#astral talks

[astral-shiro]

I'm gonna need dunmeshi fans to think critically for a few seconds about the Toshiro and Laios misunderstanding. Turn off your western culture brains and think for a minute

It's one thing to dislike toshiro, and another thing to do it completely blindly and from a modern western perspective. Yes Laios is very heavily autistic coded and that plays SO MUCH into the entire story and not just his and Toshiro's relationship, but you need to realize that another major aspect of his misunderstanding with Toshiro is CULTURAL. Like how are yall missing the point so badly

Toshiro is from a high context culture, raised into nobility, and living in a foreign country. Think about how this may intesect with Laios as someone from an isolated, lower context culture

#textpost #Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #dunmeshi #Laios Touden #Nakamoto Toshiro #Shuro #like plsssss i keep seeing s9 many ppl completely missing this and its so frustrating #astral talks

[astral-solarium]

After watching Scar’s episode I can only think of one thing:

I cannot for the life of me believe that Bdubs accidentally created a gacha with his head shop 💀 DID YOU SEE THE WAY SCAR JUST KEPT SPENDING FOR THE ONE HEAD? ITS SO FUNNY

#hermitcraft #bdouble0 #goodtimeswithscar #mcyt #hermitblr #hermitcraft spoilers #astral talks #made me feel like I was getting a 3rd person view of someone doing a 5 pull on an indie game for a specific character #WILD I tell ya #idk why I think things I just do

[astral-mariner]

totally random tangent on how I got into writing:

so I was one of those creative loner kids growing up, and I read a lot of fantasy stories. and I made up my own fantasy world and cast of characters. created fictional languages and everything for them. and I started out just drawing pictures of them (this is also how I got into drawing---I don't consider myself an artist, but I've been drawing on and off since childhood).

and when I was 10 years old and was in a typing class (yes, I'm an ancient man in my mid thirties), we were given the prompt "tell a story" to practice typing something out on the computer. and so I started writing a story about my fictional characters. and I LOVED it. I very much "think in pictures." when I write, I have images in my head that I translate into language and describe. and I felt like I could "draw" so many more pictures with words than I could with physical images. like, a picture tells part of a story, and a good picture can tell you quite a lot. but with words, I could describe and convey things that would be very difficult to draw or would take many images to get across/tell the whole story.

I left that computer class and started writing more of the stories I had in my head about my characters. and I didn't stop writing. I wrote about different things as I got older, though. I read a lot of "classic" books as a teenager because I liked them (Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Paradise Lost were some of my favorites), and I wrote my first novel-length piece when I was 16. it was awful, of course. a story about generational and religious trauma and frustrated desire. I completed my second piece when I was 19. it had a lot of similar themes to my first story. heavily influenced by all the philosophy books I was reading (I studied philosophy at university---nerd alert).

and I got into dragon ball fanfic when I was in my 20s. (though I'd watched the show as a kid.) there was always an underlying darkness and complexity to the series that I wanted to see explored, and I'd thought a lot about it and had so many stories in my head. and I felt like (and still feel like) if I don't get them out of me I will lose it, haha.

but yeah. I've been writing for over 20 years. I don't think I'll ever stop. it's what I was born to do, and I love doing it. I love the craft. I love thinking about writing itself, about all the different ways a story can be told. when I write, I like to play with narrative conventions with elements like unreliable narrators, frame stories, perspective bending, and making the reader a very active participant in what story they get when they read (as in, their interpretation heavily changes how they perceive the story's events, and I leave lots up for interpretation on purpose). I'm big on layers of ambiguity and playing with subjectivity. Makes my brain tingle!

I think when I finish the fic I'm writing right now, I might eventually take some elements from it and turn it into something original. and I definitely want to print a physical copy with illustrations when I finish it so people who like it can put it on their shelves! there's nothing like seeing something you WROTE sitting on a shelf like a real book.

#astral talks #astral gets personal #astral writing

[astralmutt01]

It's been a real hot minute since I've used tumblr, did they remove the "double tap to like" feature or is my app just broken? (Aka, nothing new)

#i will say #i do like that theres preset color options now #also hyped to see tumblr live dying #hellsite the beloved #astral talks

[hedgehog-moss]

One mistake I made a lot when I started learning English was writing both the auxiliary and the main verb in past tense—as in, "Did the rain stopped?" My English teacher had to really drill this grammar point into my head, she was like "the point of 'did' here is to indicate past tense, there's no need for another time marker." Me, genuinely baffled: "Why not?" Teacher: "Think of the 'ed' in 'stopped' as having migrated to the beginning of the sentence and become 'did'. So it's no longer in 'stopped'." Well I was sad to see it go. I pointed out that in French you'd say "The rain (itself) has it stopped?" and 'the rain' feels welcome to stay even though the whole point of the pronoun 'it' should be to replace it in a quicker way. But it would be sad if the noun & its pronoun never got to hang out together so we keep both <3

My teacher had a British look on her face that made my middle-school self wonder if maybe she thought my language wasn't optimally designed, and then she said that in English it would feel clunky to give the same piece of grammatical information twice, and "if you use 'did' then the -ed in 'stopped' doesn't add anything." That just sounded offensive, I mean since when do letters need to add something to a sentence? isn't it enough that they adorn the end of words & frolic with the others in friendship. If it bothers you so much just don't pronounce them. Idk, "did the rain stopped" felt so right to me. In the end my teacher said that "The rain has it stopped?" with the redundant pronoun is the more formal French phrasing anyway, and I was like yeah true we'd rather say "is it that it (itself) has stopped to rain?" and I felt like this really proved my point and I think she felt the same way

#i did the same thing with adjectives... eg my purples socks are warm #i know i know purple doesn't need an -s because socks already has one so it doesn't add any information :( #look i already managed to steel myself and not write ''are warms'' as would feel right #and it's already sad enough to have no way to indicate that socks are girls. give me something #spanish is even worse than english in terms of grammatical emphasis in some ways. it will give you nothing #spanish is like oh my god you don't need a noun NOR pronoun don't act like you can't remember who we were talking about just 1 sentence ago #in spanish the noun and its pronoun get to hang out together on the astral plane they just don't have a lot of work to do

[six-legged-sea-leopard]

no i am not over how one of the first things kris does of their own accord without our input is to lay down their life for this weird ipad kid they met five hours ago no i am not over "hell yeah i am here to humiliate you fucker" no i am not over "did you miss me? because i missed you!" no i am not over how much not only susie but also kris (and ralsei) genuinely care about their new adopted little cousin guy and the fact that he went from having no friends at all to 3 ride or die bffs who were willing to do what every adult in his life failed to do which is stand up for him i-

#im gonna fucking throw up lancer's relationship with all of the fun gang is literally so important to me #hes gone his whole life surrounded by people but so incredibly alone for a multitude of reasons NONE of which are his fault #every grown ass adult in that castle knew he was suffering but did NOTHING about it #so to see these teenagers (OTHER KIDS) not only take him under their wing and include him whenever possible #but also stand up and say 'NO. no you will NOT get away with that' when his shithead dad abuses him #going so far as to put their own asses on the line for him because they fucking care #and lancer loves them back!!! hes saved the fun gang's asses twice in as many chapters #the first instance being when he did something he's NEVER done before and took up hands against his dad #the affection in his dialogue when he talks about kris and susie and ralsei #calls them all funny nicknames and says that he misses them... #shaking and crying and throwing up and falling down thr stairs and astral projecting #im so so os so so normal about these characters i promise #deltarune

[thatsbelievable]

#What to do if They Just Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #astral projection #unreality

[spicyraeman]

Kinda blows my mind how many people still don't know that Lae'zel didn't come from the Astral Plane, like she legit tells you on one of the first nights that shes from an asteroid following the moon??

#i feel like she mentions this more than once the first act #like did you talk to her even once? #or listen to her? #it probably doesn't help that the wiki says that her hometown is the astral plane ripp

[undefeatablesin]

Like just about everyone else does, the Good Hunter Ruza finds Lady Maria very ✨️compelling✨️

#sin scribbles #lady maria of the astral clocktower #lady maria #good hunter #hunter bloodborne #hunter oc #bloodborne #(aka ruza would have the fattest crush on her IMAGINABLE if they were contemporaries. but who tf doesnt LOL) #(o h ruza you and your vileblood women) #(apparently to date ruza thats the only qualification required DKDKDKFKD) #(IM SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED AT MYSELF FOR NOT DRAWING MARIA BEFORE NOW) #(tbf tho she gets so much love. and my curse is i always get hooked on the underloved characters lmao) #(SO CAN WE TALK A B O U T marias cut dialogue bc it gives me the vapors) #(this is dumb and im not sorry LOL i HAD TO MAKE IT) #(sneak peak at ruzas 2nd loop design also. she does not meet lady maria until then in her story lol)

[moeblob]

Mr. Yang is indeed the absolute love of my life. The man I wish would just talk to me as he chaperoned my adventures. Please. I love him so much. I just..... wanna listen to him talk about whatever.

(and I genuinely love how the MC texts him like "what is this" and I do have a silly idea involving that but.... the fact even in canon your character looks at him and goes 'that's a very smart man whom I trust with my life despite him literally knocking me out! I'll just text him!')

#honkai star rail #welt yang #welt sir i love you #trailblazer #i dont know do people normally tag his official name or is just trailblazer ok or is it bad #im not sure soooooo hm #i literally warped to the astral express for level up rewards and got distracted from THE SINGULAR GOAL because i saw him #and im like oh oh gotta talk to welt #then i opened the map to teleport back to where i was and THEN i remembered oh yeah #i wanted rewards oops #i love him so much you guys im gonna cry let him be my chaperone

[sleepyorchidmonster]

I love how Dan Heng is just constantly WORRIED about everyone else.

He literally tried to stay out of the Luofu story. But immediately jumped into action as soon as he realized Blade was there and the others were in danger.

And now he is Penacony too!

Funniest part was all the way back in 2.0, when the Trailblazer disappeared and everyone was freaking out on the group chat. And Dan Heng was just. SHOULD I LEAVE THE EXPRESS, WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!?

I can just picture Dan Heng in his Imbibitor Lunae form, Cloud-Piercer in one hand while the other holds the phone, a bag filled to the brim with medical supplies and plushies slung over his shoulder, just standing in front of the Express's exit door, waiting for an answer.

And that was before Traiblazer got traumatized by Firefly's death. And the whole Aventurine broadcast. No wonder he also called Jing Yuan.

#hsr #dan heng #I'm talking about Dan Heng #but love how protective the Astral Express Crew is #since Welt and Hineko also helped us with Cocolia #final fight but Pom Pom leaves the train to destroy Nannok for endangering his crew #himeko star rail #welt yang #march 7th #trailblazer

[astral-shiro]

I don't care about ships in dungeon meshi bc the manga doesn't focus on it and being aroace that makes me happy! I'm totally content to live without

That being said, the funniest possible concept to me is Marcille being wildly bisexually attracted to both Touden siblings and being so pissed off about it

#textpost #Dungeon Meshi #Dunmeshi #Marcille Donato #astral talks #like that would be soooo funny lol #shes so mad bc theyre both charming little weirdos in slightly different ways

[astral-solarium]

Listen (life series crack concept edition)

listennnnn I know Double Life just started but this came to me in a vision and I had to share it ^_^ Life series’ 4th installment but it’s called Real Life in which they’re all beating each other up with sticks in person (or still in minecraft just an uncanny hyper-realistic setting) in a well-paved Denny’s parking lot. Yes the brits are there too. yes, so is the australian. no, they can’t leave the parking lot until one person remains that hasnt been bonked over the head with a stick.  come to think of it this is a really odd fever dream to have i’ll have to ask the therapist if i need any gears oiled up there ^_^

#double life smp #Last Life Smp #3rd life smp #trafficblr #you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head? #im the definition of that quote #pls help me my brain is an endless prison of shitty ideas #sigh #im glad yall tolerate me bc i cant ^_^ #why'd i picture it so vividly #i cant be the only one that did that #am i insane? #im seeing the light #and that light is NOT the pearly gates i assure you #astral talks

[kaiowut99]

"Yuma... When people grow up, they usually end up throwing away something that matters to them... But... don't you go and throw away... that power to believe in people, and that heart that never gives up... Don't you dare throw 'em away."

"Sh-Shark..."

"See, I would've liked to see the future you guys get going myself... but it doesn't look like I'll get to."

"Hey!"

"Kotori... Don't take your eyes off this idiot. Thanks, Yuma... Astral... My friends for life... I'm glad I got to have one last great duel with you two. Later..."

#IMA KAKO MIRAI MO #Lance watches ZEXAL #ZEXAL #Nasch #Ryouga Kamishiro #Yuma Tsukumo #Kotori Mizuki #Astral #yugioh #ygo #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #[retranslated this since GX_ST's subs were off] #that was such a good send-off for him #i liked that he saw Double-Up Chance coming and used his Chaos Draw to get Glorious Seven #even though its effect would end up making him lose #but also the clash of yuma's idealistic no-one-left-behind hope for the future against nasch's fight for the future of his fallen Barians #also the dub decided to write out most of this 'future' talk and yuma's resolve to believe in others to be who he is for some reason #most of this part was rewritten too--into more of 'believe in others but most importantly believe in yourself'--but comes back by the end #also why did they add back the LP counter SFX when it was intentionally silent for the dramatic finish lol #and didn't keep Nasch's slow/audibly regretful tone as he explains how Glorious Seven makes him lose #the original OST playing as Nasch loses is really good #have got to pull up my random thoughts from the NAC discord while casually watching to post but #it's been a fun time going through ZEXAL and now it's three episodes left woo

[astralmutt01]

Youtubers who change their clothes or put a timer on screen to make it easier for people to skip their ads my beloved

#this was inspired by ted nevisions 'this low budget christmas movie is terrifying' #and weed #astral talks

[azotho]

Raphael quick delivers the hammer to my Tav in person when I left it in the camp(deliberately of course), such a hardworking devil😈✨ Really wanted to hug him…!

I cherish you but yo this talk ain't polite at all… I'm gonna draw a naughty picture of you in return, Raffy…!

#Raphael #BG3 Raphael #Astral Plane #Orphic Hammer #Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #talk talk