#throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks

[coldgoldlazarus]

I think part of the reason I'm so affectionate toward Hunters is just how off-the-wall it feels. "Let's just throw up all the crazy, cool ideas we have and see what sticks" kind of energy. Metroid has always had its own particular vibe, sitting in this weird tension between Retrofuture Biological/Eldritch Space Horror and Hype Super Robot Anime. Hunters is still kinda doing some of that, but also kinda not.

Most typical multiplayer first-person shooters at the time, meanwhile, were in their Brown Is Real phase, along with an overabundance of Iraq War Jingoism. Even Halo, much as I do appreciate it for being... less that than the rest, still had undercurrents if you look at the subtext any amount. So Hunters, being a more multiplayer-focused shooter, could easily have gone that direction too if so inclined. But nope, not that either.

I don't know how to really describe it, honestly. The designs, if anything, remind me of like, Ben 10 aliens or Buzz Lightyear or Jetix almost. There is just this very distinctly Early Aughts Saturday Morning Action Cartoon vibe to these characters and their backgrounds that you didn't see anywhere else in games, and just don't see anywhere period now. It's definitely still Metroid, especially with the main stuff with the Alimbics and Gorea, but it's also doing its own thing. And for how different it was from other shooters, Hunters also feels like it couldn't have been made any other time than exactly when it was.

The Prime Trilogy is already responsible for broadening the scope and adding a ton of worldbuilding. And then Hunters, this obscure spinoff on hardware much too limited for its ambition, tosses out all these crazy things in the span of some character bios that could fit on the back of an action figure blister pack, and refuses to elaborate further. And I think that's part of the vibe right there - action figures. They feel like action figures for some weird Jetix cartoon, and I adore that so so much.

#not a reblog #metroid #metroid prime hunters #does anyone else miss Jetix #not just the literal channel/timeslot #but like. the Jetix genre #like I don't watch current cartoons #so I could just be talking out my ass #but it does feel like cartoons have been like #increasingly pigeonholed into being For Kids #not as much for teens #there was She Ra at least #and the Carmen Sandiego reboot to a lesser extent #and other good ones like Owl House and Gravity Falls #but they're not action shows first yanno? #not a knock against them or anything #just there doesn't seem to be anything else doing that either #at least not that I know of #out of touch zillenial that I am #anyway I wonder what Sylux is gonna look like #will they stick close to the original Hunters design #just with better poly count & detail? #or will they get a heavier redesign #to suit modern sensibilities? #guess we'll find out sooner or later

[princeofhags]

I did the thing

#this took me a while trying to DECIDE #oc: iraestra #oc: balam #ot3: he is the tender butcher who showed me the price of flesh is love #and a few of these have weird explanations behind them but balam is horniest most violent sluttiest wants to see insides be their outsides #irae more wants to see their insides to study and put in a little jar on her shelf #but like gort views himself as acting for the good of the gate and the sword coast hence the slightly more selfless leaning here bc this is #about how they view themselves #though in that case irae would probably view herself as very selfless bc she is doing this for her family and revenge in their name #the most baseline explanation of this is that irae is a mykrulite under ketheric but thinks that he is becoming old and ineffectual #and losing himself in his grief and beginning to doubt that he can uphold his end of the dead three pact and there's plans to replace him #and orin finds out about it when she tadpoles balam and iraeis tadpoled as well or somethng. might change that storyline around a little bu #considering irae having a group of myrkulite cultists who answer specifically to her and pay lip service to ketheric or idk sometttthingg #throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks #didn't feel assed trying to draw balam or gort so you get these #also yes that's a leapord gecko not a salamander but we'll ignore that #also unsure how i feel about gort age but i just threw something in there #half the time spent on this was just editing it for 3 people #lamia muses

[kuroshirosb]

Xerneas and Yveltal taking human forms during most of pokemashe xy and interacting with the gang through that. Hmmmmm

#pokemashe #throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks

[keferon]

………..OKAY listen I know this looks and sounds a bit weird but..like…just imagine ummm fantasy and medieval aesthetic but with robots? And like…there’s some kingdoms and wars….and knights, who’s supposed to fight evil.

And robo-demons and robo-dragons and robo-magic. You got the idea.

And in all this - Blurr is a knight who loves messing with questionable magic so one day he summons a demon. I mean. On purpose. To serve him and help him fight and stuff. He’s pretty good at forbidden dark magic and knows all he need to know to control this demon.

The thing he doesn’t know though - the creature he summoned was once a knight too. And much much more knowledgeable in dark magic than him~

Next ->

Tasty art

#transformers #maccadam #shockblurr #blurr #shockwave #tfa shockwave #idw blurr #uhhh #spellbound au #am I going to continue this #idk #I’m throwing everything at the wall and see what sticks #but JUST IMAGINE #I can adaptate the story of Senator Shockwave to this eheheheheheh #oh yeah demons are soooo sooo evil #they are born out of darkest human feelings and stuff #but this one #hmm~ #don’t mind me #I’m having fun unleashing all my ideas

[lgbtlunaverse]

A slightly unhinged case for jin guangyao knowing about the core transfer while WWX was still alive

Ok. SO. In chapter 101, during guangyin temple, Jin Guangyao clearly knows about the golden core transfer. He uses it to bring Jiang Cheng off-kilter and stab him and simultaneously reveals to wwx that jc himself now knows about the golden core transfer.

I've always wondered exactly when he figured it out. The most obvious explanation is that he pieced it together after hearing about Jiang Cheng asking everyone to unsheathe suibian (also? jgy? how the fuck do you know that? You were already going to/at Guanyin temple at this point! Did you just have people listen in on rumours from Yunmeng and report back to you for that?? Did you tell your spy network where you were going? My whole kingdom for a retelling of this arc from the pov of these random jin disciples seeing their sect leader start spiralling. He's diggin up random tombs? Fleeing the country? And threatening the heir's life?? What was random Jin cultivator #6 thinking of this before Nie Mingjue turned him into minced meat?)

BUT.

The first time I read that line I was like "oh so he's known for a WHILE." I mean, the line "I've always found it peculiar [that wwx never took his sword anywhere]" does indicate he's been thinking about this for a while, but it doesn't have to mean he knew back then. So I absolutely can't say with certainty that my instinct was right. But I DO have some decent canon backing for how he might have potentially figured things out as early as before Wei Wuxian's death. Specifically, after the discussion scene that takens place when wei wuxian does his thing with the wens and dissapears.

Cause, see, Wen Chao would definitely have bragged about Wen Zhuliu crushing Jiang Cheng's core to his father. He killed the current sect leader, and then permanently disabled the only heir. He did it! the Jiang are gone! I bet he was very loud about it until, a few weeks later, Jiang Cheng suddenly strolls up to the battlefield, with Zidian on his finger, cultivation very much intact, looking for Wei Wuxian.

That must've been fucking baffling if you were Wen Chao and/or Wen Zhuliu and/or any other cultivator who was there and definitely saw Jiang Cheng's core get crushed. They must have assumed something went wrong, or he faked having his core destroyed, but we've never heard of something like that happening before, and they tortured him for hours! It wasn't a quick batle where Wen Zhuliu must have missed in haste, he would've noticed!

Now, by the time Meng yao arrives, wen zhuliu and wen chao are both long dead, but that kind of thing would at least still be a source of gossip among the other Wen. The only time the core melting hand ever failed!

It might be something that, say... a very careful spy with a perfect memory looking for information... might pick up on in his stay with the Wen, no?

So, Meng Yao has heard the rumour that sect leader Jiang got his core crushed but somehow managed to... still have a core.

Independantly of his, Wei Wuxian is being really weird and refusing to carry his sword. His primary concern there is wwx stirring shit up, he has no reason to believe these things are connected yet.

But then Wei Wuxian runs off with a bunch of Wen, and before he is cut off, Jiang Cheng tells everyone that after the siege on lotus pier, he and wei wuxian were helped by Wen Qing and Wen Ning! Jiang Cheng doesn't get to say how, which is good for jgy in this moment because he's trying to steer the conversation as such that no one gets mad at the Jin sect for all the war crimes, but even if his goal is for everyone else to forget Jiang Cheng said that, he'd remember it.

So... after the moment where jiang cheng, according to rumours that were contained to the wen, lost his core, he was helped by wen ning and wen qing, who is a really good doctor. And, in canon, had written theoretical proposals on core transfers before, just never experimented on them. Were these available for others among the Wen to read? Did jgy read them? We have no way of knowing. But if he did, he remembers them. Either way, he knows her reputation.

And Wei Wuxian disappeared right round that same moment, only to resurface with his demonic cultivation, at which point he never touched his sword again. Not even in the middle of a dangerous war. Not even when he was public enemy number one and it would do wonders for his reputation if he was seen cultivating the traditional path. When doing so would have made not just him but the 50 people he was shielding safer! if Jin guangyao was somehow in his position, he'd immediately do everything he could to counteract the narrative of beign a dangerous madman who'd left the straight path. Wei Wuxian has been in absolutely desperate situations and still refuses to pick up his sword...

The saying doesn't exist yet, but i'm sure someone like jgy, more competent than everyone around him, is intimately familair with at least the sentiment of "never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence" He is helping spread the narrative of Wei Wuxian as a violent madman, sure, but does he believe it? If it makes no sense for wei wuxian, no longer a privileged young master but an outcast, to not pick up his sword again out of arrogancy, the most reliable explanation is that he... can't.

So Jiang Cheng, who got his core melted, got help from Wen Qing, an incredible doctor, after which he coud cultivate just fine but Wei Wuxian, no matter how desperate, never used traditional cultivation ever again...

Hm. interesting!

It's likely no one else in the jianghu outside of the wen even knew Jiang Cheng lost his core to begin with. And Jin Guangyao was never given wwx's excuse of Baoshan Sanren owing him a favor like Jiang Cheng was. He has all the puzzle pieces in front of him and... if anyone as gonna put them together, it'd be him.

And that's my unhinged case for why I believe Jin Guangyao knew Wei Wuxian didn't have a golden core anymore years before anyone else did. He just never told anyone, because why would he?

I think this adds a whole other level to his speech to Jiang Cheng about how everything could've worked out if he'd just trusted Wei Wuxian more and stood by his side. He saw it all play out in real time knowing there was more going on beneath the surface!

Now the really interesting question becomes: When did he figure out Jiang Cheng himself wasn't in on it? Did he piece it together immediately from remembering seeing jiang cheng berate wwx for not carrying a sword, a thing he should've known he couldn't do? Or was it not until later, maybe the fake yunmeng bros fallout, or the REAL fallout when Jiang Yanli died? Or was it still the news of Jiang Cheng going around and asking everyone to unsheathe subian that made him realize that oh my god this stupid bitch had no idea the whole time.

#mdzs #meng yao #jin guangyao #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #mdzs headcanons #mdzs meta #<- tagging both cause it's like... in between #i don't think this is clear-cut canon i'm theorising but i'm also not just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks #i am looking at the wall very carefully to see what places are the stickiest #the concept jgy thinking jc just. let wwx put his core in him and then didn't protect him from the fallout. #would really color their relationship like he would not show it but ohhhh there'd be resentment there! #yeah no sect leader jiang he's NOT letting jin ling go alone on a nighthunt with you he might not get back with all his organs intact! #i do think it's more likely he did at some point realize jc had no idea tho

[m0ssycobblestone]

Thinking about a Trigun au I made a while back that is super self indulgent with a side of projection /pos

I called it the Stale Donuts AU after the donuts I would sometimes get from H-E-B as a kid that, as far as I can remember, were always vaguely stale.

It is at its core, a modern AU–Cryptid Vash–Vashwood story hybrid hodgepodge thing that was also!!! Very much inspired by multiple fics I had either read or was reading at the time!!! And of course full of yummy delicious self indulgence and self projection with bits of me spread throughout like the stale donuts thing!!! Yippee!!!!!!

On to the bits and bops of the au itself in a very rambling way (I'm sorry):

Wolfwood is Mexican American and the main pov of the thing. He lives in an apartment with Livio, who's going to the local college (go girl go, get that higher education ✨). Wolfwood drives a motorcycle because why wouldn't he BUT he ALSO owns a motorcycle place where you can get shit repaired and customized an shit like that (I don't know vehicle things ITS A COOL IDEA I DONT KNOW IF ITS ACCURATE). Meryl also probably works there with him, because in my mind I can't for the life of me separate the thought of Meryl and driving things probably because I watched Stampede first but that's besides the point—we're ignoring that. Livio, Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly were all friends in highschool (maybe they were in a shitty band?? That's a thought for a different day) and stayed friends into their adult lives (they all care about each other so much guys). ALSO this whole thing takes place in Texas, so AT SOME POINT one of them worked at Whataburger and one of them worked at a DQ I don't know WHO WAS WHERE but at LEAST ONE OF THEM I SWEAR.

Anyways

On his way to the motorcycle shop, Wolfwood passes the H-E-B and has to drive over a short bridge. Guess where he finds Vash.

One day he's coming home from work, and as he's crossing over the bridge he suddenly stops because JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING. Illuminated by the motorcycle headlights, a large, feathered...something startles and crawls over the edge with a sound of pain, leaving behind a trail of blood. Yippee!! Vash makes an appearance!! Of course Wolfwood's freaked the fuck out by the bleeding thing under the bridge, yet for some reason he follows it anyway (I haven't really thought of anything except hey that thing looked kinda hurt and Melanie raised him with compassion ig so)(and I love stupid men). He sees that this giant bird is 100% actually kinda injured (imagine getting hit by a car) and manages to calm it down enough to help it out at least a little, but he's also kinda on his way home and can only see with a flashlight, so there's not much he can do. He does toss it a snack he found hidden in his jacket tho. After that whole cryptid nonsense, Wolfwood stops at H-E-B! (YIPPEEE!!) Livio sends him a text. "You should totally get me a donut from the bakery"

"Still can't believe you actually like those" he sends back, still getting a plain glazed for himself. He offhandedly wonders if the bird thing would like donuts.

The next morning, now armed with a first aid kit, he buys a donut and stops at the bridge, hoping the creature from before is still there. Oh hey look, the creature from before! Now that it's daytime, Wolfwood can clearly see that yeah, that thing is definitely hurt. He says hi, and the creature seems to recognize him from the night before, but still won't let him get close enough to fully see anything other than feathers and old scars. Donut time!! The perfect distraction!!! I don't know what kind of injuries Vash has, but whatever it is Wolfwood manages to patch it up at least a little bit while he's munching on the donut. I like to imagine he's at least a little bit good at caring for animals (specifically birds) because Tristamp Wolfwood taking care of Thoma chicks makes me ill (/pos) so uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh chickens. And maybe like, a cockatiel for fun. Miss Melanie had chickens and a cockatiel that the kids would help take care of. It ends up becoming a routine where Wolfwood stops at the bridge to chill with the bird cryptid every morning and evening. Eventually he ends up telling Livio, Meryl and Milly about Vash. He also very quickly figures out that Vash has human level intelligence and isn't just a giant freaky animal and Vash manages to communicate what his name is!!! Yippee!!!

In this Vash has the Big Bird™ cryptid form and a normal human one, but can't switch between them when he's injured (like being hit by a car) so it's really great that this random human guy is helping him out.

The first time Wolfwood sees Vash de-birdified is hilarious because he goes to the bridge like normal and sees feathers everywhere, no giant bird in sight, and a vaguely familiar naked blond man chilling in the middle of it all. As soon as he sees Wolfwood, his face lights up and he starts excitedly waving.

"Wolfwood!"

"Needle Noggin?!"

"Look I'm all better!!"

Plot wise, no fuckin clue where it goes from here, vibe wise fuck it we ball. All I know is hijinx ensues and it's great fun all around YIPPEEEEEEE!!!

I think that's all I got for now, might post more if I think of anything✨✨✨

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #trigun au #mossycobb has an au idea #hhggghhgaghgsasaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #listen #LISTEN #this au has me in a chokehold #just a lil bit #its been knocking around in my head for the past few days ngl #irls if you remember me yelling about this and the thalassaphobia au idea YES YES #please please PLEASE it you sillies think of anything i said about this that i dont remember hand it over please 🙏 #anyways #i love making silly little aus and throwing ideas at the wall like spaghetti to see what sticks #yippee!!!!! #Stale Donuts AU

[ladymariayuri]

fine ill do it myself

#I have no idea how to edit audio by the way. Throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks #Also the bg fighting sounds is from a video of me actually fighting him with my guild talking clipped out HAHAHAHAHA

[commanderjuni]

twirls my hair absentmindedly.... i know i say i'll use this character and that character as my commander but making one is genuinely so hard for me! U_U each time i think i got something figured out i end up going to another character or idea.. its a bit fustrating...

#rambling #gw2 #guild wars 2 #i'd like to have just One Little Guy i can focus on for the story but there are so many possibilities and routes #and sure i can make alternative commanders but like #yaknow. choice paralysis. /lh #i may try just brewing ideas and throwing them at the wall to see what sticks! U_U #maybe i just need to figure out how i'd personally like to go about the story from a literary perspective #because i've only gotten as far as lws4 before the demons got me again /j #idk! lots to think about.... #this sorta is why i've been taking a small break from playing gw2 and playing some ff14 ...

[bugsbenefit]

since filming is out of order (expect usually trying to finish the first few episodes earlier so SFX can start working on them for promo shots) we have no way of making up timelines yet but i want to knowww. they've filmed at least one scene of e4 recently so El could realistically be wearing the fit from the bts coffee video (and roof mleven leaks) there, if she's in the scene ofc (i only know that Joe and Finn weren't on set in the last few days so no idea who is currently filming)

that would also fit my general assumption that them being in the highschool will happen sometimes in the first half of the season (before they need to focus more on the UD and Vecna and Max etc plot to wrap it up), because Mike wears the same outfit in the roof scene as he does at the highschool set and in the Mike's room bts pic

if El actually wears that roof fit in the first half of the season already tho i'm hoping so bad she'll get another fit later on. don't get me wrong i love the onion outfit concept for El but i need them to give her more than two different looks Please, s3 spoilt me i'm afraid. El in funky clothes is so dear to my heart

#anyways this is pure speculation #before anyone runs with it #we have no solid timelines and all i've got is assumptions based on when the actors are where and what they're wearing #realistically that roof talk could also happen as late as E6 for all we know (unlikely but you get the idea) #we're still in the throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks phase #st s5 speculation

[elysianymph]

i watched little women and pride and prejudice back to back and now i really want to make a jegulily au set in victorian england... i just think it would be neat

#jegulily #listen #i have IDEAS #but nothing concrete yet i'm just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks rn #james the rich heir to a big fortune #regulus who just escaped france with his brother and they live at their uncle's place now #lily coming from a lower middle class family and trying to make a name for herself without getting married #throw a fancy ball and get them all in attendance and i think there's a nice plot somewhere in there #i just need to figure it out

[snarkspawn]

Hello, I stumbled across your blog, and I love your art style. Have you made any tutorials or are there any you recommend? Thank you and happy new year. :)

Heyyy, thank you! And happy new year to you as well :D

I have a few tutorials/answered some of questions about my process and stuff like that, you can find all of those here. Other than that I don't really have any recommendations, but if you have any other specific questions I'm always happy to answer them

#... if I can. #more often than not I have no idea what I'm doing either lmao sorry #it's just a lot of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks #(which to be fair is part of the fun for me) #replies #actualbampot #also. I know some of those asks are a couple of years old but I think most of the advice still holds up #even if my art has evolved and improved a lot since then lol

[ninemelodies]

sharing a wild dw idea

spoilers for church on ruby road (ig. better to be safe than sorry)

would be wild if ruby was either rose tyler’s daughter or jenny’s daughter. it would continue the theme of family and growth and would be a parallel to donna’s daughter

#kinda #i’m just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it sticks i really have no idea what is gonna happen #max speaks

[tanadrin]

i think it’s funny that spending my undergraduate years faffing about in the weeds of language and literature and critical theory in the end made me less prone to treat anthropocentric abstractions as fundamental properties of the universe, and at least for some STEM types their education has done the reverse. though i can see why if you are very heavy into certain kinds of mathematics that might be attractive--the realm of mathematical abstractions is very sophisticated and very rigorous in a way many other abstractions are not (and if jadagul is to be believed, mathematics should be considered one of the humanities anyway)

#then again tegmark is a cosmologist #and some cosmologists have some really oddball ideas #cosmology seems to be physics for stoners (affectionate) #as far as throwing a bunch of wacky and possibly untestable ideas at a wall #and seeing what sticks

[24-guy]

Okay. Okay so.

Hear me out.

We know that Richie has that bit on the side sticked up for anime reasons.

I raise you.

When he grows up to have...

The attractive anime man hair that's short but still long enough to do the half-up-half-down style.

#j is talking again #just throwing ideas to the wall here #though thats not the saying #its throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks

[strawberry-tofu]

I would watch the crap out of an anime where it starts out like your generic fantasy isekai except that the protag is not interested at all in the chosen one or hero bs but instead works really hard to introduce like indoor plumbing to the medieval town he spawns in where everyone just throws their shit out of a window

#isekai #anime #throwing stuff to the wall to see what sticks #ideas #he enlists his would-be harem to help dig a rudimentary sewer system

[invis-here]

okay, hear me out, I know this isn't horny but this account is the one that goes with my ao3, so bare with me

False was scared of Cub's fireworks shop, right? Of the rockets that go off every time a chest is opened. what if...

so remember how False, in fanfic, is often given a gladiator/arena-fighter/just general fighter background? She doesn't know fireworks for their beauty, she knows them as weapons, or maybe as the signal to start a fight to the death!

And maybe she shares her past with a certain piglin warrior that took a different consequence from being confronted with fireworks as a weapon. She is scared of them, and he made them part of his arsenal.

#invis_talk #I'm referring to Techno btw if that wasn't clear since he also has history with fireworks in dsmp canon #also just throwing fic ideas/premises at the wall to see what sticks