#there were others but yanno

[hirudou]

when they were hatched btw they were so tiny, and like 60% of their body was see through. isnt that so cute, can u imagine tiny palm sized babie merfolk…

[kangaroodle]

@sleepnoises a diagram of what i meant. we weren't expecting the second stage (literally EXITING THE CANYON elevation change) so when we got to the third part up on the plains, i realized that like.... i could go down the other side and see the cave, but i wouldn't be able to do the return trip as the 4th part would be uphill. hope that makes more sense lol

[greenlaut]

[assassin's creed] honestly shoutout to asscreed protags altaïr and ezio for having unusual assigned colours white (and red) instead something conventional like red or blue

[rapidhighway]

i dooon't like the 3d cell shaded look they gave Shadow tho. i dooont like it. want the frontiers prologue back

[jrueships]

r u the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u buy whatever little thing u want as an adult and struggle with saving for the big mandatory thing,

or the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u just never buy anything small bcs u had to learn to live without it and constantly try to save for the next big thing in 500 yrs

[brainrotdotorg]

The reason I don’t make a lot of very insightful posts about studying characters and the world they’re in is because I don’t know enough about jean everything I have to say about Harry and Kim has already been said I feel like I don’t have as much to say about the student communists because I am a bad communist who hasn’t done any of the required reading (lmao) my only thoughts on the RCM as an institution arent very well-developed (and also are through an American bias of what police are like rather than how they exist in Elysium) and I don’t know fucking. ANYTHING about the innocentic system.

But I sure can tell you a lot about the skills and piss/fuck. Which isn’t actually a lot but boy I can tell you

[lunar-fey]

ohhhh my god. okay. so. my aunt does like, she buys random junk in bulk from retail wholesalers and then resells it on like, facebook marketplace and ebay and stuff. whatever. so my mom works for her. makes a flat $50 a day, regardless of the fact that shes disabled and doing hard labor for at least 8 hours a day, often 10+. and min wage here is $10 an hour but mom argued that $50 a day is still more than what she would make working the same hours at an actual job because of taxes...like girl that would be 50% taxes. you do not pay that fucking much. so thats already Bad.

but today mom shows me a video of a knife theyre gonna sell, and i watch 2 seconds and i realize its an automatic knife, and i tell her hey. thats illegal to possess in this state. let alone sell! and mom is like ohhh [aunt] knows what shes doing itll be fine.... we sell knives on there all the time she just doesnt put pictures and calls them something else on the listing to get around fb/ebays policies :)

LIKE. HELLO. THATS NOT BETTER. YOURE COMMITTING MULTIPLE CRIMES. *AS YOUR JOB.* and she was just like "its not a big deal she knows what shes doing." folks, this is the same aunt that, very illegally, paid me to sort through her clients confidential tax documents and bank records and stuff. because she works for a bank. and took the records home to sort them. i dont think she DOES know what shes doing, actually!

[essektheylyss]

It is very tiring trying to be like "shadowgast cute and soft, make brain go brrr" while simultaneously feeling still that, even a year and a half later, to a loud portion of the fandom, their relationship through the last ten-ish episodes of the campaign didn't "count" because there was not a (mouth-to-mouth) kiss involved, even though their interactions throughout that last arc were absolutely crucial to Caleb's storyline, and gave the impression of prioritizing each other even while focused on averting an apocalypse.

And in particular, the moments they had at the Blooming Grove were very sweet and spoke of the importance they placed on each other and the grace they were willing to extend to themselves in settling what they both still needed to settle before another step could be taken. But evidently that doesn't actually matter because it didn't result in a traditional domestic relationship (ignoring that, clearly, that isn't even really a possibility regardless of their interest, per the two-shot).

If the feeling had not persisted so insidiously among the fandom, I really would not be so persnickety about it, but it has never felt like that subsided and it is simply rearing its head in a far more noticeable way now that those folks can claim there's actually something to "celebrate" to their standards, as though a relationship cannot possibly be real unless you've watched two people stick their tongues down each other's throats.

Like, do people not realize how exclusionary (and, frankly, pretty invasive) that sounds, or do they simply not give a fuck?

[girlcrushau]

[captainofthetidesbreath]

absolutely spoken like someone whose career in piracy ended (possibly very recently) because his boatswain, lover, and partner in warlock shenanigans tried to ritually murder him after she identified his distrustful hesitation and disillusioned exhaustion and considered it weakness and cowardice

[honeysunchild]

It really hurts when it feels like a friend you considered family gives up on you and the relationship

Like, we could have talked about it, we could have found a solution together, we were each others family remember?! But instead you chose to just give up and cut me out

[fightaers]

this is controversial ……… but i think the only men sakura feels like would never disappoint her or be disappointed in her but rather is completely fine to being completely open and genuinely working with her is……… only sai and shikamaru……..

[mysunshine-youremoonlight]

oh btw who are your favs in hypmic

gentaro was my #1 fave for. Awhile. i have so many of his cards. but i am also very fond of hifumin and doppo :3 i also rlly like saburo !!

[corvidcrybaby]

OMG! I’m so glad you like my OC Angel! She’s my baby and I’ve been working on her since I was a teen even nearly ten years later.

The reason I ask for you feedback/second opinion is because Alucard is so FUCKING DIFFICULT TO WRITE MONOLOGUE AND INTERNAL DIALOGUE FOR!!!

love the smug red-clad asshole but damn is he hard to write for, especially with a character like my OC.

Do you have any advice for writing dialogue, both internal and external, for Alucard?

And this is little bit embarrassing, but I’m also having trouble in some instances of Alucard and my OC interacting because she is an Empath and can see through everyone’s bullshit, literally, and she’s half-mad.

Alucard is fucking hard to write, I agree - I've made a post about this before that I'll link here but I suppose I can provide some additional pointers for things that help me.

Alucard is a spirit of temptation, being a vampire. That means that even with the fact he has a penchant for trying to dominate interactions with others, he's also got a real hard-on for poking and prodding people in their weak points - be it sensual or otherwise, he wants to see if he can provoke people into dropping their mask. If there's anything we know about Alucard based on his assessment of Seras ("beneath that girlish exterior lies a fascinatingly complex creature" or whatever he said to Walter when he asked Alucard why he turned her), it's that he's damn good at seeing what makes people tick beneath the surface. And that's where he gets his entertainment from.

Internal dialogue, however, is a different beast. This will sound ridiculous, but I often imagine I'm writing for a Terminator with a flair for the dramatic and seductive when I write from Alucard's POV. Right down to seeing dialogue options appearing in front of his eyes before he decides how he'll respond to any given stimuli - dude's life is a visual novel and also a sandbox rolled into one. Due to this, it's rare he ends up feeling any sort of direct connection to other people. It isn't necessarily out of a sense of self-deprecation, either, at least not directly. The dude's internal circuitry is just fucking WEIRD and difficult to understand. To quote Zemira, "The inside of that motherfucker's head has gotta look like an M.C. Escher painting or some shit."

I hope this helps!

[sanstropfremir]

does it feel like quite a few comebacks have really dropped the ball styling-wise this year? you've mentioned Taeyong's Shalala with the recycled NCT wardrobe, but i feel like i'm seeing so many jeans and tee shirts on music shows lately and it just looks so lazy. Like I was shocked at how for P1Harmony's Jump for example, it felt like the stylists had made zero effort at all (which is a shame since the song is throwback in nature that we could've gotten a riot of 2012-kpop looks).

yea there kinda has been a drought this year on styling, at least in the first half. it's been oddly consistent in a way though, if that makes sense? i'm looking through my first half styling playlist and it doesnt seem like there's as many cbs as there usually is on there, but there's still around the same number of videos bc the stylings that have been good have HIT with pretty much everything. just scrolling through its like. every halazia stage every rose blossom stage every xg stage every tic tac stage every sweet juice stage etc etc. lots of stuff's been pretty meh all around and therefore doesn't make the initial cut, but there's comparatively few of middling missed opportunity ones. i think the biggest ones there for me are shalala and rover, which i think i did publish that ask about......i think.

it especially feels like a dirth rn i think bc may and some of june were pretty slow for good releases in general, so now that there's more groups in the summer cb swing it feels more obvious that the styling has been pretty bland. also it doesn't help that ateez kicked off the season with an absolute slammer of a hit, both styling and song wise.

[mars-ipan]

"deradicalization is best achieved through kindness and acceptance because many radicals feel alienated for one reason or another" and "someone who is hurt by radical beliefs has zero obligation to be kind to someone who holds those beliefs" are two facts that can and should coexist btw