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almightyhamslice · 5 months

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GRYLL COMPILATION!!!!

I didn't forget abt them I just wasn't totally sure where to place them since they're meant to be encountered AFTER the story concludes. They're not even the last drawing in my Star Stacker series though! Very close to the end though... just two more drawings left!

Gryll is an alien witch who travels through the cosmos looking for people to stack stars with! They always conjure up the blocks themself, so their 'playmates' don't have the excuse of not having a game board or blocks... and if others don't know the rules of the game, Gryll explains it to them in agonizing detail! Gryll strikes me as being rather long-lived, but also incredibly carefree and not concerned about their own mortality & just living in pursuit of fun! They might be the same species of alien as (or perhaps an offshoot of) Marx's species? The two might've even played a game together once upon a time. Gryll can be irritating when it comes to asking others to play their games, but they do care about fairness-- they NEVER cheat because it removes the fun for them! They already know they're the best player, but they want to prove themself in an honorable way.

Other than their fixation on star stacking, Gryll is also very fond of onions! Their three onion companions are named Sugar, Salt, and Pepper; Sugar has no leaves, Salt has short leaves, and Pepper has long leaves. I think for Gryll, cultivating onions is less like farming plants and more like caring for animals? Like chickens, maybe? Though the onions themselves are smarter than that, so maybe it's more like taking care of parrots or crows? Point is they're really common on Gryll's homeworld and they like to have a few of them following them through space at all times. So they don't get lonely! Though, Gryll does also like the flavor of edible onions.

Overexplanation of my gijinka design under the cut!

Design wise I did kinda base Gryll's appearance off Marx (mostly cuz they both have huge shiny eyes and are from outer space! Though notably, Gryll has invisible/detached arms that are covered by arm warmers, and no external ears (maybe I will remove Marx's ears as well?). I knew I wanted to emphasize that they have detached arms, but very clearly visible legs! Though I also wanted them to have more stripes in their design, so I decided they should go to their arm warmers. Similarly, I thought they could use more red, so I added a little red shawl. My gijinka design has bare legs since I think they're a very striking feature of Gryll's in-game design-- Gryll has actual legs rather than connected shoes or floating shoes, which not a lot of Kirby characters have! Their top is cut on the sides; it's more androgynous that way I think, and it's also a nod to how Gryll was accidentally depicted with actual arms in one of their in-game panels. I interpreted the lines on their face as whiskers/patchy facial hair, again because it feels more androgynous to me! And I think it makes them look cute. I suppose it could just be blush or paint but I like whiskers!! Basically, I totally overthought Gryll's design lol! I think it's because this is their only appearance so I don't rlly have room to redesign them! Unless I feel like it later lol.

anyways heres my funny drafts of Gryll! They used to have striped sleeves but I wasnt satisfied w that rlly.

They remind me of a Rayman character or perhaps Rayman himself? (has only played Rayman 1 and failed miserably at it)

#art #traditional art #Kirby #kirby gijinka #mixed media #colored pencil art #marker art #pen art #completed #Kirby's Star Stacker #Gryll #Rick the Hamster #Kine the Fish #Coo the Owl

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oh-snapperss · 1 year

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Hi, I just got around to watching ethos pov and when cleo asks abt joining team ties. She words it like do you have space on your team for another person and before she could clarify that she meant for herself. Etho asks if its for bdubs and now im just wondering if he would have said yes if so. And how that potentionally would have gone over with the other ties seeing as they were calling bdubs dead weight earlier

YEA YEA that moment cracked me up a little bit because like. etho. he really just assumed bdubs... I'm a little conflicted honestly on whether he would have said yes so i'm just gonna use this ask to outline some general observations i've made about etho's character and you can draw your own conclusions about what might have gone down.

Firstly, Etho this series is giving me major survivalist vibes. I noticed that right from the very beginning of his episode he was constantly moving and progressing in the game as much as he could. He was resource gathering a ton and even had the beginnings of a mob farm... for gunpowder and bones specifically. This, along with how he was on high alert all episode, makes me think that he actually has a grasp on how much time does matter even now in the early game. Something that really stuck in my head the whole episode was the line from Tango in Last Life session seven--"He's a survivor, that's what he does."

Every season Etho tends to take his lives very seriously and that's no exception now. Unless he has some very bad luck, I'd be surprised if he's not one of the final players or even the winner.

With all that in mind... lets talk about Bdubs and his actions!

As funny as Bdubs was in killing Skizzleman, he's kinda put a target on his back. No matter what happens next session, Skizz will be going yellow next session, and I wouldn't be surprised if Bdubs is an early target for Skizz if he decides to kill for more time (or if he rolls boogey). Bdubs made a serious error there, and I think he may regret it.

Combine that, with the fact that Etho is currently teamed with Skizz... I have to doubt that he'd take Bdubs as an ally right now, which pains me to say a lot.

BUT I will also add that I doubt Etho will stick around on team T.I.E.S with Skizz being yellow next session. I get the vibes that he's not as attached to the team as the other three are, and with the danger Skizz will pose to him... idk. I wouldn't be shocked if their team fell apart within next session or the one after. And from there, who knows! Maybe a clethubs team up is on the cards after all! I just don't know.

But, lets go back to your point about team ties calling Bdubs deadweight in last life and what might have happened if Etho did take Bdubs with him! Personally... I think that they'd have taken Bdubs... but most likely betrayed him early on down the line.

If anyone has further thoughts on this I'd love to hear!!

#laurie thoughts #anon #limited life spoilers #limited life #etho #ethoslab

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pinkandblueblurbs · 1 year

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the key to life on earth by declan mckenna is such an underrated anticapitalist bop… some lines are pretty obvious like “calling to wake you up in the morning // iron your suit and tie // forever till you die // join forces like carousels and their horses // forever spinning ‘round // never coming down” is clearly about how in capitalism you just work every day of your life and how they push this idea of us all coming together to work with one another when really we’re all just pieces of a machine that serves the rich, not ourselves.

same with “come out and join us honey // we will sort you out // come work in Brookfield Farm and we will shut your mouth” — these lines also talk about how capitalism just exploits workers and destroys their individuality by working them to the point of exhausted silence

and then the lines like “the thing is // these out of touch scrounging rich kids // are living here for free // on my home terf” and “cause dirty streets these days // are graced by Nikes of black and green // and headstrong boys in chinos can barely grasp what that could mean” are pretty clearly about how the rich don’t have the same experience as us and don’t see how harmful capitalism is because they’re the ones reaping all the benefits.

but then more subtle lines connect back to anti-capitalism. like “we’ve been held back for after school meetings // they’ve got it in for me” with the context of the rest of the song (esp the lines mentioned above abt working every day and being part of a machine and having no individuality or voice) seems to be about how our educational system just trains us to be good obedient little laborers who do what we’re told and have no creativity. and how kids who may struggle to maintain focus and learn by the books to fit this strict mold are punished and seen as “bad students”

#i could talk for ages just about how he mentiones nikes multiple times in his music #and he seeeeems to use it as a symbol for capitalism #but i may be wrong #i could talk abt hozier and declan songs all fucking DAY #gill talks #declan mckenna #the key to life on earth

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magnoliamyrrh · 2 months

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yall i had the weirdest fucking nightmare last night which i feel could be a scenario for a short horror or something

so i was a chicken.

living on this mans farm somewhere in america, but like a rly fucked up farm where he figured out how to genetically modify us chickens or something so wed grow extra wings legs etc so he could cut them off and sell them and keep us alive and we would regrow them. and like idk one day a bit after sunset when there's still light in the sky but its dim, he gets mad at us i think because we were talking amongst ourselves (pretty sure we weren't allowed to talk because it reminded him we were beings like him too and made him feel bad) hes like fuck it its harvest day so he lines us all up and hes going around tearing limbs and shit,, hes like grabbing the skin off of their backs and pulling it over their heads and snapping wings and shit

and its like horrid and horrifying and like he gets to the chicken next to me who tries to speak again maybe to tell him that he wasnt speaking or to not do it which kinda defeats the purpose and like. and like he yells at it that its not allowed to bc were just animals who cant speak etc but like we clearly can but anyway he tears the skin and limbs off of the one next to me more brutally than usual and then he gets to me and like,,,, i just start speaking to him louder and idk saying what but it pisses him off so bad that he grabs me by the neck and takes me to the chopping block and before hes abt to chop me i keep talking to him and idk what i say that gets to him to stop for a moment. i think i remember saying things like we Can speak, we Can you cant just ignore it we can feel and speak and think just like you we may be animals but we Can this isnt right

and i can see his face break a bit, just a bit and he looked at me and i remember thinking Now i have to put on my best act, i have to pretend to care abt what hes feeling, and i go,, you werent always like this with my voice cracking and crying. you werent always like this with us. by this point it is dark outside and the porch light is illuminating us

and he goes no,no i wasnt. i know youre people too. i know you can speak. i can see a look of regret on his face. contemplation. disgust with himself probably. but then he snaps out of it, his face goes cold again. he looks at me with dead eyes and goes on abt how now he has some rare illness thatd gonna kill him so he needs money. some more justifications too this is the world blah blah. he needs to do this. he reaches for my back and tears my skin off over my head, skins me alive, grabs my extra wings and snaps them and takes them with him. i could feel the pain and fear and horror in my dream. ...he leaves me there. but he does not kill me. he does not kill me as he intended

and then i wake up

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aldynafox · 2 years

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Kakashi <3

KRFKQRFQIHEQIRHRHGU YEES !!!!

favorite thing about them

where do I begin... well he's my favorite naruto character since I'm like 13 so I kind of like everything abt him <3 his design, his nonchalance, his ninja way, his backstory, HIS DOGS DKJFKJZEFKJKJGRGDFBD

But if I have to choose one thing I'd say that I love the fact that no mather what he'll never turn bad like he's so strong he endured so many horrible things but he's still standing <3

least favorite thing about them

the “all the people I’ve loved are dead” line... maybe he tried to convince sasuke by exaggerating it but still WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIVING FRIENDS ?????

favorite line(s)

the classic "I will not let my comrades die. I will protect you with my life. Trust me." and "No matter how far Orochimaru fell, he still loved him… Now I know how the Third Hokage felt."

brOTP

YAMATOOOOOOO !!! <3 he's so cute he's the lill bro kakashi never had I love them together AAAAAAAAAH all the ANBU part when they first met is one of my fav <3 oh and kids kakashi and Obito being toxic bff is life !!!

OTP

nOTP

kak*iru cuz I don’t get it and ob*kaka (again I'm sorry) I can totally see the potential on this one but I don't see when nor how they could be together... I hc that kakashi had a lill cruch on obito when he was younger (cuz energic black haired idiots are tottally his type) but that's all... and the way obito is mentally destroyed by rin's death... I can't ship him with anybody alse...

But again I’m not totally against it and if you ship those two together then good for you mate <3

(lot of) random headcanon(s)

He's unshaved under his two masks

He loves romantic things but doesn’t know how to react on it

The Hatakes was farmers at the beginin so when he’s retired from being hokage he renovated his father’s old farm and lives there with Gai <3

The first thing he’s done as the sixth hokage was to put his father’s name on the shinobi memorial and rehabilited him

unpopular opinion

I don’t like Sukea... I don't like his design (especially his clothes) he's empty to me (sorry baby) but I like his make up tho

(the many) song(s) i associate with them

Adult Kakashi :

Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo

Clint Eastwood and Sleeping Powder - Gorillaz

Chop Suey! - System Of A Down

"The Wolf" - SIAMÉS

Young Kakashi :

Let's Go - Stuck in the Sound

Killing In the Name - Rage Against the Machine

favorite picture of them

Honorable mention :

#thank you for your ask !!!#<3 #kakashi #kakagai #kakashi hatake #gai maito #fan art #my art #naruto #ask

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pokehorsegirl · 10 months

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hi I’m Paisley! she/her

I’m a 16 y/o Pokéquestrian who lives on Horizon Fields, the farm and stables my family owns located in Turffield, Galar C:

I do eventing with my Galarian Rapidash gelding Charming! he’s 7 years old and stands at abt 16 hh

behold the the specialest boy <333

in general I just rlly love equine Pokémon! we have a lot on our property including many Wooloo

Other ‘mons:

-Snowflake (Glastrier)

-F Blitzle

-F Oricorio ✨

^ we have many pkmn here but these are some of the ones you’ll see me posting abt most! Pegasus and Frank are my dad’s that he lets me ride in competitions sometimes, Pixie is the new foal we’re raising, the only ones I actually own are Charming and Vanilla! I raised Charming from a foal, and Vanilla was a birthday gift from last year

we also take in and train rescues! if you have an equine ‘mon in need of a new home call us at [insert phone number]

if you’re interesting in adopting from us you could call that number or contact us via the farm’s website! [insert link here] our email and other contact methods are listed there ^_^

if you have any other questions abt our farm or Pokéquestrianship don’t feel shy to shoot me an ask! g’day to you all <3

((ooc under cut))

hi! yet another rp blog by @pinkhairandpokemon’s admin. this one isn’t strictly set in my OCverse tho!

kind of a spur of the moment blog I made bc I wanted to project my horse knowledge onto a character + have at least one that wasn’t a traumatized child hero lmao (tho Paisley might get trauma along the line idk I’m still developing her. but all in all she’s just a normal gal)

just some heads up: this may not be totally accurate to real life equestrianship/horse ownership as I am not actually an equestrian irl myself, I just have a few family members who are. I might get things wrong! I am in no way an expert and please do not take whatever you see here as proper advice for handling horses irl

also there will probs be a lot of cheesy stuff here lmao. Paisley has very “instagram horse girl” vibes but we love her

also, ik it says contact abt adoptions, but I haven’t actually set up like. an adoption form or something. that’s in the works though! I’ll also eventually put up a list of ‘mons available to adopt

picrew I used for her pfp:

#pokemon #pokemon roleplay #pkmn rp #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #pokeirl #pokeblogging #pokeblog roleplay #pokeblog intro #galarian rapidash

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iheartmoons · 10 months

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asks for you bc i’m bored

fav food?

fav drink?

fav show?

fav subject? (i feel like i already know this one but i might be wrong so)

fav snack?

comfort food?

weirdest food you've ever eaten?

most out of character thing you've ever done?

wallpaper?

if you could have an unlimited supply of one thing for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

any phobias?

is there anything you’d wait in line for a week to do, see, or get?

if you could name your brain, what would you name it?

where do you want to travel the most?

you don’t have to answer all of them or any at all if you don’t want to!! they’re very random lmao

you can answer privately too if you’d like <3

OMG HI i should be sleeping but this is more fun:

(strap in bc it turns out that i cant choose anything for the life of me, and i enjoy oversharing)

fav food: i cant….choose. being a basic bitch id say like chicken curry and rice bc idk 🧍‍♂️it’s good. but uhhh i love chinese food generally, like oh man. duck pancakes w the cucumbers and sauces and uh, the noodles and the pork and chicken and dumplings and bao buns (i am aware this sounds terrible to others, but i am drooling)

fav drink: ooh oreo milkshake, or if we’re talking standard drink from the shop, specifically fanta fruit twist (it’s also the colour i would dye my hair btw). my go-to is always generally water tho 🤭

fav show: i cant choose…. maybe like friday night dinner, she-ra, and strong girl bong soon

fav subject: english <3

fav snack: OH um. i love choc chip muffins or choc chip cookies tbh, also brownies!!!!

comfort food: any type of chicken curry and rice

weirdest food i’ve eaten: i really haven’t eaten anything weird. i don’t eat any red meat very often apart from pork, sooo idk. (i’m thinking meat wise here btw) i guess i’d say pig intestines - look it sounds bad, but if you think abt it, lots of people are eating all the other parts of the pig w/o thinking about it. my bro once ate crocodile at a farm once tho which was pretty wild (apparently it tastes like chicken)

most out of character thing ive ever done: see i cant really answer this because i’m just so different in diff situations or w diff people, but i honest to god think that it’s saying i love you to all my online friends. like. id never ever do that in real life. i find it extremely hard to show my emotions, it’s so awkward and uncomfy.

wallpaper: for a moment there i couldn’t decide whether u were asking abt my literal wallpaper or my phone wallpaper…. i’m still unsure… but my lock screen is reg and sirius, and my home screen is the marauders. and if ur asking abt my bedroom, i got lilac walls 🙈

if i had an unlimited supply of smth, what wld i choose: ohhhhhh oh. fuck idk. ummm money??? lmao 😭😭😭 maybe time with my cousin (she’s my fav person and she doesn’t live in the same city + she’s going to uni after next year so my chances of seeing her are slimming)

phobias: the ocean/any big body of water, death (big big emphasis on this one) and ummm like dolls and clowns- actually i’m scared of so many things, the list could go on and on

smth i’d wait in line to see/do/get: i’d wait in line for a hug from mitski tbh

if i could name my brain, what wld i name it: WHAT SORT OF QUESRIONS ARE THESE 😭😭 good lord. id name it the fucking universe. i had this thing when i was younger where i started this universe and kept building characters upon characters until there were hundreds and i knew each of their intricate storylines and id act them out and it was actually bad bc i couldn’t focus on anything else for literal years (there you go, big moons secret - not rlly a secret, i’ve said it before) so yes. there is an entire universe up in my brain probably.

where do you want to travel the most: i wanna go to the south of france + tokyo + venice, but i heard it’s not all that. my fav places that i’ve been to are vietnam and america which r two very different places and i adored them - vietnam more for the food and culture and surroundings, american more bc of family + tourist attractions + theme parks. so. maybe one of those wins.

#aris tag 💜#i overshared by a mile #but at least u know me better now 🤗🤗🤗#moonbars #might be mistakes in this but shhhh

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astrovagrant · 1 year

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making up a month-city for trioc to be "from" as well (didn't grow up there but studied there/lived there as an adult) and its ofc something like. octobre - wait. i just checked to see if that was already a city and it IS, called octovern, but there's not a lot of data on it so that's perfect.

anyway! lore! cut eventually bc i'm longwinded!

originally from a much much much smaller town/village tucked in a canyon with only one (1) plant; her (single) father moved there with her as a leetl baby in a kind of stubborn exile from octovern, where he used to work at [academic institution] as a plant engineer. he didn't often discuss why he left octovern w trioc, but she eventually gleaned it was over long-term disagreement over his drive to recover, index, and teach non-plant terraforming knowledge.

the town agreed to take him in bc he could easily do upkeep/maintenance on their plant, and would do it for a steeply discounted rate since he. lived there now. everyone was happy with this arrangement.

it was mostly a farming community, as the canyon bottom had enough shelter from A Lot of the planet's harsher elements and enough water to sustain a modest farming operation.

a caravan owner contracted out about half the town out as sharecroppers, and dictated what would be grown from one season to the next + where it would be distributed.

location and the caravan's protection kept the town fairly safe and ignored. nothing dramatic ever happened, really. petty squabbles came and went, but the first 7-ish years of her life were uneventful. there were cows. it was nice.

their house was right next to the plant housing and her father set up his whole situation Inside the plant building, so she spent a lot of her youth toddling and then running around inside of it, both passively and actively learning (he homeschooled her Quite specifically and moonlighted as an educator for most of the other kids in town - they hadn't really had an established school for a decade or two since the old teacher croaked.

the caravan owner increasingly kept growing a particular crop year over year AND increasing his shares in the town/the amount of people working for him, and trioc's father warned him they would need to cycle crops or face rapid nutrient depletion. caravan owner said something along the lines of "just get the plant to fix it"

well.

the plant was only healthy through extreme effort on her dad's behalf (it had been kind of neglected before they got there), and increasing the energy demand would absolutely start sending it to the red zone, which was NOT an option for her father.

he decided to instead engineer a more desert-tolerant crop. he did as such, and accepted the possible drawbacks for fucking with nature like that. everyone started using his lab-grown seeds.

new crops did good for abt two-three years - caravan owner increased his production to a ludicrous level, but everyone was making money and happy. trioc's dad's hair went grayer and grayer.

tipping point: a little beetle drifted in with a caravan and found it quite liked this crop, actually, where before it wasn't interested. now there are millions of beetles, and a town rapidly heading towards a famine, a caravan pulling its operation and demanding to be paid back for its investment unless they can figure out how to make up the crop loss/prevent it from spreading - and if you don't, well. this is a swell little place under the caravan's protection. it would suck to find out what would happen if they Weren't protecting it anymore.

the town decides to use the plant to stave off disaster and pay the caravan owner with crops even as they all begin to go hungry. the plant goes red after only a few months and her dad begs, begs, begs them to cease and desist, sometimes kicking them out of the plant building with mild force. some in the town begin to question him as the originator of the modified seeds that caused all this to begin with.

tensions rise and rise and rise as bowls and pockets go empty. the overworked soil in the barren fields begins to turn to dust, and duststorms become more and more frequent.

trioc comes back from tending to the few remaining cows one evening to see townsfolk leaving their house with weapons in hand - she rushes home to her father's corpse cooling on the kitchen floor and Freaks Out because she's like 11 and what the fuck

he was trying to crawl out the side door towards the plant housing - to check. to see if it was alright. she rounds the corner and sees her neighbors trying to bash the door in, bc her father locked it tf down and they were originally trying to get him to open it up.

come on, kid. you know your old man's secrets. help us in here, wouldja? we're dying. your bastard of a father would rather the plant live than us. ain't that fucked? you wouldn't want us to die, would you?

she's sobbing her eyes out and completely non-verbal bc why is any of this happening, why would the people she grew up around do this - they grab her by the hair and get pretty forceful abt trying to convince her to let them in and i think she just starts scream-wailing and flat out refusing to ever ever EVER let them in when the door opens of its own volition anyway and the group drags her inside, where she promptly starts biting and writhing around to try to encourage them to leave

she manages to wriggle out and runs to put herself between them and the plant - this is all instinct, not rational thought, and the blow to the head she takes as retaliation immediately knocks her tf out.

behind her, in the red light of the plant, they all see what they've never seen before - a plant unfurling itself, bright eyes staring at them and a humanoid mouth opened in a snarl of hatred as a tiny body falls limp on the floor in front of her.

idk what lore this is violating but this plant has absolutely gone off the rails at this point, is an individual to the point that she was aware of and interested in the lives of the humans around her, and knew the Exact moment her friend/caretaker (trioc's dad) died and knew that whoever came in the building after this would be looking for a Final Harvest

the fact that trioc was being dragged in here as well and was STILL defending her... this plant has had 11 years to develop an attachment to this kid she sees every day and who hums and talks to her as A Fellow Living Being even though trioc Does Not Know about plants being humanoid beings at all (she's never seen one unfurled) and puts up drawings of cows and birds and plants from her dad's greenhouse on her tank. she loves this kid. she's not gonna let anyone harm this kid. and she's not going to let her father's murder slide, either.

idk if non-individual plants are "technically" capable of this but HANDWAVE. she extremely murderizes all of the offending party members by busting her roots out of her tank and eviscerating them. they try to hurt her but they came in here not expecting a sentient plant-being intent on killing them, so they're underprepared to say the least; the ones who try to leave get dragged back to the killing field with roots around their ankles

trioc comes to somewhere towards the end of this and is very muddled about the degree of body horror on display here - very concussed, not truly processing, she just crawls to the only 'safe' thing - the plant tank - and curls up at the base of it.

i think that the plant realizes how badly trioc is actually injured (it doesn't look like it on the outside, but that concussion is Very dangerous when you're 11 and unsupervised w/ no medical attention); even now, the plant can sense the swelling, the bleeding, the pressure - no. no. she's not going to tolerate both of the people she cares about get killed by this town's desperation.

gently, so so gently, roots pick up her little battered body and bring it inside the tank, sticking another air root down her throat to keep her breathing. the plant uses her last remaining energy - because she *is* dying, and she knows it - to heal trioc, and they have a bit of a weird brain meld situation (forehead touching etc the Whole Thing) while it's happening. surely this will not fundamentally alter anything about trioc nor leave any lasting scars.

the plant completely burns out, shattering her tank and burning off all the ?tank juice? but safely cradling trioc to her chest as her carbonized corpse begins to lose integrity and crumble under trioc's weight.

trioc remembers functionally none of these events from after the first blackout. she woke up nearly 2 days later surrounded by dried out blood and decomposing gore and dust and... ash? of the expended plant, and a massive duststorm has blacked out the suns for hours at a time. she cries until mud cakes her face and Tries to deal with her dad's body but she is. small. and traumatized.

one of her father's former colleagues from octovern had recieved a Highly concerned letter from him about a month prior to shit breaking bad and decided to come out - and found just trioc holed up in her house with her dad's dead body in the long-plundered greenhouse. she decides to take the kid w her back to octovern bc she's concerned one of the remaining townspeople will Fucking kill her if she stays here, the vibe is that bad.

but first they make a grave. and trioc makes a second smaller one next to her dad's - "for firefly,", and her dad's colleague realizes with a twinge that they had given the plant a name.

MAIN takeaways from this:

she packs all of her dad's journals and research books before they leave, and this is a mantle she steps into willingly (but not without a desperation or a sense of guilt. those are there, too, alongside the earnest desire for improvement)

being near plants is stressful now, because she can hear them. not 100% clearly, but she can. and most of the time, they're stressed out or in active pain, and she Does Not Know the true nature of plants, still, so she thinks that she's legit hearing voices (mental illness edition) when she gets too close to them

when idly doodling, she draws plant patterns. she isn't aware of their significance, just Likes to draw them.

she is so preoccupied with the pattern that she got two shoulder tattoos of her 'swirly pattern' - they cover the tops of her shoulders but don't extend very far past that.

her aversion to being near plants and her prediliction for terraforming/permaculture as a discipline has led to her earnestly trying to spread the good word about Learning How To Do Shit Without Plants. we NEED to become self sufficient. we have to. we have no other choice. you cannot build an oasis in the desert without considering the consequences, boundaries, and limitations.

she still semi-frequently has nightmares abt the Body Horror of that night with the plant - that part is the only part her brain Kind Of remembers - she's not seen anyone ripped apart to that level since, nor does she ever want to again.

in-fact, blood probably makes her a bit squeamish - which is embarrassing, so she hides it.

i truly cannot grasp trigun's timeline rn so this Will change but i think she's early 20's when she sets out from octovern on the fieldwork trip of a lifetime. maybe 24ish by the time she meets vash for the first time - has been out on fieldwork for abt a year already. this is roughly?? analogous to when.. stampede? starts??? dude i suck at timelines and stampede does Not make this easier. she Knows vash before july happens. that's my only earmark. except i also prefer og trigun timeline to stampede's so i rly rly do not know what's going on.

similarly - they meet and part ways multiple times before falling into a cadence. i think there's about a year where they're near one another more often than not - not dedicated traveling companions, but plenty of og trigun episode type of beats and stretches of a month or two where they Are pretty much just traveling together. please have mercy on me for this level of self-indulgence

she's doing more than just rainmaking - this is intended to be an end-all, be-all proof of concept for a comprehensive permaculture system she's spent years developing to improve the lives of literally everyone on the planet. if people build their settlements carefully and do xyz and transition to alternate energy sources, the dream can become a reality. i feel like vash is deeply intrigued by this but he's not an ecologist even if he has the brains for it, so sometimes he's just following her around watching her do surveys and sweettalk townspeople into giving her a chance and so on.

she also has a fiance in octovern (a slightly more academically-minded fellow, but someone she trusted with her dreams and her vision) - she writes monthly reports about her results and findings for him and he's compiling them for her into a work fit for publishing all across the planet (this is her believer brain dreaming of the best possible future) - he supported her plan to do this loooong fieldwork assignment, and the agreement was they would get married when she returned to octovern and then publish the book.

she is reminded of this every time she starts feeling a bit too comfy with her occasional travelling companion despite all the inherent ridiculousness AND blatant danger and yes she feels Stupid every time. what kind of behavior is thisssss. who is she. get it together.

her Constant road companion is a little robot-drone named zip; she (the robot is a girl, she has arbitrarily decided) carries rainmaking chemicals du jour up to clouds as needed and is strapped with all sorts of meteorlogical and other sensors, cameras, meters, etc. quite literally trioc's most prized 'possession' (it's kind of like a star wars droid but not with the shackled intelligence aspect... just very smart and well-trained pet energies. you understand)

again timelines ESCAPE ME and when it comes to wolfwood i prefer the og trigun timeline way more, but she met wolfwood a few years ago on an earlier rainmaking tour of only a few months (before she got engaged) and was getting pretty harshly evicted from a town (under threat of getting shot for being a fraud) when he eased the situation for her and they went on to another town together. she was trying to embrace living in the moment at that point in her life so they did have a roll in the hay and she is embarrassed about it and stubbornly pretending Not to be if he brings it up (read: teases her about it) years later lmfao. she probably saw wolfwood first before meeting vash and this meeting only happened because ww caught her trying to sneak away before he could notice her. cue most annoying but charming man on earth awards.

also clearly there are time skips here and there. at some point After july gets mcfucked, her engagment doesn't work out bc she gets to find out that her fiance has actually been compiling her research for the explicit purpose of only taking what he thinks is useful to him and mocking the rest with his peers. he stands to gain a lot from pilfering her research and dated her with the intention of doing so - and has notttt been acting like an engaged man in her absence.

obviously she immediately breaks it off with him, but that means she can't use any of the information he stole and also she's basically forced out of the same institution her father left. cycles repeating forever. he doesn't return any of her stuff from their shared apartment. she breaks in and takes it back while he's gone because she's not leaving her entire life behind with this asshole, but she is sobbing the whole time she's stealing her own stuff from her own home.

she's really very fucking upset about that for a long time. deleteriously so.

i literally cannot physically figure out anything else regarding timeline tn because. frankly. it gives me a headache. and i haven't finished the og anime yet anyway.

she smells like cinnamon

her favorite fruit is oranges - hasn't had one that measures up to her dad's greenhouse-grown ones, but maybe someday

her regular field outfit is some ridiculous goofy dune shit but she likes to wear a yellow sundress while in a town and not under active threat. it's the only other article of clothing she has besides all her Pure Utility field items lmao

has a gun and Is bad with it. hopes just having it will be enough of a deterrent. zip also has a little shock feature that it's used more times than she's ever fired the gun, but if push comes to shove she Will protect herself.

#trioc #i will settle on a name in a bit i'm still chewing on my poll from earlier #darcy

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Psssst...given that pokeani has gone completely off the rails, how abt dropping that big rant abt the "Ash assistant coach in Galar battle league" au you shall never write? It's been living rent-free in my head ever since you mentioned it bc I love mentor Ash and I bet you'd do more justice to Galar in bullet points than pokeani did in its whole journeys run :3c

Oh, be careful what you ask for... I have pages of bullet points and half a page of prologue.

For those of you who don't know (or remember a side-comment I wrote in an author's note three years ago - seriously, my dude, wow), at the start of Journeys/end of Alola, I came up with an AU to carry on Ash's story. But it was an idea for a series, not a story, so it sits in my documents untouched.

So the basic deal is this: Galar has a different kind of league to the rest of the Pokemon world. In Galar, trainers compete as teams, rather than individual trainers. Each team does have a captain – the one who is supposed to be the best, and ultimately becomes champion – but it becomes clear over the series that the greatest trainers in Galar are the ones with the best support teams.

The advantage to having a team, instead of just working alone, is that you can have a lot more pokemon on a 'regular' team. And they belong to the group, not just the captain. This allows more flexibility, but as Ash points out to the team, it also means you can’t form as close a bond as more traditional trainers would. (This is potentially the reason why Pikachu can gigantamax safely without a dynamax band - because they have such a close bond)

The team we follow in this series is Team Eight - the eighth team for this year's league.

It's quite a large team, made up of seven team members in total:

The Captain, Victor. Our player character, and essentially the Gary of the series. He’s a natural when it comes to pokemon battle, charming and likeable, but confident to the point of being arrogant. His character arc is learning that natural talent won’t get him by forever, and he needs his team to make it to the top. (Friendship hooray!)

Active Trainer Hop. The current champion’s little brother, Hop was supposed to have so much promise. He was great with pokemon as a kid—they all love him—and Leon had so much faith in his baby brother. But on the battlefield, Hop is average at best. He’s nowhere near Victor’s talent, let alone as amazing as everyone expected. His character arc is learning not to stand in others’ shadows, and to believe in his own quieter power.

Active Trainer Gloria. Our female player character, and a very loud, slightly violent young woman. She’s actually the strongest battler of the team, but is also incredibly lazy when it comes to training. She’s not that interested in the league, mostly using the challenge as a chance to see and explore the world. Throughout the journey, she becomes a protector, often standing with Ash while Victor and Hop run off to gather artefacts or whatever, and discovers her true passion is as a bodyguard and organiser.

Groomer Goh. A blatant attempt to reengage children with Pokemon Go, Goh’s passion is collecting pokemon for the team to use. His goal is to catch one of every kind of pokemon, so that no matter the situation, he will always have the right ‘tool’ to hand. When his pokemon aren’t being used by active trainers, he farms them out to gyms and jobs, earning cash for the team. His arc is learning that pokemon are friends, not tools. (Pet safety, hooray!)

Medic Chloe. Originally just tagging along with Goh because someone needs to keep her childhood friend in line, Chloe discovers a love of cooking and medicine, discovering that she enjoys watching pokemon grow and become stronger.

Coach Kiran. A Dark-Type Trainer with a bad attitude, but a heart of gold. He’s normally a field agent of Chairman Rose’s security division, and it’s a requirement that all agents do at least one season of coaching duty as a kind of community service. He hates it. He brought Ash on to essentially do his job for him, but since Ash doesn’t really know how Galar works, he still has to lead the way and provide exposition. His arc is learning the limits of how far he’s willing to go to protect ‘the good of all’, and that kids aren’t that bad, really.

Assistant Coach Ash. He signed on because he wanted to see Galar, and learn about the different league, but he’s actually really enjoying helping Team Eight discover who they want to be. He battles with the active trainers, accompanies the support team on their trips, and generally enables their journeys. He forms bonds with some of Goh’s pokemon, who eventually become known as 'his' pokemon despite the fact they belong to the team.

Team Eight were supposed to be the real up and comers, but Hop’s lack of skill in a very public moment made them seem very unimpressive, and now no one really expects anything of them. Of course, they work their way up through the ranks, meeting rivals and defeating gym battles, until Victor can eventually challenge Leon.

The idea was that it was going to retain Sun and Moon's group dynamic, fade Ash out of the spotlight while maintaining his status and strength, and make a bit more out of Galar's story. Also play with Leon's relationship with Hop because you know I'm a sucker for family relationships.

But yeah. I'll leave it there for now. Hope it didn't disappoint!

#pokeani #LeDiz writes an AU #anon ask

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adastra-j69 · 1 year

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I don't have the energy to write this now, but i've been crying over @/goopterror's jockey dirk au and that led to me thinking about farmer/ranch owner dirkjakes. i was suddenly just overtaken with the need to write this like 30 mins ago so this is very bare bones but i wanna get the general idea down for later. consider: dirk somehow comes into possession of an old farm house from some distant relative. he's like the next in line bc no one before him wants it bc its old and rundown and needs a lot of work, but he decides to take that chance bc he just dropped out of school for reasons i will come up with later and he wants a fresh start. he didn't even know this relative existed, but free land, so why not.

So he's exploring the land to get an idea of like where his property ends and accidentally stumbles into his neighbors side. It's completely abandoned, so it's not a big deal. He ends up finding an even older and more rundown barn. he was going to turn around thinking that was that, but he hears a noise that sounds a lot like a horse. he decides to investigate bc that makes no sense considering how run down the barn in, but what do you know? it's a horse. a very malnourished one, but it's a horse. it takes dirk weeks before he's able to get the horse to come any closer to him. he bribes him with hay, apples, carrots, sugarcubes, anything he can to gain his trust. finally after weeks, he gets closer and he's able to coax the baby to come out and takes him home. by that point, he's made some good progress, enough where there is a safe place for his new friend to live. it's dirk and his horse for a while.

Throughout this, he's making friends and getting closer to a farmer nearby around his same age. Its Jake of course. He lives nearby with his goddaughter, who is in his care. It's Jade (i'll think of why later too). He brings over fresh produce for Dirk while he's fixing up the farm house and barn and helps out when he's not busy with his own farm. he grows produce for a local grocery story and has a good thing going on due to his family having been doing this for a while now.

The thing I've been crying about it Dirk eventually getting things fixed up and expanding and getting more horses. He ends up holding classes for kids and adults, but I want to focus on the kids classes rn. Kids come in to learn how to approach and interact with horses respectfully and small general maintenance that comes with owning a horse, or working with horses. at the end they get pony rides and they hold a bon fire where they get little certificates.

I just want Dirk to grow, make friends, do things he enjoys, find love and just settle for a bit and be okay. Get to the point in domesticity where it's "boring, but in the most exquisite of ways." (x) and just him, jake, jade, and other loved ones gathered around a bon fire just making smores for kiddos and having a really good time. lots of smiles and laughs and dirk being so glad life led him down this path :')

dirk also has like 2 goats, maybe a couple cows too, ducks, chickens, barn cats!!! and like one or two doggos to help with some of the other animals on the farm. its a full fucking house by the time he's done and opens up classes, but it's great and it's full-filling and he's happy!!!!!

i am shutting up now thank you for coming to my very last minute ted talk. goodnight. but also talk to me abt dirk and the alpha kids.

#j speaks #j writes #idk ill add this for now maybe ill use this tag if i actually post anything #homestuck #this is take 2 bc i fucking deleted by accident before saving and its gone forever and i kinda wanna cry but ill write it again #bc i need to exorcise these brain worms #look i need domestic dirkjakes rn #and dirk with horses/animals

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You mentioned a deleted reporter character who used to be intensely pro-monarchy but is now anti-monarchy. PLS tell us abt this character 🙏🙏

I will elaborate and you can decide for yourself if I should have kept the character in the story.

The central premise for this character is what I stated before, which was that there was a reporter who in the past published sensationalized stories about the war (a lot of yellow journalism) who in the present day was now anti-monarchy

The reporter was a neutral-to-antagonistic character, depending on how the reader would feel about their perspectives

(One of the reasons I cut this character was that I couldn't come up with a personality that wasn't the archetypal 1920s reporter, so excuse me if I am vague about the reporter's personal details)

So the reporter was a commoner who lived in Castle Town who wanted to make it big in order to pull themself out of poverty; they were the protege of a more well-known journalist who died in the crossfire

The reporter carved a space for themselves as a pseudo official journalist for the Royal Crown and would meet with the nobles constantly to spread war propaganda and reframe any failings

So a lot of yellow journalism

You know how in CTB, Warriors mentions how there are all these pamphlets the Sheikah publish about him to cover up his bad behavior and generally increase his good image? All that was stuff I intended for this reporter to write

The reporter was more of a neutral force at this time, as they were very eager to boost Warriors's image; meanwhile, Warriors always thought the reporter was sleazy and hated talking to them

Sometime between the end of the War of Eras and the beginning of this new war in the present day, the reporter had a reckoning with their role in the previous war

Essentially, the reporter realized that things are as bad for the common people because the reporter did not do their duty to properly report accurate information on the monarchy and the goings of the war

So the reporter was now out to spread only the truth

(I think I was also going to imply that the reporter was only changing their views because anti-monarchy sentiments were popular among the people, and so it would be more profitable to be on the anti-war side instead of the pro-war side)

The problem is that the reporter was intent on painting not only Zelda, but also Warriors as the villains in the past as they released various papers revising what they had previously written and exposing the truth

Imagine articles exposing how taxes were used or how nobles were buying up war ravaged land from farms, or how Warriors used his fame from being the hero to build wealth; stuff like that

I played around with the reporter needing to possibly go into hiding in order to avoid being arrested for treason by Sheikah, or having the reporter be Sheikah themselves to give them an advantage to avoid capture

Present day Warriors would still loathe this reporter for still painting him as the bad guy, but also would recognize needing to be on the reporter's good side in order to control his image, which would be helpful for him later in the story

So why did I deleted this plot line? Not only could I not figure out how to humanize this character beyond their archetype, but the idea for the plotline was fundamentally at odds with a much more important idea I had for the story

The reporter's plotline was based on stuff I learned and discussed in a Media and Politics class I took in college, which discussed how journalism and such affected democracy. But Hyrule isn't a democracy and an essential part of the Turncoat Revolt was that the commoners had no choices. The reporter's plotline assumed that the the common people had a choice and were manipulated by their media into making the wrong one.

I couldn't figure out how to rework the reporter's plotline into one that would fit with an absolute monarchy. So when it was time for me to trim back some of my ideas, this one had to go (though it was a very painful cut)

#and to this day I kinda wish I kept it #I cannot emphasize enough how even now I do not have a personality for this character #all archetype no humanity #me rambling #lu ctb #linked universe #ask #shoot-i-messed-up #do not ask me why the bullet points are small #i also do not know

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piratebay · 1 year

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hiii 11 14 23?

end of the year asks

11. something you want to do again next year?

ah this year was pretty turbulent. but i don't think i did anything really.. new? i guess. i would like to meet new friends again next year.

14. favorite book you read this year?

ok so i started berserk, which i haven't finished because it was giving me too many #feels and i didn't wanna explode...

hmmm i read some INTERESTING books this year lmao none of which i can think really. gripped my heart or anything besides the aforementioned.

i reread revolt of the cockroach people and song of the hummingbird. both left me with feelings of. hollowness and pervasive sameness (left me thinking abt the cyclical nature of life etc), both of which i LIKE (not the feelings but the books lmaaoo) but.

um i got around to reading animal farm this year and it was. in line with what i thought of orwell last time i read him (i.e. 8 years ago). um and i read ruth reichl's memoir tender at the bone which i had some #thoughts on but was too shy to share anywhere except penciling them in the margins. after a while i got bored of her but those two were probably the least psychically-damaging status-quo-enforcing books i read this year.

i started villette earlier this year, but was moving while reading it. i had to take it back to the library and i haven't picked it up again. but i generally like charlotte brontë :-)

i'm trying farewell to arms again (re-started?? last week?) and one of the phrases those guys said in the mountains in the beginning was smth my grandfather used to say and is such an old fashioned saying my reading it in print made me laugh for like 30 mins yesterday.

23. if you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

*grips me by the shoulders* help out or else. or else you will experience the biggest loss of your entire life. in fact my warning will probably do no good anyway. i would hate to be in this kind of time loop. it's torture. you are going to be traumatized for the rest of the year -- for the rest of your life. you are Going to experience the horrors. nothing you think is going to happen this year will.

but you live.

#HI HI TYSM. the books i read were awful this year tbfh </3 #also sorry my story graph is messed up idk how to fix it but i was adding books i Have already read and it says i read them all this year #I Did Not #this is such a misery-filled answer omfg. edgelord hrs. BUT YEAH.#might be a curse to hope for better but this year was. admittedly not the best lmfao #<- hope for the better for. Next year dear god #liebevoll #answers #404 not found #<- for kind of. personal ending

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lexifer-666 · 3 months

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musings abt my personal life and also comparing it to my special interest because why not im getting philosophical. under the cut

I always related to him, especially the first time I watched the show in 2019. I was, like Quentin, a depressed super-nerd who couldn't run away from life fast enough. Someone who wanted more in life than what I'd been given. I was freshly in college, in a whole new environment than where I grew up. I was finally among people who cared more about farming and hunting and jesus, I was in **my** brakebills. But.... It still wasn't enough? Something was still wrong. For me, the beast was that... Feeling inside of me that I wasn't good enough. That my existence was a burden. There's a lot of trauma reasons for this, stuff i won't really get into in this post.

so like.... I indulge in escapism. a little too much. I get attached to fictional characters that i relate to, or see myself in, and my favorite show ever is The Magicians. As much as I would love to sit here and be like "I'm so much like Eliott! Gender!"

By god I am a fucking Quentin instead.

Like quentin... I'm not particularly *good* at anything. I'm decent at art, I'm decently smart, I can write like a motherfucker and I can talk my way out of things if I really need to. But... These are all pretty average skills compared to the people around me. When I compared myself to him in the past, I always focused on the negative traits he had that I related to.

One thing I noticed in the show, and why Quentin was the main character and not someone super-talented like Julia, Alice or Penny... Was that he was one resilient son of a bitch. He kept going no matter how many times he got knocked down, even if he didn't feel like he was still going. He would motivate everyone else to keep going too, instead of just giving up. Even though he was constantly running, running from himself and his own life... Eventually he stopped running, turned around and went "Fuck it, either I fix this or no one else will." And... Stopped running. Started living.

That's.... What I've been doing the past 24 years. Running, avoiding... Running from myself, my past, running even from the things and people that make me happy. I don't know why, it's like I'm afraid to let anything get too close to me... To get too real. But that's the thing, isn't it? Everything is real. Running from it isn't going to change that.

That's not something I really picked up on the first few times I watched the show. Because I was still running, myself. But... I don't know. I saw a post on here earlier that was along the lines of "I've learned I can't avoid my way into a life I enjoy."

I think... It's probably about the time I do what Quentin did. Just... Stop running. Start fighting. Finally make the life I've always wanted.

I want my dad to know I'm his son, not his daughter. I want... The man I'm in love with to know I'm in love with him. I want my childhood best friend to know that even if he struggles with social isolation, that I'll always be there for him even if he has a hard time messaging me back. For one of my best friends in the world to know that them choosing me, staying my friend despite everything we went through together means so much more to me than I can ever express in words or actions. I want to dedicate myself fully to the things I enjoy: History, Archive work, writing, art. I want to stop avoiding making art or writing my stories because I'm too scared I'll make something terrible. I want to stop avoiding my studies because I'm afraid I'll fail. I want to stop being a coward and not telling those around me the things I want to tell them because I'm too scared to let my walls down and let them see me.

I don't know if that's gonna happen... Anytime soon. It's not like writing a sappy, philosophical tumblr post at 8pm on a friday night is gonna magically give me the courage I need to be... Vulnerable? Stop being so reserved? But... It also can't hurt. There's also the chance that at least, most of the people I mentioned in this post might read it, and that means at least indirectly I got to tell them how I feel. (R... S... hello!)

I've never really known who I was. I wasn't ever really allowed to *be* a person. But.... Idk. I think I'm figuring it out, finally. Even if it's just because I'm obsessed with a certain fictional character. (If you're reading this, and haven't watched The Magicians... Highly recommend.)

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