#they should've animated this part specifically tbh

[anticidic]

This panel is even funnier with context because Chuuya's fast asleep post-Corruption, and John has absolutely no interest in him, and Dazai's just leaning over Chuuya to talk to him. They're both totally unfazed by Chuuya in the middle.

[scarlet-fantasies]

Eren is your first love hcs

Description: Eren is aware that he's your first boyfriend, but he’s not aware of being your first love. Also what makes you love/what he has done for you.

::𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:: fluff

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𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡

𝐼𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛

𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 --> 𝑇𝑎𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡

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© 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑠 // 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑙, 𝑟𝑒𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠. 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒. // 2021-𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.

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What makes you love him/what being your first love consists of:

💚The way he admires your beauty and looks at you a lot.

💚Sometimes says thank you after a kiss as a tease

💚Was the first person to see your room. Would tease you just a bit if you had stuffed animals.

💚He'd smile, holding up the stuffed toy of a duck in his hands, "You still have stuffed animals?"

💚"Oh, there from when I was three, I should've put them away."

💚"No its fine, I think its cute that you have childhood memories in your room."

💚maybe need to make a post about rooms idk,

💚his room is a mess

💚Was the kind of guy that loved watching you from afar and admiring you before asking you out

💚He once told you during one of your first dates he said, “I saw you a couple times around campus but I couldn't stop but when I found out you started working here, I thought ‘I gotta meet that girl.’l

💚Of course, you probably didn't want to believe that because it just seemed like flattery but he worked up to what he said. I know it may seem kinda corny for him to say but he'd only say that to girl he means it too.

💚I mean if you think about it men will change their approach to a woman depending on their intentions. And that's basically what Eren did here. With his ex-girlfriends, he didn't say anything like that. What I will say is that if he was serious about a girl, he probably wouldn't realize it. He'd be the type to not notice his change in behavior. It would take his friends to point it out.

💚Loves to ask if he can kiss you in the beginning of a relationship.

💚Will keep the relationship private for your sake.

💚Finds a thrill in it, really tbh.

💚Plus, knowing your parents and his parents wouldn’t be involved, he likes that more.

💚He repays you w kisses when you do something for him.

💚If you weren’t sure if you two were bf and gf he’d find it kinda funny that you were confused.

💚“Did you just say boyfriend?” He’d ask.

💚“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call you that, it's just saying a “male friend” doesn’t make sense in our situation. And I’m not really sure what else to say–I mean what do you think?”

💚He stops and turns to you, “Y/n, I can’t make the decision of being your boyfriend.”

💚Your lips parted as you looked down shamefully and mumbled. “Oh--”

💚A grin appeared on his face, “But I can ask you. Do you want me to be your boyfriend?”

💚You nodded, “I’d like that.”

💚When you ask about something he doesn’t like doing, like a specific date or whatever. He doesn’t tell you instead he’s reluctant and tries to see how much this means to you.

💚If you try to play it off like it doesn’t matter, then he’s definitely going to say yes.

💚“Oh well, I was just offering the idea.”

💚“We’ll go.”

💚“Huh?”

💚“I said we’ll go, I can tell how much you really wanna do this.”

💚He’s always looking for you and surprises you a lot.

How he found out:

💚You were in Mikasa's room and spending time with her and you got into the subject of your boyfriends and so she started to share about her first love and then the question came to you.

💚“So Y/n what about you? Whose your first love?”

💚Considering she’d be only one witnessing how you felt and Eren wouldn’t be the one to hear you figured why not let your best friend know?Of course, you were unfortunate and as Eren walked by Mikasa’s room he heard what she had asked you.

💚And he was definitely interested because not even he knew this about you. Mostly because he knows you'd never tell him. So he couldn't help but get curious and listen. If there was thing Eren was known for, it was that he loved watching you/listening to you and knowing everything about you, especially your feelings, which you'd never share or secrets you wanted to hide. So he couldn't help but want to hear, I mean, you two weren't exactly quiet after all he could pretty much hear everything you two were saying.

💚“C’mon tell me, I want to know.“ She urged, wanting to know what you were hiding.

💚Eren was on the edge of his seat to know by this point, seeing how dear it was to you to keep it a secret from everyone, including your best friend.

💚Mustering up the courage you’d admit, “Eren, is my first love.”

💚“What?! You mean you’ve never liked another guy before him?” Mikasa would ask, completely shocked about you not having previous crush or anything.

💚“No, I haven’t.” You’d admit, shaking your head.

💚“Wait so, your boyfriend is your first everything? Like crush, first kiss, all of that?”

💚“Pretty much.”

💚Eren, of course, had become quite smug by what he had heard. and he was definitely going to ask you about it. Especially because you'd never admit this to him. Of course to ask you he had to find the timing of this. He wasn't going to bring it up in front of others because he knew that would make you feel uncomfortable.

Confronting you:

💚You were watching TV together, well, you were, Eren was just looking at you. At some point, he wanted to get your attention and tucked a strand of hair behind your ear. This caused you to look at him, "What?" you asked, curious about what he was doing.

💚He'd shake his head before smiling, "It's nothing, I was just thinking of how nice you look."

💚You look back at the TV being at a loss of words as you blush. He'd chuckle at your shy action, "I guess I really am your first love then, huh?"

💚“What?” You’d say confused, not wanting to act suspicious since your conversation with Mikasa earlier has quite a similar topic. There’s no way he heard you both talking, right?

💚“Am I your first love?” He'd ask, looking at you to give him an answer.

💚“No.” You’d say as you avert your eyes and look back at the screen.

💚He’d smirk, “You’re such a liar~”.

💚“Ah!” You’d yelp as he push you down on the couch and started tickling you. “Eren! Hey, stop it!” You'd laugh trying to pry his hands away.

💚“Tell me who your first love is!” He’d shout, grinning with a wide smile, still tickling you while you squirmed.

💚“Tell me!” He’d insist

💚“No, I’m not telling you!—Stop, no more!” You’d answer stubbornly.

💚“Never!” He’d chuckle, his tickling getting so vigorous to the point of making you breathless.

💚Seconds felt so much longer and agonizing as he found new spots to tickle you, spots you didn’t even know you were ticklish there. This lasted for what seemed a while now and you wanted to get out of the tickles and giggling so much.

💚“Admit it! You need to admit if you want me to stop. Am I your first love!” He’d grin, trying to get you to cave.

💚Being out of breath you nodded your head “yes” frantically at this but that didn’t stop him from tickling you.

💚“You have to say it."

💚Seeing that this probably end you just gave up, “Okay yes! Yes, you are!” You’d admit finally with a blush on your cheeks.

💚“Gotcha.” He’d chuckle, finally letting go of tickling you to catch your breath.

💚“You’re not fair.” You rested your forearm over your face in shame as you didn’t want him to look at you.

💚He moved your arm away to give you a kiss. You could feel him smirking in this kiss. He pulled away to look at you, just as you were about to cover your face. But he caught you before you could, “Dang I didn’t think you’d actually tell me.”

💚“Shut up!” You’d pout, pushing him off you, “How long were you listening for?” You looked back at him, wondering when he decided to listen on your conversation with Mikasa.

💚“Hmm, the whole time, I couldn’t resist hearing everything you had to say, cutie.” He smirked, his arms wrapped around your waist as he pulled you into his lap.

💚Your eyes widen, “Everything, everything?” You asked, concerned, hoping he didn’t hear everything down to your fear of arguing and really liking him.

💚“Yeah your worries and how much you really like me, and you know basically how I’m you’re first love.”

💚You frown because you don't want him to know all this. “You weren't supposed to hear that.” You'd mumble, burying your face into his chest as he stroked your hair.

💚He’d glance at you before smiling, "What that you have the "hots" for me?" He'd laugh obnoxiously.

💚"Stop, that’s embarrassing.” You’d say annoyed.

💚"Never.” He’d joke, making you pull away to look at him with a frown on your face.

💚Seeing how you looked upset and annoyed he felt bad about it. But also thought you were really cute. “Awww, babe. I was just teasing I promise. I think you're really adorable.” He'd grin as his index finger tapped your nose.

💚At first you thought he was apologizing to you but really he just called you cute, to which you understood he was still playing with you.

💚“Eren—hey, you’re still teasing me!”

💚He’d laugh seeing you catch on as you crossed your arms, “you’re unfair.”

💚“Okay, look I promise I’ll keep it between us. ” He’d reassure pinky swearing with you.

💚“But still who would have thought.” He’d tease again, “you have such a huge crush on me!” Eren laughed seeing your reaction.

💚“Stop it, Eren!” You’d complain.

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Tbh I hated the whole prison-cop subplot in Crystalized and found it deeply frustrating, especially after sitting through the one we got in Skybound. I think way too much screentime was wasted on it, instead of properly fleshing out the actual villains, exploring/resolving other dynamics, addressing the Ninjas' feelings about certain events. But amidst all of the other wasted potential, I really think they should've replaced Hounddog McBrag (probably my least favorite character) with the snake warriors from the sets released earlier that year, as part of Ninjago's CORE line. Because unlike Hounddog, the snake warriors, at the time, were actual sets, and Crystalized later even brought the 4-in-1 mech into the story!

As for what they are, c'mon, it's obvious; They're Constrictai. They're black and orange Serpentine. One of them even has the short minifigure legs the Constrictai exclusively used. And it feels like them and the Fangpyre have gotten kinda forgotten in these newer years, with Ninjago usually defaulting to the Hypnobrai, and admittedly the Venomari in Legacy, when bringing back the Serpentine. So bringing back this tribe into the spotlight would be nice.

Just say these guys are Constrictai bounty hunters hired by the city to capture the ninja; Maybe they have a past vendetta towards them, related to the events of S1 and the Serpentine's failed plot to take over Ninjago with the Great Devourer. Maybe they haven't fully let go of old pains. With a lot of the setting at this point being in the desert, this also makes the tunneling Constrictai more of a threat because there's no structures to climb up, think Tremors. It makes a river an even more fitting way to escape them, if they're bad at swimming.

Instead of a whole army consisting of variants, just downsize them (for the sake of animation budget) into individual characters; Cobra Mechanic, Boa Destructor, Viper Flyer, Python Dynamite, and maybe Sneaky Snake. You could still retain the cowboy motif for one of them, given snakes are usually associated with cowboys anyway. You could even link Cobra Mechanic’s dual flamethrowers to Miss Demeanor by revealing they supplied her!

Have the snake warriors harass the ninja in the desert for a bit, and then they disappear when the Crystal King properly enters the plot. Then when they return, it makes more sense because they're not general keepers of the law, just bounty hunters hired for this specific mission, who already have a grudge against Lloyd and Garmadon and thus aren't really worried about maintaining the peace.

And when Lloyd does make peace with them, it's in the sewers where several crystalized Serpentine are; Seeing Lloyd and Garmadon spare these crystalized Serpentine gives the Constrictai bounty hunters more reason to pause and reevaluate their motives, especially when someone else is hurting their kind and not just humanity. And then maybe they can show up at the end to help against the Crystal King and with rebuilding the Monastery, I dunno. This could play into a larger theme of letting go of revenge, which is relevant to Harumi's story, and could play into Lloyd not wanting to embrace his anger as an Oni (plus the Overlord's return being fueled by hatred).

Dragons Rising still managed to acknowledge the CORE sets of its year with the Greenbone Warriors, who actually show up and play very brief, yet nevertheless antagonistic, roles. If we're not going to focus on the actual Crystalized villains even though these episodes are already airing during their set wave's release, you may as well allocate screentime to antagonists from actual sets instead of making up another generic human cop character.

[sayakxmi]

[Magi rewatch] Episode 6: Warrior Tribe Fanalis [Part 1]

I feel like part of the reason I'm just UGH about having to do this, besides the obvious stuff I've mentioned 300x times, is the fact that I really want to get to the later arcs, which includes the upcoming Balbadd Arc. So I'm just sitting here. Impatiently. Bc I want to be there already, y'know? Oh well.

Also, I'm considering something a little different, partially bc reading the entire arc, and then watching the entire arc is kind of... Hmmm. It is a bit tedious, I won't lie. Plus it feels kinda weird to just do it twice one after another. The idea is, then, to so it more or less at the same time: x number of chapters, then the episode that covers them. It's both because I think it'd be a better experience for me, AND because the upcoming arcs can get pretty long. Like, we're talking 45 chapters/11 episodes for the Balbadd Arc, it just makes sense not to go through it twice. No matter how much I like these arcs, it's just too fucking long to do it that way.

Anyway, PSA over, time for the actual episode.

Hello there, character who's never appeared in this anime.

I usually don't comment on this stuff, but damn, I wish more characters were allowed to have dark skin in this series. Like, it'd make more sense, like, for geography-biology reasons. But lemme tell you, Ohtaka and geography... Let's just say it's not her strong suit. Have you ever seen how she draws the world maps and the Dark Continent specifically? It makes no fucking sense. The best explanation I can provide is that it's just people imagining how the DC looks, since no one was there, as in, beyond the Rift. They're just guessing.

Anyway. Geography rant over.

In the manga their clothes look more SIndria-like bc of the lack of colors, but here you're kinda wondering. But still, my money's on Sindria bc they specifically mention that their country has no slaves, and the two notable no-slavery countries are Balbadd and Sindria. And their clothes don't look very Balbadd. Seriously, sans the colors, it looks very Sindria, actually. Then again, do all Sindria people have to wear white? So it still makes sense, I guess.

Also, seeing Leila again makes me miss Thousand Miles a bit. But that story frustrated me too much at some point. Mostly bc I've lost motivation for it, but, like, aggressively, and just kept on getting notifications for it, even though I've had some stories I was actually proud of, but nope, only that one got the attention. It became annoying over time & I ended up deleting the story completely. In case somebody recalls that story & always wondered wtf happened to it.

Mor.

Also, really, Mor, bc when Aladdin says it, it's Moru-san, but if you go with Morg it's some sort of Morugi-san. Pretty different.

Also, man, Leila's voice just dosen't fit her in my head.

Walkin.

Now I kinda realize that Alibaba's probably the only one who never met these two. Gdi, he seriously always misses out on everything.

Honestly, I really love the lightning in this anime. They make choices I disapprove of, and the animation can get damn sloppy (and art, too), but the colors are always awesome.

Also, wonder how things would've gone if Morgiana stayed with these two.

"I have to come back to my homeland. I promised that to my benefactor." NOW, MY DREAMS ARE WITHIN MY REACH-

Good moment to put the op with these words.

Honestly, I like the scenery in the anime, too.

Gdi, I seriously miss Leila. Also, in the anime she is the one to bump into Fatima.

Lonely.

Tbh, it does look pretty.

Any time Jamil appears I'm thinking abt Ohtaka writing in these extra papers stuff like "I should've talked with Master more" or that she should've tried to talk with him in general, like, god fucking dammit Ohtaka and her dumb Forgive Everything agenda.

No Goltas? -throws down the phone-

Ok, but we have Leila looking out for her, that's actually sweet.

She's offering her some herbs for nightmares, and even calls her a friend. Gdi.

Like, I get that they're probably making up for the characterization they don't have in the anime, but I'm sending it percisely bc she talks about being saved by Sahsa and a mysterious boy. Which never happened in the anime, lmao.

Still, overall, it was a very sweet moment.

MOON

But also. What is wrong with you, why are you (always) blue.

Also, cool music.

I swear, whenever I see a male character with painted lips, who happens to be a despicable person (I'd have two nickles- finish the line), I'm just like... is it lowkey transphobic or am I overthinking it... But also, I wouldn't put it past Ohtaka. I mean, with the joke about the best courtesans looking so manly etc.

Hello.

He's about to be surprised.

And he was.

Mob vs one Fanalis is a very unfair fight. They're about to be murdered.

Whoosh.

Also, I'm starting to think that maybe Ohtaka just really likes the moon aesthetic.

Listen, it's pretty damn close to the manga, I have nothing new to say, so I'm offering you some low quality Morgiana.

Ohtaka let Morgiana wreck shit she loves it 2k23. Nearly 2k24, Jesus.

Understandable reaction.

Evil birb.

He. He has the high ground.

RIP

WASTED

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Question, why're you so hateful towards any and all things that has happened with persona games post p5?

What is the problem with p3reload? I literally cannot find any problems well apart from the well worn down complaints of the lack of femc and answer.

If this is about the Ken post, I think it's fair I'm a bit miffed that (SEA) Atlus posted that. TT0TT Otherwise, I'm going to be assuming this is just a reaction of seeing my other posts. XD

Now....hateful? P5.....most likely, I mean I went from loving it to....well... I felt betrayed (I've gone into my issues with P5 time and time again on this blog tbh TT0TT If you want more specifics I'll can go into it again but not atm for this post to save time ;w;). All in all P5 broke my sanity, I used to be very excited for it, but it turned sour when I actually saw how.....much it sucked.

P3 is salt. I'm pissy. I'm just angry at the choices made. It's something I love that's just.....it just has so many issues tied to it now (I do like some stuff, I do like the new singers voice BUT I hope they allow us to play OG tracks, but that goes for any remaster/remake). This broke me into going villain era ("you aren't making those posts anymore silly" I know I have other stuff outside the internet sadly ;w; orz if I wasn't wiped every day I would be showing my distain on every Atlus post but alas I can't I must pick and choose my battles and if it means bitching on here I'll at least take that orz)

Tbf to P5, I love Kamo's arc. I'll always stand by that. After that it gets complicated.

Spinoffs in general I really just don't like the......non direction the P5 spinoffs have had compared to P4. Arena/Q1/Ultimax were like a mini narrative. P4D was a send off. P5's are....aimless. But that's not hateful, that's just frustration with the direction. (I'm thinking it's cause the team got restructured so.....random events go I guess it's whatever). Like as burned out of P4 as people were for the P4 spinoffs (a bit unfair since 3/4ths were also P3 spinoffs TT0TT), they had some great writing highlights in the franchise and were released in a very natural way. (and the hype of announcing 3 games alongside P5's teaser? Oh god that was fun!)

P3/5D I'm.....very upset with how Atlus handled it. It's price gouging (wanting $60 for each game SEPARATELY), lacking content compared to the previous game P4D (less story and less songs, again P3/5D are counted as two separate games), and horrible timing. The latter is that....P3 didn't have a modern console for people to play on. Atlus screwed P3D over. They should've used this opportunity to funnel the new P5 fanbase into the older games, but instead of focusing on porting P3/P4 over ASAP within that year (which would come to hurt the next game), they pushed for P3/5D instead and didn't give it a fighting chance. Now P5D is screwed in a way that....P5D didn't have the best song selection, like P3/4 could pull from MULTIPLE games and animes, P5 only had P5 and an anime airing. P5D should've happened later, maybe as a send off like with P4. TT0TT (I think timing for P3/5D right now would've been great, considering it feels like we're ending the P5 era and P3R is coming out. I'm hoping they port P3/5D or give us a sequel/remake now would be the BEST time).

PQ2 I'm upset because the lore and how things work are fundamentally fucked over (only a minority may care or notice but it's there TT0TT), like it literally was "P5 broke me 2, electric boogaloo". And I hate how P5 focus it is....esp when I don't think they do much with the story that's meaningful. Love it has FeMC in it (one of the best highlights), love that Yosuke/Teddie are finally written closer to their original game counter parts (outside P4D). Sad that it feels like they game constantly licks P5's boot for some reason (it feels very one sided compared to the equal praise P3/4 did in it's era). I don't mind Hikari but I'm kinda......eh on the PQ2 story as a whole. Was excited to see Climax Theater again only for it to be....eh. The worlds felt eh compared to PQ1. It just felt like an all around downgrade in story compared to PQ1 (it def has better characterization, tho I want to attribute some of PQ1's flanderization to the translators, also to PQ1's benefit.....flanderizing was to help give all the cast members screen time, which PQ2 doesn't do well). I hate that FeMC and P3MC barely interact even tho that was a big freaking advertising point. TT0TT The cast is too bloated, I like to say PQ2 would be better without P5 (it would), but really we need to cut a team. If they wanna keep the FeMC/P3MC plot line then we gotta cut either P4 or P5 (if we gotta change some story/setting I'm fine with that too). Hell, I'm fine with a PQ2 game with just P4/5 and no P3. But the game is just too bloated atm. TT0TT Also Atlus screwed this one too, 1) by not having P3/4 ports available yet, but also 2) putting it on a dead console. orz they really had no fighting chances.

P5R it's.....unnecessary tbh. I like the 3rd semester, but Sumi/Maruki would've been better suited for a spinoff game. One were we could just focus on them and not have to slog through a game that barely anything changed. Also really? 3 years? And we need an updated release? AND IT'S NOT DLC??? Fuck, at least FES The Answer you had an option to get the updated version or buy the Answer itself at a lower price (basically the PS2 ver of DLC). And at least the portable ports of P1-4 were on a different console. P5R is doing this ON THE SAME DAMN CONSOLE. It's BS. Feels like a cash grab like P3/5D were. (I probs prefer vanilla more than Royal tbh, even tho I love Sumi and like Maruki).

P5S......I just....thought it was bad. Felt hollow, like not enough social stuff and too much focused only on gameplay (aka not enough balance, if you ignore the gameplay you're left with.....not a lot). There's issues with characterizations at time (not that P5 was consistent to begin with but still). Like P5 I'm fine with the premise of the story, I hate the execution. While playing I was like "Wow this game doesn't understand P5....I feel sorry for P5!" I was appalled at how they handled some of the villains. Gameplay is fine, just wish there was more to do outside the gameplay. Annoying P5R couldn't be more involved in this (timing is just all over the place with these games wtf atlus??? TT0TT), it lacking P5R isn't a break it for me I just find it to be VERY odd. Esp since they released it after P5R???? At organize it like you did with Arena and P4G, it'd be less strange. TT0TT

P5 anime fucked up Kamo's dungeon didn't want to touch it after that. I don't think I'm in the minority of people not liking the anime.

P5 manga, need to catch back up but I didn't mind the first two dungeons. Liked the new additions. I'm probs in the minority.

P5MM manga: it's ok. Love the artist. Story started off strong but ended up kinda meh at the end.

P5 Daybreakers OVA: I like it a lot. Wish we had more like it.

P5T: Nothing against it atm actually. TT0TT I'm liking the pink villain so far (so far she's being handled better than Alice! YAY!). I really like the new spinoff only chars of this game so far (I'm neutral/positive leaning on the other's but I don't LOVE them). Atlus' statements on the timeline of this game is confusing, and if it IS non-canon to the main timeline I find it very shitty of them to only say that AFTER people have bought the game. ;w; Other than that...uhhh DLC is my only other issue (which I haven't brought up a lot, barring P5S, and on the lower end of PQ1/2, DLC has been ASS with the P5 era games. Like P4D DLC was ass too ;w; And Arena/Ult/Q1 weren't great either, so it didn't start with P5, but it got worse with P5). It's not the WORST DLC practice they've done, but it's still not great. DX

P5X: Nothing to say here, we vibbing. Like what I see so far. Sad it's a gatcha but que sera sera I guess. Probs my fav overall P5 spinoff so far.

P3P/P4G ports: Eh audio this, AI background that. I'm just happy these mfers are finally ported. TT0TT Now do it again with P1/2!

Ultimax Port: Just happy it's ported tbh. Shame they couldn't add a new route (since this game's writing needed a bit more ironing out).

Now P3R.........I think people being upset about the lack of FeMC/Answer is completely valid and talked about for a good reason. Hear me out! A big reason me and a lot of other people have been clamoring for a P3 remake is because we wanted to FINALLY have a complete version of P3. Both Journeys and AT LEAST one Answer (two would be great, but the bar is in the GROUND right now, we're asking for the BARE MIN TT0TT). Then P3R is released and............nope we get another non complete version of P3. It's not just FeMC/Answer fans who are upset. It's the fact we can't have it all in one STILL. And it's not just "one complete game" It's about "One complete story" we lack being able to experience the full story of P3. ;w; *spoilers for key elements of the Answer below* (I just want all three journeys to be treated with respect, but Atlus cutting the FeMC and Aigis journeys....it just puts a bad taste in my mouth and causes issues in the fandom).

(hell the manga, movies, and stage plays NEVER made an Answer adaptation, and the manga/movies never pulled a P4tGA for FeMC either! If they were upset with how they first made The Answer they could always rewrite it at this point and keep the key elements which spoiler: Wild Card Aigis, Metis appears, Erebus fight, Liz leaves, and everyone grieving and then finding out the reason behind the Seal. Like I'm pissy as a FeMC fan first and foremost, but I'm very upset as a Metis fan about the lack of Metising I get to see TT0TT)

I also don't like the look, I hate the lighting and the new art style (I got into Persona cause of Soejima's art style tbh, so I'm vibbing more with ReFan and P5X) and (esp) models (I could overlook the art style if I didn't hate how the models look so much). They look plastic, the heads are overly round and it throws me off (like how Anne's head portrait go more circle in P5R compared to P5 vanilla/P5S), and their....facial features....it's probs cause I'm used to Soejima....but something abt them feels off like they're smooshed. I dunno. The environments outside Tartarus looks like shit with the shitty lighting. "Oh it's just the lighting" well it keeps taking me out of it along with everyone's plastic looking helmet hair.

I'm not the biggest fan of some of the UI. (did I ever finish that post? I don't think I did sigh I gotta dig it up if I didn't TT0TT).

I'm sad about certain gameplay changes (lack of tired system esp, but lack of splitting up and such as well). It was a big identity to P3 that I loved and it being gone now is.....sad ;w;

I'm happy about other gameplay changes (and aspects I've had on my wishlist have come true, such as expanding on P3MC's friendships w/male chars in these new eps or even expanding on Strega). But what I'm happy with so far is mostly the social gameplay additions/changes, not so much some of the combat/exploration changes.

I don't really care about the voice changes for the english version. I know other people are but I'm eh. I'm sad we're missing Yumi and have a new singer. I like the new singer, tho I'm eh on some of the covers (as long as we get the OG tracks to swap to I'm gucci, but I'm good regardless). Only issue with the new singer is they......hired ANOTHER new person??? I feel a bit bad for Mayumi (FeMC singer) and Shuhei (PTS, anime sequel to P3, and P3P op singer) who were already tied to P3 and were passed up on....ngl I would've loved more Shuhei. TT0TT Really drive the male vs female. Just....why did they pass up on them? Esp Shuhei? TT0TT

But I'd be able to overlook all these little things I hate about it......if they would JUST GIVE ME A COMPLETE VERSION OF P3. If they just gave me FeMC and Metis, I'd accept all the other stuff.

That being said, again I don't want to be gouged by DLC a fucking again. Which I fear is what WILL happen to FeMC/Answer...... but gd I'll choose the devil I like more and I'll take. I'll hate it but I'll freaking take it. But considering Atlus LOVES showing off day one DLC, and not a peep of FeMC/Answer anywhere....I'm feeling like we aren't going to get that even. orz.

And I know there's a tired counter "But that's extra work!" well consider this:

There's already a complete script (story wise, and planning wise)! P3R is working off an existing script, sure they've added stuff and tweaked other stuff, but it's not like they had to start from scratch. Same goes with FeMC/Answer, they have a baseline. They have assets they can work off of. (translators and new Eng VAs besides that)

Atlus already copied and pasted A LOT of the male events into the FeMC. Like the main story is nearly identical (maybe 20% has differences?) 14/22 SLs share the same people, with only 1 really being completely rewritten and the rest being nearly exactly the same outside a handful of dialogue. Music wise there's only 6 song differences and 1 additional new song. (tldr; they could totes be lazy and just copy and paste with slight differences I'll take it, small changes can still go a long way and it's something rather than nothing).

(related to point 2 but looping Answer in now) The dungeon and story beats are the same between male/female. So gameplay structure is the same. Answer's dungeon and areas is basically a copy and past assets (with some recolor) as well.

Atlus is a big boy studio, they aren't in financial straits like in the P4 era, they have big daddy Sega to help them. They can handle it. And it's been in development for a while, I'd rather they delay it and give me an actual full version like people voted for. (And yes, the votes included P3/FES/P when asked, not just P3 vanilla or male).

[eaglefairy]

I think, at some point earlier in this liveblog, I said that I've never played a game that felt so dedicated to making me dislike it while I'm trying to enjoy it, and however many hours later I am into x*noblade 2, this is still 100% true.

I think the worst part for me is that it's not just the gameplay or just the story/worldbuilding/etc I have problems with. It's both. The map and the menus are both far worse and less navigable than the first game (I'm about to redo my equipment soon and I am dreading that), and everything is so horribly explained that I genuinely gave up during chapter 3 on my first playthrough. (To be fair, this game at launch had a lot more issues than it does now, and a lot of things got fixed with the dlc and patches. Speaking of which...)

I sincerely dislike nearly every single aspect of the blade system. It was DEFINITELY one of the main things that made me drop this game back in 2017. I was failing constantly in battle because I didn't know what I was doing, so naturally I wanted to get more blades. But it was Gormott in chapter 2: the only option available to me was the gacha. But again: 2017, so I didn't have access to all the crystals in the DLC, so I could barely summon any blades! Not to mention how the game completely betrays you, the player, by giving you Tora as the third party member when he can only equip the Poppis. One thing that is crystal clear is that the core gameplay loop of this game is built around chain attacks (which aren't unlocked until chapter 3, by the way). This game's combat is at its best when every Driver is equipped with 3 blades, and that is literally impossible for Tora until over halfway into the game! Not to mention Tiger Tiger, which is a minigame from hell (and didn't have easy mode at launch, just saying).

Oh, but that's only the gameplay aspect! There's still blade designs and lore to talk about! Blade designs...okay. listen. I don't like how a lot of the blades look, I will say that upfront, and it is because of the designs of the female blades being so sexualized. However, that isn't actually my only problem with Blade designs. Honestly, I'm more disappointed that there aren't more cool animal blades. Like, we got Dromarch! And that's about it. There are some other monstery rare blades like Wulfric and Boreas, but the vast majority are just Hot Anime Tiddie Women and frankly I feel like that's a failure of imagination. And blade lore. I know I've said this a lot before, I'm waiting to say my full piece on this until I have full context, but the pieces I have are not looking good. (Thinking about how the first thing the party asks Vess when they meet her is "Where's your Driver?" still eats at me tbh.) Bonus points for synergizing in the worst possible way with the gacha mechanic: one of the thematic cores of this game is that blades are people and not just weapons of mass destruction, which is why I've summoned and discarded at least 100 of them in the past few days trying to get the specific one I want to optimize my build. As for the combat, I will give it this: I have warmed up to it significantly over time. Now that I know how pouch items work, what the intended flow of combat is, and have enough blades on my characters that I can always switch to have new arts refreshed, I'm enjoying it a lot more. That doesn't mean it doesn't have problems, though! I feel like Torna really encapsulates what this game's combat should've been; I had much more fun playing through that than I did the base game, for sure. Even though the way they did chain attacks in this game is fun and interesting, it just takes way too long. For context, chain attacks are extended by breaking element orbs that you've placed on the enemy in preparation. Element orbs are placed on the enemy by completing combos, which require 3 special attacks done in a specific order of elements to complete. There are 8 elements in the game, which means if you want to use chain attacks to their fullest extent, you have to do 24 special attacks. In order. While relying on the AI to pull up the blades you need on the party members you aren't controlling. This means that a lot of unique monsters and bosses have these oceans of HP to slog through because they need that much HP to just survive to the point where you can do a chain attack. Regular enemies thankfully don't suffer from the same HP problem, but they have a different problem (that crops up in 3 as well). Chain attacks just...aren't useful to fight them, the most common enemies in the game. Chain attacks may have been unreliable in 1, but when the enemy being targeted died the chain attack would swap to focus on a different enemy. This gave them utility against both bosses and packs of regular enemies. They don't do that in either of the following games, meaning that for a lot of battles that are challenging in a different way from singular tough enemies, one of your strongest strategies is almost useless.

Edit: forgot about this while I was writing but came back to say: my brain is not big enough to account for both driver combos AND blade combos. It just isn't, that or I just don't have the willpower to sort through everything to make sure I have at least one blade of every element AND at least one of break, topple, launch, and smash on all my characters. It's not happening. Will my gameplay experience suffer for it? I don't know! Just add it to the list of mechanics in this series I don't fully understand and we'll be good.

As for everything else...I don't know, man. The pacing is slow and bored me to tears in the beginning, the main villains are either very interesting or very annoying, I want to punt Tora into the sun at all times (and not in the vaguely affectionate way I feel about Issun in Okami), and the game is addicted to splitting the party all the time when frankly it should know that its at its best when there are 3 members with 3 blades who can do chain attacks. Honestly, I think my feelings on the game can be summed up by the words of many other people. People who, when asked if x*noblade 2 is worth it, tell the asker "it has a slow beginning but it gets good starting in chapter 5." Which is true, but...the game only has 10 chapters. That's not just a slow beginning, that's literally the whole first half of the game that you're writing off!

[kazewhara]

i really enjoy corpse party, it made me anxious playing it and i fucking hated how the layout would change every chapter but it's a classic and it has a little special place in my heart nonetheless. however, the anatomy in it is awful. like, gore-wise. i would go on a rant about how the developers should've looked into the internal anatomy of a human but i think i'd get sort of gorey quickly and i don't want anybody to be triggered.

i also loved the concept of cat in the box! the feelings that it gave were so amazing when i played it. like how a game builds up hope and foundation only for at the very end to crush it and leave you with nothing but shock if you make the wrong decision?  amazing. i live for that. i haven't finished playing OFF but i love it already.

oh!! and ann! i loved the nostalgia it gave me, it reminded me of ib a whole lot but made me cry so much harder. it reminded me of my parents and when she covered her ears to block out the yelling that was when the dams broke. but i FUCKING LOVE SECURITY WITH MY WHOLE HEART  OH MY GOD. security and garry:..,:():;@?:7,):@;!!/'vnb?!?!?? I LOVE THEM. i love their personalities and how logical they are. but also how they protected ann and ib!?!?!?  head in hands. i miss them.

i think it'd be good to end this off with omori. i really love the characters, specifically kel. i love the little details to his character, and how it's (very heavily) implied that he bottles up his emotions. example, whenever hero does his little special moves when kel is depressed or enraged, instead of being sad or mad he goes straight to neutral. also, when aubrey pushed basil into the lake and kel got into an argument with her, hero pushed it off as "oh kel and aubrey are arguing again, just like the old days!" and kel laughed it off? that pissed me off. hero lover 'till the day i die but what the fuck man.

-💌

oh dude, i forgot about cat in the box and ann! ann is so so so fucking good 🥺💗 and tbh, i've always had a thing for garry my entire life, but that's due in part to the music that plays whenever he's around... ib's classical guitar ost makes me SWOON, and i actually know how to play both songs on the piano bc i. i am attached. i love ib so much, i ADORE IT

SPEAKING OF CORPSE PARTY, I HAVE IT ON THE SWITCH except i am much too scared to play it because i was ... what ten years old??? twelve??? when i watched gameplays of it, so i'm conditioned to be HORRIFIED of that game. the anime was dogshit and i mean gore-wise, as someone who put gore into the story that i turned in for the semester, unless the focus of the game is body horror and gore, people aren't really gonna pay much attention to certain inaccuracies... learned that firsthand ���🏽

omori... BROKE me, like that plot put the fear of GOD in me. and emotionally i have not been the same. i wanna play it myself, but i dunno.. i'm a sad bitch

[bironism]

thanks @diable-boiteux for tagging me! i’m sure you must be tired of hearing this but you’re godawfully beautiful & i’m wishing you the best of luck w your academic endeavours! 💖

1 - How has your day been?

it was alright! i did some translation work and took part in two class discussions, though i do suspect some degree of masochism in one of them: there's an especially verbose anime-icon devil's advocate in our midst -- and at this point in the semester, i should've known better than to pay attention to any of her words.

now the day’s pretty much done and i’m sipping on pink g&t’s as i make my way through a novel at a very leisurely pace :) 

2 - What is the last thing that made you smile?

a friend from old uni! he’s a kitty cat trapped in a human body and it shows :)) 

3 - What’s keeping you entertained these days?

the new episode of rick and morty (though i do feel that the mid-season break fucked with the show’s momentum, that and the latest couple episodes being.. way less funny and not particularly clever) and kehlani’s latest album, tbh. also killing eve

4 - If you are in some kind of quarantine/self-isolation, what do you hope to achieve in this time?

we’re supposed to achieve stuff? oh boy. 

i’ll be glad to put out essays i’m okay with (achieving neutrality is a big thing when your writing digusts you okay) and extend my portfolio, specifically with genres i actually enjoy as that’s what i’d like to con my way into :) 

other than that, my avocadoes didn’t sprout and the weather is awful. that somewhat curbed my dreams of lounging in a sunny garden in lieu of a makeshift desk. tomorrow and if not then surely tomorrow, no?

5 - Post a selfie, if you feel comfortable with that.

from today, very natural-state:

i’m tagging: @luxe-pauvre, @lennuieternel, @notmanthelessbutnaturemore, @moosearesocool, @goosefeathered, @icarusafloat & @lo-ianthe ✨

[free--therapy]

hi it's the anon who asked about the nsfw content. i had been thinking about your reply and it really helped me a lot!

im glad to know that you know about anime/manga because it definitely made it easier for me to explain the problem....i was really worried about it because as you said, while the content may not be real, the ideas definitely are.

and as you may be aware anime/manga and specifically hentai has A LOT of inappropriate themes including the shotacon/lolicon/brocon ones which without thinking, i did sometimes ended up consuming over time. and i definitely think that getting exposure to it at a young age (around 15-16), made me desensitized to certain stuff that should've repulsed me a lot more than it did which is also how i ended up watching that nsfw content too. i definitely understand now why it's important to stay away from adult content at least until you're 18.

i was really starting to worry if there was something wrong with me or if i was crazy for watching/reading any of that content. though i never gave it any serious thought until now, but if i think about it now, it makes me feel uncomfortable but what bothers me more is that im desensitized enough that when i see someone on twitter, etc. post about stuff like that, it doesn't make me flinch. similarly, there are still some anime/manga that contain inappropriate themes but i still enjoy them for the plot or artstyle or even without any reason tbh. that makes me feel wrong in a way but im not sure how to approach these thoughts since a part of my mind is like "chill its fictional so it doesn't matter" but other part's like "but there are people who hate it despite being fictional but you don't hate it so something's clearly wrong with you."

also, recently i saw a post on your blog about a person who "craves for a clean moral compass" and i don't think i've ever related to a post more. it's the same for me which is probably why this situation bothers me so much. i find myself always wishing for a clean moral compass too, with no bad deeds done by me whatsoever. however, i do have my share of bad, weird, horrible, crazy, cruel things i've done over the years, especially as a teen because while i can forgive myself for doing things as a kid but as a teen, i should've known better and been more mature but i wasn't. i find myself wishing that i didn't do any bad to begin with but i know that wishing for a completely clean, good past is unrealistic.

it's like every "bad" deed makes me trust myself less and less, it feels like i can't trust my judgement because i can't even live up to my own moral compass. if i feel righteous about something and yet end up doing something opposite of it, whether intentionally or unintentionally, either way it makes me doubt myself quite a lot sometimes. there's this weird ideology that "no one can be as weird/bad as me" even though i know im just assuming and generalizing way too much by thinking like that.

even simple things like if i text someone or ask for help many times to the same person, i feel like im taking advantage of them even if i don't mean to. because what if they only help because they can't refuse? then aren't i just taking up their time?

so i've got a lot of actions i regret doing especially when it involved others, then there are some actions i don't know if i should regret or not. this indecisiveness of mine makes me wonder if im just a heartless, crazy person who can't even differentiate right from wrong. i mean what kind of person doesn't even understand if what they did was right or wrong?

some of my friends/relatives say im a really kind or nice person because i always help them or that im really empathetic but a part of me wonders if they would think the same if they also knew about my wrongdoings. i always downplay my good deeds and only focus on the morally bad ones. i really wish i had a clean moral slate because my wrong actions have me thinking "what can i do about it now?" when the truth is i can't do anything because so many of those things are from the past and i don't see any point in bringing them up now to the people involved just because i want to feel like a "good person" again.

honestly im just scared of being disliked by people and being thought of as a "weird/bad" person by others which is why i project those worries onto myself by worrying so much about my wrong actions and try to look for solutions instead of letting it be. i keep feeling like even if i make peace with the past and leave it just as it is, how would others react if i told it to them? i know everyone has secrets about their past they keep or things they don't talk about and im okay with others doing that then why can't i let myself be at peace with it too? as long as im okay with it and working towards being a better person everyday, that should be enough right? it sounds easy but definitely very hard to accept when it comes to myself.

i know i can't be perfect all the time and im still just twenty so i have a long way to go but the moments where i've not been my best self or not lived upto my moral standards make me feel like a hypocrite at times. are these kinds of worries even normal? sorry i ended up rambling a lot even though i just wanted to talk about me watching nsfw content or those inappropriate anime and if it makes me a crazy/weird person 😭 and thank you for being here and for answering without judgement everytime, i wouldn't have been able to share this with anyone if you weren't here, im eternally grateful 💗😭

Hello Again Anon!

I'm always happy to hear that the advice I can offer you guys helps 💖

I was into anime when I was in high school, so like you, I was exposed to those things too and didn't really think much of them until I no longer had any interest in them and eventually grew out of it. I never became obsessed with it like some other people were, but I also didn't really beat myself up for having that curiosity to explore those things because eventually I realized it wasn't for me.

"i find myself always wishing for a clean moral compass too, with no bad deeds done by me whatsoever. however, i do have my share of bad, weird, horrible, crazy, cruel things i've done over the years, especially as a teen because while i can forgive myself for doing things as a kid but as a teen, i should've known better and been more mature but i wasn't. i find myself wishing that i didn't do any bad to begin with but i know that wishing for a completely clean, good past is unrealistic."

I think we all do at some point! But like you said, it's completely unrealistic. We just have to train our minds to forgive ourselves for getting into those things, but how could you have known better until you actually did? That's a part of growing up and being human: making mistakes and cringing at ourselves for liking certain things we probably shouldn't have in the first place! I know you feel like you can't trust yourself because of these things, but allow yourself to make mistakes and learn from them…then you can begin trusting yourself more because you're learning from them as opposed to repeating the same patterns and going in circles. Self-trust takes a while to build up, but you can't let every mistake keep you from doing so. Eventually you'll catch on to what is and isn't for you and you'll gain that confidence to trust yourself as you go.

Trust me, the fact that you overthink all of your actions and how they affect other people or are perceived tells me you care and aren't a heartless person. Most heartless people do it without thinking about it and for the sake of gaining something.

People changing their behaviors towards you because of your wrongdoings says more about those people than it does about you. Everyone has a past filled with so many mistakes, so judging someone based on whatever ones they made just goes to show that these people don't know how to forgive themselves either. Everyone is worthy of forgiveness since it's one of the foundations of unconditional love. And that goes for yourself too. We are always so much harsher on ourselves than others, but we deserve the same love we try to give other people. I've come to realize that people are a lot more understanding than we seem to think BECAUSE we are so harsh to ourselves! I used to wonder why I was always meaner to myself and had a different set of standards on myself than others and I cam to realize that it stemmed back from people-pleasing and putting others before myself. We're taught that selfishness is wrong and makes you a bad person, but when it comes to self-love and healing, you have to teach yourself to be selfish because it's absolutely necessary in order to get better. It's definitely one of the biggest hurdles people have to learn to overcome in order to start loving themselves, but once you get over that hump, you start to realize why it's necessary and even how to be selfish in a way that isn't harmful to other people.

Yes, it's absolutely normal to feel like you haven't lived up to your own standards and feel like a hypocrite. You'll end up betraying yourself a lot of the times because you have a hard time being selfish (in a good way) and forgiving towards yourself.

[takealookatmycrabclaw]

The first part is not something that would offend me personally, like if someone is online and im talking to them, i don't expect them to sit around and wait for a response, especially when it's something you're posting. So it makes sense that they scrolled on tumblr a bit and found something funny. That was 100% nitpicking.

My point was that they answered to the best of their ability. And what they said was "I'm not educated enough to speak on this." (basic reading between the lines challenge)

What they said was "I don't know specifically what was wrong with the pixel animations, so I'm not going to speak on it, so I will say that there's not going to be any of that specific thing for the people who are sensitive to that." Since they didn't know what specifically was troubling with the pixel animations and didn't make an assumption or something, they just said that there won't be anytime soon so the people who are, won't be scared to watch it. It's a pretty normal response tbh. And that whole "imagone if it was a common trigger thing" only made it sound more normal tbh. And comparing a knife trigger to flashing lights is insane and if anything more ableist than what Joan did. One is life threatening and the other is not. Bffr.

Which is basically the reason why there was no proper apology or explanation bc (This can't be reiterated enough) THEY WERE NOT QUALIFIED TO SPEAK ON IT. THEY WERENT GONNA SPEAK ON SOMETHING THAT THEY DIDNT KNOW ABOUT!!!!

And the whole thing with "this is what joan SHOULD HAVE SAID" is literally the same thing they said. The only thing you added was "ill do research" and "well properly tag it". Like yeah adding those 2 things would've been beneficial but speculating on whether or not Joan is ableist bc they didnt add 2 sentences is so chronically online.

As for Joan being apart of the channel as much as Thomas was, is somewhat true but I'm gonna disagree with you on this because they were not running the channel, Thomas was. Idk i dont really care about this part. The most they could've done was talk to Thomas, which is why this should've been brought up with Thomas. But I understand why going to Joan is better bc Thomas ignores any critisim he gets anyways and it would definitely not be addressed.

Wait whatd joan do

i don't have direct proof of it anymore (since they deleted their blog and i didn't save screenshots, but I can ask my friends if they still have them), but when people brought up the very real and important issue about there being flashing and other photo sensitive things in SvS Part 2 and no warning (which is, yknow, a health problem, bc epilepsy and other photosensitive things exist, like migraines), they posted something very dismissive in reply and Immediately reblogged something about "let patton say fuck" to distract everyone. and it was like. instant.

i wish i had the screenshot now to look at it again but god it made me and others angry

[illicien]

Okay well, since I should've done this from the start for my own reference and someone (@winterbonesthings) rightly scolded me for not linking that WBB fic, I'm gonna compile a lil list of some of the fun general info that I found in my rabbit hole search. And then link that WBB a/b/o at the end because it's just fun and interesting to me? But also I guess some people are working on August Heat so!

Before I get into all of the fun notes, jar-of-omegaverse actually had an ask about first-time writing of a/b/o that I super jive with that has some great advice.

Apparently we're putting this under a cut cuz it's a bit long, but I might do a follow-up post with thoughts and things I've seen that I love that I haven't found specific informative posts about, just read in some fics or otherwise zoned out thinking about at times. Please note that I don't necessarily have the same headcanons as every post here or anything of that nature, I just think these are some good places to start brainstorming!

Let's start with some stuff about Nests and Dens and comfort spaces:

Nesting Materials (I was talking about this in the last post) Omega Nest Types! Denning vs Nesting Beta Hoards? (This was just a fun, neat idea!) Or maybe everyone nests in different ways? Omega Influencers showing off nests (it just fills me with weird joy.) Some more Nesting Types Depression and Nests (what a vibe) Alpha Nesting/Dens Nest Aesthetics (I feel a distressing lack of casual nests / pack nests that are set up on couches etc. here, as well as a lack of nests full of hyperfixation soft things ; but this can still be useful for some people, I think!)

Of course, we can't ignore Scenting (at least I can't, I love this aspect of a/b/o a lot tbh)

Purrmoon's "Scents and Scenting" Scent Glands (with images!) Scents! (for brainstorming purposes!)

How about Marks of Claim and Bonding?

Marking, Bonding, and Mating Bonds Effects and Types

Some Pack Dynamics anyone?

Pack Dynamics Based on the Animal Kingdom Worldbuilding: Social Structures (Packs) Worldbuilding: Social Structures (Prides)

How about some Omegaverse Sex and Sex Toys?

List of some sex toy ideas! Submissive Alphas Porn in Omegaverse Settings

I tend to not personally lean on mpreg-related stuff cuz it's not my bag (or really any preg stuff; when you have a breeding kink but also do not want anything to do with offspring) but it would be remiss of me not to link some interesting stuff about it because I recall it being such a staple of Omegaverse. So have some stuff about Pregnancy and Pups:

Purrmoon's "Pups" Purrmoon's "Cycles and Pregnancy"

And just some Misc Ideas Of Interest

Omegaverse Dating Apps Genderqueer Omegaverse Terms Some Notes About Female Alphas Courting and Proxies (I am including this because that sitcom idea is A++) Command/Scent-Shifting/Suggestion Inhuman Characteristics in A/B/O

And this is just straight up a link to kyoxyukiforever's Science of Omegaverse series because it's got a lot of useful information in the four posted parts

[WinterBaronBones series - read the tags, I am not the writer of it and I'm not able to decide whether or not you will like it! I just have a particular love of some of the themes and ideas in it.]

Also, gonna put some tags on here that should work well for searching for more info!

Was trying to do some omegaverse brainstorming to help conclude a scene by scouring the internet for ideas (which... Led me directly to Tumblr, no surprise there) and now I'm just sitting here like... There's so much interesting stuff out there?

I was looking for heat-aid thoughts and concepts, and somehow found a whole post about the benefits and drawbacks of different nesting materials, and stuff about how different fandoms seem to have different takes on how omegaverse works, and then about the differences in how a feral omega might act compared to a feral alpha (BUT WHAT WOULD A FERAL BETA LOOK LIKE, THAT'S WHAT I REALLY WANNA KNOW)...

I went down a rabbit hole that got so off-topic from what I was initially searching for where it started off with "oh this is delightfully relevant information!" and ended with me sitting here like... Idk! I've mentioned before that there are some tropes in a/b/o that make me really squicky personally, so I'm always hesitant to read stuff, but then I crash head-first into one I do like and I'm fucking ravenous.

Oh that omega's gonna top his alpha using his own slick as lube? Fucking KINK UNLOCKED, GO BABY GO!!

Oh this fic decided to tackle things with an eye on how discriminatory practices in medicine might negatively affect alphas and omegas in a primarily beta world? Pump me full of that!!

Oh this fic is gonna explain how pack bonding can be used to support ace alphas and omegas in a safe, wholesome way? Hell YES!! Get you that fam that's always got your back!!

Anyway, I'm deliriously tired and the cogs of my brain are full of cotton, but there's really good food for me just looking at concepts since a lot of them avoid some of the common things that have squicked me about a/b/o in the past. And yet most of it will have no bearing on what I'm writing so this was simply another distraction from writing, apparently, go me!