#question

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hi Raven! I was wondering if you could compile a list of card art mistakes that have appeared in game (and then fixed)?

I got the idea to ask you this after i learned that Sebek was missing his zigzag on his eyebrows in his recent halloween SSR card and Silver’s anniversary birthday groovy was initially uploaded without the eyeshadow. 😆

I'm not sure if these are all of them, but here's what I remember (sorry about the lack of screenshots, these instances are all already corrected in the game so it's hard to go back and get the originals with the mistakes intact):

Platinum Jacket Silver was missing his eyeshadow

Nightmare Suit Sebek had a straight eyebrow shape instead of his usual squiggly end eyebrow

Tsumsitter Sebek was missing his gloves

Relax in Room (groovy) Floyd had Jade's eye colors (olive right eye, gold left eye; it should be reversed for Floyd)

Tsumsitter Vil (groovy) had Rook missing the golden pattern on the Pomefiore robes

Dorm Uniform Riddle had to have the black and yellow stripes fixed; they were going the wrong direction

Dorm Uniform Jade needed the buttons on his jacket corrected

Honorable mention goes to Outdoor Wear Trey, who was depicted with a V-neck shirt in his story event preview banner; when he came out in the game, this was changed to a scoop neck instead.

If you remember any other instances of mistakes in card art that later got corrected, please let me know and I'll add them to this list ^^

[translatingpostsinfrench]

Does “pussy” as slang for vagina actually literally translate to pussy like cat in French? Is it used the same?

it does!

[tsubaki94]

Hiya, Tsubaki! Do you have a bluesky account? I'm trying to make sure I follow folks over there too, just in case things go badly on tumblr. Thanks!

No I don't have a Bluesky account. However, if Tumblr falls you will still be able to read the comic on Webtoon, the link is in the master post.

But if Tumblr goes down I might start a Bluesky account using the same account name Tsubaki94.

[no-stupid-questions-official]

How do I approach my parents about potential abusive/controlling behavior? I'm 15, and my parents have a program usage tracker on my PC as well as my phone, and my mom circumvents the Microsoft parent controls not letting you see the screen of the monitored device by placing a camera behind me. She believes in the "if you have nothing to hide, why are you covering the camera" type of attitude, and I'm pretty sure the only reason I still have a door on my bedroom hinges is because my cat sleeps up here with me.

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[suzuki-chiyo]

I really liked your stuff because your Japanese and Japanese ppl are awesome (I wish I were Japanese) but I found out you were also british which is gross. I didn't know Japanese people could be British too. You ruined this for me. I hate you.

... Pardon???

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Malleus said near the end of his backstory "is this how my life will be for what feels like eternity? All alone until the day I return to the stars?" Then Lilia to Malleus' said that not even fairies can survive fairytales, not even Malleus' magic can stop the passage of time. Could this be some kinda death flag or foreshadowing? Book 7 was a rough ride so there's so many things I'm wondering about 💀

Well 💦 I don’t think Twst will ever fully commit to killing a playable character in the main cast. It’s just not economical for a gacha game to do. You kill off a character permanently? That equates to no more screen time (or at least way less screen time + new content) for that dead character, which directly translates into less merch and less banner sales. NPCs (like some of the parents and generic background characters) are disposable because it does not impact revenue at the end of the day. Main cast members? They have plot armor.

Lilia was heavily foreshadowed to die in book 6 (the conversation with Malleus about seeing the stars aligning, the end-of-book char about the importance of bonds) + early book 7 (losing his magic, and wanting to retire, Silver talking about his dad dying in a foreign land), but Twst spontaneously brought him back with the power of love and wishing hard enough to conjure a miracle. (Ironically, many also worried that Malleus would die at the end of book 7, since there were “death flags” hovering around him, like us being told his UM could only be dispelled if he died or willingly removed it himself.) If any future main cast “deaths” occur, I’d imagine that they’d pull out a similar convenient explanation to revive them.

Things like the ending bit of Malleus’s post-OB flashback and Lilia saying not even fairies can survive fairy tales/not even Malleus’s magic can stop the passage of time, I don’t really see as foreshadowing a character death?? I interpret these lines as more of the narrative trying to drive home 1) Malleus’s livelong isolation and loneliness (which was the central theme of his flashback) and 2) how change is inevitable. It all feeds into the idea that Malleus, powerful as he is, cannot ignore his own troubles and continue living in a happy present with his magic. Unpleasant things will happen, fairies (long lived as they are) are not around for forever, because time doesn’t discriminate. Things can’t stay unchanging forever, and that’s what Malleus has to learn if he’s to mature.

Book 7 repeatedly uses fairy tales and fantasy as a parallel to the characters’ circumstances, and it’s not in a manner that suggests death, but change. For example, Malleus’s virtual pet Gao-Gao Draco-kun lives in a perpetual cycle, going from egg to fully grown dragon and then leaving behind an egg to start the cycle anew every month. Malleus laments having to see Gao-Gao go, and wishes that there was some way his lifespan were not finite. “It's a fairy-tale game, designed to comfort people. Perhaps there's no harm in indulging in its fantasy—one where people live on indefinitely, so long as you take care of them,” Lilia suggests. This draws an obvious parallel with Malleus, who would later go on to use his UM to force Sage’s Island into deceptive, happy dreams.

When Lilia later speaks of fairy tales again, it’s in reference to how quickly humans are making advancements. “No matter how hard we struggle, there's no stopping the advancement of [human] civilization.” He worried that far will be lost to time because of that. “Eventually, we fae will become relics of the past... We'll be forgotten and regarded as creatures from storybooks. But [Malleus] is going to be born and live on for an eternity. I don't want you to be relegated to the protagonist of a fairy tale.” (At this point, Malleus has not hatched. Lilia is expressing that he doesn’t want Malleus to die inside the eggshell and forgotten, only remembered in legends.)

Late in book 7, Idia seizes control of Malleus’s dream world(s) by constructing a fantasy of his own: a gacha game. The power has been shifted from Malleus to his classmates, who all seek to rebel against him. They once despaired at the impossible odds of fighting—and defeating—Malleus, but Idia’s cheat tool grants them power and hope.

So!! 💦 Yeah, I don’t think we have to worry about this?? But I understand why people might be feeling on edge after book 7’s release ending and how nail-biting it was building up to be (which doesn’t bode well for book 8, which may be even more dire).

[chronically-enthusiastic]

pls reblog for larger sample size etc!! im very curious

[no-stupid-questions-official]

Does anyone else enjoy going to the doctors/dentist/hospital? I like being fussed over and treated kindly. Anyway to get more of this other than getting sick or injured all the time?

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[horseimagebarn]

horsethoughtbarn 5 name

if horses werent called horses what do you think they should be called

[lebagelboy]

Is there like horny but for aesthetic attraction?

Like instead of "we should fuck" its "you should get dressed up so i can stare at how pretty you are"?

[submissivegayfrenchboy2]

I just want to ride on the back of his motorcycle so bad 💔💔

[incorrectbatfam]

Bruce: My cousin's a lesbian. Maybe you know her?

Renee: It doesn't work like that. We don't all know each other.

Bruce: She lives in the Diamond District. Her name's Kate. She has a black and red motorcycle.

Renee: *walks away so she doesn't have to tell him they've been dating since 2013*

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Am I crazy or did they never explain why Malleus randomly missed his shot at Cerberus Gear Ortho

For people who are confused, Anon is referring to a scene in 7-104! Ortho manages to infiltrate Sage's Island and intends to help S.T.Y.X. collect data about Malleus's magical field for them to analyze. Malleus himself shows up and prepared to destroy Ortho for good, but he misses his shot at the last second.

There's this weird static-y effect that takes over the screen for a moment. This is very weird because this scene takes place in reality, NOT in a dream:

Ortho is surprised by this occurrence, describing it as "Malleus [... freezing] up for a split second [...] almost like his CPU is overloaded and his processing power dropped..." This is also strange because the Shroud parents previously theorized that Malleus has an endless bounty of magic since he, as a fae, channels power from nature itself. Malleus's magic also never wavers outside of this one instance.

We still haven't gotten clarification on what happened here, even after book 7's conclusion! I wonder what's going on...? Are we in for another 4th wall break or something???