#they would all def get along

[portsandstars]

vere cosplay progress:)

#touchstarved #touchstarved game #vere #personal #cosplay #OK SO #The belt buckles I've made look horrendous so they might not make the cut for wearing it at the con. #I would rather have no belt details than ugly belt details #I may do a poll later to see if u think it looks better with or without #the second belt with the metal triangle on his exposed leg also looks ugly #but that one is easier to possibly resolve #his metal leg bands are in the works #but it's def wearable for the con #u can't see but I put on all the makeup too-just didn't put in the contacts or lashes bc I was tired lol #btw ITS SO HARD TO GET THESE ARM BANDS ON WITH THE GLOVES AND WVERYRGUNG ARGH #if u want patterns or consultation (if ur trying to make it) dm me and I'll share whatever I have:> #which I have learned a LOT of practical info that would help someone coming along after me haha

[benetnvsch]

maybe you could draw kunikida with flowers in her hair if you wanted maybe sorry fjdjsh

I am so perfectly normal about this idea (<-lies and deception)-

#AAAAA #sticks prompt in my mouth and runs away #u do not understand how much this prompt means to me- #also she/her Kunikida SO REAL #*flops Kunikida around like a wet towel (affectionately)* #this was def not her idea but she goes along with it bc it makes the other happy - #Kyouka def helps with the flowers #and I feel like maybaps Junichiro ? helps braid them into her hair?? bc he feel like he'd know hair stuff lmao #this is solely bc he has hair clips LMFAO #Kenji feels like he'd know how to help too - #man I wonna draw them all together just putting pretty things into Kunikida's hair KSJHSKJHSK #I have too many emotions about this character pls #Kunikida doppo #bsd #bungou stray dogs #kite draws #kite watches bsd #also didn’t draw the flesh colored vest bc it reminded me too much of Tevin and I couldn’t keep me shit together to color it AKSHSH /pos #I mean that in the best way genuinely - I love that silly beige color i just would have been laughing to myself at 3 am coloring which - #not ideal (get it??? badum tsss)

[drainbangle]

wait omg i’m curious about your unpopular thoughts about temenos writing wise.. i love when people discuss octopath writing it’s really enriching to see what we all have to say about certain story elements. plus you’re like a temenos representative to me. your thoughts about temenos make me go “so true!”

Aw, thank you! It took a while for me to decide on what to write here, since honestly I could go on for… frankly any aspect of this guy, especially in regards to treatment in fanon. But for now, I'll focus on my thoughts regarding how people treat tragedy in Temenos' story— namely, Crick's death— and why I personally dislike it as a writing decision and why I disagree with the idea that it is necessary.

Note: Goes without saying, but this is my personal opinion. If you believe otherwise, then that's all good. I'm not writing this to say that any one person is wrong, just to talk about an issue I have with the game's writing itself.

To start, I'll say that my main reason for disliking Crick's death in SH route is a matter of practicality. Killing him off causes Temenos to lose the main person that he had a fantastic relationship and banter with, and in my opinion, Temenos works best when he's bouncing off another person; not unlike most under the Sherlock-archetype.

Also, genuinely? It works wonders to keep Crick alive, if just because it provides a fantastic avenue to explore Temenos' institutional trauma. Having a character that's lived a different experience but within the same harmful institution opens up ways to explore the scope of its harm. And yes, this is for Crick specifically; not Ort, not the travelers, but Crick.

I think it really adds something that Temenos was raised by the church while Crick converted as a teenager during a really difficult time in his life. These two are good for each other. Crick sure as hell makes it a lot easier to write Temenos in fic.

(If you have a different experience, again, that's cool. I'm glad for you. I, however, will never fail to take the easy way out.)

(This is a lie, I'm over here making up fantasy church law for fic stuff but that's not related to this answer.)

I won't pretend that disliking Crick's death is an unpopular opinion. I mean, "Stormhail Fix-it" is an entire genre of fic on the OT2 Ao3 tag. What I do feel tends to go unaddressed though, is the fact that the idea that Crick's death is canon, therefore it is necessary, therefore it is the best decision; an idea that I wholeheartedly disagree with.

Within the text itself, Crick is killed off in order to give Temenos a personal reason to pursue Kaldena, thus putting him at odds with Kaldena's motivations being driven by her ideology and worldview that, "because humans committed the massacre, it was the gods' mistake to put us here". I also won't pretend that Kaldena's writing here isn't fucking awful, because Crick's death is also a device to make the player want Kaldena defeated even though she is just as much as a victim of the church; and that's to say nothing of her portrayal as an indigenous and dark-skinned woman.

These decisions are ones I disagree with. Killing Crick off was unnecessary to give Temenos reason to pursue the culprit, because Temenos already had someone close to him killed; and that's Pontiff Jörg. He raised Temenos from infancy, but due to the lack of focus on him outside of banter conversations, it's never relevant to his motivations outside of the desire for truth because a crime was committed. 

We also didn't need to kill Crick off to show that the church was a terrible institution, because Roi already went missing in action. The Sacred Guard is the main body of law within Eastern Solistia, it's not unreasonable to think that the reason why Temenos dislikes them is because they clearly didn't do shit to investigate his disappearance.

However, one thing I really don't agree with is the idea that Crick's death is necessary because Temenos' story is a tragedy. And if you asked me why, I'd ask this in turn: why is death the only form of tragedy? Furthermore, why must a tragedy contain only tragic events? That in mind, what gives anything value in a tragedy, then?

Pretend we cannot completely rewrite Temenos' story. Even then, changing Crick's death to a permanent injury, a coma, or whatever is still a tragic event; and that's nothing to say of living with the consequences. Isn't losing your faith a tragedy? Isn't losing something you worked for years to do a tragedy?

Similarly, I'd still argue that it's more valuable to make Stormhail a near-death experience because not only does it show Temenos succeeding in making someone question the church but also the terror that is feeling like you're doomed to repeat tragedy. Even if you really aren't, it's hard to dismiss that feeling; especially when it has to do with being victimized by institutions.

And before someone says, "but bad things happen to good people in real life", I'm not treating these characters as living, breathing people who are subject to things like gravity, hunger, and exhaustion. I'm treating them as choices, and choices made that I disagree with. 

It's why I make different choices. I choose to make Crick have to deal with chronic pain onwards. I choose to make Temenos realize change is still possible. I choose to let them both leave Stormhail alive. Are these better choices? I don't know. But I'll never stop questioning the ones made by the writers regardless; much less stop disagreeing with them.

So, in summary: I dislike Crick's death. I dislike Temenos having to spend the rest of the story without someone he can talk to so easily because Crick's absence weakens a lot of his scenes in Temenos 4. But more than that, I dislike the idea that tragedy is necessary on top of the idea that it is superior. Tragedy's good, I adore the genre; but written in mindful doses and all that.

#ty sm for the ask!! i'm sorry it took so long to get to but i really wanted to like. get my thoughts sorted since there's sm i'd talk abt #i had fun writing this out. it also really helped to get my feelings on SH down on paper bc *man* i got thoughts on the last half of #temenos' story. along w/ how it does hurt his writing that it's not even fully resolved till endgame #um. again if anyone disagrees then cool. but this is just my thoughts on the matter and all that #also i did get kinda... harsh towards the game near the end but it goes w/o saying i say all that bc i love the game sm #i absolutely would not dedicate this much energy to smth i didn't care about and i'm glad for the opportunity to talk abt it haha #bestomato #telegram #8path tag #octopath 2 spoilers #also i def have more to say abt dena but again we'd be here Forever if i did. head full of thoughts on temenos' story OTL

[echo-s-land]

It's insane how most of the time I don't get how ppl interact and I also Don't Fucking Care

#vent ig #i wish i could #but unfortunately i havent had the occasion of sharing one of my interest with you in the past three months and when i did it didnt go as i #wanted and now we're supposed to talk through smalltalks except i dont know how to do those so im awkward as hell and unconsciously cut the #short and now im being hated (?) even tho that wasnt my intent #but i guess no matter how trustful i am i just look like a liar #and i cant even bring myself to care bc how am i supposed to explain myself when youre convinced what i say is a lie #we werent even supposed to be this close so sorry if im stiff. i tried to get along but i just cant #the never ending circle between 'i want to have ppl to interact with being alone to experience this world is exhausting and dreadful' and #'im not even remotely interested by any of you' #its different on tumblr bc i can curate my own experience & nobody comes @ me when i dont interact with them for days or weeks (BC IVE GOT #NOTHING TO SAY) and its okay and its normal and we dont have to do the 'hi how are you wyd' script every single time (sure we can check up #on each other once in a while but it doesnt become a script. it feels genuine.) #anyway. im so normal. i can def care about ppl that have never been as insane as me about something we both love(d at some point) #am pretty sure i developed 'i perceived you saying/thinking One(1) bad thing about me and now i dont care at all about your existence' as #a child as a coping mechanism but goddammit i feel like an asshole everytime it happened #i hate feeling apathetic #and i hate lying too so i cant just say shit to reassure them when i dont mean them #cant tell them im sorry about how my behavior is perceived when im so damn tired and would rather they disappear of my life

[guinevereslancelot]

why are old people so sad lol

#i posted a flag redesign for fun and boomers are crying abt it #its not real first of all lol #and it looks cool the old flag is boring #plus ita barely a deviation? i kept the seal just changed the background to not solid blue and made the seal monochrome #so its easier to see? #i put a beloved state landmark in the background in a neutral color scheme #its simple but its a def improvement #but boomers are soooo mad like: stop changing everything 😭 #lol #the og flag is one of those seal on a blanket ones and it sucks lol #but i respected the history but keeping the seal? #anyway i just posted it for fun bc i found out i missed an opportunity to redesign it a few months ago #and i thought people would enjoy the hypothetical cool flag #but old people are boohooing in the comments 😐 #why do they hate fun or even the idea of fun #they tremble w rage at the mere suggestion of fun lol #anyway i showed my dad and he thought it was cool #and apparently he actually knows somebody who knows somebody who is a state senator??? news to me??? #but he's gonna get them to pass it along 😏 #the boomer tears if this even becomes a legitimate possibility will be so beautiful lmaooo #im sure it wont amount to anything but idk you never know #anyway old people who cry and scream at the idea of any chage at all...why....this isnt even a political change its just a fun change....... #ita completely nuetral politically #i literally thought the boomers would love it bc its got that landmark on it and they're all obsessed w it #alas #this happens been a shitpost

[majimassqueaktoy]

Saejima and his prison crew still meeting up sometimes to have dinner and beers and maybe a tabletop role play is a head canon that I simply think is very cute.

#rggo sending him back bc he wanted to properly thank okudera and check in on him was the best thing ever to me #bc i already had thr idea in my head that of all the lads he is actually the one most likely to keep relationships up to some degree #which is sweet when you think about him not seeing anyone for 25 years and then think about what happened with Yasuko #So I was like yeah he and Kido def get beers once in a while and catch up #once all the boys are out im certain same shit for them too #its just a nice idea to me #also him and himura are still just funny to me #he could have been so much more reluctant about their weird sapporo roleplay visit thing #but he just went along with it 😂 #oshima and baba just sitting there like 😐😐 this shit again #it would make no sense to send majima back to hokkaido when he was arrested at the start of 6 #but i hope they did and he an the old boys at least got to chill together ☠️ #saejima not majima eo yai yai so many jimas so little time #thank fuck daigo gets called daigo and not dojima id be fuckin him up too

[akkivee]

cry lol. and die probably

#this is vee speaking #i was once in an elevator with japanese rock sensation flow #they were playing at a con i was attending and i just so happened to get on when they got on #and there was definitely that kind of anticipatory silence where you know they know i know they know #i’m very sorry to say that if it were kuukou hitoya ichijiku and rio in the elevator instead the kind of silence that would be happening #would be all four wondering wtf is wrong with the girl in the bg why is she just silently crying LOL #like i very often wonder what would happen if i were perceived by any of the seiyuu/haiyuu lmao #‘cause i’m pretty sure i’d be a wad of anxiety lmao like i see fans with their brief stage actor interactions #and i would simply pass away if i even made passing eye contact with one lol #AND THE SEIYUU????? NUH UH NOPE I DEF WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE IN THE FRONT BAT 8TH LIVE BUT EQUALLY TERRIFIED THEYD SEE ME LOL #NEVER PERCEIVE ME I NAUGHT BUT A SPECK OF MATTER GHOSTING ALONG THE SHADOWS OF WALL CREVICES #basically lmao #c: hitoya #c: kuukou👑 #c: ichijiku #c: rio

[grokebaby]

What if we shipped our ocs together 😳 jk...... Unless??? 😳😳😳

#Other #I've stated it before somewhere but simply for fun oc shipping that won't end up Canon #Is something I'm v open to #(granted that ykno. The Obvious™ applies) (= ages line up appropriately and orientation if applicable) #However depending on oc I'm Def not opposed to negotiating something more canon #Like I'm open to being asked about it #Vaguely related but I really like oc rp so that's another thing bc just saying that #When building character dynamics or smth I like to rp but it's not an obligatory thing #Blah blahing my thoughts here bc randomly thought of them #The moment I find out a friend has ocs I'm all 'MEET WHAT IF THEY MET WHAT WOULD WHAT IF' #HOW WOULD THEY GET ALONG IMAGINE THEM INTERACTING *IMAGINES THEM INTERACTING* #Lol take that lightheartedly

[richhietozier]

very vaguely working on a buffy the vampire slayer au fic rn (that i think will be centered around steddie) where nancy is the slayer, eddie is a vampire, and steve, robin, and jonathan are nancy’s scooby gang

#i’m rewatching btvs rn and when i first thought of the au i was like oh slayer steve and vampire eddie #but it took two seconds to be like. no. nancy is the slayer it can’t be anyone else. #just made for her yk? i do believe very strongly that she and buddy would get along #thinking steve and nancy date like normal but then she finds out she’s the slayer and that’s what makes their relationship crash and burn #with that same sort of arc of her having to grow up too fast and deal with all of this and him not really seeing it #but then much like in st after their breakup he gets pulled into one of the vampire/demon situations and ends up joining the gang #who at that point i think would just be slayer nancy and jonathan who i am considering making a werewolf like oz #robin would be a willow esque witch/wicca methinks but i want the fic to be set when they’re in college #so i’m trying to decide if her and steve meet in high school or if they meet when they both start at hawkins university #and then eddie is a vampire but like. got turned maybe a year or two ago yk #so he’s not centuries old with a bunch of teenagers/freshly 20 year olds bc yuck #slightly spike coded bc. spike <3 #can’t decide who i want nancy’s watcher to be tho like would it be hopper? #i guess that would make sense but he doesn’t have the nature of a watcher with like all the books and research and stuff #maybe dr owens?? #hell maybe mr clarke??? #idk still thinking that one through #they’re def gonna meet argyle at hawkins university tho #and i want chrissy to be there but i haven’t decided what role she’ll play yet #wait…..should chrissy be the slayer…….she’s very buddy coded hold on #oh OH chrissy is another slayer like faith but not homocidal lol #yeah i like that #was thinking ronance endgame too but now i’m wondering about robin and chrissy hmm #many thoughts many thoughts #steddie fic #btvs au #buffy au

[cannotgiveafuck]

My patience and emotional stability is at an all time low, like man, I haven't cried this much in a very long time. Anyway my pride stuff from target came in and i got some mcr merch on the way. A reward for my suffering. Also the new MCR song and Florence album on repeat.

#personal #which is to say i am trying to distract myself #but also have healthy emotional outlets that are self destructive #bc the more i think about my dad being in the hospital. the more ill think about him #and everything that came before this past weekend. and everything that could come with each possible outcome #which is to say i am being choked by my daddy issues and want to curl up and cease to exist #but i guess work has been sufficiently busy enough. but really my emotional fortitude is uh. bad rn #dont mind me. im putting this here bc i refuse to put it on fb #and get a bunch of sympathy replies from folks i know or used to know. or who know my face #also. i thought sitting in the room with him unconscious on the hospital bed hooked up to tubes and lines #would make it easier to talk out loud about all the shit he caused. all the fuckin issues i should def see a therapist about #but all i could do was sit there and stare at him. and think about how old and small and feeble he looked #and how age and time just fuckin sneaks up on us #and i thought id be able to say out loud all the shit his alcoholic did. how it got him here. #how he finally got his kids to visit him real quick and all it took was a heart attack #but gods. i hate the way my voice sounded so i didnt say a fuckin thing #just sat there for an hour watching him. thinking of all the stupid shit ill never tell him #and to top it off. my ma aint helping. like. i know she has her own emotional rollercoaster esp with this #but jfc she doesnt have to drag me along for the ride. #mommy issues flaring up. i need a handful of ibuprofen and week long nap for this #i meant NOT self destructive. but idk maybe speeding down the highway yelling to music is bad

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#prospective phd advisor: if u wanna go to Antarctica we can def arrange that #me: um fuck yea i wanna go to Antarctica. #it wouldnt be to mcmerdo dry valley like i always imagined but um yes pls #assuming he gets the funding for a student and assuming i decide to go there #hes the oldest guy ive talked to and he was a little rambly and scatterbrain but he reminded me of my undergrad advisor #and i feel like he liked my passion and im prob s good fit for what he wants to do. so idk another good option #and it would be kinda great bc it wouldnt b that far from where my parents live but it would b in another country #i could hang for a while in the forrests of canada 🇨🇦 #ugh so many options. our call was unceremoniously cut short tho by a bad zoom connector #but it was on my last questions so it could have been way worse #sigh... i started the day sobbing into my scrambled eggs bc i was getting bombarded by texts abt leaving for sampling later today #and now i feel a little better. just gotta stay normal until Monday #hhhh at least thats all the interviews done. unless i decide to follow up on one last email exchange #i should do that. he does engineering cyanobacteria stuff but god im already seriously looking at 5 other ppl. do i really wanna chase #down another person. ugh idk ill feel so bad if i make all my referees send stuff to 5 different institutions let along 6 #blah im so exhausted #and what better way to deal with that exhaustion than spending a whole weekend sampling all day with zero rest fml #it better not rain. i dont wanna go back again. #oh god if i could just lay face down on the floor for a lil while. that would heal me #unrelated

[based-and-rinpilled]

Cant tell if I prefer Dae-su & Hyo-ryung as a romantic couple or Hyo-ryung as his mean lesbian bestie,,

#obv them as a ship would be post-s1 where they get along and the group stops treating dae-su like shit #but they do have potential yk #so ig I’ll wait til s2 #all of us are dead #aouad #yang dae su #seo hyo ryung #either way hyo ryung is def a sapphic

[schoolbusgraveyard]

ashlyn has a head bobbing stim because i said so

also tyler/logan me loves

"Because I said so" is the most valid reason to apply anything to any character you love (and also. Agreed. People see her earplugs and assume she's just really vibing to the music, but no, she's just stimming)

And hell yeah Tyler/Logan fans 😌

#I have so many thoughts and feelings about that ship specifically #Like esp how Tyler can BE softer/quieter abt shit. I think he would really try to calm down a little to try to ease Logan's anxiety and #Logan. Despite [gestures at him burying his own feelings when his grandparents were worried]. Would just kinda. Ease him into the idea that #He doesn't Have to suffer through grief/loss/he doesn't have to take all of the burden #of everything he's been through alone. #If that makes any sense I mean. #Also I do def think that Tyler--while everyone else does absolutely help--would be such a good force for Logan like. #Being more assertive. Standing up for himself. Etc. And really help him get out of that meek shell even more #Than he already has thanks to everyone/take more chances #I feel like Aiden could ALSO help Logan with that but in a much more dangerous way where he drags Logan along for some stupid shit. Logan #has a ''we could have died? we nearly died???'' moment. Aiden says ''but we didnt! :D'' #and then they just. Burst out laughing. #I feel like Logan/Tyler would have a different approach w it; i.e. ''why do you let yourself get treated like that''/ #''you deserve better/you shouldnt have to hear that bullshit'' #and then kinda essentially be There for Logan as the World's Most Intense Backup while Logan starts trying to be more assertive #If Logan ends up needing to dip out/can't actually handle the situation? Tyler just steps in and deals w shit #. i rambled. oops.

[guinevereslancelot]

why are old people so sad lol

#i posted a flag redesign for fun and boomers are crying abt it #its not real first of all lol #and it looks cool the old flag is boring #plus ita barely a deviation? i kept the seal just changed the background to not solid blue and made the seal monochrome #so its easier to see? #i put a beloved state landmark in the background in a neutral color scheme #its simple but its a def improvement #but boomers are soooo mad like: stop changing everything 😭 #lol #the og flag is one of those seal on a blanket ones and it sucks lol #but i respected the history but keeping the seal? #anyway i just posted it for fun bc i found out i missed an opportunity to redesign it a few months ago #and i thought people would enjoy the hypothetical cool flag #but old people are boohooing in the comments 😐 #why do they hate fun or even the idea of fun #they tremble w rage at the mere suggestion of fun lol #anyway i showed my dad and he thought it was cool #and apparently he actually knows somebody who knows somebody who is a state senator??? news to me??? #but he's gonna get them to pass it along 😏 #the boomer tears if this even becomes a legitimate possibility will be so beautiful lmaooo #im sure it wont amount to anything but idk you never know #anyway old people who cry and scream at the idea of any chage at all...why....this isnt even a political change its just a fun change....... #ita completely nuetral politically #i literally thought the boomers would love it bc its got that landmark on it and they're all obsessed w it #alas #this happens been a shitpost

[medicaldoctordana]

Broken laptop means I can't write my chaos fic but that's okay bc ill just think about it at night before I fall asleep.

#a spatial anomaly affects the TV that b’elanna made for tom #it brings the characters of the last shows that tom watched alive on voyager #tom’s in his retro earth 1990’s phase so he was watching x files and lois and clark #might bring in other tv shows and characters but def those two #I just really think that Lois and B’Elanna would get along really well #and tom and mulder would be hate friends #except tom wouldn't realize bc he's an idiot #and scully oh scully #Scully would love all the medical advancements #I'd love to see her hesitantly accept that reality and future #and then the added fun of Clark being an alien and how happy he would be to on a spaceship with alien crew #and mulder would be obsessed with Clark anyway #I think lois and scully would respectfully give each other space #I don't think they'd like each other but I think both of them would be good friends with b’elanna #Scully and the captain #👀

[an-organized-confusion]

So, I watch a lot of anti-MLM content (multi-le/vel marke/ting NOT men loving men, to be crystal clear on that.)

And I’m now locked into the idea that the iZ!Twins’ mom was old money that started a gawd damn MLM. Thinking something the vein of Yo/ung Liv/ing. (Or running something similarly snake-oil-y like Go/op.) :,D

This might be because an A-MLMer made a comment on the son of a founder to one of these rackets hawking BS to the effect of "you were not given the option to be yourself."

Aaand yep. That happened to iZ!Roman. :,D

#sanders sides #roman sanders #remus sanders #(the ortiz parents were awful and they should feel bad... but they wont) #(lbr ro would def relate to pacifica northwest like damn) #(aaand isabela madrigal too) #(co-conspirator added: and luisa and mirabel aaand bruno... and camilo) #(he added that 'roman be a man of many hats') #(tho i think remus gets more bruno expy vibes from me - if push came tah shove) #(him: oh remus KNEW he was bruno... roman is just now coming to terms that they were BOTH bruno all along) #(‘we never were their kids - we were just trophies.’) #(me: is it any wonder why these two are such hot messes of people? i mean really now?)