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[kingprilbusbignaturals]

don’t get me wrong- every single season of dimension 20 has compelling characters that i have borderline unhealthy attachments to…

however, there’s something purely iconic about the fantasy high characters that i fear will simply never be matched.

i mean, we got kristen applebees!! we got gorgug thistlespring!!! we got adaine abernandt!! we got fabian seacaster!! we got riz gukgak!!! we got fig faeth!! what a fucking lineup.

and the npcs???? ayda aguefort, sandra-lynn, jawbone, gilear, sklonda, garthy o’brien, the cubbys, tracker, cathilda, baby, the hangman, bill seacaster, aelwyn, i could go on forever!!! everyone is so iconic in these seasons!!!

literally nobody is doing it like them!!!! and i cant believe they’re actually coming back to us on january 10th!!!

[tahthetrickster]

i just learned that tungsten has the chemical element symbol of W because the element used to be called wolframite, a name built from the german "wolf rahm", meaning "wolf's cream". idk if you knew this already but i figure you'd enjoy that fun fact

WOLF'S CREAM?????

[radish-club]

From what I understand people were initially dismissive of Pact saying it was bad (WRONG) but later gave it a reassement saying it was good (CORRECT).

Similarly, I saw folks being dismissive of Pale saying it was bad (WRONG) but one day it may also get a reassessment with people saying it was good actually (WRONG).

[pachyderm-matchmaker]

this show is driving me fucking CRAZY i loved every part of it except sally jackson which is RIDICULOUS because they made sally jackson the moral heart of it and leaned in to "everything percy is is because of her" and i WANTED that i LOVE that but then sally herself is?? just??? okay hold on spoilers

i've seen people say that they really appreciate that in this version sally doesn't have to be a doormat who just quietly suffers for her son's sake, and i GET that, i do! i appreciate that!!! not every mother's story should be about endless self-sacrifice!

but sally's WASN'T!!!

it was a story about a scared single mother who ended up in a bad situation and didn't know how to get out, and when she's given the opportunity she fucking TAKES IT!!!

and there are things about the show sally that i like! she isn't constantly cooking gabe food, she doesn't have to say it was selfish to keep her son near her, we see her argue with percy because she struggled and wasn't perfect she was a young single mom, she honks in traffic and gets road rage! i like all of that!!

but i just...

i really, REALLY miss her choosing to kill her abusive husband using medusa's head.

and honestly, i could talk about how goddamn INCREDIBLE of a character choice it was to have a mother who is willing to kill, explicitly out of revenge instead of just to protect her son, while simultaneously being the epitome of a loving mother who teaches her son to do BETTER than just dealing violence and to think about who the real monsters are, and to choose love and responsibility and care!

i could talk about how cool it is that she stops percy from killing gabe not because he "shouldn't kill" but because it needs to be her choice.

i could RANT about how important it is for the story to explicitly have her make the choice to kill him for hurting her, rather than it happening by chance because gabe's the kind of asshole to steal mail, or happening in a way that lets people say "poseidon put that there he took care of gabe for sally lol"--

but she already said it best!

"If my life is going to mean anything i have to live it myself."

and it really really sucks that the show took that away from her

[yusuke-of-valla]

You know what I can totally tie Keisuke trying to decide if he wants to study art abroad getting Yusuke to think about what he wants to do when he's older and at least setting up him studying under Madarame legitimately (again assuming it isn't a SEES thing. I cannot decide if it's a "Shido is being a shitface and blocking the shadow ops and hey. One of his benefactors is an art teacher and we have an art prodigy who's not officially a memeber of the team" thing)

[magicaldreamfox1]

🦅 for ur little tag game u reblogged earlier <3

HI BESTIE thank u for saving me from embarrassment sorry i briefly forgot abt this ask <3

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

uhmmmm so it depends on the fic?

big aus i always outline but mostly it's just like me and a bestie chatting abt it and then like me copy pasting the messages into a doc

id say. anything over 2k gets "outlined" that way in varying degrees from like vague plot idea to like 37 pages masterdoc (shoutout to sugar daddy au. ily sugar daddy au masterdoc)

send me an ask for the writer's emoji ask game!

[selwynsel]

cyberpunkdreams review

TLDR

cyberpunk dystopic text-based game

lgbt+ friendly, i’m currently playing the game as a genderfluid bi masc-presenting character

meant to be played long-term, not a game to bang out in 20 hrs

made by one dev (correct me if i’m wrong), which is insanely impressive for a game that feels very high-quality

entirely free to play! not pay to win either! 

I’ve been playing this game for some days now. I initially encountered it while looking for Fallen London stuff - pretty happy coincidence. 

The game itself, without any spoilers, is a cyberpunk dystopic future set in post-apocalyptic America. It uses the same action system that Fallen London uses and a lot of its UI is also very reminiscent of FL. However, it distinguishes itself from its inspiration with its action economy.

In FL, without any subscriptions, playing completely free, you have 20 actions that are used as you go through the world - exploring, stealing, observing, running, etc. In CPD, the limit is 50. Yeah.

I found my first couple days in CPD more fulfiling and engaging than FL, largely due to the feeling that what I was doing with my character mattered. In FL, it feels hard to actually care about what’s happening because I know in a handful of turns I’ll be unable to continue. If I finish a questline in that time, it’d be a surprise. If I can even find a questline in that time, that’s a bigger surprise. I often feel like I’m just spinning my wheels, getting no traction, grinding stats that mean nothing and do nothing because I’m already done with my allowed playtime before I can get a grasp on them.

In CPD, I was able to get through a significant portion of the introduction quests in my first go. When I waste actions doing silly things, it doesn’t feel as bad. I could start a quest, finish another quest, and other side errands before I run out of actions, and when I finish with my economy for the day, it feels like I actually did get to play and interact and engage with the game. The starting portion of the game giving you a guided quest feels a lot better than when I signed up for FL and wasted all my actions trying to understand wtf the game was even offering.

If you’re interested in text-based games, if you liked FL and want something similar, if you enjoy cyberpunk, then I really recommend trying this out. It’s entirely free to play with an optional credits system that gives you access to certain things, but I genuinely don’t feel like the loss of this “premium” worsens the gaming experience. There is ALSO a subscription that gives you a slightly higher action count and imo, as someone who DID subscibe to FL to see if being an Exceptional Friend improved the feeling of the game, I think my money is better spent subscribing to CPD. Better action economy, no payment scheme to enjoy the in-game content, the game itself feels overall more accessible as a new player.

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[unganseylike]

something about adam going to work for a secret govt org and declan continuing to do blackmarket shit makes me so sad :/ not what i wld want for either of them

[itsalittlebitchilly]

i hate all men and i hate myself!!!!!!!!!!!! *dies*

[autumnoakes]

the urge to explain to everyone that i'm autistic so i do things they may find weird vs. the urge to never tell anyone ever because they're going to accuse me of lying 🫠

[linogram]

i need ppl who arent americans and dont understand how the american election system works to just shut up

[waluijoe]

basically i appreciate talking about other things i can analyze, about people, about movies, about games, principles, ideas, whatever. creativity, wittiness, joking, thats the cool stuff. talking about myself is horrid though, like.. people saying anecdotes about me also feels horrid i hate it i want to tell them to ignore everything else but my ideas. there's an attention part of it that the child in me likes, like im getting praised for being "funny" or interesting enough that pple say stuff abt me to their friends, but that part is small compared to the shame of being found out to be a person who exists and does things and could be unbearable potentially.

[kurp-stuff]

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[raspberryjellybrains]

ik nobody is probably deeply invested in this, but I do still write, I've just been having a lot of trouble finishing stuff to my own standards to post. I've got dozens and dozens of pages of incomplete fics I lost steam to write/nitpick/post that I'm trying work on and get posted, but it's been uphill both ways. I'm trying to get better, but no promises, unfortunately.

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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