#so sideblog it is

[jadedgenasi]

Okay now that I've tested it, I've got to let y'all know. If you're playing scarlet and violet and finding yourself with a headache, ESPECIALLY when shiny hunting and going into and out of the same spot over and over and DOUBLE especially if you're on water, you're not crazy. It's not the TV. It's not eyestrain or fatigue (at least not the normal kind). The game really is messing with your sight. It seems like it doesn't do it so much on the handheld version, but the TV can make you sick. I don't know if it's frame rates or the camera spinning or aliases or what, but tonight I had to wait an hour for the headache to go away from looking for shiny cloyster and once it had mostly receded I played a round of hades. Then I popped into minecraft just for good measure (spinny camera). It wasn't those variables. It was scarlet.

This isn't a dig at the game. I think it's my second favorite in the entire franchise in spite of itself. But I needed to let folks know. It took about a week of playing every night before the headaches got so bad I couldn't help but realize they were at the same time every night. It was another few days before I realized the time of day didn't matter, it just so happened that I settled in to play at the same time every day. I also found folks on reddit and game forums saying similar. It's probably best to shiny hunt on handheld only, and mindful of the water textures.

[moonlit-tulip]

I have started an experimental writing-practice tumblr! @ten-thousand-clay-pots, for anyone interested in following it.

(Although be warned that, since it's for experimental practice writing, its content is likely to be of dubious coherence and quality; thus my keeping it contained in a sideblog rather than posting it here.)

Currently I'm attempting an experiment involving posting one short thing (of arbitrary length and quality) per day, there. Activity in the long run is likely to be a lot more intermittent, though, unless the current experiment goes substantially better than I'm expecting it to.

[libertatias]

hey go follow my atla sideblog @freckledsokka for more atla content u know u wanna

[sanctus-ingenium]

look at my creature

[sylvaridreams]

Rips off my shirt to reveal I'm wearing another shirt that days I ❤️ CHARACTERS THAT SUCK

[bastardiando]

posting across the targetverse here bc it did numbers on twitter

[ghostbird-art]

Sleepover Gothic

[machinerot]

[favoure]

"do the opposite of what people tell you to do"

[amu-says-hav-says]

I can’t believe I went through all of Season 2 assuming Nina was the stand-in for Crowley when you actually pay attention it’s so CLEAR that she’s Aziraphale. I was tricked by her spiky, sarcastic, cynical outer shell and lulled into a false sense of security by Maggie’s bubbly optimism and wholesome goodness, because on the surface they reflect the ineffable husbands perfectly, in their personalities, their aesthetics, even many of their actions and morals. but not, and this is the real key, when it comes to their “relationship”. but those first impressions really had me damn fooled. 

I missed the blatantness of Nina’s “we’re just friends. actually we’re not friends. we barely know each other.” the same thing Aziraphale said in season 1.  the way he still struggles to quantify their friendship when Nina asks. Nina’s sarcasm when Crowley asks about rain and awnings because it worked for him (we all know it LMAO). hell, that whole convo the girls have in the rain is so AziraCrow (“I know. I’m not your type” “...You have no idea” hits so much harder the second time, help meeeee.) “Lindsay” maybe being symbolic of Heaven and Aziraphale’s toxic relationship with them and their abuse? (the handwritten text messages in red pen make me think of angry notes on paperwork, anyone else?) because Crowley has never actually cared about what Hell thinks of him, just not getting into trouble (or him or Aziraphale getting hurt). Maggie is always chasing Nina. NINA NEVER GOES IN THE RECORD STORE. Just like Crowley always goes to the bookstore, to Aziraphale, Zira NEVER WENT TO THE FLAT (apart from The Swap but that doesn’t count imo). Crowley has always chased Zira, not the other way around. Always there to rescue him, always going to him for company, always relying on their shared connection, always US. OUR SIDE. All through season one, he comes to Zira every time to work together, never trying to work alongside Hell in any way that isn’t to save their skins or Earth, while Zira hides things from Crowley because he STILL thinks Heaven is ultimately good and will do the right thing if he can just show them. fix it from the inside. 

Maggie working up the courage to finally say something, to put herself out there, while Nina is utterly oblivious and then when she does realise Maggie has feelings, becoming standoffish, putting up that barrier, fighting it, denying it, ITS SO CROWLEY AND AZIRAPHALE IN THAT ORDER. the way I was fooled into thinking Nina’s trust issues are Crowley because he does have trust issues ofc he does BUT Crowley has ALWAYS TRUSTED AZIRAPHALE. has always relied on him. has always been hurt when Aziraphale doesn’t immediately reciprocate the way he expects (the holy water request, the bandstand, the “off in the stars” etc). he’s always the one putting himself forward. Aziraphale has always been the one to second guess everything, to fight their connection, their similarities, their friendship. the girls really made me think it was going to be okay when they sat Crowley down, even as my inner sirens were going haywire about Metatron interfering, they were telling Crowley he just needs to open up and it’ll all work out BUT HE’S ALREADY AT THAT POINT. he may not say it, and by gosh is that part of their damn problem, but he’s always SHOWN IT. he’s not Nina who needs time to heal and recover from her broken trust, he’s always been Maggie believing it doesn’t matter, they’ll end up together in the end anyway AND I WALKED RIGHT INTO THE TRAP THAT THIS MEANT THEY WERE GOING TO BE OKAYYYYYYYYYYY

[mqfx]

(guy who's lost so much and loses more every day) I never fucking lose

[liauditore]

do you guys ever think about that time she said her backstory was that she was only partially zombiefied and was fully conscious mentally while she ate and killed her family. and that she was a princess. i do alot.

[itachaaan]

maybe they're not maineventing today but they have definitely been the main event of my year 🤭 joking not joking

[harumichiii]

SAILOR MOON S: Episode 18 - 「芸術は愛の爆発!ちびうさの初恋」

[sanctus-ingenium]

sir dog knight

[riverlarking]

this is television history a little