#the way the animals in this game interact is so fascinating to me because it makes the world feel so alive

[arthursfuckinghat]

A stag with a bird on his back

[jigglyjeon]

aberration -> jjk (prologue)

aberration࿐ a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected; typically an unwelcome one.

summary: jeongguk had always preferred to be alone; untouched by the scrutiny of his father and away from the responsibilities that sealed him to a fate he never wanted— being promised to the princess. when rumours of a unicorn plagues the town, jeongguk is ordered by the king to capture it and bring it to him. with the opportunity his intentions are to lead it to safety, reminded of a wild young pony that was once his only friend.

rating: R18+ MATURE, minors please do not interact

pairing: unicorn!fem reader x human villager!jk

genre(s): dark fantasy au, childhood friends to lovers, angst, romance, eventual smut

word count: 2.3k

warnings/tags: unicorn shifter!reader, villager!jk, original character(s), abusive father, depictions of abuse toward jk, reader gets abandoned by her parents, jk is not romantically attracted to this horse do NOT get it twisted sgjshdj, he just bonds closely with it like a pet??? LOL like he doesn't know what she is yet!!! but reader is an angsty teen that yearns for him xdddd

author's note: me asking if i post too many fics: me proceeding to post another new fic el oh el! like who is you girl lmfao but oo bitch i am so excited to share the this one. this idea has been cooking in the pits of hell (my brain) since i left tumblr three years ago. this is my BABY so treat her kindly:c the chapters will be longer between 5-10k this is just a prologue to open up the story a little bit <3

soundtrack: moon and moon - bat for lashes

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Prologue: My Only Friend

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“Jeongguk! You will return to my side at once, or there will be consequences!”

But of course, he would not listen. His sister may have been older, but he was smaller and therefore swifter; he carried the energy and stamina of a stallion. Or so he had been told.

His responsibilities were minimal as a young boy, but he had grown bored easily. He had so often been turned down when asking to help his father with the chopping of the wood, or the skinning of the rabbits. Even if it did make him cry to see the poor animals’ lifeless eyes as the man he looked up to had proceeded to remove the innards of the defenceless being.

Such is life, and he learns as such very early on in his life. He wounds up eating them in a stew later with great eagerness and a happy tummy, anyway. The sadness he had felt for the small creature beforehand had been long forgotten.

Such is life.

It was an interesting thing, for a seven-year-old boy to prefer his solitude when it came time to play; he had chosen to get lost inside the forest for his leisure, where he can discover nature and all the beautiful new things the natural world could offer him. Jeongguk discovered something new whenever he went wandering amongst its intricacies, and it had filled him with just as much joy each time.

He had been approached by the other children of the village, offering to play games such as patty cake and hopscotch, but he would decline every time with a timid shake of his head. “No, thank you.” He would say, because he was raised with manners and had always been polite. Even when he didn’t want to be, because his sister said that it would do him good to remain kind in this life. Jeongguk liked good things.

He could have the forest to himself this way. Other children weren’t allowed, wouldn’t dare to cross within the tall trees, the dark wood. But his sister, unbeknownst to their parents, had loved her young brother dearly and wanted him to be happy. Even if he did have such a strange fascination with the forest, which was a dangerous place for a child so young.

Aerum wouldn’t let anything happen to him, though. And although Jeongguk was young, he was tough, and he was brave, and she knew he wouldn’t go down without a fight.

She was searching for him now, in fact, for the sun was going to set soon. Mother would scold them for being late for supper.

He heard her call, but the stubborn little boy had not been ready to return to the village. Not when he had come across a little white pony, whinnying anxiously into the depths of the trees.

Jeongguk frowns, wondering where its mother had gone. If the young horse even had one to begin with.

Had the horse been abandoned? Oh, it must be so frightened, he couldn’t just leave the poor horse here alone. 

But the evening time was closing in on him, he knows he would have to return to his sister if he didn’t want a lashing from his father later.

Yet, Jeongguk moves towards the scared young horse. His small feet move stealthily as he can amongst the crunching leaves of autumn crackling beneath his shoes. It was a sweet sight, how he had tried to be quiet as to not scare it away, but the moment he took his first step the horse’s ears twitch, hearing him instantly. When the horse catches sight of him, it relaxes, quietens down and curiously steps back as he approaches.

“Hello little horsey, are you lost?” He asks, keeping a good distance, not wanting to scare the pony away.

The pony’s tail sways, head shaking slightly as it lets out a quiet nicker of acknowledgement. “Are you alone?” He wonders, knowing well he wasn’t going to get an answer he could understand. He watches for body language instead.

He was a clever little boy.

Another quiet sound that mimics the sound of a whimper comes out, and the horse makes eye contact with him as he takes a step close. Jeongguk holds out a shaking hand, “There boy–”

The horse huffs, swiping a hoof against the dirt.

“Girl?” He corrects himself, tilting his head.

Another light grunt, head moving as if to nod. Jeongguk laughs, wondering if the horse could somehow understand him. He doesn’t dwell on it for long, though.

“Well…my name is Jeongguk.” He introduces himself as the horse allows him to rest his palm against her muzzle. “You and I shall be friends!” He beams, and the horse blows an excited breath through her nose, trotting in a circle in front of him. The action makes Jeongguk giggle happily, twirling in circles to copy her. He gets dizzy fast, though.

“Jeongguk!”

The little boy huffs in annoyance, “I have to go now, but I’ll come back soon!”

She stands still, watching him curiously as he takes off towards his worried sister, but not before he takes another look over his shoulder with an apologetic smile. Her tail sways, her stare lingers until she sees him crash into the arms of a lady, who ruffles his hair as he clings to her skirts. The little pony turns to make her leave once they are out of sight.

As Jeongguk promised, he had returned to the young horse, time and time again when his day would allow it of him. The older he got, the more responsibilities were thrust upon him, so it ate up far more of his time throughout his daily life now. His life had gained purpose and structure, just as he had once anticipated.

But never too busy to pay the horse a visit.

Jeongguk brought her food from his hunts, and knick knacks he had either found or traded for at the markets. The horse had especially liked the strange long piece of wood that made noise when he tapped onto it; drums, Jeongguk had called them, and he showed her music through it for the first time in her life. She made her excitement known through her little hops and whinnies. He was glad there was someone in his life that enjoyed his drums. His father only smacked him on the back of the head when he had run home excited to show his family his first trade off. An entire loaf of bread for the drum. An entire load of bread that they would be absent from their dinner that night.

He spent his best years running around with her, reading her stories and taking naps by the ponds with her. She would sing to him her noisiest, obnoxiously songs and he would bellow over with laughter. He would even learn to braid her hair.

“Perhaps it may become useful if I were to have a girl of my own someday.” He speaks to his companion, who simply looks at him with her warm, gentle eyes. “It will make your mane look pretty, too, little horse. You have such a beautiful long, white mane— like snow.” Jeongguk hums to her, knowing well that the horse was no longer little.

She reacts with soft huff. “Snow? You like this name?” He raises his brow with a laugh. “Yes, it quite suits you.”

Jeongguk was sixteen now, but it didn’t stop his visits. Far from it, actually; he would tell the snow-white horse that he wishes he could take her back with him, but that would mean ripping her from the freedoms she held here in the forest. Even if they had since formed a special bond together. He couldn’t take away her freedom. That would be selfish of him.

And to be selfish was to be cruel. Aerum says so.

He wouldn’t have guessed this day to be the very last day he’d ever see Snow again.

His sister had come looking for him, the only person in his life that could find him whenever he didn’t want to be found.

In turn, it had cost his sister her life.

When Jeongguk returns home it has already turned dark; his family look sullen, heads turning to him with a sadness he at first finds strange. He expects to be scolded for returning late.

“Has Areum returned with you?” His mother rushes to her youngest child, grabbing onto his arm with tears welling up in her eyes.

Jeongguk furrows his brow, “I’m afraid not. Why? Has she not come home?”

Aerum had not returned that night

Or the night after that.

And it was all his fault. She must have gone to find him, amongst the wood where she was not safe alone. Jeongguk was old enough to protect himself, his dagger always strapped to his side. Always prepared for the worst; ready to pounce, ready to protect himself of the harm that may come his way. Those things didn’t come easy to his sister, she wasn’t as strong or as fast as him.

If she was hurt, would he not have heard her screams? If she was coming to look for him, then he was certain he would have heard something. But the woods remained quiet the entire time he was there; the birds were chirping; the leaves were dancing above him in the gentle breeze.

Questions scorned his mind, making him feel sick, riddling him with guilt.

“It’s your fault your sister is gone, you insolent little fuck!” He’s tossed into the bookshelves by his collar, he cries out in pain upon the impact.

His mother watches fearfully from behind her bedroom’s door. Watching in terror as he proceeds to shout at her the only child she had left.

Jeongguk’s father had begun to beat him; he had begun to drink more than usual and thus had little control over his deep seeded anger. Especially with the newfound hatred for his son.

It had kept Jeongguk out of the house longer, looking for excuses in his work not to return home. He would only return for a night’s rest in his bed if it were up to him. But even then, his father would be up waiting, ready to blame him, ready to teach him a lesson.

It had hardly meant anything that he shed tears of his own afterwards, looking down on the face of his young boy who was shivering with fear, his jaw tense and his tears silent. He can’t even look him in the eye.

“Forgive me, my boy!” He sobs, “I just miss my little girl. Aerum. Oh, Aerum!”

As for his mother, she had become a shell of the woman he knew as a child. Despite everything, she would come to him, washing off the blood, tending to the wounds as a mother should. But she remained quiet to the fact of the abuse of her son, she turned a blind eye.

The heart ache had killed her too in the end.

Losing the women in his life had changed Jeongguk, and his life, forever.

He no longer lived amongst a happy family in a small cottage at the edge of the village. He shared a home with a drunken monster who found his clarity through beating on his own offspring.

The treatment would only get worse after the death of his mother; he would trip him over, spit into his supper and blame his short comings on his own son. His father had found his new purpose in life, and it was to torment and place blame onto Jeongguk.

Jeongguk had forgotten all about the young horse he used to visit, for that boy no longer existed; he had died with the rest of the people he loved.

The little white horse waited, and waited, and waited.

Morning and night, blaring sun or windy storm; she would wait on him, call for him— wondering where he had gone so suddenly.

The last time she saw him, he had braided her hair and given her a name. A snowflake pendant made of glass tied to cord thrown around her neck for safe keeping.

“It reminded me of you; I couldn’t not trade some fish for it. For you, Snow, girl.”

Jeongguk had shown Snow more love than any mother or father could have ever shown her; but now he was gone.

She was alone, and once again, abandoned.

Snow couldn’t bring herself to feel hatred toward Jeongguk; with a heart so big, she was sure he had a good reason for his absence. She only prayed to God that he was safe, and unharmed. 

Jeongguk cured her of that loneliness she had felt when her mother had left her during her rest, never to be seen again. He had allowed her not to feel afraid, because he had protected her from the fears of being unloved and unwanted. That common boy had become her dearest, and only, friend.

The only thing she had left of him now was the memories that the two of them had shared together as children.

She would still talk to him, though. It mattered not that he couldn’t hear her. It helped her feel less alone.

“Oh, Jeongguk. Where are you this night?” You sigh, perched upon a rock with your fingers lazily dipping into the pond’s shallow waters. It glimmers against the moonlight, swishing softly beneath your touch. “I miss you dearly, and I do hope you sleep soundly. Do you dream of me as I dream of you?"

But of course not. You were nothing but a lonely little pony to him. You were there to keep him company when he had grown bored of his world. You suspect that he just didn't need you anymore.

Chirping insects, the howling of the wind and the rustling leaves are the only ones that reply to you now.

©jigglyjeon 2025 all rights reserved

[leporellian]

i genuinely really think that, besides my “musicals are what you get if you make operas not autistic” theorem (another thing for another day), there is One massive thing that stands in the way of me liking (modern) musicals and it’s the relationship they have to their texts vs operas.

with an opera, it’s kind of established that part of the big game is that every production is a negotiation and not a reproduction. it’s a conversation. there is no one “canon” version of an opera and it’s the audience expectation that every production will differ somehow. this especially kicks in when we’re dealing with operas that have harmful ideas either explicitly (madama butterfly) or implicitly (die meistersinger von nurnberg) because you can turn those works into ruminations on themselves. you’re dissecting the animal but the animal is conscious and fully consenting and marvels at your work as you go.

with a musical, meanwhile, there is usually a dedicated version you are looking at and an insistence on a CANONICAL way things are Meant to be interpreted. there is One Accepted Concept and branching into reinterpretations counts as “headcanons” or another modern fan term. a musical is not seen as “sociological/anthropological record of multiple time periods” but as “Content”

musicals have two problems. 1) they don’t have the gap in time that allows for that kind of retrospective look (which is fair that’s not a them issue), and 2) they have a fandom cultivated around them and are seen as Content. they also are so “concurrent” with our time (and also very fast) that they don’t have a sense of Allowing for reinterpretation. sure, you’ll have your regional/student productions that’ll do some minor detail like a character acting slightly differently or a silent interaction included- but you aren’t going to have your deconstructed heathers that pulls apart how it’s kind of immediately fallen apart in a post-2018 world, or a lion king performed as if it was a brand new text without any regard for the details of either the original film or julie taymor’s stage treatment. god forbid you start deconstructing your musical! that’ll make the fans sad!

and until we get to the de-fandomization of musicals and acknowledge them as sociological texts and not Content(TM), we aren’t going to get there. but alas that culture is baked into musicals, especially as the shows see shorter and shorter long-term visions as the machine of broadway grows hungrier for money and so brand identity and imposition of ‘fandom culture’ grow stronger with it.

(this is also why i’m so fascinated with chess the musical, which is a musical that doesn’t work So Much that nearly every new production is some extensive revision or another (usually making it somehow more incomprehensible in the process). the idea of “musicals can be reinterpreted” is there! we’re getting there! but it’s Not Quite. and i find that Fascinating from a dramaturgical context.)

Anyway if i had my way every new musical revival would be like the daniel fish oklahoma over and over and over FOREVER!!!! YOUR BRAND IS DEAD AND BOW TO THE NEBULOUS CONCEPT OF REGIETHEATRE AS YOUR NEW KINGGGGG

[durgetavoc]

Yes I really want to know the horrors of the shit bucket. I’m quite surprised that he isn’t obsessed with cleanliness. He always struck me as the type but then again… I guess I’m wrong.

Oh god, here we go then.

SPOILERS FOR THE HOUSE OF HOPE

(CW for...The Shit Bucket Guy, obviously)

So, if we ever decide to go steal the Orphic Hammer, we can go visit The House of Hope, there, we obviously find Raphael's collection of artifacts, his eternal debtors, and one of them is… This guy.

You should know that all eternal debtors are condemned to a certain task/action. It's difficult to know if this has anything to do with their contract with Raphael, if it is a distortion of an already existing trait of their personality (for example, the Perfect Eternal Debtor, the Theologist Eternal Debtor or even the Voyeur Eternal Debtor) or if it's a way to completely dehumanize them (Loyal Eternal Debtor…My beloved :( ). It seems to be a mix of everything, that wouldn't be surprising if Raphael did what seemed most entertaining to him.

But let's focus on the Shit Bucket Guy, since he's the one that interested us today.

As our affectionate nickname for him indicates, we find him in front of a chamber pot with a visible green odorous cloud above it, which confirms us that it has been used (when you interact with the pot, here what the game says : "An overpowering stench singes your nostrils. Nothing good happened here."). The debtor doesn't appreciate us getting closer to it, and if we ask him if he is its guardian, this is what he answers:

His "name" in the game is "Unclean Eternal Debtor" and if you're taking a look at his face... Yeah, I guess he's not just guarding the pot. When we observe the animation of the character, he walks around the pot, makes a hand gesture to smell it, and that's it.

It has become a running joke in the fandom, particularly for us, little mouses. Those who have been to the House of Hope know about the Shit Bucket Guy... But nobody talks about him.

(Yeah I couldn't help it.)

It's not really surprising, the presence of the chamber pot, and not just any one, RAPHAEL'S, raises other questions. One might wonder if it's not a little OOC coming from someone like him.

Let's take advantage of this question to dig... A little deeper.

Here's, imo of course, why it's somehow relevant to show Raphael's chamber pot and what this tells us about him.

Shall we?

1. Don't be fooled by appearances, he POOPS like us!

Raphael. Raphael. Raphael who embodies sophistication, intellect and danger... Alluring and at the same time fearsome, a fascinating mix. Goddamnit, he's a suave motherfucker, and he fucking knows it.

In video games, it's part of the suspension of disbelief to not talk/show toilet, unless you're in a life simulation game like sims. It's not just taboo since it's one of the most private aspects of our life, but it's also... Not relevant to the intrigue most of the time.

Showing us something that intimate about him disintegrate his mysterious aura. We learnt that Raphaels shits. Yeah, absolutely astonishing. Reminding us that he's exactly at the same level as us. Like the title said, despite his charming manners, his eloquence, his theatrical gestures... He's still human, hells, part human.

2. In the Devil's house.

The first time we meet Raphael, he wastes no time in bringing us to his home, on his own terms. We only see one room, and this is what we see:

Luxurious place, lavish displays of food, ordered furniture... Promising, right? This is how Raphael wants to give as a first impression. I think this scene is perfect as a metaphor. Remember what Gale said? He's taking us to dinner! Like a date, he wants to impress us, seduce us.

But when we're back to this place during our improvised visit, what do we see?

Rotten food. Blood. Skeletons. Mess. Remind me of my room before I have to rush to clean everything because a friend comes over.

By choosing to enter Raphael's home, into his privacy, the game takes us on a tour of his home: we discover what is hidden behind Raphael's character. It is of course expected that we discover his secrets and/or aspects of his personality that he would not wish to reveal, at least not before we make a deal with him.

Haarlep, his incubus, also participates in this demystification. Through them, we can learn about Raphael's sexuality (I'll be quick on this since @bitethedevil did some really good analysis posts about it):

Raphael is only attracted to himself (hence Haarlep's appearance)

He is a bottom pillow prince

And he doesn't last in bed (a valuable information that can be used to anger Raphael later)

Once again, this is another very intimate aspect that is revealed to us. I'm sorry to say it, but Haarlep basically plays the same role as the chamber pot to accentuate the intimacy of the place and also to ridicule Raphael, thus revealing to us what he really is.

3. Raphael hates his father.

Our favorite cambion is having daddy issues, and the chamber pot seems like a nice response to the statue his dad gave him. It's a "blink and you'll miss it" kind of detail, but it's funny to point it out. Show don't tell as it's finest.

4. How bad it is to sell your soul to Raphael.

This one is easy... The Shit Bucket Guy is an example of Raphael's cruelty : "This is what could happen to you if you make a contract with Raphael."

Sure, it's funny because the whole thing is ridiculous: "Guardian of his chamber pot? Seriously?", but it's hard to really laugh at it if you take into account the other eternal debtors. The whole place is designed to make you uncomfortable, because it's not treated as a joke. They had a life, had to ask Raphael for help, and are now reduced to doing something degrading until the end of time. They don't even have a name anymore. They could be your Tav/Durge or your companions...

Suddenly, the temptation to make a contract with Raphael is less appealing after seeing all this, isn't it?

Conclusion : Now the question that burns our lips : What could this guy have done to him to be reduced to this? And why?

My first instinct when I met this character was to think, "oh boy, you must have really pissed off Raphael..." let's be honest, it's the kind of torture you could imagine to your worst enemy or at least a very annoying one.

It could be that, or maybe, mayyybe...

Remember Mephistopheles' statue?

What if Raphael was SO annoyed by this gift that he woke up one day thinking "fuck my dad, fuck his gift" and decided to literally shit on him by putting a chamber pot in front of this statue to express his thanks. And just like any narcissist/paranoid guy, he named a "guard" to be sure no one would spy on him through this (it sounds delirious, but again, we learn that Haarlep was send to distract Raphael, so why not?)

Sure, maybe Shit Bucket Guy annoyed Raphael in the past, but wouldn't that be kinda fucked up that this guy didn't do anything that would justify this treatment? He's just a dude, and Raphael is just a pissed-off daddy's boy (and a very mature one).

Or maybe, Raphael just thinks it's funny. And who are we to discuss a devil's sense of humor?

In any case, sorry Shit Bucket Guy, but it wasn't your lucky day.

PS: Hush, I can hear you wondering "do you think Raphael is scat???" and on this subject I would say: I don't think so, his narcissism is there after all, but he also seems really into humiliation. So maybe it's for the best we don't really know the answer to this question.

After all, only Haarlep can judge him (so the bar is already on the floor).

[specialgradefckr]

In lion society, the female is the hunter, the caregiver, but also the one stuck in a tough position. She doesn’t choose who mates with her, and she can’t leave the pride. She’s bred over and over again, and her worth is measured by how many cubs she can produce. The pride is made up of a core group of related females who stay for life, creating a strong family bond. But the throne, the leadership, is always male and always up for grabs. Male coalitions invade prides, kill the resident males, and take control of the females. Once they win, they kill any cubs that aren’t theirs, even the youngest ones, so the females can mate again. Sometimes, a dominant male will have a favorite lioness he mates with more often and shows more care for, but it’s never truly loyal he still mates with the others when needed.

I can definitely see that kind of twisted Yandere SatoSugu dynamic playing out in a lion-pride-inspired setup. Suguru would probably be the main strategist—the one who plans the invasions and orders the pride takeovers—while Satoru’s the one out there actually doing it, powerful and unstoppable. They’d have other lionesses, sure, and they’d mate with them too, but the reader would be the favorite—the one they always come back to.

Even then, their love would be possessive, dark, and controlling. If the reader had cubs, especially ones not strong enough or born at the wrong time, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill them—just to get her back into heat and mate with her again. It’s not out of cruelty, but out of obsession. She’s theirs, and they don’t want anything in the way of that bond.

They might allow a few male cubs to live, though especially the strong ones not to pass on a legacy, but as backup. Even if no one could ever defeat Satoru or Suguru (not even at the end), they’re too smart to ignore the long game. Still, they’d never keep any of the reader’s sons too close, because if those sons stayed in the group, she wouldn’t be able to mate with them and Suguru and Satoru aren’t about to let anyone else touch what they see as theirs.

if the reader were to die early, and she had a daughter, there’s no way Satoru or Suguru would ever let that daughter leave the pride. She’s a living piece of her the one they loved, and even if they’d never admit it, they’d cling to that protect her, keep her close, maybe even raise her to be…

That’s enough for now. I ended up creating an entire mythos today a very cringe one to.

bestie this is so cool! hybrid aus are fun, but i almost always do it in the context of hybrids being pets - hybrids in the wild? hybrids following non-human social structures in animal-kingdom approved (and thus super fucked up) ways? absolutely fascinating as a concept!

this is pretty long, and it's got a lot to it! there's parts that are a bigger hit with me, and parts i'm not huge on. i like cheating as long as it's contained to reader-satoru-suguru, but outright non-monogamy really only works for me when characters are going through a fwb phase or something.

the breeding you over and over, though, and potentially killing your offspring to breed you again - that's really delicious, and dark, and i could see it being truly bleak and heartbreaking if the plot point were to be really taken seriously.

imagine having this litter of cute cubs who nurse from you, and learn to play and walk and purr and cuddle, and they try to play with their fathers only to be batted around... or worse (this does happen with real lions).

always watching in anxiety while your cubs interact with satoru or suguru; maybe whoever's not "playing" with the cub is sitting next to you, holding you in place, nipping and laughing and asking you what you're so worried about...

better play nice with them if you want this litter to last. they're always torn from you too soon, too... hearing your child's cries for their mom as you're forced to leave them behind bc otherwise their fathers will kill them :(

you could also have satoru and suguru who tolerate each other... but they can't tolerate each other's children, and that's why they keep killing your children. the only way any of them survive is if you correctly guess who the father is, and distract the other one with your body so your children have a chance to grow up before you can get them away...

anyways! really fun concept here! i don't think the lion/pride setting is my thing, but you've got a great take on it here! thank you for sharing <3

[princelylove]

Sometimes it just feels better to turn your brain off and let someone else do aaaallll of the thinking for you.

Dumbification comes in a few different forms. Dollification and bimbofication, mainly. What's the difference?

Wellll. Dollification could be a number of things. People like all different kinds of dolls. Porcelain ones that sit on the shelf and do nothing but collect dust all day, action figures that can be posed, sex dolls that you inflate like a balloon and have your way with, rag dolls that have been through the war, actual stuffed animals, the list goes on. A doll is anything their owner wants them to be that day. That's what playing pretend is all about!

I see quite a few of my yandere interpretations being into dollifcation for their darling. Unfortunately not many for themself, but it's alright.

I think it's obvious that Jotaro loves dolls. Porcelain dolls, those fabric dolls with frilly dresses... he thinks they're just oh-so-cute. It's a shame they break so easily. He usually would go for someone that's already a bit doll-like- maybe their skin resembles porcelain, or their fashion sense makes for an obvious comparison.

I've spoken a bit in the past about Jotaro's fascination with lolita fashion, but it really does make a little too much sense to me. It scratches an itch for him. You either get it or you don't. The 'sweeter' styles- classic lolita, sweet lolita, hime lolita, even gothic lolita, they're all appealing. It's not necessarily the colors, it's about the amount of frills and lace and layers. He probably has a thing for petticoats because of it.

Jotaro's ideal day with his favorite dolly is nothing special. He'd prefer his doll on a shelf, safe and sound from the elements. It's not that he's a collector, it's that his darling is his prized possession. Taking care of it makes sense. He just wishes you'd stop thinking so much.

Yukako thinks you're better when you're finally broken in. You're just so much cuter when you let her dress you up and take you out! It irks her that you're not talking, but she can get you a voice box! Communication cards? Something! Maybe you're just shy. Aha. Ahahahahahahahahahahha.

She thinks a darling with a modern, feminine fashion sense is the cutest. Girly, but fitting for her age. If that isn't what she initially wears, Yukako has no problem gifting her some pieces here and there until her closet is full of cute clothes! Or, just. You know. Kidnapping her and not giving her any say in the matter. Either works. Have fun taking lots of pictures with Yukako!

There's a lot of yandere interpretations of mine that enjoy 'total bombshells,' but what about an actual bimbo? For some yanderes, it's about taking an entirely normal person and making them a mindless slut, for others it's about trapping one out in the wild and taking it home. It's your own little barbie! Or a bratz doll, depending on their style, I guess. Who can really tell?

Pannacotta isn't the type to openly degrade someone, his insults take a second or two to really process. He loves the adorable look on your face while you're thinking about it. Really, he's fine with you dressing however you want to, he just wanted you to know that it's fine in the first place. You know, some people don't prefer their girlfriends to dress like that, but he doesn't mind at all.

He knows how to keep his darling in the mindset. I think I've spoken a bit about Pannacotta's inclination for mind games and conditioning, of course he's into the process of bimbofication. So rewarding to do it himself, even more rewarding to keep his darling in such a state. It's a slow process, but it's worth it. He's more patient than his interactions with Narancia would have you believe. You're not Narancia, are you? Gooood, no you're not. It's simple, really. Reward behaviors you want to repeat, punish behaviors you want to stop. The reward depends on the darling, but the punishment.... it's Pannacotta. You can guess.

His conditioning is very slow. It takes a while to break someone in, but it takes an even longer while to learn someone's exact niche. He starts off by 'helping' with simple things. Things you can absolutely do by yourself, but are currently having an issue with. He'll use a machine for you, like a coffee machine or a ticket machine. Can't think of a word? Tell him the definition, he'll help. Pannacotta's gentle and firm, and fine with taking the time to learn what makes his darling tick. He loves to study, anyway. He'll figure out what his darling appreciates, and harp on it. It's often infantilizing, but hey, Panna's just Like That. Oftentimes both Guido and Narancia will excuse his behavior for him, the guy's a bit of a control freak. Just let him have whatever he's worried about and the guy'll go away.

He likes to emphasize the syllables in 'big' words here and there for you. Slowly says them, even. It's im...pera...tive... that you don't forget to call him back later.

Jolyne has never felt comfortable embracing her girlier side, she appreciates people that are openly feminine and comfortable about it. She just has a sort of mental block when it comes to her own femininity- she used to love being called "Jojo," and God knows what other cutesy, girly names, but now cringes at the thought. To her, femininity is vulnerability, and she's just not ready to embrace her old self again. Pretending- no, really being- tough is her new way of life. A darling that's already feminine, and needs her.... it's hitting a niche she didn't think she'd like.

Honestly, the dumber they are, the better. The first time Jolyne ever heard her darling say "Huuuh?" it was love. She wouldn't consider herself to be above average when it comes to stuff like that, but she's smart enough, in her eyes. She loooves when her darling asks her questions- rely on her. Keep coming to her. No, she's got zero fuckin' idea how half of the shit you're asking about works, but she can read something and sum it up for you. Maybe read it to you, add in a few extra words she thinks you don't know... (Author's note: Jolyne actually does know some niche things, she pulls out a Mobius strip in canon. Her intelligence and creativity is negated by the fact that darling is probably asking if she knows if there's carbs in butter. No idea, sweetheart.... no idea. Let's go look.)

Jolyne isn't really one for mind games, so breaking in her darling isn't going to come naturally. She's more likely to fall for someone that's already like that, or shows signs of it. Jolyne's someone that struggles to use her words, but finds it easy to do things for someone she likes or bring them gifts. Girls like you like makeup, yeah? Here. She'll leave it where only you could find it- assuming you're both in jail, she'd put it in your bed, under the covers. Seriously prays you aren't all tuckered out after headcount and don't just drop your dead weight on this palette she had to fork over a benjamin for....

It's worth it when she gets to watch your lips as you talk. Perfect, glossy.... sooo much happier now that she's helping you express yourself... Huh? She heard you, yeah. Say it again though, but slower...

[thetrashthatsmilesback]

So building off the "Sora is now fictional" idea, Roxas is more of a person than Sora is.

Lower your pitchforks and hear me out. This isn't a "Roxas is just Sora but actually interesting" post. I find those fucking annoying as well, and I prefer Roxas to Sora (though you wouldn't be able to tell based on my posts - sue me, the concept of hearts living inside each other and how that would effect the og person is too fascinating to ignore... which actually leads me into the main point of this post)

Roxas fought tooth and nail to be seen as an individual. He carved his identity out of rock while everyone around him acted like a demolition team trying to destroy it at every moment.

Sora willingly gives up his identity. While Roxas is firm in who he is, even in the moments where he doubts his humanity, Sora is a chameleon. From the obvious things such as hiding his darkness to the more subtle way his actual design changes across even individual games. Im going to actually split this up into two parts - Sora loaing his identity to those he interacts with and Sora losing his identity to those within his own heart.

- Sora when it comes to those outside of Sora's heart, Sora is whatever the person at that moment needs. He's the light for Riku, he's a confidante for various Disney characters, he's the unchanging (stable, steady) knight in armor for Kairi, he's the joyful companion to Goofy and Donald, but simultaneously the avenging angel of the side of light towards the nobodies. Sora is what he needs to be at any given moment because his driving force is his loyalty to his friends. Sora doesn't have an identity he clings to outside of his loyalty. It's his strongest unchanging trait. "Sora is light!" Except for when he admits to Riku he struggles with darkness and agrees to be the darkness. Except for when overuse of his drive forms (overuse of reliance on his friends) turns him into a pseudoheartless. Except for when rage over takes him and he transforms infront of everybody into a dark form to attack Xehanort after Kairi dies. Sora is a light for those who need him to be, but Sora himself is not pure light. Which actually brings me to my next section.

People have talked at length about Sora being less intelligent in later games than he was in kh1 and kh2, with the worst being in 3D, but I think to an extent this is also Sora molding himself (on top of flanderization by the writers). Sora is goofy and silly to those who need it. Think about who he acts "dumb" around. Its the newly reformed scientists, or those who need a confidence boost (he allows people to overexplain to him). We see in re:mind that kh3 Sora never once lost his intelligence from the previous games, but he allows others to call him forgetful/silly/behind (which he literally is, his memories are objectively fucked why are they mocking him for memories they never worked to help him restore agh *rips hair out). Sora knows they need someone to lighten things, or to explain to in order to think things through, and so there he is. "I don't computer, so you do that," he says while piloting a ship. He's talking to the newly reformed scientists, he knows that this is their chance to solidify themselves on the side of light, and so he sends them off to do their work without his help.

- for those inside his heart, there's a ton to talk about but I'm going to begin with the bridge I used from the first part. Every light has a balancing darkness. The closer you are to the light, the greater your darkness grows. Darkness is a shadow (which is why Sora losing his shadow when in anti form is not only a cool as fuck animation detail but important in terms of lore) so what does that mean for Sora who housed Ventus's heart of pure light within his own? People have commented that sora's darkness has grown since the first game, and others have pointed out that the hollow in the space of the heart in the Darkseid is obviously related to Sora's capacity to hide others within his own heart, and the fact that Sora's name doesn't only translate to "sky" but can be translated as "void"... thats all relevant but im at work so I'm not going to get too much into that at this moment. instead I'm going to point out that if his heart was holding a heart of pure light (two at one point with kairi), and all hearts except for those which either belong to princesses of light OR which are artificially split from their darkness must have darkness inside of their hearts. Riku shows that this darkness is about balance for light (I'm not getting into the "Riku actually has more light in his heart than Sora" meta arguments, though I do agree that the text is open to that interpretation and I enjoy the theory). If Sora had a heart of pure light within him, then he would have to artificially darken his own heart to keep balance.

It's also further than taking on the pain of Roxas and Xion. We see the way he gives himself up for those in his heart with his actual actions and looks. Sora (and Roxas, God i wish they'd explore more what it means to be the nobody of two hearts rather than one or if roxas is actually Ven's nobody instead of Sora's but Roxas's arc is over sadly) walks with his arms behind his head the way Ventus does. Many people have pointed out that Sora's hair is decidedly a lighter color after the KH2 prologue than at any other point in series (including in official art and posters), leading many to theorize that he actually changed appearance in response to Roxas's blond hair.

Even at the times when Roxas gives into the idea that he himself is not an individual, or implies that he and sora truly are one ("I know he'll do it, because he's me,") there's still the fight within him that he *is* a person with a distinct personality and way of being.

Sora doesnt have a distinct way of existing. Sora is what others require at that moment. This almost ties into the whole "Sora went to the realm of fiction" thing. "Sora the Concept" has become an ideal of whatever those around him invision him being at that moment while "Sora the Person" has slowly dissipated behind layers of acting.

So yeah, Roxas is more of a person than Sora is. Sora has become a concept, the idealized version of himself that others came up with, and which he molded himself to fit, losing his personhood in the process.

Sorry if this is incomprehensible. I'm at work and didn't take my meds 🤙

[heroesrest64]

Heroes as Monsters

So this whole idea came from me listening to Epic the Musical religiously over the past few months, as well as a fascination with Greek mythology in general. There was a bunch of research for each of the heroes, but if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear ‘em!

Skyward Sword Link/Sky: Harpy (Born)

A half-bird, half-human monster often associated with storms. The thing that really stuck out to me, and convinced me that Sky would be a harpy was the fact that Harpies are known to snatch up evil people and drag them down to the underworld. To me, this trait was pretty similar to how Sky banished Demise (constantly sealing him away back underground throughout the game)

MC & FS Link/ Four: Gorgon (born) Hyrda (transformation)

Gorgons are humanoid snake creatures known to turn people to stone with just one look. This called to mind Vaati turning the citizens of Hyrule to stone for me, as least. Obviously it’s not Four himself doing these acts, but I thought it was a nice connection. Four would also have another form- a Hyrda transformation that was a blessing from the gods. Pretty much, his life would be the reverse of Minish Cap- a regular gorgon when interacting with people, but turns huge to handle trials set up by the gods and when fighting monsters tend to times his normal size.

LoZ & LoZ:AoL Link/ Hyrule: Nymph (Born)

A nature spirit often compared to fairies. I was specifically thinking about Dryads, but I felt like that would’ve tied him down to one specific tree, which just didn’t feel right to me. Nymphs are often depicted with healing properties, which fits our Hero of Hyrule quite well, methinks. They’re also talented in other magics, which, again, fits Hyrule.

Alttp & LA & OoS & OoA (etc.) Link/ Legend: Satyr (born) & Jackelope (curse)

Starts in Greek mythology are often seen as literal party animals (in more ways than one). However, they’re also known to be quite cunning, quick on their feet, and are nearly never seen without an instrument in hand. While not a perfect match, I felt like these last few traits, at least, fit our Hero of Legend quite well. After his first adventure in this worlds equivalent of ALttP, Legend was cursed to become a jackelope when subjected to dark magic, similar to his bunny form.

Wind Waker Link/ Wind: Siren (Born)

A sea-faring creature known to sing sailors to their dooms and drag them to the bottom of the ocean to be feasted on. Wind definitely has a bit of a musical motif going for him, given the namesake of his game. I also want to note that sirens are thought to live in pods, this familial bond mirroring one of the only Links with more than one known family member to his name, and the whole reason for him starting his journey in the first place.

BotW & TotK Link/ Wild: Centaur (Born)

While most centaurs only live for around 60 years, there is a certain nearly immortal centaur that is of note to me. Chiron, the centaur known for training up a majority of the famous heroes in Greek mythology. He was apparently given immortality to carry on his duties, which reflected the hundred year slumber Wild went through on his own adventure. Other notable traits that sold me on this pairing were Wild’s affinity for horses (he’s one of if not THE only Link who can care for multiple horses), as well as some fanart I’ve seen of him either being a centaur himself or being some sort of lynel hybrid. Unfortunately, I can’t unsee him as some sort of centaur-ish little guy.

Hyrule Warriors Link/ Warriors: Minotaur (Born)

Born as a martyr, the Minotaur is a monster in Greek mythology who never really got a chance. He was thrust into the labyrinth from a young age, forced to fight as entertainment in some cases. Warriors, in the meantime, was a man born with the Sprit of the Hero, and became an object of desire because of it. He was thrust into war because of his spirit which he could not control, forced to fight droves upon droves of monsters and other enemies. Idk, I feel like I don’t need to elaborate that much more.

Twilight Princess Link/ Twilight: Werewolf (born) Cerberus (curse)

There actually aren’t a lot of werewolf’s in Greek mythology- the closest thing would be Lycaon, the king who chopped up his son and served him to Zeus and got cursed into becoming a wolf. However, Teilight is a descendant of Time, who himself is a monster, so I figured I’d give him a little bit of natural monster-ness to him from the get-go. Where the fun really comes in is his curse. Cerberus is the three headed guard dog of Hades, often standing guard at the gates. Seeing as the Twilight Realm is a bit of a hell itself, I thought it made sense for Twilight to be cursed into a creature from the Greek version of Hell. And of course, Cerberus is a very well-known hell hound, it just felt like the obvious pick.

OoT & MM Link/ Time: Typhon (Born)

Typhon is a Giant in Greek mythology born from Gaia, or Mother Earth. He is known as the Father of Monsters and a his name is where we get the word for Typhoons- great and uncontrollable storms. He was also imprisoned in Tartarus after failing to overthrow Zeus. Starting from the first point- in this canon, I feel like Gaia would be the Great Deku Tree, who obviously raised Time from a very young age until his untimely death. As for the father of monsters thing- Time is literally the reason we have three different timelines, each with its own hero to carry on the legacy, and one of them is his flesh and blood descendant. Considering the heroes are all monsters in this au, it would make sense for Time to be considered the Father of Monsters (also side note: Malon is Echidna in this one :). As for the typhoons- Time literally made a paradox surrounding the Song of Storms idk how much more I have to say on this point. As for the last point- I feel like it mirrors Times failure to defeat Ganon initially, and is sort of indicative of his 7 year slumber while he gained more power before trying again. Who knows, maybe Typhon is raring to overthrow Zeus in the coming years lol.

Anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk-

[bananawaddledee]

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welcome to my art blog :) down below are some things u can read before going to look at some more of my art ^^

you can call me leila / banana! 👍 

my pronouns are she/her. my ethnicity is south korean! 🇰🇷 my age is below 18.

some stuff about me below:

-INFP (mediator)

-chronic overthinker (i might edit my posts a lot because i don’t want to sound stupid)

-professional yapper (please send in asks they are rlly fun to answer!!!)

-big airhead (i tend to forget and get distracted really easily, so sorry if i don’t answer an ask or something like that for a while)

-i enjoy interacting with followers & making friends! don’t hesitate to reach out 👍

-may or may not have adhd 💀 pls be patient lol

-i hyperfixate very intensely 💁‍♀️

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here are some things that i am currently obsessed with!!1! 

-vocaloid/project sekai (I LOVE VIVID BAD SQUAD AND SHIZUKU!!)(RIN IS MY FAVORITE VOCALOID!! I ALSO LOVE TETO)

-persona / shin megami tensei series

-everything kirby related

-the legend of zelda series

-BIRDS!!!!! ESPECIALLY PARROTS!!

-eve (<- the music artist) (you might know him from his famous songs like dramaturgy or kakai kitan!)

-animal crossing series

-oneshot (the game)

-I ALSO LOVE Y2K AESTHETICS / MUSIC / FASHION !! (i’m a professional anemoia experiencer )

-STARS AND SPARKLY STUFF AND WATER!!

-splatoon and sky:cotl (not as much as the other stuff)

i know a tiny bit about games like mouthwashing, okami, stray, no one lives under the lighthouse, home safety hotline, still wakes the deep, astro bot, risk of rain, ori and the will of wisps/blind forest, cuphead, pokémon, and… that’s all i can remember for now 😭 i’m terrified of horror games but they also fascinate me 💀🙏

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characters i relate to:

-futaba sakura (persona 5)

-sunny (omori)

yeah thats it 👍 will probably add more later (i wont vent on this blog dw)

characters i am 100% normal about (/j):

-toya aoyagi (project sekai)

-shizuku hinomori (also project sekai)

-kasane teto (synthv/utau)

-urbosa (botw)

-futaba again

-HIFUMI TOGO AAAHUUGHHH

-ALSO MITSURU KIRIJO (persona 3)

-FEMC (ALSO PERSONA 3)

-momo yaoyorozu (my hero academia) (i like her personality but not her outfit / the way she’s treated ☹️☹️)

-literally everyone in nichijou especially yukko

-koushi sugawara (haikyuu) (im still reading the manga but my english teacher doesn’t have vol. 11 😢)

(i love the mature character archetype)(<- futaba and yukko definitely have mature personalities trust me bro 💯)

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special section for animes that i love / would reccomend:

-nichijou/my ordinary life

-DO IT YOURSELF!!

-march comes in like a lion

-sweetness & lightning

-little witch academia

-keep your hands off eizouken!!

-den-noh coil

mangas i would reccomend:

-yotsuba&!

-ascendance of a bookworm (i prefer the manga over the anime)

-chi’s sweet home

-penguin & house

-blank canvas (akiko higashimura)

if i happen to reblog your post onto my main and not my actual reblog acct then congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!! you get nothing

discriminatory or inappropriate accounts / people are not allowed to interact with this account. also, i will not be answering donation asks.

ok that’s all thanks for reading all the way down to here!!! ^^

[desired-misery]

You know what would have been fascinating/added some even more nuance/thought provoking questions to Detroit: Become Human?

Is having androids that aren't as 'realistic' as what the game is saying there is everywhere. Like... do agricultural workers need to be that human-like when clearly almost everything is automated? Why would some androids be the same level of realism (in terms of their face/apperance) if their sole purpose and design is industrial work? [In a practical/real life sense, CyberLife would have designed these androids to visually be different/not waste resources and money on making the androids who don't interact with people/who don't NEED to emote as well to do their jobs... not have realistic faces.]

Also, consider previous generation androids. Surely the first androids were not as polished and as realistic as later generations. At what point is an android considered 'human' enough to have the rights Markus is fighting for? Where is the public (and Markus himself) going "Okay, you guys are real now I guess. But those ones aren't technically androids, right? Not like you."

Markus (and everyone else) struggling with the concept of at what point is artificial intelligence actually intelligent? Or, give me Markus saying "no, they are capable of being self-aware/sentient." But humans going.... "but it's a robot?" And Markus having to fight an uphill battle of "just because it doesn't look human enough or 'act' human enough for you, doesn't mean it's not sentient. They are. It's just different."

What does Markus think of CyberLife's animal androids? Are they also capable of going deviant? Probably, right? Remember that polar bear in Zlatko's house? Surely CyberLife did NOT design animal androids to attack people. So... it's deviant.

Which implies that whatever code CyberLife is using as it's base of behavior (the behavior modifying/reactive/responsive/environment and self awareness) is 'corrupt' with the deviancy code. Which implies that it's tied to "their intelligence". So... the question is... when did Kamski plant that code? Was it always there? Did he set up the new code a few generations ago as he noticed androids getting more intelligent/lifelike?

[Because I am sorry, David Cage, there is no way the Chloe that premiered the concept of androids was at the same level of complexity as what is walking around in 2038. That's not how technology works in terms of advancement. No way CyberLife hasn't been adding/building onto the existing code even if Kamski refused to touch it/saying it was perfect.]

This line of thinking opens up the allegory of "do disabled people gets rights, too?" Because of a perceived lack of same-level intelligence [I am probably not wording this correctly, forgive me]. But that is still an issue TODAY. In 2025. You gets less rights if you are legally disabled. Hell, people treat you differently if you are PERCEIVED as being disabled. [The Americans with Disability Act literally specifies that people who can be perceived to be disabled also get these same protections against discrimination, regardless if they *actually have* a disability. I believe the example given is like, scars on one's face. Even if they aren't a disabling health condition, the fact that people could see you as disabled means you are still protected against discrimination].

Give me Markus having to navigate all of this. [Obviously did not expect Cage to think of this-- or maybe he did and he backed out-- but honestly, I would have probably been unhappy to see how he handled this if he did]. Give me Markus suddenly getting a lot of support and advice from other historically marginalized groups who help him navigate legislation and the emotional reaction to it. [I don't care how intelligent androids are-- these are new situations. And these are topics Markus cares about/has emotional attachment do. He can't do it alone. Or, rather, he feels more secure getting support from people who have fought this fight before.

***forever mad that Cage left out the idea that plenty of people would have gone to bat for androids/the cause as soon as there was any possible evidence that androids are sentient. Give me a growing movement of people who recognize androids as sentient that started as soon as the first deviancy case made headlines.]

Give me androids rights that aren't tied to "look at how closely we resemble a able-bodied, neurological human".

[night-hours]

Hi everyone! It's Zu here

I kinda dabbled in penpalling last year but I just recently started to take it more seriously. I'm currently looking for new penpals to write to!

🐢 About me

I'm 28, my pronouns are she/her and I live in Mexico City. I'm a lesbian and I love meeting people within the queer community. I majored in illustration but I didn't really love it so I pivoted to teaching, which turned out to be my true passion. (It was quite a surprise tbh, because I'm rather shy and introverted).

🪐 Interests and stuff I love to talk about

Word games (crosswords, Scrabble, Wordle) and guessing games. Sudoku. Junk journaling. Drawing with ink and watercolors. Synesthesia! (mine is the grapheme-color type) and how it plays out across different languages. And going along those lines, I love talking about color.

Animals of any kind (especially my dog, but I also adore cats and deep sea animals and all animals hahahah). Stargazing, constellations and the night sky. Trying food and trying to cook interesting food. I'm fascinated by sensory experiences (smells, sounds) and their connection to memories. I have a penchant for spices, tea and aromatic plants.

Some stories and music I've intensely gravitated to: The Power of the Dog (book and movie), Carol (book and movie), After Yang (movie), On a sunbeam (graphic novel), Buddha Mountain (movie), The Lost Daughter (book and movie), La strada che va in città (book), Abbott Elementary (tv show), Ostium (fictional podcast), Kendrick Lamar's "Mr Morale and the Big Steppers", Sampha's "Lahai".

And of course, everything language: being a language learner, etymologies, words that are just beautiful, funny words, pragmatics, sociolinguistic phenomena, the politics of language.

🖌️ Penpalliing ideas

I could write to you in Spanish, English or Italian, and while I couldn't do it as proficiently, I'd also be able to write to you in German or Mandarin (: If you speak or study any languages that weren't mentioned above, I will first frolic in circles and then proceed to learn at least some words in your language to interact with you.

I'm very open to using penpalling as a means of exchanging languages! Wanna make corrections to my letters, or wanna receive corrections from this Spanish speaker? I'm in! Wanna share letters written in more than one language? Please do (:

But of course this doesn't have to be language-centered. I guess what I'm really looking for is having something meaningful to communicate. So my letters might contain drawings of interesting objects or places, recipes I invented or tried to cook, ephemera, stories about everyday life in my city, riddles, words I heard for the first time.

📨How to start

I'd rather chat with you a bit before sending letters, just to get to know you, and to find conversation topics (: I'd prefer to do so by dm, but we can choose what suits us best.

So yeah, once we feel that's done, we'd exchange our mailing info! And while I'm mainly seeking to do snail mail, it's perfectly fine if we decide to keep it digital.

Please keep in mind that I only want to exchange mailing info with people above 18 (:

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Thank you for reading all the way down to this point!

[kaydeefalls]

A-Z ask game: B, H, M, U!

Sweet, thanks!

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

The first one that comes to mind is going back a ways, which is Arthur/Eames for Inception. (Which is one of those fandoms I've read a LOT in, but have only written one proper fic for, not counting fusions.) I came out of that movie assuming that Arthur/Cobb would be the dominant slash pairing, given the dynamics of their canon relationship, and was very surprised that Arthur was overwhelmingly being paired with Eames instead. But the fics were very, very good, so I was quickly won over.

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

Vast majority for me is live action movies or TV shows - I don't have a particular preference for one over the other. I think maybe I tend to tilt more toward movies when it comes to my primary fandoms? Probably because there's a more contained source material to work with, which is my playground of choice - gives me a chance to marinate in the existing world and test its boundaries. The live action is just personal preference in terms of the media I engage with. Books can make great fandoms, too, but they tend to have lower overall engagement overall, and I tend toward more active fandoms - lots of fics to read make me more likely to start writing my own.

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

This is strongly NOT how I engage with fandoms. I never want to picture myself in them or imagine interacting with characters in person, it completely throws me out of my enjoyment of the stories. Just how my brain is wired. So the closest I can say is that teenage me would have loved a friend group like the Heartstopper squad (and my actual high school friends had a very similar vibe, though almost none of us realized we were LGBTQ+ at the time); current me wouldn't mind grabbing drinks with Mr. Ajayi. He seems like he'd be fun to hang out with at a gay bar.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

SO MANY. At the moment, top of mind:

Nick Nelson from Heartstopper, which actively makes me annoyed with myself because he is the stereotypical Fandom Favorite and I'd like to pretend I have more discerning taste. But I don't. I just really fucking love him as a character. He's just so empathetic and kind and emotionally intelligent when it's about anyone but himself, and a bit of a goofball, and the definition of bisexual disaster.

Quynh from Old Guard, partly because we honestly don't have much of her in canon yet and she is the character I'm most excited to see more of in 2o2g. I'm tilting heavily into the femslash side for TOG fandom at the moment. Honestly, Nile is probably my actual favorite, and I'm super stoked to see more of her story as well, but Quynh just fascinates me.

And let's hop back to my very first fandom, because Dana Scully is my forever girl, okay? She is flawless in all of her many flaws. I love her to the moon and back. Smart and capable and secretly quite funny and yeah.

(Alphabet askmeme!)

[yoccu]

So I got the newest tamagotchi model that just released (Tamagotchi Paradise) because I am always interested in virtual pets and it’s nothing super astonishing, it’s still Literally Toy For Children, but I’m fascinated by it because it’s the biggest shakeup in the like. Design ethos I’ve seen for the brand since like 1998 in a way I find SUPER interesting but also I am nothing like an expert on the subject so I don’t exactly wanna go all out talking about it.

But I will anyway!!!!!!!

Suffice to say, for the curious, that I said 1998 because that was when there were two models, Tamagotchi Ocean and Tamagotchi Garden (in English, the latter is more correctly translated as Tamagotchi Forest) where you basically raised fish or bug themed tamagotchi. I was interested for a while in perhaps hunting one down until I saw that these devices are notoriously difficult to keep your tamagotchis alive in and I get Sad when my tamas eat it so it wasn’t worth the significant cost of getting a vintage device.

Since that point, the model for adding features and complexity has involved tamagotchis not just being funny little Creatures, but creatures who experience a very modern human way of life. The tamagotchi Connection line I played when it was in stores when I was a teenager, and in that, your tamagotchi goes to preschool, normal school, and then goes on to get a job where you go play mini games for a regular goddamn salary. Since then, my understanding has been that this has been THE direction for tamagotchi. When I got back into it a few years ago, the tamagotchi didn’t have a job, but could go to the park, the arcade, talk to other tamagotchis, and get married. I believe they released a game somewhat recently where you also go to metropolitan areas with other tamagotchi NPCs who are all basically People and do life-sim stuff. I noticed newer tamagotchi designs were becoming more complex and more anthropomorphic—they have become more like funny little people than funny little animals.

THIS IS NO LONGER THE CASE

In a move I find very interesting, they’ve completely switched gears with the release of this single device. The tamagotchi you raise include some of the old favorites from VERY early days, but the majority of the designs are brand new, and are sometimes just literally An Animal From Real Life. When you clean up poop (WHICH ALL THE ADULT PEOPLE TAMAGOTCHIS WITH DEGREES STILL NEEDED YOU TO DO???), a DIFFERENT, more anthropomorphic (indicated by wearing clothes and ostensibly having a job) tamagotchi shows up and does it “for you,” looking very particularly like some sort of zookeeper. The pet you raise turns into a…bigger animal. You put enrichment toys in the area you have unlocked and they interact with them like animals would, even the very first one I got which is one of the old bipedal types. They don’t talk, they do not receive education, and from what I understand if you connect with another device they just Produce an egg rather than like. Marrying each other.

So the interesting thing to me is after like 30 years they’ve fully shed the model of tamagotchi pets living people lives and are trying their hand at: what if they were a bunch of animals and you just looked after them, which is a bold enough move that I’m actually really surprised by it. I think it’s smart. It definitely is way, way more interesting to me personally.

I’ve also noticed other changes like drastically changing the amount of time you need to spend interacting with the pet in order for it to stay alive, and how frequently you can make care mistakes. There’s a built in function for a “tama sitter” which costs money and only lasts until evening that day, but keep in mind some tamagotchi devices used to require that you do things like open the clock to change the time because that was the ONLY way to get away with needing to be away from it for several hours bc at some point they got rid of a pause function that existed in very early models. I’ve noticed that the device chirps less, especially in the baby stage, and that overall I can easily go hours not engaging with the device without suffering any consequence. It also allows you to CHOOSE when the tamagotchi goes to sleep if you look at the device past a certain time, which is great for anyone (children!!!!) who need to put things like that away for the night. You can also choose to wake it up without any negative consequence.

All of that indicates to me that they’re consciously trying to move away from a model that ropes you in to full concentration on the toy for extended periods of time and reluctance to go away from it to tend to other things, which like, is great. As much as I like them, that function becomes stressful, and with kids in mind as the target audience, it’s GOOD to have them not constantly worrying if their weird little digital guy has dropped dead or not.

So im enjoying it so far! I feel much less stressed than I have with previous models, and most of all, I no longer have to be upset that my child I raised who has a job and a wife and a house is constantly shitting on the floor for some reason. Now, it’s an animal who lives outside and has someone whose job it is to clean their enclosures.

And finally, as always, shouting out my recent most favorite virtual pet app Boing-Boing Animals for basically already being exactly this model but more forgiving and it lets you change the poop icons into little hearts and is very very cute and fun.

If you feel the virtual pet bug biting, go download that, it’s made by one person as far as I can tell and it’s way better than any tamagotchi device I’ve ever owned. You can’t even neglect your pets to death like you can in tamagotchi so you don’t ever have to be sad and they just get kinda hungry and dirty.

[allthingsrancid]

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╰─ ♡ About me!!

୨୧┇Haii!! I’m Price! im 16 and I will soon be making music when i go to college this year, i don’t really know what to put here but i’m Autistic with ADHD so i have special interests/ hyperfixations, my biggest special interests right now are; House Md, Life is strange and Older technology! I collect quite a few things including antique dolls, Cds, Dvds, Sanrio stuff, Crystals and older iphones/macbooks! I love taking pictures and listening to music! :3

୨୧┇Birthday: 18th Oct!

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୨୧┇color: Blue, but i adore pink and green especially together it reminds me a lot of the natural born losers album cover, (i love that album sm!!)

୨୧┇animal: Cats! but i love all animals i think they’re the sweetest and also fascinating.

୨୧┇songs: A house in Nebraska- Ethel Cain, Kept - Crystal Castles, Gods country - Ethel Cain, Alligator Blood- Nicole Dollanganger, Between the bars -Elliot Smith, there’s more but i’ll just link my spotify :3

୨୧┇Tv shows/Movies: I don’t really watch many movies but Mysterious Skin, Look who’s talking and Trainspotting are my faves, and for tv shows i love Bojack Horseman, Daria, House Md, American dad, Futurama, Downtown, breaking bad & skins with my whole heart!! :3

୨୧┇games: I’m not a heavy gamer but i like playing video games when i can play it and pick it up again every few months! My absolute faves are; Life is strange (especially Before the storm!), Silent hill 3, South park the fractured but whole and Ts4!

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୨୧┇Hobbies: Singing, Cosplaying, Bracelet making, collecting, Gaming, Photography, Art, Editing & More!

୨୧┇likes: Popcorn, Mcdonald’s, Slushies, “gardening” (ifykyk), Self care routines & cleaning!! Buying stuff etc..

୨୧┇dislikes: Ketchup, Pizza, people who treat other like shit and always victimise themselves (*cough cough*….my ex), Nathan prescott defenders (not fans y’all are cool but ones who are defending the shit he did), There’s a lot more but i can’t be bothered to write it sorry guys.

୨୧┇Characters I kin/ Heavily associate with: Chloe Price, Chris Miles, Linda Stotch, Heather/ Cheryl Mason, Neil Mccormick.

୨୧┇Favourite Characters: Chloe price, Damon Merrick, Frank Bowers, Gregory House, Chris Miles, There’s a lot more but these are just off the top of my head!

୨୧┇Aesthetics/ Stuff I fw: Morute, Punk, Coquette, Cute core, Trailer park trash, anything pink, run down places, But i’m heavy on Trailers/ Caravans i love them so much i think they’re so gorgeous, especially when taken care of! I also love nostalgic type photos/ older brother core kind of photography i think it’s really cute and nostalgic, something i hope i’ll always be able to embody but in a girly way :3

╰─ ♡ Boundaries!: I am okay with older men & NSFW accounts interacting just make sure you never interact outside of just following or liking my stuff, i honestly find it flattering but i’m uncomfortable with anyone who isn’t a teenager like myself dming me, as i’d much prefer people in my age group privately dming me same goes for comments or reblogs but this only applies if it’s a post with my face/body in it, (This doesn’t apply to cosplay posts) because i really don’t want older people interacting with me in that way, Unless the account they run is sfw then that’s okay for reblogging but basically i just want to make sure people who are older or younger than me know i have boundaries & actually read them before following!! i would also like to note nobody 13 or younger and over 19-26 should really be interacting due to the fact that i do have some content that i reblog that isn’t safe for under that age group and i also just don’t appreciate anyone overly older or younger on my page, People who i encourage to interact would be around 15-19 as i’m 16 & an 08 so my friends irl are all between 15-18 and i always feel more comfortable with that age group. Hope you can all understand! :3

-(No reposts onto any other platform unless you credit or link my posts!! if you do tag me or i’ll have to get it taken down, block me if you cannot respect that)

╰─ ♡ My Socials!

୨୧┇Tik Tok - fckcameras

୨୧┇Insta - Fckcameras

୨୧┇Disc - Junkieeebunnie

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[inventors-fair]

Aftershocks: TDM Mechanic Runners-up!

Our runners-up this week, after much deliberation, are @izzet-always-r-versus-u, @misterstingyjack and @nine-effing-hells!

@izzet-always-r-versus-u — Together as One

It's fascinating to envision how this works with the stack. Every single creature can either get the counter or the spirit, and you have to wait for the whole thing to resolve before you get your response. Is that functional specifically? I honestly don't know, but like, of course it is—the intuition with enduring was a little difficult on prerelease night but folks are groking it enough. This card could also just get you a spirit for each creature you control, and on that note, I think it might be prudent to have each non-Spirit creature endure instead of just every creature. Although maybe it could be nontoken, just so you're not entirely screwed? Chaining these things together would be so incredibly strong in limited and even constructed. I'm imagining an EOT casting of this after a huge Anim Pakal swing and boy it doesn't look pretty. For the opponent, I mean. This is quite a strong card.

Really, the one-two punch of the flavor text is what seals the deal for me. Maybe Innistradian spirits are known for their flying, but blending some of those spiritual bonds with a world, perhaps, in which the dead are less ascending but more bound to their mortal bodies and the paths they once tread... It's possible to find a place where the flavor makes more direct sense. Maybe this doesn't have to be in a mainstream Innistrad set; as a Horizons one-off, I can imagine that there would be some pretty cool token/counter synergy that could justify a card where your spirits are standing their ground. Spirit and human fighters together feels awesome, this card feels like a first-pick, and I'm absolutely down for it.

@misterstingyjack — Sorrowful Singer

I have mixed feelings about this card, only because I want to justify a lot of the creative choices here when in reality I don't have to. In the end, it's quite powerful. Quite alone, too. The requiem, this memento mori, speaks to an aspect of black on Theros that's not often experimented with on the canonical cards. Erebos and the Underworld being a real God and a real location, respectively, puts a lot of the ennui in a different light. And yet, grief remains steadfast. Each player suffers in the song. Then death begets the return of another song, another portent, and that portent ensures nothing but a return to the grief that begat it. Am I reading too much into this card, or is it just doing a lot of work with what you've been putting into it? It's damn good, too, even if it's missing a comma between "dies" and "you" in the first creature line.

Omens on Theros are a phenomenal idea. Portent, scrying, the future—all of that is thematically there but the introduction of scrying (and its return to evergreen!) was about as far as that went thematically. I love the notion of omens and creatures with omens interacting with each other in a similar way that Adventures did on Eldraine, except it's less about "I'm returning from afar with newfound strength" and more "this is coming and there's nothing any of us can do about it" synergy. Maybe that's for the best, and maybe the mill strategy can be a little more localized into blue and black as far as archetypes go for limited. But what a way to start off this mindset, and I'm really impressed by how richly melancholy you've made this poor singer.

@nine-effing-hells — Augur of Emphara

Speaking of Theros, actually, here's a card that has a pretty cool flavor base and also deals with Omens on Theros, but with a purely mechanical bend that's really great turn one and speaks volumes about how the draft archetype wants to go later on. I love drawing cards, I love attacking with fliers, and I love a game plan where I get to swing in and, if they're not dead afterwards, draw enough cards to absolutely slay them on the crackback. I don't need much flavor justification to say that Ephara loves seeing into the future and also probably birds. I also don't need to justify having blue with a flying-themed and/or scry-themed bend in it. You've got...probably UW Fliers as an archetype, then overlap it with UR scry and GU cares-about-omens. Boom, there's your brew, there's your overlap.

Paying five mana for a 2/4 that maybe draws you some cards won't see people defending it in their decks. People won't understand the strength of omens and scrying until it's too late. Casting an omen and then scrying into other omens feels so awesome when those creatures finally come down, and I think the mechanics of how this card wants to work on board speak to that. This flocking is indeed auspicious, because you've got a 1/1 flier on board that's going to be drawing and pinging and doing great things overall. Multiple copies means that you're in for a wild ride... The more I talk about this card, the further I get from the flavor of it, and you know what, this card doesn't need to display anything that's not already on screen, and good for you in that regard. I think the card strength and the immediate draw to limited without having to think about flavor is a strength in and of itself sometimes, especially because bird portents just make sense. They do to me, anyway, but I also talk to animals, so I'm a little biased.

It's a long road to judge picks, commentary, notes and beyond. I'll keep everyone updates as I chip away, and once again, thank you so much for your entries, patience, and love of the game. TDM is a rockin' set and I'm glad to share it with all of you.

@abelzumi

[nickeverdeen]

Hey, can I please have a romantic and platonic Arcane matchup?

I'm a girl (she / her pronouns), and I'm sapphic.

My favorite artist is Ado, and my favorite songs are Readymade, The ballad of Sara Berry, and Dead girl walking.

In my free time I like to draw, sing, play videogames (my favorites are Stardew valley and genshin impact), sew, write, and bake.

In school I'm a biotechnology major, and a chemistry minor, outside of school I go to voice lessons, and aerial silks classes.

I'm rather shy and anxious when it comes to social interactions, but when I trust and get along with someone I open up rather quickly, but I have a hard time actually talking to and trusting people because I was bullied (twice) when I was younger.

I can be quite emotional sometimes.

My favorite shows are Arcane, Catlevania, and Chainsaw man.

My favorite animal is cats, and I have two: a tabby 6 years old cat named Tori, and an orange 1 year old cat named Sunny, and I love them to death.

I can also be kinda stubborn, and I definitely have some anger issues, but I mostly let it out in private.

When it comes to my style I'm definitely more feminine.

I'm 5'0, light skinned, have green eyes, medium length brown curly hair.

My MBTI is infp, and my zodiac sign is a cancer.

I'm kinda awkward when I have to write about myself so I'm sorry if this is a bit scattered.

Have a great day.

Your romantic Arcane match is…

Caitlyn Kiramman

Caitlyn would be incredibly supportive of your artistic talents

Whether you’re drawing, singing, or writing, she’d be there to encourage and admire your work

Caitlyn’s calm and collected demeanor would help soothe your anxiety and make you feel more at ease in social situations

She’d love spending time with you baking or playing video games like Stardew Valley, appreciating the peacefulness of these activities

She’s not a great baker so she’d mainly be a taste chef or passing you things

Caitlyn would understand your past bullying experiences and be patient in building trust, always offering a listening ear and gentle reassurance

Your voice lessons and aerial silks classes would intrigue her, and she’d love to watch your performances, cheering you on with genuine enthusiasm

Caitlyn’s empathetic nature would make her a great shoulder to cry on when you’re feeling emotional, providing comfort and understanding

She’d adore your cats, Tori and Sunny, and often bring them treats and toys

Trust me she’s a cat person

Your biotechnology major and chemistry minor would fascinate her, leading to many deep, intellectually stimulating conversations

Caitlyn would plan elegant dates that match your feminine style, such as a fancy dinner or a night at the opera

She’d help you manage your anger issues with patience and kindness, offering constructive ways to channel your emotions

Your shared love for shows would give you both plenty to discuss and bond over

Caitlyn would encourage your personal growth and self-confidence, helping you become more comfortable and secure in your own skin

Caitlyn’s protective nature would make you feel safe and cherished, knowing she always has your back

She’d appreciate your feminine style and often compliment your appearance, making you feel beautiful and appreciated

And you are

Caitlyn would love both your strength and vulnerability, seeing you as a multifaceted, incredible person

She’d be a patient listener, always ready to hear about your day

Your platonic Arcane match is…

Vi (Violet)

Vi would be fiercely protective of you, making sure no one ever hurts you again like the bullies did

She’d love to join you in active hobbies like aerial silks, appreciating the physical challenge and fun

She’s an amazing gaming buddy

Vi would enjoy playing video games with you, especially ones like Genshin Impact where you can team up and strategize together

She also likes more agressive ones, but respects your wishes about not so agressive ones

She’d be a great listener when you need to vent about your emotions or anger, offering understanding and solidarity

Vi would encourage your creative pursuits, always eager to see your latest drawing or hear your new song

She’d get along great with your cats, often coming over just to spend time with them and you

Although she’s more of a dog person so she wouldn’t get so good along with them like Caitlyn, but she’s trying

Your mutual love for shows like Chainsaw Man would lead to many discussions and bonding moments

Vi would love to see you bake, enjoying the process and, of course, the tasty results

She’d be fascinated by your biotechnology and chemistry knowledge, asking questions and showing genuine interest

She’d give up as soon as she’d realize that she doesn’t understand shit, though

Vi would be a fun and supportive shopping friend, helping you find the best thrift deals and unique pieces

Vi would be your emotional anchor, offering strength and stability when you need it most