#plus some extras for fun

[amnesia-filled-gardens]

Small and short animation of how my September has been ft my silly cat mascot (and sound effects !!)

Watchers Guide to Humanity, my sweet beloved, how I missed you 🫶

Yeah, so Marvel hyperfixation came back absolutely punching(DDVAU has NOT helped either) and now mixed back up with my interest in HC and restarted my very first-pretumblr-messily written in notes app to the point I hit the word limit-fic, Watchers Guide to Second Chances, now renamed Watchers Guide to Humanity. It's barely been written out properly, but is being THROUGHLY. planned out and thought through and I am so very excited. I'm still working on other fics(Communications being reworked due to pacing issues,The Singing Continued still being pre-written, and the Deer and the Cod series being uploaded whenever), but for now, W.G.T.H is my main project. Screenshots from the end under cut!

These are the ending screenshots of the social circles and alter egos!! More screenshots with jobs, families and species will be shared in the future! None of the art belongs to me, it was all found scrolling through Tumblr tags, and is being used as placeholders till I can finish my character references :D

[screwpinecaprice]

Copying artstyle off of older Steven and Connie concept art for the heck of it. (And chibis. ┐⁠(⁠´⁠▾⁠｀⁠)⁠┌)

The proportions felt awkward to draw, I did end up stretching them a bit. Haha

[divinebunnii]

Why all of you cunts are always autistic, ADHD or mentally ill?

I guess that normal people don't do what y'all only fans cunts do

what’s crazy is us cunts give the best head and offer the best hole you’ll never get, sad whiney bitch fuck on anon 💗 totally normal behavior by the way ~ oh wait it is *totally normal* to be a pathetic loser hiding behind an invisible face that still chooses to be here following us “not normal cunts” 🤌

[thegreatyin]

and thus it begins.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[jichanxo]

date outfit kitakata save me......... save me....

[thesoulsofthedarned]

Fellas, today marks a monumental occasion:

My Kaalaa Baunaa’s at Insight lvl 3 :D

Mainly because i gotta complete the final story chapter from the 1.7 update so I can be ready for 1.9 and bringing i2 lvl characters to fight an i3 level boss is practically a suicide mission but-

*deep breath*

Anyways, today marks the day our lord and savior Kaalaa Baunaa ascends to godhood. May our queen shine eternally bright 🥰🙏

[puppyeared]

i am playing professor layton and the curious village on my ds. very fun!!!

I don't know if i'm very far in because most of the time spent in that game was me being confused and bad at puzzles. it's fun though.

!!! im glad to hear youre enjoying it!! its one of my fav titles and honestly such an underrated series, id love it if more ppl gave it a try!

the puzzles can be difficult but very rewarding!! i used to dread them as a kid but now i find them nice and challenging. the math ones are still hard, but if u speak to Flick at the cafe he'll give you chess puzzles which i think were my favorite ^_^

[killjoy-prince]

Trying on the cosplays imma wear to a con in a month and getting excited that ill be cosplaying said characters in a month

[heybiji]

What are some ttrpg's on your game wish list? Ones that you'd want to play or plan to play (or maybe don't have time to). also as a side note your love for ttrpg's fills me with a lot of joy and reminds me why they're so special! : )

Inevitable: COWBOY KNIGHTS TRAGEDY this is number one i wanna play this so bad with a crew who will watch a few anti-westerns and arthurian films beforehand and fully commit to the tragedy aspect (big bold decisions if you know it ends in tragedy!) oh my god this specific flavor of game appeals to me a little too specifically

some kind of horror game. VTM, Curse of Strahd, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Call of Cthulhu, whatever lends itself to horror well. the horror genre is one of my favorites and i would so be down to play some good horror!!

MASKS as a PC!

and always more dnd.

uhhh I'm sure there would be other things but I don't know many ttrpgs off the top of my head. quite like ttrpgs. would very much like to play more. especially with a group of artists who will post dodoles and songs that remind them of characters and talk about them throughout the week and do psychological deep dives and theorize about the story and themes and and and

[waywardsalt]

small little thing abt botw/totk and the future of zelda games considering it seems likely that future zelda games might be in the same style as those two and how i feel like botw/totk don't actually feel like zelda games (kind of messy i just typed this out in a kind of informal or whatever way) (this post is long af btw so uhhhh yeah)

im part of the group that claims that botw/totk aren't 'real' zelda games but... i guess they are technically 'real' zelda games, but... they sure as fuck don't feel like it, and because of that, i'm not at all excited with the idea of future loz games being in the same style, especially with the pitfalls these last two games have fallen into having been things that past zelda games did especially well, it feels like things have been sort of flipped on their heads in terms of what's being valued or whatever

like... the best parts of older zelda games were things like the story and the characters and the puzzles and the dungeons and stuff like that... the best parts of botw/totk right now are just the gameplay. people enjoy these new characters, but they dont have the narrative backing that older games do, they don't have the same impactful arcs or roles allowed by a more linear story

the point i want to get at though is how botw/totk honestly don't feel like direct evolutions or steps up from past zelda games but rather just... entirely different game styles (open world games) with the zelda flavoring and worldbuilding and story styling slapped on top.

i mean... i feel like a half-decent example of some other well-known franchises that have jumped on this (honestly kind of thoughtless) open-world bandwagon are mario (mario odyssey) pokemon (sword/shield and scarlet/violet) fire emblem (kind of. with some free-walking segments in 3 houses and engage) and the soulsborne type games (elden ring), these are all other well known and storied game series' that have somewhat made the move to open world, and i think that switch was a bit smoother, kept the core and integrity of the games that came before much better than botw/totk did

elden ring is the easiest to explain- the gameplay loop and core mechanics are the same and build upon past games' you just have more room to run around and get killed in with some little open-world flourishes like material gathering.

fire emblem is... a bit less flexible in terms of changing up the core gameplay, and the addition of open-world segments are added to add bonuses to the strategy gameplay and allow for more support-building oppourtunities and little minigames, and its more or less evolution from echoes' dungeon-crawling bits and the customizable castle in fates. the core gameplay still effectively works the exact same, just with some little class or mechanic tweaks and additions.

mario odyssey, though each world was pretty massive, still had your typical 3d mario platforming, and the new hat stuff fit in pretty well with olderpowerups and gimmicks, and the boss battles feel and work pretty similarly to the way they used it- odyssey does feel like an evolution from past mario games (ps. playing two-player with one person as cappy snaps the game in half. its the secret easy mode lol)

the new pokemon games are pretty much just the same as past pokemon games, theyre just open world and buggy as fuck rip have extra little open-world flourishes that build on what past games set up. the battling works the same as ever and the progression is the same with a number of powerful trainers you have to battle to continue forward.

with botw/totk... the progression is dramatically different in terms of power-scaling, world presentation, item-gathering, puzzle-solving... pretty much everything in the established zelda format. i get that it was pretty much the aim with botw to have a fresh start and throw out a lot of the old standards but it just makes them feel so dramatically alien to past zelda games; theyre completely different experiences in pretty much every single way, and as such they dont feel like what we've (well, people who have started with and spent a lot of time with other loz games) learned to associate with the zelda titles.

with open world games in general it's a bit harder to have a truly impactful narrative akin to those in past zelda games, anyways. i will admit that botw was a good execution of trying out something entirely new, and the narrative and gameplay and world actually complement each other very well, so despite what i've said in the past I can't really fault it's narrative too much since it's a less traditional sort of narrative and effectively does what it aims to do very well.

totk, on the other hand, proves that this style of game does not mesh with the old style of storytelling at ALL. linear games can have proper narratives with coherent stakes, developing characters, twists and reveals and building emotion and mood- and all of that is thrown out the window with totk when they decided to try and have both a more linear story with actual reveals and development and emotion, while also letting you literally spoil it for yourself out the gate.

you can't really have a well-executed story when players are capable of doing things drastically out of order and of jumping into story beats without the prior buildup and straight-up ruining what could be otherwise emotional reveals, and players being capable of doing this is hard-baked in how the game fundamentally works. I honestly feel bad for people who found the fifth sage by accident before anything else.

you can't effectively have a linear story with character growth and plot developments and impactful moments while also allowing it to be experienced out of order and with massive time gaps in between; with this kind of stuff, you can't really have your cake and eat it too. say what you will about the linearity of past zelda games, but i bet you that midna wouldn't be as beloved as a character as she is if it weren't for the linear order of the story and its events. certain parts of storytelling may demand for a linear manner of telling that story.

botw's story works because none of the memories reveal anything groundbreaking taht you don't already know; they are optional and merely give you more information about these characters from link's past and simply inform you about the girl keeping ganon at bay. if you find a late memory first, that's fine- it technically doesnt reveal anything too important to you, it just fills in some gaps for you and your player character. it makes sense within the story itself for the world to be so open and for you to be able to do what you can; the story is not the focus, nor is it even needed to beat the game. the story was made with the gameplay and what you are allowed to do in mind, and as such doesn't include things such as in-depth character development or important plot-twists.

on the other hand, you can easily spoil totk's biggest plot twist in a handful of different ways completely by accident, just by getting curious about the world around you. this can shatter a lot of the mystery or tension in the plot and this can happen completely by accident to someone playing the game organically and blindly. the story itself doesn't take this into account, it reads more like a linear story that would be more suited to a linear style of play, coming across things in order to ramp up the stakes and let things be revealed at the best possible time. (tbh totk's story doesnt seem to take the player into account in general, if the game forcing you to watch basically the same long cutscene four fucking times says anything, jesus christ)

narrative pitfalls aside, botw/totk put heavy emphasis on gameplay, but not in the same way older zelda games did, and as such trade away the unique items and gimmick-y game-specific mechanics for a small toolset handed to you out the gate. what botw/totk do- giving you everything you need from the start and having very little true varation in the gameplay from then on out- make sense and works just fine for an open world game. there is, however, a lack of actual depth to that gameplay that other open world games do have (off the top of my head, the ability to unlock and upgrade abilities and have general character upgrades in fenyx rising as well as the impressive depths of elden ring's combat and character customization system). the most depth botw/totk has to the actual gameplay is just the fourish different weapon types and the ways you use your fourish abilities (saying fourish bc for real ultrahand and fuse are fundamentally the exact same thing). there is also just raising the little defense numbers on your armor and getting more stamina and health, but that does absolutely nothing to the actual gameplay but make link more durable.

i mean, sure, health in past loz games just makes link more durable, too, but thats how health upgrades in any other game work.

the gameplay switch makes sense, considering the switch from a linear puzzle-adventure concentric game to a more sandbox-esque open-world game, but it does not mesh with the former loz formula at all, so while the shift in style makes sense, it makes me think that you can't have a previous-style loz experience in an open-world sandboxish sort of game. especially with how in totk you can very easily bypass most of the fire temple just using the mechanics handed to you at the start. you can't have the same type of zelda dungeons in a game where you are allowed to do it 'wrong' and the game itself does not allow for the same kinds of puzzles.

i am of the opinion that so long as future zelda games work the same way botw/totk did, we will not get old-school zelda-style dungeons again.

the loss of a variety of items used for specific puzzles and environment switches is the loss of a varied dungeon experience and the loss of the same kind of world and character progression as past zelda games.

you are handed everything you'll ever need at the start of botw/totk. the only thing that will meaningfully change is how much damage you do. there are no alternate strategies opened up by new items that can double as weapons, no new traversal options or routes opened up by things such as grappling hooks or clawshots or whips or specific wands. even the battle system is drastically different, instead of being enemies that take specific amounts of hits to die while you can obtain progressively stronger swords, enemies are just damage sponges and you can get all kind of weapons that just do different numerical amounts of damage.

the bosses themselves- big staples and draws of zelda games- also work extremely differently. instead of having to leverage specific items to expose weak spots or having to fight in a specific manner to do damage, you are just asked to... do damage. even in totk's bosses, where sage abilities are most certainly helpful, the only boss i found to truly require a sage ability was the lighting temple's boss; the others i either hardly used the sage at all (i didn't use yunobo at all in the second phase of the fire temple boss and hardly had a need for tulin with the wind temple boss [esp considering i was using a 3-shot lynel bow to make the poor fucker a cakewalk]) or found that alternative solutions felt better, like resorting to splash fruit on repeat water temple fights instead of wrestling with having to activate and use sidon's ability. the sages are honestly fairly poor replacements for dungeon specific items.

this kind of causes botw/totk to play more like a poor man's dark souls or just like any other open world rpgish game. i don't play botw/totk for the experience of a zelda game, i play it because it's an open world game that i can walk around in for five minute before switching to something else because i liked something in that other game better.

the combat in botw/totk isnt designed in such a way that makes it feel good. mineru's mech is fucking dismal, but since it's just either shooting with a bow or attacking with one of three types of melee weapon with some timing for a dodge, it can get stale fast. it doesn't necessarily even feel good, since there's not enough variety for it to get really engaging. (this is def an uneven comparison, but elden ring's combat feels considerable better with the different dodges you can do and the amount of attack options you have with just one weapon, not to mention the amount of control you have over your general fighting style.) combat in botw/totk at hour 1 is the exact same as combat in botw/totk at hour 100, the only different being the amount of damage you do or how much of a beating you can take.

it just... the styles of botw/totk can't allow them to feel the same as older zelda games. the shift in style was clearly a good move to draw in series newbies and shake things up, but it comes at the caveat of making them feel distant from their predecessors and uncomfortably similar to other games like them. it's hard to avoid comparisons with elden ring when on the surface they are very similar games, one just feels more true to its core identity

this all is said without mentioning the way in which botw/totk lore feels almost dismissive of past series staples and seems intent on not looking back while also taking every fucking attempt to nudge you and say 'hey, remember that zelda game' and honestly all that shit does is make me want to play a different zelda game.

botw/totk seem altogether very desperate to distance themselves from past zelda games while also being unable to really tear itself from what came before and it just culminates in me spotting linebeck island on the map and going 'damn i miss linebeck' and turning the fucking game off to play phantom hourglass instead. say what you will about phantom hourglass, but it certainly handles its story progression and character development infinitely better than the game that lets you accidentally shatter the impact of the story by deciding to check out that cool temple in the distance of the depths

[moe-broey]

FIRST MAJOR MOD ON MY NEW JACKET LET'S GOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😳😳

I'm really happy w how it came out!!!! I'm espppp such a huge fan of using the brown embroidery thread as an accent... I was really split on what I wanted to do, esp bc this will be a punk jacket w a greater focus on DIY patches (in comparison to my prev project!). I want to plan it accordingly.... and I think, the subtle accent will actually compliment high contrast accents going forward (white thread maybe, but most importantly!! I really want to use green thread to sew on patches!!!!)

I also just really like how easy it is on the eyes (.... for now.)

[rnaeborowski]

hi my phone broke and i wanna **** myself lol

hoping i can get it fixed without it causing financial ruin

[nobodybetterlookatme]

The love/hate relationship with my coworkers is so real lmao like why are they like this

[unproduciblesmackdown]

has happened plenty around iconis goings on but what an all-timer

[eorzeanflowers]

The sea breeze of the Ruby had a pleasant scent to it. Jana breathed deep as she looked to her opponent. Anaj had set up this spar, and Jana was not going to lose it.

The Kojin opposite her had a calm expression. An almost infuriating one.

Jana readied her blade, waiting for Anaj’s signal. Strike fast, strike hard.

“Begin.”

Jana rushed in, with Shio deftly dodging with a smile. That irritated Jana to no end.

Jana slipped low for a heavy strike, but Shio drew her blade in one quick motion, deflecting the heavier blade to the side. Shio then lightly stepped to the side and assumed a ready pose.

“Fight back!” Jana growled in frustration at the Kojin. Jana dropped her greatsword, shifting to a easier to maneuver gunblade.

"'Back'? To fight back, you need to start fighting," the Kojin taunts, a calm smile taking the sting from her words.

But the strike was telegraphed too easily it seemed, for Shio blocked it with grace and ease.

"You're slow. Try again."

Shio dropped low, sheathing her blade in a quick, fluid motion. Jana tried to retreat from the blow, but was too slow.

Jana rolled far down the beach. Punching the ground she left the gunblade to dissolve into aether as she grabbed her monk job stone.

Shio stood at the ready, as Jana picked herself up. “I will not yield just yet!” She threw the job stone in front of her, punching threw it to retrieve her santi.

"I'd be disappointed if you did!"

Shio then rushed forward, Jana barely blocking the attack with her hands. Her arms reverberating from the blow, she growled, “I will win this contest, you can be assured, Shio.”

Jana backflipped away, donning her robes of the white mage with the final flip. Shio started to prepare another lightning fast strike, to which Jana started to float through the air as the destructive white magic gathered in her staff.

“BEGONE BY ORDINANCE DIVINE!”

The strength of the explosion of white magic threw Shio into the water and out of sight. Exhausted Jana let go of the white mage job stone, reverting to her initial greatsword wielding form. Jana turned to Anaj with a tired laugh. “I won the duel! Would you not say, my dear old friend?” He shook his head and gestured to the water.

Curious, Jana walked over and stared into the waves, seeing no sign of the Kojin that was her opponent.

With a crash of a wave, Shio burst of the surf, spear in hand. A gloating smile on her face as she crashed into Jana, throwing her in to the sand.

"You threw a Kojin in the water and thought you had won? I am of the Blue - under the waves, I am untouchable."

“I believe victory goes to me, does it not, Jana?” Shio held her spear over Jana as the exhausted beaten Au Ra admits defeat.

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A lovely little spar between Jana and @the-littlest-kojin​ Shio!