#the common thread of time

[dkniade]

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Fan art of @kianamaiart’s characters from I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl! (with glasses, ft misc glasses characters & two IDWTBAMG universe fan characters)

I’ve been following this project from the start so it’s been great seeing interactions between the characters and how the fandom is so excited for it. ^^

I tried to draw the cast from memory and, while Miss seems a little different from canon, at least I got the dark hair roots and strands sticking out lol. But details aside they’re all recognizable! Which means they’re lovely designs that are unique from one another✨

Eclipse’s shades are a combination of his usual eye mask and the shades from this artwork, and Hoshi’s glasses are inspired by this one!🌒⭐️

Designs… (I don’t have a name for her yet but) the pigtails girl’s shapes are a combination of curves pointing downwards and curves pointing upwards. The idea ended up being that she’s on Eclipse and Lady DeVoid’s side so (after reading this post by Kiana about how most of the characters had Aika’s design as the springboard and are designed to complement eachother) I wanted her design to complement those two’s, with some influence from Zira. I like that the strands of hair on her forehead and the shape around them mirror both Zira’s hair and DeVoid’s horns haha. Plus, I was trying to figure out how to design her glasses and they ended up being kind of the inverse of Eclipse’s eye mask, which is very nice. Eclipse and DeVoid seem to be associated with sharp curves and circle shapes; maybe her outfit could be a lot fancier…

As for what her role might be in the story… I dunno, if she works with Eclipse and DeVoid, and Eclipse is all ~theatric and grand~ then maybe she could be like… his assistant… or something? Who knows. Or, I say “observer from afar” so perhaps she actually gets along with Zira well and they’d watch on the sidelines while Aika and Eclipse duke it out…?

Eclipse… Moon… Umbra… man what if I just name the pigtails girl Yueshi (月食, lunar eclipse)(for both the moon motif that Zira and Eclipse have, and the darkness motif that Eclipse and DeVoid have haha)

Shooting star and telescope don’t feel quite right, but with the circular shapes and the lunar eclipse, I could kind of see her having some star trail motifs with her sweater…

I guess Umbra would be the same type of elf (? darkness/concept personified?) as Lady DeVoid but I’m not sure haha. We don’t have much information on DeVoid other than the fact that she is darkness itself and that she lost most of her powers which she can’t remember how to use. Banished by a Star Guardian, revenge, recruiting Eclipse to help spread the darkness particles to destroy the Star Guardian… If she has a similar backstory to MLP:FIM’s Princess Luna then does that mean she was originally Aika’s teammate or something? haha

About Umbra’s hair… (Feel free to correct me for any inaccuracies.) I think from the reference photos I was trying to draw box braids but got so focused on also making the braids look like moon phases that I’m not sure if it’d still be box braids in the end? They seem more like cornrows now, at least for the side ones?

Here are some earlier versions of the OCs! and more rambling about designs

Well, initially I scribbled down Yueshi so I could experiment with values because I was thinking about how light-coloured pants draw the eye too much if the outfit or the top half of the character is darker. (Half way through she ended up looking like a IDWTBAMG character so I tried to match the proportions with Aika’s turnaround.) But I suppose if there’s enough contrast for the upper half (and IDWTBAMG’s stark black design style gives a lot of contrast) then it works out better. I think the combination of making Yueshi’s hair and the top half of her sweater black and the circle shape white worked out okay. Initially she had large round eyes so I tried giving her round glasses too but since she ended up being a fan character in the universe, it was too similar to Aika and Zira.

Umbra’s design kind of popped into my mind today so I tried to scribble it down and experimented with hairstyles. But green and purple are already associated with Zira, and that shade of lavender is more like Eclipse so I guess I’ll fiddle around with her colour scheme more. Maybe there’s not enough of the signature black there, and both could use some more details to match the level of details in the canon designs… (If Yueshi works under DeVoid then she’d probably get a fancy outfit too.) Then again, Umbra is more like Miss in terms of detail so it seems she’d be a background/supporting character or something…🤔

(I can’t seem to escape the puffy sleeves/cone shape silhouette🤔 Gotta diversify. Also, not sure if it’s ‘cause of the project’s style or if I just really love circles in character design haha)

[opera-ghost]

phantom of the opera + twitter

[sukugo]

ship wrapped 2021 → 2024

[rohirric-hunter]

I also want to make a post appreciating the culling in Umbar. It's an extremely big, extremely ambitious city, and although it is kinda laggy, it functions really well. While playing normally I've had moments where I would whip my camera around fast enough to just barely see something load in, so I knew they were doing a lot of culling to make it work, but it wasn't until I saw the city from above that I realized just how extensive it is and how well the illusion works. I wish I had taken some screenshots to show just how much of the city is not loaded in at any given time to demonstrate it. But it's overall really effective use of the tool to build the illusion of a really big city.

[junewild]

if you decide to nurture one skill in the new year, i hope it’s your curiosity. learn to ask questions like a child again. and then seek out the answers! more than anything else, being actively curious about the world will make you more competent, grounded, insightful, and interesting

[54625]

So a while ago I made this post

TLDR: Which popular MCYT fanon things do you dislike?

And I've been wanting to do a follow up ever since because it was so fun to read through everyone's opinions; it's great to see people speak their minds in a little space where they can do so without hurting anyone directly. So since it has been a good few months and things about content creators and servers have changed since, there are probably new things people want to get off their chests.

So I'm pretty much just asking the exact same question again. What MCYT fanons and headcanons wind you up?

[allthepandasintheworld]

just so yall know: the more people change the arcane wiki notes on vander and silco's relationship the more im laughing and shipping them

also, guys. the wiki isn't always correct. what the wiki says doesn't equate what canon says. at the end of the day, fandom wikis are deeply subjective to the people who contribute to them

[ghostlycod]

“I have this scene in my head for my fic that I really love but i don’t feel like writing all of the other stuff to get to it.”

I see this comment like 5 times a day in fic writing spaces lol

a scene that you don’t want to write is a scene you don’t want to read. don’t write stuff you don’t want to read.

me, personally: wait until the scenes that get you to that first initial scene you were excited about are just as interesting as that scene too. it won’t be the first, second, or third thing you think of. if u have a scene you really want to write, write that, and keep writing only those exciting scenes that come to you. eventually you have a million interesting scenes for your fic and they become puzzle pieces for you to arrange and then eventually the strings come together and you realize you really do have an interesting way to get to that original scene, and you’re just as excited to write it, if you haven’t already written it when you were brainstorming other scenes earlier in the writing process that you didn’t even realize could carry your story like that.

[rhysie]

a hard pill to swallow ... rhys not telling feyre during her pregnancy is not as ooc as u think it is

[lesbiancarat]

hello! you seem incredibly knowledgeable about seventeen, so I wanted to ask you if you knew anything about what specific songs the performance unit has been involved in choreographing? I remember a point where I regularly saw the misconception that like… hoshi was choreographing the entirety of their title tracks, and I don’t see that anymore, which is nice, but I am kind of curious to know the specifics past “he was involved in choreographing stuff, but these days it’s not super common”

it seems like that info on who’s choreographed something is mostly anecdotal? I know dino did flower, and hoshi did fast pace, and hoshi & dino did 247 & still lonely, and the pfu did highlight, because there’s specific sources for that stuff, but I’m lost outside of that.

my instinctual feeling is that the pfu’s done the choreo for their songs from debut -> an ode, with perhaps the exception of lilili yabbay? shhh & lilili yabbay are what I’m personally really curious about…

anyways! there’s a lot of ambiguity! perhaps that’s just the way it’ll stay, which is fair and fine, but I was curious if you might know anything on the topic, is all.

(as an aside, for the choreography videos playlist linked on the carat resources carrd, would the nu’est w & seventeen “heaven” video count as something that should be listed there…? I don’t know since it was tragically never officially released)

yeah that's because it is mostly anecdotal unfortunately. there are choreography credits in the albums, but it's not always super helpful since it's not usually broken up by song, and it's not uncommon for b-side choreos to be made after the album is released when they're rehearsing it for a concert/tour. I know this has happened with pfu songs especially in recent years

I did find this reddit post that compiles the album credits along with song anecdotal credits up to sector17 era. unfortunately it doesn't tell you anything about shhh or lilili yabbay specifically, though it is interesting to see that hoshi (and some of the other members as well) were at least somewhat involved in choreographing up to heng:garae era, and then member involvement (at least that's credited) sharply drops off. I would guess this mainly had to do with svt just getting busier and the members having less time/energy to choreograph themselves, though it is kind of interesting that this kind of coincides with the hybe acquisition (as much as I like to be a hybe hater I don't think this is directly because of them, but i digress)

i tried to do some research on shhh and lilili yabbay specifically. I couldn't find anything on shhh (it's also just a bit of a hard song title to do searches for in general). for lilili yabbay i did find a translation of this fancall from 2020 with hoshi where he says each of the members choreographed their individual parts and then brought it to the contemporary dance teacher. but ode to you tour was specifically mentioned, and after rewatching the stage, I think he was referring to the intro dance pfu did before lilili yabbay on that tour, not the original choreo itself TT

you could try to watch behind videos (including old going seventeen before it became a variety show) from those eras to see if any of the members mention anything about the choreo in passing, but obviously that's very time-consuming and it's easy to miss things

honestly i've wished for a long time that choreography credits were better documented, but we can only work with what svt/pledis has given us... sorry I didn't have more information for you!

(also yes, i was mainly focusing on official releases for the choreo playlist, but I appreciate the suggestion nonetheless! always looking for things I may have missed!)

[fagatakonin]

It's not quite jealousy i feel towards happy couples it's more like. A feeling of loss of something i never had

[wild-hyacinths]

challenge: make a poll of your five fave characters of all time, then tag five people to do the same

got tagged by @sazandorable so, in no particular order, here we go:

and im tagging: @just-another-leaf-in-the-wind @i-gwarth @androleda @mindblownie2 @kissingdeadgirls

[whentherewerebicycles]

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[thedreadvampy]

wait no sorry one last quick immature bitch moment

the more I find out about how this person has behaved in both this relationship and a bunch of other relationships, the funnier it is how much they like to set themselves up as a like. authority on ethical nonmonogamy and consent and conflict management.

when like. they constantly sexually assault people to prove a point, pressure their partners into shit, got into enm by cheating on 3 people concurrently, and literally every time a problem in their orbit is brought up it gets explained away without anything actually changing, or they cry about how hard it is until everyone says OH NO IT'S FINE DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT

you know. very "call yourself a Community Organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates" energies.

[ghostlynimbus]

So I have a playlist for pretty much every writing project I've worked on, since I was like 17, and sometimes my wife and I play a game where while I'm making food or cleaning in the kitchen or something she'll put on one of those playlists and see how fast I can figure out which one she chose.

10/10 it's a lot of fun and I would definitely recommend.

[fellhellion]

I always felt blaming Snow White the character (especially both her Disney iterations and the Brothers Grimm fairytale) for her fear in the forest is just. Unimaginably silly considering both iterations make a point of telling us she is a child. And considering what context the connotations offered to that term by the fairytale genre, plus the fact Snow White is able to marry by the end of her tale, it really sheds some light on the fact that like. for the majority of her story she’s straddling the line between child (not legally eligible for marriage) and adult (legally eligible for marriage) as defined by the traditional fairy tale genre, which makes her very young.