#btw...Love how ds was like

[mantisgodsdomain]

Playing 3DS games after having seen the overall fandom response to release and long-term impact and the way it's looked back on and such is... bizarre, honestly? Like, maybe it's just because we got our introduction to gaming in the 3DS era, but it's incredibly strange to know that games we knew and loved and would have considered relatively mainstream just... didn't stick in people's minds.

Like, take the Gen 6 Pokemon games. Those were great games! One of the single things about X/Y/OR/AS that we don't see people talking about but that stuck in our mind was how the developers made an effort to make it so that every single Pokemon in the games prior was spread between just those four games! We remember that just the sheer variety of potential Pokemon available was enough to get us a start into challenge runs simply by virtue of how much variety could be added to a playthrough by the sheer amount of potential on offer!

We remember spending hours just... hunting around the region to figure out where those last Pokemon we needed to fill the 'dex were, wandering around to try and find Hidden Ability pokemon from Horde battles, getting to actually interact with our Pokemon in Pokemon Amie.

Yeah, there were more obscure games out there, and yeah, they impacted us as well - Pocket Card Jockey stands out in this regard, as an extremely fun game that we're pretty sure was played by maybe three people, maximum, but it's not quite the same. These were games that we played ourself! These were games we saw other people playing, that we played with people over the internet, that felt like they were well-known! We were under the impression that these were mainstream interests, not Niche! it feels... singularly bizarre to realize that, for the majority of people out there, this game was a forgettable disappointment.

#we speak #nintendo 3ds #obviously theres the nostalgia factor and such since the 3ds was the first gaming console we ever owned #as well as our ONLY gaming console for like. right up until ~2 years ago we think? #but like. youre telling us that x/y is less popular than sun/moon? #you mean there are real actual people who think that hgss's following mechanic was more notable than xy's entire bottom screen? #you don't like petting pokemon? pat pat? #we went into hacking our spare ds today and getting some games off of hshop #and like. gods. do you know how fucking bizarre it is to go into the games that shaped our... #well. maybe not childhood but certainly a substantial part of our teen life #and discover that all of the games that we remember loving the most are like. seen as Forgotten Entries or Black Sheep? #this doesn't just extend to x/y btw #we see a lot of people dunking on like. gates to infinity? and like yeah gti wasnt the most POLISHED entry out of em #but it was still an incredibly enjoyable game that had massive impact on later entries in the series #gates to infinity's core themes carried forward into super mystery dungeon to the point that psmd can read as a direct continuation of it! #its like. augh! youre telling me that when we say we loved gti we're expressing an opinion only shared by like three people? #what are we? the Random Black Sheep Unloved By The Fandom As A Whole Guy? #...well. we mean. we kind of are that guy judging by our taste in characters but STILL #you cant tell us that the games that made up most of our communication outside of our family for over a year are Forgotten #and just expect us to like. be okay with it #when we said we were going to get more weird we didn't mean learning people think the 3ds games are The Worst In The Series #what do u MEAN u genuinely think that xy is the worst in the series and have proof we are playing it right now and its very fun #how about our proof huh. we are using a mothim for our nuzlocke run and having a great time. if u think its too easy turn off the exp share #we are in your house and home #we are also mad that swsh doesnt let you turn off the exp share from when we played it in a totally legal and not piracy related way

[meownotgood]

my very first fictional crush vs my current one what do you think they'd talk about if they met

#outing myself as an n lover.... I was never immune to his charms #I don't know why but I've been thinking about pokemon lately and how much I want to replay some of the games #every summer I feel the urge to play a pokemon game #and I was just reminded of N #when young me played black and white and N invited me on the ferris wheel with him.... #and then when he walks towards your sprite really fast so he basically gives u a kiss #I felt things in my heart towards pixels on a screen I have never felt before #I literally remember using the internet function on my ds to search for N x hilda fan art #and I would save it to my gallery so I could admire it later when I was thinking of him #hilda was me btw #he's still so cool by the way I love you natural harmonia gropius #why do I feel like they have nothing in common besides having stupid looking hair #N immediately starts babbling on about how he's gonna liberate all pokemon and aki's like 'ok what is a pokemon is that some kind of devil' #forgive me I can't sleep and so I need to post about my silly little fixations

[kakusu-shipping]

Maybe you could do Teddy or Mario + Luigi for a moodboard? ^^

Also your self ship moodboards look so cool?? :O Like I love how they look like a collage and they really fit with the characters! <3

Thankyou!! I always preferred collage style Moodboards to the 6 square ones personally, but I still feel like mine are a little to sloppy

Here's Teddy! We're messy is the main aesthetic I guess. We make eachother worse, but in a comforting way.

And here's Mario and Luigi's! The biggest one I've made so far! There's a lot to them!!

#Emile's Edits #Selfship Moodboard #Teddy #Mario #Luigi #Okay I'm in a vibe now I think with these #I might do a few more person I open full general requests though #Because I realize now I'm not. I'm not getting the self ship part across well fkgjkfd #The DS I Love You Image made me realize that #Like oh usually people put more than just like. The Dynamic in there #It's. It's more about how the character loves you? I think? #Than about the two of you as one #I think?? #I'll figure it out I'll figure it out #Thankyou very much for sending this request btw #I've been sick the past few days so I kinda started this moodboard project and then dropped it #Which wasn't GREAT #I theoretically could have cut out a PGN of Teddy to make him a transparent for this #But like I said. Been sick for like four days straight. #So not in the Vibe for it

[arolesbianism]

Who wants to talk me down from making an oc inspired by the ringside reporter from rhythm heaven cause I sure am one hair away from staying up too late doing just that

#rat rambles #^ guy who has been desperately trying to find uploads of every minigame in japanese but has been struggling like hell #japanese ringside reporter is the only character that matters #also the english marchers dub sucks SO bad I love that game but maybe it wasnt worth bringing back /j #english see saw can stay tho I like them more than the original #also for the record the english reporter is techically just fine I just love the og sm that its all I can listen to lol #tbh I kinda wanna make a bunch of rhythm heaven inspired designs but I dont have enough clear ideas to commit #except for the reporter. Im gonna turn that guy into a fucked up cat #but the tall tappers are another one I wanna make a design based on along with that farmer dude from the second game #oh and the kick guy #and the original japanese isy favorite version for that minigame too btw by a landslide #I tend to preffer the original japanese for most minigames but its generally not by a whole lot unless its marchers or smth #ok rhythm heaven posting done back to sobbing over how close yet so far away I am from remix 10 in fever #I would also play ds but I have no money and am not gonna try playing it emulated(<- already tried (<-suffered))

[mayonaka-sunshine]

the funniest thing is. even if i egave him a weapon. it's mire. he's out of range to fight back,,,

fascinating........ <- i have never gotten that far in awakening

#my rom version on citra played really bad. so i only got a few areas in #like. around the time you get lo'que (is that how his name is spelled?) is where i stopped #i have awakening on my ds proper now tho i should play it again........ #but also i just got okami hd on my switch so maybe i should play that #btw blake u should play okami #no reasoning behind that i just love that gme and think everyone should play it

[v-iv-rusty]

bloodborne is one of the few games that can be kind of emotionally draining for me if I play it for too long (in a good way) but the main thing that keeps me going is the need to see what new kind of fucked up creature is creaching just around the corner

#misc.txt #echo plays bb #the sound design in this game is great #you hear the worst noises you've ever heard just as you're about to put down the controller for the night #and then it's like 'oh well I just have to go see whatever the fuck that thing is now.' #got to bloodstarved beast today and it is soooo so gross and wet looking. I love it. it's awful. bestie <3 #I also noticed that the crawling guys down in the sewers are still wearing clothes. I'm. unsure how I feel about that #curious what the lore is on what determines the different types of beasts people turn into? I assume that's what's going on down there #I 'finished' the quest with gascoigne's daughter as well. or at least she's not at the window anymore. :( #idk what I expected honestly. I've been spoiled on all the main things in this game (lore+most bosses) but not all the inbetween stuff #was sort of hoping that maybe if I gave her the brooch she would stay put..but I knew that wasn't going to happen #BUT I did get an old lady to go to the chapel. she kinda sucks but that's ok #chapel dweller has a friend now :) btw if anything happens to him I'm killing everyone in this room and then myself #(I say in regards to a game that's even worse than ds when it comes to 'everyone you love dies')

[gabrielsbubblegumbitch]

Since you said you're interested to know, the way I see findom working for VoxVal is like this: It's essentially a power play, Vox is the type to have that traditional masculine ideal of being the provider in a relationship, to be the one who works and accomplishes more than his partner so they can rely on him, but he is insecure over this role, especially since Valentino doesn't really need him to thrive. That's where the financial domination comes into play, giving money and gifts relieves him from the feeling of inadequacy. It's a serving and self-humiliation act, knowing that Val doesn't need it, and holds the power to decline his expensive gifts and the money thrown at his feet, is all part of the thrill, a fantasy of being ruined financially by his lover (not for real, but the risk of it is exciting), it's a type of worship and a way of giving up control. As for Valentino, he likes it when Vox does things for him and spoils him with fancy gifts, enjoying this subtle act of admiration and submission Vox gives him. He is not as into this kink as him, but it's fun enough that he's glad to indulge him. Val also knows when to put a stop to it before Vox goes too far and ruins himself by being too caught up in the play, but of course sometimes things can get out of hand and Vox gets pissed about it later. Btw, I see this happening only after their relationship gets more stable and Vox is more comfortable to show his sub side. (I don't think I explained it too well, I'll write a fic to put it into perspective a bit better)

OHHH okay there was some miscommunication because in previous ask you wrote "financial domination by Vox" and I understood it as Vox being a findom when he's so obviously a finsub material, that's what I couldn't grasp. But our visions align perfectly I see, thank you for writing that ❤️ imo you described it really well

It's fortunate that Vox is probably Hell's equivalent of Elon Musk and it takes a lot to drive him into financial ruin. Do you think he wants to be stopped? Or is it autodestructive? Like in findom there's this cycle of paying a tribute -> paying way too much and causing serious financial damage -> guilt and self loathing -> leaving -> relapse. I subscribe to the idea that (like in any other Ds dynamics) it's Dom's responsibility to keep sub safe and findom is about control, not just draining as much as possible. BUT plenty of subs I've encountered got really pissy if I denied tributes when we get to stage 2. Basically they were like "you are ruining it, stop being nice, that's not what I pay for", so in love with the idea of being radicaly dehumanized. How is Vox when Val tries to stop him? Is he grateful Val cares, is he annoyed because it ruins his degradation fantasy or maybe he's pissed that Val assumes he cannot control himself?

Also, good luck with working on your fic, I woul love to read it 🩵

#hazbin hotel #vox #valentino #voxval #ask #vox hazbin #valentino hazbin hotel #staticmoth

[chronicbeans]

I really love how you write Wally :)

Can you do one with the reader try’s to play video games with him? You can write about video game you want btw

Wally playing video games is something that increases my serotonin. It is time to make the ultimate semi crossover of funny, silly puppet man and the serious and (at points) sad Persona 5 Royal because I want to see Wally's reaction to those topics. Especially since he probably doesn't even know like... Half of what is going on.

So I guess spoilers for Persona 5 Royal. The game is explained so poorly in this that people will probably not understand anything (much like Wally), but there are still some spoilers.

Reader Playing Videogames with Wally Darling (mainly Persona 5 Royal, but others are mentioned):

🎮 So, it turns out Wally has a bit of trouble holding controllers. He only has three fingers and a thumb on both hands, as well as felt for skin. Most controllers just fall out of his hands, so he mostly just watches you play.

🎮 Wally CAN play games on a DS, Wii U, or other consoles that can be laid flat and controlled using a screen and stylist. Some of his favorite are any Pokemon games that let you play with the Pokemon (he hates making them fight, so he makes you go out and catch them for him. Also, he'll have you play through the story because of the fighting), Nintendogs (he always names his dogs Barnaby. He has Barnaby, Barnaby 2 and Barnaby 3...), and Super Mario 3D Land.

🎮 Mist of the times, he just watches you play the games. Ever since you got Persona 5 Royal, though, he has been on an emotional rollercoaster. He doesn't understand even HALF of what is happening. Like... WHY ARE PEOPLE BEING SO MEAN? He doesn't know what they are doing, but they know they are being mean because people in the game are reacting with like... Horror once they find out. At least you fix them in the end? And the art is good!

🎮 Your character is also cool! He doesn't understand why people don't like you? What is a "probation"? Wait, you committed a crime?! No, people just think you did? HUH? A politician accused you of it? What's a politician?

🎮 You make a lot of friends, though, and fight the bad guys! Even one of the people you fight becomes a friend! Her name is... Futaba Sakura? Her name sounds cool! Along with all the characters' names! She didn't seem so mean, though, so he doesn't understand why you fought her or why she wanted you to. She kinda reminds Wally of himself in a few ways, to be honest.

🎮 Then the ending and the second ending after that is really cool! When he saw that like... one bad guy you fought that was like... keeping the weird second versions of people in prison? He was kinda like "Woah! He looks so big and scary! Wow! I don't even know what is happening, still! Yippee! 😁" Then there was the guy who was your... uhh... counselor! Yeah, counselor! He seemed more like Futaba in that he didn't seem so bad. He still doesn't understand why making a world where everybody is happy forever is bad. Even if it is fake, everybody is happy! That's how all stories should end! Right? At least that counselor guy had a slightly happy ending, though!

#welcome home #welcome home arg #wally darling #wally darling x reader

[hello---cello]

Dakota drawings + headcanons cause I got humongous brain rot from her : )

close ups and some explanations below the cut.

Ok, so a LOT of the drawings are head-canons from the intern Noah AU I have since she gets a part in it later on.

First up are the gamer Dakota head-canons! after meeting Sam she wanted to get into it to bond with him and well, she's now a classic stay up all night gamer. she'll learn to stay up without fatigue eventually. They are playing Hypixel btw.

Another gamer head-canon, her first system was a DS and is in love with Mario Party. She's more of a casual campy gamer, horror games and shooters are not her forte.

just some regular Dakota.

More regular Dakota because she is pretty. I think I like this drawing of her the most. Just realised I forgot her glasses on the drawings oh dear god I'm a faliure.

Lil bit of Intern Dakota. She was sitting on a barrel but I'll be honest i forgot to line it when inking so she can just float instead ( :

I just wanted to draw a full body and figure out how her pants were supposed to work.

Dakota has been saddled with paperwork duty here. Oh the joys of not having a dedicated legal intern for the legal department. Gee, thanks Noah.

So, I'm my AU, Dakota never goes Dakotazoid cause Noah stops Chris from radiating the island. She also stays an intern thought the Pahkitew season. This is her trialing the Meat chunks drink. she is not happy about it.

Also! If you read this far, awesome! And if you have any questions about the AU then don't be afraid to send an ask and I'll get to it when I can : )

#my art #total drama #total drama fanart #td dakota #intern noah au #Dakota td

[chaifootsteps]

Hi Norry.

I see you cropped out a small bit of my ask when referring to you speaking to minors.

You gonna address DaniDraws's-sorry-Ms How to Fuck Your Dragon's dragon porn? Or that Viv liked it? Or going after Chai on AO3 with his tags, yet Viv, Raph, and Dani love the fact that Stolas has a cloaca? (Y'know, actual animal genitals) (and Dani has tons of porn about said cloaca) Or how about you supposedly supporting Palestine when your precious creator has her show streaming on Amazon, y'know, the company supporting genocide.

Oooohh, let's also talk about how Dani has body pillow art of the sexualized adult characters from HB, with Octavia, the 17 year old child, up on Rule34.com!! I love seeing a child character surrounded by naked adults (one of them being her fucking mother btw) on a porn website!! :)

Not to mention Viv's bathtub snake porn involving a minor!!

You wanna say Chai is into CP? (He isn't) Why don't you look inside the fucking house first, Norry. Because that's where the call is coming from.

Not to mention Viv eating Starbucks and McDonald's...

You're such a hypocritical fucking coward

Even DS blocked Dani for their usage of animal genitalia.

Screenshot this entire thing and come up with a response to it. No, really, I'd love to see it! :)

One thing I'll grant DS -- other than the fact that he's turning over the account and retiring for his health, which is great -- is that he at least tries to pick a moral stance and stick with it. He knows he can't actively be doing the thing he insists is wrong. So he'll denounce and block Danidraws for the cloaca thing, might gloss on by when you point out that it was Viv and Raph's idea, but he's at least got some kind of consistent principles.

Norry doesn't do that. Norry screeched at Steven Asarch for communicating very, very briefly with the 17-year-old who pointed him towards the Viv spreadsheet, and when shown evidence of her speaking to a different 17-year-old, replied that it was totally fine because "I was encouraging kindness."

Norry's entire argument boils down to "It's fine when I do it because I'm a Good Person [citation needed], but Chai's a bad person so it's not okay."

And no, she won't screenshot this entire thing. Because she's a hypocrite.

#Anonymous #norrynator #vivziepop fandom #viv stuff #actual blog post

[kimbapisnotsushi]

shiratorizawa/inarizaki headcanons bc i miss them and i love them and i crave yamagata and reon content so i have to be the change i want to see in the world. so let's go!!

reon, the love of my life

i actually think he really likes comforting cozy slice-of-life sim games, like stardew valley and animal crossing and such

okay this is the part where i retcon the entire haikyuu timeline bc i really like the idea of everyone piling into reon's and tendou's dorm and watching reon game on a switch

or just like. gathering in the common area and squishing onto the couch or whatever while reon roams his island collecting fruits and bugs or whatever

(these games are the only sense of peace and stability reon gets at this goddamn school)

anyways it's funny bc tendou screams every time reon runs into a wasp's nest and yells "RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN" until reon either gets stung or successfully evades them

admittedly i do think the ds and gameboy are sacred and, for the sake of nostalgia, are definitely used to play pokemon (of which everyone has a favorite gen and get into endless arguments about it)

tendou DOES teach goshiki how to pirate shit and get ROM hacks and emulators and such tho

reon and semi are the most popular members out of the third years btw

they're both polite and calm and generally nice and don't have an RBF that makes people nervous

too many people keep trying to fight yamagata just bc they think he's glaring at them and he is SO tired

yamagata (slightly inspired by my own recent purchase) decides to get a phone charm to see if it'll help him keep track of his phone btw

he mentions this idea to semi who mentions it to reon who mentions it to tendou who blabs to the whole team. and guess what? everyone gets the absolutely brilliant idea of gifting yamagata a phone charm!!!

so now he has like a dozen different ones. and he's STILL losing his goddamn phone, so now his convos are like "have you seen my phone? yeah right now it's got a little phone charm hanging off of it, so just keep an eye out for that. what does the charm look like? oh i meant it's a charm that is literally a phone. of course it was tendou, who else do you think it was"

tendou has also taken to putting stickers on yamagata in an attempt to make him "less scary". sometimes yamagata knows about it. sometimes he doesn't.

kawanishi: "yamagata-san, pardon me for asking, but why do you have one-punch man on your butt" yamagata: "i have what now"

tendou meets someone he can talk to manga about online in some fandom/community forum or whatever and he is absolutely BETRAYED to find out that it's akagi michinari of inarizaki

okay not really but he is SUPER dramatic about it and keeps going on and on to akagi about how he can't be caught fraternizing with the enemy

akagi is just like "yeah yeah now are we going to talk about the complexities of yoru being both a victim and a perpetrator and his inevitable redemption arc or what"

(GO READ GOKURAKUGAI I AM BEGGING)

aran is still scared of tendou btw. like he won't outright admit it but he's still not over the time tendou yelled that he was going to piss in his pants from all the way across the court.

when akagi tells him they've become friends aran is like "are you SURE about that"

also i know tendou gets pissed off at suna. but i think it'd be REALLY funny if suna got pissed off at kawanishi

something something "he should be more sure of himself, he'll never stop aran-san like that" something something "and i thought i was a sarcastic little bitch" something something "no i DON'T think he's cute what the fuck are you on about"

(i didn't mean for it to go that way when i started typing it but i DO think it'd be an absolutely hilarious development)

i htink kawanishi and shirabu go on a lot of study dates, holing up at coffeeshops and boba cafes with their backpacks and notebooks and spending hours on homework and studying

shirabu worked his ass off to get into shiratorizawa and he intends to keep it that way!! he's a model student. probably even the top of their year. everyone knows him as the high-achiever.

kawanishi is there to make sure shirabu doesn't get lost inside his head and gets him take breaks and makes sure he doesn't get sucked into the endless soulless spiral of academic rigor at an elite private high school

basically: shirabu's consistently on the path to burnout and kawanishi is there to keep the flames alive

(hey that would be a good fic summary)

maybe that's another thing, then, that helps kawanishi and suna become friends. because suna's been there. suna knows, sometimes, that feeling of imposter syndrome. feeling like you don't belong. feeling like you have to prove your worth, your entire existence, just to be able to stay in a place you love, even if that place might not love you back.

and kawanishi knows shirabu would rather shove a volleyball down his throat than open up about the bad days and the bad feelings, so he picks suna's brain instead to find out how he can help. what he can do. what shirabu might be thinking and how kawanishi can fix it

you can't, suna tells him, you can't fix something like this. he has to learn to live with it. to grow around it. to believe in something better until it's the only thing he believes in. but having people you care about care about you helps. it did for me.

and so kawanishi is there to draw the blanket around shirabu's shoulders, and he's there to put snacks on shirabu's desk, and he's there to flip shirabu's textbook close when the clock hits eleven they need to sleep, and he cares for shirabu in all the ways shirabu can't care for himself and hopes that it's enough

#'sou leave suna's homesickness out of it whenever they write an inarizaki hc post' challenge FAILED!!!! #it gets me EVERY time okay #anyways i actually can't see kawasuna working SUPER well bc their personalities/attitudes are more parallel than complimentary imo #suna just thinks he's kind of cute that's all #BUT this is excellent excellent bait for kawashira. the beloveds #anyways shiratorizawa is just full of people with self esteem issues #oohira reon #tendou satori #yamagata hayato #semi eita #akagi michinari #suna rintarou #ojiro aran #kawanishi taichi #shirabu kenjirou #kawashira #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #haikyuu hcs #sou says stuff

[lo-shouldve-been-an-email]

So remember my post about ranking different Thanatos across media?well I’m doing it again.(just with Hermes this time.

Also spoilers.

Percy Jackson(I know this is movie Hermes but I couldn’t find a good illustration of book Hermes.):

8/10

Better than the other gods in this series,at least he stuck with Luke until the whole May thing.also he does genuinely seem to care about Luke.so he gets better rating than I would give the others.

Lore Olympus:

7/10

He doesn’t get much screen time but I wholeheartedly think he’s the second best character in this entire comic(you should be able to guess who’s my favorite)

So yeah,he’s pretty dope.(unlike other characters in this comic *cough cough* hades)

Hades:

10/10

I can’t even describe how much I love him.

When I think of Hermes this is the characterization I think of because it’s just so good.

Like,speedy?here,have +30% speed.trickster and liar?hmm,I wonder where Persephone is,also what Hermes is doing.merchant?well,just ask his associate!(also side hustle)

Also,he has some really good boons like side hustle,rush delivery,the automatic god meter one,plus dash,and side hustle.

And the lambent plume is really good.

Another thing,I just got the prophecy where he bets you to beat up Charon twice in a row and he really just said “hey so I made a bet with my boyfriend that you could kick his ass could you,like,go do that?”

Osp:

9/10

Cool lil guy.

He’s fast and mischievous and a little shit in more ways than one and I love him for that.

Also his design is cool.

Digimon:

7/10

Does this guy count?Only in name.

But anyways,I’m just gonna take this time and tell you to go watch Digimon savers(sub,I wouldn’t say the dub is terrible persay but it just takes away at a lot of nuance that I liked in the Japanese version)

If you like series where the main character saves the day with the power of friendship and this orange/yellow dinosaur they found(and a healthy dose of kicking ass)you WILL like this series.

But,going back on track I like him.doesn’t feel like a Hermes but still cool.

The thing with rating Digimon like this is that they tend to vary between games/anime,my main example being alphamon in world ds vs cyber sleuth(both of which you should play btw).

But thankfully he only appears in savers and I like him a decent bit there if only *spoilers*

Punderworld:

8/10

Okay,you might be wondering:Moxe,why is punderworld here if it wasn’t in the Thanatos post?

First of all,I forgot about him,sorry.

Second of all,literally the only thing to note about him was the torch thing which I found pretty cool.

So back to Hermes,I really like him.

His interactions with Alecto were fun.

I don’t really have much else to say.

#lore olympus #anti lo #anti lore olympus #lo critical #lore olympus critical #lo criticism #lore olympus hermes #hades hermes #hades supergiant #overly sarcastic productions #hermes #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #Digimon #digimon savers #punderworld

[lilaccoffin]

Had some thoughts today...about their relationship...

Mostly how Chai's envy towards Vanilla gradually culminates into their falling out.

Like, they both have a lot of similarities and differences that contribute to Chai deciding to ghost Vani, both being dudes struggling with inferiority complexes in different ways. Chai handles his by gassing himself up to be the coolest dude ever because no one can call you a loser if you don't act like one, right? And his slacker attitude going hand in hand with his fear of rejection. If you don't try and put your best into stuff or do anything, it won't sting as much if someone tells you you sucked or rejects you, right?

For Vanilla, he copes with these feelings of inferiority by working his ass off to prove himself, masking his autistic behaviors and being as by-the-book as much as possible. Sure, he isn't always 100% compliant, I mean, he's lying to his parents about his major so that he can do what he actually wants to do, but for the most part, he's the type of guy who thinks doing things like they're instructed to be done will reward him. This results in all of his anxiety and stress in school. He basically overexerts himself where Chai does not.

I've boiled down three things that Chai's envious of and it's Vanilla's friend group in college, school stuff, and finally, the band that came to talk to their class.

1: The Friends...

At the start of the game, Chai tells Peppermint he's better off by himself and in general you get this air that Chai is a loner. (Using Lonely Boy as the opening song of the game is also uh...y'know, a huge indicator.) A lot of the fan base (me included) headcanon that Chai had a really hard time making friends growing up. He was the weird kid, and some (if not most) of the teasing also came from a place of ableism. I know a lot of us also headcanon Chai to have ADHD and that paired with him not being able to fully use his right arm gave bullies a lot of material. I remember someone (edit: FOUND THEIR POST, psychangels said this and it's a really good post btw) mentioning Chai dealing with pity/fake friends too and I can definitely see that and how it contributes to him being cautious of new "friends." Vanilla was pretty lucky to even get as close to Chai as he did. The shared love of music and having classes together were probably the main reasons their friendship worked for as long as it did (not very long, but not very short). Well, Chai wasn't Vanilla's only friend, even if it seemed like it at times with how often Vanilla wanted to be around him. He has a group of gothic pals who care about him a lot, most of them being people he met in middle school that he was happy to be able to go to high school and now uni with. Chai tends to just observe them from a distance because Vanilla's friends don't really like him very much over some of his crappy behavior towards Vani, and he sees how close and happy they are. Makes him wish he had that, but he tries his best to ignore it since years of bullying have made it really uncomfortable for him to accept genuine connection or kindness. It's already tough when Vanilla is so nice to him, a friend group full of that? Makes him nervous to even think about it. Though Vani and his friends aren't the type to fake anything, he's still weary.

2: School...

So, yeah, Chai isn't getting the best grades whereas Vanilla is getting straight A's. Again, Vanilla works his little ass off to get the grades his parents want him to have and Chai doesn't put that much effort into his work. To him, half-assing it also diminishes the sting of rejection if his professors don't like any of his genuine work, so getting Cs and Ds are good enough. Even with music focused classes Chai tends to take it easy. I can see him being the kind of guy to ask why they need to study the other stuff that has nothing to do with how to make music? Still, his slacker persona tends to aggravate a lot of his professors and they tend to exhibit some pretty nasty behavior towards Chai for it. Since Vanilla is hardworking and contributes to class discussions a lot, they're a lot more generous to him and have definitely cracked jokes about Vanilla's work vs Chai's. Vanilla would just nervously laugh while Chai rolled his eyes. God, actually, I don't doubt professors would make mean jokes often about those two. Probably begging Vanilla not to let Chai influence him. Vanilla didn't exactly do much about those jokes except wave/nervously laugh them off. He should have stood up to them and told them to stop making fun of Chai but, well, that kind of thing doesn't come easy to him (looks at him lying to his parents instead of putting his foot down with them about himself and his life and also how they would aaalways compare him and his older brother, which, yeah it bothered Vanilla to have their professors do the EXACT same thing with him and Chai, but...again, not REALLY great about confrontation during this time). Yeah, the way professors treat Vanilla compared to how they treat Chai also made Chai envious of Vani. Especially when it was something Vanilla could have helped to some degree if he told these people to shut up, but it's not like Chai expected him to stand up for him, either. Why would he? Why would anyone?

3: Last, the visit from the band...

Okay so, I've gone to community and uni, and it's not unheard of for a professor to have people agree to come in and talk to their students about stuff regarding the subjects they're studying. I've had professors who know some pretty neat people invite them to talk to us, so I imagine one of Chai and Vanilla's professors have done the same. I've written this scenario out before, but to TL:DR it, a band that actually went to their university and met in their classes agreed to come on down and talk to them all about the industry and how they do their thing. They went the full mile and brought their instruments and shared a short excerpt of a song with them, too. The band ended up being a band both Chai and Vanilla liked as well, so it was a pretty sick class that day! Vanilla gushes to Chai about how rad and inspiring it was and Chai offhandedly tells him he should share that new song he wrote with them and see what they think, not thinking Vanilla would actually go and do that, despite how he always considers Chai's suggestions. The band ends up really liking it and asking Vanilla if they could play a bit of it to hear it out loud, which makes him nearly faint (it's a good thing most of the class had left by then and it was just him, Chai, their professor, and the band, who was just about to put their stuff away to go). Chai's happy for Vanilla, but then he thinks back to the time he met his favorite band and how they received him...blowing him off completely (took some inspo from kennyswurvegurl's post here for the visual 'cause, damn, it hit hard). It led Chai into a bit of a spiral afterwards, wondering if maybe he really didn't have a future in all of this because of the cruelty he's faced from so many people. Seeing Vanilla flourish was every bit as painful as it was great. Sure, he tried to fall back into his cocky behavior to not think about it so much, but it was getting tougher with each snarky remark from a professor, each glare from Vani's friend group, and Vani himself being so hyped around him, the fake him.

It all just gets worse when Vanilla runs by the idea of starting a band together after Uni. In Vanilla's mind, it was a great way for them to fulfill their respective dreams of being rock stars and filling in for each other on the roles they couldn't do (Vanilla wants to sing but can't because of his monotone voice and Chai can't play guitar because of his arm.Sso in Vani's head, them doing each thing would be fine, right?). Chai just gets upset at the idea, feeling like he's being pitied all over again and that he's only going to achieve his dream by bumming off of Mr. straight A's? Nah. He rejects the offer, and after a week he drops out of college. It...super sucks for Vanilla because he thought the world of Chai. Sure, his friends get him to take off the damn rose tinted glasses after they tell him Chai wasn't really that great of a friend, but he still feels awful about Chai ghosting him and his own faults in their friendship.

#doodlies #hi fi rush #vanilla #oc x canon #KINDA...? it's their crumble fumble... #oh my god this got so long.. #this always happens with me idk why I'm always shocked FDJSLF #thank u to anyone who reads <3 #vanichai makes me ill...

[elpis-simps]

Okay I just found out something. So we all know Captain Marvel. (BTW this post is for marvel fans) and her movie. I've watched that movie multiple times. Love it, I think it's written fairly well, great CGI, funny script, good lore and story, love how everything ties in, overall its a really good movie; and captain marvel is one of my favourite superheroes, and one of the most badass.

WHY THE F*CK do people think she's a "bad movie and bad superhero" like it's one of the really good B.E movies! (Before Endgame)

**I'm using B.E as Befoee Endgame because A.E (after endgame) is arguably the worse marvel era. Don't get me wrong, it has some great stuff in A.E, but B.E is just better overall.

Anyways, back to what I was saying. I think k Brie Larson was a great actress and did really well portraying the character Captain Marvel. Not to mention captain marvel was one of the overpowered superheroes in the B.E era, before they started making everyone OP to defeat big CGI villains and to make their movies more action packed to get more views and stuff. She had good plotline, good powers, cool backstory, funny, and genuinely one of my favourite female superheroes.

I would love to see her as the new face of the MCU, A.E. considering they killed off what was generally considered the "face" of the MCU, Iron Man and Captain America, they haven't put much focus on one or two specific people to be aforementioned face.

Captain marvel hasn't been killed off, she has amazing potential, and she's personally one of my favourite 'Big Badass Backup To Fight Big Strong Villain" in those "No hope left" moments.

I don't understand the hate on her. May e its because she was, along with Natasha Romanff, one of the first female superheroes on-screen in the MCU. Sexism is a big thing in movies and stuff, but I have some reasons why I think she and another person- who I will mention later- should be the next 'Face of the MCU'.

1: the previous 'face' duo was Iron man and Captain America. So it sta ds to reason, along with what marvel has been doing to be more racially and gender inclusive, that we should have 2 female superheroes.

Yes I know the whole 'really overexaggerated feminist film superhero plotline new budget annoying superhero to earn more money and get higher ratings' thing is annoying; but hear me out.

Point 2: I have a few options, but to continue off of point 1; I feel like a good combo would be The Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel. (Wanda Maximoff and Carol Danvers)

They are both powerful, badass, good storyline, great actors behind them heroes/characters. They could make for a good duo to contrast from the B.E duo of men.

Point 3: yes u know that Wanda is 'dead' BUT before the rocks fell on her, you could clearly see a flash of RED MAGIC in the rocks. After the entire Dr Strange MoM (multiverse of madness) plotline was 'Scarlet Witch has grown in power she's following us into DUFFERENT DIMENSIONS and was prophesied since the DAWN OF TIME, and has unlocked much more of her powers, I HIGHLY doubt some normal old rocks would kill her.

It's just unlikely considering how obscure some of marvels foreshadowing has been, we know that they foreshadow films that come out like 3 years later.

Point 4: moving away from Captain Marvel and Wanda, how about a new duo.

Bucky Barnes and Yelena Belova. Its similar to the old duo of Captain America (man out of time, from 1940, soldier) and Iron Man (normal human, with special training/ gear that is one of the only things that makes them super.)

This duo would be interesting, especially as we've seen both bucky AND yelena on an official marvel movie poster together.

I personally love both characters;and it pays homage to the golden age of marvel B.E.

Bucky is homage to Captain America (obviously) and Yelena is homage to both Iron Man AND Natasha Romanoff.

And it could allow for more opportunity of the old age to come shining back through the new age, in the form of two humans, who have a rivalry,

(I think it would be interesting to have bucky and yelena to have a mild rivalry at least, considering we chose them due to there similarities with the old duo, cap and stark)

Who are also enhanced in ways that gives them an advantage in fighting, and it could give a lot of opportunity to save marvel. And bucky is a fan favourite character, so considering marvels reputation going down now their movies are getting worse COMPARED TO B.E, I think this could be a great way to bring the nostalgia of the old movies back.

So my original rant was about captain marvel being hated. Sorry for making you read all this, and if you have read everything here, I thank you immensely for giving me the time and chance.

I really miss the B.E era, and hate how they kill off all the OG great characters for new, sh*ttier superheros like Kamala Khan.

So here is just some ideas in my passionate rant which I would love to see. I love Wanda and Captain marvel, but personally I think I would prefer the Winter Soldier and White Widow duo because it would need less fancy magic CGI, and give the film(s) they appear in a more B.E and better quality feel then just a bunch of CGI that takes away from the quality of the movie and storyline, and the lack of CGI ( I mean the bright magic flashy stuff they constantly use in A.E, not the general cgi they more often use in B.E)

Would give the film(s) a better, more enostalgic, more authentic, emotional, just overall better film quality and plotline.

#marvel #marvel mcu #MCU discussion #bucky barnes #yelena belova #wanda maximoff #captain marvel #carol danvers #the scarlet witch #the winter soldier #white widow #mcu #marvel films #future of marvel #fanbase #captain america #iron man #black widow #red room #avengers endgame #golden age #the golden age of marvel #ideas #ideas for marvel #long post #very long post #sorry for how long this post is #thank you #thanks for reading #elpis_simps

[pkmn-art-reblogs]

the funniest thing of running a pokemon fanart archive, and the beauty of pokemon as a franchise i think, is seeing how people fixate on THE most uncommon things. like yeah of course there's people drawing lucario and mewtwo over and over. but there's also that guy that REALLY loves xatu, and the one that thinks about yellow from pokespe every single day, and the one that's made an alternate (better btw) mythos around reshiram and zekrom. and this dude wants to see this random npc's titties so bad that he draws her over and over again!! has done so for the last 8 years!! do you remember pokemon dash for the nintendo ds? do you maybe wish every day to finally forget it ever existed? that's SO sad to guy-whose-favorite-game-ever-is-pokemon-dash. ANY guy that you could think of EVER exists in the pokemon fandom i swear

#pokemon #fanart #fandom

[wise-lizard-wizard]

thoughts on dino squad? (2007)

(btw it’s episodic. You can watch it in any order tbh (first episode is titled ‘the beginning’))

I absolutely adore it!

I run the account Victor-Veloci-Simp-69.

I've been thinking about linking it to my Main, purely bc when I reblog and reply on posts, it shows my main, so it seems like I don't interact with people as my DS account, which makes me sad because it feels like I might be interpreted as standoffish? But I never have time, and it feels insignificant to do so.

I watched the show when I was a kid, then rediscovered it a couple of years ago, and now every few years I rewatch it.

Its not Technically a "good" show but eh. I love it.

I think the reason why I'm so obsessed with the show is because (This going to get so long, I am so sorry, I have so many thoughts)

There are so much that is just never adressed. I have so many thoughts. There is so much to expand on, so many AUs that are there for the imagining.

I genuinely like the episodes. The plot is genuinely so much fun. The why's of these plots is...questionable. The how's is fun tho.

IT IS SO INCONSISTENT! Okay, not part of why I like it, but Ahhhhhhhhh. None of it makes sense. The characterization changes literally seconds apart!!!!! WHAT!!!!!

JUST FROM EPISODE 1: WHY IS BUZZ DEPICTED AS AN ANIMAL LOVER AND THEN GOES "NAH, I'M NOT SAVING THE DOG FROM DROWNING". This happens seconds Apart!!!!

Why does Roger act indifferent about the assignment and then say "we should work together on this assignment" and Care about the assignment. SECONDS APART!!!!!

THEN THERE'S THE ANIMATION! OH MY GOD. At 4:21, Caruso is shown barefoot. At 4:25 HE HAS SHOES ON.

Ms Moynihan after they get mutated goes: "I told u not to go into the water" NO YOU DIDN'T. YOU NEVER SAID THAT. WHY R U LYING.

(Okay, so she could have said that off screen,I'll give it a pass, but also Literally No Where was that message implied to have been said before she stated that. Also, that implies that she knows Veloci is regularly dumping shit in the water.)

Also, Veloci injects Peter in episode 1 and this is just...never adressed again? What does that do to Peter, besides his eyes changing? THERE IS NO EFFECT WHAT DOES IT DO, I DON’T REMEMBER SEEING THE GUY EVER AGAIN WHAT!!! WHY DID VELOCI DO THAT.

Since Peter was injected with the Ooze, but Veloci is looking for his "perfect dinosaurs", then that inplies Peter is a failed dino. What happened to him? I am in hysterics. What. DOES VELOCI JUST HAVE LIKE A BUNCH OF STAFF THAT ARE FAILED DINOS!!!? I HAVE QUESTIONS!!!

I AM....AHHHHHHHHHHHH....I am so normal about this hahahaha.

Which is probably why it sticks in my head so much. Any media I get obsessed with usually has some aspect that makes me want to rip apart a chair with my teeth. Half the fun is telling my friend about the thing that makes me choke in frustration/rage. I like ranting. Its part of the fun to me.

4) I love the animation style.

5) I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS, I AM CLAWING AT MY ENCLOSURE, HOW!!! HOW DID VELOCI AND MS M SURVIVE IN THAT CAVE???? WHERE THEY SLEEPING FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS??? IF SO, HOW WHERE THEY NEVER DISCOVERED BY HUMANS IN ALL THAT TIME?

AT WHAT POINT DID THEY AWAKEN? THROUGH WHAT TIME PERIODS HAVE THEY LIVED? HOW DID THEY EXPIERIENCE WORLD WAR 1? WORLD WAR 2? ALL THE TRAGEDIES? How did they get from point A to point B????

How did they get to their current lives?

There is so much that remains a mystery. And with the large amounts of time Veloci and Ms M had, there is so much thats just. Not there. There are so many gaps to fill. There are so many AUs that can happen. And with the inconsistencies, there are so many places where I can't image the characters are anything but either unreliable or maybe even straight up lying...

Oh, and that's the other thing:

5) They are all, and I mean every single character, Major Assholes. The assholiest. Their only consistent character trait is being an asshole. I love it.

Anyway, I am sooooi normal about this show. So normal.

Also, very important! I love your dinosquad posts!!!! They're really cool, and I love seeing you in the fandom! Just. Feel really gushy about your posts. Also, I always feel really happy when I see you liked one of my Dinosquad posts. Its a small fandom, so I always feel like I'm talking into a void.

I have more thoughts, but this post has gotte really long as is lmao. I am so sorry.

This ask meant a lot to me, so thanks ♥.

#Ask #dino squad #dinosquad #This ask has inspired me to do an episode by episode analysis I am obsessed #My dinosquad fase was dtarting to quiet down again but now Im fired up about it okay