#instead of having to cook for myself

[oolongchabomb]

gsnk/mayumiko rant?

so basically i come back and rotate through fandoms every once in a while and sometimes things have weirdly regular cycles for me like akam I crash back into the fandom every 3 years(maybe bc that's how often they make a dc movie featuring the both of them??) and ibsm is maybe like once a year or so. So now time has come for me to again be infatuated with gsnk and mayumiko (hooray :0) which comes with both pros and cons.

Pro:

I now have adult money and can indulge in all the mayumiko merch and get all the manga volumes AND get pixiv premium to look at all the banger art

My japanese has also gotten better for me to consume tsubaki sensei's twitter feed and other non-translated content

there's a good amount of content for me to eat up since i havent rlly kept up with gsnk for a few years

Con:

all the doujins are from like 2015 and now impossible to get...(huge)(i am distressed)(I need to read towa e moa 2 or I'll DIE)

I have run through the ao3 mayumiko catalogue in less than a day and now starving

the fandom seems pretty dead now mostly :,,(

anyways I will probably go on a mayumiko-drawing frenzy for the next few weeks if anyone wants to exchange fics for art OR just wants to ramble about mayumiko together PLS hit me up I am desperate for good mayumiko literature and also very willing to draw accompanying art for any stories/hcs TT

[ravennhearted]

Sometimes I think about how Merlin took place over 10 years—a whole decade—and the thought of the show spanning that long feels entirely too long and like an infinite amount of time and that it can’t actually have been ten years

And then I think about how Merlin is 16-18 in the first season. And I just—

That means, at the oldest, Merlin was only 28. He wasn’t even 30

And then I just start losing my mind for a whole different reason

[arealtrashact]

Rlly curious, how long does it take you to finish a piece? (Character design studies vs one with background, like the elvis in the mirrors) 🙂

Character design studies can be started and finished in one sitting. These probably took an hour and some.

Illustrations like the Elvis Mirror illustration are usually spread out over the span of a few days rather than one sitting. Looking at pieces with fresh eyes is so important to me ! Errors will not make themselves known to me if I simply stare at the same drawing for hours and hours. I need to step away and come back to it more than once to really see what I'm looking at.

[wantbytaemin]

who likes to cook and doesn’t mind relocating. come live with me

[petrow1tch]

They weren't lying, this psychological recovery journey got hands

[spocksgotemotions]

i gotta move out of this fuckin house

[sweet-loverboy]

my single dorm, my senior year, 2024-2025

[puppetslooselystrung]

sbabl is such a fun reading experience. like all chapters are incredible but i keep thinking about chapter 3 where quirrel is just. shit talking hollow in front of ghost and its so funny like dude thats their sibling please stop

[tiranniesu]

the way people took some of the most fundemental parts of humanity and mangled them into tools of suffering. love and the need for companionship, the desire to have children, sharing food and cooking as a show of affection, etc. and traditionalists, instead of trying to restore these joys of life, double down and fight to make them as soulless and miserable as possible

[bluebellhairpin]

That's the last time I "bake something" in order to "lift my mood".

[bonestrouslingbones]

its rlly funny to me that i’ve always pictured all my skeletons with different forms of neurodivergence but for a very long time was too “scared” to actually think of any as outright autistic so even when headcanoning someone with audhd it was still always a wishy washy thing

and then now that i’ve been coming more to terms with my own brain & interacting with more people like me on a very regular basis i’ve come to understand the fact that i don’t have a single papyrus that is not very obviously audhd

[umilily]

stress baking my birthday cake

[tooth-fairy-yooko]

autism and other neurodivergents society who can't stand the inconsistentcy of the blueberry. may i suggest. dried blueberries.

[sapphire-rb]

Some interesting text found on the code: Part 1.2 - Leftovers from DQB1

Split from this because it turned from 'fun trivia' to 'theory territory' and I wanted to keep the other post more informative than rambly.

5:

Look at that! I don't need to translate that, just read it for yourselves!

Inside the menu code there's text hinting at a chapter-structure thing, like the one from the first game!

What I think happened was that originally during early development the 4 islands were planned the same way the 4 DQB1 chapters had been planned, and then they connected them with a more lineal plotline (since there were complaints about the disconnect between chapters in the first game).

Then the game would start you from the beginning if you hit 'new game', and as you advanced through the islands you would unlock the ability to start a new game jumping directly to that part of the story, like how you unlock chapters and can replay them individually without having to complete the previous ones in the original.

That's why there's a "for beginners" and "for experienced" prompt. It'd be a little weird to tell you about "beginners" if you unlocked the menu as postgame, and there's no way they'd let you skip to the end minutes after turning on the game for the first time.

Here's the menu from the first game as a reminder:

(Also! Default builder name bonus. They are the same across both games)

And! There's no Skelkatraz in the menu, but there is a Malhalla, so Skelkatraz can't have been omitted for spoiler reasons, right? Or maybe it is, since 'before Malhalla' is slotted at the end... Was that not on the list originally because didn't want to spoil Malhalla on the menu, but eventually decided it was too important and had to add it?

But wait- can that mean that there was no 'before Malhalla' planned at the beginning? That after leaving Moonbrooke you would be basically thrown into Malhalla instead of having to build the Steppe (Steppe that just pauses the Builder-Malroth character arc for no reason)?

Because if you think about it- why is there an 'After Malhalla'? that's just a glorified cutscene away from 'After Credits'. Unless Cerulean Steppe was planned to happen after Malhalla originally and not before, which would explain why there would be content between Malhalla and Credits (prompting a need to give you the option between 'after' one and 'after' the other) , but none between Moonbrooke and Malhalla (meaning both 'After Moonbrooke' and 'Before Malhalla' would be the same point in time). And then afterwards they moved the Steppe to between Moonbrooke and Malhalla because it made more plot sense.

And think about the castle. In-game the villagers just build the shell of it, and the game just tells you to 'build it properly' post-credits. And I've heard player complaints about the game not bothering to give you a proper castle. But if Cerulean Steppe was originally a post-game IoA part, then the castle had always been planned for post-game content, and when they had to put the Steppe into the main plot they had to compromise with the shell to keep the original post-game castle idea intact.

So if that's true, and you think about the fact that Skelkatraz is omitted there, maybe the original 'structure breaker' was Malhalla breaking in the Cerulean Steppe part. But then that was cut, and Skelkatraz was slotted in during the Scarlet Sands part to fulfil the 'structure breaker' role. And Skelkatraz adds the plot point about the Children of Hargon attacking the island- and would you look at that, it just so happens that that plot point is resolved in the Cerulean Steppe part, right before Malhalla! (being the only thing that gets resolved during the Cerulean Steppe part)

And Skelkatraz is also a very buggy part of the game, so it being a last minute addition also checks out.

So, I wanted to add at the beginning of this text, the idea that if the 4 islands were planned like the 4 DQB1 chapters, that maybe IoA had been planned like how Terra Incognita had been planned. Something a little bit outside of the main plot.

Considering the idea that the Skelkatraz sequence didn't exist originally, it makes sense that the Cerulean Steppe would be out of the plot, because it means that all 3 IoA sequences were themselves 'out of plot', and you would have the 4 islands plot as the main story while going to the IoA was more of a 'side quest' thing.

Now, I'm not saying that IoA used to be like Terra Incognita. I'm pretty sure that IoA has always been like IoA, but maybe at first they had planned it to be like the little sandbox safe haven Terra Incognita is, before the realised that if they wanted to make a more intertwined plot they couldn't just have the hub of the game be completely removed from it and doing its own thing.

...You know... IoA only gets 'unlocked' after Furrowfield... The same way Terra Incognita is only unlocked after Cantlin...

ok I don't think my rambles are coherent at this point. Sorry. Got too excited. But anyway, I think it's fun to think about how the game was planned and changed around. Makes you appreciate how much work goes into it.

[fierykitten2]

I haven’t prepared any drawings for today (I don’t think the Iron Crown making heart eyes at a Mega Alakazam artwork was fitting for today and there’s no way I’m getting the Snacksworth’s Legendary Quest + Perrin’s Paradox Quest artwork done by the end of the day, not that I would’ve got the Crown and Alakazam artwork done today either) but wanted to celebrate so

Happy 1 year anniversary to Gouging Fire and Iron Boulder!

[xwiredearbuds2014x]