#not df related

[fuckyeahdwarffortress]

With the ever-helpful staff clearing transgender accounts, in the event that this page goes down, I will attempt to create another FYDF account on wherever is safest for transwomen like myself to make one.

[diabolikpersonals]

when ur halfway through a dialovers route and ur feeling so touched by all the little emotional details and ur seeing how much this family truly cares for one another and the power of love is changing everyone and reiji hits u with the "hmm. I don't think vampires are real"

[bonefall]

How do you feel about "character joins bloodclan" aus? Im curious about ur thoughts since youre really in tune with the themes of the series but personally i just hate them bc its ALWAYS aimed at 'unfortunate' characters and always ALWAYS ignores the fact that bloodclan is a horrible place in-canon and that they're just reflavoring the abuse and trauma the characters qent through to be more emo or goth themed.

Ravenpaw is ALWAYS a prime target for this and its like. Great. You took the character being abused by their mentor figure and is being harmed from the violent culture the clan has generated... and giving them an EMO mentor figure who will inevitably abuse them and harm them as a result of the violent culture the emo clan has generated. Sasha is another one I've noticed- you've put the woman who lost her kit and is struggling to survive with the others while being controlled and abused by someone who sees her as an outsider (aka alone and easy to isolate), and are gonna put her in a faction who specifically separates kin from one another to easily control them and who have canonically tried murdering those who stick with their family. What was gained here.

Like i know bloodclan is revamped in ur au (thank god for it) but in canon bloodclan is HORRIBLE. People ignore that in favor of putting their favs into bloodclan bc bloodclan is cool and killed tigerstar that one time bc of revenge. Ravenpaw becomes Scourge AUS are SO SO SO much worse bc of this too- sure you manage to point out how scourge and raven has roughly similar stories in their youth but you could also do something interesting and make an au where raven and scourge are FOILS and do a firestar/scourge thing, while pointing this comparison out!! Instead you just went "Ravenpaw emo now and is sad about beating up Firestar his friend" and basically kept everything the same.

Sorry im basically venting here but i just dont like how people forget that scourge in canon does NOT look out for the 'little guy', he's a murderer and abuser who wants to keep his subjects afraid and separated so that he alone has power over them. Bloodclan is not the cool strong goth group, its the group where two cats slaughter eachother over a piece of twoleg scraps, only for the survivor to die bc the food was poisonous to cats and no one knew bc theres no cohesive group that can pass that knowledge around. its a fucking horrible place to live. Im not saying that you cant do interesting "character in bloodclan" aus (a Rusty who lives in bloodclan who STILL wants to do good but is shaped by the horrid reality of bloodclan would be fun imo) but its so often used with already traumatized characters as a 'solution' or 'fix-it with some emotional issues involved' that i just foam at the mouth and howl like a rabid animal on principle at this point.

Hmm... I think for me, it doesn't tend to read that way for me when the fandom makes AUs for it. I'm coming at BloodClan from a point of really deep critique and frustration.

BloodClan's not a REAL place, and what that means is, every speck of how horrible it was is a choice the writers made to justify its treatment. It was something they actively decided, because, BloodClan was a tool to suddenly invalidate the previous 5 books of TPB so that the series could comfortably conclude there was no need to upset the status quo.

If you haven't read it before, I recommend this post I made on how Darkest Hour Is A Personal Disappointment, but anyway;

We spend a whole series on how Fireheart challenges a broken society, because he is different. Their xenophobia, how isolationism and glory get people killed, the way that Tigerstar's greatest asset is how respected he is... these are bad things. They're things that Fireheart fights for several books.

But then, in the LAST book, in the 11th inning, they introduce BloodClan. They're just evil. They have no nuance. The narrative bends over backwards to stress that this group of evil foreigners LOVES murder, hates friendship, and doesn't believe in our good god.

Suddenly, the Clan cats have to be EXTRA xenophobic and glorious to kill these filthy, murderous foreign hordes. Clan cat belief in their good god makes them stronger than the bloodthirsty barbarians. Firestar kills Scourge and we can feel happy and triumphant about it, when Tigerstar was killed a few chapters ago and given a tragic sendoff.

So, I encourage you to step back from an emotional response to how Filthy and Murderous this group was portrayed, and look at it as a writing choice.

When Tigerstar, known cat-racist and murderer of mixed-race people, is killed by Scourge in self-defense, he is grieved by Firestar and commended for his "good qualities". (and then they retconned in that it was actually secretly revenge all along, not just self defense, so this killing is extra evil)

When Scourge is killed, Firestar just thinks about how it's cool he's not going to heaven, and how all of the previously ferocious BloodClan warriors look so inferior to the forest Clans.

And so, with all that said,

I'm 100% in favor of how the fandom widely looks at this, says, "fuck that" and just makes them the Cool Goth Group. I'd argue pretty strongly that the least nuanced idea of that is still infinitely better than canon.

There was nothing there. It was literally just Xenophobia-Is-JustifiedClan. They literally hated love and friendship and banned families so that Clan cats would look good in comparison. Banned families. You don't get this level of stupid evil from anything else but an 80s cartoon.

Maybe I just don't see the AUs you tend to see (I curate my Tumblr experience very well and generally hang out in more adult-oriented spaces, I can imagine a place like Amino being mostly kids who tend to be immature. Edgelord Angstpiddle is just a normal part of growing up), but every project I see that gives me a glimpse of BloodClan Ravenpaws and Sashas come with such tweaks already assumed.

Like, these are examples I've seen,

They'll have Raven be involved with the formation of BloodClan

Scourge will actually be a character with some pity and mercy, like how he was in Rise of Scourge when his abusive siblings begged him for food, and he fed them before sending them away.

no ban on love and friendship. Lol. Lmao, even.

More of the social structure will be based around acquiring food for people in a 'harsh' environment, leading to that battle, instead of just Evil Foreign Greed (which canon!scourge only had after being almost killed by tigerstar, because he said "actually, in light of new information that you are a murderer, i need to reconsider our deal.")

BloodClan will be overhauled completely. I've seen this a few ways. Connecting them to SkyClan, or the Oakstar raids on Chelford, or even as a positive entity; a surprise ally. (VERY common with BloodClan Ravenpaw AUs I've seen).

Anyways... (Shrug), I dunno dude, it doesn't bother me that much.

[artheresy]

The legacy of a craftsman

The amount of space that Blade and Yingxing takes up in my brain is feeling increasingly concerning. I can't stop thinking about them...

Like now that it's finally not just a leak, has anyone else read Baiheng's Travelogues about the Xianzhou Zhuming? Featuring Baby Yingxing??

Literally the second one devastates me emotionally I can't even explain it. Yingxing being so discouraged by the masters on the Zhuming who are long life species degrading him to the point he, a child, talks about how he'll probably never live to see his parents be avenged after what the Borisin did???

THAT HURTS

And God I can't even,

GOD if I could properly put into words the fact that Yingxing is a craftsman being so important to his character and identity and how Hoyoverse making a point to specify the injuries that occurred to his hands in whatever gray transition period happened between Yingxing and Blade that made him unable to craft weapons again is such a tragic visual to completely severe the two identities, that is ALL you would hear from me ever.

Because see the thing about Yingxing being a craftsman is that all stems from a goal in his past. As a child his home planet was taken over and turned into a weapons nursery, his parents were slaughtered, it became his goal as a child to create technology and weapons for the Cloud Knights to fight terrifying monsters like the Borisin. And that goal ended up defining the rest of his life, going on to become the Legendary Furnace Master on the Xianzhoh Luofu. That ended up becoming part of his legacy with the HCQ. It's clear how heavily important that part of his identity is defining not just his time in the HCQ but his time on the Zhuming, and everything that occurred to him as a child to lead him to that exact goal. His whole past.

And for Hoyoverse to specify how Blade's hands have been hurt to the point of no longer being dexterous, to the point of no longer being able to forge a weapon ever again, as those injuries cannot be healed by whatever Abundance shit he has going on since they likely happened before he became immortal(?). It just... it is devastating. It's something used as a way to severely separate the two of them so people realize they are two different identities on top of Blade already making it clear he sees Yingxing as dead. The way that they went about his hands... it's not merely that he relinquished that identity, which would be him no longer making weapons out of choice. It is that he can't connect to that identity anymore, the change he went through was far too severe. Thus he cannot make weapons anymore, he has been stripped of any ability to.

I'll make like a better post explaining this later, but I believe the use of Yingxing status as a craftsman and Blade's inability after he was revived TO craft anything is fundamentally used as a tie to the separate of identity between them and it's so well used and so tragically used.

Because again, it is not that he lost Yingxing's passion for it or decided on a different path. It is a wall that separates him from being able to do what Yingxing did in the past just as he is unable to connect to the identity his body held before death.

[theaddersclaws]

oh dear nightfeathers. oh dear.

[mayonnaise-sock]

Ace! I actually struggle so much w this i might recolour him bc i don’t like it much but i just wanted to get something done before i go to sleep. I don’t want to draw him shirtless bc 1: idk what skykids look like shirtless and 2: one of my favourite representations of the reasoning with clothing on skykids is that under their clothes is basically some kind of void. Their body is still there but like their soul is in there or something idk i might change that because i gotta do smth abt luffy’s scar neways sory about my strange wording it’s 2:30am i’m dead

[tmae3114]

I wonder if there’s any significance to the fact that the wildlife surrounding the Fissure is broadly analogous to the wildlife of Greenguard

[cyraen-ae]

I was going through the dev quotes on a Discord server and I stumbled upon this. Which feels really interesting to me. It’s not a joke, it’s a lore hint. But a lore hint to what?

Well it got me thinking. Lock and Key are most likely Exaltia tech. Similar colouring, and an non-sentient one is seen used by Notha in her flashback, so while these thoughts don’t 100% line up, maybe it may lead to somewhere, y’all may have extra thoughts about it. But what else have Lock and Key shown a surprising amount of connection to?

The Mechquest timeline So hear me out What if Lock and Key existed prior to the Reset. Maybe not in their current state, but what if the data they contain still existed. Either it was placed in a new data storage unit after the Reset, or, since it’s implied by MQ’s ending that the Reset retroactively created much of DF Lore’s history, what if their data got recoded into what would become Lock and Key.

What if this data storage unit, whatever it was, was interacted with by the Mechquest Hero? That’s why their credentials already exist

[fuckyeahdwarffortress]

I have made a "blue sky" account. Quite incosiderate, seeing as I'm [CAVE_ADAPTED], but we deal with what we can.

[wheatstar]

also i turned a bunch of normal ocs into warrior cats yesterday

[umilily]

i've noticed you like vocaloid, so: what is your favorite song from the new utsu-p album? :0 mine is "atari front program" or "b.g.m"!

— 🍞

aaah, it's honestly so hard to choose ^^' i think it's a fantastic album in general and i've been listenting to all the songs for several days on repeat lol excellent choices on your part, anon, i really like those two as well. i think "ga" is still my favourite tho, has been since its release back in spring.

[darker-overlord]

does anyone have a post or anything with the game timelines like how mb takes place one month after hdb but under the condition that yui didnt choose a vampire or do i have to figure this out by reading through every single prologue and route again

[illcitaffrs]

so, taylor swift's coming to brazil..

and I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER

and yes, I'll so anything to see that woman.

[meocraft]

I think my priest looks really cool but I don't like playing shadow and I already play rdruid as healer so I don't really got any use out of her :((( BIG SAD

[madame-mozart]

SHE VOICED WUBBZY?????

She's done so much for us

[pepsiwriteswords]

working with my sister is great bc when I remember that I have in fact had her read things I've written/read things I've written to her/talked through story things with her before, I realize I can pick her brain a bit. expecially on slow work nights. xP

for instance, last night or night before, while I went into the clean room & she did adhd-nightmare computer training I left her with two questions: other names for Luke to give his dog (bc the more I look at it the less I like my first draft doggo name) & 'hey, so [character] didn't intend to keep people from dying, but that's what's happening & I am having a Hell Of A Time figuring out why'

& now antagonist has a why AND a new how, & I have a list of potential names for the doggo

now if I could just start writing again, it'd be perfect