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chitinleg · 11 months

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got him off-balance!

#my art #ds9 #star trek deep space nine #julian bashir #elim garak #garashir #watercolor #image desc in alt text #i normally post on mondays but. today im breaking my pattern! getting a little silly. getting a little wild. garashir jumpscare #“tumblr user chitinleg garak would neot easily let himself be swooped off his feet into a hug like that” yes i know BUT!#look at his expression. look at how his arms r pinned. he didnt let this happen LMAO julian just surprised him. grabby huggy human behavior #if you look really closely you can see the tiniest frown in the world on Garak's face. because he's like “EEP !”#cant see bashirs face at all in this only his body but i think we can all imagine that whatevers going thru his head. he needs this hug bad #ALSO. for anyone wondering what the fucked up shadow is that starts at the juncture of the teal sleeve-cap where its set into the armhole #the jumpsuits have a bit of a fold of extra fabric (called an Action Pleat) there which allows for a little more maneuverability of the bod #AND creates a really sleek and flat back panel #because you can see the fabric twists along the side arent grabbing the flat back fabric theyre grabbing the fabric folded beneath it #often times i think about drawing out a dissection of kiras first uniform and this voy era one for other artists to use. bc god knows #i struggled at first to find full body references #they like to shoot ds9 very close to peoples heads. and the camera is so blurry. they smeared butter on that thing. god bless

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smtown-tourist · 7 months

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Sometimes I lay awake at night and think about how Ring Ding Dong could’ve been that K-pop song that took the world by storm instead of Gangnam Style. If only it hadn’t been released in 2009 when practically nobody used YouTube

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yellowocaballero · 16 days

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Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

#these aren't deep or unique thoughts they're just the specific aspect of ISAT that made it one of the most interesting gaming experiences #i actually like the prologue much more than ISAT for just this reason #its honestly a video game art piece that's created to give the player a very specific experience #that makes them an aspect of the narrative that is told #it's. incredible.#in stars and time #start again start again start again #start again: a prologue #isat #god and there is so so so so much more to say here #what a rich and complex and fascinating game that made me cry like a baby #i dont even kin sif. we arent similar at all.#i cant imagine how devastating this game would have been if i did #but I do have a deep relationship with escapsim #and i write about it a lot #and video games about being video games are wonderful #as are stories about being stories #and why we consume stories. how we use them. how they save us and hurt us.#never played a video game that used its medium so well #i bet undertales also pretty good at that but this is more so i think #stories about stories have to be about why we love stories #and im not an artsy person and i roll my eyes a bit when people talk about the spiritual neccesity of art #i think people need stories because the world is sad and hard and boring and we want to think about something else for a while.#some people need to be anywhere but here #and sometimes if you're Lil Depressed-Ass Snufkin that looks like being here forever #baby cringe-ass snufkin big hat idiot

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plegg-culture-is · 5 months

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Plegg culture is actively imagining yourself getting isekai'd into a fictional character's body but also you share a body with them now and you don't know why that appeals to you so much (they are now a fictive sharing a body with you)

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#plegg culture is #pluralgang #plurality #actuallyplural #plural system #egg carton #submission #transpanda-1 #we did this but slightly to the left #where we would imagine them ending up here and having to explain what this world is like to them #looking back... I wonder how many times it was actually happening and how many times it was just play

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rusquared · 1 month

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#yknow gaza is about the size of my hometown #and i realise this is basic human empathy that should be common sense. but #like we do look similar as well. us south asians and arabs. at times.#and so i find myself sometimes imagining exactly what it would be like if that was MY house. MY school. MY favorite marketplace #or MY family (God forbid) under the rubble #or starving for food #it's almost unendurable just to imagine #i don't know how they're living through it every day #i wonder how different the world might be if someone who doesnt look like someone else could still try to vividly imagine their pain #but its different when its brown people right....?

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bramblewhisker · 1 month

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Lionblaze: Did you hear that those two RiverClan cats broke up?

Ashfur: Er, no? I don't really listen to Gathering gossip.

Lionblaze: They both seemed so calm about it.

Ashfur: You wouldn't be "calm" about it if we broke up?

Lionblaze: Hah! Like we'd ever break up.

Ashfur: Sure, sure... but just, in theory.

Lionblaze: Well I'd never break up with you, you know that.

Ashfur: But what if I broke up with you?

Lionblaze (deathly serious): You wouldn't.

Ashfur: O-of course not, I'm just... making conversation. How do you think you'd handle it?

Lionblaze: If you broke up with me... it would be like you ripped my heart right out of my chest. I'd have to make you feel that same pain. I'd probably claw your pelt clean off, tear your heart from your chest, and leave your body for crow-food.

Ashfur: O-oh....

*awkward pause*

Lionblaze: Pff, don't look so grim, we both know that'll never happen; we're soulmates! I love you so much.

Ashur: H-heh yeah, you too. (Oh StarClan what did I create...)

#AshLion #can't imagine how this backfired on him #wonder where Lionblaze learned that a breakup would be the end of the world hmmmm

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wildflowercryptid · 9 months

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i'd still love to see a farming sim introduce a rival marriage system that let's you influence who gets with who (à la fire emblem awakening or fates' pairing system.) i think a wonderful life would've been a great game to implement that in bc i feel all the marriage candidates could interact with each other in really interesting ways, especially if that marriage system also allowed for same sex relationships.

#ngl i would just love to see more of the awl marriage candidates interact w/ each other in general #to be fair i haven't gotten a lot of events yet so there might be more interactions between them later on #i desperately want to see lumina and gustafa sharing their interest in music with each other #imagine lumina asking gustafa for his advice on how to improve her skills and he reveals that he has some classical music experience...#*i meant classically trained the word was escaping me when i was writing these tags #she finds his traveling stories absolutely captivating and his music slowly starts to show an influence on her own playing #idk if i'd want to see them in a relationship but i'd definitely love to see them be friends #but matt/gustafa or gordy/gustafa? there's definitely some potential there i just know it #and i think lumina could have an interesting relationship with molly or nami... 🤔#they're both a lot more worldly than her so they'd provide a glimpse outside of the small world she's always know #i just really miss the rival system guys.....#story of seasons #a wonderful life #mj.txt

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thebirdandhersong · 11 months

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all shall be well :')))) ALL SHALL BE WELL

#always a timely reminder for us all!#this is re: texting troubles. breadmaking shenanigans. all the things going on in the world.#on an unrelated note (i just watched miss americana today): do you (referring to tswift lovers) pray for her?#i wonder how many people are praying for her. i know for kpop there's a small fraction of kpop fans who pray for their favourite singers #this is a sudden thought because my word has she Gone Through It a lot in her life. and she DOES have this incredibly golden #and somewhat firmly oriented moral imagination when it comes to what SHOULD be in the world #(i.e. eucatastrophic turns in sad songs/lyrics; tswift clearly SEES and names heartache and sorrow but also is able to draw out #such beautiful and true images and motifs and so on and so forth) but though she says she's a Christian (in the 2020 documentary anyway) i #don't know if THE Eucatastrophe (as prof jirt would put it) is a part of her creative big picture/perspective ?#anyway love y'all happy pentecost (it's almost midnight here. alas) LOVE YOUUUU :D #songbird again

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chromatic-corrosion · 6 months

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#so.... i have toughts.#about 'Escaping Virtuality'.#one of them was ''what if Caines human body was created using bits and pieces of the others' bodies''?#it would explain why Kingers prescription worked for him #it would also explain where he got his human body from.#i think ive talked about this but im pretty sure Caine would have difficulty walking #We havent seen him canonically walk in anything. he just... floats #im pretty sure that hed be incredibly wobbly whilst attempting to walk #i can already imagine him holding on to one of the other humans because he kept falling over #he hasnt seen his own face yet either #it would be amazing to get a description on how caine looks now when he sees his face in a mirror.#i wonder how hed react to seeing his face.#you know that strange feeling you get when you stare at yourself in a mirror?#the whole ''that is me.'' feeling? the one that gets you entranced and makes you focus on the details of your face?#...the question is- how would he see his own face?#Widows peak hairline. Hooked nose. And of course- he'd have those two mismatched eyes!#and what would happen once everyone else got outside outside of the office building?#are they considered missing in reality? how would those that were close to them react?#or does time pass slowly in the digital world?#and theres Caine. he definitely doesnt exist in legal terms considering that he was previously an computer AI #now that Caine is no longer an AI and is just himself without any code controlling him in any way whatsoever-#how would he react if he realised how messed up some of the stuff he did as ringmaster was?#hed probally have a breakdown and a half #ive been re-reading chapter 3 ever since i woke up and because of that my brain keeps thinking of random ideas related to it #and how do the rest of the humans look?#it would be great to hear as i could finally draw some scenes from it! :-)#EscapingVirtuality #seasalt speaks

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ayotamacorner · 5 months

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iiii like to hc that someday in the future when tav dies and astarion doesn't because he's immortal that he goes down into the underdark and finally makes amends with all of the spawn he brought to cazador all those centuries ago. where he can see that all of the work he did, that impossible choice of giving up ascension to be better, that it all paid off in the end because the spawn have built themselves a civilization that's thriving and happy. that he can sit down next to sebastian and properly, truly apologize. sebastian has no obligation to forgive him, certainly, but there's an understanding between them of the position astarion was in at the time and the fact that, no matter how horrible what he did was, he did not have a choice. and id hope by that point that maybe astarion would have healed enough as a person to understand that and not hate himself forever for his part in ruining these people's lives, but also i feel like he'd be just as likely to take a place there beside them for a time just to feel like he's making up for just a sliver of it. idk i really want a fic where astarion and sebastian just talk post-game, because their interaction in game shattered my heart

#bg3 #tama talks #astarion #bg3 spoilers #i just think about what happens to all of those spawn a lot #like how do they fare in the underdark?? how do they survive?? are rhey all ok?? do they thrive?#i like to think that they do #i imagine the other 6 og spawn take leadership positions to help organize them all and teach them how to control their hunger #maybe they find some way to get blood through hunting or trading or something idk #mass deals with butchershops lmao #but i rlly wonder what it would be like for astarion to visit them years and years down the line and see how these people #who he was half tempted to either use for his own ascension or just kill out of fear they would become problems being loose in the world #are surviving and okay and kind and living #everything he always wanted #in a way tav gave that to him #and gave that to them as well #like damn lasting impacts of being good people really puts it into perspective #maybe it is worth it to be kind even if no one had been kind to you because look what it can create #idk im sappy

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s0fter-sin · 1 year

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general society is such an underthought aspect of mha. obviously there’s the big things like the obsession over heroic quirks and the demonisation of villainous quirks. quirkless people are dismissed entirely but i don’t think we talk about how society in general would have to handle a world with super powers.

we know after afo’s first uprising, the government overcorrected and outlawed public quirk usage. we know people have their quirks registered and go through quirk counselling as well as a type of gym class where they practice under teacher supervision.

how in the hell is that supposed to work?

the closest equivalent i can think of is mental health services. someone would have to study for a long time to be able to pursue quirk counselling as a career. it’s also a highly personalised system: everyone has a different quirk - even similar ones have different activations, triggers, exceptions and drawbacks - so no two sessions could ever be the same. if anyone’s been through mental health services, you know how rough it is; it’s an overworked, underpaid system and if you live somewhere that only offers a few free visits, it can also be expensive.

and that’s an elective service.

almost everyone on the planet would need quirk counselling.

there’s no way they could implement such a labour intensive and individual public system and we literally see that they can’t.

we see the gym class in amajiki’s flashback and he only has a few minutes with his teacher before he’s chided for not being more impressive and utilising his quirk to the fullest and they move on to the next student. say a standard class is twenty students like it is at ua. that leaves just over two minutes for each student to learn and practice their quirks. you can’t focus on just one kid per lesson bc what will the other nineteen do? do teachers also have to have a degree in quirk counselling? is that part of becoming a phys ed teacher or is it some random joe schmo trying to wrap his head around literal super powers?

given that inko goes to garaki - a doctor - to confirm izuku’s quirklessness, it can be assumed that quirk counselling is entwined with the medical system. i don’t know if you’ve ever had to apply for a specialist before but you can be on their waiting list for a while. a quirk counsellor is essentially a specialist. are there subcategories of counsellors? do you focus on either emitter, transformation or mutation the way doctors become cardiologists, paediatricians and neurologists? or is one person expected to be equally knowledgeable about all three?

we see through toga that her counsellor identified her need for blood but they didn’t find a way to curb those instincts or even find a supplement for her. she’s left to be abused by her family for something she can’t control bc it’s literally in her dna. compare that to iida who knows he needs orange juice to power his quirk. his entire family are pro heroes so it would be easy to assume they could employ a private quirk counsellor the same way richer people can employ private doctors.

how many people have specific requirements due to their quirks? changes in their physiology that have to be treated the same way nutritional deficiencies and allergies do? even people without mutations probably have those requirements: does kirishima’s shark teeth mean he’s an obligate carnivore? does mina’s acid change her ph levels and what vitamins and minerals she needs? how would they figure that out? quirk counselling.

what about kids like touya who would need extensive counselling so he could figure out how to live with his quirk without hurting himself? kaminari essentially has seizures and they’re so normal to him and everyone around him that they’re the butt of jokes. they wouldn’t be a one and done patient; there’s always going to be people that need continued support the exact same way there’s people that need developmental and disability support. there would be so many quirks that harm their user, are they just taught to bury their quirks? as if that wouldn’t cause any physical or mental consequences?

governments can’t create a system that applies to only some people, we’re expected to believe they’ve made one that applies to all of them?

#bnha #my hero academia #mha meta #i imagine its similar to therapy in that the first session would be free since its probably required in order to register a child’s quirk #they probably figure out activation in that time and thats it #onto the next kid bc there will always be another kid #you want more information on your child’s power? you better be able to pay for more sessions #even quirkless people need to be fully assessed to ensure theyre quirkless #i doubt anyone else is as interested in this as i am but it feels like just another world building aspect horikoshi just kinda skipped #quirk counselling is just sort of thrown in with toga and curious and it becomes just another concept that is brought up and discarded #quirk counselling quirklessness mutant prejudice the quirk singularity theory general mutations outside of mutant quirks #theres so many little interesting concepts that are never given the development they deserve #and when they are like in the last few chapters its done in such a shallow handwavy way that i wish hed just leave them alone altogether #no wonder the plf exists quirks are so suppressed in society while also being a status symbol #and yet its a completely hypothetical advantage if they dont become a hero or a villain #if a kid has a heroic quirk theyre held on a pedestal and if they have a villainous one theyre demonised at best and abused at worst #koichi was almost given a fine bc he was using his quirk to get through foot traffic quicker how is there not a riot every year about #quirk freedom and rights violations?#and yet its completely glossed over #go beyond plus ultra #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt

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lochley · 7 months

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on one hand i think many telepaths would take losing their telepathy as a gift but on the other. new wheel of time episode talking about the suicidality of becoming disconnected to the one power has reminded me just how fucking depressing my AU where lyta's powers burn out instead of her dying truly got which is probably why i stopped working on it j;lkaskdlfj

#og #with lyta in particular her abilities are so insane and unique that i don't think she can ever imagine viewing the world differently again #i think she's past the outright desire to be normal bc she's seen how the world rejected her when she wasn't #and why would she want to fit into such conditional acceptance etc (even though it is Easy and she is Tired)#and i wonder if she'd still be in danger with no way to protect herself bc her dna would still be... what it is #it's just that in her particular case the universe opened up for her to an extent no one else will ever understand #especially when factoring in vorlon connections! and those are already gone! and her powers growing was becoming a replacement #so even without her powers she still is never going to fit in because she's never going to blend in with people #who haven't had those experiences bc she's always going to have known what that feeling was like and be rendered empty without it #i don't think she hates having those powers all that much tbh because she knows the world is cruel and she needs to protect herself #but most importantly it's just integral to how she sees the world now and how her body connects to it and she connects to her body #i really loved in an earlier wheel of time episode - the discussion about being cut off from the one power #being a violent assault and how you don't feel at home in your own body anymore #and that's exactly how i think it would feel for lyta #and. to this most recent episode. how else do you cope with that besides wanting to end it all lol :') not like you can ascend at this poin #anyway on a happier note i do want her to find love and happiness no matter who she is or what she can do #and i love her dynamic with g'kar so much bc he just... treats her normally imo? at least eventually #rather than being afraid of her or idolizing/dehumanizing to her his whole thing is wanting to help her reconnect to base humanity #and SO. despite having learned how cruel the world can be and the defenses necessary to survive above it #there is still love and acceptance to catch you even when you get knocked off that isolated shielded pedestal #and learn that you no longer need those defenses to a certain extent #and maybe that emptiness doesn't go away but it gets smaller when you begin to live again in new ways #it just still does not make the years it takes to get there automatically easy it just... makes them a tad less traumatizing #ultimately i don't think... normalcy is what she wants because normalcy isn't achievable in its standard form to someone like her #to have normalcy means going back in time and never meeting kosh or never being a telepath in the first place #but i think with her powers as they are she'd be capable of finding something that works for her and totally rock it #it's just... complicated when those powers and everything they've become tied to gets forcibly taken away lol #so to a normal telepath... maybe they would take their powers yeeting as normalcy now! maybe they'd be okay with that #but to the extent lyta's powers and experiences run... i don't think it'd work that way for her esp when not by choice #it's new suffering right when she was just about to be able to learn to live with the old

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lisbonsteresa · 1 year

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oh it's horrible; i love it

#tm #this is SO #because from lisbon's point of view this is....let's say strange i guess #nothing's really changed for her? yes she has (they have but he's not thinking like that right now) this dangerous risky job #but she always has; there's always been 'a new train every day' and they've dealt with them all; they'll deal with this one too #so yes of course she wants to try and reassure him but it's not as major to her as it is to him #*and also she's been very patient and understanding and hasn't put any expectations or pressure on their future #(i'm sure she HAS thoughts on it obviously but she's been the one reminding him to take things as they come #'right here it's good. it's very very good.')#meanwhile jane is.....for so long jane wasn't sure if he'd HAVE a future; he wasn't sure if he'd deserve one #and then blue bird and everything that came after it and it's been wonderful and he's been trying to take it one day at a time #but it's like once he let himself imagine a future for them; for himself he was immediately hit by the full reality of how tenuous it is #he's always known they have dangerous jobs but knowing that in a pre and post blue bird world are two very different things #now he has this; he has them; and he also knows that every time they get a phone call from abbott #there's a chance he might lose the most important person in the world to him just after learning he's the most important person to her #just after they finally started something together and then what he does later this ep it's just #once you get what you wanted most what would you do to protect it (because what kind of future would he have without her)#(and then failing that (in a few episodes) what would you do to grant yourself some semblance of peace of mind?)#but this kills me because he delivers the line in a kind of teasing way? he does not let on how nervous he really is #(or what he might be starting to plan) 'i made the decision not to tell you because i was worried that it would come between us' LIKE #he tried broaching the subject before (albeit not in a way that she could very easily understand) and it went nowhere #'are we really gonna work for the fbi for the rest of our lives?' 'it's who i am jane' 'i know'#he's terrified of what might happen but he's also terrified to bring it up because what if that drives a wedge in their relationship #what if he ruins it himself without any outside issue being to blame is that a self fulfilling prophecy back to the fear that kept him from #telling her how he felt during s6 #so instead he holds back just how much he's spiraling until....and then he just CAN'T anymore and he has to get away #(and then lisbon's almost blindsided because yes she knew he was worried but THIS worried? to the point he won't even hear her arguments?)#GOD it's so so good it's the wooooorst i'm eating it up

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true-blue-sonic · 9 months

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I think very often about the fact that Silver doesn't have any friends from his own time. Even if he did make friends in the future, he would risk erasing them from existence any time he chose to go to the past; and not only would nobody but him realize the loss that happened, but also he would have nobody but himself to blame for causing the loss of his friend.

And that made me wonder: If Silver were to be rendered unable to (seemingly) ever return to the past and got forced to make a life for himself in the future, and then he did, but then suddenly he regained the chance to see his friends from the past again… Under normal circumstances he might've had little qualms about visiting the past again, but after spending potentially years accepting he'll never get to see them again but he's not gonna let that prevent him from living his life… would he be willing to risk losing the life he has now?

Exactly this is a dilemma I like discussing in some of my fics as well, like New Beginnings and Genesis. The choice to go back in time and making a whole world and its inhabitants not exist in the first place is definitely made more easy when that world is beyond rescue and its inhabitants are mostly gone or rapidly dying out anyway. Since the games never dive into Silver's life in the future except some vague mentions here and there, like Silver saying that the sky is blue and everybody's got a smile in Colours DS, I find it hard to infer what his social life would be like there. But indeed, if he brings forth an accidental change to the timeline, it is very likely that people he knew in the future are gone or get fundamentally changed. And if they don't recognise him with each timeline 'reset', I can imagine that for Silver it eventually becomes better to just not have any acquaintances there at all. It leads to too much heartbreak, too many goodbyes, and far too much guilt. No, in such a scenario, I really do think Silver might steel himself and ensure his only friends are ones that are safe in the past, where his control over their lives only extends to ensuring they can keep on living instead of being responsible for their demise. Stopping people from coming into existence is already a tough choice, let alone if it's someone Silver knows, and I think he's got a lot to grapple with conscience-wise about it all.

As for your question in your second paragraph, I'm afraid I don't have a solid answer. I think a lot would hinge on how likely it is his visit to the past immediately changes the entire timeline. If he were to visit on some calm weekend afternoon when there's nothing happening regarding Eggman and the like, I don't think there would be too much chance of things going wrong? But I do think he would be tremendously antsy about it all, both in part because he hasn't seen his friends in the past for so long and in part because he is afraid he's going to lose some friends all over again, but then in the future instead. All in all, it is a situation wherein I see only losses and problems, with no easy solution to ensure everything goes well for both people in the future and the past simultaneously. But somehow, I have faith that Silver can make it work!

#I myself like to imagine the timeline as slightly flexible #so minor visits from Silver to the past do nothing to cause large changes down the line #but only huge things like stopping an Eggman victory from happening which otherwise would have gone off without a hitch-#-is too much for the timeline to bear and thus everything changes #but since our own world does not really seem to have time travel in the way Silver does it that is pure imagination on my part haha #silver the hedgehog #I wonder how Sonic and friends react if he just stays away for days turning into weeks into months and then years #Dodonpa reached out to him with a racing invitation so it's not *impossible* to get to Silver in the future #but what to do if he just doesn't respond anymore?

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missgallavjch · 1 year

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panels I'll never move on from, part 1

#aot #snk #eremin #eren jaeger #i love this scene SO much!!!#the fact that their bond literally shaped this story... 😭#and imo eren wasn't only realising he wasn't free cuz he had never seen or heard of the things armin was talking about #but it's like he couldn't even imagine armin's dream cuz his mind was being limited by literal walls #idk how to explain it 😭 but it's like you can only think what you have words for??#anyway the fact that the look in armin's eyes completely changed eren's life... isayama im still mad at you but omg...#another thing that makes me insane is that little eren would spend time looking at the sky as if a part of him already craved for freedom -#- like... he never wondered about the outside world but his eyes were always looking /up/#i've never really talked much about aot here on tumblr but i've been thinking about it over the past few days and i kinda miss it #blue bird (naruto shippuden opening) was written for eren so true #sue talks #susy.txt

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kasuna-kotonoha · 8 months

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So I was thinking, would genshin ever make a duo element character? Because we know there are elemental creatures like wind whips and Oceanid and probably others we're unaware of, but what if, for example, an Oceanid got a vision and it wasn't by chance hydro.

The only way I think they could make this work is by having it function some how similar to Childes ranged vs melee playstyle.

Like, either the skill or burst switches your element for a certain duration, and perhaps fighting style? Like imagine an Oceanid sword user with a pyro vision. Their default is a hydro sword since that's their natural affinity. But when you use skill or burst, it switches them to their pyro kit for say 30 seconds (ideally the duration doesn't end if you swap out to someone else) Feel like this would prevent a broken self vaporise character, since the elemental application from the first element would get used up pretty quickly.

Example

Tidalwave: tap elemental skill deals aoe hydro damage. Hold E to switch to the Earthshaker state. While in the Earthshaker state, the characters elemental and burst will deal pyro damage. Duration: 30s

And I thought of this too

Ascension 4 passive: While in the Earthshaker state, energy regeneration is increased based on the characters max hp (because hydro default)

That, or their normal attack is one element and their skill/burst is another by default, but I feel like that's a bit too wonky for a functional kit. Also the reason we can't, and probably shouldn't be able to, mix and match the travelers elemental skill and burst. Kinda feels like it has to be two modes like childe

Honestly, this could be really cool, but also feels like it'd be hard to pull off well. (Also artifacts would be an absolute pain to figure out. You wouldn't want to use an elemental dmg goblet unless you're focusing really specifically one one element.)

Or, you know. It could be like the traveler where they can only use one element at a time with no access to the other unless you switch them. But that's boring.

Okay, now I actually kinda want to design a dual-element kit.

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