#novel jpegs

[luwupercal]

another novel jpeg. please enjoy

#I have a comment to make here but i cannot make it due to being a delicate maiden(masculine) #novel jpegs #im slowly posting a bunch of these bc i hve to describe them everytime lmao

[junipernight]

I redesigned Yangchen's outfit!

... I actually designed a lot of outfits for her, because I am Extremely Normal about these books, and also I like costume design and learning about historical clothing.

Short disclaimer: These fantasy clothes aren't culturally or historically accurate, just historically and culturally influenced. I don't have any expertise in East or Central Asian culture or clothing, I've just been clicking around on the internet a lot the last two weeks learning things because that's my idea of fun lol. If you wanted to talk to people who actually know things you should check out @atlaculture or like @ziseviolet, both of whom's blogs I referenced while drawing.

I only designed two alternates for the outer robes. The first is based loosely off the robes Buddhist monks wear (loosely, because drawing draped fabric is hard ^^') especially the Tibetan zhen robe. This garment is just a long wide rectangle of cloth which can be draped across the body in lots of ways (versatility ftw!).

The other garment I drew is a Chuba, a traditional garment from Tibet and the Himalayas. It's a robe, but it highkey reminds me of kilts and hoodies, in that it a) can be worn over one or both shoulders or just as a skirt and b) it makes a giant pocket over the stomach. The long sleeves can be folded up or tied back btw.

I spent the most time on the middle layer, because I was thinking it has to be something she could comfortably fight in while also being suitable for diplomatic meetings, meditating, espionage, and possibly sleeping.

And like. You can fight and hike and whatnot in loose skirts, but it's annoying how twisted up they can get while sleeping. ALSO, YC does a lot of flying and leaping, so my girl needs pants. My faves are definitely the Xiaolin monk pants and the yellow wrap pants Aang wears. I tried dhoti (Indian wrap pants) because that kind of looks like what the giant statue of Yangchen meditating might be wearing, but I think it looks odd paired with a highwaisted shirt instead of a long tunic. Maybe I'll do some more drawings with her in a tunic and dhoti or a monk's dhonka and shemdap later, idk.

As any good historical fashion nerd knows, foundational garments are everything (◡‿◡✿).

But also, there's a scene where Yangchen and Kavik pretend to be lovers, and are "discovered" by a maid sleeping in the same room, with Yangchen in a state of partial undress (gasp!)

I am living for this fake drama; I need to know how scandalized the maid was lmao.

When the maid walks in, Yangchen immediately wraps herself in a bedsheet before ushering the maid back out the door. Maybe all she did was take off her outer robe... but why would she need to wrap herself in a sheet if she was wearing a long-sleeved high-necked gown? I got the sense from both the book and cursory research about buddhist monks that walking around without your outer robes was socially acceptable, at least in casual settings. I think it more likely she was in her underclothes, which historically (in the west anyway) would also double as sleeping clothes.

"The Aang" is censored because this is Tumblr-dot-com. Its mostly a joke, but also, I know other countries are less uptight about bººbies, so like, maybe it's a valid option ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The ~Water Tribe~ look is based off Sokka's swimwear and not Katara's, mostly because chest binding seems antithetical to airbending.

All the other undergarment designs are based on hanfu neiyi, because that's what I could find reference photos and romanized names for.

I'm tired of typing now. Lemme know if you have questions about something, or want me to post a larger version of a specific outfit. I am open to feedback and tentatively open to requests.

#costume design #character redesign #Yangchen #avatar #airbenders #air nomads #avatar novels #chronicles of the avatar #atla #I realize now there are typos in the jpeg rip #too late to change it now

[inthewh4le]

#echo visual novel #echo vn #echo #echo project #visual novel #furry visual novel #sydney bronson #furry #save me sydney bronson #save meeeeeee #i want him to crush my skull with his arms lovingly #the sydney bronson brain rot is unreal #he’s literally just a jpeg

[trillscienceofficer]

also I will probably read “Second Self” anyway (I'm really curious about all the Romulan stuff) but god the plot has exactly my number one pet peeve re: DS9 fandom, ie Garak popping up everywhere. I don't!!! care!!! about Garak!!! please let's talk about someone else for once!!!!

#garak is truly mccormack's blorbo and i get it. #but i have had enough of this dude dot jpeg #like even in a picard show novel? really?

[k1rishiki]

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#band teacher asks my class abt our musical backgrounds > i'm the only one there who Doesn't Have One > he's confused why i signed up for the #class > i have to awkwardly explain that i want to be a vocaloid composer and they no longer offer music theory > tell my dad abt how i had #to awkwardly describe what vocaloid is to my teacher > realize my dad has a v flawed idea abt what vocaloid is despite the many. many years #i've been enamored w it > try making him listen to vocaloid songs to fix his perception > have vocaloid songs in my youtube recs afterwards #> tailor shop of enbizaka shows up in said recs > make a bitchy tumblr post abt disliking the evillious novels on principle > feel bad for #not knowing evillious well enough to properly hate on it > evillious autism hits > go on evillious tiktok bc i'm curious > someone is #showing off the riliane dollfie dream > god i wish that were me dot jpeg > another person is cosplaying riliane > god i wish that were me #dot jpeg the sequel > think abt how badly i want that riliane dollfie + want to cosplay her constantly > there are only so many thoughts ab #riliane dollfie + cosplay one can have before they start branching out to other characters > 'the miku dollfie would make a killer prop for #a gallerian cosplay' > 'oh my god i have to get the miku dollfie and cosplay gallerian' > look into the different available dollfies > #check how much they cost secondhand > start trying to figure out how many dollfies i can budget for in a year > it's been hours #> i NEED a dollfie so much it's unreal > not even specifically the miku dollfie bc she's insanely expensive 2nd hand and i want to wait for #the inevitable rerelease > type moon & haruhi suzumiya dollfies tend to go for ~500usd > i NEED a dollfie so bad it's unreal #a few months and one of them will be mine. 'which one?' the one that i can get the best deal on when the time comes #romeo.txt

[nicollekidman]

settling in to spend the rest of my evening with breath of the wild and my god…. every remembered memory…… princess zelda 😭😭 that’s my honey my baby my sweetheart

#would read a million word novelization about zelda #also brings the insane urge to look at a billion low res jpegs of zelda and link holding hands

[snowflop]

#tch. thats really annoying innit #a webnovel i was reading has been completely obliterated from the face on the internet so now i will TRULY never know what happens #apparently the translation group got a dmca because of this new venture from one of the big webnovel companies (idk the name) #so they ended up completely nuking their site and aaaalllll the contents #i originally thought like... surely some aggregator website out there has a backup lol so worries but it's literally... gone #apparently novels are not a meticulously stolen as manga #manga translations never truly vanish i've read scanlations from 2012 that are artifacted to shit those jpegs have been through the wars #but it's legible! it still exists and it was done by a human being #so many novel aggregator websits only have machine translations and i cant read that shit it makes my brain hurt #so anyway point is now i'm trying to make backups of some novels i do really like just in case but god there has to be an easier way #going chapter by chapter copying all the text into a word document cant be the way it takes so long #this shit is 120 chapters i'm not strong enough for this #I don't wanna be a dick and try and work around the translation groups anti-copying anti-downloading protections because- #CLEARLY they're just trying to protect their work from being taken and distributed without their consent i get that #but... god i really want a backup of this one you know orz... #not having it physically (digitally?) on my own hard drives means that it could vanish literally anytime without warning #aarrrgghhh for now i will relent... but i'll be back it #sorry but if it's displayed in my browser it's literally impossible for you to completely cut off my access to downloading it somehow #if it comes down to it i can save the webpages individually as files but that's such a pain! it'd be nice if i could get the plain text... #although the translation notes would be lost and i do dearly treasure those... #snow blogging

[lakesbian]

i like how presumably due to this being a childrens novel the various bodies theyre running into cant be, like, described as graphically rotting or desiccated, so it's just several pages of cartoon skeleton dot jpeg jumpscare

#animorphs lb

[gollageek]

Good News!!!! The Danny Phantom Graphic Novel is sold out on Amazon!!!

To celebrate, I'm making the live read Livestream with @howtotrainyournana and Gracie public again!!!

You'll still probably want a pdf copy to read along since my camera decided to be a jerkwoddle, but we had fun! I want to do a follow up review but I'm on vacation this week!!!

Selling out is a big deal, and not just for DP. If these graphic novels can be financially fruitful, we could see potential continuations for similar properties.

I for one am very pleased with the results of the comic, the sales, and how well the phantom has rebounded with the canon adaptions.

Also, here is a png and jpeg of my chibi danny. May he guide you on this new hiatus!

#danny phantom #nicktoons #team teen #nicktoons unite #gollageek #nickelodeon #howtotrainyournana #a glitch in time #danny phantom a glitch in time

[hit-song-showdown]

My favorite songs of 2023

I am putting together my favorite songs released in 2023. I started off doing a project where I listened to as many new albums as I could (and recording my findings in a spreadsheet), but that project tapered off around June when my move + school year started. But even though I wasn't able to listen to every album that came out, I still came out of 2023 with some of my favorite musical projects of all time. Also as another disclaimer: I am not a professional music writer.

I am also limiting this list to 1 song per album/project.

1. Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMafia and Danny Brown. I wish I could go back and experience again what happened to my brain when I first heard this track so I could properly convey it with text. When I first saw this project was announced, I knew it would take over my life. When I heard this track before the album was released, I knew I would have to form some kind of religion around it. The reason why I'm limiting this list to one track per album is because Scaring the Hoes has 14 tracks so I wouldn't be able to fit them all (other songs I would have given the number 1 spot include Burfict!, Shut Yo Bitch Ass Up/Muddy Waters, God Loves You, and Kingdom Hearts Key). But the title track is the perfect introduction. It's less of a single and more of a thesis statement for the entire project. The production throughout this album is incredible, but STH hits different. The rhythmic, almost menacing handclaps (fun fact: those aren't handclaps--that's the sound my asscheeks make when this song comes on) and the horn sample which I can only describe as Blood Money era Tom Waitsian, it is by far my favorite beat of 2023. Combined with Danny and JPEG's charisma and the way they bounce back and forth, this song is a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. Also I saw them live and that experience elevated a 10/10 to a 20/10 for me.

2. Prof. Aronnax' Descent into the Vast Oceans by Ahab. I started seriously listening to German nautical funeral doom metal band, Ahab around early 2022 so this was the first new release I got to experience. Even though I loved what I heard previously, nothing could have prepared me for this. The opening track is everything I want from a doom metal song. It starts out with a frantic onslaught of screaming and inhuman growls before mellowing out into a serene instrumental before the mournful vocals kick in. It really feels like the initial shock of your body slamming into the water, then having to slowly drift among the waves as your muscles give out and you're taken deeper into the depths. That's what I like about doom metal: it's music to decay to. This track (and by extension this album) hooked me from a story-telling perspective right away, which shouldn't be a surprise as it was based on Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The story presented in this album intrigued me so much that I had to read the book for myself. Then I read it again. Then I read two different translations. Now I'm working on a visual novel adaptation. I know metrics for album rankings are subjective, so I'm willing to give an album an extra bump if it gets me to read a 19th century novel at least five times in less than two months and learn Python coding. (Other tracks I would have included: the album is at its strongest as a single listening experience, but I especially enjoyed Mobilis in Mobili and Ægri Somnia).

3. What A Man by Debby Friday. This is a track off of Nigerian-Canadian electronic musician Debby Friday's first album Good Luck and holy shit, what a debut. This is such a well-formed project I can't believe it. I was already enjoying the album throughout the first few tracks. It brought me back to listening to 2000s club music and thinking "wow I wish I got invited to parties." But then I got to What A Man and the world screeched to a halt. I think I was posting on my main blog at the time, so anyone unfortunate enough to follow me had a chance to see my incoherent screeching in real time. This track is incredible. Debby's warm and sultry voice, the spacey production, THE ELECTRIC GUITAR? The first time the guitar kicks in, that's just a teaser for what ended up being one of my favorite music moments of the year. The electric guitar feels like an oncoming storm and Debby is standing strong before it, taking on the wind and rain as her voice becomes louder and almost yearning. Then the song builds with Debby yelling to the high heavens as the guitars wail around her before fading back down into the low bass and rhythmic breathing motif found throughout the album. This track is an experience, and the music video is gorgeous too (the picture I chose for the banner is from the video itself) and the fact that it has less than 20K views hurts me. (Other tracks I would have included: I Got It, So Hard To Tell, Let U Down)

4. Bite Back by Algiers (ft. billy woods and Backxwash). Speaking of songs that build... This is the sixth track off of Algiers' album, Shook and by this point I was already feeling pretty good about the release. I was already prepared to put the opening track, Everybody Shatter on my top 20, but when Bite Back kicked in, something changed. Here's a recreation of my initial reaction: "this sounds pretty good, I like the way this intro...is that billy woods??") Just to be transparent: billy woods' involvement would have been enough to give this an automatic top slot for me, but it helps that his verse is fantastic. His flow is slower than the introductory verse, but that only makes his lyrics stand out more. From the opening lines "One hand wash the other, they both wash the face / Centrifugal force and inertia keep everything in its place / Slowly, spinning in space, speeding, lead foot on the brakes" I knew I was in for something special. One thing I really appreciate about this track is the production. billy woods has a very steady flow with an almost menacing quality to it depending on the subject matter of the lyrics, and the beat shifts during his verse to reflect that. It sounds like it could be a billy woods beat, but it doesn't sound like one of his beats was carelessly shoved into an Algiers song. It's like the beat ebbs and flows with the artists involved. The production gets gradually more intense as billy picks up more ferocity in his delivery. A detail I really like is when billy says "claws rattling, delicate as roaches' wings," the percussion on the backing track picks up an almost rattling quality, but it doesn't sound corny or too obvious. Then billy continues, the backing track picking up even more intensity until it feels like each noise is blasting at full power...and then the tension releases and settles down with Algiers frontman, Franklin James Fisher, delivering the second verse. His delivery contrasts wonderfully with billy woods' too, with his faster, almost whispered vocals allowing the track to pick up momentum again after the previous release of tension. This track knows when to breathe and it's fantastic. But it also knows when to take the air from your lungs as Fisher goes all out with the vocals in the hook and third verse, reinstating what an absolute powerhouse vocalist he is. And just when the track is at its peak ferocity, in comes Backxwash with the steel chair! If billy and Fisher were allowing the beat to gradually shift under their performances, Backxwash grabs the song by the throat and makes it do whatever she wants. Her verse then trades off into Fisher delivering the outro, operating at full power in his delivery. This song is so well-crafted and none of the artists feel out of place. (Other tracks I would have included: Everybody Shatter, A Good Man, Irreversible Damage)

5. Billions by Caroline Polachek. As of writing this, I haven't been keeping up with other people's year end lists, but I know this album is going to make everyone else's. So I feel a bit intimidated to talk about it, but I will try. The production on this album is so good my brain can't even comprehend how it was crafted. I've seen it described as "maximalist," but that doesn't fully capture how well this album knows when to pull back and let the tracks breathe. Billions is one of the more sparse tracks compared to some of the others, but that only makes each production decision stand out more. The second time Caroline says "give me the closure," you hear a little musical sting in the background (probably some kind of synth, but at first listen I thought it was an electric guitar) which didn't show up after the first time that lyric was sung. It's that attention to detail and letting the production build on itself that makes this project incredible. And it goes without saying that Caroline is an outstanding vocalist. She sounds like a siren. It's ridiculous. (Other tracks I would have included: Welcome to My Island, I Believe, Hopedrunk Everasking)

6. The Black Seminole by Lil Yachty. Opening track off of Lil Yachty's psychedelic rock album, Let's Start Here, and what an opening track on a fantastic project. It should be clear by this point that I love songs that build, and holy shit does this song build. I first listened to this album while I was on a plane, and this track synced up with my takeoff. So while the plane was lifting off the ground and I was being pressed against my seat, Lil Yachty gave the final line before the electric guitars and the female vocalist kicked in, both wailing with equal ferocity. Top 10 music experiences of the year, but even going back to listen to that same track when I'm not on an airplane delivered the same euphoric experience. (Other tracks I would have included: Drive Me Crazy, Should I B, We Saw the Sun)

7. Xena by Skrillex and Nai Barghouti. I debated whether to put this song or Hydrate on the list, but Xena was the first track that made me fall in love with this album. With vocals by Palestinian singer, Nai Barghouti, Skrillex delivers an absolutely outstanding dubstep track. Like Billions, it's the kind of music production that makes me have to step back and fully appreciate the craft. The song is incredible at building intensity, but he also knows when to pull back to let the tension build again. And Barghouti isn't just a feature--she is the heartbeat of this song. Her voice melds with the production so well, but in a way that sounds like she's commanding it. My absolute favorite part of the song is when she starts singing in her lower register as the production turns to more naturalistic instruments. Sometimes I see electronic producers robbing their singers of their voices for the sake of cohesive production, but that isn't the case here. Nai Barghouti's voice is crisp, unique, and perfect. It's a fantastic melding of producer and vocalist that makes way more sense than it should. (Other tracks I would have included: Hydrate, Rumble, Ratata)

8. Babylon by Bus by billy woods and Kenny Segal. I already talked about billy woods, but he was a feature so this still counts. Everything I already said about billy woods' skills applies here as well, especially now that he has full control over the track. billy's flow sounds both effortless, and that he knows the perfect word to use for each line. And he uses interesting words. "Glistening waterbug on clean counter / Plague mask, gave the place a cursory glower / He ran away, I gave chase but gave up and sat on his gate for hours" I love this series of bars. He is a storyteller. And then, the beat pauses after billy's first verse, with low menacing notes, a clattering of naturalistic metallic percussion, and then the switch up??? Seriously the way the beat ramps up for SkrapKnel's verses takes the song to another level. The way the Curly Castro and PremRock pass the mic back and forth to each other is outstanding. This doesn't feel like a guest verse; this is a fully realized project. The shamelessness is even more apparent when billy takes the mic again for the final verse, but now with more ferocity in his delivery as if he's building off of the energy created by SkrapKnel. This song is masterful. "I take care of these words, Munchausen by proxy / Somehow beat the tox screen / God save the queen, but that train doesn't stop here anymore" (Other tracks I would have included: FaceTime, Year Zero, Soft Landing)

9. Drain You Empty by Cannibal Corpse. I listened to this album right around midterms and I needed it. But this was the song I kept coming back to. For one, it's fun. Obviously: it's Cannibal Corpse. But I love the way the song opens with a full minute of just blasting you before the drums, riffs, and screams really kick in. Good god the drumming on this album is so good. I absolutely love Corpsegrinder's delivery on this track. The way he shifts from bellowing growls to shrieks, the way he speeds up his delivery to match the pace of the drums, it's so good. I'm sorry I don't have a better analysis. It's fun. (Other tracks I would have included: Chaos Horrific, Overlords of Violence, Blood Blind)

10. Crossing Guard by Model/Actriz. This is a song that made me wish I went to gay clubs more. Yes, it's a killer dance song, but what draws me in is how chaotic the production is. It starts out slow and quiet, then bam! The production starts screeching at you in a glorious onslaught of noise, held together with a fantastic bassline. I love the vocalist too. He can be monotone and subtle, but he also knows how to raise his voice to match the ferocity of the production. I listened to this song countless times last year (often while crossing the street and trying not to get hit by cars), and the line "Like Germanotta, Stefani / Pull the weight from under me" will be stuck in my head forever. (Other tracks I would have included: Donkey Show, Amaranth)

#music #2023 music #jpegmafia #danny brown #ahab #ahab band #debby friday #algiers band #caroline polachek #lil yachty #skrillex #nai barghouti #billy woods #backxwash #kenny segal #cannibal corpse #model/actriz

[luwupercal]

the horus heresy is filmed in front of a live studio audience

#novel jpegs #i was gonna post the first two sentences bc i thought they were interesting #and then the rest fucking hit me

[tophthedaydreamer]

in honor of fionna and cake's new series releasing, here's a redraw of an old piece i made of the two.

to be honest, i don't know a lot about adventure time, but i have a fondness for fionna and cake. i used to read their graphic novels in middle school and thought they were really neat.

out of curiosity, i started watching their new show and i'm intrigued!! mayhaps i will venture into the wacky world of adventure time...

original picture under the cut!

low quality jpeg of one of my first few digital pieces, circa 2016-ish.

#topharts #fionna and cake #adventure time #fionna campbell #can't wait to see what happens to simon....

[hartro-owns-my-heart-ro]

my waking hours are haunted by the idea of a stellar firma jpeg visual novel and im making it everyone’s problem

#stellar firma #stella firma #trexel geistman

[cherry-blossomtea]

Listen I’m a veteran of the fashion gacha genre, I played Shining Nikki at global launch. I downloaded Life Makeover to chase a boy check it out. I am completely fucking floored at this game and what it offers. Act I Scene I I’m shitting myself over the character creation(!!!!) that is more robust than most triple A RPGs that can be changed at any time. Except for, you know, skin color because apparently that’s too fucking hard and a massive issue but I digress. I am then greeted by a compelling visual novel (standard to the genre) with NPCs with animation rigs and fully voiced cutscenes to go along with entertaining detective VN mechanics. Already a massive win, I’m hooked on the story and characters.

I go to the dress up studio and discover to my incredible delight this game has Fully. Modular. Dyeing. Design possibilities instantly become limitless. I am shown the photo taking studio. Fully rendered 3-D space you can move your model around to take advantage of lighting and camera angles. Glorious. Built in editor to tweak photos in game, no more shall I be forced to export to photoshop (I will anyway bc I’m a perfectionist). I’m throwing up.

They turn around and hand me a fashion DESIGN studio mechanic in which you can create your OWN clothes for ur little digital Barbie to wear including a system for drawing/designing your own fabric which I WILL be busting out my tablet for. This game feels unreal at this point. I’m fucking delirious and high on snorting HD rhinestones and glitter.

Game then introduces me to the housing mechanic which is. Not unique but like you gotta understand. It’s not just oh swap out this furniture’s pattern move around these cute little jpegs NO. We are talking a fully rendered 3-D space with high fidelity graphics that you can decorate yourself with interactive furnishings and sims needs we have stumbled into a completely different game at this point (and your model is still wearing whatever cute clothes you’re in to fully appreciate the obscene level of detail). There are apparently dozens of DIFFERENT house floor plans you can buy and explore. And then I discover you can visit other peoples houses when they hold community meals and there’s a chat and emote function and I realize in my bewildered haze I have somehow stumbled not into a gacha but a fucking fashion MMORPG. For your phone.

I’m lightheaded with glee. I haven’t even unlocked everything there’s more features. I’m in love. I think I am sexually attracted to this fucking game. We marry at dawn

#anyway yeah yeah I know it’s a gacha boo hoo Idc #this is everything I’ve ever wanted from a game and more so like #bye I’m disappearing for the next ten years. i think.

[tokiro07]

I tried to temper my expectations with this episode because, like you said, it was a set-up episode so they clearly cut on the budget a lot. And since the next episode starts the Spoil arc and will also introduce Victor, I'm hoping they're saving their budget for those next bits.

But I've noticed there's lots of bits in the show where they're clearly saving time/budget in order to pour that saved time/budget into the more important episodes like the Gena fight... I just wish they were a bit more creative with it. The language unification is a neat bit of foreshadowing that I don't think many anime-only's are gonna get. But then apocalypse is just like. A still jpeg over the table. I don't think his mouth moves beyond him biting Andy's hands off. If they had to choose between animating Move and animating Apoccy, I feel like they should have cut Move's physical presence and just have the cracks appear under their table and given Apoccy more animation.

Removing the people from the restaurant and from the bridge in the first episode (and I'm sure we're gonna get more trimmed down crowd shots) is giving me a very strange vibe. It gives this feeling of an empty world. The empty sky is supposed to be a hint to the watchers about galaxy, but we the watchers are also supposed to ignore the empty world and those don't mean anything other than budget cuts.

But whatever. Those are my gripes but I'm sure they'll do better in the next one. All this corner cutting better lead to a frickin hexagon next week. Septagon. Maybe even an octagon.

As far as I'm aware, this is all pretty emblematic of Yuki Yase's style, as it all feels very reminiscent of Bakemonogatari, where now that I think of it there were literally never any background characters

I didn't really notice there since it was based on a novel; I'd never seen what it was "supposed" to be like, and the series was so dialogue-heavy that it just made sense to focus on whoever was present anyway

This being based on a manga, the difference in medium is immediately noticeable, and the expectations for how it "should" be are much higher

It's difficult to say what's budgetary and what's stylistic, but if nothing else, we know what it looks like when they're trying to look good, so that both means we can look forward to the big moments looking like that and can notice when the smaller moments don't

The best we can do is take it for what it is; praise the well-done parts, acknowledge the flaws, and enjoy the ride however bumpy it may end up being

#undead unluck #fouryearsandananime #uu anime

[2goldensnitches]

another complaint I have about feh’s laziness is my most capitalist opinion to date, though it includes fe as a whole: the lack of promotion and extra materials. I’m not one to buy merch just because it exists, and a lot of merch itself is incredibly superfluous waste, but it’s extremely weird that Nintendo’s biggest mobile title (61% of its profits in the mobile market and over 1 billion usd as of February) gets…nothing. No figurines, no plush toys, no dioramas, no manga (the yonkoma are just shorts), no marketing outside of its twitter account, not even those dinky little character cafés even the most short-lived seasonal anime get.

so far only a few characters have figurines (Lucina, edelgard, corrin, byleth, mrobin, caeda, Cordelia, tiki, alm, celica, tharja, Lyn, ike, dimitri, chrom, felix, bernie, Lilina, sakura, camilla, Veronica, Elise, Claude, Lysithea, marth), and plushies (ike, marth, Roy, 3h lords except yuri, the byleths, sothis, lucina, and fcorrin). Of these, alm, tiki, celica, mrobin, and mcorrin only exist as amiibo because of smash; sakura, caeda, and elise only have nendoroids; all three main 3h lords have pop-up parade figurines plus felix, Lysithea, and Bernadetta, but edelgard has a figma as well; fcorrin and lucina both have amiibos and figmas, but fcorrin has a scale figure along with marth, ike, lyn, lilina, Roy, fbyleth, tharja, camilla, and Veronica. Chrom has both amiibo and nendoroid.

you’d think this is a respectable amount of character rep to buy, except these all came at an extremely slow pace, often releasing at the tail end of their games’ cycles; I’m not a marketing expert, but I am a fan, and I distinctly remember the numerous complaints this has gotten (and still gets!) over the years. There is interest—so where’re the goods? Ironically enough, intsys made more content for the earlier games, including manga (jugdral got at least 4) and novelisations, small board figurines, and even an ova for archanea. It’s understandable that by the time of the tellius games, only artbooks were made due to poor sales, but you’d think that the success of awakening saving the series and fates making them even more money would mean more content. But so far, it’s just been those few figurines plus collected yonkoma. The plushies and scale figures weren’t even made until much, much later. Hell, kozaki had to release the fates art book himself without help from intsys, and corrin’s scale figure was only announced this year.

even houses, the series’ biggest hit to date, only started out with crap cardboard cutouts of the characters’ sprites plus the dining hall and plastic pouches. its bigger merch came later as well, including a certain tea set that is not only quite expensive, but made many fans angry due its release date (nopes). Engage seems to be a little more confident, having stickers, a notebook, keychains, switch icons, konpeito, and a metal tumbler, but it’s still very little compared to what other series have.

in-game, feh is also surprisingly subdued. No splashy animated seasonal banner announcements, little original music, few shorts, no streaming collabs, no tie-ins. The book openings get gorgeous animation from anima inc but no cutscenes are found in the game except visual novel-style text, and, again, it was only until much recently that we’ve seen some other animation in the form of like, five chibi shorts and four regular shorts (one of which got heavily mocked because it’s basically fjorm’s disney princess love song moment for the self insert protagonist). Banner announcements are just jpegs showcased next to gameplay plus a few voiced lines from the vas.

when you get to other games though? You’re not starved for content at all: stuffed toys, miniature figurines, large scale figures, acrylic standees, notebooks, keychains, stickers, patches, tableware, glassware, yonkoma AND full manga and novelisations AND light novels, food, fashion, pillows, cosmetics, chara cafés and anime; they all have streamed announcements, animated cutscenes or fully rendered illustrative cgs with voice work, silly promotional videos on youtube, cast interviews, and collaborations with other games. Like, you could not even pay me to touch waifu trash like nikke or azur lane or blue archive, but they at least bother to promote themselves, for better or worse, and regularly do cross promos with other brands like nier, monster hunter, evangelion, and even sanrio.

Even tears of themis, which is extremely niche even within mihoyo’s ecosystem, has had character cafés, accessories, and crazy stuff that no one wants like a credit card!

I’m certainly not the first to ask, but is intsys allergic to making money? So incredibly short-staffed that their only resources are for game dev and a smattering of in-game animation? Stuck to nintendo’s teat? Purely lazy? Why does 70% of merch come from fans to the point where even fanart is the preferred type of autograph material for the english vas? I’m not sure i or anyone else will get the answers to these questions, but is it really so much to ask for a real sleepytime byleth plushie to hold and squeeze instead of lyn’s eighteenth alt?

#fe heroes