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Incorrect Quotes
*at the supermarket/store*
Ghost: Right so we need eggs, chicken, milk and water then you lot can get whatever you want
Y/n: eye eye captain *walks off*
*twenty minutes later*
Y/n: I’m back!
Ghost: *turns around* what took you so long?
Y/n: couldn’t find the pop tarts so I had to ask a worker then the worker went into the back rooms and some how let me in there to pick what pop tarts.. it was huge back there you wanted to see it..
Ghost: right.. let’s go home..
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Price: I asked you to one thing and what was it?
Y/n: uh to go get your parcel and give it to you..
Price: and why did I have a member of staff come up to me and tell me you were making a small c-4 bomb and placing it to Graves door?
Y/n: uhh April Fools day?
Price: Y/n
Y/n: yes?
Price: it’s mid August
Y/n: put did I not still bring your parcel?
Price: yes you did bring my parcel
Y/n: exactly so I did my part of your deal now could I go?
Price:… fine… no bombing Graves, please! And I’m not asking I’m telling you!
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Gaz: Has anyone seen Y/n?
Soap: uh no
Alejandro: I’m afraid not
Rudy: are they ok?
Price: what are they up to?
Ghost: no why?
Gaz: they’re not in their room, where could she be?
Ghost: they could be in-
*Y/n calls from the ceiling*
Y/n: *coughs* shit, damn it!
Ghost: why are in in the ceiling??
Y/n: uh no parti- *coughs* particular reason, why?
*hears someone running towards them*
Graves: why is there a skunk in my room?!
*everyone looks at Y/n*
Y/n: think it’s my time to leave.. *starts to get up and runs outside*
Gaz: well then..
Price: and it’s odd to think they are a highly skilled sniper
The rest of the team: agreed
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Y/n: CAPTAIN!
Price: you alright?
Y/n: no!
Price: what’s wrong? Wait your bleeding!
Y/n: I know, me and Gaz were outside and he pushed me into a bush and didn’t realise it was a nettle bush
Price: and why did he do it?
Y/n: cause I sprayed him with the hose and it looks like he peed himself?
Price: thought there was a catch
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*Ghost and Y/n are together*
Y/n: Si, where is my phone?
Ghost: on the desk
Y/n: oh yeah, thanks
Ghost: it’s alright love
*knock on Ghost’s door Y/n goes to open it*
Y/n: hey Soap, what’s up?
Soap: *raises eyebrow* you two haven’t been shagging while us lot were out were ya?
Ghost: watch it Johnny!
Y/n: no the shower in my room broke
Gaz: wonder how??
Gaz&Soap: *chuckles*
Ghost: you two better run before it’s to late!
Gaz&Soap: *bolts towards Price’s room for protection*
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*currently in the ceiling*
Gaz: how long till we are back at your room?
Y/n: *climbs back into ceiling after placing a load of cups full of water in graves room (covered the floor with cups)*
Y/n: not too long, gosh I’m trying ti do something funny and all you bloody do is whine
Gaz: cause your taking forever and who knows what lives in the ceiling
Y/n: we’ll sorry you had to come, Alejandro was supposed to come and do this with me but he’s out with Rudy
Gaz: *sighs*
Y/n: trust me we’ll be fine and it won’t take too long
*ten minutes later*
Y/n: right down here and we are back in my room
*Y/n and Gaz climb out of vent and into room*
Y/n: uh Gaz..
Gaz: what?
Y/n: this is Ghost’s room.. oh shit
Gaz: shit
Y/n: quick climb back up!
*ghost enters room*
Ghost: what the fuck?
Y/n: Gaz quick! He’s gunna kill us!
Gaz: who do you think I am Usain Bolt I’m not that fucking quick, Y/n!
Y/n: come on!
Ghost: why don’t you two just leave through the door? And why are you in the ceiling again I thought Price banned you?
Y/n: uhh ok one fair enough we’ll leave the normal way. Two cause it was supposed to be me and Alejandro but he’s out so it’s me and Gaz and the real answer is cause umm
Ghost: go on, spit it out..
Y/n: ok don’t snitch on me cause snitches get stitches but I filled Graves’ room with red cups and they are filled with water
Ghost: right… how old are you again?
Y/n: uhh 26 I believe
Ghost: right.. let’s act like it next time
Gaz: it’s was all her fault
Y/n: shut up Gaz *clips his head*
Gaz: ah!
Ghost: *clips both of their heads* come on get out of my room!
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Hope you enjoyed! Sorry for late post.
Have a good day/night! :)
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Just watched the sonic prime season 3 trailer and I am so angry at this show.
They had the FIRST GOOD SONIC CHARACTER IN FOREVER in the form of Nine and they’ve WASTED HIM!
I’ve got a lot to get out about this.
So Nine is a character I absolutely adore. I think he’s one of the rare few examples of an edgelord character done right. He also acts as a nice counterpart to Sonic. His character is perfectly set up for some engaging conflict with the situation at hand with some nice character development with some wholesome moments sprinkled in there.
SO WHY ON EARTH DID THE WRITERS CHOOSE TO TURN HIM INTO YOUR GENERIC CARTOON BUTTHOLE?!?
I honestly actually really liked the conflict that was set up at the end of season 2 but was also nervous for the shows plans for nine in season 3. And of course, based on the trailer, it seems nine has been turned into a generic “I wanna rule the world” villain with no chance at redemption given that the show is pulling together all the characters, including the past antagonists, to face off against him.
Just… why???
Sure I get it, people love twist villains. I love twist villains. It’s great when you can make us attached to a character and then have them stab us in the back.
But the thing is that Nine had so much more potential as an ally than a villain!
What makes Nine so compelling is that he’s the angst we always wanted to see in Tails but never got. I was hoping this would be expanded upon, with the writers finally giving Nine something good in his miserable life through Sonic, but it NEVER happened. All we got were pathetic moments of Sonic showing him basic human decency.
The missed opportunity that bothers me the most is the conflict that we saw come to a head in the finale of season 2. This will take me a minute to explain my interpretation of what’s going on between them.
From Nines point of view, Sonic, the only person he thought ever cared about him, is more than willing to throw him away for a better, less broken version of himself. For the duration of the show, Sonic has been treating Nine as a stand in for Tails and not his own person. He isn’t bothered in the least about the fact that reviving Green Hill would erase Nine. Now that’s not to say I think this is intentional on Sonics end. He’s just a complete moron in this show and more than likely the thoughts just never occurred to him. I think it’s pretty likely that Nine realizes this too, but that doesn’t make it any better for him. It probably hurts him even more to know that Sonic’s actions would have led to his death had he not intervened, and Sonic never even realized what could’ve happened. This here is a good example of how Sonic doesn’t see Nine as his own person, by the way. Ie. “you expected me to just go along whatever you said, didn’t you?” I love this quote in particular because of the implications behind it. This is, in fact, exactly what Tails does, so Sonic expects Nine to be the same way.
Imagine a clone of you suddenly showed up one day, but it lacked the trauma or disabilities or whatever you have, and the person you love most instantly abandons you for this better version of yourself. Like you were just a broken toy that was being replaced. This is essentially what’s happening to Nine.
Nine isn’t entirely in the wrong with what he did in season 2. I also don’t actually blame Nine for not understanding Sonic’s point of view here, desperately missing Green Hill and his old friends. Because he HASN’T acted like he’s missed Green Hill. He’s acted like Nine was just another Tails. Had Sonic separated Tails from Nine in his mind, I doubt Nine would’ve turned on him like that. Because Nine does care about Sonic. It’s easy for people to think that Nines just a selfish brat, but he’s not. He’s risked his life several times for Sonic, someone he just met, because Sonic showed him just a tiny bit of kindness. Realizing just how little Sonic really values him hurts, and it’s easy not to see the other persons reasoning when you’ve been hurt the way Nine has.
And yes, Sonic values Nine very little. I 100% believe this. I don’t believe that this is intentional on Sonic’s part. However, as I’ve said, Nine isn’t his own person in Sonic’s mind. Nine is just an angrier Tails, and so Sonic sees the restoration of Green Hill as the restoration of Tails, and not what it really is; the death of Nine.
Had this ever been explained to Sonic at any point I’m sure this would change. But thanks to the writers apparently frying their braincells and serving them up for dinner, now this will never happen.
THIS is why I hate the choice to make Nine a villain so much. Had Nine stayed a protag, we could’ve instead had an interesting and heartwarming conflict that would’ve resulted in great character development on both ends. The writers could’ve had Sonic realize just how much he’s hurt Nine, and as a side note acknowledge how much suffering Nine went through. This is a small nitpick but I wish Sonic would’ve had a convo telling Nine that what he went through wasn’t fair and comforting him. It would’ve been really heartwarming. But anyways, after he understands how he’s been treating Nine he apologizes and Nine finally gets to feel as though he’s truly valued for who he is. And as a result of this, Nine could’ve had character development where he realizes just how much Sonic’s friends in Green Hill really meant to him, and that he couldn’t simply give up and start over with Nine in The Grim. And because he cares about Sonic more than anything, he willingly gives himself up to bring back Green Hill.
Can you see why I’m so angry about having this taken from the fandom? Instead now Nine is just like any other cartoon supervillain wanting to take over the world. And sure his motivations of wanting to create a perfect world because of all the suffering he himself went through is still interesting, but it doesn’t compare to what we could’ve had. Plus, I’m certain this motivation and Nine as a character are going to be completely butchered, because according to the trailer Nine has somehow gone from just wanting to be left the frick alone to work on the The Grim to somehow destroying the entire freaking Shatterverse. 0-100 real fast and it makes absolutely zero sense.
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Headspace Thoughts
I've been thinking about Headspace again and the deeper meaning everything in it seems to have, and just recalled a little detail from the game about Doughie and Biscuit.
A running theme throughout HS is that of isolation. Spaceboy isolates himself in bed and later on a mountain. Rococo is isolated for years in Sweetheart's walls. SWH isolates herself on her quest for love. And the Unbread Twins have been isolated for all eternity in Breaven.
It seems that at one point they must have spoken to people- it seems that the belief in them has existed for centuries, their murals are accurate and bread is still offered to them (seemingly as a sacrifice). They're respected in Orange Oasis as deities, its citizens aware of their existence, but nobody makes any attempt to find them until Omori & co.
Even then, it's dependent on chance. The gang's intention was never to find Doughie & Biscuit and set them free- it was just something they chose to do for the heck of it, but without their visit, the twins would likely be in Breaven for at least years after. Kind of like how Kel decided to visit Sunny and see if he wanted to come out- neither Sunny nor anyone else ever asked him to, but without it, Sunny would've gone down the Hikki route for certain.
When first looking at the Unbread Twins, they're funny characters. 12-year-old Sunny looked at Daphne and Bowen and his only thought was that making bread forever had to be a miserable existence, so here they are! But then I started looking deeper at some of their quotes, and began to notice a few things.
This line in particular caught my eye: "I knew that our bread would come back to haunt us eventually...". It reminded me of Sunny's denial, and of the way his guilt haunts him through the forms of Something, Stranger and Black Space.
Originally, rather than living bread, Doughie was supposed to perceive Omori, Kel, Aubrey and Hero as ghosts, saying, "Are you a ghost?" and "Perhaps they are here to exact their revenge? That would be most..." / "Unfortunate." (Biscuit)
On one hand, it makes sense that she might think this. There were creatures like Hush Puppies in the sacrificing area, she clearly hasn't spoken to anyone but Biscuit in years, and ghosts have been confirmed to exist in Headspace. On the other, this is similar to how Sunny seems to perceive Something almost as the ghost of Mari, a physical manifestation of his guilt that reminds him of what he did. Judging by the three fear battles, it's not a stretch to say that Sunny could view Something as trying to get revenge for Mari too- potentially his subconscious punishing him for what he did.
When Doughie and Biscuit find out that the HS Gang aren't there to hurt them, they simply rejoice for a moment about their safety before continuing on as they always have. They've fallen into a routine: endless, repetitive, miserable, but familiar. The thought of leaving doesn't even occur to them; they rely heavily on the system they've made, scared of leaving and viewing the idea as preposterous.
Similarly, Sunny hasn't left his house in years, and doesn't intend to until Kel comes knocking. He's also fallen into a routine, every day the same as he locks himself away, isolated and too scared to leave alone. He doesn't want to face what he did, or see people again, or look at all the places where he used to go with Mari. He doesn't want to leave, but then Kel appears and flips that all on its head because then he actually has a reason to.
"Alright, we've changed our minds... We want to leave... This place sucks!" / "BISCUIT... We've always been afraid to use the portal." / "But perhaps it's time for change..."
They don't want to stay, and they haven't for a while, but they were too afraid to leave. Then, they're motivated to, and they finally gather up the courage and willpower to go outside of their self-imposed prison.
...And immediately lose everything.
They go to the Last Resort and lose all of their clams to gambling. They decided to break the routine, and suffered as a result of it. This could potentially be symbolic of how Sunny chose to leave but just ended up getting more hurt in the neutral/bad endings. Perhaps 'gambling' has a double meaning; they took a chance on going outside, and it backfired. Perhaps I'm looking too deeply into it lol.
It's interesting to look into how each character can parallel another (e.g. Hero & Spaceboy, Rococo & Sunny, Sweetheart & Mari, etc.), and I had fun writing this! Of course, this is all just me theorising; nothing is concrete, and plenty of it is probably just nonsense, but I wanted to get it out of my system :)
Thanks for getting to the end! Expect more analysis posts to come in the near future :)
#omori#omori unbread twins#omori doughie#omori biscuit#omori sunny#omori analysis#analysis#isolation#omori hero#omori aubrey#omori kel#omori omori#last resort#random thoughts#ramblings
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Another Fanbinding Post!
My latest project was @dragongirlg-fics's “Don’t Forget” and now that the gift copy has arrived, I can finally post about it! :D I read this fic very early on when I came into the fandom and it’s been in the back of my mind ever since. When I was suddenly hit with an idea for the case design, I decided to spontaneously do this binding because the idea was taking up too much headspace. XD
My camera always struggles with capturing the blue of this particular paper, and that ribbon is silver silk.
I’d also gotten it into my head that I wanted illustrations for the chapter headers and so I went and drew them myself. I hadn’t drawn in forever and it’s not like I was ever really great at it, but I think they turned out well enough.
I also drew the title picture to resemble the painting mentioned in the fic, though I couldn’t do the watercolours as I didn’t have the right paper for that. A bit of editing in Photoshop it was, then.
It was the first time I tried a three piece bradle binding and the paper for the case fought me a lot… My copy has some wrinkles and stuff because of it, as the way the case is assembled did not sit well with the paper. It might also be that I didn’t let the paper rest enough after putting the paste on, IDK.
I did all the case titling and decorations with a hot foil pen and that fought me, too, as all those parts that needed colouring in didn’t work so well on the first try. Second time worked better, at least, as did the cover assembly in general, as I now knew what to look out for.
That second time around, for dragongirlG's copy, I also pressed the shit out of those case boards after I'd glued the paper on. XD
With the case design, I wanted to lean a bit into the bunny theme of the fic, because those bunnies show up all the time. :D There's a lovely, important Chinese quote as well that seemed to fit onto the back cover (and OMG I'm so happy that I managed to write it straight! XD).
The typeset wasn’t too difficult, overall, though Open Office did annoy me at the beginning as it refused to format the pages correctly, which led to me just deleting the whole thing and starting over. XD
There are some things that didn't work out perfectly, like a crease in the endpaper that should not have been there. But luckily, the pattern on the paper kinda hides that. XD My copy also has some little hot foil smears here and there because OMG people, I was really struggling there. XD
Overall, though, I’m really pleased with how this book turned out! I added the silk ribbon on the cover because I felt like there was something missing with all that dark blue… It also meant going hunting for the right silver ribbon. XD
Materials used:
Printed on Clairefontaine DCP 100g (long grain)
Case + endpapers:
- booklinen Brillianta
- Efalin paper
- French marbled paper 120g
- hot foil (on brand)
#fanbinding#bookbinding#my fanbinding#arts and crafts#the untamed#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#chen qing ling#wangxian#books#my posts
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Elden Ring: Miyazaki's Undiscovered Element
Here's my pitch: puzzle type #3 from The Witness (2016)
The first type of puzzle in The Witness is the one that the game is marketed for - a series of line puzzles on panels. The second type I won't spoil here. The third type is otherwise known as "perspective easter eggs". I am at this point reasonably certain that this is the so-called "last secret" of Elden Ring, or at least part of it.
Firstly, to clear things up Miyazaki did not say that there was "one last secret" - that was a clickbait title invented by articles a few degrees removed from the original interview. The quote as presented in the IGN article is as follows:
“For me personally, there is a small element that I feel has not yet been discovered. So, whether that’s up to user interpretation or up to just further investigation and playing, that’s something I’m looking forward to....I think it’s a question of when and not if, but there may be something small still missing.”
Points of Comparison with The Witness: Forced Perspective
Here are some examples of what these perspective tricks look like in the Witness:
The statue in the foreground and the one far away on the mountain appear to be reaching for each other. The petrified man reaches for a gold chalice forever out of reach, but his shadow already holds the cup. A pair of wings is hung up in a window frame and you can pose your character in front. A small twig stands in front of a window and only from inside the building does it have a canopy made of cloud.
I have noticed similar set pieces in the environments of Elden Ring:
But here is where I think that Elden Ring diverges from the Witness. Simply finding these satisfying setpieces is half of the work, and the other half is puzzling over the meaning of the perspective, in the context of place and time.
Going through Castle Morne and thinking on what is in the field of view while standing in front of the wooden artillery boards with the metal wing decals. For example, there is a chamber to the left upon entering Castle Morne with no items or enemies inside it. Across from the entrance there is one of these boards. And looking into the little room from the perspective of a person desiring wings, you can see the significant thing about the room: two of the fire spewing dragon shaped flamethrowers that are not used at Castle Morne but are in use at Stormveil. Further examining the room, this is a manufacturing workshop for them.
The bald man cultivating one bud from a crucible producing many sunflower buds is menaced by a shadowy figure emerging from the firey Mt. Gelmir. Is there more to be observed with this one? Probably, as this set of figures occurs several times in sequence and the column with spear-holding figure appears in various states of repair. Something that I have noted is that there is a spike in complexity of these types of observations upon reaching Altus Plateau.
Another Elden Ring Innovation: Visions of Collectible Items
But let's say you are unconvinced about any particular meaning behind lining up a nice photograph at any statue. Here are some examples of scenes built around using items in the environment that can be interacted with:
Heading east of the Abandoned Coffin site of grace and up the hillside there is a place on the right-hand side just near the cliff with 1 carriage stacked on 2 others. At the top corner there is a purple soul item - which is a nascent butterfly. The camera can be angled so that it looks like the soul of the broken golem on the ground below.
Of other uses of nascent butterflies, there's the collapsing cliff at the Chapel of Anticipation - the goal is so close yet out of reach. There's a Wormface in the area under the bridge where Gold Mask first appears that is sobbing in front of a pool of water filled with gold fireflies and slugs, and directly across the pool from the Wormface there is a group of Nascent Butterflies.
And involving Scorched Butterflies: in the small Kaiden Mercenary encampment in Limgrave one of them is sitting and sleeping in front of the fire. Sneaking up and standing directly on top of the Herba behind him, there appears to be a soul item emerging from the stack of fire kindling on the left. The Scorched Butterflies here do not remain over the fire, but instead drift between fire and kindling. The item is actually obtained from a corpse behind the firewood and is the Armorer's Cookbook [1] that allows crafting of Fire Grease and Fireproof Dried Liver.
There is another notable place on the beach in Limgrave looking north where a Kaiden Raider seems to grieve over a corpse in its funeral pyre. A soul item "white flesh" emerges from the corpse, while Scorched Butterflies seem to rise above the flames and towards the Chapel of Anticipation in the distance. From standing at the location of the corpse, the sun sets beyond a rotten boat sitting on the shore.
The Last Sights of Dead Men: Iterating on Dark Souls
"There were once heroes who walked the battlefields, abundantly blessed by the Erdtree itself, who upon earning their honor simply died." - Hero's Rune
It is not uncommon to find corpses simply lying out in the open in many places in Elden Ring and holding "soul" items - by which I mean that they resemble the design of souls in the Dark Souls games. Some of these are unique weapons or key items, and some hold something more mundane like a handful of Stormhawk feathers. What were they looking at when they died? What are they running towards or away from? Standing on top of them, is there anything in the surrounding landscape that is perfectly aligned with another thing in a way that seems deliberate? Items in this game represent concepts - what insights did these dead men reach that caused them and the items they hold to be abandoned by the Greater Will and simply die in place?
In the Weeping Peninsula there is a group of 4 angry jellyfish standing around 3 chairs with 2 corpses on the beach to east of Castle Morne. Looking towards the Weeping Peninsula Minor Erdtree with back against the middle chair (corpse holding Arteria Leaf), there is a visual illusion with the cliffside and wall turret that makes it look to be sitting in a little pot (this is the image used at the top of the post). This draws some connection between the genesis of the Erdtree and pots - a crucible is a type of pot. What is this little scene saying about the Crucible era? Another prominent feature here is that Morne Moangrave is visible, but the tree behind it does not become visible until walking far enough south on the cliff to coincide with two dark jellyfish on the lower beach becoming visible.
Behind Castle Morne there is a corpse lying in a crevasse which is posed with a bag over its head and being eaten by two crabs. The corpse holds 15 Fire Arrows and is looking directly towards a tower with a flammable 6-sided wooden structure at the tower top. There is also a small cut out in the cliff to allow clear sightline towards a single jellyfish which is very small beside the tall tower.
In the room in Stormveil where Nepheli Loux stands over the corpse of the Banished Knight, as you stand in the doorway the position where she's standing is right over his…codpiece. However, looking from the perspective of the corpse in the corner on the right she appears to be emerging from his head, like Athena from the head of Zeus.
From the vantage point of the corpse looking over the cliff behind the Church of Vows the Raya Lucaria Debate Parlour is haloed by the Liurnia South Erdtree. Things aligning with Minor Erdtrees from particular marked locations is a not uncommon observation. This corpse holds 8 Stormhawk feathers - can corpses be found with other quantities of feathers and strung together to show a sequence of travel? Is there a pattern in general behind sets of corpses that hold various quantities of common material items? One thing that this does imply is that there is a connection between the Liurnia South Erdtree and Radagon's arrival at Raya Lucaria, even though it is separated by distance from the Church.
Many Small Things that are Easily Overlooked
Essentially, for any static item found in the environment that can be picked up into the inventory there will be one or more notable observations in the landscape. I mean everything. Sites of grace. Rebirth monuments. Mushrooms. Rowa fruit. There are noticeable patterns where some tree or rock or other structure will be very deliberately placed in alignment or obscuring distant landmarks while standing at these locations marked by game mechanic objects. Landmarks such as the Erdtree, Divine Towers, the Minor Erdtrees, the Moon, and the Giant's Forge are common to take note of since they are so prominent, but any structure can be significant.
To show how finely tuned this can be - in this example Ranni's Rise is obscured when standing directly on top of the mushroom. Standing a metre to the right and the tower is again visible:
If nothing else, pausing to look around at these item points helps build an awareness that at many key locations on the map one or more divine towers will be in alignment with the Erdtree. This is quite possibly the only means of getting answers about what is the purpose of the divine towers - I'm guessing that they represent the influence of the Great Runes that they hold. Depending on which combinations of Erdtrees and towers are visible from the specifically marked points in the landscape it shows that the near location is in the domain of the distant landmark.
For example, the Liurnia Divine Tower is directly in front of the Erdtree from the Rebirth Monument at Laskyar Ruins, and 3 other divine towers are also visible from this location:
The types of common observations do depend on type of item. Patterns emerge that from the viewpoint standing on top of mushrooms there are distant landmarks very deliberately blocked by adjacent trees. Rowa Fruit Bushes are often found in pairs and there are subtle changes from comparing the two perspectives. Sometimes at Trina's Lilies it's more about what landmarks are blocked from sight until moving far enough away from them that it exceeds the draw distance of the item - as if the lilies are in hiding.
As with enemy difficulty, the environmental observations have scaling difficulty depending on the region of the map. Limgrave and the Weeping Peninsula seem to function as something of a tutorial zone for the Rowa Fruit Bushes especially. Liurnia has a lot more going on with the mushrooms and the time of day and visibility of the moon and sun are important. Altus Plateau does much longer sequences of tree alignment observations (starting from mushrooms), and keep an eye on the number of visible segments on the bolt of Gransax from any given location in Leyndell.
Why do I think that this is connected to the missing element?
I have seen a number of discussions popping up in the past few weeks of people noticing something that they have never noticed before and declaring that the "secret" is found. It's often something like an artwork detail or line of text that in retrospect has connection to the DLC. This is not special - I think we will find that a lot of things already in-game are connected to the DLC because - y'know - it's still the same game and the DLC is revealing a buried history that FromSoft always knew was there. I'm happy for people being more observant, but again it's a very limited interpretation of what a "missing element" or "something small still missing" could be.
And then there is the other part of the argument that Miyazaki is just trolling and saying that there is something small missing - when there is no possible way for him to have followed every discussion on what people have and have not seen.
But consider this: I am suggesting that there is an entire element of intended gameplay that is not being used. If people were serious about hunting for clues in the environment of the type that I have described there should be videos about it! Secret hunting streams, compilation videos, whatever. Articles with top 10 quirky photos you can take. I can happily run around for hours sneaking past all enemies and trying to observe them unnoticed from various angles like a virtual wildlife photographer.
And what I have shown is just the most aesthetically pleasing findings and "easy" spots to draw conclusions about. Think about how many corpses and how many items there are to interact with in the environment. Thousands. There is so much.
#Elden ring#environmental storytelling#3d perspective tricks#there is visual poetry everywhere#There's so much to interpret and I would like anyone else to please start looking
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my brain is going brrr after those stills maddie HELP it’s like !!!!!!!! speculation time!!!!!
right!!!!!!! okay well here’s an incomplete bullet point list of my sporadic rambling all-over-the-place thoughts in no particular order:
- this quote where rafael “describes his character as someone who “tries to do the best he can,” but teases that he’s going to “trip pretty hard” at the beginning of the fourth season” will be pretty significant when it comes to carlos’ storyline. i think it hints at carlos always trying to do everything he can for someone (perhaps in this case iris or something involving her, or someone he meets during the storm arc, or someone completely random but with a story that makes carlos really desperate to help) even if it’s at a personal cost. him “tripping pretty hard” could have something to do with just how personal he’s taking this case or something like him not doing well on the detective’s exam, and feeling like this case is necessary for his career. hell, it could have something to do with what andrea tells him here, before they get interrupted with the storm:
- i think that carlos really having a strong, personal involvement with whatever this case ends up being will start to worry tk—even though carlos will tell him it’s okay in the beginning:
- i think it’s safe to say that this story will span multiple episodes, and will involve multiple sets and the 126 being involved in some rescue at the park/nature reserve (?) they filmed at for a little while, and carlos will recognize something being part of his case:
- as jen posted, i really do think we could have some parallels to bad call, at least in the sense that tk seeks out gabriel when something’s up with carlos and they go looking for him. i mean—we know gabriel as a texas ranger has power, and maybe this is something the rangers are aware about already. like…gabriel bringing tk along to a taped off crime scene? gabriel reaching for what i assume is a concealed weapon? i think the reassurance carlos tries to give tk starts to fade and he becomes worried about just how personally involved he feels in this case, and seeks out his father-in-law-to-be:
(it’s also compelling that they’re in a similar looking neighbourhood to other stills with carlos on duty. AND, in the still below, carlos doesn’t have on a bullet-proof vest, whereas shots of him with the huge gun/with the paramedics in the neighbourhood/with o’brien have him wearing the vest):
and that’s all i can really wrap my head around right now!!! i do think that the shots of carlos at the firehouse are likely red herrings for us—there’s a good chance it’s just him hearing about the 126 and a splashy rescue they just completed, or checking on them with the incoming storm, and maybe being there when owen arrives with his bike??? but i don’t think anything super serious happens there. maybe. i don’t know 😖 basically i think this a much more serious scene:
whereas this is a much more….looks-serious-but-ends-up-being-cute/dorky scene in the premiere:
- in the same interview where ronen promises “all paths lead to the wedding,” (which i think is ultimately so important: that there are going to be things they’ll go through that might seem tough but it’ll culminate in their families coming together as they choose each other, and their future, forever) both ronen and rafa say “there’s definitely been some storylines where I’m like, ‘what?’” […] “at any moment, there could be a bombshell — and we’re definitely going to have a couple this season” (…) “right off from episode 1, we’re going to find out some things that are funny, but it propels on to several beautiful episodes after the first one, and it’s going to be intense,” […] “whatever you think is going to happen, tim always brings something better than what your imagination can perceive” SOO i think this work storyline for carlos will be something personal and will feel important to him as a person and for his career, it’ll be something they endure together as a couple, something that really makes it clear that like….this is what being first responders and being married will be like. and it’ll all be okay in the end but we will be FEELING IT throughout these episodes
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#answered#marwani-strickland#i don’t know what anything means but this is me just….putting my thoughts in one place#carlos reyes#tarlos#126#911ls#911 lone star#lone star speculation
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Hi there 😊
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but I just had an idea for a particular scene today, so I decided to write about it. I’m taking a break from anything Red, White & Royal Blue related to focus on my current love and hyperfixation: Avatar the Last Airbender. I started watching the series last fall, and I haven’t been able to turn my mind off from it since then. Unsurprisingly, I quickly became obsessed with and fascinated by Zuko and Katara’s dynamic. They’ve become my muse lately. I’m working on a Zutara fanfic as we speak, and I’ll create a post about it once I get it up on AO3.
In the meantime, I wrote this very short scene. It takes place several months after the end of the 100 Year War. Zuko has made great progress as the Fire Lord, and Katara is now an Ambassador for the Southern Water Tribe. They’re in a committed and loving relationship at this point. I used some direct quotes from the Brooklyn 99 episode, “Chasing Amy.” This was initially meant to be a quick, humorous thing, but it turned into something sweeter (I have no regrets, heh). Full disclaimer: If you know anything about the reference to the B-99 scene, you’ll understand that Jake and Amy did have a significant moment of affection on that rooftop, whether it was technically love or not. As for Zuko and Katara, I personally don’t believe they were anywhere close to feeling love or deep affection in the Crystal Catacombs, but I think it’s the first time they truly connected on an emotional level.
Anyway, without further ado…
*****
After a long day of beginning preliminary discussions with the Earth King about the newest trade agreements among the Earth Kingdom, Southern Water Tribe, and the Fire Nation, Ambassador Katara snuck off for some alone time in Ba Sing Se. She managed to convince the Earth King to let her down into the Crystal Catacombs, even though most individuals in the city have been strictly prohibited from ever entering the area again. It’s still in the process of getting repurposed for better, more humane uses. She gave him some flimsy excuse as to why she wants to venture into the cavern. Despite the deep frown he gave her, he apparently didn’t question her motives, and had a couple of guards (thankfully, not the Dai Li) follow her to ensure that she made it there safely. She didn’t need the protection, of course, but she didn’t feel like arguing. She had told the Earth King not to let anyone else know where she was; she promised him that she’d be back to her guest house later.
Now, she finds herself back in the same spot that she was imprisoned with a then-banished Fire Prince.
Just as she runs a hand over one of the crystals, she hears soft footsteps behind her and turns around to find the love of her life.
The Fire Lord is dressed in his formal regalia, but he’s taken his crown off, and his top knot is undone, leaving his shaggy fringe hanging over his bright, golden eyes.
“There you are! Thank Agni,” he sighs in relief, drawing nearer.
A look of surprise flits across her face. “Hey, how did you find me?”
He raises his eyebrow at her. “Well, the Earth King didn’t want to tell me at first, but I figured it out. If I recall correctly, a long time ago, Master Katara and the banished Crown Prince Zuko were trapped under Ba Sing Se, in the Crystal Catacombs.” He gestures to their surroundings, and his lips quirk into a tiny smile. “This is where we were the night you fell in love with me.”
Katara snorts, shaking her head. She crosses her arms and gives him a half-hearted glare. “Zuko,” she warns, with just a bit of an edge to her voice.
“All right, fine. The night that you flirted with me for 20 seconds and I became obsessed with you forever,” he amends sheepishly, his cheeks flushing.
“That’s slightly more accurate.” She steps closer to him, so that there is barely any space between them. She reaches up toward his face, tracing her fingers over his scarred cheek.
“Are you okay?” he murmurs, automatically leaning into her touch.
“Yeah,” she answers softly. “I guess I just wanted to come back to see what it was like, now that things are so different.”
He swallows nervously, though he keeps his eye contact steady. “I understand. I kind of did, too, honestly. I hope…” he pauses, looking like he was choosing his words carefully. She waits patiently for him, and in the next moment, he continues, “I hope we can associate better memories with this place. They’ll never be perfect, of course, because of all the bad things that happened here before. But, maybe when we think of it from now on, it won’t be quite so grim.”
She nods before pulling him into her arms. He hugs her back with everything he has in him, pouring all of his affection and love, and apologies and regret into the gesture.
He lets her go briefly to press a kiss to her forehead. “Do you want to head back up?” he asks quietly, cradling her to his chest with his chin resting on top of her head. “We can probably explore more parts of the city before our next meeting, if you want to.”
She glances up at him and smiles. “Not yet. Let’s just stay a little while longer.”
He agrees and holds her, while the green crystals glow around them.
Yes, she thinks to herself, we’ll have better memories from now on.
#incorrect atla#avatar the last airbender#inspired by brooklyn 99#zutara#zuko x katara#zuko and katara#katara#zuko
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hello! i'm a big fan of your fics, and was wondering if you had any particular inspirations for you dexter/harrison fics, specifically 'carnivore incarnate'. it's so fascinating! also, forever hoping you'll write more for this fandom ❣
anon, this is incredibly flattering, and I really hope you're still around to read this response. I'm sorry it took me a while. I wanted to really be...comprehensive in my thoughts and this ended up pretty rambly. In some ways, this is an excuse for me to write about my process for my very rare pair, which is self-indulgent, but I hope it'll be of interest to some people at least.
Stoker and Raw are, in general, two inspirations for me that I keep in mind while writing Dexter/Harrison fic. Stoker, because the way I write Harrison, it's always a coming of age story vis-a-vis serial killing. For carnivore incarnate, I specifically drew on Raw for some of the visuals and violence. Both of those films are coming of age stories with incestous vibes and murder, and that's the vibe I want for my fic.
As far as carnivore incarnate goes, well, there's the quote the title is from, which is the Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, a short story collection; the quote is specifically from The Company of Wolves in it; but I wasn't really drawing on the short story in particular, I just like the quote a lot and I kept hearing it in my head while writing it.
In terms of the vampire mythology, I made it up xD There's absolutely shades of Being Human UK (blood drinking as addiction, daywalking vampires) and The Lost Boys (half-vampirism) and even a bit of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (not-fully transitioned vampires drinking vampire blood), but I constructed the mythology based on what I needed to make the story work. I needed Dexter to walk in daylight, or else he doesn't work as a Miami blood-spatter analysis, so I decided daylight doesn't have an effect, or it has minimal effect. I needed Dexter to age, so he looks Dad-aged to Harrison, not like Season 1 era Dexter, so I decided blood keeps him young and if he doesn't drink, he'll age at a normal rate. I needed Harrison to be in some half-vampire state where he knows he is not Normal but plausibly think his issues are all psychological, and not that he's a vampire, so I decided he doesn't get his fangs until he makes a kill.
I am writing more for this fandom! The problem is, all my ideas are huge, so it takes forever for me to finish something, and I also get distracted by other projects, because I get easily frustrated if I spend too long on one thing. I sort of can't talk about what I'm currently writing, because it's for an exchange (hopefully) and I need to stay anonymous until I post it, but it should hopefully be done...in a month? I think it needs a month's more of work. I have multiple Dexter/Harrison ideas that I've already started, and I'm writing one Harrison/Brian idea that's about...30k at the moment, but again, slowest writer alive.
I am also really deeply inspired by music; I can write without it, but it always helps. If i'm a low mood, music can help pick me up and put me in a better mood for writing. Certain songs evoke the right feelings or emotions for a scene, or a character, or a specific event, and help me with the imagery or mood. This is the most self-indulgent thing but I make a playlist for most things I write. I don't have a specific carnivore incarnate playlist, but I do have a Dexter/Harrison playlist I made for you gave me my very first gun that I've just been adding to it as I write and turned into a catch-all Dexter/Harrison mix:
you gave me my very first gun
I also have these two other writing mixes that I use for writing Dexter/Harrison, or other Dexter-related or Dexter adjacent content:
monsters are always hungry
no blood for you will ever be enough
I've been listening to that third one a lot while writing. There's a lot of overlap between mixes, and I guess if I had to pick 5 songs that inspire my Dexter/Harrison feelings for writing, I'd go with
patron saint hunter - timber timbre
evil - interpol
alligator blood - nicole dollanganger
glycerine - bush
you want it darker - leonard cohen (thank you, bones and all, for bringing this to my attention)
Thank you for asking! I'm glad you're enjoying the fics. There's such a small audience for this, so I really treasure any level of engagement I get <3
#anonymous#asks#dexter#dexter x harrison#harrison morgan#dexter morgan#born in blood; just like you#my writing#about me#and my writing process i guess
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9 - CYCLE
My psychiatrist has dead animals on the walls of her office.
I never would have pegged her for it. She looks more like June Cleaver than anyone that would mount heads. A bobcat with an arching spine and bristled fur showing all its fake teeth. Or are they fake? A moose with a fake tongue shaped into undulations inside a half-open mouth. Or is it fake? Three deer, or elk maybe, that go from biggest to smallest. I wonder if they’re related.
The family that dies together stays together, I guess.
There’s a tear-off calendar at the edge of the desk with motivational quotes and an Asian motif that shows the date. January thirteenth. There used to be a turtle there, I think. With an accordion and a face too small for its dead glass eyes.
But the turtle is gone and I wonder if it was ever really there to begin with. I keep staring at the empty spot on the desk and I think my psychiatrist can sense something is wrong.
I guess that’s what they pay her for.
“It concerns me,” she begins — or maybe continues, I don’t know — using a tone that tells me we’ve been in this particular session for a while and I’m not putting forth effort toward my own recovery, “that you haven’t said anything. We’re halfway through our session and this is starting to become a recurring theme.”
I stare at the desk and I don’t say anything.
Did I imagine the turtle?
What a fucked-up mental image to conjure if I did.
She leans forward. I don’t look up, I’m not sure if I’m ready for that even if I can’t quite put my finger on why, but I can tell that she moves because her chair creaks in a very specific way. I can picture exactly how she’s sitting right now, forearms flat on the desk, fingers interlaced and the pinkie side of her hands pressed to the desk.
Not for the first time, I wonder who cleans her skin oils off this glass monstrosity.
“You seem to be fixated on my desk. Would you care to tell me why?”
I don’t answer. My heel bounces as my eyes dart around the room.
Bobcat. Moose. Deer. Deer. Deer.
The turtle is still missing.
Days have passed and I’m not sure where the time went. Or it’s been no time at all and it feels like forever. I’m just not sure. I’m not sure where the fucking mariachi reptile went. I’m not sure if the last thing I remember ever actually happened.
“Dear.” I flinch when she calls me that as the three little deer mounted above her head stare down at me with their night black gazes. “I’m going to need you to look me in the eye. I’m worried that you’re backsliding.”
8 - COUNT || 10 - HOTEL
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sofa. I'm trying to think of another question but im not sure. would you list some of your top 10 favorite cartoons of all time
DAMN ANOTHER TOUGHIE.. ive watched a lot of cartoons... i feel like its easy just to list more current ones/cartoons ive very recently watched but im gonna try real hard not to do that. so in no particular order:
adventure time: probably an obvious choice to ppl who know me personally. im pretty sure ive said this before but i quite literally grew up with this show, like i watched the pilot on nicktoons when i was like 9 and freaked out when the first episode of the actual show aired, and ive still regularly and enthusiastically kept up with it ever since, even to this day. i have to be honest and say the inclusions of distant lands and fionna and cake had me worried in a very cynical way about wringing the franchise dry or it succumbing to nostalgia bait but ive been happy to have had those fears handily dispelled every time. it makes me really happy to see that the cast and crew that have stuck with it just seem so genuinely excited to continue to tell new stories in the expanded universe and explore the land of ooo and new characters who live there, i think thats a good way to keep an ongoing series with spinoffs or limited series or what have you to keep from getting stale
ducktales 2017: once again anybody who knows me personally or follows this blog knows why this is on the list. i. fucking. love. ducktales 2017. ive said a million times before that i think its like a perfect encapsulation of what a reboot should be, something that obviously has a lot of love and respect for the original that its rebooting, but isn't afraid to incorporate entirely new ideas or deviate from pre-established "rules" or roles of the previous installments/versions of the characters and story, so on and so forth. i think it blends the family sitcom and action adventure elements really well together, its got a great ensemble of charming characters, i think most of the over-arching storylines it sets up are executed really well and it has a lot of fun one-off stories. its not perfect but its damn near close, in my opinion. also as much as i hate disney the corporate i do still love donald duck hes the best legacy disney character ok american moment over
the secret saturdays: i was a HUGE fan of the show as it was coming out but didnt remember much of it as i got older until i rewatched it, whereupon i found out just how much it fucking holds up, oh my g0d. i genuinely cannot believe its not more popular considering its premise, and again i think the story and character writing really hold up !!!!!! it has fantastic twists, you are immediately endeared not just to the saturday family but a lot of the other supporting characters, its overreaching storyline is executed so so well especially when you consider it was unfortunately gutted and prematurely cancelled by CN. some parts of it may be a little dated but again i think for the years it was developed and coming out there are some elements that were kind of ahead of the curve. if you havent watched the secret saturdays PLEEEASE please do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im fucking begging you. its good
ben 10: i think ben 10 might be my white whale. for important context i was scared to death of the original series as it was actively coming out when i was like, 6 years old, only to get extremely invested in it and the "original universe" franchise in like late middle school/early high school, and then they fucking got my ass AGAIN as a current twenty-something. every time i think im out they fucking pull me right back in. i know its a dumb meat headed action cartoon for little children but the wasted potential in this franchise is nothing short of insane, i wouldnt be saying this if they didnt literally bring up certain threads and ideas in the show only to be like, actually who gives a fuck ! that being said its a premise that sticks with you forever. to quote that one post
justice league unlimited: i dont post much about superhero cartoons on here but make no mistake they were hugely influential to me when i was a kid, my dad was and still is a huge marvel nerd but unfortunately for marvel (and my dad) their cartoon game was (and honestly, still kind of is) just aaaaabsolute trash, except for the ones about the x-men, but thats a ramble for another day. it wont surprise you to know a lot of the writing staff for the justice league and justice league unlimited cartoons would go on to work on the original ben 10 continuity so they have a lot of the same issues, but i would be lying if i didnt say jlu had a huge effect on my little baby brain, arguably maybe more than ben 10. why unlimited and not the original justice league cartoon of the aughts you ask ? well because jlu is hornier, and also booster gold is there
discovery kids favorites: this is technically cheating cuz its 3 cartoons, BUT ! i dont remember them enough on their own to put any one above the other. as a kid my mom hated cartoons (and honestly most tv programming aimed at children) and hated me and my sisters watching them in the room with her, or in general, for more than like 15 minutes a day, unless they were educational, and so i felt extremely clever for exploiting the discovery kids loophole bc they were cartoons made to teach you stuff. the ones i remember the most vividly and fondly were tutenstein, grossology, and growing up creepie, which i feel like honestly. says a lot about me. i should rewatch those sometime.
samurai jack: i will not argue against the fact that genndy tartakovsky is a tremendously talented individual, and a lot of his work has been extremely inspirational to me, that being said, if given the chance, i would drop an anvil on his head. i probably shouldnt say that but i cant express to you how much a lot of his work frustrates me and samurai jack really takes the cake. i cant even talk about season 5 but a lot of stuff in seasons 1-4 has problems that i feel like should be addressed, THAT BEING SAID, in spite of it all, i still fucking love samurai jack. i have fond memories of it from when i was a kid and during the collective resurgence it had as the 5th season was coming out, i cant argue that it doesnt have a lot going for it or pretend that again it isnt responsible for a lot of my own personal artistic inspirations.
class of 3000: I KNOW IVE BEEN POSTING ABOUT THIS A LOT LATELY BUT ITS NOT JUST CUZ OF THAT ! this last rewatch hasnt been my first, ive genuinely brought up this show to a lot of people both online and irl in the desperate hope other people remembered it because it was one of my absolute favorites as a kid and i remember the visceral feeling of how unfair it felt when i found out at like age 9 that it had been cancelled and there would never be another episode of it again. i think it just came into my life at the right place at the same time, i was both getting really into drawing and coming up with little stories myself and so the art and the cast really drew me in, and i had a music teacher at the time who was really into jazz and blues music and seeing that reflected in a cartoon i was watching was so cool :v] and again i just think so much of it holds up. its a gem i dont think should be hidden
spongebob (but only the first four seasons and the movie): im almost 25 so this is supremely unoriginal. its not that i think the newer/newest stuff is all bad its just that everybody gets one thing to be unreasonably blinded by nostalgia about and for me its early spongebob. the userbase on here is aging you all know what im talking about i dont need to explain this pick
the owl house: i really like the owl house for what it is ! its not for everybody, i know people tend to think it kind of skews towards "children's cartoon that is targeted for adults who still watch that stuff" but i think thats kind of cynical and not very generous to the cast and crew, i know the show got pitched around a bit before disney picked up on it but i dont think its fair to exclude the care and thought that went into re-adapting it for a broader and therefore younger audience, and the care that went into it in general ! i like its take on the fantasy setting, both the main and minor cast clearly have a lot of love and thought put into them, genuinely i think luz is maybe one of my favorite cartoon protagonists ever, the messaging it tries to get across i think comes from a personal place and is thus very earnest and sweet, and much like the secret saturdays i think its able to accomplish a lot in the limited time it was given. the whole show just feels like a labor of love to me and i just like the way that comes through !
since this was hard here are some honorable mentions:
batman the brave and the bold: wouldnt be fair to bring up a superhero cartoon and not mention this. i was pretty obsessed with this rendition of batman as a kid, unsurprising since i unironically loved the joel schumacher batman & robin movie and liked to catch the adam west batman re-runs they would play at the wee hours of the morning when i couldnt sleep, i think brave and the bold channels both of those a lot, its deeply stupid and kind of sucks in a lot of areas but thats also kind of part of the charm
3below: so i watched the first season of this before ever watching trollhunters, and while i recognize trollhunters is on a lot of levels the superior tales of arcadia cartoon i just like 3below the best. the stakes of trollhunters can get a little exhausting and i think 3below lets itself get a bit more goofy, plus its about a little group of "fish out of water" aliens !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love fish out of water stories AND aliens, what do you want me to do
fangbone!: real sofa fans remember my fangbone phase. ongoing actually cuz hes still my icon. its one of those cheaply produced flash canadian cartoons but from my perspective i think it was made by people who actually put more effort than was expected of them, which i like, and again its another fish out of water story, and the graphic novel its based on is also very cute
dwampyverse cartoons: phineas and ferb and milo murphy's law mostly ! pnf was very impactful on me as a kid and i loved the first season of mml. i think theyve reached a kind of oversaturation maybe ? that has made me juuust a little bit jaded about them, but i cant pretend like i still dont hold plenty of fondness for em in my heart
unicorn warriors eternal: see the above points about genndy tartakovsky in the samurai jack bulletpoint. the premise is a really cool one and the first season managed to be really good in ways i didnt think it would be but theres still the second season, so im scared. i hope its good. ive got the clown make up ready to go just in case though.
lastman: don't watch lastman. we all have our own cross to bear, alright, and this one's mine. i watched lastman, so you don't even have to worry about it, i mean i haven't finished the second season yet so i will, so don't watch lastman, please. im telling you as your friend, don't watch lastman. we all make mistakes sometimes, like for example, i watched lastman, both in french and english. if you watch lastman than my sacrifices will have been for nothing. don't watch it, and don't look up the comic either. im completely serious.
big city greens: im very picky about sitcoms and sitcom-type faire, but big city greens takes i think a very flat and tbh cynical gimmick and explores it with a lot of heartfelt earnestness, its hard not to be charmed by it. just pure comfort food tv to me.
danger & eggs: fun fact !!!!!! the cartoon that made me decide to make this sideblog !!! i keep meaning to revisit it, i would recommend checking it out if you havent before, both its premise and humor is very idiosyncratic and sweet to me, again its just another show that feels like it came very a place very near and dear to the creator's heart and i just always love to see that. if i had kids of my own which i never will i would definitely show it to them
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I just realized… it’s the 27th!!! Beginning of the month I was so excited for NaNoWriMo, even used Saved the Cat! Writes a Novel to plot it all, panicked a bit, developed some ideas, and then… poof! Life and work have been so busy in general that I didn’t even remember NaNo or my story. Today I was talking to my partner and telling them it’s going to be a hard November, with moving and work and NaNo, and it HIT ME that it’s next week! I really want to participate this year, but I’m just so tired that ideas and creativity just aren’t flowing. How do I prep, with the little time I have, for November??
I mean it's always possible that it's too busy to do nano. The one year I lost nano, it was because I moved cross country with two little kids on like november 4th. I just couldn't.
And it's okay to not be able to do it. I wanted to have an outline done and while I've done a lot of research (this is a series I've been writing forever and a book i've been thinking about for a while) I don't have an outline. ALTHOUGH I did like have an opening image finally come to my head. You know. Start with a hook, some action, not just talking or backstory which is always a danger for me. Too talky.
But like, you can do a brief outline. The outline I used to do when I worked for the ghostwriting company looked like this:
POV.
Settings
Characters
Main Characters
Supporting Characters:
Chapter by Chapter Outline
Act 1
Opening Image/ Hook.
Inciting Incident
End Of The Beginning.
ACT 2
Pinch Point #1
Midpoint
Pinch Point #2
Crisis
ACT 3
Climax
Final Image/Resolution
More or less. You can add the chapters into the acts in their appropriate places.
This is a brief outline, but now for me, these things can get LONG. And I add categories like tropes and timelines family trees and quotes I want to put in various chapters. I also insert photos for settings.
If you want, send me an ask and I can also copy and paste the version I have for a 50kw book with chapter breaks. It's like 52k for cushion but it has the goals for how much each chapter should be. more or less of course. it keeps me on goal so I don't go wandering off in a chapter. Or start just babbling before getting to the point which is more likely for me. I have to force myself to get to the point sometimes.
Anyway, I suggest this, because when I was ghosting, I only ever had two days to write one of these outlines. You can just have a vague outline to keep you moving, so there's still discovery along the way but it definitely keeps you on task. What do I write today? Oh my outline says.... Like I said, I actually make my outlines more detailed now. I have bullet points in my chapters for particular lines I want to include or points i want to make or like major plot events (for romance it's like "when he realizes he loves her" when they "when he tells her he loves her" because honestly I can lose track of stuff like that when writing along and following the flow.
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whos the collector they’re from dd right. i don’t know a lot about dd but i like seeing you post abt it. i like the beasts
^ my best freak friend forever !!!!
yea the collector is from dd ! its a wandering miniboss which has a chance to show up when your inventory is at least 80% full and its fight is based largely around it pulling out the gross heads of dead mercenaries and puppeting them around (u can see them in the first image on the left ! vestal on the far left, man-at-arms on the top, highwayman on the bottom) and upon defeat it has a chance to drop one of three head trinkets which are named after the default name for those mercenaries (junia, barristan, and dismas)
(^ here they are ! they are called "collected [class name]" and get spectral bodies when they attack i just did not want to find clean images of those lol)
i rlly love it bc its design is absolutely incredible (i do not have a gif of it but in its idle animation the skull will occasionally jolt around in the cage) but it also has some goofy elements. despite jumping YOU it has a chance to get surprised at the start of the fight (basically passes its turn) and one of its moves (left image) is called "show collection". its a pretty clear reference to the king in yellow (reoccurring character in a collection of short stories of the same name by robert chambers. the plot of the first four revolves around a play which drives readers into madness) like here is a cute little snippet from it
ive been getting into the Who of the collector recently like with the idea that its got little hideaways tucked away throughout the estate (the chest in hidden rooms will give u its unique loot drop- the puzzling trapezohedron- and Maybe a head trinket if unlocked with a skeleton key) and thinking abt the lines the ancestor has for it specifically. one encounter quote ("the sparkling eyes of youth- twisted and made merciless!") and one defeat quote ("a predator is often blind to its own peril") stand out in particular 2 me. easy answer is that the first line is that its meant 4 the mercenary heads but the idea that the ancestor has some sort of History with the person the collector used 2 be is SO good. another weird guy too into the Strange hanging around the hamlet
^ and here are some little extra images. the most low quality image of the collector minifig from the dd boardgame and a print which was shipped out to kickstarter backers !
#asks#body horror tw#gore tw#thank you for the ask !!! it means the world to me when ppl tell me they like seeing my dd posts seriously <33#wouldve included its damage sprite bc it is cute but images suck to format on text posts >:(#really it is an incredible boss both in gameplay and 4 spinning around in the mind. almost every single fic that features dismas (one of--#--two mercenaries u start every save with. a highwayman named dismas and a crusader named reynauld) has a moment--#--where he gets his own head in a sack and freaks out over it LOL#i really am glad u like mine posts abt this series it is such a fun thing 2 think abt. 100% feel free 2 send asks abt anything in it at--#--all i am spinning every element of it around in my head every hour of the day lol
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hi! :] for the weird questions for writers: 1, 10, 32, 40
Sparrow!! hi!! Ty for the ask, this'll be long XD
Weird Asks
1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?
Alegreya, 12 pt, single spaced! Sometimes, when I feel spicy, 11 pt 1.15 spaced. I've written in this font since middle school so now it's just My Writing Font and I find it easiest to write in. I've been forever ruined for other fonts.
10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?
YES. SO MUCH WRITING HAUNTS ME. MY OWN WRITING HAUNTS ME CONSTANTLY.
When it comes to the writing of others haunting me, that means that it just quietly lives in the back of my head and appears occasionally. A lot of oneliner quotes from books I haven't even read haunt me, and sometimes they sit in the foyer of my brain, demanding to be written about. Some books have quite literally changed the course of my life; Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human comes to mind. I am perpetually haunted by themes and narratives and I wouldn't have it any other way.
My own writing haunts me in a different way. It's more that I'll look at some of my old concepts and ask myself why my current concepts seem so lackluster, why I remember being genuinely excited for most of my old ones but can't bring that same enthusiasm for my current works. I know for a fact that I'm a better writer now--I've reread my old work and winced at some of the dialogue, the pacing, the fight choreo and scene descriptions--but concepts that grab me by the throat these days are few and far between. It's my BSD fic era that haunts me the most.
32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?
Here, I'll give you two.
The opening lines of Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" saved my life. I found it off of tumblr :)
Without getting too personal, it was a revolutionary idea for me that I didn't have to spend my life desperately trying to reach some unattainable ideal of a "good person." Not a "good partner" or a "good friend" or a "good child" or a "good writer." I could just exist and try to be kind.
The other line that haunts me is Asagiri Kafka's writing process, because it's influenced how I simplify my characterizations. I don't remember the exact line, but in the wake of Mori's stage actor's passing, he talked about how he explores characterization and keeps it consistent: he bases a character on three "vectors," or personality traits, and sticks to them. Here's the TL I read, and here's the lines that haunt me in particular.
Ahhhh, Asagiri-sensei. Never change.
40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.
HA okay this is my favorite poem that's about writing. It's extremely weird and I love it a lot. It's "Purity," by Billy Colllins.
My favourite time to write is in the late afternoon,
weekdays, particularly Wednesdays.
This is how I go about it:
I take a fresh pot of tea into my study and close the door.
Then I remove my clothes and leave them in a pile
as if I had melted to death and my legacy consisted of only
a white shirt, a pair of pants and a pot of cold tea.
Then I remove my flesh and hang it over a chair.
I slide it off my bones like a silken garment.
I do this so that what I write will be pure,
completely rinsed of the carnal,
uncontaminated by the preoccupations of the body.
Finally I remove each of my organs and arrange them
on a small table near the window.
I do not want to hear their ancient rhythms
when I am trying to tap out my own drumbeat.
Now I sit down at the desk, ready to begin.
I am entirely pure: nothing but a skeleton at a typewriter.
I should mention that sometimes I leave my penis on.
I find it difficult to ignore the temptation.
Then I am a skeleton with a penis at a typewriter.
In this condition I write extraordinary love poems,
mostly of them exploiting the connection between sex and death.
I am concentration itself: I exist in a universe
where there is nothing but sex, death, and typewriting.
After a spell of this I remove my penis too.
Then I am all skull and bones typing into the afternoon.
Just the absolute essentials, no flounces.
Now I write only about death, most classical of themes,
in language light as the air between my ribs.
Afterward, I reward myself by going for a drive at sunset.
I replace my organs and slip back into my flesh
and clothes. Then I back the car out of the garage
and speed through woods on winding country roads,
passing stone walls, farmhouses, and frozen ponds,
all perfectly arranged like words in a famous sonnet.
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Hey. So. I saved your reblog forever ago about discworld cause i was like sure I'll read this eventually. Your testimony in the tags had me intrigued. But i can't find a good copy anywhere. Like the library system in my area only has the audiobooks. i can't do audiobooks cause i can't force myself to pay attention to things without subtitles. Well i mean i can it's just difficult. I tried the open library but the copies they have are scanned in and difficult to read imo. Where did you read them? And also, what is your recommended order?
Hi!! I unfortunately don’t know that my reading sources are gonna help much, since I mostly actually bought them (and my local library has a decent supply of copies for the ones I didn’t buy)—I keep having family members give me amazon gift cards and I cannot get it through their heads that I don’t like to support that site, so in order to avoid offending them I buy ebooks whilst trying to convince them to try gift cards for local places. When the money’s already been spent and all… I also like the covers, so I have a few of them in paperback on the shelf :) my copy of Guards! Guards! is hosting at least a hundred four-leaf clovers and a wide collection of bookmarks right now
Does your local library have access to Libby or another ebook rental app/service? My experience is that those are separate from audiobook rentals and might not be obvious, but I think most libraries do let you connect, at least where I’m from. I forget what the other ebook rental app my mom uses all the time is called. Discworld is pretty popular, so the books might have wait times, but it’d be a good place to start if you can access it! I’m honestly pretty surprised your library doesn’t have physical copies, because I’ve never been to one that didn’t have at least a few, even if they’re all always checked out. Maybe I just have good local libraries?
As for starting out: when I got into the series, I used this flowchart to figure out where to start out:
But this is, yknow, pretty overwhelming. My personal suggestion would be to start with Guards! Guards!, though. It’s the first appearance of Samuel Vimes, one of the more memorable recurring characters (and one of my favorites), and is a nice entertaining self-contained story that lampoons a solid handful of classic high fantasy tropes. The plot’s basically, “what if the rightful king didn’t show up to solve the Obvious Fantasy Plot (as rightful kings always tend to do), so the underappreciated city guards have to do it instead?.” It’s got a good spread of typical Discworld humor, interesting worldbuilding, and classic Pratchett insight—if you have ever seen that quote floating around tumblr about how poor people spend more money on boots than rich people because they always have to buy new shitty ones, that’s from Guards! Guards!. If you try this one and like it, that flowchart has a list of the other books that are primarily about the Watch characters, and they’re all very good. Pratchett was a great writer when he wrote Guards! Guards, but he gets better over the course of his career. Pretty much all of these can stand alone quite well, but it’s more fun to read them in order, because they often reference each other.
I would also recommend Small Gods, which is one of my absolute favorite Discworld novels. It’s not linked to any particular continuity, but it’s a really really interesting exploration of organized religion and the way gods work in Discworld, and it hits hard.
Monstrous Regiment is another good starter, being pretty effectively stand-alone with only minor links to existing stories. It’s about a girl who pretends to be a boy to join her country’s army, and as is typical with Discworld, it lampoons basically everything about that classic trope in a way that I personally find very satisfying. Also, there are several characters who have very strong trans and/or lesbian subtext, which is a neat thing to find in an older trope-y fantasy book like this! You can read it in a way that dismisses the subtext as just a continuation of the parody, but frankly I think Pratchett 100% intended those characters to be queer. They feel incredibly sincere to me, the characters just don’t use modern language to describe it all. Plus he dabbles with queer stuff in the Watch novels too, if you squint a little.
You could also, if you are brave and don’t care about late-arrival spoilers, try starting with Going Postal. This is one of the last books Pratchett wrote, and references a TON of stuff that is more satisfying and interesting if you’ve read the books that set it all up (plus if you care about spoilers, by its nature it spoils what happens to some of the Watch characters). BUT, that said, it’s one of the best in the series IMO. Its social critique feels incredibly fucking relevant in the era of social media and internet provider monopolies, it’s a very quick zippy read with a fun protagonist, and it’s got a lot of great humor and clever wordplay.
Generally speaking, IMO you can pick up nearly any Discworld novel as your entrance to the series and follow along and enjoy it if you must. The books are very episodic—recurring characters will occasionally have multi-book arcs, Vimes definitely does, but you won’t miss out on the ‘main point’ of any novel if you don’t have that context. Pratchett does a good job of reestablishing whatever context you do need when it comes up, he knows what he’s doing. So don’t feel discouraged if the only one you find looks like the fifteenth in a continuous string! If the summary on the back looks interesting, you’d probably be fine to just dive in most of the time. The only series I can think to compare it to in this sense is Redwall, lmao—you will get more out of the books if you’ve read the older ones that establish characters and plots being referenced, sure, but you can almost always happily read and enjoy any given book without knowing about that stuff if you want to. You might miss a few things or be confused by some worldbuilding, but at least in my personal opinion it’s never that big of a deal.
I haven’t read the wizard books yet, nor all of the witches ones, so no comment there. But I do really love the Watch books, and I think they’re a more interesting introduction to the series than the Death books, which are the other “timeline” I’ve read. (I enjoy Death more as a character when he incidentally pops up in other narratives, rather than starring in his own, but that’s just my preference.) Hogfather’s excellent, though, and seems to stand alone well enough that you could give it a go if it sounds interesting to you. Fake Discworld Santa gets murdered, Death tries to fill in, and the cast explores the meaning of holiday characters and belief. It feels like a Christmas movie kind of story, if you can picture that energy, but in a strange sideways way that’s like half parody while still half incredibly sincere. (And not, like, actually IRL religious or anything.) That’s the one with the quote about believing in “the big lies, like justice” that also tends to circulate tumblr a lot.
I hope this helps!! I wordvomited a lot and I blame the ADHD, but also I love these books a lot, and I hope you can find a way to enjoy them yourself!! :D
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bwahahaha asking more asks!! hehe
writing or drawing???
favourite weird flavour combo (very sorry if I just asked that memroies sift out my head like sand in hands T-T)
what saying or quote do you live by?
lemonade or tea?
what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names?
strange habits?
favourite place to write (ie post it notes, sketchbook, note book, on your laptop etc)!
heheheeeeeeeeeee yay more asks
writing or drawing - OUGH HOW COULD I PICK pretty easily actually, drawing. i like writing too but drawing is ACTUALLY NO I CHANGE MY MIND if i had to forgo one forever, i'd rather keep doing writing than drawing because where drawing fails me i can always write but drawing is a lot harder for me even though i do more of it. so. i pick writing actually hehe
weird flavour combo - idk about combo but i've started eating a lot pf pickles recently. no particular reason i've just been like hmm i think this dish could use a pickle and i havent been wrong so far
saying or quote to live by? - 'you can do what you want forever' is one that's really stuck with me like. hell yeah. i can do what i want forever!!
lemonade or tea - lemonade!! i love lemonade esp. the really lemony stuff. like sprite is kinda bad but Lemonade is good.
kickass outift - big black baggy jeans band tshirt and black leather jacket and white converse. the big jeans and jacket just feel very cool to me n the converse are my tenth doctor shoes which i do very confidently feel like i could physically do anything in.
strange habits - i CANNOT STAND STILL i think it's stimming. neurotypical stimming. just fidgeting?? like i just cannot stand still i end up bouncing around and stuff. not really a habit though hmmmm. OH in like yr 5 me n my friend decided we would miss the bottom step of every staircase and i still do it.
favourite place to write - NOTEBOOK I LOVE NOTEBOOk its A5 & has a yellow cover and blue lined pages and its just a nice repository for everything i think of & doodles and song lyrics and thoughts and just writing down whatever. yay
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“I look to you when I see nothing.”
So I played “Playlist Roulette” and I got “Tell me your romantic, cheesy, lovey dovey, in-love playlist.”
And my playlist has been in the making since Spring of 2011, which is actually the title of the playlist. Well earlier if we’re being technical but we’re not and Spring sounds nice. Some songs I’d heard well before then. Others seemed to capture that indescribable feeling. Others captured that sickening feeling of realizing your feelings and others are not specifically tied to anything. They’re just sweet songs. They’re in no particular order but I’ll share my favorite lyrics.
1. Just A Kiss by Lady A
“I'm caught up in this moment
Caught up in your smile
I've never opened up to anyone
So hard to hold back when I'm holdin' you in my arms”
2. Don’t You by Taylor Swift (this is my favorite song of hers. Yes my #1!)
“Don’t you, don’t you smile at me and ask me how I’ve been.
Don’t you say you’ve missed me if you don’t want me again.”
3. Enchanted by Taylor Swift
Can I quote the entire song?
“This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew”
I’m going to brag right now - I went on a date on October 2011 to THE Speak Now World Tour. My oh my, have times changed. He bought the tickets like two weeks before. I talked his ear off about Taylor and sure enough he surprised me. It is the best date I’ve ever been on. And to hear Enchanted for the first time live? With the guy I really liked but barely knew? It is something I’ll always remember. One of the kindest things anyone has ever done for me. So this song will always be really special to me.
4. Need You Now by Lady A
“And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time”
My friends and I would do karaoke to this song. Choreographed it. There is video of this, unfortunately. Best song to scream the lyrics to and have a shot of whiskey with.
5. State of Grace (Acoustic Version) by Taylor Swift
“And I never saw you coming
and I’ll never be the same
You come around and the armor falls”
6. Sparks by Coldplay
“I’ll always look out for you.”
I heard this song in Wedding Crashers and for some reason I always related to the scene it plays in.
7. About You by The 1975
“Do you think I have forgotten
About you?
There was something 'bout you that now I can't remember
It's the same damn thing that made my heart surrender
And I miss you on a train, I miss you in the morning”
Oh how much do I love this song, apparently so much it was my #1 song this year. Oops. It’s specifically when she starts singing.
8. Stay With You by The Goo Goo Dolls
“And I'll stay with you
The walls will fall before we do
So take my hand now
We'll run forever
I can feel the storm inside you
I'll stay with you”
AND
“Take what you need from me.”
I just think for me, this is the ultimate act of love, in any form. Giving yourself whole to someone in the name of saving them, seeing their pain and choosing to stay and never letting go of that hand.
9. willow by Taylor Swift
“Show me the places where the others left you scars.”
10. Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan
Before I get into it I just have to say it’s a heavy song. It’s painful, almost. I break down each time I listen to it. It’s from the perspective of someone who is trying to help this person stay. Telling them to please find a reason to not go. To fight. To keep going. It’s gut-wrenching. It’s someone begging you to stay. It hits me hard because quite frankly, if I’m being absolutely gun-to-my-head-honest, I don’t know that anyone would beg me to stay. Which you know I won’t get into but it’s why this song hits me so profoundly and why it chokes me up. The idea that someone would beg me to stay. Oooof. I think it paints the portrait of saying I’m with you in the darkness but you are not alone.
“Medicate, meditate, swear your soul to Jesus
Throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason
Don't wanna drive another mile wonderin' if you're breathin'
So, won't you stay, won't you stay, won't you stay with me?”
11. Ours (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift
Admittedly, the original(stolen) version is my favorite. It’s sweet and innocent and always reminds me of the beginning of things. I always think of December 2011. I listen to the first chords and am transported to a time of innocence and uncertainty and this invincibility I felt then.
“And it’s not theirs to speculate if it’s wrong and your
hands are tough but they are where mine belong in
I’ll fight their doubt and give you faith with this
song for you”
12. Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
I’d like to quote the entire damn song. I don’t need to explain this song. It is one of the greatest songs ever made.
“And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
'Cause all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
So and sooner or later, it's over
I just don't wanna miss you tonight”
13. Snow On The Beach (feat Lana Del Rey) by Taylor Swift
“You wanting me. Tonight feels impossible”
“I can’t speak, afraid to jinx it. I don’t even dare to
wish it.”
It’s ethereal. It’s magical. It’s like snow on the beach. There isn’t a song quite like this. And I can’t put into words what I feel when I hear
14. hoax by Taylor Swift
15. You Are In Love by Taylor Swift
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