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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

[soullessseraphim]

skulls are pretty n shit until you gotta draw them

[om0000]

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

[keeps-ache]

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

[bucket-puns]

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

[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!

[ryonello]

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[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[lividdreamz]

NEW YEAR’S POSITIVITY TAG

The gist of this tag game that I just made is to spread some positivity/love to fellow writeblrs! Whatever you have to say can be general or geared towards a specific writeblr(s) (I really wanted to say something specific for every writeblr tagged down below, but oh boy would that have taken a while). If you’re tagged, pay the positivity forward (no pressure if you don’t have the time or energy, though. This is all in good fun!)

It has been a very challenging week (and year), as I’m sure it has been for so many people, but I’ve been thinking long and hard about what it is I’d like to do for all my mutuals and I guess the writeblr community in general, and this is really the best I could come up with.

Yeah. I just wanted to say, whether you’ve been with me for five months or five days, I see you, and I appreciate you so so much. I’m not very good at explaining how it is I feel exactly as I feel it, but, like, every time I get a notification or I see you beautiful beanbags on my dash it’s just an instant mood booster. I may not always respond to tag games, or asks, or posts where you guys share your writing immediately but I see them and as I’m sure my tags hint at, I love them. I feel really honored to be a apart of a community so full of talented and creative people. You guys are seriously made my 2022 so much better. Cheers for a (hopefully) amazing 2023!

Happy (belated) holidays to those who celebrate and Happy New Year! Tagging basically every writeblr I know on this hellsite (😭): @thetruearchmagos, @cryptid-s-wips, @space-cadead, @asablehart, @writingamongther0ses, @toribookworm22, @calicojackofficial, @westcountrygothic, @mz-elysium, @wearfinethingsalltoowell, @blind-the-winds, @happystarfishnightmare, @littlepatchofhell, @spookyceph, @jamieanovels, @thatndginger, @aesa, @theskeletonprior, @citruswords, @reowrites, @highlycosmic, @make-the-heteros-upseteros-2022, @blackwidow2005, @ellatholmes, @chayscribbles, @likegemstone, @navarenwizard, @cherrybombfangirlwrites, @toboldlywrite, @thelittlestspider, @maggiefromspace, @shireduchess, @jess-p-edits, @orphicpoieses, @moonandris, @alwaysastrophel, @neshamahs, @kingsinking, @eternalwritingstudent, @gailynovelry, @writingforevren, @unholyspaceprophet, @bittenthehand, @eli-writes-sometimes, @ashirisu, @harrison-abbott

And @alistonjdrake I know we’re not mutuals but I’m a fan of yours so 👉👈 🥺

Now, there are almost certainly followers/writeblrs I’m forgetting, so if that’s you, know I didn’t do it purpose and yes this tag game is for you too. In fact, it’s for everyone who’d like to join in!

[naenaex0xx]

I need more ds zelda games in my lofe