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[naralanis]

15 Questions, 15 Mutuals

*second try. Accidentally deleted the first post WHOOPS MY BAD

1. Are you named after anyone?

After a song by a Brazilian musician, as far as I'm aware.

2. When was the last time you cried?

I don't recall. Whenever I watched Coco last, probably.

3. Do you have kids?

Nope.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

It's my native language.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Usually their mannerisms and voice.

6. What color are your eyes?

Hazel/brown.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings. There's too much scary/sad in reality already.

8. Any special talents?

I do a great Russian accent (according to my Russian friends). Otherwise, I can bend my elbows pretty far the wrong way, but idk if I'd count that as a talent.

9. Where were you born? 

Brazil.

10. What are your hobbies?

Writing, fountain pen collecting (stationery in general), collecting old historical books. I also play the piano and collect decks of cards. More recently, I've gotten into gaming (because my gay ass could not resist Kassandra in Odyssey and now here we are).

11. Do you have any pets? 

Two cats, a 14-year-old murderous miasma machine grey tuxedo diva (Lilly) and a 6-year-old single braincell biscuit maker (Gizmo).

12. What sports do you play/have you played? 

That's a very long list. I started with gymnastics and swimming; i actually did so well my gymnastics coach wanted me to do a pre-olympic track, but my parents refused because they were afraid it would make me super short forever (and lol that worked out splendidly). I played indoor and field soccer for most of my life; it's actually something I'd like to get back to. I've also played basketball, horseback riding, volleyball, and fencing (briefly). I had a LOT of extracurriculars growing up.

13. How tall are you?

I'm 160cm, or aaaalmost 5ft3.

14. Favorite subject in school?

History. Couldn't get enough of it. After that, Literature and Anthropology.

15. Dream job? 

I don't dream of labor (but novelist/screenwriter would be it).

Thanks for the tag, @mssirey! Ain't no way I'm tagging 15 people though lol. Feel free to join in, tag or no tag!

@drummergirl72713 @shadowdianne @intheinkpot @rubikanon @red-cape-morgana @lena-in-a-red-dress @silv3reyedstranger @waknatious @5-5-k

[oh-no-its-bird]

The Hatake Clan of the year 1798, 2 years before Konoha's founding

7 / 21 accounted for (I'll make the others, or possibly beg someone to share their own with me, as I go along)

Close ups:

+ Bonus designs as I think about political machinations :

"when I looked it up, the wiki says that Iron country actually has little to no shinobi, and instead use samurai?

So, like, incooperating that, thinking that they ultimately ditch it for fire bc in 1789, the new daimyo (who is only 15 and being puppeted by his mother, the previous Daimyo's concubine, who also comes from a big samurai family) basically tells all the existing shinobi clans in iron (of which there are very few and generally keep to themselves out in the wilds) that they need to either leave, stop being shinobi alltogether, or come sit at the foot of the throne like good boys and sign some fun funky new contracts with the new daimyo heavily restricting their every move

like 2 years later Konoha is founded and the Hatake, who were looking for a way to get out of their situation, took the opportunity and ran"

Anyways I haven't slept in almost 24 hours, like holy shit, but I need everyone to look at his face tho:

He can do no wrong

Early Konoha oc art pt. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

[chilopodabode]

OFF news,,,,,have my batter design NOW

[soullessseraphim]

skulls are pretty n shit until you gotta draw them

[swoo0zy]

i just had a dream after leaking the woy pilot they also leaked the unused woy s3 trailer that was supposed to have been released in 2023 n it was made fully in 3d n the only thing i remember from it is that peepers got a watchdog gf

[mothpile]

DinoDash: Free, Short 2D Platformer!

DinoDash: Free, Short 2D Platformer you can download on itch.io! Free! It's free! Click here!

Play as Lil' Guy, a small red raptor, trying to find their way back to their nest after getting chased away from their territory by a T-Rex.

This game is the result of a couple of months of work from my team and I. We've all put a lot of work into it, please check it out!

Poster above was drawn by Jyro C, you can find more of his work on his instagram @/jyro.psd!

[pathojon]

REGRETEVATOR DRAWTOBER DAY 6:

FAVORITE SHOP FLOOR

its my birthday today,.. that's nice,..

[blujaymacaw]

An old comm for one of my friends to make a wallpaper for them! I still super love the vibes in this

Ppl in this on twitter:

@StardustFoxArt

@BuddyShiba

@Cinder_Saber

@DexyRays

@SoarinTF2

@TheCamSoup

[bucket-puns]

Knight Zwei West Ishmael on- your house actually, pay up.

[venusbyline]

You're gen one of my fave writers here (I love dark! fics lmao)

You seem so chill, you're just here to write and you do not gaf 😽

tysmmm 🥺🥺💕💕 i luv sm your blog too sweetie, you're one of my fav writers and every time you post a fic about Lucerys or Jace i go craaaaazy hahah 🤭🤭

thanks for your support... i always try to just chill and write my works, without worrying about the hate cuz it's something that unfortunately happens to almost all ficwriters (especially those who write dark content/dead dove fics), but ik i'm doing my part by warning all triggers beforehand. so when you guys interact with my fics or even my random posts i feel like:

[equalseleventhirds]

hello once again i have been drastically offline while dealing with things like a. too busy at work b. too busy with freelance work c. sick AGAIN like goddamn how many times this year and d. computer half-broken, i can get it to work but it's a Process and by that point i'm sleep. anyway!

i am at least over my cold and finished some freelance projects so i may have a little more time to be on tumblr. but work is still in overtime crunch mode (which is. ridiculous for what the work is but whatever i could use the money) and computer is still fucked up and i am still real tired so. u kno.

[keeps-ache]

1) i'm bad at games 2) i'm scared of people

[808gigawatt]

[randomminty]

Wadermelin duo

[presiding]

What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?

(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)

thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -

short answer: she’s really cool

& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...

long answer:

i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.

since you ask...

billie is a cool character

when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.

then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!

she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.

but... the meta

mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.

skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.

i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.

most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).

i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.

ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.

while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.

it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-

- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?

.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.

lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.

you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.

in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.

all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3

billie's character potential

she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.

she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).

her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.

she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!