#a terrible oversight

[badsongpetey]

I'm never lost if I'm with you

[ladyspottedray]

"Evil shall never prevail, not while the Millelith stand and I draw breath."

General Liu Xuening is the head of the Millelith and a member of the Liyue Qixing. He wields a Geo vision and a claymore. Xuening's subordinates both respect and fear him, as his demeanor is harder and more inscrutable than the stone Liyue is built on. No one can deny, however, that he is utterly devoted to the protection of Liyue and its people.

Design notes/rambles under the cut!

If mihoyo releases a character with the same job premise I will simply explode lmao

Xuening was originally inspired by Yun Jin and subsequently Peking opera and the dan character role. Dan roles were originally all played by men (as women performers were thought to degrade public morality), and I was intrigued by the gender fuckery going on outside of the uh misogyny. Plus the makeup and costumes are so pretty and I love to look at them (Yun Jin has one of my fav designs in the game ngl).

That first design looked WAY too much like Yun Jin so the Peking opera vibes had to be toned down. After that I decided to take inspiration from the xianxia genre, especially from The Untamed. The Nie clan was a large part of this inspiration, though I also took cues from more of the main characters' costuming as well. And of course, the current design of the Millelith guards.

I also decided to go with a tiger motif due to the prominence of tigers in Chinese mythology but lack of notably tiger-themed characters in Liyue, as well as them being considered a force of aggressive masculine yang energy, which I thought would create an interesting contrast with Xuening's more feminine traits. The fu, or tiger tally (though they come in more forms than just tigers), was a symbol of authorization among generals as well.

The pose was inspired by a sword dance performance.

Xuening would use the tall male genshin model and his attacks are sand themed.

Xuening's personality was inspired by the lack of "ice queen" characters as well as the few number of playable bastard (affectionate) characters. He doesn't speak much, content to let his signature "neutral face of displeasure" do all the talking for him. Rumors abound about him and his seemingly contradictory nature, which he does not care to comment on either. He is a hard boss who demands nothing less than perfection and the fear of his wrath is quite a compelling motivator for achieving it, though he has seemingly never lifted a finger to enforce the idea.

In my head he and Yun Jin are siblings. Drama kids with an Aesthetic. Insert that one "scary dog privilege" meme from insta/tiktok

[whentherewerebicycles]

the doctor’s office just emailed me that the lab results were in but when I opened them all the numbers were exactly the same as the first blood draw which would be gutting news. then I looked at the date and realized they’d sent me the old labs by mistake and immediately burst into tears like WHY has this entire process been designed to produce maximum anxiety. then I had some back and forth with the doctor’s office and then they finally called me back and told me that they had forgotten to have the lab pick up the specimen so my blood has just been sitting in the pickup box at the clinic all fucking weekend and all the frantic compulsive checking I’ve been doing over the past 48 hours was for nothing. now I have to wait for the lab to pick up today’s order and run the tests. I think I could scream

[datmcomic]

THE CHICKENS ARE BACK!!

HELL YEAH I love that amors has chickens its important to me

[giantroboticplatypusbutt218]

Okay so first of all, I saw how my fic "Oversight" looks in the Loonatics Unleashed tags on desktop, and if you want to read it please for the sake of your own sanity either click on the Ao3 link or on my URL at the very top of the post which will take you to a less constricted version of my fic on my blog. (Edit: I noticed there's an option to switch post layout in the top right corner of the tags screen so that's also an option and thank goodness because I hated the layout Tumblr switched me to.)

Second, I drew terrible MS Paint references for what the Loonatics' Blanc HQ layout looks like as well as terrible MS Paint references for the outfits in chapter 3 (if you've read the chapter you'll know what I'm talking about). If anyone wants to see any of them let me know, otherwise I'm gonna let them collect digital dust in the reference folder on my computer and never think about them again.

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

hard mode does successfully prevent astarion from turning the game off like he does in normal mode unfortunately it does also just turn wyll off after a certain point as the price

[itookyoudown]

Our babyboy Tim for the Character Opinion Bingo! -@deputy-marshal-gutterson

baby boy Tim is sooo accurate for him ty. hoho BINGO.

[tucychenford]

So are we to believe that Eric and Melissa never took any behind the scene pictures together as Dim and Juicy? 🤔

[sinchronicity]

fascinated by this alternate universe that this person apparently comes from where like, the x files and mulder/scully shippers don't exist lol...... know your #Herstory.......

[coldflasher]

i got a kindle scribe for christmas and im having such a good time finally reading all the ARCs i neglected all year and making my little notes!! maybe i will finally recover my netgalley score after literally a year of not writing a single review

[lindwurmkai]

Me at 8 in the morning, about to finally go to bed after having been up all night: I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT MONKEYS

[dykeminecraft]

me for the past like. week or however long it's been idk: please Please relax and hold on I am 99% sure it's a weird bug caused by a functionality change they are not that stupid. it is OK just wait and see

finally, today:

for context hopper minecarts stopped picking up items through full blocks, which is. how a good chunk of farms function. So it absolutely destroyed their collection mechanisms.

However from what I'm gathering, the "change" occurred at the same time as an optimization change for normal hoppers. If I'm understanding correctly, it was intended to reduce lag by making it so that normal hoppers won't check for items if the block above them is a full block.

And, well, if the code was structured in a way such that the minecart hopper was treated as an exception rather than its own thing, and it was under the hopper check, removing that check would also effect hopper minecarts. Given they've been around since 1.5, it's possible the code was structured like that, which isn't ideal, but it's such a long running game that updating it in general probably requires cleaning up sections of code that are very much Not Ideal. And sometimes things get missed, that's why it's a snapshot after all

[yenpet-yenaet]

i'm only about 10 minutes into this and it seems good so far (apart from the 3edgy5me presentation and assumption of assuming inerrancy)

edit: wow evangelical pastors are really something

[plaguedocc]

I realize I missed the first out of touch Thursday of they year

[aanglican]

uncle iroh is treated very much like a paragon of virtue in the series. yes we know he has had a violent past, that he has done terrible things, committed atrocities in the service of the fire nation— but we don’t really feel it because all of that had happened off screen and prior to the series. instead, he comes to us as a more perfect being and one deified with secret good deeds revealed throughout the story: uncle iroh is the keeper of the dragons and an important member of the white lotus, he is just that awesome.

uncle iroh is so divorced from his immediate past that we don’t see him haunted by any of it unless it’s by lu ten— which begs the question: did he really turn his back on the fire nation due to a moral awakening or was it only/mostly for his own good? he certainly doesn’t behave in a manner you’d expect from a repentant ex-imperialist: he’s not too worried about walking the streets of ba singe se, let alone actually staying there after the war ended. (the same war he participated in on the side of the aggressors, mind you.) he is shameless enough to be living there while hiding away and was unscrupulous in accepting hospitality from earth kingdom folks who were made refugees by the fire nation, i.e., song’s family. does he not feel guilty or at least uncomfortable with his circumstances, especially since it has only been 5 or so years since the siege at ba sing se and thus still very fresh in the grand scheme of things? is iroh just that Enlightened and At Peace with his past that it doesn’t color his every movement? or is his lack of a moral hangover just a writing oversight? were they scared to make their most lovable character in a rated TV-Y7 cartoon a tad more polarizing?

while uncle iroh does his job well for the story— that is, to act as zuko’s guiding light— i do wish he were knocked off his pedestal a bit more. uncle iroh is, after all, the proto-zuko to ozai’s proto-azula. i wish to see him at least slightly paranoid about people recognizing him from his military days and vice versa. i wish to see him uneasy about being in the earth kingdom (out of guilt? as opposed to zuko’s superiority complex and anger). i wish to see him meet another person who also has visible burn scars, one that has nothing to do with zuko/his family, and still look away in shame or disgust by the implications. et cetera et cetera. anything to indicate he feels something more about himself and other people that isn’t just Wise Old Man.

[vln-vibes]

Heroes Hunted

(I need to finish my other fics before thinking of others Q^Q)

Basically we've seen quite a few Danny getting hunted down by the GIW and ending up in Gotham resulting in him warning certain Bats (mainly just Jason) that hes in danger as well--- but what if the GIW decided to target 'smaller fish' in order to train themselves against Phantom; their main target.

Unfortunately Team Phantom is too busy trying to keep the calm around Amity Park and don't realize it until they're too late.

The JL never see them coming.

The Bats are frantically looking for what should be their literal assassin trained Robin, Red Hood and Black Bat.

Supers are flying around the area looking for any trace of Supergirl and Superboy (I). Not even Tim's trackers on Conner show anything (just like the ones he had on his fellow Bats).

Arrows had sent Green Arrow and Arsenal to help with the search of the Bats, Roy leaving Lian behind with Dinah, only to drop off the face of the Earth.

The Flash, Blue Beetle and Hawkwoman are all reported as MIA.

An Emergency Meeting is announced and trying to get into contact with all the other fellow heroes. Some were known to be off planet but there were a few who'd failed to respond at all...

Batman is the first to realize a common factor to all those who've disappeared as most had concluded something or someone was targeting heroes.

They'd all died.

Diana was the one to bring forward worst news; the hunt wasn't done.

Impulse, Red Robin, Cyborg, Hawkman, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman herself were possible targets as well.

Cyborg was able to recover and corrupted and dropped emergency call from Barry "Those weirdos in white from earlier are attacking downtown, could use some backup asap. Something about Anti-Ecto Acts or whate-- Hey! Ugh"

A shiver went down their spines as they collectively told stories about spotting men in white suits walk around their cities. Some had brushed them off whilst others had kept tabs but the guys seemed to have lost interest and left.

It was a terrible oversight.

"Looks like some assholes are digging their noses into my turf, gonna stake them out tonight" Jason had told Bruce the last night they'd seen each other, "My guys they were wearing white suits, terrible choice for Crime Alley or Gotham"

Red Hood had said he didn't need backup as he would just gather intel, still that was also the night Black Bat and Robin were paired for patrol and she'd indicated she'd check in on him before the end of the night. The three never got to call in for the night.

Oracle had informed him that Red Hood's helmet had detonated, fortunately without him in it, its location the last place his children had pinged in the scanners.

The only audio they managed to recover from the device was "---Control Act, Article 1, Subse---Under Arrest---Questioning... And experimenting lots---"

Oracle had finally found the 'Anti-Ecto Acts', formally known as the Federal Anti-Ecto Control Act hidden along laws against the privatization of new green energy sources; Anything that was made off of or produced this so called 'ectoplasm' was to be handed over to the federal government's Ghost Investigation Ward for imprisonment, experimentation and finally termination.

"What the hell even is ectoplasm?"

"Its the source of all ghosts" Zatanna spoke up, repulsion clear as she read and reread the acts words, "Their body and souls are made up of the energy much like atoms make up all things in the physical world. The energy of the dead"

"According to these documents" Red Robin pulled up a research paper around two decades old from some students of the University of Wisconsin, "Ectoentities or ghosts are unfeeling, nonsentient echoes of their formerly living selves. They'd even theorized a means to access their home dimension they call the Ghost Zone"

"Ghost are made of bloody emotions" Constantine rolled his eyes "What kind of idiot would think otherwise? And don't get me started on a 'home dimension'--unless?"

"John, you don't think?"

"I sure as bloody hell hope not"

"The Infinite Realms!?"

Which only proved the situation more dire; a potential for a dimension that glued the multiverse and their afterlives, whose beings all had potential of rivaling the strength of a Super when provoked, their noted territorial nature making that a given if a portal happened upon them.

They were on a ticking time bomb to rescue their fellow heroes but they didn't even know where to start. Luckily they weren't the Justice League for nothing---

Potential locations scouted, teams made and buddy systems enacted for those potentially targeted.

Batman and his team headed to Amity Park to check on the three researchers of those papers-- Madeline Walker, Jack Fenton and Vladimir Masters. Background search revealed that Madeline and Jack had gotten married and had two children Jasmine and Daniel.

It wasn't until they crossed the town border in the dead of the night that their systems pinged the Fenton children were reported as runaways-- and not just them. The local high school had shut down as children were reported missing or also runaways from their parents. Even the faculty and some parents had begun to disappear.

Those that remained were kept under strict curfew by marshal law-- the GIW had the town under their control.

Just what exactly had they stumbled upon? Could their comrades be hidden somewhere in this small midwestern town?

Their theories were proven right the following night when tapping into their communication line about the 'aggressive subject G-02' and how 'it' had managed to break some arms when it had been relocated to the Fenton's personal lab. The 'unfortunate' Agent H who'd tried to yank it by its black and white contaminated hair had gotten his nose broken for it. It was scheduled for biopsy tonight.

Batman couldn't help but taste the bile make his way up fearing/knowing who G-02 was.

His Team was right behind him in the change of plans as they made their way across town as covertly as they could; it seemed as though after finding out about G-02 (it couldn't be him, he couldn't put a name to him lest he let his fear override everything) Batman pinged on more and more of their ghost detectors.

Disabling was taking too long, loathe he admit, as they devolved to destroying as discreetly as they could.

Finally they could see the garish neon of the FentonWorks logo, the steps and door to the house were covered in ectoplasm and another familiar substance-- handmarks, clawmarks, clear signs of resistance could be made out.

And then Fentonworks went up in a flame and red and green.

Batman couldn't keep in his desperate cry. Not again! Please not again...