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speaking of blocksworld. i mightve just found one of my new favorite pieces of music from this old ass 2013 mobile game??

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i wonder where all of those famous blocksworld people are now

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long time no mario redesigns! some of these I've had lying around since. September. but I kept forgetting to upload them but hey now we got a batch lol. Prince Florian, Cappy, Captain Syrup, Tatanga, Wingo, and Kremling duo Krusha and Klump!

Prince Florian, the active ruler of the Flower Kingdom, which has fully recovered from that one time Bowser became its castle. He's been more focused on improving his kingdom, which has left him with little time to adventure as often as he'd like. Design-wise I just made him anthro lol, but I still kept him bug-like with the 4 arms and compound eyes.

Cappy! Like everyone else in the AU he's noticeably older, he's been living fine in Bonneton with Tiara, and he still meets up with Mario from time to time, though without possessing anyone this time. Design-wise I just wanted to give him an old-timey feel!

Captain Syrup! She still sails the seas, looking for the next treasure with her crew, though she's just as likely to just go fuck up Wario's day for no reason lol. She's in surprisingly good terms with the WarioWare employees, who are just so used to Events™ that they just treat her like a friend, which weirds her out but doesn't mind. For her redesign I just wanted her to not look like Evil Pauline lol, and to get some butch vibes up in here.

Tatanga! I'll be real, I have not thought much about him in the AU just yet, so I'll probably update his part later lmao. as for the redesign, I based off his comic look, swapping the red for teal and giving it The Drops Touch™.

Wingo, Captain Toad's enemy! They're still at it, still competing for treasure the same way Wario and Syrup are. As always I made him anthro to fit in with the rest, but in general his design is the same.

Finally, the Kremling duo Krusha and Klump! Still serving K. Rool, but like him they've mellowed out with time, and the deep-seated hatred is now more a rivalry. They're both still relatively ineffective as generals, but they're K. Rool's only friends despite what he says, so they stick around lol. As for their looks, they've been adjusted to match K. Rool's redesign.

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have i mentioned recently that i like shou ronpo

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go dad go

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The dandiest foxy grandpa in the universe

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Apologies if he's already been submitted, but Shou Ronpo from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger?

SHOU RONPO from UCHU SENTAI KYURANGER

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the vengeance bus is coming

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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Tired of stories where the author worldbuilds a whole religion only to chicken out at the last moment by making the main character a skeptic. You mean to tell me that there’s all this richness in lore and culture, but you’ve trapped me with the one person in this society who doesn’t care about it? So bland. I could meet an agnostic easily enough by walking down the street, but your story is my one chance to hear the perspective of someone who follows whatever religion you’ve contrived. You made this whole world; convince me that your character really is from there.

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you *could* kiss a hundred boys in bars… or just 🖕one

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contrary to popular belief, it’s only called a kidnapping if the child grew up in the region of Kidnapping, France, otherwise it’s just a sparkling adoption

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The US Needs Local Heroes and Monsters like Japan has.

Fight me.

KitaQ Man, the local hero of Kitakyushu, a prefecture in Fukuoka

It's such a cool idea. You make a hero themed after your town's local industry, culture, or whatever, the local tourism board uses them to hype up the town, and the kids get a regional hero experience. The merch sales go toward local schools or infrastructure.

We already have this, sort-of, with the Mothman and Gritty, but it can go way further. Semi-related, I want to see these two fight.

And with digital media, you don't even need local TV to get your hero's exploits out there.

And this would be huge for nationwide tourism. Collecting spoons from all the states you've driven through is sweet, but imagine how fun it would be to pick up a local action figure?

It's all the local pride and merch sales of a sports mascot, but with none of the possibility that your team sucks, and even a small town can get a morph suit and some cosplay gear together for a local theater kid to tell kids about traffic safety.

Logistically, this would likely require a consulting or management company that could put together a character "package" for interested towns and industries, but as long as we keep Vince McMahon far away from it, it could be sweet.

C'mon local chamber of commerce, do something awesome for once.

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i never knew mareep was a certified freak

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my dear little beloved angel that i hate

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From Timeranger to Gokaiger there were 5 shows that used flip phones as henshin devices. But from Go-Buster to Kiramager, only Zyuogher used a phone/rubic cube and Kiramager used a smart watch. Why didn't Sentai used smartphones as henshin devices? Is it because smartphones look boring lack the inherent coolness and playability of flip phones? Or is it because Kyoryuger made Bandai thought weapons should be henshin devices instead?

I think it's because regular smartphones don't have a dynamic action like flip phone do/did. There is something really cool about being able to flip open your device and punch in a code. I mean, that was what a younger me thought was absolutely cool as heck about Kamen Rider 555's henshin sequence. There is one Sentai-adjacent series that HAS used smartphones though. The High School Heroes had a phone app that allowed the heroes and the villains to transform.

And I will always take the opportunity to advocate for the High School Heroes.

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A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.