#old school vs modern

[texasbodybuilders]

Old School vs. Modern Bodybuilding: A Transformation Across Eras

Bodybuilding has undergone a dramatic transformation since its early days (be sure to check out our Texas Heavyweights: History of Bodybuilding in Texas article!), evolving not only in aesthetics but also in training methodologies, dietary practices, supplementation, and even the competitive landscape. In this article we will discuss the difference between Old School vs. Modern…

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

only good thing abt the vous situation is that it lets me experience tecteun calling 13 the child that im 100% convinced she actually would bc shes the only one who uses tu for her

[captaingimpy]

The Evolution of Challenge: A Reflection on Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, and the Myth of “True Difficulty”

I came back to Monster Hunter after years away. My last real experience with the franchise was back in the handheld era, playing unofficial fan translations of the early PSP games—long before World brought the series into the mainstream. Back then, Monster Hunter was brutal, unforgiving, and utterly uninterested in explaining itself to you. I didn’t play Rise, didn’t play World, and skipped…

[parasolladyansy]

DxP REWRITE - Master Post

“Diamond x Pearl REWRITE” is both a “rewrite” of BDSP & a second story in the Hisui region of old involving my & my husband’s trainers, Ansy & Ikrit, along with their ancestors Mizumi & Sasmu, as they travel along with a pair of familiar monochromatic train twins.

The title “REWRITE” also refers to how in both Diamond & Pearl as well as Legends Arceus someone wanted to “rewrite” the world, & how this story reimagines modern Sinnoh if it included more from Legends Arceus (among other things, hehe).

Updates every Sun &/or Wed (depending on life stuff). If you’d like to help support my work, visit my Kofi! ☕️

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Main Cast: Ansy / Ikrit / Emmet / Ingo / Mizumi / Sasmu

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Scarlet x Violet Epilogue: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / DONE

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Diamond x Pearl REWRITE:

Prologue / Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 /

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Extras:

Height Chart / Ansy Will Praise You Endlessly! /

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💬 DxP Asks:

Mizumi & Time Travel / Professor Laventon’s married? / Ingo’s Journal / Childhood Friend Rayquaza / FANART?? / Emmet > Barry / School Uniforms & Teacher AU / Jubilife City vs Village / Languages (part 1) / Languages (part 2) / Languages (part 3) / Height & Poses /

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📖 Other stories:

PKMN Black / PKMN Legends: Arceus - Mizumi / Sword x Shield / Scarlet x Violet / BW Survival AU

[cripplecharacters]

How do you think multi-use public restrooms could be reconfigured to better accommodate wheelchair/crutch/cane users in a roughly modern setting? (By multi-use, I mean the ones with a line of stalls rather than a whole room with one toilet).

I always thought it ironic that the large stall tends to be at the end of the line and believed it may be better to have that reversed (large stall first). Is that a sensical thought? What other suggestions would you have besides a lower sink and, of course, room to move the wheelchair/crutch/cane?

Although this setting is roughly modern in terms of technology ability and knowledge, feel free to provide your most creative answers. I'd even appreciate a difference between slight changes in real universe that would make an impact vs alternate modern universe where accessibility was thought of by default. All stalls are large? Better layout than a single file line of stalls? Etc.

Thank you for your time!

Hello!

I have... a LOT of thoughts about this. For reference, I use a cane full time and have used a wheelchair in the past when it was needed, though I no longer have access to it (I was borrowing my boyfriend's old one but have since moved cities).

So a few things:

Grab bars in every stall. These are the metal bars along the side of the stall that you usually see in accessible stalls. They're used to help people with stability/balance issues sit and stand from the toilet. There are a lot of people who only use the accessible stall because they need the support of the grab bars. If these were in every stall, it would open up the larger accessible stall for people who need it for the other supports (More space, the emergency call cord, etc.). These are relatively cheap and easy to install too.

Hand sanitizer dispensers in the accessible stall or, ideally, in every stall. These are another thing that's relatively cheap and easy to install and would benefit everyone. I usually carry hand sanitizer on me anyways because I dislike the idea of using my cane before washing my hands. This would also help people who have the same problem with their wheelchair (Not wanting to touch the wheels before washing their hands), people with sensitivities to hand soaps, and even just people who want to use them.

More accessible stalls. This one is a bit less realistic to hope for as it would be more expensive and difficult to change but it would also be one of the most beneficial, especially in places where there are lots of disabled people coming and going at once. I'm thinking places like hospitals, school accessibility offices, etc. but also places with large amounts of people in general like stadiums and event venues.

Also just more stalls in general. Especially in the men's washroom. I keep meaning to write a post about this for my own blog but it's an issue I think about a lot. It's 2024 and there's STILL a lot of men's washrooms where I live that either only have one stall (Usually an accessible stall) or don't have stalls at all. I'm sure it's some sort of 'ADA/AODA/whatever it is where you are' violation but it's also a problem for trans people, people that are shy, kids, people that just prefer to sit, the elderly, etc. It's kind of ridiculous that this is still a thing in 2024.

More actual fully accessible washrooms. These are not at all feasible for a multiuse washroom (The kind you're referring to) but should be in addition to one. With this, I'm referring to a large washroom with adult-sized changing tables, emergency call cords, lots of space, large garbage cans, sharps containers, etc. This is something that I rarely see even in hospitals but it's so important for people that have caretakers and need that extra support. As for the sharps container, it can be very beneficial for people that need to inject medication and it's something I wish that more places had. (My general alternative is to cap the needle and return it to my "pouch" in a separate pocket from the unused ones)

Having everything in reach of the toilet. By this, I mean things like toilet paper, garbage bins, sinks (If they're in the stall), hand sanitizer dispensers, etc. This is usually already the case with toilet paper and such but it's incredibly annoying and difficult to navigate when this isn't the case.

Also just having garbage bins in all stalls (Or, at least, in all washrooms). A lot of women's washrooms already have this in some capacity but most men's washrooms don't even have a garbage bin in the main section of it (Outside the stalls). This is another thing that would be incredibly easy and cheap to do and would help so many people including disabled people that need to discard medical supplies (Catheters and incontinence supplies are the big ones that come to mind since it's not sanitary or easy to discard of them elsewhere whereas you can easily pocket an empty medication bottle or bandage remnants to throw away later), people who need to throw away sanitary products, even just people who use toilet paper to blow their nose or something. There's literally so many uses and I don't see any downside to this at all.

More hooks in stalls to hang things like jackets and bags. This is something I see a lot in the regular stalls but strangely not as often in the accessible stalls. Which... seems especially odd to me as a lot of us rely on things like small, over-the-shoulder bags and fanny packs as we don't always have access to both hands to carry things. These would also be beneficial to hang things like canes (I'm mostly thinking of white canes, which usually have a fabric loop on the end) while using the toilet. This is another super cheap and easy thing that can be done and would benefit everyone.

More accessible doors to washrooms. For whatever reason a lot of the multi-use washrooms where I live don't have accessible doors and it's incredibly frustrating and inconvenient to be fighting for my life to open a door when I already need to pee. Just... not fun.

The placement of the accessible stalls is an issue too, just usually not in the way most people would assume. At least for my boyfriend and I, it's more of a problem when the washrooms are crowded. I'm thinking of our recent experience at a concert where we had to navigate through the crowd to reach the very far end where the stall was. Not a huge thing or something that happens all that often, but it is annoying.

The other thing that comes to mind is lower sinks and also having the paper towels, hand dryers, or what not closer to the sinks. It's incredibly annoying and uncomfortable to have to use a cane, wheelchair, or crutches when you have soggy hands just to get to the dryer. This isn't something that's too hard to implement in most cases but it could be expensive depending on what drying method is used (Such as hand dryers versus paper towel dispensers). This is another reason that I usually use my hand sanitizer instead.

Aside from the facilities themselves (And this is less for mobility disabilities and more general accessibility), things like having braille on the signs as well as clear symbols if the washroom is separated by male vs female. None of those minimalistic aesthetic ones. Not everyone can differentiate by those.

There are countless others but I think I've spoken enough about this for one post 😅. Hopefully some of this is helpful.

Cheers!

~ Mod Icarus

[deeisace]

Liverpool Daily Post, 29th March 1937.

I had a click about, and here he is!

Part of the 1939 register, a census showing the Caldwell family living at 46 Martin Street, Crewe.

John Caldwell, head of the family, a 54 year old general labourer. His wife, Edith, also 54 years old and listed as "unpaid domestic duties" - a housewife. Alan, spelled Allen here, is 20 (birthday 12th May), and working as a garage hand. A closed record - either someone who is still alive, and/or someone who was a small child at the time of the census, or,, idk some other reason, but it's usually those. Last is John Junior, who is 12 and still at school.

It turns out he stuck with the spelling of Allen, because here look -

He got married! Spring 1941, in Crewe, to a Miss Sylvia Copp.

I did actually go ahead and order a copy of his marriage certificate, because I'm a bit mad lmao - and here that is!

So! It is our Allen! The age profession and name fits, and the name and profession of his father, too.

I believe the "twenty three" mark is just to confirm the mistake in spelling (Allan vs Allen) has been corrected, tho it might be something else, and is initialed by the registrar there.

I'm quite surprised they were married in a church, tbh, as opposed to a registry office, given the above, but I suppose people can surprise you, how tolerant they can be - the world of 80 years ago might've been worse on a lot of scores, but people have always been people, and that includes the good ones too!

It seems to have been presented generally as a medical thing, as indeed it might well've been - someone previously (in the notes of the post I'm copying this from, because the OP was Neil Gaiman, and let's do away with seeing anything of his) said it sounds like he's intersex, rather than trans (tho of course you can be both) - and I imagine that helped, some, with people's attitudes at the time? Idk. Anyway

Some more newspaper articles, including quotes from Allan himself!

29th March 1937 - The Daily Mirror, page 5

I hope everyone disappointed (on the original post) with the Daily Post's continual misgendering is glad to see that not every newspaper or reporter is the same, tho I would say, in the kindest possible way, and as a transman myself, you must remember that this is 88 years ago, and we cannot hold people then to our modern standards.

"Navvying" is, so far as I know, digging canals and things like that, heavy manual work.

You could take the above as Allen being intersex, but it is true that sometimes people lied to get the medical attention they needed, so as ever we can't know for sure. Which is frustrating to say, I suppose, and frustrating to hear, I imagine, but there's nothing to be done about it.

Also, the Cheese Hall Hotel is the same place Sylvia worked as a barmaid in 1939, and lends credence to that that marriage is in fact our same Allen, rather than someone with the same name (and the same parents names and the same job etc etc, tho that's not to say that didn't happen - Smiths and Jones's are a nightmare to research tbh - anyway). Since Allen was there in '37 and Sylvia in '39, I can easily imagine that that's where they met, at work!

On the back page of the same issue (Daily Mirror, 29th March 1937) -

I'm not going to go into any further records, because then it becomes about people who may yet be alive, and I won't comment on the practicalities, but I can say that there's births registered to a Caldwell and Copp, late 1940s-early 1950s, and Allen and Sylvia are the only couple married with that combination of surnames.. at all, actually.

[gaywatch]

There's a nuance in Fandom vs. Shippers where it's admittedly frustrating when shippers derail public conversations to the same topic over and over or stomp their feet when a single shred of screen time isn't dedicated to their ship, but at the same it's highkey unfair to try and shame people for "only liking" a series because they ship a thing.

It's really wild how there will be post after post bemoaning people who mainly focus on shipping as if there's a right and wrong way to engage with a story. "If all you ever do in all your fandoms is focus on the shipping there's something wrong" is just old school hatred for the romance genre, repackaged.

Modern day complaints of "Why aren't you appreciating the greater themes or the plot or other characters" has the same vibe and reasoning as the old school "Why are you wasting time on romance when you could be reading stuff that makes you think." You're not Correctly Appreciating Media my dude, you're just a genre hater. Funny how people hop from one series to another obsessed with the worldbuilding or magic systems or redemption arcs and nobody shits all over how they engage with stories.

(I can feel people out there opening their mouths to say "Well it's because they muscle in to non-romantic genres and make it romantic," to which I say: the story is there for them to interact with in whatever way brings them the most joy, including transforming or emphasizing whatever they want. Deal with it I guess?)

[outlawruben]

Modern AU headcannons

The Vandermatthews family edition

When John was a teenager he made slime and got it in Dutch’s expensive Persian rug he keeps in the office. (Dutch was LIVID.)

Hosea reads late into the night, which caused Dutch to buy one of those clip on reading lights so he can finally sleep peacefully.

Dutch and Hosea do embarrassing dances in the kitchen/living spaces when the kids are around. Arthur and John cringe hard at this.

John was introduced to Limp Bizkit and his life was forever changed.

Arthur: “GET OUT OF MY ROOM.”

John *In the doorway*: “IM NOT IN YOUR ROOM.”

Arthur: “dinner is ready.”

John: “OKAY.”

Arthur, louder: “OKAY!”

Arthur tans at the beach, John burns

Arthur has straight A’s, John has straight C’s

John will take a (monthly) shower and get the WHOLE floor wet

John’s favorite Christmas was when he got a bass guitar, and Arthur’s favorite was when he got his blue truck.

Arthur sits on Dutch/Hosea’s bed and just spills the tea to Hosea late into the evening (Dutch wants to get ready for bed soon)

Arthur is a PC player, and John is a console player

John has to go to the mall with Arthur when he wants to go alone because “John doesn’t socialize enough”

They both got to choose their bedroom colors, however, John wasn’t allowed to do THE DARKEST black in the store, so his room is a dark grey with a black accent wall. (Arthur’s room is blue)

Branching off of that, Arthur and John could decorate their rooms HOWEVER they wanted, there was no intervention from the dads

Hosea does the “Dad hand” during road trips when the boys have a snack he wants.

Hosea is the designated driver because Dutch has terrible road rage

They live on a pond, in fact Dutch and Hosea argued over it before buying the house, so much so that Hosea threatened a divorce because the ONLY thing he wants is a pond. Dutch folded, and Hosea fishes everyday.

Arthur loved Percy Jackson and John loved Warrior Cats.

Arthur is a cereal eater, and John is a pop-tart eater

The contrast between Arthur’s masterpieces vs John’s doodles are crazy. (They’re both proudly displayed on the front of the fridge no matter what) (yes this is based on their canonical journal entries, sue me)

John and Arthur took those embarrassing Macy’s photoshoots in the early 2000’s that are out on display for everyone to see in the future.

John has an INCREDIBLY embarrassing graduation photo from when he was in his emo phase in high school, and his dads refuse to remove it. (It’s placed next to Arthur’s gleaming grad photo)

Dutch has slippers he wears around the house, and Hosea just wears his socks.

John still doesn’t know how to swim in this AU, Hosea has tried to teach him, but John refuses to get in the water.

They have taxidermy in their house from when Hosea went hunting more often when he was younger.

Somehow Hosea and Dutch’s aesthetics work so well together.

Dutch is very much old money, and maximalist, and Hosea is definitely Vintage and Woodsy (It works together if you saw their house)

You would be convinced that John’s nails were naturally black and chipped from how much he painted them.

Hosea has a “Shop” in the garage like every dad has to have. (It’s full of fishing supplies, paint cans, and other tools ofc)

John’s room is very dark, messy, and covered in posters from every movie/Tv show/video game he’s ever seen/played. Also, making the bed? What’s that?

Arthur’s room is open and airy, with his own mountain murals painted on the walls, a full art desk, and he also doesn’t know what making the bed means.

[ichayalovesyou]

Why Do Old-School TV Duos Have SUCH MLM Vibes?!

I think there’s something very specific about the formula and writing style of non-serialized/semi-serialized shows from the 60s to 80s that featured two grown men going on wacky dangerous adventures that makes my gay little literary analysis brain go absolutely off the wall bonkers. I’m trying to figure out why!

I’m writing this on my Trek blog because I don’t think this pattern in people actually shipping these types of relationships the way they do if fandom as we know it wasn’t born via TOS in syndication. That being said! I also think it has to do with the way these shows are designed that makes myself and others OBSESSED with a specific character dynamic that feels (to me) damn near impossible to replicate in modern television. In a way that’s more than just fandom, it’s in the way TV like this was written at the time!

Further explanation under the cut!

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I think what it usually boils down to is this. There’s a charming protagonist whom without the series could not operate, frequently top billed or the title character! (See: Wild Wild West, Starsky & Hutch) BUT he doesn’t have anyone to play off of! So what do they do pretty much every single time? Give Mr. Idealized Vision of Time-Period Masculinity For Genre a second guy to rhyme with!

See but the other guy has to play opposite but parallel to our hypermasculine protagonist. So what frequently ends up happening is that in order to play off our “normal” guy, even though he’s also a white dude, is that he’s still somehow Other.

They’re always perfect for each other, and they always get into scenarios that would be written, shot and interpreted by conventional audiences as romantic IF either one of those characters were a woman! Especially at the time these shows were made in.

If the one is aggressive, the other is gentle. If the protagonist is violent, his counterpart is intellectual. If the one is stoic, the other is emotional. Which (while one size def doesn’t fit all) usually makes the second guy come off as much more queer-coded (and sometimes other minorities like neurodivergent/disabled etc) than the other because of the traits associated with masculinity vs gayness at the time! Our prime examples in these gifs are Spock, Hutch, Artemus, and also *BJ!

*(M*A*S*H is a bit of a unique case since the show flirts with queerness more openly in ways that people more into the series have explained better than me but I think it still fits the formula I’m discussing.)

Here’s the thing though right? We’ve got two best friends, and the show NEVER really feels right if one of them is missing unless the focus of the story is how A & B operate without each other while trying to find the other one. They stick with and rescue each other unfailingly in scenarios that might destroy a regular friendship.

Hell, there’s often stuff that would emotionally/physically destroy a regular person/character in modern media. But because it’s not serialized they always seem to pull through seemingly through the power of friendship alone or dealing with it off-screen! Emotional consequences? Yuck! (Unless it’s M*A*S*H or Starsky & Hutch, like I said, not monolithic)

Here’s the thing that some people might say throws a wrench into the interpretation I’m discussing. What about the absolutely non-stop parade of conventionally attractive women the main protagonist (and less frequently the supporting man) goes through?

I would reply: how many of those female characters actually emotionally impact our protagonists as characters long term?

The answer is of course, because it’s NOT serialized, almost none! Kirk can watch Edith Keeler get killed by a car accident and still be making eyes at Spock the next episode. Hawkeye can have a “life changing” romance with a Vietnamese humanitarian woman, then share a blanket with BJ next episode like she never existed!

The Doylist explanation of course is not just the fact it wasn’t serialized but also just, constant, blatant 20th century sexism. Which SUCKS!!! As well as not wanting a long term love interest to throw off the character dynamic of our duderagonists. It’s the 20th century tv equivalent of bros before hoes.

However the Watsonian explanation always seems to result in no love interest EVER being more important than what the two protagonists have no matter whether you think they’re queer or not. No attractive woman could make our reputed babe-hound protagonist abandon his buddy. There’s no earnest romance our more queer-coded supporting man doesn’t end (or get ended for him) often for the protagonist’s sake.

Now some of these women are incredibly well written and straight up GOOD matches for our guys. So why wouldn’t they get involved in something long term UNLESS!! They were in love with each other the WHOLE time?

What if protagonist (frequently the babe hound) doesnt know he’s queer, or knows but doesn’t know he’s in love with his bestie, or any number of similar fruity explanations? The supporting man also runs into this explanation but people tend to believe he’s already aware that he’s queer but either also doesn’t know he’s in love or is keeping it to himself because time-period homophobia and/or thinking (probably not unreasonably) that babe hound is straight?

Between the inherent closeness of being narrative foils. The regularly scheduled life or death drama creating sometimes insanely romantic (in the narrative if not a literal sense) drama between the two. The revolving door of weekly women they never seem to get attached to enough to leave one another. The non-serialized nature resulting in sparse personal information/history about the protagonists as a result.

I think between the very NATURE of the way tv shows were written at the time. Plus the way fandom was shaped by a dynamic that has rippled through how media works and is interpreted by fans for decades upon decades. It’s not hard to imagine getting really emotionally invested in the possibility of the protagonists being in love is a fantastic way to enjoy the media!

In conclusion, it’s really fun and easy to go “these bitches gay! Good for them good for them!”

[aroaceacacia]

it needs to look worse i need more bad acting and terrible mic quality and weird editing and scuttling around like bugs and npcs and weird plotlines that dont make sense and i need more series that are dropped, forever unfinished, and more series that are hastily wrapped up so quickly that nothing is truly resolved

i dont watch "minecraft roleplay" for the production value

[thepeaklegendoffirstgen]

You Fill My Void

Being “The strongest” was not just a matter of pride and prestige but came with its own set of responsibilities and baggage for which you don’t need the six eyes to notice.

Gojo Satoru deemed the strongest sorcerer of the Modern Era was staring at the night sky before the battle that will shape the Jujutsu Society and the way forward. Right after getting out of the prison realm and declaring war was not how Gojo thought things would pan out. Having lost numerous comrades, colleagues and the situation of his students, to say Jujutsushi is for crazy people would be an understatement. Pushing yourself to the absolute brink of insanity with your best friend’s dead body stolen, your absence sending shock waves across the whole world and you deciding to fight the strongest sorcerer in history would be the apt way to sum up the life of a sorcerer. They all are calling the upcoming fight as “the Strongest Sorcerer of history vs. the Strongest Sorcerer of today”. Strongest, really? In his teenage he use to say this word so nonchalantly it felt as natural as breathing. But that might be because he wasn’t the strongest alone, there was his best friend Suguru Geto to shoulder this burden. Heck, it wasn’t even a burden when Suguru was around. And all that bliss of power came crashing down with Riko Amanai’s death. They were no longer the strongest, it was his title, his responsibility, his powers, his abilities that you could associate the word ‘Strongest’ to. Everyone around Gojo thought that he had achieved Nirvana and is the new-age Buddha of the Jujustu World. This not only lead him to build walls that were impenetrable more than infinity there were even cracks in his friendship with Geto. This formed a gaping void in his heart for not only he was growing distant from the closest person to him but his presence was now merely reduced to that of a weapon. He was no longer Gojo Satoru, he was Gojo Satoru who is the Strongest. The one because of whom the Star Plasma vessel couldn’t merge with Tengen sama, the one who has to take his murderer’s son under his wing, the one who couldn’t save his best friend because he is only human and the only we can actually help are the ones who are willing to accept the help.

The straw that broke the camel’s back wasn’t Suguru’s defection it was the sick and twisted way his body was used even after his death that led to not only his downfall but the Jujutsu’s Society as a whole. Moments like these made him question his title but Gojo being Gojo was quick to shrug them under the rug.

And before he can further spiral into these what-if scenarios the miko teacher pulls him from the tide.

‘Ugh, Gojo you are going to fight the king of curses tomorrow call it a day already.’, Utahime chimed as it was getting late and of course proper rest was important to fight the King of Curses.

Gojo in his sing song voice goes ‘Someone as weak you cannot go around giving me orders, Utahimeeee’. That sends a wave of fury across the Kyoto teacher because even in this tense situation he hasn’t got rid of his teasing. It’s right old habits die hard. Utahime has just been a dwarf planet in the orbit of the STAR Gojo Satoru. Just merely existing on the fringes but existing nonetheless. Even after 12 years of high school Utahime's constant reprimand to respect her as an elder and his constant teasing has been a source of respite from this cursed world. The void in Gojo’s soul is as hollow as ever but a moment like this eases him a bit or so he thought with the looming threat of battle with Sukuna still hanging at the back of his mind.

Utahime scolds again “Gojo for god sake listen to me once in your life!” He now gives his undivided attention to her noticing that she is giving him her teacher look. “You have a very very crucial fight tomorrow. Stop goofing off.” Noticing the barely concealed frown on his face she goes on “I know you said you will win but still resting for a few hours won’t hurt your ego, dammit. You are not just the strongest but also a teacher, mentor, friend, and colleague. And as much as we want you to finish this all we also want you to return back safely. So listen to me!”

He is caught off-guard for a moment. The ever grumpy Utahime Iori is worried about him how sweet. He is about to pass another teasing remark before he notices the look on Utahime’s face. It’s beautiful he has always thought she is so very beautiful but right now it looks so tragic. It looks like the heavens are singing but they are singing for someone’s funeral. So he swallows hard and says “Right, Utahime sensei is always looking out for others so I am going to respect her care. But once I will beat Sukuna’s ass I will no longer be your servant Utahime.”He laughs like a child who just got candy out of nowhere. The gaping void begins to fill a little bit like tiny drops of water eventually meeting in the ocean but alas there is no ocean only a drought full of scars, betrayals, and hurt over the years.

Utahime admires this serenity. Even though it’s the calm before the storm she likes to take in his every feature. How his ivory lashes touch his cheek when he genuinely laughs, the dimple in his left cheek, and those ocean blue eyes how they light up with true happiness. Gojo notices her intense stare and with the bitter thoughts plaguing his mind he comes across a little rough “What are you staring at?” Utahime smiles again it’s pretty but so sad “You will win, right?” Gojo scoffs “Of course, After all, I am the strongest. But wait are you going to miss me if by 0.0001% I am gone?” She knows he is is teasing and trying to push her buttons but her honest confession lights up something in him “Yes, and after Sukuna is gone I can have you all to myself no longer the burden to prove you are the strongest and no threat looming us”. His jaw almost drops but Satoru Gojo is beyond such display of emotions not when he is unsure whether he is going to win or not, not when he is unsure whether to let her droplets of affection fill his void of heart since love is always a losing game for him.

But with a gentle squeeze of her calloused hands, he finds it so comforting he places his forehead against her and expresses wholeheartedly “I will win”. For Gojo Satoru, Utahime Iori might be a dwarf planet but the only planet that can penetrate his voidful infinity.

[r-aindr0p]

The very sane french squad meeting soon when glorious masquerade will arrive on twst EN

Modern vs old school greeters

Some greetings can go up to 4 (fake or not) kisses at once

[parasolladyansy]

Just curious, how did they move Galaxy Hall to where Jubilife City would be?

My dude! ^o^ Galaxy Hall is in Jubilife Village, which becomes Jubilife City (aka Pokémon Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido).

Looking at the two maps, it isn’t a one-for-one match; they did a lot of building up after all, & it seems like they leveled the small hills surrounding it, installing stairs at the four entrances, fences around the city itself, & planting dense conifer forests. However, they seem to have kept the same basic format.

One can look at this map & interpret the long horizontal road where the river is 150 years ago, making the Jubilife TV station where Galaxy Hall is today. As you see in DxP REWRITE, I chose a different interpretation:

I think (& is the canon for DxP REWRITE) the whole of Jubilife Village was in the front half of Jubilife City, which is everything before the long horizontal road connecting to Canalave & Oreburgh Cities, & here’s why:

I once compared the school with Galaxy Hall (both brick buildings, very similar shape to its structure with the chimneys, the round window in front, etc), but to the right of it is the PKMN Center, standing about where your house is in Legends Arceus (where you rest up & heal, like a PKMN Center). The Poké Mart is behind the PKMN Center, unlike in Jubilife Village where the row of shops were in front of your house, but that could’ve been a infrastructure decision as they built up the Jubilife Condominiums where the residential area was.

Over to the left is the Global Trade Station (or Global Wonder Station in BDSP), where I think the Training Grounds once stood. Apart from the similar structure to the buildings (clearly they tore down the dojo for a more modern structure), in Platinum you can not only do trades, but check Trainer Rankings as well as Battle Video Rankings.

Again, it isn’t a one-for-one. It has been 150 years, & we’re comparing a city designed in the DS with a village designed for the Switch. The same could be said about comparing modern Sinnoh with old Hisui; modern changes aside, you just can’t perfectly compare the more organic format of the map in Legends Arceus with the very pixel, square format in DPPt or BDSP (again, huge missed opportunity).

I actually love doing things like this though; I used to do similar things in Zelda, comparing different maps of Hyrule in games that have less time passing between them on the timeline, but similar / the same locations (eg. Ocarina of Time vs Twilight Princess).

I still have ideas for Sinnoh vs. Hisui floating around that’ll probably show up come the next DxP comics, so look forward to that!

[shizuma-is-my-pet-fish]

Oh my god YES.

I can so clearly see either him and Buntan sitting at her house with a $20 piercing kit from Walmart, doing each other's piercings.

Or. Him at his aunt Konan's piercing shop going "No yeah I was surprised too but dad said I was old enough. No he's busy rn tho don't call him. No listen. Listen. I promise. I wouldn't LIE would I?"

Dear Shizuma Appreciators, what type of clothes do u guys think he would wear?

Grunge type? Sports style? Lazy "i'm not even trying" Oversized or Professional? Band shirts?

I have NO idea he kinda fits in all of them pls help

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Hi! I recently started playing dnd 5e and realized that all of ur complaints about it are absolutely true, do u have recommendations for some other ttrpg games that arent TOO complicated for beginners

If you want something that's on the same vein as D&D but a lot more beginner-friendly I can't recommend The Black Hack enough. It's like a super-streamlined version of D&D, which simplifies most mechanics while still maintaining compatibility with most D&D materials (mostly old-school D&D but I'm sure you could also convert most modern D&D stuff to it without much effort). The entirety of The Black Hack 1e fits in 20 pages (The Black Hack 2e clocks in at 120-ish pages but most of those are tables and random generators).

In terms of mechanics, it uses the same six-stat array as D&D, but does away entirely with ability bonuses and skills, instead turning all checks into d20 roll-under rolls vs a relevant ability score (e.g if you're trying to do something that involves Strength and your strength score is 13, you roll a d20, you succeed if you roll 13 or less, and fail if you roll more than 13). This extends to combat, you use a Strength or Dexterity roll to attack (depending on if it's a Melee or Ranged attack) and a Dexterity roll to dodge enemy attacks.

It also simplifies keeping track of consumable and stackable items such as arrows with the concept of usage dice (basically, you assign a die to the stack of items, every time you use them you roll that die, on a 1-2 you reduce it to the next smallest die size, and once it's at d4, a roll of 1-2 means you run out)

It also uses my favorite simplified initiative system: when combat starts, the whole party rolls a dexterity roll. Everyone who succeeds gets to act before the enemy group, everyone who fails acts after the enemies.

It has no races and only uses the four "original" D&D classes (Fighter, Thief, Magic user, Cleric), but if you miss those things, fanmade supplements like The Class Hack and The Race Hack add in some of the races and classes from AD&D and modern D&D)

Another game that might be a good fit is Knave. A lot of what I've said about The Black Hack with regards to compatibility with D&D material applies to it too, although it's mechanically different from TBH. It instead does away with ability scores and uses only ability bonuses, and it's more like a classless system where characters are defined by their equipment rather than their class features.

[paeliae-occasionally]

Hello! Intro Post.

Hi, so I’ve been hanging around for a while now, but I have recently started posting more so I have decided to write an intro.

Online I go by Pae, (or Pae pae) I am non-binary. (they/them) and I write and draw.

Current WIPs

Blue Posts are the essentials of you want to send me an ask , or if you just want an intro to the blog.

Pink are my personal favourites.

Scenes

Memory and death

Marsh Prison scene

Lore stuff:

Magic

Magic Systems

The history of the runes

More runes lore

Culture

The mages immortality lore

The death realms

The gardens

Languages

The Druids

The Mulai’Kaleppi

The Opyri

The Tiel’Drysar

(More Necromancy)

The lighthouse keepers

Laith’Zairel

Gods Culture

History

The blood wars

Blood wars 2

The mist war

The Separation, Dissolution and Accords

Maps

-Laith’Emeris 1

-Laith’Emeris 2

-30BD map

-Laith’Zairel

-How I make maps (continents)

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Summaries:

Paeliae - Magic politician

A mage living in the period when the god vs mages war starts. (8 BD, before dissolution) He is a politician, despite having no patience for the ages old elvish mages who currently run the council. He is obsessed with leaving a lasting legacy even if that means dying today. As such he is vehemently against the concept of immortality, During the war he helps negotiate with the gods to come to a truce. 27, He/Him.

Xaeren - Runic Inventor

Xaeren designed 42 of the 47 runes and uses them to protect himself from the vengeful goddess Schaeres. When she finally attacks him, Xaeren realises there were very few limits to what he could do with the runes and sets out to kill Schaeres, both as payback and just to prove that he can. But some things can’t be done alone…

Xaeren lore 1

Xaeren lore 2- (This is a bit old so some of the Kell stuff has changed)

Xaeren lore 3

Kell - Magic Student

Xaeren rescues her from a small dock town and gets her a place at the Lysandri school of magic. Kell is thrust into a world of magic and has to keep up with the help of Xaeren’s tutoring, but as she begins to fit in with the mages there, her loyalty to the criminal godkiller Xaeren comes into question.

Tyro - Traumatised Sorcerer

lives in the modern day (about 1500 PD, post-dissolution). They have recently escaped from the abusive cult that adopted them as a child, with their adoptive brother Apollo. They are a sorcerer, so have born magic, but were also taught to use runes by the cult. They never used them because of trauma but they could if they wanted to. They are currently running from the cult and trying not to be noticed by the government, who take in all sorcerer children so they can have a monopoly on magic. They have found a family in some other sorcerers living in an abandoned manor outside the city. 17, They/them

Apollo - adopted older brother of Tyro.

He took care of them and the others in the cult, despite being abused severely himself. Despite the trauma he is a very powerful runic. He is currently being attacked by, and looking for other cults like the one he was adopted into to help other children like him. 21, He/They

Ez and Rin (~1000 BD)- The gay bois, who definitely don’t start the apocalypse.

Ez (short for Ezemhaziel) is the god of refined magic. He falls in love with Rin when he is researching to create the runes. He is somewhat of a Prometheus figure, as he brings the first magic to mortals by teaching Rin.

Rin is a gardener working for one of the altic kings, who equally loves Ez for his magic and creativity. Ez and Rin end up working on the runes together. The other gods get mad that Ez gave magic to a mortal, and they let the mortals murder Rin. Ez is mad. This will spiral and cause the start of the godly war, which then ushers in the godly mages war, where 3/4 of all mages die and the gods are removed from the world.

Ezemhaziel lore

Daimion and Marsh - the regretful and the merry murderer

Daimion and marsh grew up together being trained for an elite military unit, which they both got into. While in the unit they are ordered to fire on civilians and they do it, but later Daimion regrets killing innocents and leaves the unit without notice. He goes on to find the daughter of one of the people he murdered that day and the woman who has been taking care of her. He protects them fiercely and tries to make up for what he did. Marsh however, fully commits to the ‘I kill people as a job, I might as well enjoy it’ and ends up being so recklessly violent that he is imprisoned in the highest security jail in the country, which he later breaks out of to commit a massacre, then returns to his cell like nothing happened. This occurs a couple of times until Daimion has to go get him. - Marsh intro - Marsh lore

Just a brief overview of some of the things I am currently working on. I plan to post more about the magic systems and historical events of the world. I also post maps.

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Thanks for visiting, feel free to stick around <3