#can i drop out yet

[through-all-the-gloom]

so close to being done yet i feels like it’s gonna take forever and the rest of my sanity with it

#can i drop out yet #i mean it’s only one more week but i think it’s reasonable 😂

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[drinker-of-paint]

Babys first go at an Alice design!!

I'm slightly worried I might have made her outfit a bit. Much? But on the other hand I think her fashion sense cannot be silenced

I'm just trying to get the ones out that I had immediately somewhat clear in my head before I get influenced by everyone elses designs,

I think I'll do Gwen next, no promises on how soon that'll be though bc it's me 😬

#its so stressful making character designs for a character i dont know inside out yet #like im manifesting the vast vibes for her but #ig i can retrospectively change her details if im way off #but also im like. what if they drop a lil tidbut that makes the whole thing just. incorrect #aaa im not used to being in active fandoms man #tma #the magnus archives #tmp #the magnus protocol #alice dyer #alice #s1 alice

[zivazivc]

Does Hed help Les with grooming his back?

This is a really old ask about this post. And the answer is yes, definitely!

I ended up drawing them back in their room in Vibe City because I've been thinking a lot about them growing up there lately. This is a little before Les gets kicked out (big fight with dad) and they end up traveling around with Flea who is at uni at this point. (Flea isn't a local, he moved there because of uni a couple of years prior, and that's when Les and Hed met him. He is the only other mixed/non-fully funk troll they know at that point.)

In the drawing Hed is studying for a test. He's in the second year of high school when he drops out. This upsets and angers Les because he has good grades but Hed insists that they should form a band (like they used to talk about when younger) because he is secretly shit scared of letting Les live alone and fuck off to who knows where. - At this point in time Vibe City is pretty much grounded in the same location most of the time, and if Les doesn't have work, he likes to spend his time in the suburb/woods outside the city where he takes care of his beetle van, Scaab. And Hed is aware Les has been itching to leave the city for a while already...

This has been an unexpected mini lore dump, thank you for your time :P

#trolls #dreamworks trolls #ex bandmates #les #hed #flea didn't mind dropping out of uni bc dude was there for the student life and not much else lol #traveling around and playing at small gigs sounds like a better use of his time (his moms don't agree but he's 21 and can do what he wants) #i think rock and funk societies have similar school systems to ours and that their societies look the most like ours (to some degree) #pop trolls have elementary school but then what they call high school is just apprenticeships. and they have no higher education #answered #my art #trolls oc #vibe city is grounded because the king and queen aren't looking for their lost son yet (maybe they aren't even married yet?) #it's still quite a few years before the twin eggs are laid #also i think this is the first time i mentioned scaab by name #yes his name is scaab no i don't have a picture of him but i have tried drawing him plenty of times and i can see him in my head

[saltcosmos]

tw for blood and censored gore, nothing major is shown dw

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ive had such bad ultrakill brainrot recently that i havent drawn dead cells in a while but i also havent had time so heres a bunch of messy sketches of varying quality. might polish and finish some of them one day but that day is not today

#tw blood #fun fact abt me u can tell how much i like a character by how much violence i inflict upon them #normalize gutting and flaying ur blorbos like fish actually. out of love ofc <3 #idgaf that leghugger isnt meta its my son and my baby and i will literally drop everything to equip it btw #dead cells beheaded #dead cells #ill do some actual art soon i promise.. ive just been very busy :( #just wanted to post smth so u guys dont think im dead yet

[antennatoheaven]

i knew that the ending songs from portal and portal 2 were pretty gay "haha my life is so great without you in it. i totally don't miss you at all :')" breakup songs, but who was gonna tell me that the lego dimensions portal ending song is even gayer AND sadder???? even batman is there

#portal #portal 2 #lego dimensions #glados #chelldos #''i can guess the reasons why // your are never coming by // for me '' GIRL YOU KICKED HER OUT #what happened in the lego game for this to be the saddest glados song yet im #ngl i teared up a bit #but i'm gonna say it's mostly out of shock #the batman name drop also caught me off guard #portal game

[mattodore]

found out while putting together matthias's oc page that his name has the exact same etymology and meaning as theo's name...

i’m sure this is information matthias is very normal about…

#theo is in fact a gift from god so jot that down ! #river dipping #i've been throwing myself into oc stuff bc i'm not doing hot mentally which is... tbh when i do my best writing 😭 #none of this is new tho i wrote the bios and 'at a glance' intros months and months ago when i first made an oc page #which is why i do plan on rewriting them but for now i'm leaving them like this... so i guess the echthroi page is done? #obviously echthroi has more characters than this but i haven't taken new screenshots of everyone yet... #i put the gray cas bg back in my game a few days ago only to completely forget i wanted to take new headshots for the oc page 😭 #like these are just placeholders... i want the backgrounds to match the oc page. oh... or maybe i could just do transparent pics? #i think i remember vyx made a post abt how to do that... will look into that when i open the game again. rn i'm at my keyboard 🧑‍💻 #like i am writing new things! started a google doc for theo yesterday and have been writing on it here and there since then #i've already cried in there... lmaooo. i like oc pages for sure but i think a huge google doc is what i really need to keep track of things #i drop so much lore in tags on here and it's like! river write that down somewhere else or you'll lose it 😭 #like i fr have never actually written down any of the info i've shared on here. i've just had all this oc knowledge stored in my brain. #so i went through and copied over a tonnn of tags and posts i've made into google docs but i just know i'm missing things i've probably #said in the tags of their core tagged posts... 🧍 if my blog didn't have so many posts i'd have an easier time going through it but 🤷 #and on top of that i've been making a bunch of posts about theo and matthias on my main acc. which is like 🧍 well great now there's more #i'm gonna lose track of...... i fr have gottt to get into the habit of actually putting things down in theo's google doc!!! #i'm just trying to figure out the best way to format it all but i've downloaded a few templates that i've been messing with. #...anyway. if it isn't obvious i'm trying to get back to posting on here. i'm opening my inbox now with the intent to just. #sit here in my inbox until i can get myself to reply. lads... avpd is actually so torturous i'm not kidding. #i feel like i'm dying trying to get myself to interact with people sometimes even despite how badly i want!!!! to interact!!! #theo and me and our avoidant trauma responses holding hands and skipping around together

[wall-e-gorl]

WANDERHOME ARC, NOT A DRILL, UC IS HAVING A WANDERHOME ARC

#unprepared casters #and back again #ive been thinking about checking out wanderhome #but didnt want to drop the money on buying it quite yet #didnt know if my friends would be interested in playing it or if i would be comfortable dming it or what the mechanics would even look like #but!! uc is playing it!! my dnd group is made of uc fans so i can get answers for all those questions!!

[theinactivefaniguess]

Why are Jimmy and Tango the most duo ever?

Like. I wouldn't have expected them. But it makes so much sense.

They're loud, they're brash (in a positive sense), they have big reactions. They both can't build (though looking at Jimmy's After Life Series and Tango's recent Hermitcraft video, that is clearly a fucking lie-). They both stumble and fall through Minecraft and die in the silliest ways. They both ran around like headless chickens when they respawned and wasted several seconds where they could've looked for their dropped stuff. They hype each other up, in a way; one's excitement and loudness feeds the other's excitement and loudness.

Plus, they were, like, really sweet with each other?? Jimmy telling Tango that it's okay when Tango apologized for getting them killed, Jimmy trying to reassure him by telling him 'hey, I'm probably going to get us killed as well', to which Tango immediately responds with a little laughter and 'that's fine', Tango going to help Jimmy when he saw Jimmy getting the 'Not today, thank you' advancement, Jimmy hyping the house Tango built, Jimmy showing off what he gathered each time when he went out, Tango worrying for Jimmy when he was cornered by Etho and Joel on the bridge... hello??? I'm here for this friendship!

In case you can't tell, I'm really looking forward to more shenanigans of this duo lmao

#double life smp #dlsmp #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #tangotek #tango #traffic smp #I still need to check out Joel and Etho's perspective but I'm also intrigued by their dynamic #haven't really watched Etho yet but Joel's brand of unhingedness is very fun #so we'll see how that goes #(Also about them being sweet: I was writing a really mushy romance scene before double life dropped #and now all my brain can conjure up is some really mushy romance stuff between Jimmy and Tango. Which... #I might actually need to write. Like. The brainrot is real. #There's a lot of pining on my brain right now and I might make that everyone's problem. #The writing I did was for a different thing lmao but works just fine. #Anyways. That's why all of that stuck out to me. Might write it. Might not. You'll see.) #((I doubt anyone would be interested...?)) #Lac's own posts

[mirror-to-the-past]

Xingqiu fans are dining excellently with all the references to him and lore regarding the Guhua Clan being spotlighted via Chenyu Vale's "A Wangshan Walk to Remember." The comparisons that can be made between Xingqiu and his predecessors is also very fascinating...

The Grand Master Guhua truly did live out the life of idealized dignity and transparency just as Xingqiu desires for himself. There's something very touching and heartbreaking about the fact that Guhua's life was one deemed heroic, but he was only able to have his legacy carried on by Boxuan who cast his own name aside to exhalt the name of the deceased Guhua.

And then right after briefly recounting the life and works of Master Guhua, Wen brings up Xingqiu, reemphasizing the lofty ideal/hope that he can respark the dying flame of the Guhua (no pressure) and potentially act as a parallel to the founder of the art himself. It's made all the more poignant, considering that we could easily draw the connection that Chongyun could be considered Xingqiu's potential Boxuan equivalent, a fellow young practitioner of martial arts who acts as a peer and supporter of Xingqiu's arts (although lets hope Xingqiu doesn't die preemptively like Guhua did).

I don't have snippets of the dialogue for it or screenshots, but those books in the archive room were just so lovely to see. The fact that many of the old disciples of Guhua were just nerds like Xingqiu and enamored with wuxia novels, shelving their discussions of them among all of the records they held in their library was so sweet.

Additionally, the person who invented the Rain Cutter technique that Xingqiu uses now was the one involved with the hidden Wangshan chambers that had the really forboding message about the heavens rejecting humanity and whatnot... very mysterious stuff.

Additionally, those 5 swords scattered around Chenyu Vale, the first of which you find at the outskirts of the Wangshan Chamber....while not necessarily all individuals of the Guhua Clan, it made me oddly emotional to see how the years that went by, depicted by each sword's material- from a blade to a crude sword shaped stick- and yet they all had in common a very poetic observation of their goals and the world about them that could easily flow as a singular nature/travelling-based poem. And that spirit of poetry intertwined with swordsmanship flourishing across the ages still continues on with this one dorky rich boy. It's honestly wonderful worldbuilding, that through environmental storytelling and the mere mentions of a character who was never even present for the entirety of the world quest, all of these stories and records of Guhua disciples and swordsmen before him tell me all I need to know about Xingqiu as a character, too.

#definitely would like to do more rereading of the texts within the Guhua library + those weird inscriptions #these lore drops were so cool #currently caught up in the profound nature of multiple generations united in their love for art- poetry- swordplay- idealism of heroism etc #the joy of community but also the loss of having a space in which your passions can be taken seriously and allow you to grow into the #desired version of yourself #the fact that xingqiu is considered a light in the darkness for the current Guhua elders yet he practices his art as part of a double life #all while the wangshan chamber crumbles- very symbolic #suppression and isolation kills passion #genshin impact meta #semi incoherent most likely as I am sleepy but I had to get my thoughts out #genshin impact #genshin 4.4 #genshin 4.4 spoilers #xingqiu #a wangshan walk to remember

[deus-ex-mona]

sorry guys normalcy is but a passing fantasy

#turns out that ​‘meoto’ is another reading for 夫婦 (married couple) #ahUAAAAAAAAA HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO DUM B TO HAVE MISSED THIS IT WAS STARING ME IN THE FACE FOR MONTHSSSSSS #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CAN I RETURN TO NORMALCY YET?????????? #THIS IS ENDING MY PRODUCTIVITY IM S OB B I NG I HAVE HALF OF THE LAST LXL ANIMEDIA INTERVIEW LEFT AND I CANT FOCUSSSSSS #IM. GONNA BE SOOOOO ANNOYING ONCE THE CROSSFADE RELEASES LMAO #WHO NEEDS A LAST STAGE MV WHEN WE CAN HAVE MEOTO MV— #TBH I DONT EVEN C A R E IF IT’S JUST A SINGLE IMAGE MV I JUST WANT TO SEE MARRIED LXL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #s . so b s is this real life or is this just (non)fantasy #i hate lxl why did they have to drop their marriage announcement on a tuesday? do it on the weekend like relatively sane people p l s

[slugs-at-midnight]

fallen aces save me… fallen aces… save me fallen aces

#literally dying to play that game man i just KNOW it’s gonna take over my brain once it’s drops #i need to know waht the hell is up with mike and nightwave so bad i need to know the lore of the old timey middle aged yaoi #“the game’s not even out yet and you’re already thinking about shipping” #hey if the lead artist can draw of bunch of homoerotic comics about mike and nightwave a year before the early access launch i can indulge #slugs speaks #what would their shipname even be btw MikeWave…MichaelWave…NightMike

[suguelya]

I am 100 percent with you on preferring the JP line in that cutscene if only because it does feel more powerful (and his voice is SO soft, which is something that frequently gets completely lost in the dub in general. Mamoru carries a much softer tone overall for Flynn, similar to how Yuri's playfulness and carefree vibe got lost in favor of the dub's aim for a more "cool adult guy").

That said, I was not even aware they left the whistle out!!! I haven't bothered with that sidequest because the outfit is readily available for free as DLC.

While I enjoy having Flynn present in the last battle, I wish they'd just had him look back up at the sky and say that right next to Yuri right before the very end of the cutscene (since imo that'd be the best placement for it). No reason not to stick that back in!!!

But removing the whistle is just an outright crime and I am owed a fee from the people who decided that for the devastation I've been inflicted with.

Big same 🤝

I used to be such a fan of the eng dub but tbh ever since I experienced the original japanese (back when we still called it the PS3 Version lol) I never looked back. The wording is so, so, SO much more layered and leaves little room to misinterpret subtleties and subtext. Like you, I've had many gripes about the localization because sometimes they just plain insert stuff that was never there in the first place - iirc Troy Baker admited that apparently they rushed the dub so hard, sometimes the voice actors themselves were asked to chip in for the translation...he said he loved that (I'll bet), but that might explain why so much of the OG english script was already full of weird phrasings and insertions...add to that the even more sloppy and lazy DE localization and you get only half of the richness of the original japanese.

Also yes Mamo and Tori *are* Flynn and Yuri more than anybody ever could be. Sam and Troy do a good enough job but I agree that Troy may have been directed to play Yuri closer to a traditional "cool bad boy", which is hilarious given how the original Yuri is a twist on that very trope. Unfortunately, Troy gave him this uncharacteristically cold/aggressive edge whenever he talks to Flynn that it makes it sound like he's always annoyed to see him, and it strips their relationship of so much of the softness and playfulness that Tori lends Yuri.

Anyway enough about me ranting because I could go on for about 10 more hours about this issue lmao. Honestly yeah they very well could've rearranged Flynn's cutscene to fit in there at the end, like hell if you can change the entire camera angles of whole scenes you can change that one background, no?? Knowing Tomizawa though that might have been more effort than he was willing to grant this remaster - won't be his last time.

Same for the wolf whistling!! They replaced it with a skit that is just as funny...

....but void of the insane flirting the original had. Idek why they went so far as to change it, it would've been less work to just leave it as it was 😭

#sorry for the length i just will never be able to shut up abt the translation #theres so much wrong with it #and when i say 'so much' i dont mean 'huge things' i mean 'a million tiny things that end up becoming huge in the big picture' #the most eggregious mistranslations to me were the ones where they shoehorned heterosexuality where there was none to begin with #like inserting estelle in sentences from yuri when she wasnt even in the original jp line #i know jpn loves to play w/ the implicit & the context but when yuri says to repede 'its gonna be lonely now huh' after the party separated #then he does not mean 'its gonna be lonely *without estelle in particular*' he means *without everyone* because he got used to them #and yet the tl makes it only abt her #or #the most unforgivable mistranslation of all to me #when they turned yuris response to estelle's 'id love to keep travelling with you' just before tarqaron from 'thanks same here' #to 'i feel the same way' #like ????? #that changes the ENTIRE conversation BECAUSE its all about the subtext #like it or not (and i hate it) but estelle does have some bodyguard crush on yuri there and this is the way she chooses to 'confess' #you can tell just by the way the scene plays out & how much it lingers on yuris very careful pokerface bc he has very clearly Understood #and yet does not reciprocate so he's being very careful what his next words will be so she Gets The Memo without having to hurt her feelings #and it works!! because iirc she does drop her head and nod a little as if she did get it and accepted what that he basically rejected her #so this isnt JUST some unimportant line #ITS VERY MUCH THEN MOMENT HE SAYS THANKS BUT NO THANKS #SO TRANSLATING THAT WITH 'I FEEL THE SAME' MAKES ZERO SENSE AS IT JUST DESTROYS THE ORIGINAL MEANING BY TURNING IT INTO ITS ENTIRE OPPOSITE #sorry im getting heated abt this again i just #f #even the scenario book interviews confirm that and put emphasis on it so this isnt just me reading too much into it for The Yaoiz #*thats* the subtlety vesperia deals with all the time and *thats* the subtlety the eng tl keeps chipping away at #i know the translators most likely had little direction to go off of so this isnt to dunk on them #more like the complete lack of communication between loc departements and the heteronornativity they resort to when in doubt #hell even higuchi agreed when i addressed this on twitter with him #dude knows #ANYWAY TUMBLR SAID IM EXCEEDING THE TAG LIMIT LMAO sorry for the huge rant i just. have feelings abt tov's loc

[xluciifer]

MAIN LORE/MAIN SHIP TAG DROP 1/??:

-> Those I've plotted with enough to either establish a relationship with or are important to my Lucifer's lore. <-

( lucifer & vox 👑 : the game of chase / always worth it / landing in your embrace ; @voxistem. )

( lucifer & lilith 👑 : tear my beating heart out / i'll pray / devoted to your gospel ; @lilitophidian. )

( lucifer & kitty 👑 : you saw me / i saw you / the pieces aligned before my eyes ; @k1zty. )

( lucifer & ozzie 👑 : walls were built / destroy the facade / and we can be free together ; @jizzlords. )

( lucifer & zestial 👑 : my confidante / yet secrets spilt / where wine still lingers ; @arachnaemboss. )

( lucifer & charlie 👑 : my flaws changed you / love never vanished / you'll always be my blood ; @pompedia. )

#( lucifer & vox 👑 : the game of chase / always worth it / landing in your embrace ; voxistem. ) #( lucifer & lilith 👑 : tear my beating heart out / i'll pray / devoted to your gospel ; lilitophidian. ) #( lucifer & kitty 👑 : you saw me / i saw you / the pieces aligned before my eyes ; k1zty. ) #( lucifer & ozzie 👑 : walls were built / destroy the facade / and we can be free together ; jizzlords. ) #( lucifer & zestial 👑 : my confidante / yet secrets spilt / where wine still lingers ; arachnaemboss. ) #( lucifer & charlie 👑 : my flaws changed you / love never vanished / you'll always be my blood ; pompedia. ) #tag drop.

[mitamicah]

I need to think out loud - feel free to ignore

#I really want to quit the event for trans day of visibility #I just don't see what I can give to the conversation #and I haven't for a while now #there is already a person that does all the posters #when I did the budget it was all wrong #half the ideas I've come up with has been having big holes #and honestly I don't think that comfortable in the group #I feel like I am back at school or university being put in a group for a project that I cannot pull out of because it will affect my grade #or the rest of the group's performance #but there's no grades #there is a performance of sort being the event #and that could still be great #but I don't feel like I have the spoons or the experience for this #I am just smiling (barely) and nodding along #yet a part of me are also scared of dropping out now #there is not a lot of time left #and so it wouldn't be fair on the other people to ditch this last minute #but would it be more fair to let me just tag along not doing anything of value? #and I should probably decide soon since we are getting closer #it is this big dark cloud over my thought rn #I am trying to concentrate on my drawing challenge yet I don't have any joy in it #because all my thoughts go to this event #I don't know what to do #I really don't want to do this #but I did say yes #and I hate tapping out and be seen as untrustworthy as well #micahs thoughts

[samarecharm]

Cant believe they wont let me farm that fucking teddy bear

#chattin #strikers liveblog #8800 EXP AND U WONT LET ME FARM HIM. FUCKA YOU #CANT HAVE SHIT IN DETROIT !!!!!!! #anyway the fight was tedious. i was hoping for a big reward for beating this fucker #but i was too focused on the exp to see the item it may have dropped #wack #i had ryuji yusuke and haru on my team #i DISTINCTLY remember when i was running for my life leveled 18 that it had mapsio #but i didnt realized it drained psi. so haru was kinda like. useless. im sorry girl. #i wanted to do it again w morgana and sophia but he didnt respawn :( #wack… #i didnt finish the snow city yet; im still grinding bc im out of control #and i get a rush fusing new personas LMAO #i guess when i get tired of it; ill go fight this woman #so funny; the game can try all they might. but i do not think i will sympathize w a politician lol #well. i guess it depends on how they finish her story #but if u want this kind of idea to land well; it needs to be w relatable people. not. mayors….