#Zelda is from November 2021

[emilyych]

the waters of hyrule

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Revali from BoTW for the character opinion bingo!

Ohhhh you're gonna get me killed by the fandom for this one, that there is a character I have some BAGGAGE with

Okay here's my thing

I kinda despise Revali And it sucks because I really REALLY don't want to

Story time

I grew up playing Wind Waker, it was my first video game ever, and from that game the Rito were my favorite race, and they remained my favorite all these years. You probably wouldn't be able to find someone more hyped than me for the return of these beautiful birds.

So. April 2017. When I got my hands on BOTW I decided I'd save the Rito zone for last, I'd kept myself blind so I could go in and experience everything purely.

So imagine my surprise when I unlock the champion I'd been most excited for, the Rito, the champion of my favorite Zelda race from my earliest childhood memories.

And he was a complete fucking douchebag

At first I was like oh :( well okay maybe we'll be given some more information on him and it'll be better!! After all characters with huge egos can be extremely fun!!!

So I maintained hope that maybe the upcoming DLC would give us something

December 2017

We got something!! A teeny tiny fragment that suggested maybe Revali's ego was just a coverup for a deeply troubled bird, it was hardly anything at all but it was something.

But then his journal made him like 10 times worse in such a way that the DLC honestly didn't do much but make him more insufferable

So I was deeply saddened, they'd given us something but simultaneously made him more unlikeable. I thought that would be the end of it. But then!! Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity was announced. And I was THRILLED. FINALLY. we were going to get AN ENTIRE game alongside the champions, I was gonna get more content for Best Girl Mipha, and FINALLY AN ENTIRE GAME'S WORTH OF CHANCES TO GIVE REVALI SOME CHARACTERIZATION. YES!!!!

November 2020. AOC comes out. Holy. Fucking. Shit. Revali what did they do to you? To my shock he'd graduated from a little unlikeable to downright unpleasant to watch. Even my best friend, a diehard Revali fan through and through, could not STAND what they'd done with him. We got a whole game with this guy and they basically spent the whole thing trashing this guy's character. He was arrogant to the point of annoying, horribly rude to characters who had done nothing to earn it, and overall was just kinda a ballache. And not even in the 'fun annoying character' way.

But hey!! AOC was getting DLC as well!!! That is meant to flesh out the characters more!!! We'll definitely get something there!!

October 2021. Guardian of Remembrance comes out. Yeah this DLC gave us fuck all really. That goes for all the champions, but I think Revali suffered pretty bad in this regard. Some of the scenes with Tulin were cute but they didn't do much in terms of Revali's character.

And....that's where we are now. Tears of the Kingdom is on the horizon, and I highly doubt we're gonna get much on the Champions in this game but...well I've maintained hope for six years already, why stop now?

So yeah my feelings on Revali are...complicated to say the least. There's so much I love about him, his design is probably my favorite of the Champions (next to Mipha), he easily has like...the best voice in the whole fucking game, and the character POTENTIAL is absolutely incredible. But all in all it feels like they've done nothing with that potential, for what is supposed to be the most Character driven era of Zelda to date, it truly feels like they've let his character stagnate, if not actively regress in a way that I REALLY do not vibe with.

I can see what people can love about him, god knows I've done more when provided with less in a character. It's not the ego that gets me, I love cocky characters, ffs my favorite BOTW character is Master Kohga for crying out loud, and that man has a damn near god complex. (Kohga, incidentally, has LEGITIMATELY EXPERIENCED MORE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT THAN REVALI. WHAT.)

Like I'm not saying I want his character to do a full 180, just a couple more scenes like what we got in Champion's Ballad, just a couple more cracks in the facade would have done wonders. But instead they just kept him rather one note. Feels bad man.

Ultimately it feels like they're just going in circles with this character, arguably the Champion with the most potential to be interesting and they're doing fuck all with it. I can see why people love him, but idk, I've dealt with a few people irl with egos like that and that's probably not helped.

Idk, I guess this character managed to regress perfectly into a niche I cannot stand, and it sucks because it feels like such a personal loss to me.

I guess to put it very shortly

Revali is a bully. And I'll take a full blown villain over a bully any day.

[phoenix-arts7]

Art Summaries

For not wanting these to rot on my hard drive, and to look back on my artistic skill, I wanted to post my art summaries for 2021 and 2022 before this year ends. And hopefully everyone enjoys these too.

Short descriptions for each month in case anyone wants to know:

2021 (forgot where the template was from):

January: Alastor (OC)

February: Skyward Sword Link bust

March: a crystal painting test

April: Deku Link

May: Hyrule Warriors Link bust

June: Fire test

July: Tears of the Kingdom Link lighting test

August: Malon

September: Umbra (OC)

October: Time (my Zelda AU)

November: Annette (shiny Dunsparce I caught during a nuzlocke)

December: Angela (OC for a Pokemon story)

2022 (template by Taxkha on Twitter):

January, July-October: Friends' OCs

February: Sol (Pokemon story)

March: Time and Malon (Zelda AU)

April: alternate form Kakuna for friend (Pokemon)

May: A candle. Obviously.

June: Dusk (Pokemon story)

November: TotK fanart

December: two shiny Dunsparce my friend and I caught

[golbiey]

legend of zelda charm designs, link and zelda from skyward sword, botw, and link’s awakening - from november 2021

[torchickentacos]

My year in review!!!

I posted 3,455 times in 2022

That's 3,455 more posts than 2021!

1,165 posts created (34%)

2,290 posts reblogged (66%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@torchickentacos

@lmaoirrelevant

@ crtter

@lastoneout

@itstimetodrew

I tagged 1,617 of my posts in 2022

#taylor's tag - 352 posts

#pokemon - 188 posts

#pokeani - 138 posts

#anipoke - 133 posts

#contestshipping - 72 posts

#fave - 56 posts

#art - 55 posts

#pokemon drew - 53 posts

#pokemon may - 53 posts

#fav - 53 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#ok for you i’m guessing like 350? you have so much talent but i also don’t see you advertising it often on here so i’m guessing a solid 350

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

idk if I ever posted this. It isn’t pokemon but I know a couple of you like Zelda so here. Have Ms. Frizzalfos.

232 notes - Posted August 8, 2022

#4

So are we just not going to talk about that one time Caroline packed her bags and almost divorced Norman’s ass in front of the kids

304 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

#3

James noises

318 notes - Posted August 3, 2022

#2

How I draw clouds since they’re my favorite thing to draw! Literally nobody asked for a tutorial but I’m making one anyways! Note, I am looking at a reference photo I took which is always recommended in my opinion, but once you get clouds down more you can pretty easily freestyle them. Want to go from a solid sheet of color on your canvas to having trees and shit? this is for you. 

Step 1: put a solid sheet of color down. maybe an ombre, airbrush tool is probably the best here. Try to have a canvas size with at least 1k on either end, be it horizontal or vertical. We’re going to want it to look really smooth, not pilexated. 

Step 2: I personally never start with white or the lightest color of the clouds. Clouds are pretty white usually, but there’s a lot of grey and blue generally-I like to start with the middle-leaning-darkest shade, like this. Use a waterfolor-y brush or something similar if you can! Just makes your life easier. 

See the full post

487 notes - Posted October 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I'm obsessed with pokemon doing just. weird animal things. A chatot trying to fight itself in the mirror. Flygon being a large weird lizard. Absol getting its scythe/horn stuck in things and needing to be rescued. Holding a torchic and moving it, seeing its head do the chicken thing. Furret being an absolute menace to society and stealing your socks to nest. Mr. Mime putting barriers around its food as a form of food guarding. Ninetales sleeping with its head tucked under its tails. Zigzagoon snuffling through the trash.

14,554 notes - Posted November 11, 2022

actually my top post is at 40k rn but I deleted it because it clogged my notes fjfjdjfjjdjsjsksk

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Girl Games Network #1 (21/5/23)

Hello and welcome to the first instalment of the Girl Games Network newsletter. Each Sunday, I'll be sharing games industry news from a feminist angle and highlighting the games and women/non-binary people in the industry that you might not have heard about.

Riot Games paying out $100 million to 1,500 female employees

"It isn't everything you deserve. But it is an acknowledgement that you aren't alone, you are never alone, and we can stop this across the industry together."

US game developers Riot Games (Valorant) are paying out $100 million to 1,548 women employed at the company between 6th November, 2014 and 27th December, 2021. This follows a 2018 class action lawsuit for gender discrimination from former employees Melanie McCracken (Nuverse) and Jes Negrón (Retcon Games) that had its final approval hearing on 16th May, 2023.

After the initial $10 million settlement was objected to by California's Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH), the $100 million was agreed on in 2021, with $20 million covering legal fees.

According to the settlement Riot must pay out the following to those eligible  :

$2,500-5,000 depending on whether they worked as an employee or temporary agency contractor, and regardless of whether they exclude themselves (the “Minimum Payment”), and

$15,000-35,000 if they worked as an employee and do not exclude themselves, or

$5,000-10,000 if they worked as a temporary agency contractor and do not exclude themselves

Group/Class Members may also receive an additional $40,000 if they worked as an employee in or before 2015 and do not exclude themselves.

In statements on LinkedIn, Negrón and McCracken both expressed relief at the end of their four year journey. McCracken emphasised that "this is just the beginning" and talked about the importance of "inclusivity and belonging" in the workplace, while Negrón spoke about the stories of "disgusting bro culture" she and other women involved in the case had to endure and repeat throughout the process to get a "modicum of justice".

Any "current and former female employees and temporary agency contractors" at Riot in California between 6th November, 2014 and 27th December, 2021 can participate in the settlement and payment will be distributed in the three weeks following the final approval hearing last Tuesday. If you think you or someone you know might be eligible, go to https://www.riotsettlement.com/ for more details.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/activision-riot-settlement-payments

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/riot-s-100-million-gender-discrimination-settlement-granted-final-approval

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7064643428264857600/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/melaniemccracken_toggle-navigation-activity-7064744567169822720-sS-t/

https://twitter.com/JesNx/status/1659212142829264899?cxt=HHwWhoDTxeWp2oYuAAAA

Streamer Alanah Pearce banned for watching Zelda trailer footage on Twitch

"It would appear that Nintendo DMCA'd me for watching approved Zelda gameplay"

When their long-awaited game The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom leaked over a week before release, Nintendo's notorious legal efforts and takedowns only got more aggressive.

One person caught in the crosshairs was Alanah Pearce, a game writer for Sony Santa Monica as well as a YouTube video-maker, boxer, DJ and most importantly Twitch streamer. During a stream where she watched a TOTK preview video from SkillUp that only contained pre-embargo footage, Pearce's channel charalanahzard received a DMCA strike from Nintendo and was suspended. The SkillUp video has not been subject to any takedowns.

After 70 minutes, Pearce managed to appeal and reverse the Twitch ban and regained access to her channel. With over 163K followers on Twitch alone, the size of her audience may have sped up her appeal; smaller streamers may not be so lucky.

https://twitter.com/StreamerBans/status/1655817156553060353

https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/1655799864457035776?cxt=HHwWgIDQwYbNyvotAAAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKc2_3-vRf8

Fullbright and Open Roads Developers Separate

"It's just no longer Fullbright's place to represent Open Roads publicly going forward" 

As of 12th May 2023, the developers behind Gone Home and the upcoming Open Roads have parted ways with their founder Steve Gaynor and the Fullbright name. This announcement comes not from what are now known as "The Open Roads Team" or from their publisher Annapurna Interactive, but Gaynor himself in his first Fullbright newsletter in years.

In the newsletter, Gaynor alludes to "serious turmoil" at the studio that came to light shortly after the announcement of Open Roads and acknowledges that events have shown his "own strengths do not lie with attempting to manage a large project or direct the work of others", but does not detail what happened at Fullbright.

Within a year and a half of Open Roads' announcement at the 2020 Game Awards, fifteen employees left Fullbright. Current and former members of the studio spoke to Polygon in 2021 about their concerns with Ganyor's behaviour toward them, specifically the women. They emphasised that the behaviour did not veer into sexual harassment or explicit sexism, but Gaynor's "controlling" behaviour and "demeaning presence" that wore many down, to the point of their quitting en masse. The overall impression was that Gaynor saw Open Roads less as the team's game and more as his; Fullbright as an extension of his auteurship. Indeed, his personal Twitter account was Fullbright until forced to change it by the unrest in May 2021.

By the time of the Polygon report, Annapurna were already aware of the situation and had conducted an internal investigation, but the team were dissatisfied. When speaking to People Make Games in 2022, the staff - again anonymous for fear of repercussions from either Annapurna or Gaynor - said that Annapurna "talked around" the issue when asking the staff what they would need to finish the project and the prospect of removing Gaynor from his position at the head of the studio and writer on Open Roads was not brought up.

After the report went out and news of Gaynor's misconduct was public knowledge, the Open Roads twitter issued a statement now deleted saying : "Fullbright's co-founder Steve Gaynor has stepped back from his role as creative lead and manager, and transitioned to a role as a writer". The statement could also be found on the game's website, which was a part of Fullbright's website and is currently down. A day later, Gaynor issued a statement on twitter saying much of the same and acknowledging his "hurtful" leadership, but also not giving details. Through all of this, Annapurna Interactive remained silent and continues to do so.

When the changeover from Fullbright to The Open Roads Team happened is unclear : Gaynor's influence on the game was gone from June 2021 according to the Game Informer interviews and Amy Fincher's job as executive producer on Open Roads changed from under Fullbright to under Annapurna in September 2022. The game's website and Steam page were both linked to Fullbright as recently as early May and the developer still hasn't been updated on Annapurna's website. Whether Gaynor's announcement was ahead of or instead of a statement from Annapurna or The Open Roads Team, the developer is once again in his shadow, hopefully for the last time.

Open Roads is a mother- daughter road trip currently in development by The Open Roads Team at Annapurna Interactive. In light of its rocky development, the release date is unknown.

https://youtu.be/xDPzZkx0cPs?t=1015

https://fullbright.cmail20.com/t/t-e-fhtudtt-pikikkhuk-k/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210806094550/https://twitter.com/OpenRoadsGame/status/1423071532952080386

https://twitter.com/SteveGaynorPDX/status/1423094322396762113?cxt=HHwWgsCsheKv7L8nAAAA

https://www.gameinformer.com/feature/2022/07/21/a-new-destination-how-open-roads-changed-direction-and-saved-its-turbulent-road

https://www.polygon.com/22610490/fullbright-steve-gaynor-controversy-stepped-down-open-roads

News of note :

Article by Lin Codega at Gizmodo collecting trans experiences with Link https://gizmodo.com/legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-link-trans-1850430832

Feminist Frequency is fundraising $20000 for the Game and Online Harassment, with donations matched by Landfall Games  https://givebutter.com/femfreqspring2023

Excellent art of Tear of the Kingdom's best returning character by @aurahack https://cohost.org/aurahack/post/1492484-purah

One day left for the Earthquake Relief Bundle on itch https://itch.io/b/1805/trkiye-syria-earthquake-relief-mega-bundle

Humble's first Black Game Developer Fund game "Protodroid DeLTA" releases on 25/5 with Day One DLC Armour Pack that goes to Girls Make Games scholarship fund https://www.humblebundle.com/store/protodroid-delta

New podcast "Confessions of a Gamer Girl" looking for female, Australian panellists https://twitter.com/Doomcutie_/status/1658130126683480065?cxt=HHwWgoC9hZWk7oIuAAAA 

"Blackpink The Game" management sim launched for mobile by TakeOne Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERl_J3b_ejI

Coming attractions :

Playstation Showcase 24/5 https://www.youtube.com/live/e9z0atV8VDk?feature=share

Summer Games Done Quick returns online and in-person in Minneapolis 28/5-4/6 https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/43

Summer Games Fest returns online and in-person at the YouTube Theater, Los Angeles 8/6 https://www.summergamefest.com/

GDC Showcase 27-29/6 (book tickets before June to save $40) https://gdconf.com/

Thanks for reading this far! If you're looking for latest news in girl games and girls in games, be sure to follow @girlgamesnetwork wherever good posts are found.

[ohlookanothercartoontofallinto]

I posted 834 times in 2022

That's 684 more posts than 2021!

373 posts created (45%)

461 posts reblogged (55%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@silvercaptain24

@socksandbuttons

@squigglywindy

@socialc1imb

@ohlookanothercartoontofallinto

I tagged 589 of my posts in 2022

Only 29% of my posts had no tags

#linkeduniverse - 120 posts

#linked universe - 115 posts

#lu - 114 posts

#linkeduniverse wind - 101 posts

#lu wind - 99 posts

#linked universe wind - 74 posts

#linkeduniverse legend - 33 posts

#linkeduniverse sky - 29 posts

#renegade winds - 29 posts

#linkeduniverse twilight - 29 posts

Longest Tag: 132 characters

#you helped me realize i can actually help people and that helped me influence my career choice you are so talented and are a amazing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

WAIT a darn second. I just realized, Wind wouldn't use a bedroll to sleep. He would use a hammock, and then a bedroll if he absolutely needed to.

Because, that's what pirates and sailors used on their ships.

So can you just picture, Wind putting up his hammock and just the all out brawl that take place about who gets to sit with him in it before going to sleep. Those things are comfortable!

Just the adorable snuggling Four, Wind, and Hyrule would do because they are the lightest.

Legend sneaking in with wind at night because he had a nightmare and the rocking helps him.

Sky just downright stealing it because ITS A HAMMOCK, and wind just being nice and letting him have it for the night.

Wild wanting one because he's not allowed to sleep in trees.

Then just Time and Wind relaxing together in it!

354 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

#4

You know another fic I wanna write but have no time for is a fic where.

Wind just assumes Wolfie doesn't like him.

Like originally Wind was so excited to meet wolfie and get to know him. But the more he tries to get close the more wolfie pulls away. Then Wind watches everyone else effortlessly get close to the wolf.

So Wind in his 13 year old brain just comes to the conclusion of oh he must hate me. So he will try to be respectful and keep his distance, however he also feels a bit shaky when wolfies near by.

After a while Time will catch on that somethings up, and will casually ask, and Wind will just answer, "oh Wolfie doesn't like me, so I'm trying to not bother him!" In the most cheerful voice. Cut to Twilight hearing boss music and feeling the most intense stare of his life. 

The chain will try to convince Wind that Wolfie does in fact like him, but Wind will come back with all the times Wolfie gave him the cold shoulder or snapped at him. Which in Twilights mind did not register he did that so much, or that how Wind interpreted it. that way.  

So Wolfie will try to fix it by coming closer to Wind to try show he does like him. Only Wind is now super careful around the wolf, and just assume, “Oh Champion’s not here so he must think I’m him, because of the blue.” Or Wolfie could save him in battle and Wind would respond with, “I’m guessing he know you be sad if I got hurt, so that’s why he saved me.” 

The fic wouldn’t be a gab at twilight or anything. More I like to write about the psychological implications of patterns, and how young ones misinterpret actions as hostile because they either have not experienced it, or have and know the signs. And how hard it is to break that line of thinking once the idea has become fact in your mind. 

407 notes - Posted November 9, 2022

#3

Time: Maturing is accepting the responsibilities you been given no matter your age and fueling them. 

Wind: No it’s not, maturing is realizing you were denied the childhood you should of had from the start, and doing little things to help restore it. Now shut up and put on your scariest mask, we’re pranking people. 

Time puts on the Great Fairy mask: Yes sir. 

572 notes - Posted August 26, 2022

#2

Hyrule: Princess Zelda should be protected. 

Sky: I prefer loved and cherished. 

Time: Hmmm, feared and respected. 

Wind: Defeated..... 

All eyes on wind. 

Wind: She launched me from a catapult, I hold grudges. 

797 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Sky: Yeah I grew up on a floating island in the sky. 

Wind: WAIT! You’re a island boy to! (Take’s sky’s hands) Brother! You and I have a alliance now. The Island Boy alliance. 

Warrior: What in the world are you talking about? 

Wind: Silence now earth walker, the island boy’s are speaking. 

1,053 notes - Posted September 14, 2022

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I posted 6,689 times in 2022

That's 3,493 more posts than 2021!

27 posts created (0%)

6,662 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@godmodebeginswithlesbians

@tenpixelsusie

@just-krieg-thoughts

@thepunmaster

@sansxfuckyou-deactivated20221015

I tagged 150 of my posts in 2022

#linked universe - 14 posts

#ask - 14 posts

#lu four - 13 posts

#linkeduniverse - 12 posts

#lu wind - 11 posts

#lu twilight - 11 posts

#lu - 11 posts

#legend of zelda - 10 posts

#lu wild - 10 posts

#lu time - 10 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#when i was in class yesterday; my proffesser didn't give my grpup enough time to finish going over one of the questions we were assigned

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Every time I get a notification saying that I have a new follower I get confused. Every. Single. Time. What about what I have on my blog do people thing is worth following me for? I hardly ever post anything original and when I do I send it to random people in asks.

1 note - Posted January 11, 2022

#4

Friend: So how do you feel about (old hyperfixation that hasn't gotten any new contaxt in a while)?

Me: Oh I still like it. It was really good at I think it still holds up pretty well. I've mostly moved onto other things now

The old hyperfixation: Hey, I know it's been a few years, but here's some new content!

Me: proceeds to go feral over it

13 notes - Posted November 1, 2022

#3

Can we get some more love for the Satellaveiw games?

Dash the Hero of Light based on @dragon-of-dreams-linkeduniverse's

The Heroine Who Shall Be Named

17 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

#2

Some Vidow angst I made after getting getting brainrot from a song.

Please don't repost

17 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

526 notes - Posted February 4, 2022

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I posted 192 times in 2022

That's 192 more posts than 2021!

9 posts created (5%)

183 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@queen-ofsunflowers

@bllaaaaarrgh

@ammo-never-runs-out-of-knives

@science-lings

@st0rmyskies

I tagged 77 of my posts in 2022

#linked universe - 16 posts

#loz - 16 posts

#legend of zelda - 14 posts

#link - 12 posts

#ao3 - 10 posts

#botw - 10 posts

#breath of the wild - 9 posts

#lu wild - 8 posts

#lu twilight - 8 posts

#fanfiction - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 120 characters

#i read you religiously you have consumed my life and destroyed any attemps at being social what more do you want from me

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I’m texting my older sister about the ao3 situation (she is also obsessed with fanfiction) and I’m telling her about how the ao3 tag has reached #2 on trending (she does not have tumblr) and she finds it genuinely so funny that we all have no life

14 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

#4

Oh frick. It’s starting.

17 notes - Posted April 21, 2022

#3

SHIT AO3’S DOWN I CAN’T READ MY FUCKING FANFICTION 😭

19 notes - Posted June 13, 2022

#2

Ok so I just had a thought-

Imagine Wild with pigtails, like the low kind. Idk, I just think that would be really cute.

24 notes - Posted April 21, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

IS AO3 DOWN RIGHT NOW????

IS THIS A SIGN FOR ME TO STOP PROCRASTINATING AND DO MY HOMEWORK

53 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

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I posted 1,146 times in 2022

That's 1,146 more posts than 2021!

58 posts created (5%)

1,088 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@wrenhellfreezes

@weatherchanneloffical

@foolwave

@beidak-art

I tagged 1,146 of my posts in 2022

#art - 475 posts

#meme - 401 posts

#zelda - 137 posts

#elder scrolls - 82 posts

#text post - 76 posts

#cat - 54 posts

#hylics - 50 posts

#pokemon - 49 posts

#words - 46 posts

#mario - 40 posts

Longest Tag: 100 characters

#recovering from covid and im double masking while going out because i hate this hellhole of a planet

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Wayne from Hylics

5 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

#4

Cute Couples Costumes! 🎃🦀

6 notes - Posted October 19, 2022

#3

Astel likes sitting on my husband's touch sensor lamp and making it flash. It's like getting flash banged by your cat at 3 AM.

7 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

#2

See the full post

9 notes - Posted November 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

A rat!! Won't you give this poor fella a hat? 🐀

18 notes - Posted November 30, 2022

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[arikad0]

I posted 5,197 times in 2022

That's 3,378 more posts than 2021!

2,634 posts created (51%)

2,563 posts reblogged (49%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@/wygolvillage

@/anotherdragonsfan

@/vourdalak

@/dranora

@/arikad0

I tagged 3,990 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#castlevania - 504 posts

#pokemon - 410 posts

#ff7 - 253 posts

#video - 164 posts

#asks - 140 posts

#legend of zelda - 58 posts

#legends arceus spoilers - 53 posts

#grimoire of souls spoilers - 49 posts

#pmd - 47 posts

#audio - 44 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#yes i'm gettin emotional over a scene from a non-canon mode with barely any dialogue from a nearly 20 year old castlevania game let me live

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

tapes all four of Sprigatito's paws to the ground so it does NOT become bipedal upon evolution

47 notes - Posted February 27, 2022

#4

ngl it was kinda clever of GameFreak to have the professor who isn't in the version you chose be a deadbeat parent who didn't want children in order to explain why they don't show up in both games

62 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

#3

this concept art of Mai and Adaman makes me so happy. I love chaotic siblings

155 notes - Posted February 13, 2022

#2

whenever Alucard did something to get Dracula mad at him as a kid he would run out of the castle and just stand in the sun. and stare at him.

288 notes - Posted February 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

do you ever think about how Alucard looks like his human mother while in his regular vampire form, but looks like his vampire father while disguised as a human,,,,,

4,157 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

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[giigil]

how did you start to write? kinda curious to know your trajectory

story time! (really happy you asked, hehe.) note: if anyone's interested in going through my past writings, let me know and i'll probably make a google drive folder lol.

I've been addicted to gaming ever since I was younger and I've always had hyperfixations that would come and go. Middle school was when I realized I had a love for reading books (mainly young adult, romance, fiction + manga) and I used to always spend my time in the school library during my lunch breaks.

2012: I was 13 and almost graduated from middle school. I adored Zelda/Link as a ship so much that I Googled 'Zelda x Link' to look for cute art, only to stumble across a website: Fanfiction.net. Yep. That site.

I read through a couple of stories and found myself hooked. I made an account, and I decided to start writing my own stories.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl had a huge impact on my life and holds a special place in my heart. It was all I'd ever written and thought about when I first started.

( putting a read more to elaborate further on my writing journey. )

Around 2013, though, someone put a wrench on my Fanfiction.net journey by reporting my story -- it wasn't anything horrible, it was just a cringe Truth or Dare fanfiction that someone and their group said was "against" Fanfiction.net rules. That story got deleted, and out of impulse and feeling depressed, I deleted every single fanfiction I'd ever posted on my account.

I deeply regret doing so, because there were so many ideas that I can't look back on because my memory isn't able to recall a whole lot of them.

At least a few weeks after, though, I got onto Tumblr and got into Tumblr roleplaying! Fairy Tail was my next huge fixation and I made a roleplay blog focused on Edo-Cana from the Edolas arc (after I spoke with an Edo-Lucy blog). After I lost my inspiration for Edo-Cana, I moved on to Evergreen, and then Lucy Heartfilia.

I believe I lost interest in roleplaying on Tumblr around 2014.

2014: I was still writing on Fanfiction.net, but as usual, I would delete my fics when they didn't satisfy me. I wrote for a couple of other fandoms ranging from Big Hero Six, Rise of the Guardians/Young Justice, and more. I'd also joined websites like Quotev and Wattpad.

2015: In my junior year of high school, I made a friend who also had an interest in roleplaying. She introduced me to this one roleplaying website which allowed me to continue with writing.

However, as you can probably see, I have the absolutely terrible habit of losing interest in things quickly. I ended up quitting roleplaying due to that.

I also joined Archiveofourown. I don't remember if I'd ever posted anything around the time of joining. This is the one year I don't remember much for.

I also continued to post on Fanfiction.net:

As per usual, it lasted for *almost* a year.

November 10th, 2016 was the last time I ever posted on my Fanfiction.net account.

I had a dry spell when it came to writing for a good year and a half from 2016-2017.

April 21 2017: I played Final Fantasy XV and (it's what I hyperfixated on for a good 2 years). Around April 27-28, I already had a hankering for wanting to write fanfiction for it. I have so many ideas that haven't seen the light of day, and probably never will.

There's so many drafts, mostly unfinished, just sitting in my Google Drive.

August 2018: I posted a Prompto Argentum x Reader fic on archiveofourown, but eventually orphaned it and everything else I had posted.

October 2018: My hyperfixation for Red Dead Redemption 2 started. I thought up of ideas, plotlines, etc.

February 2019: I posted 3 Arthur Morgan x Reader fics. Which, you can probably already guess what the fuck happened to those. *orphaned. woooow.*

March 2019: I swore off writing anything else for my old Fanfiction.net account, and have left all of my fanfiction saved there.

2020-2021: Once more, I stopped writing and focused on trying to get through day by day life considering it was the COVID outbreak and I was only ever working. I never stopped reading fanfiction though. It's what's kept my writing decent -- at least, that's what I feel like. 2020 was when my hyperfixation on Final Fantasy 7/Remake started. I would think up of things.

March 23, 2022: (Not a writing thing, but I like to make note of it.) The start of my hyperfixation on Jujutsu Kaisen and Gojo!

December 2022: I finally posted a fic after so long. Haven't deleted it, and I swear I won't.

January 2023: Wrote my first ever M rated fic for Nero the Sable from Final Fantasy 7 Remake x Reader, and told myself I'd go back to writing. I haven't posted anything else on AO3 since then.

August 11, 2023: I learned of and created an account on character.ai!

September 18, 2023: I started making character.ai bots!

TL;DR:

As you can see, I'm an inconsistent person and have occasional moments of inspiration and eventually get tired of things. There will be times when I need a break from writing, so I apologize if it takes me a bit to get through all of my requests.

[avacantlif3]

Lockdown, agoraphobia, recovery

So I’ve suffered from depression since I was 14, and anxiety and panic attacks since I was 18, but later in my adult life I started dealing with OCD. Like real OCD. Things like compulsive hand washing, not wanting to touch surfaces like door knobs or elevator buttons, checking the stove and door locks 20 times before going to bed, obsessive research on plane crashes, lasers, ticks…fun stuff. But covid realllllly took everything to the next level. I never understood agoraphobia until I was in the middle of a full blown mental health crisis. From November 2020 to March 2021, I did not go outside. I lived in a 2 bedroom apartment on the second floor with my wife and our infant daughter. Our cat that we’d had our entire relationship died from a very aggressive form of cancer one month after our daughter was born. It was by far the hardest month of my life.

It really felt like something broke that year. I don’t know what it was or why it manifested in agoraphobia, but when I say I didn’t go outside for 5 months I mean that very literally. I did not go to the store. I did not check the mail or walk the trash to the dumpster. I didn’t even step out onto the balcony for some fresh air because the anxiety was that overwhelming. My body physically did. not. go. outside. I was too afraid to even go into the second bedroom, which was full of junk, and especially the second bathroom, where Zelda died. I was working from home, and my entire world had been reduced down to a living room and a bedroom. I felt like I had died, like I was stuck in some sick form of purgatory. I had an entire past behind me, a life lived, friends that I could no longer see. But I did not feel like I had a future. The suicidal ideation got really bad. I hit rock bottom and felt like there was absolutely no hope in the world, no hope for me. It was the darkest place I’ve ever been.

It took years of work, therapy, and lots of prozac to recover from that level of agoraphobia, and while I’m not quite out of it yet (unfamiliar places still give me anxiety), I feel like I’m very close to cured. Honestly, working at SP was a huge part of that. I remember just less than a year ago thinking there was no way I could ever get a job that wasn’t fully remote, that would require me to leave the house. I even turned the job down initially, but K convinced me to change my mind. And bit by bit over this last year, I have continued to recover. I don’t even recognize myself from a year ago, and I mean that in the best possible way.

I’m just…really really happy lately. Happier than I’ve been in a long time, and more social than I’ve been in about 10 years. Looking back, coming here was such a good decision, and it scares the hell out of me that I almost made the wrong choice. There are so many amazing people here I never would have met, and I’m so excited to slowly get to know them better.

[annaminijayan3dblog]

Red Vs Blue Part 1

Our first assignment in Semester A involved working with the brief Red vs Blue. Since my goal is to become a character artist for games I decided to work on a character for this brief. Initially, I thought of the concept of a character going in search of a blue quest item. However when I started looking for references to develop the concept, my idea changed to a red character assisting a blue character instead. 

I looked at various artworks on artstation, some of which heavily inspired the final concept for this assignment. 

The artwork Frog King by Alice Rose on artstation is one of the main inspirations for my final concept of an adventurer girl. I imagined my character as an adventurer who has to traverse through a magical world where she can only step on plant and tree leaves to obtain a cure for her unfortunate blue friend. I also viewed the following artworks as reference from artstation for more inspiration.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lRoPJV  - Yu Su

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xYlQm1 - Dustin Panzino

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VJaod4  - Kevin Nash

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJ2qGe - Gianluca Squillace

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68GEZN - CrazyJN

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JeJ6k0 - liquidcoco李奎德

Bibliography

Rose, A. (2021) Frog King, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ykWm1J (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

Liquidcoco李奎德 (2022) tomorrow land, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JeJ6k0 (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

CrazyJN (2021) Updraft 3D, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68GEZN (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

Squillace, G. (2023) Troll Fighter, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJ2qGe (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

Nash, K. (2023) Seven Swords Zelda, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VJaod4 (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

Panzino, D. (2023) Bunny Bullet Taxi Service, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xYlQm1 (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

Su, Y. (2023) A Lotus Seed, Artstation. Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lRoPJV (Accessed: November 06, 2023)

[coulsonlives]

Beware of Wata Games

I was doing my internet browsing thing tonight, and I came across this article about how a sealed copy of Pokemon Yellow, apparently valued at $4,000, was destroyed by US customs

My first thought was wow, that much be a high-valued game, must be in near flawless condition, that sucks it was destroyed. Then I read the comments:

Worth $3950 to for the WATA games ‘graded level’? Abso-fucking-lutely NOT.

Wata is inflating prices by several thousands of dollars and are driving up bids for these inflated prices by placing fake bids.

So this game was graded by the company called Wata, which is apparently bad. Then I saw that someone posted this video:

Certain organizations are literally fabricating a bubble because with every game they grade and value they set, they get a percentage of the cost back, so it is in their best interest to make games as pricey as possible even though they're nowhere near that valuable. There are documented cases of certain games being graded, purchased by biased parties, then news articles being planted to make it look like there's an "upward price trajectory with no signs of stopping", to incite demand for these higher prices. (Sounds similar to how real estate agents talk about the housing market because they have a vested interest in prices going up and up without end, doesn't it?)

Now it looks like Wata is facing a class action lawsuit about this stuff too! From that link:

Between 2019 and the end of 2021, Wata-graded games sold through Heritage auctions broke the record for most expensive videogame ever sold, six times in a row:

February 2019: Super Mario Bros., $100,150

July 2020: Super Mario Bros., $114,000

November 2020: Super Mario Bros. 3, $156,000

April 2021: Super Mario Bros., $660,000

July 2021: The Legend of Zelda, $870,000

July 2021: Super Mario 64, $1.56 million

That isn't even getting into all the 'shill bidding': the act of placing fake bids in order to drive up a price, which is rampant with these very expensive games

Moral of the story: don't get suckered in, know what's going on, know your game's worth and know that these grading companies? They're not here for you, they're here to destroy the aftermarket for games in the name of $$$

[goboymusic]

The only #Zelda games I’ve owned (and beaten) are #LinksAwakening and #BreathoftheWild (#BOTW). I loved them both. Nintendo allocates loads of talent to that franchise.

I had a beard that touched my nipples while recording this song. Started growing it in November, 2019, a few months before the pandemic in the US. Once the pandemic hit, I decided to grow it out indefinitely. Found out the hard way that singing through a beard sounds kind of like singing through a kazoo. It adds some buzz to the audio.

Originally, the beard was to be used as a marketing tool, like @ZZTop. “That pop artist with the beard” kinda thing. It wasn’t long before finding out that females aren’t huge fans of long beards, generally speaking, and seeing as 50% of GoBoy’s audience is female, the beard had to go. Clean shave and somewhat messy, medium-length hair is the way.

Not to mention long beards are a pain in the ass to maintain. Try eating with a long mustache drooping over your mouth. It’s ridiculous.

You’d never guess that this was the most difficult song to make on GoBoy 4, being as simple as it is (three-chord song consisting of vocals, distorted synth and a beat). Wrote, recorded and mixed four different verse melodies before landing on the final result with the 5th attempt. Also, the chorus went through two iterations. The first iteration contained lyrics about covid, as this song was produced at the height of the pandemic. I opted to remove the Covid-related lyrics because they were super cringey.

By the time the beard audio buzz was discovered, I was so burnt out from mixing five different verses and two choruses that I opted to hide the buzz by lowering the high end EQ and adding heavy reverb to the vocals.

This is GoBoy’s SUPER minimalistic phase. Some will be turned off by the simplicity of GoBoy 4 songs.

After dabbling in bubblegum pop for the 2nd half of GoBoy 3, my original plan was to focus on lyrically driven content for GoBoy 4. The release of ”Everything Will Be Okay (Song 69)” changed my mind, as the focus on dark lyrics impacted my mental state for months afterwards. Focusing on the dark elements of your own life for long enough can turn you into a neurotic mess (the original song “Everything Will Be Okay” had a 3rd verse the delved darker). My focus would shift to bubblegum pop from that point forward, which would impact this song. Music would be made for enjoyment and catchiness, not necessarily for conveying a message. I don’t regret this shift in focus… yet (excerpts from post 60).

In April, 2021, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5‘s songs were restructured to be under 3 minutes (preferably under 2m 30s), including this song. I became okay with releasing songs around the 2 min mark after realizing The Beatles and The Beach Boys had some songs around that length. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2m 20s (excerpts from post 37).

A bass boost was added to songs 37-99 in Nov, 2021, while I was stuck at home with covid. As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song. It’s a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost a little too far for some of them. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond (excerpt from post 37).