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[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 256

Adjective: Magnificent

Noun: Mountain

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Magnificent: impressively beautiful, elaborate, or extravagant, or striking; very good, or excellent

Mountain: a large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level, or a large steep hill; a mountainous region characterized by remoteness and inaccessibility; a large pile or quantity of something; a large surplus stock of a commodity

[notherpuppet]

Why do you write in the tags? Is it on purpose and it’s better for reach or is just for silliness purposes?🩷Also I love your art sm

I’m a very silly woman who pretends the tags are invisible and therefore my diary (also thank you sm)

[tinukis]

im rereading one piece (i'll watch certain arcs too as i get into OP again)

and man i forget how much i loved the baratie arc especially seeing how luffy and sanji first interact... "i refuse your refusal!" is so good and while bickering like an old married couple, they both yell at gin simultaneously i love them so much

[suosage]

DID THEY PLAN TO STAY BACK TOGETHER .. WHAT

[numberonetribble]

I got bit by the Sparkling bug and really wanted to give Bumblebee and Breakdown a child for my unnamed AU I'm working on but then I remembered I can't draw children :( big shout out to that post floating around here that's like "imagine a Sparkling but they come out full sized then what." traffic tickets and impound fees that's what

(pssst look at their knees)

[soulmvtes]

feeling a bit sad tonight

[moeblob]

@reedeemable tagged me in a get to know me meme but I feel awkward making text posts with no art so. Take me doodles to answer some of them?

Others not illustrated: Last thing I googled: I don't recall cause I deleted my search history recently and swapped search engines to Duckduckgo. It was probably video game related though... I wouldn't be shocked if it was about a material location in Freedom Wars... Current Obsession: Freedom Wars Remastered! Mostly Salmon the accessory. Once I hit Code 5... there's never turning back, my rap sheet tag line is permanently "Accessory Obsessive" and I am true to it! I love my accessory. It was the same in the Vita version and it's the same in Remastered.

Looking forward to: No idea!

Thank you for tagging me and I'm sorry I'm pretty boring and indecisive. Truly depends on the day for me for colors. I can't land on one specific favorite! They all serve their purpose.

[pinacoladamatata]

Bioware should release the CC bc I just went thru Milton's butthole and for what?

[mumintroll]

my essays this semester are making me feel really really stupid im trying not to be upset about it bc i know its because ive been tired and overwhelmed and last year was really difficult but i am really embarrassed about all of them i dont want my lecturers to read them. and its even more upsetting because i know my ideas are good but the essays still arent coming out good idk i just have no energy in me to produce something that sounds good or intelligent

[corviiids]

THANKS @kimdokjafan you are so kind and generous. ok im cashing in the first of three blank checks to talk about faith trust and pixie dust (most recent chatfic) because the last two directors commentaries were too serious so let's do a silly one.

some p5r spoilers, and this is mostly about sumire, and it's long again. do i need to keep disclaiming that these are long? you should know me by now.

i had this written for a while before i started formatting it because i wasn't really sure if i should post it? i feel like silly chatfic is something people go to for predominantly lighthearted nonsense so i was like, maybe there's too much plot and dramatic misunderstanding and i should just keep this one for myself. but then i was like well nothing matters and maybe someone will have fun with it. it's kind of terrible how much fully or mostly completed fic there is my docs that just doesn't see the light of day lol. write for yourself etc but i like sharing! too bad it comes with the mortifying ordeal etc. anyway that was a tangent

potato counter is a neopets game. there's no deep lore i just like neopets. i guess in this universe ryuji doesn't play neopets? or maybe he's just never played potato counter specifically. i also have a different fic where ryuji DOES play neopets. it's about neopets and ryuji and goro talking on neopets.

i think this might literally be the first time ive written sumi in a fic because i haven't actually written that much fic for royal, like, now that im looking, literally almost none? and none that had a group dynamic. so it was kind of fun to find her voice for the first time in a silly groupchat like this. i was worried people would find her exclamation marks annoying but i personally thought it was endearing so i added it in there.

every time i do a gag where a character corrects their own typo i have to code more stupid little bubbles to make it happen but i think it's worth it. all the effort that goes into making tgis look as much like a real chat as possible

this obviously doesnt take place in the canon p5/r universe, but im imagining sort of a postcanon sumi personality where she's more comfortable being herself and isn't borrowing kasumi's brand of confidence, but she's visibly a really anxious person without that kasumi veneer. i also think in this universe sumire is a fairly recent addition to the friend group, and while everyone likes her a lot and she really likes them, i kind of wanted to emphasise that feeling of being in a friend group where everyone's established and you're sort of a plus-one? you don't really fit yet. part of that is her being new, part of it is her anxiety, part of it is just the kind of person sumi is where she's so polite and self-conscious she ends up taking herself out of things with her own good intentions. stuff like her interrupting the flow of an existing conversation by greeting everyone instead of jumping straight in because she doesn't feel comfortable inserting herself, which means everyone else stops to greet her even though that doesn't normally happen in a friend group, or making a point of thanking everyone for being invited to events while the others take it as a given.

idk i love that she feels a bit out of place with the phantom thieves in p5r. and part of that is a natural consequence of being a new addition in royal who can't be naturally integrated with an existing dynamic but i honestly feel like the writing team realised that and acknowledged it, and really leaned into it, and that made it work incredibly well for me. like, it's part of her character that she's sort of an outsider. it's not like p4g's incredibly clumsy integration of marie and subsequent attempt to shove her down everyone's throat as the canon love interest in p4ga (knife). sumi has that outsider vibe on purpose and it makes me really like her dynamic with the thieves as an individual

goro also feels slightly out of place in these chats, but his conversational style blends more naturally with the other thieves at this point and he even uses their codenames sometimes. i keep saying my chatfic series isn't a real Series because the lore keeps changing, but if we accept that they're all kind of following a General Continuity, assume this takes place some time after the last fic in which ren added goro to the groupchat and they made an effort to integrate him into their friend group. he's kind of there now and has settled into being the weird boyfriend. that's his role.

every time goro says something like "ren and i" assume it's the text equivalent of him talking to the group with his arm around ren's waist.

ok i got really fond of this silly running joke where sumi brings up the weather when she's feeling uncomfortable. she's so polite. i like this thread because setting it up meant i got to tie it off like this:

this just made me happy lol i liked writing this. i tried to use it to demonstrate that despite goro's abrasiveness he obviously knows sumire pretty well, he's attuned to her quirks and knows how to tell when she's having a bad time with her anxiety, so he uses her little weather habit to ground her.

i honestly dont think goro and sumire could be considered close in p5r and as much as i like the "royal trio" in canon they're not really... like... friends? with each other? they're both attached to ren, so it' more a V shape than anything else. but that said, i really LIKE goro and sumi's canon dynamic. he takes a really grouchy but politely attentive supervisory role to her during their few forays into the palace as a trio where he doesn't really know her well but clearly identifies her as a harmless little tryhard who needs some guidance and steps into that role grudgingly, and she immediately looks up to him despite being very wrong footed by his ruthlessness, which i find incredibly charming. i think given time they could be good friends, they just didn't get much chance to know each other very well in canon. so i tried to kinda do that here.

once goro stops being evil and joins the group they all kind of tiredly accept that his role is to occasionally push a cup off a bench while smirking and refuse to clean it up. emotionally, i mean.

wait i need to backtrack chronologically to talk about akeshu.

in this scene they're in the same room lol talking and snickering while typing. im trying to get at that vibe of the annoying couple who is flirting with each other, via you. you know? like ostensibly they're talking to you (sumire) but everything they say to you is part of their stupid game. sumi is incidental to goro and ren teasing each other about flirting with someone else, goro is reporting everything ren says because his boyfriend is so eye-rollingly foolish in a cute way. they're very tickled by how amusing and charming they are. gross. disgusting. sumire im so sorry for putting you through this

anyway here are too many of my favourite jokes from the fic

[fake-ascension]

people who scream 'dan heng is NOT dan feng whatsoever' yet always tag any dan feng content as 'dan heng'

[crimsonender]

I'm glad you mention people with metabolic disorders like, as a fat guy with a metabolic disorder it's really frustrating seeing how people dismiss that as a factor in weight gain and maintenance, including doctors :/ like the number of professionals I have been to in my life- let alone regular old ignorant assholes I encounter- who think telling me to eat healthy and exercise more is going to unlock the secret skinny person that they've miraculously discovered hidden inside a lazy fatty... like you of all people should know my thyroid numbers buddy

I also think that like, something got twisted here. If you're fat you shouldn't give up on your body. You should still eat healthy. Even if eating a perfectly healthy and functional diet doesn't lose you a single pound, you should still do it and it's really important to drive that home to people that are overweight because they are at a higher risk of depression and developing eating disorders, many of which can include binge and binge/restrict type disorders. Because fat people also have a harder time moving around, its just easier for fat people not to. But again, you should build up muscle strength and be able to move around comfortably regardless of how much you weigh.

Being fat doesn't mean, necessarily, that your body is swimming in glucose and carbs and salt, but fat people that don't see themselves ever getting "better" might allow for that to happen because of how much they hate the way they look. Thats why "healthy at any size" is an important movement. Its not about saying "yep. Any size is healthy no matter what!" its that you should try to to be healthy no matter what the scale says. Thats *always* a good thing and *always* better for you.

As a personal anecdote there was a time of my life that I had stopped exercising and didn't give a SHIT what I was putting in my body. I had developed a very bad walking gait that was actively injuring my joints. My core muscles were so weak I couldn't sit up in a chair for longer than twenty minutes without the base of my spine throbbing in level 10 stabbing pain that was so bad it made me dizzy. My gut health was awful and every trip to the toilet was miserable and exhausting.

Then, I started eating right. Then I started exercising. I opted to sit at my desk instead of lounging in bed or on my couch, in an upright chair to start building my core up again. I went on walks. I got a physio consultation and found out that I literally had to relearn how to walk, and even now have to make sure I'm not rocking side to side on my ankles and grinding the joint into the socket with each step, every time I go walking. I have not stepped on a scale in four years. I'm honestly not sure if I am comfortable doing that. I don't know how much weight I lost, but I know it's not nothing because pants that were tight on me three years ago now fall off my ass if I don't cinch them with a belt. (That i had to cut new notches into, because when i bought it I could barely buckle it up around my middle, but now the smallest notch was still too loose.)

I'm not really thinking about my size, I'm not thinking about the number. I'm thinking about how good it feels to feel nourished. How much I can appreciate the sweetness of young vegetables because I rarely eat things like snack cakes anymore. I can go on a six hour hike and my legs feel fine. (even if Im a little slow.) I am more in tune with my body and I don't eat until my stomach hurts, feel guilty, and then punish myself for the rest of the week by not eating anything... only to inhale everything in the cupboard at 2am because of how much I've starved myself. Going to the toilet isn't painful and miserable anymore. I am still fat. I probably always will be, thats the phenotype I've been given. But I just am happier, more comfortable, and more capable since I started giving a shit about my body regardless of what size and shape it is.

All that to say that distorting this and the ideas that go into this sort of positive, healthy mindset into "if you just eat better and work out you'll be skinny" no the fuck you won't. the healthy skinny svelte version of me you're making up in your head doesn't exist, even at my peak, even at my most healthy, I'm gonna be chunky and stout and I'm fine with that. And if you're my Doctor, you better get fine with it too.

[thegreatyin]

and with that, evolution is complete.

i do think the scoundrel made the right choice, in the end. maybe- potentially- they think so too.

[floralovebot]

MADE EDITS i couldn't stop thinking about their outfits and like,, the aspects i liked and thought felt very winx and in line with the individual characters and the aspects i Hated and thought sucked dookie SO i made some edits :)

biggest changes are to musa, aisha, and stella! actually changed the clothes there. flora and tecna i just adjusted the colors (in flora's case to further unwhitewash her and saturate her clothing more and in tecna's case to bring back her pink hair and green and cyan).

explanations on changes below!

I'll start with the simpler edits!

For Tecna, I just wanted to play around with her og colors lol I actually LOVE her new look and I would love to see this be the final design!! It's SO tecna and fits in with the rest of the winx i love it soo much :') I do think they should bring back her pinker hair though! And again, would love to see the green and cyan make an appearance. I feel like neon green is just very classy techy character. And while it is cliche, I do love it akjgd plus I think it looks good on her and makes the other colors stand out more imo! (but maybe this new, pinker look will make people like her more idk :') justice for tecna my beloved :'))

For Flora, I darkened her skin more for obvious reasons. And then I added more saturation to the colors and added back the warmer tones they took out. Imo, the darker, desaturated, and cooler toned look for Flora only works in very specific circumstances. Color theory rainbow!! Bring back the brightness! The color!! The warmth!!

Which brings me to Stella ohmygod,,, please,,,, please stop desaturating her she looks so pale and sick and lifeless STOP please :') Anyway lol, obviously brought back the brighter orange! I also took away the random sleeve. It's cute but it just didn't feel very Stella at the time? The tube top look is Very Classic Stella (very much giving s3 casual but in orange). Tbh, I don't love the dress itself, but I do think it looks better once you add more of Stella's colors. I also tanned her skin more and made her hair more yellow + brighter! Just like with Flora, color theory is important for media!! This Stella design just does Not give sunny, optimistic character. It's giving the gap (aka BORING aljdhg)

Aisha's design stumped me for a bit, I won't lie. I couldn't figure out exactly what I didn't like. But I got it!! One, way too symmetrical imo. Yes, Aisha does have some very symmetrical looks, but like 80% of her looks are very asymmetrical. I also didn't love that it didn't incorporate more of Aisha's powers. It really just went for *vaguely sporty* and didn't try to bring anything else to the table. And some people might say that Aisha's og looks were like that too, but I disagree! They told a story! She's a brave adventurer, a dancer, a princess, etcetc!! This tells me "oh yeah this girl might like to do yoga. cool."

Anyway! So I made Aisha's pants baggier because let's be fucking real for a sec. Changed the design on the pants slightly to make it asymmetrical and incorporated a wave design. Took away that bottom shiny fabric of her shirt. I tried to keep it but it just wasn't looking great with the pants changes tbh. Added small waves to the bottom and made it one shoulder! Also added her classic little circle wave design 1. because it's cute and 2. so Musa wouldn't feel so out of place with a design. Tbh, I still don't love the pants... I think maybe that hem could be higher?

For Musa! I've spoken about this before but I do not like the bodysuit. I liked the concept and the vibe it brings, but it looks So uncomfortable and s1 Musa was alllll about being comfortable. It's why so many people think she hates wearing dresses (even though she doesn't). So I kept the vibe, but changed it to the same mesh that's on her right arm! Which like!! I didn't even see that until I started the edit!! It's so,,, unnoticeable which like,, isn't a bad thing? But also? I think the mesh being on her stomach too makes the design as a whole a little more balanced (and it's a nice callback to her og magic winx!). As for the color changes, really just wanted to go back to her reds and dark blues. I don't Hate the color scheme, but I also don't love it. And I think this feels a lot more like Musa yknow? Also darkened her hair cause fuck that dude

Anyway lol it's not the best edit so don't look too hard :') I just wanted to explore what I liked about the designs and what I didn't. We did get to see a little bit of Bloom's casual, but I want to wait until we get a closer look to speak on it/make edits. Also tbh, I don't really love Flora's outfit but I didn't want to completely redesign her and I concede that this is something she would wear (although it feels more like s4 cowgirl time/s5 casual and not s1 new student time but Fine). For now, I'm gonna pretend the trailer showed us my edit of Stella and not what it really showed. I can't get pale pinterest stella out of my head,,, aggghhhh

[h20milk]

who even are you anymore?

― play Moon Observatory Iris by @batensan now!! or suffer from my wrath!!

[pangyham]

been thinking about the liyue gang and how id draw their physical builds so here are some thoughts i had for xy cy and gm in particular

- xingqiu, unsurprisingly, would be quite lanky. i like to think he has broad-ish shoulders, like a thin athlete's build? hes a long boy to me haha, long face, neck, limbs, fingers etc, so naturally hes stands (comparatively) tall at 5'6" or 5'7"

i like to think hes most physically attractive one and has that handsome princely and boyish charm to him because it adds a lot to his fuckass duality LOL

- chongyun is a lot like xiao imo! short stature but with muscular arms. he seems nimble and flexible because of his normal attack animations (which bears a lot of similarities to xiao's actually! this + the fact that chongyun's normal attacks create gusts of wind further reinforces my hc that xiao trains him). sometimes i watch high energy choreography vids on youtube and some dancers look incredibly light on their feet, almost like their body is inherently bouncy? and i imagine chongyun to have that agility to him. chongyun has a delicate face and aura and i let that bleed into my hcs for his fighting style and physical capabilities hahaha. hes kind of like a cat who's deceptively strong. as for height.. just a few inches taller than xiao, so perceptibly short at 5'4"

- ga ming my new beloved. pretty much similar to chongyun but more muscular and stronger just because he wields his claymore with ease. theres a noticeable weight different between cy and his claymore the way he lugs it up after he swings (or even other claymore users like razor who, on his last hit, bounces from impact). meanwhile ga ming literally slams his to the ground LOL. i love his movements though hes very swift and expressive and radiant.. if cy has delicate movements then ga ming's is fierce and (charmingly!) assertive

ga ming is wonderfully charismatic though, i know hes not well known in liyue harbor yet, but he seems like the type to gain a reputation from his friendliness. how could no one adore him hahaha. 5'5" for height! just between xy and xq