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
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catching up on Claw and y'know, this is genuinely very good
it's like... it feels like a compressed version of the most tense parts of Worm
which i'm not surprised by! when it was first announced I remembered some people saying, like, "who would even want to read a crime thriller by Wildbow" but like
i mean, some of the best parts of Worm - and arguably Pact, and kind of even some parts of Twig but less so - where basically themselves crime thrillers, just with genre fiction stuff layered on top
but anyway, the real reason it feels good is like... look, i've been saying since Pale ended Wildbow should just sit back, ignore the internet, and write a regular ass novel on his own
and while this isn't that, it feels a lot closer to that than his other works. mostly because of the pacing - no time to draw things out when you're doing something shorter! (but like for real this time not like Pale was supposed to be shorter) - and also the fact that like. you do get the sense that there was an above-average amount of planning that went into this
even just from the arc structure like, we're switching PoVs every arc, which means i can actually believe the part where he said Claw should run for about 6 arcs, because i'm almost certain that was because he already knew who the 6 PoVs were going to be lol. means there's an actual restriction he (sorta) has to adhere to there.
anyway! it's good. tense, fun, and if the first arc felt like being with Taylor again the current one feels like the interludes that showed Taylor being really fucking scary once you're not in her head seeing how stressed she is, so that's cool!
also like. look i've been saying since mid-Ward that Wildbow really needs to go back to somewhat grey protagonists, otherwise he ends up doing what he did there and in Pale, which is to say having them do the same kinds of fucked up things as his other protagonists and then going "but it's good and fine actually".
and Claw very much isn't that. the first two arcs were about some pretty fucked up people, the third was about someone who. is a teenager. but certainly has some fucked up parts. and the fourth is so far about the least bad person, but he's also the most periphery to the whole situation, so i doubt he'll have time to do some sort of atrocity and have it justified by the narrative.
(that may be funny by the end of this arc, we'll see)
also, speaking of interludes earlier: i also saw some people say Claw feels like an extended Wildbow interlude and... yeah, pretty much! and like, the interludes tend to be some of the best individual pieces of writing he puts out, so that's very much a good thing!
so yeah Claw good so far. kind of hate Ward and liked Pale for maybe longer than it deserved but fell off hard by the end, so i'm glad that at least right now his current work is something where i'm just like. yeah, i like this. no caveats, really.
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Is Kagerou Project discontinued, or will Mekakucity Reload ever see the light of day?
ermmm. answer is maybe to both questions.
jin doesnt WANT to stop kagerou project. its more like he was forced to. i dont know all that much about it, but he's basically in copyright jail -> cant do anything abt kagepro until he clears out legal stuff with it. i think rn kagepro belongs to a mobile game company or something LOLLLL i knew of this back in 2019 or something but i really had thought it had cleared out... it didnt. apparently it's been a problem ever since the anime released and rly sealed off in 2018 with the release of the last album. that's all i know
so for mekakucity reload, same answer. this anime and the no9 novel he announced (and he also mentioned a manga actually) wont see light of day til that whole thing blows over and jin gets the copyright sorted out.
personally im split. i kinda just want him to leave it alone... like its fine as is just stop adding stuff stop touching the characters just Stop. remember all the insane stuff he was saying... how he thinks kano would be a cop, takane would be a mom, shintaro would be a teacher and his students would become the new main characters... girl just STOP TALKING FOREVER
But also huh..no9 novel protag haruka... takane birthday reveal tease...?!?!?! GIMME. but also then i come to my senses and i still think its for the best it doesnt see light of day lol. The idea of jin ruining haruka and takane for me of all characters terrifies me. do not touch them (i KNOW theyre his characters but eugh theyre so sidelined and shit all the time and my brain is plagued with them 24/7 i know its kinda obnoxious to be possessive of someone elses characters and i dont wanna be like Theyre mine cuz theyre not but also i understand them better than anyone else in the world thank u. like no one even has the tiniest grasp over how insane i am about them. i hold my insanity back. what i show here is me with a filter. just imagine.
and like takane as a mom+novel would be set 3 years in the future.... ARE U MAKING HER A MOM AT 22/23😭😭😭LEAVE HER ALONEEEE!!!!!! i like mom takane thats cute but AT 23??? GIRL GO TO THERAPY FIRST. COP KANO? ILL KILL YOU. TEACHER SHINTARO IS FINE BUT I DONT WANT NEW CHARACTERS AT ALL EUGH STOP IT. JUST... LET IT GO JIN♥️ THANK U FOR EVERYTHING BUT♥️ NO♥️
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i am much less consistently actively miserable now than i was as a teenager though, which is nice to remember. i guess i sorta forgot how shitty i used to feel? not just as a teenager but up until a couple years ago?
like earlier today the boy and i were talking about how i slept in (woke up at 9ish?) and i was reminded that i regularly slept until the middle of the afternoon til relatively recently. which obviously theres nothing like, inherently wrong with that? but i was certainly sleeping that late because i was wildly depressed. and its nice to be reminded im not in that specific bad place anymore i guess
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okay so im only 20 chapters in but The E-Sports Circle’s Toxic Assembly Camp is literally so fucking funny, i haven't laughed this hard for a long time!! its really charming but also strangely touching? it balances between the comedy and the heartfelt moments really well and the mc is suuuch a tease, manipulative little bastard, i love him and his banter with the ml so much. the ml who is also quite a suprising sweetheart and gap moe flirt. no seriously their flirting game is so refreashing, its fucking hilarious to see people get whiplash as they 🏳️🌈❓️ everyone around them with their shameless flirting
please just read the first chapter and see if you like it!!
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