#ronear

[scribblestatic]

About the village Spider SY live. At this rate, this village is going to be famous for having really really good writers and artists.

Plus, SY is criticizing their story. So he let thoughts of his own that could be seen as revolutionary in their culture. For example he told Zhenzhen that women are not only for birthing children. But in their time, it is. He promoted gender equality. Perhaps even social equality and justice. He made them rethink things they thought were a normal acceptable way of life. He made them be critical of facts.

And I find that fascinating.

Oh, the village is definitely different from others in the same area. Economically, socially, and religiously! You'll get to see some of these differences once Shen Yuan finally makes up his mind to go exploring again.

( ´▽｀)♪

[pencilofawesomeness]

Was re-reading your HTRYDS again and got me thinking. The relationship between Zeref, Lacrade and August is so messy and tragic.

From August side alone, he knows that Zeref's curse kills everyone he loves. So he understands that Zeref can't allow himself to love him. Yet he sees small signs that Zeref DOES care about him. Basically adopting him when they first met. Letting him stay by his side. Perhaps teaching him all he knows. Giving him the highest authority of his empire. Perhaps he might've wanted to reveal that he is his son, but never did for various reasons. Then Zeref created Lacrade. Someone who looks so much like a child Zeref and Marvis might have together. So this is the proof that Zeref did wanted a son. Someone like him. But what is he to do? He's already gray and old, yet his father remains the same. He knows that he's going to die soon, so isn't it better to keep it a secret to prevent further heartbreak? Maybe even wondering if Lacrade is actually a replacement goldfish. A preparation to replace a son Zeref saw in him when he died of old age. So it's perhaps proof that Zeref did see him as his son. Yet also painful because he's going to be replaced after he died. But shouldn't he feel glad about this? The entire reason he hid his relationship is so Zeref won't be in pain after his death. So Lacrade being there after him should be something he should be glad about. But it's still so painful that one day, he might be forgotten and replaced by Lacrade. Someone he knows is a demon of Zeref. With the ability to live as long as Zeref allows it.

Oh yeah, well said.

[ryuucha]

I've also been thinking of other Stellaron hunters in Arknight. Elio is definitely a cyclops. They are prophet species who are in despair by the prophecy of calamity and tragedy they see. Enough said.

Kafka is spider theme. Unfortunately there's no spider species in Arknight. Then I thought of her power of Spirit Whisper. Then there's Banshee who used Oral Art. So there's that. Also the fact apparently Banshee and Vampire work well together. So that match with the syngeny she has with Blade in HSR.

I can't think of anything for Silver wolf. Unless you go with Lupo of her namesake. But then wouldn't that disrupt the theme the steralaron hunters have with being Sarkaz? Then I thought of her reality hacking. Being a gamer. So thought, how about Lich? They bend reality. But unlike the usual library types, she's more punk rock style with technology. Who instead of ancient knowledge and books of normal lich, hoard modern knowledge and games.

HMMM INTERESTING! Thank you for taking the time to type and share your thoughts on this!

I admit for Stellaron Hunters I already have rough plans (Kafka as phydia, SW as lupo, Firefly as liberi) and mostly going with the “unlikely people from different backgrounds teaming up together so well” theme to avoid a Sarkaz-only team focus, but your idea is also nice options! I’m considering the Elio as cyclops bit, though most I know is from Typhoon and Valarqvin, I’ll need to read up more about them..

Would you mind if I incorporate some things from your ideas?

[beastenraged]

Lots of people (including me) think that Player 2 is the same Player from UX. That the heart station with ephemera, skuld and charity, with the union crest from behind just confirmed it.

Normally a heart station got the sleeping posture of the Owner of that heart in it. But player's don't have one. Of course this is most likely to be the technical difficulty of a customisable player.

But wouldn't it be interesting ? Of Player not being in their own heart station, because they no longer remember "Themselves". They remembered who are precious to them, but they no longer have a defined idea of "Self", so their place in the heart station is Empty. Because there's nothing to be there.

Hmm. I'm hesitant to label the new Player the same as the old one, mostly due to the entire Xehanort is Player debacle that was confirmed to be not the actual situation at hand.

I think it's highly probable that the two are connected, tho, because that is an ongoing trope in Kingdom Hearts, connections like these.

Sora wasn't in his own heart station either, in the first Kingdom Hearts, however. His were replaced by the Princesses of Heart. Roxas had a similar situation, even though we know he had a heart.

The Station of Awakening is something more symbolic than literal, when it comes to hearts. It's possible that as we see it in the trailer, it's merely meant to represent what our player will encounter, as much as it has in other games.

I'm interested in how we're gonna get Xehanort off Scala to Destiny Islands. Also, what is Luxu up to?

[entamewitchlulu]

Sorry if I'm being agnorant it insensitive, but how does the AI even work on writing? I know how and how bad the AI feeding on art is happening. But how do the AI even write? I mean, writing have to include all the scenes, characters and emotion.

It's definitely not insensitive to ask! Honestly, it's something that I don't think a lot of people get completely (and I won't pretend that I'm an expert). But in answer to your question, how does the AI know how to write and include all the scenes, characters, and emotions?

Short answer: It doesn't.

Longer answer: AI is a Pattern Recognizer. What that means is that if you put enough Things into it, the coding it's made up of will sort and categorize all the Patterns it can identify, and then when given parameters, it will spit something out that matches those parameters based on the patterns it has stored.

As an example: let's say I fed the AI with a bunch of photos of flowers and all of Van Gogh's paintings. The AI's code sifts through the data, organizes it all based on tags, data, etc, and stores it. Then I tell it "hey, give me a painting of a tulip in the style of Van Gogh." The code searches the database for tags that match the prompt: so it searches its database of flowers for one tagged "tulip", then it searches all of its tagged images of Van Gogh's work and finds patterns in those images, like swirly lines, bright colors, etc, and it combines those things and spits out an image that looks like a tulip that might have been painted by Van Gogh.

The same concept works for writing. If I poured all of JRR Tolkien's writing into an AI, the code goes through and stores, tags, and organizes all that data. Then if I tell it: write a sequel to The Lord of the Rings about Frodo in the Undying Lands. The code pulls Patterns out of the database, like "if someone says this, Frodo usually says this in response." And through that, it manages to cobble something out that maybe sounds like how JRR Tolkien might have written Frodo.

The thing is, it doesn't actually Know what it has. Code can't Know things. So it doesn't Know or Understand who Frodo is. To the AI, "Frodo" is a pattern of words in sequence. So it can find those Patterns and recognize "these sequences are most likely to occur when referring to the parameter of Frodo," and cobble something together, something that might even sound pretty good. But it can't Think. It can't extrapolate or make decisions. It can't consider the internal depth of who Frodo is or represents. It can just repeat and rearrange patterns.

This means, often, if you're reading something written by an AI, eventually you're going to come across something that feels OOC, or loses its internal coherency, or loses details and plot threads, because the AI isn't Thinking. It's not coming up with outlines and keeping track of details, it's just reconfiguring its already loaded database.

Of course, the more patterns it has, the more it can approximate something that sounds like a person wrote it, and that's why a lot of artists and writers are so against it: their work is getting loaded into the AI so that it has a bajillion patterns, including their own styles and concepts! Which it can then use to push more and more of us out of what we love to do as people who are more concerned with Profit decide it's easier to fix some plot holes and wonky writing than to have something with heart, soul, and the actual Decisions of a Person behind it.

So yeah. The TL;DR is, an AI can't write. It can just rearrange patterns fed into it into something that is approximately like what someone might have written. But there's no choices, thought, or consideration behind any of it. It's just a hollow shell of a concept wrapped up in the trappings of someone else's words.

[mira--mira]

In out of time, what are the chances of Sai, shin or Tenzo telling Hashirama and Madara about ROOT? Cause I'm pretty sure that's the fastest way to get them to off Danzo

Thank you for the question!

The big issue with any three of them telling the terrors about ROOT is that they physically cannot, due to the curse seal on their tongues. It's why Sai tell them there's more he can't say and physically struggles to speak to them about knowing the time travel incident in chapter 54.

ROOT is one of those things that I feel a bit conflicted about in the canon's worldbuilding. A secret shadowy organization that reports to Danzou is fine, but that they take from the ANBU...is no one aware of the power struggle? Of an elite army loyal to one man? In OoT it's a smaller organization and the curse seal is a serious thing that'll be brought up more later that makes it impossible for the members to knowingly speak/reveal the nature of ROOT to outsiders (and ROOT members usually only know one or two others, no one knows the full number of their organization besides Danzou). Hiruzen knows about it, but he thinks he can still control Danzou enough for it not to be a problem. Kakashi is also aware because of his connection to Tenzo and how much Hiruzen trusts him.

[stealingpotatoes]

happy halloween!! askposting

🎃 feat. me dying bc u guys are so nice, the star war, and some halloween art!!

you are SO welcome my friend, very happy my art is huggable!!! im rlly just out here spreading the star wars agenda my mum spread to me age 6

I think a solid 90% of Han's parenting is "don't tell ur mom"

:D !!!!!!! omg that's so flattering!! u check my blog!! on purpose!! i'll just HAVE to keep posting so u keep having stuff to check

@ronear and those 4 disasters are being so brave abt it!! theyre such a mess i love all of them, and i'm gonna do a lot more of the clone wars thingie!! i have a lot of very good asks to get thru loll

@galaxyofjedi treat!!! i give u this drawing of my cat i did for my family halloween card

@wolfer13579 you were very quick to assume i was gonna judge you are u ok. ANYWAY omg yes such a good idea. they're both so stupid it's gonna take every mando and jedi combined to shove these idiots together

@stars-are-watching every day i learn more wack shit abt lightsaber forms

@moonymoon90 LOL now i'm just imagining anakin walking thru a battle field holding ahsoka like

[fic-pickyourpoison]

What if Tsuru managed to take Lami away from Doflamingo? And managed to cure her by using Wash Wash fruit ability? By washing out the white lead?

I LOVE THIS! Somehow this ask was tucked away in my inbox... I am so sorry that this took so long, Ronear.

AU / What if Tsuru managed to take Lami away from Doflamingo?

The relief is immediate.

Air deflates from her lungs as her body eases into the steely metal chair of the interrogation room. A pen rolls back and forth along the metal table, in rhythm with the rocking of the large battleship. A blond woman in a bucket hat watches from the other side of the table, arms crossed over her chest. Poison is washed from her body as hands clinically wring at her skin—the white substance drip, drip, dripping from the sides of her chair, pooling on the floor beneath them.

Black eyes stare at the white. Who knew it would be so easy?

The Vice-Admiral's hands are gentle against her shoulders; the ghost of a touch. It is chafing. It is comforting. It makes her nauseous. She hasn't felt this good in ages.

"You deserve better," the older woman had said on those cobbled streets.

This doesn't feel real.

.

Lami's shoulders are stiff as she is pushed into a large room. Law, at her side, scoffs with a snide remark as the Vice Admiral marches ahead of them. She can't focus, however. The voices;lights within are blinding--

Doflamingo was the flickering light of a candle.

She is now meeting the sun.

"Brat," Tsuru snips at the man in the chair, "meet my grand-kids."

Sengoku, Admiral of the Marines, pauses from the stacks of paper that line his desk to stare at her as though she has grown two heads. His dark eyes stray from her to the two siblings. The bag of snacks in his hands drops to the floor, where a goat happily begins to eat from it.

"What?!"

"I've had them for about a week now," she states, tilting her head up and taping her chin, "however, I think I am going to keep them. It will be good for Kujaku to have friends. They have the grit to handle her difficult personality."

The Admiral's voice is gruff as one of his hands drags down his face, "Your granddaughter takes after you, you know. Do I want to ask where you found these kids?"

Seemingly annoyed at being ignored, Law very loudly exclaims: "On Doflamingo's ship. And if you think you've got free play-mates out of us, you hag, then you're about to be sorely mistaken. You may have saved our lives but we aren't pets. You're brat of a grand-kid can shove it."

Tsuru turns to look at them over her shoulder, steely eyes drilling into them for a long moment before she sighs.

"There's no point in being subtle, then. Close the door, mouse. I've got a story to tell."

.

Lami had never considered the Marines as an option before and Law does not stay quiet about his distaste for the watch dogs of the government.

Which is why, three months after arriving to the Marine base, the siblings sneak out with a bag full of cash, diabolical plans, and illusions of grandeur. They evade Vice-Admiral Tsuru for a few weeks, but Lami always knew it was only a matter of time before they were found.

And, maybe, there is a small, hidden part of her that is happy to have been found. Happy, even, to have been wanted enough to be chased. Though she keeps her thoughts quiet from her cussing brother as they are dragged upon the large warship, she had in some small way missed the older woman's harsh tongue and soft, ghosting touches.

.

[ Losing steam on the prompt, may come back at some point to continue on... TLDR: Lami and Law become integrated as secret members of Sword, ultimately acting as pirate spies for Tsuru and Sengoku until Marineford... wherein Law shortly after becomes a warlord. ]

[yuesya]

Thinking about both Shiki and Satoru blue and orange morality remind me of this. A being that is fundamentally different trying to abide by human custom. But still missing certain points and coming out as inhuman.

https://www.tumblr.com/ronear/679332473193349120?source=share

Thanks for linking that comic strip! There's a somewhat similar thing going on with Shiki and Satoru, although probably not quite as extreme haha.

[somestorythoughts]

@ronear

THIS IS IT THAT'S THE BASTARD!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!

There was a post I read several yrs ago before I had a tumblr about the Force as an eldritch entity, and Anakin being a child of the Force is too. He looks mostly like a little boy but well, there are somethings you just can’t hide. Even from people who aren’t Force sensitive because sometimes there are strong emotions and not everyone knows what’s happening, but everyone knows its something. Luke and Leia are little bit eldritch too, if there’s such a thing as “a little bit eldritch” and Han’s reaction to that is basically “huh okay.”

It was wonderful and I want to reread it and like it now that I have Tumblr, because it was The Post that inspired me to do a lot more eldritch/uncanny valley things with several of my characters, and I can’t fucking find it.

If this rings any bells for anyone could you please let me know?

[scribblestatic]

More on spider SY. If anyone asks, why he didn't try to make a human form, he can honestly say he just doesn't like it. Like, let me make a list. Humans only have two eyes on the front. Only two hands and two legs. Easy to topple over. Squishy on the outside. Can't climb well. Etc etc.

Has anyone heard him making such a complaint, it will cement that he just really really doesn't like the human form. Even if it's culturally acceptable as a sign of high rank in both demon and human civilization.

Actually, this also proves his strength. He's not trying to make himself important. Because he already is powerful and important. Why should he care what other think.

Yeee he's definitely not the biggest fan of a human body. Though, there are a few inconveniences if he wants to be more social. If he wants to at least obtain a humanoid form, it wouldn't be cause he was peer or socially pressured.

Maybe he'll find a happy medium or something.

[pencilofawesomeness]

In your au, would Zeref complain that between Arcnologia and him, the two blight of humanity, He's the one who ended up with almost every dark mage making a cult in his name, while Arcnologia doesn't have even one and is forgotten. I mean, the Black Dragon Od Apocalypse got to have SOME cult in his name?

I feel like he'll be pretty salty about it.

I mean. Nobody said that Acnologia doesn't have any cultish following at all....... but certainly not anything close to the level Zeref has. Even when Acnologia was a problem, he was a far more mysterious one and usually more of a dragon problem than a people problem, if that makes sense. If anything, his legends got wrapped into Zeref's so it's not an uncommon take that the "black dragon of the apocalypse" was actually just a big demon of Zeref.

Both of them despise this rumor, of course.

But yeah when Zeref isn't being uber apathetic and depressed he definitely has the capacity to be salty. Unfortunately for him, crazy lads latch onto the guy with lots of spells and inventions to his name, with the power to create life and insta-cast death and be god-like, more than the tales of the dragon that destroyed things.

Because the main thing is... what we have seen thus far is largely from a human and modern perspective. And modern history barely agrees that dragons existed, and doesn't really know them beyond super powerful creatures. There's more of a disconnect there. So for people in the market to follow a god......

Zeref was an evil mage—a man—and Acnologia was just a monster.

[ryuucha]

For the Lich Sarkaz!Welt agenda,

1. They live ridiculously long life and are near immortal.

2. They have space manipulation art and keeper of libraries and knowledge.

3. They live in Leithanien, a Caprinae and Elafia country.

I think they fit him really well

You know what? I’ve just finished the event where Fremont appears (instant added to fav npc), adds up with this delightful agenda you’re offering definitely makes me MORE TEMPTED to give in 😂

Come come give me more of that agenda heheheheh

[beastenraged]

So. Khml official trailer. How are you doing?

OOOOoooh. I am LOOKING.

Seems our protag is a drifter, someone from beyond Scala. Or a Faller, as I call them in Tell Me, ha. People not liking drifters, perhaps, because there was some talk about not going against the city or something? Got it look at it again.

Rusty keyblade, hmm, wonder what that could mean.

And this societies situation sounds a bit like the unions, from before, but maybe more...aggressive? Like it's expected they would fight over the memories.

We got a BRAIN here. And a blank era, seems to mean it just means the history of Scala is forgotten...but knowing Nomura, the era could possibly be literally wiped from history somehow.

The lore will be GREAT!

[entamewitchlulu]

I found a one short of Arc V idea that I really love. That Yuya's Entement Deck isn't his real deck. It's something he used to be closer to his dad and follow his ideal. For Entertainment. His real deck was Magician and Dragons. With the Theme of duality. Like Time and Space magician. Xiangke and Xiangsheng magician. When leaving for war, he left the Entement Deck behind. Because they're not strong enough and that they weren't for fighting. Most importantly, he didn't want to taint them with the upcoming war. So he left it behind.

That's a really nice idea! I personally have always had the headcanon that Performapals are Yuya's deck, while magicians/odd-eyes was Zarc's original deck. That's why we slowly see the magicians start to overtake Yuya's deck theme as he gets closer to Zarc, and then his Performapals make more of a comeback in a sort of melded way in the unification arc at the end, because Yuya is becoming Zarc, and then becoming his own self which is both Zarc and the person he's become.

[angstandhappiness]

HEH

@fishy-moirails Wait what. I thought he was so short because he was born with short genes??? 😭

@littlemxsunshine : @fishy-moirails (light spoilers) i’m not entirely sure, but from what i understood, i think it’s because of the accident when he was a kid. like he stopped aging when the roots gave him his regenerative abilities

@tibialtybalt #hes so ?!?!?!!?!

@rukafais #HES JUST STUCK IN THE BODY OF A 12 YEAR OLD FOREVER JDSNSDGNSGN

@ronear I think he's effectively like Ji. Forever in a kid form. Probably immortal as long as Fungsi tree is around too

i love that they never definitely explain why yi is so tiny. and then when you figure it out it’s because he’s been in the body of a 12 year old the entire time and everybody already knew so no one has ever brought it up. amazing twist. 10/10