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cozza-frenzy · 22 days

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can you do some doodles of your inner world and maybe describe it? Also what do all the details in your guy's outfits mean.

Terry: Anon you have no idea how long I've waited for someone to ask this question. I already have a few drawings prepared, so let's start with where I'm currently standing - the fronting room! Our inner world is surprisingly complex, and our home is on a dragon-shaped airship - soon to be re-christened The Spirit Of Highwind - and the room we're in while fronting is in the head.

The black circle on the floor is the "fronting circle"; if someone's standing within that area, they're actively in control of all or part of the body. The red couch is where we can sit if we want to when using the "fronting desk" and its floating screens, though we can also stand up or even lay down. We're on the upper deck, and on the lower deck (not pictured here) is a spiral staircase leading upstairs (on the left) and a second couch with a fireplace (on the right). If the doors to the left and the right look out of place - that's because they kind of are. They're not part of the airship but are actually a part of The Distortion - a normally-invisible "layer" of the word that connects all other areas together via doors, controlled by Chaos, our gatekeeper. It put them there as permanent doors so folks in other areas don't have to ask for one every time they want to front. Up ahead of us where we're "parked" right now is the Everfree Forest (the normal-looking trees) and the Deep Woods. The Deep Woods creates its own eternal night under the giant tree; growing in various places up the trunk and in the canopy are Stars Of Hope, a glowing flower that you see almost everywhere in the Inner World.

The glowing stuff below is the Agua Vida; water that spills from Soda Lake, up in the caldera of Mount Discovery. Hope takes many physical forms in our inner world, and the Agua Vida is a potent source of it, having been recently adopted by the rest of the system as a daily supplement. Like a psychosomatic vitamin, adding it to a drink helps restore our energy, keeping us focused on healing. We want to try and use it on the vegetables in the Community Garden (just outside where the ship is "parked") one of these days.

Here's a view of Soda Lake and Mount Discovery from above - based on an in-system pencil sketch I made. Following our mass fusion the inner world changed a lot, so this area (and the internal part of the Deep Woods) are "cut off" from Chaos' Distortion until they're "re-discovered". From what i could tell from flying the airship over it, there's a solidified lava floe down the east side, and water is flowing out of the lake towards the south. We'll get there eventually; for now, most of us are content to stay closer to home as we recover. I just hope the plants and animals native to those areas have survived. That's the main part of our inner world covered at least - while most of us have "domains" of our own that we control access to, after the recent mass fusion, a lot of us aren't able to let other alters in or simply can't remember what the places look like once we leave. Given enough time, this stuff should come "back online" much like our broken fast-travel system. As for the "details on our outfits" - not everything in our PFPs necessarily means something, and we can change outfits in system. I like my hat and I like loud shirts, Vivien's shirt is the CMYK colors used in printing, Roses and Thirteen have each other's colors on their pictures because they're in a Queerplatonic relationship.

But I guess one thing that has been appearing a lot in system after our mass fusion is the Compass Rose. You can see it on the floor of the fronting room, on Dagwood's bowtie and Taffy's cape - Roses has it as part of a tattoo on her arm, and I have it as a marking on my back between my wings. I'm not sure why our brain has such an attachment to the symbol, but I like to think it's something to do with moving forward and being pointed in the right direction.

...Or maybe it's just a SAVE point. Knowing that Undertale left such a huge impression on our system fills you with Determination.

#Shit Terry Says #The Magbox Idiot Box #Adventures in OSDD

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curiouskinetic · 10 months

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1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?: "Sora."

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME?: "Uh... Sora...? What, did you want my last name or something? I don't really use it."

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLED THAT?: "My father once told me he'd named me after the color of my eyes... and he's from Inazuma, so... yeah."

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN?: "It's... it's complicated."

5. WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS AND ABILITIES?: "Well... there are a lot of things I can do, but I can't do all of them perfectly yet. Manipulating and creating water, changing the shape of my body, I can make stuff float... there are a few other things, but like I said-- I'm not that good at them currently. Maybe in a few hundred years I'll improve. I hope...."

6. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?: "Light blue."

7. HAVE YOU EVER DYED YOUR HAIR?: "Not intentionally. Having white hair it feels like just about everything in the world can stain it a different color. Grass, berries... uh... blood. Some things are harder to clean out than others." She sighed, lifting a hand and fiddling absently with a few loose strands of hair. "And then in the end it dyed itself. Kind of, anyways. The blue in my hair is a recent thing... but I won't get into it."

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS?: She was silent for a few moments, casting her gaze downwards. These questions were starting to be a bit much. "Yes."

9. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: "No, but I make friends with the local animals of just about anywhere I go. I think I'm close to meeting every stray cat in the world at this rate."

10. TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE: "When people I don't know think it's fun and cool to come up and try petting my ears or tail. I don't mind so much if they ask first, but the amount of grown adults that just touch me out of the blue... well, most don't try it a second time."

11. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES OR ACTIVITIES YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME?: "Yes, of course! I enjoy painting and drawing, sometimes woodcarving and working with clay... I just really like making things. Let's see, I also like reading, sunbathing, swimming, fighting, spending time with my friends-- ah, I guess I'll stop there. It's a longer list than I expected."

12. HAVE YOU EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE?: "Yes."

13. HAVE YOU EVER… KILLED ANYONE?: "Yes."

14. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU?: She blinked, tail and ears wiggling as she gave the interviewer a look. "I'll give you three guesses."

15. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS: "Uh... I guess climbing on people's roofs? I know I shouldn't, but it's a lot of fun. I also have a habit of scratching things when I get restless. Usually trees, but I've ruined a couple of chairs and couches on accident before."

16. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE?: "Mhm, quite a few people, actually."

17. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?: "Uh, aren't there a lot more than just those three?" She tilted her head to the side. "... well, anyways, I'd say bisexual."

18. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL?: "No, I've never gone to school before." She paused. "I... I've always wanted to, though."

19. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY?: "I... I guess? It sounds nice, but it all just seems so far off. My mother didn't do any of that until she was well over six thousand years old. I'd just hate to rush into something, you know?"

20. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANS?: "Fans? Like... people that like me but I don't really know them? I'm sure I have a few out there. I've even gotten a couple offerings before!"

21. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF?: "Uhm... I... no... no comment."

22. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR?: "This." Sora gestured to her outfit. "But it's not like the only clothing I own. I have lots of other outfits depending on the weather or where I'm going."

23. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE?: "I'd say I love many someones."

24. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU?: "Uh... I'm sorry, I really don't know what you mean by this. Does this have to do with school or something? Those have classes, right?"

25. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE?: "Many! And they're all wonderful!"

26. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE?: "Pie? What a weird question. It's fine-- pretty versatile, too. You can put just about anything in one."

27. FAVORITE DRINK?: "Milk!"

29. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE?: "It's really hard to choose, but I guess Liyue? It's my home, after all."

30. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE?: "Ehe... I-I mean... yeah..?"

31. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN?: "Both! They're both so fun to swim in! There's no way I could choose between them."

32. WHAT’S YOUR ‘TYPE’?: "Well, I've noticed a trend, and it's usually just, uh, tall."

33. ANY FETISHES?: "Alright, now that's just inappropriate."

35. CAMPING, OR INDOORS?: "I'd say both, but I do spend most of my time outside."

36. ARE YOU WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW TO BE OVER?: "Yes, your questions are getting weird."

tagged by: @mmriesoftvat ty!!

tagging: anyone else that hasn't done this yet fdsHJsfd

#v; wanderer #dash games #interviewer found dead in liyue--

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fandom-frenzy · 1 year

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nurr you have to tell me about all the costuming atrocities on ROP. (i have it all blocked on tumblr so i don't see anything.) SPILL. I MUST KNOW. ahahahahahaha.

So the most important thing to start with here, and the thing you must always keep in mind when discussing RoP costuming, is that the show had an enormous budget. This show was the most expensive show ever made. This show made the budgets of blockbuster Hollywood films look like community theatre budgets. It was hammered into every promotional piece, every marketing ad, every talking point - this show was so expensive.

Which makes the costuming all that more atrocious. Because I can look past some meh costumes. I can understand that there are a lot of different places to put the money. But when you have $60 mil an episode, you can't complain when people scrutinize the costuming.

Putting the rest under a cut since I'm going to post images too.

Wait wait hang on in the process of looking up screencaps to get good quality photos I came across this article and incredibly it is not satire.

Morfydd Clark, who portrays Galadriel in Amazon's epic fantasy series, recently spoke with Empire about her character's outfits, and about the fans who have taken on the daunting task of recreating them. Clark says that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's costume designer made a special effort to keep the series' costume designs complicated enough to challenge cosplayers: "Kate Hawley, the costume designer, was like, 'I want to make it really difficult for them. I want it to be a real challenge.'"

It is absolutely laughable that any of these costumes would challenge cosplayers. Anyway. Back to the discussion. (ID's in the images.)

The costumes look cheap.

The costumes don't look like they belong to distinct cultures.

The costumes don't look like people wear them on a daily basis - they aren't outfits, they're costumes.

The costumes look like they're made of cheap fabrics you can find at a craft store. They are all pretty thin and plain. There is very little layering to create a sense of "these are clothes people wear every day", there is very little texture with the use of different types of fabric or embroidery or other touches like that. Anytime texture is added, it feels like "texture=dirty and rough=poor" (see, harfoots and southlanders).

Typically when representing a variety of cultures, you should be able to look at a piece and basically tell which group it's from. If we look at the LotR movies, the difference between the elves and the hobbits and the Rohirrim and the dwarves are all different. Even Rohan and Gondor, while both cultures of men, have distinctions in color and motifs. The dwarves are harsh lines while the elves are curving, organic, leafy designs. The hobbits are like English gentlefolk with vests and the kingdoms of men have long tunics. In RoP, it's like the designers said, "Greco-Roman? Greco-Roman. Cool. Let's do that." FOR EVERYONE. Nearly every silhouette for all women is "one piece long dress gathered with a belt." Every man is "robes."

And costumes shouldn't be costumes - they should be outfits. They should be functional outfits that you would look at and say, "Yes, I can see that someone would wear that when doing the role they are in." Or recognizing that there is wear and tear because people don't buy new clothes every day. It should make sense when you see it, and not draw you out of the story.

Let's start with Gil-Galad because he was one of the first people I looked at and said "what???" This gold fabric looks basically like something I see at JoAnns anytime I walk through. The criss-cross vest pattern does have some embroidery to it (it looks like dwarven runes??) but the way it's set on his chest to me is reminiscent of straps on a backpack. The embroidery looks sharp and linear, while the embellishment is circular with pearl-like beading so the texture that is there is off. And then we have the "look it's Roman do you get the classical Roman background?" laurel crown.

Next to him is Elrond who, while really coming alive through a great actor, has a pretty humdrum costume. The cloak and the tunic look like they're made from the same material. It's lightweight with a printed swirly pattern on it - presumably this is to provide easy texture, but I don't think the elves had invented printed fabric yet. The only embellishment is the fringe/feather thing on the shoulder, which looks weird, I'll be honest. The feathers look like they're made of plastic, and the fringe isn't repeated anywhere else in the outfit.

Want to see some atrocious armor now? This armor is so confusing (and also ugly). On the left we have the Numenorians, and on the right we have the "special traveling to Valinor" armor (yes, that's a thing). Let's start with the elves. It looks like it's been made with a 3D printer. It doesn't look like metal, it looks like cheap plastic. It's super impractical for fighting, because those shoulder pieces would catch any swords and keep them close the body instead of letting them glance off. They wear skirts underneath so better hope no one tries to cut you below the waist.

The Numenorians have this whole scale motif going on throughout the costumes, presumably because they are an island nation. Okay, whatever. So why do they have horse hair helmets? They don't care about horses. They care about ships and the sea. And they've got the sun motif on their neck plate along with horses. So, all over the place. The matte white armor is an...interesting...choice. And the weird under scale shirt, with the addition of the white quilted shirt under that - it's confusing, it looks strange, and your eyes aren't really sure what's happening there. They also don't have any armor covering their lower half, and their helmets will fall off at any point.

Here we have the Romans Numenorians in their togas and printed fabrics. Like, seriously. Plain robe/tunic things that are functionally togas, with an actual printed fabric sash. I would not look at this still and think "fantasy" or "Middle-earth" or literally anything but "Roman drama."

Interestingly, here we can see with the dwarves a similar scale pattern to their armor. And in the wide shot, we see these draped garments that wouldn't look out of place in Numenor or the southlands. These background dwarves have a lot of circular motifs, while when we focus on Durin he has the more angular patterns we are used to from LotR.

Celebrimbor showed up early and had, to me, an outfit that was almost right. You see how it has different textures, different embroideries, it feels layered and real. But it's so not the right outfit for a guy who is known as a world reknowned craftsman. We do see him in his metalworking outfit, which is...different. It just has so many metal elements that I can't help but think will get too hot while you're at a forge! Also the stretchy shirt material is very similar to the material of Galadriel's dress in that scene and Elrond's tunic, so..there's that.

Honestly I saved a bunch more screencaps and had plans to go into more detail about Galadriel's various outfits and Miriel's various outfits (the only two people who got costume changes) but I just want to be done with this post so here we are.

I recommend checking out Lana Marie's youtube channel because she goes through a lot more of this from a more knowledgeable perspective.

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