#to a more comprehensive version. So.

[orcelito]

in the Wolfwood side story of trimax volume 8 chapter 6, we see this visual metaphor:

[ID: Three pages from Trigun Maximum. The first pages shows Wolfwood staring up at a flying bird and carving it in wood. He thinks to himself, "Us humans... We look up at them... and feel longin'. But they may look down at us... and envy how we have earth and shade to escape the pain of endlessly flappin' yer wings to survive." The second page shows a new scene where he is talking to Maylene. She looks up at a bird in the sky and tells him, "I... used to be an orphan. I've always depended on others for survival. Mr. Priest... How does the world look when you are able to choose your own path?" As she talks, Wolfwood is shown with a resigned look to his eyes. In the third page, Wolfwood replies, "Knock it off. Look over there." The bird lands, and we see that its feathers are mangled. Wolfwood continues, "That bird... It's in terrible shape. If you could look into its heart, you'd know all it wants is a safe place to sleep, a few scraps of food, and a life of peace. You'd know just how much it would envy yer luxurious cage." End ID]

(all pages from @trigun-manga-overhaul)

even at the time of first reading this, I wondered if it was a metaphor for Vash. at this point in the story, it's just after Wolfwood broke Vash out of the ark. we've seen the horrible truths of Vash's life over and over again... & the fact that at the end of the day, he just wants to live a quiet life of peace.

this suspicion turned into certainty with these pages in volume 10 chapter 4

[ID: Four pages of Trigun Maximum. The first is a single panel of Vash passing by a bloodied Wolfwood with a hand on his shoulder, telling him, "Crush him." In the second page, Vash walks off, leaving Wolfwood to his fight. Wolfwood preps his gun and says to himself, "I'm sorry... Needle-Noggin..." The third page is a wide shot of the sky, followed by a flying bird just like the ones seen in the prior pages. The fourth page is a shot of Vash staring up at the bird. His face is partially obscured in darkness with his eyes out of shot, but he is not smiling and his posture is hunched. The final panel is blank white. End ID]

... yeah. with the same imagery of the bird, we see Vash looking up at it with a hard to read expression. partially obscured, so we don't even see his eyes, but in his posture and the lack of a smile... you can see his pain. he's only just learned that Wolfwood is dying, and he wants so badly to be able to save him... but he can't. he's forced to accept that this is Wolfwood's fight, so he leaves him to it even as it agonizes him.

looking up at the bird that's forced to keep flying to survive... Vash is that bird. for the first time since he was a child, he allowed himself to grow truly close to someone. he found himself wanting to share a future with him, to share their Tomorrows...

[ID: A panel progression of Vash listening to Wolfwood fight. His face is partially obscured until it's revealed that he is weeping in agony. End ID]

but it wasn't meant to be. Vash isn't a being that can settle down like that.

he's cursed to forever fly.

#speculation nation #trigun #vashwood #trigun meta #fanny reads trigun #fanny's trigun analysis #trigun spoilers/ #trimax spoilers/ #uhm. sorry #if it's any consolation this post brought me Great Pain to write too #i've had this in mind for a while. since when i first read volume 10 actually. but i decided to remake the post #to a more comprehensive version. So. #Vash Is That Bird. i need to lie down now lmao

[ectonurites]

ZACH TAYLOR x MODERN BASEBALL on JOSH TEMPLETON and ALLISON BANNISTER

[ BROKEN CASH MACHINE | ROCK BOTTOM | THE OLD GOSPEL CHOIR | THE WEEKEND | ALPHA KAPPA FALL OF TROY THE MOVIE PART DEUX (2 DISC DIRECTOR'S CUT) | EVERYDAY | HOURS OUTSIDE IN THE SNOW | NOTES | I THINK YOU WERE IN MY PROFILE PICTURE ONCE | HOME | REVENGE OF THE NAMELESS RANGER | INTERSECTION ]

#super dark times #sdt #zach taylor #josh templeton #allison bannister #sam edits #the number of songs and gifs don't line up bc i used multiple bits of a few of the songs (bcm rock bottom & revenge of the nameless ranger) #anyways was having a 'listen to mobo's dicsography' day + some lines stood out... idk if this is comprehensible to anyone else but oh well #zach is simply sooo mobo coded To Me </3 originally i was gonna do 'zach & josh' and 'zach & allison' as separate sets but i kinda liked #the combo... it's all so twisted up together man!!!! everything happening with josh/the daryl situation being this Thing that blocks #zach from feeling able to pursue her and all (as most clearly laid out during the sex dream where the sword & josh loom over them lol) #oh and if its unclear: pink = zach (bc his cast <3) orange = josh (bc his coat) yellow = allison (bc her sunflower shirt & her daisy shirt) #(even tho those aren't pictured here. those are the costuming things tht stick with me for her) #also sorry this is LONG but i simply have. lots of thoughts. believe it or not this is the pared down version i originally had even MORE

[sunnidear]

oh lord people cannot write blade they can't they have to be allergic to it or SOMETHING

#GAWWDDDD THE POST ABOUT FANDOMS JUST RECYCLING TROPES REGARDLESS IF THEY FIT THE CHARACTER ARE TRUE WHAT IS THISSS #how are people making him boring...either gross as fuck or just fucking BORING #now. i haven't gotten to him in the story story but going off of his voicelines and his story in the character screen...cmon now #the lack of reading comprehension im so sorry this is so saddd how are we fumbling this badly #people are NOT familiar with the fact that there is more than one way to love... there's just this sanitized version of the idea of love #and its soooo sick!!! to write is to actually use your imagination and stuff yk??? what are we doing rnnn #oughOUGH ITS SO SAD HE SEEMS LIKE SUCH AN INTERESTING CHARACTER AND YOURE GIVING ME THE SAME 2 OHHH DARK AND NEEDLESSLY EDGY TROPES 😭⁉️ #absolutely insaneeeee this is such an egregious and malicious L 😞😞😞 #☆.sunni squeaks

[synthaphone]

The Pokemon HOME app limiting random features and information to either the mobile or console versions is SO clunky and annoying.

My goal: to check which of my favorite Pokemon and shinies stored in HOME don't have the Paldea Champion Ribbon yet, so I can bring those into Scarlet and get it for them. But! You can only view what ribbons a Pokemon has on the mobile version of the software! And you can't move Pokemon to your switch games from mobile!!! So you have to:

quit out of the console app, if you opened it already because you thought this would be a relatively simple task

open the app on mobile

manually document which Pokemon don't have the ribbon- like, on a piece of paper or something

close the mobile app (you can't have both versions of the app open simultaneously)

open the app on console

move them from HOME into Scarlet, referring to aforementioned list

Now you might say "There is a custom tag feature in Pokemon HOME! You could apply a tag to the Pokemon you plan to move instead of making a physical note on a piece of paper!" But unfortunately, the only aspect of the tag you can see on the console version is the color- the name of the tag isn't visible. and I'm already using every color of tag available

(also: you can only make and apply tags on mobile. other mobile exclusive things: wonder trade and gts, viewing 90% of achievements, viewing models, switching between a pokemon's stats for different games it can go in without switching what game you're planning on moving things between)

#pokemon home #pokemon #i need a text post tag #i have more complaints too. i should make a comprehensive list. just for me #like: shinies don't have any symbol marking them as such on the GTS. so for the really subtle shinies? you just have to look REAL careful #whenever you import pokemon from Bank they automatically get tagged with a new tag with the name of the Box that they were imported from #which is maybe useful to somebody but its just super annoying for me to have to keep deleting the 'Kanto 1' tag from all of my Bank imports #the lighting in the model viewer is really fucking bad and makes the pokemon look flat and undefined #overlapping areas that are the same color blend together visually #for that matter; the HOME renders are really fucking ugly. compare them to the sugi art they're posed after sometime. terrakion. its WILD #the lag when moving between pages of boxes on the console version when you have a lot of pokemon stored in HOME is MISERABLE #the mobile app and console app have different sets of achievements that are only viewable on their respective apps???? its weird #can't reorder pokemon's box positions on mobile; you just get a big list that you can sort different ways #this doesn't affect their box placement at all #the tags seem really useful at first but if you're moving pokemon between HOME and games a lot? #you have to reapply the tags to those pokemon every time you put them back in HOME because that data is lost once they leave the app #they never fixed the Spinda problem with BDSP; they just made it so that you can't bring Spinda in or out of those games

[heavy-lobster]

Hate it when I see people say shit like "the Violet paradox mons are so stupid and lame, they're all just robots!" like uhmmmmm yea they are and it OWNS ok. blasts you with my beam attack

#the killer robot aesthetic fucks severely and is MUCH scarier #and imo it works a lot better with the plot tbh #iron jugulis and iron thorns are PEAK #iron valiant and iron moth are RAD #iron bundle is SILLAY #iron hands #i ended that tag to early but i forgot what i was going to say there anyways whoopsies #anyways i feel like its fits the unnatural horrors beyond human comprehension vibe a lot better #“theyre all just robots” well all the scarlet exclusives are just dinosaurs. fucker #well guess what my son boy Henry is a robot AND a dinosaur piss your pants about it #the fact that theyre all robots MAKES it scary like. why! how far in the future is this! at what point will every pokemon become a robot! #how terrifying is this future that they had to become robots in order to survive. did they even BECOME anything or #did the people of the future create them to look like present day pokemon that are now extinct. #much more intriguing to me personally than. here is a woolly mammoth. its descendants do not look like this anymore bc idk evolution or wtv #not saying i dont like the ancient pkmn just saying the people who dislike the future ones are WRONG theyre sick as hell ok #anyways more importantly for each version what paradox mon do you think fucked Arven and Mabosstiff up so bad like #ive been thinking about this a LOT #cant be one of the ones you encounter with him present or he probably wouldve brought it up #my bet for Violet is iron valiant since i feel like thats the scariest #i have no thoughts on scarlet but i guess the equivalent #(based on pokedex placement) #would be roaring moon #idk tho i havent thought about it much #either way. fucking terrifying #pokemon spoilers #lobster.txt

[praxeus-13]

Hi, what Do you think of genderfluid/genderqueer!Thirteen? Do you have headcanons?

I HAVE SO MANY GENDER HEADCANONS ANON!!!

Firstly, a lot of my thoughts about 13’s gender have been influenced by @picnokinesis and their AUs!! They have lots of posts about 13 and gender so I would deffo recommend checking their posts out!!

Okay so I don’t see 13 as genderfluid, like as a genderfluid person myself, I definitely relate a lot more to Dh!Master and his expression of gender. Because see, 13 just doesn’t care about gender! I know a lot of people get the genderfluid 13 headcanon from that line in War of The Sontarans where she says “it’s fluid”, but I saw that line as her telling Mary Seacole that the term “Doctor” can be used for everyone and in many different ways (ie, not just for medical professionals). And possibly also as a nod to her being able to regenerate?

However, as I said, 13 just doesn’t seem to care about gender. I just don’t think it’s something she thinks about in her day to day life. And as far as I can remember (I rly need to do a rewatch) she doesn’t refer to herself as a woman unless someone else does it first. Then her response always seems to be along the lines of “ah yes, these people see me as a woman and I must reaffirm their belief in order to not arose suspicion” (which, relatable). The only times when she really does care about people referring to her as a woman is when they do it in a derogatory way (Spyfall part 1 & The Witchfinders come to mind). And then, we get a few moments where she refers to herself as a man, but I think that’s more out of habit rather than actually seeing herself as a man?

Therefore I tend to see her as agender because, as above, she just doesn’t seem to care about her gender or her gender presentation until someone wants to use it against her. She just doesn’t seem to have an attachment to gender tbh. Especially when you look at how she went to buy ‘women’s clothes’ but just found a very androgynous outfit instead. Also, while she is only referred to with she/her pronouns in the show, I think she’d be perfectly fine with people using whatever pronouns they want for her! I’m not even sure she’d notice if someone was using varied pronouns for her (especially if they used he/him, because she’s had centuries of being referred to with them).

HOWEVER! I think 13, if genuinely asked by someone, would describe herself as genderqueer. Mainly because genderqueer is used as an umbrella term by some people, as it’s not very specific and leaves room for just not knowing every aspect of your gender identity. As well, while we as a fandom do often separate The Doctor’s different regenerations, 13 does still have her previous versions’ memories (well, back to 1 at least) and would probably be at least a little bit influenced by her past feelings on gender.

So uhh TLDR: I headcanon 13 specifically as agender, but believe she would refer to herself as genderqueer! Thank you so much for this ask anon it was very fun to answer!!!!

#I have written this twice #because Tumblr deleted it the first time #and I cried a little in between cause I had written A LOT #but this second version is probably more comprehensive #someone ask me about my Dh!Master headcanons now plsssss #or Yaz because I have thoughts about Yaz’s gender too 👀 #I love questions like this so so much #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #praxeus rambles

[hydrachea]

Andjwjsb hey what r ur thoughts on the new 4.6 trailer if you’ve seen it ? 👀 👀 👀👀

I watched the stream, and I'm cautiously very optimistic about Arlecchino now! She didn't get to do much in the Fontaine main quest and it was very disappointing, but what the trailer showed of her story quest looks super interesting. God knows I've been waiting for canon to finally spell out "By the way, the House of the Hearth isn't exactly a happy normal orphanage and Father uses the children much more than she loves them out of the goodness of her heart" for forever now. Finally, I'm about to see why Tartaglia and Scara's lines about her are like that! It's been long overdue!

Cyno's second story quest I'm not as hyped about, but I'm still very interested in. He's got a lot of lore he's sitting on and it finally looks like we're peeking into it. Plus the return of the Sumeru gang! Maybe Kaveh will even have a rerun, a whole year after his release... No, let's not be too optimistic.

#anon #ask #answer #may this version finally fix the fandom's alarming lack of reading comprehension #how did so many people even come to the conclusion that arlecchino is just a good father who loves her children very much #and totally isn't making them dependent on her through affection and the concept of family and then using them #i guess i shouldn't be surprised and yet i always am #but yeah! more fatui! finally arlecchino being as scary as the others' lines about her made me hope she'd be! even some tartaglia a little! #glad he's doing good #and then more desert lore and the return of our little gang #everyone's like 4ggravate this 4ggravate that and completely ignoring collei also being there #this is 5pread if anything don't exclude her like that #anyway yeah hyped #cautiously hyped because there's always the scary possibility of mihoyo pulling a raiden #and making playable arlecchino much more tame and watered down #so i'm waiting for her lines to leak #and once they do i can either properly explode or deflate #what about you anon #did you enjoy the trailer? #genshin

[muninnhuginn]

I know it's usually played for laughs how Anya can't reveal her powers or Loid and Yor will abandon her in increasingly ridiculous ways, but like, what does it say that her fear of abandonment is so deep that even those she thinks of as her parents (and she absolutely does) she believes would leave her if they found out? She thinks their love is conditional on her being 'normal' (and to a lesser extent, to things like not messing up at school) despite all the evidence that she could and has 'failed' and Loid and Yor's main response was to try and help her not kick her out. Admittedly, some of that "help" was illegal but they're just particularly keen guardians

#I know I'm probably not saying anything original here but like #the previous families that tried to take her in likely contributed to her abandonment issues way more than the scientists #(not to underplay the scientists because they've definitely caused plenty of other issues for her but) #spy x family #anya forger #I feel like my wording is not super comprehensible here but I could figure it out if I reread it when less sleep deprived so it's a win #wow rip I typod the version of this that got reblogged y

[tasmanianstripes]

if you dont care about getting the characterization right why not just make your own characters? the point of liking a character is that you like the character? if you like them shouldnt you want to TRY and get their personality right? cause why do you like them otherwise, what makes them them other than their literal personality

Have you considered that maybe some people just don't want to make an OC? Making an entire world that is still unique yet has all the same elements of the original story that you enjoy is a lot of work, it can be rewarding and enjoyable but it's still a lot of work and you don't always end up with a product that you are happy with or that you like as much as the original story. Making an OC to insert into the preexisting story or replace that specific character is also fun but it isn't for everyone either. I did it before when I realised that a character in my longrunning AU just ended up being my own oc over time after I've been slowly changing and evolving their story over the course of 10 years, and I'm happy with it, but it's not for everyone.

I did simplify my stance on it for the sake of making a post that isn't 2 miles long, but getting the characterisation right isn't completely meaningless to me. I want to get a canon character's personality as close as I can if that's my goal, but it can be at times very hard for me and it takes a long time of writing them over and over again for me to nail it at times, but I'm also not too pressed when people don't have the same interpretation as me nor if they want to get the canon character's personality right. Again, it can be a lot of work and it's not for everyone. I do not care if a character has a different personality than their canon version as long as it's consistent and there's a good reason for it (either in-story or meta reason, I dislike characterisations that aim to change a character just to serve another character's story or to make other characters look better by comparison)

Sometimes, making Alternative Universes where a character's personality is different is fun. A butterfly effect, where one difference in their past cascades and fundamentally changes them as a person. Maybe giving them a different personality would serve the story you're trying to tell more. What if this happens to them, how would they change as a person? What if they were more y than x, how would it affect the story they're in and their relationships with other characters? How would it affect the other characters and their perception of them? If these events happen, if their life was completely different, if they were brought up differently, what kind of person would they be? It's just fun, and at the end of the day I think that's what's most important in fandom spaces. You should just have fun.

And yeah, that does mean that sometimes you will end up with a character that's more of an OC than a canon character, but what's so wrong with that? I mean, yeah, it happened, too bad...who does it hurt? The original author will probably never see it anyway and doesn't care, it doesn't affect you either, if you're bothered by it you can just move on.

And sometimes maybe they just read a character and interpreted it differently than you. Maybe they just can't get it right. Still, what's wrong with that?

I think having fights over such meaningless things is a bit silly. They're not hurting anyone, they're just having harmless fun, and if it bothers you so much why not just ignore it and focus on the things you enjoy and find fun? If they're not going out of their way to insist that their interpretation is the only correct one, if they're not going out of their way to be assholes about it, then what is the problem with that?

Some people treat canon like playdough or see it like an Unity asset store where they can build their own stories out of preexisting characters and world they enjoy, and sometimes that involves changing a character. You might see it differently and find enjoyment in different things, and that's fine! You don't need to even like how other people choose to have their fun. But neither is a better or worse way to enjoy the source material.

#asks #you're entitled to your opinion though :] I know it can be a pet peeve for a lot of people and I respect that even if I don't understand it #just like you don't have to understand my more lax approach to canon and characterisation #i hope it all made sense btw sometimes i get a bit rambly #honestly my reading comprehension also just sucks at times thanks to my learning disability so it takes me a lot of effort to #get characters just right. so i might just bave a different approach thanks to this experience #amd yeah sometimes I do end up liking my interpretation of a character more. In that case I'd be clear about it. It's not like I'm #pretending that my version and the canon version are the exact same. I might like the canon version and also like my version. they're not #mutually exclusive. i can like both :]

[unproduciblesmackdown]

in the power of Noticing Things The Xth Time Around the instrumentals-imitative "doot. doot. doot. dooWAH" vocals that kick in during the second verse of centerfold? superlative

#i've heard the song a fair number of times & always enjoyed it a lot. high energy & fun; a little goofy in great ways in subj & sonic style #it is extremely correct to work w/imitative vocalizations in your music no matter what. put in more. More #(and the Vocal [doot] being on the backbeat as opposed to the Instrumental [doot]....superlative!] #and did i Mention that [verse into chorus] synth line...the drumming underneath it... #even the faux Live Performance psychout ending. a song about a Specific Ass Situation thank fucking god. deserved to chart like that. #also anytime i say Dad Rock i use it fairly neutrally lol. i'm a fan plenty of songs that would qualify; to be more specific #lmao love the instances of [no matter how many ties i hear it i cannot distinguish this sequence into phonemes in a way that corresponds to #words (or words that fit into the context in any comprehensible way)] i.e. went ''okay time to look up lyrics b/c i will always be going: #flowers What about her dress??'' & the line is apparently ''while i was thinking about her dress'' lol love when the revelations of #mishearing are funny like Ah right....and claims it's ''slipped me notes'' rather than ''slipping notes'' but doesn't change too much #being like [i cannot decipher these lyrics] is generally a more fun casual version of ''especial tendency to struggle w/audio processing'' #versus like not knowing what tf someone's said in this part in a movie or smthing no matter how many times you hear it #or of course the most A Problem: not being able to parse what's being Spoken in some in-person situation #might be an occasion you can't get anything repeated; might be an occasion where for some reason/s a repeat doesn't even help.... #also forever the Idiosyncratic Origin Stories behind [genuine friendships formed when you are autistic] e.g. like yeah one of my good #elementary school friendships? was one where we did parallel play; maybe never or very rarely actually Spoke; our Distracting Each Other #was punished with more of a singular intensity than i ever saw Anyone's ''distracting each other'' interactions.... #took years of being at the same job (part time; so not like monday thru friday 9 to 5 Always being there at the same time anyways) #for me & a coworker to start talking & become work friends; then regular friends #their name was angel; so the menace i became when we had such a dad rock station on & these alignments occurred #though i would be engaging in singing along to things in general lol so

[victorluvsalice]

Valice Calendar In Honor Of 15 Years

Yeah, you read the title right -- as of 2023, I will have been shipping Victor Van Dort from Corpse Bride with Alice Liddell from American McGee’s Alice and Alice: Madness Returns for FIFTEEN YEARS. I actually went back into my old LiveJournal/Dreamwidth entries some time ago to see if I could pinpoint when the hell I actually started shipping them -- turns out it was June 22nd, 2008 when I first mentioned having shipping thoughts about them (in response to a TV Tropes binge apparently). Granted, it was in the context of “what the fuck, me, you know they’d be a terrible pairing,” but -- yeah. We see how long that attitude lasted. XD And that means that next June, it’ll be 15 years! Holy hell.

So! Given that 15 years is a bit of a milestone, I thought I’d set up a “Valice Calendar” for the next year so I know which dates I should try and acknowledge as Important Valice Dates. :) Some of these should already be familiar to my regular followers, as I’m already in the habit of doing something special for them, while the rest are from that deep dive into my journaling past:

January 27th -- the date that I posted my first Valice fic, “Suffocating,” on my LiveJournal! Which was obviously in 2009, not 2008, but still a momentous occasion! Also, conveniently, the birth date of Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll.

February 14th -- Valicetine Day, obviously :)

May 4th -- the historical Alice Liddell’s birthday, and thus my Alice’s birthday!

June 9th -- Johnny Depp’s birthday, and as I have a habit of using actor birthdays if a canonical one is not given for a character, thus my Victor’s birthday! (Also, amusingly, the birth date of Michael J. Fox, and thus also my take on Marty McFly, which comes up in “Secundus.”)

June 14th -- release date of Alice: Madness Returns in North America! (According to Wikipedia, anyway, but I can confirm because I got my copy from GameStop the very next day.)

June 22nd -- as stated above, the first time I mentioned thinking about shipping Victor/Alice back in 2008! Even if I thought at the time it was also a pure crackship. XD

JULY 7TH -- Victor and Alice’s wedding anniversary! Which I picked because a) I liked the idea of a summer wedding and b) it’s easy to remember. *facepalm*

September 10th -- first mention in 2008 of me associating songs with the ship (I believe it was “Love Me Dead”); the entry indicated I’d already started associating any vaguely romantic songs with them, but this was the first time I mentioned a specific one, so we’re going with this.

September 23rd -- release date of Corpse Bride in the United States! (According to Wikipedia again, but I’m inclined to believe them.)

October 6th -- Mad Hatter Day (because of the date -- 10/6 like on his hat) and thus just a general Alice day of mention. (I’ve also seen it stated as a release date for the first game, but I’ve never been able to fully confirm that.)

October 31st -- Halloween! Not a specific Valice date, but this is the holiday that sees the biggest spike in interest in the two fandoms, sooo. . .

November 27th -- first mention of me starting to seriously think about fanfic for Valice! Seems weirdly appropriate I’d publish the first one exactly two months later. :p

December 6th -- release date of American McGee’s Alice in North America! (Again, according to Wikipedia -- as stated above, I’ve also seen October 6th cited, and November 22nd on at least one site, so -- I’m just going with this!)

December 8th -- the first time I had one of my RP Alices (”save_us_alice,” though she didn’t have her journal at the time) call one of my RP Victors (”deadgirlsliekme” -- the proper spelling had been taken!) her “boyfriend.” While I’d obviously started genuinely shipping them before that, this is the first date that I saw anything about the pairing being Official, so again, we’re going with this.

December 27th -- my birthday, which -- as the person who came up with this ship -- I feel deserves to be recognized. :p

So yeah, that’s kind of the official Valice Calendar! :D Except -- well. You guys know that a certain OT3 has become very popular around here as well, huh? So yeah, because I know me, here’s also a handful of Valicer dates --

January 8th -- the actual creation of Smiler Always, the sim that informed the look of all my human/humanoid Smilers for my AUs, and their insertion into the Chill Save.

May 31st -- the actual opening date of The Smiler roller coaster! (It was supposed to open earlier, but delays in the final construction meant that it missed the first two dates.) Meaning this is the birthday of my own Smiler!

December 27th -- yes, doubling up with my birthday, because -- well. December 26th of 2021, I watched “One Night In - Alton Towers” with my parents, which led to us looking up a bunch of the rides on YouTube so we could see what they were like. Which included one called “The Smiler,” which I found myself very intrigued by the next day. . .meaning you can trace my Smiler obsession and the eventual creation of the OT3 to me binging Smiler videos and lore posts on my birthday last year.

December 31st -- the date four days later where I realized that the “private hypnokinky AU with Victor and Alice using the coaster’s theming for private fun times” had somehow become “I have made a human Smiler, a vampire Smiler, and a robot-run-by-an-eldritch-abomination Smiler for three different AUs VICTOR WHY DO YOU WANT TO FUCK A ROLLER COASTER” XD AKA the more EXPLICIT creation date of the OT3.

Okay, that should cover just about everything. XD Next year, we celebrate Valice (and Valicer) in style! :)

#valice #valicer #valice calendar #shipping #otp #ot3 #yes it's been freaking 15 years #I myself am shocked #what is the passage of time #also I'd link to that original post #but it's honestly not exactly comprehensible on its own #I used to do a thing where I'd have all the different versions of characters I'd made up #(at the time primarily different Doc Browns) #commenting on my activities and arguing with me and stuff like that in my entries #so yeah if you didn't know all the acronyms and whatnot my old entries can be - weird #plus some of these things were hard to track down because I used to do like one-sentence entries a lot more often #like what the hell #when did I go from that to NOVELS #I guess I've gotten chattier in a sense as I've gotten older? #but yes the list of Most Important Valice Dates #and Valicer #because let's face it that OT3 has kind of taken over #not complaining just an observation :p #queued

[bejeweledmp3]

EVERYTIME. i go to twitter for fandom stuff. i remember why one should never go to twitter for fandom stuff lmao

#the things you will see there. people blatantly missing the point and being loud and annoying #and talking about discourse and getting into discourse and showing some of the most base level lack of empathy or comprehension opinions #shit is bad here but oh god. that site brings out the worst in people #talking tag; #also on another note the more i think about it the less genuine it feels for the tv versions of joel and ellie #to not speak for a full two years lmao #it doesn't i mean it probably didn't in the game but it DEFINITELY doesn't in the show those two are Attached they are everything they care #about in the world #i can absolutely see ellie getting pissed etc etc #but two years of silence???? shut up #literally They Would Not Fucking Do That #i still think that REDACTED is happening and it will hurt just as much #also i already feel bad for whoever is cast as abby like!!!! it's going to get uhhh not good #i do think they'll try to keep pedro around for longer if anything for emotional attachment also that's pedro pascal you can't do REDACTED #to him just like that ep 1 or 2 and expect people to just. take it #i'm curious about how they'll adapt part two because you KNOW hbo is aware about it being divisive #which is Bad for your big money making audience growing show #there's just so much at stake with a big hbo profuction i'm curious how that will change things (if it does) #just. i dunno i still don't think i'll be able to watch that shit happen #and people in twitter definitely don't help!!!! lol lol #i'm tagging this just in case. but yeah #the last of us spoilers #tlou spoilers

[sebdoeswords]

Don't want the Next Gen update for Witcher 3?

Apparently, if you don't like the next gen update (on PC) you can revert to a previous version of the game. Here's cdpr's official guide for it.

If you don't want to download it in the first place, make sure your steam does not auto update your games (it's probably too late for that if you haven't changed that setting in the days before the update). To avoid Steam's "update when launching" thing, run the game from the .exe file in your game files. This way it does not run via steam and won't trigger the update. You can locate your game files by selecting the game on steam, clicking the gear icon on the right, hovering over "Manage" and then clicking "Browse local files". The .exe file will be in your /bin/x64 folder.

In addition, it's probably a good idea to hide tw3 in your steam library so you don't launch it from there accidentally or without thinking. To do this, simply right click the game and then Manage and "Hide this game". To access it later, click on "View" from the small, top left menu, then "Hidden Games"

#witcher 3 #the witcher 3 #witcher 3 next gen #tw3 next gen #next gen #haven't tried it myself reverting to a previous version myself #so idk if or how well it works #making this guide because i haven't seen a more or less comprehensive one yet

[xxrat--punkxx]

Started doodling my hunter design and she absolutely was not supposed to look like this but now I’m horrifically attached

#if a game lets u customise ur character that character will almost always be an iteration of the same idealised version of myself that i- #then turn into a character #resulting in all of them being so similar in personality and design e.g short red hair with gold eyes tan skin and some sort of left eye- #or facial scarring #so I tried something a lil’ different and wanted to go for a more elegant looking character with more androgynous features #but holy shit they ended up looking so fucking cute #I know jack shit abt the lore but so help me god I’m making her have to deal with trying not to turn into a beast so she ends up removing #-an eye because it starts to get fucked up… or insite or something… idk #I slept insight wrong… #nah but I love the idea of this new wide eyed hunter just getting absolutely and horrifically fucked up by the end of it #like ‘I’ve seen some shit and then some. I couldn’t deal with the man made horrors beyond my comprehension yall’ #still thinking of a name… #no clue #her hair 🥹 #wip #my art #bloodborne

[datastate]

gd. gd. kai & sara literally make me so fucking sad in the best narrative way possible but still indescribably just. emotional and inconsolable over them right now

#they're siblings they hate each other for what they remind themselves of they love each other more genuinely than the other chidouins could #they're the only two who understand each other yet neither of them understand that simple fact too torn with wanting to #hide themselves from the other and painting another version of the person they see ( innocence / fear ) #they never knew each other but they learn everything about one another they had so many missed opportunities to love each other #and be genuinely cared for in turn as the family they deserved without any ulterior motive #they would only ever uplift each other if they'd been given clarity from the beginning but as it stands their relationship is fractured #and this is something neither of them will ever get back. there will always always be this barrier of unease as time marches on #even aside from the death game because both of them were emotionally manipulated by mr. chidouin #and mr. chidouin loved them both but he's twisted it so painfully with favor upon sara without any real regard to kai himself #because as far as he cares kai was dead the moment he turned 20 ; he's been walking the line for the chidouin's purpose #kai would do anything for the chidouins and would hate to know how much he scared her (under chidouin's enabling) #and sara doesn't understand that until it's far too late. and kai probably dies with suspicions but still just...ough;; #idk. idk. idk. none of this is comprehensible. i have a project to get done. goodbyai #jestersvaguely #yttdposting #father abuse mention