#I should just bite the bullet...

[nullmale]

if you ever made a codependency vn i'd owe you my lifeee... i really agree with how many horror romance games seem to follow the same type of progression and some people do this poorly / it really does feel like they want it to be similar to other experiences but it just falls flat. or truly they add elements that are so Nothing it hurts. or it would be better as a set of comics / an entirely different setup rather than a vn. love hearing about it + valid grievances + and oh my goddd i'd love to hear your personal thoughts on vns that sucked badly. or the bare minimum you would've done to fix them a little bit. etc. 💖💖💖

Blushes... I'd honestly really love to I'd just have to commit to learning an engine... I think everyone has played a game that really pulled them into figuring out what was happening only for that anticipation to be wasted when the obligatory reveal happens in the third act and this is a huge struggle in horror writing I find, like, in some cases doing a reveal wastes the stress, but there still needs to be SOME kind of climax.. Aside from that some people are not as interested in making a horror game as they are making a Scary Character iykwim. A lot of attempts at like "yandere" style horror fall flat because they don't venture out of the tropes of actions and motivations for that type of character and then the scary parts of them feel very disconnected from them as a character and thus are pretty purposeless.

Like I think for all people claim to be Inspired by certain popular horror vns they don't really understand what makes the Horror part good, they fixate a little too much on liking the character that does the scary thing and try to replicate that, but since the character doesn't have the bones of a well thought out story, it falls flat a lot of the time. I think people misunderstand the model of playing a vn straight for a while so you get attached to characters and then do The Reveal (I think this is most prominent in games inspired by DDLC tbh), it isn't attachment to characters that makes it suck when they die or whatever. The model for bad horror games in thie vein is usually just Make cute likable character -> Imply they're a little crazy -> Straight to genre typical climax of kidnapping/violence. It's a waste of your character!

And this thing about how not everything is best as a vn is very true, as accessible as vn and rpg engines are I feel like a lot of these get made by people who don't play these games and just know that they're generally associated with popular indie horror. Webcomics and stuff are still on the table...

I haven't played many vns I think are Bad recently so idk if I have any onhand commentary on stuff like that but tbh I always recommend playing "bad" games within your medium/genre and trying to think of how to make them better, doing this with general fiction writing has been really helpful for me! Tbh I really want to get into reviewing indie games and stuff in part for this reason, I like to play and draw and discuss things and give constructive feedback... I love narrative video games...

[thatnununguy]

dress to impress 2010 edition

[sergle]

Having a STUPID TIME trying to accomplish the very basic task of re-filling my prescription bc my bitch doctor is apparently completely off the grid

[contamination-zone]

Kinda embarrassing...

[thursdaysyme]

oh my gawd y’all having brothers 11 and 13 is not for the weak of heart it’s fun but also holy shit

[skybristle]

oh also misilanious doodles. with my friends ocs. carb is from @moonsofmachinery n the other one doesnt have a tumblr afaik. mostly drawn at the demands of my beloved shitass discord server

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Drawings of the TUA Paranatural AU, mostly of the Sparrows. Alphonso and Sloane are both adults, wearing matching red and black suits. Both of them are spectrals, as indicated by the spectral energy rising off of them.

Marcus about twelve, the same as the majority of the Hargreeves. He is posing dramatically and wearing a polo shirt and khakis.

Fei and Jayme are both about 17, and are both vampires. Fei is wearing platform boots and an all-black outfit with a sheer skirt, and Fei is wearing a baseball tee and UFO pants.

The last image is of Umbrella Ben and Sparrow Ben. Umbrella Ben is a ghost, and looks about twelve. Sparrow Ben is alive, and a similar age to Fei and Jayme. End ID.]

I have decided what to do with the sparrows!

Alphonso and Sloane both work for the Commission on spirit-wrangling or whatever it is the commission does. They're a bit younger than Five (Sloane is 22, Alphonso is 20), and are roughly equivalent to Agent Day, for anyone familiar with the original comic. Basically, theyre there to snoop.

Marcus has some kind of band kid rivalry with Viktor. I don't know enough about band to determine what it is, but rest assured that they are very passionate about it.

Paranatural has vampires in it! I don't know what the deal is with vampires in paranatural so i wasn't going to include any, but specifically Fei and Jayme as vampires won me over. They probably spend their time trying to kill sparrow Ben.

Umbrella Ben and Sparrow Ben are both in this au! They're twins :)

[atoriv-art]

do you have recs for fics that are about the sand siblings or hyuga siblings? it's so rare to see people care or want to expand on those relationships and I'm so interested on them even though Kishimoto never developed it properly (like most things)

i've mentioned before i'm usually not one to give out fic recs since i'm not as big a reader as most people, But

for the suna siblings i don't have much for you other than mine, i keep meaning to go back to looking (doesn't help there's 3 characters involved so there's multiple tags to dig through) but i need to be in the fanfic mindset 😔

for the hyugas i have two tho :)

i'm very fond of this fic :) it focuses on neji as he grows up into who he is when we first meet him, and goes into his relationship with his dad, his uncle and his cousin

i also like this one from hinata's pov, it deals with her and neji moving forward after the war, with hiashi having sacrificed himself for neji. it's heavier in subject matter (mentions of abuse and lots of the self-loathing / suicidal ideation) so be aware of that!

i like stuff that's kinda bleak so sorry if that's not your cup of tea LMAO but i hope these are what you were looking for!

[lesbxdyke]

Old baby man just had a big bath with shampoo so he looks a lil like a drowned rat!

[ragsy]

[Chin in hands deep in thought] I've grown very attached to a one-off npc who everybody('s character) hated and who died badly in the one singular game session they ever existed in. They shall now occupy my thoughts to the point of illness 👍

[mrs-luigi-vargas]

Didn't wanna derail a post I saw this morning, but it had me idly wondering - do you think there's a bowsario fic or art piece out there where Luigi's the overprotective hardass about the relationship, similar to Mario in some bowuigi stuff? I know there are fics where Peach is bent out of shape about it (usually from a political standpoint).

I know this idea comes up against the general older/younger brother stereotyped dynamic, and Luigi's wariness of Bowser in general. But c'mon he should get to push past that at least once to give Bowser a bit of shit about whether he's good enough for Mario or not. As a treat. Because it would be funny (or at least I think so).

[mc-tummy-blur]

Got a headcanon where Jack, when he’s not on his joy, bites his thumb in irritation. Mainly used as a reference to the Shakespeare meaning of biting one’s thumb (either flipping someone off or challenging them to a fight), with him being an actor and all. Also could be a way for him to stim, both ideas can coexist

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[cuntylestat]

periodically i will get (presumably) allergic rashes on my hands and years after it's begun i still have no clue what is causing it

[sailorsally]

god like. I feel so isolated. Genuinely haven't had a conversation with another human being beyond exchanging pleasantries with a cashier etc in 2 weeks and it makes me wanna cry. Like I do love to pretend I don't like people and it's true I get irritated quite fast but I am also not above needing to socialize and I mean this irl. Sucks that I literally don't know anyone in this fucking city. And even if I was back home, like 90% of my friends have left the country in the recent months and I am genuinely just spending all my time alone and then I start thinking how lonely I am and it makes me feel like I have failed at something so trivial as being social and making friends which is a fucking built in function as a human ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[queenofmalkier]

I just have to say, there's constructive discussion about what the show isn't getting right and then there's attacking people who are still enjoying it for what it is, more or less labeling them as bad fans or not "true" fans.

(And then getting mad when people call out what you're doing.)

[feelbokkie]

oh but I genuinely admire people like that. I think it's so fucking smart and clever and interesting. and if you ever felt like it, I would 100% follow along to some kind of bokkie lore theories. i LOVE theories, but whenever I try I always end up staying the most obvious things lol. most of the time I don't understand what clearly happening in front of me and have to have someone explain stuff to me after a scene, so no one likes to watch things with me anymore (but I still make them MUAHAHAHAHAAHAHA)

i think i’m just a little insane lol. (i once went down a rabbit hole about goofy’s wife and it was a lot)

but i love theories and little details and everything connecting. it’s the one thing that i’m really, really good at and if i could make a job out of it i would be happy.

but see, i have to opposite problem where if i start to explain stuff (to my brother and stepdad at least) they say i’m sucking the fun out of it or that i ruined it and not everything has to have meaning (i’ll like to reiterate that my brother is literally a creator) my stepdad gets mad at me when a new movie comes out that was clearly part of a series or franchise and i tell him we need to watch whatever came before because “all movies are the same and you can just watch without watching the other and still understand” which yeah you can follow the story but you’re not following the story if you know what i mean. which is why i try to stfu about it lol

but explaining in and seeing someone’s face light up when they finally get that connection they missed is fun and i would gladly watch things with you nonnie!