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loregoddess · 10 months ago

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Faye from FE for the ask game? :)

First impression: I didn't have any strong feelings for or against her, although I wasn't wildly keen on her writing for my first run, but in the "wow, the writers really messed up" kind of way and not like, "wow this character sucks" kind of way. I did like her as a unit though, she was pretty strong even though I eventually benched her bc I stopped using pegasus knights late-game (which was the class I had her in my first run).

Impression now: One of my favorite FE characters like, ever. Which started off as spite, I will admit, because she got a lot of hate from the fandom, but unlike so many other characters/games where fans criticize the writers, they just went straight for Faye as a character which was ??? bc like, what little writing she gets outside of her crush for Alm is Fine Actually, and again, she's a great unit in battle. So I decided that no actually I'm going to love this character, and then between critically reading her canon writing and coming up with my own headcanons and ideas for expanding her characterization, I ended up genuinely loving her a whole lot. Faye's great.

Favorite moment: This is hard bc again, *vaguely gestures at the game* she doesn't get a whole lot of screentime for anything, although I do appreciate that she comes to terms with her feelings towards Alm being unreciprocated, and is able to forge a friendship with Silque.

Idea for a story: Because I have this rarepair of Faye x Rinea (which was also born out of spite, I swear Echoes is actually tied for my top favorite FE game, I just also have a lot of spite in my heart I guess), I've been kicking around different ideas of how that could work in a mostly-canon but canon-divergent post-game story where Rinea is able to survive, and how Faye would help her along her healing journey while she also recovers from the war and comes to terms with her own feelings about Alm and stuff (and possibly have Faye help Sonya out with her witch recovery efforts in general), although I haven't gotten too far with any specific ideas to have a solid mental outline or anything.

A story exploring her life growing up with the other Ram kids would be pretty interesting too, although I'd probably get sucked into the research rabbit hole trying to learn about things like a complete history of farming and end up stressing about whether the fantasy farming village of Ram seemed like a legit farming community or not.

Unpopular opinion: I kind of feel like loving Faye is unpopular in and of itself, but yeah. Writing aside though, I do genuinely think Faye's a good character, like, from a visual design standpoint and also from a game mechanic standpoint, she's got a lot going for her. The writers did a poor job with her writing sure, but I think there's a lot of potential for her to be an interesting character in her own right.

Favorite relationship: Again, she doesn't get much, but I do like the friendship she has with Silque (and I don't mind the romantic ship of the two either even if it's not my first choice of ship for my own fleet), and I would have loved it if we got more insight into her relationships with the other Ram kids aside from Alm, bc I think there was a lot of missed potential there. Also, because Faye can be recruited to Celica's army instead, I would have loved if Faye had supports with at least Celica to explore what their relationship would have been like (I think they would have gotten along, even if Faye was a bit jealous of Celica at first). And well, of course my wild rarepair of Faye and Rinea.

Favorite headcanon: Hmm, I dunno if I have a favorite per se (since I mean, a lot of trying to expand Faye's characterization is just making stuff up that seems plausible), but I think since she was the only girl in a group of boys growing up that she's got sort of a rougher streak, like, she's willing and capable of throwing someone down in a fight, especially if they were picking on one of the other Ram kids (which could be reflected in her stats in the game, since she's pretty strong all things considered), and also due to Ram being a farming village she isn't really squeamish or icked out by things which some of the high born noble girls would have hated (bugs, dirt, mud, snakes, etc.). Like sure, Faye also enjoys wearing dresses and looking cute (she's very fashionable!) but she's also not really bothered by getting dirty and I'm very sure she probably picked up some critter out of Clair's tent one night with a slightly bored expression and released the poor thing outside. Hell, she'd even put some of the noble men to shame with her lack of fear of things that were normal everyday occurrences bc she grew up with a bunch of guys in a farming village (she's also definitely got some muscles as a result too). Also I think she makes all her own accessories by hand, and that she's overall very handy when it comes to sewing and crafts. I do think she's a bit of a picky eater though, not overly so, but just a bit.

#love my girl Faye #if I ever do get into writing fanfic I definitely want to write something for her #but I'm still sorta recovering my ability to write in general so who knows if I'll ever pick up fanfic writing #or if I just keep coming up with:#''oh this would be a neat story I'm gonna daydream about it instead of actually turning it into a story'' type ideas #might go and draw Faye holding a very angry opossum while looking bored though who knows #space-spring #ask game #I still don't have an ask tag

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dreamii-krybaby · 1 year ago

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BRASS GOGGLES BY STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE IS LITERALLY MURDER DRONES'S THEME SONG, NO I WILL NOT CHANGE MY MIND AND I WILL FIGHT YOU.

no but seriously it fits so well, the thing is this song has gone through many different versions it can fit the show in different ways.

like the song can be told in multiple POVs, but I think some version fit some characters better. For example the most current version of brass goggles (I think) is the one that includes "tea time", (for context some version aren't officially in platforms as it has only been performed by the band at their concerts/live shows but you can listen to it in youtube since a lot of their live performances are posted there) fits CYN as the main singer so well! ( I also feel she can fit as "upgrade"s part in the 2008 version)

tho yes even tho the song in all of it versions has a very old timey vibe (which honestly in that case fits the CYN and the whole creepy manor fiasco) lyric wise it fits a lot of the characters.

tho i think the 2013 version gives it a much more energy so gives it a different vibe (am talking the walter robotics expo and the one at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego) and I think it fits Uzi better bc the instrumentals and vocals go HARD in those performances of that version.

honestly any version of brass goggles can be sung by multiple characters from Murder Drones, each having their part.

there are so many songs from SPG that can fit murder drones so well, mostly lyric wise.

honestly we need sci-fi vibe songs about robot singing about the experience of living.

btw if u wanna know how many versions this song has its around 5 i think:

-album one (2009 version) this version of the album had the backup vocals of Erin Burke who portrayed "Upgrade" before she left the band in 2011

-album one (2012) the most known one

-"2013 version" - in this "version" which was performed at the Walter Robotics expo and at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego had much more energy and intensity and had an added drum solo.

-Music from SteamWorld heist (2015) - this version made for the game had a more upbeat but not necessarily an intense instrumental, and according to the SPG wiki,the developers game team sang alongside the band in the chorus.

btw in the 2013 and 2015 version had the backup vocals of Samuel luke, who was the og drum player before he joined as "Hatchworth" taking over the role of "the Jon" (who was portrayed by jonathan sprague, who left the band in late 2012)

-Tea time/Tea break (2014-present in performances) this version contains a "tea break" between before the final chorus and bridge of the song.

also in 2015 in performances the drums where no longer presented and instead was replaced by a keyboard and went HARD when the song had the "tea break" part (I think I know why this was made but GOD the history of the changes inside the band is hella long)

and btw in some performances you'll see a different member of the band, which is zero who joined the band in 2016 after Hatchworth/sam luke left

oh and in some version some lyrics of the song change, although most of the time they are minor ones and are mostly present in the the backup vocals.

anyways thank for reading me going down a rabbit hole of a pantomime-robot-band-lore-song named after a steampunk website

(also pls check out Steam Powered Giraffe, they are seriously super talented people, and just in case ALL of their albums and songs follow different vibes, like you will not find a song similar to brass goggles in their other albums. )

(Oh and btw Rabbit (the character) and isabella/"bunny" (Rabbit's performer) is trans and uses She/Her pronouns, but she started the band before she transitioned, so in some older performances you'll see rabbit with an outdated design and pronouns, am just saying this so some of yall dont get confused when watching their old content. Also Rabbit has the tendency to constantly change her design (which makes sense why this song has so many versions since its sang by rabbit and contains heavy lore of the SPG storyline))

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#murder drones #steam powered giraffe #spg my beloved #Spotify #Youtube

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turniparts · 4 months ago

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Omg you're so good with the writing thing! I went back and added line breaks after you said smth bc I'm the same way, hate reading huge blocks of text but love writing them, and once it was pointed out I had to fix it lol. Honestly the au was kind of a one-off thing for me but it has been rotating in the back of my brain for a while and I think I will expand on it. I also am a huge Scott Smajor fan, been watching him for like 6-7(ish?) years now, so ofc I had to center around him. That man has been my favorite creator for far too long for me to NOT make him the center of any life series au. It would be rude of me, he's the one who got me into the life series in the first place.

As for the hooligans, they're one of the few things I kinda thought about beyond the main characters, and I was thinking it'd be the mounders + Lizzie and potentially Gem? Again, it's not super duper fleshed out bc at the time my brain was just going "must combine the hyper fixations immediately!!!" And suddenly I had 17 different tabs open just to look at flower meanings lmao(this is not an exaggeration, I think I did more research for this than I did for my actual research class). I think I am going to go think about who to make be the random headspace characters, and how Scott's headspace would be different from Sunny's lol.

Also I'm rly glad you noticed the Cleo thing, I was worried that in the rw design, her less melanated patches weren't quite noticeable enough, but I didn't want to make them super stark white. I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to go for it at all, but I wanted to draw parallels between hs and rw, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity for hs Cleo to be a zombie, so rw Cleo got vitiligo patches. Cleo and Scott duo also makes me feral, they're so "besties in every universe" coded throughout the entire life series, how could I not make them Kel.

Anyway it just makes me super happy to find other people who actually know wtf I'm talking about bc usually I just annoy my friends who know neither media. I'm actually working on some pieces for the flip side of this au(Omori characters as the life series winners tarot cards/celestial bodies in my own art style) and I now have extra motivation to actually finish that(I'm halfway through atm).

But yeah you're super epic and cool and I'm glad you enjoyed the product of my brain forcing my two favorite things together :D I'm gonna go down a rabbit hole of thinking too much about the au again o7

Hiii sorry if this is strange I just wanted to say thank you for the incredibly kind words on your reblog of my Omori/life series post <33 It genuinely made my day

OH YEAH OFC!!!! i loved it so genuinely much & i would boost it more if i could, i read through the flower explanations earlier and oh my god?? oh MY GOD???!? the thought you put into each of those??? what??? i don’t know when you added line breaks but it helped a lot & i really liked reading it but like.

everything about the au is so creative and well thought-out!! im soo so crazy about aubrey as pearl, the way they’re both so nice but turn their anger external?!?!! i’m sooo excited to see what the equivalent of the hooligans (? is that their name?) for pearl is because AUGH OUGH,,

and i LOVE cleo as kel, (double life here) because she’s the person who didn’t give up on scott, she swore to stick by his side no matter what AND i love the zombie spots being mirrored as patches of a loss of melanin,,,

AND i love scar as hero, they have the SAME VIBE, i know they were family in one of the series-s (??) and i like them being related, ESPECIALLY IF CLEO IS DYING HER HAIR, but scar definitely has hero energy, charming but slightly melancholic, he probably hits people with his crutches or rolls them over w/ his wheelchair, and i like how he goes from crutches (supposedly how scott last saw him) to a wheelchair, implying he’s gotten worse, like maybe he was so distraught over grian’s death that he stopped doing exercises/seeing a doctor/ something equivalent to that & made him physically AND mentally effected,

and scott ohhh my god scott. i’m a scott watcher primarily so i’m rlly happy he plays a big role, the switchout of scott + smajor as sunny + omori is GENUIS, and stronger than he appears aughh,,,, sunny and scott have so so many parallels, need i mention that scott dies and wakes up in a better afterlife twice and what is white space/dream world (forgot the name) except a better reality…. i love him being in monotone blue, i love the ends of his hair being blue (ie it grew out) and i LOVE that you mentioned that he would act like nothing changed because he WOULD do that, because if he doesn’t pretend everything’s the same he’d breakdown on the spot, smiles and waves off everyone’s concerns and AUGHHH

i’m sorry if this is too long to read cause i did exactly what i said was hard for ME to read, but i love your au sooo so much and you got the artsyle exactly and i’m planning on drawing fanart later teehee

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mauesartetc · 3 years ago

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The only reason I even knew Vaggie (also I hate her name like why? Why name her that?) was a moth demon was because of the fandom.

I like bows when it makes sense for the character, might just be me but from what we’ve seen of her she just doesn’t seem like one to have a giant bow in her hair.

Alastor supposed to be a deer demon? I didn’t know the guy even had antlers at first glance. I also genuinely had no idea those were his frickin ears! I thought it was just a weird hairstyle bc why not?

I’m with you on Nifty’s design, I love it, would like to see more of her.

Personally I like Angel’s design because I think it suits him. Sexy and cute, but that’s really it. I went for a long time thinking he was intersex male bc of the fur titties! Like I thought they had a legit purpose and I thought it was cool to see inclusion and positivity of that! But no it’s just fur with the magical properties to act like boobs because yea

Also he was apparently a mobster in his previous life? A former mobster is where I would expect to see pin stripe suits- I also personally think his suit is too close in color to his skin/fur. It’s kind of confusing to me

This is all strange to me because I like watching hazbin/helluva, but like as just a funny lil thing to see- my brand of comedy isn’t really in line with the rampant amount of sex jokes that go on there but I can find humor in them. My fav is prob when angel taunts/teases/?? The snake dude by saying “harder daddy” but snake dude immediately goes “SON?? 🥺” and angel’s face after getting that response was hilarious to me.

I tend to try to stay out of fandom drama and especially ignoring the creator(I love Harry Potter but wow JK Rowling really turned out to be like that huh?) because I want to enjoy the story/content we get but…does she seriously refuse to take criticism? Like ever? You said she’s only responded to overly positive views on it right? I couldn’t imagine that, how am I supposed to learn without criticism?

On a slightly different note; have you seen the over analyzations that fandom has down? I’m speaking for just the newest episode, and while I find them interesting to read it’s hard to think these things go that deep/anything from that will stick around/character developments or 5min and then next episode back to normal

Oh, haven't you heard? Vaggie's original name was VAGYNA. I'm not making that up. And yeah she really doesn't look like a moth, nor does Alastor look much like a deer. It's also kinda hilarious that Angel's the character pinstripes would fit the best given his background and time period, yet he's one of the only dudes in Hazbin who don't wear them.

Yeah ngl, the "Son?" part was funny to me too. Too bad nearly every line out of Angel's mouth was sexualized. These writers are aware sex workers know conversation topics unrelated to their job, right? Being "on" like that 24/7 would be exhausting, I'm sure.

Viv is a perfect example of what happens when artists refuse to take criticism. She keeps falling back on the same tired visual tropes she's used in her designs for years. It's hard to learn from your mistakes if you deny you've made any.

Yeah I've consciously avoided falling down the fan theory rabbit hole for Hazbin/Helluva because I value my mental health. But I have seen the odd Youtube thumbnail with a title like, "Is Blitzo Part Succubus?" and this was my exact reaction: "Oh my god, who. The hell. Cares." These folks are reading WAY too far into things when the writers couldn't even manage believable character reactions. And y'all are speculating about lore and shit? PFFFF.

#ask #anon ask #anonymous #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel critical #helluva boss #helluva critical #character design #writing #vivziepop #criticism

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lesserfandomappreciation · 4 years ago

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Ariadne and why the Mycenaeans can fuck right off

Warning: Includes brief mentions of r*pe, cultural destruction, ancient patriarchy reminding us why no woman would ever time-travel more than 5 years into the past if that and a great deal of spite for male historians/public education history/mythology classes.

Possible side effects may include a sudden intense rage for an ancient society equivalent to the innate rage one has for the Romans burning the library of Alexandria, a distinct hatred for ancient men not being able to let anyone have nice things, and a sudden fascination for Minoa.

Usually, I stick to writing imagines and being happy with that. It’s fun! I love it! But every now and again, in an attempt to escape the crushing forces known as reality and responsibilities I’ll put on a few cutscenes from games I’m: A) Too lazy to play B) Too broke to play C) Too unskilled to play D) All of the above

because cutscenes are free and why torture yourself with impossible levels when its free on Youtube?* *In all seriousness please support video games and video game creators, but no shame to those of us who prefer cutscenes to gameplay. A few weeks ago I added the game Hades made by Supergiant to the list because the cutscenes were bomb and the characters are so much fun! Intricate as all hell! Hella cute too but that’s unrelated! Now my pretty little simp patootie is especially a big fan of Dionysus and his gorgeous design so the cutscenes with him are my favorite.

I’m re-watching his cutscenes a few nights ago for fun as background when he has a certain line about Theseus. Don’t quote me on this since my memory is foggy at best but roughly it was: Dionysus: Good job with Theseus. Never cared much for him- what he did to that girl was just horrible.*

*I know that’s not his exact line but this is clearly a rant post fueled by spite and ADD-hyper-focused obsessions with ancient civilizations so let’s not worry too too much about the semantics here.

Now, I like mythology! Personally, I prefer the Norse mythology due to the general lack of very very gross dynamics that several other ancient mythologies seem to include, but I’m decently familiar with Greek mythos. Enough to go - “Why does the God of Wine give a single fuck about the frat bro of Greek heroes being a dick to a woman? Grossness is embedded into the very DNA of all distant relatives of Zeus, a woman being harassed by Zeus or his bastard army is a typical Tuesday in ancient Greece.”

Wikipedia confirms that Ariadne is the only woman in the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, which I kinda knew already so unless Theseus did some f’ed up shit to some other princess of Minos, Dionysus could only be referring to her. Disregarding what I know about Wikipedia and how it can suck you down the rabbit hole of rabbit holes through sheer fury I stupidly clicked the link to Ariadne’s article.

By the time we get to the end of this shitstorm, I will have two separate plotlines for two separate stories based of Ariadne, 2k+ notes (and going) on an ancient civilization prior to a week ago I didn’t know existed and within me there will be a rage towards a different ancient civilization I vaguely recall learning about in high school.

Here’s how this shit went down.

First of all, apparently after Theseus abandoned Ariadne on an island to die (yep! He did that! To the one person who is the only reason he defeated the minotaur! Fuck this guy.) there are multiple storylines where Dionysus takes a single look at Ariadne and falls in love.

“A god falls in love?” you say, aware of how most love stories in Greek mythos can be summed up with Unfortunately, Zeus got horny and Hera is a firm believer in victim blaming. “This poor woman is about to go through hell!” I thought so too! And in one variation of the story, Dionysus does his daddy proud by being an absolute tool to Ariadne. In the majority though? He woos the fuck out of her, and ultimately marries her by consent!

Her consent!

In ancient Greece!

The party dude of the Greek pantheon knows more about consent then his father and modern day frat brothers!

Okay! That’s interesting, so I keep reading.

Ariadne getting hitched to Dionysus is a big deal in Olympus, to the point of getting a crown made of the Aurora Borealis from Aphrodite who is bro-fisting Dionysus, beyond glad she didn’t have to give him the talk about consent. The rest of the gods are pissy especially Hera who doesn’t like Dionysus much since he is the son of Zeus and Semele but they don’t do much. Ariadne ascends to godhood, becomes the goddess of Labyrinths with the snake and bull as her symbol and that’s that on that.

Colorin, colorado, este cuento se acabado. And they lived happily ever after. That’s the end of the post right?

NO! Because curiosity has made me their bitch and there’s more to this calling me.

Also, I was pissed! Still am! Why the fuck-a-doodle-do did I have to learn about the time Poseidon r*ped a priestess instead of the arguably healthiest relationship in the entirety of the pantheon? Why is Persephone and Hades’ story (which has improved since it was first written and I like more modern versions of it, no hate) the only healthy-ish Greek love story I had to learn when Dionysus and Ariadne were right there? The rage of having endured several grade levels of “Zeus got horny and Hera found out” stories in the nightmare of public education led me to keep looking into this.

There’s this wonderful Youtube channel called Overly Sarcastic Productions that I highly recommend that delves a lot into mythology, and I have seen their bombass video about Dionysus and how his godhood has changed since he was potentially first written in a language we comprehend.

Did ya’ll know this man is the heir apparent to Zeus? ‘Cause I didn’t know that!

YEA! Dionysus, man of parties, king of hangovers and inducer of madness, is set to inherit the throne of Olympus! Ariadne didn’t husband up the God of Wine, she husbanded up the Prince of Olympus and heir apparent to the throne! Holy shit! No wonder some of the gods were against her marriage to Dionysus - can you imagine the drama of an ex-mortal woman sitting on the Queen’s throne of Olympus? Hera must have been pissed.

BUT WAIT.

There’s more.

The reason we know Dionysus is a very important god and is possibly even more important than we think is because of a handy-dandy language known as Linear B, otherwise known as the language of the Mycenaeans!

For those of you fortunate enough to have normal hobbies and interests, the Mycenaeans were the beta version of the Greeks. Their written language of Linear B is one of, if not the first recorded instance of a written Indo-European language. This language, having been translated, gives us an interesting look at what the Greek gods were like back in their beta-stages before they fixed the coding and released the pantheon.

Interesting side facts of the Mycenaean Greek gods include:

Poseidon being the head god with an emphasis on his Earthquake aspect, and being much more of a cthonic god in general.

Take that Zeus, for being so gross.

The gods in general being more cthonic, as Mycenaeans were obsessed with cthonic gods (probably due to all the earthquakes and natural disasters in Greece and Crete at that time)

Several of the gods and goddesses that we know being listed, alongside some that we don’t consider as important (Dione)

The first mention of Kore, later Persephone, but no Hades because since a lot of gods were cthonic, there would be no need for one, specific cthonic god to represent the majority of death-related rituals.

That’s not what we’re focusing on though! What we’re focusing on is a specific translated portion of Linear B that we have. One of the translated portions of Linear B that for the life of me I can’t find (someone please help me find it and send the link so I can edit this post) says an interesting phrase. “Honey to the gods. Honey to the Mistress of Labyrinths.”

One more time. “Honey to the gods. Honey to the Mistress of Labyrinths.”

Mistress of Labyrinths.

Now wait a gosh darn minute. Isn’t there a goddess of labyrinths in the Greek mythos? Why yes! Yes there is! Ariadne!

Here’s a question for you. If Ariadne is but a minor god in the pantheon, a wife to a more predominant god, why is it that while all the other gods and goddesses are bunched together in a sentence of praise, the so-called ex-mortal gets a whole-ass sentence to herself singing praises?

And thus, we have arrived to Minoa!

What is Minoa, you ask? Minoa is to Rome what Rome is to us. An old-ass civilization either older than or younger by a hundred years to ancient Egypt. Egypt, that started in 3200 B.C-ish depending on who you ask. That’s old. Old as balls. They were contemporaries to their trading partner, Egypt until 1450 BC-ish. A 2000 year old civilization.

Minoa was founded on the island of Crete, and was by what artifacts we have found a merchant civilization with its central economy centered on the cultivation of saffron and the development of bronze/iron statues of bulls. Most of what we know about them comes from artifacts and frescoes found on Crete that managed to survive everything else I will mention later, but what matters is that we know a few things about them.

Obsessed with marine life for some time, given their pottery.

Had the first palaces in all of Europe, some of them ridiculously big.

Wrote in Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphs, both still untranslated languages.

Had a ritual involving jumping over a bull, for some reason.

Firm believers in “Suns out, Tits out.”

You’d think I’m kidding on the last one but no! No no no! All the women apparently rocked the tits-out look in Minoa!

^^^^One of many, many Minoan works featuring women giving their titties fresh air. ^^^^

“Wait a second Pinks! What does this have to do with Ariadne being the Mistress of labyrinths?”

Well you see dear wonderful darling, while we know very little about Minoan religion because Mycenaeans (we will get to those bastards in a second), we do know this:

All the religious figures appear to be exclusively women.

The most important figures of their religion seem to be goddesses as there are few artifacts featuring male gods.

Because of the religion, the culture may have been an equal society or even a matriarchy! Historians who are male aren’t sure.

A frankly ridiculous amount of their temples, including the ones in caves in the middle of fuck-all feature labyrinths. A lot of labyrinths!

Their head god is a goddess! Whose temples have labyrinths and whose main symbols are snakes and bulls. Who do we know is a) the mistress of labyrinths and b) is symbolized a lot by snakes and bulls?

ARI-fucking-ADNE THAT’S WHO!

Ariadne didn’t upgrade by marrying the prince of Olympus! Dionysus wifed up possibly the most important goddess in all of Crete and becoming her boy-toy!

I’m not even kidding, most Minoan depictions of the goddess’ consort features a boy/man who cycles through the stages of death. Dionysus himself in several myths goes through the same cycle - life, being crushed, death, rebirth, repeat. Cycles the consort goes through in Minoan legend depictions too!

Okay, that’s great, but what does that have to do with the Mycenaeans? Why do you want to single-handedly go back in time and strangle the beta-Greeks with the nearest belt?

Everything I just said about Ariadne being a Minoan goddess, the Mistress of Labyrinths being hella important on Minoa, is all theoretical. The Mycenaeans are partially to blame for making it theoretical.

Minoa thrived for 2000 years but it had a lot of issues, mostly caused by natural disasters. Towards the end of their civilization (1500 BC-ish), the nearby island of Thera, today known as Santorini, decided to blow up. The island was a hella-active volcano that when erupted, destroyed a lot.

How big was the eruption? Well when Pompeii was wasted by Mt. Vesuvius, the blast was heard from roughly 120 miles away, 200 km.

The blast on Thera was heard from 3000 miles away. 4800 km away.

Fuck me, the environmental effects of the explosion were felt in imperialistic CHINA.

Holy shit that would waste anybody! And it did! Minoa went from being a powerhouse in the Mediterranean to scrambling to recover from losing 40,000 citizens and who knows how many cities. Tsunamis may have followed the blast, further destroying ports which for a navy-powerhouse of an island nation is a bad thing and the theorized temperature drops caused by a cloud of ash lingering for a while would have destroyed crops for the year.

Minoa was fucked.

The Mycenaeans and all their bullshit made it worse.

Up until a few hundred years prior to Thera’s explosion, Minoan artifacts don’t depict much in terms of military power. Why would it? Crete is a natural defense post. Sheer cliffs, high mountains and a few semi-fortified areas would make it pointless to invade. It’s only when the Mycenaeans in all their bullshit decided to attack/compete that Minoa really needed any army to speak of.

Guess who decided to invade while Minoa was reeling from an incredibly shitty year? Mycenaea!

Guess who won?

Also Mycenaea!

Nobody knows how this shit went down though because wouldn’t you know it, the Mycenaeans in all their superiority-complex glory decided to destroy most written accounts about Minoa, a good junk of the temples and culturally eliminated most of Minoan beliefs.

Minoa isn’t even the real name of the civilization! It’s just the name Arthur Evans, the guy who re-motivate interest in Minoan archaeology, gave to the civilization because the writings that would have included the name of the civilization were destroyed.

“That sucks!” Fuck yes that sucks! “What does that have to do with Ariadne though?”

Oh ho ho. Strap in because you’re about to be pissed.

Those of us unfortunate enough to be aware of all the bullshit the Christians pulled on the European pagan belief system are familiar with the concept of cultural, religious destruction. There’s a special name for it I don’t know but if I did I would curse it to be absorbed by the horrendous will of fungi.

An example: Christianity was not the most popular of religions amongst the Vikings. A monotheistic religion that is heavily controlled did not strongly appeal to anyone with a pantheon as rad as the Norse one.

In order to appeal to the Vikings, what monks would do is they would write down traditionally Viking stories which up until that point were orally passed down. Beowulf, the story of the most Viking Viking to have every Vikinged, was one of these first stories.

However! Did these monks write Beowulf as closely to the original oral transcript as possible? Of course not! They took liberties! While Norse features such as trolls and dragons and all sorts of Norse magic occur, there is a lot of Christian features added in.

This happened across all Pagan religions that Christianity came into contact with in Europe. Stories would be altered when written down to be more Christian (this happened to the Greek Pantheon too btw), holidays that were Pagan magically lined up with ones the Vatican just happened to suddenly have. Even names of mythological figures were taken and added onto Christian figure names. Consequently, a lot of pagan religions they did this to got erased over time, with many of their traditions and details being lost forever, and the details we do know being tinted by Christianity.

The Mycenaeans were likely no different.

Minoa and Mycenaea were as culturally opposite as can be. Minoa is theorized to be a matriarchal or equal society*. Mycenaea and most of early Greece absolutely was not. In fact, during early stages of their religion where they believed in reincarnation, the Mycenaeans believed the worst thing to come back as was a woman.

Did you get that? With your options ranging from man to ever single animal on Earth, a woman was ranked as beneath literal animals in Mycenaean society.

Fuck the Mycenaeans.

* This is not to say Minoa was without fault, as a society that is matriarchal or equal can still have rampant issues such as privilege, classism, racism, sexism and more, but when history has a shortage of civilizations that didn’t treat women like shit, you find yourself rooting for them more.

What do you do then, when you take over a society that is very much the opposite of a nightmare of a patriarchy? You fold their beliefs into your own to bait them into yours. Going back to the Linear B line about “Mistress of Labyrinths” that line would/could have been an early tactic of incorporating Minoan belief into Mycenaean belief. Other goddesses and gods were made into aspects of Mycenaean gods. Bristomartis, the Minoan goddess of the hunt, would become Artmeis. Velchanos, a god of the sky, would become Zeus.

With more time, the religion shifted more into Mycenaean and eventually into ancient Greece as we know it. Through trade other gods and goddesses would continue to shift and change, some being straight up imported (Aphrodite for example). Dionysus himself changed a lot too, going from a God representing freedom and attracting slaves, women and those with limited power into his cult, to a God of parties for the wealthy.

Theseus and the Minotaur was a myth likely based on a Mycenaean myth based on a Minoan myth that changes Ariadne from an important, possibly the important goddess of an ancient religion and relegates her to a side character in a pantheon so vast that she would be lost within it.

All of this brings us to today. Today, where as soon as work ended I spent most of the day, as well as the past two days, looking up everything I can on Minoan civilization and added it to my notes. Spite is fueling me to write two possible different stories for two different fandoms where Minoa dunks of Mycenaea and it is giving me life. Expect an update within the next two weeks folks as I lose control of my writing life once more.

In summary: Ariadne deserves more respect, fuck the public education system for skipping over the good parts of Greek mythology instead of the r*pey as shit parts, the Mycenaeans can eat my shorts, and a world were Minoa became the predominant power instead of Greece would be an amazing world to live in.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. Pink out.

#minoa #minoan #crete #ancient history #ariadne #mycenaea #mycenaean #I hate #HATE #HATE HATE HATE the Greeks so much #homer is a dick #So much spite and curiosity went into this #if I ever get a time machine I will travel to the first years of Mycenaea for the express purpose of burning it to the ground before #they get a chance #the opportunity #to look at Minoa wrong

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I think Undyne's determination has less to do with like something that happened in the past and more like the overlap between determination as an actual physical thing VS a spiritual thing. Whereas the amalgamates were injected with determination by Alphys, Undyne makes her OWN. You've killed her best friend. You're going to kill the love of her life. You're going to kill her mentor. You're going to kill everyone. You've killed HER. But she still has to stop you. Everyone is counting on her 1/2

Undyne's whole motif is letting the monsters of the Underground achieve their hopes and dreams. Theres a reason she is the boss fight in Waterfall, the most backstory rich area in the game. Hope and dreams have just as much weight as determination does, its what helps you defeat Asriel. And Undyne the Undying's design mimics Asriel's because in Genocide SHE is the heroine, SHE is the determined hero that defies death in order to save everyone she loves via the hopes and dreams of everyone (2/2)

Sorry I just really fucking love Undyne Undertale fhfhfndkdk she willingly letting herself be used in an experiment to help her people is Very Good tho too hmmmm

!!!!

sorry ur abt to get a whole essay i love undertale so much.........

(also i use a lot of !!! for emphasis, not bc i’m yelling omg)

(also i’m letting you know this is an incoherent mess, it is 2am here akjsdkjsdjk)

but you can definitely be right!!!! tbh your idea seems much more par for the course than the spaghetti im throwing at the wall

even then, though, it’s stll so interesting bc like!!!! undyne’s courage is undeniable, and her fight to protect the underground plays Such a huge role in her whole waterfall arc. and, in the spiritual sense, she is absolutely determined!! that just makes me WONDER though bc, like, canonically, monsters Are Not determined! they don’t have that threshold!

and then, in looking at determination in the spiritual sense, what exactly makes undyne different? is it that her desire to live and protect the underground unlocks that threshold needed for determination? at one point, could monsters be determined, but then their millennia trapped underground biologically/psychologically stripped them of that? so then could any monster in the underground, when facing high enough stakes, have that determination? or is it just undyne?

bc then i think about the other bosses in either route, like papyrus, mettaton, asgore, sans. where undyne is the monster/boss capable of possessing determination, sans is probably the one least likely to have any threshold for determination (this is bc his entire boss fight is him realizing he can no longer be an observer, he is literally the last line of defense between chara and the annihilation of all monsters). mettaton is complicated bc as a napstablook turned corporeal, i dont even know where to BEGIN with him. but then there’s papyrus and!! it feels like he should be capable of feeling determined. in both the pacifist and genocide route, he is so assured that the human has some internal goodness. while, in the genocide route, that hope could be translated to fear, that still makes me wonder: under what circumstances could a monster’s determination be unlocked? is it not solely life or death? does it require some ulterior motives (aka undyne’s whole character being protecting the underground)? and like!!! it’s just so fun to think about bc, say it is undyne’s spiritual determination being unlocked, it’s so interesting that she’s the one differentiated!! that even papyrus, a character brimming with good and happiness and love, doesn’t have that determination, but undyne, who has a similar type of passion and goodness within her, does!!!

with experiment undyne, i will admit my theory is very much uhh wild! and unhinged! and, while my theory is much more playing in the “what if’s” of the science of artificial determination, it still makes me wonder! especially in the boss fight herself. ever since i first saw her genocide boss fight, i’ve always been a bit fixated on her eye, specifically the one w/ the eye-patch that eventually seems to have Some type of arrow power. while this definitely could have just been A Design Choice (and one i stand by!!), undertale is a game that reveals its complete lore when the pacifist and genocide route are put together. thus, in a hypothetical situation, i don’t think it would be out of the question that undyne’s eye could still Do that even in a pacifist route.

but even then, there are holes to poke! such as why doesn’t she use it? if undyne has been injected with artificial determination, why is she, frankly, normal until it’s a matter of life and death?

(to cut to the punchline before i get into my bullshit: i think it’s bc, at first, it seemed as if the artificial determination just Didn’t Work and had no affect, when in reality it needed to be met with spiritual determination as well)

and, again, i know i’m playing with a lot of hypotheticals right now, and mostly this is me just kinda fun bullshit theorizing, but i think it could have something to do with the fact that she has the threshold for spiritual determination! the reason i even think that she would offer herself up to determination experimentation is bc of the loyalty and love she has for asgore and the underground. i would argue that she is just as invested in asgore’s plan as asgore himself is, and she obviously sees him as some type of father-figure. so that alone gives her this Drive to do whatever it takes for the underground to survive.

so, therefore, i think in regards to this hypothetical experiment undyne, i think it quite literally is that spiritual determination threshold combined with artificial determination

and for that, i quickly want to talk abt the amalgamates and why they tie into this:

the timeline: corpses/souls injected with determination --> no reaction --> corpses wake up and act normal --> ??? happens --> (quickly leads to) amalgamates

and so then that once again raises the question: what differentiates undyne?

i think, for that, we then have to consider another question: if most monsters do not have the physical determination to continue living after death, can that determination be given when they’re already dead? monsters in general already have no threshold for determination, so can that be artificially made if it never existed in the first place?

bc while alphys’s experiment, iirc, was to see what happened when a soul was injected with determination, i think the other much needed question is if monster souls could even Handle determination

and, while we do not know specifically what went wrong with the amalgamates (aka like How did they melt together), we do know that their physical forms really were not able to handle the artificial determination, imo most likely bc they do not even have a threshold for spiritual determination

but undyne is, as you have noted, different!

so, frankly, i think you’re right! i think undyne does have an inherent spiritual determination. it’s uncommon in monsters, but her want to save the world is enough to leave her determined

however, i think That would have just been enough to keep her alive

i think it’s artificial determination that gave her that final form! to reference back to the amalgamates, they were all creatures whose powers we had seen before, but different now and, specifically, more powerful. that very same thing could be said for undyne! her powers are, essentially, things we have seen before, but fucking to Max Intensity

AND THEN!! AND THEN!!!!!

when you do kill heroine undyne, she doesn’t turn to dust first

she melts first, and then turns to dust!!!!!

and, honestly, it’s that small detail that sent me down this rabbit hole, bc the only ever time we’ve seen monsters melted together are the amalgamates!

i think the main difference between heroine undyne and the amalgamates is the fact that undyne, at first, had No Reaction to the determination at first bc, since she most likely already had this secret threshold for spiritual determination, it wasn’t the Biggest of changes. it wouldn’t have had such a drastic reaction on her physical form bc, even if she didn’t know it yet, it wasn’t an entirely foreign substance

the amalgamates, however, aka monsters who had no spiritual determination, could only handle the artificial determination for an unknown amount of time before their bodies began rejecting the chemicals and becoming..... that

of course, then, this leaves me with even more questions, such as could undyne sustain this final form? would her body eventually give out, overcome by determination? was this form only meant for life or death situations?

and uhhh i think this is the end!! if you made it this far and are thinking to urself “damn you’re really an english major when you write like this?? this isn’t even comprehensible” do not fret!! i know this theory is kinda a shitshow, and it’s one of those things where i can keep myself up all night thinking abt this and talking myself in circles bc there are some points that i think have strengths and other points that are probably pretty weak

basically though!! i see the connection between artificial determination and undyne through the fact that her form actually changes, the reveal of her legit power eye, the way her attacks have been altered, and the fact that she melts at the end (akin to the amalgamates’ appearances) before poofing into dust

this has been,,,, a shitshow i am so sorry i hope this was at least somewhat understandable ajkdsjkdsjk

#this is why i cant talk abt undertale past 9pm #bc then my brain just goes brrrr as i write bullshit for 40 minutes #answered #ember360

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spnfanficpond · 4 years ago

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June 2020 Angel Fish Awards

(New Angel Fish design by @slytherkins!!)

Every month all of you fantastic writers work your asses off to post some truly incredible stories. Our Angel Fish Awards are the way for all of us, as a community of writers and readers, to lift each other up and give praise to those who have captured our attention and deserve a few kind words.

The monthly Angel Fish Awards are peer-nominated, meaning ANYONE IN THE POND CAN NOMINATE ANY POND MEMBER’S FIC. While the Pond was founded to support the Guppies, everyone in this community deserves to be showered with love and feedback, and we hope that by opening this up as a Pond wide system, we’ll be able to share the love as far as it can go.

NOTE: WE’VE BEEN HAVING OCCASIONAL PROBLEMS WITH ASKS GOING MISSING. Please use the Submit button when submitting your nominations and make sure you’re signed into Tumblr or your URL won’t show. (If the form asks for your name and email address, then you’re not signed in.) If you like, you can also send a message to Michelle @mrswhozeewhatsis or Mana @manawhaat to check and make sure we got your submission.

Be sure to read through this whole post as people who were nominated more than once only had one tag activated for tumblr tagging purposes!

WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, HERE ARE JUNE’S ANGEL FISH AWARDS!

Nonimated by @thegirlwhorunswithwinchesters

I Thought You Were Going To Die (oneshot) by @fun-and-fandoms

My nominations for the month wouldn’t be complete without a little bit of angst. Though this one isn’t just that. If you’re easily triggered by mentions of depression and its symptoms, this one’s not for you. But it’s an important topic and I will always encourage any creator who uses their art to remind people it’s okay to talk about it. (Note from Kale, this was actually submitted in May but I missed it.)

More to Me (oneshot) by @becs-bunker

No spoilers, but I’m so glad this ended the way it did. So sweet <3

Help (oneshot) by @blushingjared

I came across this fic and was immediately intrigued. Then I started reading and I was captivated from the first sentence until the very last. The author did such a good job with setting the scene and painting the right picture.

Talking Bodies (oneshot) by @ne-gans

This AU-Sam is such a huge weakness of mine. That, in combination with this dangerously filthy masterpiece, is nothing short of perfection.

Nominated by @focusonspn

Into The Woods (series) by @amanda-teaches

So well written, interesting plot and great development. The chemistry between Y/N and Dean is also amazing, and I loved how this mini-series could be so easily part of the show. Totally worth reading.

Nominated by @thoughtslikeamindfield

Stranger Than FanFiction (series) by @cherry3point14

The premise is similar to the film Stranger Than Fiction – a story about a story being written about you – and it’s just as hilarious. Also, Cherry Pie is still one of the funniest writers in this corner of SPN fandom.

“You’re not supposed to move your head if there’s someone trying to murder you, probably…”

No, I wouldn’t think so, but lollllll

“You’re being insane, out loud.”

Omgggg

“It tried, oh, how the door tried to divert her attention from the unknown men who could be terrible, rule-breaking influences on her. However the door was only wood and she was a stubborn woman made of free will and limbs—a woman who refused to be deceived.”

“Your hand is on the doorknob before the mention of your limbs has finished rattling around your head. Realistically you don’t want to encourage the voice by doing what it says. After all, the voice’s ultimate goal seems to be killing you.”

BAHAHAHAH omfg you guys

I need to stop quoting from this bc I probably seem insane to those of you who haven’t read this, so stop being judgy buttheads and go read!

Nominated by @flamencodiva

The Choice (series) by @superfanficnatural

A couple of things. 1) this is an amazing fic that highlights Dean unwillingness to let himself go until it’s almost too late. and 2) the smut in this is hot hot hot hot! not for anyone under 18 years of age.

Mert has a way with words and can literally pluck you into one and make you see it as it comes to life in your head.

Mine (series) by @holylulusworld

Lulu has an abundance of different stories she tells and this one is my favorite of her ABO’s at the moment. (although I love all of them) I think this one deserved a mention. I am glad she joined to Pond so I could help nominate and spread her amazing work!

One Night at a Time (series) by @crashdevlin

Another great fic by Cassie! This one shot full of Angst, Smut, and if you squint just the right amount of Dean fluff. She has a way of capturing your attention and putting you in the world as you read.

What He Lost (oneshot) by @jensengirl83

This short story by Brandy is sure to rip your heart out. she leaves just a bit of hope where you think there is a chance only to crush it completely with the ending. This one is sure to bring you to tears if you are looking for the most delicious angsty story to read.

Nominated by @risingpheonix761

Down The Rabbit Hole (oneshot) by @dontshootmespence

So, this was hysterical. XD I love crack fics, and bad smut in particular, and this one hits the spot. (I’ve also learned several new horrible euphemisms lol). The ending, though? Golden!

Nominated by @myinconnelly1

The Affair (oneshot) by @holylulusworld

I love how well all the characters are portrayed I truly hate everyone except the reader! Well done!!

Red Riding Hood - or how you ran into a wolf... (oneshot) by @holylulusworld

I have nothing to say about this. I will simply allow the puddle I have become to speak for me.

Last Omega On Earth (oneshot) by @holylulusworld

This was a great entry in the ABO world. and we need more of this and more like !!!!! Great work!

My Beta (oneshot) by @holylulusworld

I am a greedy little bitch with this fic. I think I've read it 3-4 since i first read it this month!!!!!! READ THIS FIC!

Third Period (oneshot) by @fictionalabyss

Some truly inspiring smut. Inspiring to change my panties.

Gods of Twilight (series) by @thecleverdame

I think i posted this fic in my rec before, but it is so amazing and intricate that i can't stop gushing about it. Fucking awesome.

Apple Pie (oneshot) by @bad268

The amazingness of this is great, check this guppy out!

Deal (oneshot) by @bad268

Comedy at some of its's finest!!!

Confession (oneshot) by @idreamofplaid

THE FLUFFFFFFF!!!! I don't read straight fluff. So get the tissues ready.

Fallen (series) by idreamofplaid

My therapist has told me i'm not longer allowed to talk about this fic during our sessions. So instead i shall now talk about it here... *pulls out soapbox* ahem... *gets pulled away with hook*

Memory (oneshot) by @idreamofplaid

This fic is older, but i love it so much. I recently went back and reread it, and the angst and reconciliation in this fic are heartwrenching.

Home (oneshot) by @emilyshurley

My dentist bill the month was higher than normal, due to the new cavities caused by this fic.

Imperfectly Yours (oneshot) by @emilyshurley

Cuteness overload as you get Dean's perspective of Home ^^

Second Hand News (oneshot) by @emilyshurley

Alright listen. I am a glutton for punishment. And this fic, I asked for. Also i had it set within one of the universes we now own. That all being said, reading this was like a dose of my own medicine and it fucking hurt.

Honesty And Lies (oneshot) by @crashdevlin

This was super dirty, and great. Totally recommend.

Nominated by @deanwinchesterswitch

The Classifieds (oneshot) by @talesmaniac89

This is rip your heart out and stomp on it angst right here. So well written, but so, so heartbreaking.

So Much More Than Perfect (oneshot) by @imagineteamfreewill

This fic is one of the sweetest things I’ve ever read. It made me tear up a bit, but who doesn’t love Dean being the most protective, most adorable dad ever?!

Nominated by @mariekoukie6661

Dear Dean (series) by @smol-and-grumpy

It’s one of those series that makes you wants more after every chapter. It’s a brilliant story.

Left Behind (series) by @kittenofdoomage

It’s the only John Fic I can read over and over and over again. Its hot, the plot is awesome! And it makes me wants more each and every time I read it.

Not Much Left (oneshot) by @impala-dreamer

I think Beka tries to kill her readers every time she writes smut… or she just tap into our mind what we want or what we fantasize about. Every single time I’m speechless by her talents!

Yes Professor (oneshot) by @impala-dreamer

It’s a Misha fic, there’s no one who write Misha the way Beka does!!!

Owe You One (series) by @supernatural-jackles

It’s such a great series! The friends with Benefit and Mechanic!Dean… I just love this so much and I don’t have words to describe how good this one is!!

Flirty In French (oneshot) by @fictionalabyss

This is brilliant, and I know its an old one, but from someone who finally decided to read more and from someone who is from Quebec, this is absolutely brilliant! The flirty french pick up line are so hilarious!

Nominated by @moosekateer13

Watching for Comets (series) by @holylulusworld

This fic beautifully captures the song that it was inspired by.

It also showcases things that when things are meant to be.

I’ll will all fall into place.

Please Trust Me (oneshot) by @holylulusworld

This fic beautifully emotionally captures what it’s like to have trust issues.

Nominated by @fictionalabyss

Last Call (oneshot) by @impala-dreamer

It was everything we needed and wanted.

Culinary Exploits (oneshot) by @impala-dreamer

Too utterly ridiculous not to get a mention.

His Omega (oneshot) by @iflostreturntosteverogers

A sweet little comfort fic of Dean being utterly perfect caring for his Omega. Carrie also pulled off keeping this gender neutral, which isn’t something I see a lot of, and probably something I’d struggle with, so hats off to you, babe.

Poison (oneshot) by @supernatural-jackles

YES omg i feel this on such a level. I’ve gone through that shit myself. A friend who lets you down so profoundly but then acts as if you’re the most toxic person in the world. Nothing feels as good as letting go of that shit and moving on to better things. This was beautiful, and perfect, and TRUTH.

Amara (oneshot) by @impala-dreamer

This one hurt. It really hurt, but it hurt so good that I’m left wanting more.

Take Me Now (oneshot) by @sorenmarie87

If Dawn doesn’t continue this, I’ll riot.

Stuck On You (oneshot) by @kittenofdoomage

I rarely read a fic this long (I just don’t usually have the time) but it looked too interesting for me to scroll past, and it had me completely captivated. I needed to know what would happen as if I needed air, even though I could guess how it ended, I needed to read the words. Phenomenal.

Thank you all for the awesome work and great feedback!

These are not actual awards! This system is set up so everyone in the pond has a chance to share the love and promote a fic/author that has grabbed your attention. The more people that participate, and the more everyone remembers to submit their own fics after posting, the better this will be :D

THANK YOU ALL AGAIN, KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK, AND AS ALWAYS, HAPPY WRITING!

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icharchivist · 5 years ago

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THE THING IS look i’ve talked for hours with my friend about “When did Gentaro fall in love with Dice” and you know what?? i still can’t pinpoint it bc it feels so “love at first sight” WHILE ALSO not being love at first sight and that’s why the post i rebloged just now made me think of them.

The quote being this:

Personally, I think Gentaro at least fell down the rabbit hole when Dice defended him in Just a Friend. This is the drastic moment that weighed on their relationship. Gentaro who had gone through a lot of bullying in his life, gets confronted to a situation that is similar, and Dice stood up for him, fought for him, didn’t even ask about it.

And it still makes me weak that it’s a plotpoint for Gentaro that his bedridden childhood friend asked him to be his friend before they established anything, which had Gentaro spiral down thinking originally that the guy wanted to use “the rotten person he was”. But Dice, with all the teasing, with all the times they bicker, with all the times they are not serious, with the fact the very morning he told Gentaro he wasn’t going to forgive him after the identity thief joke, Dice without any prompting, yelled to Hifumi “If I let you trashtalk my friend i ain’t even human.”. He didn’t ask Gentaro about whenever they were friends or not. They were.

And Just A Friend ends with this softness from Gentaro toward Dice, realizing that not only Dice has his back, but Dice also doesn’t pry. Dice doesn’t try to dig where it hurts, doesn’t try to understand why Gentaro is like that. It just happens that Gentaro Is Like That. And for Gentaro who tends to analyse why people behave the way they do (see how he overanalyse Jakurai upon meeting him, or how he’s trying to analyse Ramuda), and that it comes with Gentaro thinking lowly of himself, this makes Dice, well, a safeplace again.

So to me, Just A Friend was The Moment.

........................

Y E T by that point, Gentaro had already 1) called fate the fact he met Dice on his way to Ramuda’s, 2) written a fanfic where he specifically tells Dice that “they don’t know what path awaits in front of them and perhaps there is none but all he knows is that he wants to walk it together” also they hold hands, 3) PANELS of soft stolen looks don’t @ me, 4) Calling Dice his star crossed lover from another life, making up a whole backstory about how Dice was his bodyguard and that “since we were forced to be apart while we were lovers, isn’t it normal we don’t want to be apart in this life?”.

And look i am not even saying Gentaro is aware he’s fallen in love, i’m team “they’re both oblivious and in denial” but Gentaro at least seems to have a grasp on the fact that “well it’s just that i want to spend my time with him and that he’s my messiah and that i want to spend my next lives with him” (and god i wish i was exagerating but he does say pretty similar things IN CANON), and Gentaro is taking more chances about “WHAT IF” and he explores it with Fiction to try it out, to see if he’s comfortable with that.

But Just A Friend is the moment Gentaro actually fell in love with Dice deeply to me. But it doesn’t remove the fact he’s been DROPPING HINTS ALL AROUND that he likes Dice very much.

And it reminds me of that analysis of his storyline in relationship to No Longer Human and specifically of the character his dynamic with Dice seems to be based on, the fact that the character Gentaro has a lot to relate to, is generally paranoid and worried about every type of human he meets, except the one character whom reflects Dice for whom he goes “At any rate, as far as the bill was concerned he never caused me to feel the least anxiety or fear.” / “Another thing which saved me when with Horiki was that he was completely uninterested in what his listener might be thinking, and could pour forth a continuous stream of nonsensical chatter twenty-four hours a day, in whichever direction the eruption of his “passions” led him.”/“If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”

bc Gentaro had been comfortable with Dice FROM THE START. He was still paranoid enough about Ramuda to make researches about him, to overanalyse him, but Dice being that simple made him FEEL COMFORTABLE with him and immetialy lowered his defenses.

AND AND AND Gentaro’s legit first impression of Dice was just Dice complimenting his lyrics unprompted. And as soon as they became a Posse, Dice started to tease him, in the second drama track it’s Dice who pulls the “Gentaro i won’t forgive you if you don’t stay” at him to drag him into a gamble, it’s Dice who establish at first that he WANTS Gentaro around (even if it’s just for a gamble, it turns out that they became closer with that).

And for the life of mine, I think Gentaro must have found affection in that. He felt SAFE around Dice, and Dice quickly established himself in a way that was welcoming for Gentaro, and Gentaro never had to feel bad about being with him. And already in the second drama track Gentaro starts to go on about how he finds Dice interesting and he wants to play along with whatever Dice has in mind (and that leads to the teasing) because Dice’s reaction is ALWAYs interesting. Like look at how in Me Against the World he’s surprised by how Dice reacted to his teasing : Dice always surprises him. He does say in Just A Friend that being around Dice is never boring and that it ends up always interesting. And we know that Gentaro wants nothing else than to kill that boredom. (hell, the line in Stella right before he begs Dice to take him away is “I want to kill that boredom that is choking me - so take me away with you Messiah”, the “killing boredom” motif comes back a lot but two times Gentaro considered it’s being with Dice that actually does kill that boredom and in sUCH A LIGHT)

SO LIKE it’s so hard bc Gentaro just started to fall for Dice very early on, he immediatly was driven to him, lowering his defenses around him, never felt the need to have them up to start with, and it just went downhill here.

And I always struggled to put it into words exactly bc this is a MESS, I can’t just say it’s Just a Friend that sold it when Gentaro went to such ridiculous extremes before that, but this quote? this quote nails it. This is it. This is them.

And i’m going to cry again bye ✌

#we're feeling the love for gendice in this chilly night #ichashipping 7ph #ichatalks about hpm #ichameta hpm #if you will #im jusT #HUH

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briteboy · 7 years ago

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why is my bra size a G? Where is that even on the bra size spectrum?

honestly i’m not sure why i got this question but it made for a good cold open to this post didn’t it

Mother I’m having a really bad migraine please help I’ve been throwing up for hours now 😭

OH NO i’m sorry :[ that sucks so much. i’ve only had a migraine once and i’m pretty sure it was because i went to a palm reader who had some untrustworthy evil vibes going on omfg *googles ‘migraine remedies’* uhh uhuh leafy dark greens! a cold dark room! ice packs! i’m sorry i suck at this i will offer you one (1) hug instead

i dreamed last night that last august u sent me an ask with questions from an ask meme i hadn't reblogged and i responded really rudely and then in the present i got a notif for an ask and i looked it and it was actually the already answered ask u had sent me a year ago and i was like 'wtf when did i get this ask when did i answer it why was i so angry???' and i messaged u and was like 'i have no memory of this but im sorry for being such an ass idk why either man' and u were like :/ ok i guess

OMFG :/ ok i guess i apologize on dream me’s behalf for sending you questions u didn’t even reblog. maybe i was just really interested in ur hypothetical answers. it’s okay i forgive dream u for being rude. we’re best friends now in dream land

a half goat, half human is a satyr but I like goat boy more

yeah i’m dumb and realized this after i said it omg. it’s not my fault i’ve only seen the chronicles of narnia once

Could you release astropussy cc merch? 😂 i need it in my life

YES PROBABLY IN THE FUTURE!! it’s on my to-do list!

Do you have a link to the beginning of ur story? Thx

the amount of times i’ve answered this, i just. asjkdfj lmao. it’s on my faq and also at the top of my blog, if you’re on mobile just look at the tags on my post and the general rule is that you can go to that tag and put in /chrono and it’ll go to the beginning. here

Do you follow any astrology blogs??

hmmmm i used to, but i’ve fallen out of touch with that area of tumblr. i still trust @astrologymarina with my life tho

hit me with that astrology shit ! gimme references, everything!

Yo my main squeeze! I’m doing a PowerPoint bout astrology, could u give me some sweet info?

(two different anons, same answer) AHHH *sweats* tbh i learned everything i know from observing my own chart (find yours here), acknowledging the traits of each sign and applying to people i know, then reading up on the planets and houses, and honestly...just exploring the tumblr astrology tag and following the rabbit hole down a twisted web of different astrology blogs. if you start with marina up there ^^ you can probably find a lot of sweet info and other blogs as well.

Hello mother, could you teach me about all the astrology stuff you’re always talking about? Like the birth charts and the planets etc. I find it v interesting but I can’t understand shit bc English is not even near my native language. Help. I’m so very lost lmao

ah well firstly check out the links above ^^ i would personally explain everything but 1) i’m bad at that and 2) ain’t nobody got time 4 dat honestly cafe astrology is a good starting point for beginners, they have everything on that website! if you need any specific sort of help with understanding it, feel free to message me off anon!

i think i finally figured out the birthchart thing?? really cool and very defining for a lot of elements of character design. i'm a aquarius sun, scorpio moon, and taurus rising -- i'm ready to be judged - sirius anon

right!! it’s like a main priority for me in character building! ohoooo that combo is very interesting, because i feel like aquarius and scorpio are not really compatible, in that aquarius influence can make you very distant and unwilling to address your emotions and their importance, but your moon (which controls your emotions) is SO preoccupied with exactly that, which might exacerbate that scorpio intensity because you feel that constant pull between hiding and revealing your true emotions. but then taurus rising kind of balances it out and makes you at least appear to be level headed? so even if you’re suffering on the inside at least people think u got it all together.

i.... i feel like your inbox is now bombarded w/ zodiac related questions.... so i sorta feel bad for dropping this on u but im doing it anyway hehe ok so: sagittarius sun and rising, cancer moon

it is and my wrist is killing me all of a sudden but i do this for u guys because it makes me so happy that u even care oh wow, that’s an interesting combo!! it’s actually one of those combos that like...it never crosses your mind, but now that you think about it, they actually go really well together. sagittarius is the most calm of the fire signs, so it actually might pair well with emotional and highly intuitive cancer. your inclinations are probably pretty bold and outgoing, but then you might think about them for too long and develop a fear of going through with them. in that way your emotional side kinda holds you back, but you should learn to trust your gut instincts!!

Uhhh can you also do my birthchart? I know nothing about astrology and you're a godess in this topic! I'm Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon, Pisces Rising

OMFG A GODDESS well i’m just ok, i try ooh boy you’re watery alright!! wow you’re probably dreamy as f*ck, but also moody as f*ck, highly and acutely aware of everything at once, otherworldly, always living inside your head but wanting to get out and experience things with everyone else, always wondering about the mysteries of life and the weird questions no one ever wants to answer. you understand things more deeply than anyone around you, and you probably don’t even realize how strong and adaptable you are!!

Ahhh are you still doing horoscopes? If so can you do mine? I’m Aries sun, Sagittarius moon and libra rising. I’m overwhelmed with how to read these things! Thank you and hope you’re having a good day 😘

hello finally i am answering your question! sorry i just get overwhelmed when i get a lot of these lmao this is an awesome combo!!! sag + libra is always so good and then aries + libra are opposites/sister signs which makes for an interesting dichotomy. i’m actually an aries sun/sag moon as well, so i know this combo very well lmao. you might come off as very calm and appealing (dat libra charm tho) and then when people get closer to you you reveal your optimistic, perseverant and passionate nature. these signs are very harmonious together, you’re probably like the calmer version of me lmao. you might be pretty rational but then your sun makes you want to be more impulsive. it’s good to listen to it sometimes...but not all the time. aries is a child don’t trust him too much

hey sunny! i know you're probably stressed out by all these so feel free to skip this one, but i'm a virgo sun/capricorn moon/cancer rising! idk if i fit in a lot of the virgo stereotypes though but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

o0o0o0o0o so many sister signs i swear heheh, it’s good though, i like this combo! i feel like you can’t really go wrong with virgo/cap because they’re both earth signs. cap/cancer are opposites so your cancer rising might make you come off as very sweet, soft and emotional, but your moon says otherwise. people probably underestimate you a lot, but underneath your exterior you’ve got a guarded heart and you can’t be pushed around easily. though your virgo and cancer influence might invite people to walk all over you, you are stronger than you know.

Hi! Just felt like letting you know that there's this song called "Red Bottom Sky" by Yung Lean and it always reminds me of Santi every time I hear it.

hello! omg i love these messages, it makes me so giddy when people relate songs to my characters ;-; i’m listening to it right now and this is definitely something he would like lmao. it’s so calming somehow i wanna live in this beat

when i saw the title for lou’s story i immediately thought of the group choker lmao. you should check them out el dorado is my fav song

omg i actually think i’ve heard of this group before!! i’m digging these song suggestions, i like this one a lot! watch me put their songs in this story now lmao

#nonsims #saviorhide #anonymous #sunny answers

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f4iryc4ts · 2 years ago

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1. god who fucking knows i actually like never was into fnaf. never. i wasnt a fnaf kid. of course i knew what it was- i had friends and family that were super into it but at the same time i was kinda like a pussy even about the most tame horror content and even when i start indulging more in horror it just never rlly peaked my interest??? now fast forward to like mid-late january and i went through a rlly rough breakup and i kept getting sun & moon stuff on my fyp on tiktok and i sorta just fell in love with them?? and i fell down a rabbit hole. i devoured edits, animatics, fanart, cosplays, fanfiction- you fucking name it. and of course i also then start watching fnaf playthroughs and theory videos and analysis stuff. im sorta on a break rn but i plan to continue watching more of the series soon, but i do have a very good grasp of the plot and series from the many hour long video essays ive seen my god.

2. i think it was??? like just the archetype of their characters. like one of them is so frantic but slightly chaotic but truly means well while the other is very deranged and more quiet and creepy but in my humblest opinion more relaxing and charming (and kind hot but u didnt hear that from me so shhh). which are like two flavors of some of my favorite characters. also theres this like weird character archetype of non-humans i like that i cant explain that have this similar Vibe that i adore so much and they fit it so well (i.e, bill cipher, discord, etc).

3. since mid-late january !!

4. no 😭 and i havent watched a full playthrough yet either dont kill me i promise ill get there plz im taking my time

5. i havent rlly made my own content :( the closest thing to content i have made was fanfiction that lays in my google docs that is so far for my eyes only

6. my favorite type of art is usually like comics or stuff related to headcanons people have and other stuff- and fanfiction i like fluffy romance stuff bc im a fucking loser but also bc i have no shame i also like nasty horny shit. usually nasty horny shit, with fluffy romance stuff, with some like mystery or threat involved and mild angst or drama. balances it out yk???

7. i dont rlly care for aus with sun & moon actually- but i dont rlly mind human fanart of them i think its a rlly fun idea i just dont actively go out to look for it yk? so ig that?

8. ehhh not rlly but i imagine myself in that setting a lot so ig u can say i almost have a self insert??

9. i like them!! i think they're the perfect mix of cute so they fit the whole daycare kiddy jester theme- and scary to fit the iconic uncanny fnaf vibe!! theres def more like preferable designs made by fans but im happy with the ones in the game :3

10. oh definitely alllll the fan content are you kidding me??? you guys are insane 😭 and i appreciate every single one of u for keeping this fandom alive ily all ♡

11. moon 😭 I LOVE SUN SO MUCH but moon is my favorite between them im so sorry

12. i love the idea of eclipse and i love seeing all the cool designs people come up with for them!!

13. lovely a cutie. not traumatized. happy :D

14. HOPEFULLY HAPPY I WANT MOON TO BE HAPPY PLZ HAPPY PEACEFUL MOON SINGING LULLABIES TO KIDS AND READING GOODNIGHT STORIES

15. two separate beings in one body!!

16. hmm more assertive sun !! a lot of people treat him like hes all just glitter glue and yes i believe sun is 100% a people pleaser but i also believe he will snap and call someone out on their bullshit and when hes mad hes Mad and people rlly need to stop infantilizing him !!

17. gross asf proship shit i dont see it much on here thank god- usually it's only on a03. but when i do see shit like that my jaw drops and im just appalled. how could they do sun and moon like that. sun and moon would never what the fuck.

18. THE BOOK THATS COMING OUT?? I THINK?? RIGHT???

19. sun?? fuck yea for sure !! moon?? HOPEFULLY 😭 hes my favorite and i want to kiss him so i hope so 🤞

20. in short the daycare attendant my beloved im holding their hand and kissing them and hugging never thought i would want to fuck an animatronic but here we are theres no going back at this point.

alright dca fandom, here's some questions bc i'm curious. the funky jesters make our brains go brr, but why? treat it as an ask game or answer in the tags if you feel like it! :)

how did you get here?

why these characters in particular? what was the hook for you?

how long have you been here?

have you actually played fnaf sb?

if you make content, what's your favorite piece you've contributed?

what's your favorite sort of art or fic? what genre/flavor/style?

what's your favorite au?

do you have any ocs, or have any ocs you're fond of?

what do you think of the dca's canon appearance? Scary? Cute? Something else?

what keeps you in this fandom despite the very small amount of canon content the dca had?

be honest: if you had to pick only one, sun or moon?

thoughts on eclipse?

thoughts on pre-glitch sun?

thoughts on pre-glitch moon?

do you interpret sun and moon as two sides of the same person, or truly two separate beings in one body? does it matter?

what's something in the fandom you'd like to see more of?

what's something in the fandom you'd like to see less of?

anything you're looking forward to?

do you think you'd actually get along with the dca if you met them irl?

free space! talk about whatever's on your mind!

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five-nights-at-deadverse · 5 years ago

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Ahoy Weary Traveler!

If you’re here from the bio link hi hello how are y’all? That’s a rhetorical question, please don’t reblog this (if you really need/want to talk, notes/ask/dms are open, I more-than-likely won’t mind)

The content of this blog may strike some of you as peculiar, because a lot of stuff I’m going to be posting will either be:

Completely off canon, “Dead what the actual f u c k are you doing”, AU content

Remember what lore we went off of back between 3 & SL? That. Just lots of that.

I can hear you asking now. Dead why? Why do you not know anything past that? Why didn’t you run away while you could? And I honestly don’t know. So here’s the rundown:

My friend got really into the fandom some time around Mark playing the first game and 2 coming out

I was absolutely t e r r i f i e d of Freddy bc I was a very sheltered child in the horror department

She made me listen to “It’s Me” by TryHardNinja at a party and I got obsessed with it

I started listening to basically any FNAF song I could find

She gets more into horror, which got me more into horror, and we fed each other’s obsessions/AUs

Canon was incredibly limited, so we had to make do with theories and stuff, which led to me creating an entire canon from what my young teen brain could come up with

During the gap before 4 started making the rounds, I got bored of it and fell out of the fandom for a while

Then the teaser with the hat showed up and I went feral again until after Mark finished his play through

SL confused me and didn’t really like World but by then we had discovered SCP and I’d met my other friends, so by then I just stopped keeping up with everything

A few years pass and I find out about the Furby fandom, which lead me down the rabbit hole to a hyperfixation on animatronics, which lead to this blog being created on Halloween 2019

Then school happened and that’s why this was posted in 2020

And that’s the story of my fandom journey. Not the most exciting thing I’m sure but I’m not exactly an exciting person.

Now For A Short FAQ

Favorite Animatronic?

FNAF 1 Foxy is my s o n, but in this house we love and support all of them (Yes, even Springtrap)

Favorite Guard?

It’s pretty much always been Phone Guy (my Jeremy is a close second tho)

What/Who/Where Is Thing/Person/Place?

Information can be found under #Deadverse or its own tag, please look before asking

On that note, SL is slowly being added to the AU, but right now we’re focusing on the main storyline from 1-4

Did You Hear About…

Mm no sorry this is not a teapot nor a saltshaker take that discourse somewhere else (my main @dragonlover56 is tho, hit up the ask box there if you wanna talk shit)

That’s Not Canon!

Does my URL say ScottGames? No? Alright then.

Important Links/Tags

All Lore is tagged as #Lore

Triggers are tagged as #[subject]/// ; shoot me an ask/DM if you need something tagged

OOC & Announcements are tagged as “Speak of The Undead”

Character Index

Timeline

DNI

Main Blog

Warriors Blog

That’s about it. I might add more to this post as things go on, so maybe check back in from time to time?

The ask box is open, don’t be shy. Right now the answers will probably be text based since I’m still working out my style & character designs though, sorry m8s.

And if you didn’t catch it before, I go by Dead and use she or they pronouns (doesn’t really matter which).

#fnaf #fnaf au #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddy’s au #speak of the undead #deadverse

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clarenecessities · 7 years ago

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5/15/17

so after getting very little sleep last night i got sort of annoyed during our morning language session? like we were learning about verbal nouns & grant was trying to ask what we were learning how to do but our teacher just kept explaining broad vs slender vowels over and over in more and more detail, bc grant like didn’t phrase the question right or something? and i like wasn’t annoyed with grant i was annoyed that the teacher thought he was that slow on the uptake & that one of our classmates was laughing like. damn. he literally just wanted to know the name of the thing we were learning, jesus christ. two words vs an in-depth 10 minute lecture with no breaks for me to say “hey uh grant’s smart i’m pretty sure he got it like ten minutes ago”

we broke for tea immediately after & i ate like 5 biscuits which i think helped my irritation, but mostly i was reassured by people going up to grant and telling him that like he wasn’t an idiot & they had actually been psyched to hear about broad v slender (tbf sean never taught us--i learned it from wikipedia myself & its applications re: the verbal noun are significant) like... idk it made me feel a lot better to know that people weren’t being condescending assholes & that even if you ask the most obvious question like five times & people just misunderstand you, they won’t think you’re stupid

i was always very paranoid about asking stupid questions (& eventually about speaking at all) back in the day so it was refreshing and it made me really happy. grant is a Good Smart Boy and people recognized that.

in the afternoon we did drawing--the art teacher said if we were confident we could do our own thing so i worked on my character designs some more. he said they were beautiful, so [flips hair]. in all seriousness though it was really nice to have like, someone who knows what they’re talking about notice specific things about my work like how it’s illustrative or i have good proportions, like that feels so much more sincere than “wow you’re so good at art i can’t even draw stick figures” like really karen? you can’t draw a circle and three lines? like yes i appreciate any and all compliments (#crave that validation, am i right) but if it’s just like “oh whoa” it doesn’t really... it’s not a compliment so much as an “oh hey i didn’t know you could draw” which is almost always followed by a request to draw them

i was actually pretty impressed with my classmates--considering this isn’t even kind of an art class, they’re all like... wicked talented? like, better than former classes i’ve had which were actually art classes. like kelly did a really cool skull, or ben did this awesome portrait of alex (and showed me some of his stuff for worldbuilding when we were talking about characters) and like they’re all so Good and i’m so glad i’m in a class with them

jazzmyn especially though is very bad about accepting compliments, which i intend to remedy, bc she’s an angel and in fact very talented, particularly for someone who claims to be exclusively an auditory artist.

shiloh asked if my drawing of claude was an anime alex though which was a Dark Spot on the afternoon

the kittens were good, although mayday was shaking a little... i ran into ghost and sweet baby outside the shed but they were uh “busy” so i just went into town and got some food. i had assumed ghost was their brother since they look about the same age but uh!! don’t think so!!! this probably means he’s the kittens’ father though which explains them both being tabbies. i gave him a lecture on irresponsible parenting.

paddy mor came in for his last session today--gonna miss him actually.

been reading about feral children bc i was trying to research muteness and immediately fell down a rabbit hole so here we go again i guess

#daily clare #clare goes to ireland

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