#surprise you get a starter

[fierykitten2]

I may actually need Pokémon Sleep. These are adorable

[yo9urt]

Pokémon Fushigi no Motherfucking Dungeon !!!!

(i would put a screenshot here but my deck couldn't upload them for some reason.)

thoughts & comments on pmd in japanese below (VERY LONG)

28 new flashcards!!

uncountable new words that i did not add for various reasons!!

observations:

blessedly, the game is so far not using a lot of formal language. the personality quiz did use formal language but the actual characters themselves are speaking very casually (i’m actually really excited to see how the npcs speak in the future, i want to see how they’re characterized via their speaking styles)

one thing that really interests me in japanese is the 2nd person pronoun system and how people (or characters) choose to refer to each other and this was super fun to watch for in the game. in the first chapter, i counted 1 use of あなた (only in the “what’s your name?” menu input), several uses of きみ (most of which occurred during the personality quiz, but some of which were used by the partner pokemon prior to learning MC’s name; every time, it was written in katakana), 1 or 2 uses of おまえ (used by zubat towards the partner), and i noticed that after learning MC’s name partner exclusively refers to them by their name and does not use any kind of suffix. my guess is that this is either 1. because they are not human / this is standard practice in the pokemon world or 2. hinting at the fact that they end up having a very close relationship and that partner trusts leader immediately. i’m half expecting wigglytuff and/or chatot to be referred to as 先生 or something like that so we’ll see in chapter 2!!

speaking of expectations, i had a couple going in: 1. that there would be a lot of onomatopoeias, because they seem to have a huge amount of use in creative writing, & 2. that i would see a lot of the little stylistic bits & bobs i’m already familiar with in japanese that tell you more about a character. both of these came true! i’ve already added some new onomatos to my flashcards AND i noticed some fun things about the characters:

male partner uses ぼく (sensible - it’s either that or おれ, and he is NOT an おれ character at all) (funnily enough and perhaps somewhat embarrassingly i did name the partner in this game majima and in hindsight i’m thinking wow they are literally not like each other at all but it’s ok i’m just choosing to ignore it i cba to redo the entire save anyway. plus i customized it so he's gastly and i'm clefairy which is already the cutest duo ever and i don't want to change that especially because i also had to give them custom stats and movesets so WHATEVER majima is just going to be different in this universe and he can handle that. also the partner is written very cutely and giving him that name made him even cuter to me so its no big deal really)

speaking of cutely i literally can’t explain this because i don’t remember it being the case in the english version but genuinely there is something REALLY endearing about how the partner talks in the japanese version. i guess thats another reminder that things really do get lost in translation like im sure the TL team did the best they could but english partner and japanese partner already feel different from each other and the latter is so cute, in a way it does feel like he has a fuller range of expression here

i think male MC also uses ぼく? i swear i remember a “ぼくじしん” in there but who knows

ぼく and ほんとう (spelled ほんと by the partner but ほんとう in MC’s thoughts) were almost entirely in katakana (i think ほんとう might have been hiragana), also for some reason なぞ (“riddle” or “enigma”) was in katakana too???? just for artistic flair, maybe? おまえ was as well but that makes sense

zubat and koffing (zubat in particular) both had a rougher, more masculine speaking style, which is exactly what i expected from them. lots of sentence-ending ぜ and ぞ (male partner uses さ from time to time, but not ぜ/ぞ), and they called partner 弱虫くん which made me so mad on his behalf! so rude!!!!!!!

other thoughts:

i was worried about the lack of kanji but honestly it’s not impeding my reading at all. a lot of the words are words that don’t need kanji, and if they are kanji-based words then they’re either ones i’ve never seen before (and i can just look them up online) OR they’re ones i can recognize by their reading/the context/just generally being familiar with them after seeing them a bunch in other places. i definitely feel like my intuition for like…word boundaries and that kind of thing has already gotten stronger and will probably improve from playing this game lol

HOLY FUCK, READING PRACTICE. you would not believe the amount of reading i did. when i got to beach cave (literal very first dungeon in the game) i sat in the menu for maybe at least half an hour just straight up muddling through the 700000 words the game was putting in front of me. some of them i looked up, some i grasped from context, some i gave up on (but the last category was pretty small)

i was reading the entire menu and i got to the “hints” section and it was so long that i just gave up. a treat for future me

speaking of context, playing a game i know by heart was ABSOLUTELY the right decision. i could largely figure out what moves my boys have without knowing what the names of the moves meant by reading the descriptions and going “hmm…ghost…physical…low power…this is astonish!!!!!” or “normal…no damage…always lands…YAWN!!!” etc.

i also think i’m playing this at the right stage of my learning. just beginner enough to heavily benefit from the mass exposure/immersion aspect of it, but learnéd enough to recognize a great deal of what’s put in front of me, and already knowing the game really well makes it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (X1000000000) much easier to bridge the gap between what i do and don’t know. i got a tiny bit mentally exhausted from all the reading lol but it was soooooo worth it, most of my studying right now comes in the form of kanji/vocab + grammar/structure + listening to music so i’ve been sorely lacking in the “just straight up reading things normally” department and this game really fixes that up for me :)

keeping it real my speaking is definitely shit because i never practice (unless you count singing…) but i found myself reading out loud as i played to help figure things out and i do feel like i improved a tiny bit by the end. the partner pokemon in particular was really fun to read for because they gave him a fairly emotional/heart-on-his-sleeve speaking style (not dissimilar to the english version, but it feels much stronger here as previously noted) so i got to have fun reading his lines :P i definitely felt like i was hitting the consonants much better and keeping everything flowing well

im trying to upload screenshots but it wont work, so for personal recordkeeping: SENTENCES THAT I READ AND UNDERSTOOD ALL BY MYSELF AND AM REALLY PROUD OF

いちどきめたことはさいごまでやりとおす？ roughly = “once you’ve decided to do something, do you see it through to the end/do you stick with it?” (lit. “one time decided thing TOPIC end until carry through?”)

「はどう」とは　きみのからだがはっするみえないエネルギーのことだ roughly = “[aura] is the energy your body gives off” (lit. “[wave motion] QUOTE TOPIC you POSS body SUBJ emit energy NOM thing is”)

オレンのもをたベると　HPがかいふくするぞ！Xボタンでメニューをひらき　「どうぐ」コマンドからたべてみよう！ roughly = “if you eat an oran berry, your HP will restore! try eating it using the ‘item’ command after opening the menu with the X button!” (lit. “oren NOM/CLASS fruit OBJ eat.NP IF ��HP’ SBJ restore do EMPHATIC! ‘X’ button MEANS menu OBJ open(NOUN) [tool] command from eat-and-see-VOL!”)

why is the tutorial using ぞ???

is it because i picked boy during the quiz? is it trying to be manly with me??? am i reading too deeply into this? (probably)

i was surprised to see 道具 here because i just recently learned it and i was like “tool? there’s no tools in this game…” but i could tell from its menu position that it was item/inventory so i was like, huh, interesting use of the word…

この　かけらが　はまる　ばしょを　いつか　はっけんしたい！ roughly = “someday, i want to discover the place that this fragment fits into!” (lit. “this fragment SBJ fit place OBJ someday discovery do-want!”)

i did have to look up はまる but i knew all the other words on my own!!!!

it was so fun seeing words i recognized especially higher level (higher relative to where i am, at least, i.e. more recently learned) kanji words like 場所 ＆ 発見。noticing them in kana felt kind of like seeing your friend at a costume party and knowing it’s them without them telling you or something lol and i always get so excited seeing vocab words i know in the wild!! it feels great to recognize them naturally like that :)

[infinitystation]

i'm 14 hours into m&l brothership and so far the most disappointing thing about it is that there hasn't been a song that makes me go "holy shit i need to listen to that for 2 weeks straight" like every other game has had

other than that this is everything i could have asked for, people are calling it hand-holding and a bit too easy but i'm a 23 year old man i didn't exactly expect it to challenge me. the old games were harder because i was maybe 10 years old, not because they were actually difficult. i'm here for the story and the charm, and it has a lot of charm. would like to see more Imminent Danger to our main cast but that's just a personal preference lol

[bumpscosity]

I started playing pokemon diamond! i've been meaning to play it for ages so im super excited to jump in and finally play a 2D pokemon game, though i dont know if i trust either of my rivals yet.... I've only ever played pokemon games where you get exp share pretty much at the start so remembering to individually level up my whole teams gonna be a bit of a learning curve but im always up for new challenges

Naming my starters has always been important to me, it took me a while to come up with her's but i ended up picking Mori, after the japanese word for forest and a city in hokkaido, the island that's the partial inspiration for sinnoh :)

[definitelynotshouting]

Just saw your update on your single player world: love the shoreline! The bits were grass becomes sand is really well done as well!

!!!! AUGH THANK YOU!!!! I want to increase the mud patches to make them a little less blotchy from a distance, but otherwise im pretty happy with the overall transition!!!!

Also thank you for the excuse to show off my starter house, which i just finished a few days ago :]

plus bonus interior:

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

well lots to think about there

[magichats]

Surprise trading can be very funny sometimes

I got a charmander from someone calling themself dad, which is just a funny image in my mind that my trainer's absent father decides to just send pokemon every once in a while.

[m34gs]

For the fic sentence ask game: Dark orange sunlight spread across the water, dancing along the navy blue water like lace outlining the edge of a skirt.

He liked the way it looked; like fire dancing across the shimmering waves, as if the two elements were kissing. Kissing. That was something he'd wanted to try for a while, now that he had a handle on this human world and his gigai.

Grimmjow turned to the distant beach, to where Ichigo laughed and ran and danced on the sand with his sisters in the dying sun as they brandished sparkling fireworks. He knew the other knew he was there - he'd be offended if Kurosaki didn't know - and immediately his mind started to spiral; imagining all the ways he could try to get the other alone...

(based on this ask game)

[elfcast]

@feralclawed

✲ "So, Izutsumi... This world is pretty different from the one we know, right? If you have any questions you can always ask me! I've been here for a while after all!" Being reunited with old friends was always a nice thing. Sure, their journey back home had ended and everyone had gone their own ways. It was actually nice in a sense that Marcille could meet some of them again here.

After bumping into her, Marcille had dragged Izutsumi into a restaurant and had sat her across from her.

"I'll treat you to dinner! So what do you feel like eating? Anything you want to know? How are you feeling?" Too many questions at once was Marcille's specialty.

[kamipyre]

♡♡♡ || closed starter for @bloodxhound

He’s back, he’s back!

The rumors spread like wildfire amongst the junior forensics- head forensics Nakamura seems…cheerful today. A tad more lively although asking her about it would be akin to asking for extra paperwork. In the years he’s been absent, a stoic face turned from a characteristic to a necessity. And as one of the head forensics, one who has fought tooth and nail for her position, she cannot afford to let her guard down, even if today is a special day.

Today there will be no partings. Because today there will only be a REUNION.

He’s not at his old desk. Not that Nakamura looked there first- Edgeworth informed her that he was given a promotion and therefore, an office of his own. Skipping past the rows of desks ( and the people there too ), she heads to his office with a moderate stack of paperwork. He’s still in the middle of the onboarding process after all.

She knocks on the door, barely reading the name on the plaque. There’s an affirmation to come in.

“Detective Barlowe?” She says, shouldering the door open. She nods at the familiar face- her old friend. “Nakamura from the Forensics Department- we have some paperwork for you to fill out.”

[fazbear-security]

((I see some cool new faces out in the crowd this weekend, so like this post for a no-pressure starter!))

[archxngxl]

@daisyxmuses

Ashley had been wandering around the woods for a while now, shotgun in hand and no deer in sight. She surmised that every living thing (expect her) was either dead or ran far away from the creatures that now roamed earth. Ashley didn't know what they were, but from what she saw they looked like half human, half bats. The blonde heard a branch crack, instantly her guard was up. She pointed her shotgun towards another person, another girl. She looked round about Ashley's age, if not just a year or two older. "You're not one of those things..."

[ordinariums-a]

"There are so many HEROES around here!! Come on, come on, try and catch me before I go and blow up that super big building over there! Last one there is a total LOSER!"

[prim3dsins]

I can only try my best to be on tomorrow, what with Christmas Eve and all. But just know

They're all horny. All of them.

So don't be afraid to invade the inbox and get something going-

[tvrningout]

also!! while i'm thinking about it and feeling all happy and mushy, thank you for being interested in and writing with chiyo <3 i know i talk about her a ton and love her to bits, but i still get surprised when someone wants to interact with her without me suggesting it first. i worry sometimes that y'all will get sick of her :' ) i worry that it might be frustrating that my focus is on her so much when i have so many other muses who might be more interesting to some of y'all. but no one has ever proved those worries true, and i'm just!! very grateful and very happy that my silly lil dork has a place here where people enjoy learning about her (μ‿μ) ❤

[bucketkicked]

@pzfr liked for a Carlo starter !

“So what I’m sayin’ is… the best hot dogs are on 5th Street on that lil’ cart. They’re even better if you take the time to eat it and walk ‘round the city, but maybe that’s just me.”

Carlo shrugs, stuffing his hands in his jean pockets. He found Manhattan to be a homey place, one he felt comfortable in. He couldn’t picture himself leaving it for too long, at least not permanently. “Speakin’ of walkin’, you ever been to Central Park?”