#so i guess they're the mains

[pharawee]

PIT BABE | พิษเบ๊บ | Coming Soon

[azu-marill]

they're the friends ever to me

[morweneledhwen]

I read on Weibo that Lin Ziye basically considered Tian Jiarui to be his mama on set and clung to him like a lost chick.

[bayetea]

there are many things about hazel's povs that have an intensely de-racialized vibe to them (read: divorced from the black girl experience) but I think any black person will tell you that the most obvious sign is the complete lack of attention paid to her hair

like firstly:

she's from the 1930s her hair was definitely getting permed and straightened (it was not acceptable to just wear your natural hair out back then. optics + cultural assimilation/you'll be hard pressed to find photos of black american girls with unstraightened hair in that time period unless they're from like..... harlem)

I do believe that marie was straightening it for her For A Time but then she became more neglectful and stopped so hazel had to do it herself. I'm almost positive that hazel wouldn't have even been permitted to set foot in her school building without straightening it because that's just how much of an expectation it was

ok she comes back from the dead. what's she doing to her hair now bc it's not just gonna be cutesy effortless curls falling over her shoulder no matter what the length is

how does she feel about living in a time period where natural black hair is more accepted (read: more, absolutely not fully)

there are no black people around her At All. in fact she's around a lot of white people on the argo (+nico) so that would probably be giving her some intense feelings of double consciousness (look this term up if you don't know what it means) and that would inform how she feels about her hair

theoretically she ought to be wearing her hair in braids for simplicity's sake but I think it's more likely that she would cling to what she knows (perming/straightening) because it's not easy for a 14 year old girl (PSA hazel is 14.5 in hoo not 13 btw 👍) to go from assimilating to deeply-ingrained white hair beauty standards to just proudly wearing a distinctly black hairstyle all by herself

mind you black women and girls can do whatever they want with their hair and straightening/perming it does not always/have to come from a place of self-hatred or whatever but in this particular case back then straightening one's hair was political And a survival tactic. it was as normal as brushing your teeth. it was enforced through dominant cultural messagings about the Absolute Necessity of conforming to white conventions of beauty. if you don't understand then think of it similarly to how you'd think of 1930s women needing to be perpetually dolled up and modestly dressed in order to be considered "good women" and anyways I'm just saying that this would be a lot to unpack for a 14 year old girl so hazel's probably just continuing to do this impractical thing (straightening her hair all the time) like 60% out of habit and 20% out of shame and 20% she doesn't know what else to do

something something about a missed potential character arc regarding all of this and in general there's so little mind paid to race in hazel's povs which is just ridiculous to me because a black girl from the jim crow era should have at least a few feelings about where she fits into modern society even if that society is camp jupiter. rick demonstrates his capacity to talk about how his characters feel about their race most notably in the kane chronicles so I don't think was too much to ask for. see this quote from an early son of neptune chapter:

^ like....... hazel's feelings of out-of-place-ness are There in the text and important to take note of when understanding her character (note that she's been there for like a year already and she still feels like she doesn't belong) but the emphasis is always put on her Being from a different time or Being undead and is never put on her out-of-place-ness regarding her race as a black girl from segregation times who is literally so out-of-place in this weird post-racial camp jupiter society. it feels like such an obvious thing to consider so its glaring absence really bugs me when I reread her povs and it bugs me when her hair is never talked about by extension because It Matters

you might be thinking "well she had a lot going on and she's not a superficial person maybe she just didn't care what was going on with her hair" and my response is simply that Black girls don't get to "not care" about their hair it is not the same thing as a white person going to school with bedhead it's not the same thing At All (if you aren't black then chances are you've never actually seen what untouched black hair looks like in the morning), especially when it's been beaten into your head for your entire life that your hair is ugly and you have to "do something to it" for it to be acceptable (and again...... she's from the 1930s so that feeling is magnified like 50x over). remember that perpetually dolled up modest 1930s woman I mentioned previously. picture her time traveling to camp jupiter of all places in 2010 and struggling to drop all of her makeup/hairstyling routines and internalized misogyny and conceptualizations of what women are "supposed" to be. this is the kind of fascinating character exploration that we really missed out on with hazel (and tbh regardless of her race she was never believably written as someone from the 1930s. I don't think rick even really tried to be honest)

you might also be wondering "how was rick supposed to know/attempt to portray any of that" and then my second answer is that If you're going to write a character who is not the same race as you then you should do some research and we have the internet now so research has never been easier 👍 this would be especially important to do if that person is a poc from the jim crow era I think! (he could have at least googled black hair 1930s)

anyways what I choose to believe (this is pure fanfiction) is that during hazel's first year at camp jupiter (remember that she was there for about a year before son started) nico would have helped her figure something out after observing her distress over her hair c: like they both secretly watched youtube videos on black hairstyles circa 2010 and then they got attacked by monsters for using a laptop (neither of them know how to use a laptop but he's trying his best for her) but then after killing them he helped her do her hair as something she likes that is easy to maintain <3 (I could also see reyna doing this because she surely knows a thing or two from her spa days)

[pb-and-jail]

"Perhaps someday,I'll find peace.."

[absha120420]

if I EVER get up and make a alien stage doujin swear it's actor au wholesome romance yaoi slow burn 1000

[foxett]

GRAHHH CURSE OF SUNTAN 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️(I'm literally on the verge of passing out) hurt/comfort, neutral ending, bad ending, good ending and future!!!!! Yay

[flowerakatsuka]

borthday...

[rouxenne]

PET Pokémon

The world of Pokemon is vast and full of familiar faces, but you? You aren’t meant to be here.

As the name implies, this is an AU focusing on Pearl, Etho, and Tango in the Pokemon universe. It’ll additionally contain the cast of the Life Series, but dynamics and themes from outside it are absolutely going to be present. At the moment I don’t have any plans to include canon Pokemon characters, so their roles will either be filled by crossover characters or be brushed over entirely.

Let the introductory plot summary commence!

Our story starts in Alola, several decades ago. The Aether Foundation has punched holes in reality while trying to access Ultraspace. While the immediate crisis was solved by the burgeoning Pokemon League, it’s since been found that the experiments had a more lasting impact. 

The border between worlds has been thinned, causing an increase in the rate of sporadic Ultra Wormholes. A particularly thin spot has been detected shifting around the globe, causing an outbreak of wormholes, though its path is highly meandering and difficult to track. These wormholes are often tiny and benign, but on rare occasions they’ve been found to potentially line up with various cold-cases and unexplained crises.

This information is shared on a need-to-know basis. Pokemon Leagues and other forms of local government have stayed relatively hush-hush about the whole ordeal, not wanting to worry people about something that can’t be fixed. Ultra Beast appearances are rare, but have the potential to become immensely catastrophic if overconfident trainers battle them and lose.

The largest Ultra Beast catastrophe occurred in an Australia-inspired region a decade ago, during Pearl’s journey around the gym circuit. Strange occurrences grew in frequency and severity throughout her travels, eventually pushing her and her rival Karnasas to begin traveling together. This culminated in a massive Ultra Wormhole opening during the championship tournament, unleashing a never-before-seen Ultra Beast that has since been dubbed UB Watcher.

Karn was extensively injured during the event but Pearl managed to drive off the creature, solidifying the title of Champion for herself. Now finding herself with a newly-evolved Lycanroc, a Poipole she caught during the crisis, new responsibilities, and a laundry list of trauma, Pearl dedicated herself to making certain a crisis like this would never happen again. Nowadays she’s the forefront expert on Ultra Space crisis management and spends most of her time either handling domestic champion duties or being sent around the globe to assist with emergency situations.

This all becomes relevant years later, moving this time to Unova. Strange happenings have occurred around the region, usually taking the form of minor disappearances and disruptions to electrical equipment. The machines in Pokemon Centers are regularly breaking down thanks to this, impeding healthcare and long distance communications. While troublesome, the general public is mostly unaware and no connection is suspected.

The severity of these events is cranked up significantly as a train leaving Gear Station and everyone on it disappears without a trace. The Subway Masters, Impulse and Skizz, immediately report it to the Unovan Pokemon League. Tensions are high, thanks to the missing people and the fact that Skizz was actually meant to be on that train. He’d missed his shift due to an emergency at his other job, so the public's not quite sure whether he should be considered a suspect or a target.

The League sends out a call to the International Police, as they’re now suspecting that Ultra Wormholes might be involved, who promise to send out Pearl. In the meantime, Tango begins spending more time at Gear Station to help his friends and keep an eye on the machinery. He ends up determining that there’s a connection between the event and the failing machinery, and that his Pokemon can seemingly detect it in advance.

And here’s just about where the “main plot” would begin. I still have plenty of ideas, just less connecting them. Essentially, Pearl begins traveling around Unova to help with Ultra Wormhole-related issues. Tango joins her; he wants to help get the heat off his friend, and his electric-type pokemon can help track breaches. They soon encounter Etho, who tags along with them for ~mysterious reasons~. The three of them follow the trail of Ultra Wormholes in a facsimile of a traditional Pokemon trainer’s journey, hoping to determine the cause of their intensity and stop it.

And, might I remind you, this is a Life Series crossover… Tragedy is imminent.

[egophiliac]

so have you heard about the ride kamens app game? seems like it's gonna be a twisted wonderland like game with all the riders being hot anime guys now, and it's also gonna be written by yuya takahashi and produced by naomi takebe (apparently it was in development before geats), with designs by the person who did sk8 the infinity, so take that for what you will

have you ever gotten the feeling that a piece of media came into existence just to appeal to you specifically, or

(brb preregistering immediately)

(as far as I can tell you play as an agent who maintains a secret superhero base for riders in the basement of the rider-themed cafe that you run with your butler, and there's some other plot stuff going on but honestly I'm way past sold at this point, this sounds amazing)

[pharawee]

Imagine being the personal assistant of some rich asshole CEO who threatens to get HR involved on your first day because the cleaners moved one (1) box on his desk 10cm to the left. Oh, and apparently he also got it on with you once (while you were still sporting your "I just started working here!" haircut) but it's ok because there's no (lmao) feelings involved, so you agree to also manage his personal appointments, so now you wait in his BMW (because OF COURSE it's a BMW 🙄) while he's off two-timing some girl with a guy named Kim, but it's totally fine, it's ok, it's because he doesn't know how to love anyone, it's really quite tragic. So anyway, you have this picture of you and your asshole boss (probably screencapped from the company cctv??) right next to your bed because you have no taste and standards whatsoever, but now you're thinking of quitting after five years of micromanaging him via your personal google account (only of course you aren't WINK WONK don't we all quit eventually~) and your boss won't let you because no one's ever said no to him before and he'd rather just continue sexually harassing you.

Oh, and also you live in a parallel universe that exists without any meaningful scene transitions whatsoever, so you constantly jump from the past to the present without any kind of strong notion of who any of the characters even are.

And that's Bad Guy My Boss. 🥴

[toaster-fire-art]

average friend group

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

I love the Land vs Air OVA with all my heart but i'm so upset that they cut most of Tora's arc from the manga. Obviousy he and Tanaka have very similar storylines with both of them being taunted by the other team/doubted as the ace but Tora's comes from the interesting perspective of the ace on a team known for it's defense. Nekoma is typically seen by their opponents as more of a unit than individual players so Tora already doesn't stand out as much as other aces. Then there's the added pressure of him being one of the few second-year aces in the series. He's got a lot to prove and playing against a tricky team like Nohebi is a great way to put that to the test.

At one point he gets overshadowed by Lev, who definetly aligns with what an ace is expected to be. He's taller, his reach is insane, his spikes are strong (when they actually make it over the net lol), and he stands out to the crowd. Then Nohebi starts targeting Tora with serves and he gets even less chances to hit. But instead of being spiteful towards Lev or falling for Nohebi's provocations Tora knows that getting the ball up is just as important as scoring points.

Even on a team like Nekoma where everyone's a fantastic reciever Tora's really kills it! He's super consistent with good aim, and when your setter's as picky as Kenma that's important. Also he's good with both underhand and overhand recieves Again, it's a similar situation to Tanaka's arc with the other team aiming their serves at him to break his spirit but I think it has it's own charm. One thing I like about Tora in general is that he's always shown a lot of admiration for recieving even if it's not the flashiest skill on the court. Think the first-year flashback when one of the first things he did was admire Yaku's perfect A-pass. Guess that's par for the course for any Nekoma player.

Then there's the moment where he bumps Lev's failed blocked and immediately goes in for the spike, AND HE LANDS IT. After all his patience he finally gets to redeem himself ughhh.

Overall I love how these few chapters show that there's more to being an ace than amazing spikes. It's consistency, it's being an amazing all-around player, it's being a reliable teammate and coming back strong when your underclassmen need you. This mini arc is a great showcase of Tora's mental fortitude— despite his looks and short-temper he's great under pressure.

This whole page is golden. From Akane's adorable little reaction to the Kenma/Tora high five to Tora immediately ruining the moment. He's so annoying.

also this panel :')

ALSO Fukutora crumb cause you know me. Anyways I love Tora Haikyuu, thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

This quest annoys me. A lot. So far, I've never done it. I intend to try with another character at some point. I originally thought I'd try it with my human noble for RP, but he's a relatively nice (and rather religious) guy, so I feel like the disrespect of desecrating an ancient burial site, even if it's a culture he may not understand, is still a bit too much. I mean, I don't see a problem with being able to do it as an option, I guess. I just feel like that being the only solution to the "puzzle" is kind of stupid. Hell, at least don't lock the damn mosaic piece behind it. I don't even need the loot.

On this playthrough, I managed to exploit the mount glitch that lets you clip through the door of the crypt without destroying the graves, just to retrieve the mosaic piece. Also, found out too late that there is a mod for this.

[mecha--maniac]

Dump of whatever random doodles on my phone involve Solaris; I don't remember what I've posted or not and I'm too lazy to check.

This guy is like a science experiment to me and I'm sure he wouldn't appreciate that.

Some words and extra doodle or two under the cut

Basic context: I got an AU (Frostbite) where 06 is as canon-compliant (up to and through 06) as possible except I fix shit afterwards and give my own spin on some character motivations. Most stuff is just worldbuilding though. These are a tiny fraction of my Solaris stuff but I don't put much on my phone/don't post much.

Anyway brief descriptions:

1. To me Solaris is a 'sibling' of sorts to Chaos, and also has 8 forms. This is a concept for Solaris 6; essentially a Persian Simurgh. 'Perfect Solaris' would be different from the boss fight we see, although similar; the boss fight Solaris is pretty god-equivalent-to-sick and is also too busy trying to deal with fixing Time to make himself 'presentable'.

2. His design is still changing a bit, but a kind of 'mobian' version of him. One more like how I normally do things, one more Sonic-y. I do not like the Sonic-y one. Nowadays Solaris 0 is more in the middle leaning Sonic, and Solaris 1 is a bit beastier but still close to the other one.

3. After Solaris is allowed to Solaris he might occaaaasionally go hedgehog for a bit; he was one for ~211 years so he's used to it. Gonna be cunty about it though, cause he's just like that. Shadow and Sonic look a bit young (if linear progression of time applies and we say Sonic is ~14 or so for Adventure, then for me that'd mean he's at least 16 for 06, and this couldn't take place until like 2 years later so I guess he'd be a whole-ass adult by then) but maybe they're the kind of people who just have baby-faces idk

Anyway some rougher stuff that's either real early practice or I'm hemming and hawwing over making 'canon' to the AU

[elucubrare]

i hate when there's a government that's supposed to be evil in fiction but all of the stuff they're doing to show they're evil is counterproductive because i gotta be like, no, i'm not objecting because it's problematic, i'm objecting because it's ineffective