#Consolidation of Blogs

[askthefairlynormalparentsau]

This blog is full of cuteness and your AU is so fun and creative. Also, your art is so beautiful. I hope you had a wonderful New Year and holiday season and keep on drawing 😊 ✨️

SOBS THAMK U SM??? ABSBSDBJDNDSN 🥺😭💕

These were both so sweet of u to say- words of affirmation like these rlly keep me going w this project now that it’s become so much bigger than i anticipated sobs- “cute animated series” was EXACTLY the vibe i was going for tho so im rlly happy to hear that’s how it comes across! 💕🥰

Set two is very nearly fully scripted, but now I’m thinking it’s probably long enough to have two halves, so I’ll probably open the ask box again in the “intermission”! 🫶💕

[ask-rain-world-characters]

apparently i cannot read because only now have i noticed that suns isn't available. well then. now that i have humiliated myself in front of the godly supercomputers, i must ask looks to the moon... are you free saturday night? 🥺👉👈

"No"

[kalinara]

(Classic X-Men #41)

Sometimes I think about how Mr. Sinister, among many other horrific things that he's done, disguised himself as a ten year old boy to be Scott Summers's roommate, where he was both creepily possessive and uncomfortably touchy feely to the point where the orphanage bully picks up on it. (And then makes the bully kill himself later.)

And then I think about how fifteen years later*, Charles Xavier is putting Mr. Sinister on Krakoa's Council and seems genuinely surprised that Scott wants nothing to do with a Council seat.

(Best guess, based on rolling timeline. You can insert your preferred estimation in its place).

And I think about that time Council Member Mr. Sinister told an angry Scott he'd be prettier when he smiled, and NO ONE did a damn fucking thing.

And well, if I didn't already have many many MANY reasons to hate Charles Xavier...

[satsuha]

temehika: parallels, the past, and the future

wanted to lay out the parallels between temenos and hikari that i see and explore/explain why i ship them. even outside of a ship perspective i think their similarities and the way they contrast each other is fascinating and i don't really see enough people consider what that might mean for their relationship with each other so here's my attempt at compiling all my thoughts on the topic

both of their journeys begin with the death of a father (figure) but neither are given the time to grieve because jorg/jigo's deaths have much more importance as the loss of a religious/political leader than the emotional weight of temenos and hikari's personal losses... while i don't think these deaths carry as much significance as some of their other losses it's still clear that it weighs on them - but they both understand that their grief is secondary to the responsibilities they now bear.

in both of their chapter 3's they have similarly named banters - although i would say roi's role in temenos' story is closer to the role kura and jin mei play in hikari's, i do think both of these friendships are what formed their most defining traits.

for temenos, roi's effect on him from a young age is very explicitly stated so i don't think i need to say anything about that but i personally think hikari's first meeting with ritsu is what truly set him on a path that separated him from mugen.

something that struck me about the two flashbacks we see of hikari is that we don't actually see many of the defining traits he possesses now, such as his desire for peace, friendship and trust in others. i would say the only indication is how he asks both jin mei and ritsu to call him by name and not by title, but otherwise we actually see him actively seeking violence, even if not for the same power-hungry reasons as mugen.

while it's clear his mother's upbringing had an effect on him, i think that at a young age he was still of the same "might is right" mindset that ku espouses until ritsu tells him about the futility of violence for the sake of justice... and while he treated jin mei with equality, hikari still views him as his "teacher" and not his "friend" as he does for ritsu. even if ritsu's intention when saying this to hikari wasn't to push for peaceful means, i think that hikari took a very different message from it... i just can't imagine where else his fixation on friendship and peace would have originated from.

back to what i said about roi and jin/kura's role in their respective stories... around the midpoint of temenos and hikari's stories we also get to see a flashback of when they lost arguably the most important person in their lives - both of these scenes are also presented as dreams.

roi's disappearance and kura's death are a major turning point in both temenos and hikari's lives and also serve as their secondary goals for their stories: temenos journeys to find the truth of the pontiff's murder, but bringing the church's secrets to light is a goal he attributes to roi. hikari journeys to free ku of mugen's rule, but he also seeks to overcome the shadow that first appeared when his mother was murdered.

i think ritsu and crick's deaths also have similarities, such as both of them not being necessary sacrifices for the sake of temenos and hikari's goals but the paths ritsu and crick chose respectively led to their demise... both with these deaths and roi/kura's above, temenos is haunted by the fact that he was nothing but a passive bystander while hikari is haunted by the fact that he was an active participant.

even their final bosses are more similar than any other two in the entire game: mugen and kaldena are both people who willingly use the power of the shadow for their own gains, only to be consumed and deformed by it for the second phase of their battles.

that covers what happens in their individual stories but journey for the dawn brings everything full circle because due to the reveals of arcanette and oboro, temenos and hikari are the only two whose story endings are now turned on their heads. temenos' story ends with a conversation between him and mindt, who he never suspected anything of, and he's now had to kill her with his own hands. hikari's story ends with him becoming king with kazan looking proudly at him, but he finds out that both mugen and his own ascension to the throne were part of oboro's plan.

to top it off, i think that their failure to see through mindt and kazan reflect a failure in their own ideologies - temenos, despite how his doubt of the sacred guard managed to bring light to the corruption in the church, failed to doubt the people around him enough. with hikari, while his trust and friendship brought him to victory, his excessive trust in kazan resulted in his betrayal. in arcanette and oboro's deaths, we also see temenos and hikari take the opposite position of what i mentioned above - temenos kills arcanette himself, while hikari watches as oboro falls to his death.

to me it just feels that these two are the only ones who have been so deeply affected by the events of the journey for the dawn that i don't think we can take the ending of their individual stories as where their stories truly conclude unlike the other travelers... it feels? like their dialogue with oboro also has this wavering kind of hope that sort of separates them from the other travelers, despite agreeing that the dawn is definitely worth fighting for (you can view them all here)

in the same way temenos was drawn to crick because of his similarity to roi, i think he needs someone who can embody the same kind of optimism and hope so that he can guide them while acting as a foil with his doubt... and the reason hikari sought kazan out first after leaving ku was because he knew kazan could turn his vision into a structured plan, but now hikari is king without someone who can support him like kazan did.

in terms of where the characters end up after the game ends i also feel that temenos... sort of has the least attachment to the "place" the ending leaves him at. characters like throne and osvald are going to wander but for throne she wants to continue traveling and for osvald he clearly has a place to return to when he's ready to come back. castti, partitio and agnea will also likely continue their journeys but that's because their goals in life necessitate that, and similarly hikari and ochette are defined by how much they care about their homes. temenos just feels... like the odd one out even though he says that he needs to return to the cathedral because he just doesn't have that emotional connection to a place or a goal that lies elsewhere like all the other travelers do.

i just think that emotionally, physically and practically speaking... temenos and hikari fit into each other's lives post-canon very nicely. they complement each other in a way where they can enable each other's strengths and limit their weaknesses while also having plenty of shared or similar experiences they can bond over... that's why i like them so much

if you've gotten to this point then thanks for reading um. all that.

[majimasleftasscheek]

My figure just arrived!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA

HOUGHHH

he looks so good I WEEP

I'm still waiting for mine but once I get him

[garodetective]

misc. gokudous (and kuroiwa </3)

[sableprince]

new nms lore = terrible implications for teluya. because their divergent programming, especially with how their speech ties into their consciousness, they find themself unable to speak for some time. the shock is too much, and the threat of being overwritten looms more over them than it ever has before. dvorak, being familiar with this existential crisis, knows best that they shouldn't be left alone.

[seashellblue]

I debated on whether or not to post this at all for a very, very long time.

But then I kind of realized that League's fandom survives off literal crumbs, and I'd probably feel bad if I didn't contribute with what little content I do have.

Don't follow this blog if you want more content, there probably won't be anything new here for months (possible years), and it's not gonna be more animatics, that's for certain.

:')

Aside from that, shoutout to the friend who helped edit this together. If you're reading this, you know who you are. 😉

[every-sanji]

[polux-aka-hyakunana]

I've watched only five Kamen Rider series so far and I've noticed a pattern of Episodes 6 consolidating my favorite characters

Oh well—

[askgoldenduo]

doodle dump

[mech-pilot]

honestly in general, wish we could have more blogs and direct ppl to them more. some alters have own blogs, agere space, etc. but :/ not worth it enough

[post-punk-revival]

My blog in 2021: will I lose followers for posting essays on my fictionkin identity too instead of just therianthropy...

My blog in 2024: been thinking about Unicode lately

[hunting-for-a-good-book]

Hello Friends! I am starting a journey to pay off my student debt! This blog will still include book reviews, don't you worry! However I will also be discussing my debt journey and how I plan to pay off my debt. One way I am trying is through Amazon affiliate marketing, meaning if you like the things I will be reviewing, please click on the link and if you buy the book or whatever it is I post, then I will get a commission and that will help me toward my debt repayment journey! I am also thinking about starting a YouTube channel but I am unsure if anybody would have any interest in that.

That being said! I want to discuss one way I am saving money this year is by using websites such as bookbub, and freebooksy to invest only in free kindle books to use on my kindle paperwhite! I highly recommend buying a kindle if you have not already and looking into similar websites as well as Libby, an app that connects to libraries and allows you to borrow books for free! My goal for this year is to not spend any money purchasing books!

If you are interested in a kindle here is a handy link to purchase one!

[zestyzigzagoon]

Well, everyone's talking about tumblr possibly shutting down at some point in the not-too-distant future. This has happened like fifteen times before and nothing's come of it so far, this is fairly routine, it's basically an annual tradition, but I might as well take the opportunity to mention that I'm passively existing on other platforms even if I don't use them (as of yet).

If tumblr does go down, I see myself moving social stuff and casual posting over to either Pillowfort or Dreamwidth. I'm leaning towards Dreamwidth because I prefer the old-internet feeling of it and it's better for secondary backup fic hosting, I think. It's nostalgic and I have more control over customization and formatting and such. It's more like my own little space than just a feed of posts. But all of this is to say, I'll still be around somewhere if tumblr does go down, but hopefully this is just the ~tenth year running of 'is tumblr dying (no) (well, yes, but slowly) (it's not urgent) (it's a very FF.net type of deal)'. If you guys are anywhere else or if you make accounts elsewhere due to this, feel free to let me know and I'll probably follow you over there :)

And obviously I'll still be on Ao3 for as long as it's around.

[kezoire]

yeahhhhh kezo is being moved to the multi <3 @leventar