#they’re interesting and unique

[srirachaz]

how do voice actors feel about chris pratt? (and by extension other celebrity voice actors) like imagine spending years honing your craft and learning how to do crazy things with your voice only for major blockbuster roles to go to a guy that can’t be bothered to even pitch his voice differently or add any kind of inflection that’s different from how he usually speaks

[rypnami]

mc ask/tag game!

my turn to do an mc ask! answer as you please <3 30 questions wow!

1) if your mc was an animagus, what would their form be? if they are, what is their form?

2) if they could choose what animagus form they would take, would it be the same? or would they want to have a different animal form?

3) does your mc have a favourite colour? why is it their favourite?

4) in a modern au, would your mc use social media? what would their preferred platform be? why is if their preferred one?

5) did you consult wand lore when choosing their wand? if so, why did you pick what you did? if not, would you ever change wand details to match your mc?

6) what is your mc’s diet? are they vegan, vegetarian, do they eat whatever? why?

7) what is your mc’s backstory as to why they didn’t join hogwarts until 5th year? or did you retcon that part of the story when creating them?

8) what house is your mc in? why are they in that house?

9) were you inspired by characters from other media when making your mc? if so, which characters? and how did they influence your mc?

10) does your mc have any special abilities? (legilimens, parsletongue, metamorphagus, etc) how do they choose to use these powers? did you give them powers for fun, or does it relate to their backstory/plot?

11) what is your mc’s blood status? how does it affect their time at hogwarts? how does it affect their home life?

12) did your mc open the repository? why or why not?

13) if your mc opened the repository, how did absorbing all that power affect them, if it did at all?

14) what does your mc think of the keepers? do they trust them? why or why not?

15) how does your mc’s story continue after 5th year? how do they cope with everything that happened with ranrok, sebastian, etc?

16) did your mc learn the unforgivables? why or why not?

17) did your mc turn in sebastian? why or why not?

18) what is your mc’s family like? do they have siblings? do they still have parents?

19) does your mc have a love interest? who is it? why did your mc fall for that character, if they do have a love interest?

20) does your mc have a favourite spell? if so, what is it and why do they like it the most?

21) if you could change anything that the mc does in the game, what would it be? why would you change it? how would you change it? (ie; a line they say, an event of a quest, things of that nature)

22) does your mc have any pets? if so, why do they have the pets they have? and for fun, what are their pets’ names?

23) when designing your mc, why did you choose the appearance you did? has it changed at all since you first made them? would you change anything now?

24) where is your mc from? where is their family from?

25) what is your mc’s favourite season? why is it their favourite?

26) how about your mc’s favourite holiday? what makes it special to them?

27) if your mc wasn’t in their current house, where would they have been sorted? why do you think they’d be there?

28) does your mc have a favourite childhood toy? if so, what was it? do they still have it with them?

29) what kind of music would your mc like? is there a reason?

30) last but not least, just tell us something you love about your mc!

[wafflesex]

I’ll keep saying it: I hate the limitations there are to using Shock the Heart. I get why they’re there… but I still hate them. And here’s why.

If you break down Shock the Heart, it functions as any other sci-fi/fantasy “truth serum” does (i.e. Veritaserum, Lasso of Truth). It compels someone to tell the truth.

… Or rather, it compels someone to tell their truth.

Because the truth depends entirely on what a person knows.

Look at it this way: if you see Person A take a plate of cookies and then later see that plate empty, you’d probably say that Person A ate all the cookies. But suppose, unbeknownst to you, Person A actually shared those cookies with Person B.

If you tell someone that Person A ate all the cookies, you technically wouldn’t be lying, because the truth you have is just the truth you saw. To make it more complex, suppose you’re angry at Person A. Based on bias, you’d probably point a finger at them anyway, because your anger is your truth.

All this is to say: as with all other “truth serums,” the truth itself is Shock the Heart’s biggest limitation.

Only allowing Jade to use it on a person once and restricting its usage to weaker-willed, easy-to-trick mages seems like overkill.

Here you have a congregation of teenage boys, most of which have at least 10 ulterior motives and 20 traumatic experiences festering in their still-underdeveloped-brains, who never call each other “friends” and would sell each other out for One Corn Chip in a microsecond.

The process of wrangling the truth out of any of them is hard enough, but when you consider how twisted (no pun intended) each individual truth must be?

That’s a SUPER limitation already and would make for great conflict in the story.

….. also it would let us see Jade do this more often as a treat:

[fumifooms]

Hijoushoku to Gochisou / A Feast of Emergency Rations

Mayonaka no Waltz / Midnight Waltz

Nagabe

[turtleblogatlast]

i see your post about leo being relieved that hes trans because he learned his stripes would go away and i raise you: leo, who spends his entire childhood in fear because donnie told him that he will lose his stripes when he is younger, only for them all to realize hes trans when they dont

Oh…Leo having so much value in his looks and especially his stripes because they’re what make him stand out the most, and in turn it helps solidify himself a role in the team as the “Face Man.” Sure, he absolutely thinks himself good looking with or without the stripes, but his stripes are striking and he knows it, and they mean more to him than just looks anyway. Knowing all this time that his stripes were going to fade and yet still taking on his title and still being as confident as he is - imagine he’d already come to the conclusion that his worth on the team, in his family, was always on a timer.

Then that timer goes away. And he’s left with relief and tells himself that hey, he’d have been just as cool looking without the stripes anyway! But…he’s glad to keep them. Even if his role isn’t quite just “Face Man” anymore, his stripes are a part of him.

And it’s been really scary to think that someday he’d look in the mirror and see a part of himself missing.

[desaturate-worlds]

i was so excited for venom 3 and was so unimpressed 😭 when it ended i was just like “…oh” and i have so many thoughts but i need to watch it again before i fully form them

[thewingedwolf]

luther: the golden child

diego: the mastermind

allison: the peace keeper

klaus: the clown / mascot

five: the rebel / truth teller

ben: the lost child

viktor: the scapegoat

is this something i think this is something

[bombyxluna]

Look, I love unhinged doctor Evan who’s sadistic and clinical and quiet and weirdo and a scientist through and through

But I also love messy, lowlife Evan who loves to smoke with his friends and is a bit more talkative and maybe somewhat pissy, likes to pick fights sometimes, and is still a weirdo (in a different way), has some wild kinks and strange moral codes only he (and Barty probably) knows and is more lively and more carefree bc again, he’s messy

And I also like him being somewhere in between.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Loudest Silence

YA contemporary

a newly Deaf-Hard of hearing girl moves across the country and starts a new school, struggling with navigating her disability and love for singing and lost friendships - determined to not make any new friends for the year she’s in Florida

and a boy struggling with family expectations and anxiety, after being made the fútbal captain even though he secretly ways to be on broadway, who quickly befriends her

bi & aroace-coded MCs

[kierancaz]

Reading gokurakugai is great bc I love seeing the mc have two girls who are like his “driving force” instead of two guys and neither of them are romantic interest. So far this reminds me of jjk so I’m gonna compare it to that but I just love seeing the girls be important and not just as possible love interest !!

Like with jjk obvi Nobara is super important to Yuuji. But she (from what I’ve seen, I could be wrong) hasn’t gotten that one on one convo with Yuuji to inspire him in some big way. That’s a job for Megumi, who narratively, is more important than Nobara. Which isn’t a bad thing !!! And I’m not saying it is or anything, just that to Yuuji, Megumi has more narrative significance.

And it’s the same thing with their mentor figure. The only thing I really have to say about that is Gojo is a guy. That’s fine. He’s the mentor and he’s obviously super important and he’s a dude and that’s all well and good.

But with Alma his mentor figure is Tao and the person who’s giving him his harsh but motivational speech is Nei and I love that !!! Alma doesn’t really seem to have any guy friends that he’s close to so it feels right that the person who’s monologuing at him right now is Nei instead of Ryo who he literally just met. Nei knows him better. She knows Tao better. So this just makes sense that’s this big moment is happening with her rather then Ryo or Yoki or someone.

IDK I JUST LOVE THIS SERIES AND HAVE REALLY HIGH HOPES FOR IT AND UGHHHH

[itspileofgoodthings]

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[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Is there anyone you'd actually want to be president? /gen Can be anyone, doesn't have to be a politician or someone with big money.

Ethan is online? More like ethan is in office.

[manyblinkinglights]

everyone I know in VR is or turns out to be married, gay, or gay-married, but I did just do the most powerful flirt of offering to put a specially compatible chair on myself set up to detect one specific other person so their unique avatar can properly come sit on my back. Cuz my regular chair doesn’t work right for them. Real friendship heart shaped pair necklace hours.

[quibbs126]

I’m gonna be real, I feel like Cookie Run, especially Kingdom, sometimes has this thing where the game feels less like it’s about living cookies, and more like it’s about people that happen to be living in a dessert/cookie themed world

It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and it’s not to say the parts of the story that do that are bad, but it’s a thing I notice

[amourem]

watching hsr twt say the xianzhou goes around purging peaceful planets and murdering inhabitants for following yaoshi is insane to me actually. once again. are we playing the same game?

[elminsterbignaturals]

i gotta be honest: i think people are meaner to mystra, duke ravengard, and mizora than they deserve. and we all know why