#val rambles

[dnpgiggle]

obsessed with phil saying ‘I decided to not get traumatized by this’ he’s literally the wisest of us

[caramellody]

Yall i dont think im gonna be able to stop thinking about usha and g13, actually.

Ushas an old old woman, clueless with tech. Lived long enough to develop various bonds with a LOT of people and relies on them a lot for help. In turn, shes VERY loyal to her close conpanions (a great example would be how she tends to back paula up a LOT, the way she sets up russel and paula to 'fake date' wink and all). She's very warm and very emotionally intelligent even if she's a bit clueless sometimes. Her logic is borderline incomprehensible, but it has heart.

G13 on the other hand, is a hacking prodigy. Hes young, hes sought after for his skills for better and for worse. But in turn, he's essentially lost himself in the process. He may be able to scrape nuke codes, but he'll never make a friend. He lacks any loyalty for anyone and anything except for himself and his interests, and if they dont satisfy those two points, then its worth nothing to him. His logic may be sound, but its cold.

[angelwiththeblue-box]

straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups be like: *audhd librarian* *ex military and accidental mom of three full grown adults* *thief who only cares about five people* *bi cowboy who has daddy issues and loves art* *sapphic genius* *immortal knight of the round table who loves tea*

[valsilverhand-archive]

i LOVE seeing people ship with the same canon character or oc as myself. like good god it's so interesting to see what dynamic you create with them. like please feed me your headcanons, your fanart, your vp, and everything else in between with them!!!

[kazamajun]

Thinking thoughts today about the contrasting yet similar ways both of them lost whole chunks of their lives

[peachybunsexe]

does anyone have any tips or tricks for better lighting in cyberpunk? i'm using the charli mod which is GREAT but i can't for the life of me figure out how everyone is doing this FULL lighting i see in most sets. i wanna be able to do that too. pls tell me your secrets

[valsilverhand]

you better not be cunty jackie welles when i get in there -

[valentinerose529]

i remember early on in Ntn, Nona expressed a wish to have short hair like Pyrrha and Camilla, but had to keep it long so people wouldn't notice it growing. so hopefully Alecto the Ninth won't blow my headcanon out of the water, but i sure like to imagine that if/when Alecto connects with Nona's memories and developed personality, Alecto either gets someone to braid her hair or straight up whacks it all off

On a related note sometimes i wonder how much like Nona Alecto will be, and how it would feel for some unlucky Houser to walk into a room and find their literal devil figure chomping down on an eraser

[vc55bughead]

yall.....should I finally take the gay ass plunge and watch "heartstopper" before the 3rd season comes out? Like....the clips I've seen from that show have made my bi ass so emotional and happy like????....and should I watch it with my mom? (im out to her but id love to watch a show that could help open her mind and educate her a bit more yk?)👀🫡

[lightspeed95]

Them <33

Even if it was for a small moment, it was so nice to finally see them again ❤️

[the-myth-rider]

What if some gear that dragons typically can't mag have hybrid versions for other dragons? So Pure White Gear a Black Dragon can't mag, but because of how important White Gear can be in some races there are hybrid versions, which are mostly White so that they can be functional, but have a mag spot of another color for the dragon to mag? Probably grey, since it's the generic color.

This is a very interesting idea, and I'm very glad you put it forward.

I will say, though, that Black Dragons can mag white gear. I only remember one example off the top of my head right here, but it is something they can do.

But you still present an interesting idea! And you make an excellent point about the disguised Wraith gear. In fact, it's not even just the gear that Word specifically made for Beau.

If you look at every instance of the Wrath Dragons, it's the same exact gear for them across the board.

This very much lends to your point that gear can either be given a separate function, seeing as how Word was able to adjust the operations of the ramming gear's head piece to do something else. Cuz normally the cranial aspect of Ramming Gear normally forms a sort of shield that the dragon can then use to safely bash into stuff with their faces with both minimal damage, and maximum effectiveness.

Word was able to alter that completely to mix with Black Draconium, and thus function as the mind control gear.

I do kind of wonder if what Word actually did wasn't so much using Black Draconium to perform Green functions. Seeing as how the cranial segment is what performs the Black Draconium function, while the lower half still retains the Green Draconium function, it’s more like he Frankensteined two different gears together. Green provides the armor and projectile, while Black provides the mind control. Both the natural functions inherent in the respective draconium colors.

The whole point of the different draconium colors is that certain ones can only do certain things, and that’s why mankind bred away from gold in the first place. Different colors have unique specialties that the others can’t perform anywhere near as effectively. One couldn’t expect orange gear to be as effective as balancing a dragon’s movements as blue gear is.

And there’s a common misconception with the dragon colors that “best gear matches” means that’s all a dragon can mag. This is actually not true, and it goes beyond just the fact that Black Dragons can in fact mag white gear. Brown dragons only have green, light green, and blue listed as best matches. And yet we’ve seen Rumbull, my dear Lonely Mountain of the series, having magged both red and white gear in the final episode’s drag-ball match.

I do think that how your concept would best work is if Grey Draconium could be used to augment gear certain colors can’t use to make it maggable. I can’t recall after midnight while finishing this post in bed on my phone, but I’m pretty sure Grey Draconium is maggable by everyone. Assuming that is correct, one could make blue gear mixed with grey, that would makeup for any lack of power output and then be safely magged by a green dragon.

This has all honestly got me wanting to make a master post listing gear we have seen dragons mag in the show. That way as comprehensive of a list we can get could be out there, to recall which gears we know they can and to ponder which ones they can’t. I’m pretty sure only “green can’t mag blue” has been clearly stated. We do know that one rando was surprised to see Beau having red, blue, AND white gear all magged at once, after which he magged on green and then a second red gear. It’s also worth noting though that all gear has levels as well as colors, and the rando was shocked by all the high level gear Beau had on. So maybe “best gear matches” just means “can mag higher levels of these over any other color”?

All right, ya got several paragraphs out of me and that’s all I’ve got for now! I feel like I tangented a bit here and there. But this is a very interesting idea you’ve brought up, and it does bear more consideration. Thank you very much for sharing it with me, it was very fun to ponder!

[dnpgiggle]

we are this 👌 close to them posting a video named ‘dan and phil hard launch’ and it’s just them playing a game about launching a rocket or something

[caramellody]

Ken Nui real im screaming lets goooo

[angelwiththeblue-box]

me omw to make everything i hear about them

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[plague-of-rats]

I am god's most rebellious soldier

(I stay up late and feel his wrath)

[kazamajun]

We all know Kazuya's feelings on the relationship so no need for me to dive into that further but Jun's side on Kazjun to me is 'he is my equal and counterpart and I am my most authentic version of myself when loving him' and 'there is a lot more to him than the coldness that he demonstrates outwardly to the world at large' but also a wee bit of 'he's a dramatic fashionista and it's funny/cute'