#think its neat. so very neat. amazing rly

[takitori67]

Can you draw arjuna and junao with their outfits switched??🙏🏻

Sure!

[radioiaci]

Wanted to answer all the nice things I was given in one post, so find them under the read-more cuz it's long. <3

@radiiosugars ⧐ you are a wonderful writer and i enjoy seeing your portrayal! I smile when you're on my dash <3 the little details you include with his perspective really do paint a picture! (and i hope your day gets better! )

WEH THANK YOU SO MUCH SALT, you're a blessing and I wholeheartedly appreciate whenever you spam me on Discord with SILLIES even though I don't always have the capacity to respond right away fjkdjgjdg I LOVE YOUR PORTRAYAL AND YOUR ART TOO and thank you for the kindness 😭

@copaceticjillybean ⧐ You are…soooo good at stuff! Your Alastor portrayal, your art, it’s all just really really cool! I’m always so excited, when I see you post your animatics, or a new drawing, or a reply, because I know it’s gonna brighten up my day a bit! ; I know you’re having a hard time today, but I just wanted you to know that I think you’re really neat and good at what you do. ^w^ ; Oh, and I almost forgot- you’re also just FUN. Like, your ooc posts are just cute and funny, and I like seeing you pop on and tell us what you’re thinking. You’re easy to talk to, and that means a lot, especially for someone like me who can get nervous talking with people >u<;

AAAA THANK YOU, I really do try to be as approachable as possible given the type of person that I am, so I really don't want anyone to feel like they CAN'T talk to me. sometimes the RPC can feel really limited and exclusive and I like to change that in whatever way I can. you are always very kind and fun to write with as well AND I CAN'T WAIT to see what sort of sillies Alastor and Jillian can get up to

@helluvaflames ⧐ I love the way you write Alastor and I'm still loving writing Fizzarolli and him in these scenes. You write Alastor so well and its been so fun to get to know him through our threads!

YES THANK YOU YOU GET ME, I love writin' with your lil Fizzy too! I'm also excited for Alastor and Angel's "date" LOL I'm sure there will be RIDICULOUSNESS there, just knowing how they generally interact. Thank you for putting up with me and my silly deer boy!!

@tinyfieryghost ⧐ YOUR ART IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE. I love how you draw Alastor and writing with you is always a pleasure! I also love how you write Alastor! Silly guy who can and will murder and maim!!! Also you're great to talk to in general!

LISTEN YOU, YOUR ART IS ALSO PHENOMENAL and I didn't think I genuinely would get as invested into Alastor/Ghost's relationship but him in my brain was just like? ? ? ? "this one is mine? ? ?? actually???" so I MEAN IT JUST HAPPENED THAT WAY and I'm not mad about it. I'M EXCITED for Al's encounter with Reaper fr fr and I love writing with you!!!

@visage-of-hell ⧐ *violently kicks in the door* DID SOMEONE SAY POSITIVITY???? ; Bitch, you're one of the most TALENTED fuckers I know on this site. Amazing writing style? Check. Brilliant character portrayal? Check. AND knock-your-socks-off gorgeous artistic skills to boot???? Dude, you are a triple threat of sheer creative genius--don't you DARE be doubting that for even a second!

WUH HUH BUH LISTEN you are ALSO very talented and I VERY MUCH love writing with Al and Vis together because they're a real ENEMY TO LOVER ARC MAYBE? AND I KNOW IT'S SLOW MOVING BECAUSE ALASTOR IS STUPID but I LOVE IT ALSO??? Thank you my friend, I love to talk with you too and share funny sillies and fawn over them being so STUPID

@damnedrainbows ⧐ //you’re one of my favorite alastors and truthfully I admired from the sidelines for a while because I felt inadequate hehehehe I can!t wait to interact with our muses more and see where it go for him and lucifer ; also forgot to tack on, amazing artist ; like seriously I link my friends your art all the time on discord lol

WHAT???? ONE OF UR FAVS???? STOPPIT. That always means a ton to me, especially because I know how many TALENTED and wonderful writers there are playing Alastor out there so that RLY MAKES ME FEEL GOOD AND VALUED and YOUR writing is also fantastic! Al/Lucifer's first thread is so weirdly deep after starting off as like almost a meme and I'm LIVING for it LOL. AND I'M GLAD YOU LIKE MY ART LMAO maybe some day I'll draw something like actual serious for people to share jgdljgd but I enjoy drawing shitpost Al too much BUT THANK YOU this means a lot.

@lilitophidian ⧐ HEEEEY YOU, I LOVE YOUR LITTLE DEER, AND WE GOT SOME DOPE ASS SHIT GOING ON LIKE??? your writing is so fucking good I wanna do more threads with you at some point even though I have verbal diarrhea ; BUT YOU DESERVE THE BEST LIKE I TAKE TIME ON MY REPLIES TO YOU SO THEY ARE GOOD EATS??? Like, let me love on ya!!! ; Also your art ; I'd tattoo the pink dress wearing Alastor on my body fr

MY LIL DEER BOY YES I'M SO EXCITED for him to be.... tortured... mercilessly (that sounds bad LMAO) but LISTEN we are both wordy and I do NOT hate that one bit, I EAT IT UP YUMYUM gimmi all that good good exposition and artsy prose I LOVE that shit and you do it SO WELL. Also thank you for recommending frilly pink dress Alastor, I think he will never live that one down LMAO.

@ducktastic-dad ⧐ you are SO funny and sweet pascall, i love writing with you ( and your writing is amazing obviously i cannot live without it ) but even just our conversations ooc bring me lots of joy !! you have fantastic art and i am FLOORED by how creative you are ! thank you for making me funny shitposts and indulging my horrible brainrot 😭💜

I'M GRABBING YOU AND SHAKING YOU BY THE SHOULDERS listen the fact that you have put up with my dumbass over the last few weeks just constantly spamming you with radioapple shit means that you should get some type of AWARD HONESTLY. every IC interaction we have is so good and whenever you reply I'm like *VACCUUM NOISES* as i ABSORB IT. YOU're the one indulging MY horrible brainrot and u know what there's something beautiful about that. THANK YOU ily ily

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Thank you all for such kind words, it really did make me feel better about my poopy day. <3

[andromeddog]

the way your draw uniforms tickly my brain very nicely, they always look amazing! do you have a specific source for reference pictures or have you drawn them so often now you don't need them that much anymore? xoxox- struggling artist who can't find good refs

hehehehe anon i love talking about uniforms so this ask is a real treat… this may get long so it’s going under a cut

first of all thank u for noticing i do really try to make the uniforms as accurate as possible. i spend a long time trying to figure out what specific coat/gun/boot/helmet/whatever people are wearing and what its purpose is…. thats really just googling around and clicking on links until i find something. luckily for band of brothers/ww2 related stuff theres a lot of interest and you can often find ppl on forums from like 2003 discussing the minutiae of gear that will point you in the right direction. ww1 related stuff is a bit harder to come by but i bought a full illustrated book to help with that lol

as for straight up references- pinterest is one of my main resources!! there are lots of pics of the boys from bob if that’s what you are specifically looking for (some boards i like are here and here.) these can be hit or miss sometimes if you’re looking for ref of a very specific thing, because they don’t always capture the angle of that bag or clear shot of a belt that you need.

if that’s the case then i just… rewatch the show lol. i have it downloaded on my phone through the amazon prime app so if im drawing a scene or looking for very specific reference i will literally go frame by frame to get what i need. i cannot tell you how many times ive watched this series just looking for reference. so many. too many??? for this secret santa piece im doing i have watched the same 10 second scene so many times that i can see it when i close my eyes. the bad thing about that is you cannot take screenshots (fuck you amazon prime) and also, it’s rly easy to get sucked into the show and spend an hour just watching it bc it’s a damn good show. i think ive watched the breaking point like 20 times by now bc of this. this is insane idk if you want to do this but if you are looking for straight up accuracy then it’s not a bad option

also, and this is not specific to uniforms, if you draw something enough the pieces will start to stick in your head… this happened to me with 1917 and ww1 british kits lol. i drew them so much they just stuck. knowing what layers are under a jacket, where a belt sits and what’s attached to it, the specific shape of a helmet (fuck you stahlhelms fuck you m1s AND FUCK YOU BRODIE HELMETS) and shit like that just comes with drawing them a lot. and also watching how they fit and move on an actual person is why rewatching the show is good. researching stuff also helps but i know ppl don’t always want to spend hours doing that shit if you’re just looking for a basic reference. but i’m rly into uniforms so that is fun for me!!

i’m realizing this is a lot but…… i like uniforms! thats part of why i like military history shit. its fun to think about how all the gear interacts and moves with a person! how different each country’s uniforms are and how they carry everything they need on their backs and how they change over the years! i just think its neat!

[clembian]

hihiiii …i was wondering if there r any strange and wonderful creatures of any kind that u have taken a liking to :] [<-please tell me ALL the fun facts abt any animal u think is neat]

THERE R i loveee.beasts and creatures of some kind. my very favs rthe sort of big dogs or cats of the world.. wolves r my favorite guys everrr.. then cows. BUT HAVE U EVER SEEN A BINTURONG!!!!!ohhh they r so magical..

^^she has a very strong prehensile tail and ankles that rotate 180° to climb things<33 and people. they like 2 climb their keepers at zoos :3 everything else is under there cos it got a little long ->

also a big fan of very snouted animals.. boars r awesome.. pigs.. ohhh the way they like. turn into feral hogs so quick in the wild...IT HAPPENS IN LIKE A FEW MONTHS !!!!!its cooluntil they r invasive(and they r😓) but pigs r so amazing....

BATS bats r so cool and i dont rly want 2 be near them but i love them sm. i have a pretty healthy fear of rabies . i see bats fly around my neighborhood in summer !! they r cool even when they arent cute but i think most of them r :-)

honestly i have a pretty normal list of animals i love cos a lot of my favorites r farm animalz OH!!!!SPEAKING OFTHAT !!!!! sheep... ohhh my favorite girl sheep.. THERE R SO MANY DIFFERENT PNES!!!!

^^ classic....timeless. no notes

^^these r valais blacknose !!!!!ohh i love them sm. shout out 2 timmy from shaun the sheep

^^and these ones r maybe my fav.. border leicester sheep =) bnuny sheep.. also i loveee videos of herding dogs and sheep cos its so interesting like.. that dog wants 2 do one thing and its herd some sheep in a crowd. and u just brought him to a flock of sheep. he is ecstatic

not a herding dog but one of my favorite breeds !!airedale terriers Are working dogs tho !! especially 4 hunting !high prey drive and stuff :]

^^also big shout out 2 chickenz with pants.. they r like dinosaurs 2 me. love what they have goin on B) also brahma chickens have been around since likee. the 1800s !!!!

also not a specific beast but i watched island of the sea wolves recently and it was rly good !! its abt a bunch of the animals that live on vancouver island ! i will say they get into likee.. wolf pack power dynamics and its kinda silly cos that is rly not how that works😭but its interesting 2 watch and imagine what's actually going on when the wolves interact w each other :]]]

[lautakwah]

omg jing yuan !! as soon as i met him i knew he was gonna be a fav of mine, and his deal with the finches just sold it. i really love his cn va. he was also really fun to play as for that little stint he was part of your party, i got the awakened dan heng card Right before that final battle which felt perfect and now they have this guy and im like i NEED him his mechanic lags my entire laptop. the xianzhou luofu has been very fun to get to know so far, i do love what dan heng/dan feng and jing yuan have going on, and i guess blade is part of that? i love edgy characters but ironically he's felt like the most boring of the cast so far... but that means i still have two of the quintet yet to meet i think! i cannot guess who theyd be right now. the timelines theyre working with are so funny to me like i guess dan hengs supposed to be 700 years old but also still a teenager? being eternally 17 sounds like some horrific curse. which im still not entirely sure of what he did but that seems undeserved. speaking of which reincarnating (?) and then ending up befriending someone who looks more than passingly like your old life's old friend (the trailblazer and jing yuan's visual similarities are a coincidence im sure but its funny to me) is such a neat concept i hope they touch on. + SEELE AND BRONYA!! they were an amazing part of that storyline i want them on my team so bad. I just got the missions to go back and see whats up with them so i'll have to check it out... when i first continued the story to get to the xianzhou seele was visiting and i thought the game would make her disappear after the warp but she was still there... i was like we've taken this kid 500 million light years away from her home planet we've committed a crime here. ANYWAY this is a mile long i hope u have a good weekend nd get rest o7

yeaaahhh jing yuan's va is so good!! i love playing on cn tbh the other dubs dont hit the same idk... i dont have him tho (f) and both times his banner was on i didnt have enough jade to pull for him 😭 first time bc i spent everything on seele, second time bc of sparkle KHFDKJGFDG literally my roster is almost all the girls (not you topaz. and silver wolf was bc i lost 50/50 💀) and barely any guys (i have dhil and luocha and dr ratio bc he was free... all the others i skipped and im gonna skip aventurine as well LOL) can u tell im a lesbian :'))

and i thought dan heng was like in his early 20s??? but none of it rly gets explained so KFDJKDG we do know viyadhara when they reincarnate become children again and then age up before they go through the whole egg-reincarnating thing again. but like in his prev life he was several decades old and looked the same anyway, yet blade/yingxing at the time was like. an old man (the only "mortal" among them 😭). and then baiheng and jingliu were around the same age as jing yuan? wait actually jingliu is older since she's his master but yeah. it IS interesting to see how their dynamic has shifted tho but you'll see (if you havent gotten to that part yet in any case, i think if you finished the tingyun/emanator of destruction part you should've already known abt most of this due to companion quests!)

also YEAH KDFJHKJFDGD it's so funny that characters from different planets can visit the astral express even when they're not on/near their home planet like oh... i guess we kinda abducted you, lol. although, hey, look at it like this: you can show them entire fields of grass or something which they don't have on their home world...! (and obvi you can just take them back to their home world in a snap 😌)

also my weekend was great!! went to a film festival and talked to friends and had a good time overall fdkjghfkjdg idk if i already said this but saw zhu yilong on screen twice (!!) and also met the director of the movie he was in it was super fun <3 def needed that lol

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

thousand autumns donghua, episode 6~

shen qiao: bro why did u poison me? :) yu ai: lol what?? POISON?? whaaaat??? no waaayyy, i would NEVER!!! here drink something i prepared with my poisoner hands pls shen qiao: 🎶MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAYS CÚNLA!🎶 past!yu ai: yes…..YES! DRINK IT!! DRINK THE POISON BOOZE!! BAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA >:D past!shen qiao: bby bro ilu, actually ur just as good as i am, so u look after everything for me, ok?? if i die u take over my position and everything will be great, i trust u with my whole heart :) :) :) past!yu ai: ….....uh-oh ngl yu ai has a really cute face??? actually i might…..i might think he's a teeny tiny bit cuter than shen qiao?? I DON'T LIKE HIM MORE!! but idk i feel like….maybe they fussed with shen qiao's face a bit TOO much and got a weird effect? (i say this as someone who often fusses too much over my drawings' faces and ends up with a weird effect ;A; it's a curse 😔) NOOO SHEN QIAO DON'T GET SICKER!! poor bby sorry i criticised ur appearance so much ;A; awww he doesn't want to be bros anymore ;A; i find it interesting how he's willing to be forgiving of strangers, but not his former bro. not that the former bro really deserves it, bc he's being awful ;A; but its interesting to me, how different ppl approach betrayal!! I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT U SHEN QIAO. TELL ME UR SECRETS PLS. yan wushi is so relatable lol. he watches all this and goes 'what an idiot!' and it doesn't even matter who he's referring to, bc he's right lmao shen qiao poor bby ;A; he cough so much ;A; someone get my mans a glass of water ;A; HOLY SHIT YU AI JUST ATTACKED HIM WTF???!!!!! DID DID HE CALL HIM A-QIAO AS WELL?? WHAT A RUDE JERK!! THAT IS UR SHIXIONG, U BRAT!! >:V yu ai: 'i don't want u to leave!' *makes shen qiao spit blood* 'i don't want to hurt u!! come on bro, just stay here with meeeee uwu' ITS THE OLD MAN! HE'S HERE!! aww he help shen qiao up ;A; so cute ;A; uh sir u need to learn to take 'no' for an answe--OK NVM HE'S JUST WHISKING SHEN QIAO AWAY BY THE WAIST ONCE MORE THAT'S FINE. I GUESS yan wushi, king of evils??? LMAO more like king of dramatic hoes 'the evil gang' ….idk what i expected it to be called really DID HE JUST DID HE SLAP YU AI FOR CALLING SHEN QIAO 'A-QIAO'????? THATS AMAZING a bit hypocritical BUT STILL AMAZING AND HILARIOUS DO IT AGAIN!! DO IT AGAIN!! he's such a badass omg ;A; also he has such great accessories!! such good taste in fashion rly!! lol now it's yu ai's turn to spit blood!! serves u right for being a jerk smh lol i LOVE these random side characters who just look like normal ppl in comparison to these bishounen pretty boys. 10/10 artistic choice oh we've met a new friend! yuanchun! hello sir!! he's quite handsome, even if his spine is made of jam SHEN QIAO WILL U WHIST I CAN'T HEAR THEM OVER UR INNER MONOLOGUE yws: i'm gonna help u, then hurt u, then help u again, then ruin ur day and make u cry >:) shen qiao: …….. :( get me out of here pls :( yws: *evil laughs triumphantly* i just want everyone to know that every time yan wushi evil laughs, i laugh too🤣 'YOU SHAMELESS GUUUUYYYYY!!!!!!' amazing oh ok we're we're just gonna fight now. ok cool fellas, is it gay to touch fingertips with ur bro while wreathed in spiritual energy?? GHOST SWORDS!! i do love these pretty sequences with all the martial arts…..stuff lol. i wish i were clever enough to describe it but. just know that it's all very spiritual and neat ;A; aww shen qiao is so cool ;A; ilu my lad! ur a good boi!! WH SSIR SIR WHY ARE U GRABBING HIS FACE LIKE THAT WHOOOAAA UR GETTING REAL CLOSE TO HIM THERE SIR oh i see, the devil whispering in ur ear is actually yan wushi trying to make u be his wife, it all makes sense now!! yws: A-QIAO COME BE EVIL WITH ME. IT'LL BE FUN A-QIAO I PROMISE. WE CAN BE EVIL TOGETHER A-QIAO. I WILL BE THE EVIL HUSBAND AND U CAN BE MY EVIL WIFE A-QIAO. ARE U THE ONE FOR ME A-QIAO??? I THINK U ARE THE ONE A-QIAO. A-QIAO the old man moves fast, not like he's got unlimited time left i guess OH MY GOD HE'S LITERALLY CARRYING HIM AWAY LIKE A BRIDE in summation:

✨THESE BITCHES GAY✨

[superdeluxeaverage]

sonic 2 has soo much style n like idk cinematic flair that i get why ppl focus on that more than 1 ( as a kid on mega collection i literally rarely played sonic 1 n me n my sister ALWAYS played n like played THRU sonic 2 which is insane given are platforming skill level wasnt that high we'd always die p quick into the sky ship zone tho but its like idk sonic 2 felt v timeless visually graphically musically but as kids sonic 1 felt like genuinely dated and like an old uninteresting game) BUT LIKE rly playing thru both sonic 1 is so much better very neat perfect chill length that makes it a fun game to casually run thru like how super mario 1 is like 2 has more genuine issues especially w/ the bonus stages but 1 is very managable w/o pulling your hair out for the most part. Like as a kid i never rly even gave sonic 1 much thought (i think the whole marble zone killing speed momentum debate thing falls into play there but like after playing thru the gane u recognize it as a necessary zone that teaches u patience early on and its in the best possible place it could be) but now im like the opposite where sonic 1 is the one i love n praise constantly while sonic 2 i dont think of as much but thats also cause i take sonic 2 so much for granted that i already know how beautiful n amazing n cinematic it is while i only rly got turned on to sonic 1 when i was like 15 or 16. I think it does need to be stated n addressed that a big appeal n importance of the sonic games compared to mario/what came before is that sonic has such a genuine cinematic flair that mario never had this is even so apparent in mario 64 vs sonic adventure. I love both cause im bisexual but i hate when ppl knock sonic cause therea genuinely so much thought into the craft of it all in stage design being more open and the boss battles being able to be completed at wildly different speeds depending on how u go about it as opposed to mario where bosses are very straightforward n simple in how u go abt them then ofc the previously mentioned cinematic quality just the flair of it all and the fun that comes the genuine rush of it

[mlynar-nearl]

this is very long i am apologies

yes !!! i read ur essay (?) on mlynars grief too and i just think that youve got it down super neat (ive probably repeated this too many times) so like good job !!!

ah indeed i was the anon who asked abt his kit last time too (saw the art of him too btw its very pretty, very nice ur friend did an amazing job!) so do you think hed have a talent like aosta's in that he does extra (maybe % or maybe fixed) dmg to unblocked? or hes got like a skill thats like fartooth (global only target blocked but in his case its global only target unblocked?) i think either ways adding a different debuff to all of his skills would be fun ! do you think hed be rng based cc (like aak?) or like its specifically one debuff to each skill, those kinda stuff? honestly er this is a lot of questions you can selectively answer but i just think hes probably a neat wraith killer lol no more annoying unblocked assholes running around ehe but also on a separate note, do you think he has any special interactions with other operators (excl the ones from laterano) ? his hobbies etc (just go wild man, tell me wtv even his preferred breakfast or whether he hates grass or smth) also yes ty for the advice abt mandragora !! i only figured it out like... once i accidentally made her drop blocks on herself and she died due to low hp and i was like wtf cos ??? free elimination ? and i learnt i was very wrong later on but pozy saved my ass aha so it all worked out anyways ! just training for when i actually bother clearing ch 9 ig oh and until u said it i didnt rly notice that sss like... hates all snipers. (ive tried using chalter it didnt go well... pozy as well) like all the late stage sss stages just completely dont let you use snipers for anything other than like buffs (unless youre rosa ig might have chance) shit i screwed up this is even longer than last time im so sorry if this is uncomfortable to read :sob: if this is too uh ew to converse with i can chacha slide into ur dms (but give me time i am... well theres a reason im anon) but yeah anyways have a nice day so sorry for this length and as always u can selectively answer or ignore lol ! hope ur well !

don't worry about the length, i love answering questions! I will try and get to everything. thank you for the compliments ab my post i try (oh my god do i try) :]

i think his talents would involve extra damage + prio unblocked enemies + his source of crowd control. his CC would be strictly bind, not RNG like aak, because his arts are specifically grappling hook/rope shit. i think i've been theoretically calling this talent and arts type "tethering." in lore he mainly uses it for traversal, but there's no reason it wouldn't work on people, too, so i think it fits best as a crowd control bind. one of his skills would then just do a "talent trigger increase" as part of their functionality meaning extra bind chance. of course, how useful he would actually be as a concept depends on the numbers, which is the part i'm bad at, but still, fun to think about :]

for other operators, he would definitely get on well enough with some of the cooks among the RI operators, for one. his favorite flavor of sweet thing is cinnamon, and cinnamon is easy to incorporate into things, and he's smart enough to be polite to the people feeding his interests. he would also, i think, have interesting but awkward interactions with the iberians, because while he is not himself iberian, he has traveled extensively there and shares memories of the profound silence/aftermath thereof with Andoain. ultimately, i think he's polite to most everyone he runs into if he were to go to RI, but he's already rather closed off as a person and you have to open him up with a crowbar, so i don't know if anyone could be considered a friend of his. i don't even think fiammetta is really a friend of his (he would call it that, but that's far from correct), more that they have similar enough feelings on a specific topic that leads them to cooperate. i think even increasing trust with him still leaves a lot under the surface.

other shealtiel facts...he prefers cats to dogs but understands the appeal of both, but his favorite animals are birds. being a sniper, he sees a lot of them, and spends a lot of time in places birds nest. i imagine lateran schools have a class on religion similar to catholic school (where i have unfortunately been), and that was his favorite subject because his mother was a canonist and spent most of her time analyzing the scriptures and teachings of lateran. he's surprisingly flexible because of this- he actually idealogically overlaps with andoain more than he'd like to admit, he just hates the man's methods. and life choices. when he's on the road he survives off of breakfast bars and terran poptarts. he prefers chilly weather to heat, but hates heavy snow. he has a halfway decent singing voice but never uses it outside of when he's free enough to attend a lateran service. his plan for immediately after achieving his goal (killing andoain with fia) is to take a vacation somewhere cold-but-not-too-cold and isolated and not answer his messages for six to seven months. he's still on the fence about where, though. he would do that right now if he didn't have duties to fulfill. his favorite mixed drink is a gingerbread gin and tonic (g&t + baking spice infused amaretto.) his favorite non-alcoholic drink is cranberry juice. he's become partial to a dying brand of iberian cookies because andoain likes them and he's started buying them up ahead of him out of a petty sort of spite.

SSS really does hate snipers which sucks b/c i do love me a sniperknights. chalter doesn't fall off quite as bad as some because she's useful for bosses but it's still Bad. i still bring snipers for the aspd buffs, but most of them just arent gonna hold up too much. sad :( gj with mandra! she's annoying but at least in her actual boss levels that aren't TFN you get the automatic pillar destroyers. good luck on chapter 9 when you get there :]

[inkdemonapologist]

what did you think of batdr?

So, grain of salt, at time of writing, I have not played or watched BatDR all the way through; I got it liveblogged to me by a friend (which honestly was an ideal experience) and then watched some cutscenes. INITIAL FEELINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

When BatDR’s release date was announced, I told friends that I thought it was going to be a pretty tight balancing act – if BatDR was REALLY GOOD, it could kill the enthusiasm for the fandom; yknow, a lot of times when you get what you actually want out of a story, the fervour fades. If BatDR was REALLY BAD, I could become too embarrassed about this franchise and not enjoy playing in it anymore. It has to be the perfect balance of messy and unresolved, but not TOO sloppy or thoughtless, and unfortunately for my ability to stop thinking about it, I think it kinda nailed it. BatDR has some heartfelt and startlingly compelling ideas that it executes sort of incoherently, which makes it FASCINATING.

The joke I keep making is that it’s not a sequel, it’s not a prequel, it’s a fanfiction. And I don’t mean that as a diss – it has a fanfic off-the-rails willingness to commit to a wild, self-indulgent take and just go with it, and I think that’s great. But it’s also sort of… disconnected from the original BatIM, in a way? It doesn’t follow BatIM’s themes at all when you think about it. Conflicts and questions in the original game (the downfall of the Studio, Who Was The True Creator Of Bendy, etc.) are strangely brushed aside in this game, rather than developed or resolved. 

Which is why you get weird things like, there’s a REAL ACTUAL NEAR-PERFECT TOON BENDY wandering around, but the original BatIM characters (Joey, Henry, Sammy; people you’d expect to have some kind of big feelings about a true toon Bendy) don’t ever get to interact with him because their feelings on toon Bendy aren’t the point here. BatDR explains what the loop in BatIM was, but that’s not something you discover yourself, because the loop is obsolete now – it’s just explained briefly in order to get to the real focus of this game, Joey Drew having a daughter. Even before you get to timeline questions/possible inconsistencies, the game feels less to me like an actual sequel that builds on the previous game, and more like a neat AU with its own headcanons bouncing off of and interpreting the previous game. 

Anyway, some random specific thoughts that come to mind:

They really coulda done something with the family theme if they’d just had Wilson go ahead and say who he was early on. Why did that have to be a surprise? I don’t think saving it really added anything.

Everything about Audrey being Joey’s daughter is AMAZING and I can’t stop thinking about this. Absolutely fascinating development. Have a lot of conflicting feelings on how this was handled but THATS FOR ANOTHER POST; I really do like this, though.

"Something he had always wanted, but could never have: A family." SO JOEY'S LIKE, CANONICALLY GAY IN THE GAMES TOO NOW, RIGHT??? THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR CUT????? LIKE ITS THE MOST OBVIOUS REASON JOEY COULDNT HAVE A FAMILY BEFORE??? HES A GAY SINGLE DAD!!!!

I RLY LIKE THE DESIGNS FOR HENRY AND JOEY. I was surprised to find that the way my brain parsed them was like, they’re the designs for the BatDR AU. Like BatDR is a new fan showing off their designs for their crew, and I’m drawing fanart for their cool AU.

The Ink Demon/ Bendy stuff uh, resolved very strangely. Am very into Bendy and the Ink Demon being the same entity but wish that had been explored a little more!

I actually like Sammy’s cameo(s). I’ve always gotten the feeling that the creators of BatIM were never entirely sure what we all saw in Sammy, so if they didn’t have anything they were particularly hyped to do with him, I think cameos were the right call. The Subject 418 moment is PERFECT. NO NOTES. His 5 seconds before getting shot at the end is like, it’s silly that he died immediately and we all joke about it, but also there’s an element of OH, IM SO GLAD HE GOT TO BE HERE FOR THIS for me, too.

GENT being all OOOOO LOOK AT ALL THEIR SUPER UNETHICAL SCIENCE, LOOK HOW SINISTER THEY ARE is kinda uninteresting to me. Something like, a single audiolog going “huh, that’s weird, when GENT left for their new building, all the ink left, too….” would be way more unsettling than explicit confirmation of GENT taking over and doing lethal human experimentation. And like, idk, I feel one of the things that made BatIM compelling was that it had all these spooky tropes, but motivated by a startlingly mundane desire – people believing in a cartoon so strongly that it accidentally veers into unhinged science and dark occult worship along the way. As soon as they’re just doing normal unethical science with ambiguous motives that seem totally disconnected from the studio, it becomes kinda generic.

Nothing about Wilson is coherent, to the extent that I honestly wonder if the original plan for Wilson was different and he had to be shuffled around for some reason.

What else happened in this game….. Im glad alice got a murder party but I don’t know why she’s here. That One Scene with her and Allison feels very fanservicey but not in a bad way lmao.

Probably other stuff but I think this post is long enough!!

[dateamonster]

first look at the monster high g3 animated series

alright rather than bombard u all with a series of posts im just gonna go in for a second watch and put a play by play of my impressions under the cut. reader beware: its going to be long and stupid as hell.

watch along with me

0:18 the new design for the school is kind of amazing. like part of me misses the more traditional spooky-gothic-castle but like i cant deny that the big lightning bolts look cool af and i do think it has more character than the g2 which imo just kind of looked like. a school.

0:33 new spectra is soo cute lol she wasnt anywhere near my fav in the old series but smth about the big flowy purple curls is rly charming me this time around

0:47 ghost ms frizzle??

1:10 i rly like a lot of these background monster designs. this zombie girl in particular is very cute and also i think i spied a werewolf boy in the back who i liked.

1:19 still obsessed with this cleo design. hope future dolls get better at capturing her charm and in general they stop being so weird abt her race and skin color. also for all that ive seen folks worry that this gens cutesier design will mean taking out the more horror-adjacent elements for the sake of better fitting the typical Girl Toy brand, im so happy to see mh3 doesnt shy away from a bit of tasteful gore <3

1:29 YUMMERS

2:01 BRITISH TORALEI LMAO?? idek why this is just killing me for some reason. its such a little thing but i feel like it gives her a totally different vibe. maybe its the anglophobe in me.

2:08 i wasnt sure where to put this part but im still sort of struggling with this concept of monsters hating witches, especially considering in this version witches arent like a separate monster-adjacent species (rip casta fierce) rather witchcraft just seems to be something anyone can learn to do? i dont entirely hate it i just dont get it i guess. i do think itd be fun if later there was like a witch high rival school. possible opening for the long awaited ever after high crossover event? anyone?

2:17 FUCK THE HATERS LAGOONA IS SOOOO CUTE i love that she immediately jumps to imagining a star-crossed monster x witch romance which is such a teen girl move imo. and that then she seems to like remember halfway in that we all hate witches for some reason and gets so immediately morbid with it i LOVE it go bestie go

2:45 i know its just a vampire joke but in before g1 purists get mad abt the idea of g3 draculaura actually biting ppl even though shes a vegan in g1. i mean i think theyll probably keep that trait since its a handy way to avoid blood in a kids show and its sorta quirky-endearing to boot but i think itd rule if they let draculaura bite some people this time around tbhhh.

3:00 choklat milk snake B)

3:20 ride or die ghoulies dont even question why their bud needs u to catch a living snack this is why frankie is a real one

3:55 im so obsessed with this frankie. i love that they found draculauras stash and were like neat :-) now to not mention this to anybody :-) iconic behavior

5:08 its just processing for me now that draculaura has this like huge portrait of her dad just in her room. i do think its cute that her character is more perfect-daddys-girl-but-with-a-secret (a trope i largely enjoy a Lot) this time around but thats still wild behavior.

5:11 ok i know i said this when the sneak peak came out but the idea that heath is an actual demon and son of the literal DEVIL this time around, confirming that hell is real in monster high lore, is making me insane. i genuinely love it. wish theyd given heath some cute lil horns or a tail.

5:15 THAT THING WITH THEIR EYES!!!! frankie is so damn cool.

5:37 dracula being this like celebrity in the monster world i think is an interesting take but i feel like im gonna get so annoyed if his character starts showing up a lot. idk i dont hate it its just a weird vibe.

6:05 it took a while to click since clawdeen doesnt talk a lot in this ep but it is kind of weird hearing her (and draculaura) without an accent. i kinda found g1 draculauras voice a little grating at times so i dont mind that and i do rly like how clawdeen sounds more like an actual kid but idk i miss the accent

6:28 theres not a whole lot to say on deuce since hes only here for side gags in this ep but just wanted to go on the record with: i think hes cute

6:42 weirdly super enamored with the food-creatures, especially the burger lol. reminds me of bugsnax. also this whole fight sequence rly displays how far mh animation has come from rigid flash animations of a handful of stock characters. its neat.

7:13 bat!draculaura is adorableeee

8:23 now i rly thought she was abt to say living foods go to hell in this nickolodeon kids cartoon ghjfdjhd

8:35 the headmistress is so cute too wtf it IS snack time snack time so tru bestie

8:56 fghjkjhgf sorry that resolution is ridiculous. im not complaining mind you i just. like. wow. also side note but i think the intercom being based on the monster high skull-with-bow logo is a cute throwback. didnt realize before but i feel like it hasnt been as central in the marketing in a while. its still def around but not as much i dont think.

9:08 lol ok i know its probably just another reference to dracula being bad with technology (cute trait for him tbh) but when i first saw this i couldnt help over-analyzing with my Lore Brain and wondering if it was also a reference to vampires not showing up on camera. but then i realized the kid he takes a pic with also has fangs and bat wings and shows up fine so thats probably not it, especially since drac canonically shows up fine in video.

9:50 the "bat out" reoccurring line is so incredibly cheesy it makes sense hes quoting it from some 70s b-movie he was in. but that doesnt make it any less cringey to me. also i know i said he kinda annoys me and he does but i do desperately wanna know how this bitch got into show business. drac backstory please. dracstory, if you will.

10:30 YOUR HONOR THEYRE JUST CUTIE BABIE BESTIES <333333

10:45 im reeeeally excited to see how this plot develops. i honestly assumed this series would be more like the web shorts except longer and more developed. as in, episodic and largely unrelated to one another, but im soo hype to see them doing something more serialized with overarching conflict and stakes. also we <3 classic troublemaking cant mind her own damn business toralei. like girl you have no reason for acting like this. she is simply a messy bitch.

final thoughts: really really liked it. love the visuals and the ways the new characterization plays with old beloved traits. love that this series has more of a familiar cartoon hijinks vibe rather than leaning too hard into it being like a Teen Girl Show just because the toys are first and foremost a fashion doll line. i dont know if im articulating that well i just mean i like that the girls are allowed to have like a full range of motion and action and emotion, and that they can be like gross and funny in addition to pretty. i think g1 had a good start in this regard but was definitely limited both by the animation and the expectation to follow that niche established by like barbie/bratz animated works (no hate to any of those either tho)

there are changes that ill need to get used to obviously, but i feel like the franchise is heading in a strong new direction. i saw some folks complaining that the bits about draculauras witchcraft and clawdeens half monster/half human felt like they were introduced as a means to employ annoying Fantasy Racism tropes, and thats a really valid criticism, but its also kind of something monster high has always done (with regards to monster/human conflict, certain monsters being discriminated against for certain traits, jackson jekylls entire character, etc).

i get the concern, but i feel like in a series so centered on embracing differences its kind of impossible to not include issues of discrimination, and it being a kids fantasy series, that does sometimes translate in a way that feels wonky or oversimplified at best. tho tbh monster highs execution regarding the subject always kind of felt to me like one of the better ones. idk. im just feeling good about this first look and excited to see how the show and the monster high franchise as a whole develops further as we move forward.

anyway stan g3 lagoona she deserves better than the g1 purists have been giving her.

[cicadaships]

oh my gods it just hit me that ur talking abt subnautica bc you said it. i didn't Realize omg omg omg i LOVE subnautica and i just needed to come into your inbox and say: AMAZING taste in game, PHENOMENAL f/o taste as well. al-an is very cool!! i haven't looked at below zero (or anything subnautica, really) in a little while so i don't remember much about him but i do remember him being rly interesting!!

pls use this ask as an excuse to talk more abt him and maybe your ship with him if you want!!

OHH SUBNAUTICA IS SO GOOD, I JUST FINISHED THEM TODAY. Al-An is just....... so pretty. and so tall, like god damn hes like 11 feet, large boy. his voice is so soothing to listen to, so calm and soft. And his colors changing based on emotion? turning blue and pink around Robin/The player, the flashes of red while hes giving his backstory and explaining how things went wrong, its so neat how expressive he is. his little shrimp tail is so cute, I wanna mess with it and be annoying dggfdg Earlier in game, I started talking to myself as I played and i called him the weird dog who lives in my brain. he went very quiet afterwards, like, i found several artifacts and he Would Not Speak To Me. when he finally spoke up he told me to go somewhere that had a leviathan and i think that was on purpose. payback for calling him a weird dog dfghgfd.

but like, how genuinely curious and open to learning about humans he is throughout the game? and how gentle he is about it? he doesnt belittle or anything, just asks and tells a little about himself in return. he is TRYING to understand and relate to humans. hes just so genuinly nice and kind throughout the events of the game. and hes shows so much fondness, accepting help and being so trusting. hes so sweet, its cute. hes cuuute aaaa

Im not sure about what my ship with him would be like just yet, but he seems very patient. my s/is tend to be very "annoying on purpose" so thats good. small and >:3 energetic / big and patient dynamic, probably.

[tomwaterbabies]

You deserve a proper Pinocchio question! Which scene wouldja say is the most Beautiful from an animation standpoint?

im SO DELIGHTED by this ask thank you so much!!!!!! peace and love

i rly thought about this and have multiple answers bc it's hard to choose LOL. and a disclaimer: i was a traditional animation student so my answers are probably biased around my experience with animation itself

1. pinocchio first comes to life

this one i think is more beautiful from a storytelling standpoint. it IS amazing animation just maybe not as incredible as the others. but here's the thing: animation at its core is about bringing characters to life in a very unique way- so seeing that be used for a character that is also LITERALLY coming to life within the story? the combination of both those things is just wonderful to me, there's something special about it! rly gets to me

2. i've got no strings (hard to find bigger gifs... apologies)

this one is probably my answer for most technically impressive. the scene is choreographed wonderfully for starters- with good composition as well! but then the actual execution of the animation is incredible to me. pinocchio's movements are gorgeous and really impressive- and then adding the fact that he has wooden limbs that HAVE to be symmetrical??? thats HARD dude. thats really hard. very impressed and its beautiful work (if u choose to watch any of these examples, look this song up on youtube! great scene)

3. monstro's chase + fucked up donkey moments

again kind of a bad gif sorry BUT. i really love how monstro is animated. its got like a painted look which is a really neat effect that i think adds to the intensity of the scene. legitimately frightening but cool to look at bc its super different to the rest of the animation style within the movie so i think it really stands out!

and then there is the donkey transformation scene. i love how visceral it is. the animation of course is great but the intensity is what really brings that scene together in a great way. they did an amazing job animating what some would say is kind of a harrowing scene LOL and trauma for the baby (important) just look at how well they convey his terror

ok sorry i answered with four Got Damn examples instead of one but lol u know how it is. anyways thanks so much

[vaulttecvevo]

Can you recommend some fallout new vegas mods that you think are essential pls? The kind that are lore-friendly and enrich the world because sometimes the mojave feels kind of empty. I've got covered the ones that improve the performance so no worries about those. Thanks dude

basic lore friendly cut content restoration:

Prerelease Restored

Lucky 38 Climate Restored

Uncut Wasteland

New Vegas Uncut - Outside Bets

New Vegas Uncut 2 - A Koch and Bohr Story

New Vegas Uncut 3 - A Van Graff Scorned

(new vegas uncut is a series of mods but the others dont add much imo so its good the mod author separated them)

to make the wasteland more alive (and this is the star of the show):

The Living Desert - Travelers Patrols Consequences Increased Population and more

its the only one i use, both to minimize conflicts and bc its just has everything w/o it being too much, it still feels like a wasteland but w trade caravans and patrols (all depending on choices u make)

new lore friendly stuff (visual only):

Classic Adobe Buildings in Mojave

Camp McCarran Animated Monorail

these just look cool and i love classic fallout nostalgia, its amazing how much more alive east vegas feels Just bc the monorail buzzes by above you every few min

misc purely visual upgrades to char models/armor:

(not essential but i just think theyre neat and i do always play w them on)

NCR Trooper Overhaul - Distributed

We Are Legion same as above for the legion, this is link to a yt vid, i found it years ago on r/modpiracy so id check there if u want it

classic fallout super mutants this is an obscure one youll have to get from this weird french site but i can confirm its fine and works

Qwinn's Refined FNV Redesigned 3 i saved this one for last bc while i do use it, installing it and getting it to run was agony bc its a mod to another mod to an overhaul to another overhaul,

im looking to replace it for my next playthrough w NVR3R - New Vegas Redesigned 3 Revised so maybe try that first,

they make npcs look better like beaten up ones will have bruises and corpses will have wounds, crucified npcs will looks like theyre in a bad way etc, i think it also adds raided caravans along powder gang territory

lighting:

personal pref, also not essential but much aesthetic very atmospheric

Realistic Wasteland Lighting w brighter nights optional file

Simple Interior Lighting Overhaul

A Little More Lamplight

Strip Lights Region Fix

Lucky 38 Lights Redone

& my fav quest mods just for fun:

Salt Lake Stories

The North Road Remastered

New Vegas Railroads (its not rly on par w the others i just love trains lmao)

[surpriserose]

Doppio or Akira 🥺

Im going to do both <3

DOPPIO!!!!

do I like them: yes hes my bestie 🥺 hes just a weird little guy <3

5 good qualities:

-> hes just so weird!!! Like even without the phone thing he just like is so strange idk but i love it <3

-> i love the fact that hes a coward most of the time like thats so uncommon for jojo characters like!!! He is genuinely afraid and kind of lame!!

-> and how that ties into him and diavolo as the villain like its really neat idk like hes just so unexpected and hes really just some guy and hes nice and its like you see that after diavolo has been sooooo awful

-> hes pink 🥺

-> hes hilarious im sorry i just araki excels at creating very strange character traits and especially for doppio LIKE!!! IDK this is so all over the place but i mostly know character vibes not solid traits hdhshshajz

3 bad qualities:

-> threatening to kill people who rip you off is pretty bad doppio

-> SO IS ACTUAL MURDER

-> shouldnt have been mildly nice at the best of times especially as a contrast to diavolo at his worst and maybe you wouldnt have been uwuified to death

favourite episode/etc: i have watched the risotto fight sooooo many times omg...

otp: none hes just a guy let him be just a guy

brotp: diavolo is unfortunately his only friend so </3 i think people will say squalo or tiziano but honestly i dont think people really like doppio im sorry dyvzhsjsjsj

ot3: none let him just vibe <3

notp: diadop like...why

best quote: im so sorry but calling risotto an edgy douche in the dub lives rent free in my mind

head canon: doppio got the tattoos not diavolo LIKE you think diavolo would get IDENTIFYING MARKS???? NO???? diavolo was probably yelling at doppio the whole time too <3

Akira omg the pink and purple besties in one ask <3

do I like them: YEAH!!!!!

5 good qualities:

-> being a musician is very fun and cool :)

-> ouughhh ourple

-> literally commits so many crimes just for fun <3

-> HES SO ARROGANT LIKE YES KING!!!!

-> hes gender for so many people and i think thats beautiful <3

3 bad qualities:

-> bad taste in music....red hot chili peppers come on man

-> UNDERUTILIZED FOR BEING SUCH AN AMAZING DESIGN

-> im sorry he sucks to play in eyes of heaven like its so bad

favourite episode/etc: hes only rly in the one like physically bdhsujsjzjz

otp: idk akirohan seems like it has fun potential <3

brotp: i will be his bestie <3<3<3

ot3: they dont need a third person come on he cant handle that

notp: akira and keicho like???? Guys?????

best quote: not technically him but the entire page dedicated to his guitar in the manga

head canon: stole his outfit right before his fight which is why he was hiding before hand :)

[yukisohmasmokesweed]

Who are your top 5 ships may it be canon or not?

5. tohru/rin - very sweet and pure for my tastes but !!! tohru and rin have an instant connection and i think their friendship is very special and unique, and i just think it would be neat if they kissed!! tohru thinks rin is soooooo pretty and rin won’t admit it but she has a kindness kink. very cute and good gf’s

4. yuki/kyo - we could’ve had it all....enemies to lovers with an absolutely insane amount of baggage? hatefucking to disguise the fact that they’re intrinsically drawn to each other? this would be akigure levels of complicated and its what i wanttttt, yes i’m a straight kyo apologist yes im putting yukikyo on this list!!! i contain multitudes!!!! 

3. kyo/tohru - romance of the ages, obvs. truly one of the best written romances in fiction. nearly flawless, perfectly built up, amazing slowburn, the foundation to this relationship is just so strong. they really are best friends and love and understand each other so deeply and their love for each other is integral to their character arcs. takaya rly went off writing this one everyone clap

2. akito/shigure - these two fucking deserve each other, they’re both horrible people and that’s what i love about them. its always bonkers to me that akigure exists in the same story as kyoru. their love for each other runs extremely deep but they also have a metric fuck ton of baggage and radioactive levels of toxicity. this kind of thing is not everyone’s cup of tea but i personally find relationships like this very compelling because i think they’re more interesting than a straightforward romance

1. yuki/kakeru - ugh it really is about being in love with your best friend and agonizing over it.....im a sucker for gay best friends to lovers and yuki and kakeru really do love and trust each other so much. it’s not nearly as epic as kyoru but i like that better, it’s understated and closer to life and relatable. yuki and kakeru get together challenge 

[pinksuitman]

I was tagged yet again by the lovely @dreamduran to do ten songs I have been obsessed with recently, anyways lets gooooooooo!!!

1) I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance - Black Kids - Ik, it’s cheesy 2000s indie pop at its finest but it’s so goddamn infectious and fun and makes me feel I’m on a roadtrip or at a party with my friends. 

2) Sorry - Beabadoobee - I’ve been so in love with Bea recently and her current musical evolution and this song is gorgeous. I love how the instrumental is surprisingly distorted and heavy against her voice and there’s also a neat string section too. 

3) Bridge To Hawaii - Tacocat - I’ve been getting myself back into a bit of Riot Grrrl again and this was something new I found while I was browsing. This is more on the poppy side of the Riot Grrrl spectrum but I love how its very infectious but I could also lose my shit in the pit to this. 

4) Hazelton Avenue - Manic Street Preachers - will I ever get sick of these mfs? The answer is no! I always find some new song of theirs to love off of every album I listen to and this one is my favourite off Postcards. It’s very nostalgic and feels like a warm blanket around you on an autumn evening. 

5) I Don’t Need Anyone - Kylie Minogue - Yes Kylie has quite a few bangers and I’ve been loving a lot of the songs where she’s experimented with the more rock side of things. This banger yet again has amazing strings and a very euphoric vibe. (Also this one has the manics as her backing band which is a very epic bonus and it makes me happy to think about the fact that nicky got to collab with her cause of how much he loves her.) 

6) The Facts Of Life - Black Box Recorder - A very underrated Trip Hop-ish tune that I found on the Alternative 90s playlist not so long ago. It’s unlike anything I’ve heard before in terms of its general vibe but it does make me quite happy. 

7) Son Of a Gun - The Vaselines - This is kinda at that intersection where jangle pop meets a more messy punk sensibility and it’s so fucking fun. Also the interchanging male/female vocals have so much chemistry. 

8) Be With You - Atomic Kitten - Although I don’t rly believe in guilty pleasures if I did believe they existed this would probably be one of them. (But honestly this is like... the perfect dance pop song tho you can’t listen to this and not be happy.) 

9) Troubled Valentine - The Aquadolls - yet another mopey slightly distorted sounding indie rock tune but still very much impeccable... you just cannot deny the goddamn hook. 

10) Sunday Drive - Ladyhawke - A rediscovered and unearthed banger from the student radio station rotation of my childhood. I’m in love with the juxtaposition of how minor chordy/melancholic it is but also very very danceable at the same time. 

Ok thank you very much for hearing me waffle!! I tag @guitarboyluvr @blurryband @destructive-aesthetic @pinkmoonmystic and anyone else who wants to try hhhhhhh...