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marcmorrigan · 2 months

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finally delivering on the princess tutu headshots i promised... love these dysfunctional teens 🩰💖💕

LOTS of notes about headcanons/design choices under the cut! like. a lot. dont say i didnt warn you

starting with my specialest guy fakir:

i had a suuuper clear vision for fakir, and i couldnt be happier with how he turned out, he looks exactly how i imagine him! trying to translate his Bird-Shaped Hair into my style gave me SERIOUS homestuck flashbacks. my affinity for knights with Problems knows no bounds...

adding the hyperpigmentation around his eyes and his acne scars is what really solidified this for me-- i put those in and was like oh!!! there you are!!! my boy!!! and you can tell because i gave him acne scars + thick eyebrows that he IS my boy... there are very clear trends among my headcanons for my faves lol. big noses, thick eyebrows, skin imperfections, heavy eyebags, long dark hair... and fakir truly has it all 😤 he is so Ideal Character Design to me

i think fakir is actually pretty self-conscious about his appearance tho! we see characters like pike and lilie say hes handsome to ahiru, but i dont know how often he actually hears that? and im sure its hard not to compare himself to mytho, who is straight out of a fairy tale; being a regular teenager dealing with regular teen body stuff is hard enough without your roommate being a magically beautiful eternally youthful storybook hero. i think he probably internalises more that people see him as scary and angry, and that the girls who do have crushes on him always frame it in contrast to mytho, who is Good and Kind and Handsome, implying (or sometimes outright stating!) that fakir is Bad and Mean and... Well...

fakir is very sensitive but quiet about it, so i think its a very private point of self-consciousness. i think he puts a lot of semi-secret effort into his appearance; canonically he has a lot of very funny and clearly customised clothing, and he chooses to keep his hair long and in a very particular style (i have a whole breakdown in my mind of how he achieves that style and it involves a surprising amount of pins and an unsurprising fuckton of teasing. i think his hair is a little fried from heat damage!), and i think that probably extends to other things, too, like manicuring his eyebrows and doing a lot of very Teenage Skincare that doesnt actually help his acne much lol. i think he probably has a lot of self-injurious habits and BFRBs like skin picking and chewing, mostly at his acne and around his nails (both of which he hates, because he knows he shouldnt but does it anyway). i think if he does it enough that theres noticeable evidence it feels, like, world-ending for him, ESPECIALLY if anyone asks what happened lol. do not perceive him except in the very specific ways and contexts he approves of THANKS

on to the narratives favorite princess, mytho:

again, i had a pretty clear idea of the vibe i wanted mytho to have going into this-- i want him to have, like, extreme prince charming vibes, very Classically Handsome without necessarily being 'conventional.' i thought a lot about 'the happy prince' story while i was working on this, and really wanted him to look like a cross between how the prince statue looks in my head and a porcelain doll. and also a cross between jonny brown and brigitte bardot? lots of very direct influences for him lol. so! lots of gold tones, gemmy eye color, cute little tooth gap, quivering wide-eyed thousand-yard-stare doe eyes and big ol dolly anime lashes, which were the very last thing i added because i was NERVOUS about pulling those off lol. they turned out cute tho! ive only done a handful of pieces for this series and i can already tell princess tutu is gonna make me up my lash drawing game considerably, these kids all look like they blink and cause a hurricane from the gale force wind of their falsies

also wait i lied the very last thing i did was add his freckles/beauty marks because he needed that little extra oomph and those were It. i think he probably has some on his hands/wrists too 💕

i was a little unsure if my idea for his hair would translate with this flat-color approach but im pretty happy with it! its supposed to be afrotextured hair (somewhere between 3b and 4c i think? wide range of potential i knowww but im still kind of hammering out my headcanons okay, this is exploratory lol) thats been rolled and finger-styled into his little feather shapes. i think loose, chunky twists would be another fun way to interpret his hair and twists are one of my fave styles to draw do i might draw him like that at some point too...

i guess fakir is the one who styles his hair for him before mytho gets his heart back? i imagine fakir is pretty meticulous about maintaining mythos health and appearance, even at the worst stages of their relationship. i think itd be hard for fakir to frame the way he treats mytho as For Mythos Sake if he wasnt doing some level of actually beneficial care for him, so being really fastidious about things like mythos diet and sleep hygiene and hair care and such gives fakir an outlet for his 'you just have to do what i tell you' thing that helps him convince himself it really is helping, no really, hes doing this for mythos benefit and he just has to be strict with him because mytho doesnt UNDERSTAND he needs PROTECTING and fakir is the ONLY ONE who can do it so mytho HAS to let him because if he doesnt then why does fakir even EXIST, if he cant manage this then what is he good for, and--

yknow. the usual complexes. and their relationship is so complex!!! but also so simple, but like. in a good way. fakirs behavior is complicated but his motivation regarding mytho is SO straightforward which makes that downward spiral into harm really easy to map out... i wont go much into that in this post since this is about visual/appearance-related headcanons but just. augh. i love this show and i love these characters!!! and i hope its apparent in my work that i do love them so <3

im hoping to do a set of these for the girls next!!! i have some other stuff to finish first but hopefully... Soon... Some Birds...

#princess tutu #fakir #mytho #prince siegfried #my art #i had sooo much fun playing around with style in these... the super strong white highlights + underpainting combo looks SO lovely #i should take this approach more often i almost never do!!! it rules and is fun to do #i was listening to my fakir playlist nonstop for DAYS while working on this and still intermittently since...#it feels like ive been sitting on these for a month but its only been 5 days omg. crazy... good to know tho #anyway i love themmm theyre everything. SO fun to draw i really hope i can do more art of them. i Want To... i have Ideas >:o)#btw is putting notes on my thoughts under a cut like this interesting for yall? its fun for me but idk if yall wanna read all that #i will probably continue regardless bc i love to hear myself talk esp abt my design choices but #im curious if my notes on my thought process are interesting to anyone else #if not oh well! thats what the cut is for 😤 nobodys gotta read it if they dont wanna im doing this for Me #full color

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silver-horse · 10 months

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So in order most to least excited, which companions arcs are you the most eager to see play out?

That's so difficult to answer because I can't wait to find out more about all of them but for different reasons.

If I only take into account who my favourites are then it's Shadowheart and Astarion. I'm super curious what she might discover about her past. Also Shadowheart is absolutely the most important companion for the main story! She carries the artifact that is the key to everything probably and everybody wants it. Larian even talked about how difficult it was to write around this. (Because what if somebody doesn't recruit her and they want to allow complete freedom in that.) With Astarion I feel like there is actually a bit less mystery. But I am very curious who that Maiden Fel is and why she sent the hunter after him etc.

If you had asked me a year or two ago, I would have said Lae'zel is third, then Wyll and then Gale would have been my least favourite. (not that I didn't like him, I am interested in all of their stories) Anyway their stories are changing and I dunno who my favs are anymore. lol

I'm curious if we can turn Lae'zel against the githyanki or maybe she could gain influence among them and then we could use them as allies against the mindflayers and the absolute??

In Wyll's case I am mostly concerned. Maybe that worry will go away once I see that they didn't change him too much. His story still the same, they just added extra scenes. But right now I can't be sure. And if they had to change the voice actor then they had to record every single line again, so they could have thought… oh we might as well change it more. (Plus it will be a bit difficult to get used to a new voice after 2+ years of playing this game.)

Gale is quickly becoming more interesting. When they added those circles under his eyes it was an improvement. lol Then he had the whole makeover with the earrings. And of course now we know about his intent to usurp Mystra. So yeah, I do like ambitious characters.

With Jaheira and Minsc I expect they won't do anything too drastic because they are far too beloved. I have now played the original games (in a rushed fashion so I will have to return to them) so I am curious what they will do with them. For me Jaheira is more of a fav than Minsc.

Karlach is in a very bad position so I wonder how that will play out. But I don't know her all that well yet. Ofc that means there is more to discover...

And Halsin wasn't originally designed to be a companion, so I dunno how important he will be? Fans liked him from the beginning (which was almost 3 years ago) and Larian immediately noticed and commented on it. lol So they had time to integrate him into the story more, I suppose.

Minthara was originally the one I had the least interest in. Just because in my main playthrough I know I will have to kill her. So that will be it. But I am planning a playthrough where I will recruit and probably romance her. And the panel from hell made me more interested because they showed a scene where she is attacked by the bigger baddies and we have to protect her. So I wonder if even she can be swayed to become a bit less evil after her own allies treated her like that. In truth an evil playthrough is sooo tempting. I might actually end up playing it simultaneously with the good.

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sarenhale · 9 months

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Whose your fav from BG3? Haven’t played yet but Vampire Cucumberbatch is my fav so far, so I’m curious lol

Vampire cucumberbatch 😂😂

I really like everyone in BG3 so far, I think they made a great job giving the characters a lot of personality and making them feel unique and interesting in their own way ( a huge jump compared to DOS2, imho! I only really liked Lohse, Ifan and Fane in that game, they were the only ones that felt like they had a personality)

I think if I have to choose one it would probably be Shadowheart, her story seems super interesting and she's the character I want to get to know more the best, and find out what happens to her story. I love her dialogues and interactions and she's the character that's closer to my protagonist right now, which I really like, I love imagining them as becoming close friends during their journey.

Clerics are my favourite class iin D&D by far, and I feel like she really encapsulated all I like about clerics, how interesting and mysterious they can be depending on the divinity they serve, and also I find her personality really refreshing and intriguing. Overall she's definitely my favourite by far.

I also like Halsin, Gale and Karlach- though Lae'zel and Wyll are really nice too, I just know less about their stories right now so I feel less attached to them.

Astarion is probably the only one I kinda don't get the huge rave about, but mostly from a romance standpoint- different strokes for different folks, he just doesn't do it for me romance-wise. I think he's funny and I like his interactions and his voice and how sassy he can be, and his dialogues with the other characters. His story also seem very interesting and I wanna definitely see how the whole vampire lord story ends up.

I love vampires but he just kinda doesn't do it for me- as shallow as this comment can be, I think I don't like him as much (especially romance-wise) because I just find him... funny pasty looking? Kinda ugly? He just looks like Preminger from the barbie movie to me. That's not exactly what I find attractive. Like he just looks HILARIOUS

Maybe if his design was different and more down my taste I could imagine me doing his romance more, but honestly even the way the romance is structured doesn't appeal me. It's just not for me babes

#answered #looking forward to know more about wyll and lae'zel since they're the more mysterious right now #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

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sewermageboy · 3 months

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2, 13 and 14?

2. Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

Technically? During Early Access, my first Tavs guardian basically looked like Hyacinth with a different hairstyle, and I liked their design so much that I had to implement it for a Tav. Played them as a cleric of Eilistraee in EA, but they didn't have a backstory yet, or their personality.

I started their run on August 4th and finished the game on August 11th, so I kind of binged through a lot of it, so a lot of their backstory came afterwards lol. But, essentially, they're modeled after my first guardian.

13. How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

My friend @snailcommando and I have a whole expanded universe in which Hyacinth, Gale, Astarion and their Tav Brie are all in a polycule (not all romantic/sexual, but still), and we've definitely flashed out a lot of stuff after the game, like them going to Waterdeep together, or Brie and Astarion going to wrangle the vampire spawn in the Underdark etc.

Backstory wise, Hyacinth is almost 300 years old, and I'm still filling that time, but there's already a LOT lol

14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?

impulsivity. Hyacinth might be almost 3 centuries old, but their worst stat (apart from strength lol) is wisdom for a reason. No common sense to be found here. Tempt them with something dumb, and they'll do it

identity. Hyacinth spent almost a century hiding their face behind Disguise Self spells due to overall hostility towards drow on the surface. As a result, even over a century later, they're still struggling to figure out who exactly they are. It also made them very avoidant, I think? During that time, they could simply cast aside one identity and take on another, so dealing with things that are actually emotionally challenging for them can be hard, and simply makes them wanna run away (see: why have they never tried to see if their brother is still alive, find out what happened to their family, why don't they at least TRY to be a parent to their daughter, etc.)

#oc: hyacinth #my ocs #my tavs #thank u for the ask ahhh im sorry it took me so long to get around to it :')

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collegeoflore · 4 months

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love when you rb ask games bc im desperate to know everything about your little guys. 2 & 14 for both xarrai and ieriyn

ur in luck bc i looove rambling about my little guys :) ty for the ask!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖

2. What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

xarrai:

see the thing is by design xarrai looks like Just Another Bard, esp if we're talking about like pre-game when they're just living their life in baldur's gate. sure they’re like, a 6'7" (if we count the horns n everything) purple tiefling who's covered in tattoos but the gate is a big city and that's not really all that unusual. there are plenty of things one wouldn't expect just from looking at xarrai but that's kind of their whole thing. sooooo here is a kind of silly and fun example i haven't talked much about: they have such a soft spot for tiefling kids. they're immediately smitten with the kids in the grove and half the reason they actually end up helping the tieflings out is because they don't want anything to happen to them. they nearly start shit with kagha over the whole thing with arabella and are just barely talked down by gale (much to astarion's disappointment lol.) mol and mattis remind them so much of themself (or at least of the child they could have been) and i do think xar keeps an eye on mol in the guild post-game, or at least whenever they're in baldur's gate. they would never ever want to be a parent (and would make a frankly abysmal one at that. like can u imagine them and astarion trying to raise a child? the thing would need therapy before it could talk.) but they are fond of the little shits. they're fond of yenna too (they were also an outer city street kid once after all) but the tiefling kids just Get Them.

ieriyn:

honestly i think ieriyn is kind of an open book, at least early/pre-game. you can pretty easily predict like. most things about this kid in one look. BUT i do think once someone gets to know him they find that despite being sheltered and naïve he really does have a strong sense of right and wrong and a soft heart. he's just like. spoiled and stupid about it. he also has a dry sense of humor that takes a minute to really notice.

and here's a silly one too: i think he's really into houseplants. he's a houseplant girlie. his room at home is full of lush tropical plants and he loves taking care of them :) (as long as he can wash his hands immediately after touching the dirt. he hates dirt. he has autistic tboy swag for real.)

14. How does your OC want to be seen by other characters?

xarrai:

hmm okay so this is... it depends i think on who we're talking about. xarrai is constantly trying to show other people exactly who or what they want to see - patriars see a pretty whore, tavern patrons see a flamboyant bard, the guild sees a talented information broker, the list goes on. for the first section of the game, every member of the party sees someone different in them too because they're trying to secure their control over the situation and others are more likely to listen to them if they think xarrai is trustworthy. it doesn't take long before the party starts to notice that their views of xarrai don't line up tho tbh; it's hard to maintain like six different personas, even if the differences are only slight. (this does cause some trust issues, especially with lae'zel who already did not get along super well with xar lol.) generally though the kind of Core Vibe they're trying to put off is someone carefree and unassuming. they don't want to give anyone too much insight into what they're thinking or feeling, and they would much rather be underestimated than properly appraised. they sort of try to hide their "real" skills behind their more "showy" ones - if someone is praising them for being a great storyteller they're likely not paying attention to the way that story is being spun, and if someone is busy thinking about how good xarrai is at giving head they probably don't notice that they've stolen half the gold from their purse lol

ieriyn:

ieriyn desperately wants people to see him as Worthy. of what he's not entirely sure honestly - love? praise? care? power? he's trying really hard to seem competent and in control but he's largely just scared and lost and alone. like. he's terrified of his magic because it's unpredictable and hard to control but he wants people to think he's good at it, and tbf, he does have raw talent he absolutely is a Magical Gifted Kid (again. autistic tboy swag), he's just being held back by his own fear. he just wants people to see him as special and worthy of the greatness he tries to pretend he deserves. if that makes sense. idk i am still working on getting a really good solid grasp of ieriyn tbqh

#there Is an edgy backstory reason for xarrai’s soft spot for the lil tieflings but i talk so much abt their edgy backstory LOL #漫言 #oc. xarrai #oc. ieriyn

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gale-gentlepenguin · 3 years

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Gale Reacts: Masters of the Universe: Revelation episode 5

Spoilers below

TL:DR I was not crazy about it and if you did enjoy episode 5 and like the series. I recommend skipping this reaction/review

-So they host a little funeral for Orko. Yep, gotta milk all you can out of the character ya set up to die since his introduction. Well they gave Orko more respect than He-man. Good on Adam for being a decent human being. (I will stop being cynical about this)

-Well Preternia is cool.

-Moss man is the forest.

-Adam had the sword and he is like

-"Welp you are all stuck in heaven now."

-Andra is adorable. (Also side note. I havent really seen Andra and Teela be couple like since episode 2. Like where is the couple stuff? Evil-lyn and Teela have had more dialouge together?)

-Adam and Teela being awkward which understandable.

-And Teela is still salty. At least its fleshed out a bit more. But you would think she would be OVER this by now.

-King of Grayskull? Oh this will be cool.

-Hoverboards in Heaven!

-The tower looks cool.

-Hero is his name?

-Hero is shook by the split the sword.

-Andra making a forge.

-They competitive friends in the hunt!

-Well this is somewhat cute.

-OH S***! KING GRAYSKULL LOOKS EPIC! HE RIDES A TRICERATOPS!

-Adam chose that form? Like he could have taken his He-man form? But chose that one? Okay I am genuinely curious.

-King was the first Castle Grayskull champion. Wow okay. And the guy is now talking smack about the castle.

-I like feral sorcerer lady.

-So they made a heaven forge.

-the last bit of magic!

-Roboto is like "Yea I am not sure at all but I am gonna try." He is going to die too.

-So Teela and Adam moment.

-Adam has a point. He was dead. Not like he was like "Lol i am gonna die and make you feel bad" He was saving the Universe!

-Adam is totally gonna go back because he has unfinished business.

-Adam might not get back to paradise if he goes back.

-Mossman is a million years old. Lol

-Roboto is doing it.

-The forge scene is epic.

-Roboto gonna die.

-He did it though... and it blew up in his face.

-The sword is forged tho.

-But now Roboto is dead. And he made a roboto is afraid to die.

-Wow that is f***Ed up.

-Rip Roboto

-Adam wants to go back. Okay so now we will have Adam/He-man be a more prominent part of the show now. It took some time, but hey at least he is back now.

-Adam he is owning it up to it.

-Adam be a real one.

-What the s*** he almost died right after getting back. Okay so is that the fake out.

-And tech cultists.

-Welp Man-at-arms is here to defend. LOL

-Adam reveals he is back.

-Cringer missed him. (This was cute)

-So now they back to where he died. He about to do what they need to do.

-He be calling back the magic. Now it starting to feel like He-man again

-Sorceress is BACK BABY!

-And Grayskull looks good again.

-And... Adam got F***ING STABBED. Did, did they REALLY JUST KILL HIM TWICE?! I had this feeling like they were saying "You cant come back if you die again" But I thought no There is no way they would be stupid enough to kill him TWICE.

-So Skeletor survived by putting his essence into the staff Evil-lyn had and if she had left it all of this could have been avoided

-Evil lyn is back to being bad. Because Skeletor just came back. So much for all that development Lyn.

-Skeletor just called on the power of GREYSKULL. So can anyone do that?! Does this mean Skeletor can go to Preternia?

-Skeletor's form is... well it is something. I mean its cool. But... I dont really feel like its earned. Like I wish we had some foreshadowing or something. Like he is just like "BTW I was here the whole time just in case." Now if Adam was like pushed aside or like knocked back and Skelator took it so he could show off, that would be more He-Man like. Cause then you get the moral on WHY Adam chose this form in Preternia.

-Also Skeletor getting the power sword SHOULD be a much bigger and much more earned moment. This scene should have been like the penultimate episode before the final battle. Also him Stabbing He-man/Adam would have had way more impact if this was the first time they pulled this.

-But in all seriousness. Did they REALLY JUST KILL ADAM AGAIN!?

-They took all of that development and just... KILLED HIM AGAIN.

-Side note: if ANYONE could use the power, Why not just have he-man pass the torch to Andra or Teela. Because now Adam cant even chill in heaven. He is just a dying little flea who basically got set up to DIE AGAIN. Like the writers clearly do not like Adam.

-How am I suppose to be excited? Lol Skelator is back sure but he just killed He-man. Are they gonna do a fake out death? Have him Die but then get revived by the sorceress? Regardless its in bad fucking taste.

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2.5/10

Look, Skeletor's comeback was cool and all (He and the designs of King Greyskull are the reasons this isnt a 1 out of 10). But WOW they really did Adam dirty. I was expecting He-man in a show that is named after half his old show. Even the earlier trailers showed a bunch of him... but he only shows up in flashbacks after episode 1.

If Adam doesnt die, he will likely get heal in the nick of time and and die again later anyway. Considering how predictable the show is I can already predict that they will beat skeletor. Teela's Power that was hinted at in episode 4 will make her the new Sorceress and Andra will be revealed to be a descendant of King Greyskull thus making her the TRUE heir to Castle Greyskull an have her be the new champion or reverse of that where Teela is the new champion and Andra is the sorceress. If Adam does survive he will just be Adam at the end of the series and not He-man because whatever reason about him not actually feeling like He-man was him. But my bet is that they kill him again if he isnt already dead.

Which means that He-man just becomes She-ra. But there is already a She-Ra and it actually has She-Ra in the title. And that She-Ra actually has better writing in it because it actually cares.

Because lets face it this show was not about he-man. It was about Teela.

I know its called Masters of the Universe Revelation. But they should have called it Teela: and Everyone else dies.

But I seriously have to ask. WHO IS THIS FOR?

Its not for die hard He-Man fans because it kills off or changes all the characters they know.

It isnt for new fans because most of them would have no idea who any of these characters are. The show expects you to know them already.

It isnt for Feminists. Teela's characterization is a bad stereotype of written 'strong woman'. I made a comment that it was basically a 'Guy that tried to write a Strong woman character' but it is STUPIDLY ACCURATE at this point.

She-Ra: Princess of Power 2018 already exists and does it better.

If I had to make a bet. It feels like the writers were targeting the demographic that watched He-man and hated it, then writing a Salt fic about the characters after turning one of them into a self insert.

I hate that the writing sucks, because the animation is gorgeous, there are somethings that are really cool. In fact when they show off the ideas from the original He-Man, it looks amazing. Those flashbacks? They are the best parts of each episode.

Now I am no die hard fanboy for he-man. But I did like the 2002 show. I am actually chill with some of the changes made. Not all of them, but some. But I hate lazy and manipulative writing. Writing in a show purely for shock value.

The trailers they put out for this show were manipulative. Showing much more He-man then there was.

I wasnt expecting god tier level writing for this. This was based on a 1980's show. It didnt need amazing writing, it just needed to be good enough and show it cares about its fans. But it didnt.

Lets say we removed He-man from the equation entirely. make this its own thing. Change the names, alter a few appearances. Would that have changed my opinion.

It would make me less mad, but I would also still call it a bad show because the writing is generic at best. Its hackneyed and the characters with any appeal get killed off.

How am I supposed to be excited for this?

Do you know how angry this makes me. I WANTED to be hyped as hell for the fact that Skeletor has the power of Greyskull and is getting ready to be this super big bad for the end of the season. But I am not.

I just feel annoyed and disinterested.

Will I watch the other episodes if they get released?

I dont think I have the stomach for it. They would need to do a LOT to make me want to watch the other half.

#Gale reacts #motu revelation #masters of the universe revelation #motu revelation critical

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kinkymagnus · 4 years

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20, 21, 25!!! for the ask game, please 💖 [also, hiii!!!]

thank you!!!! (also hii!!) i fuckign love video gaem im nerd

20 and 21. Book that would make a good game + Show/movie that would make a good game?

FUCK uhhhh first some reason my first thought was Artemis Fowl but I.... don’t think that would actually work.

Okay, what’s really interesting is storytelling in different mediums, and one problem with taking a story that is written for a book or a show or a movie, is that it is written for that format. There are some that would make the transition pretty well, even though it might sacrifice parts of the story. Like, it’s harder to get thoughts or feelings a character has without awkward narration, and usually impossible to get good facial expressions or subtle body language cues and that kind of thing.

I’m mostly talking written/screen to video game, but there are also notable differences between books and tv/movies that are probably why most adaptations are so infamously bad. Things like the amount of information that can be compressed for consumers of the media, the type of information such as inner thoughts/feelings and random worldbuilding details, and pacing. Both mediums have their strengths and weaknesses--the screen can be more immersive, and show you really cool ways of looking at things, and also allow for certain silent dialogue like body language or just more subtle implications (such as background characters behaving a certain way or expressions gone unmentioned) but also they can’t really do things that books can.

Video games have their own strengths and weaknesses, too. The interactive medium allows for all sorts of cool things you just absolutely cannot do in the same way in these other mediums. My favorite is probably environmental storytelling and the ways you can get stories across both purely from the setting around you (like in the Fallout game I forget the name of with the underwater city, or in Breath of the Wild with the ruins scattered around Hyrule, or basically all of Hollow Knight’s storytelling) and from little bits of scattered lore that you have to piece together into your own interpretation of what happened. (Again, Hollow Knight does this amazingly.)

So like, some stories can benefit from that, particularly either stories with a strong setting with good worldbuilding to base that on, or stories that would benefit from adding that yourself (although people might argue on whether it counts as canon or not).

So the question is to really think about what kind of books, tv shows, and movies can benefit from being directly interacted with and even changed by the player, what ideas can play out through simple environments a player can move around or in small boxes of flavor text to be pieced together, what stories can be conveyed that can benefit from being actively sought out rather than directly fed to the person consuming them. Something like Artemis Fowl doesn’t work, because there’s a set linear narrative and the choices that are made rightfully should be set. While a game completely separate from the Artemis Fowl stories with its own characters simply set in Haven City could be really interesting (such as the life of a LEP officer who isn’t famous and tangling with humans constantly, or even the life of a dwarf or a goblin or whatever, perhaps even with multiple choices of class and species--?) it wouldn’t really be an Artemis Fowl adaption so much as a spin off or addition to the universe. It could be really interesting, as for a cool as fuck city of fairies Haven City isn’t really discussed or explored all that much, but it wouldn’t be a true adaptation. It’d be inspired by, if anything.

I honestly can’t think of any books/movies/tv shows off the top of my head that necessarily would make a good game.

There are a few I could see being mildly fun--perhaps a sci fi survival game based on The Martian, a Mission: Impossible spy game, or (and I think this would be fun, tbh) a fantasy/mystery retrieval game based on The Librarians or Warehouse 13. I wouldn’t even mind seeing what a skilled game designer could do with A Series of Unfortunate Events, although I’d have no idea where to start.

The problem is mostly those stories being kind of linear and set. The player can’t really affect them, so to be effective it’d be better if it was a new story entirely merely in that universe, rather than just an adaptation of the original canon. For example, playing Lord of the Rings simply would not be the same as watching it or reading it. There’s no way to really make it organic or have that same amount of emotion.

While it’s not impossible to have a linear set story for a player to follow (See The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which has issues, but is definitely playable and enjoyable) it’s not really the same if you not only know the whole story but feel like you’re not actually part of it. You can have quick time events to see if Bilbo really got the the ring, or a sequence where you play as Legolas mowing down orcs, but it won’t really be the same.

Sorry for the long and unnecessarily pretentious answer, this is just something I’ve been really interested in lately so I overthought it like hell.

25. What power-up or ability would you want irl?

Real answer: shapeshifting. This is cheating as it’s more superpower than actually video game related, but like, still.

But answering more properly to the spirit of the question... The things that come to mind for me are Revali’s Gale (just fucking whooshes into the air lmao), Shape of Unn charm (turns into snail and wiggle lol), and Shade Cloak (nyooms through things by becoming a shadow).

Wait, actually, forget all that. I want to be Link from Link Between Worlds, turning into a painting and shit for fun. That sounds rad as hell. Look at me, I’m a cool funky little crayon drawing. Sike! I’m 3D now!

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dark-cutie · 5 years

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impressions of the restart cast after my re-read

hello again! recently, i bought the official yen-press translation of restart and finished both parts just a few days ago. i really want to become a better part of the mahouiku fandom and i love hearing other people’s thoughts, so i decided to share my opinion on each of the characters after my reread (it’s been several months since i last read the fan-translation).

again, please feel free to send me asks on my opinions! i love to discuss mahouiku!

magical daisy: i love her whole celebrity status and anime concept! although i find it a bit sad she’s a celebrity, just no one in the human world can know so she’s just a poor sad college student who deserves better. wish we could’ve seen more of her! masked wonder: she has the least amount of screen time but i still love her. its funny to think how she’s a strict and studious high school student who’s actually a magical girl with a comic book identity. i kinda wish they hadn’t sexualized her so much and i wanted to see more interactions with her and nemurin. deserved way more than she ended up getting genopsyko yumenoshima: honestly, the reread made me like her way less. she’s really bland and fell in the background more compared to the other characters, i didn’t feel any sort of emotional attachment to her. i still pitied her death, and the bypass to her magic was cool but that’s more of akane’s doing. akane: i remember the first time i read restart, i seriously did not believe she was dead. she was really hyped up to be a big antagonist only to be killed off so early, which is somewhat understandable considering her death proves that the real antagonist is someone far more dangerous and sneaky. it was funny to see her actually get annoyed by miyo spamming her with japanese phrases though lol, overall akane deserved a better life. cherna mouse: a babey. i know most people dislike her for being selfish, but c’mom she’s a hamster with no moral background, plus she’s mainly controlled by melville who truly intimidates her. cherna just really wanted to take care of her poor family. she’s also pretty funny too at times. @meow-meow: god i hate her chinese accent, i really wish they could’ve stuck with ru/~aru, depending on which fan translation people read. just like geno though, the reread made me like her less. she again really feels bland and less interesting compared to the rest of the cast, and i only seriously started paying attention to her after she killed akane. i didn’t care too much when she died tbh nonako miyokata: i love her even more after the reread! she’s just a cheerful and ditzy gal. her relationship with pechka is cute, i wish we could’ve seen her interact with rionetta without the emotion manipulation. I seriously felt bad when her dragon died, and she immediately met a cruel fate after trying to save rionetta. detec bell: my opinion stayed the same throughout the reread— i really tried my hardest to like bell, but she also is kinda bland and useless throughout the whole ordeal. i never enjoyed reading her POV except for her hanging out with lazuline. not much to say. rionetta: i did not like rionetta at all before the reread, but ive come to appreciate her way more now. the whole concept of her “body” actually just being a doll with a controller inside is really cool. in the end, she did really seem to regret her anger to nonako which i didn’t catch originally. her sarcasm and bluntness reminds me a bit of my self too lol. lapis lazuline: i hated lazuline before reread, but now i love her, probably because out of the lazuline trio she’s the least suspicious lol. she’s really just a carefree, cheerful and upbeat girl, and being painted as the red herring throughout the story is a fantastic example of nokko’s magic. her last stand against melville was amazing too. pechka: went from being neutral to one of my favorites. i love pechka sm and she deserved the world. what’s interesting is she’s actually probably capable of fighting and is somewhat bloodthirsty, but due to nokko she puts up a cowardly front. it’s sad to think it’s likely both nonako and rionetta would’ve lived thanks to pechka cutting in earlier, had nokko not come into play. all throughout restart pechka suffered so much, and finally sacrificed herself for clantail. melville: frankly, my opinion remained the same... I don’t dislike her, but i don’t love her either. her paranoia and obsession being boosted to the extreme ended up leading to her being forced to the path of villainy. she did actually care for lazuline up until their final fight, which i find wholesome. while she’s not a 100% villain, she’s also not innocent, which i seriously appreciate, having morally gray characters. nokko: SHE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER. she was one of my faves and is still one of my faves... poor girl seriously didn’t deserve anything, being forced to manipulate people into killing to support her sick mother, and she’s only 10, which makes everything way more horrific. the small plot details and how everyone leans to nokko is very very well written, exemplifying her magic. keek: i didn’t like her before reread, still don’t like her... she has a really interesting motive that I can agree with, but im personally still confused as to why she decided to make their deaths in the cyber world reflect to the real world... other than her motive, I really don’t care for keek. clantail: my favorite of the survivors of restart. im a sucker for her calm yet intimidating presence, and when she finally lost it against melville i had literal chills down my spine. to think she’s only a middle-schooler when she’s also very strong is also amazing. im glad she did survive. shadow gale: i either relate to shadow gale or want to punch her in the face. her sympathizing with the great dragon was something i really thought said a lot about her character. she is very close-minded though, and understandably kanoe’s flat out a dick sometimes, it’s pretty evident kanoe/pfle just truly wants to protect shadow gale. she’s my least favorite of the survivors, but her design is one of my favorites. pfle: i didn’t seriously start liking pfle until queens, and restart reread didn’t do much for pfle’s character either. understandably nokko and melville would be afraid of pfle, considering she was very capable of manipulating everyone. pfle is hella smart though, and she really just wants to protect her family. i do like to believe she was genuinely angry over masked wonder’s death and considered her her “family”.

overall, restart is my favorite arc! i thoroughly enjoyed the mystery aspect and it is a huge step-up from unmarked. i really, really wish one day this arc will be animated, considering how good the characters and plot was developed.

hopefully, i’ll be able to order the limited books soon! limited is a very close second-favorite, and it has my overall favorite cast.

#magical girl raising project #mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku #mgrp #restart / arc 2 #magipro #mahouiku #mgrp restart #please don't attack me for the genonyan stuff

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penelopepeas · 6 years

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My headcanons for my Hunger Games AU: what districts everyone would be in if they were in the Hunger Games!

District 1: This district makes luxury goods and is considered the wealthiest district, having a generally favorable relationship with the Capitol. I decided Nathaniel and Amber would be their tributes. They are twins from a wealthy family. Nathaniel’s father has pushed him to train for the Hunger Games since he was a young child, while Amber has been showered with affection and dreams of living in the Capitol. Both of them are relatively confident about winning the Hunger Games, though Nathaniel feels resentful towards his father and the Capitol as a whole for the whole thing. Although he begins by teaming up with and defending his sister, he won’t hesitate to eliminate her if she stands in his way of winning.

District 2: Another “Career” district, this district is full of stonemasons & blacksmiths who build the nation’s cities. This district also produces weapons and trains Peacekeepers. As children in the district are raised with a “warrior mindset” I figured the male tribute would be Evan. For the female tribute, I decided on Charlotte, because she seems quick-witted and strong-willed, not hesitating to use things like blackmail to get her way, which suits her as coming from a long family line of corrupt Peacekeepers. Although Charlotte knows she will be a Peacekeeper and has had combat training, Evan can only hope, as the family he has been living with have traditionally been composed of bricklayers. Despite this, a life of physical labor has made Evan strong and a formidable opponent in the games.

District 3: This district manufactures electronics, producing the nation’s advanced technology. Who better for this district’s male tribute than Armin? Deciding on the female tribute was a little harder, but I settled on Priya because of her intelligence. Both of them have worked in factories their entire lives. Priya just tries to get by, working hard to support her family as her father is unable to work due to an injury. Armin is more adept at creating electronics with scrap materials from the factory and actually enjoys doing so. He is a bit of a rebel, blatantly hates the Capitol, and plans on using his inventions to protect himself from them. He also wants to find the rest of his family, as they have been separated and relegated to different districts.

District 4: Another wealthy district, their main export is seafood, and most residents work in the fishing industry. I figured Dake would be the male tribute here, due to his surfer boy persona and how you first meet him on a beach. I see Dake as a Finnick Odair type in the games- beloved by the audience due to his looks and acting cocky. For the female tribute, I choose Capucine, just because I felt she would come from a career district, but Districts 1 & 2 didn’t really suit her.

District 5: District 5 is responsible for energy, powering the rest of the nation. For the male tribute, I choose Alexy. I figured maybe Evan, Armin and Alexy all grew up in District 5, but there was an overpopulation problem in the district so as they were trained for their respective jobs as children, Evan was taken into District 2 due to his physical prowess and Armin was intelligent enough to be transferred to District 3. Poor Alexy was left in District 5. For the female tribute, I figured Melody would fit in, possibly working as a system analyst or equipment manager in her district before shes pulled into the Hunger Games.

District 6: This is the transportation district, producing mechanics, conductors, etc. This one was a little harder to decide tributes for, but I eventually settled on Iris as the female tribute. For some reason, I just feel like her family could fit in really well as train conductors, lol. Because I already decided on districts for the other boys, I figured the male tribute could be her younger brother Thomas. I think Thomas could be intelligent enough to possibly be training as a mechanic for the hyper-speed trains they have, while I imagine Iris in overalls, hands covered in oil, and her hair pulled up into her cap as she works on a railroad to support her family.

District 7: This is the lumber district, so the people there have to be strong, good with an ax, and maybe a little hard-headed. For some reason, the female tribute popped into my head as Deborah. Maybe because she reminds me of Johanna- who is also rude and overconfident. For the male tribute, I choose Castiel (and not because of his connection to Deborah, actually) but because imagining him as a lumberjack is funny as hell. I feel like he would be quite good with an ax and his snarky attitude fits this district.

District 8: This district’s primary industry is textile production, and most of the jobs are things like dressmakers, designers, etc. Obviously, the tributes from this district would be Rosalya and Leigh. This district’s rebellious tendencies also go with Rosalya’s blunt personality. I imagine her feeling her capabilities are constrained, as well as realizing the unfairness for those that work in the factories. Her and Leigh are both lucky in that they are talented enough not to have to work directly on the production line, but they still work long, grueling hours.

District 9: Grain production is the primary industry of district 9. I felt Jade would be the best for the male tribute, being as the vast majority of people work as farmers. For the female tribute, I choose Li because she didn’t really fit anywhere else.

District 10: District 10′s industry is animal agriculture/livestock production. For the male tribute, I choose Lysander, because of his experience working on a farm when he lived with his parents and his love of animals. Lysander breeds the cattle and is quite fond of the calves. He always feels bad about the poor conditions they live in and tries not to think about where they end up. The female tribute I decided to be Peggy, because she just seems like she could be a farm girl?

District 11: The agriculture district, where the people work in orchards and fields. The inhabitants typically have dark skin, and it is largely for this reason that I choose Dajan and Kim as their tributes. I feel like Kim especially would be strong and tall enough for the physical labor working in the district requires, and she would therefore be pretty formidable in the arena.

District 12: The smallest and poorest district, their main industry being coal mining. I figured our main character Candy would be perfect as District’s 12 tribute, as the main character in the Hunger Games is from this district. Being from Candy’s first school, Kentin as the male tribute was apparent. I imagine he was originally a sickly kid with a huge crush on Candy, but when he was old enough to work in the mines, it changed him significantly, giving him a negative outlook on life. Kentin and Candy are probably both from the Seam. I imagine a Katniss & Gale relationship between them.

edit: I realized I didn’t add Violette as a tribute! I think subconsciously I don’t want her to be one because she’s too soft and sweet. Regardless she would probably either be District 7, a papermaker or something, District 8, working as a designer, or maybe even District 12 with Candy.

#mcl #my candy love #mcl kentin #mcl lysander #mcl castiel #mcl armin #mcl nathaniel #mcl alexy #mcl candy

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lexacourtney · 4 years

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If you told me even last year that 2020 would reignite the Twilight and The Hunger Games fandoms, I would have thought you were joking.

With the announcement of Midnight Sun (tbh I wish it had been The Host 2) and the release of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I got to thinking. Memories from my high school years started resurfacing. Going to midnight premiers, reading the books, fangirling with friends over the characters. I started remembering my two best friends at the time, our sleepovers, our hangouts, mid night movie premiers and all the other moments we shared for years.

It’s weird thinking back on those moments, since we’re no longer the best friends we used to be. It’s also kind of sad, and probably a reason why I wasn’t super excited when the news for Midnight Sun first dropped. It’s hard to be super excited for something that you initially shared with two important people at such a formative time in our lives.

My friends that I shared Twilight and Hunger Games with – (I’m going to call them “L” and “K” since they asked me to not use their names but gave me permission to use some photos) – were two of the first people to befriend me when I moved to the states. We grew close quickly and did everything with each other. Unfortunately, we rarely talk anymore, and have grown apart and I think it’s sad and I really wish we hadn’t. But, we’re not here to discuss how friendships can end. We’re here to reminisce about an era that define so many of us, jumpstarted the YA genre as we know it, and brought so many people together.

So, let’s start with Twilight, since that was popular before Hunger Games.

Twilight was such a formative part of my journey into reading the way I do now. But it wasn’t always. I first heard a friend talking about it in 8th grade. I think that was the first year it really started to gain traction and popularity despite being out for 2 years. I’m pretty sure we were sitting in a US history class, and she was telling me all about this vampire book she was reading, how good it was, and how I should read it.

I turned my nose up at the mention of ‘vampire’ and I’m pretty sure I told her that I wouldn’t read a stupid vampire book.

Boy did I ever eat my own words.

I don’t remember what exactly prompted me to finally pick up Twilight, but I was in 9th grade, it was a long Halloween weekend, and I binge read the entire series. I had my dad make multiple trips to Barnes and Nobles (thankfully there is one right across the street!) to buy each next book, and by the time I was back in school, I’d downed the whole series.

I don’t really remember how my two friends got into the books, I vaguely remember convincing L, and we would go to her house, put a DiGiorno Cheese Stuffed Crust Pizza in her oven, and sit on the floor of her kitchen reading. As for K, I don’t remember how she got into the series, whether it was me, or she picked it up on her own. When we were best friends, she was an avid reader, so she might’ve found it herself. But we bonded and became closer through our love (borderline obsession) with the series. I remember going over to their houses and we would just sit and read the books. We’d print off pictures of the cast from various photo shoots and tape them to our walls. Probably like most teenage girls, we quickly became obsessed. K had this puffy makeup brush that had glitter in the handle, and we’d brush that fine sparkly glitter all over ourselves. At one point, I even swapped out my shampoo for a strawberry scented one.

Then the movies started coming out. We always bought our tickets early – I still have all of mine. L, K and I made t-shirts for the first two Twilight movies…okay my mom made them since we just used iron on paper and put pictures of the cast on the front and a quote on the back. We arrived at movie theaters, like 2 hours early to guarantee us good seats – this was before reserved seating, and before 5PM showings the day before, became the new midnight premiers.

We would have photo shoots in the movie theater halls. We would get there so early that they wouldn’t have a designated area for a line, and we were always first. We’d goof off and talk excitedly about the movie.

We were Twihards and we were about to see the movie version of our favorite books. I unfortunately only have 1 photo from the Twilight Premier due to an external hard drive accident in 2010. I’m bummed that any photos we took together were lost, but we more than made up for it at the New Moon premier.

At some point in our Twilight crazed days, K ended up with an Edward doll that would sit on her bookshelf next to a brown paper wolf. My bedroom walls were covered in posters, magazine clippings, and L’s bedroom walls had some drawings a different friend did of the cast. I showed them both HillyWood’s Twilight Parodies (if you haven’t seen them yet, you’re missing out) and we fell deeper into the franchise. Honestly, I don’t want to know wha I spent on Twilight Merch.

Where you Team Edward, or Team Jacob?

I was solidly Team Jacob – I definitely had a crush on Taylor Lautner when I was younger. Though I think I’d prefer to be a vamp if it came down to it. The movies came out each fall of High School, with the final one coming out my first semester of college. That plot twist in the final one – yeah, the whole theater erupted. We would make count downs in our agenda books for the premier. It’s been quite a few years since then, so I don’t remember as much, but my friends and I went and saw all of the premiers – or tried to. We were all at different colleges for the last one, so that made things a little difficult.

While the Twilight movies were still being released, another series gained popularity. The Hunger Games! I read THG in 2012 and fell in love with the series. It’s another one that I binge read in a weekend. I don’t remember if L and K were as into THG as I was, but I’m a massive sucker for science fiction/dystopian books. So, I devoured this trilogy and fell in love with it.

My memories for this series aren’t as engrained or easy to dig up. These books came to me right as I was finishing high school and the movies premiered while I was in college. While I definitely was swept up in the phenomena that this series created, i didn’t have the same bonding experience with it, with friends. at least not in the way I did with Twilight.

Friends went with me to the premiers – another friend, we’ll call her A, went with me. It was midnight on a school night, she had just performed in a theater production for our high school (hence the face pain in the photo). I think we left that theater around 2 and had to be at school by 7:15am the next morning. That Friday was rough. Really rough. We wore shirts that we had made to the premier – this was back in the days were I actually used puffy paint to design various shirts.

At this point my walls were void of Twilight and had been taken over by new posters. I had the Katniss and Gale posters. Katniss hung on my bedroom door, and Gale hung by my bed. Please don’t judge me lol. I had a few other posters as well. I even taught myself how to French braid, so I could learn how to Dutch braid, just to be able to do Katniss’ braid. I have a mockingjay pin and was even Katniss one year handing out candy. I very well might’ve been more obsessed with THG than Twilight. God, I wanted to be Katniss so badly.

And fun fact, the location set for District 12 in the first movie is in North Carolina – when he was a kid, my grandfather used to go there and play/hang out with friends. Some details of my recollection of his story might be off, but he knew the location that they shot at because he’d been there as a child, having grown up in North Carolina.

Where you Team Peeta or Team Gale?

I had a massive crush on Liam Hemsworth, so I was Team Gale. Now I’m solidly Team Peeta, but younger me was dumb. Peeta is obviously the superior choice, but damn if I don’t still find Liam attractive LOL.

What can I say?

I remember the excitement for each new movie – when the trailers dropped, the new movie posters. I even did portraits of Katniss, Gale and Peeta for a Senior Art Project in high school. My teacher liked it so much that she put it on display for the Senior Art Wall. I had to explain to her multiples times who the faces belonged to, but she liked the study of light and contrast.

2008-2015 was the time of YA adaptations. Between Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, etc. book nerds had the pick of what they could be obsessed with.

With the release and upcoming release of these two books, it brought back a bunch of memories. Fond memories of good times with friends. Hell, simpler times. There was a different energy back then, everyone came together for a series of books – both were household names. You might not have read the books, but chances were you knew someone who had. I miss the energy of midnight premiers and walking into to school to gush about the series with your friends.

Oaky…maybe not so much the school part but seeing your friends every day.

We get the occasional movie adaptation, or tv show, but there really isn’t that same energy that filled everyone. There really hasn’t been this collective phenomenon since the days of YA dystopia adaptations. I think we’re high time due a resurgence. Vamps are coming back to the genre, outside of this new Twilight book, so, maybe!

I haven’t quite made up my mind if I’m going to read either of these two new releases. I’m kind of over Twilight and don’t really have any desire to revisit it. I’ll forever be grateful for what it did for the YA genre, but I kinda just want to leave my memories as they are. I don’t want to inadvertently tarnish them.

As for the new THG book, I have like zero desire to read about Snow, but people have been really enjoying it, so maybe one day in the future.

So, this post is incredibly long, and if you’ve made it this far, thank you for sticking it out. I guess I got a little lost in remembering good times. It’s funny, I started this post on Tuesday and sat down to write it. I didn’t expect it to be hard or this time consuming. I texted L and K to see if they were okay with me using photos and I actually chatted with K for the first time in a year, maybe? I’d be lying if I said I didn’t really miss them. I miss just being able to talk with them. Then, that night I had a dream that we had gotten together to reminisce about our Twilight days, and when I woke up, I was so disoriented. It felt so real, and then I was in an emotional funk for the rest of the day. But now, it’s taken me hours longer than I thought it would to do this post, due to getting lost down memory lane.

Writing this post was a lot of fun, despite some of the bumps I hit along the way. I think it’s interesting to look back and see where we were when Twilight and/or Hunger Games was a part of our lives. For the most part, it seems like it was a huge part of most readers lives. So, here’s my request to you – think of this whole post as an unofficial tag “tag”- if you feel inclined, share your memories/a memory of how either of these series were a part of your life!

Did you go to premiers? Whose Team were you on? etc.

There are no formal questions – so just write and share whatever you feel like.

I “tag” whoever wants to do this Nostalgia post – and if you do this, please let me know! I’d love to read your posts, see your memories if you include pictures. Let’s reminisce about vampires, werewolves and two tributes who would rather eat berries than be entertainment for the rich.

Nostalgia – Twilight & The Hunger Games Unofficial Tag - what are your memories? #newpost #blogpost #bookpost #bookblog #books #blog #blogger #bloggerswanted #bloggerstribe #bloggingcommunity #bookish If you told me even last year that 2020 would reignite the Twilight and The Hunger Games fandoms, I would have thought you were joking.

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too-broken-to-fall-again · 7 years

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The Aftermaths of Goblin: The Lonely and Shining Guardian

So wow, may time na din ako ngayong gumawa ng blog. Hahahahahaha. 😂 Feeling ko kase ngayon lang ako hindi masyadong busy unlike the past weeks after the sem started dahil defense season ngayon sa department namin and ang profs ko ngayon eh mga major profs na so walang klase dahil busy sila sa panggigisa ng higher years sa thesis nila. So ipupush ko na to, since limited lang naman ang internet ko dahil wala na kaming internet connection and I have to rely on prepaid internet. Yes beshiewaps, Third year second sem is real. And it's so fuckin' real all I do everyday till this last week is to cram for requirements and review and draw plates and stuffsssss. Oo bes madaming stuffs talaga lol. Bale konting pasilip lang talaga tong blog na to sa thoughts ko about Goblin and mostly kwento to ng life ko until midterms of this sem. What? Midterm sa March? Oo. August kase nagstart ang year namin so technically nakapagbakasyon ako ng 4 months. Oo teh bakasyon lang talaga as in wala akong ginawa and nasayang talaga yung bakasyon kase yung mga classmates ko nakahanap ng parttime job tapos ako humilata lang. I felt so bad about myself pa naman nun since last sem eh di ako scholar dahil sa Stat2A ni Brigidang dinaig si Nostradamus. Di pa ako tumulong sa gastusin ni Mother Earth. Hayst. But anyway, dahil dun, our last day of the first sem became December and the semestral break came on a holiday season na isa din sa pinanghinayangan ko ng slight. Like, beh given na holiday yun tapos dun niyo pa tinapat yung sembreak? Char ang tamad ko talaga. Hahahahaha. 😂 Then after that syempre January 2017 nagsimula ang second sem namin (the current sem) and here I am, gumagapang papuntang prefinals and sembreak! Char. May pa daw ang sembreak so wala pa akong karapatang magpahinga ng 2 months. 😭 So my week goes on this cycle this sem: I always have classes from Monday to Thursday, lahat ng araw 7 AM ang pasok. Ang hirap ng section 1 sa Cavite State University like myghad wala kang maayos na pahinga. Then my typical dismissal times are 5:00 or 6:00 PM on Mondays, 6:00 PM on Tuesdays, 4:00 PM on Wednesdays and 3:00 PM on Thursdays. Thinking my weekend's getting lighter? Think again. Every Monday binibigyan kami ng assignment plate na gagawin namin over the weekend. Course requirement siya ng CADD class namin. And may on-the-spot plate drawing naman and assignment plate over the weekend sa Building Design. Those two happen every week, except when major long exams are approaching. When long exams approach naman, problem sets naman ang kalaban ko. Every major subject na engineering science ang category ay nagpapagawa ng 30 problem sets as reviewers and course requirement na din na ipapapasa nila every long exam. And because wala na akong minors ngayon at tapos na ako ng math subjects (though may advanced math pa kami ngayon pero trivial engineering science subject na lang siya so yes beshie tapos na ako sa maths wooooohh yeeeeessss todo na tooooh!), may five engineering science subjects akong inenroll ngayong sem namely Strength of Materials (Strema), Dynamics of Rigid Bodies (Dyna), Engineering Economy (Econ), Fluid Mechanics (Fluids), and Advanced Engg. Mathematics (AdMath) as dagdag majors, at dahil required tong itake agad ng mga regulars. Of these, Strema, Dyna and Econ give problem sets na papasagutan, because pinalitan ng annotated bibliography ang probset namin sa Fluids and tamad ang teacher namin sa AdMath so di na siya nagpapaprobset at kami na din ang pinapagturo niya (or should I say pinapareport niya) ng AdMath (technically ako lang din nagrereport kase ako lang tinutulak or tinatanong ng mga kaklase ko kapag AdMath and wala naman akong magawa but to answer their question 'coz they either go inside the room unprepared or unknowing about the topic kase by section ang grading ng reporting). So that leaves 30 × 3 = 90 problems na lang na sinasagutan namin every time may exam, excluding the review time. Buti na lang mabait yung dyna prof and 15 lang binigay niyang probset last major exam so 75 lang binuno namin (pero mahirap pa din kase pinapowerpoint pa niya after namin isulat). Ewan ko na lang this coming sem. Because kailangan ko nang magstudy every night on weekdays for the subjects for the following day, ang time ko na lang para gumawa ng plates tuloy ay weekends. So because of that, I sit on our computer desk the whole weekend or sit in my bed and set up my drawing desk near me in order to finish either a CADD plate or a BD plate or both. Yes minsan nagsasabay pa sila men. Saya. 😂 I even experienced na mage-FB lang ako every night sa sobrang busy, but all I'd do is to check GC chats and notifs in order to continue on what assignment I'm currently at kase I have questions about the specifics of the assignments to my classmates. Ayun nawalan ako ng social life. Hahahaha. 😂 Anyway ok na din kase I see positive results on grades, though I think I'm on the edge of glory for Strema and Higher Surveying (Higher Surveying is one of my majors) so medyo nanganganib ang buhay ko. 😂 And ganito kase ang nangyari. I was introduced to watching Goblin when I went to Los Baños last December dahil inaya ako ng HS classmate ko sa dorm niya sa UP together with my beshies din nung HS para magwalwal at tumoma. Oo beh naglasingan kami though di naman gaano since soju lang naman ang ininom namin (mga feeling koreans kase sila amp. Ang kinain pa namin nung lunch after arriving was korean food, though masarap tbh). We watched the series while drinking soju. O diba kpop na kpop ang adventure. Enjoy ko naman kahit playing cards lang talaga at kwento at movie marathons and gala and simbang gabi and inuman at lamon lang ginawa namin hahahaha. Then I got to watch until episode 12 I think before the sem started. Kaso natigil siya after ko maging busy and di ko natapos eversince. Natapos ko siya last week lang dahil di rin ako busy last week masyado. And my verdict? *drum roll* . . . . . Bitin! Oo bes bitin. *sabog confetti* Sobrang lungkot ng ending kase pinatay din lahat ng characters except sa Goblin dahil kamamatay niya lang 3/4 bago matapos yung series. Tapos pinagtagpo-tagpo rin sila sa next lives nila para magmahalan ulet. Medyo feeling ko minadali na lang din yung ending and di masyadong fitting na pinatay pa yung female lead role (her name is Ji Eun Tak played by Kim Go Eun), tapos pagtatagpuin din sila after a few minutes ni Kim Shin (siya yung Goblin, played by Gong Yoo, oo bes yung cutie hot dad sa Train to Busan charot) sa isang episode lang. Duuh. Mas naenjoy ko pa yung wasakang story ng supporting roles. Mas nawasak buong pagkatao ko sa story nung supporting kase parang mas lonely pa yung naging buhay ni Grim Reaper na si King Wang Yeo din pala in his past life (played by Lee Dong Wook) habang minamahal niya si Queen Kim Sun na naging si Sunny sa next life (played by Yoo In Na). Tapos ang lungkot pa ng theme nila everytime. Hahahaha. Fave song ko nga siya today eh kase sobrang lungkot bagay sa wasakang playlist ko hahahaha. 😂 I love You by Soyou yung title. Siguro If I'd have the chance to repeat the story with my own version I'd let Kim Sun forgive Wang Yeo so they can be happy in that life too (pero kase punishment ni Wang Yeo galing kay Kim Sun na di na sila magtatagpo pa ever in that life bilang kabayaran ng kasalanan niya in the past life eh so wala din akong magagawa). Then I'd let Ji Eun Tak and Kim Shin be happy after Ji Eun Tak remembers him again. Pero syempre masisira ang essence ng story at ang sense of order na inoobserve ng higher deity sa story so wala akong magagawa. I'd mess up the plot with my suggestions. 😂 Maganda naman siya and I can't really move on hanggang ngayon kase iniwan din akong wasak nung kdrama. And you know naman na how fragile I am when it comes to moving on, picking up the pieces and getting over on what happened. Tangina si Kent nga feeling ko moved on na completely ako binabangunot pa sa what ifs eh hahahahaha (oy I don't feel anything na about it ah baka akalain mo pa char hahahaha. That's like magto-two years ago na duh). 😂 Would I recommend anyone to see it? Definitely! Matatawa ka din kase sa story with a mixed of 2/3 crying. Medyo bromance din pati si Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook that I randomly wished na sana magkatuluyan din sila charot hahahahahaha. 😂 Wala lang. Nagandahan din kase ako sa story though unusual siya. Kasing unusual ng pagkakatagpo ng Goblin at ng kanyang bride. Watch ka na lang din kung di ka pa nanonood para makarelate ka naman sa mga sinabi ko lol.😊😂

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