#i'd love to play with you soon

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi (steambaby) sketches.

[pushing500]

What's it like being a mechanitor?

Being a mechanitor is awesome!! It takes a bit of getting used to at first, having all those ultrafine wires settling into their places around your skull, but after that, you have so much power!! You can get mechanoids to do everything you want with little more than a thought! It's perfect for anybody who wishes to transcend their weak, useless bodies! The first step toward a perfected humanity!

... Of course, there are drawbacks. If you happen to be suddenly spawned into existence with every memory of being a mechanitor but none of the actual abilities, it will leave you feeling hollow and more useless than you ever felt before. Now you know what you could be, you feel the loss that much more sharply.

That would never happen, though, so we probably don't need to consider such a ridiculous, outlandish scenario.

[vaguely-concerned]

finishing veilguard is so rough. every time I'm just like 'yeah that wrapped up a little abruptly after the final fight haha but I understand they had to rush it out the door after all that time, I'm sure they'll give us the closure we need in the dlc ala trespasser or the citadel dlc! ...guys? guys??!?.........................guys?'

[druidberries]

Hey Alexis!! I miss you 🥹 I hope you’re doing well 🫶🏾

ESTAH!! I miss you sm 🥺 I'm so sorry for being so late to this 😭 I definitely did NOT mean to disappear for a while but ✨life✨ happened.

I've been thinking about simblr and sims a LOT lately and I really want to come back soon! I just got so busy with other things and then recently some sucky stuff happened, but I just want to sit down and play sims again 😭

I hope you and everyone else are doing well and I definitely hope we can talk soon <3

[sysig]

*chanting* Second pet, second pet, second pet! (Patreon)

[indooroutdoorboyfriend]

i genuinely cannot stay asleep for longer than twenty minutes at a time so i am gonna be weird and introspective instead. evan character analysis. btw no i am not in a crisis or anything i'm just trynna dr house my neuroses. delete that "are you good??" dm right now

[avopumpkin]

My brain was not braining at the moment I was answering Pokémon ask, but I'm curious about your preferences too. Sadly, I don't know much about new generations and can only ask about Kanto. So what Pokémon of Kanto did you like to use in battles the most (doesn't have to be the favorite)?

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Unfortunately I haven't played Pokemon games with Kanto, only Hisui, but I googled pokemons from Kanto and chose some. :3 I know you want to know pokemons I used in battle, but yeah, unfortunately I can't fully answer this question, so I have to answer differently. But somewhere in the end I showed my Pokemon team from Pokémon Arceus. <3 Those pokemons are from Hisui and I think some of them are also in Kanto. <3

But to partially answer your question, what I think I would choose for my team, then I'd probably choose bulbasaur, gyarados, snorlax, pikachu and squirtle. <3 I don't know how many pokemons you can have on your main team, so I picked 5. <3

And now I want to take this opportunity to talk more. <33

Bulbasaur was in general my fav pokemon when I was a kid. I remember having a small figurine of bulbasaur on my shelf. :3 And its ivysaur evolution is really pretty!

Squirtle will always remind me of those three squirtles from the beginning of the Pokemon anime. I loved their style with sunglasses! <3

Charizard seems really cool. I don't remember why exactly I liked charizard, but I'm putting it here mainly for nostalgia reasons. >:3

Butterfree is such a cute pokemon! I still can't believe Ash tried to trade his butterfree for raticate. >:( And I'm so happy for Butterfree that in the end he found his love. 🥺💖

Pika pika. Pika pika.

Porygon is such an interesting pokemon. I really love its shape. I can imagine myself in Poke world having one. Porygon is sooo interesting!

Meowth is cool, too! If I remember correctly, then Meowth from Team R learnt to speak because his crush loved humans and he wanted to impress her with human speech??? I don't remember anymore but it was so sad that he got rejected in the end. :<

Psyduck is one of those pokemons I got to know through memes. I don't know if I saw him in anime first, all I remember is seeing him in memes. And psyducks often attack me whenever I do something in Pokemon Arceus. >:( But they look cool!

I don't really know horseas and seels but I find their design really adorable. <33

Gastly looks so creepy and cool! I remember seeing air humidifiers with gastly and it looked really cool. :3 And it's really scary to walk around in my Pokemon game and suddenly see gastly appear... 😔

I love Cubone's design, especially the fact that it got a skull mask! I think cubone appears in the beginning of the anime? At least somewhere in the beginning of season one? But I am not really sure. I just remember the design.

I don't have much to say about Mewtwo. I just love its kitty design! Lemme pet it. :3

Polandball Voltorb looks really interesting. There's no special reason for me to like it. I just like it. It doesn't remind me about anything from the meme culture, nothing at all.

Poland Electrode got a very funny smirk. Like, why it looks like this, it's so funny. Also, I fought it in Pokemon Arceus and had to calm it down, so I got some memories from fighting it.

Magikarp became my favourite due to me feeling guilty for rejecting it. What I mean is that around 12 years ago I was playing Minecraft with my friends and we had Pokemon modification uploaded on our server. And literally none of us wanted to catch magikarps except one person. And when this person's magikarp finally evolved, everyone finally noticed that it's actually a pretty cool pokemon. And now I got plenty of magikarps in my inventory in Pokemon Arceus. And its evolution, Gyarados, got a name Gyatt. I won't elaborate, I will leave this fact to your consciousness that one pokemon in my inventory got that kind of name.

Snorlax is soooo cute! I always loved its big body. 🥺💖 Even as a child I loved snorlax a lot. One time someone tried to fatshame me by calling me a snorlax, but I will take it as a compliment because this is such a lovely pokemon. 😌💖

Ditto. I don't know this pokemon but it looks so cute. I'd love to hug it. <3

I don't know Lapras as well, but it looks cool. And I love water pokemons, so I'm putting it here. <3

Eevee is really cute and looks like a lovely pet to have! But I don't know why, but recently I saw a lot of memes with homophobic eevee being turned into sylveon and I have no idea what it is about. xD

Now that I showed my fav Kanto Pokemons, I want to talk about my favs from Hisui <33 And show my current team in Pokemon Arceus. <33

Decidueye is my starter pokemon. Well, technically it was rowlet, but it's the same exact pokemon! It was a pleasure to evolve him. I love him so much and he always stayed on my team. :3 And I called him Alice. :3

Luxray is also my fav pokemon. I named him Naruto, even though it would be more logical to call pikachu like this. But I don't care. He's Naruto. He started from being shinx (I called one shinx Shin) and now he's luxray. :3 I put him on my team because I wanted to have an electric type and didn't want to go with pikachu. But I don't regret it. <3

I wanted to only evolve Floatzel slightly and then come back to my precious Bibarel, but forgot about it and now it's floatzel on my team lol. I won't mention her name because her name is controversial now in Poland. But it's after one Polish influencer that did some bad things. So I need to change her name soon.

Infernape name is literally Molotov. Like, after cocktail Molotov. I think it's self-explanatory. And I know it sounds funny after I refused to mention floatzel's name, but yeah. My infernape's name is after a weapon. Though I didn't think he would stay on my team for such a long time. I think he got there only because I looked for pokemons that would go along with decidueye and someone said he's one of good choices for the team? But I don't remember anymore.

My Ursaring's name is Gorgonzola. There's no deep thought behind this name. I just think Gorgonzola is such a great name for him.

My Crobat's name is Draculaura and I think this name is perfect for her! I think she also became a part of my team on the first part of my game? I am not sure but she's for such a long time with me already! :3

So this is my current team. I know I talked a lot already, but I want to still show some more pokemons, but I won't talk much about them already, just show them and also say some of theirs names. :3

Raichu got a name after Naruto's dad - Minato. I know I should have named pikachu Naruto, instead of luxray, but at least raichu got Minato! >:3

Spheal is literally named "My True Form". It's me. It's just me as a pokemon (I'm also a snorlax, but spheal is me in water). I love spheal so much.

Ponyta is named Gracjan for absolutely no reason. It's Gracjan and it always has been Gracjan.

Mime Jr. is named "My Friend" because I wanted to include Goldy in my game. <33

BIBAREL IS SO CUTE, ESPECIALLY IN BIDOOF FORM. Its name is Pimpek. <3

Staraptor was also in my first team as one of my firsts pokemons. I named it Starlight. <3

Misdreavus is so pretty! I had a hard time to catch it, but I finally have it in my pokedex. <3

Pachirisu is an interesting pokemon. If I remember correctly, then nobody was really putting it on a team during tournaments, until one guy actually did and he won the battle thanks to pachirisu!! It was so cool to see. <3

Ambipom is one of my favs not because of my gameplay in Pokemon, but because it was Dawn's pokemon. Her preferring contests over battles was such a great thing. <3

My Drifblim's name is Luna. Yes, it's after Goldy's nickname. And she told me this pokemon is also her fav, so it's great. <3

[starryalpacasstuff]

Last Twilight; Mee's legacy continues

I know that we're all mad at how episode 11 went. Believe me, I am too. I'm not going to be talking about the issues in the episode, several others have already done so, and far more eloquently than I could. Because despite the episode's failings, there are still some things about this episode that I think deserve to be talked about.

I've loved keeping up with Mee's story as the show has progressed (written about it here and here). I thought that Mee's story ended in episode 9, but it continues to be present in the narrative. The most obvious clue to this is, obviously, Porjai's daughter, whom they named Mee. In addition to that, episode 11 focuses on highlighting the fact that Day 's blindness is not something that can be cured, just as Mee could never return to her life before she was cursed. Just as Mee had hoped that the last twilight would allow her to return to her normal life, Day hoped, even fully believed that the surgery would allow him to become "normal" again (the medical inaccuracies of the process aside). In the end, neither can return to a sense of "normalcy", as Mee turns to stone and Day's surgery fails. Both stories are haunted by a sense of grief, helplessness, and hope that is given and taken away. But the end of Mee's story isn't written as tragic, it's written as joyful. The exact same ending could have been written as tragic and solemn, but it wasn't. In the end, Mee was able to revel in the fact that she would never turn invisible again, despite turning to stone. And that's what I'm hoping that Day's final arc will resemble. Because we know that Day is still insecure about his blindness, and about people's pity for him. His buying that cane was a massive step in the right direction, because it showed that he was willing to "announce to everyone that he's blind", to be less afraid. But, as the breakup showed us, he's still insecure about his blindness. If the theory is right, episode 12 should show us Day accepting his blindness, and maybe even celebrate it as a part of him, as Mee does.

Mee's story has run parallel to Day's since they began to read it. Mee's story is over now, but Day's isn't. We see that Mee continues to have a presence in Day's life, be it metaphorically, through her story predicting his, or literally, through Porjai's daughter. Besides fixing a lot of the damage that was done in episode 11, if there's one thing I'd like from episode 12, it's one final call back to Mee's story.

[quickfixinator]

maybe I will develop my older mystery twins ghost hunter (they both like science because I'm autistic and I like science, so lord help me, they have my fixations) idea later on. someone needs to give me further ideas though. drop a colour pallet or something and I'll see what I can do. or maybe give me a request or two. I would like some ideas. no promises though, I'm a student and my GPA is the biggest contributor to my self worth so those grades stay high and I don't always have the time to draw. don't take it to heart.

also as a complete side note and head canon, mabel has absolutely taught her grunkles (and tried to convince dipper, with minimal success) how to do some sort of yarn craft. stan likes to knit (and through many fond experiences with mabel, is quite adept at it) and ford knows how to do two (2) different crochet stitches. both of which he screws up often. but he is determined to get better and spends the time he doesn't spend researching, reading, or doing something similar, crocheting. neither of the stans have any idea on what to do with a pattern though and so there are a lot of blankets, hats, half done sweaters and vests between the two of them.

both of them can do crafty things though and I would think they like to do them even! ford clearly has a penchant for designing his own things (even if they're shittily put together. yes I am focusing on that glue bottle on his desk while he was making the journals in AToTS, that thing is a crime. also the way he put the glue on. come on.) and stan has his entire comic thing going AND the taxidermy thing. you don't just start doing that because you hate to do textile crafts. the stan twins like crafts. they would do crafts. their boat would be overflowing with craft supplies and I haven't seen anyone else talk about this. I crochet and paint and draw and paper machete and make cards and dammit I like crafts.

also along the vein of Everyone In The Pines Family Is Neurodiverse™ train, I think they all like going to craft stores and feeling the various yarn textures. one of them finds a texture that makes them gag and makes the others touch it for fun. y'know. just family things. mabel and stan absolutely have opinions on craft supplies and ford, after getting back to his home dimension is devastated to find that some of his favorite reliable brands are no longer reliable and are just overpriced so mabel and stan direct him to the supplies that are good and reliable now. I feel like they all give each other art tips.

stan is the guy to go to if you need to a good adhesive (because, by the lord, is it hard to find the right one for the right job), he also knows the best way to patch up something and make it look semi realistic, and barely noticable. mabel knows the best yarn stores, fabric brands, and the various supplies for that (I'm talking an extensive collection of hooks, looms, latches, patches, ect.). ford knows how to, and frequently does, bind his own books so they look Cool™. I also think he has very strict opinions on paint supplies and an extensive collection of brushes, pallets, and paints. he and stan argue about color theory, mabel likes to convince them it doesn't matter as long as it looks cute! dipper likes to do metal working things and has a collection of various metal objects to help him with his crafts. he's the kind of guy to make homemade chainmail. he'd made chainmail. because I said so. also he is absolutely the kind of guy to get into 3D modeling and have some ridiculous project on the back burner at all times.

ALLLSSOOOO, he makes really sick earrings for mabel sometimes and I feel he's got really bad Foot In Mouth Syndrome (me too buddy), and probably prefers to make a handmade gift for someone's birthday rather than trying to find them something at the store. he's the kind of guy to worry about intentionality and sincerity and as such, mabel makes a card and a crochet plush (or something), he makes some sick key chain, pair of earrings, some other sort of metal thing that they'd like and the two call it a day. this is a family where someone puts the card together and you sign your name at the bottom as to not be rude but also you have none of the correct words to write. that is what I believe is the truth.

also they all know how to sew, for stan and ford their mom taught them the basics but they really honed their skills when it because a necessity to patch their own clothing, fix holes in curtains, patch shitty pillows, and embroider something because it looked interesting. mabel learned because she likes textile crafts and she dragged dipper into learning to sew as well because he'd need it eventually! also their parents probably helped to foster a love of creation in their kids, they don't come up with the sort of ideas they do entirely on their own, it's something special that should be fostered, but it can be harnessed by anyone, regardless of age, or perceived talent.

this is all to say that I am a very big fan of crafts and I think everyone needs a hobby, especially one that works with textiles, something physical. it's good to see your work, in front of you, physically. "yeah, yeah, but digital art, and-" have you ever felt a print of your work in your hands before? do you know how much joy that can bring? I've had my art printed on shirts before and then seen people wear them. that's insane. that's accomplishment. that feels Good. it is beyond important to have a thing that you can do on your own and love.

I feel the pines family has a lot of dexterity, especially in their hands from the way stan & ford are about art, mabel's sweaters, and the way dipper handles ford's journal through the entire series. you don't develop a fondness for fragile things like art through not doing them, you dive in head first and hate it and hate yourself because it looks awful and then you share it and someone absolutely loves your work and it all becomes worth it again. because you make good things. your work is not inherently flawed because you made it. creation is natural, it reminds you that you're human. you are fallible and that is such a wonderful thing.

some of these paragraphs are cut in odd spots, if it throws you off, I apologize. I can't read huge text blocks very well and would like to extend the same courtesy to others if they also struggle to read text blocks. I'm not tom clancy, I'll leave breaks in my paragraphs every so often even if the thoughts are still connected. continuity urges me to keep them together, whatever is going on in my head tells me they need to be separate. that's all I have to say on that, please enjoy my art head canons for the pines family.

[jils-things]

i wanna go back to playing oneshot again... and just. enjoying myself in the oneshot universe

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia

I blubbing love your stories. The way you build such 4 dimensional characters and riveting plots alongside really sexy smut that manages to never feel forced or empty is just... *chefiest of chef's kiss*

I've recently been re-reading you RotG fics. I know you don't write for that fandom anymore but I loved to fear play between Jack and Pitch. Particularly in the SALverse. It was so tantalisingly visceral

Would you ever write that sort of extreme fear play again?

Hi anon,

I don't think I'll probably write it the way you're thinking about.

I've written a lot of scenes since where a character is scared, for example, there's a few in The Beast that Chose its Own Bridle (especially around sounding and chemical play), I'd say a couple in Eversion, quite a lot in Smoke in Autumn, and definitely in The Wind that Cuts the Night (including one that leads to reluctant safeword use).

To me, those are all intense fear play scenes. These are characters that fear for their sanity, the safety of their body, and more. The terror is real. In fact in some cases it's more intense than what Pitch ever makes Jack feel, because what Pitch does is so intensely controlled and mental, and has nothing to do with what he's actually doing to Jack at the time, which is often pretty mild.

But in terms of it being caused by eye contact alone, not so much. That was not something I was drawn to repeating, because I preferred the fear/terror being caused by something actually tangibly happening to the character, and not a mind trick, which felt a little like cheating, lol.

[lovely-v]

it's crazy how skyward sword is becoming my favorite zelda game despite the fact that I've spent 2/3 of my time playing it suffering unbearably

[camellia-thea]

initially this post had some commentary about interests right now. and then it turned into a ramble about personal healing in the tags. so the interest post is going separately.

[sevicia]

I wanted to make a cleaner summary of last week's classes and also review the classes I have this week since the material is already uploaded beforehand but I was feeling so horrible throughout the day that when I sat down I was just gonna look at the ones for tomorrow but I think I'm just gonna go to bed because I just gave my little numbers game a few tries and not even the joy of tribial elementary school-level math games is bringing my brain cells and/or full sentience back

[the-punforgiven]

Full warning to everybody if the new guilty gear character is aba I may go apeshit about it for a good while

[sprocketsciencer]

W7F was a gift that kept on giving. I didn't expect it to be this entertaining and honestly if the girls weren't having as much fun, the fanbase would've taken it seriously. Several million dollars were at stake, pretty hilarious the two finalists were the ones taking it lightly the most. Walkouts were top notch.

Very interesting concept, completely different approach to the games. You see defenders high up, forwards marking alone in their own box. It took some time for the players to adjust to the no offside rule, smaller pitch and smaller goal. So many kicks from goalie to goalie. There would've been so many top bins and bangers if the goal posts were the standard size.

The girls played great too. I mean winning against solid psg squad, keeping bayern at bay and of course winning another derby? Better than i could've asked. Very, very proud of them all. Simi was honestly the breakout star, very deserving of that award. Screaming yanited into the mic on stage? That's my player. All the younger ones did so well too. Kayla, Jess, Emma, Saf, Keira. Love to see it. Wish Anna and Hini were there because they would've been brilliant at it.

Honestly immaculate vibes and loved seeing the girls having the time of their lives playing football in the sun. I'll miss these girls, have a good summer and euros my loves.