#what mysteries does it hold?

[simplyghosting]

Once again, missed my opportunity to venture into a Spirit Halloween for the first time

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[bleh1bleh2]

"Hey Keith, what else is in your belt pouches?"

Keiths belt pouches 2/2

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of two seated gentlemen, each wearing a flower in the front of his waistcoat, c. 1850

[bookshelf-in-progress]

I've had an odd nostalgia for the Once Upon a Time series of mediocre short-novel-length fairy tale retellings. I've been wanting to read the retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" from that line.

The trouble is that there is no such book.

Which makes me want to write it.

Unfortunately, the only straightforward traditional retelling of that fairy tale I want to write doesn't fit with that style.

But thinking about it got me excited about that old idea all over again.

[neo-zone]

I don't feel like I wanna do a rewatch of season 2 just to get some subtle hints on the show, but does anyone know any hint of Chief Ji's son existence before the last two episodes? Why Ye-seul seems like she does not really remember/care about him (let alone their dad) when she's supposed to be his sibling on the first place?

[probablygayattorneys]

I've only watched the first nine episodes of the fan sub of the Katrielle Layton anime, but I've cried at about half of them and the thing is that, so far, all of them have just been about love. And not necessarily romantic love, but the love between estranged brothers, childhood friends, parents and children - even episodes that don't seem like it, like the Ratman one, are about love. The love a child feels for his heroes. The love a father feels for his family. Or the one with the jewel thefts, that was just someone trying to protect the community that they love.

It is all love.

[anonymocha]

suddenly seeing parallels between kumar and medicine pocket

[outdraws]

clive is a very reserved person and with loss of home, family, identity he's lost the ability to really express himself especially in affectionate / romantic terms. he will hardly know what he's doing. knowing this there will always be hesitance to initiate and he will try to let instinct and feeling guide him through.

those gentle bumps of his head to yours. brush of hands. the smallest contact carry the weight of his hesitance, care, and perseverance.

[brbgensokyo]

i thought this was mostly a gundam problem i have but i think its endemic to sunrise but i have alot of trouble with personal disconnect within their work. As in im watching a documentary or like a summary of events happening on a page.

[callixton]

the listeners isn’t really working for me but i took a quick look at its storygraph reviews and people r really getting caught up on the wrong things. tbf it is so clear that my experience reading this with some knowledge of how jordan writes & approaches stories is giving me a very specific bias

[carewyncromwell]

"Who knew that I would be So unexpectedly, undeniably happier, Sitting with you right here, right here next to me?"

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HPHM Cardverse developed by @ariparri // Jacob's outfit // Duncan's outfit (plus a coat and sash)

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The Best Ideas Jacob Cromwell's Ever Come Up With

(according to the "Counselor" of Spades, Duncan Ashe)

A new variation of steam-powered engine powered by a combination of hydroelectric and solar energy. (This would be tested successfully both on the royal zepplin and to power the entire palace and its surrounding buildings, cutting the overall cost of energy production in the Country of Spades by a good twenty percent.)

Several new vaccines, many of which adapted into oral supplements so as to make it easier to vaccinate small children. (Jacob specifically wanted to make something that people who are afraid of needles would be able to take safely, as his little sister Carewyn got very teary as a toddler, when getting her first shots.)

Mecha suits specifically designed to protect coal miners in treacherous underground conditions. (This idea would sadly be "co-opted" by the Tyrant of Spades Patricia Rakepick and repurposed into weapons of war. Fortunately the Joker called the "Escape Artist" destroyed every last one of them before they could be used to attack other parts of Cinderhaven.)

"We could just lock old Madam Ace in her office for a night. Then maybe you could force the army to cut their spending." (Sadly this idea, however tempting and amusing it might've been, was one Duncan couldn't go along with.)

A close-to-unbreakable puzzle lock, perfect for small drawers or boxes. (Jacob put this on Duncan's desk as a belated birthday gift, after he suspected Rakepick was sending spies around to try to rifle through his papers. The Spades technological expert took it upon himself to take out ten different books on locking mechanism and even consult with a locksmith for two weeks when constructing it, and it's thanks to this undertaking that Jacob became very, very proficient at picking locks himself.)

A record player that could be powered through pressing a pedal, rather than being plugged in with electricity. (Jacob put this on the desk in his workshop so that he could play music with his foot, while working on other projects. Duncan actually gifted Jacob several records to play on it, including Sitting on Top of the World, which is one of his favorite songs.)

"Let me come with you, Ashe. Rakepick's stooges will think twice about messing with you, if I'm there." (They didn't, at first. Fortunately Jacob ended up shutting up one particularly mouthy bloke, after he had the audacity to suggest Duncan only ever tapped people for positions at court if he was sleeping with them. Clearly a mean-spirited, untrue dig at his BFF Coby and both obvious and oblivious OTL Jacob. Jacob punched the guy so hard in the face that he nursed a bruised jaw for a solid three weeks. After that, no one dared say a single bad word about Duncan in Jacob's earshot.)

A prototype of a dirigible shaped like a dragon, powered by both wind and hydroelectric power, which uses giant wings to steer. (This also was eyed by Rakepick as something that she could modify into a weapon of war. Fortunately none of her subordinates were sharp enough to figure out how to give such an "air dragon" the ability to breathe fire without damaging the modified prototypes.)

A set of sparkling silver cuff links that, when the sides are squeezed, expanded into very sharp hatpins. (Inspired by the hatpins women sometimes wore in their hats for self-defense, Jacob made these as yet another birthday gift for Duncan, with the idea of them being helpful for self-defense. Duncan personally found them a little gaudy, but wore them anyway.)

"Come on, Ashe...you sing the next line!" (The night that Jacob finally encouraged Duncan to come over to the Cromwell house for dinner, he encouraged Duncan to sing along with him and Carewyn the way they always did, whenever they rode the trolley home together. Duncan actually did hold his own incredibly well alongside the two trained singers, and soon he, Carewyn, and Jacob were all singing together. It was one of the few times in Duncan's life -- alongside his times with Veruca and Coby -- that Duncan felt the way he imagined other people felt, with their families.)

[jayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay]

Happy pride. Get hit with the human beam. Patent Pending [Holy hell like the band]

Cringe but free, I be

[lindwurmkai]

me: i am calm. everything is fine. i'm having a perfectly normal amount of feelings about mysterious lotus casebook li lianhua: xiao huli me: 😭😭😭😭😭

[monty-glasses-roxy]

There's something delightfully fucked up about somehow binding people's consciousness to animatronics and then taking that a step further to turn part of your spirit or whatever into code to gain another form of immortality. I also Really dig the idea of Glitchtrap killing OG Afton - almost something poetic about the shift of power from Afton being killed by his own OpenAi-Powered fursona for me. But I guess he probably canonically died in Pizza Sim.

I like Help Wanted+SB era FNAF a lot more than the older games, but there's so many interesting things to carry forward from the old stuff too. My city now.

Oh that would be a hell of a narrative play for him to die like that ngl

But yeah. Our city now lmao

[fefairys]

more young Jett and Eric content based on an actual conversation between me and my brother where he kin-assigned me Gaara from Naruto. they watched naruto together when they were both kids :)

here's the other comic i did about them

READ OUR WEBCOMIC WHERE JETT IS FROM

transcription under the cut

Jett: I'm working on my Gaara cosplay right now!

Eric: hell yeah bro that's awesome

Eric: Gaara's a great character for you to cosplay. You've always kinda reminded me of him, actually, haha!

[arrow pointing to Jett that says "major Gaara kinnie"] Jett: oh haha really? haha like how? haha

Jett: haha because I'm emo? Jett: you're the one with Gaara-ass hair lol

Eric: haha!!! no no!! i mean, yeah that too, but i mean like you as a person! like, y'know, you've always been more on the outside of things? more of a watcher, or an observer of society than a participant...? and like, you had a sad childhood, i mean not as bad as Gaara's, obviously, but still, y'know what i mean, haha!

Jett: Oh.. yeah... I guess that's true.... [thinking: (the "Does He Know?" thumbnail with the Riddler from The Batman) I won at kinning]

Eric: haha sorry I hope that's not mean, I mean it in a good way