#also was very high and its dark

[milkweedman]

Crossed by my milkweed patch on the way to the pie shop and grabbed a rotting stalk and quickly pulled it apart by hand. And then twisted into 2 ply cordage. Not the prettiest but I like it.

Credit to purples shoe. Also to taking the picture for me 💜

#milkweed #cordage #bast fiber #wish i had grabbed more #but i also literally have like 50 stalks on my porch #and its too cold to process them.mm #also was very high and its dark #we dont need to talk about where i put the rotting plant material in my mouth to smooth it.

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

albus severus is the human embodiment of be gay do crime, in this essay I will-

#shitposting in its rawest form #im right though #this boy saw that phrase said bet and never looked back #harrys a cop its neccesary rebellion #and he is into some dark magic shit i am telling you right now #he has been dabbling #he commits low level crimes on the daily #and is very open to high level crimes when the situation arises 😗😗 #source: my brain #also actually the entire fucking play #that is not a teenager who follows rules or makes sound sensible decisions #hes the type of kid to just go out one day and accidentally commit fraud embezzlement buglary and join the mafia or something #half by accident half just cause he felt like it 🤷🏻‍♂️ #scorpius is not like this yet is always by als side when hes getting into trouble so he might as well be lmao #the be gay bit is very self explantory #he would commit unspeakable crimes for scorpius which just ties it all together so nicely #scorpius is the source of his gay and his crime 🙏🏻 #hashtag soulmates 😍😍 #albus severus potter #scorpius malfoy #hpcc #scorbus

[presiding]

so there's a leviathan swimming by the dreadful wale

look out towards the grand palace just before that mission. it's huge but it blends in until it descends, splashing with its tail.

fuck i love this game. the detail.

#dishonored #dishonored 2 #shout out to people who can in fact take screenshots #it only seemed to repeat the cycle once #had to reload to take these #nearly fell off the boat when i saw it trying to get a pic #no idea if this is common knowledge but i've never noticed it after 120hrs of play #maybe it's easier to see if your gameplay settings are different to mine - i have the dark values up high usually #i couldn't work out which animal this was meant to be also #its definitely very whale-like #but if you watch the animation its more like. snake-like #very strange

[volfoss]

It's really funny comparing the sims 4 retail experience to the sims 2 retail experience because the sims 2 has it beat easily

#twist rambles #like ok..ive been getting notifs for the thrift tea store in 4. was super excited about the concept of thrift shopping and maybe they had #like unique clothes there that u cannot find anywhere else. would have been super cool. first off i have to look up where the fucking store #is because it came w high school stories and i havent played w that pack for a while. then i get to the lot. i am immediately lost on what #to do. stores in ts2 had a VERY clear register area that u could buy stuff. so i try and find the owner since thats how ts4 businesses work #she does not want to sell me anything she just wants to talk about fashion trends. i click on the racks. i see you can make an outfit with #“kawaii” aesthetic. which my god ok sure sims team. then i see cottagecore and dark academia. like this is gonna age like SHIT. #its just like not a clear or fun experience to go clothes shopping in 4 because in 2 u had to shop to makeover ur sims but u dont have to i #4 so like. why would i ever go. also ofc well 2 is FAR less buggy for ur own businesses lmao. im never not petty abt how bad businesses are #in ts4 because its legit unplayable.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Ok. ok ok ok I know youre having fun with Elden ring, and youve probably moved on from the Ley Line Au But Hear me out! Ive been chewing on it for a bit.

So! Three main things that just feel off to me in the au. 1. Giratina is the only primordial god without a magic branch (Which I Know They are anti magic but HEAR ME OUT!) 2. The Twin Dragons are the Light (They just dont feel like Primordial Gods ya'know?) . 3. Giratina still has no motive.

I!!! have connected the dots!!! It always rubbed me a bit when we talked about the dead god and the twin dragons. The Twin dragons are not really death connected. I just realized, we have a perfectly good ghost dragon Right there! Giratina!

So let me set the stage! The Three Primordial Children of the One. At the One's command they became The Fonts of Magic from which the world sprung forth. Then, an unimaginable time later, the Light tore its god to shreads. The God is dead. What is left from the smoldering remains of Light and Magic is a Lack. A Hole from which no light comes and no magic resides. Magic follows waters rules and tries to fill a hole which cannot be filled. In which the Starving, Writhing thing that was Once Light was banished by The One bc It was now a Danger to the world it created. (It is starving Its mind is in disarray WHERE IS ITS LIGHT.) The Magic it brought forth is now destabilized. Which as one of the forces stabilizing space time and the world is a big uh oh. So One Minor Dragon God seized the light as it thrashed and tore the world in a despite bid to keep its people safe. Unlike the Original Light whom was shredded until nothing but a shade remained, the Dragon God was only torn in twane. (Whether its because the light mages (Maybe Celestica? they have light theme right?) stopped in shock or divine retribution has claimed them Idk.)

But the tearing stabilized the light bc It created a dichotomy. Light was no longer JUST light. Its the swing of light to dark. the Truth to the Ideal. The gods original thing merged kinda with the Light. Maybe the Twin gods were gods of Wishes or Maybe Human Perspective idk. But It was important bc Now the Original God of Light is now Darkness. And the Allowance of Darkness in the Light Magic kinda keeps it from folding like a house of cards.

Light Magic tends to the rule of two. Or Give and Take. Depends on the user and the intent. Which makes it Very Dangerous. The Twin Gods try their best but the Light Magic is scarred and volatile. Light users tend to play by the rule of two bc Its generally the more safe of the rules to play by. Two Mages or One who Gives so they can Take. (the appearance of a LONE ridiculously powerful Light Mage Could be very alarming, what could they give to take that much magic. (where is the other one) and Irida has to safe.)

Which Gives Giratina a motive! or maybe a motive for Arceus to stop them. I imagine being killed is very disorenting and not very conductive to being rational non rampaging gods who have yet to realize what it has become. Maybe at the events of the plot it has chilled enough to be reasoned with to Not Eat all the Light Magic and kill everyone (Kinda. it IS a primordial god. ) Tho with Volo maybe trying to control it or maybe enabling it and giving it awful ideas we might need to deal with him first. (If we go with the Idea that Celestica killed Giratina and thats why they're dead, then Volo trying to control the god that their ancestors failed to would be a better motivation than just bc yeah?)

Sorry I just had to get it out here. <3 Have fun with Elden Ring

oh anon i have never moved on from a thing in my life and i am SO INTO THIS.

the one thing i take issue with tho is the sidelining of the twin dragons to being minor deities, bc having a minor deity jump on the ruins of a primal force feels kind of left-field, and to me the concept of there being gods who entirely, by definition, rule the domain of human thought and desire—and pokemon gods, animal gods that can be leashed and controlled—is a concept that fucks so hard and i can't see it as being anything other than deeply fundamental to the universe itself. so can i play with your premise a lil bit

bc i think—and idr how much of this ive talked abt before—BUT i think in pokemon CANON, giratina is also kind of a god's corpse moreso than it is a god in itself. by which i mean to say, giratina was the original holder of spirit, not the lake trio—but having the whole force of spirit contained in one mind was too much for it, and arceus had to take it away and reform it into three separate beings, leaving giratina a banished and abandoned shell. which actually dovetails so neatly into this, just instead of being doomed by its creation, giratina was killed by its mages instead.

so like. light to dark to antimagic to spirit. this feels like such a closed loop. like, it's always kind of fascinated me how the lake and tao legends feel so conceptually linked—truth and ideals vs. willpower emotion and knowledge, like you can see how they're distinct concepts if you squint but intuitively it feels like there should be a lot of overlap. SO. do you see where i'm going with this. i've already said that light is like, the fundamental force that is the contract law of the universe—which fits so neatly with the lake trio's red chain of spirit and the way it can control even palkia and dialga and repair the very fabric of reality. cogita even suggests that it "lets one see reality as it truly is."

i also take umbrage with the idea that resh/zek don't have a death link bc to me they are the products of a death. the original dragon died, and they're the leftovers of its power, with kyurem being the body. ...but kyurem also hasn't played much of a role at all in this so far. has it.

so maybe reshiram and zekrom weren't a separate god that stepped in to fill the void. light has always been the same thing as spirit, two words for the same fundamental domain—fitting so neatly with the concept of facets and angles we've had going so far—and resh and zek are the shards of giratina's corpse. fundamentally disunified and out of balance, two opposing pieces of a god trying to fill the role of a single one. meanwhile giratina persists, but now having been completely gutted, the fundamental piece of its heart where its magic should live permanently gutted and bleeding darkness.

is this tracking?? idc i'm rolling with this now anyway. it fucks to me. anyway i'm also so into the idea that it was celestic who originally killed giratina, bc those mages have been kind of faceless until now but i think it also gives ingo such a fascinating personal stake in this whole quest in a way even irida and adaman don't have. like, he inherited their bloodied hands. he knows more intimately than anyone what the force of light is like now, lacking a true deity. that is fascinating to me.

also wouldn't that legally make volo another light mage?? but like, an Old Light Mage. one of the few who still adhere to the way it used to function, before the killing. bc like, i don't think this has made it into a post yet but i do think those are very different things. light magic is a completely different ballgame nowadays. goddammit yet again volo and emmet have taken up narratively opposed and symmetric positions. why do they do this EVERY time.

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #ley lines au #or maybe volo's like the one and only mage of darkness #but i don't... know that that's a thing that's possible to be #anyway i think i should also say that i think the light mages killing their god was pretty poggers of them #like not in the sense that it was a good decision that benefited them or anyone. it didn't #but they had no way of knowing at the time what would happen. and their motives weren't selfish in themselves #so more in a sense of yeah u go u funky little guys. why SHOULD the big worm get to be the sole arbiter of your power. #they punched so fucking high. good for them. #also this whole au is kind of elden ring in its vibes. im ngl #it's the approach to deities as these far-removed forces with inhuman morals and wants interfacing with mortals in strange ways #and also killing very powerful things and yet they persist and it goes horrifically wrong. also that.

[atlas-affogato]

So I was curious how many crimes the dark hand actually commits because the whole show, they're just constantly trying to kill Jackie and fucking shit up and being general menaces to society. Well, I noted down all of their crimes during the first season (only the shit in the legal system, there's no charges for 'works for a dragon') and I'll update this post when I rewatch the rest of the seasons but here's season one crimes wrapped.

(btw I know nothing about the legal system this was all researched in about a half hour)

Valmont

Total charges: 18

2 counts of Assault with a Deadly Weapon

Assault of a Police Officer

Breaking and Entering

3 counts of Burglary

Conspiracy to Commit Grand Theft

Conspiracy to Torture

Escaping from Custody

Extortion

2 counts of Grand Theft

Racketeering

Robbery

3 counts of Solicitation

Tohru

Total charges: 32

Animal Abuse

13 counts of Assault

2 counts of Attempted Murder

Attempted Robbery

Blackmail

Conspiracy to Commit Murder

Destruction of Property

Grand Theft

Grand Theft Auto

6 counts of Kidnapping

Racketeering

Robbery

2 counts of Theft

Finn

Total charges: 37

Accessory to Kidnapping

Animal Abuse

10 counts of Assault

2 counts of Assault with a Deadly Weapon

4 counts of Attempted Murder

Attempted Robbery

3 counts of Burglary

Conspiracy to Commit Grand Theft

Conspiracy to Commit Murder

2 counts of Destruction of Property

Escaping from Custody

Extortion

2 counts of Grand Theft

Kidnapping

Racketeering

5 counts of Theft

Ratso

Total Charges: 33

Accessory to Kidnapping

Animal Abuse

10 counts of Assault

2 counts of Assault with a Deadly Weapon

Attempted Kidnapping

3 counts of Attempted Murder

Attempted Robbery

3 counts of Burglary

Conspiracy to Commit Grand Theft

Conspiracy to Commit Murder

Destruction of Property

Escaping from Custody

Extortion

2 counts of Grand Theft

Racketeering

3 counts of Theft

Chow

Total charges: 29

Accessory to Kidnapping

Animal Abuse

9 counts of Assault

Assault with a Deadly Weapon

3 counts of Attempted Murder

Attempted Robbery

3 counts of Burglary

Conspiracy to Commit Grand Theft

Conspiracy to Commit Murder

Escaping from Custody

Extortion

2 counts of Grand Theft

Kidnapping

Racketeering

2 counts of Theft

Hak Foo

Total charges: 3

2 counts of Assault

Theft

Some of the charges are a little fuzzy, and I might be missing some things but thats what I found in one watch through.

#lets not forget that the dark hand cannonically has ties to basically every crime syndicate in the world #and that section 13 was put together specifically to combat the dark hand #and that valmont and tohru were on the fbi's most wanted list 3 years in a row #i can assume the other three main enforcers were also on the fbi most wanted list or at the very least were wanted by section 13 #considering the dark hand is such a HUGE organization and they are high enough up to work directly under Valmont #this stuff all gets brushed aside because its a kids show #but my god #its crazy when you actually think about it #tohru must have made one hell of a plea deal to not get any jail time #i bet he told captain black EVERYTHING about the dark hand #and captain black pulled some major strings to keep him out of jail #jackie chan adventures #jca chow #jca enforcers #jca finn #jca ratso #jca #jca valmont #jca tohru #jca the dark hand #the dark hand

[aroace-polyshow]

my brain is rapidly alternating between mafuyu card and dr stone thoughts

#marlo’s stuff #about senku though #bro was a high schooler a very smart one but a still high schooler who wants to go to space #and he literally has the weight of the world on his shoulders #bro was stuck in stone counting for 3700 years #and also spoilers but then he finds out his dad is long dead #LIKE #thats gotta have at least SOME negative impact on the guy #the series never really covers it (at least to where i’m caught up) and i get why cause its not really what it wants to focus on #and thats fair and after all that is what fanfic is for #but STILL #its been 3700 years of doing nothing but counting the seconds in complete darkness and trying not to fall asleep #cause falling asleep means never waking up again #man. my brain has been rewired. thank you dr stone fanfics

[frenchphobic]

looking at all the gacha games i play and comparing them id say dislyte has the best character design, arknights having the best gameplay and world, magiareco having the best story presentation and general presentation, and bbs has best alts and thats really it

#reasonings: dislyte has some pretty damn good designs like clara or cecilla. also it has food for both gay ppl and furries (sander) #like it has a very strong visual identity being high fashion sort of futuristic but clearly supernatural #arknights has a shit ton of lore and an actual world that has conflicts and im gen interested in it. also the characger design is cool #also it has the cool base building that reminds me of fallout shelter and its tower defense which is so fun #magia has transformation animations when you pull characters which is really cool #like genuinely magia has the best pulling. arknights was cool with the zipper but the whole henshin. even if off model #but also arc 1 ch 12 having some animated cutscenes was really cool and the live2d models are expressive #and bbs im just there for my son im going to be real with you #ig it has the cooler alts and anniversaries being what ifs is a cool idea. shame its sexist about it LOL #and the only way to get me to download GI is to inteoduce an SE asian region with actual dark skinned characters. #so basically never lol.

[glitchdollmemoria]

yknow the cool thing about having a ptsd induced bad dream is it gives me more motivation to go watch cozy movies and eat comfort food til i feel better

#after spending an hour in bed scrolling through tumblr waiting for my muscles to power on ofc #anyway little vent abt that ahead #no one has to read this ofc its really mostly just me working through it and processing it yknow #had a dream i was still involved with a couple people who are now gone from my life hopefully forever #also still dating my gf though? but he wasnt there :( #and we were in a uhaul or smth and were driving around and i felt very Uneasy #and like. i was actively in a flare up in that dream so the brain fog was making it harder to think clearly #so i felt very dumb the whole time #and so we drove through this like... pathway? with tall dark plants on either side #some kind of overgrown decorative shrubbery #and we were just chatting and i was trying to pretend i didnt feel uneasy #and then we came to this plant archway but the way was blocked by a bush about waist high #which. i have some particular feelings about that imagery. but idk if i wanna say it cus maybe im just being schizo #anyway we got out of the truck and left it there to go to the little restaurant cafe place we could see on the other side #and once we were inside we realized it was very clearly run by and for the jewish community which made me feel a bit better #so we sat at one table for a while i guess just to wait? then moved upstairs to another table to actually eat #and one of the people i was with started arguing with me and insulting me while the other one just kinda let him #bc he was like mad that i didnt tell him when to say a certain thing in a prayer i guess even though it was written on a thing on the table #and even though i was brainfoggy as hell and didnt know to expect that and he couldve looked himself and it DID NOT MATTER... #so i threw a metal thing holding the piece of paper at his head. #it kinda just bounced off him but then i walked off and he followed me and started beating me up lol #i woke up right as he started throwing punches. i think people were about to step in though #the weird thing is i think at the beginning of the dream i was ONLY with my current gf #idk how to word it but like. these other two just kinda barged right into the dream #anyway that dream is def Up There among dreams that i feel might have some deeper meaning but also not the MOST Up There #might delete later also bc The Paranoia #anyway! claps! time to watch old pokemon movies and eat pancakes

[llycaons]

yeah im just going to say it. the great (2020) is legit one of the best television shows I have seen in my life and I’m really glad I picked it back up. if you like ahistorical comedy-dramas in a period setting, complex characters/relationships, and don’t mind gore and sudden, graphic violence, I’d recommend it

#it can get extremely violent and disturbing esp in the beginning #but the characters are enchanting in their flaws and complexities #the relationships are dynamic and original #some of the plots are the most insane shit I have ever seen in a non-fantasy setting #I liked when the priest beats people up and gets high #the jokes can be dark but are usually very good and clever #the way it writes women and handles sex is just a breath of fresh air #the acting is incredible across the board #and the costumes are really fun #I did think it was weird that they had the sultan wear a necklace of human ears but peter as an emperor did worse things than that regularly #so its not like russian aristocracy was any better #it also makes it really easy to see why a revolution was neccesary #bc the nobles were so entrenched in their ways and in their positions of power. there was no argument that would have swayed most of them #the great lb

[astranauticus]

been thinking about this for a while but like. wow i really wanna pick up my old hobby of translating chinese music again

#sdbfjdfjdgfhgdhfdgf #i think i had an old translation tag on this blog actually but ill have to get a new one i think #cuz that tags in collab with someone else and i think that person blocked me SHJDJGFHDGFFJGD #anyway yes this is part of my agenda of getting more people to talk to me about cpop #hrnng #also like theres just so many really raw lines from chinese songs that i want to subject other people to #like ‘before the apocalypse arrives take a deep breath of this worlds warmth’ #from silence wangs you have to dance before saying goodbye #honestly all the lyrics from zhou shen’s forget your sorrows when the flowers bloom #(thats not a very good translation cuz the titles a pun on the chinese name of this lily which literally means ‘forgetting sorrows grass’ b #also theres just a lot of chinese music i want to subject people to in general?? #like. chinese wedding. that song that went douying viral last year #for good reason it honestly slaps #and liu yuning’s manmade satellite lover #aka the most goddamn three body problem song ive ever heard #i mean that as like. a really high compliment LMAO #if they ever make like a (live action) tv/movie adaption of the three body problem lyn *has* to sing the theme song but for like #an adaption of the dark forest specifically #ideally its: mao buyi does the theme for the three body problem like book 1 #liu yuning does the theme for the dark forest #and zhou shen does the theme for deaths end #(and then the crew runs out of budget LMAO)

[mushroom-winners-proof]

Ok, if were using Billy Zanes Voice, then absolutely Ansem SOD jumps up that list, it compliments his titty out look. Billy Zane did so good with the voice, all academic and dark and really captured the characters essence. Richard Epcar does a good job dont get me wrong, but i feel he lost some of that academic feel.

i've made An Illegal Amount of posts talking about billy zane's ansem and comparing his work to epcar but yeah BIG agree

it's not that epcar is a bad voice actor- far from it he's voiced a handful of my favorite characters and he's done a wonderful job at that. but epcar's performance is like... it sounds lke he's voicing a totally different character if that makes sense

#snap chats #like epcar's cast type is generally very loud characters. the choice to cast him as ansem really was a strange one tbh #again he's not a bad voice actor by any means but his performance as ansem doesn't feel like ansem #that's not his fault yk billy zane set a pretty high bar #and his voice was pretty much perfect for the kind of character ansem is and the script he was given #zane always had a debonair feel to his line reads: he kepts it leveled and classy #and he always sounded certain of himself yet not overly pompous #his voice was also just smoother and not too deep compared to epcar #which really fit ansem's archetype as a researcher gone mad #opposed to this character who's ALWAYS had a malevolent and dark air to them #epcar always sounded too harsh to me? like you can tell he's trying to be quieter #but maybe its just because /im/ so used to his louder performances so its bizarre trying to hear him be more subtle #idk i went in-depth in comparing them in that audio post i made months back #and i think i said everything i needed to there #ima go rb it again lmaoooo. i have thoughts written on that post but there's also more stuff in the og tags #love how this ask was just saying that zane ansem WAS more attractive and i just did my bullshit analysis shit again #cant help it i love voice work immensely and i love ansem immensely

[homunculus-argument]

Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

[aria0fgold]

Freed from hsr trailblaze quest finally and just whooooaaaa... Can Shaoji keep writing for other worlds too please? He's so good with it.

#aria rants #i was tryna take my time with it but then i realized the time getting too late (finished at 3 am bro ough.....) so i sped through a bit #was just letting it autoplay (cn voices are rlly nice to listen to) and exploring new areas but alas... i shouldve woke up earlier today #but maaaaaan in a writing perspective it's really gooood... esp the new switching pov mechanic which made everything so much better #every lil moment is important to the penacony story! everyone got so mad for sparkle's comment of ''find a mute to befriend'' #only for it to later be revealed to be an Actual hint for aven (which i still think to be ratio in disguise during the sparkle encounter) #like whoaaa..... so she didn't just say that to be mean? she said a hint? whooooaaaa... truly a Masked Fool bro #also. also! THIS! is how you write a story with very intricate plans that unfolds as you go. im sorry im still a bit salty with part2 #of sumeru. like yes. i know... i Knoooow they're two different games and stories but the setup is similar in that both #situations had high stakes and intricate plans but MYGOD!!! sumeru did it so poorly... why give me the step by step #AS the plans are being enacted??? give me the step by step AT THE END or around that point. like with aven's plans unfolding #during that moment with the representation of his past and future. and it just kept unfolding after that! THATS! how its done #i really. REALLY love stories with intricate plans during high stakes moments that the audience is kept in the dark until the #big reveal. its one of my favourites that detective conan manages to do well during important arcs. i like being mindblown! #blow my mind with the characters' wits and ideals and plans! show me how it's done and tell me how it was planned after showing me #i finally have my peace from the tragedy of that very setup during part2 of sumeru from penacony. thank you shaoji.

[waywardsalt]

thinking about how id piece together how magic works in hyrule. into the tags it goes

#like im not gonna go in deptj and build a massivr magic system i am simply not interested enough and its not important enough #but its like. most people have access to some level of magic and each race has a specific kind they specialize in #not as in theyre naturally attuned to it more that they have the right circumstances and items and shit #and dark magic doesn not equal evil and light magic does not equal good #also the hylian royal family dont have goddess blood or w/e they are just natural light magic users #and the female members of the family are the only ones able to use it really well with little practice/in a pinch #yadda yadda hylia died when reincarnating or w/e as sksw zelda so she technically didnt have goddess blood #just like. some fragmenta of hylias being that persisted to get to her to do her plan #im trying to get rid of the hylian royals having literal goddess blood while semi sticking to canon dw abt it #i think its interesting if they just lie about it. strong enough light magic users can just use a bow of light its not unique to royalty #anyways most people can only harness up to two different magic types or one type really powerfully #some people dont haven enough innate ability to harness a specific type but have enough to interact with magically-infused items (link) #light powers and healing powers are connects but count as two different types if that makes sense #and dark powers have a subset where… its fire emblem nosferatu. but its rare and hard to harness and can be dangerous to the user #magic types can be passed through family lines if powerful enough but its not guaranteed and ppl can still choose what they commit to #everyone has one or two they are naturally inclined towards but w/ enough practice can excel at whatever they want #its just easier to tap into those innate magics and it tends to be based on the persons personality and ideals #in general high tension situations or situations up against an opposite/strong vs magic type can unconsciously power up someones magic #people with very low innate magic ability can practice to be attuned to one or two types and use it well but it requires a lot of practice #people also have different thresholds of how much magic they can use and how strong that magic is (mana pool kinda) #you can use a LOT of spells but not be able to handle strong ones or can only use a handful but can use very strong ones #that can also be changed with training #its basically like. people start with some predestined abilities and stuff but can choose to do whatever #ofc different ruling systems and stuff have different opinions and rules on what magic can be used and by who #the hylian kingdom is most restrictive while the gerudo embrace magic- the sheikah embrace it the zora embrace it the rito are meh on it #this is the ganonbeck au. btw. magic system isnt uniform across my aus #salty talks

[takato1993]

Konami loves to give Red Eyes support that is strange, indirect, or sub-optimal

and I have the perfect idea for what they should do next if they continue the trend

a fusion of Dark Magician and Summoned Skull

#yugioh #it would be the ultimate troll and as long as its an actually good card it would have crazy synergy for the deck #also combining all 3 so cohesively into one deck would be very cool and the ultimate Duel Monsters deck #now it would have to be an amazing card to justify potentially using up the resources for both Dragoon and Archfiend Black Skull Dragon #but i picture it as an emergency backup plan #also while the deck is very very casual can we all appreciate how an optimal version of Red Eyes has about 4 high level vanilla bricks #anyway thats enough theory crafting a card that will never exist for a deck my friend plays in a game Im not so into anymore #but yeah i think it should happen #also maybe a fusion of Dark Magician summoned skull and red eyes black dragon would be very funny too