#still no less infuriating

[saudrag]

if i have to read one more time how someone in a TOS fanfic describes kirk’s eye colour as “such a deep blue”/“bright blue”/“vibrant blue” or ANY OTHER variation of the word BLUE i promise i will honestly lose my mind and start eating walls. HIS EYES ARE FREAKING HAZEL!! BORDERING ON GREEN! HIS IRISES ARE LITERALLY ANY OTHER COLOUR BUT BLUE!! OH MY GOD!

[cr-nack]

I’m finally catching up on bridgerton and I’m confused. Why do they have scenes showing Lady Danbury still being effected by marrying that geezer but want me to think Cressida is this irredeemable villain for trying to escape the same fate?

[wormheamer]

it's kinda funny to me that i have this undying disdain for young adult literature, for "booktok" and everything related to it, just a massive chunk of the modern writing and publishing industry. but then show me an unfinished little bit of amateur fanfic writing on the internet and i am filled with love and beneficence.

the idea of marketing books with tropes, this whole phenomenon of circling "enemies to lovers! found family!" in hearts on the dust jacket, fills me with a deep, deep anger, a writhing bubbling repulsion. something very animal in me bucks at the change.

the thought of crushing your writing down into boxes like that leaves an evil taste in my mouth — let alone keeping tropes consciously in mind from the beginning. and yet the origin of that tendency is very dear to me.

maybe it's because the latter feels more earnest? fandom is a labor of love, after all. fanfiction especially, since you can't really sell pins of it or anything.

[brionysea]

this man is pissing me off

[scary-senpai]

I’m not gonna lie, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. But I narrowly missed being peed on by a squirrel so I feel like my luck had begun to change.

[claire-starsword]

Authentic Story of the Shining Force - Saint Fencer Max - Chapter 3

Translation notes:

So, uh. Elliot's name is rendered with two t's in the og game, but a single one in the GBA version. I had never paid attention to that at all until I had already edited all these pages, and I don't care enough to change it.

Cain's sword causes an explosion here. In the game, it is indeed capable of summoning flames.

This is a perfect illustration of how I feel about these names, but I do wonder what the actual intention was, since Cain is supposed to be already gone. The original image is even cut off weirdly in the middle of the text, and i don't think it's a problem with the scan, since every scanned page has a black border showing that the paper itself doesn't cut there. I wonder about the production of this thing, but i'll wait until i translate the author's comments before saying more.

The map in the previous chapter was very accurate to the beta map of the game. The smaller map here showing Rindo however looks off, the coast is different, and there seems to be a river directly to the north of Rindo, as opposed to the path to Shade Abbey. Perhaps fitting since Shade is skipped here.

Metaphaluna, huh? Needlessly to say, the country of the gods/Ancients is called only Metapha in the final game. Also, in this panel, it pops up as an alternate reading for 前世紀 (ancient times), not the name of a country specifically. I chose to romanize the last part as "luna" for three reasons. One is that the continent of Rune is actually rendered as Lune in at least two guides. I take romanizations from JP guides with a grain of salt since they sometimes look bad/unnatural, or are inconsistent (Pelle's name for example has been romanized as both Peil or Payle depending on the book). I checked though, and town names however are consistent in both the books I've seen romanizing things. The second reason is that the beta map used at this point has a fairly noticeable crescent moon shaped island right in the middle. In the final game, we can't know exactly where Metapha is, because you only teleport there. But I wonder if this island had something to do with it at some point. The third reason is simply I saw no better reason. Metaphalna and Metapharuna would be just as valid, but don't have any meaning to them.

The biggest equation next to Tao as she explains the magic types is very clearly a E=mc². Look close.

I've retranslated Elliot's scenes from the game thinking it would be relevant to these notes. Now I feel it really isn't, but you get more content so you should be happy.

My main point with that is that Elliot does not say anything about Cain in the game. In the GBA version, Balbazak does try revealing Max, Cain and Darksol's identities before dying, but that's not a thing in the og. So yeah I really translated a bunch of stuff for nothing this time! Except not because Darksol is awesome in that scene and everyone should get to see it.

Now let's talk about Otrant. I have mentioned before that Otrant's gender is never explicitly said, and they speak in a mostly gender neutral way (I feel like there's a few masculine patterns in some lines, but I'm not confident enough to say for certain). What I hadn't noticed is that they also use lipstick in the games, which is probably what sparked these observations to begin with, but i'm uh, occasionally not smart. In any case, if any of these aspects were done at this point in development the artist here sure ignored them, and drew a regular old man who gets called an old man. They hate to see an androgynous boss winning.

I don't recall Otrant's third eye being called "Eye of Truth" anywhere else, but the manual of the game does say it can see the past and the future.

Otrant's naming of the Shining Force is a bit more elaborate here, but the wording is very similar to the actual game.

Finally, let's play spot the cameo!

We've got Gong, Zylo, one of the birds, and probably Anri. Easy.

Here, besides the obvious three who were actually introduced in the story, we again have a bird, Anri between Ken and Hans, Gong to the right, and Mae and Gort behind Luke. If you read the pre-release page you know that Gort was meant to be Mae's servant at some point, so this might be why they're together, or it's just coincidence because they still join around the same time in the final game. More importantly, to Ken's left we have...

Some guys. Who are these. They could be made up by the artist (there will be another case of this), but I find it curious that the artist had to do that when there are so many character to pick from, and he clearly wanted to depict official characters here. For one, there's evidence that Earnest was already designed at that point in development. However, that link also shows that Vankar didn't have a portrait by that time at least, and Vankar would have already joined by this point in the story. So could the bald centaur here be a beta Vankar, or the artist's interpretation of Vankar via unfinished art? Maybe, but just a guess in the end. Mostly I'm just fascinated by how detailed this guy is compared to even Mae and Gort's cameos. The other guy isn't so i don't think about them nearly as much.

[ancient-day]

Every day I long for post-royal spin-offs for the opportunity to allow both Goro and Sumire to actually interact with the others without falsities or time-restricted threats preventing them from having much needed conversations and conflicts. I still wish we had at least gotten a second cafe scene with the Royal Trio where they could talk about how they actually feel about things like change and helping others. To see Goro try and brush it all off and maybe have Sumire call him out on it because his actions wouldn’t match his words, or even Sumire having to reevaluate her own answer since she was no longer under the influence of trying to be Kasumi and what it means if she still agrees with how she felt back then. Also I still love the potential humor with them ordering iced drinks in the winter this time while Akira has his hot beverage and him being able to call them both out for this. Love these funky little weirdos.

[lindenmori]

what if i just unfollowed everyone who is not mori/art/mori art blogs would i enjoy this site again

[hafwen]

Its so fucking annoying to tell people you have chronic pain and the first thing they ask is if you’ve tried weed

Fuck maybe just some sympathy, not a suggestion to fix it.

Don’t you think I fucking tried to fix it?

[rockybloo]

I love how you thought outside the box with having the love-themed magical girl have something other than a bow and arrow (cupid style)!

Thank you!

I was laser focused on having whatever magical girl OC I winded up making have a nontraditional magical weapon instead of a wand I immediately resorted to "G U N" with a mascot that was an underrated animal like a bird since I was thinking of "Lovebird" to match with the angel wings theme while finally having something based off the suits of a deck of cards.

I had a LIST of needs I needed fulfilled in my protagonist magical girl design.

[yourcalamity]

“im gonna treat everyone in my life including family like npcs who only exist to serve me and then act surprised when i have no friends” how are you as old as i am and you havent figured out youre the fucking problem

[wejustvibing]

for me it's most clear when you look at how they talk abt alonso, who only has 2 wdc, couldn't take how how much better lewis is than him and flopped at mclaren 3!! times, and how they talk abt lewis who's been successful at both teams he's driven for, every year he's been in the sport

how they talk about ANYONE for that matter! and they'll always flaunt somebody 'beating him' as their greatest achievement, a career milestone. would measure everyone's success against his but will keep denying him due credit

[singsweetmelodies]

mood after the COTA 2023:

[homunculusalphonse]

tbh h/untlow is like z/ukka bc ppl want it to be lunter so bad that they outright steal lunter moments to make it h/untlow. it's the exact same shit with z/ukka and zutara, not to mention the biphobes calling lunter and zutara "straight" ships

[boxofthings]

I have pages and pages of notes plotting out the shadow!Roach fic and I still haven't even reached the half way point of the plot how do big fic writers DO this???

[thek1ngtalks]

Just realized why those Peter Parker "heir to Stark Industries" gets revealed during a field trip tropes bug me

Cause there's always, always a scene where someone (usually flash or a teacher) who belittles Peter before the big reveal where they get their comeuppance and flash is typically like "PENIS Parker works here? But he's a nobody!"

And then Tony Stark or someone is like "Um actually" and talks Peter up, like that's not entirely the issue

The issue is that Peter has to be Somebody for Flash and co. to be called out. Like, dude, it doesn't matter if Peter's a nobody or if he's secretly working undercover for the Mi6 to save the world, you shouldn't be treating people like shit, period. Teachers shouldn't be belittling students, teenagers shouldn't be dickheads, it doesn't matter who they're being assholes to. It just doesn't.

So yeah, I do like reading those stories sometimes cause they're actually pretty interesting and well written most of the time but people stop reinforcing negative stereotypes that you have to be anything other than a person to deserve basic fucking human decency

Again!!! I'm not bashing ff writers!!! I just wish there was more variety and care put into how they handle their bullying plots. They're all good anyways, you can choose to ignore this but I just needed to say it.