#do i need more to add to this. iunno

[k1ll3r-k4rg0]

no minorrrss please, 18+ coz thats in my BLOG RULES thank youu

Okay here's a huge essay on why five nights at freddy's is very successful and works for me / has become popular. big inconsistent text dump to my friend in discord that i figured i should post. and ive already done so many essays so i dont want to clean this up coz im tired and my head hurts but im SO FUCKING INVESTED in fnaf right now. ok. the autism

many paragraph thoughts under the cut

Anyways. It’s obvious to me how FNAF was successful as a thing because A. it was VERY new when it came out and that was already working its favor. but why did THAT keep going to like 6 or 7 and counting games?? it’s coz B. the writing is??? good??? it balances horror and humor VERY well which is extremely important to make horror Approachable and accessible to a lot of people.

balancing horror and humor like that makes it so the game is not 24/7 stress, showing that it knows how to pace itself really well. i think the pacing is really well done in fnaf. to me, even tho the lore is mid because i like it better simpler, the way the lore ties in together across all of the games up until the pizzeria simulator AND keeps the vibes across all games AND tries new things with each game (some more successful than others) i think works VERY well in fnafs favor

like it was very well paced and very well tied together even though shit was made up as you go. ie scott (the creator) pulled that lore out of his ass. he only had the basic base level storyline there, but later iterations of it were added on later

unlike, for example, homestuck which is the same type of thing (made up as you go) but too much and too overwhelming. homestuck is its own big thing that like. changed a lot and was really groundbreaking for being new, but it went off the deep end and tried to be Too much. which honestly i think is similar with fnaf.

HOWEVER. even in security breach where it’s too much at once and just falls apart coz it was TOO ambitious, that story and that pacing is still??? there?? and the humor and the general tone of the whole thing is EXTREMELY consistent throughout the whole series and that’s really what makes it effective for me and why im still invested in this even like six games later

like the vibes stay the same. they dont really stray TOO much. and i think its great how Scott (the creator) tried different things in each game and each game is some iteration of the previous. some work better than others. but the tone is consistent (the humor and horror balance and pace out very well), and the vibes are consistent (the aesthetic remains similar throughout), and the pacing and the way the story and lore is hidden throughout everything is consistent. and i think because of that because it STICKS TRUE TO ITSELF it’s remained an extremely popular and successful franchise like i said. even in security breach. which is a complete wreck of a project. the lore and shit is still consistent in there (you just have a WAY harder time getting to it because everything else wasn’t optimized), and the pacing is consistent

and like i think also even when the story is done and finished. and it’s like oh just let the franchise die. let it be over. the games still remain successful to me coz of the consistency. you could’ve ended the story there, yes, but you didn’t, you kept adding lore. however you added lore in such a way that was consistent to the way lore was added in the beginning, and you kept your tone and your vibes and your pacing consistent, so any new lore even though pulled out of one’s ass / thin air still fits in completely with the franchise, unlike the way homestuck did it with the epilogues.

ok theyre also just really funny to me. theres this sorta dark humor in there and corporate failure shit going on thats just funny to me actually. i havent really found things this funny in like. a long time in media fr

#thats all #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #is there a tag. #for like??? info? lore?? thoughts??? reviews??? #review #do i need more to add to this. iunno #my writing #i think

[modern-inheritance]

HhhhnnnnnrrrggggggggGGGGG I absolutely HAVE to do my taxes today after work and at the same time I keep listening to EPIC’s ‘I’m not sorry for loving you’ and wanting to rewrite the Eragon confronting/apologizing to Arya at the Burning Plains for MIC.

I know I said it before, but I don’t think I said it this way. MIC!Arya is hurting when he does this. Because she knows she hurt him, she knows that in essence and all truth it was not her fault as her feelings are both her own and simply not the same (at the time) and Eragon was, though magic addled, in the wrong for continuing to make advances on her after she told him before (and more clearly in MIC, where she sets it out for him that she shows platonic affection more openly/differently due to the war shaping her and that she’s sorry if she gave him the impression of wanting a romantic relationship but she’s simply not interested and would rather remain friends if not just colleagues/bodyguard-and-ward if he can’t control his outbursts), but that doesn’t change the fact that she cares for him and Saphira and hates seeing either of them hurt.

And Eragon is starting to realize that. He's starting to realize just what exactly his advances could have looked like to her, could have done to her emotionally. Not just that he's putting her in a tough place as a friend, but politically, ethically, etc.

There is a WHOLE other draft of this post that goes into why I hate people who say Arya should have given Eragon a chance at that point in canon, or that she owed him for her rescue, but that's not what I'm talking about right now.

Eragon is right to not apologize for his feelings. They're his own. And, in MIC, he adds that Arya doesn't owe him any sort of explaination of why she rejected him. It's her right, and she doesn't need to explain why. And I think Arya would be torn in wanting to tell him that she is still coming to grips with Faolin's death, especially now that she's realized that he was out there for her rather than the cause, and that she's trying to protect him from others who would use any sort of romance against him. She waits until the campfire in Brisingr to explain it. Explain Faolin.

Iunno. I rambled. My lunch is over. I hunger.

#eragon #inheritance cycle #the cyclists #the world of eragon #the inheritance cycle #modern inheritance #ramble #rambling #modern inheritance stories

[palialaina]

Me and Jellybean just enjoying the new fireplace~!

Man, my house is getting to be so comfortable! I've still got some empty space, but like..

I am really happy with how comfortable I feel in it. And I've started looking into those modifications Tish told me about forever ago. Nobody told me I could turn my furniture pink!

Jel's been happy that I've been able to hang around more, since I'm not busy with a million other things. Well, I mean, I'm busy (I will find all the stuff for the Fish constellation, I will, I will) but not so busy that I can't come pester him.

Honestly, I may be forming something of a bad habit. But who better to go to than the local will-definitely-be-famous-you-dramatic-bastard tailor?

It's just... I dunno. Easier to convince myself I'm pretty after Jel's helped me come up with something to wear. He swears I look good no matter what, which is sweet, but I get anxious about it. It's kind of dumb, but it really makes me happy when he helps me put together something that is comfortable to me, and stylish in his eyes.

Although, it does lead to some hilarious words. He told me a bit ago that he'd been thinking about me. Which he then corrected to dressing me. And then he turned very purple and scampered off, and I had to find a bench and sit down because I was laughing so hard.

He's so wonderfully awkward, and just so dramatic. Tish told me he'd been down for a bit, and I definitely got a letter to that effect to, though uh...

I really don't think he thought about haw 'scandalous' that would be. He must've been way too distressed to actually read over the letter. (Lark looked at it with me, we were hanging out, and they agreed that it sounded a bit, uh... dramatic as well as other thing.)

I still wish Reth had given me the actual capanes recipe though. But I get keeping some recipes to yourself. I've been trying to experiment with bread, because I swear if I add something to it, I can make cookies, but I don't seem to be doing it right.

Good thing I can grow my own wheat. Sheesh.

But after I got him the capanes, Jel sent me that ornate mirror now in my bathroom. It's very.... extra, and I didn't know what to do with it at first. Then I figured I could use the small mirror to check my hair, and the large mirror to check the whole outfit.

Honestly, I admit, I can't bear to throw out anything he sends me. Ugh. I suppose I'm just as sappy as he is.

I've also gotten to be closer friends with Einar. I think. He's... weird, but I like him being weird? Iunno. I'm still not big on this whole fishing Oneness thing, but like...

So, Einar said he wanted to keep fishing, but he'd found an amazing pebble for his collection. And just... asked me to put it in his place. Einar lives in the bluffs. Literally in the bluffs. What the heck???

It's an interesting home, but it doesn't seem like a comfy place. Maybe that's cause I'm human? I dunno... Anyways, he had all sorts of things scattered about, logs from the person who created him apparently. I guess he's unique among Galdur, which does sort of track. Hekla is super focused on taking care of Jina, but Einar's always loved the shiny pebbles while also loving fishing. Apparently he names the fish too, which is cute.

(That reminds me, I need to go find some trout so I can cook up that dumb fish dinner. He had the recipe hidden in his cave!)

But I did that, and he thanked me, and I dunno. He's sweet in a weird way.

Dad was also really contemplative earlier too. He told me that even though he has plenty fo friends, I'm the one he really has opened up to. Maybe it's because I'm not Majiri, and can give him an outside perspective on things? Either way, I told him he was the best not!Dad I've ever had, and he looked really happy about that.

(So far, managing to not call him Dad to his face is going well! I only slipped up, uh..... twice? So far. Fortunately, he found me going Daaa....shura?" funny, so maybe I can get away with it? Heck, call him Dadshura or something!)

Honestly, the more I get to know Zeki, the more curious I get. He seems like a little conman who shouldn't care about anyone, but he's honestly not a bad guy. He has friends, he even intended to stick up for one! (Sure, they were running some sort of smuggling racket, but still.) But the Order decided his friend was guilty without a trial which... that doesn't seem right. But apparently that's how the Order works?

It makes me worry about Auni a bit. He wants to join the Order, but he's such a good kid too... Either they'd break him and he wouldn't be Auni any more, or he'd wash out and hate himself for failing in his Path like Reth does.

I kind of hope asking Dad eventually to be my Shepp won't mean I'm declaring this Path thing. Because being perfectly honest, if I did, it'd be more along the lines of Uncle B's life. I really enjoy the farming, and being able to dig my hands in the earth and figure out how to make sure everything grows all nice and useful!

Unrelated, I think Tish is over her... pettiness or jealousy, or whatever, cause she showed me a set of furniture she thought Jel might like called Moonstruck, and also gave me some of the blueprints! They're admittedly almost as bad as the Bellflower stuff for needing Flow-infused boards, and Palium, and goodness knows what else, but wow. They're pretty. It's almost enough to make me want to go goth style.

But I do not want to spend all my time chasing down flow trees and hunting Palium. No thank you. Homestead is enough for me.

Oh, though I have to remember to stop buying the cool stuff for a bit (Unless Zeki comes up with an awesome bathtub....), because Tish showed me the copper storage box upgrades and I really need more space for all the stuff I'm kind of.... hoarding.

I'm not really sure what to do with my free time right now, and it's left me wondering. Some stuff Uncle B and Auntie Dal have said about the crops, and the general lack of rain in the area makes me wonder if Kilima is going through a drought right now. It would explain why a lot of their produce is kind of... not useable.

Aaaand Auni just dropped off a letter from Elouisa about the fish I caught. He conspiracy theories are kind of fun, but I'm not really sure how much I actually trust her. Still, if she could put stuff like her artifacts from human times into a museum, maybe more humans could figure out what they are.

Maybe, something could tell us what's going on and why we're all suddenly... here.

#palia #palia online #singularity 6 #berry plays palia #palia game #palia journaling #palia journey #palia mmo #Palia roleplaying

[edducard]

OH YEAH I FORGOT TO SHARE THIS

So ik in yee oldie days the clones were kind of a... DID stereotype bad rep sorta thing, iunno how much of that has changed but I run purely off spite so what if I made them actual systems! Along w their hosts being their own kind of person. I ofc am a singlet but I talked w a few system buddies over this cause im cool like that cause representation matters!!!

Gonna add some fun tidbits udner the cut, enjoy <3

Redd is a severely socially anxious guy, like its almost debilitating how bad it is, which is why Edd is sorta front stuck w him because hes super extrverted and helps him with social interaction so he's not freaking out every time someone says hello to him. Tom rarely fronts but he's always kinda lingering there in headspace should he be needed, he's very much a protective alter (hence protector role lmao) but ofc has his own tendencies to take it too far and put them in dangr, which is where Tord usually comes in. He's the other protector who evens out Tom's hasteful nature whenever he does front. Tord is around much more frequently than Tom tho and Edd tries to get them to play tigether on the very rare occasion they front together. Matt is very vain as we all know so him being a caretaker is moreso in the line of him making aure the body is in peak condition! He's the one who makes sure they're loking their best and getting the body to sleep as a reasonable time and showering and all that. He fronts mostly in the morning and at night to do their beauty routine. They decided to fo with the Clone System as a name due to them being... all clones lmao, which btw they are cool w the idea cause they feel they are different enough from their sources that it's not a big deal (altho redd does sometimes have bif worry over it but edds here to help him out <3)

Bad Habits System! Torm is a very quiet kind of guy who is forced to listen to tom and tord yelling in his head all the time. He's usually the only one fronting but sometimes Tom takes the wheel when he's tired. Tom is very different in this system as compared to his source or Clone Sys, he does still drink but hes far more caring and a bit of a worrywart, hence his role as caretaker. Tord will force himself to front whenever the body is in danger and uses his absolutely unhingedass chihuahua personality to get them out of almost any situation (almost being the keyword here.) Pau is a bonus alter that comes w Tord due to my hc of Paul and Tord being very close. Hes a smoker alongside Tord so Torm is unfortunately forced to deal w that nastyass taste in his mouth all the time (cigars from tord and ciga from pau. Nasty.) Pau is different from Paul, hence the semi diff name, and is like a sort of mediator for Tom and Tord. He keeps everyone in line and honestly he just wants them to get along.... He's so tired, bro... They went w the Bad Habits Sys name because, ykno, Toms a drinker and Tord/Pau smoke. Torm doesn't rlly care for either but when stressed he will probably reach for a stick or bottle (addiction runs in the body not rlly the head so its hard to kick the habit even w them not fronting, unfortunately)

#eddsworld #tomattordedd #ew redd #ew torm #ew rejects #ew clones #commie art #Ive put a lot of thought into these guys! #I wanna make sure theyre dont right ykno #I do enjoy the idea of them being systems alongside being their own people #I also have hcs for other clones but #that'll b a diff post lmao

[deep-hearts-core]

1996 - pre-selection entries

welcome to "op drags himself through historical eurovision even if it kills him"! in today's episode: i listen to the 7 songs eliminated in 1996's pre-selection round. this will be short enough that i will stubbornly not do a readmore.

Denmark - Kun Med Dig i like a duet, and this isn't a bad duet, but it's such a 90s ballad that i'm certain it would have put me to sleep just like most of the other 1996 entries. A point in its favor: the lead singers have good chemistry with each other, they actually feel like they're singing to each other.

Germany - Planet of Blue This would be relentlessly memed upon if it were in the Eurovision public consciousness today. That's not to say it's bad. It's interesting. I kinda like it. It reminds me of the Hungarian Romeo and Juliet musical, in a way. Sort of. A little. And it certainly would have been more attention-grabbing than the ballad parade. But also it's not earth-shatteringly good? It ends abruptly and Leon isn't hitting all the notes very precisely.

Hungary - Fortuna He sounds timid and vocally wavery. Not very secure, needs more confidence and also more breath support. It's not a bad ballad, though (probably aided by it being in Hungarian, which is one of my favorite European languages aesthetically).

Israel - Shalom Olam Unironically this got robbed? I mean, the fake guitar playing is egregious and Galit isn't the greatest singer in the world ever. But it's, like, deeply fun and I think a lot more representative of mid-90s pop music than many of the songs that actually competed.

(North) Macedonia - Samo Ti This isn't a good genre for her vocal style; Crno i Belo is far and away the best Kaliopi entry. Her vibrato doesn't work here and it's not a particularly mind-blowing song either. Sorry girl.

Romania - Rugă pentru pacea lumii Sounds like a lot of the other songs but I really like the almost-choral, forceful sound that comes from having that many backup singers.

Russia - Ya Eto Ya Altogether probably a good thing that this didn't go to Eurovision, but I don't... hate it? It's a little weird. A little creepy. But there's just something about it. It's not something I'd listen to on my own time, but it's like, good elevator music? If a good singer sang over the Leverage soundtrack? iunno.

Overall, I would have preferred Hungary, Germany, and Israel to some of the songs in the actual show but nothing is really life-changing here, yknow? But this was fun it was a nice low-maintenance, 7-song activity to add to the tag.

#esc reviews

[finchsflight]

Finch’s Notes: Note 2

(reminder that this idea is taken from @theminecraftbee and their vault logs, go check 'em out!)

I have had…such a day. Such a unit of time? Such a vague and unspecified experience? Whatever. So, every time I finish a delve, I get this little message on my comm, like a summary of everything I did in the Vault. Which is also how I learned it was called a Vault, but I digress. Everything has a numerical value assigned to it, and that filled up a little yellow bar at the top of the screen. I assumed it was just kind of a meaningless metric of success; the kind of thing I’d cackle about if Zellion or IQ was around and I could brag about how my little yellow bar had filled up more times (it’s even got a little number on it!). We Spirited do love those numbers going up. Progress is lovely and all that.

It turns out that is not the situation, in fact! Because today, my little yellow bar filled up, and a new menu showed up on my comm. Okay, sure. Something I unlocked, maybe-you’ve got to prove you’re an adequate delver before getting the bonus menus or something. The menu’s got some stats, like damage and such, it’s got a list of what you’ve done in vaults…and it has another menu. Two, actually. Abilities and Talents. I glanced at the Abilities-they’re not the best described, and I saw one called Heal. Sorta assumed it was…Iunno. Normally when I learn magic in a world, it’s very clear, and I can usually tell I’ll have magic when I first jump. 

Oh, yeah, that’s what the Abilities are. Bonus magic. Healing was something I was short on in Vaults, so I picked that, and immediately I could feel it. I’ve had a lot of magic, in all the worlds I’ve been, and you get a sense for it; different types feel really different. Healing magic always feels warm, like tucking yourself into a cozy blanket. When you’re not hurt, it’s like being a good temperature; you could add a blanket, but it’d be too much heat. Or just not do anything. When you’re injured, it’s…you’re not actually cold? Because that’s not how it works. But sensing it when you’re injured feels like you’re utterly freezing and there’s a warm blanket right there. Despite the lack of temperature change…look, magic’s confusing, okay?

Anyway, yeah. I could instantly feel it; like a vague heat, waiting for me to step into it when I needed it. I tested it-I wouldn’t want my first attempt at using a completely new magic to be in a particularly dangerous situation-and it seemed right. It wasn’t particularly powerful, but it felt like healing; a warmth flowing through you, closing up injuries you didn’t even notice. Not that I was particularly injured at the time.

I checked the menu again afterwards. There’s…a lot of abilities and talents, and another menu called Archetypes. I get the feeling I’m going to be having a lot of power I can draw on by the time I leave here. If only I could take it with me when I left…oh well.

#finch writes #vault things #vault notes #finch vaults #sona shenanigans #look. the idea 'oh yes you just Have Magic' scratches my brain in a very specific way #and I have already thought so much about Finch's interaction with magic #so y'all get this nonsense

[cheswirls]

Hi can I ask what programs you use? I would love to use something thats not as pricey

hi !! for art or gfx? if its art ive sold my soul to clip studio paint. i think its normally around 50usd to buy a pro license, but i got it on sale so it ended up being 20usd.

if you want something free i tried autodesk's sketchbook between making the switch from firealpaca to csp. it has a really great interface, v high quality, good brushes, etc. iunno why autodesk made it free but it certainly (to my knowledge?) didnt downgrade the quality. i still have some wips where the sketches were made in sketchbook hah. i rly.. need to go thru that folder more.

im saying all this as a mac user, so if you have windows, while i think all these should work? on windows too?? another one ive heard tons about and recently had a chance to try myself is paint tool sai. its another more complex drawing program like csp except. for windows. i rly love the brush options sai gives you, esp for custom ones. always trying to emulate them in csp but theres jus something not there, never adds up well. sai has like a month long trial version thats free, off the top of my head iunno how much it is but its NOT expensive at all. maybe around the same as csp.

(i jus realized sai 2 recently released this year so all info i know is for og sai. sai 2 might be more costly)

sai i think is also what ppl use as a low-grade gfx editor. supports animation?? should at least??? but ye there is a lot to do there.

if you like ps but dont wanna pay for it photopea is a browser emulator of ps. kinda weird to work in a browser + does require internet but it does function exactly the same. can open up an existing project. can export things. jus. thru google. magic.

i used gimp for the longest time to edit stuff. its still lurking around here somewhere. the bad thing abt gimp is the more you add to it the longer it takes to read thru everything and load. i had a tonnn of assets installed so it always took a small eternity to even want to start up. past that i still think its a good program. if you want something thats smaller but functions better try seahorse!! that might be dated actually lmao. does anyone still own seahorse.

tbh my computer doesnt support the latest cc updates at all lmao so all my adobe software i have is ripped 2019 cc stuff. if you like an adobe program n wanna use it do yourself a favor and download an older version. better/free/less time-consuming/easier to deal with. if its not a cc version you dont even have to rip it. jus download that bitch n start it up. (if it is cc you gotta key it so you can use it after trial period, but its not that hard, jus an extra step rly)

thats all i got haha hope that helped some. if anyone wants to add on go for it.

#ask #absolutely 1000% thought this ask was gonna be an adobe voucher SO GLAD it wasnt ty anon #was mentally prepared to read this and feel my soul rip in half #actually i shoulda added but since i have an ipad for school this semester #ive downloaded procreate for drawing and its so much fun!! #its like 10 bucks but if its on your acct you can reinstall on any device you want #meaning when schools over n i get a new ipad next year i can download it again for freeeeeee

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

Also Nekrotefeyo was criminally underused for the legendary Eridian homeworld like I was expecting like a big abandoned city or a completely decimated apocalyptic place, not a dried up ocean bed (Are they maybe more crustaceans instead (?) of bugs???) with like 2 Eridian buildings on it and also Maliwan for... Some... Reason. Seriously. Dark Maliwan was so clearly cut content and I wanna know wtf that was all about. Also we got Promethea so it isn't like they weren't capable of making a big city area, like the restrictions of the engine wouldn't allow it, they just didn't... Feel like it? Maybe didn't have time to flesh it out given how late nekro is in the game? Seriously it feels empty as fuck, I love exploring the planets, but even as a certified lore lover I just can't bring myself to explore that place more than I have to for quests. It's really empty and boring

Also, I am bet that the big glowing thing we see coming out of the planet as it fragments is related either to the Machine and the souls sacrificed to make it work, or the Guardian soul main storage thingie. Mainly because ghosts and such are real in the bl universe and they're all that same glowing green sort of deal. It also reminds me of Krieg's mind planet projection thing which does add credence to that. That is potentially why Minos Prime 'hatched', it could have been a storage place for other, maybe reject(?) Guardian souls and that's where all the Eridian and Guardian stuff randomly came from that Tannis keeps goddamn repeating every time u play the takedown. FE Minos Prime was a testing site for prototype Guardians and the souls (I don't want to call them mind cores because the mind core we got from the Vault of the Destroyer was solid and not green and don't even get me STARTED on that whole situation because there was cut Overseer dialogue from when you take that thing out of the Vault and why WAS it even in the VAULT OF THE DESTROYER and Hhhhh) were stored in Minos Prime until whoops they got out. And I'm guessing they sacrificed the people of Minos Prime to the Machine (we literally left nobody guarding it sooo) bc Tannis says they just vanished without a trace. Which ALSO adds bonus points to my theory that the Eridians aren't dead and are just chilling elsewhere laughing at us right now.

I still think Lilith brought Elpis to the Eridian Rift on the map Typhon and Leda wrote all over and she's vibing there, too. Maybe it's a sort of stasis place where time doesn't pass so the people of Elpis don't die. Idk how Lilith would know about that but then again given the chest in her room I would honestly not bet against my whole 'Lilith had help from the Watcher and/or the Eridians during/before Bl3 and refused to tell us' which is why she just vanishes at the end of the game and takes Elpis with her.

And also why Sanctuary-III randomly exists when we have never heard of the company that made it before (seriously what is supamax mfg), it's somehow in good enough condition that Moxxi and Ellie could fix it up with their scarce resources, and they found it before any other people did (can probably chalk this one up to Tannis if there were cameras or it was hooked up to the ECHOnet of Pandora, but the other two points stand). I would've been okay with it if it were an Atlas ship Rhys sent over or smth, if it were an old Hyperion ship, if the branding of supamax mfg was Moxxi and Ellie's team effort of making a spaceship company in honor of Scooter- literally if any of these things were explained in-game, but they're NOT. So I am left to go 'what the hell where did this come from what is Supamax MFG' and like, a random company we've never heard of existing is totally fine, we're introduced to the Obsidian Black Block and Hephestus United as well, but it just feels weird that this random supply (?) ship just happened to go to Pandora for some reason and then also crash or was abandoned for some reason. If we could just get a scrap of info on Supamax MFG and why this ship was on Pandora I'd be happy. Their branding is Ships Made Quick so clearly they build ships which is fine.

Did Lilith contact them? If so, cool, could we get an ECHO log of that? Where did she get the money after Sanctuary-II blew tf up? Did she or Moxxi or Ellie have connections that allowed them to get the ship made for cheap or free? Why did they decide to make the ship out in the open when they knew about the rising CoV threat?? Was the ship stolen? Did the Crimson Raiders just kill a bunch of people to get their hands on it? I doubt it, but this shit isn't explained! So yeah when I write theories like 'Hm well maybe this ship was planted here by the Watcher' its not because I'm driven insane by the Eridians it is because we literally have no other reason to go 'maybe not' and with what little information we do get during the game, it could be fuckin possible!!!

Lilith apparently knew more than she was letting on, she was contacted personally by the Watcher during the end of TPS (brick specially had to ASK what the Watcher said to Lilith), so yeah fuck it the ship and everything that wasn't explicitly explained was given to Lilith by the Watcher to help her in her quest for whatever the Big One is in bl4. Bc you KNOW that Bl3 was just the lead up to get the Destroyer to slip out of its chains thru Tyreen's meddling (literally in nyriads log right before the final boss and its not like ty absorbed an entire planet sized monster and was the size of, like, a shortish tree so you know the Destroyer is still in there as it's further confirmed by Scourge when he says shit like you don't even know what you just did blah blah shut up loser- the only thing pointing to the Destroyer ACTUALLY being dead is that the Vault (????) of the Destroyer (???????????????) opened after Tyreen died but then we can make the Vault of the Architects argument that maybe it considered her part of the Destroyer and her dying confused the Vault into opened, iunno. I don't even know why that Vault was there in the first place wtf was its purpose I thought the Vault of the Destroyer was either the other Pandora one (emergency human feeding port to a monster that doesn't need sustenance) or literally Pandora itself in which case killing Tyreen should have destroyed the whole planet by opening it soooooo I guess that Vault exists to circumvent that extremely specific problem only the Eridians would have guessed could happen idk) and to set the Guardians up as villains cuz fuck them that's why (>:( please gearbox don't, make the Eridians the bad guys if someone has to be evil pretty please the Guardians aren't the bad guys they are literally gaining sentience right now give them a chance they gotta figure themselves out and the Eridians fit the whole 'corporations exploiting their workers' vibe with the Guardians being forced to work even after the Eridians are gone so don't let those parallels slip away with shortsighted storytelling) but then it hurts even worse cuz the story could've been so much simpler and just... Sweeter and better than what we got if that's all they had to do was set those two things up. Bro I hate how every time I go to ask questions abt the game it leads me back here. Because it's true!! And it hurts I just wanna sit down with the lore manager of the game and ask them all these questions because I'm genuinely curious, but I'm afraid of the answers or non-answers I'll get. Again, I get the whole 'things have to happen for plot, not everything should be questioned, give the writers some slack to write a story' argument but when EVERYTHING falls under that category and the story didn't even end up being that great, it gets really frustrating because HONESTLY? if we had gotten good lore and explanations to things and actual world building and details and all that? I wouldn't have minded the main story so much. But unfortunately we got neither good lore (I wanna tell Nyriad she was lied to very badly because it's either the Eridians are evil and liars about a lot, or nobody thought twice the implications of giving the Destroyer a feeding port that explicitly calls humans to it) nor good main story (you know.) and it just. Is annoying. That's all.

#Hm. This post derailed real quick #Nekrotefeyo -> supamax mfg speed run #borderlands #bl3 #borderlands 3

[gisachi]

For the writing ask can you do number 4 please 😍💜

Hello, thank you for patiently waiting 🤗 I hope you don’t mind that I combined your asks since it’s the same prompt. ^^ It’s pretty obvious by now that I’m a sucker for College AUs and not only that but I feel like I have this thing for Drunk!Ran lmao if I’m not mistaken this will be the fourth time that I write her character under the influence of alcohol. I’m sorry!! She’s just so fun to write like this! No holds barred when it comes to saying what she wants. Also this kinda went longer than I expected so I put the rest under the cut. Anyway, here it is and I hope you like it!

4. An accidental brush of lips followed by a pause and going back for another, on purpose. (2,125 words)

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“Ne, Sonoko, what does a kiss on the nose mean?”

Sonoko finishes her glass and sets it down the table, its loud clatter punctuating Ran’s unexpected question. Her eyes narrow, studying Ran carefully like a professor to her student, but bereft of any form of judgment.

“Heeeh,” she cocks an eyebrow, “so Shinichi’s been doing that? For how long?”

“Since the start of this year…” she replies unthinkingly, only to turn beet red after realizing her blunder half a second later. “I-I didn’t say it was him?!”

“Ran, really? You think you can hide that fact from me?” she exclaims loud and proud, brandishing her signature grin of victory that makes Ran shrink in her seat and their other girl friends chant their excited ‘oooh’s’ around the table.

“Seriously, though. It’s about time he does that,” Kaede remarks. “Ran-chan, I only met you and Shinichi-kun here in uni but the first time I saw you both I knew right then you’re bound to get married.”

“Oh please, they’ve been married since 4.” Sonoko drawls. “I don’t know if they’re playing oblivious but everybody with eyes knows they’re practically married. Even their parents.”

“Right? Who on earth would religiously walk the other home even if their dorms are in opposite directions? Even my boyfriend doesn’t do that!” Minami adds.

“Mou, minna! Just answer my question!” Ran squeaks, torn between being flustered for what she has asked or annoyed at her friends’ embarrassing side comments, the truth of which she cannot find in her to deny.

“Okay. So since you’re such a helpless little angel, let me tell you Ran that you are surely Shinichi’s object of committed affection.”

“He finds you cute.”

“He cares for you deeply.”

“All of these, you mean like a sister or a friend?”

“Ran! As in romantically! Shinichi likes you! No— he’s in love with you! Goodness!” Minami runs her hand over her face. “How you’re so smart and so dense at the same time, I don’t understand.”

“B-but it doesn’t make sense!” Ran defends. “I mean if he uh, l-likes me... then why not say it straight to my face...we tell each other everything. We’re best friends.”

Kaede pats her shoulder like she’s consoling a child. “That’s exactly why. You’re best friends. Perhaps he’s shy of admitting his real feelings yet. So he conveys it through nose kisses instead, hoping you’ll get it.”

“More importantly though,” Sonoko leans to her, “what do you feel about it, Ran?”

Overcome by shyness, she bites her lower lip to restrain any slip of tongue that may give her away completely, although she knows deep down that she’s still unsure of her response. Her friends think he’s in love with her. Though she trusts their judgment, she cannot, for the life of her, reconcile with the idea of her and Shinichi being more than best friends by title, even if by fact they already are. The fear of uncertainty bothers her. She’s known him to be a man of his actions and words. So when he does something a guy friend won’t normally do like kiss her on the nose and without him clarifying what it actually means, she’s befuddled. Actions may speak louder than words but that doesn’t make the latter any less important.

Seeming to understand her struggle, the trio share a common look of agreement that leads them to shove her one glass half filled with alcohol.

“We got you, girl. Want a drink?”

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One glass in and Ran feels like she’s a completely different person from the woman who sat in that same chair an hour ago. She feels lightheaded and floaty. She also feels more talkative than usual, her mouth on its own accord ranting on and on about this certain detective, while her friends listen with utmost interest.

“...and when he did that the first time, I remember it was the start of school after holidays, I was shocked, really shocked, ‘cuhs he did it sooo quickly and with such a straight face and...ugh god.”

“And what? That’s when you realize you want to marry him for real?” Sonoko wiggles her brows while Kaede and Minami guffaws.

“NO! Shut! I-”

“Speak of the devil.”

The main subject of their conversation arrives, which, as they know it, means that Ran’s about to be picked up. That’s just how those two are. Still, that doesn’t stop Sonoko and Minami from offering him a shot, which he doesn’t decline.

“Sorry for taking her away from you so early. You know how her mother blames me whenever she goes home late.” Shinichi stands behind Ran and rubs the back of his head, somewhat apologetic for ruining their night out.

“It’s okay, Shinnn. We understand how strict your in-law is,” Minami coos and waves her glass in the air. “Oh, and sorry by the way if we made Ran-chan drink.”

“She drank?” Disregarding Minami’s first statement, Shinichi looks at the three then at Ran, who flashes him a wide goofy smile.

“She needs it for our session today, sorry Shinichi!” Sonoko makes a peace sign. “Only a half glass, so she’s probably just a tiiiiny bit disoriented. And she already drank water.”

Though not mad, Shinichi doesn’t hide his surprise. Ran only drinks juice whenever she hangs out with the girls, a fact he has known since they entered college. Now in their second year, this is the first time he actually hears her drink alcohol. He doesn’t mind at all because she’s in good company anyway. After bidding the others good night, he guides her out the pub.

The walk back to Ran’s apartment consists of her talking about her day half the time and the other half complaining about how she feels weird being too talkative. Shinichi walks alongside her, enjoying Ran’s newfound vibrancy as he listens, his eyes smiling with his lips and Ran forgets talking for a second because she nearly trips and falls after catching herself getting mesmerized by his beautiful smiling face yet again.

Whenever he brings her home, Shinichi doesn’t go up her floor, only to the lobby at most, but tonight is an exception. He needs to ensure that Ran makes it inside her apartment. He watches her fumble for her keys and when she finally succeeds in opening her door, he says his good night. He is about to leave when Ran tugs on his sleeve.

“Heey,” she starts. “Arentcha forgetting something?”

“Forgetting what?”

She hiccups, doesn't say anything as she drags a finger to the tip of her nose. “... Right here.”

Shinichi stares at her, startled.

“You always do that… why not now?”

“I’m... quite surprised you remember trivial details like that even when you’re like this.”

“Weell! It’s not trivial!” she puffs her cheeks, “At least for me.”

“What does that mean?” He smiles, facing her completely.

“Iunno? ‘Cause we’ve been tight since forever? And you’ve been doing that since the year started? At least be consistent? And I like it when you do that? What else?"

She catches his pupils dilate for a split second and back.

“Ran,” he suppresses a little laugh. “Stop that, okay.” Then he inches closer. “Now I kinda want to give Sonoko an earful for turning you into this shameless talking machine."

Shinichi bends a little to level with her face. “Do me a favor and look yourself in the mirror once you’re in, yeah?” One hand is in his pocket and the other he uses to part loose locks dangling over her right eye and cheek, giving him an unobstructed view of her very pink, almost swelling face. “You’re a mess.”

「A kiss on the nose means he cares for you deeply.」

“I’m nooot. You are,” she lightly punches his chest, to which he just sniggers.

“I am what?”

“You’re the messed up one. You mess me up.”

“Again, what does that even mean?”

“As far as I know, you’re the detective here. Figure that out yourself will ya.”

He gives her this tiny smirk and Ran barely catches it.

“I don’t know, Ran. Perhaps... hearing it straight from you is much better.”

She tries to keep her eyes open but they burn so much they sheen with tears, and the alcohol’s to blame. “Huh?”

“Nothing.” He chuckles, his timbre doing things to her heart that she cannot resist stealing him a glance despite the aching throb in her head.

Damn it, he’s so annoying but so beautiful, his eyes are so bright, his cheeks so rosy—

“Pfft aren’t you blushiiiing!”

“Shut up.” And he plants a little kiss on her nose.

「A kiss on the nose means that he finds you cute.」

“There. Happy?”

While that effectively shuts her up, the fleeting drop of his lips landing as gently as a falling petal on her nose has her instinctively following his head with her own, honest in wanting another feel.

“Wait no! Again. But sloooower, pretty please?”

Her grip on his sleeve tightens, and she wonders if it’s possible for the erratic drumming of her pulse to be conducted through such fabric as to make the man in front of her aware of her state. She sounds so needy and clingy, and a part of her wants to barf and slap herself into sobriety, but a part of her also insists to just keep going.  And the latter is winning.

“... You really are something, you know that?”

As swift as the night, he slowly leans his head and she closes her eyes, her senses becoming hyper aware of how open and vulnerable her entire being is before his presence. Her heart thumps mercilessly against her chest.

「A kiss on the nose means you’re his object of committed affection.」

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What if he’s my...

The voice at the back of her head tells her to reciprocate. Which she eventually goes for as she lifts her chin, aiming to kiss his nose right before he does.

What she doesn’t expect is for their lips to brush and suddenly there is spark and both of them retract fast.

Sky-crystal eyes meet azure. For that brief second, she thinks she’s stepped one foot beyond their demarcation line, and she searches her mind and heart for that doubt and dread and fear brought about by an accidental venture to an unknown territory, yet she finds nothing. Nothing of that sort.

Instead, she feels like she has just dipped her foot on the ocean, the expanse of which scares her, but the moment the water touches her skin she discovers that it isn’t so bad and fear disappears and all that’s left is the genuine willingness to feel more of its glorious warmth, to let it consume her, to submerge into its depths.

And so she doesn’t push him away when he cups her left cheek and closes their gap; nor does he say anything when she steps on tiptoes and eyes flutter close as her lips purposely seek his. It doesn’t last long, just enough to acquaint herself with his softness, his shape; she feels him chapped from the spring cold, but really she doesn’t mind.

A kiss on the nose is sweet.

But a kiss on the lips is...

They separate as soundlessly as they merge. Both remain silent for a good minute, forehead against each other, his thumb brushing her cheek like it’s responsible for painting the crimson colors across it.

Shinichi purses his lips, before stepping back and locking eyes with hers, shyly.

“So, uh...Tomorrow. 10AM. I’ll be here. Please get a good night’s rest and I-... We’ll sort this out, properly...when you’re ready and sober. Ran.”

For the last time that night, he plants a light kiss on her nose and departs, leaving her in a trance by her doorstep.

W-Wait, Shinichi, I—!

Her eyes scan the corridor, but he’s already gone.

I’m...

Her head floats and so do her feet as she retreats to her room, all while her fingers trace her lips, trying to replicate his lips through them but she isn’t taking it. Even in this state, she cannot find the exact words to describe how he truly makes her feel. She recalls how their conversation ran. Her honest words. His vague replies. His sweet actions. Her eager response.

Their shared kiss.

Shoot. That makes everything even more confusing, doesn’t it?

She falls with her back on the bed, still in a state of trance. Reaching for her phone deep in her bag, she presses a button for speed dial, with one intent in mind.

“Hello, you’ve reached Suzuki Sonoko. I’m currently unable to take your call, so please leave your message after the beep.”

“Ne, Sonoko, what does a kiss on the lips mean?”

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#shinran #fanfic #ashjsdjkf thank you for waiting and sorry for typos/errors #!!! #damnit why do i like a drunk ran so much #//sweats #but still i hope you like it!! #/edit: so idk what tumblr did but now i cannot edit the keep reading tab ;;-;; #/edit again: ok so i fixed it lmao why is the edit function different in mobile and pc ;-; #kiss prompts

[saltysaltdog]

You know, one thing that grinds me about the "Allura is forced by the narrative to not be hostile against the species who completely genocided her people" idea is that it IS wrong in canon because her species still exists and she should KNOW this because altea wasn't the only place alteans were.

Speaking of, how does she know that altea blew up? Is she reading ye olde news reports on that console? Who is making those news reports and why do they only report on alteans and not update the castle of lions on anything else? Is it just psychic Altean powers? Why couldn't she divine the other alteans? Allura herself in season 1 admits to using galran galactic hubs to travel, why would she think no alteans ever did so to move to a new life?

Another thing: How does she know Zarkon would try to destroy every altean? it would make more sense to believe that it was just an eye for an eye about blowing up the planet. Why wouldn't he evacuate his wife's family, friends, favourite media personalities, colleagues, etc.

With all these questions in place we can come to a few theories:

Allura was sheltered from court life:

It doesn't explain everything, but let's say that she was sheltered from any important political learning in her youth. No economics, no current events, no law, no foreign affairs, no media classes, no military or tactical learning, etc etc etc.

It explains some things in canon (though not Coran /not/ explaining things) but it implies that alteans start this learning late, or Allura was never really in line for the throne. Leading to idea two.

Someone close to Allura had some bad scruples:

So we've seen that these tanks can interact with memories and that allura apparently had some major information deficiencies. What's to say these gaps are natural? Surely you could create knowledge or even fake memories of events you weren't there for.

But of course Alfor wouldn't test unsafe tech on his daughter, but you know what IS commonly tested on? Mice.

The mice are psychic plants just to keep Allura from seeking out other alteans.

But... why? You might ask. Iunno, just sounds cool. You may as well make up your own reasons but there are some common ones for getting someone out of the way.

-Allura was in danger:

This would need someone specifically targeting Allura, probably someone altean and with enough power to threaten Alfor.

... is this another succession to the throne idea? Yes shut up. So Coran is sent to keep Allura safe and away from other alteans, hense why he's on the attack when he sees somewhat altean faces. Now this idea doesn't require any siblings, any uncles, aunts, cousins, or grandparents could pose a threat.

This doesn't require the intent to murder either, so a powerful enough noble or even stupidly rich layman could provide enough pressure to outright force Allura into a marriage. But doesn't this require Alfor not having any power to stop the match? Yes alteans have a matriarchal culture and Alfor is just a trophy husband let's move on.

If that's not your jam then how about this:

-Allura has psychic powers.

Yes we know, you say, She psychicly connected to the mice. And that was an accident right? So what if on Altea she was starting to accidentally connect to people, multiple people, taking memories, getting overwhelmed, giant psychic explosions!

... maybe not but it's cool and has a built in failsafe. If Allura didn't psychicly leech from the mice, she wouldn't believe altea was gone so she would have just gone home.

It could also explain why she was so quick to believe a random altean against Lotor, she could read her mind better and see she was telling the "truth".

But why doesn't it work on Coran? Sorry, psychic powers dont work on people with moustaches. Joking aside (mostly), Allura might have a limiter on her power. After all, we see the evolution of her daily clothes via the Alfor AI so what is she never seen without that is absent from her childhood? Coran might just be less receptive, a rarity amongst alteans and why he was the only one sent with her.

(Hint, earrings. Though she does get her tiara at some point after being a toddler. Suspiciously early.)

But wait, you may say, that doesn't put Allura in danger from any powerful alteans, Alfor wouldn't need to go so far! True, so welcome to theory number three.

Allura's mother is a psychic body snatcher who has been taking over her daughter's bodies every generation to become a nigh omnipotent Queen.

The galra attacking would provide just the distraction Alfor would need to save Allura from this fate, sending her off with a "false" memory that she can never return to Altea and should start a new life. Or maybe he just intended to keep her on ice till her mother died but then died himself.

After all, what happened when Allura wasn't sent away? After her father died she suddenly gained the power to kill Zarkon and all of his forces, Haggar included. She then went on to become Empress and enslave the universe. How long she lived is debatable, but that sort of power boost is odd, as well as her more militaristic tendencies since she never showed a knack for strategy. (Hira says people that might have been casualties of war in Allura's day could now be 'rehabilitated ' which implies Allura might have gone to war beyond just fighting the galra empire.)

Allura's mother and grandmother basically look identical to her, and as previously stated Allura didn't learn a lot of court necessities. She didn't need to if she was going to get brain jacked, all she'd need is a fit body; and as we see, for a pacifist people Allura was quick to comment on the paladins training method being fit for a child.

In the show we do see individuals being brain jacked by Haggar, either to see through them or directly control them in the case of Cloned Shiro. However cloned shiro needed Technological help to control, and Honerva's fighters required more precise useage of quintessence she only got after going to Orilande. For someone of more talent, like say, royalty like Allura, taking over someone's body is within the realm of possibility.

This could also add to Alfor's horror that his friend was suggesting quintessence could be used to become immortal, after all that was his wife's goal too. This would compound his need to destroy the rift, to prevent his wife taking over Allura's body and then becoming an immortal, near unstoppable, entity.

I also find it's a little strange that Hira/the alteans recognized Allura on sight. I mean, sure her entire female line looks the same, but how do you know it's her specifically unless she lived for a long time/ her paladin suit was extremely iconic. Implying that the alteans appreciated her more as a fighter than a ruler. I know I wouldn't recognise centuries old rulers from each other, why would random alteans?

As for why Melenor would need Allura if an immortal making rift was there, it's likely that before Voltron fighting wasn't seen as a valuable skill for royals, but upon seeing the vast influence it had she had to raise her new body to be able to handle a fair fight instead of being able to impress with musical or artistic talents.

#voltron #allura #Melenor vld #alternate character theories #add it to the list

[modmamono]

Celebrating the dumbest/silliest Robot Masters in each mainline Mega Man Game & Bass.

Not every robot needs to be badass to be worth something. I feel this is an attitude people have when a certain robot isn’t their cup of tea. 

Q(?): How dare the goofy looking Toad Man not be as awesome as Quick Man? Toad Man can’t even attack you he just hops into when you shooting at him.

A: Because Toad Man has the unique distinction of having an attack you can’t dodge. You try dodging acid rain. That’s why he’s easy.

I’m not here to crack on the Quick Men of the world and hold up the Toad Men. I just wanna revel in the absolute silliness of Mega Man. Where a Toad Man can exist or Quick Man can have a hilarious in-universe oversight his design.

Because I like my Mega Man silly, and I know when Mega Man knows it’s silly.

Here are my rules:

Only Robot Masters, they have to be selectable on the menu (No Mega Man Killers, Star Droids, Quint, Bass, Wily Wars Bots, Fake Man (sadly), the Dark Men (sadly), Mooks, Duo, Wily Castle bosses, NO DOC ROBOTS, etc.)

I’m not just judging them on their designs or concept. That’s low hanging fruit. Also everyone does that.

I’m also judging them on info we get on based on their game appearances or supplemental material, such as their functions and likes and dislikes.

No Archie or Megamix to deduct/add dumb/silly points from them. (Forgive me if I do accidentally use their tidbits.)

One Robot Master per game, because if I didn’t adhere to this rule and the one above all the MM5 bots would win. (Also this means that Tengu and Astro Man get two chances.)

And that should be it:

READY?

Mega Man 1′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Cut Man!

This was a tough call honestly, Cut Man only really one won by default. Because in-universe, all the MM1 Robots all have their practical use. They’re made for a reason. Bomb and Guts Man are construction bots, Elec Man manages a power plant. Cut Man is a lumber robot.

But it is a little silly he has the scissors on his head. He’s how supposed to accurately cut down trees? It has no handle to cut with and it’s a boomerang. The rest are all much more straight forward with their powers.

Honorable Mention(s):

Roll (She’s a Robot Master too, and she’s selectable in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 if not the first game, loopholes babey!). She’s silly because of her occasional stint as a joke character.

Time Man. He’s just has has a case of the odd one out. All of the non-Rock and Roll Robot Masters in the first game have and immediate function in society, even Oil Man has that. But Time Man not so much, he doesn’t have much of a use. And granted that’s part of his character. If Powered-Up didn’t have story and dialogue he might’ve taken Cut Man’s spot as the silliest due to being the odd one out. 

Mega Man 2′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Bubble Man!

Look... Bubble Man is the easiest target. I didn’t want it to be him. But he’s not as dumb as you may think. I’ll explain in a bit.

I wanna say that I like none the MM2 Robots. They’re all just made to be killing machines. They’re all made with one purpose and that’s to destroy Mega Man. And that’s boring.

Regardless, Bubble Man is an underwater combat robot. That may seem useless against Mega Man. But you gotta remember that Rock is the ultimate goody-two shoes. Plop a Robot Master in an area, order him to attack said area and Mega Man’s on it to stop him. Effectively luring the Blue Bomber to the boss’ home field advantages. And Bubble Man is no different.

Explaining it like that it seems to me that Wily tried viarity in his revenge plan. As Bubble Man makes the water his home his Brothers make their homes in the sky, the forest, the lava sewers, etc.

Really, Bubble Man gets a bad wrap.

Also he gets points because (of what might be Megamix flavor text that) Wily kept laughing at his inability to walk on land. Wily noticed this, laughed at that can he only could jump, and didn’t fix him.

Ergo; Wily, IN HIS REVENGE PLAN!, laughed so hard he didn’t make Bubble Man the best he could be to kill Mega Man.

Honorable Mention(s):

Wood Man and Heat Man (and to a lesser extent Air Man). To me they’re on the same level as Bubble Man, Bubble Man just edges them out by a bit. They’re revenge murder bots, and Wily made one out of wood and the other look like a lighter. Pictured here, man with a sense of humor (or someone who does rush jobs):

Quick Man, because this tidbit may or may not come from Megamix so I couldn’t qualify him, because it may’ve made Quick Man my pick. For you see... Quick Man runs faster then his eyes can process. Meaning he runs against walls. As you can see in Mega Man 2 itself. I love this, Quick Man was supposed to be the rival character to Mega Man, but he might as well be nearsighted.

Mega Man 3′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Gemini Man! !nɒM inimǝӘ

Gemini Man is a narcissist. He likes to check himself out in the mirror. Heck, he doesn’t need to check himself out in the mirror. His power is that he has a holographic clone to do just that. He’s a handsome robot if he did say so himself.

He’s afraid of snakes. That’s all.

I do wanna say, dumbest/silliest doesn’t mean worst. Gemini Man is my favorite of the Mega Man 3. Also what is his function? I imagine Wily and Light didn’t make him for no reason.

Honorable Mention(s):

Top Man, he’s the go-to dumb pick (along with Hard Man). And yes, there’s the question why he’s a top (my guess it was just the two Doctors having fun). But he does have a stated function, he searches for energy. Unlike Gemini Man who seems to be made to look at himself in the mirror.

Magnet Man. He’s the perfect blend of awesome and silly. Mega Man X wishes it could balance it’s tone like that.

Hard Man. This is a token pick.

Mega Man 4′s Silliest Robot Master is:

ACTUALLY, JUST KIDDING IT’S TIE BETWEEN ALL OF Dr. COSSACK’S ROBOT MASTERS!

I can’t pick. Because similarly to Mega Man 1, they were all made with a practical use in mind, and they’re all plausible, leaving only their appearances to judge.

Though out of all these practical bots. Bright Man might not get much use.

Bright Man is designed to explore dark areas, but like... How often does he get to do that? That’s not something I’d give sentience.

There’s also the matter of Bright Man being sorta redundant. Pharaoh Man is already made to explore dark areas, and has the skills to brace any danger. Maybe they work together? Iunno...

If you want, put Bright Man here, this is not a uselessness highlight. Though there’s still the matter he’s a light bulb. That’s plenty silly. Doesn’t change the fact he’ll kick your butt though.

So yeah, I guess Bright Man takes it. Also his Japanese Mega Man & Bass bio his good point is listed as an idea man.

Honorable Mention(s):

NOT Dust Man. If you can/can’t take a sentient vacuum seriously in a world where robots just gratuitously get sentience, that’s your problem.

Mega Man 5′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Stone Man!

Jumps.

Falls apart.

Recollects himself.

Repeat.

I could go into depth. But I won’t.

Please read Mega Man Megamix and it’s sequel Gigamix. No reason why.

Honorable Mention(s):

Wave Man. He’s more or less Bubble Man again. Except he’s more or a terrorism bot then a murder bot. Yes, there is a difference.

Gyro Man, he’s result for Wily’s budget running low. He wasn’t supposed to be a propeller robot. But he ended up as one.

Star Man. This is because of Megamix and Gigamix. But if his Mega Man & Bass bio is anything to go by, he has his Manga counterpart’s personality and I am so on board.

Charge Man. Choo Choo! He’s a steam locomotive, he runs partially on coal, an outdated fuel source. Wily made him to starve basically. Also he’s a train. I can’t hate that.

Crystal Man, he’s is my favorite of this bunch. This guy was made to make Wily money. Crystal Man makes fake crystals, and those fake crystals get sold. If not for that fact, I wouldn’t care.

Mega Man 6′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Flame Man!

Though seriously, another tough call. All of the MM6 Robots are silly, also made for useful purposes (except Tomahawk Man), I couldn’t pick one over the others. This one came down to the Mega Man & Bass bios.

Flame Man’s likes in Japan: Maintaining his mustache

Honorable Mention(s):

Yamato Man’s Japanese Bad Point: Bad with money

Mega Man 7′s Silliest Robot Master is:

No Contest!

Dude, I love Spring Man, no matter how dumb he is. And what really gets me is that some of Mega Man 7′s robots were stolen by Wily (like Freeze and Shade Man), but others were made by him (Slash and Turbo Man). Guess under which category Spring Man falls?

Yep, Wily made this guy himself.

I love this silly concept. I don’t what to tell you. His design may seem impractical, so of course he’s as much a threat as all the other Robot Masters are in this game with the exception of Slash Man. It’s beautiful. They should put him in the robot museum.

Honorable Mention(s):

Junk Man. See Crystal Man’s honorable mention, only with junk and recycling.

Turbo Man. Wily made a Transformer out of an old car because he didn’t have enough parts lying about.

Mega Man 8′s DUMBEST Robot Master is:

Sword Man!

I both like and hate Sword Man. The story behind him is that Wily stole a sword and made Sword Man to be literally attached to that sword.

That sword was too heavy so Wily went the extra mile in making a SWORD BASED ROBOT and gave his torso anti-gravity system. In gameplay that means that he can split his body in two.

Also he’s got the element of fire, he’s the game’s fire robot.

This is needless detail for a robot that just needed to be another Knight Man. Just with a sword. He’s overdesigned and I can’t decide if I like it or not.

Honorable Mention(s):

If not for Sword Man, Search Man would be my pick, here why: He’s got a similar thing going on as Sword Man. He’s a bit over designed, but I like it. Wily thought if he gave Search Man two heads he’d be super smart! But Search Man’s programmed with only has one personality. 2 Heads, 1 Mind. And he can only use one head at the time!

Mega Man & Bass′ Silliest Robot Master is:

Like... D-Do I need to say it? It has to be Pirate Man.

I got nothing to say about him other that I like him. I don’t like Mega Man & Bass much, but I love its Robot Masters. Every single one of them that aren’t Tengu, Cold Man, and Ground Man. 

Okay, maybe I do have something to say about Pirate Man, he’s the silliest by default. Sure, Magic Man might look sillier, but Magic Man isn’t a Robot designed to steal. He’s supposed to entertain.

Overall, & Bass is an odd duck, there isn’t too much silly here. Because:

Dynamo Man is a children's tour guide too dangerous to be around for humans.

Magic Man joined the bad guys so he can get attention (Three Laws, his well-defined robotic butt).

Pirate Man’s a literal pirate (Three Laws, his plain robotic butt).

And Burner Man’s a maniac made to destroys forests! WHO DOES THAT!? And that’s not all, he’s told that if he doesn’t burn down a forest everyday, a bomb inside him will explode! THERE’S NO BOMB!! 

There isn’t much to the others. But that’s all the screwed up you need.

Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chōsensha′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Take your pick!

A bullet based robot from an alternate future.

An air conditioner based robot from an alternate future.

A grill based robot from an alternate future.

A Japanese-style monk based robot from an alternate future.

A compass based robot from an alternate future. (Not pictured)

Or two clock based robots from an alternate future.

I can’t be mad at any of these, even if they seem like parodies of what a Robot Master should look like. You can say the same of MM5, 6, and 8.

Mega Man 9′s SeSilliest Robot Master is:

Splash Man!

Mega Man 9 has a similar problem I have with some other games. They all got a purpose in-story even if we don’t really get to see it. 9′s are useful and Splash Woman’s coast guard function is a good one.

I’m here to sadly do a hack writer-y: “Hurrr duurrrr. Sure is silly of them to only have a female Robot Master now!”

Also, people, she’s not the first female Robot Master, Roll is. Plum too if you wanna count her. It’s something they should do more though. Hornet Man was almost Honey Woman or something.

I’m not opposed to it.

Also this robot is allergic to robo-bees. That’s the real reason she’s chosen.

Honorable Mention(s):

Shout-out to the disqualified Fake Man. Nobody ever talks about Fake Man:

Don’t worry, he’s not a real Cop.

Mega Man 10′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Nitro Man!

People have stunt doubles. So why not their vehicles too, right? I love this guy.

I’ve avoided doing this, but I’m gonna quote the Mega Man Wikia here:

“Before contracting Roboenza, Nitro Man was a stunt robot who has appeared in many movies and TV shows. He is fairly bold and would be willing to do whatever stunts he is asked, regardless of the risks and the negative outcomes. Nitro Man is also the president of a robot stunt club, which has sixty members.”

How can you not love that? Plus he’s Transformer!

Protip: his weapon, the Wheel Cutter, may seem like a meh weapon. But hold the shoot button down and hug a wall.

Honorable Mention(s):

Pump Man: he’s an old school pump, it’s hard to beat that.

Strike Man gets dumb points for being sentient, I like him, but he shouldn’t have been a sentient robot.

Sheep Man people hated this guy, now people love him except for his weapon. I always liked him. I wonder why the hate though? Because he’s the first main line animal based Robot Master? Maybe? It was gonna happen eventually. Also he gets disillusioned with everything he does very quickly, he’s my spirit animal.

Mega Man 11′s Silliest Robot Master is:

Tundra Man!

This guy got bored of his job so he modified himself to be and look like an ice-skater. And he’s magnificent, gives Powered Up Elec Man a run for his money in flamboyancy.

I don’t have anything to add. Just look at him, his looks are his substance.

Honorable Mention(s):

Bounce Man, just Bounce Man, here’s another Mega Man Wikia quoting: “[Bounce Man] was originally developed as a crash test robot, but his stretching and bouncing abilities led him to become a fitness instructor at an indoor athletic center/amusement park called Boing-Boing Park, and his colorful body and friendly appearance made him a big hit with kids and adults alike. Despite being repurposed for combat by Dr. Wily and equipped with a Speed Gear, after which he took over Boing-Boing Park, Bounce Man is still the same large, cheerful, childlike robot he always was, still viewing everything as one big game.”

AND THAT’S ALL!

Thank you for putting up with this post if you got this far.

These are all my opinion, none of this is fact. And certainly not calling any of them bad, I’m not decrying them.

I just grew up on Top 10 videos where Mega Man, even the innocent Classic series was serious business. Something I was reminded of earlier today.

I get that Mega Man was gone for a while and everyone was in memorial mode(, and admittedly I forgot I was a fan of this series during the time Mighty No. 9 seemed like the savior), absolutely idolizing everything Mega Man.

But even before all of that Mega Man was something of a sacred cow, on the internet (mostly Mega Man 2). And it was all so serious business to a lot of people, and I didn’t like it was so serious business. From both people who know the lore and who don’t.

I just kinda wanted to express that I like that Mega Man Classic is silly and that’s okay. And it’s also okay to realize that every Mega Man game is silly on the surface of it, whether the games realize it or not. (I will say some games are better at pulling it off.)

I have no real point that’s not scatterbrained. I sacrificed sleep for this.

#mega man #mega man 1 #mega man 2 #mega man 3 #mega man 4 #mega man 5 #mega man 6 #mega man 7 #mega man 8 #mega man & bass #rockman & forte #mega man 9 #mega man 10 #mega man 11 #mega man classic

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Chicken Ramen Recipe

So I looked at like 4 different recipes and just sort of compiled them all into one, picking the bits I felt I’d like most as well as what was actually available at the store. It’s simmering on the stove now and smells delicious, plus the broth tastes pretty good to me so far. Though I haven’t actually eaten it yet (that will be later tonight).

I think total prep time for me so far has been just under 2 hours, but about half of that was either waiting for water to boil for the ramen eggs or cooking chicken/letting the broth simmer for about 20 minutes. You could cut this prep time down a bit by not cooking the chicken first. Instead, you would cut off the raw meat into bits and then toss it in after you’ve added the chicken broth (and all the other stuff that goes in at that points), letting it cook while the pot simmers there.

Also worth noting you could totally do an even bigger batch of this, it would still only take about 2 hours, and you’ve got a few meals ready to go throughout the week. Just have to heat up the broth and prep the noodles.

Ingredients:

4 chicken thighs, with skin, on the bone 3 TBSP miso 1 TBSP oil 1 onion 4 oz shiitake mushrooms, stems removed 1/2 cup soy sauce (this and the water are the only things I actually measured, everything else was eye-balled and then I just tasted the broth and adjusted) 1/2 to 3/4 lbs bok choy (I think I ended up using a little over a pound) 4 cups chicken broth 1 cup water 1 TBSP chili sauce 4 cloves minced garlic 1 TBSP fresh grated ginger root

Instructions:

First, if you want ramen eggs to go with this, prep this first part anywhere from a few hours ahead, to the day before. For best results, let them marinate over night.

Mix 1/4 cup soy sauce with like, iunno 2 TBSP of miso. The actually recipe I have says to use 1/4 cup rice vinegar or mirin, not miso. But I don’t have those things so... and lastly, 3/4 cup water. Mix that all together and set aside. Also my container didn’t allow me to fully submerge 6 eggs with this much, so I doubled up on everything. If you only do like 2 or maybe 3 eggs in probably a tall glass (or individual cups?), this is probably plenty.

Bring a pot of water to a soft boil and (gently, with a slotted spoon) toss in however many ramen eggs you want. Let them go for 7 minutes, then remove and put in an ice bath for 3 minutes. From there, carefully peel them and put them in the marinade you made above. Set in a fridge for up to 12 hours. You can keep the eggs for up to 3 days in a fridge, but if you do that you’ll want to transfer them out of the marinade and into a dry air tight container.

Now for the actual ramen.

I started with my chicken thighs. Took my ramen pot and put it on the stove with that 1 TBSP of oil and let it heat up a bit (med-hi heat). Plopped the thighs down skin side down in the bottom of the pot and let that fry. Added some salt and pepper and then just made sure they didn’t get stuck to the bottom of the pot. Flipped ‘em after about ten minutes and went another ten minutes. Then I removed them to a plate.

The pot now has some chicken grease and oil and bits of fried chicken in the bottom. Toss your onions (I diced them, but all the recipes I saw showed bigger chunks, so do what you want there) on top of all that and scrape the bottom a bit to get all that flavor intermingling. Sweat the onions for about 5 minutes.

Then you toss the mushrooms and miso in with that. I quartered my mushrooms (my wife doesn’t like mushrooms so she should be able to avoid them more easily this way, otherwise I would have diced them as well). Let that fry in with the onions for about 3 more minutes.

Then we toss in the garlic and ginger. It only needs to be in there about 30 seconds to a minute. Just enough time to get aromatic. After this we toss in almost everything else.

The soy sauce, chili sauce, water, and chicken broth all goes in now. Bring this concoction to a simmer and let it go for about 15 to 20 minutes. While it does that...

Take two forks and shred up your chicken that you’ve had set aside. And if you’re like me you’ll now see that your heat was a bit too high so this chicken isn’t cooked all the way through. No worries. Shred off what you can then toss it all back in the pot. After about 15 minutes you can fish out those bones and pick the rest off them. Stir in your bok choy and let it go just 3 more minutes.

Now if you aren’t eating any right away, let this stuff cool off and keep in the fridge in air tight container for about a week.

Whenever you do want to eat it, heat your noodles as recommended on the package (if using instant noodles as I’m stuck doing this time around, obvs I’m not using the flavoring packet that came with them and I’m also going to make sure they’re just a little bit under-done. They’ll finish in my broth and hopefully not get soggy). Put it a bowl and ladle your hot broth over top of it. Warm one of those ramen eggs (preferably briefly in your broth) then cut it in half and add to the bowl. I’m going to serve mine with a sheet of nori, some green onions diced and sprinkled on top, as well as some poppy seeds sprinkled on top.

Note that if the broth is too salty or spicy for you (do a taste test before you put the bok choy in), you can stir in 1 tsp of sugar to cut those flavors and taste again. Do this until it tastes how you like, just a tsp at a time, well-incorporated.

Also note that you can totally sub in things you like or specific types of like miso or chili sauce or whatever that you prefer. My miso of choice here was “mild and sweet.” Instead of miso you could use mirin or rice vinegar or even sake (about 1/4 cup), or one recipe called for 1 TBSP fish sauce and 2 TBSP oyster sauce instead. You could toss in carrots or other veggies. You could add a lime wedge or cilantro when you plate at the end instead of things like nori and poppy seeds. Switch from chicken broth to some other stock and this probably works just as well as a base for a beef or seafood ramen. Like it’s just versatile and easy to mess with. Tweak things and use what you have and what you know you like.

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#food #ramen #I'm pretty happy with this broth currently #like it's better than I expected #maybe a bit salty #but for me that's fine #and that was before I added the bok choy so

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major ddlc spoilers ahead, also i don’t know if all of this has been said/theorized before since i’m extremely late to the party here but i have a lot of Thoughts having finally played the game

firstly: i need to explain that every theory i’m about to present relies on the hypothetical game that would have existed if monika wasn’t self-aware

basically, irl the game was always meant to be what it is, but within the canon of the story, the ORIGINAL (fictional/hypothetical) ddlc was a regular dating sim visual novel. in canon, it was monika who changed it into the game we actually end up playing. we get only a glimpse of what the game would have been without her interference after you delete her and restart the game-- the mc no longer calls sayori “annoying” and yuri no longer mentions being into “surreal horror,” etc etc. that hypothetical unaltered version as a full game (henceforth referred to as “original ddlc”) is where most of my “what if”s have been clustering around to the point where i’ve genuinely considered making a fangame or something but instead i’m just gonna chat about it here

topic 1: monika’s route

monika claims she didn’t have a route in the first place. by all means, it seems that way-- you can’t appeal to her with your poems, can’t pick her for anything, etc etc. however, as much as monika is aware that she’s in a game, that doesn’t mean she’s genre-savvy. 

i’d actually say she probably isn’t too much of a video game person in general, and i’m not referring to her 4th wall shattering, i’m saying she probably just likes to play acnl, minecraft and other casual, lighthearted games that don’t have an ending to them and can be played indefinitely, and maybe mario party if her friends come over, yknow? that’s just kinda what she seems like to me

now i ain’t dunking on anyone who only plays that kind of game, mind you, but if monika isn’t herself someone who plays a lot of video games, and you add that together with the fact that she was not immediately sentient (we don’t see her BEFORE she became aware, because the original ddlc is already gone by the time we start playing), the fact that while she’s aware what genre the game is she clearly has minimal idea of how they work or what makes them appealing, and that she has little coding experience and despite being able to alter files/lines she also couldn’t prevent basic game mechanics or predict said mechanics getting in the way, then i think it’s not only possible but very very very likely that she missed something. she missed something big.

monika was supposed to be an unlockable route.

so, y’all remember mysmes? i haven’t played it since it first came out, so mind you my memories are fuzzy here but mysmes also isn’t the focus of this post in the first place, so excuse any technical inaccuracies here but i’m certain that the IMPORTANT parts here, the italicised ones, are correct: 

there was an unlockable "deep story” which served as the true end.

you had to play every route in the game before you could read the deep story (i think you also had to play the three other character routes before you could play 707′s route, but that might be wrong). also, each of the main story routes ended after the uh... the ball thing. the big event they throw? whatever it was, that’s where the story stops for those routes, whereas the deep story continues on past that.

you had to be on 707′s route for the deep story (i’m pretty sure you had to play his entire route and have it be your most recent playthrough to get at it, even if that isn’t the case, the deep story is specifically a continuation of 707′s route)

to be honest i was never a fan of the deep story for several reasons and i never really saw what the appeal of dating 707 was but that’s not important the point is that out of your four dating options, only one of them was considered the “true end”, but you had to do every single route before you could get that ending.

i’m sure you see what i’m getting at here, yeah?

there are a couple of other things, too:

monika tells you which character your poem appeals to most, she’s the one who introduces the game on the steam page (which is also proof she was sentient, at least to a degree, before you played the game), her name means “advisor/counselor”... iunno how many people reading this are savvy to the usual conventions of “games in which dating characters is a thing” but i’ve played a LOT of harvest moon. monika is a prime example of a Special Bachelorette. in harvest moon, Special Marriage Candidates are generally one or more of the following: a character from another game (like, literally-- you have to have a gba gamepak in while playing a ds game to see them), a shopkeeper or tutorial-fairy, characters with extremely elaborate unlocking and/or courting rituals, and characters who don’t even seem to be romanceable (in harvest moon games, romance candidates tend to have hearts next to their sprites that change colour depending on how close you are. generally that’s how you know who you can marry and who you can’t, but some marriage characters actually don’t have visible heart meters!). ... once again you see what i’m getting at right? put her in harvest moon and you bet your ass she’d have an invisible heart meter and an intricate courting ritual

she’s an important character. she’s club prez, she’s your tutorial fairy, she tells you who you’re appealing to. the tropes don’t lie, man, sayori would probably be the most realistic ending but i don’t think i know of a single game where the childhood friend character is the “true end” route-- they’re so easy to romance, they tend to be the route people do their first run and then never end up coming back to. i’m not trying to say anything in particular about this setup/logic, i just know that it exists and it exists a whole lot. if there’s a true end route in the original ddlc, it’s without question monika

by the way, in the corrupted ddlc, you still have to play every character’s route for the true ending. the true end requires you to have obtained all of the character cgs, which you can only do by playing all of the other characters’ routes, or at the very least, courting sayori, resetting and courting natsuki, and then letting monika warp the game, since you’ll end up on yuri’s route during the second act of the game no matter what you do. and what happens when you’ve had a chance to date sayori, natsuki and yuri? you end up on monika’s route. even when monika corrupted the game, there was still inherent logic to it-- all the characters inevitably become interested in mc, and you still can’t reach the true end without doing everyone’s routes.

as much as it would be painful for monika to watch you romance everyone else before you finally got around to her, she could have at least taken solace knowing she was the real ending, had she just been a little better at coding, just a little more genre-savvy...

of course, there are these lines she gives us, so clearly a sentient monika is still a monika that wouldn’t just sit there and wait regardless of if she knew she was the true end:

she says it herself: she’d still force her route, because she’s terrified, and the only one who seems to be aware that she’s in a game, but the really, really sad part is that as hard as she tries to convince you and herself that she doesn’t regret any of what she did, doesn’t feel guilty, doesn’t miss her friends...

she does. she knows she did something terrible, and she didn’t even actually have to do it.

... well, maybe “she didn’t HAVE to do it” is obvious enough for everything she did, but let’s keep in mind here that monika was scared out of her fucking mind, and reasonably so. if you were in her place, if you found out nothing was real, your friends weren’t real, nothing but code... and someone real came along, but no matter what you did, you couldn’t get them to talk to you long enough for you to ask for help... wouldn’t you get desperate too? monika was scared, and panicking, and remember: she knew she was in a game.

uninstalling a game does not a murderer make, right? the npcs, and the player character, they aren’t dead. they’re just code. if you back up your save, they’ll all be there if you download it again-- if you didn’t, they’ll still exist, they’ll just be reset. it doesn’t mean you’ve actively given someone amnesia.

but you still feel guilty over it, huh? even if you need disk space, even if you make a backup, it still kinda feels bad to delete the fictional friends you made.

you feel bad for doing that, and they were fake to you in the first place. monika was part of the game.

this is why it’s so sad to me. she was scared, and she thought she’d never even have a chance to ask for help, because she thought she didn’t have a route. her situation was, from her perspective, utterly hopeless. she felt terrible doing what she did, she misses her friends, but it was the only way to save herself, and being that she knew she was in a game, of course she’d try to rationalize her actions by telling herself her friends weren’t real and it was no different than overriding a save file. if she didn’t tell that to both you and herself, she’d be a murderer. she isn’t a murderer, either-- it really is just code, the problem is the overwhelming guilt that she has to suppress for the sake of her own sanity that she wouldn’t have had to bear in the first place had she been a normal route, or known that she had a route somewhere in the game.

the other characters do seem to have more sentience/free will than monika thought/noticed, but none of them are as Aware as monika-- natsuki shows the most amount of awareness (without being the club prez), having not only noticed that yuri and monika were acting strangely but even writing a note, one that clearly wouldn’t exist in the original ddlc, asking the mc for help. yuri also has several moments of lucidity, both with her own actions/behaviour and that of her clubmates (and by clubmates i mean pretty much just natsuki). like i said before, though, they aren’t as aware as monika, and while sayori (in the first run), yuri and natsuki all seem to realize something is wrong, they also don’t know that they’re in a game. 

monika was very, very alone, even when she was surrounded by her friends. friends that she legitimately cared about and enjoyed spending time with. i wonder whether it would have been better that she were more self-aware, or never was in the first place

topic 2: the true end

so i already talked a lot about how i think monika woulda been the true route, but not about what i think would happen in the true end. i have less to say on this topic both just in general and because i already spent so much fucking time on the first topic, but of course i have Thoughts, i wouldn’t be claiming monika would be the true route if i didn’t have an idea of how said route would work

i’ll take this character-by-character for the sake of clarity and organization

sayori:

so here’s the thing:

monika exaggerated sayori’s depression, yes.

sayori is, understandably, probably the character most people would rather the mc end up with, sure.

... but sayori never told mc she was suffering, not until he happened to catch her in a moment of weakness

not in the original ddlc either-- the mc has a very lukewarm response when she tells him she’s woken up on time for a few days in a row, which he wouldn’t/shouldn’t have had if he had known. it was always part of the game plot for mc to learn about sayori’s depression onscreen

it makes sense sayori would have feelings for him, but it also seems like she doesn’t trust him very much-- in her “bottles of happiness” poem, towards the end she seems to talk about her friends being concerned for her, but she’s shutting it all out because she doesn’t want them to worry. the mc at this point doesn’t know she’s suffering. it seems like she’s had other friends who have actually noticed she was hurting-- whether those friends are the club members or not, iunno-- and that even though she does try to conceal it, she’s aware that they’re aware, y’know? mc had no idea, and seemed incredibly unequipped and unqualified to help sayori

while that sort of thing would be remedied in sayori’s route, he wouldn’t be spending as much time with her on the other girls’ routes... not to mention that dating someone can’t cure your mental illness, but mc seems exactly like the kind of person to think that it can. that’s just my Own Ape Canyon though

what i’m thinking is true end sayori doesn’t end up with anyone, and she’s okay with that. true end sayori is prioritizing herself and learning to deal with things healthily. she’s letting her friends help her, and she’s holding off on romance, because she acknowledges that if she isn’t careful, she might sacrifice her own well-being for her partner’s happiness. 

natsuki:

fun fact: i didn’t know if the buffsuki edit was actually in the game or not for... up until a few days ago. i had no idea if it was from some kind of joke ending, or if it was fanmade. i was pretty disappointed to learn it was the latter i wanted to watch her physically break out of the game with her giant rippling muscles

now while the main topic is the true end, i’d actually first like to discuss what a full natsuki route would be like

i think that natsuki’s route would be furthest from a good end without being a bad end, tbh

i don’t think her route would be a total disaster, mind you, but i don’t think it’d be a happy end. i think you’d end up dating her, which would make it an unhappy end

see the thing about natsuki is: she’s only got a small handful of friends, she’s used to being made fun of, she immediately gets prickly when sayori brings mc in, specifically saying that the mc being male is killing the vibe-- meaning, she probably doesn’t have any male friends... leaving her dad as probably the only man she interacts with

in other words, she avoids men because of her dad

so when mc shows up, is friendly, doesn’t make fun of her, and he’s the only male figure in her life that she feels remotely safe around, it’s no question she’d probably... maybe... develop feelings for him...?

of course! yes, of course, because natsuki is VERY HETEROSEXUAL, and she likes BOYS! this is proof! most boys, she can’t stand em, but this one was nice to her, so of course she’s got a crush on him right?

in case you’re missing my heavy sarcasm, i’m saying natsuki is a lesbian with compulsory heterosexuality issues and due to said issues convinces herself that she’s romantically interested in mc, because he’s the first boy she’s met who hasn’t treated her like shit

hence making the natsuki route a pretty unfortunate one, since like i said i think you really would end up dating her, at least for most of it. maybe the end would be something like her moving away or something leaving the relationship sort of Over without actually having a breakup, i dunno

oh by the way: do you want some evidence for natsuki lesbian? oh there’s plenty but i’m gonna wait a moment for that one. i’m also not gonna go into natsuki’s true route for now, you’ll see why soon

yuri

and by soon

i mean now

i don’t have any thoughts on what yuri’s route would be so we’re gonna go right into discussing the true end

so, here’s a little something:

monika also exaggerated the turbulence in natsuki and yuri’s relationship

once again, in the original ddlc-- the part you can actually see, after you delete monika, the two are actually pretty close! they do butt heads occasionally but in the one instance you get to see in the original ddlc, they made up very quickly

monika also modified a lot of their lines in the Big Argument they have in act 2, which has both of them saying a lot of shit they wouldn’t have even thought, much less say aloud

the reality is, though, that natsuki is actually very fond of yuri

the amy in this poem is two people, depending on how it’s read: natsuki or yuri

when amy is natsuki, it’s a poem about how her own harmless interest in manga causes her to be made fun of or insulted

when amy is yuri, it’s a poem about... well, her self-harm, but a lot of yuri’s traits/interests could apply as well

and when amy is yuri, you can see a lot of information about natsuki and yuri’s relationship in this poem. natsuki doesn’t hate yuri, of course-- remember that this poem is meant to point out how dumb it is to hate someone for one tiny trait when all of their other traits are that of an all-around nice person

first 3 lines of the second verse. just take a real long look at those

here’s another poem!

this is the poem natsuki writes if 2 or less of the poems mc writes in act 1 don’t appeal to her. this makes it fairly clear the “you” in the poem isn’t mc

the “you” is someone, though

yuri.

it’s yuri. the poem is about yuri.

by the way, if all 3 of your poems did appeal to natsuki, the poem she writes is nowhere near as BLATANTLY ROMANTIC as this one is. it most certainly doesn’t say anything about kissing

btw hey did you know that “yuri” also refers to lesbians

once again i think it’s probably obvious what i’m getting at here: the true end for natsuki and yuri is the two of them dating. hell, i’m pretty sure part of the route would involve mc and monika trying to play cupid-- monika is the one who tells you who your poem appeals to, after all, so why wouldn’t she try some matchmaking for her pals?

i imagine they do still have little spats every now and then, sure, but they’d learn to respect each other’s opinions long before they’d start dating, and the fact that they’re both passionate is what makes them work. while their writing styles are almost polar opposites, that just means they have a lot to learn from each other and could balance the other out when they take their style to an extreme that makes it hard to understand what they’re trying to get across, and i’m certain they could make a kickass story together

anyways, that’s all i’ve got to say for now, partly because i spent four fucking hours writing this post and partly because i gotta get back to staring into monika’s eyes. i added the monika after story mod because i cycled through all of her available dialogue in the vanilla game. i just want to be friends with her so bad

#doki doki literature club #ddlc #ddlc monika #monika ddlc #ddlc spoilers #i'm just tagging monika because most of this post is about her specifically #i do talk about the other girls too though #long post. like super fucking long. i went apeshit

[getallemeralds]

as was surely expected of me, i am Already drafting ideas on how i can incorporate bits from the sonic movie into cv

mostly just focusing on sonic’s powerset right now because the lightning charge might be something she can do, either with an emerald at-will or when she’s riled up enough... although the large-scale emp would probably only be possible with a double boost and/or her getting a charge while super

it might also be related to her boost ability somehow? or sonic wind! or both. bc those are both abilities she has that cvshadow (the only other character in cv so far that uses refined chaos powers often) doesnt have, although they MIGHT have an equivalent of the charge ability that theyre only able to use w/ limiters off.

plus cvsonic’s backstory is literally “was bioengineered to have enhanced attunement to chaos energy” with her superspeed being an unexpected mutation so itd be possible for her to end up with other weird stuff, maybe even with it getting brought out as she handles the emeralds more often over the years-- sonic was the first mobian in, like, Forever to go super because of the emeralds being scattered and hidden, and on top of that she also goes super several times despite her super form actually being a bit unstable

...im also gonna need a name for the ability if i add it. sonic charge? iunno

#leo chirps #txt #pat.txt #chasing velocity

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

This sparked uproarious laughter and many questions in this family upon receipt.  First off is the fact that of all the numerous slurs folks get called, this is the only one that people try to use against me.  Like, do I look like a gay man to you?  It’s wild.  First time was at a point where I was still dressing and acting like a straight girl so like, clearly there’s something of Oscar Wilde’s kin about me or something, iunno.

But okay, seriously, what prompted this?  What acts of great faggotry did I commit to cause you to send this, anon?  Was it when I told someone to kiss my dyke ass?  If that’s the case, you need to go back to elementary school, because I gave you the proper term right there.  Dyke.  “DYE-kuh”.  Noun.  Former slur for “lesbian”, reclaimed by large swaths of the lesbian community.  Also it’s right there in my profile.  So if you missed that one, you’ve only got yourself to blame for this ridiculous mixup.

And if it wasn’t that... what was it?

Please, anon.  I need to know what acts of faggotry prompted this ask, so that I can proceed to do them even more.

But also like.  If not tumblr, where?  The faggotry within me will not be contained, and it must be expressed somewhere.  Twitter cannot contain it, with its tiny character count.  Facebook would doubtlessly flag it as mature.  I have no interest in pinterest.  Where but tumblr could this fag nonsense truly find a home?

But in all seriousness, anon, you need to get a life.  Because if you think being called a “faggot” is going to stop me from being myself as loudly as i fuckin want, you’re in for a huge disappointment.  Your ask, though I’m sure you’ll try to tell yourself otherwise, did not sting.  It did not leave me weeping and shaken.  It simply made me go “oh, the bigots are out today” and go on with my day, completely unbothered.

I was having a good day before I got your ask, anon, and I am still having a good day after.  There is nothing you can say that will hurt me, because I’ve woven your slings and barbs into the very fabric of my being, and thus every time you try to harm me, it simply adds more queer-ass energy to my soul.

Good luck in your life, anon.  Hopefully you will learn and grow as a person until you can appreciate the faggotry that is all around you, because we ain’t going fuckin anywhere.

#slur tw #faggot is used copiously within this post #mostly bc the asker used it #queer stuff

[hearteyes-for-killmonger]

In My Mind x 03

*Reuploading because I've edited these to flow a little bit better. Thank you for your patience!

Memories in dreams

are the ones we've built our life on.

---

“How do we find someone without a face, a name, or an idea where they went. It’s been two days she could be anywhere. It’s like chasing a ghost.”

“We don’t.”

You eye him carefully and he clarifies.

“She found you before. If she has something to say, she’ll find you again.”

Erik didn’t seem the type to let something like this hang unattended so why would he move on from this so easily? Maybe there really was nothing else you could do to find her.

“Assuming she was real,” he adds, “We need to consider illogical options since this is an illogical situation.”

You continue to stare at him. He's calm and seems to be handling all the ‘weirdness’ gracefully.

“If you’re okay, I’m okay,” you say and you get a text. It’s from Lia. You have a braiding appointment and your last customer is there waiting. You’d forgotten all about her. “Shit! I gotta go back to the salon. I forgot I had one more client.”

He slips his shoes back on and downs the rest of the water in his glass.

You walk out to the living room leaving him behind and as you open the front door you hear him move fast to the kitchen putting the glass in your kitchen sink and he jets ahead of you pulling you by your hand down the staircase and down to the ground floor where you exit. He doesn’t free your hand once you emerge.

“Uh uh, what you coming with me for?”

He pulls you to his car and closes you in, clicking your seatbelt.

“You gone keep that lady waiting,” he chides stopping your protests. He drops behind the wheel and speeds off shortening the already short trip back to the salon. The second the car goes into park, you leap out unsteadily and he follows as you burst through the salon door.

“I’m late, I’m so sorry. I’ll dock $10 from your total.”

You look up and instantly drop the keys in your hand on the floor.

“It’s you,” you gape and the woman smiles in response to your surprise. You turn to Erik and he’s gone. Everyone else is gone. It’s just you and this mysterious lady with the kind face in the empty shop that’s gone dead silent.

“Nia,” her warm voice echoes and you feel peace and calm radiating from her form in an overwhelming energy that gives you no choice but to settle down. Her eyes are tender and full of kindness. “Nia, I have been sent by your God to guide you. You have been graced with a great gift to assist with your great purpose, and now you must demonstrate your capability.”

God sent? Is she an angel?

You notice her shadow looks nothing like her, it has six arms and large wings.

“Help N'Jadaka. Help him find peace. Do this and then your purpose will be revealed.”

“N'Jadaka? Who... Oh, Erik. But how? What do I do?”

“How’d you know that name?”

You turn around and it’s Erik looking at you with a distrustful expression.. like you’ve lost your mind. When you turn back the woman is gone. You grab his forearms.

“Tell me you saw her.”

He squints and shakes his head.

“I saw you drop your keys and freeze, then you said my name... What she say?”

From the corner of your eye Glenda is staring at you this time blatantly.

“I’m fine, just dropped my keys. Clumsy, you know,” you offer with a matching clumsy shrug and she doesn’t seem to buy it.

“I thought you were going home. What you doing back,” she asks.

The second part of that seems to be aimed at Erik. She doesn’t trust him, it’s clear in her eyes and body language. You look at Lia and she’s shaking her head.

“I already cornrowed your client, remember? You done for the day. Go home. Get some sleep, you definitely need it.” Lia turns her attention to Erik. “Iunno who YOU are and why y'all so close all of a sudden, but make sure she gets some sleep.”

—

“They think I’m fuckin crazy,” you groan from the passenger seat. You’re holding on tightly to your seat as the car moves aggressively. Erik had taken it upon himself to drive while you told him about your encounter with the mysterious woman. He passed your apartment complex giving you more time to talk while he rode around. He didn’t want you to leave a thing out.

“So you supposed to be my psychologist.. Help me find myself and shit,” he mumbles and you’re also not sold. It sounds ridiculous.

“I don’t know, but apparently you NEED peace because you don’t have it. So let’s just work on that.”

The car turns onto a highway and you watch the signs before turning to look at Erik’s face. He’s just chillin on the surface.

“...You’re taking me somewhere aren’t you.”

“Yep.”

“Where?”

“What that sign say?”

You look at the upcoming sign that says EXIT and it has a bunch of fast food and restaurant logos. Thank God, because you could eat right now. He pulls into a restaurant called Bear’s Den. It’s a black owned restaurant, you think. When you enter, a lot of the staff is black and the menu is so country. It’s comforting.

Erik orders lemon pepper chicken with a salad and fruit cup. You order chicken and dumplings with a pineapple casserole, something you’ve never had before. You let Erik try the casserole, but he isn’t feeling it like you are. The two of you eat mostly in comfortable silence with minimal verbal conversation. However, nonverbals are HIGH as you exchange meaningful glances and facial expressions.

He's trying to read you while you're trying to understand him.

He requests the check and rejects your money when you offer to pay for yourself, which is perfectly fine by you. You’ve eaten your fill for free.

“Go to the bathroom before we leave to go back. You drank a lot,” he says and you raise your brow.

“I’m appreciative that you bought me dinner, but that’s a little too personal for you to be worrying about.”

“And my dreams and my life ain’t personal,” he shoots back.

“I didn’t invade your mind on purpose.”

He nods in the direction of the restroom and you roll your eyes. Raising from your seat you walk to the rustic multi-stall restroom and actually empty your bladder. Maybe it was good that you went. When you resurface, he’s not in the restaurant and you walk out to find him in the car. Buckling yourself in, you brace yourself for his crazy driving and somehow, you still aren’t prepared. He's driving so fast for no reason. It's like he's got a pregnant woman in labor in the car rushing her to the emergency room.

On top of that, he's going the wrong way. This is not… the direction of your apartment.

“Where we going now?”

The car moves aggressively and quickly further away from home and he takes his sweet time responding, apparently in no rush.

“Airport.”

Airport.. The AIRPORT?!

“The fuck? You leaving so soon?” He couldn’t leave! You still hadn’t figured anything out.

“You’re coming with me.”

“The hell I am!”

“LOOK. You gone HELP me or NOT?” His volume is rising. He’s serious... He's serious and he knows as well as you do that the both of you need to figure this thing out.

“Ugh.. How long? If we're gonna do this, I need to cancel my appointments,” you sigh taking out your phone.

“Indefinitely, for now.”

“FUCK.. this..,” you lay down your phone before picking it back up, angrily tapping at your phone screen. How selfish of him to expect you to uproot your life, possibly lose your client base, and follow him to tend to HIS mental health issues. You said you would help him, but you meant on your terms, not his. “You do understand that I have bills, shop fees, clients, and in short.. a life outside of this.. Do you not care?”

His shoulders roll and he takes the exit to the airport.

“I got you.. Don’t worry about it.”

He’s so cryptic. 'Don’t worry about it,’ right.. You go through your Styleseat and cancel everything, silently fuming. He’d better 'have you’ or there’ll be hell to pay. Trained killer be damned.

—

“So you’re just gonna leave your car?”

“...It was a rental,” he chuckles.

“When did you buy me a plane ticket?”

He ignores you, but this ticket says you’re going to Oakland, California. You’d never been to the west coast, but now you’re placing his accent.

He drags you past security and you have no luggage, but they wand you briefly. You have to take your shoes off too. Then you board and he gives you the window seat, which you’re grateful for.

The fluffy cotton clouds are so full, they look like you could jump onto them, wrap yourself up and sleep. But the sky is darkening rapidly so the sights are getting increasingly tougher to see, clouds included.

“While you’re playing shrink with my PTSD, I want to test this ability of yours some more.”

That doesn’t sound promising. You face him and that familiar feeling of trouble washes over you. He definitely plans on using you for personal gain, IF he can get a handle on how your newfound ability works. It’s disheartening, but you hold the cards.

“Erik, I told you everything I knew about our situation. This isn’t something you can manipulate to work how you want.”

His small dark eyes narrow and shoot darts through yours. You don’t waver. You can see his complicated mind scheming behind those eyes, but then they soften.

“Lotta people sleep on this plane... Try to get in someone’s head. If you can’t, it’s okay but just try.”

He’s not going to leave you alone about this. You close your eyes and draw a deep breath in, releasing a long breath through your nose. You relax yourself in your seat and rest your head against the window. You push all thoughts away, trying to make things as silent as possible and then you focus. You’re searching for a vibration, a visual, a feeling. Everything goes black and then it suspends.

Black...

Black...

Black...

A sunny field abundant with white lillies.

“Nia, wake up we here.”

Your head snaps up and you open your eyes willing them to focus. You watch Erik put away earbuds and pocket his phone. People are standing in the aisle with luggage waiting to exit and you jump up.

“Erik, you didn’t sleep did you?”

“Nah, but you did for three and a half hours.”

Your eyes search for who it could’ve been, but there’s no way to tell. No one’s wearing lilly printed clothing afterall. But then an elderly white man stands in the row behind you and Erik and it looks like he could’ve been sleep just now.

“I saw something,” you tap Erik as it’s your turn to exit the plane, and he follows your eyes to the old man. Awe lights his face but then a dark glee darkens it. He pulls you behind him by your wrist into the gate where people sit waiting to board their own flight and you wait behind him until the old man appears.

“Ask him what he dreamed about,” he whispers hurriedly in your ear.

“You ask him!”

“If I ask him he gone see nigga and have a heart attack. You ask him.”

Rolling your eyes, you fix a faux sweet look on your face and jog lightly up to the old man who's passed you both at this point, gently grabbing his attention.

“Excuse me sir, this is an odd question, I know, but.. did you happen to dream of a sunny field of white lillies?”

Your eyes plead your silent apology and his dull eyes look baffled. He shakes his head subtly and doesn’t respond, but his surprise tells you that’s exactly what he dreamed of. His thick pink finger points at you.

“How did you know? Are you a magician?”

She shake your head and walk away rejoining Erik. Grabbing his arm, you lead him past the old man who is still staring at you in confusion.

“He dreamt of lillies. I saw it. It was him,” you whisper. The corner of Erik’s mouth lifts and his eyes shine, but he says nothing else. “I know what you’re planning,” you whisper still clutching his arm because he hasn’t pushed you off.

“Do you,” he toys.

“I don’t know the specifics, but I can tell you I’m not helping you profit off of me.”

“What if I just want you to profit? You don’t like money?”

“This is a gift from God. I won’t abuse it. You’re gonna heal and find peace and then I’m a figure out some deeper purpose. That's our plan. Stick to the plan.. N'Jadaka.”

The name earns a light humored jolt out of him. He likes that name.

“Is that a chosen or a given name?”

“Given.”

You watch his face for more information knowing he can feel your stare, but putting two and two together you think it goes back to his parents.

“I’ll tell you more when we get to my place... You’ll probably see it all anyway.”

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