I am begging, begging, the acotar fandom to become familiar with the concept of ship and let ship. If a ship isn't your cup of tea, no one is making you drink it. No one is making you consume content for it. Leave people alone for enjoying the things that scratch their brain. Life is too short and the world is too mean to ridicule people for trying to squeeze a little joy out of silly "what-if" scenarios. These characters aren't real, they're just little dolls whose faces we're smushing together and some of y'all take it way too seriously
I was watching this ethubs megacut video and it's composed of LL clips and there's a part after... I think Tango? maybe? blows up the middle tower in their fortress that Bdubs says smth like "We can always rebuild" and Etho replied "I'm done building" and like. do I need to explain the metaphors you can make out of this. they're making me ill again
You know what Nintendo needs to do? Let us explore the inside of castles like they did in Super Mario 64 cause I'm trying to write a fanfic here and I can't cause I don't know what the Pi'illo Castle looks like on the inside past the front entrance and the dungeon downstairs!
So the thing about the interplay between DR0 and DR2 is this - the question of if you went back far enough, could you prevent someone from becoming who they become?
And that's kind of what we see in play out in theory in DR2. If you remove those years from the Remnants, if you remove their relationship to Junko, then they can be - can become - entirely different people.
Which would then beg the question of, well, if you can do this with the Remnants, could it have been done with Junko? And the answer, given in DR0, is absolutely yes. Junko without her memories - Ryoko - is nothing like Junko.
(Which really counters her argument that she was born that way because, clearly, she was not. If she was, then the loss of her memories wouldn't change anything. But it does.)
The question then becomes, well, how far do we have to go? Or, more succinctly, how many memories do we have to remove to make Junko not Junko?
DR0 removes everything but Matsuda. It gives her short term memory loss, and it makes her rely entirely on her memory notebooks. (And, really, I'd argue that it should have removed Matsuda, too, but didn't, which might be a flaw. Kind of like how when Kyoko had all of her memories removed, she could still figure out she was a detective. (And I guess the idea of memories returning gets addressed first in DR1 - because Kyoko slowly remembers her relationship with her father and her grandfather. Junko didn't perfect Matsuda's method; she just shortened the time frame, which made the effects last longer.)) And, of course, when she regains her memories, she immediately reverts back to being herself, as planned. (And maybe this is a form of testing, not of resolve but of...of something else.)
I would expect that Junko would need more than her two years removed, that it would need to go farther back.
But how far? Where is that moment of no return, where Junko becomes, well, Junko?
i want you to know that I previously owned all the L M Montgomery books EXCEPT blue castle, and I have just ordered Blue Castle. Please never stop filling my dash with this stuff <3
sometimes the other kids notice that I favour the kid who is all "i have a weirdly specific and intricate papercraft project I want to do and the model doesn't actually exist so we're going to have to design it from scratch by cobbling together other models and can you use powerpoint to copy this photo so I can 6 of them?"
over their sufficiently cute picture of a sanrio character.
listen, I am into his paper engineering project. all the kuromi look like kuromi just pick one already so I can get back to something interesting???
usually i try to be fair but listen if I got into the reddit forum, I can probably find the minecraft texture he's looking for, give me a minute.
So, I realized that while I had scenes planned that included a dining room, I didn’t actually have a dining room built in the new palace. So, I built one!! It’s very, very red, but I think it’s still slightly less red than Fallon’s bedroom, lmao. (It’s still a work in progress, though. I didn’t really feel like doing a ton of detail with OMSP’s at the time.)
I also have need of a parlor/sitting room, so I made one of those. It’s supposed to be unsued, hence the lack of clutter or decor.
Then I was like, hey, what if I made a sitting room that *is* being used? So that’s what I did.
For the questions for fic writers, 49 and 50 please?
49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!
I've been bouncing back and forth between the last chapter of toy rosaries and the next chapter of nhthcth. Here's a few lines of toy rosaries:
Not two seconds later, they notice him gawping down at them like a fool. The man in the mask freezes. Claire jabs a finger at him like she’s tattling to the recess monitor.
“He says this guy kidnapped a kid and we need him to tell us where he is.”
Oh, so there’s where he kept the Devil. He hadn’t felt it in some time. But it’s right there, next to the pit in his chest. It seems comfortable as it finds its way up his pulse.
“I’ve got a pair of pliers,” says Jack, jerking his head back from where he came. “If that’ll help.”
50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!
Let's do this one: 17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?
Okay so I have one for TMA and one for Marvel.
TMA: Danny, Jon, and Gerry Buzzfeed Unsolved AU. Jon runs into Agnes Montague while at Oxford, and it changes things. He goes on the run from the Web, picks up an amnesiac man he semi-accidentally rescued from some fucked up circus freaks, starts running even faster. They find a kind goth who joins them in their scooby adventures, because Jon is HIGHLY susceptible to serial killers and Gerry is kind enough to help him escape being bookified. They end up starting a ghost hunting YouTube channel, Ghost Hunt--not to be confused with Ghost Hunt UK, who hates them on a profound level--to cover up their monster hunting supernatural shenanigans. It gains immense popularity--because of Jon's skepticism about the existence of supernatural.
Marvel: the idea is that there are many Peter Parker's in the Multiverse, and the Collector just wants the one that no one would miss. A very lonely version of Peter gets nabbed right when he's starting off his Spider-Man career, before anyone even knows the name, by a Collector who's decided he's the centerpiece of his collection. This one is so dramatic. There's TRAUMA. There's SPACE. There's a GLADIATOR ARENA. There's MIND GAMES. the REVENGERS are there. And, Yes, I found a way for the Frank Castle's dead family to be there too. This is yet another one of my defridging the castle family stories. I am obsessed with this AU and it is so ridiculously niche. If anyone wants to ever read a space odyssey featuring Peter Parker and the Punisher's dead family, by fucking god, i have you covered.
y'know what. i will say that overgeared knocked it out of the park when braham asked "Can you give me a house in your kingdom to stay in?" and greed replied "What is a house? Let's build a castle. The largest castle in the world."
[video description: a video of sea waves crashing onto the shore of a beach at sunset. there is no sand but instead small pink granite rocks. the pinkish orange of the sky on the horizon reflects slightly on the water. in the horizon there are huge pink granite rocks standing above the waterline/
audio transcript: the sound of waves crashing onto a rocky shore, and the sound of strong wind/
got my first AND SECOND ever pvp victory against my brother in castle crashers yesterday, lads. When I was a kid he always used to obliterate me in the pvp phases. He still often does. But twice! I have won!