut au - Undertale : Omicron

Notes :

Frisk isn't the only human to be chosen by the Ach-Angel of the Téras realm, Delta, to save it from collapsing onto the human realm ( It's the Knight's plan and Queen and King are helping him ) - Kris is there to help too. will design him soon.

Asriel is sorta still the same person after being turned into a flower, "Flowey" is just a coverup so his parents and still alive brother don't freak out( Toriel knows, but plays into the bit).

You can tell i took an aspect and some inspiration from @2talltales and implemented it here. That aspect being that Gaster has 4 sons now and the two oldest ones are roughly 60-80ft each. The new members' names are Menlo( the TS!US crossbones lookalike ) and Fletcher( the fellswap!Paps lookalike ). I'm probably one of, if not the only one who named their au skelebros after other font names.

Ralsei is now apart of the Dreamurr family and will do his best to help those in need.

That's about it for now -

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Woe

Jayvik be upon ye

[smokin-salmon]

Fuck it. *Makes the old woman cry*

[entropysanyt]

okay not to be that guy but there’s a doctor who episode about this exact scenario

[florida3exclamationpoints]

The Sound of Music + textposts pt. 1/?