#and have fun finding explinations

[emiwuaidmslomc]

I love how tumblr always finds a way to bring back the supernatural memes and apply them to every situation

[tranakin-skywalker]

I'm pretty sure I've admitted it on here before, but I actually do really love The Last Jedi. I think it's a really good movie! Well made, well acted, beautifully shot, the characters and their development is compelling. I enjoy it!

I do not, however, think it's a very good Star Wars movie.

[prof-peach]

what is the weirdest enrichment you do thats normal for the pokemon? i have a dreepy who likes to launch herself out of a modified tennis launcher. worst thing that happened is that she phased through a few house

Mud rolling for phanphy that never got that opportunity. As in, theyre nervous around their own species because of isolation, and so YOU THE PROFESSOR have to get in the mud and teach them how to phanphy. Messy but fun, no one else likes to do it weirdly, I always rather enjoyed it.

furret tube enrichment. Grey sets up a bunch of pipes all connected in weird and wild ways like a janky jungle gym, we put small treats in there, and tie "prey" ie, toys, to strings and pull them at speed through the maze to get the furrets to chase and learn that behaviour if they never got to prior.

Murkrow are VERY smart, and we have a lot of them, so theres regular scavenger hunts (with a few rules to save guests grief) that we hold for them specifically. everyone gets participation rewards, but also its a great chance for them to sharpen their problem solving skills individually and as a group.

Tug of war with guests. we got this set up that lets the bigger mons hold one end, and visitors or other pokemon are encouraged to engage with the game and try to out pull the island residents. sometimes the little pokemon all join in, but we originally set it up for the bigger ones.

Theres a couple of Tauros and girafarig that like to roll own hills with the wooloo and odd mareep, we've set up sturdier wire nets for this now the heavy mons like to partake too, to catch them all safely so they can run back up and do it again. You can imagine the chaos we had when they started doing this and didnt have that net in place, mons rolling too far towards sea cliffs.

Slugma races. This needs no explination. The staff love this one.

Movie nights, sport teams, dance sessions, story time, arts and crafts, and even band practice are clubs we hold, be it a professor or another group of staff, and many mons can come and go as they see fit, theyre all optional but we try to encourage each resident to find the thing that makes them tick, and so trying out a bunch of things is there for all. Some may not like team sport with the staff so I also offer just gym time, a personal best system in place more than a group effort and score.

It really varies from one to the next. some big mons like dainty hobbies, some of the little ones are brawlers, and everything in between. We just have to cater to it!

A nice example is a Hitmonchan that came in a while back missing a leg, they fight with me and others in the gym of course, but they also partake in a tea and stories night, a couple dozen pokemon, a few staff all cosying up in one of the event barns with readings from books, and plenty of snacks. its a firm favorite as autumn creeps in, numbers spike.

Pokemon can be complex, so offering lots is alwasy the best choice when you can, never know what they'll like until they try it!

[otherkin-confessional]

yk im really beginning to hate how a lot of people just seem to look at therianthropy as just “masks and quadrobatics”. and obviously there are a lot of therians that wear masks, and gear, and do quadrobatics and they can do whatever they want forever; its not my business. im just getting really frustrated with a few things about it.

my friend and i were fucking around on roblox the other day and ended up in some therian games. and all they were was gear and quadrobatics. AND AGAIN. I DO NOT HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT /INHERENTLY/. but like. one of them would Only let you do quadrobatics. like i cant really explain why i have such an issue with it it just made me Uncomfortable? like, maybe its just not my thing and someone else fucks with it severely, but it really wouldnt be that hard to just make it an opt in thing.

all of the gear (aside from like. 2 sets in one of the games) were the. i guess “stereotypical” theriotypes. dogs and foxes and cats. almost exclusively. and like, i could just be blowing shit out of proportion and im sorry if i am but that also kinda rubs me the wrong way! its just kind of uncomfortable that those are the /only/ theriotypes, ygwim? like, i couldnt engage with any of it because im not any of those, to my knowledge. and like. its discouraging to join a thing that says its for therians, and to see that you cant find yourself anywhere there. and i get it, its unreasonable to expect them to make things for every animal they can think of, but again: it was ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY wolves foxes and cats. do you understand my issue

and like. man. i dont want this to be another fucking KFF thing. that alone already upsets me. and jesus christ, man, obviously its not the fault of the therians On TikTok who are minding their own business. its everyone else’s fault for not bothering to do an ounce of external research and just assume “oh okay a therian = someone who does quadrobatics and wears masks. therefore, all there is to being a therian is quadrobatics and masks”. and then other people, who are not therians, will see this explination and say “oh okay! that sounds fun, im going to start calling myself a therian (despite the fact i am not)”. words do Have Meaning, guys, yk? they already did this shit with fictionkin and otherkin, why is it happening again. do you get me?

sorry for the rant it just made me. really uncomfortable

🌌

[president-alpine]

Through the Looking Glass AU

Okay, I've been itching to fix up the chapter for the Jervis's story because, while I do like the idea of the Jabberwocky hunting down Jervis and making him seek out Batman for help

I will not lie and say that I was really hoping to read a chapter where Jervis meets a haunted version of Alice through the looking glass

So, please enjoy my chaotic ramblings and this story I got bouncing in my brain

It'll be base upon this

Okay SO

Jervis seeks out the Blackfire pendant, since it has the ability to make whoever's dreams come true

He finds it and of course, gazes into it. Which starts the chaos that will follow Jervis the whole way through

But this time instead of some Jabberwocky creature hunting him down, he sees the ghostly appiration of Alice

No matter what mirror he looks at, there she is with all the twisted variations of Wonderland citizens like the Cheshire Cat, March Hare, etc

And they're always tempting him to come through the looking glass and join them for the tea party, so he can have fun forever

But, Jervis always refuses because there is no way in hell is he able to pass through a mirror just like in the book. Plus, a ghostly looking Alice no eyes is giving him second thoughts

They insist that he can and that he has to try, which leads to them becoming more aggressive with every meeting

Which leads to him seeking out Batman for help!

Then we have the explination of what's been going on and how desperate he is to break the curse

Since now apparently the Cheshire Cat is in the "real world" and now is hunting Jervis down

Heads up for the spooky face

I'm making this the corrupted Cheshire Cat in my version of the tale

Anyway, the corrupted versions of Wonderland citizens finally appear and have come to take Jervis. But Batman is there to help him and the two fight off these corrupted versions

However, Alice is able to sneak up on Jervis and runs away with the Mad Hatter

They take him to the mirror where they first met and start dragging him through the looking glass. But of course, Batman tracks them down and is able to pull Jervis away just in time

The Wonderland citizens try again in getting Jervis but Batman and Jervis break the mirror, ending the nightmare

All that was left of the wonderland creatures are pages where they debut

So the nightmare is over, but Jervis still has to go to Arkham

And it does end similarly with Jervis pouring a cup of tea for Jonathan

So that’s the idea! Enjoy this silly AU story!

[thealmightyemprex]

Halloweenathon :Phantoms

So I am not familiar with the work of Dean Koontz other then my grandfather being a fan ,and I really didnt know much of Phantoms going in,save for its refrence in Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back "Ben Aflek was the bomb in Phantoms ".Honestly the main reason I watched it is primarily cause its a horror film starring Peter O Toole,who I have recently become a fan of

In this 1998 film sisters Jennifer (Joanna Going ) and Lisa (Rose Mcgowen) find something sinister going on in Snowfield Colorodo and with the help of Sherrif Bryce Hammond (Ben Aflek ) and an expert Timothy Flyte (Peter Oit Enemy

So this film is a notorious flop ,it has its fans (My dad is one ) but critically it didnt do well....Which is a shame cause I didnt dislike it ,but I didnt love it

I'll start with what I really liked :The first half with the "What the hell is happening "vibe really caught my attention,I like that it threw us into the situation with the sisters .The cast is really good,Id say the characters themselves couldve been one note but the actors chosen are all appropriate and give some fun performances ,Joanna Going and Rose McGowen are great view point characters and Ben Aflek is solid as the heroic cop with a dark past .Lieve Schriber is pretty scene stealing as the creepy cop being unnerving (His chuckle creeped me out ) and wonderfully scene chewing near the end .No surprise Peter O Toole stole the movie as the old scientist expert .I like the use of the song I Fall to Pieces by Patsy Cline ,and there is one scene that creeeped me out

If I have an issue with the film its.....I couldnt wrap my head around the explination of what the monster was ,I got confused .I also just found a lot of elements OK ,especially the monster.

I dont dislike it though,I can see myself rewatching it.ITs got a "Horror movie you watch when flipping through channels "vibe

ITs not great but I had fun .IF you like the cast,especially Peter O Toole ,I say give it a shot

@amalthea9 @themousefromfantasyland

@ariel-seagull-wings @theancientvaleofsoulmaking

@the-blue-fairie @countesspetofi

@barbossas-wench @filmcityworld1

@piterelizabethdevries @princesssarisa

[worldismyne]

Seeing how you actually are able to keep your promise of weekly chapters, any tipps to commiting to a schedulde? I often think with all my free time I should be able to do the same with my storys but I just get burnt out or distracted and then self loath cause when I actually have the will again I have work responsibilities or other important stuff going on

Don't commit to an upload schedule until the first draft is finished.

Write to entertain yourself, not to meet a deadline.

Write as much as you can while the idea is new and exciting.

When soft writing and/or brain storming, I like to make a playlist specific to that story. The scenes I have that are tied to specific songs are the easiest to write.

Find the 1 hr on your days off that you have the most energy. (For me it's right after breakfast). Try as often as you can to write then. Even once every other week, is amazing.

It's okay to leave fics unfinished.

Your freetime where you rest is important

Listen to audiobooks in the same genre that you're aiming to write.

Whenever stuck, don't google, put < get there > and keep writing. When editing go back and either add to the scene or just cut it. 9/10 if I think a scene needs something to start it off, it actually doesn't.

(Longer explination of my process under the cut).

DON'T COMMIT TO AN UPLOAD SCHEDULE UNTIL IT'S ALREADY DONE.

I write as much as I can while hyperfixating on a story without posting it. So the draft for the fic I'm uploading atm was finished three months ago. I started uploading when I had 16 chapters written (or 4 months of backlog).

I can't count on how long an idea will hold my interest, or if I have enough material to stretch it out over multiple chapters. (I only just recently got into one shots. If you look at my other fics, I average around 20 k for a 'long' fic, because I get bored). So don't hold yourself to a strict length. Write the important, most engadging parts, walk away, come back and make sure it flows.

The important thing is I'm writing to entertain myself. Writing for a self imposed deadline or to meet audience expectations always burns me out. (No amount of kudos or comments will ever combat that)

I work 3, 12 hr night shifts a week, so a lot of the writing I do is during downtime at work. I personally find it difficult to write at home and spend a great deal of time recovering from working. The body needs that time to recover and it took years of unlearning that rest and self care are unproductive or a waste of time. If your work doesn't allow you that luxury, have a place out of the house you go to for longer periods of writing.

The playlist thing is a lifesaver, never discount the importance of soft writing. I literally can not visualize things, so music helps me have an outline to plot out scenes or chapters (i.e. what tone am I trying to capture). Also works to reignte the spark of inspiration. The time I'm most active is the morning, but that time often gets eaten up by real life, however it's easy to budget a half hour of time to that peak writing time. Those lil bits add up. If you haven't made progress on something in a while, it isn't a bad thing that you've prioritized other things. The writing process should be fun. It's like playing pretend, but you get to keep it afterward.

It's okay to abandon fics.

I still reread unfinished fics people posted, because what they had up was full of passion. A lot of the fics I couldn't finish were either the scope of the story was too big for what I wanted to write or the direction I was taking the fic wasn't working. Crest of the Dragon was on a 6 year hiatus before I was able to come up with an ending I liked. I was surprised people who'd followed it and left tumblr came back just to congradulate me for finishing it. Your readers will understand if you have to step away from something for a while. Updating serially often puts fic writers in a corner, by having the WIP up for everyone to see.

Burnout is usually not from the writing, but the real life shit going on around us. It can take years to figure out the main source and how to deal with it. Mental and emotional rest are important. I'm a bit neuro spicy, so there are straight up weeks where I have to resign myself to not creating anything. Having the back log helps in those instances, since l typically make things in fevered burst and then have to recoop.

Recently figured out listening to disc world novels has helped with my SE fic. It has good examples of absurdest humor, world building and general descriptions. I don't have time to read, but a lot of audio books are free on youtube. If you really, really get stuck, seeing how a pro tackles things can help even subconciously.

<get there> is my new friend. I'm not big on writing non-linearly. For longer stories, I'll parse out the main story beats and then hope the characters develope in that direction. Sometimes they go off the rails on me, or a planned subplot gets scraped. So, for this fic, I had all the mystery reveals spaced out between the two storylines. For character arcs, I go on explorative vibes.

All this to say, writing for me is an escape, and most of the time I'm doing it when I'm in a position where my options are either be on my phone or write. If I got 15 min or more, I choose write. If I got a sentence out, that counts.

It doesn't have to be perfect, or finished, or written in a timely matter. It just has to be, as long as what you're writing entertains you. Worry about uploading once you're done with it.

[rubin-therubix-loverofblorbos]

So I was watching a TWF 4 teaser explination and went to find Jack Walten.com because I was curious and I found this.

what the fuck. If you look closely you can also see the word Bon on his shoulder, the B slightly overlapping,

{sorry it's small}

I don't know if this is new or not but the site title is now "Fast food and Family Fun" With no punctuation whatsoever, but the URL is still FindJackWalten.com

None of this might be new and I'm an idiot but I think I might've found some lore.

FindJackwalten.com/jackwalten has some entirely different shit though. The deer head, the text, and the background haven't changed, but I don't want people to confuse the two websites. The link at the bottom of FJW.com/jackwalten still leads to the black screen with 'help' in all lowercase as the title by the way. zoomed in and out with maximum brightness on all the sites and found nothing other than what Mr Walls wanted us to see. I also dragged my mouse across Help to see if there were any clickable but still nothing. I have to presume TWF 4 has all the answers. OMFG WENT BACK TO HELP AND IDK IF IT WAS MY TRASH COMPUTER OR A THING BUT SOMETHING KINDA BROWN WITH A WHITE BACKGROUND FLASHED FOR A QUARTER OF A SECOND AND I MIGHT'VE BEEN SEEING THINGS BUT THE URL CHANGED FOR A MILLISECOND AFTER THE IMAGE FLASHED. I'M FUCKING ESTATIC BECAUSE IT SEEMED INTENTIONAL. ALSO, GOOGLE TRANSLATE POPPED UP AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO CHANGE SPANISH TO ENGLISH AND I'M PRETTY SURE IT DIDN"T DO THAT WHEN I FIRST OPENED IT. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa. I MIGHT BE ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE TO CATCH THIS. WOOOOOAH. okay I checked and I think the flash was my century-old computer comprehending the fact I switched tabs, but I'm still 98% sure the URL changed. OH MY FUKING GOD THIS MIGHT BE ME JUST LOOKING TO FAR INTO SHIT BUT FIND JACK WALTEN AND FIND JACK WALTEN/MISSING HAVE THE SAME BACKGROUND. I MEAN, THAT'S EASY TO DO WHEN THE BGs BLACK BUT I WAS SWITCHING THROUGH THEM TO TRY AND SEE SOMETHING AND I THINK IT MEANS THAT HE'S THERE ONE SECOND AND GONE THE NEXT OR EVEN VICE VERSA.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHGHGHGH

[0skyheaven0]

It is more than switching one gender to the other but that implication is not limited in the last ask. There’s an opportunity there presented in canon that one could use to talk about stuff beyond the change, but again it’s fanfiction and you can do whatever you want.

About sasuke being afab, my two cents is that Sasuke is Yin coded ( mysterious, elegant, introspective ) and that highlights “”””fem power””””. In comparison to Naruto’s Yang coded ( loud, wild and expansive ) that highlights more “”””man power””””.

Please take this explanation with a grain of salt, it’s very crude and reductionist just to try to guide the idea that could explain why people prefer one over the other subconsciously.

But also it’s fanfiction so self inserts putting their personal preference just bc they can without much thought behind it is also a thing.

Also Dude, I like your stuff but your bookmarks are public. I was curious to see what kind of fics you liked it so much to have it bookmarked. I was really disappointed with the problematic ships in there.

:(

I absoultely didn't mean it that way, that's why I added the 'visually'. I just thought that the sexy justsu didn't make people think of gender in that sense and that afab Sasuke brought something more in mind than the sexy jutsu could. But either way, yeah it would be a great opener to talk about that kind of stuff, would be a really cool angle to have. I haven't fully decided how I'm gonna write my next fic, but the poll helped with inspiration :)

I do like this explination, I remember reading about that from someone here on Tumblr, who had analysed official art of Naruto and Sasuke and how they're protrayed in poses, colour and such. Sasuke was more poised and pretty while Naruto is rough and loud. Really cool stuff. And of course, like you say, it's all with a grain of salt, but it's all good fun. I always like a good analysis of art and writing.

As for the bookmarks, I'm sorry they're not to your liking. As you've seen, they're all porn so the shipping part isn't the thing for me. I only ship sns, but then some porn is well written and I like it for that. Honestly my biggest shame for me in my bookmarks isn't the shipping, (that isn't essential to me when I just read for the porn, it's the kinks) but some fics has lack of consent and such. That's my biggest sourse of shame. But again, it's ficitonal porn that I just read on my own. I've privitised them now so you don't have to see them.

If you wanna know what fics I actually like to read as real stories, and not look at my porn collection, I've made a recommendation post. You can read it here:

[megamangxtheadventure]

MAGE CHONiCLES CHAPTER 23 THE THE PURGE

at illuminati base ted cruz was there with the most powerful men in politics “megamangx is back i am tired of losing to him!” ted cruz slam fisting into the tables.

the golden doors open and a stinky fat man in a suit and white ugly boots comed in it was ron desantis “ron why are you here what happened to trump?” ted pointed.

“trump was too woke so i killed him this group has a new leader but it must be purged made pure becuse even illuminati has become woke and i must make it pure like me!” ron said and the politicians looked scare

“are you betray us?” shouted sargon

Ron smile and started to fart real hard as the room was filled with fart gas and air was green with farts ��silent but deadly my friends” ron laughed as the illuminati members choked to death “smell my freedom farts you woke fucks its time to build a new empire a strong mepire filled with strong white strong people who think like me no parish you cucks!!!” he farted real bad and the room was farts and he even grebbed turd cruz face and sat on it and forced him to smell the farts and he die of fart “eat my farts of freedom EAT THEM YOU FUCK!” Ron laughed with villainy as everyone in the room die of poson

shadiversty and some medevil knights on horses comed into the room with steampuink gas marsks “peasants remove these dead bodys i would be speking with the great leader” said sadiversty with an english old voice

“i pledge my sowrd to you kind desanta becuse i fear woke will turn my daugter into a woke and i can not live in that world we must purge weakness and go back to tradation and middle ages where life was better” hje said.

ron laughed and started eating some meatballs “dont worry in exchange for helping my side you will be rewarded i know like me you hate democrcy and want an empire of the powerful”

shadiversty nodee “yes america was on the wrong side of the revoluiton engerland should have won but the mistake will be corrected and everyone shall know the glory of king charles our ruler and the true emperoer of america and knights and castles will come back like the olden days”

a chamber opened and a bald cyborg had come in “lord putin i had not expected you so soon” ron kneeled to his master

“i was near death after that megafool gx killed me but russia sciance has made me powercul again and i will build my empire and have ravengence” said putin.

shardiversty kneed “what about gensokyo this realm they are after why not let me take it and i will make these girls into wifes who know there place as it is in the naturol order”

Putin opened a window and below was 1000s of robot “we will turn them against themselfs these bots can bend in and spread my ideals and turn everyone against each other i shall infest gensokyo with them and spread russia desires to everyone”

GENSOKYO MARIASA HOUSE

Robbie rotten woke up “why did i get here where is that pesky megaman gx” he danced out ofg bed

outside was megamangx in a cool mage trenchcoat over his armor studying the arcene boots “robbe you comed back good you must listan to me illuminati are bad guys and can not trust them woodman knowed this its why they tryed to kill him ten years ago” megamankgx explined

robbie was sad “i just am a villain but these people want to destory the world and make it a not fun place for everyubody in it and no matter how many times you beat them up or getting new super forms they just keep cominmg back and being worse” he signed

megamangx equiped his magibuster “we needing to find yukari she will have answers to what is going wrong and help me unlike my mage forms”

but then the two of them got blastered by glowing numbers as they hit a tree “what was that attack!” robbie gasrped!

a man in a suit was there “MATHS!” he laughed and blasted them with a beam of numbers.

“IS THAT RICHIE SUNAK!!” megamangx shouted.

sunak throwed a body with white hair on the ground and a blue jacket and wound on back with smoke “ITS CAT BOY SANS WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM YOU SON OF A BITHCH!!” screamed megamangx

richie sunak laughed evil “the uk has decided the catboy fandom needs to be banned for public order so i decise to do the banning myself with death” he laughed mad and kicked catboy sans body and got megamangx real mad

two more was there in powered armor with laser sword it was kemi banderdock and sueila beaverman “youll pay for killing boris” kemi banderdock spit at megaman gx and beaverman point her laser sword at robbie rottens back “

megamangx glowed with the elemental runes as he flaoted in the air with books “i am not letting you hurt more friends you will pay for catboy sans death!!!”

sunak blurst inwto laughter “you think its just us 3 ever since brexit we needed more power to keep order in england it was dark time but now we privatized the army with our new friends THE PSYKO SYNDINCATE!”

bald men in purpel jackets and guns comed “YOUR WORKING WITH THE PSYKOS YOU IDOTS YOU CAN NOT CONTROL THEM THEY WUILL DESTORY YOU!” robbie rotten glasped.

a green portal appeared a beam of green light and bullats blasted into 100s of psykos and sunak was shocked “WHO DARES!” he said and fired maths at the portal but the man with blonde hair blocked it “I DID! THE X SLAYER!” SAID ZANE ROCKS!

to be continued

[fipindustries]

you know, my complaints about rick and morty were basically the same at one time except much more muted. i did like the show quite a lot in the first couple of seasons because the jokes and the plots were genuenly clever and the occassional moments of pathos and drama felt more earned and genuine.

there is this one joke in the good place that i hate, the jearemy bearemy one, i already complained about it in another post but to speed it up, its a dumb joke because it posits a genuenly cool, intriguing fascinating idea that would be fun to explore but is not interested in exploring that idea, in fact there is no depth to explore there, it doesnt make sense that the timeline would be shaped like that, there is no underlying explination, no real logic beyond "lol randum". and yet the characters treat it as weird and fucked up and mindblowing.

rick and morty, to its credit, would actually explore those ideas. and that granted it enough charity that i was willing to overlook its animation style (which also, to be fair, does things i do find genuenly interesting and cool to look at with what it has).

then after season 3 it started to lose me hard because it couldnt make its mind about wether it wanted to be a family guy tier wacky show about silly shitpost sci fi ideas and dick jokes or wether it wanted to be an actual story with a plot, lore, a coherent universe and actual continuity.

a lot of times characters would be reset just for the sake of keeping a joke or a running gag going. other times they would be flanderized or made meaner, again, just for the sake of selling a joke.

i said it in the past, albeit this is more for the sake of personal preference than the show doing something genuenly bad, that im not a fan of how they slowly morphed the character of rick from an insane, borderline senile, crazy old mad scientist whose experience of the multiverse and vast knowledge left him with a broken mind into yet another doctor house.

besides that, it was doing a little too much of that dan harmon humor that i hate which is either try to be more ironic than thou, where you lampshade everything that happens or is said, or try to be more meta than thou where if you point out how meta you are about how meta it is that you are meta about being meta then you dont have to face the unbearable shame of trying to earnestly be meta. and god forbid you try to just tell a joke that is just a funny joke on its own merits.

also the setting is too much of a kitchen sink for my taste. usually i dont kitchen sinks where you have like cyborgs and dinosaurs and fairies and wizards and spaceships and ninjas and dragons, etc all in the same world, plus a multiverse. it makes everything feel meaningless. it gives the writers an excuse to pull off whatever bullshit excuse or reason to resolve any conflict at any moment. rick was too much of a god and a lot of his powers were genuenly broken to the point that it was hard to take any stakes seriously.

there are only so many ways you can say nothing matters until the audience starts taking that message at face value and stops caring about your story.

on top of that they have the shows punching bag jerry where he is a constant loser who is constantly being put down or humilliated and also he is kind of an unlikeable jerk and also he is pathetic. those are just not fun or enjoyable characters to have around.

but then.

then something happened somewhere around season 6.

suddenly they started caring about the show as a story. the coin finally fell on heads, the wave function collapsed and the writers decided we do actually care about this universe and these characters. suddenly we started to have continuity, actual continuity! there were callbacks! old plot threads were picked up back again! arcs started to get completed! in satisfying ways! rick got quietly nerfed, characters started to show actual consistent growth! suddenly it was worth being invested into this story.

i heard there was a constant power struggle in the writers room between roiland and the rest of the writing team, with roiland just wanting to smoke weed, drink, pull stupid pranks and fuck around all day and the writers just wanted to write the show. it would be easy to say that roiland getting the boot is the main reason behind this but he got fired somewhere in early 2023 and the show has been genuenly improving since 2021-2022 so i dunno.

regardless i saw the last two seasons and i genuenly liked them a lot, like a lot a lot. the conclussion of the prime rick arc was great, the continuation of the evil morty character felt genuine, jerry finally stepping up and marginally improving as a person, his friendship with rick actually blossoming, morty starting to grow a proper spine. i dunno.

its just basic storytelling done well, that is all i want man, that is all i ever wanted.

bojack horse bad again

you know, i was thinking back to this show again, i watched three seasons of it and that was all that i could tomach and you know what? no.

i dont accept it

i dont care, it was a bad show, it was an objectively bad show and i dont accept that everyone else decided that it was good, i dont care, it was a bad show and im going to tell you why.

emotional terrorism

maybe im a simpleton but i am someone who cares quite a lot about catharsis in my stories. this show refused to grant that, adamantly and violently. im not saying i need a happy ending, i am more than capable of enjoying bittersweet or even tragic stories, but i need a sense of completeness, some satisfaction, some release, some sense that things matter or meant something. this show insisted on refusing to give that. all this show was interested in was get an emotional reaction out of you. it was the emotional equivalent of a jump scare. it was convinced that if it made you feel bad enough people would confuse that with beeing powerful and deep. you could get the same reaction by walking up to someone on the street and kicking them in the nuts. and it would take about as much subtlety or artistry.

2. writer led rather than animator led

you could tell this was one of those shows that were made on the writer's room, not by storyboarders or artists, by "comedians". by people with english degrees. so many scenes of characters just standing around and talking. so many "jokes" that were clearly meant to be funny as something you read on a piece of paper or on a tweet and chuckle as you read it but as animation it just gave limp, stagnant scenes. so much dialog that were references and quips and puns and fast witticisms of the type you come up in the shower when thinking of clever comebacks.

there were so many fucking scenes where everything would stop and a character would launch on some stupid profound monologue about life and philosophy and psychology and relationships. it was like the writers were trying on for size paragraphs of their future memoirs or self help books. so much dialog that was begging for an award for writing. so many "mic drop" moments that were designed to be quoted. i find that the best writing is not the one that you can just quote out of context as a cool pithy phrase. a lot of the best writing ive seen in my life is meaningless when devoid of context, is inextricable of the scene and indeed of the entire story surrounding it but in here i can almost see the seams where the writers look at the camera waiting to see if you are impressed

3. inconsistent tone

this show wanted to eat its cake and then still have it. there are stories that manage to deftly weave in and out of comedic moments into serious moments. everything everywhere all at once does an amazing job jumping from the stupidest, most childish jokes into the most profound commentary about human nature, sometimes doing both at the same time and it worked, one didint cheapen the other.

in here though, it wanted to both have a completly absurd world with the stupidest characters ever and then somehow make us care for it all as if the show hadnt shot itself in the foot. it wanted us to see caroline being in love with what is clearly three children in a trenchcoat and then take her seriously as an adult, to treat any forther relationship drama she has as if it werent completly farcical.

4. ugly animation

it continued the blight that is take over adult animation by doing that disgusting repugnant paper puppet rigged interpolated quasi flash animation that only gives you stiff poses and movements and incredibly boring shots of characters standing in 3/4 perspective in front of the camera. it dull and flat and clunky and ugly, and the character designs were ugly. the noses were ugly and the mouths were ugly and the hairs were ugly and the eyes were ugly. it was all ugly. the backgrounds were fucking ugly and the colors were ugly and it was an ugly show to look at. unbearably so. and even the obligatory "weird" stylized scenes put in to shake things off and try to pretend that it was visually interesting (for like one scene per season) were also fucking ugly.

5. it had not interesting point to make

all it could do was insist and belavor and extemporize about how this one guy sucks and also most people kind of suck but specifically this one guy really sucks and he is not going to get better, or maybe he will? eh maybe, but not really, because he sucks. and we are going to make you like him because we are the writers and we are going to make him relatable and charismatic and sympathetic but actually no he sucks, you fell for it! and what does it say about you that you almost kind of liked him eh????. season after season of him, and in case you almost found anything redeemable about him, we are going to make him even worse, painfully unsubtly so, we are going to make him look at the camera and say that he sucks, because that is the level of nuance we think you can handle, dear viewer. this is called "self aware writing" and its postmodern and meta, which means its clever.

i fucking hate this show and the more i think about it the angrier it makes me, and what makes me more angriest of all is that people like it. its popular. it won awards i think. its largely recognized as a good show and its not! it sucks and its bad and if you like it you are stupid.

[haaawaiianshirt]

tbh all i want rn is an adhd diagnosis like lol not to self diagnose but 🙄 umm im having a fucking hard time 💅 like girl i just want to finally be passionate about something and also let me do my homework like if ur anxious abt due dates just work on the assignment?? but the funky little doohickey in my head says No

[celticdragonmaster]

Yet again I am plagued with concepts for fics that I want to but likely never will write

[dailyadventureprompts]

You’ve noted your distaste for the alignment system before, and I was wondering what you thought about using Magic the Gathering color identity in place of it. I’ve started using that in my own game and it feels much better

Inspiration Station: Magic the Gathering

TLDR: I really like the color alignment system as it can communicate a lot about a character's moral outlook and general vibe a lot clearer than regular alignment can. I like it so much infract that my drafts blog uses MTG color combinations as a sorting system so I can find things that go together easier. That said, its an extra level of game knowledge for new players to understand/have to do be taught. Alignment is supposed to give new players an idea how their character might act, and it's a lot easler for someone who's never roleplayed before to wrap their minds around acts that are "lawful" or "good" than for them to try to guide their character in a particularly "Blue" direction.

While I'm going to go on a bit of a ramble about this, I'm going to start with an explination of what "Color Identity" is for all the members of my audience that haven't lost years of their lives and chunks of their disposable income to a particular trading card game.

In Magic the Gathering (MtG from hereon out), there are five "elements" of magic that encompas the bredth of existance, all with their own emotional and thematic cores and endless interpretations of what they and their combinations represent.

Anything from creatures to magic to places to civilizations can be found in some combination of these one to five colors, which in turn have relationships with eachother ( harmonizing with their neighbors while conflicting and complimenting with the ones across from them). This makes it a great shorthand from a design perspective, as it links together ideology, iconography, and gameplay into a palate that you can use to paint your characters and settings. There are quite a few "Using the color-pie in d&d" videos on youtube which I encourage you to check out, as they can do a much better job explaining the basics than I could do here.

Advice on how you can use this framework in your own games below the cut:

1: MTG colors as character alignment

If you take a step back and consider the colors not as basic pokemon elements ( wood, water, fire, life, death) but as embodiments of different outlooks and philosophies, the color pie system suddenly becomes a radically efficient tool for summarizing how a character or culture carries out its beliefs, with the understanding that individuals within that culture will mix in new elements or lean away from others depending on their personal predilections. A character who relies on luck and wits (Blue-Red) may be tempted towards story beats that indulge either of their color synergies, but chafe against systems that would deny a part of themselves ( Such as the rule of a Black-White Authoritarian noble or the simplicity of Green-White peasant life).

2: MTG colors as writing tools

The fun in understanding how characters in your story fit into the color wheel isn't only in assigning them a static position, its in testing to see how they evolve and grow when exposed to external stimuli. Will the Blue/Black spymaster veer towards duty to their state (white) or personal power (red), will the righteous Red/White paladin give up their honor for vengeance ( becoming only red) or achieve some level of enlightenment ( white) after suffering through a crisis of faith.

Through the colorpie, and understanding your characters, you can make narrative arcs easy, or at least pencil some interesting questions as you develop the rest of the story.

3: MTG colors as setting design

The different colors have historically been tied to different types of terrain, and while I tend not to do a 1:1 conversion for all of my settings, its very easy to see how thematic throughlines can be made between setting and environment ( yes, necromancers probably would hang out in places full of shadows and rot, but those that embody Black's aspects of ambition and manipulation probably live in settlements infused with some form of social or infestructure decay, or perhaps a dark history concealed just beneath the surface)

To that end, I like to think of small to medium settlements as possessing a dual color identity made up partially of their land and culture, while larger settlements and nations tend to be two or three colors as they are a composite of diverse groups and interests. By looking at these combinations, finding contrasts between them and synergies with outside elements, you can easily begin to set up political and social dynamics: A White/Red/Green kingdom may have contrasting demographics between a warrior nobility ( WR), a traditionalist peasantry ( WG), and nomads who live on the frontier (RG). The kingdom could be threatened by an invading lich (UB) or by an alliance of nomads and peasants who resent the warrior nobility for their conquest generations ago (BRG)

4: MTG colors as game design

Bo yourself a favor and every time you're struggling to make a dungeon, try to figure out what color identity it has. Instantly you've given yourself a massive dose of inspiration for monsters, traps, hazards, and iconography for you to mine simply by visiting the gatherer and scrolling through the visual spoiler. Generally you can do this by thinking about where it was built and by who, with further richness added by thinking about what sort of creatures from the locality have crept in during the meantime and how their color identities harmonize and contrast with the dungeons own.

Likewise, if you're trying to think of abilities/gear to give a player or npc, think about how the different colors play:

White wants to bolster their allies before clashing head on

Blue wants to be tricky until they get in position to outplay their opponent

Black wants to fight dirty until they can really twist the knife

Red wants to go recklessly and blow their opponent away before they can retaliate

Green wants to level the playing field before getting really strong and stomping their foes into the floor

These playstyles ( and their combinations) can guide you in everything from what loot to give your party to the way monsters behave during an encounter: A (GR) barbarian would probably never want to pick up a (u) wizard's staff, but they might be tempted by a (UR) flaming arcane blade that let them expand their usual toolkit by going ethereal. A pack of hungry (BG) ghouls would lurk in the shadows of their crypt until they could ambush their prey, retreating to let their fetid bites weaken the party before sweeping back in with more numbers.

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reki grins at himself in the mirror, smoothing out the crinkles in his dress, before reaching for his nearby brush. he doesn't usually do much to his hair, and he's not about to now, but he does run the brush through his red hair a few times, anyway. he doesn't brush it often because brushes hurt and usually gets stuck in his unruly hair, making it a horribly painful experience.

but, he does get his hair to smooth back a little. once finished, he steps back to get a good look at himself, taking in the red and gold dress he'd chosen for today. he does a small twirl, and giggles to himself. then, he heads into the living room, ready to show his sisters some more skateboarding tricks.

he doesn't wear dresses often. when he does, it's onl in the safety of his home. the one he's wearing now is a short sun dress, since it was a tad warmer today, with spaghetti straps that reki would totally get made of wearing outside of home. his mom and sisters never make fun of him, instead complimenting and supporting his dress choices. his mom sometimes even buys him new dresses when she sees one she thinks he'll like, which he appreciates immensely.

this dress was mainly red, with a few, swirling lines of gold and yellow in the chest area. this has to be one of his favorites, and his sisters agree with him.

"i love that dress on you, onichan!" the twins exclaimed in unison, to which kiyoko hums begrudging agreement.

"thanks, you two," reki said with a slight laugh. he then guides them outside, grabbing the small boards he'd made for them to learn on.

they all laugh as reki continues their lessons, the twins only falling off of the boards a few times throughout it. theyre an hour in when kiyoko seems to spot something behind reki, a grin breaking across her face.

"langa-kun!" kiyoko exclaimed, and reki jolts to a stop, his heart stuttering. he suddenly can't breathe, his entire face bursting into heat.

langa was here? why was langa here?! he said he had to help his mom today!

and he's not supposed to see reki in a dress! thats emberassing!

"hello," langa said in greeting, and reki could already hear the smile in his voice. he hasn't turned around yet, because maybe, if reki doesn't see him, langa won't be able to his dress. but then he feels the blue eyed gaze on his back, and he knows he's been caught. "oh, reki-"

reki darts to the house, shouting incomprehensible phrases behind him, along lines of, "be right back!" "left the oven on!" and "need to change!"

as soon as he's in the safety of his room, he collapses to his knees, face still burning with his embarrassment. he grabs fistfuls of the dress at the bottom, swallowing heavily against the clump in his throat. langa had definitely seen him. how could he not have? reki was wearing his brightest dress today, and he was in a dress, how could anyone miss that! a guy in a dress- langa was probably going to make fun of him to no end after this.

he sighs heavily, running a hand through his hair. who was he kidding? langa wouldn't make fun of him, the guy was too nice for that. but that doesn't mean he wouldn't throw weird looks reki's way, his eyes confused and his eyebrows tightly knitted together. he wouldn't say anything, but he would definitely think of how weird reki was.

because what man wears dresses? even if they are extremely comfortable, pretty and make him feel good while wearing them.

there's a knock on his door, and his body stiffens. "reki? why'd you run off?" langa's voice filters through the door, uncertainty lacing his tone. "are you mad at me again?"

reki swallows thickly, guilt setting over him. of course langa would take his fleeing badly- he'd already ran away from langa once before with no explination. to langa, this could be exactly the same.

"no, no!" reki shouted back, emberessmant and guilt mixing into an uncomfortable feeling in his gut. which shouldn't be happening, since seeing langa and wearing dresses always made him extremely comfortable. he lets out another sigh, and steels himself. he can't run away from this conversation. "you uh.... you saw what i was wearing, didn't you?"

silence follows his words, and he's about ready to rip his own hair out. of course langa had seen! he was probably judging reki to no end!

"uh, yeah?" langa replied, and he still sounds extremely confused. "a pretty dress, right?"

reki blinks at his response, only growing confused as well, now. why did langa sound like that? he didn't sound disgusted or uncomfortable, just confused. he pushes to his feet, and slowly slides his door open to a crack.

langa is on the other side, and as soon as he sees reki again, his eyes look the redhead from head to toe, a slight blush hiding just beneath his bangs. was he embarrassed for reki? no, that doesn't sound right... he seems to have... enjoyment, in his gaze? was he enjoying seeing reki dressed like this?

"pretty?" reki repeated, dumbly. langa stares at him for a moment longer, his blush deepening. reki wasn't used to langa being the flustered on- langa was always making reki flustered, not the other way around. was it the dress? reki grabs one of the edges of his dress, shifting it a little.

langa nods shyly, his fingers twitching from their places at his sides. "y- yeah," he stammered, and his blush is covering his cheeks now. "and i... i think you look.... really pretty in it, too."

it's reki's turn to blush now, his face turning a deep crimson. both of his hands fly to his face to hide it, flustered. "th- thank you..." he muttered, looking down at the floor.

"yeah.. i didn't know you liked to wear dresses," langa said, and reki lets him come into his room. he goes straight to the bed, sitting on the edge. he watches reki move around the room, before deciding to sit on the desk chair. he keeps his legs crossed, dress falling over his knees. langa is looking at him with adoration in his gaze, completely in love. "you look... really good in one."

reki's blush deepens even worse, and he ducks his head. "we- well, thats because most people find it weird," he replied shyly, twisting the fabric of his dress with his nerves. "i only wear them at home because of that."

"does anyone make fun of you?" langa asked, his gaze darkening into one of anger. reki's eyes widen.

"i- i mean when i first started the- they did," he answered hesitantly, tugging at the fabric now. this look on langa's face always... does something to reki. he's not entirely sure what, but he usually only has that expression solely for reki, when he thinks someone is hurting or being rude to him. it must be that it makes reki feel special, feel protected. no ones really wanted to protect him before, after all. "but since i only wear th-them at home now, they don't really know..."

langa frowns at him, eyebrows furrowing. "but you look so good," he said, as if it was the simplest thing in the world. reki's breath stutters in his chest, and he wets his lips nervously. langa was always laying the praise on, and he was horrible at accepting. "if you want to wear them more in public, i'll make sure they leave you alone." he smiles warmly at reki, and suddenly reki can't breathe again. "i'll protect you."

and that's how reki starts wearing dresses when they go skateboarding together, fear of judgement thrown to the wind. with langa beside him, he could do anything, including wearing dresses in public.

[violetjedisylveon]

Parallels

Seven years.

It feels like a lifetime ago.

Seven years.

Yet I find myself in a familiar space. Only now I'm in your place.

Do you see the parallels?

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It goes along with Maybe Just a Little Pt. 1, find here. Amnesia link here.

I really like this peice. I used the same base sketch for it to make it as similar as possible and it took really long.

I feel like I did a really good job and damn, drawing/coloring Freyu is really fun.

Explination thingy!⬇

The first drawing is Maatsu, left, and Freyu at 12, right. Maatsu is teaching Freyu how to use a lightsaber, he's looking down at her with regret, (he's staring at her scars). Freyu is looking back up at him, she's a little confused, probably asking him what's wrong. Both are wearing dark purple cortosis gaurds on their arms, Maatsu has them on his legs too.

The second drawing is Freyu at 19, left, and Omega, right. Freyu is teaching Omega how to use a lightsaber, they are both happy and talking about Jedi things. Omega has cortosis arm guards, Freyu is wearing armor on her upper arms and her legs.

End of explination thingy.

I gave Omega a new outfit with a design with the batch's colors cause in Amnesia, she needed new clothes and I might be posting some new Omega Outfits sometime soon. Herhhair is also growing out.

Also those teal green clip things are to keep Freyu's hair back cause she doesn't have an ear to tuck it behind anymore.

This was really fun.

Please read my Amnesia story!

Lightsabers under the cut⬇

*The one on the right is Maatsu's first lightsaber and the one on the left is his second.