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After watching through Side Order... I have a Few Thoughts.
[Spoilers ahead]
My Review of the Side Order DLC - Its little more than Gameplay.
Initial Opinion
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Overall; I like the gameplay mechanics initially, but the story absolutely feels lacking to me, imo. It feels like they were really banking on Side Order being Hard but... multiple of my friends finished it on their 2nd or 3rd run through the Spire.
That in itself isnt a problem! But... everyone felt sort of unsatisfied? There were no developments in the story, as we, Agent 8, were just assigned the task to Get to The Top of the Spire -> The Player Does That -> You beat a Boss -> Credits Roll (?)
On my watchthrough I literally said Please Say Sike 😭 because, dont take this poorly, but they were advertising Side Order as;
• Difficult (stated Multiple Times in basically every Trailer)
• Story Driven (You Uncover things as You Climb)
• Character and Lore Intensive (as shown by the trailers with all the concept art as well as promo art)
I dont feel like it was wrong to expect more based on how it was advertised.
But... if you complete the DLC in 1-2 runs, which is Very Much Possible, no buildup happens at all. The story was banking on the player struggling, and putting all the content behind repeat runs, which falls through and Doesnt really work/feel satisfying if the main goal is achieved in such a short time. I Feel like anyone who regularly plays Salmon Run will likely have a similar experience. And I feel kind of cheated? Because what we got was something that was Tell Not Show rather than the Show, Not Tell formula. And in my opinion, it really doesn't work as well at all. It puts all the major lore that the game has set up behind repetetive climbs (which never change btw, despite each climb being generated differently, its the same after a while) and you get about 1 Sentence of Exposition, with a Modlog from Marina if you are Lucky.
Side Order was (to me), after watching it all;
• Not Difficult, But Repetetive Gameplay (This easily runs people down, which would be fine if the tower had more than 1 setup or phase)
• Inital Story Setup with no complexities or stages. You climb the first Tower, Save Marina, Climb the Second Tower, Beat Order, and the credits Roll. In its most complex, you could fit what Side Order's Story is in 2-3 Sentences. Rather than Lore being revealed During the story, it feels Pushed to the Side as all of it is either in Text the player may never see (different climbs) or care to read (Marina's Mod Log)
• Use of Character Drops with no explaination / mention (The Agent 4 Boss, Anyone?) (This felt very Bait-y, with No Payoff)
Rating
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If I had to give Side Order a Rating
4/10. At Best.
I am a bit disappointed with this as I feel like I was promised more, Storywise, and honestly a bit gameplay wise. I think it fails where other DLC has succeeded Due to being Built in such a way where anything engaging is stuck behind barely changing gameplay. It is not built in a way where the experience cant fail to show you whats important to the characters and the worldbuilding. It relies too much on telling you whats happening rather than the world showing you. Its too Simple, and It Doesnt Work, personally, in a series that contains Octo Expansion.
Which is Sad to me!! It had so much wasted potential and I really hope this isn't the last we're going to see of the concept, we get to see ideas actually built into the story, and... maybe find Agent 4.
Conclusion
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Tldr; Side Order had a good concept, but failed in execution for being simple and gameplay dependent, which was ultimately disappointing due to it being advertised as something more for all involved.
It was an alright attempt. The experience will just be known to me as... well. Baby's First Rouge-like. Nothing worldbreaking.
(PS, this isnt meant to be mean spirited or overly critical, I just love the Splatoon Series so I give it Tough Love. This is just my personal view on the DLC)
Thank you for Reading! Feel free to share or add any thoughts!
#This is Just my opinion but Ive seen a couple people with similar experiences to me and wanted to make a post to see if anyone else#feels the same about the whole DLC#if anyone has any experiences to share feel free! id love to hear#sorry if this seems mean spirited or overly critical - i really do love the splatoon series with all my heart#its tough love#splatoon#review#Side Order#Side Order Spoilers#Splatoon 3#Nintendo
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btw for any fellow itchio visual novel fans these are the games ive been playing in my bored and horny afternoons while YOU all are not posting enough (-_-) varying quality and cheesiness but i like them. please send me yours i adore gamified sex and body stats and etc.
Ruin Me: highest rec for a longer story focused game. love the little horrory mysteries, and the conceit about being an academic who writes porny theory monographs on the side and is easily provoked into ranting about the legitimacy of studying sex is so real. does make you take the dom role in the main story which is a little awkward for me but its cute enough that i dont mind too much, side stories mostly have you being the sub. protagonist is body and gender customizable from the start.
2. The Fixer: forcefem city!!!! they updated it so u can be a forcefemmed boy or a forcefemmed girl, this rules but honestly doesnt play into the story much. i am not going to justify liking this one to u guys. sometimes things are just better when they lean into maledom and objectification. lowkey took my online porn girl name from the protagonist.
May I Take Your Order: please play this game. im cheating this isnt porn. its guro porn kind of i guess. its my favorite video game of all time and its only like 15 minutes please play it. these two have lived in my head for years and i love them very very much. the author does actually have a genderfuck porn game but its in development so only on the patreon but thats a later problem right now u need to play this one.
Succubus Stories: cute! girly! sweet music to dumb down to! kinda repetitive but who cares! gameplay is 80% sex scenes! no but rly i love games that make the sex itself the thing that u have to strategize and do skill checks about and unlock new moves its just like real life!! im going to be unstoppable once i level up Cock Lust a few more times!!!!
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the list that makes me and @dentist-brainsurgeon mortal enemies from now on i guess
extremely lengthy explanations under the cut:
i actually think the S+A tier speak for themselves?
S tier: the goats. im aware its full of third versions but they just happen to be extremely good and added some insane shit to already solid base games (ok diamond and pearl werent solid but the foundation was there). replayability is insane for these.
A tier: the Oh Fuck Yeah games. not in any particular order actually. hgss is absolutely the best remake of all, only held back by the few inherent flaws of the Johto region and by not emulating Crystal enough. as much as i like bw, reverting back to only one region of pokemon never sat right by me, but it's been a while since ive played it, and nowadays i make much more of an effort to try out all new mons. so i could change my mind on this.
i liked usum more than sun/moon, if only for the post game. replayability isnt as high because of the cutscenes every 3 steps, and rotom dex is annoying as shit. aside from that, insanely solid story & postgame imo. red/blue and gold/silver are brimming with weird places in their regions and are chock full of in game lore and legends, which i really like. the ruins of alph & pokemon tower are some of the best locations theyve ever made imo
B tier is the "good but couldve been better" tier. lets go is insane for shiny hunting, but it stops at that imo. the new rival is garbo. sun and moon are good, but the postgame + alola in general is just lacking enough in these games that they dont reach A tier for me. loveeed the island challenges tho. alola itself has just such a good vibe. you really feel like its about community rather than competition. legends arceus couldve been insanely good, but i have never felt as ripped out of a pokemon game as i did when i walked through that cave in the coronet region and started seeing stray pixels around my character. which wasnt a one time thing btw this happens to anyones game & every time as far as ive seen. its gonna sound dramatic but this combined with other graphics glitches made it so clear i was playing a game that it just took me out of the adventure entirely. this is where the graphics glitches really started, and they havent stopped since.
C tier: yellow is just kinda there? i dont care for starter pikachu. i want to, but it gets killed when breathed at, so. idk. the gimmick doesnt work that well for me. sword and shield introduced some insane mons that i love and i want to call it solid real bad, but the story was hot garbage even for pokemon standards, and while the wild area was a great idea, the execution was lacking & because what i assume is a time crunch, the towns were boring as shit as well. diamond & pearl are mediocre to bad, with a great story and mediocre to bad execution, and i shouldve put oras in the :( tier, but the postgame is worth it.
actually im gonna rant about oras. i was so hyped for it but, just, ugh. if youre gonna turn a 2d vague not-specified-what-a-character-is-doing-or-feeling player character to 3d, at least do it correctly. 2d sprites where someone can fill in the blanks not seen on screen but hinted at in text (ie expressions, actions like handing someone something) work infinitely better than 3d sprites who show it badly. also still suffers from the desaturation curse that the 3ds games suffer from. postgame was dope, though. shame the mega latis are ugly as shit.
:( tier: garbage, im so sorry. SV's only redeeming factor is the area zero story. there is nothing else in the game that held my attention. fuck the star team, fuck the big pokemon quests, fuck the towns where you cant talk to anyone or find anything interesting or walk into a house and where every shop looks the game. fuck stores not even having an interior anymore. fuck this larger but emptier and stripped down world full of graphical glitches. fuck the weak ass gyms, fuck geeta, and fuck terrastalizing most of all. i will die for Koraidon & the professor fight fucking ruled but that's all the game had to it for me. do any of yall remember the gym leaders besides like, iono and the snowboard man? no you dont, stop lying to me. gen I put more life into lavender town by making a npc reference some ghost hand on your shoulder than SV does for any town, and they only had black and white 32mb cartridges or whatever to work with. for fucking shame gamefreak. give your devs some time to make a halfway functioning game.
firered and leafgreen do nothing new. i will not discuss the sevii islands. what the fuck even was that. boring. same with brilliant diamond and shining pearl. theyre lower than diamond and pearl because why the fuck did they not decide to remake platinum. what the hell was their damage. seriously platinum was RIGHT there. i caught a full odds shiny ghastly in that game and i still dont care about it.
X&Y suffers from. everything.
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i need ta rant and i dont wanna go bother my friends. so why not add to my digital footprint lets go future employers if you find this enjoy
uh. cw for like. talk abt slurs/racism(?)/homophobia nd transphobia (kinda)
i keep loosing my friends cuz theyre all saying stupid shit. not dropping names but lets say his name is tincan. so tincan and I have been feiends for like 3-4 yrs now and hes a great dude. bit weird soemtimws but hes silly and were on the same wavelength roughly. well imagine my surprise qhere one day in class he just randomly says the n word and stafts cackling like irs so funny!!!!! (hes white btw.) yes king racial slurs are mx FAVORITE form of comedy 😍😍😍 and so ofc i turn to him and im like. tincan that isnt ok what. and he goes dwdw i have the pass ........,........ i think that speaks for itself. and so i go ok. this dudes weird! and i will probably not be talking to him anymore!! but then we have like break right. two weeks and im travelling. out of NOWHERE.DEADASS NOWHERE WE HADMT TWXTED IN AGES. this man sends me a fucking DICK PIC. WITH RHE FUCKING CAPTION OF "i gotchu man since you like dick" NOT OUT OF NOWHERE YOU DRIED LIZARD. and i also didnt have data so i couldnt even reply for ages and it was horrible. and ofc i reply like tincan. what the actual fuck. AND THIS MF GOES "mb i thought you liked dick" LIKE HE WAS DOING ME A FAVOR OR SOME SHIT. so i get PISSEDDD. and i contemplate blocking him and im like youve changed fast af and hes like well what have i done other than send that pic. I DUNNO. SAID THE N WORD? SAID THE F SLUR TO. MY. FACE. AND LAUGHED IT OFF? AGREED WHEN ONE KF YOUR FRIWNDS WAS BEING TRANSPHOBIC TO ME INFRONT OF ME EVEN THOUGH YOUVE PREACHED SO MUCH ABOUT HOW YOUD NEVER STAND FOR THAT???? and then tincan was like ohh okk im sorry ill change for you. idk why he added for you it was weird and creepy and icky. sigh idk what to do tho bc like i dont want to completely push him away bc he is a valuable person to have for like general school matters. but i also do NOT want to be friwnds w someone like that. im just emotionally distancing myswlf for now like im not talking abt personal shit w him and im being more like surface level in convos
hes not rhe knly one tho like my closest friwnd rn is also kind of jumping on the bandwagon. he was talking abt rhis guy who he calls sometimws online and like plays games with (minecraft n shi) and he was like "oh yea he says the n word but its funny because hes british" (yea the guys white ofc (the online guy))and then proceeds to show me a clip of this guy saying the n word while theyre on voice chat while barely managing to hold his laughter. how is this funny im sorry huh? and i just like nodded or whatever cuz i was utterly dumbfounded that he would ever like even find something as stupid and uncreative as that funny. like........... 😧
anyway. i texted him and i was like yo just warning you i dont like the direction youre changing in and if i hear you say the n word we arent chill anymore bc its way too many ppl now. like be so real
what is so funny abt a racial slur. ill never know!!!!!
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long post abt a seto quote surprise surprise
literally insane crazy that this is like the one (1) and only piece of text EVER that shows how seto had felt knowing that he and his family didnt have a future beyond his teen years, and even this isnt made that clear bc he brings up his own personal feelings abt this matter a total of net zero times like oh my god. like this is a dude that learnt about haruka's mortality way before haruka ever gained the courage to tell it to his friends (which is a big fucking deal considering his death drove ALL of his friends to suicide in different timelines), learned that his and his family's futures were gonna be cut short, and learned that his own DAD was going to be the one to carry that out via violently murdering them all. and hes like. god. anywhere from like 7-14 when he learns all of this and he never confides in Anyone EVER.......
and like the fact that this is the one and only piece of text IN ALL OF KAGEPRO where seto is shown expressing his feelings on this speaks for itself with how he just, bottles up and does not acknowledge his own feelings of despair like you can see his denial of his feeling in his overall demeanor throughout the story, laughing heehee hahaing with everyone at the theme park knowing they'll all die this week like hes crazy. he's crazier than kano bc kano at least breaks down but seto? ohhhh this crazy son of bitch doesnt break down until hes at the absolute limit (surviving after everyone dies + lying to mary for weeks + learning mary had been lying to him as well LIKE). but like the fact he can carry on AFTER HIS ENTIRE FAMILY DIES IN ONE NIGHT speaks volume of just how practiced he is in doing this shit, all of novel 8 seto pov is just Seto Repeatedly Denies That He Feels Grief For His Family 😃 and thru the most insane way by painting this narrative that he had always valued mary over everyone else, which is FALSE!!! BTW HE IS NOT A YANDERE..... FUCKING GRABS YOU LIKE oh my god hes not a yandere. he doesnt actually value mary over everyone else he is LYING like his whole character is characterized by wanting to change himself so he can support others and this EXTENDS BEYOND MARY.... literally this is the dude who speaks fucking weirdly bc he loved KIDO so much that he changed his speech patterns for her, at 14-ish years old starting looking for work so he could support his family, and he spent a whole night looking for kano.... like he loves his family. throughout novel 8 he's saying that he values mary more than anyone else but his actions? completely says otherwise...
and also the fucking shonen brave lyrics of how he talks about how he cant hear his own thoughts bc other people thoughts keep intruding and knocking on his mind, like not being able to recognize his own thoughts has always been a Thing with him like goddamnit im too sleepy to pull up the novel to grab more screenshots (hence why this post has a grand total of one quote from the screenshot lol), but like towards the end of novel 8 he basically has a moment where he says smth among the lines of like "-my own voice rang out, telling me 'you're wrong'." SOMETHING LIKE THAT. but yeah ignoring his feelings be it by his own accord or bc of the circumstances of his powers, has always been a Thing with seto.... SETOOOOOO
#and im not even gonna go into how other characters who have similarly been burdened with the knowledge of impending death#handled their dilemma (spoilers: not well) vs how seto just. Does Not acknowledge it ever not even to himself like hes crazy. hes insane.#i need mekakucity reload NAOWWWWWWW#kgprambling#seto tag
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okay, i agree with most of your points, but "probably has never read political theory" is pretty funny. like yeah, safe to say, genshin target audience is not sociopolitical theory readers, like this is not disco elysium or fnv, lol
#feminism isnt when a woman is nominally in charge btw#its critiquing the systems of power and oppression that put her there#a feminist reading of fontaine should be attentive to the abuses of power#permitted by furina and neuvillette’s institutions#and it should be attentive to the ways those abuses produced harm#a good feminist critique would point out the differences between#neuvillette’s experiences during those 500 years and Furina’s#it would point out that his tenure as iudex had a positive effect on him#by bringing him into the social world#and teaching him the value of relation#care and justice#while by contrast#Furina was isolated#and insulated from all three#neuvillette gained personhood while furina had hers denied her#if a feminist#like me for instance#were to critique the relationship between neuvillette and furina#those are probably the sorts of things she’d poimt out
i dont think its fair to argue that narrative depersonalizes furina in favor of neuvi at all, her internality is given as much, if not more focus as his, and as for her not being able to connect with others, this is not an accident, this is not because the narrative never gives her chances to do so. in fact, the last act before her trial intensely focuses on ppl actively reaching out to furina, starting with neuvi himself, and her rejecting all of these attempts.
if we're talking about furina being isolated, we need to talk about WHY she was isolated, and the reason is celestia's prophecy. like, another huge theme of fontaine is imperialism and decolonization, and any conversation on socio politics of fontaine without bringing it up loses essential dimension. celestia is an invading empire to teyvat, stated by the text to be "usurpers", who stole power of dragon sovereigns and gave it to the Archons, the puppet rulers, who are meant to hoard resources, but not allowed to actually use them. this is stated by focalors as the reason egeria was punished with the prophecy of the flood - they are punished for using primordial sea, which shows that humans' happiness is not celestia's priority, as they are willing to wipe out a country for using said stolen resources. and so, the puppet ruler is isolated from her own people, with prophecy functioning as both tool of punishment and control, - furina cannot talk to others for the damocles sword of celestia's punishment hanging over her.
like, this accounts for so much of state of fontaine, like why neuvi was reluctant to connect with ppl for so long, - they are descendants of invaders who wiped out his entire race and he considered himself "foe of humanity". and then with focalors they literally said the only ethical thing to do for the empire's pawn is to kill itself and give power back to the ppl it was stolen from.
to get back to furina, after her stolen throne is dismantled and celestia controls her no longer, narrative makes concerted focus in showing her learning to self-actualize in a role she actually wants and also connects with people - in her story quest, and then in several events. so i think saying she was depersonalized is categorically wrong, - she was caught in unwanted position of nominal power as figurehead by the imperialist state that isolated her, and then after being freed, moved to a journey of finding herself.
i keep seeing posts about how furina was Actually Competent As A Ruler, which i think are misguided, even if they are coming from well-intentioned place. like, ppl love furina, and so they have an impulse to advocate her good qualities, which is v understandable, but where it derails i think is in assumption that agency = power, so ppl feel the need to prove that she was Actually Good At Power.
This also shows bc these posts *always* bring up neuvi, to either compare furina to him and say that he Did Her Dirty By Stealing Her Power, or to be like, actually they were Dual Rulers, and even if he was running the government, she was Girlbossing Too, like she was handling diplomatic relations or smth else, we just never got to see The Girlbossing.
both Stealing Power and Girlbossing Off Screen takes, I think, are not only textually incorrect, but also miss one of the central points of Fontaine, which is that its government was a hot mess and NO ONE there was Good At Power. Neuvi was absolutely not Girlbossing himself. Whats the point of like trying to prove furina was in charge of More Things, when all of the things were in shambles. The only efficiently run institution in fontaine is autonomous prison.
like, Furina is Marie Antoinette coded for a reason. She is a critique of monarchy, literally a divinely appointed monarch, that shows that putting in power a random person just bc of their birth circumstances, while they are not qualified at all, and then forcing them to be a figurehead under intense scrutiny of society that expects them to somehow be More Divinely Special than normal ppl, will be horrible no-good for both that person AND society. We had to watch her cry every day for 500 years cut scene for a reason. losing archonhood *frees* her to be what she actually wants.
Neuvi on the other hand, is a thesis of how impartiality for a ruler turns into indifference and inaction. Yes, he was incorruptibly fair in his judgements, but he was judging using the flawed laws inside of a flawed system, and this lead to tragic cases like Navia's dad' death and general bureaucratic and inept government. Like we had to listen to Navia yell at neuvi about it for like 5 minutes straight, come on. He realized that the system was flawed (his stories mention his disdain for courts being run like opera performances), that laws were often nonsensical, but he didn't try to change it, because as a dragon, it was basically not his circus, not his monkeys. only when he started to care about humans and forced by a crisis, he challenged the system, and his final ruling as he ascended to the power of god of life again, is markedly NOT impartial, but made with favor for humans. The thesis is that the judge should rule from a position of caring FOR the judged.
these two are explicitly not Cool Divine Bosses Ruling Together or Neuvi Stealing Furina's Importance As An Archon, but two sides of one miserable coin about how badly run fontaine actually was.
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Having a pepe silvia moment rn
#if i found out how the library of congress stamps policy worked…#kinda wanna make a board with red strings#this isnt about the text itself btw#inimese emakeel on eestlane#ta läks millagi õppima#USAsse voi kanadasse
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What is homestuck?
homestuck is a 8,123 page (series of) webcomic(s). the original comic started on the 13th of april 2009 and ended on the 13 of april 2016
its a very long and complicated story that i can basically describe as some kids fuck up their lives with the sims. its also quite unique in how it presents itself. how many other webcomics (that isnt homestuck related) has gifs and big animations and games shoved into it????
it became quite a cultural phenomenon with people in the millions coming to the site each day and breaking newgrounds bc the poor decision was made to host one of the big flashes (a 18 min long animation btw!!!) there
it also had the epilogues which is entirely text based and i refuse to acknowledge any further. after that is homestuck^2 which. basically continues the epilogues but in the original comic format. they had to stop doing the periodic updates bc the team behind it was being harassed if ircc. wild shit!
theres also 3 video games; hiveswap, friendsim and pesterquest. hiveswap has been super fun so far.... i love point and click games
ah also theres a shit load of warnings............... pls heed them if ur not comfortable with slurs (there are multiple extensions that remove them including the unofficial collection) blood gore etc and general uhhh. weirdness. put pretty much whatever you think of in there and then take away some. MAJOR FLASHING TOO
i dont want to spoil it for those who havent read homestuck yet and dont know shit about it but heres a hot tip that goes against what literally every other person says: DO NOT SKIP TO THE TROLLS. youll be quite lost and also its very very fun.... ALSO DOWNLOAD THE HOMESTUCK UNOFFICIAL COLLECTION. this thing is a lifesaver since the actual site itself is breaking down thanks to the flash shut down and general negligence. also it has other cool stuff in it like behind the scenes art and that one uncensored paradox space comic
i would love to explain the entire thing to you bc that is my talent but ummm. yeah. its long and its easier to read the comic in my opinion
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time for a bunch of screenshots of my ultrakill ramblings because i officially have big time brainrot. will put under a readmore so there isnt a million screenshots with their exact content pasted in just in your face
[text: hey girl i’m putting so much thought into robot circulatory systems you wouldn’t even be able to imagine (reacted to with broken heart emoji)
i stand by the idea that machines in ultrakill often have artificial hearts
refueling (except for v1) is basically the same as getting a blood transfusion
they’ve got special ports for doing it but their major 'veins' (tubes in roughly the same regions as the human veins most often used for IV lines, at least in the humanoid ones) are all made of a self sealing material in case they have to be punctured in an emergency
usually the dedicated port would be on the chest or occasionally the crook of the arm but as long as you can assume it's an analog to a vein its fine. 'arteries' are no-go zones however because they’re just as pressurized as an actual human artery and will pump out blood readily
they’re more durably built than the 'veins' in order to keep them intact but they cant seal back up if damaged badly enough. the veins only re-seal for small punctures like needle sticks anyways
the IV ports can function as their own infusion pumps as well in case rapid transfusion is necessary and external equipment isn’t available
v1 is extremely weird i don’t know how it works except that it's circulatory system is partially modeled after some kind of open system. like how invertebrate circulatory systems work. i have no fucking clue whats up with it but i’m thinking about it now
it’s not totally open though because that would mean there’s a LOT of free fluid just. in there
this motherfucker runs on osmosis
its probably more correct to say diffusion than osmosis but um fuck you
anyways as you can tell i’m (frothing at the mouth emoji) /end text]
[text: tangent time i think there’s probably several 'almost-v1's that were like prototypes that just. kinda didn’t work
v1 itself is a prototype but its the one that actually accomplished what it was designed to do
its predecessors may or may not even still be around
they could have been scrapped. who knows /end text]
[text: every day i am very normal and oh so regular about v2 being a peacekeeper btw. i think about this a normal amount and will continue to think about this a normal, average amount
^i may have completely made up this in my brain but i’m sticking with it
anyways i don’t know how i never found this (’this’ being the second V2 terminal entry, text pasted below) on the wiki i’m rotating it so fast:
“After its defeat and escape, V2 dove deeper into Hell, killing other machines for their blood to help its recovery with the intent of taking revenge on V1 and recovering its original arm.After finding a temporary replacement from one of its victims, V2 used parts from other machines to transform the new placeholder arm into a mobility tool that would allow it to catch up to V1's fast descent into the deeper layers.In order to prepare for their second and final encounter, it researched the combat data from their previous battle to copy strategies and techniques from the older and more experienced V1 to give itself an upper hand.However, despite all its preparation, V2 lost again, and unable to escape this time, was brought to a swift and decisive end by its predecessor.”
yeah i think i totally made up that detail but there’s something about a war machine who's intended purpose became so completely irrelevant that it is instead reworked to function in times of peace in whatever possible role would be available that's so .
as opposed to kill kill bite maim explode v1 /end text]
[text: v2 IS a war machine and totally capable of fulfilling that role whenever but since there was no need for war machines by the time it was prototyped it’s not bound by any singular hard-coded mission. it’s like when the military makes something it absolutely intends on using for killing and then it’s just. no longer necessary, like at all. never gets used as intended. maybe gets recycled for something else entirely but i don’t know if the military does that because i don’t care about the military. but you understand what i’m saying here
i have so many thoughts about. funny robot
put v2 back in there. please. girl please survive
hakita i love your product but i’m gonna have to go and ignore this one (followed up by a screenshot of part of the ultrakill wiki stating “Due to the constant rumors that V2 actually survived the second fight in [ 4-4: CLAIR DE SOLEIL ], Hakita (fortunately or unfortunately) confirmed that V2 is 100% Dead.”) /end text]
[text: so yeah thinking about it again v2 wasn’t built with the actual intent of it being a peacekeeper but it chose to be one and stuck with that for (indeterminate amount of time because the timeline of events in ultrakill is barely anything)
and then things got fucky. and it was kinda like well. shit. and started getting more aimless. and then v1 showed up and put sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much spite into it
go girl give us nothing (apathy and spitefulness)
watch how hard i can make shit up /end text]
anyways im 100% sure these arent proper image ids but hopefully they work well enough if the images cant be read for one reason or another. also the icon im using in the server i sent these in was drawn by @/antibio go look at their art it fucks
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(your addition is very welcome, you often know much more about general fandom stuff than i do and are pretty good with words!)
i personally wasnt in fandom when botw was new (obsession with it started way later xD) and didnt play it on release either bc i didnt have any money so i dont know what early reactions to zelda was- but i have heard of people being very weird about zelda being what, a little mean to link? like, once? for good reason too? tbh its kind of sad how this zelda is one of ones with most character development (in botw that is, totk zelda barely has a character lmao) when she just doesnt like link (for good reason) from the very start- like it'd be so interesting to have a zelda and link that dont get ever get along tbh
anyway, the fact that a female character cant even be a little mean once without getting hated or labeled as abusive is in itself pretty sexist, like god forbid women are .. people
im still confused as to how anything i or the other person in the og reblog chain said translated to thinking of her as a 'whore' though xD (also since when is my thought bubble the 'general fandom', isnt it exactly the other way around O.o)
i havent played a link between worlds but knew the basics of it- yeah, its really 'interesting' how for hilda its good but when you think of ganondorf like this its annoying and bad, i wonder what the difference is there :)) (no no, dont you see, its da cuuuuuuurse)
it really annoys me how when you ask for even the bare minimum of at least awareness or care in like, big media stuff its now labeled as unreasonable modern 'progressive' demands, its really just their way of dismissing anything they dont want to think about (which is often some form of racism) like our end goal is to have perfectly puritanical(?) paste of nothingness (i certainly didnt have the same view as you, being white and having been a rather sheltered child, but i too thought that he probably wasnt as bad as we were told and wondered why we were just believing everything we were told by the boat (windwaker beign my first zelda game ... set myself up for disappointment from the start huh xD), ganondorf was my favorite character in the entire game and in the end im pretty sure i cried running away from him bc i didnt want to hurt him- which probably stemmed more from the fact i am not neurotypical and hated my questions of "why" being ignored/not explained and villains like him being often 'othered', just like i felt 'other' from everyone else- which is yet another problem point in how villains are often depicted while also 'working as intentend'- but you see, i was an annoying sjw child who cant take a simple fairytale as it is!!!!)
i didnt mention the whole harem thing bc i didnt plan on going on about this stupid comment as much, but yeah, thats another thing (i dont think that person was aware that makes it worse)- as someone who wasnt aware of all the subtle and not so subtle ways of how demonized middle eastern people are and have been for a long time its pretty scary to realize just how normalized it is, even in the little ways (there is no shame in growing and admitting you were living in ignorance for a good portion of your life btw)
i really love when people get worked up about 'wanting hyrule to be SECTRETLY evil' bc ...... they are? not secretely so? the text just justifies it with 'these people are good, so anythign they do is either fine or not important' like its honeslty fascinating how dissmissed it all is, like the shiekah persecution thing is just outright said to you but it doesnt matter? its mentioned just like and offhand comment of no importance, and the yiga are just irredeemable villains or treated as a joke? huh?? like you dont even have to read into it, they just tell and it doesnt matter- do they need zelda to turn to the camera and say "this action my family did was bad" for it to be considered 'bad' ?? do they think we just want the roles reversed? with gan being the unquestioned by the text good guy and hyrule that goes 'harr harr im evil obsessed tm'?? which would be kinda boring again if it wasnt the other way around so many tiems that even that would be refreshing :U
in the end i just wonder why people get so offended when you criticize it, you can still like it? demanding better is a benefit to everyone really? and better doesnt mean more 'pure' or 'non problematic', just like, better written or nuanced characters?? interesting stories?? theres so much interesting stuff you could do (in part bc it IS the way it is) with tloz that it hurts to see it not being capitalized on and people defending it anyway just as much
(anyway, you could talk about everything for so long but i want to do other things as well xD good addition, thank you!)
got this reblog on one of my posts were i talked about being anxious about the future of the zelda series after totk and-
i even went back and unblocked them just to check my own post and check twice what they meant exactly- but i still dont know how they got to these conclusions
i never said i 'want a good uwu ganondorf' (bc that would mean hes aligned with hyrule bc thats how goodness works!!!!11!1!!!), i also dont think of any of the zeldas as 'whores' (seriously, where did that come from?? neither me nor the addition of someone agreeing with me said anything like that??? did they think bc the addition called tloz misogynistic means we think zelda is a whore????? huh???)
its also funny how they say they want zelda to stay a simple fairytale rather than have 'people like me' bc .. one point i talked about in the og post was how the evil arab thing VS good white people media likes to do so much is so normalized here that its simply seen as a simple harmless fairytale trope instead of a big underlying issue in general media and the writers might not even realize it (which is worse) bc the most 'generic' appeal is to people who dont think of it as a problem in the first place, because it is so normalized
(huh, i wonder about what kind of person that part was about .. hmmmm)
(ALSO funny they mention princess hilda as nuanced villain ... like ... wow they are so nuanced about purple haired people!!- like guess why we want a nuanced/less badly/less flat written ganondorf and what he, in particular, has not in common with other villains! its not his hair color! .... or was that point supposed to mean .. look we have one female character that is a villain, its not misogynistic! idk honestly)
(and the classic, "you just call it this/dont like it bc its not what you wanted !!!!!!!2!"1!112!!")
also funny how its 'never gonna be progressive enough' like asking for the franchise to maybe put a little more thought and nuance into their white divine right vs evil desert man simulator instead of making it worse is already asking too much
(i dont know what the last point has to do with anything??)
(also yes totk is racist, like most if not all of the franchise and a alot of other media as well, shocker- you can still like it though, i and plenty of other people are still fans of it, we just wish they did a little more with their stuff and maybe not make the racism problem WORSE)
(also yes the hyrule monarchy is also evil :))) )
(and also not so secretly so either :)) )
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#ganondoodles rants#long post#the missed potential of the entirety of tloz is mind boggling to me#its probably the thing that drives me the most nuts about totk esepcially#over and voer choosing the most boring possible thing like they are intentionally avoiding making it interesting#also no its also not that 'i just dont like zelda anymore' either#i hate totk and so far am not very hopeful about echoes but that doesnt mean i dont like it as a whole anymore??#would i be doing a giant fancomic and a giant rewrite project then???#feels like my criticism is yet again just dismissed as 'not liking it anymore'#just like my hatred for totk is dismissed as 'its just not exactly how you wanted'
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i hope sonic prime is good if its not good Im going to kill myself im so sick of shows for kids that are like. i dont know what the right word is but you know how the muppets used to be very earnest and genuine with their music and friendship and general silliness but later on especially after jim died and ESPECIALLY after disney bought them theres alwqys an air of irony. like its all very tongue in cheek like isnt it just SO embarrassing and cringey that some of these guys want to SING or be NICE.. LOL! that was my biggest issue with the new fraggle rock series Btw theres no reason to make self aware jokes about how lame you think it is to take these little singing and joke telling puppets called fraggles seriously. Ok sorry lost the plot a little bit i could discuss the downfall of the muppets specifically forever but back to sonic. thats one of thr reasons i hate sonic boom LOL it has alot of issues but it was so disingenuous in my opinion. not even just poor characterization of oh lets say knuckles. (imagine smoke coming out of my ears) but ive always LOOVED how seriously sonic media has taken itself like yeah this black and red hedgehog with a gun DOES have a super sad and heartbreaking backstory and we are going to reduce you to tears over jt and it literally fucking rocks. i think too many stories as of late are ruined by people being scared of being genuine and getting mocked for it so they just mock it themselves in the text like dont worry! we arent taking this seriously! like well maybe you should take it seriously and create something beautiful ok 👍
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help i just had a dream with a VERY detailed made up show (movie???) about these ppl who were trying to find out how their dad died. and also there was a group of mercenaries that were pretending to be detectives. one of the mercs literally couldnt die unless she was hit in one specific spot near the lower gut and one of the not-mercs ALSO had that and no idea why. there was this one character who had been marketed as the main character but ended up just? being a random guy on the side who would pop up and make jokes out of nowhere in this Serious Show. like one scene on the yop floor of this extremely structurally unsound building he just randomly went 'its obvious this isnt ACTUALLY the sixth floor because that would be dangerous!' ???? the story itself was really interesting it turns out the son of the dad accidentally killed him and didnt realize he had? and he found out it was him bc one of the mercs had this cool....sight thing. he could see things about people. ANYWAY the reason im saying all this is bc after it ended i was like yess ok awesome and the screen started going through posts you had made? in my dream about it. they were very funny btw it was like.... ok there were a few different one but the one i remember best was this drawing of you in the lower left corner from behind pointing in a very scrangle way at a chunk of text you had written about the experiences one of the characters had and the subtext behind it and said character was standing there like [oblivious] . but i didnt get to read the text so i was like. ok i gotta remember the name of the show so i can check their blog when im awake. and i woke up and pulled out my phone and then. i forgot the name B:( and THEN i realized the show was made up. VERY SAD but also i thought it might be interesting to hear about
LMAO THATS REALLY FUN. CANT WAIT FOR THEM TO START PUTTING MY POSTS IN MOVIE THEATERS FOR REAL!!!!!!!!
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idk if the villains will be saved or if the ending will be Shit but IF they end up getting saved isnt that a type of 'rebellion' (idk a better word) for heros? i mean if the generic premise of superheros stories is that heros defeat villains and thats it then choosing to save one is a type of statement by itself without having the need to do an essay on 'why ppl deserve help'. It started with hwks v. twice with hwks still choosing the wrong path and now the new heros have a chance to be better💫
im not defending the story btw because honestly the only consistent thing here is how the author only explores his themes and conflicts superficially lmao sorry for the long weird text, english is not my first language and i hope you get both my asks lol 💫
you and your english are totally fine anon!
however, i would disagree, because i don't think it's uncommon to have villain characters who are saved by the heroes. there's a reason people have made the phrase "talk no jutsu" because of the general penchant for writing shounen protagonists breaking through to their adversary through motivational speeches, one of the big examples being sasuke who returned to the village that massacred his family. even in bnha, this has already happened through the examples i provided (gentle criminal and lady nagant).
even if you talk about the superhero genre, these examples are not uncommon. i'm personally not too familiar with comics, but through various adaptations i can already name the relationship between batman and harley quinn in the animated series, and wanda and pietro being accepted by the avengers in the mcu.
the idea of "saving the villain" isn't particularly rebellious, and in most cases i would argue that saving the villain isn't about making a statement about helping every kind of person, it's an ego trip to affirm the superiority of the protagonist's ideology, and i believe this because of how often the villain's saving comes with the villain "seeing the error of their ways" and renouncing their previous goals and motivations. for example, what happened to wanda and pietro's rightful grudge against tony stark for being a war profiteer?
sure, it's not always that deep and sometimes the messages that "win" are good ("you are not alone, friends make you stronger!"), but i think in bnha's case, it's pretty distasteful for a lot of reasons. assuming that my fears are correct, then that would mean the LOV would drop their opposition to the hero (law enforcement) system, which has up until now been a significant factor in their and their friends' and families' poverty, abuse, neglect, and/or deaths, and only then would they receive a helping hand.
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Okay, quick answer to this. (it isnt quick - got a bit long, cause. yknow. current hyperfixation and stuff.)
Both sigils are from the Lemegeton Clavicula Solomonis Regis, Book 1, a supposedly ancient text carried over from the biblical king Solomon, who, with these sigils, bound 72 demons, or "spirits". These spirits are some famous names like Baal, Asmodeus, Belial, etc. All servants of Lucifer, and each with their own armies.
Aleister Crowley, the namegiver to the Good Omens Character, was a historic figure in, broadly speaking, various dubious sects, and "improved" these sigils to be more "accurate". The book itself is a distant branch of the jewish esoteric practice of Kabbalah, and then filtered through british hands by dear Crowley.
I use quotation marks on "improved" and "accurate", because Crowley's idea of a good representation of Vepar (refered to as he/him, btw), a Great Duke of Hell, who controls storms and the sea itself, and brings plague to all wounded, festering maggots in their body, is this thing:
see my issue with his artistic skills? And that fucker is complaining about Solomon's orthography.
Anyway, THOSE COINS!
The left one is a sigil that is to be worn when summoning one of Solomon's demons, in this specific case, Astaroth.
That demon looks like a "hurtful angel riding on an Infernal Beast like a Dragon". Apparently, he also has a poison breath, so the summoner must hold the sigil to their face to not suffocate.
When bound within a circle and presented the sigil, Astaroth is forced to give true answers to all questions, as he can see past, present and future. Also, he knows how angels fell from heaven to become demons/spirits.
The sigil itself should be cast in copper, so that coin might be correct, if it actually is 100% copper (which is the alchemical element symbolizing Venus) (same thing goes for Vepar btw, the two are the same rank). Astaroth might eat you if it isnt.
HOWEVER the right one is definetely wrong. It's the sigil of Asmoday, and is supposed to be cast in gold, not copper, because Asmoday is a Great King of Hell, not just a Duke, and requires the alchemical compound for the sun as... catalyst? And the sun is gold, so yeah.
Asmoday has three heads, one of a bull, a man, and a ram. His tail is a whole damn serpent, and he has a flame breath, goose feet and he also rides a dragon.
Asmoday is a WAY higher rank than Astaroth, so even when bound wihin a circle, the summoner must show their respects and must keep standing, and not sit down nor kneel. Using a proper sigil made from gold would protect against Astaroth's wrath and force him to at least sit still for a minute. He can teach any science, language, handcraft, can make people invincible (or invisible, depending on translation), knows the answer to all questions that relate to the present, and the location of any buried treasure for some reason.
Some of these demons have REALLY weird descriptions, there is like three seperate spirits that look just like normal pigeons. There is a demon that is just described as "might be a good familiar". A lot of them are dragons, or riding on dragons and oddly mediocre horses. Also, almost all of them can make people either invincible/invisible and/or make people fall in love. And a lot of the rituals only work on certain weekdays.
Can absolutely recommmend reading the Lemegeton.
Can NOT recommend seriously using the instructions to summon demons.
As for my obsession with this? I needed fun little symbols for an army of demons that im using for a future comic project. Got a bit too exited and have now aquired more oddly specific knowledge about humans! I'm taking most of those demons and actually (fuck you, Crowley) improve their "official" sigils, so they at least look SOMEWHAT believeable and workable. And maybe have fewer crosses and swirlies. I WILL complain about those a lot.
So far, i have made up around 400 deities, some based on Solomon's demos, most based on gods and deities from other cultures, religions, or just legends - i'm mixing and matching some traits, polishing a few designs, drastically reducing the number of heads (and horses). Buddhism is amazing for that, anything relating to Jewish faith (and in turn, Chrisitanity), and of course ancient roman, greek and nordic myths.
Last note: Some people believe in these things, others do not. But people also believe in gods, so who is to say what is and isnt real. I'm just having a ton of fun studying weird little details and using them as references and inspirations for stories. Respect and awe where they are due, though in adequate measure and with a proper point of view. The rest is drag.
[edit: Another note. My scribbles above are my attempt at freestyling and understanding how the fuck Solomon/Crowley built these sigil - I scribbled them while having the Lemegeton and a coffee in my left, and a pen and lollipop in my right hand.]
Crowley deserves to be slapped for this bullshit.
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can you tell us more about fawnstar? he is epic
he is pretty epic in a nuclear explosion kind of way
the strategy of answering oc asks by just talking until i couldnt anymore seemed to work pretty well last time so im just going to do that again. ive also been putting this ask off for too long cuz i knew it was going to take forever to answer LOL, i will note though if some things dont make sense theres a good chance im just dancing around spoiling things because hes One of Those types of ocs, you can still ask about certain things (the way im typing this has the 3 times ive said the word things lining up and its really throwing me off) but theres no guarantee i’ll be able to answer them, at least truthfully (theres like a 50% chance im going to intentionally lie about shit when answering this ask btw. just so you know <3)
anyway, fawnstar (he/they nonbiney; no last name, groveclan leaders have their surnames revoked upon leadership) is groveclan’s leader and has been for about *papers shuffling sfx* four-ish years now but dont take that as final because i just realised i dont like the age they wouldve been when they became leader lmfao
fawnstar doesn’t have any known surviving biological family. his mother, eveningeye (she/her), died two years after he became leader and was given a brief and detached funeral. their biological father was a kittypet (which is also where they got The Mane Genetic from) although fawnstar was never told that and to this day doesnt know, not that they care either. also *inserts pic of eveningeye i dont remember even drawing*
fawnstar was made leader after the previous leader, buckstar (he/him tom, also important note: groveclan leaders are chosen at birth and are named after the current leader. this is a tradition that ended with fawnstar), was killed in an ambush. around half a day after buckstar had left camp and not returned, fawnstar - fawnfur at the time - who had been in and out of camp sporadically for the past 2 months, had returned to camp alone in the midst of literally dying, said some incomprehensible shit about rogues and collapsed in the medicine cat den and was left under the care of marblepaw whilst half the clan went out looking for buckstar or any signs of rogues. buckstar’s body was never found, although rogue scent was detected on the outskirts of groveclan’s territory. as a result of this incident, the clans have become much more unforgiving and hostile toward rogues.
as the search for buckstar or any rogues was going on, marblepaw had officially declared fawnfur as dead. no one’s ever let marbleheart live down the fact they declared a cat dead only for said cat to get back up three minutes later, but they still stand by the fact that there would’ve been no way for a fatal neck wound like that to just fix itself, or for them to fix it either.
after the incident, fawnfur became leader and appointed cranecloud (who passed away about... 2 years ago from present day) as their deputy. cranecloud had to do most of the work for the first 3 weeks as fawnstar took time to physically and mentally recover from the event, their voice never fully recovered and four years later they still permanently sound like they need to clear their throat. they never really recovered mentally either.
anyway! that fun stuff aside, fawnstar is a very, very very very very lenient leader to an irritating extent to his clanmates who actually care about the warrior code, ie the hopeheart thing and how when one of his clanmates openly brought in a half floodclan kit his reaction was to shrug and go, “not my problem”. fawnstar’s only concern with the warrior code is avoiding any conflict with the other clans, to the point where he’s pushed his boundaries with each of them far enough that he’s figured out how each will react toward a public break in the code and who he’s safest to fuck up with.
speaking of the clan he’s safest to fuck up with, floodclan and groveclan have a very amicable relationship. this is more of a floodclan thing so i’ll talk more about it when i get to them/the leader, but floodclan has a very... inhabitable territory during the winter. long story short it gets flooded when the rain gets to its worst who’d have thunk it in a place where “flood” is in the name, floodclan’s way of dealing with this is splitting the clan in two and sending half of them to groveclan, who’s camp is on higher ground, until the rain passes since the Still Habitable part of the clan is too small to hold *papers shuffling sfx 2* ~26 cats all at once. usually the deputy and leader would take it in turns to visit each year, but shadowstar (he/she/they tom), floodclan’s current leader, is almost always the one to visit, unless there’s a new deputy who hasn’t taken the lead on the trip before.
there have been challenges to fawnstar’s leadership and how he’s running the clan in the past, but none ended well. despite his apparent lack of care toward anything, fawnstar is still... a very big and very intimidating cat, and a very openly “if you fuck with me im going to crush you like a bug” type of cat. he’s not dictator-like in any way, he doesn’t care enough to be, but any standoffs he’s been made to have against his own clanmates have ended in said clanmate being almost literally backed into a corner and forced to back down.
additionally they’re a very scary cat to have to come into contact with in battle. they don’t take part in them often in the rare occurences they have to happen, but groveclan has a heavy focus on training their warriors to be as effective and strong as possible which is also applied to cats who are Assigned Leader At Birth as fawnstar was. fawnstar was personally given very extreme training, and it’s one of the few things they keep from their younger life and actively makes an effort to keep in the shape they are, even despite their age. oh theyre also very scary because of the apparent immortality and not caring about pain thing! thats scary too.
anyway jesus i just noticed how long of an uninterrupted wall of text this is. im not done but here’s a warrior age fawnstar to break it up a little
to talk more in length about his relationships with others since i havent done it very specifically already heres a few i can think off of the top of my head:
rainwatcher is fawnstar’s deputy and adopted son who they took in after banishing his biological mother on grounds of neglect. even in adulthood they’re still very close. some groveclan residents think it’s a total joke that in the first election for deputy they’ve ever done it’s just a ~coincidence~ the leader’s son wins but fawnstar still refutes there would have been literally no way to fake a winner, they werent even the one counting. if anything fawnstar would have been more comfortable with someone else coming out on top, it’s not that they think rainwatcher is a bad deputy, but they’d rather anyone else in the clan be in such a “precarious” rank than their own son.
marbleheart... does not like fawnstar at all... i feel like it would be very easy to be furious (and terrified) at someone who not only seemingly died and got back up, but made sure everyone thought you were an idiot who was “hallucinating” it. there’s other reasons marbleheart doesn’t like fawnstar but you know 💅 that’s their business *touch tone telephone starts playing, but anyways*
they also have a pretty close relationship with silvermoon (she/her molly), floodclan’s deputy. i’ll talk more about silvermoon when i talk about her in her own post (she IS little ms protagonist herself after all), but silvermoon has been visiting during every winter migration to groveclan since she was a kit and has come to view fawnstar as some weird uncle figure, which is also encouraged (for lack of better word since its 8am right now and i cant think anymore) by shadowstar, silvermoon’s mentor, since he has a.. fairly close relationship with fawnstar too
i know you want me to talk about fawnstars relationship to shadowstar now after saying what i just said and im intentionally not going to <3 you will simply have to ask or wait <3
less specifically, fawnstar is typically very distant from his clanmates, apart from frequently visiting the nursery. it’s one of the only times he makes an effort to leave the clan’s garden (ill talk about what i mean by garden some other time its a territory thing lol) apart from gatherings (and seemingly wandering out into the night sometimes, but that’s his business, i guess...), he’s very watchful over the nursery and the kits and cares very deeply for each of them. arguably the only rule in the warrior code they care for is the one about protecting any and all kits.
anyways, theres definitely more but my brain isnt letting me remember other things to talk about so heres some fun little trivia facts
they have a pet family of snails in the clans garden
this story takes place in the same universe where the canon clans exist in a “what if we took the clans and pushed them (made new ones) somewhere else” way but key figures in clan history are still remembered. one time someone remarked to fawnstar, “hey, youre orange like that firestar guy apparently was” and its the hardest fawnstar had laughed in literally years
they’re gay in a “he never married” way. dont worry about what i mean by this
their least favorite ~historical figure~ is brokenstar, for obvious reasons. if he could he’d kill him three times.
he has adhd
ok thats all i have for now! feel free to ask me about anything here but ive only been awake for like 3 hours and also im very hungry so if any of this is incomprehensible it is simply not my problem!!! thank you for asking about my little war criminal!!!
#ask#long post#jesus this is long im getting something to eat now LOL#feel free to ask for like...clarificaiton on any of this or anything lol#i like being asked about my ocs is all <3 plus theres obviously a lot i missed here#skinwretch
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Hi! I saw your stance in the whole Replaced!MC thing and I just wanted to say that it made me genuinely uncomfortable to read what you wrote. I am a fan of that trend, and I understand not liking it, but claiming that writing it is just wrong and that is bad writing feels... gatekeepy? This isn't meant to be a hate anon, btw, I don't hate you or anything (hell idek who you are personally), but I just wanted to... idk, tell you? You might be unintentionally harming people that use those au's as a release.
You also said that it was ooc, and I... I mean... it's an AU. Like, an alternate universe. I personally feel that people can do whatever they want when writing their own fanfiction, and I'm afraid that your criticism might feel like an attack to people that like the angst.
Once again, no hate to you!! If it sounded spiteful, I apologize, I am neurodivergent (and latino, so english is not my first language) and sometimes my wording is kinda wonky. I truly believe you didn't mean to actually insult the people that use those au's to cope with their abandonment issues, so this entire dissertation was mostly made to make you aware of how your wording could be interpreted.
Have a good day!
ok hi so i know youre coming from a good place and all, and it wasnt my intention to like. make this a drama or anything (why i put it all in the tags and not as a text post, and also didnt tag it with ob///ey me or anything) and if you guys do like those aus its fine! but this is my blog, and i get to post what i want here, even when its criticism. i didnt @ anybody, i didnt post it in the tags,
my point was not to say "no one can write this anymore!!!!" my point was just me saying what i thought of stuff i saw bc, its my blog. i fully support everyones rights to write / draw w/e the hell they want, but this is society, and unless things are only shared in a private discord server or with friends, people are going to have public opinions about it.
and i dont have an issue w/ replaced mc itself! i just thought in the few fics i scrolled through, the idea of the brothers just... suddenly turning on mc wasnt comforting to me. i wrote out some more about the reasons i specifically feel this way, but i dont want to trauma dump on an anon that i think is well meaning, but anyways free speech and all that, i have the right to say what i want on my blog, specifically when im not @ ing anyone, and that post was what? earlier this week? last week? idk
this post isnt meant to be read sarcastically or meanly btw, like i said earlier, this is my blog and if you dont like what i post/say its ok to block me!
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