#this is all just me spitballing here

[zscribez]

i need an outlet for the disco elysium evangelion/pacific rim mashup au or i’ll explode so imma just word vomit my ideas for it here

so instead of police, the RCM is an experimental mecha pilot program in Revachol under the Coalition of Nations. Revachol seems to have been the epicenter of attacks by the Halos, extra-elysian beings that scientists theorize as having some kind of connection to the encroaching Pale. 

The RCM operate mechs known as Pale Divers (not sold on this name yet, but i just wanted a placeholder) with two types, the Innocentric line and the Plasm line (again some of the names are just placeholders). The Plasm line are older designs and a holdover from the Revolution when the communists built these particular mechs to harness the plasm’s power when multiple operators sync up in revolutionary union. They succeeded in engineering models that operate with two pilots in sync but their future plans for additional pilots failed when the Revolution fell and the first Halo attacked Revachol soon after, allowing for the Coalition to take over in the moment of crisis. With the Coalition in power and dealing with Halo attacks, they soon created the Innocentric line of mechs, which utilize only one pilot for maximum efficiency and the mechs rely on biological fusion with the pilot for optimal performance (ala how Evas work). However the RCM still finds use for the Plasm models as they’re more affordable to produce even though they’re perceived as less reliable to combat the Halo threats.

The RCM being an experimental program, it relied on volunteers who were willing to sacrifice their lives in order to become pilots. Harry volunteered, wanting to prove himself for Dora. He first operated an Innocentric model and quickly became a top pilot. However operating the mech took severe toll on his body as it’s heavily reliant on Harry’s biology to achieve optimal performance and Harry resorted to drugs and alcohol to sustain himself. Dora eventually left him as he sunk deeper deeper into dysfunction, which broke him and culminated in an event where he loses his memories (could be the same as the game, but i might try to rejig it to a different cause for his amnesia). His body has deteriorated to the point where he is completely unfit to operate the Innocentric model and thus was ‘downgraded’ to operating a Plasm model alongside Kim as his new partner. Homoerotic mecha training montage ensues.

#zee.txt #this is all just me spitballing here #i do have plans to write a fic in this au someday #so yeah but im still in the process of hashing out the worldbuilding #so my posts on it are gonna be pretty rough rambly and incomplete #but i just needed to put it out there just so i have an outlet for it #and hash it out this way #disco elysium #WIP

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #ruben hopclap #lucy frostblade #the rat grinders #adaine abernant #kipperlilly copperkettle #watching fig terrorize him like girl!!! we don’t even know if he’s guilty!!!! #this might just be for me but i do not think 5 teenagers willingly brutally killed their friend idk #like there just has to be some other element to it and i am very scared to find out what that was #what if they were put in a position where they felt there was/there was no other choice… like oh my god #my comedy brain is having fun but my ‘this is a teenager’ brain is in such deep distress all the time this season #the rat grinders i trust brennan to not make u cartoonishly evil so i am holding u as gently as i can in my confused shaky hands #also with the devil’s nectar i’ve been wondering why they all seem so well-adjusted & now i’m curious if they’ve been intentionally- #changing their memories in a way so that either the trauma is lesser or they think they aren’t guilty. idk #but it seems like from how gertie was talking she was making it more recently so the well adjustedness from early jy doesn’t quite add up #they could have another source maybe??? idk i’m just low stakes 4 a.m. spitballing here #there’s also the strong possibility that they’re aware of what happened but they weren’t the ones who killed lucy. idk who knows #the way you could probably devil’s nectar yourself into believing it wasn’t your fault someone died… CRAZY IMPLICATIONS!!! CRAZY IDEA!!! #anyways the bad kids & the rat grinders don’t ever have to like each other but i do wonder if at least some of those kids deserve a chance

[glitchedcosmos]

movie Shadow should be so assured in his own power that he is completely confident and collected in dangerous situations , it would make sense he doesn’t talk during fights, his power doesn’t require words to make a impact . And he becomes tense and uncomfortable in mundane situations because he simply doesn’t have the framework for peace.!.!.!. And his power is so intense and hard to control he would need someone to navigate softness for him,.!.!.!.!. That’s all your honour

#oh I fucking HOPE he is #i want to literally feel his confidence punch me in the theater please #movie shadow of all gives me those vibes #just spitballing here #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic 3 #sonic scu #sonic movie 3 #sth #shth #shadow the ultimate lifeform #sonic #character writing #character things #shadow #project shadow #scu #sonic movie #sonic movie news

[emberglowfox]

pulsar iteration ideation

#obviously all the “technical info” here is pure bullshit please don’t get me over it not being how soft robotics works i know it’s not #the funniest part of shr is that i actually did a ton of research into plane engines and soft robotics and then ignored all of it. LOL #steelheart redux #steelheart redux lore #i guess. these probably aren’t final i was just kinda spitballing #my art #my ocs

[girlmetalsonic]

thinking abt metal sonic and how they communicate. like do they come up with little signals and sounds to convey certain things to others. tapping in morse code. do u think they learn how to write. taking away their voice was meant to make them less human but then they learn to write down their thoughts in an entirely human way. IDK and then im thinking if they got a voicebox in the future would they even use it all that much or would they be so used to not having it that theyd rely more on other ways to communicate. idk. when your voice is an item that can be taken away do you value it more or less than if it was a given right

#me posts #metal sonic #sth #sonic the hedgehog #these thoughts are like not organized at all im just totally spitballing here #this shouldve stayed jn the drafts but yknow what who cares

[kurtzhot]

(my rotting corpse abruptly sits up breaking through the casket* we're so back

#myabe they should move to new york together idk im just spitballing here #riverdale #first real conversation they've had onscreen in yearsbut its all coming back to me now #jarchie

[mazojo]

I want to thank dark academia based media for changing my life for the worse

#makes me SICK. I a see any sort of morality. talk about romanticizing languages. the villains and hero complexes. and I go SICK #I am reading if we were villains and oh guys how this book is about to change my entire life narrative I fear #james and Oliver are like. in love right? I am not being delusional right ? oh James how I know you will be dead by the end of this #I wrote notes at the end of each act as I go with my predictions and starting act 2 the second I realize #james wasn’t mentioned or wasn’t the FIRST at the door at Oliver’s release it meant we were fucked #also the fact I ranked him my fav in act 1 and all my favs are destined for death so that’s that #no spoilers btw I am just spitballing here but oh how I know I will be devastated in a hundred more pages or so #if we were villains #dark academia #also applies to ths #the secret history

[metamatronic]

oh thank goodness the d1 polycule is in tact. FALSE ALARM GANG

#mikan was useful for once #also this is small but kazucihi!! didn’t call her ‘miss sonia’ and also gundham’s hair went back to normal #also those three stood together. a lot. #and also kaz couldn’t resist complimenting gundham that one time #whatever this was a good series #dark as hell though #ALSO SAKAKURA WAS??? ACTUALLY GAY??? #i knew there was something i liked about him. he gave me mondo vibes #apparently those vibes were ‘being in love with a high-ranking student council member’ #dr3 spoilers #danganronpa spoilers #dr3 anime liveposting #oh hey also i can’t believe kyoko gets two dads and their both dead now #keeping this tabbed for non-despair aus #hey if they’ve got the tech for brainwashing and robo-hands and all that jazz #do you think they’ve figured out cloning #or at the very least like. the ability to make a human body. #for. i don’t know. a ghost to possess and potentially bring everyone back #just spitballing here #OR WAIT #MAYBE BECAUSE KYOKO DIED SHE CAN SEE GHOSTS NOW #HOLY SHIT WAIT #I CAN WORK WITH THIS

[needle-noggins]

Okay very last Trigun Maximum Vol. 2 thoughts before next week!

First off, Vash crying blood! I had fun coloring in the panel, because why not. This is my favorite weird monstrous quirk of his. It's so dramatic. It's so sad. It's so gross. I have so many questions. If he has a long hard cry, could be feasibly become anemic for a bit? Like a period? Does it make wiping away tears really difficult (tears dry and disappear, blood dries and it's fucking hard to get out without peroxide)? When does he cry normal tears vs blood? How many coats has he bled on? Does it turn his eyes reddish? I will never know peace.

Now some creepy Puppet Master bullshit. I didn't realize he actually killed all those people.. then, I guess, preserved them in a way to make puppets out of them? That he can control with his mind? That's some TMA Stranger shit right there. Jeezus Creezus. I love how this reminds me of the body horror of the plants too though. Also, Wolfwood's got legs for miles (god he's so Shaped).

OK, sorry these are kinda out of order. I mostly just wanted to put Blood Tears Boy panel up first. But these pages (out of order but in comparison) are *chefs kiss*

So. Wolfwood insisting that he's just human, and that's why he can't take the same chances in battle that Vash can. He's not a superhuman with insane marksman skills and rapid healing. He can't afford the same luxury of pacifism. He's working really hard to separate himself from Vash / separate Vash from humanity with "I'm only human" (god, did you really have to rub it in like that? surely there was a nicer way to say that, buddy).

And the next page here... okay I actually need some help with this. This is immediately after WW sees Vash get Bad Vibes from Puppet Guy, and I can't quite tell if WW is talking about Vash (I think so?) or the puppet master (the one sending Bad Vibes)? If he's talking to/about Vash, that means that he sees Vash having Big Feelings and feeling the shit radiating off the GHG and he's like... that's a monster. He's so fucking inhuman. (also sorry for the empath joke). The last panel on that page is grayed-out Vash, presumably feeling like shit after WW tells him he's nothing like a human.

Wolfwood is STILL feeding into Vash's monster shit. I feel like Trimax volume 2 involves not only a lot of Vash and Wolfwood clashing ideologically, but clashing in their identities. Wolfwood is terrified of Vash and is working so hard to distance himself from the weapon who blew a hole in the fifth moon while still grappling with his own terrible deeds. Vash is... well, reminding Wolfwood that for all that he is Wolfwood the Punisher, as much as he's killed, he's still got a soft heart and he still cares. He's just a cowardly kid hiding behind his weapon, not some macho gun-slinging undertaker. Wolfwood knows that already, as we see him deep in thought with his mental gymnastics quite a bit, but he's only ever talking to himself about it. He's very private about it.

Because he's so willing to hurt Vash about the opposite, I think being understood by Vash like this is what scares Wolfwood most of all.

#OK IM DONE FOR THIS WEEK SEE YOU ALL NEXT WEEK #trigunbookclub #SORRY THIS ONE IS LESS COHESIVE #im just spitballing at thsi point #in this house we love and psychoanalyze nicholas d. wolfwood #i may be making false claims here yall tell me if im overstepping #trimax

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Well now you've got me even more worried about it

It's fine, seriously do not worry

#tanco speaks #ask #asks #i love seeing you all spitball because 99% i am not going in any of the directions posed and im just sitting here like #huh neat #but you really dont need to worry or get bent out of shape about me being cryptic

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

MiqoMarch'24, Day #7: - light -

A bit of a different take on this prompt, today is all about sin eater D'nyr from the point of view of an alternate timeline where he really did become a Lightwarden!

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀- observations log. 1/5/XX, day.?? - ……..thus the creature was bestowed the title of Forgiven Temperance by its former allies, following the meaning of self-sacrifice and asceticism; excessive restraint/repression of one’s self for others benefit. At his core, one can suppose that this was both his fatal flaw and driving virtue! The poor soul… To date, nobody knows for sure what the beast fully looks like, not even those who fled the site of its transformation at the depths of The Tempest! It has scarcely budged from its initial location a few moons ago… obvious logistical reasoning aside, only a scant few exploration teams have had the wherewithal to venture down there past the safety of the Ondo's dwellings. Reports have led us to believe that the creature is covered in sharp spines and has monstrously large "claw-hands" (as it was described), or possibly some sort of scorpion-like tail as well? Its profile is unclear and hard to make out in the murk from such a distance, but one thing is unanimously clear; all of our teams have fled after seeing what they claimed to be "horrifying gold eyes" staring back at them! Yet the beast has not once given chase upon sighting our researchers, which is just as unsettling as it is perplexing… Due to the unique constraints inherent to its location, we are at present unable to cull the Lightwarden and return the night to the region of Kholusia. Mercifully, its light has not pierced anywhere else due to the sheer distance from the water's surface acting as a convenient attenuating filter, but one could surmise that if the beast were to emerge then all of Norvrandt would be under light pall again… its effect on the populace is quite clear: residents have responded with equal levels of fear and also apathy to this situation, as while some are content to live their lives as they had been before (with the beast effectively "out of sight and out of mind" and therefore not a problem), others are starting to become fearful of the ocean entirely (a complicated notion, due to their relative proximity at all times to it)! Disquieting rumors have started to spread amongst fishermen and sailors alike, that if you venture too close to the ocean you'll be dragged under by the Lightwarden, never to be seen again… though one would hope most people would question how bogus this sounds-- if you'll excuse me interjecting my own personal opinion... at this juncture I simply cannot see the Lightwarden ascending from the briny deep just to prey on hapless passersby when it has showed absolutely no inclination towards moving from even just one single spot-- it has nonetheless had a noticeable impact on the region's imports and exports of fish, so now we must find an effective way to quell the people's terror to rectify the economic impacts alongside dealing with the creature too………..

------ (as a bonus, have the rough draft of his Lightwarden trial encounter under the cut! because I am sad it will never get to see the light of day otherwise and I was proud of the concept years ago lmao)

CONCEPT: . Overall theme is “the breaking down of appearances to reveal what was always there, but hidden away”-- stage and boss both change per phase to reflect this, going from a more idealistic “this is what the WoL as a sin-eater would look and fight like” to a “ohhh god what is that that’s not the WoL anymore” . Mechanics are based around D’nyr’s repressed feelings towards others (loneliness, anger/the need to lash out sometimes, not always saying how he feels, his dislike of others putting him on a pedestal, etc.) and the world at large (eg. the fragility of life, futility of some things, etc.) and his unfulfilled hopes and wants (to live unfettered by responsibility to the world, to settle down with a family of his own someday, etc.)

PHASE 1: . Certain mechanics grant a stacking buff to the boss (Fervent Denial), which is necessary to progress the fight! These mechanics have an interrupt bar and represent the feelings and things that D’nyr has repressed-- if the cast is interrupted, the buff will not be given, increasing the flat % of damage taken from the ultimate attack at the end of the next phase [it's calculated based on the damage dealt to the boss in the first phase (% thresholds that indicate how much it weakens the overall ult damage by), as well as the actual phase progress bar (below 80% is no extra damage, at 80-90% it is +3% extra damage, 90-99% an 5% extra damage, and 100% a flat wipe)] . In a meta sense, the only way to put him down for good is to damage him when he is at his most vulnerable (ie, his final form), and the only way to get him to show that is to let him go berserk and not deny him the things he’s been disallowing himself all this time-- as D’nyr at his core would never allow himself these actions, it causes a “breakdown” of the mask (literally, the bosses’ one too [he has a blank slate mask with a golden kintsugi X like D'nyr's scar, for context]) and internal walls holding him back, fracturing his perceived sense of self and causing him to shift into a form that represents all of these denied things, which is what truly needs to be destroyed/purified! . Normal mode has 7 chances to grant Fervent Denial giving some leeway for mistakes (the buff stacks cap at 5 however, so it is not possible to get 7 stacks despite there being opportunities to do so), but Extreme only has the exact 5 chances needed to progress! If players have not let the boss reach at least 5 stacks by the time the hard-enrage longcast goes out, the party will wipe. . Fervent Denial also slightly increases damage dealt by the boss, so he will gradually hit harder and harder over time, plateauing right before the phase change. . After the boss uses its phase-shift move (what would normally be the yet-unnamed hard-enrage longcast), the stacking buff will disappear and the boss will become untargetable, beginning the DPS check phase.

DPS CHECK: . Unfinished from here on out-- but basically beating up… some kind of add, and while you do that the boss' mask slowly cracks with bright light before shattering into his second form and unleashing his ultimate attack (he becomes more agitated and spiny-looking but I never finished designing any of his forms so just imagine the possibilitiiiiies)

PHASE 2 & 3: . To be continued……. or not! maybe someday :')

#this was SO MUCH FUN #I've had sin eater stuff in the works for years and some finished scraps of info here and there but nothing complete enough to show #it's basically a few pages of bullet points spitballing various ideas but when I went to actually draw out and design the bastard- #-I could never make something I was completely happy with so I kept dropping the idea for later and never really finished it #it's a shame because I can FEEL internally like I have a great design somewhere in there but I can't seem to put it to paper well....... #I figured journal-style prose would be ideal for today bc I can be as vague as I want to explain the lack of concrete design lmao #ALSO I had none of the tempest stuff written beforehand and it all just snowballed and led more and more into itself as I wrote-- fantastic #it just writes itself and I'm so fucking jazzed about that because it's giving me fresh ideas to work with and augfljgfdk I LOVE IT #MiqoMarch2024 #MiqoMarch #ffxiv #d'nyr fellcrest #d'nyr

[grasslandgirl]

THE THING THEY DONT TELL YOU WHEN YOU START A LONG FORM NARRATIVE PLOT-FOCUSED FIC FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER ONLY WRITING RELATIONSHIP-CENTRIC GET TOGETHER FLUFF IS THAT YOU DO ACTUALLY. HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE PLOT. AGONIES UPON AGONIES!!!!

#noble pining au #i dont!!!!!! know whats going to GODDAMN happen next. if im honest #ive been putting off deciding on what the climax and culmination of act 3 is gonna be til i get there and. uh oh! guess whos there! #AND STILL DOESNT KNOW HOW THIS THING IS GONNA END #and i dont wanna leave it open ended at the climax like i did w my bb21 fic bc like. i found that unfulfilling of an ending personally as a #writer. and i dont want that for noble pining bc ive spent three years working on it slowly #and i want it to have an ending that is fulfilling to me and to the reader and for the characters. #and lik eive been figuring out like individual endgames for all the characters for where they'll END but like. i dont know how to GET THERE #augh. anyway #if anyone has any suggestions or advice #or if any beloved mutuals w a lot of free time on their hands wants to read it and give me some feedback and actionable plot-based suggestio #that would be genuinely wonderful. but mostly im just venting and spitballing here #and im sure an idea will come to me eventually. they always do

[tabithatwo]

Me with my crazy investigation board: here’s how yellowjackets can turn it around for me <3 if they simply kill off every male character I have ever had to perceive during the present timeline in the hour of screentime they have left I will not even question how dumb it is <3 fuck psychological horror, this can be a pure thriller slasher now <3 <3 walter and jeff are dragging both cops across the floor (how and why did walter kill them we don’t know and we don’t care shhhh nothing has to make sense) <3 randy shows up to save jeff and walter kills randy (why I don’t know! use your imagination!) <3 jeff tries to kill walter but of course he cannot, so shauna does (actually no maybe even callie) <3 jeff is like phew glad I survived all the murder that was crazy (cue ritual sacrifice) <3 IT COULD WORK OKAY

#I would be so free #nothing would ever top that for me #I will accept absurdism for THIS. the dark comedy of the present timeline. phenobarbital could work too just spitballing here #randy is dumb enough to just drink out of all seven ritual cups he finds abandoned #yellowjackets

[the-yearning-astronaut]

I think.... over the last two days I think I've read just about every Murderbot fic on AO3 that meets all my (current) filter criteria... I'm pretty sure the only one I have left now is a 200k epic....

#halp #now what?! #*paws through my current list of prompts* #there's gotta be one here that'd make for a good place to start writing my own fic... #drawing fanart is great & all but there r Some Things that I *need* that just rn't possible for me to conceptualize in a way i can *draw* #the murderbot diaries #current filters basically include: must have MB and ART in the fic together in Some Way; no noncon; and none of my squicks #and even then there were some fics where id eye the tags and be like HMM thats definitely not my Usual but color me Intrigued #and i probably had about 20 pages to comb through but now im done and I'll probably go through them again but I'll definitely #be reading fics that just wont Hit the way i need/want them to rn #i was dumb and read them all while not logged in so idek how many ive read #ive been Spoiled by big old fandoms with Lots of canon and fanon and fic #ive forgotten what its like to be in 1) a small fandom and 2) a BOOK fandom #anyway I really wanna write but im a Scaredy Cat and i don't really have anyone to spitball with who will also enable me

[gideonisms]

Here is another possibly controversial opinion but although john immediately made the situation worse, I'm not convinced he's the only one responsible for the state of the river. My points are:

A) the river seems linked to thanergy, if we extrapolate from the fact that trapping a soul gives you a huge well of energy to draw from, and there are a fuck ton of souls trapped in the river, so it would make sense that some of the ambient thanergy is coming from those souls, not just the little bursts of it after a death.

B) alecto gave john thanergetic powers before he was even aware of the river. And again, these powers aren't initially linked to the burst of energy after a death, they're linked to bodies that are stuck incorruptible. What are those souls doing? Are they really just gone, or are they in the river, still somehow linked to their bodies, unable to pass through to the opposite shore?

C) I think there's evidence to suggest that the souls of planets and the souls of their people or creatures are connected.

D) alecto may be holding onto the souls of her people rather than letting them pass through the river. At least, enough of them to power the thanergy she gives to john.

I keep wondering, why did alecto pick john, after all? He's surely not the person doing the most environmental good. But he is the one who clings to people at any cost, something she herself gifts him with the power to do. Something she's already doing too? After ten thousand years, alecto may be ready to let go. But john isn't, and he's connected her to him. What are the options now? Break the connection, accept the way she changes as a result, let the souls of her dead escape to wherever souls go. Or destroy them both. I think the next book is going to see alecto reckon with what john's done to her and THAT will involve changing the way the river works, but I don't think John actually has the power to fix the river on his own.

#ntn spoilers #this is not to be like john's not at fault bc he is at fault. specifically for the mass murder #also for taking alecto & trying to possess her. something humanity has doubtless been doing to her the whole time #but the series is deeply about the ways that trauma inflicted on people changes them & their interpersonal relationships #so i think it's on theme for alecto to be holding onto something that's already gone at the beginning of the story #not wanting things to change not wanting to die #but to have changed her mind by the end and have to reckon with the fact that #she's ready to move on but john isn't he's still clinging to every past betrayal #i think she's going to pull the plug on their connection and assume a different form she likes better #and i think john is very afraid she's going to figure out how to let go #hm. all of this is mostly just me spitballing here

[johnwicklover1999]

i find it interesting how anti theists will quote holy books and deny other interpretations of the text in favor of taking it literally. like yeah, a lot of literal religious interpretations are dogwater because of the time period they originate in. we still have the power to improve religion and welcome progressive ideas into religious spaces. but when you denounce religion by solely taking holy texts seriously? you are doing the exact thing youre against. youre treating religion as if it is a fact that is set in stone

#we (as humans) are not always the sins of our past; religion can still change and evolve culturally #im gonna spitball here (correct me if im wrong) but holy books arent often changed for the better; thats more of a political thing #-like church and state yk #political ideas gaining a place within the church and vise versa leads to religious governing or political preaching #theism #pro theism #pro religion #anti theism #this is a much less 'serious' post (all my posts are just me word vomiting) so like. if you're gonna harass me do it on a better post #also if it comes off like im being dramatic abt being harassed im just afraid of that happening and someone compromising my safety 👍