#things a forest god can do

[james-stark-the-writer]

finally seated to watch Princess Mononoke after putting it off for like 3 weeks, really interesting opening, right now it feels like it'll be like a variation on Nausicaä's themes.

#james talks #james watches stuff #princess mononoke #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #also this is really why i hate watching subbed stuff sometimes like usually fansubs is what i go with when available bc i do believe they— #translate closer to the original language rather than interpretation for a western audience and i compared the fansub against 2 different— #official subs (one from a bluray and one from the streaming release) and they all say entirely different stuff #i think i'll be sticking to the fansub bc it appears to be the closest to the actual words rn but my god it's annoying when they don't matc #like some stuff being translated i understand (for example the fansub doesn't translate 'hii-sama' as 'oracle' or 'wise woman' like— #the official subs do) but then some stuff entirely has different meaning (like asking the beast why it's raging vs asking it to— #leave the village alone). it's just really annoying like— #please just do a direct translation and if there's cultural context! that's what brackets are for! #you can just put things for extra context in brackets! #anyway back to the movie. #also #another fansub vs official difference that's not really *that* different but the fansub calls the spirits in the forest 'gods' but one of— #the official subs (i believe it's the bluray) calls them 'spirits of nature' and like. those do not have the same connotations. #the streaming subs all calls them 'gods' i believe. but like. please. just like. direct translations. i'm begging.

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Points at you. 10 and/or 11 for starstruck?

Two starstruck asks,,,,,,joy of joys,,

Part of an ask game linked here.

#10. What's an au you have for them?

Since them meeting at all is technically an AU i have 3 different ways that they do meet up. There's the one where Juniper ends up with the agency/adjacent to and ends up working with Reggie (have written a fic with this). The next one is Juniper surviving but basically going stealth and living as normal of a life as he can and ending up meeting Reggie through chance (most recent fic I've written). And then there's my personal favourite where Reginald "You're lucky my tracking skills are still up to snuff" Crane keeping himself busy after Phoenix was MIA and finding Juniper still alive (fic I want to write but haven't started mainly because it may end up multi chapter).

In terms of more AU canon bending taking them and putting them in a completely unrelated situation...I have a guilty pleasure Warrior Cats AU for IEYTD in general. Both JJ and Reggie have perfect warrior cats suffixes in their names already (Juniper and Crane) so they're called Junipersong (charcoal bengal) and Craneflight (tabby Norwegian forest cat). It's very silly but the amount of scenes I have in my mind for it...good lord...

#11. How was their first kiss like?

Augh my friend Imp wrote an absolutely excellent fic about it (tragically in the realm of unfinished Google docs) and I'm shaking their hand about it so hard. Basically Juniper kissing Reggie but he like wasn't ready/fully expecting it and Juniper absolutely panicking because he thinks he's misread every interaction between them both since they got closer. The second one is much sweeter though,,

#realised i phrased all the fics ive written like those ghosts that haunted scrooge #ah yes the fic of starstuck past #the fic of starstruck present and the fic of starstruck yet to come. it's so dumb #and uhh for the warrior cats thing um. of course they aren't purebreds minus Juniper who used to be a kittypet (housecat) but - #- it was moreso for easy description #reggie is fluffy but he's not quite maine coonf fluffy...norwegan forest cat was a nice middle ground...still gets big guy points too #also um side note roxanix in that au um. they adopted a kit as a stand in for robutler in that au...... #also solaris is a VERY grumpy warrior turned medicine cat annnnd thats about all I have fully hashed out in my mind for it so far #im so torn abt also having triple threat.....extra large polycule where phoenix is just intimidated by the others prism is dating lmao #ANYWAYS ENOUGH ABOUT THE WARRIOR CATS AU #can you tell I have a special interest in cats/warrior cats. oh how I miss drawing cats. but I must learn people. for the brainworms...ouuu #i don't have much else to say on that second question other than....AUUUUUUGH they're so. there's so much pent up stuff. #like for JJ it's the first time he's let himself actually love another man the way he wants to while for Reggie it's a lot of - #- realising JJ is trying to be a better person while still ackowleging the fact that he did bad??? basically second chance yada yada #man. i love these two #ik im a broken ass reccord but I've never proactively posted abt them outside the last couple months and it's been so theraputic #ty for the ask it was fun :3c #ieytd #starstruck #junicrane #ask game #not tagging them specifically I don't wanna clog up tags too much #god WHY do i have such an issue eith that. mental issue. anyways

[headphonemouse]

Ch. 427

Shin Yoosung pulling out premature grey hair on my head tackled the boy immediately.

I can't believe I forgot about kdj's premature grey hairs. Post epilogue dokjoong bald4bald

#leon rereads orv #orv spoilers #did he always have the grey hairs or was that the result of. of you know. i dont think i can even list it all #the last time he died was when he went to the demon realm soooo hes gotten electrocuted a couple times‚ fought several hard battles #almost died many times‚ uhh most recently there was the bfndnsnx #i was gonna say the battle with the apocalypse dragon and defending against its tail flick but like thats not even the most recent thing #the most recent thing was being bullied by the outer gods in N'Gai's Forest #which was more stressful enduring the torment of outer gods or being surrounded by small yjhs because only one of those things made #him pass out #do you think subconsiously he felt it was safe to pass out in front of the kkomas because theyre all yjh? because on several occasions he's #struggled really hard and succeeded in not losing consciousness because he felt he was in great danger #like he sorta knew he got kidnapped by the number 1 outer god but in that situation since cjsjfndmw #what am i saying #'he recognized yjh so he felt safe to let the shock of the situation take away his consciousness' how can you be comfortable enough #to pass out #makes no sense #still though...

[songofsaraneth]

thought to myself "maybe there ARE things to do out here in the boring suburbs in winter since I don't have time to transit all the way to/from the city the next few days" and looked up things to do in the larger town next to mine. and number 7 on the list is just Go To Kohls, so, so much for that plan

#2 of the top 3 were 'go look upon this nativity scene' and the other was a brewery as were 5 and 6 #they placed target after kohls on the list which i personally feel its the other way around #i make fun of my family here for not having Hobbies or Doing Things but god it truly is a 40 min drive to any Places or Activities #in the summer i can go to the forest preserve and such but in winter theyre just brown and sad and u cant bike bc Wet or Icy #sigh #tho it was warm enough i did go kayaking on christmas so at least theres that #anyway im officially Stir Crazy its been 5 days of Get Togethers that consist of Sitting Around and im no longer midwestern enough for this #also this house is so cold. like 62-65º. so i also cant leave the Blanket Nest ive constructed on the couch despite wearing 2 pairs of pants

[6blackfilin9]

... i was thinking of him as Emhyr while drawing it

#emhyr #emhyr var emreis #Duny of Erlenwald #knight #i ve decided that i should publish at least something at all #i have time for shitty sketches only but god damn it i wanna show you the nice stuff #so uh #my good friend has asked me do draw him some knight avatar and i was like yeah sure #took two months haha #and while drawing it i was like damn i made no emhyr content for sos so long. even for myself too #i was trying to figure out how would his armour look like. like it's mentioned to be all spiky n stuff #and if i can allow the armour to be that shiny and sqeaky clean in those damned Cintra forests because there was a day when it was brand new #the spikes.. well you know.. i am quite a party pooper when something comes to how things work in real life #armour was supposed to be as smooth as possible to deflect the blows so that a sword/ axe/ spear would slide #and spikes by no means could allow that #it is absolutely impossible he'd have the damned spikes #but i still did it hahaha #sometimes you have to choose betwen logic and parts of canon that are done just for fun #i have decided that the spikes are lesser evil to leave. in comparison with.. some other things

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#listen. im just gonna rant abt something real dumb for a sec #the framing of missing 411 stories make me so annoyed. and if u dont kno. missing 411 stories are focused on ppl who went missing in #national parks or just out in nature with no real explanation. i dont even kno why i watch these videos they just make me mad #theyre not all bad but like mother fucker do u not kno how easy it is to get lost in thr fucking woods? #theyre like: this person was an experienced hiker. they wouldnt have just done X #like no. fuck off. it only takes one bad move. one bad day. one unexpected run in and boom that's it #its not that crazy???? its not magic or bigfoot. its ppl getting confused or disoriented and panicking #i mean. obvously not in every case but fucking im like 99% sure its not spooky stuff. its just easier than youd like to think to get lost #my little sister got lost in the woods when she was like 6. she took a wrong turn on a hiking path and walked so far my dad almost turned #back bc he thought she would never get that far but there she was. one tiny blip in a big big forest and she was on a path #its so so easy to miss one tiny point out there. this also goes for places out in the desert #like sure its flat. how could a person get lost in an open space? but no fuck u. ive gotten lost walking along a 50m flat transect #i looked up and for about a minute i wasnt where i thought i was. the heat and not drinking or eating enough can really mess with you head #ugh. i dunno. one of my lab mates has done more like serious outdoors stuff. like not going back to civilization for weeks doing field #work out in Colorado. and he says there is something weird about being alone out there. like some places have a call to them. a temptation #compelling you to do things u kno r bad ideas. but i also pressed him and it seems to come from a lack of othet ppl watching you #like a lack of socal constraint enables the temptation to make reckless choices. so like i dunno it sounds more like a human thing #than the supernatural but like what do i kno? anyway. missing 411 stories make me man #mad. god. there was one i watched where the guys were like. hm they seem to happen around weird places like swamps. or around bad weather #events. so maybe these places or events cause disappearances to happen. like fucking no! do u hear what ur saying????? #the disappearences occure around places that are objectively difficult to search under conditions that delay search effort????? is ur brain #broken? the bad conditions make it hard to find ppl so u find less ppl and theyre marked as missing. jesus christ #anyway. its baffling to me. but i keep watching thr videos. probably bc i have nightmares about running into wild animals out in the woods #so im searching for like. god what not to do if i get lost in the woods. when what i shoukd do is watch survival videos rip #unrelated #ugh. also ive done some work in a national park where u would think its super super hard to get lost but our fieldwork got delayed bc ppl #had to go do search and rescue and the person was dead by the time they were found. i dont kno the details but like its a thing that #happens. its not that crazy #not to mention all the dumb fucks who fall of the cliffs every year down where i grew up. every fucking year. it happened to one of our #neighbors. he was at the bottom of this cliff for a whole day and survived. i dunno bad things happen everyday. u r not immune

[tsukihigui]

deleted my twitter app (not account) bc i really can’t handle the intense no-nuance high-stakes takes right now. not that here is all that much better but it’s definitely less of a time sink

#i just. #ok. #i just think if ur gonna go scorched earth on prioritizing high minded ideals over outcomes ur not actually as morally pure as u think u r #and I also think if ur gonna do that u gotta say with ur CHEST the collateral damage you’ll sign onto #both by abstaining from concrete action now and by destroying infrastructure in the name of a brighter future #im not even gonna tell you ur wrong. but i want you to say who u think is worth sacrificing #i have awful news for you the folks who don’t make it thru the revolution are very rarely the rich and healthy and connected #it’s gonna be folks who are desperate enough to fight and folks who can’t handle more instability. #poor folks. sick folks. disabled folks. disenfranchised folks. unhoused folks. #you think you can build a functioning mutual aid network from scratch during a revolution serving tens of millions? #i know it’s a nice thought that the failures of US welfare programs are Just Capitalism. and that’s a huge chunk #but it’s also because IT IS DIFFICULT. and that’s WITH billions of dollars and a chokehold on the global supply chain #im not saying any of the options are good. but when u call for revolution u gotta acknowledge ur stealing from today for tomorrow #and look hard at the folks who stand to lose the most. say you’re fine with martyring them - whether or not they agree #I’ve got myself all worked up now and i wanna post about it. to maybe share some god damn perspective. #things are bad! things are not good. unsustainable trends abound. but wow for all ur whining online #about how everyone needs to know EVERYTHING about ALL ISSUES in EVERY CONFLICT or else you are EVIL #ur missing the forest for the trees my dude. takes are easy - policy is hard #get fucked. don’t get people killed.

[yuridovewing]

i get that a new team had taken over at this point and that’s probably why the writing is suddenly different this way, but i cannot get over my Immense disappointment that despite the books focusing a lot on sibling dynamics and issues, a lot on family and melodrama, that they decided to stop giving pov chapters to both siblings here when alderheart and sparkpelts dynamic has SO much potential

#imagine oots but there was no ivypool chapters and we just focused on the dovewing stuff #i do prefer dovewing of the two but like. part of that is bc we saw BOTH sisters’ perspective #at that point it wasnt ‘’this guys wrong this guy is god (mostly)’’ but it was different #there was… Some nuance to be had with the dove and ivy situation #while here all wr get is alderheart. no perspective on spark besides his biased view #sparkpelt has no voice no anything. she just fades into the background while also being a tool to make alder look good #and this time the resentment and rivalry doesnt even culminate to dark forest manipulation so like #it feels like the writers werent interested in sparkpelt as anything but a tool they could shape to make alder look good #sure we dont need both sides for it to be compelling sometimes the biased view can tell a story on its own through unreliable narrator stuff #but wc doesnt even do that. its more like ‘’ugh sparkpaw is a brat. she has everything alderpaw has nothing. ok anyways unrelated thing time #avos liveread

[lightningwaters]

#hawk #hawkfrost #rogue #riverclan #dark forest trainee #dark forest #double dead #tigerspawn #god I'm listening to the tnp audiobooks and he got done dirty #he honestly isn't even that bad. he was manipulated by tigerstar #and sasha telling him and mothwing that tigerdad is actually great and then bouncing probably didn't do anything to help #he should've been a dark forest cat that got redeemed #I have an AU where he's a (corrupted) guardian angel type thing for ivypool #just making him *evil by default* wasn't clever at all. it just made him a boring. complete fail of a villain #I prefer either making him become evil due to manipulation from tigerstar or. #or making him a guardian angel for ivypool. have him be manipulative as he was manipulated by tiger and realize what's. #happening and actually try to right what he did wrong and basically rebel against tigerstar #you can still even have him die. just make it more than him being Evil™ and never expanding on it #basically what I'm saying is he is extremely wasted potential. like worse than brambleclaw

[patheticpat]

Redeye Piranha (derogatory)

#Slimer.LIVEBLOGGER: Sun Haven #slimer.post #I am ✨ suffering ✨ #for the love of fucking gods where do I need to go to catch this stupid fucking fish #nowhere gives a specific fucking location on where I need to catch the stupid fucking thing #like. (wilderness) okay so what separates the wilderness from the forest? *crickets* #can you give me a specific fishing location…? *more crickets* #like at this point I just know that their an eastern forest exclusive and that’s the only helpful thing I’ve fucking gotten out of this #nothing the fuck else. I want to scream #Update: I should’ve went to Reddit first. Apparently I was fishing in the right spot but was just extremely unlucky; how fun.

[neverendingford]

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#exploring my gender options has given me new appreciation for the gender I started with. like. now I can make my voice go highe and lighter #but now I'm exploring the opposite direction. feeling the thrill of my vocal cords vibrating through my jaw #working on eking out a few lower notes and getting that bass rumble where I can #I get incredulous looks when I do my high voice when paging over the intercom. I want to get incredulous looks for my low voice too #I want to do both #Vivec craves radical freedom - the death of all limits and restrictions. He wishes to be all things at all times. #Every race every gender every hero both divine and finite... but in the end he can only be Vivec. #that quote by Sotha Sil still lives in my head. there's a reason Vivec is such a nb icon. #I think the magic is finding a way to incorporate everything into yourself. you cannot be every gender. but you can be yourself #and humans have the ability to absorb infinite lives into themselves. we live near someone until we become. in part. them #we become part of the world around us as we live next to it. we become part of the people around us when we live with them #I've just reinvented the 'god is everywhere. I'm god and you're god' opinion I heard Christians ranting against as a kid #reject modernity. embrace pagan animism #I want people to look at me and realize that I refuse to be caged #I want people to hear me speak and realize that I live beyond the walls they have built for themselves #I want children to see me and see a forest beyond their compound #I want elders to see me and see a burned and ashy meadow sprouting green leaves again #I want to love so wholly that I cannot lose sight of myself #because how can you not see yourself when you are in the sky. in your friends. in your family. #you live in the tiny trinkets on your desk and the hollow worn into the couch #fuck it. I'm painting these words #tag talk

[death2you]

just finished yakuza 0…

#flashing. #well not Technically. i beat the game like three times and it kept crashing at the credits so im giving up for today :thumbsup: but i saw #the post credit scene. with makoto and the watch😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 im fucking killing myself ... the fact that majima just had 2 give everything #up. literally everybody who cared or interacted with him died in some way and its like. 😟😟 bro what the fuck... #i understand why he felt some typa way toward sagawa and makoto but i feel like they could've done a little bit more with nishitani... #i liked his character though so i GUESS they've done their job but. i wouldve loved having more scenes w/ majima & nishitani before he die #yakuza 0 REALLY loves killing its characters though. nobody was fucking safe!! fuckin tachibana oda nishitani sagawa awano... FUCKING LEE.. #i LOVEDDD nishiki though. every emotional scene he was in just slayed so hard. literally stole the show.. #the scene in the forest where he tried to spare kiryu and the scene on the boat where he said that he wanted to cross the line together. #NISHIKIYAMA AKIRA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!! #the ending part where they tell everybody's futures really worried me though.. like 😟😟😟 what do you mean nishiki changes. what happened.. #when i first saw that i instantly thought about the cliche in black movies where they tell every1's future at the end 😭😭 #OVERALL. I REALLY REALLY ENJOYED THE GAME!!!! it wasnt too hard maybe a little bit easy toward the end but such a lovely cast of characters #& the substories and things you could do in sotenbori & kamurocho is really fun ^___^ #after i try and Officially beat the game i wanna try and 100% everything.. i might not do Everything but most of it i wanna do #like the five billionaires/stars storylines & stuff... but thats if i can even officially complete the game... #oh god such long tags. anyway. #canon that majima has legendary pussy #95

[rosykims]

having elspeth's whole blight schedule planned to the last minute detail has opened my third fourth and fifth eyes all simultaneously but on the flip side it means ive also inadvertantly cockblocked her from her mans until like. ⅗ of the way through of the game lol

#oc: elspeth #ella 1.0 was so...... eh. idk. i was attached enough that i couldnt let her go but she had no FLAVOR #ella 2.0 is crazy. i cannot stop thinking of the cognitive disconnect she has w her own Ideals & how out of touch it makes her in canon #she grew up during peace times playing soldier on her father's lands and like. tourney stuff. so she sees being a warrior as like #being a hero from a bard's song or a children's tale #like its a fun story and the story either adjusts itself to resolve conflicts or it just ends and she doesnt have to deal w it #as a ''hero'' everything she does is automatically virtuous and hard choices are things she can judge OTHERS for w her own hindsight ykno? #so then when shit DOES get real and shes like um what do you mean i have to kill a child or sacrifice a mother w blood magic #shes like what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck. this isnt what its supposed to BE like #shes supposed to be the HERO who saves everyone and is loved and celebrated and sung about she didnt sign UP for hard choices #and then the aftermath with alistair is especially bad bc she'd also convinced HIM that she was this do-no-wrong figure #and suddenly the illusion is shattered for both of them like oh youre just another person who's going to have to do horrible things huh #having that loss of .... reassurance for him and IDENTITY for her.... #her feeling like she'd been incapable of doing wrong and suddenly knowing oh my god my actions have?? CONCEQUENCES?? #absolutely fucks her up for a while #anyways all of this to say after redcliffe she and alistair are distant for a few weeks and she spends most of her time w morrigan and zev #since theyre the only bitches she doesnt feel judged by #the brecillian forest is going to be sooo awkward for questing until they finally reconcile lol #anyways. nobody asked but there it is #send tweet

[nerice]

me: yeah im ok with having slashed the faye/raiu content in the main book also me: trying to keep normal brain function while rewatching the mkm/dnj mind control snail feed scene for the 500th time in the op

#im gonna............... IM GONNA #faye is so good at manipulating children maybe she SHOULD get to do that two books in a row i dont care #god it is. IT IS SO. #I HAVE THINGS TO SAY THAT I CANNOT SAY #BUT IT IS ****SO****** #shadowblogging #like genuinely that cute little subplot of raiu being too trusting of well meaning adults ('well-meaning') bc all he knows is sky... #it is absolutely not the same situation as belles bc belle knows faye is a dangerous player she just thinks she can handle her (she cant) #raiu just thinks hey im glad i met this helpful person :) #gbghhb i also had a brainwormed subplot for a sec once where faye joins them btwn resilience+forest arc #but genuinely needing to constellate a grp scene that involves faye/cait/avery like ok just give me the gun ill do it myself #im not solving this problem now i am infact trudging thru todays thesis work rn i shouldnt even be here #BUT BRAIN WORMED. .........................

[lesbianpikachu]

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#oh my god #i never want to record any video ever again #oh geez just like every other part of making this dumb pokemon video i am realizing how hard this is actually going to be #i feel like with every part of this thing I've just bitten off way more than i can chew at every opportunity #my current idea is to capture no gameplay with a capture card but to instead record screens with a video camera #this allows me to have like a Gameboy in a forest for a section talking about a forest if that makes sense #i wanted to give the video a sense of atmosphere but I'm like 2 days into this and I'm exhausted #this is really fuckin hard to do and I'm not sure I'm up to it #i think I'm going to do it anyways but I'm just like oh. once again this thing is going to take longer to make than i thought #its just weird having to be patient or else i explode #like yeah it's going to take even longer. it'll come out when it's done. i finally understand why so much shit gets delayed #it's just like well. guess this'll take longer than i thought. oh well #also just like noticing so many small issues with it and being like. welp don't have time to fix it now guess it's staying in lol #i don't like compromising like that but i feel like i have to in order to even get this thing out and I'm just trying to make peace with it