there's something about this light cone that has been driving me wild and clown bonkers for a good while and its the fact that the animated version of this picture has different lines than the light cone description
and those lines, where sparkle is acting for sampo, makes him ask "where did you hide my mask?" to which she answers "what do you mean, sampo, isn't your mask right there on your face?"
which seems to be sparkle being silly but. this bears this assumption that while sparkle fully believes that she sees a mask on his face, sampo has a different mask entirely, which could, indeed, just literally be his human face. he asks for his mask because his real face IS this red mask we see here ala!aha's masks, which honestly just reminds me of The King in Yellow in the most chilling of ways
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Expectation vs reality
You are a new employee at the Pizzaplex. According to the job description, you basically just have to monitor the daycare animatronic for malfunctions and that's it. Maybe occasionally do the odd thing the animatronic can't, like confiscating any weapons (and by 'weapons' it's clear they mean things like fake toy guns, maybe a pocketknife), but other than that it seems like you're just going to be sitting there while getting paid a suspiciously high amount. This is going to be great.
You go through the training videos and marvel at the capabilities of this animatronic. The way it's able to perfectly blend genuine love for the children with untiring robotic perfection. The energetic Sun mode, the calming Moon mode, the endless amount of situations they can handle with ease. Everything a team of childcare professionals could dream of knowing is all programmed in. This animatronic is a work of art, and overseeing it… no, working with him is going to be an honor.
It's your first day on the job after training completes. You open the door and hear
SCREAMING
SO MUCH SCREAMING
The children are yelling and screaming as they run around like feral animals. A little girl screams as another child pulls her hair. Two ten year olds are screaming about if Charizard could win a fight against Goku. And Sun, Sun is screaming. He's covered in paint and dirt and greasy handprints. Two children are pouring glitter glue directly onto him while three more hold his arms down, clinging with a frightening tenacity. The Sun, he screams.
You rush over and shoo the children away. Sun immediately lunges at you, gripping your shoulders.
"LIGHTS ON. LIGHTS. ON!!"
"Wha-"
"KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, NEWBIE, OR EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL DIE."
"What??"
"EVERYONE. ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE HERE. WILL DIE. KEEP THE LIGHTS ON. ON."
Sun then skips away in a jarringly merry fashion. He ignores the complete disaster state the play area is in, as well as the still wet glue covering him from head to toe, in favor of re-stacking a pile of toy noisemakers. Every time he finishes stacking them, a giggling toddler knocks the whole thing over again. Sun begins stacking again in an infinite loop.
The hourly pay makes sense now.
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Danganronpa Fanbase Please Learn About Japanese Cultures...
I wanna talk about something that's been bothering me since I entered the Danganronpa fanbase.
Why can't some people do actual research before echoing what they see from one person?
I'm talking about the "Kaito is homophobic" remarks I've been seeing.
I went around and did some research and wow, the fanbase in the West is a mess.
It's all a literal culture difference/mistranslation.
Here's what a Japanese translator said on reddit, they explain the word that Kaito uses and how the Japanese media have normalized in using this word.
The word is normalized that Japanese teens use it often like how the West uses the word "Fuck".
Japan's culture is just different with how they perceived in what is offensive and what isn't compared to the West.
The word is used alot in Children shows in Japan. The Japanese society didn't see it as a problem back then. Shows like Naruto, One Piece, HxH and Ouran High School Club have used the exact same word.
I've even have seen how in Persona games they treat trans as a comedy in the games. I remember people calling Ryuji "homophobic" for that one scene in the red light district, I believe in the Japanese version Ryuji called them that same word too. Of course it's supposed to be seen humorously for the Japanese fans. The West localization changed it to fit better in our culture.
I've also read from a Japanese redditor that the Japanese fanbase were using this word BEFORE the release of the game. They were already using this word to describe Kiyo.
In conclusion, it's a big culture difference. The Japanese fanbase are completely different from the West. Japanese society is slowlg changing their LGBTQ views but it can't be changed when the games are old now.
This is also speaking about the animes that have been mentioned. The fact that this word was in Children's shows in Japan was something new to me, so it explains alot why teens have normalized this word.
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@wolfstarmicrofic March 27 – prompt 27: Expecto Patronum – word count 670
Expecto Patronum - The Patronus Charm is a powerful projection of hope and happiness that drives away Dementors
A part of Remus knew it had been a bad idea, but that part had been drowning for the past hours in the alcohol, the hate for all the Christmas decorations everywhere, the cold, the ache of the second full moon the wolf spent desperately howling for his friends, only to tear himself apart when they failed to show up.
So that part was pretty quiet when he stopped in front of the tombstone, shivering from the cold.
“Hey Lils. Hey Prongs,” he slurred, raising the half-empty bottle to his friends’ names. “Merry Christmas.”
He took a swig and swayed on his feet. The cold was getting worse, but he didn’t care. After all, he had lost everything he had ever cared for. Maybe he could just lie down by Lily and James and fall asleep there and never wake up. He started shivering, and a movement in the corner of his eye made him turn around.
“Fuck,” he groaned.
Not far from him, a hooded figure was hovering by a tombstone rapidly covering in frost. He should have thought about that, really. The Wizarding World was still in such turmoil it was only logical a place so important like Lily and James’s tomb in Godric’s Hollow would be guarded by one of the Dementors Azkaban could spare. Even their son, wherever he was, must have some around.
“They’re my friends,” Remus whispered, his teeth chattering.
The Dementor glided forward and Remus stumbled back as the cold seeped into his bones and distant voices exploded in his head.
“Remus… Something awful has happened…”
The bottle fell from his hand.
“It’s not possible… Sirius wouldn’t…”
“I guess he lived up to his family name after all. I’m sorry Remus, I should have seen it coming.”
He knocked his back into James and Lily’s tombstone. The Dementor crept closer.
“Pete knew he couldn’t beat Sirius in a duel, it doesn’t make sense he went after him!”
“Grief makes us all act in ways we wouldn’t normally, Remus.”
He fumbled in his pocket, searching for his wand.
“I know I’m not his godfather or anything, but can I at least see him? For his parents’ sake.”
“He’ll be safer with his blood family, believe me. Pick up the pieces, Remus. Learn how to move on.”
Remus brandished his wand. He knew the spell and he knew he had been able to cast a fully-fledged Patronus, who ironically was in the shape of a wolf. But all that had been before. His hand trembled.
“I don’t even know if I have anything left you can take,” he whispered.
The Dementor didn’t stop advancing. If Remus was being honest with himself, it didn’t make sense. Dementors were guards, they had no business attacking someone who wasn’t doing any harm, but maybe it didn’t matter. It wouldn’t be worse than what he had lived through in the last weeks. Maybe it would even be better.
But as the Dementor glided even closer, the wolf reared up his head somewhere inside him, survival instinct kicking in. Images flooded Remus’s mind, of the Forbidden Forest and his friends galloping by his side, of the same friends by his bed when he woke up in the Hospital Wing, of smiles, and laughter, and hand holding and warmth, so much warmth…
“EXPECTO PATRONUM!”
He braced himself against the tombstone while the silver form leaped out of his wand and chased the Dementor across the graveyard until it disappeared somewhere. Remus exhaled. Apparently, he wouldn’t die that day. He looked up to his Patronus as it padded back to him and froze.
“No…” he breathed. “Please, no…”
He had read about what shock and grief could do to the spell, but nothing in those books had mentioned cruelty.
“No…” he repeated, his eyes filling with tears.
He let himself slide to the ground, his back pressed against the cold marble of his best friends’ tombstone. In front of him, glittering with the silver light of the spell, Padfoot wagged his tail.
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