#the last 2 are mostly fucking around

[bombusbombus]

Got tagged by @supermanstoddlerleash for this

rules: create a 24 hour poll with the names of your wips, and for whichever wins, write one sentence for each vote it gets

Most of my WIPs are either abandoned or in long term storage, I usually only work on one at a time (until it's done) so you too could ruin me by making me take out an old fic and rework it into something I'm more happy with writing.

Too sleepy to tag someone else. Peace

[showdown-starlo]

Two doodles I made that don't have correlation however they do fit well

[puppyeared]

Tell me about a song you like right now, maybe an animation you just watched that made you think thoughts and feel things

Only Acting by Kero Kero Bonito!! I want to make an animatic for Macaque using this song and some parts of Shadow Play and the s4 special.. although im still mapping it and deciding whether I want to use the radio edit or not lol

[crescentfool]

TWO YEARS OF MINATO NUI!!! 💙

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

man even in my own fucking community i feel isolated

[ofcowardiceandkings]

the sinus headaches are already not great but Extra Shit has been added to the pile and im just sat on that right now trying to figure out what the fuck to do

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

[apartmentofdark]

kids sure like the devil these days (and i'm the devil with the black dress on)

[skrunksthatwunk]

i just need you guys to know that american schools often don't teach about like. any of the USA's wars past wwii. almost all of the history classes i took centered on american history nearly exclusively and it always trailed off around mccarthyism. i need us to talk about that and never stop because every time i remember it i feel like im losing my mind

[greenliar]

Miss your monster art </3

hey im glad to hear someone likes and misses my fanart! monster is still one of my favorite pieces of media ever, but right now im just trying to focus on more silly self indulgent art to fight art block so im not planning to revisit it for now

[hopefulstarfire]

Why is it the thing that I actually feel accomplished about lately is that. I'm almost done with one neighborhood on my sims 4 save I'm making for myself. I've got one more family to finish for Willow Creek and then I can move onto the other worlds.

[theswedishpajas]

Kinda fucked up that baby oil can make your skin burn????? What the fuck.

[love-has-a-way-ofgrowingbackward]

i think we're not talking enough about how when crowley drives away in the last episode he DRIVES UNDER THE SPEED LIMIT

[saviorkink]

x

[maraeffect]

y'all my weekend was so rough that i have a tattoo appointment tomorrow and i'm not even excited 💀💀 AND my therapist was like "can we do a half session for Thursday? i don't feel right just waiting until next week to check on you" WAHHHHH 💀💀💀

(HOWEVER. it's my headfirst for halos tattoo FUCKING FINALLYYYYYYY so i'll be excited once i'm getting it)

[lords-of-fortune]

So if you dump Anders right before the very end (after the chantry boom, before the big series of battles at the end) Varric still says everyone broke off from Hawke's side except Anders.

Just... thinking about Anders who got dumped by Hawke at the last second (which I feel like makes sense depending on your Hawke's personality? The whole last sequence of battles is so stressful and they don't have the time or emotional energy to sort out their feelings about everything that's currently happening let alone agree to a life on the run AGAIN even though that's bound to happen anyways) but who sticks by Hawke's side because he loves them and, well, they're not telling him to fuck off so... he just kind of lingers. Maybe once the adrenaline and the confusion and the Feelings are a bit more sorted out they sit next to him at the fire and lean their head on his shoulder and just one of the knots he's had in his chest since (and even before) the boom begins to loosen a bit. Maybe it isn't over after all.