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irish-urn · 3 months

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For the ask game:

001 - Dasey

002 - Derek and Casey

Dasey:

when I started shipping it if I did: Oh, boy. That's a question, now isn't it? I low-key shipped them when I first found Dasey fanfiction waaaaaaay back in my undergrad (so, like 10-12 years ago?). But it was super low-key. I got BACK into Dasey majorly in the spring of 2021 and stumbled upon fanvids and fanfiction of them AGAIN and because I was laid up health-wise, I got obsessed.

my thoughts: I have a LOT of thoughts about Dasey???? I think they're fascinating characters and I adore them both as individuals and as a couple. I think their physical comedy (and by that I mean they're complete lack of personal space) is hilarious; and I think they have insane chemistry. I think Derek knows Casey better than anyone, and Casey gets Derek better than anyone; and I think they're both stupid and stubborn enough to never acknowledge that. I think they're far more alike than they are different, and I think I need to continue my rewatch of the show because I'm gonna end up writing an essay about them.

What makes me happy about them: I think it's how good of a team they can be. I've always been a BIG friends-to-lovers shipper, but even more than that, a "we're partners and i've got your back" shipper. And even though Derek and Casey TRY to pretend to they hate each other, we have sooooo much evidence of them being protective of the other, of them going out of their way to help the other (usually complaining the whole time, but c'mon), and of them kicking serious butt when they do work together. It just makes something inside me purr.

What makes me sad about them: THEY'RE KIDS IN AN AWFUL SITUATION and they don't FEEL like family, but everything in their lives are telling them they're supposed to be; but they CAN'T be, and if they TRY to be together, they might hurt their FAMILIES who they LOVE so MUCH; and I think you catch my drift.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: ...I really hate OOC-ness, but the MOST OOC-ness I hate is when people make Derek to be, like, abusive? Or completely inconsiderate of Casey's boundaries, and you get into non-con. I just... Nope.

things I look for in fanfic: EXCELLENT CHARACTERIZATION. Good bantering, that push-and-pull that they both have... I also think they have at least mildly kinky sex, and I support this.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Well, all of Casey's boyfriends SUCK except for Sam who is an excellent person but not good for her. And I'm pretty sure her husband in LWL isn't doing a good job either. So they'd have to create a WHOLE NEW CHARACTER for her--

I don't mind Derek/Sally, except I think they'd have to work things out as adults better. I dunno; the show purposely shows us that Derek and Casey are far more important to each other than any of their significant others (that's been stated by the creators, btw), so yeah. No one.

My happily ever after for them: THEY GET TOGETHER AND THE FAMILY ACCEPTS THEM AND THEY STAY TOGETHER FOR, LIKE, 60+ YEARS AND BICKER AND BANTER AND LOVE EACH OTHER THE WHOLE TIME and whether or not they have kids depends completely on their choices and Derek calms Casey's panic attacks, and Casey reminds Derek of his worth, and I cry.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: THEY. SWITCH. I think most of the time Derek is the big spoon because he's kinda sexist, no lie, but I think when he's having a bad day, he likes getting spooned. Casey likes being held, but she also likes holding him. So, uh... 80% of the time Derek is the big spoon.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Honestly, I think it's arguing. But in, like, a fun way? With bets and competition and teasing and flirting; I strongly believe that they would just have a lot of small arguments and that would keep the big fights small too. And Casey likes debating and Derek likes challenges.

Derek:

How I feel about this character: MY BLORBO???? I LOVE HIM??? HE'S SUCH A LITTLE SHIT; I ADORE HIM???

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Well. Casey, obviously. And to a certain extent, Sally.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: ...Derek&Lizzie. I know, I KNOW that Derek & Marti are like, gold, but I think his interactions with Lizzie are superb.

My unpopular opinion about this character: ...do I have one? I dunno. I have a lot of opinions about his relationship with his parents, but I wouldn't call them unpopular, more... me looking at things differently than some others do.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish, in LWL, people (Genora) recognized how much he had grown. Just because a person likes to have fun and tease and passes off some of his responsibilities to people he knows will do them (see: Skyler and Casey, but they also ENJOY doing these tasks most of the time), doesn't make him immature. He was SUCH a good dad and was taking steps to improve Skyler's life, and maybe their lives weren't traditional, but she was healthy and loved and appreciated and he had raised her as best he could; and honestly, his relationship with Skyler was much better than his with George, I'm just saying. Derek is clever with a large heart, and I wish people in the show saw that more.

my OTP: ...Dasey.

my cross over ship: I don't like crossovers? *shrugs*

a headcanon fact: Derek is a dork. He's a big ol' dork. I HC that he knows an awful lot about very certain things because he gets hyperfixated -- reword: Derek has undiagnosed ADHD. There. That's my fact.

#ask game #life with derek #dasey #derek venturi

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bruhstation · 7 months

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I've been thinking about the setting of my TUGS au, the prequel to casa tidmouth, and by extention I began thinking about the show TUGS itself.

it's kind of depressing to know that TUGS is most likely set during the years RIGHT before world war 2. I remember watching a TUGS iceberg video a long time ago, maybe last year-ish. after a series of callbacks and alludes to the little environmental details right at the end of the video, the creator said that the show is possibly not set during the 1920s, but the 1930s, nearing another war period, and that's why I've changed the era of what this AU is set in many months ago.

mitton and cardona claimed that the show is set during the "booming era" of the 1920s, but I can't help but think that maybe the 1920s isn't the most fitting era with how the tone of the show is.

the 1930s setting really does make sense though -- the atmosphere in TUGS is much more, I dunno how to exactly say it, gloomy? serious? it's still a mostly lighthearted kids show, but, to quote some things indirectly from the iceberg video; what's with the munitions? the flammable barges? johnny cuba? the constant mention of broken ships? characters dying right on the screen in such a macabre fashion? burke and blair's whole job? then my mind thought about the star tugs and z-stacks, their relationship and purpose and how it ties to the pre-ww2 feeling of the story.

the conflict between the star tugs and z-stacks isn't fueled by personal grudge against each other. I apologize for comparing TUGS to ttte, but in comparison to its sister series where the engines of sodor have personal banter against each other selfishly, still manage to fool around during their jobs, get into accidents due to their own hubris, and end the day where they learned their lesson, TUGS is much different. they're just there to work and carry through their contracts. they still banter with each other but they know their priorities. they are also driven by their conscience and rationale, not just some "oh he made fun of me so I'm not gonna help him out. I'm bigger and more important so I refuse to do this job and go back to my berth".

zorran dislikes the star tugs but knows that the contracts are much more important and he is willing to work with them if it means the job will be done. top hat, despite his personal distaste for anything smelly, QUICKLY changes his mind about lord stinker and works with him to save the goods engine. zebedee is a character more driven by his personal view on what's good or bad -- he helped the star tugs push princess alice back into place and showed concern when ten cents was pushing the oil barge to the sea, but there's a part of him that's definitely concerned for his own well being.

they have their personal opinions on both their teammates and their rival company's tugboats, but they know better than to let those feelings get in the way. not working means their presence as tugboats will be jeopardized.

these points, added to the very high possibility that TUGS is set during the late 1930s, creates another layer to the overall murkier feeling of the show. the characters know the times are dire. the characters know that they have contracts to go through. they know that something big is coming. they've went through world war 1! with how bluenose and the navy inserted their presence in bigg city port, there's also an idea that there's gotta be at least one character with a sense of foreboding amidst the business.

I also reckon they've grown some kind of fondness (???) for their rival company? it's like when there's a kid at school who keeps annoying you, but next day they're not there and you got a bit worried on where they might be. the two factions don't necessarily like each other, but their rival has formed a place in their normalcy that to get rid of them entirely is not going to do any good, really.

so yeah. that's all I have in mind right now.

#zin.txt #this is tugs #oh and to answer. the AU is gonna be set in around 1938 #the stories aren't linear per se? probably like casa tidmouth where the story spans for the whole summer of 1999 #especially there's regatta (summer) and bigg freeze (winter) like at least it'll take place a full year #oh boy. time to do some MORE history reading #also I just realized something #ten cents sunshine and zip are late teens in the late 1930s #and there's a war coming #uh. I'd rather not think too much about the implications.#fortezza bigg city

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inevitably-johnlocked · 6 months

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What's up, Steph! I hope you are well, And, well, I wanted to share about a topic that has been on my mind for a long time. ❤️

It's been that, I've been a Sherlock fan for at least 7 months or so, and there are many things that I don't understand and that frustrate me, mainly Sherlock and John's relationship. From the beginning I loved (and still love) the ship, I liked seeing its content and everything, but when I looked at the big difference in some things that ended up being a big disappointment. The fact that there are always several things in the series that they never complete or make clear, it is difficult to analyze and understand why they say something and then it is a lie (at least the creators) And many times Johnlock has been the protagonist, in what feels like a kind of disappointment to see such a perfectly created connection, a unique complement being queerbaiting. Obviously, we can't expect everything to be canonical, it's not the fans' decision either... but, when you see all those details and cute interactions and phrases, you know they had done something on purpose and finally they leave it behind, when, deep down, that is also development in the characters.

I find it a rather blatant detail and missing from a large part of a community, it's fine if they wanted to make something clear, but the creators of Sherlock usually lie as if it were Something that simple and it confuses everyone even more. And nothing, sometimes I just want to remember those moments where the Johnlock was the highest hope I had, and now I only have the faith to ship them with my heart even if it hurts me too.

Finally, thank you very much for your time, have a beautiful day and week ❤️❤️

Hey Nonny!

Ah, thank you so much for your insight. I think that is one of the frustrating things about how Sherlock ended was that it doesn't make sense to the rest of the series, so it really leaves you wondering if they purposely destroyed the show and all of THAT was leading to that nonsensical S4, or if they just got bored. I dunno.

But yeah, I love this fandom and this community, so we've got that at least. 💜🖤

#steph replies #chatting with nonnies #s4 shitposting #sherlock fandom #sherlock all seasons

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i-translated · 5 months

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Could you translate this song into english? I've made a translation myself but you seem more experienced with that and I was curious how you would do it. The creator is also on tumblr as @/nopanamaman and they interact with fans fairly often so I'm sure they'd enjoy reading a translation of their work

Done! Thank you for the request, going to ramble a bit under the cut.

Wow, this song was so out there for me, I didn't even know how to approach it. No wonder it took like. Over a week. Good god.

It was fun though. I did a lot of things differently from how I normally do. I didn't translate the title because it was already in two languages which felt purposeful enough to not touch. I didn't prioritize "close" translations as much as I normally do - the song is written in simple words, in some places I could have made more literal translations and tried to do just that initially, but then decided to play around a bit, try to keep the tone more than the individual line integrity. Like, okay, here:

"Ты шутишь, еле глотая дым - не смешно." - lit. "You're joking, barely swallowing smoke - it's not funny."

I very well could have kept "it's not funny" because it fits rhythmically and would have rhymed if I put enough thought into it, but it just... didn't have the same punch in English? Like, I dunno, I feel like if someone said "it's not funny" in response to my joke it would feel solemnly sad, but the same line in the song rings more accusatory to me. I mean, it is called "anger management". So I went with "it's poor taste" and gave myself a pat on the back for how smartly it rhymed.

The hardest part was the middle. The lyrics are easier than in the verses because they don't rhyme, but I have a very specific type of sound autism that makes it so I can only listen to a limited amount of sound per sound. I couldn't compare my text to the original quite as often as I would like. It might have some mismatched syllables but I hope it doesn't.

Also, even though the middle lines don't "rhyme", they still feel like there's assonance there, and I wanted to keep it, and so I did, to an extent. It sucks because I had to go with "words, words, words" in there, there's no other English word that would be quite as right, but the weird "-ur" assonance just doesn't sound as good as a clear "A" like in the original.

Overall I like how it came out but it's not, like, the best translation in the world or anything, I just tried to make something I personally would enjoy. Curious to know your thoughts though. Cheers!

#not a translation

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clearwillow · 1 year

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i aganist ai who steeling works from wirters and artists for copyright and there was petiton on ao3 to stopped ai thieves

I dunno anything about a petition, but hell yeah to that if it's floating around and works! I've only seen the one for art, and given how "well" artists are treated... I don't have a lot of positivity in it doing anything for the smaller creators that can't afford the legal battle on their own.

Regarding AO3 as a whole...I can kinda see where there's gonna be some hangups about AI generated works being banned (if that's what you were implying should be done). Since it's an archive at its bare bones, it's meant to preserve creative works. The nature of how those are created makes for the gray area, because if AO3 is told to exclude based on the method of creation, it could easily be pushed into excluding based on anything else that makes AO3 stand out from other platforms for creatives.

Now, I'm 100% against AI period. I don't have any desire to even explore "ethically sourced" software because of how sleazy programmers scraped the internet for a quick turnaround instead of doing it right the first time. I've yelled about AI for months and hearing people now say "oh this is a problem" when it finally affects them makes my head spin.

Preferably, I'd rather AO3 not allow AI created works at all. But to restrict it goes against the purpose of the archive. So will finding a way to enforce it so it's labeled correctly. It's going to take a lot of time, because not everyone will own up to using ChatGPT or whatever.

As an artist and a writer, I think AI is an insult. It doesn't matter how much you think you can't write or can't draw - if you put in the effort IT. SHOWS. Anytime people have told me "I can't do that" I tell them "How do you know? Have you tried?" Seriously. Just try. There is no perfect art of any form in the world. What exists is where the artist hit a point and decided that if they don't stop they'll yeet it into the sun.

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gamebunny-advance · 2 years

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Grab Bag Doodles

I haven't been doodling too much lately. Mostly everything I've drawn I've finished or it's a part of a bigger project that I don't want to post. So... yeah. Kinda had to scramble for some stuff, but nonetheless I hope you'll enjoy me rambling for a bit.

1) Kun3h0 Head Logo. I made this an alternate graphic to take the place of the word logo if need be. I think it's pretty cute.

2-3) Kun3h0 Doodles. She takin' a sippy. Yeah, I kinda wrote myself into a corner saying that Kun3h0's mouth is a screen (to explain why it's white when she opens her mouth), but I'm gonna say it just slides out of the way when she needs to refill her coolant tanks or otherwise needs to access the inside of her head.

4-5) Nekoko Base Tests. So one project I was working on was preparing a new base for HONK because the Yomi project is just not working out for me. I chose an old OC, Nekoko, for the test because she's one of the only OCs I have that kinda suits the "traditional" anime character mold. But I dunno how far I'm gonna take this because I started questioning what the utility of a blank PNGtuber base even is. If you're already capable of drawing, which you need to be able to do to use the base, then there is zero reason to use the base XP. The only way I can see this being actually useful is if I add a bunch of premade parts to it and essentially turn it into a character creator, which is a lot of work. I dunno, maybe I'll still put it together, but I do honestly believe that this has been a futile project from the very beginning.

6) I'm Your Number 1 Fan, Sketch. The original sketch for that piece. It was supposed to be slightly animated and a little more sinister in nature, with all the artists getting crossed off one-by-one and the background getting a little darker every time. I think it's still a cool idea, but a lack of thumbnailing really bit me in the butt: Kliff's pose was already locked in, but by the time I started adding all the artist portraits, I realized that his hand was gonna get covered, so it became way too busy in that area, so I just replaced the idea with the Kliff emojis. Maybe I'll come back to this idea thematically, though.

7) The Troll Slaiyers. Some stupid ass bullshit that I'm probably not gonna finish because I just cannot bring myself to put serious effort into memes. All the portrait art is traced from in-game talksprites. None of the colors are color picked to give it a shittier quality.

8) ???. Hey, for making it this far, here's a secret sketch! No, the image isn't broken, I pixelated it on purpose because it's a part of a "secret" project. Well, it's not my secret, and I'm not even sure if it's supposed to be a secret (I guess I could have just asked XP), but this character belongs to someone else, and I don't want to post anything about it until it becomes public. Originally, it started as a potential test for the PNGtuber base I was working on. I did several different characters to see how well the proportions translated to characters of other styles. I even did a Kun3h0 test, but she seems weird without her really long legs XP. Anyway, I did this one because their proportions are a little more different (having shorter limbs and a very different head shape) and I just started sketching more ideas for it because I think they're a very fun character. Hopefully that project will become public someday, so I can share more of the art and doodles I've done for it, but till then, I guess this is okay.

#gbunny draws #kun3h0 #kuneho sa kahon #OCs #nekoko #nsr #i don't wanna tag em all #not for this silliness

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captainkurosolaire · 2 years

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Hmm I dunno if this was asked before, but if Kuro wasn’t a pirate, what would his life path be like? 🤔

🤔 A puzzling question indeed, but most likely probably would resort to remaining a courtesan or entertainer still came up from Pearl Lane and his experience and actual upbringing is depicted in the version of Balmung's Quicksands... So we all know most likely would still be quite unruly and nothing too clean, maybe a ministerial. Without piracy and getting the right people to raise and teach him how to fight back, though he'd be in worst condition; The seas, many things that came to being a pirate, saved his life, outside all the scars, physically, mentally, everything carried a purpose and built him.

Would've most likely lost his only value and family keepsake, compass though from his mugging early days and that would've really left him blank without the aid of pirate's saving him. That one little string if pulled, could change everything. These are stuff I haven't lost an entire thought of. Especially with shards and alternative realities in theory, potentially, or relic's and things, always something I could probably find a way to weasel a story-line out of with that being a starting anchor. Let's see though... If he lost his compass after that, I could see him go different routes. Either he'd become a thief and follow the footsteps of what took from him in-order to get back what was his only thing of redeemable value. He'd forget it entirely, and remain in low-poverty in the slums and do the most he could there. Picking up refugee work. But without an outside addition, or someone else, I don't think he could of became or did anything remotely on his own. He'd most likely be dead unfortunately. That keepsake he even offered to give to the pirate's who saved him just so he could see and unlock more in the world. Because being stuck with the Brass Blades and Orphanage that you're unwanted even by guardianship, and nobody is your friend, and everyone sees you problematic, he already had a lot going against him. ---- Bonus ---- I created him to be very much a product of an environment type character. What is exposed too is most likely what will either destroy or make him. While being so open-minded and knowing he could blend with anyone's RP style and eventually, mesh into their setting. He's a character with a lot of attributes outside myself, but like this one year challenge, I like putting myself against things outside my comfort, it's where I thrive, the more pressure the better, despite it eventually being my downfall. X_X Lot of people have contributed and turned him into everything and became his empowerment, allowed him to survive and live through many difficulties that are very realistic, to the point he can write his own story if really wanted. I just keep trying to crush him all the time, between me as the Author, and him as the creator, I'm his grandest enemy. I don't like seeing him succeed, but his own personality and traits, charisma, energy, everything he became, had garnered the right people into his atmosphere, and if I squash it all seamlessly for no reason, it really disservices at this point the 7+ years of people, I used to RP hard when things were relatively fresh. And although I don't necessary like him, I still will support his existence and creation. He's a life too, anything outside that I've always fought for what he's done and experienced, why I don't retcon, I don't do anything that would take away, if I do anything that doesn't do him quite the representation, I still carry and just mold it over and make things more detailed. Truthfully there's some stuff though playing that character has brought a lot out of me and awakened stuff and made me even become a better person all-around by learning his mentality.

I've lot of antagonists that are also main characters and in my setting so there's going to be things that just seek to crush him. There's going to be days, he's going to crush them and overcome. Because quintessentially due to being a pirate, one who's had to overcome and learn the weathers, and as that being his tutor, and guide, make no mistake about it, even though he views himself unintelligent and carries himself like a brutish pirate merely, he's quite philosophical. So despite piracy being a thing that brought him many curses, that have folded him quite literally (Black Cat). xD It's been his absolute blessing and calling.

#asks answered #thanks for the ask my glorious shade #Lot of thoughts and chaotic swirls for that ask #I might have to mill it over even more days and make it something this was a good travel

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mojokiss-com · 1 year

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I don't know what to do with my images any more. I don't know their place or purpose.

It's like we live in the viral age where you get like one piece that goes viral and the rest of your art no one ever sees.

Or, you just never get seen or go viral at all and the same 10 people are your audience, basically like putting on a puppet show for your mom, dad, and cat and dog and parakeet every day, and you know they're only clapping for you in hopes you finally get somewhere so you can move out.

I dunno what images to post. I don't post normal images. I try not to take normal images. Why would I? I want to contribute, not fit in. I don't wanna contribute to what's already too much of that's for sure.

Thanks to the 5 of you that are still watching after I've been bleeding for 20 years creating for you. I'm not bitter, I'm just fucking mad and I'm not done, I'm just calling it what it is. It's the ghost in the machine. It's the nature of the beast.

The truth is I don't want you to see this, like this or comment. I post my work where i do not have any friends and I don't "sync your contacts and invite friends to follow you"

I am FUCKING SICK of friends. I want exposure. Sorry to be so entitled. But that's how it is.

Honestly I've had plenty of opportunity in the past I ignored, thinking I could create my own opportunity. I don't regret that either. I am a creator. I am the creator of my own life.

#creator #struggle #strug #starvingartist #different #wierdo #sacrifice #work #film #mediumformat #portrait #editorial #personalwork

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mysticetus · 2 years

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if ur cool with it id like to know more abt ur thoughts on the walten files, ive never been a fan of it since it feels kinda lame

i tried watching it awhile ago to see why everyone was talking about it and its simply not my thing. it feels tonally dissonant and far too derivative of preexisting works to feel genuine. to put it bluntly it feels dead.

im not going to complain about its unpolished nature because i genuinely like works that allow themselves to be a little rough and i typically love when artists set out to create their own series like this independently. in the context of that i never expect it to look completely cohesive, and in some instances it can lend itself to whatever tone the series is going for. however in the case of the walten files it starts to get distracting, especially with the amateur nature of the voice acting and script writing. it makes it hard for me to take the series seriously.

the creator has a sort of ugly attitude as far as ive seen, in that the series’ success has made them act big headed. they give entire plot points and character summaries on twitter.com rather than integrate it into the series. they act condescendingly toward their critics and lean very hard into the fandom part of their audience. the fact it has a merch page just makes me feel a little yucky about the earnestness of the art. i understand artists need to make money (in fact i encourage buying from artists, and i am artists) but plushies and t shirts feel sort of evil to me, at least in the context of this kind of series.

and maybe thats another reason i feel yucky about it, because it feels so specifically engineered to generate a fandom culture around itself. it has all the tropes to the point it feels baity. this “retro” “analog” horror stuff has become very popular in recent years and im not going to say it inherently fails but its rarely effective when it’s overly reliant on the fact that it looks “old” to have any sort of character, and this results in it feeling very lifeless. this combined with the (forgive me for using this term) prominence of “sexyman” type characters that are glitchy cursed haunted robots or tall guys in suits who drink and murder children, and the dialogue trying and failing to be funny/snarky and really destroying the 70’s/80’s immersion by using modern slang and internet jokes, it just gets very grating. i dont know why but (embarrassingly) i actively start feeling pissed when i watch it.

i dunno. maybe some of my anger toward it is unwarranted, because in my head it’s the face of a lot of phenomena that i really hate on the internet. i was trying really really hard not to compare it to petscop because its rarely fair to compare works to that series, but in episode 3 it very clearly wants you to compare it to petscop. so im gonna compare it to petscop. sophie walten is paul leskowitz for women and also done embarrassingly poorly, because this series tried to create a paul type character while unaware of what makes paul work. the pills thing is kind of hilarious. it writes these things from a perspective devoid of empathy, imo.

it also very clearly takes after fnaf and specifically other fan works like squimpus’ fnaf vhs series, which i personally think does everything the walten files tries to do but better. and i sincerely think this is because its elements are included with specific purpose. the walten files feels like it includes things because it thinks it would be cool rather than because it would genuinely serve what the series is setting out to do, which is clearly some sort of arg-adjacent mystery. thats how i feel about a lot of “analog horror” stuff actually … it just would “look cool” and it’s relatively easy to pull off on a superficial level. this is rarely executed well, however, because the substance of the series itself has to also be designed around that era, otherwise the immersion falls apart.

those are my exhaustive and blunt feelings about it. but im just some guy. ultimately it doesnt much matter its just annoying and my only worry is how it sets a standard for this kind of art going forward.

id love to open this for discussion though like. i think its a very interesting case study and i like talking about it with others

#ask

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butwhatifidothis · 3 years

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I'm not trying to police what you do. Its your damn blog, do what you want. I'm not your dad/mom/creator, I hold no power over you.

I get that the fic is garbage. But at the end of the day its FANfiction. It doesn't hold any weight. More to the point, yes you COULD ignore it. Rather easily! I didn't even know the damn fic existed before you brought it to my attention. And PLEASE tell me how Captain is a "cornerstone" outside of the fact they write a shitty fanfiction thats sort of popular among ao3 fanfic people.

More to the point...have your posts actually affected the fic outside of getting people to read it out of curiousity.

I mean not to be mean or nothin' but you literally came over to me and told me to stop reading the fic, kinda sounds like you were tryna police me lmao

But to get to your point, sure, I could ignore it, but that's not the issue. It's not "The specific words that appear in this fic are what I and others can't get away from," it's "The horrible meta commentary and character portrayals in this fic are what I and others can't get away from." This author is where Teacher Theory comes from. He's where the idea that Rhea and Dimitri are these angry crazy people who can't be reasoned with comes from. He's where the "Edelgard is a poor broken victim and everyone else is wrong" idea comes from. He's where the idea of Fodlan only gaining true peace on CF comes from. He's where the idea of Faerghus being an allegory for toxic masculinity comes from, and from that where the idea that Dimitri's arc is "really" about overcoming said toxic masculinity. These takes - that have gotten people harassed for not agreeing with, mind - and plenty of others either originate from him and this fic or are popularized by him and this fic.

And ya want me to tell ya how Cap'n's a cornerstone? Sure.

This is from a document that was made by someone who has made semi-popular meta posts, for the specific purpose of compiling meta posts for people to gain an easy "understanding" of the game. Here is this person straight up saying that yes, Cap'n is a large inspiration for how many others view Edelgard, and by proxy the other characters who interact with her as well as the story, plot, lore, and themes of 3H.

For this fic specifically, which does appear in this document:

This fanfiction is being shown off as genuine analysis while having all the shit I listed off in that other post in it. Cap'n's analysis is widely known and popular, getting hundreds of upvotes and comments agreeing with his inaccurate, shitty version of 3H and with his inaccurate and shitty takes being known across large portions of the fandom. Like I said, he of course ain't the only one, but he's a damn big influence in the 3H fandom, with his takes still being held as canon despite them being wrong as fuck.

And I dunno! Probably fuckin' not! I wasn't out here in some selfless mission trying to right Cap'n's wrongs and have him see the error of his ways or some shit, I just wanted to go over this influential fic to see how bad it is since it's impacted the fandom so much. I just ended up with shit that was way worse than I thought it'd be, hence me still criticizing it. The most I personally know that my notes have done is have me and others realize just how genuinely terrible Cap'n's takes are/fic is and how troubling it is that this has what has gotten popular in the 3H fandom. It's one to think know that this shit is bad, and another entirely to actually see just how bad it is.

Like, Rhea being creepy? Shown as the objective, unambiguous villain? Portrayed as unreasonable? That is not easily escapable - that is rampant all across 3H fanfiction as well as all over the fandom itself. You will have fics just randomly shit on Rhea for no reason, write her as this evil witch with no good in her, in fics that don't have her as an important character. You will have fanartists draw her executing poor thieves who just wanted bread, to give one well-known example of Rhea being portrayed as a purely evil asshole. The idea that Edelgard is right and that everyone should listen to her? Also in a shit ton of places. Teacher Theory? All over the damn place. This isn't just contained in one fanfic, or even just the Edelstan corner of the fandom - it's everywhere.

It's gotten to the point where a racist, imperialist conqueror who is willing to sacrifice her citizens, help spread the lie about a minority race's involvement in regicide to help her allies, and kill her classmates who have done nothing wrong, who will starve her citizens and blatantly lie to her soldiers about how bad their enemies are, topped with the cute little quirk of wanting to finish a genocide against an already endangered race... is who is widely considered not just as good as the two lords that don't do any of those things (though that too is still a very common idea), but way better, the best choice, the one good ruler. And it's in large part due to people like Cap'n who write away all of her flaws and demonize everyone else.

If this fic is going to be treated as this long-form meta post of Edelgard and 3H, then I'm going to go over it and see what all if anything is wrong with it like I would do and have done with any other meta post. That it's in fanfiction format means nothing since it's literally not being treated as fanfiction, but as a genuine analysis that people will base their interpretation of the game off of. All good if that ticks you off, but I consistently tag posts going over Cap'n specifically so that others who don't want to see it can blacklist the tag (o captain my captain) and ignore it, so if it bugs you that much, there ya go

#ask #anon #o captain my captain #I don't even know if Cap'n KNOWS about this and frankly don't care #I'm doing this to go over this impactful fic and in doing so have found out all of the legit bad shit that it's caked with #with all of this being propped up as peak analysis and progressive thought #sorry if that bugs you but yeah

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Through Diamond and Flesh

Warnings: This fic involves safe, soft, consensual, non-sexual vore, as well as g/t content.

This is just a silly Skeppy and Bad vore fic, I wrote it like a week ago but what better time to post it than now? Also Skeppy and Bad's relationship con be interpreted as romantic or platonic as you want. This is a little outdated now as of the last lore stream but we’ll just say this takes place in a world where everyone on the SMP makes it out safe and alive. (Also I’m a bit rusty so apologies if the writing or dialogue isn’t great)

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Skeppy and Bad have been friends for several years now. They had grown very fond of each other in that time. Especially after a...certain incident with an egg and maybe getting possessed and Skeppy nearly dying to said egg...multiple times...However, that was a couple years ago, the egg was gone and the duo had been saved. It had taken a lot of time (and therapy) but they were now closer than ever before.

Sometimes Skeppy thought maybe too close.

Now, Bad and Skeppy had grown up very differently. Skeppy was a diamond golem, he didn't exactly have parents he had a creator, who had basically left him alone to his own devices, which is why he had come to the smp.

Bad, however, was a demon from the Nether. He had actual parents, who had raised him and loved him until he was old enough to decide to move to the Overworld.

They talked a lot about how they'd grown up, and there were a lot of things Skeppy found weird about how Bad's parents raised him, but there was one thing in particular that he kept getting stuck on.

"I still don't understand how you don't think it's weird your parents used to eat you as a kid." Skeppy said, exasperated.

Bad groaned, waving his arms around." I don't get why it weirds you out so much, it's honestly not that big of a deal!" He protested.

" Besides...I don't remember it being that bad." He mumbled, looking away with embarrassment.

Skeppy shook his head." You're such a weirdo." He said giving Bad a light shove.

Bad huffed, immediately shoving him back." Maybe I am, but I honestly don't think it was as bad as you're making it out to be." He paused, and turned to Skeppy with a cheeky grin." You know, I could show you what it was like?” He offered.

Skeppy actually, physically jumped back." What?! Are you crazy?!" He shouted." No, I don't wanna be eaten, how would that even work that's not even physically possible!" He really shouldn't have said that, because that just opened the gateway for Bad.

Bad crossed his arms." No, I'm not "crazy". And really, it's not that big of a stretch, I'm sure that at my full height I'd be able to do it." He reasoned.

He really, really hated that that was probably true.

Bad is a size shifter, with four different sizes he could choose from, and at his tallest he was somewhere around 15 feet. Probably definitely able to eat someone.

Skeppy shook his head." I think you might be forgetting one important detail here, Bad, I WILL DIE IF YOU EAT ME." Despite being almost 3 feet taller than him, Bad still winced from the loud noise.

"What makes you say that?" He had the audacity to sound genuinely confused.

Skeppy flung his hands in the air." Uhh, I don't know, maybe because things get digested in burning acid when they're eaten?!" He cried with less vigor, but still sounding upset.

Bad stared at Skeppy with an seriously embarrassing amount of confusion. After a few seconds it finally seemed to click." Ohh, no no no, Skeppy, that's not how it works. Did I never give you a lesson on demon anatomy?" No, he hadn't, and Skeppy was kind of hoping to keep it that way.

"See, demons like me have two stomachs," he pointed at an area slightly higher than where a normal stomach would be," this one is for storage purposes, it doesn't have any digestive fluids or anything like that. Everything I eat has to go through there before I manually send it into this stomach," he pointed a little lower," That one does actually digest all my food and stuff." He explained.

He gave Skeppy an odd look." How did you think my parents were able to...eat me?" He asked.

Skeppy sighed, not making eye contact." I dunno man, I just thought it happened with some weird demon magic or whatever." So it was actually possible for Bad to eat him, and for him to be completely safe.

" I don't know Bad, this is still really freaking weird, I don't think I wanna do this." He said uncomfortably.

Bad sighed, a bit dejected." Ok, Skeppy, I won't make you do it if you don't want to. I just wanted to explain why I wanted to do it." Why did he sound sad?

Skeppy tilted his head." Why, exactly, do you want to do it? I still don't see what's enjoyable about it." He asked genuinely.

Bad scratched the back of his head, looking awkward." I- I don't know. I just remember it feeling very nice. Even as a demon the Nether is still a scary place, I felt...safe whenever they did it. It was just...nice and warm. Like nothing could hurt me." He admitted quietly.

Skeppy gave him a soft smile." It sounds like you wanna get eaten more than I do." He joked lightly.

Bad brightened, giving him a wide grin." Oh my gosh, would you eat me, Skeppy?" He asked hopefully, tail wagging like an oversized dog.

Skeppy very quickly shook his head." What?! No way, dude! That would definitely kill you!" He yelped.

Bad grabbed his hands, linking them together." Not necessarily! I think I have some potions that can make me immune to acid!” He explained excitedly.

Skeppy gave him a skeptical look." You just have those lying around, huh?" He deadpanned.

If Bad were human, he probably would have blushed." Well-I, you see-... shut up." He sputtered." Look, will you actually do it now?"

He bent his knees to look Skeppy in the eyes.

Despite the fact that Bad was a 9'6 demon, it was still impossible for him to not give into the puppy dog eyes.

He hesitated for several seconds, and took a deep breath.

"Show me what to do."

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Well, here he was. With a tiny, potioned up Bad in the palm of his hand.

"Are you ready, Skeppy?" Bad asked gently. He was willing to go as slowly as possible for Skeppy's comfort, even if he was incredibly eager. Especially since he'd taken off his robes in exchange for an easier T shirt and shorts, making him much colder.

Skeppy shifted nervously." I don't know what to do." He admitted.

Bad tilted his head." Do you wanna let me inside your mouth?" He asked calmly.

Skeppy's anxiety skyrocketed, but he tried not to let it show. He delicately brought Bad closer to his mouth. He really didn't wanna do this.

Bad smiled calmly, sensing his nervousness." Would you like me to just climb in myself? So you don't feel like I'm being forced?" Skeppy nodded and wordlessly opened his mouth.

He slowly climbed in, trying not to startle Skeppy too much. He very patiently sat on his friends tongue. It sadly wasn't as warm as he'd like, but it was better than outside.

"Now, I know this may sound weird, but I need you to lick me, like, a lot." He guided.

Skeppy whined, and Bad reassured him that he was fine and ok with it.

Skeppy reluctantly obliged and began running his tongue across the demon, coating him in a thick layer of saliva. He had a very smoke-y taste to him, which made sense seeing as he was from the Nether. Eventually Bad told him he'd done enough and, to Skeppy's dismay, moved closer to his throat.

"I'm ready when you are, Skeppy." He shuddered, Bad was putting his complete trust and faith into him. He was willing and excited to let Skeppy eat him. He didn’t want to let his best friend down.

He tilted his head back, swallowing thickly. He tried not to panic over the unusually large lump that was traveling down his throat. It was such a weird sensation, yet to his surprise it wasn’t as horrible as he thought it would be. He swallowed a few more times, and eventually the warm weight that was his best friend settled into his belly.

Immediately he began asking," Are you ok? I didn't hurt you did I?"

Bad didn't respond for a few moments and Skeppy now had to deal with the startling sensation of something moving in his stomach, as Bad pawed around like he was trying to get his bearings.

Finally, he responded." Yes, Skeppy, I'm ok. That was a little disorienting but I'm perfectly fine." He paused for a moment." Are you ok?" He inquired.

He wasn’t sure how to answer, he was still processing that he’d just eaten his best friend alive.

He pressed a hand against his stomach, feeling where Bad was. He felt a bit of shuffling and soon a hand was pressed against the inside as well. Bad was...safe...inside him. Skeppy was now the sole protector of him. Protected by layers of flesh and diamond, no one could hurt him. Now he was beginning to understand why Bad wanted to do this so desperately. He wanted to be able to protect his best friend like this all the time, and he was certain that's how Bad felt as well.

"I think I'm ok, actually..." He said softly, gently rubbing circles against Bad's form.

Bad was quite happy about his current situation. The walls around him were very soft and, if it weren't for the layers of slime he was coated in, felt almost like a bed. He didn't have much room to move but he didn't feel like he was being suffocated. It wasn't as warm as he'd like (aka as warm as sitting in a fire) but it was warm, and that was very pleasant. He could hear the gurgles and growls of the organs surrounding him, as well as the gradually steadier heartbeat and whoosh of Skeppy's lungs as he began calming down. Loud, but not too intrusive.

The best thing about it, though, was that he hasn't felt this safe in a long, long time.

Ever since his time with The Egg he had become a very paranoid and closed off person. He was afraid of talking to the other members of the server, either out of fear that they still harbored some hatred for what he'd done, or that they would be corrupted as well. Even though he knew that The Egg was gone now it had woven itself very deep into his brain, and a small part of him still believed that one day it would erupt from the earth and devour the world with its vines.

Bad harshly shook his head. He wouldn't let thoughts about The Egg get to him. That was for Puffy’s therapy office, not for here.

Truthfully, though, he hadn't really felt safe since the day he'd stepped out of the Nether portal for the first time. Far from his family, his home. Not even being with Skeppy had made him feel as safe as he did now.

But now, he was at the very core of his best friend. Nothing could hurt him. He was safe, and he was with Skeppy, he couldn't ask for anything better.

He grinned a little to himself, giving the wall he was leaned against a little pat." I told you it wasn't as bad as you thought it'd be." He said only a little smugly.

Skeppy sighed with faux frustration." I will admit, I didn't expect it to feel...like this." He laid down on his bed, placing a hand on his stomach.

“ I guess it's not that bad." He said, rubbing small circles where he could feel Bad's form.

Bad grinned a little, beginning to rub circles with both of his hands against the walls of Skeppy's stomach.

Skeppy practically melted into his bed at that point. He'd definitely never felt anything like that before, it made him feel very warm and content.

They stayed like that for a couple more minutes but he was starting to get tired, and he knew Bad must be tired as well.

"Are you gonna be ok if I leave you in there? Will you be safe?" He questioned softly.

Bad nodded out of habit despite the fact that Skeppy couldn't see." It'll be fine, the potion’s got a long time before it wears off," he paused,"...I kinda planned for this." He said with only slight embarrassment.

Skeppy lightly chuckled, he would have to remember to tease him about that in the morning but for now he was too tired, instead just settling on giving his belly a light pat.

They both drowsily exchanged their good nights before slowly dozing off together, finally feeling safe and content at last.

#tw vore #mcyt g/t #mcyt gt #soft vore #g/t Bad #g/t Skeppy #ember's writing #If people like this I might try to write one where the roles are reversed #Not gonna make promises though

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If I may ask; what is your opinion of Rebel's Era (canon) Maul?

Whilst I didn't feel like he was written out of character per se and I understand that Rebels aired prior to TCW Season 7, I felt like it was somewhat disappointing after what happened during Order 66.

I understand that he has lost hope and is, very reasonably, afraid of Sheev, but there's a few things that confuse me like the fact that whilst running the biggest criminal empire he never looked for Kenobi prior to Rebels (he knew Ashoka survived, so why shouldn't Kenobi?) or how exactly he ended up on Malachor and nobody came to look for him their criminal boss. Now the Dathomir-part was actually interesting, but I do feel, yet again, like it could have used more exposition and explaination considering he was there like 3x times in his entire life and everyone's dead, so who even sustained the Ichor after Talzin's death? Maul wasn't on Dathomir for at least some time.

It just felt like they knew Maul would draw in viewers, not like they had a plan for his character and that was kind of a pity?!

Obviously Maul couldn't interfere with pre-existing canon but at some point I really wondered why he was still in the story considering that Ezra's literal use of the darkside, due to Mauls prior influence & the holocron, for what we can assume to be months never mattered again after a single episode for some reason.

I love seeing Maul but I wished they did more with his character? I mean, it hurts to read e.g. Son of Dathomir, but it's still good and builds his character.

The only major thing I found consistent was him missing Savage, which obviously just broke my heart.

Dying by Kenobi's hand was poetic, but of course really sad and I wished there had been more to this scene - either conveyed through animation/dialouge or by having them part ways differently.

Also I can't believe Maul - a criminal mastermind - didn't manage to figure out that Kenobi was on Tatooine after seeing Twin Suns for almost the majority of a season. You know. The guy who used to track and hunt down whomever Sidious required him too for years. The same zabrak that basically ran a prison into the ground in lockdown whilst not/barely even touching upon his force powers and finding the dealer who managed to stay undercover for probably decades. Also the planet they literally first met.

I know the creators and Sam Witwer have repeatedly liked Maul to Sisyphus, but I don't think this applies to Rebel's Maul. Rebel's Maul, besides his motivation/need to find a new brother apprentice, just seems so hopeless and borderline suicidal? He doesn't know if it's worth trying anymore, which makes the idea of running a criminal empire so odd, seeing as he knows his insignificance to Sidious, whose downfall is all he is really yearning/hoping for. I know that his desperation always rivals his intense need to survive, but I really didn't got the latter from Rebels.

Idk, maybe it's just me, but I'm very keen on your thoughts.

(2/2) I'm asking you in particular about Rebels Maul because I feel like maybe I might be missing something or am lacking a certain insight into his character which you might have.

I think Solo made about as much sense as tits on a boar. I even said that when it came out. Maul's whole purpose to building a criminal empire was to have enough power to get to Kenobi. He had no interest in being rich or anything else, and frankly, even in TCW, he left Almec to run things on Mandalore while he nursed his grudge. So this whole Crimson Dawn crap is just-- weak. It makes no sense. It was fanservice.

I'm sure I've written my opinions on Rebels before, but in brief:

1.) Maul's characterization wasn't terrible, but the writing was super fucking lazy. No kidding. Especially his ending. That was Filoni basically splooging all over himself about how dEeeEEeP he was being without realizing... man, nothing here even makes sense. He took a character he didn't create and didn't want to bring back in the first place and giggled to himself behind his stupid hat because he got to kill him off. Since Disney's shit, they're like, "Oh, sure."

2.) Maul already hurt Kenobi and took his revenge when he skewered Satine. Like you, I think the only reason he would have sought Kenobi out would have been because he wanted closure. Be it death or simply some ending. I explored what would have happened had Kenobi been a proper adult and apologized for his part in Maul's suffering when I wrote In defiance, because I absolutely believe they could have done some considerably more interesting with all of that.

3.) Honestly, like-- every time they've killed Maul off in canon, it's been a dumbass mistake. Because he's popular and once you close-end a character, it becomes a lot harder to do anything meaningful with them in canon. Because they offed him, he will never have a genuinely meaty storyline again and will forever be relegated to cheap cameos that capitalize on his popularity.

Dunno if that's what you're looking for Anon-buddy. Mostly, I just think the ending of Maul in Rebels came down to super lazy writing.

#salt mines

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Okay, I need to get this off of my chest since I know literally no one that has watched JJK and I feel lonely :( Plus I don’t know if I’m looking too much into this, so please reply to me because ;-;

Warning: there will be spoilers; this will be largely disorganized because these are my thoughts literally spilling from my head

Here’s what I absolutely love about it:

It really details the most sickening parts of humanity. The curses form from negative emotions, small or big. What Gege Akutami portrays amazingly is these emotions in physical form. The author forces the audience to see these feelings and how they can quite literally kill someone. Based off of what I know (aka guesses from S1), Mahito comes from Junpei’s hatred. If Mahito wasn’t put into physical form, Junpei would only have a mental disorder. But since Mahito is TANGIBLE, the audience can SEE how Junpei’s inner, twisted desires manifests itself to be a monster and push him towards his awful goals. Ultimately, Junpei dies because of Mahito - the formation of his own beliefs and ideology. If anyone tries to argue against mental health, they should see this anime because it puts them into a more physical representation.

The writing of Itadori Yuuji’s character is great. Why? His optimism and value of human life is a great drive for his purpose. It doesn’t feel like he was just handed over this great power because he was a chosen one or some crap. He didn’t think about the consequences and just went for it. Love that. PLUS, I love how Akutami puts Itadori in a position of dilemma. Should he have just wanted a clean death for his execution or does he want to work hard to make the world a safer place JUST to die anyways? Obviously, not a lot of people are put in this position. Yeah, JJK can have funny moments and the reader WANTS Itadori to succeed in obtaining all of the 20 fingers of Sukuna, BUT at the cost of our beloved protagonist??? I love feeling conflicted.

Fushiguro Megumi’s thoughts on saving lives. JJK has shown itself to really be a test of morals. It’s one thing for the characters to say that sorcerers may be morally incorrect, but to show it? That’s where my man comes in. The hero, Itadori, represents the morally good people when he wants to save that janitor’s body. BUT when Megumi is like “bro, he did some bad stuff, no.” It goes into that morally grey area. And I love grey areas so- I dunno, if I go any further I could be attacked because it’s an issue on morals but I think it’s great.

I absolutely adore Nabara’s character. The argument between her and Momo really shows that Nabara isn’t a strong character because Akutami decided that we needed a strong female character just to appease some feminists BUT because SHE. IS. JUST. STRONG. Momo’s like “being a female in our world is hard” and Nabara was like “what, like it’s hard? (Legally Blonde moment haha)” Her gender doesn’t define her and I absolutely love that. Personally, I hate when creators add a character to tick off their diversity checklist like excuse me, that’s kinda rude. So her actually having a personality? AND can hold her own in battle without having to rely on a man to drive some stupid love story??? This is why I believe in Nobara supremacy.

MAKI. MY QUEEN. The fact that she’s seen as a problem by her family because of something she couldn’t change just strikes home for a lot of the audience, for me at least. In fact, a lot of familial problems or issues of respecting the elders is very prevalent in Asian society. Heck, a lot of this is seen with other characters. But Maki’s story sticks out to me the most. She quite literally smashes through because she can. I love her and respect her.

Gojo Satoru. That’s it.

I even love Sukuna, yes, the best demon daddy. Like I know he’s evil and stuff but he also works well with Itadori?? Of course it mostly because he’s still under Itadori’s control but he just goes with it?? I also love how he tries to compromise with Yuuji. Most antagonists do stupid stuff because they’re like “I’m eviiiiil” but Sukuna is like “I’m evil, but I ain’t dumb, I’m just dumb hot.”

Okay I’m done lol. Time to find a way to read the manga

#jjk spoilers #jujutsu kaisen #megumifushiguro #nabara kugisaki #jujutsu kaisen gojo #itadori yuji #zenin maki #sukuna #mahito #a rant by me #review

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UoW’s Volume 8 Rewrite Overlook 1: “Volume 7 Notes” and “She’s Here”

So...considering that UoW is apparently going to do another rewrite, the only other person to publicly finish it is a biased ass and I’m still riding off the high of beating the Demi-Fiend-

I figured I’d take a crack at his first one.

Okay so ground rules here-

1. UoW must be trying to stay within the themes and purpose of the original.

Any yahoo can claim a work is better by selling it to a different audience. We see it all the time with Hollywood and reboots. If they don’t get a pass, neither does Thomas.

2. UoW is restrained to the same length/number of episodes as the original (meaning 14 episodes at a runtime of 4:26:39)

All creators are limited by time, resources and manpower. This can actually cause iconic moments and changes (like how the Super Saiyan transformation was made blond in part because it meant Toriyama wouldn’t need to color in Goku’s hair). So I expect Thomas to understand this and work within these limitations.

These are effectively the key points in making a rewrite. Breaking these are effectively cardinal sins that can’t be excused. We know this because when Hollywood shits on the original- we collectively call them out.

So with that set up- Let’s begin.

-UoW is rewriting parts of Volume 7 too. So the title isn’t even really correct.

-Clover’s alive. So UoW looked at everyone saying there were too many characters and dug up one that was put to rest. Yay...

-Ciel is now in her mid-20′s and Pietro’s daughter. The reasoning for the later is, and I quote- “There’s the issue of Pietro, a black man, building a white girl by default” alongside some talk of ‘potential’ (read: Ciel is a blank slate). He goes on about inserting Ciel into Volume 7 and have her support Penny (all of which was already done by RUBY) so we have yet another character inserted but with the most racist reasoning I have ever seen. Fucking yay.

-Cinder’s backstory is cut. ... She later has a scene that has Salem letting the Hound beat the shit out of Cinder for no reason so the explanation for why Cinder works for Salem is thrown out and a giant reason to NOT follow her is raised. ...Great. All because ‘it was pointless.’

-Cinder practices her speech to Salem. ... Cinder’s anxieties have never been directly shown. She is not the type to rehearse a speech. She is the type to put on a strong mask until it breaks. Much like Ruby.

-Neo is basically scared throughout this whole endeavor, from general unease to freaking out about a Grimm on the ship to letting a comment about Torchwick slid from Cinder to being scared inside the Monstra. Neo is a character who has only ever shown outright fear in one situation: vs. Raven, a Huntress on par with Qrow, after fighting Yang. While she does show unease in episodes involving Salem, Neo almost never shows outright fear since that would be a real ‘oh shit’ moment.

-Cinder blows up said Grimm, causing Neo to be covered in ash and Grimm goo. Neo. The one who is piloting the airship. Cinder can and will act dumb but that is due to a character flaw in desiring power and control. This...doesn’t fit that flaw. It’s just dumb.

-Also there was a windshield between the Grimm and Neo so she should have been showered in glass shards. Unless the ash was from the windshield which in that case Neo would likely get her face roasted. I know this sounds petty but the reason this is a different point is that this is just a symptom of the overall problem of UoW’s writing frustrating me which means I will occupy my attention with pettier details.

-Cinder fixes the windshield magically. ... I dunno how, this is not an ability the Maidens has been shown to have and it’s just rendering a dumb scene moot. It also highlights how Thomas is being detailed about describing the rewrite scenes but doesn’t catch these details. Says a lot huh?

-Cinder sees the Monstra and knows what is. Then inside of it, she knows where to go. This despite the Monstra never being seen or mentioned before. Again, UoW goes into detail about this episode (like talking about the symbolism of the waning cresent moon) but it only draws attention to the details that smooth out the actual journey.

-There’s an extended scene of Neo getting lost trying ttio escape, meeting Tyrian who arrives via Nevermore, a fight happens, Hazel steps in and tries to fight, Emerald fucks with them to protect Neo, Mercury comes in to protect Neo and Emerald and it gets interrupted by the Monstra signaling them to go meet Salem.

1. The fight scene is completely superfluous. Neo isn’t really interacting with Tyrian or Hazel, the conflict isn’t very engaging, the fight scene as described doesn’t fit the horror atmosphere and it amounts to nothing.

2. Emerald and Mercury are not the protective types. Emerald is of Cinder but not Neo and Mercury certainly isn’t. I know that Mercury himself says that it’s because Salem needs the help but this is a common excuse used by characters to protect people. It makes more sense for Emerald and Mercury to make a comment that interrupts the flow than actually stepping in.

3. This whole scene is superfluous. It doesn’t really do anything that the canon iteration did in a few seconds (introduce Neo to the villains). Nothing here is really needed and while the Tyrian stuff sounds cool...remember what I said about Thomas being restricted by the same time constraints? Yeah, the length of this explanation of an episode, logically shorter than the theoretical episode, is longer than the finale of Volume 8 (23:31 vs. 23:16) which includes the end credits. ...Yeah, Thomas is going to be consistently breaking the second rule.

-Salem speaks to Neo in sign language when she sees Neo is mute. Not only is sign language really weird here because Salem is an ancient witch but Neo has been perfectly capable of communication through her expressive body language. This is just a weird moment for out of nowhere sign language.

-... “I may be gaudy but at least I don’t need to win trust with lies.”

Salem says this. Salem, a woman who blames her ex for her own centuries if not millena long temper tantrum, tried to trick known GODS into breaking their own rules and got the world destroyed because she manipulated people- said this.

And it’s suppose to be a shot at Cinder, who is getting shat on by Salem more here than in canon while having her reason for following Salem removed.

... And this is not meant to be ironic. ...Yeah, I’m not going to explain unless prompted. I choose to believe you are smarter than this.

-Salem apparently can give her followers marks that protect them based on how much Salem likes them. This has never been shown before and comes right the fuck out of nowhere. It also contradicts Salem’s character, as she wouldn’t care about her underlings. This is just dumb.

-Salem sets up Cinder, a woman who lived in an abusive home until she snapped and killed everyone, to be abused and beaten for a demonstration after noting that she wants Neo to geniunely serve her and not have a treacherous servant. ... I’m starting to think Cinder’s backstory wasn’t ‘pointless’ but rather ‘inconvenient’.

-The Hound sniffs Ozma’s staff to find Oscar, not the Lamp. Either she is using his physical scent which makes no sense or magic where since it was until recently hanging off Oscar the Lamp is would provide BOTH.

-Ren tries selling out Penny to Ironwood. This despite having just fought AGAINST Ironwood instead of being a result of Ren hitting his lowest point. And this is going to be a reoccurring thing with Ren.

-They try arguing about how to use the Staff despite how said Staff is in the heart of Atlas, Ironwood’s stronghold and they have other options. This is an attempt at trying to create a divide within Team RWBY like in canon but it’s not about their individual beliefs clashing like what was shown in Volume 7 but a generic ‘team discord’ plot that wasn’t built up. This means that Thomas will waste time for a more generic setup that wasn’t foreshadowed instead of canon. ... This is suppose to be BETTER than canon remember?

-Ciel comforts Penny during all this. Nothing specific is given and her one other scene (supporting Penny in a fight) isn’t specific either. Ciel could be replaced with Ruby and we’d lose nothing but an extra character and racist reasoning. ... No I will never forget that.

-Grimm horde happens, Penny gets benched and the solution, I kid you not, is to have Jaune boast Weiss’ Semblance so she summons dozens of her own Grimm.

...

1. Weiss is never shown to be able to summon more than one at a time. Even in Volume 7 after supposed training she never does more than one. Jaune can amplify a person’s Aura yes but this is fucking fandom meme levels of bullshit. Yeah it’s cool but it’s also way beyond anything we’ve seen.

2. The CRWBY have a nasty habit of being overworked. This scene would involve more Grimm in action onscreen than any other time in RWBY’s history. The last time they tried something like this (Volume 3), it broke all the time. ... This would not end well.

And 3. Part of the reason why we don’t just jump straight into action is that we needed some quiet time before doing so, to emphasize the feeling of dread, unease and uncertainty. This is not fucking Dragon Ball where you need a fight every single episode. RWBY works heavily off of atmosphere. It is in part a horror series. It also shows us that the heroes do care about the people as people in opposition of Ironwood. Individualism vs. Collectivism.

All of that is gone now for a shallow fight scene. And I do mean shallow- Monty’s fights had more depth despite being awkwardly fit into the story. And this sure as hell can’t measure up to him.

This is the worst of both sides of RWBY.

-Oscar’s in the slums. Now we’re gone. Bye Oscar.

-...James Ironwood regrets shooting Oscar. One of the people who lied to him. After all of his sacrifices and compromises get shat on, this confirmed stubborn man just starts regretting his actions immediately.

And as if to show what complexity RWBY does have will be removed, he outright SAYS that Mantle must be left behind and that he doesn’t like it. Whereas the show only needed his body language, word choice and cinematography.

... MOVING ON-

-If you thought the writing would get better, let me tell you about the worst part.

So, that fight scene I just mentioned? In it, issues with Team RWBY arise. Is it issues related to how they all have differing philosophies and thus have different priorities in combat much like how the split was caused by Ruby’s own hypocrisy and Yang’s own focus on the individual people rather than the big scale which has been a part of their characters for a long while given Ruby’s more idealistic and heroic character vs. Yang’s more personal and self assured character?

... No. It has nothing to do with that.

It has to do with Ruby trying to order Yang to fall back while Yang pushes ahead...because. And when Ruby tries ordering Blake to assist Weiss, Blake ditches her for Yang...because. Meanwhile Penny (and Ciel i guess) step in with Penny’s attempts to help backfiring. Oh and Nora is ‘handling herself fine’ but Ren steps in to ‘steal her thunder’ when it looks like she’s in danger.

Does this sound familiar? This is every ‘The team is in disarry’ plotline begging. A plotline that the show already did in Volume 1. A plotline that is not the focus of Volume 7 and does not come from Volume 7′s conflict. UoW is ditching the philosophical struggle in Team RWBY that comes from their conflict with Ozpin and Ironwood in the past and helps distinguish their characters...for generic bullshit.

... This is the better Volume 8, remember?

-There’s some bullshit about Oscar getting thrashed by the Hound and the Grimm defending it before Salem from the Monstra goes-

“Give me the Staff, Maiden and Ruby or else I’ll kill you.”

... So now the motivation for Ironwood is no longer his own personal issues going out of control (like a REAL PERSON) but ‘uwu he’s forced to do it!’

... I hate all of this fanfiction.

That is my thoughts so far. This is not a professional rework of a flawed product. It is a rewrite selling fans what they want to hear at the cost of a good product.

And this is the first fucking episode. Fucking great.

#Unicorn of war #uow volume 8 rewrite

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WARNING! VERY LONG! AND ALSO TALKS ABOUT ABUSE AND MANIPULATION AND ALSO MENTIONS OF ALCOHOL.

Please don't read if that triggers you!

ALSO MAJOR AND I MEAN MAJOR SPOILERS FOR DRAKENGARD 3 AND POSSIBLY EVILLIOUS CHRONICLES TOO. — Submission

It has been like a millennium since I have sent you any sort of things about a character (or in this case, characterS) but as I recently revised the story of this very fucked up pair of twins, I decided to show them to you. They are specifically characters in an RP of mine with my friend Jade which is a crossover between Evillious Chronicles and Drakengard 3.

Here's a bit of context:

The Intoners are beings that can use the power of song, but their true purpose is to destroy the world. The original Intoner was Zero, who became an Intoner after the Flower, some sort of being that the Gods created to destroy the world, took root inside of her corpse and effectively 'revived' her as an Intoner; also, Zero wasn't always called Zero, previously she was named Rose (which wasn't her birth name, as she has no birth name), but she changed her name to Zero after she became an Intoner (it's unknown why). After Zero tried to kill herself when she realized that she'd eventually be forced to destroy the world by the Flower, the Flower, sensing her hostility towards it, birthed five beings from her as sort of 'backups' in a sense to ensure it would succeed in destroying the world: One, Two, Three, Four, and Five. These beings are all in some way like Zero, as they were created from fragments of her memories, personality, and resemble people from Zero's past; e.g. One resembles a rebel girl who Zero was tied up next to as she was left to die in town's square of some village as punishment for her crimes of murdering hundreds of people; Five resembles a nun who Zero had killed at some point before she became an Intoner; etc. The Flower did this on purpose to make Zero hesitate in killing them, which...on paper it would seem to be a good idea, but Zero's not the type to hesitate in killing anybody, unless it's someone she cares about (which, the only people she cares about are not even really 'people', their dragons), and she don't give two fucks about the other Intoners at all, so, yeah.

'HERS' is a acronym for 'Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome' and its a fictional disease in Evillious that when your infected you become compelled into doing violence, as the goal of anybody whose ends up with HERS is to destroy the world and everybody in it; well that's an oversimplified explanation of it.

The Climb One is a ship that the last Earthlings from the Second Period used to escape their dying planet.

The First Period was the very first world in Evillious, which heavily resembled our world; the Second Period was a virtual reality created by the people of the First Period which also heavily resembled our world. At some point the First Period died (it's implied that a nuclear war happened there which is why everybody there died) and thanks to Behemo the Earthlings on the Climb One were taken into reality and they found the ruined First Period planet and on its ruins was built the Third Period (which was a world of its own). Oh and the humans from the Second Period are referred to as Earthlings in order to differentiate them from First Period/Third Period humans as they were originally not even 'real'.

Sickle is a robot built by an Earthling named Luna Hazuki and eventually he becomes a god and takes the form of a bat who observes the people of the Third Period.

Medora is another OC of mine from my RP with Jade. Her story is a story for another time ^^'

Aurende is an original kingdom of mine, not a country that's canonly in EC.

Why are Lumina and Eliora Romanian? I dunno I found out Lumina means sunshine in Romanian and just went with it; it's an insignificant detail anyways that's not exactly very relevant to Lumina and Eliora's stories but is just there.

Alright the context dumping is done with ^^''''' go onto the Evillious Chronicles and Drakengard wikis, they can give you a lot more less simplified context for this stuff but I think I told you the bare minimum you need to understand whats going on? I hope I gave you enough context to understand ^^'

But anyways on with th character info and Lumina and Eliora's story!

Name: Lumina

Aliases: True God Twins (With Eliora)

Lumi (By Eliora)

Lumina Ardelean (Full Name)

Hypocritical Strawberry (By Sickle, Mockingly)

Age: 1,045+ (On 499 E.C.)

Looks 18

Height: 163 cm/5’4’’

Weight: 49 kgs/110 lbs

Cup Size: C

Bust/Waist/Hip: 84/59/85

Sex: Female

Gender: Female

Classification: Human (Till 529 B.T.)

Earthling (Till 528 B.T.)

God

Race: Romanian

Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde

Eye Color: Gold

Born: 546 B.T.

Died: Varies

Status: Varies

Sexuality: Bisexual/Demiromantic

Relatives: Unnamed Mother (Deceased; Died In Childbirth)

Unnamed Father (Deceased; Died of Alcohol Overdose)

Eliora Ardelean (Younger Twin Sister)

Flower (Creation)

Zero (Flower’s Host)

One (Creation Via Flower)

Two (Creation Via Flower)

Three (Creation Via Flower)

Four (Creation Via Flower)

Five (Creation Via Flower)

Medora Aurende (Prototype Intoner)

Occupation: Creator of The Flower And Intoners

Affiliations: None

Favorite Food: Chocolate-Strawberry Sundae

Loves: Eliora, Revenge, Inducing Suffering In Others, Chocolate, Sundaes, Sweets, Strawberries

Hates: Alcohol, Her Father, People Who Hurt Others, People Calling Out Her Hypocrisy, Faeries, Her Father’s Girlfriend, Five

Weapons: Magic

Background + Personality: Lumina is a prideful but vengeful girl, whose been irreversibly scarred by the events of her and her twin sister’s childhood. Her mother died giving birth to her and her sister, which caused her father to blame her and her sister for their mother’s death, giving him an excuse to constantly beat her and starve her and her sister. Lumina did her best to protect Eliora from their father, taking most of their father’s beatings. Due to their father being an alcoholic and his alcoholism only causing her and Eliora to be abused even more horribly and brutally whenever he was drunk, Lumina developed a hatred of alcohol, especially beer and wine, which her father drank often. Her father eventually got a girlfriend, who also often abused the two girls, and ironically, this girlfriend heavily resembled Five, the youngest Intoner sister, which caused Lumina and Eliora to often be uncomfortable whenever she is in Five’s presence later on.

Lumina one day discovered her mother’s diary and found that her father had in fact heavily abused her mother when she was alive, like he did to Lumina and Eliora, and that her mother had been a way for him to take out all his anger and pain, and her mother believed that that was ok, because this way she had a meaning, this way her ‘worthless’ life had a meaning. Lumina realized her father was not upset about her and Eliora’s mother’s death because he was in love with her mother, he was upset because he had lost his main coping mechanism to deal with all of his problems, and so had replaced her mother with her and Eliora. Lumina became enraged by this revelation and confronted her father about it, but only found herself battered to near death.

The next day, her father died of an alcohol overdose, and she and Eliora ran away and ended up on the streets. From there they were constantly beaten yet again, except not by their father, but by people they had never even met before.

Lumina continued doing her best to protect her sister from the abuse and often took care of her, leading to the two sisters becoming starkly different in their world view;

Eliora’s world view will be stated in her info, but nonetheless here is Lumina’s world view:

Lumina, sick and tired of all of the pain she went through because of the world, developed a hatred of the world and a desire to destroy it all and start again, as well as to punish humanity for being ‘sinful’ creatures, believing that starting from zero again was the only way to end the cycle of abuse. Ironically, Lumina found herself also enjoying watching other people suffer, as she believed that other people deserved it for being ‘cruel, sinful humans’, which made her no better than her abusers and only showed she was a hypocrite in what she believed, as she began actively inflicting harm upon others just like how she had been hurt.

Eventually, Lumina and Eliora by unknown means managed to sneak into the Second Period, where Lumina ended up unknowingly being infected by HERS, which only served to make her desire to destroy the world stronger; Eliora, however, remained uninfected. Lumina and Eliora then snuck onto the Climb One, where they would then end up in the chaos somehow reincarnated into Gods and trapped inside the Climb One with Levia and Behemo, who questioned who they were until Behemo recognized them as the two homeless girls he saw often wandering the streets. Lumina and Eliora would manage to escape the Climb One within a few years thanks to their bodies being intact, and they soon found that they had become gods, which gave Lumina an idea; they enact a plan to destroy the world. Despite Eliora’s hesitance, Eliora went through with it and so the two sisters began their experimentations which would eventually lead to the creation of the Flower and the concept of Intoners.

One of their prototype Intoners was Medora Aurende, a princess of the Kingdom of Aurende, who was later deemed a failure due to not being strong enough to destroy the world, and so the twins disposed of her, leaving her for dead in a forest in the Beelzenian Empire.

Eventually, the Flower was finally complete along with the concept of Intoners, and the twins enacted their plan to destroy the world. They went to the city of Alicegrad in the country of Holy Levianta and infected a human who had been left for dead in the city square named ‘Rose’ with the Flower, and she was soon revived and turned into an Intoner. Rose changed her name to Zero soon after. Eliora began to become more and more hesitant and concerned with Lumina’s plan to destroy the world, but in response, Lumina slapped her and told her

“I’ve protected you for your entire life, you know. It’s time you repaid me a bit by helping me destroy the world that hurt me so much. And this will only serve to benefit you anyways; after all, this world hurt you so much too, despite my attempts at protecting you. Why wouldn’t you want to destroy it as well, Eli?”

Eliora afterward meekly nodded and never questioned Lumina again out of fear of what she’d do to her if she dared to question the plan again, even though Eliora could tell the Flower was slowly growing out of their control.

Lumina’s overall a very hateful, vengeful, hypocritical woman who at this point constantly contradicts herself, claiming that she wants to break the cycle of abuse whilst continuing to harm others. Yet deep in her heart, it seems she does genuinely still care for her sister, although it appears as time passes she slowly becomes more and more obsessed with hurting other people and punishing humanity for its sins as she gradually succumbs to her HERS instincts, and her care and empathy slowly wither away; even her love for her sister and feelings of kinship with Zero is slowly dissipating; until all that remains is her hatred of the world and humanity overall. Sickle mockingly calls her a ‘hypocritical strawberry’ due to her hypocrisy and strange obsession with strawberries.

Name: Eliora

Aliases: True God Twins (With Lumina)

Eli (By Lumina)

Eliora Ardelean (Full Name)

Pitiable Strawberry (By Sickle)

Age: 1,045+ (On 499 E.C.)

Looks 18

Height: 161 cm/5’3’’

Weight: 48 kgs/108 lbs

Cup Size: C

Bust/Waist/Hip: 83/58/84

Sex: Female

Gender: Female

Classification: Human (Till 529 B.T.)

Earthling (Till 528 B.T.)

God

Race: Romanian

Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde

Eye Color: Gold

Born: 546 B.T.

Died: Varies

Status: Varies

Sexuality: Bisexual/Demiromantic

Relatives: Unnamed Mother (Deceased; Died In Childbirth)

Unnamed Father (Deceased; Died of Alcohol Overdose)

Lumina Ardelean (Older Twin Sister)

Flower (Creation)

Zero (Flower’s Host)

One (Creation Via Flower)

Two (Creation Via Flower)

Three (Creation Via Flower)

Four (Creation Via Flower)

Five (Creation Via Flower)

Medora Aurende (Prototype Intoner)

Occupation: Creator of The Flower And Intoners

Affiliations: None

Favorite Food: Chocolate-Strawberry Sundae

Loves: Lumina (Or So She Claims), Dancing, Chocolate, Sundaes, Sweets, Baby Animals, Children, Dragons, Books, Reading, Singing, Zero, Strawberries

Hates: Seeing People Suffer, Her Father, Her Father’s Girlfriend, Five, The World (To A Much Lesser Degree Than Lumina), Alcohol

Weapons: Magic

Background + Personality: Most of Eliora and Lumina’s backstory was covered in Lumina’s info, so most of it will not be stated here except for any parts unique to Eliora.

Eliora is a meek, weak-willed girl who does as her sister tells her, secretly wishing to deviate from her sister’s will but being unable to as she is blinded by her ‘love’ for her sister and by what Lumina constantly tells her about their plan with the Flower and Intoners being “for the best”, that it’s “better for them to destroy the world here to stop humans from continuing to sin and hurt each other”, that “humanity is a sinful, malicious race that should be annihilated along with this cruel world they created”, even though Eliora knows deep inside that Lumina is merely manipulating her and forcing her to go along with what she wants.

Eliora’s world view is vastly different from her sister’s, as Eliora, who often could only watch as her sister was beaten and hurt constantly, found herself believing that revenge didn’t do much but perpetuate the cycle of abuse that she and Lumina suffered from, and so believed that the only way to end the cycle was to help abuse survivors not repeat the actions of their abusers. But Lumina heavily disagreed with her and forced Eliora, whether through physical harm or threats, to go along with Lumina’s plans and act the part of an ‘evil god who wants to destroy the world’.

Eliora also feels as if she’s indebted to Lumina for her protecting her from most of abuse of their childhood, and so feels obligated to help her even though she really believes that what Lumina’s doing is wrong.

Sickle pityingly calls Eliora a ‘pitiable strawberry’ due to her strange obsession with strawberries just like Lumina and because she’s a person who is very pitiable.

Whenever Eliora is able to, she often spends her time dancing, singing, or reading, loving all three activities immensely and secretly wishing she could have become a dancer or writer or singer or something of the sort rather than a mere instrument in her sister’s plans to destroy the world, and hopes that in some other life she could go follow her dreams rather than be forced to help her sister.

Also unlike her sister, Eliora is a very empathetic person, and despises killing and hurting others, although pretends as if she does enjoy such activities in order to please her sister.

So yeah, that's Lumina and Eliora's story. *me torturing my characters again and again goes brrrr-*

For reference here's their official designs (btw I probably should redo their arts considering their older as I made them back in April so yeah- oof) as well as sketch I made of them I may never finish but who knows:

Left girl is Lumina, right girl is Eliora ^

Oh, wow.

Okay. You’ve really edited and revised a lot of the story. The girls are looking really good, too. Angst can be a good device to help you channel your emotions in a healthy and constructive way. I think you’re building a really fun universe that just works for you and all of this design, planning and care takes a lot of time and effort. Never discount that work you put into it.

They are foils of each other.

They suffered but they handled it differently. That makes for an interesting arc for the both of them as they try to make sense of reality.

#submission #littleghostlyrose #not mm #ask #mod kait

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