#syn rambles

[synthanic]

I think this was a canon event, actually.

[synalpheus]

Mmmh, so my blog was a little broken but it’s working again now. Yay! I have been and still am really busy with lots of business travel and other madness right now, but I think I will return here sometime in June to finally fill my queue back up again. I have stuff from Africa now, and also lots of bees. So many bees.

[ummmuhhidk]

girl help im trying to fight the urge to consume problematic media

[atimefordragons]

barbie icons made for myself and my friends of our faves and some oc's. made with this template. watching it with one of my cousin's today, and we plan to watch it again with another younger cousin and some aunts, and then again with my bestie. she is the moment.

[magdaclaire]

we as a society need to be more abundantly clear about the fact that nothing a stranger does in public will ever be as cringe as you filming a stranger in public in front of God and everyone and posting it without their consent

[draconifay]

As much as I like the clothes and such and all the neat outfits you can make on Fashion Dreamer, the game feels rather lacking as...a game, in general.

You tend to do the same things a lot and don't really get to connect with people too much on it (which is ironic cuz apparently according to the developers, connecting with people was the point of the game). It just feels...empty. and I think I realized why.

It feels like a slightly more interactive version of social media.

I mean, most of what you do is like and follow, and as LovelyLor said in her video about the game, there's such a big focus on followers and even one of the first things that hovers over other players' heads is their follow count.

And, as someone who tries to post on social media but struggles due to how discouraging it can be, being fixated on likes and follows is like. One of the worst aspects of social media.

I think it doesn't help that unlike Style Savvy, it doesn't feel like there's any sort of challenge to it, so just like mindlessly scrolling through social media, you end up in this drone state as you do the same things, over and over. And it gets rather bland.

I think if they wanted to make a game about fashion, it could have been cool to, like in Style Savvy, have characters you build relationships with, have some more stakes - make it feel like you're actually progressing somehow and hell - maybe even have a thing with the NPCs or something where you learn why their specific fashion styles are so important to them, emphasizing the connection of fashion to self-expression...or something like that.

[mushroom-for-art]

Slightly recoloured Promise and Potential (crackship babies between my Axel and @blues-sues Fang) since I felt their original designs lacked? So kinda went for a Fangs synergy darkened Axels blues purple greys on Promise and Potential got darker too, tho you could mix and match which ones are considered canon idk lmao (Blues can use either design in like drawing memes/claim one fully for himself if he want either way they just vibing in the design void XD)

[ace-malarky]

Storyteller Saturday - in your shapeshifter WIP, what are the general rules of shapeshifting? Is it one person per animal or can any person turn into any animal? Are animals even involved or is it more subtle shifting? Can ANYONE be a shapeshifter or only certain members of society?

Hi ooh ok so

So Syn is the only shapeshifter we have met thus far and whether that's because they're rare and secretive or because Syn is actually like a little feeler/scout of some eldritch mass that has been in the world since time immemorial is uh. jury's out on that one currently

The general rules as I have them tho are that it's a kind of subtle shifting? Syn for instance is largely humanoid but generally has antlers. Has given themself raccoon masks and rat-hands and dog tails and fluffe ears. disguises themself as a dragontouched for spying purposes.

They can't go full animal, technically but there are ways to offset that. They can't change their eye colour, can't lose/gain mass. I'm shying away from being able to fully mimic someone else's form etc but that may just be a moral thing rather than a technical thing

If there are other shapeshifters then it's a species thing! one thing I haven't really said about the shapeshifter wip (or made clear, w/e) is that there aren't? really "fully human" people - everyone is a li'l animalistic, like Halliel and Jaiel have wings, some of their other friends also have antlers, there are the dragontouched and like

it's a lowkey furry setting mkays but like the human-with-animal-characteristics side of things

or like. everyone is descended from shapeshifters but only a few can still shift. that seems like a fun way to go.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

When I got into RMPG originally, I looked at my past history of favorites, looked at Kazuma and went "Yes, it shall be you." He has the aesthetic, the deep voice, etc.

My favorites lean more 🐺 than 🐶, traditionally speaking.

My favorite wrestler is Seth Rollins, honestly 😂

(I didn't scroll far enough to find his Iconic™️ chair moment, but it's Seth in black and red with a chair. That's pretty much my aesthetic 😂)

My favorite A7X member is Synyster Gates (yes, that is the correct spelling, they made these names in high school 😂)

And then fucking Riku shows up 😂

[junos-cacophony]

i would call myself a fictionkin but i dont REAALLY identify as heart

[synthanic]

Here I am - Reading a bonafide academic paper about polling anime fans for my Uni work.

When a professor with the full confidence of a thousand suns: Categorises “Food Wars!” And “Shokugeki no Soma” as two different anime and reflects on how the archetype of food anime must be incredibly popular right now.

Maybe my brain is friend - but I couldn’t stop giggling at the idea of a super serious professor seeing weebs put Japanese and English names for anime and thinking: “Wow there’s a lot of anime about foods and their wars… I see.”

[synalpheus]

Sooo, I tried some scheduled posts to maybe keep my blog a little more active. Let’s see if it works!

Thing is, I’m really, really bad at social media of any kind and at maintaining my photos. But I’m sitting on a ton of images and I would love to show people how amazing the world around us is - especially the little creatures that often are ignored or even put aside as “disgusting” or “unimportant”. And if I could make only one person aware of this, and maybe motivate them to take a little more care of their environment - then all these photos of mine are given a purpose. To give something back. So I keep trying to share, even though I’m so bad at it lol. Maybe this time it works.

[sugoi-writes]

Hiya, my lovely Danny Baby~! Haven't heard from ya in a hot minute, and I just wanted to check up on ya, make sure all is good. I hope you're doing okay, sweetie! 🫂❤️

This is long, and I'm Gay, so everything is below the cut HHHHH--

Henlooooooo my dear! I'm sorry I've been so away! Danny is... DANNY-ING. But in the most decent of ways, all things considered!

I won't get into the nitty gritty, but between visits from folks out of town, a recent promotion at my new job (WITHIN A MONTH, NO LESS), and struggles emotionally and financially... It's been a T I ME

BUt, dear readers, Danny-Boy:The Sugoi, is trying to make a comeback! And hopefully with some va-va-VOOM

(You've been quite busy yourself~ I have my work cut out for me, but I hear you have THREE chapters of smutty goodness for us all? 👀 Don't mind if I do~)

But yes! Danny is alive! Danny is MOSTLY well! We can't all be perfect ✨ but I'm trying! I do hope life has been treating you fair, dear? (IT BETTER BE OR IM MARCHING UP STAIRS TO THE BIG MAN HIMSELF)

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ANYWHO,

You may have a photo of a Danny in wild, as a treato (peep the phone, the perfect censor. ALSO I HAVE A MULLET NOW???)

Works and smut and all the stuff in between coming soon! Just know that there will be... BUMPINESS. I need to iron out my writer's creases ASAP--

[syneilesis]

perhaps a question, or a few: i’m sure kicho knows his actions are behind y/n’s eventual death, but is there wishful thinking, you think, on his part? because he doesn’t strike me as a person who’d say declarations of love, promises of a better future, assurance of protection just for the sake of it. surely, somewhere somehow, there’s some form of self-deception somewhere?

and and if this is true, i can’t imagine (or rather, curious) how he’d come to the realisation that he’d actively cause the demise of his love one. will he chuck it as collateral damage? as a means to an end? or will he just buckle and spiral?

cries would you be so kind to give us a peek? a short drabble maybe? or perhaps just a few liners 😩😩😩

Ohh! First of all, thank you for these questions! Questions about my fics make my heart aflutter 🥺😊💖

But to answer your questions: Well, I actually have two kinds of answers lol. The first one is: everything that isn't explicitly mentioned in the fic can be up to the reader's interpretation! The fic is written in a way that we know only what the MC is going through, so the ambiguity in those gaps can be filled by your imagination :D

The second answer is much more lengthy and detailed and contextualized, so I'll put it under a cut.

I wrote i bruise my hands on the living cage when Kicho's route hadn't been announced yet in JP, and the only information I had of him was from his introductory story, Nobunaga's sequel, and Motonari's route. I've always been drawn to morally ambiguous characters whose goals may be good but the means to achieve them isn't necessarily moral itself (hehe I'm looking at you, too, Vlad). So, in this case, I'd like to explore what might happen if, ya know, Kicho won.

Some things that I had to be firm about writing the fic: Kicho wins, at a cost. And that cost is MC. Try as she might to stop him, MC ultimately fails. So she disappears/dies/is erased from existence at the end of the fic. Sorry, MC lol

I also had this flavor of Kicho in mind: so absorbed in his goal that he'd do everything to achieve it – which in a way broke him. So he's a little more mad and deluded in the fic.

For your first set of question, you're right! This Kicho is overconfident about his capability to fulfil two things: achieve his goal and keep MC safe beside him. It's his hubris that would do him in, and it did. He got the former, but not the latter. I don't know if it came across in the writing, but the scene where Kicho found out that MC was affected by his tampering with historical events, his reaction was supposed to come off as unnerving and alarming. At that point he's already blinded by his goal; he's going to win no matter what. This man had such severe tunnel vision!

For the second set of question ... hmm ... this is the more ambiguous area where you can imagine whatever you want. Honestly I've thought little about the aftermath haha, because I was focused on MC's POV. I'm torn whether to say something further! Lol. Because what I'd think may be different from yours and it may not be what you're looking for. But! For you, anon, I'll try hehe.

Let's see ... (please brace yourself?)

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The symptoms I used in the fic was similar to the ones in Nobunaga's sequel: blackouts, etc. But once Kicho won, the result would be an altered future, where MC would not exist. And then time travel rules and all got applied – which meant that MC would get erased in existence in the present (past?) timeline. She'd disappear. Kicho wouldn't be there when it happened. Back in his manor (?), MC would feel and see herself disintegrating, and her last thought would be, I'm sorry, Kicho.

When Kicho came home, there's no sign of MC anywhere. At first he thought that she'd left, but eventually he'd figure it out. Her things were, after all, still there. And it would devastate him, like a maw suddenly devouring his heart. He'd be in denial at first. He was so sure of the results, never did he think that he'd miscalculate. It was impossible. This was the one thing that he had no contingencies.

He'd probably fall to his knees and for a very long time stare at the futon where they'd lain together the night before. His mind would be blank the entire time.

And then, more effects of the timeline disruption! Because MC's existence had been erased, the people who knew her began to forget her. As if she never existed in the first place. Kicho would feel in his mind the slow death of his memories of MC. One memory after another, it would fade into oblivion, and he couldn't stop it. Before the last of his memories of MC disappeared permanently, Kicho swallowed and thought to himself, This is the price of my conviction.

So he lived the rest of his life under the consequences of his ambition. In that regard, he was satisfied. But there were times when an inexplicable sorrow consumed him, and he couldn't identify the cause. Sometimes, he felt emptiness: when he'd lie down to sleep, he'd seek for a warmth that wasn't there. When he'd appraise a kimono for trade, he'd turn his head as if to talk to someone, but he had nobody with him. These were some things that confused Kicho, but no matter what he did there were no answers to soothe his clamoring heart. No answers.

That was the price of his conviction.

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Phew, that got long. So long story short: Kicho genuinely loved MC, but ultimately chose his ambition 🥲

I hope I answered satisfactorily? If not, I'm sorry 😂😭 But I truly enjoyed your ask, anon! I hope you'll come back in the future 💖

[nascentwaves]

Past Exi'vuro: a punk trying to adapt to the military lifestyle.

[nightly-ruse]

I like love xenofiction but the story with Syn is def not that. So I’m still having the urge to make something with animals but idk what to do :/