#pippi speaks

[nympippi]

GUESS WHO I CARVED FOR MY PUMKIN NERDDDSSSSS

SUBSCRIBBBEEEEE TO TECHNOBLADE

#subscribe to technoblade #technoblade #pumpkin carving #pippi speaks #technoblr #first time free styling a pumpkin!! #but this was really fun to do and lastly HAPPY HALLOWEEN BITCHESSSS

[paysergraham]

I think people should form their own opinions instead of parroting off what the average person thinks about it without a second thought. Do you know how many times I’ve seen people utterly dump on something and then watched/played/consumed it for myself and went “yeah that had redeeming qualities nobody mentioned in negative reviews, even if I don’t overall like it”? It’s fun to shit on things sometimes but when you’re a fan of something that gets shit on constantly it’s just like Okay... (image of ant with bindle)

#01 #pippy speaks

[oldblackpeacoat]

holding draculaura up to my screen so she can understand the horrors of the internet

#danny speaks #i do this with pippy when i am home but drac will have to do </3 miss you pippy

[ferretteeth]

Swedish references in Disco Elysium and A Sacred and Terrible Air

There's a couple of things I keep thinking about in the Elysium universe from a Scandinavian or specfically swedish POV and I need to put them somewhere. It makes sense a lot of the game is both Slavic and Scandi inspired since the author is Estonian (and many of the people working on it also are from North Europe).

To start off: racism and white nationalism. This starts in Disco Elysium with, for example, the Hjelmdallarmann comic which is clearly an in universe viking fiction. Vikings, Celtics and similar have in real life unfortunately been co-opted by white nationalists wanting to return to anarchist values. The same goes for the fictional ancient civilizations in Elysium. We know what types are into the Hjelmdall fiction

In Terrible Air this is shown in Vidkun Hird, the imprisoned white nationalist who once led a nationalist party called Hjelmdall. He also shares a name with Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian nazi collaborator.

Vikard similarly resembles IRL white nationalists interested in these aesthetics by talking at length about how beautiful the missing Lund girls are, focus on racial purity and innocent women as soon as they're old enough to have children.

In summary, Elysium’s worldbuilding is so extensive there’s in-canon white nationalists with a hard on for vikings.

On a lighter note: Vaasa and Katla are both very clear analogs for Northernmost Europe. Vaasa is likely named after the Swedish royal lineage Vasa, often considered to be our “great” kings since they successfully created a Swedish empire which contained much of Northern Europe and a few isles in the Atlantic. There even is a Finnish town named Vaasa after Swedish occupation.

They speak Swedish a few times in the books (song lyrics, Skål!) also there is just Östermalm which exists in real life. I was there two days ago.

Northern Katla is definitely Finland. It shares a border with Grad (Russia) and also Cunoesse is from there.

(Näkki is a necken or nix, water-living faefolk who play the fiddle)

Here's Cunoesse just calling you a "cop motherfucker" in Finnish (more or less. Vittu is a transcendental curse and hard to translate)

Katla could be named either after the Icelandic volcano or after the dragon in Bröderna Lejonhjärta (The Brothers Lionheart) by Astrid Lindgren, same author who did Pippi Longstocking. Or maybe something entirely different but those are the things that come to mind. Here is Katla from the movie, haunting Scandinavian children since 1977.

#PLEASE take this with a grain of salt this is deeply unpolished #rev txt #disco elysium #a sacred and terrible air #Püha ja õudne lõhn #meta #yea

[cricketnationrise]

For the followers' fic fest!

6:58 AM, Kensington Palace, Philip Fox-Mountchristen Windsor. I'm not sure about the song but I'm thinking Are You Bored Yet? by Wallow ft. Clairo for the vibes so feel free to use it! (You don't have to tho /gen)

Another first for me, Philip POV! I hadn't heard the song before this ask, but it's going into regular rotation now! Anyway, I hope you like your ficlet! 💜🦗

❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙

6:58am, kensington

“Mmm…Ph'lip? Why’re you already awake?”

Martha blinks blearily at him from where she’s half-sprawled on his chest. Bollocks. All his shifting around must have woken her up. Philip sighs, puts on half a mask of normalcy.

“No reason. Go back to sleep, darling.” He drops a kiss on the top of her head. “We don’t have to be up for another hour.”

“No, I’m awake enough. Come now, what’s wrong? You’re never up this far before your alarm.”

“Nothing.”

“Pish posh.”

“Martha.”

“I’m still half asleep, but I know utter rot when I hear it. Now spill.”

“I don't have an answer—” 

Martha starts to push upright. “Philip, I swear to—”

“Well, not one I can give you,” he admits. 

“How come?” 

And the truth is that the thing that’s bothering him, that has kept him up all night, it’s so big he can’t even look at it head on; has to resort to sideways glances. The whole is too overwhelming. But Martha makes everything better—everything. So maybe, a moment of bravery on his part will let her soothe this hurt, this howling thing inside him, as well. He takes a deep breath and exhales hard before speaking.

“The man that—the one that slept with H-henry. When he was underage.”

“From his letters?” Martha’s always been quick on the uptake, always willing to follow his wandering thoughts.

He nods. “I can’t get that line out of my head. It seems such a small detail, almost casual for Henry, but for me—”

“It rewrites a large part of your worldview.”

“Yes.”

There’s a long silence as they both sit with that idea. Martha plays with the buttons on his pajama top. Philip takes the back of her collar between his fingers, rubbing the soft neckline like a worry stone.

“Martha?”

“Hmm?”

“Do you think it was one of my friends?” He has no reason to doubt Henry’s words, just a desperate desire to have not contributed, even in passing, to his brother’s suffering.

“Truthfully?”

“Yes, please. If you tell me the truth I won't have to lie to myself anymore.”

“I think you already know the answer, love,” she says gently.

“Martha, please.” The just tell me doesn’t need to be spoken for her to understand. 

“Yes, Philip. I think it's true.”

For all he’d known, for all he’d been subconsciously bracing himself for the words, Martha’s confirmation is sharp pain, a cold knife in the pit of his stomach. Philip can’t quite keep the wet, shaky breath from escaping his throat.

“Oh, darling, it’s alright.”

In a heartbeat, Martha’s sitting upright and pulling Philip into her lap, combing her fingers through his hair as he fights to keep the tears at bay. 

“I’m fine.”

Martha snorts softly. “I’ve known you how long now? I can see you aren’t fine.”

“I can't—”

“Just tell me how you’re feeling. We’re all alone, no one to interrupt or pull you into meetings for at least forty minutes. So just tell me what’s going on. Maybe I can help get through this. You’ve been holding it all together for so long. You’re allowed to let go sometimes.”

“Martha, I—”

“Let me in, Pippy.” He’s so caught in the storm of his feelings that Philip can’t even muster the customary glare at the heinous nickname.

“I just. I feel so lost. Unmoored. There’s so much I don't know about my own brother. I don’t know what happens now. What happens next.” 

“You don't have to have all the answers, love.”

“I just don't know where we’re going.”

She brushes his bangs back from his forehead. “That's alright.”

“Its not—”

“It is. You’re not as alone as you think you are. If you’d let me, I’d like to be right next to you. We’ll figure it out. Together.”

And Philip—

Philip believes her.

#cricket writes #saturntheday #ficlet fest 500 #rwrb #philip fox mountchristen windsor

[oneatlatime]

The Boy in the Iceberg

58 seconds in and I can already see why people say this show is gorgeous. Look at those colours! Although the double image around some of the line art is distracting.

Can water do that? Just have random fast currents in an otherwise pretty still ocean? Also, Catara couldn't have grabbed a spare paddle and helped? Actually they seemed screwed anyway. If they were going any faster they probably would have landed harder, or not on ice at all.

Judging by Sokka's lack of reaction to Catara's temper tantrum, I'd say she has that exact rant at least three times a week.

It's a face!

Maybe the giant orb created the current to summon them there?

Catara has no self-preservation instincts at all. Giant glowy orb washed up in front of you, don't poke it!

Tiger seals.

Solitaire. Neat.

That haircut is not good. Also a very unique choice for a voice. Wait this is Zuko? The guy everyone's obsessed with?

I love Appa already.

"this is Catara, my flying sister." A man after my own heart.

They really would have been stuck without Aang to offer a ride. What was their plan to get home?

Zuko is a prince? Hunting the avatar to reclaim his honour. Not sure how those two go together but ok. I guess 100 years ago the avatar stole a time-travelling Zuko's honour.

Appa can swim through the night? Why does he have six legs?

I didn't know this was a dream sequence at first and I was wondering where Sokka and Catara were. For future reference: dreams are brown.

Aang should have frozen to death by now. That's nowhere near enough clothes. And Catara can't be only just noticing the blue lines now.

Seems like the village has hit a rough patch.

If this is how catara reacts to a bald child, she's gonna spontaneously combust the first time she meets a teenage boy who isn't her brother. And how is an air bender going to teach her water bending?

Between the Appa snot and the watchtower gag, I sense Sokka will become the butt of many jokes.

You know, if you want him to actually learn, maybe tell him what he did wrong rather than reciting philosophical stuff and then shooting fire at his face? His presumably scarred face? Scarred presumably by fire? Kudos to Zuko for not flinching.

Is there a stick in Zuko's hair that's supporting it upright or does his hair just do that? Does Zuko have Pippi Longstocking hair? Speaking of hair, why does Catara have her hair like that? Surely that gets in the way of seeing stuff? It does look good when her hood is up though.

Good sneaky exposition dump Zuko. Didn't notice it until I thought about it after.

There's something hilarious yet tragic about Sokka spouting the wartime equivalent of live laugh love quotes and losing the battle with potty breaks. He has no idea what he's talking about but he believes in what he's saying so much.

Did Aang spend an hour in there?!?

So pretty.

Appa has six legs and penguins have four wings. Is the rule in this show that animals have 50% more appendages?

Last airbender smothered by penguins, more at 11.

"I haven't done this since I was a kid!" "You still are a kid!" That line feels like something that's going to come back.

Was the whole 'being a bender is showing no fear' or however that line went actually about bending, or do you really just want to explore the ship, Aang?

Gerbils at the south pole?

Would the fire nation send people back to rig a lost ship or are all fire nation ships rigged at all times and the crews are just used to working around the traps? Actually that would be a great way to catch spies.

I would jump to brain-damage induced amnesia from being trapped in an iceberg for a few hours before I'd ever think of a century long cryo-sleep. "it's the only explanation." Really?

All of these backgrounds are so pretty.

Air bending gets you some serious air. Those hops are stupid big, even accounting for cartoon physics.

I really like the end credits music. And according to the credits, I've been mispelling Katara's name this whole time.

Some final thoughts:

Katara (with a K) is too idealistic and trusting and Sokka is too cynical and suspicious. A perfect sibling pair. Also I love Sokka's sense of humour.

I like Aang's specific flavour of goofiness. He seems secure in himself and genuine. He has attention issues though.

Appa is a sea bison actually. Common misconception.

I like that they introduce the antagonist like 10 minutes into the first episode, but they're going to have to flesh him out way more before I read Zuko as anything other than an asshole. Also the voice is going to take a while to get used to. It's not that it doesn't fit the character design, it's just that I've never heard an actual human talk like that naturally. It's kind of muppet-like. Maybe he damaged his throat when he got that scar?

The voice acting is just superb. Even single lines like Gran Gran have distinct character. I did have to rewind a couple of times to catch what the old man with Zuko was saying.

The shading on the snow, the clouds and the skies, it's all so beautiful. You could watch this episode on mute and still be satisfied.

Katara is the only waterbender in the whole south pole, Sokka is the only man in the whole village, and Aang is the only air bender in the whole world. Gonna be a lot of lonely kids in this show. I sense a theme. I bet Appa is the only sea bison too.

Sokka is my favourite so far, but I think Aang is going to grow on me. Katara is a little bit too much of a Little Sister (TM) and Zuko just feels flat. But that just means more room to grow for both of them as characters. Of course Appa reigns supreme. I hope there's more of him in the next episode.

Even though this was half of a two-part episode, the cut off didn't feel abrupt. Maybe not a full self-contained story, but they left off at a perfect place.

Rereading this before posting, I asked a lot of quetsions. That's good! So many hooks to get me into the show, all in the first episode. I'm looking forward to the next one.

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #the boy in the iceberg #avatar the last airbender

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

“What would make it all work, Takahata wrote, was keeping the series as grounded as possible in the mundane things it was trying to elevate.

As he put it in that same 1971 document, realistic details were necessary to ‘make Pippi vivid and real in the child’s mind,’ and to bring her world to life. He offered a number of bullet points for the team to follow:

We cannot avoid representations of extremely trivial, everyday actions like taking off shoes and putting them on, deportment and housework. Rather, representing them is one of the basic themes of the work. Likewise, we should not only depict the intentions and outcomes of Pippi’s actions, but also clearly depict the process of the actions in such a way that they themselves evoke enjoyment and interest. Moreover, it’s not just about drawing; Pippi’s gestures must be characteristic of her.

This means a return to the main current of thought on animation, so to speak. It’s not animation if it remains a naturalistic portrayal of real, everyday life. While depicting the behavior of the quirky girl Pippi, it is necessary to heighten the expressions in a way that expands children’s imaginations and lets them feel the freedom of play and the joy of discovery.

Can people feel a sense of reality if the expressions are just symbols or rote patterns? Unless a lively Pippi is lively, beautiful things are beautiful to the audience, joyful things are joyful and tasty things are tasty and substantial, only the story will be able to hold the audience’s interest, especially in the case of children. […] For animation, this is a major handicap, so it is necessary to use various devices, such as appropriate close shots and panoramic views that have been carefully crafted.

According to Takahata, it was a series that wasn’t ultimately about story or conflict resolution — even though those elements were planned to appear. Pippi was about life.”

#“no rapping tonight” “why” “you rap about old miyazaki/takahata anime every time; it's embarrassing” “ok” #[after one beer] “uh-oh y'all i'm gettin’ kinda talky—” #pippi longstocking #isao takahata #hayao miyazaki #yoichi kotabe #animation

[oikiri]

So what happened exactly? (and a little timeline from what I have observed)

It started around March. AJ/Dilan was talking to Inquisitor3 (Vincent) on discord since she did some edits for him and I think he just wanted to be nice to her. Later on she already tried to expose him after trying to get him to flirt back to her which was I think her first attempt at exposing him (cue several screenshots of her talking to Tito mentioning they tried to expose/cancel him before and it didn't work & screenshots of him calling out AJ/Dilan in DMs because he saw her attempt at doing so.

Now, I don't know how long she's been scheming this whole thing along with Tito (her boyfriend) but from screenshots between them it's clear it's been months.

Tito encourages her to try harder because they don't have enough "proof"/enough entrapment material to set him up.

During this conversation Tito not only supports her and further pushes her to do so, AJ/Dilan isn't stupid, she is also quite obsessed with the idea of cancelling him.

She mentions hes live and mentions she needs someone called "Pippy" to answer back to her [for further planning I suppose but this person may be involved in this too].

Tito mentions he wants to speak to his other parent about AJ/Dilan so they know about her --> Dilan barely acknowledges that and then jumps straight back to talking about Inquisitor3. Then asks her own boyfriend if its okay if she "flirts" with Inquisitor3.

Very strange dynamic they have but even further proof that she is obsessed with him.

They message Keegan's Mask on tiktok, she tries to "help" apparently (I take it as being purposefully happy about someone in the community getting cancelled as her previous videos have been bordering on roasting/bullying other content creators in the hopes of being funny) and she makes a video of him. Now she has almost 300k followers and her fanbase picks it up rather quickly.

It blows up and Inquisitor3 deactivates all of his accounts.

What happens next?

I personally went onto tiktok to find some videos addressing the whole issue. Most of the videos I find aren't really viral so I check the comments.

I see someone commenting in all caps "IM THE GIRL HE WAS TALKING TO" (don't quote me on that I don't know if she wrote minor or girl but this was about it).

Her replies were full of support but I found her comment incredibly weird and off-putting.

There were many comments so I scrolled further down and saw Turkish Terminator's comment (same one who made the video explaining the situation so kudos to him for knowing all of this before and trying to tell people) that he was talking about AJ and her using slurs and what not.

So this brings me back to my original thought as to how this AJ person is this involved and proud about being the person in question and then also being someone who is problematic on whole other levels.

Meanwhile Tito is bragging in comments about how it's his girlfriend that was targeted.

Three days ago Inquisitor3's tiktok account is back up. He's on live for several hours but I couldn't join.

I commented on one of his recent videos asking for clarification and update about the accusations just to a few hours later receive a reply in which someone stated that he's dead.

Inquisitor3 had been on live for around 2 hours with nothing but silence, the room was mostly dark and the camera was facing his glass door. The comments were off. Keegans Mask meanwhile was making fun of this same live.

After 2 hours or so, someone breaks the glass in, pushes inside and you can hear the panic in his voice as he tries helping Vincent (Inquisitor3). This goes on for a while as more neighbours come around to help I suppose? They call paramedics and it's all caught on live until they turn it off.

So lets circle back. AJ came forward to say that the accusations were false.

Tito pretended he wasn't involved at all.

And Keegans Mask made a tiktok wistfully looking out the window as if a man hasn't just ended his life on tiktok live.

AJ immediately went into hiding right after, changed her discord username and responded to a comment on one of her tiktok accounts that she's been crying and praying all night for him and didn't want any of that to happen.

Meanwhile Vincent's real life friends/mutuals came forward to confirm that he has passed and Turkish Terminator made the video about him explaining the situation further for everyone's understanding and naming all three involved in these accusations and set up: AJ, Tito and Keegans Mask (which I think was the right thing to do.) Yes, Keegans Mask may not have been part of the set up but she is just as wrong.

So why did this happen?

In my opinion AJ is/was obsessed with Vincent. I think that is why Tito also played into it because it bothered him without him openly mentioning or confirming this fact. From their exchanges it's very clear of how she ignored Tito to obsess over Vincent. Ultimately she did all this because she wahted his attention.

Later that day Vincent's father also came forward to confirm his sons passing with a video.

Turkish Terminator made another video confirming this also and has been in contact with Vincent's father to make sure his source is right unlike some other people.

Now the community is obviously shaken up and upset and due to AJ's hiding she's lucky she's not getting tagged in most videos addressing these things. Minor or not she was the main culprit and needs to face consequences for pushing a man to end his life.

I cannot even begin to mention how it bothers me that in most videos now people only mention Tito and Keegans Mask or simply call Dilan Titos girlfriend. She needs to be named too.

All three have posted "apology videos" yet I find they lack responsibility and empathy.

Dilan deleted her apology account quickly again and Keegans Mask is currently deactivated. Tito still pretends to be mostly innocent and pretends to have broken up with Dilan and say that her accounts have been removed (which are lies).

She's also back on discord and chats with people claiming she wants to end it and Tito claims she attempted, yet the conversations that I have seen from her make it visible that she lacks any empathy in this situation still and sees herself as the victim.

I'm not here for a witch hunt I am simpy here to explain what I've observed and want these people included to face serious consequences.

Screenshots incoming soon as I am still collecting the ones I've seen floating around + extra ones and I'm currently at the beach with the worst internet connection.

#Inquisitor3 #inquisitor #ghost #ghost cosplay #cod ghost cosplayer #cod #tiktok #cod community #keegans mask #titoisactingbadly #call of duty #call of duty cosplay #call of duty cosplay community #tiktok Inquisitor3

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 62 – The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

This is the latest book I never would have heard of if it wasn’t for an award nomination (WFA for Best Novel, in this case). Overall, I was left dearly wishing I had liked it more than I did – it was so thoroughly soaked in imagery and references to a whole milieu I only barely know enough about to catch all the references flying over my head. Unfortunately by the final act the whole thing just collapses into a mess of spectacle without much in the way of connective tissue or context.

The story follows Perilous “Perry” Graves, his kid sister, and his best friend/crush Peaches (who is clearly an ersatz Pippy Longstocking but for some reason this is almost literally the only reference the book doesn’t explicitly acknowledge). They live in Nola, a fantastical alternate New Orleans full of zombies, animate graffiti, sky trolleys, and music that is indistinguishable from magic. After the magical songs that sustain the city escape/are stolen, it’s up to the three of them to get them back before Stagger Lee (the song) hunts down and kills the others for his mysterious partner. There’s also an extended subplot with Casey, a recently returned Katrina refugee in what seems to be our world, discovering that his and his cousin’s graffiti and other art is very literally magic and can come alive when he isn’t looking. Things just generally get messier and harder to explain from there.

Above everything else, the book’s a love letter to New Orleans. The sheer fascination and affection Jenning’s has for the place just about oozes out of every page. The geography and the culture and especially and overwhelmingly the art. Now I know barely anything about modern pop music and even less about classic jazz, but Jennings is either a massive fan or an incredibly confident bullshitter, and either way it’s an absolutely loadbearing part of the book – famous jazz musicians appear as magicians and ghosts, snatches and stanzas of different songs are quoted liberally, and of course the songs themselves are the driving engine of the plot. I, at least, just kind of let all the references wash over me and try to figure them out from context, and also started listening to the namedropped songs as I read. But even without really knowing the subject, the sheer love for the culture that just suffuses the book is really incredible endearing. Which is good, because it’s absolutely the main actual draw here.

The dialogue also deserves a shoutout – both because there’s a fun line you can draw between the characters that talk like actual people and the ones that intentionally present themselves like cartoon characters, and also because it’s the first book I can recall reading this year where people speak in AAVE. Plus, as a matter of style, when songs or certain ghosts were speaking telepathically the book used a different font for what they were saying, which is the sort of flourish that I always like when it’s not too overused.

While the surreal, exaggerated sort of magical absurdism works very well for the setting of Nola, the plot is...just kind of a mess. You almost get the sense the book was written in one sprint and then never revised – the protagonists are constantly getting help out of nowhere exactly as they need it to solve their latest problem, and revelations of plot critical information exactly when it’s needed to keep things moving abound, whether there’s any setup or justification for it or not. The metaphysics that underpin Nola are all vague and confused, which really wouldn’t be an issue if the entire third act didn’t turn on on the villain being wrong about them. The end result is a finale that feels like a bunch of big set piece scene the author had been looking forward to writing without any real connective tissue linking or supporting them.

Also, like – it is a major part of Perry’s arc that a year before the events of the book he had a run in with a monstrous caricature of a Jim Crow era hanging judge, and it has traumatized him sufficiently that he had steadfastly refused to try and do any magic since. The judge is later revealed to be an escaped bit of living graffiti, with absolutely zero relevance or deeper significance, and never appears on-screen again. Which just feels like some sort of narrative malpractice, honestly.

I’m also just left a bit disappointed with the villain – or, specifically, the wasted potential. Like, the idea of The Storm as this primeval elemental force that wants nothing more than to drown the world is a pretty great villain for a magical New Orleans, honestly. And there was something there of graffiti and music and just art being this engine of joyous hubris letting the city exist in defiance of its inevitable doom – but you really have to dig to get at it, and most of the other personal plots and heroes journey stuff burying it was far less compelling to me.

Anyway yeah, in the end this very much felt like it was style over substance, but on the other hand the style was excellent. In the end I kind of feel like this was ill-served as a book? Not that it’s necessarily impossible to write a novel that’s mostly about music, but this was really begging for a medium that could include a soundtrack.

#book review #the ballad of perilous graves #alex jennings #sff #urban fantasy

[hypnofantasma-asks-and-doodles]

if any of the canon krazien from any part in kenopsia had accents how would you describe them as?

oh boy here we go (things i think a Lot about)

They all do naturally have different Kraizenian accents that originate from different regions in the universe. these accents are hard to describe as they're fictional, with usually no real life equivalent to them. and, when they go to learn a new language of another species, they don't have a "Kraizenian accent" as they can perfectly mimic whoever teaches them/whoever is around them speaking the new language.

so, truly, whatever "accent" they have would be up to whatever dialect of X xenolanguage they learned.

for STARS BELOW example:

Alatori has a bit of a posh London accent, Bellojey has a light general Southern US accent when speaking English, Zahalkro sort of just has a null/no accent but will sometimes get a bit of a Cockney flare thanks to Charlotte, Brayziel has a thick Brooklyn accent, both Razprynoy and Morzogo have a slight Russian accent, Tanombri has an Italian accent, Pippi has a French accent, Zatakva also sounds posh but with a more stuck up sound, Silverfish is straight up a pirate, Sychrillo has a slight Mexican accent, etc.

there's others, but they're mostly either null (taught themselves the language without a direct guide) or undecided. the same will also be true for whatever other languages they learn, gaining the accent of how they learned the language, if that makes sense. kraizen weird

for other parts, like TBTL or Corpse Eyes or Event Horizon, it's still reeeeally wip but i like to think their Earth language accents translate into other languages. just. the accent YOU know them to have is how you can interpret it

i hope this makes SENSEEEE kwaiz voices are definitely a Strange Thing

#kraizen #vani #voices #accents

[nympippi]

The world’s first playwright, poet, director, actor, clown…Everyone’s most beloved trickster! Shadow Milk Cookie!!! ✨✨✨

#pippi speaks #pippi art #tw eye contact #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk fanart #shadow milk crk #cookie run fanart #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #my sister wanted me to draw this because she’s a fan of the game #it was fun tho! #I might draw more later >3> #I’m eepy though so g’night

[srebrnafh]

I have a question that may or may not be possible to be covered by a poll, but I will try :)

When in school, in the range between 6 and 14 years of age, if you had specific books or stories assigned as parts of curriculum of literature, how big a percentage of them were from your language/country/regional culture, and how many branched out?

For example, to explain what I mean. In Poland, for "Polish language" we get A LOT of compulsory items to read. Among these are books written for the specific age group in Polish AND ALSO relevant books translated from other countries. At least when I was at school (80s-90s) we had "Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn" (Swedish), "A Pál utcai fiúk" (Hungarian), with also "Pippi Långstrump" and "Hobbit" being an option. "Anne of Green Gables" was on the list, and I think "Secret Garden", too. Some stories translated from Russian were nearly a given, since I started primary school in 1985, but I managed to successfully delete them from my brain.

So, what was it like for you?

(I'm trying to cover also the option of eg British books being read in US, AU and other EN-speaking countries, so option 4 is about that; but also if you're reading books from Spain in Latin America or books from France in countries where French is one of main languages....)

Please share for wider response pool. I'm really curious how it happens in other countries. If you add some option I did not cover, please hint at a language/country :)

#polls #books #reading #school reading #tumblr polls #reading curriculum

[okthatsgreat]

i'm curious about rie do you have any cool facts to share about her?

YES OFC!!!!! SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT THE GIRL 👇🏻

she's got some seemingly random talents that are all related to pageantry! this includes being able to play the flute spectacularly, being fluent in three languages (japanese, english, french), being able to recite poetry on a whim, and being able to SPRINT in heels

during her first ever "big league" pageant she was able to compete despite being underage!! a lot of that had to do with convincing the board as well as being one of if not THE most successful candidate in japan. and of course this just mounts on additional pressure because if she fails then why did the board break their backs for this kid??? and it also spread a LOT of rumours amongst the contestants of like. what did she DO to make the board accept her

^^ speaking of which she was sooooo frightened of making friends with the other contestants because she has this (often irrational) feeling in the back of her mind that all of them were out to get her hergfhsgkjdg. and honestly....... she might not even be wrong lmao. a few of them were actually really nice to her though. like they kept seeing each other at competitions and whenever rie popped up they always took her out to lunch or helped her with her homework backstage. like they saw that she was just this kid so they tried to get her through regular school so she has something to do once pageantry was over for her but of course she then LEFT regular school for hpa ............. which will. probably be great in the long run

a lot of season 50 deals with themes of what can be considered truly good and bad, which is sometimes portrayed through characters having two "sides" about them (pippy, ryobe, other unnamed characters lol). rie is honestly one of the prime examples of this theme despite not being the fan favorite postgame

she lived with her dad and a cat named Princess Sophia of Gardania after that one barbie movie she could not stop watching when she was a kid

shes a very unattractive crier when she fully lets herself go. not a pretty crier at all, which is why she tends to leave trials with her head held high and trying not to cry OR her face buried in her hands

she does a lot of charity work post-game! most of it is because team dr tells her to lol. she's the publicity girl of that season and she's very good at keeping up appearances

other than press stuff she realllyyyy doesnt talk all that much with her season ghfdjkghkdsfhjg. way too painful, a lot of them if not ALL of them know her deepest darkest secrets, and also once they figured out her secrets in the game they proceeded to call her a murderer and get everybody executed sooooooo

still on that beauty grind and probably has a brand deal with maybeline or smth. probably going to star in a netflix special that will be mediocre at best. yknow the deal

tyyyy :))) <3

#lee art #ask lee #anonymous #oc: rie #dr: 50th #danganronpa oc

[oldblackpeacoat]

life when there is a cat asleep on you >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

#kissing pippy for ever and ever she is my girl and my world and i love you #danny speaks

[shadowlorddemon]

Remember this? My oc Shade?

Well, I made four more ocs for TADC. Someone plz stop me.

First up is Bella the foley artist(sound) & composer(music) AI! She is the one who created and manages sounds & music.

She was based on bells & unmute/mute symbols. Her head is literally a bell. However, she have a large crack on her head, during to a certain incident in past.

Thanks to the crack, she now has speech issues. She definitely struggles to speak properly.

She is music-themed with many music note symbols all over her costumes. She also have a large bow.

She have no legs; instead she have a ghost-like tail with two small bells at the tip of her tail.

Next is Kion the coin/chip guy! Horrible name, I know.

He is based of the poker chips and roulette wheel. He is literally a bunch of poker coins/chips stacked together. His uniform was supposed to based on the casino uniforms.

He wears a bandanna because… why not?

However, he is… not exactly trustworthy guy during to… multiple reasons.

He does hops in order to move around. When he hops, you can hear a coin clanking sound as if the coins were stacking. (Thanks to Bella for that sound effect, HAH!)

Next is Pippy the counter(counting) AI! Another bad attempt at naming.

He is responsible for organizing stuffs and programming codes. He doesn’t like it when some stuffs are out of order or something went wrong and cause a mess for him to cleaning up.

His dice head’s pip number are constantly changing.

And yeah, he is based of dices and…. Mr. King Dice from Cuphead. (You read that right, I based him off that smug bastard.)

Although, Pippy’s personality is very different from King Dice but he does have his moments.

He have a huge crush on Bella. And Bella likes him back as well.

And lastly, we have Socoky the sock monkey! I’m really bad at naming.

He is based of these sock monkeys. (They are weird to me but apparently they’re somewhat popular?)

He is similar to Ragatha, in terms of the body proportion. He also have a sewn-in heart like Ragatha. (Saw some fanarts of Ragatha with a sewn-in heart on chest and I love it so much.)

He do wears various of shirts but his favorite shirt is the shirt with wave pattern.

He acts like a grumpy old man who refuses to admit that he can be soft sometimes. No pun intended.

Now with few doodles of our ocs!

Caine and Pippy are the same size but Bella is… very large in comparison to Caine and Pippy.

Why is she so big? That’s because of these all sound effects files and music files. She creates so many sounds and musics that is personalized to each players, that her body is enlarged so she can handle many files at once without having any issues.

Pippy being a simp for a large pretty woman. And Bella likes to tease the small nervous man. (And geez, ain’t that scenario of a large/tall flirty person with a small/short nervous person feels so familiar?)

Socoky (Let’s just call him Sock.) tolerated three people; Ragatha, Pomni and Zooble.

Since Ragatha and Sock have a similar body proportion, Ragatha often helps him out with stitching his torn limbs back. Pomni sometimes helps out as well.

Sock seems like he doesn’t care about Pomni but he actually cares a lot about Pomni. He treats her like she’s his own niece. He doesn’t show that he cares about her but know this: if you harms Pomni in any ways, he (and Ragatha) will kill you.

Sock and Zooble are similar in their indifference towards many things and their grumpy personalities. They have some conversations about few things in their own interests. It’s rare to see Zooble actually socializing with someone, even if it was with Sock.

For unknown reasons, Koin have a quite hatred towards clowns, jesters, carnivals, and circus-related stuffs.

So, naturally he absolutely loathes Pomni because of her jester appearance. (He also loathes Caine because of his ringleader position and his connection to the whole circus place)

Others simply thought that he disliked them because they makes him feels very uncomfortable.

However Pomni, Jax and Sock have different ideas.

Pomni clearly noticed Koin’s intensely aggressive stares at her. He always looked extremely angry towards her.

One time when she partnered up with him, he absolutely refused to cooperate with her and spent lots of time in aggressively staring at her. On few occasions, he would hold his hands up as if he was trying to strangle her.

His aggressive stares and actions made Pomni feel extremely uncomfortable and scared. She’s worried that one day he would actually attack at her.

So she tried to keep her distance from him.

Jax immediately noticed about his strong dislike towards clowns and circus-related stuffs.

So naturally he would try to take advantage of that and pranks him with a clown doll.

Only for Koin to tearing the doll apart with his own hands.

Completely perplexed by Koin’s response, he starts to carefully watching Koin and his behavior.

One day, Jax was minding his business when Pomni suddenly run up to him and hide behind him. This behavior confused Jax until he saw Koin aggressively following closely.

He quickly stopped when Pomni hides behind Jax.

He can only glare heatedly at Pomni before walking away from them.

This aggressive behavior towards Pomni confuses Jax. This is clearly a proof that he is not scared of clowns and circus-related stuffs. This is clearly a sign of something terrible.

This… concerns Jax to some degree. For on now, he won’t interact with Koin much. But he would probably observe closely to Pomni and Koin, just in case…

Sock arrived before Koin did. By then, he had already accepted this odd circus place and the mismatched crew. He already adopted Pomni as his niece.

So, when Sock was acting like he doesn’t care about him, he is actually carefully watching at Koin for any concerning signs.

Naturally, he immediately noticed that he have a strong dislike towards clowns and circus-related stuffs. His first thought was to make sure that he didn’t do anything bad to Pomni.

He doesn’t know about Koin’s intentions but he knows that if Koin harms Pomni, he’ll kill him.

#drawing #the amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus oc #oc x oc #pomni x ragatha #Bella #Koin #Pippy #Socoky #Sock #Pomni #Ragatha #Jax #Zooble #Caine #sock monkey #poker chips #bells #dice #I rambled too much #my ramblings #tadc oc #tadc original character

[fairytail-whathesays]

laxus x bickslow hcs pleasee?

Yes, can do! Sorry it took so long to get to this one!

Laxus very much enjoys how off-the-wall and weird Bickslow is. It adds flavor to their little circle, and it offsets Freed's and Evergreen's overly-refined vibes. He likes Bickslow, weirdness and immaturity and all.

Likewise, Bickslow adores Laxus and genuinely thinks he's the coolest thing ever--while also respecting him almost the way one would a big brother. He's always felt more accepted around Laxus and by extension in Fairy Tail than anywhere else.

Having said that, Bickslow would throw it back on Laxus without hesitation if he ever gave the order. Like, it's the epitome of "we're just friends but I'd f/ck you if you asked". It is absolutely not a secret, because should anyone ask, he's completely open about how he'd plug that in, so to speak. He doesn't care because Laxus is popular and it's not exactly an uncommon reaction to him.

Bickslow has a surprisingly diverse music taste. Rap, RnB, electro, house, pop. Laxus very much enjoys sharing his music with Bickslow and seeing what makes him tick.

Dating Bickslow is the equivalent of eating a scorpion pop in front of someone, for Laxus. Bickslow is off-putting and creepy and he's that way on purpose, so many people treat him as unsettling and undesirable. They'll just be thinking "wow, he's so creepy, I can't believe that Laxus guy hangs out with him..." when Laxus walks up, says "hey babe" and kisses him on the mouth.

"Babe" and "bro" are interchangeable, but only at first when the relationship is new. Bickslow loves being called "babe", it powers him up, and if "bro" ever gets used to address him, Laxus is usually annoyed about something he did.

Bickslow is over 6 feet tall and should not be climbing on anyone, but Laxus is also over 6 feet tall and has an extremely climb-able body. Bix loves draping himself over Laxus' broad-ass shoulders and, if he's ever tired or wants to be carried, can sometimes convince Laxus to piggyback him. It's fucking immature as hell but he likes it a lot.

Bickslow also loves to dance. This one, Laxus isn't so keen on, but he can learn a few step rhythms or waltz if his man really wants him to.

Laxus one day starts referring to the dolls Bickslow keeps around (Pappa, Pippi, Puppu, Peppe and Poppo) as "our kids". It's mostly to fuck with Bickslow, who loves to tease and prod Laxus every day but gets absolutely floored when Laxus says stuff like this in public.

Bickslow can be playfully possessive, but he does have his insecurities and does need occasional reassurances that Laxus won't leave him for someone more conventionally attractive. Laxus rises to the occasion every time.

NS/FW, because yeah. It's mostly about our weird guy Bix:

Look man, Bickslow's tongue is long and there is a lot of it. Kissing is a lot different with him than it is with other people, it pretty much overflows his mouth and you gotta get used to it, or learn to enjoy it.

Bickslow is h*rny, guys. Like, not so much it interferes with his daily life, but he is always dtf, and the prospect of sex with a guy like Laxus is intensely appealing to him, so he makes sure to pursue it often.

Bickslow is very, very flexible and this comes in handy.

Bickslow is a master at oral sex, not just because of his tongue, but because he can deep/throat. Easily. And big d/cks don't scare him, either. And while he's an absolute champ at blowjobs, where he really shines is r/mjobs. This man's tongue is so long, so wide, so flexible--the way it feels when he's eating the peach is maddeningly good.

Consequently, Bickslow can top pretty much any time he wants, so long as he prefaces the act with a good chow down on Laxus' rear first. Even the mighty Thunder God is not immune to good oral work, and Laxus when sufficiently spoiled with that tongue lets Bickslow have pretty much anything he wants. The only reason he still bottoms most of the time is because that's what he likes.

Bickslow loves how big Laxus' d/ck is, and unlike other potential lovers, is not the least bit intimidated by it. He's always ready to ride. Laxus being the service top he is, he's very pliable and wants Bickslow to feel good, so their sex life tends get very k/nky on occasion.

By far Bickslow's favorite position, however, is the suspended congress. He gets to climb his man--long limbs wrapped around Laxus' shoulders and waist, Laxus carrying him and bouncing him on that d/ck that's barreling in and out of him, and he gets to make out with his man inbetween moans and/or screams.

But if he was bad that day, Laxus might drag him somewhere and bend him over, give it to him rough. Bickslow loves it either way, but it does send the message to not push his boyfriend's patience.

and now for a special one:

Bickslow has dealt with the presence of his Figure Eyes and having to cover them ever since the Incident™️ that first caused them to manifest remarkably well, simply accepting it as a fact of his life. However, he does wish to be able to go maskless on occasion, and for him, the most pure sign of trust and intimacy is looking into his eyes. Laxus will occasionally remove the visor when they're in private and make eye contact, giving Bickslow power over him but trusting him not to misuse it.

#bickslow #bixlow #laxus dreyar #bixlax #laxlow #shipping #headcanons