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When Resident Evil 4's remake was coming out, Capcom put out trailers for the games depicting the characters as anime characters from the early decades (60s and 80s)

It is so ridiculous and off tone that I love it.

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🦇To be King of Halloween🦇

TWST Nightmare Before Christmas Event Spoilers Below

I've been seeing some people talking about these two line from the last event chapter, that seem to be causing some confusion

Essentially the confusion I've been seeing boils down to "If Halloween was already a thing, why would Skully be called the King of Halloween?" And ironically, given which movie this event is taken from, I think the simplest answer to this question is solved by Christmas. Or specifically, Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol".

Christmas had been around for centuries by Charles Dickens time, but it wasn't the massive celebration it is today. Prior to the Victorian era, it was just another day off for workers, and a private religious holiday. At the turn of the era, the changing culture in England led to individuals (as well as companies taking advantage of new ways of marketing) creating their own ways to celebrate; trees, roast dinners, yule logs, gift giving, santa claus, all the sorts. Still, there wasn't some unified way of celebrating, or meaning, of Christmas, it was scattered across the country.

And then came A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens novel brought together most of the little aspects of how people had begun to celebrate Christmas, and injected them into a story of empathy, growth and reflection. It exploded in popularity overnight, and the release of A Christmas Carol can easily be seen as the turning point in which Christmas became what it is today. All the puzzles pieces of people's traditions put together into a single frame. People, especially children, even referred to Dickens as Father Christmas while he was alive.

I think it's this that Skully did for Twisted Wonderland. Time within the Book is not linear, it would seem. We meet a Skully from hundreds of years in the past, and go on an adventure together. In his time Halloween was not major worldwide celebration, but isolated instances. Even then, his worldview of the meaning of Halloween is very narrow, defined by his own loneliness and isolation in his extremes.

Then he meets the NRC crew, and Jack Skellington, his idol, and suddenly he met with new perspectives he couldn't have heard in his own time. Halloween is to scare, but in good fun. Halloween is dark, but just as flashy. Halloween can be and mean many things. Skully rejects these views at first, but in the end comes around to them.

When they all leave the book, Skully, like the rest, most likely didn't retain any concrete memories, but what he did retain was the feeling that something had changed. Like Scrooge on Christmas morning, he came out of the experience a (somewhat) different man. Upon graduating Night Raven College, he traveled the world to spread the scares and joys of Halloween to Twisted Wonderland, both the ideals he'd held onto for years, and ones that seemed to come from a dream. He created a unified vision of Halloween that could be shared for generations to come.

And thus, did Skully become The King of Halloween

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HOW AM I ONLY NOW FINDING OUT THAT THERE’S ALMOST ZERO FANART OF KOTAROU AND SIEG HANGING OUT. THATS CRIMINAL.

I know what I must do.

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I had the immense urge to draw Kotarou (what’s new), and this time I drew Sieg too to clothes-swap. Natsuki Hanae characters my beloved 🤲

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Writing References: World-Building

20 Questions

Basics: World-building ⚜ Places ⚜ Imagery ⚜ Setting

Exploring your Setting ⚜ Kinds of Fantasy Worlds

Editing

Setting & Pacing Issues

Writing Notes

Animal Culture ⚜ Autopsy

Alchemy ⚜ Creating a Magic System

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Creating Fictional Items ⚜ Fictional Poisons

Cruise Ships ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Food: How to Describe ⚜ Word Lists: Part 1 2 3 4 5

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting

Food: Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs

Food: Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables

Greek Vases ⚜ Sapphire ⚜ Relics

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love

Medieval Art & Architecture: Part 1 ⚜ Part 2 ⚜ Some Vocabulary

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman

Moon: Part 1 ⚜ Part 2

Seasons: Spring ⚜ Summer

Shapes of Symbols ⚜ Symbolism

Slang: 1930s

Symbolism: Of Colors Part 1 2 ⚜ Of Food ⚜ Of Storms

Topics List ⚜ Write Room Syndrome

Vocabulary

Agrostology ⚜ Architecture ⚜ Art Part 1 2 ⚜ European Renaissance Art ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gemology ⚜ Geology Part 1 2 ⚜ Greek Art ⚜ Law ⚜ Literature Part 1 2 ⚜ Poetry ⚜ Science

Writing References: Plot ⚜ Character Development

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TWSTober Day X: Favorite Staff

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TWSTober Day IX: Favorite Ship

Guessssss who got sick and couldn’t draw for a couple days 🥳

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TWSTober Day VIII: Current Favorite Character

Aka my current hyperfixation lol

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TWSTober Day VII: First Favorite Character

Totally didn’t fall asleep and forget to post

I started playing TWST because of the similarities between Riddle and Kotarou

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TWSTober Day VI: Character You Relate To

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TWSTober Day V: Character You Want To Slap

I adore him I swear lol

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TWSTober Day IV: Closest Birthday

Ft. My Yuusona, Yura Ashihara. Yes, my birthday is November 5th exactly lol

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TWSTober Day III: Current Support

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TWSTober Day II: Current Home Character

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TWSTober Day I: Whose Hand Did You Take?

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IT HAPPENED

I decided, screw it, try for C2!

AND I FUCKING DID ITTTTT!!!!!

MY DENDRO BLESSING IS SO FUCKING REAL, THREE 50/50S (FOUR INCLUDING THE WEAPON) WON IN A ROW!!!!

Here are my Kinich's stats currently, he could be better, but man he's so satisfying to play.

My hands were legit shaking after I pulled that copy, this is my first ever now C2 Limited character.

Time to save for Mavuika 🔥😎🏍

Y'ALL I'M SO DAMN HAPPY

The scene. I'm on a 50/50 at 41 pity on the Character banner, 5 pity on the Weapon banner, with 29 Fates and 144 Fates worth of primogems. Needless to say, I had enough wishes to guarantee Kinich in the worst case scenario and thensome. So my plan was just to get Kinich, and then to toss whatever I had left for his weapon and that would be it.

But then I got to thinking, 'What if I got some earlies?' I don't have many other characters on my radar for now so what would I do with the rest of my primos? So I decided; if I get Kinich and his weapon early enough, I'll try pulling for a Constellation, which is something I almost never do cause I prefer horizontal investment over vertical investment.

So, Kinich's banner arrives and I start summoning at the 81 Pity mark I get that gold light...

AND BOOM

There he was, I won my 50/50!

Next came the weapon. I set my path and start to pull. At the 70 Pity mark, I got gold again aaaand...

YAHOO!

At this point, I still had a little over 10k primogems. So I went back to Kinich's banner. I was now at 1 Pity.

11.

21.

31- It's an early Gold. I'm legit holding my breath at this point and then,

THE ABSOLUTE JOY I FELT. THIS IS MY VERY FIRST C1 LIMITED 5☆! And I still managed to have a little over 5k primos left over!

I'm genuinely debating whether commit to saving again or try to use every primos left I can scrounge this patch to try for C2 lmao. But I'm extremely content with stopping here.