#that theyre not just talking about the constitution but theyre also talking about all the other shit

[gu6chan]

i fucking hate american """left-wingers""" man

[cosmicrescendo]

hey. let's talk about spirits, magic, powerscaling, and a certain individual.

So, if you've been keeping up with fragmem lore you probably already know that the (non-Lord) inhabitants of Fragaria World are referred to as fairies ( 妖精,), and this description is wide-reaching. Both Tama (Bado's talking croc pet) and Lily (Hangyon's octopus pixie-esque companion) are also called the same term, so theyre considered to be the same type of creature as the human-esque Knights and citizenfolk.

In R05, a new type of creature makes its appearance: Spirits (精霊). We've only met one in this story so far, the Sea Spirit that lives in the Ocean Paradise off the coast of Usahana's Kingdom. While Puruth comments that both species are able to use magic, that's not enough for me. In order to find traits that are unique to the spirits alone, let's take a detour and talk about Merold and Louter.

Merold and Louter are in canon, both incredibly powerful magic-users. While we don't know much about how the magic system works, these two characters establish a common rule: A fairy is physically limited by the magic they can cast. Louter's weak constitution means that long and/or strong spells are ultra taxing. Merold's body has developed an instinctual reaction to stop before the severe consequences of over-exertion set in.

One can assume, due to the kind of the great magic the Sea Spirit is capable of, that it probably has no issue casting high-level magic, perhaps due to not having a rigid, physical form to set limitations in. Given the nature of the word 精霊, perhaps a good theory would be that fairies make up the "inhabitants" of the world (people (humanoid beings like the knights), animals (Tama), and whatever the fuck Lily is lol) while spirits make up the concepts/elements of the world (such as , the sea). I could go further into how the could potentially tie into the Memory aspect about how the people of Fragaria World are created, but that's severe headcanon territory.

However.

This line of thinking brings up one very, very, odd wrinkle.

What the fuck is *her* problem.

Ciel is probably the oddest character now that we establish there is some kind of limitation for fairies and magic in fragmem. For reference, one of her main abilites is flight. and while we don't know exactly how big the continents are supposed to be, we do know a cross-country trek (by foot, or by carriage) cannot be done in a single day for any continent. So not only is she flying, she's flying fast. And she still has the energy to cast strong magic (destroying the giant algmated SEEDs in B02, saving the vendor in B03) *and* enough energy for the trip back home. is that not insane?

now, you're probably thinking this is the part where i try to convince you ciel's like, the Sky Spirit, rather than a fairy. but it's not actually. partially because i still desire more information about the magic system and about spirits themselves before confirming Ciel's oddities as something truly Different. and secondly if i had to choose a character who is intentionally keeping hidden what they actually are.......it wouldn't be ciel, let's say that. Maybe she's just a legit prodigy and that's all there's to it.

I do hope the spirits aren't just like a one-off random thing for Sanah's episode because I think their existence in this world is #Awesome I want the world to become more and more fleshed out.

[insertdisc5]

this is a stupid question and there’s no reason for my sending it besides trying to understand/overcome my own anxiety/insecurity. your post on game dev software was extremely informative and seems like something you’re really passionate about. for some reason i can’t get past the idea that using premade visual novel/rpg/whatever software will be seen by others as, like, “that doesn’t count as making a real game, you just dragged and dropped stuff into a program someone else made, anyone can do that” or something. I’ve never played any visual novels, but i enjoyed rpgmaker games like The Witch’s House and Ib when i was a kid, and undertale is my favorite game of all time, so I know how good games like that can be. I thought I could learn to make video games at some point by studying computer science in college, but by my 3rd semester i couldn’t focus so i changed my major. That was almost ten years ago, and I feel like an idiot seeing so many people younger than me having so much fun doing stuff that i just gave up on after it became “too challenging” even though I’ve been using computers all my life. I guess what I’m asking is, how do you get over the fear of doing something, saying “hey look what i made/accomplished!” and having someone else say “that’s actually easy to do, you shouldn’t be proud, and here is an example why” and then you’re just left standing there like “damn, maybe i need to reflect on how stupid i am” instead of “man, that guy was a jerk.” sorry if that didn’t make sense.

you have to not think of yourself as yourself, but think of yourself as your friend telling you "someone said mean things to me" and of course when a friend says that to you you say "i will kill them for you you are amazing and the apple of my eye and they dont know what theyre talking about and what you made was great and once again: i will kill them for you". also if anyone says to you "you shouldnt be proud of this thing you made" then you are legally allowed to kill them it's in the world constitution

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

u don’t have to answer but how do u long for someone u loved so much at 14 while also being deeply committed to your partner. no judgement in pbk land i am just a lil drunk and trying to understand

i will try my best to explain this but being very frank (and not at all in a negative way!!) i think we are probably just two fundamentally different people with two vastly different concepts of what constitutes love and longing

the short answer is simply bc they are different people. my love for this person (ill call them j) and my partner are separate things. because they are just separate humans and separate experiences. the things i love about them sometimes overlap but they are both my people in different ways. i would never compare them.

its all very messy but all three of us are close also. like this person is my partners best friend and the whole arrangement is kind of complicated and idk how much i wanna air my business out kfjfshdkj. tldr is that me and j love each other very deeply in a way that is not romantic nor quite platonic and they are someone that will always be in my life. we did try romance sort of but they are aro and i dont think that feeling is what i feel for them anyway. its different to what my partner makes me feel.

so the sense of love and longing is not the exact same though it's probably closer to 'romance' then what we view typically as friendship. like i hold them in my lap and other gay shit lol

im the kind of queer that is very free love about these kinds of things. my partner has a qpr who i dont know and everything too

my partner is my life partner and the person i feel closest to in my life. it is romantic of course but its also more than that. i talk to him about everything and trust in him to communicate and vice versa. if im jealous or lonely or scared - i tell him and we work it out and he does the same for me and we check in on each other all the time. he comes first and he always will.

but my love and affection for someone else does not dim my love for him. love isnt a scarce resource i have to preserve but something i give of my own will. its not a threat because there's nothing to threaten. no love will replace him because it's not like anyone can be him any way.

when your love for someone transcends the role they fill in your life, a lot of doors open about who and how you love i think. i fall in love and experience affection for people as they are if i had to put it to words. not because of what they can do or a desire for connection but because the experience of them, specifically, moves me. i cant really speak for other people but for me its like that.

im not someone who really personally subscribes to monogamy and i never really have. my partner and i have had a more open relationship for all of it pretty much with some years and my trust in him has only deepened over time and through several wounds.

i long and crave and miss people because they are who they are. no person is replaceable ykwim. so the absence of someone cant be filled by someone else and it also cant be changed by another person. my partner is my life partner and the man i want to marry someday.

but j is my j. i love them because they have silly idiosyncrasies. theyre a talented artist and skittish with affection and sensitive. and i love them so deeply it makes me sick. i love how much they try for me.

and i love my partner just as much. we'll spend new years together, all three of us (and j's whole family dsjfjsld) - but im seeing them both separately and im sure they'll see each other separately too

so its like these things are not contradictory to me in anyway. they're not feelings in conflict with one another inside of me at all. its complicated but relationships are always that way

i hope that made a little sense!! its kind of hard to explain without extra context!!

[wolfertinger]

"[Keep Anon]

Wis acting calm and rational without saying that Sawyer is the evil spawn of hell. Anywho, hi Wis, do you recognize that you, as a white European, that calling a Latino your dog, talking to them like one, and dehumanizing them is racist as fuck? How about you fix yourself and your shitty attitude.

"I dont want to say sorry"

Not for being racist? Not for defending these individuals who committed crimes and you hurt numerous victims by defending them? Not for publicly @'ing Sawyer and their accounts and getting them harassed and sent death threats by you and Salem's rabid-ass fans? Lying about Sawyer relentlessly in such a cruel way? Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer. Sawyer did this, Sawyer did that. Sawyer poisoned the waterhole, Sawyer ate my crops, Sawyer caused a drought, SAWYER KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY ❗️❗️❗️❗️

And it took you this long to say "This never should have been my business", that is embarrassing as fuck, dawg. 😭 Like, YES???? IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR BUSINESS TO BEGIN WITH LMFAOAOAOAO. Keep your nosy ass away from things that don't involve you, especially when you don't know the full story. You've been out here defending a rapist, an abuser, Majora, people who use kiwifarms but god forbid they're trans women so its okay that they deadnamed your boyfriend and actively talked in Salem's KF thread.

Also public assassination of character is when [reads note] "Posting proof about you relentlessly defending a rapist, an abuser, etc because theyre trans women and just you being a lying piece of shit to Sawyer."

I'm tired rn and I don't want to continue the yap. if OP wants to add anything else go ahead. - 🩸"

the deepest irony to me. is that wis, is willing to befriend, and defend, ACTIVE, ACTUAL groomers. ACTUAL, IRL rapists. and those who LIE ABOUT THESE SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS, to cause their real victims pain.

but sawyer, because they dare, to actually have a backbone, unlike salem, who has the constitution of tissue paper, THEY are the evil one. how dare you, speak up against being abused, sawyer. you should do that quietly, while salem and wis get to publicly lie, and spread self victimizing stories, that can easily, be proven untrue. by 2 seconds of research. you have to shut up, because your proof, contradicts their stories.

and let me note, finally. wis, was never involved in any of this. she purely is attacking sawyer, on behalf of salem. she has no skin, in this game. so whenever she cries, about being "attacked". she brought it, upon herself, by being a rape apologist. i do not feel sorry for her, at all. if you are so upset, wis. log off. you do not need to "destroy your computer", to have a real life.

[insanefastone]

it was a lot easier to ask for things for christmas when i was younger. i was five, so if i was shown a toy i probably would say i wanted it. being a five year old, i mostly cared about the receiving part - a stuffed dog, a bucket of tiny horses, a playmobil train, didn’t really matter, it was mine now. a few years later pokemon began airing on tv and anything with pikachu on it was guaranteed to be a hit. im unsure of the occasion but i remember being given literal math practice books at some point and loving doing my additions and multiplications because they were pokemon themed. it was truly so, so easy.

then i got a little older and my desires started to get a little more complex. pikachus were still pretty cool and all but i wasnt happy with just any toy anymore: i cared about my cartoons and the things i saw in commercials, and so i would ask for those things. i knew about super soakers, and nerf guns, and moon shoes, and sock ‘em boppers, but i also knew the difference between, say, a stuffed animal of a brown dog and one of scooby doo. i knew disappointment, too, because i could tell when i was handed something in lieu of the other. at the time i couldnt have possibly understood why the substitutions got made, but i could see when it happened.

then i got a little older and developed hobbies and preferences. i had opinions on things, i had feelings, and i started to learn how to express these ideas. i could articulate why one thing could not be a substitute for another, and how i felt when it was handed to me anyway, and also what i thought about being given a great many things i did not ask for instead of those that i did. i became frustrated with clothes and socks and other such things because i knew that when i needed them we could go get them. they didnt feel special or thoughtful. they seemed like an excuse to have one more box to hand me, one more thing to play coy about, one more thing to ooh and aah at and take photos of when i eventually held it up. and so the ideals of gift-giving began to erode.

of course, i hadnt quite learned of the whys. they were specifically kept from me, and from my sisters, so we could play family (as it were). theyre pretty evident now, knowing what i know as i type this, but at the time things kind of just. crumbled away. there were some nice surprises where the spirit felt alive and real, like the year we received ipod nanos. (3rd gen, i think? they were skinny but still had a touch wheel with the button in the center.) i remember crying incoherently as i held mine, and i also remember my entire family being stunned and confused (they clearly hadnt expected that reaction either). i think i was simply overwhelmed to have been given such a nice thing after coming to expect disappointment.

there was also the year we were given the gamecube, and our game boy advance sps, but they didnt feel as special because we knew it was mostly since an older cousin had given us her super nintendo and our parents wanted us to entertain ourselves. it actually led to a lot of frustration that our parents didnt attempt to understand, because you cannot do ‘similar to’ with a video game unless you actually bother to find out what it is. which really started to highlight what felt weird about the gift-giving all those years: whose thoughts, exactly, have gone into this ‘thoughtful’ gift?

it’s a hard question to answer, and really depends on who you are talking to. this being tumblr, i can assume someone reading is familiar with ‘i see a cool bug/rock/blorbo’ -> ‘i send it to my cool bug/rock/blorbo friend’. it’s kind of ingrained in the culture. but we also (largely) understand that theres variance and specialty within these categories, that not all blorbos are the same, and that most blorbos are very different, actually, to the point where people debate what constitutes an ‘actual’ representation of the ones they care about. but theres also people that dont care that deeply and are mostly only there because their friend is, or because they like the character’s design, or any number of other reasons, and knowing where to meet them on their interest kind of requires knowing more than just ‘oh they like this’.

and so we get disconnects, and misunderstandings, and disappointment, and frustration. and we get not knowing why one thing is ok but another isnt, or why you can interchange two things but this third one is unacceptable, it seems like theres no way of knowing but could you have known? was this there all along? did i skip i question or, more importantly, pass on an answer i was given? and so i think upon such things. and i see where things could have diverged, or evidence thereof. and i consider that to give and receive not only requires two, but also a connection to have been made. ‘oh!’ you might say, ‘that mug has a pikachu and some snowflakes on it! i always send something with a pikachu, this will be that this year!’ and you mail it and it sits on my shelf, unused. collecting dust. i dont even use it to store anything.

and so i began seeing what the thoughts were. i saw that i was given twelve balls of yarn in six different colors because theyre fun and aesthetically pleasing, but the thought did not contain ‘this is not enough of an individual color to make anything larger than hat and scarf’. i saw i was given a shirt that says ‘# serf life’ on it because it was meant as a family joke and i do think it is a funny shirt to wear, but the thought did not contain how i felt about what the joke references at the time it became a ‘joke’. i saw i was given some books i had asked for by title and volume number because i have been trying to get the entire out-of-print series, but the thought did not contain ‘i wonder why candy only ever asks for these specific books’. over several years i saw i was given many books that are similar to but not within the series (or even genre) i was obsessed with because they get sorted together as ‘humorous coffee table nonfiction’ at bookstores, but the thought did not contain what i liked about that series (trivia compilations), why i stopped reading that series (poorly verified), or why i had nothing to say about most of the previously gifted books.

and it goes on. years of this. we even do a grand show of sharing our christmas lists with each other, and fussing about getting under one roof to share them, and making a whole ceremony (complete with photographs) of opening everything, and sharing ‘oh i was at this place and thought of you when i saw it’, and it goes round and round and round and i am always just sitting there wondering if the next thing thats handed to me will actually have me in mind or it will simply be ‘thoughtful’.

i just dont know what to ask for christmas anymore.

[mamawasatesttube]

Hiii! For the character ask, could you do 3 (and maybe 6 too if you feel like talking) about Kon?

I just wanna know what you think is the worst about him since I think he is your favorite character (?) (or at least I believe he is one of your top ones, correct me if I'm wrong)

Please have a nice day! Rest lots and sleep well (if it's nighttime when you read it)💕💕💕

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

oh easily the way some writers (loeb, most notably, but kesel and johns too) write him being what they think is "flirty" but is actually just like insanely creepy behavior. it's a big cognitive dissonance in the writing imo because you can tell they're trying to go for "this character is a flirt" but they (esp loeb and johns imo) clearly do not respect women literally at all whatsoever and therefore what they think constitutes being flirty comes off just... so so so poorly. christ on a bike. imo kesel actually is the most innocuous of the three (not that he gets off easy or anything but at least he's aware that kon's also a dorklord and a loser and his kon flirting is often like. bad lines a teenager might say, as opposed to being a misogynistic fucking creep). the way loeb in particular also reduces kon to being a meathead who can't stop treating women as sex dolls is... mmm. hate that.

(my interpretation is usually "this is a teenage boy who likes to flirt but has no intent to follow through and also his lines are usually bad. theyre bad. hes bad at it hes just doing what guys on tv do in all his movies. hes trying to be captain kirk. hes 15. hes bad at it." but without the blatant misogyny and creepiness. because like the women in these narratives are never written to react like hes being a creep bc the men writing them just don't seem to understand that they're writing someone being shitty and misogynistic. because said men are shitty and misogynistic. but i tend to go with the intent of "haha flirty 16yo with a head full of tv shows".)

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

adhd/gifted kid burnout kon is real and i know him. also mixed kid/second gen immigrant issues kon is REAL and i KNOW HIM. that said i would rather die than project directly onto a character and the way i handle myself is Not the same as how i write kon handling his stuff. but struggles with suicidality, adhd and gifted kid burnout, and mixed race/second gen immigrant stuff? yeah. always gets me.

CHARACTER ASK GAME!!! 💫

[rimzieiei]

I HEARD FATUI KAVEH AU AND PLS TELL ME EVERYTHING I KNOW NOTHING. GIMME ALL THE DETAILS PLS

HI OKAY I DIDNT EXPECT TO ACTUALLY GET ASKS BUT ILL DO MY BEST TO EXPLAIN MY AWFUL BRAINROT :3

(im so sorry any die hard kaveh fans because this au fucks him up beyond comprehension this is NOT your babygirl anymore)

(also, ive made up a LOT of characters and lore for this au so bear with me while i explain it all)

brighella, the beast (4th of the 11 fatui harbingers)

he is in charge of the realms investigation division, aka fucking around with the abyss/the elements/celestial stuff and finding out

kaveh was recruited to the fatui right after his mom moved away to fontaine. the fatui had an interest in studying his unique constitution. during this time, he worked closely under the innamorati (the previous 4th harbingers). going so far as to become a right hand man.

after a tragic incident where one half of the innamorati attacked and killed their partner (before being taken out by kaveh), he was promoted and took over his old boss's position.

kaveh stays in sumeru (instead of working from snezhnaya) because its the easiest place to access irminsul, and (before the sumeru archon quest) it was a hot spot for abyssal activity.

also, with how awful the fatuis reputation is, id make a bet that most nations try to keep as many of them out as possible. but they cant really get rid of someone that was born there and has citizenship. dottore probably got his citizenship axed after his crimes against humanity or revoked it himself because he could just live in snezhnaya. tldr kavehs the only harbinger that can waltz in and out of sumeru without any problems which gives him an intensive to stay and manage the fatuus stationed there.

id say kaveh has a generally good relationship with the rest of the harbingers. he gets along well with sandrone. he often exchanges information with signora and dottore (plus they both attended the akademiya) so theyre friendly. with pulcinella and tartaglia, they just exists together. generally positive i guess!

the closest harbinger to a friend is definitely columbina! (columbinas role in the fatui is a historical archivist because i believe the theory that shes a seele so shes old as hell) most of the motivation for kaveh ending up as a harbinger had to do with understanding the fuckfest that is his family history so columbina would have been a big help to him! which would then lead to them becoming friends not friends (also i think them talking shit about the other harbingers together is such a fun concept) (you CANNOT tell me columbina isnt a mean girl LOOK at her)

and because capitano and columbina are basically mother and son (this originated from a theory video about natlan lore all in all i think theyd be pretty close due to their lore intertwining) kaveh and capitano are friendly.

anyways! onto the harbingers hes not on good terms with...

pantalone would dislike kavehs because the abyss is dangerous and verrry expensive to deal with safely (paying out the families of fallen agents...). he didnt have this problem with the innamorati. kaveh would despise pantalone for making it incredibly difficult to get funds.

scaramouche hated everyone.

and ohhhh boy arlecchino... these two have the craziest beef with each other. if they werent both harbingers, the other would be dead. ill probably make a separate post at some point that describes their eternal feud. but in simple terms: theyre like each others twisted mirror version.

i dont really know what else to add to this??? but i will definitely be posting more about it :3

[ttsquid]

How do you think Joey would interact with Jade?

okay this answer is in text form cause i have a lot of thoughts about them lol and also under the cut cause i got a bit carried away :3

to me at least i think it rly depends on like. which jade and which joey were talking abt here cause like - while they were both raised and 'abandoned' by jake harley at similar points in their lives (jade when she accidentally killed him, joey when stopped showing up after a.claire died) theyve both got such different lives that theyre both going to have different thoughts on it

like jade for the majority of her life before the jade and tavros conversation thought that the blue doll had killed him and then later that hed killed himself so that he wouldnt have to look after her anymore. but from joeys - he just went on increasingly long adventures away from her and jude after a.claire died and left them under the care of a very drunk babysitter (in comparison to a first guardian dog who couldnt understand you). and then (if you take the acts of hiveswap out of the equation) about ten years later he just completley vanishes and goes to live on some random arse tropical island in the middle of the pacific for seemingly no reason

and like. i think if you had an older joey shed pity jade for having to go through all of that alone all the while she at least had her annoying brother and the ability to go to school and have extracurricular activities which meant that (even if she thought they were all 'evil clowns' or whatever) she at least got to talk with other kids her age in real life in person, she got to do all these things that constitute a 'normal life' that jade just never had the opportunity to do

and jade didnt get any of that, she has like. 3 friends before the game starts (one of those being her brother), and a penpal from another universe (who is technically her grandpa but thats a bit too complicated for this lol)

i think younger jade (pre game) might see joey as an older sister/cousin/however the family relation would work out to be - something she never had. cause sure john and rose and dave are nice and her pen pal helps her out a lot and all that but like. aside from bec, theres no one she has ever been able to talk to about her life who would understand - joey is one of the few people who would come closest to knowing how it felt

and that joey would see jade as someone whose been hurt by her dad - its her job now to make her life better than hers was

an older jade with a younger joey might be the same but like - for jade this is someone in a similar position to the one she is, but now? she has more of the full story (assuming that john like. talked about their guardians and the slime babies and stuff, i cant rly rmbr) - she knows that, on december 1 1995, her grandpa was in johns town picking her up from the destroyed remains of a betty crocker factory. and that for the next however many years he spent looking after her before she accidentally shot (via bec) him.

and so to older jade armed with that knowledge - its essentially her fault. she took joey and judes dad away from them, leaving them under the care of roxy

but younger jade and younger joey?

thats where it gets interesting cause like theyd be almost like siblings. almost. cause theyve both been hurt by jake harleys neglectful? parenting style? and they both grew up in a similar environment - surrounded by stuffed mummies and a fuck tonne of globes. if you put them together i think joey would try to be the older sister regardless - going back to older joey and younger jade cause shes already used to playing that role for jude as independent as the two of them are - this is someone whose just like her - she hates the decrepit mummies, the senseless killing of animals jake does, and they both have emotions about the blue ladies their dad/grandpa collects. theyd either instantly click with eachother like the super magnets in squiddle toys, or theyd instantly set the cookaliser up to full blast and detonate everything in a 4.13 km radius

OH YEA and they both have manthro chap toys :3

so yea i think it just really depends on what jade and what joey ur talking about cause they could be so so so so different at different points of their story and if you mix and match them it could have all sorts of different outcomes but basically i think theyd get along decently enough once they got through some miscommunication stuff maybe

[actualbird]

hi, i lurk in this blog a lot, but this is my first time actually sending an ask, but i wanted to contribute to the ask game qwq

the first scene that came to mind was in the hot men car wash charity fic, where the boys are all arguing and blasting abut who was the most physically fit. like, what do you mean their interactions didn't come straight out of an event?? it feels so right and so canon i adore

honoroable mention to the Luke & Artem fix, but i can't just name one scene because the entire fic is just too good i think it altered my brain chemistry i also adore (though if i had to choose a scene, maybe Luke lugging Artem around **really** hoping no one thinks he's a kidnapper, it was hilarious to me :D)

for this ask meme: tell me the FIRST scene from my fanfics that come to mind as the most memorable to you

ohhhh a longtime lurker, first time asker!!! thank you for coming in with the ask, it always makes me happy to talk to yall and i hope you enjoy my blog ;w;

also WAHHHHH thank you so much for reading "ogling wet men constitutes as revolutionary praxis" because kJBLDS thats the silliest nxx team fic ive ever written and im still happy about it. im especially happy that you found that scene of them arguing abt whose strongest to be something that felt like canon. theyre so funny when theyre trying to one-up each other, it never gets old to me. classic nxx boys

and as for your honorable mention, omg this whole ask meme has essentially made it known to me that people REALLY liked "in vino veritas, or something like that...", which is something i wasnt expecting!!! im glad that that fic and its scenes could stick in your brain :DDD

thank you for telling me, anon <3

[luonae]

played symptoms of deceit a couple days ago and the concept of every character having an associated sea creature was really cool so ofc i had to make my own oc/mc! a sea bunny! i dont have a name for them bc i suck at names but yknow what i have? Lore. ok yapping (and the ship dynamic thing) under the cut because i really talk a Lot.

first of all like i said theyre a sea bunny because i love bunnies so the choice was very clear. their color scheme is entirely inspired by sea bunnies (black white yellow green orange are all sea bunny colors) and a lot of their design aspects like their freckles, fluffy hair, their eyes being dotted, blue blush just like thaumo etc. oh yeah also theyre nonbinary and use he/she/they pronouns all interchangeably. theyre pretty strongly connected to their associated animal but not that strongly.

since sea bunnies have short lifespans i made them chronically ill (theyd have met thaumo at the hospital). they were actually going to die young but thankfully survived, however they still have a really weak constitution and struggle a lot with anything that requires physical effort even simple things. their parents basically began neglecting them as soon as they had another child, leaving them at the hospital to keep them out of sight since they were "a burden." as a result, hes really insecure about burdening others especially because of his illness and weakness. he knows he needs to depend on others for help and hates it. this makes her really reserved and withdrawn, especially since she never had many friends and was even picked on by other kids her age when she was young. if anything, thaumo and the other kid were really her only actual friends as a child.

if i had to say their type, itd be someone they can trust (looks at thaumo and nalis... yeah good luck with that); someone who makes them feel safe and stable because theyre generally really insecure and have huge abandonment issues. she likes people who take care of her without making her feel like a burden but will simultaneously refuse to be vulnerable and ask for help unless she really trusts someone because shes scared of driving them away otherwise; so itd have to be someone who knows her well enough and is perceptive enough to offer help proactively. shes prone to fainting out of nowhere so i like to think that nalis constantly drops snacks at her desk to make sure she has something to eat out of concern for that. i think he would really really love nalis (whether platonically or not doesnt matter) because nalis feels reliable and has this familiar "big brother" vibe about him that makes him feel safe and comfortable. of course, hes also extremely fond of thaumo (thaumo shenanigans aside) because he was his first ever friend and he really cherishes him. so basically: i cant tell you who his favorite is. (i can tell you mine though. its thaumo.)

theyre kinda dense because they have like, no social skills, and so theyd kinda end up enabling the two manlosers love interests without realizing it. hed definitely be horrified when he catches thaumo killing people but he would try to rein thaumo in like a puppy, except he doesnt realize thaumo relishes the attention and hes probably not doing much to help the situation. she also would trust nalis almost blindly, and almost even make up his excuses for him, which just... makes the whole manipulation shit easier for him lol. shes just so socially inept and fond of the two that she doesnt know how to correctly handle the situations they put her in.

oh, by the way, the bunny plushie theyre holding is their most prized possession. it was a gift from their mom when they first got sent to the hospital to keep them company. they were scared of dying alone, so theyd always hold onto the bunny wherever they went, hoping the bunny would be there in their final moments. ofc even after they managed to survive they still held onto the bunny for years because its a comfort item for them. i think thaumo would be jealous of the damn plushie but he wouldnt dare ruin it because he witnessed firsthand just how important it is to them and he wouldnt wanna break their heart. oh and just like sea bunnies they can release toxins when threatened but they almost never do, especially not around thaumo or nalis because theyre scared to hurt them even more than theyre scared of them. they have a degree of poison resistance since they can absorb it for later use.

and heres the shipping thing

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

3, 16 and 20 for loving fandom asks! 😊

3. a character that fandom has helped u appreciate

wen kexing from the novels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also zzs from the novels and zzs from the show and wkx from the show but this isnt!!! about them!!!

16. a tiny detail in canon that u want more people to appreciate

we talked about this before but i really like how rise of phoenixes handles the crossdressing trope. quippe quest mentions this in their videos at some point i think; feng zhiwei is allowed to actually look like a man when she dresses up as a man, and the additional layer her crossdressing shenanigans add to the exploration of her arc that ends in her being completely stripped from all she has at the beginning (agency, autonomy, freedom, value) is all the more gutpunching. i look at her being all unrestrained (as a person) when she dresses up, moving around freely and doing what she wants (as per her nature), and then i look at who she is forced to become once the emperor finds out about it and it gets public. its honestly horrible, like a horror movie (feng zhiwei fmv horror edit?). so the maturity and nuance with which they approach and utilize it is smth i wish would be talked about more, if only because its so dear to me personally and i think everyone should talk about it all the time

,,,, ,,, actually this probably doesnt really count as a tiny detail //w// , ,, i thought of it because theyre so casual with it in canon!!! though feng zhiwei‘s ~real gender~TM is a plot point, the show doesnt really make a fuss around the crossdressing in itself (compared to how other stories usually handle it). so i thought of it as tiny and a detail even though its not really tiny, and its more the attention to detail that i would like for everyone to appreciate forever.

HERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE ANSWER: zhiwei‘s long ass hair that she takes down at the end of the forst day at the academy when sits in the window just before going to bed . everyone is talking about ning yi‘s hair but!!!! what about hers!!!!! its literally right there!!!! its such a beautiful scene, she looks so good. and i think its the only time she ever takes down her hair where we see it right? right? it doesnt happen at all at any other point :) surely :). so beautiful when u can take down your hair of your own volution in a world where taking your hair down signifies vulnerability and can unmask you as a woman! :) :):):) great scene where zhiwei is in full control of her fate and pursues her happiness and taking her hair down in the privacy of her room, with only gu nanyi to see, is such a big show of trust (in him) and faith (in her future) :) im fine why do u ask

20. your very first fandom

oh this is a mean pick!!!!!! me having like a hole in my head etc!!!!! but one of my earliest beloveds media that i could count as me entering a fandom of any kind is the donald duck franchise. dont really have a better name for it. i could call it the Mickey Mouse Franchise but that would be A Lie. mickey mouse has nothing to do with it at all! i had fan magazines and would dress up as phantomias and would spent time reading comics with my friends and brother and i would annoy literal strangers into lending me their comics if i so much as sniffed out that they had a collection at home. i also drew and wrote fanart and fanfic, though i never finished anything, my aspirations were too high for my fragile constitution also known as patience and stamina TvT. smth thats STILL a problem tbh. i cant write short stuff yet keeping it up for so long is Hard. anywhomst. i remember looking at the pictures before i learned to read and making up the story in my head so this being my first fandom might not be that far off!!!!!!

beloveds fandom asks game

[rillette]

oh yeah baby were back were soooo fucking back. session 0 happened aka all the characters were made. the first proper session is saturday <3

ok so i am your lovely lovely dm this time around soo i dont get to talk about my characters quite yet BUT i can talk about other peoples <3

rowan sandrin is the 31 y/o male high elf druid played by jeremy/dice/my bf. he has a ponytail and pronouns. we dont know what color the ponytail is yet but i told him it couldnt be blonde because uhm. well. you know. other blonde ponytailed men. he has really fucking high charisma but really low everything else <3

anne bonney is the 30 y/o male human barbarian played by jacob "bad bitch fumbler" [last name] (yes i genuinely call him this. quite frequently actually) he is an ex soldier and hates the government <3 he also "would hit women but not because theyre women he just hits everyone" according to jacob. he has really fucking high intelligence and wisdom though

aaaand last but not least we have atlas casterel the 28 y/o male wood elf cleric played by max. he has 9 hit points. he has a -3 constitution modifier. he has a shield though? so maybe his 9 hit points wont get nuked immediately. i believe in u atlas

wooooo we're so back!!!!! i think rowan should get to have blonde hair as a treat they can be #twining!

[delulu-with-wandanat]

When I see people from all sorts of backgrounds: incels, feminists,... yell from the top of their lungs about how Natasha Romanoff is sexualized & an eye candy. I assume that must be a very prominent part of her characterisation but then when I revisit her whole screentime, I can only think of : the suit not it's tightness all superhero suits are tight but the below average lower zip, don't come at me but didn't Wanda's suits in EG, IW,CW & lowkey AOU kinda accentuate her chest not to mention every Spiderman's suit accentuating his dick, I didn't see anyone reducing their characterisation to how they were physically represented. There are also 2 ass shots in IR2 &CA:TWS done for "surprise" effet which shares with her Steve in A1 & EG where there's a running joke about his ass and everyone got over those minutes where his ass was focused. There's that photo (in lingerie) that appeared on Tony's ipad? for like 0.1second but isn't that reasonable considering she is an undercover spy on a honeypot mission? I might also add that backseat car scene in IR2 is kinda understandable I mean it's just her changing her clothes and we can only get glimpse of Scarlett's bra and leg for fucks sake why are people acting like we got full minutes of Scarlett's naked body for no fucking reason? We are talking about a character with very loose (not in that slut shaming way but in morally gray/complex way)views on everything including where/how to change, what to do in her missions,... Her undercover time in IR2 is literally the embodiment of that statement "Natasha is comfortable with everything" that is said by Nick to Steve. This honestly an aspect of hers people overlook &is remembered only to describe her as the team's slut, a pass around who has no values. There's also that 1 scene in AOU where Bruce falls from what I don't remember" on her boobs I get it it was unnecessary but if people just for a second ignored their hatred for brucenat this scene can be overlooked if it was done in a way that makes it spontaneous and reasons why exactly Bruce would fall on nat instead of elsewhere, plus it's just 1 scene. It's sad that even her fans start by "even though she's so sexualized, I like her". I just want to know where is this grand sexualization to a point it's constitute part of the character. I know she was sexualized in a way, that fucking lower zip always drove me insane like ZIP IT UP WOMAN but she got a total of 3:45 min screentime, it's stupid or maybe very telling of the people's part if her unzipped suit is the most memorable of those nearly 4 hours. I honestly think it's because Scarlett is a hot woman with ample chest & those misogynist dudebro nerds only cared for her body & treated as an eye candy and refused to acknowledge her effectiveness then others just believed in the loud notices, it's like circular victim blaming.

I get ur point, but i think its good that ppl point this out so studios will stop with the unnecessary shots on female characters. And maybe actually put more efforts on building their story and their arc.

A character can be sexy and loose in a non sexualized way. They can be sexy spy without having to appeal to men or to anyone. I don’t think ppl meant to reduce her character to how she was represented visually, rather theyre pointing it out.

Because if we don’t, she’ll just stay a side character that they use to uplift other characters. I mean look where we are now? All the og avengers had their back stories all fleshed out, they showed it on screen and we get an even deeper understanding of their character.

Albeit Natasha is not a side character, but how much do we actually know about her? How long did it take til she had her own solo movie? No disrespect to Captain Marvel, but she was the first female avengers to be introduced in the mcu. Why did it took her death to get her a movie? how much did we get to enjoy her story on screen? They kept talking about the infamous Budapest story, yeah Nat told us the story, but are u really fucking staisfied with that??

You see where I’m getting at?

Natasha is such an amazing character with an amazing story and complex personality, yet we barely get to see it. Instead of exploring her character they often use her to push another character’s arc. It’s stupid, it’s lazy, and honestly waste of potential.

I love ur take on that car scene where she changed her clothes. But in my opinion that scene could’ve been done in a different way, yet still showed her loose personality. You can tell the studio meant for that scene to appeal to men. Compare that scene, with her changing clothes in BW movie. See the difference? Same type of scene, shot in a different way, with a different mindset.

As much as i would love to brush off those scenes as part of her character, if we keep letting these studios go like that. They’re just gonna keep using great female characters as a tool to push the arc of male characters while disregarding her own story.

[dongrangsex]

once again oversharing but im feeling super angry and evil due to outside influence (my school is so fucking awful but its too late for me to transfer and i only have 2 years left anyway so)

like they REFUSED TO LET ME INTO THE SCHOOL on monday cause they thought my hair color was too bright. it was like a dark reddish copper. they said it was the act of me dyeing my hair in general that constituted me getting kicked the fuck out on first day of school but their own regulations say only super bright colors are prohibited. i had to dye my hair dark brown and had a fucking breakdown over it bc i felt like i just wasted my parents money and was no longer pretty (i liked that color a lot it looked awesome on me) and when i came back my curator still complained about it being too red. bitch do you know how fucking hair dyes work.

not only that, on the same day they didnt let a girl go in because she had a hijab on. mind you, we live in a predominately muslim country. luckily her parents called the cops and from what ive heard theyre still there (its tuesday when im writing this) but the whole situation is so mind boggling. also they let this girl wear her hijab during summer school (since august 20th) so why tf is this an issue now??

its so annoying and frustrating bc its supposed to be the best school in town, the safe haven from the chaos and unruliness of public schools but it ends up being even worse. they treat us like we're subhuman, every student is a spoiled little brat unless the staff are friends with their parents or they ripped theyre fucking asses in half doing all sorts of extracurriculars to deserve the grace of the almighty principal and his horde of bootlickers and delirious old people. at least some other teachers are nice.

edit: forgot to mention but my mom doesnt want to file a complaint because shes afraid my curator might start talking shit about me and turning the teachers against me. but im pretty sure none of them would believe her since most of them have known me for like 4 years now and to them im a smart well behaved slightly moody kid. idk

[spiderman616]

i think its harder to find characters who fall under "kind but not nice" if youre considering "not nice" to mean actively RUDE, because in that case they ARE no longer kind even if theyre still like fighting with the good guys or what have you. @/eggthew's shrek example is prob the best i could come up with under that criteria, but generally when i personally talk about "kind but not nice" i mean characters who are unfriendly, meaning not personable or easy to get along with, but not actively antagonistic. and they also care about people. like shadow or julie su (esp before she started dating knuckles). they have rude moments but i wouldnt really consider it a defining trait where people come away from a conversation with them like "what an asshole. well at least they would save a kitten from a tree if it was stuck"

and as for nice but not kind i cant think of a specific example but like anyone who seems friendly enough when you first talk to them but its really just a front and they actually dont care about you at all. umm really surface level example but the evil guy from frozen. hans i think. is this all even tangentially related to what youre asking

Yeah yeah I get what you mean... I mean like the direct inverse of you second example for actively rude but still kind. Like disregardant of social cues and stuff that normally constitutes someone as polite or nice but still a good person at heart if that makes sense. Thank you for the examples though they help