#IDK!!!!!!!!!!! BUT IM HYPED ABT IT

[carcinized]

also its been AMAZING to see the reception of this world cup as someone who lives in america and has been involved in the very limited soccer community my whole life. TBF a lot of the people who ive seen watching were watching for mexico but there was a surprising amount of idk how to say it but like theyre not recent immigrants in their families theyve been in the US for generations, watching the US game yesterday?? cheering, interrupting whatever was going on?? i had the goal spoiled by someone cheering from the FLOOR BELOW ME . its so amazing to see as someone who would love to see programs here expanded ;;;;; <- is poor and outgrew the kids league a ways back

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Prism's concept art has been. Deeply on my mind. They had some killer ideas for her and ummm.....sobs in my hands. I love her?

[1dklikesthings]

FANDROID IS FUCKIGN BACK LETS GOOOO !!!!!!!

[crowkip]

Would you ever be so inclined to draw a pretty girl Dick Grayson?

BROO DONT EVEN TEMPT ME IM GONNA END UP DRAWING ALL OF THEM

[lethiepie]

huh

just realized something I wish I didnt 💀💀🫠🫠

[ittybittybumblebee]

Asks abt my ocs pspspssppspspsps fuckin pspspspspspspspspspsps

[bawlawr]

trigun stampedes a lil bit too excited to show some of the characters frm the manga its gettinga kinda crazy. whys livio the bus driver all of a sudden

[monobmp]

Ok I watched the Sonic 2 movie, I think it was ok 👍

Shadow looks fucked up though LMAOOO

[onstoryladders]

SHE CALLED IAN. Yes girl character development

[sweatermuppet]

mentioned very lightly that i have some interest in learning to drive a motorcycle & my dad has flung himself back into my life over it

[spaciebabie]

What's the storyline for your ocs?

nerdy straight A middle school student katherine quin and her pals realize that their government sucks ass and b/c they are impassioned naive youth, entangle themselves in a state of affairs that will stay w/them for the rest of their lives

more under the cut b/c i wrote a lot more than i thought i would kasfjksdfjksfj (i have big feelings abt this story)

i (officially) made the story when i was 14! all the characters are based off me and my experience 2 some extent (especially katherine i mean i made her bi, biracial, gave her a mole, made her like indie games etc). originally the story was going 2 have a happy ending, but as ive grown i have more of an appreciation for....well endings that are not so happy. im thinking i change it. it would make sense w/what happens in it anyway (the story of revolution is not as happy and triumphant as 11 year old me imagined when i first acted this out w/my brother. honestly like ive changed the story entirely 2 be my own but i still gotta thank my bro cuz the orig storyline that inspired it when we played legos 2gether was a conjoined effort and i borrowed many of the characters)! as im drafting it now, the story is not particularly happy lol

the story tells a sort of generational loop that katherine goes thru? if that makes sense? i wont go too much in depth b/c spoilers but its a story of history repeating itself again and again and the endless loops pain and suffering cause and how people are scared/too comfortable/too angry to change the cycle. i think that katherine being a history nerd in the midst of watching history unfold again before her very eyes grants her a certain point of view other characters dont have (except a few who have lived experiences). although this awareness will come later in the story when she's older

it will also touch on something young folks feel 2day where ppl frequently ask, "why is this happening today? havent we progressed?" and katherine will ponder that herself (although the situations that happen in the story are strictly to the story ajsfsjfd i cant talk abt and link real life tragedies it would be too much for me). and i think that as she gets older in the story and gains knowledge and wisdom from what she goes thru, she'll hafta bear this horrifying knowledge that the sands of time dont just erode the past, but the present and future as well.

i was not expecting 2 write this much KJSFKJSDJFKSJDF

anyway! i care this story a lot. its like my childhood and has grown with me as ive aged. im really compelled to make it the best it can be and i get a lot of imposter syndrome b/c i know the ideas i have and the story itself as a whole is good, but im worried my execution will fall flat. idk its kept me from moving forward w/it or talking abt it for years.

tldr; two can basically be summed up by this image:

are things going 2 get better? can they get better? questions i think about as i write and think thru this story.

[you-may-call-me-meme]

MEEEEME!!! Did you see the pokemon day announcement?? What did you think of it?? we also miss your pokemon gals !!! :3

I WASN'T EXPECTING THE ANNOUNCEMENT WE GOT BUT IT WAS A VERY PLEASANT SURPRISE!!!! I'm glad they're doing more legends games cos the last one is definitely a favorite of mine!!! I'm looking forward to more info on z-a for sure :]

[lethiepie]

The only thing I liked about the extended ending is 1) the RG crumbs and 2) the knowledge that Oz is fighting the merge all for Oscar’s sake. It makes my Ozdad heart happy to see.

Hey anon!

Couldnt agree more.

While the RG crumbs didn't surprise me one bit (lets be honest, it was OBVIOUS oscar was gonna get a reaction towards ruby's disappearance, like, come on. It's freaking Oscar Pining on Ruby Rose. She's clearly important to him just like his important to her, hi was inspired by her since the beginning, if we didn't get something, THAT was gonna be unexpected) it did bring a smile to my face cause, confirmation is always good right ?

Plus, I wasnt exactly sure if we were gonna get angry oscar or depressed oscar or anxious oscar, but I can see we got the whole package- So, that was also good to see.

and oh gosh the merge. yeS. that was also another thing I was happy that it was brought up, for most of us were afraid they would just.. skip the merge lore, and Im really glad to see that they plan to work on it, and even better, focus on it on v10, hopefully. With Ozpin and Oscar switching roles (Ozpin being the one who's giving his all to stop the merge, and Oscar lost in himself) hopefully we'll get to see more about lil farm boy and who he is/was.

But like I said, most of those things, I already expected, so, I wasnt much surprised, but I was glad, indeed, to see some theories get confirmed.

what Did surprise me tho, was seeing Nora's and Ren's pov in all of this, like, of course we knew they were gonna be miserable, but, gaH. Nora's monologue ???? it's. so. painful to watch, and it gives us so much of her, I feel like Nora and Oscar will bond a lot in V10 cause they're both on a journey to "find out who you are"

Ren's perspective was pretty interesting to see, and I wonder if we'll get to see Ruby and Ren bonding too ? (Cause Im a sucker for parallels lmao-)

With all that said, anon, you might have sent this duo a post I made some days ago. And sure, I was pretty content with it's content but.. sigh. I guess I still got a bit.. disappointed ? thats not the right word but. Ugh, I just dont want to get my hopes up for a v10 when we dont even have confirmation, and a v9 animatic is great but, everything can be discarded in a blink of an eye so.

idk, part of me is just trying not to get attached to the main focuses the animatic had (specially the RG crumbs) cause

everything could change and take different directions

so ye aksjka sorry for the long ramble, but Im glad you enjoyed the rg crumbs and merge situation ^^

[narwhalandchill]

ok not to randomly go off on a somewhat negative ramble But. (general genshin story direction worries basically)

while there are a bunch of stunts i fear the genshin story slash lore could end up pulling that would serve as not only disappointments but to varying degrees also just retroactively ruin a lot of games writing for me. i dont think theres anything that im as genuinely concerned about as the possibility of like. completely losing their narrative marbles to an overdone time travel/temporal manipulation in one way or another like just the thought of that shit haunts me

bc like. while i dont find them particularly compelling as an argument for that to be the case regarding Everything in the narrative in current lore/theory circles (like. makoto n ei teaming up w istaroth once doesnt automatically establish universal time travel). it is unfortunately true that in canon lore there are many of the kind of lore pieces present that you could use to set that kind of reveal and complete restructuring of the story up. istaroth and the sacred sakura and some shady things said by various characters and how you could argue Any time loop or travel adjacent is just hidden by the irminsul 5head (another piece of writing whose potential misuse seriously alarms me, mind you). and so on.

and i am just. Not about any of that shit. like. for me absolutely any plot device or element that has the risk of fundamentally fucking up a storys continuity and coherence sideways to the degree BOTH the

"genshins gonna turn out to be ALL time travel/time loop/simulation to make [sudden endgame twist X heavily at odds with what was established in the central lore prior] appear sensible"

and

"celestia just irminsuls away all evidence for [that twist X again] so achsually it was always genius and compatible with lore"

tier of nightmare scenarios will have. is just. Not fucking worth it. this shit has ruined countless stories with vastly better writing and way more competent authors because its just. not the kind of stuff you can just insert in a massive fucking story willy nilly to explain away the mystery box you didnt bother to set up together so it ultimately comes together in a cohesive way that Doesnt need to be broken on multiple levels to scrape together some conclusion. and its just hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like ive never expected some massive masterpiece out of genshin like at best its gonna be one of those stories that once finished gets some really fucking banger fanwork as its community expands upon and explores a solid but flawed canon groundwork. theres fundamental flaws and limitations to its storytelling and format and that cant be helped. so im expecting no miracles on that front.

but the one fucking thing i dont want them to fall for is that misguided at best and outright pretentious and disrespectful at worst allure of. SEE! we outsmarted the audience! the theories! we broke our own story continuity to force a twist because our established worldbuilding technically makes it an option! isnt this smart!

like just please. no. no clue how unpopular this is but im already quite conflicted on the established use of irminsul in sumeru and how it arguably voided a lot of important characterization (nahidas inferiority complex) and narrative potential (scara literally becoming a non factor in the grander story more or less) for good but like. for now. fine. it hasnt become overused yet. i dont think its inherently bad as a factor of worldbuilding. i like how it recontextualizes fact and fiction and the significance of stories that appear mere fables in the world of teyvat. but as it stands the irminsul is still a deus ex machina. and thats a dangerous tool for any writer to have in careless use. and when combined with the sprinkles of lore involving the possibility of time manipulation and such to be further explored. its like powder and keg. two tools that can absolutely gut a story of its narrative cohesion and the weight of its stakes in an instant. its really fucking worrisome.

genshins writing is flawed but the one thing this game has going for it that i REALLY hope the writers will understand to respect is its world. how much the marriage between this massive and beautifully crafted immersive open world and the intricacies of lore and history afforded to all corners of it truly do in tandem to establish the world of genshin as more Real. as weightier. as a place you grow and remain attached to even when the main storys writing stumbles. the world is so important and to let it remain feeling real is just. i hope they understand how fragile of a gem that is.

featuring an artificial world order established by fraudulent divinity and that involving some degree of cosmic fuck-uppery of the natural order and all-encompassing illusion to maintain it is fine. this is a story heavily referencing gnosticism that theme is literally a given. but it needs to be an artificial world order imposed on a real world that remains feeling real the entire time through. and for that to be preserved it needs to remain grounded.

but the problem is that once a story truly commits to the "anything could be altered and fundamentally reversed with the right mcguffin at play with seeming impunity" there is no going back. it becomes very fucking difficult to keep the figurative feet of a narrative even touching the ground for even the most skilled of writers afforded absolute creative freedom to work with (which genshin does not have). and just that much more easier for the stakes to be lost completely. and i dont want to see that scenario become reality

[villainology]

no bc I’m such a supporter of selfships!! like if we share a f/o, that’s so cool, let’s talk abt it! I wanna hear your headcanons and how they treat you, seeing your fav from someone else’s pov is so fun, idk how people don’t like it?? we can share ideas and cute little things abt them together!! even if you have a selfship from a different fandom and idk who the character is, talk abt them to me!! I wanna hear all about your f/o for hours, n how much you love each other! let me hype you n your favs up pls!

[volfoss]

I cannot recommend enough starting game series from the start. Both because if you get used to the clunky gameplay of earlier ones, the later ones will be easier (from experience, going the other way just makes the originals seem IMPOSSIBLE) and also bc it does in fact help w understanding the story. Also because honestly old games are so cool