#protoformx

[robotclownindulgence]

🎧🎧🎧!!!

Oh you got a classic!

I'm still standing by Elton John

"The threats you made were meant to cut me down

And if our love was just a circus,

you'd be a clown by now

[tallus76-photography]

Transformers Protoform X aka Rampage

#beasties #beastwars #protoformx #hasbro #rampage #kenner

[goraturtle]

happy birthday!!!!

Thank you!!! 😊💚

[deadlock]

your new themes on here are coordinated so so well it all looks so nice!!!!!!!!

aaa ty ˶ᵔ ▽ ᵔ˶

[drawbauchery]

all the ff members are the same as the anime, but she's not on the bus!

[call-me-noa]

How to read Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners

Kara no Kyoukai (literally translated The Boundary of Emptiness, officially translated The Garden of Sinners) is a light novel series by Kinoko Nasu, of Tsukihime and Fate fame. It was Nasu's first published work, originally published online in the 90s. You might know it most for the ufotable movie adaptations, or for the main character Shiki being playable in FGO.

This series predates Nasu's better-known Tsukihime and Fate series, and you can see inklings of ideas he'd reuse and refine in those works. Most prominent of these is the character of Shiki Ryougi, whose name, multiple personalities, and Mystic Eyes of Death Perception would all inspire Shiki Tohno of Tsukihime. This is also the series where Fate's famous Counter Force was first introduced.

The Kara no Kyoukai novels were Nasu's first published work, but have had a rough history in terms of translation to English. There have been bad and just straight up inaccurate attempts, and a publishing company that wanted to put them out officially went under before it had the chance, but now all these years later the series is finally completed in English!

Kara no Kyoukai is a supernatural mystery series set in Tokyo in the 1990s. Each chapter is an individual story (barring two-parters), but they all come together to tell a larger tale. It is written in anachronic order, not chronological order. As you read and skip through the timeline of Shiki and Mikiya's life, the story all starts to come together.

Translators:

Volume 1: Baka-Tsuki

Volume 2: ShikiRyougiAdmirer, KMP, Yusuke, Manolo, Dullahan

Volume 3: QualityMistranslations/YHK

Volume 4: Serouzo

Formatting: ProtoformX

Without further ado, the novels:

Volume 1 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Overlooking View Murder Speculation (Part 1) Remaining Sense of Pain The Hollow Shrine Paradox Spiral (Part 1)

Volume 2 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Paradox Spiral (Part 2) Oblivion Recorder Murder Speculation (Part 2) The Boundary of Emptiness

Volume 3 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Future Gospel

Volume 4 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Final Record

[intrepid-fictioneer-7]

How to read the Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Light Novels

I was recently reminded that there is a lot of people who simply don’t know that they can read the Case Files light novels, and that there are people who do know but have no idea where to find them. This is especially a problem when these people have only watched the anime and want to know where they can find more of the story. Since it kind of requires you to go through some hoops (not a whole lot but still), I decided to take a page out of @humbertozero​‘s excellent Fate/strange Fake resource post and make one for my other favorite Type-Moon Fate spinoff, the dossiers of El-Melon.

Read the First Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.1 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Second Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.2 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Third Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.3 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Fourth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.4 (PDF) (EPUB1) (EPUB2)

Read the Fifth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.5 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Sixth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.6 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Seventh Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.7 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Eighth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.8 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Ninth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.9 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Tenth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.10 (PDF) (EPUB)

Important note!

It should be noted first that I am just the compiler here. I am neither the translator nor am I the files’ creator. So all credits go to...

Credits

Credits and thanks to TwilightsCall on the Beast Lair forums (from which the majority of the other creditors originally posted their contributions) for translating the first 4 volumes and some of volume 5, thus getting the ball rolling. Further thanks to azwhoisverybored for translating the rest of the series from volume 6 onwards, and thanks to Kneenaw for starting the translation for the rest of volume 5. Thanks to Dotelias for making EPUBs for volumes 1-3, thanks to  cereal_ for making EPUBs of volume 4, thanks to u/confusedkuratowski on Reddit for making EPUB of volume 6, and thanks to ProtoformX for making PDFs and EPUBs for volumes 5 to 10 as well as for Adventures volume 1 and 2!

And big thanks to Makoto Sanda for writing Case Files in the first place!

Further explanations

Anime

The anime adaptation of Case Files, with the mouthful of a title that is Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note, is particular to use as an entry-point in the series, because it only partially adapts the series. See, the author, Makoto Sanda, said in interview that the two first arcs/cases in the series didn’t quite work as scripts for anime episodes, so the anime only adapted the third case/arc, Rail Zeppelin, which is more action oriented than the more mystery focused first arcs. But because they still needed to explain stuff like Gray, Reines, El-Melloi’s students, etc., many of whom are relevant characters to the arc, the first half/six episodes of the anime is about introducing them.

So to the question “where do I start reading after the anime?”, the answer is unironically to restart at volume 1. And then you may skip volumes 4-5 since they are the Rail Zeppelin arc and there are not much differences besides some characters not being present during that arc. This is why I think you can watch the anime first if that’s more your speed (I have my problems and criticisms of the anime but that’s irrelevant to this post).

And you can’t start with the anime and start reading with volume 6, the first 3 volumes have characters and plot points that come back for the final arc, so you’re gonna be incredibly lost if you think to consume the series this way.

Weirdly enough, despite being original episodes, the anime originals are most likely canon in some ways. Episode 0, the original OVA, is an expansion of an anecdote Gray mentions in the first volume’s prologue, and Episode 1 takes place during Waver’s travels before the story starts and is an actual story, one of the 3 incidents Sanda has in mind for Waver’s journey before he returned to London. Episodes 2 to 6 take place during the one month period between volume 3 and volume 4, and finally the special OVA take place on Christmas also in between arcs.

Manga

The manga’s translation used to be on hiatus for a long time, but it has fortunately been picked up by the team doing the UBW and HF mangas. As of the time of writing (14/10/24), it has been translated up to the Rail Zeppelin arc, meaning if LNs aren’t your thing, you can experience the first two arcs that weren’t adapted in the anime in manga form. It has really gorgeous art so definitely check it out.

The Adventures of El-Melloi II

The sequel series currently ongoing, started a year after the first Case Files ended in 2019. You might know it as “the (other) series where Rin shows up grown up and also a pirate” and, as of recent volumes, “that one series where Shirou comes back spending the entire time half-naked”. @call-me-noa has been compiling pretty thorough chapter-by-chapter summaries of the volumes by @kaibutsushidousha if you don’t mind being spoiled. Or you can be patient and wait for azwhoisverybored to finish translating them on Beast Lair in this thread.

At the time of writing (14/10/24), the first and second volume of Adventures have been completed and compiled into PDF and EPUB forms:

First Volume: The Man Who Devoured God (PDF)(EPUB)

Second Volume: The Demon of the Wandering Sea I (PDF)(EPUB)

Lord El-Melloi II Case Files material

This is absolutely not required reading in any shape or form, those lore books are usually of interest only to dumb nerds like me lol. A timeline of the Clock Tower? An explanation of its politics? Yes please. But it also has insights into the characters by the author that aren’t in the books proper, as well as behind-the-scenes explanations for some decisions (for example, why it’s Gray with the American spelling instead of Grey with the British spelling). Only the glossary/encyclopedia is translated, but give it a look...after you read the series, because it assumes you did and has some big spoilers.

Drama CD

What’s that? You heard something about a Buzzfeed quizz about the most handsome Clock Tower teachers and how it’s somehow a plot point? Look no further than one of my only posts that did numbers. Read the summary, it’s hilarious.

[palushiemalis-fr]

Write My Dragon's Lore -- Results!

@protoformx personality: outgoing and loud

@the-odd-aardvadillo occupation: biologist or whatever form of science fits into your lore

@hystericblue aspiration: flying under her own power, she's not staying on the ground

@revolupine hobbies: puzzles and cosplay.

@scrubbythebubble dislikes : tight spaces, the cold, authority

“YOU.” 

Seep felt as if the Sandsurge’s hard stare had shot straight into his face. He felt winded from the impact. He wasn’t often put into a position where he was on the back foot, let alone on first entering a room.

“Me?” He managed as she sprinted over to him, drawing her neck up as high as she could to meet him.

“You are the resident engineer, yes?” She tilted one eye at him to peer into the reflection of his lenses.

Seep craned his neck back and tried to keep her stare, feeling bewildered at the hostility seeing as she was the one to invite him over.

“Yes, I mean, I’m not the only one but I— who are you anyway?”

“Cesarie.” She flicked the sail of her tail boisterously, “I am a bio-engineer. I needed to be polite and say hi and ask some questions and all that, good clan you got here. But then again I’m used to working in really cramped, nasty conditions, at least this place has heating. I’ve seen some real blighters when it comes to labs…” 

She began to ramble about her journey over from the Lightning territory. Seep couldn’t quite keep up and let his mind wander, inspecting what she had done with her chamber.

Cesarie’s den pulsed with an organic, ethereal green light. He squinted through his goggles to see delicate glow worms threaded from the cave ceiling, softly wriggling from their silken strands. The slime molds and algae that practically crawled on every surface let off their own glowing hues. There were terrariums and specimen jars lined up along racks and racks of shelving. Illuminated roaches and isopods trundled about in dimly lit habitats, a swarm of fireflies bonked persistently against the glass of their temporary tank.

Her work table was another matter altogether; an unfinished game of chess sat between microscopes, scapels and scientific paraphernalia with which he wasn’t familiar. For a biologist, she kept a lot of brass fittings, bolts and screws about the place. The air smelt green but was tinged with metal polish and lubricant. He’d always appreciated the smell.

In the middle of the chaos was a huge bell jar filled with a soup of green and blue ooze. Or, what he believed was ooze. It certainly seemed lively, it let out a belch of bubbles which popped vigorously. This caught Cesarie’s attention.

She marched over, knocking some spanners and tools onto the floor on the way, and slammed a fist on the worktop.

“SIMMER DOWN.” She barked.

The ooze let out a flatulent ‘glop’ and settled down.

Seep chuckled, he could relate. His own experimental subjects could be just as cheeky.

“This is my prototype.” She grunted, rolling the jar onto its side and tweaking the instruments and strappings attached to it. “I call her ALGEE. Aviator Levitator Green Energy … something something… I’m workin’ on it.”

“Ehh, the acronym’s usually more important than the words used to put it together.” He shrugged, “But uh, what does it mean? What is that thing?”

After bashing a few loose screws into place she heaped the jar onto her back (Seep watched her ‘percussive adjustments’ approvingly, making note to brush up on his own technique.) She pulled the arm straps tight and the jar sat snuggly between her two sails. She placed on an aviator’s cap and pinged the goggles to her forehead.

“Stand back.”

Seep coiled himself back into what little room the lab had for his huge, winding body.

Cesarie yanked a toggle on her strap and the jar hummed and sizzled with light. The glass shook violently and it began to lift of its own accord, pulling her up like a hot air balloon. She hung precariously in the air, her legs kicking and her tail wagging excitedly.

Seep laughed in amazement, “Impressive! And this is the prototype? This could be a paradigm shift in–”

There was a crack and a hiss and a whizz all at once.

Cesarie dropped like a stone and hit the ground with a winded “Oof.”

Cesarie picked up her jar of gooey, glowy ALGEE and juggled it from one paw to another. It must have been hot from the intense chemical reactions. There was a large crack down the size. 

“As I said. Prototype. But one day, this baby’ll fly all the way to the dunes and back. That foreman will be sorry he ever fired me for collecting algal samples on the job…” She began to rant and ramble once again, Seep sat himself down for the long haul.

[panicbones]

"Nine people you want to get to know better" tag game

WEE I LOVE THESE tagged by @protoformx

Last song: "Gaddaar" by Bloodywood heads up its metal. but indian folk metal it fucks so hard.

Favorite color: dark red my adored. but then also deep bluish forest green and teal (blue greens in general)

Last movie/TV show: I watched an ep of the og Ultraman with some new buddies

Sweet/spicy/savory: dont make me choose like this man. all of them

Relationship status: pained forced smile. dumped hard it sucks

Current obsession: inhales sharply and autistically. toku and printmaking to put it simply

Last book: i have like 20 pgs left of the infinite and the divine its so good. not much of a warhammer 40k guy but i love the necrons and the writing is very enjoyable and well done. rly funny book. next up after that is probably jingo discworld OR the light fantastic discworld. i also have the shadow of the torturer to read but it takes more mental effort so im putting it off

Looking forward to: umm. hopefully this weekend my mom and grandma will visit and we will go to an art museum... besides that *shrug*

oh boy okay now the hard part: tagging. UMMM lord okay @ankhisms @ackee @eliasdrid @njikeartist @frida--y @petrow1tch @raskullion @iwtvdramacd18 @ouja BUT ANYONE CAN DO IT IF UR READING THIS U TOO

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[gryptids]

“Nine People you want to know better” tag game

I was tagged by @demekii!! Thank u for thinkin of meeee <3

Last Song: Ike's Rap II by Isaac Hayes. On the album it is attached to another song, but I've just been listening to this part :>

Favorite Color: SO HARD TO PICK... probably cool green, but blue & pink are my honorable mentions.

Last Movie/TV Show: I don't really watch much TV 2 be honest!!! I much prefer nonfiction media, most of my fiction I consume thru books rather than TV/movies. That being said, I do plan on tuning in to the new season of True Detective on HBO 👁👁

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Tie between sweet and savory!!! I loooove sweet drinks, but when it comes to snacks I prefer savory. Catch me drinking sweet chai & salt n' vinegar almonds like nobody's business. My tolerance for spicy food is fairly low.

Relationship status: Happily single

Last thing I googled: The 2019 film Queen & Slim

Current Obsession: The Bald & The Beautiful podcast and Cyberpunk 2077. I don't really care about the plot of the game, more the world that its in. Been watching a looot of ambient driving tours in Cyberpunk 2077 lol (shout-out to DaydreamGaming on Youtube).

Stealing prev's last two questions:

Last Book: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Gideon is so fucking funny I love her so much, I know at least two lesbians who act exactly like her sjlkfjsd.

Looking forwards to: Attending some adult meetup groups at my local library!!

Tagging @official-bagpipes @technicolor-technopath @sauntervaguelydownward @triptrippy @dracula-enthusiast @charlioak @esafagus @cucumberlumber @protoformx and whoever else wants to do it!!! There were some ppl I wanted to tag but Tumblr wouldn't let me so if u see this I am tagging YOU and you should do it 👀

[mister-carnival]

9 people I'd like to get to know better !

tagged by @protoformx Thanks for the tag ! (o:

last song: Runaway by Ladytron <333

favourite colour: Blues, teals, and orange/reds...all colors are yummy though

last movie/tv show: Scavengers Reign!! I couldn't recommend this show enough, it's beyond inspiring. The visuals, the music, literal perfection.

sweet/spicy/savory?: Savory is my delight. Soups, sushi, cheesy tacos, and so much more.

last thing i googled: '90s PC math games, I was trying to find a game I used to play as a kid.

current obsession: I'm not sure- Probably art as usual. Whenever I close my eyes my mind still is blending, painting, designing, etc.

tag nine people: @lord-prey @druzsea @papabirdurskeks @cheezwarlock @cyanidasmain @sharklysweet @perfriff @ash-rigby @nine-of-words

Just a disclaimer there is no pressure to fill this out- but yeah everyone tagged here seems pretty rad and I would love to know more about ya'all <3

[robotclownindulgence]

Tagged by @millidew :D

post 5 songs in your current song rotation and tag 10 mutuals

Kitty Kat by Mehan Thee Stallion

Yellow Line by JAMES SHIMOJI

Kill the Power by Skindread

Kingslayer by Babymetal and Bring me the Horizon

Between Two Worlds by Mili

tagging:

@meteorcrab @protoformx @wolfsmeat @transtroboy

@dragoncarrion @transshirou @zviyeri @outlier-roddy @gods-littlest-fag @transphormers

please don't feel pressured to answer if i tagged you ^^

[venterry]

5 songs in my current rotation tagged by @protoformx

Always by YOU LOVE HER

La Hafla by Acid Arab

Hacker by Death Grips

Slam by Pendulum

Funeral by Noisemaker

not tagging anyone you know how it goes if you see this its up to you

[necronyancy]

tagged by @protoformx KYAAAA im on the list

last song: Buke and Gase - Grips [D.M's Stress Fracture Remix]

favorite color: hot pink and powder pink

last movie/tv show: my little pony friendship is magic but before that i watched murder on the orient express because my sister wanted to but bbefore that i watched the first live action hobbit and the cartoon movie hobbit and before that i watched the lord of the rings

sweet/spicy/savory: i will eat any food

last thing i googled: bag end minecraft build

current obsession: ace attorney trilogy

[protoformx-fr]

You can call me X / Kass

I use it/he pronouns I'm!! 25 !

my main blog is @protoformx

my art blog is @wizardlocation

|| ProtoformX (# 448733) on flight rising! (anyone is free to friend me! :3 ) ||

[[carrd]]

[lucksea]

Post 5 songs in your current rotation and tag TEN MUTUALS

tagged by @protoformx :] I listen to a lot of stuff but here's the songs I've looped the last week or so:

the In N Out mashup by Chongo

Love ka? by HiiragiKirai (the flower version)

Hey Lover by Daughters of Eve

Leave It In The Sun by Jeff Rosenstock

Freshwater Freekin' It . i dont remember who made it. its on youtube now. i listen to mashups a lot

TAGGING (u dont have to do it if you dont want to): @necromanticzz @sentinelminor @eliasdrid @nepuchu @raybotonline @oatchi @twizzta @futilecombat @panicbones @catboydivorce