#answerbox

[premamelody]

I’m curious

I wanna see your take on a vizzy fankid

this one was acc pretty interesting. I named her rose bc the lines in her hair reminded me of rose gold skdjsjdj

basically she's hip dino lady. the type to be like "it don't bite" but instead of a dog its a literal killing weaponnnnnn

attached a disassembly drone tail to herself. she likes others to know it is in case of an emergency of the sentinels turning on her but that is very unlikely. also yeah the blue eye ones are chill now. also tried to give a sort of morute theme (morbid cute), i dont think she'd actually have oil stained clothes often but sometimes she does.

w/o sentinels

[spubby]

favorite word?

✨Flabbergasted✨

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

Good morning, I hate to ask this and if it's a no I completely understand, but could you possibly reblog my pinned post again? If it's a no I completely understand, thank you for your kindness and understanding in the past.

You never need to apologise when you come to my inbox. Never. I wish I could do more for you than just reblog your request.

[alexxwinters]

Introduction post thing!

Heads up, I have no idea how half the things here work but I'm determined to post more stuffs here :D

Some tags :

#alexx's arts - my art tag!

#yapyap - text posts

#answerbox - answer posts

#sillybits - silly mostly not serious things

Other things to keep in mind!

Some of my art will have blood in it so keep that in mind, I won't post anything more than that here you can find that on my Bluesky instead :>

Don't ask me to draw things please

I'll probably remake this after a bit but for now this is all :3

[pleasantspark]

What are your thoughts about the two versions of Broly? I mean, both Z and Super incarnations of him, what are your thoughts about them both?

That's actually what I want in my inboooxx

Okay for starters, both are nearly different.

DBZ is a brute, he is heartless and there wasn't any Cheelai so he was pretty ruthless, then there's Super, whose docile and shit.

DBZ is pretty much better in my opinion because well, it had story to him dude and his father was nearly killed because King Vegeta stabbed him and threw him off Planet Vegeta. Sure he was a ruthless killer and had a stupid trigger but we all are triggered over nothing.

DBS Broly came as a surprise because they were trying to make him canon but he lost the edge that made him unique, Making Broly soft removes the actual fear. Plus giving him a female companion was unnecessary, he should be a lone wolf, I prefer brute Broly over soft Broly.

I would nessecarly bang both but I like my men rough and ragged.

[klumsymaid]

look at what the cat dragged in.

[howlingstrays]

“this is a safe space for us not you” i love that. i just stumbled upon ur blog so i don’t know you or anything but like. keep on keeping on. you’re very cool and you’re doing great

Thank you hehe! That’s so very kind, we think you’re pretty cool for following us ;3/j

[butchdykenormallen]

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[definitely-not-an-alb]

[@genericusername37 asked 'Like, a shifting pov? What the hell is "head-hopping"??']

Hope it's okay to pull this out but I need a bit more than the answerbox.

Head-Hopping is one of the Writing Sins the Online Writing Advice Listicle Bubble is obsessed with, it's when (ostensibly bad, young, inexperienced) authors in ostensibly third person limited 'hop' from perspective to perspective in a single scene, so;

'Oh Janet, damnit, I love you!' cried Brad, thinking Let's hope it wasn't the ring I dropped in the parking lots' gutter earlier. 'Oh, Brad!', Janet moaned in surprise. Oh damn, she thought. Not what I hoped he'd say but there really aren't any other men in this stupid town and I guess he's not so bad?

This is considered bad style because it ostensibly makes the narrative confusing, takes the reader out of the story (by reminding them it is a story they are reading) and creates emotional distance between reader and character. Now I know I was just here yesterday saying yes actually get gud at language and now today I'm saying fuck a third person limited, lets go head-skipping. But the * that comes with that writing advice is that it only applies if your explicit goal is to create currently-fashionable 'invisible' workmanlike genre prose with high reader immersion and high character identification, in which case, yes, 'head-hopping', in addition to being plainly out of fashion is maybe not the right stylistic technique to use.

(I actually once read a romantasy that used head-hopping to great and clearly explicitly wanted effect, because the only people head-hopping were the romance leads and only after they'd consummated their magic-mind-meld-soul-bond-marriage! It was a cool use of the technique!)

(The 'this is confusing your readers!' thing is such a silly complaint, tho, like come on. "Genre-prose" head-hopping comes with indicators like thinky-tags. If, as an author, think your readers are so bad at reading that they cannot figure out who's thinking what thought in the example up there ... maybe have less contempt for your readers?!)

The literary term I was looking for was Free Indirect Discourse, a Modernist narrative technique/mode which discards both the omniscient third narrator, limited first narrator and the third person limited POV for a free-floating focus that takes on whichever character (or sometimes object) is currently the centre of narrative attention.

To borrow from cinema, imagine a long-take tracking shot like the one in Goodfellas (1990) in the Copacabana, were yes, stuff's confusing, but there's clearly, like, one specific guy we're following through the scene. Compare that to the tracking shot from Wings (1927), were we flit through the café, passing all these different couples each only for a second, but always long enough to get a glimpse into their specific dynamic, creating this multifaceted image of what a romantic relationship can look like at different stages and in different situations, priming the audience for the wwi-action-rom-com about to unfold.

And Free Indirect Discourse is not solely the domain of modernist and postmodernist ect pp litfic. One of the authors known for it is Jane Austen. You've read this and you've probably not even noticed (because she's so good at it). At the 'very noticeably and (purposefully) confusing' end of the spectrum you've got something like Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party.

The reason I'm so bitchy here is that this kind of cheap listicle shit is objectively worse than just bad advice because it makes the people who read, regurgitate and follow it incurious and actively worse at writing, reading and discussing literature. And it's also really annoying when I forget what it's called and try to google 'shifting perspective head-hopping literary device modernism' and only get brain-dead booktube shit as results.

Like. Virginia Woolf and XXXbloodyrists666XXX both [notoriously 'head-hop'/make expert use of Free Indirect Discourse] but arguing that and that alone is what makes their work [good/bad] to the point of [complete incomprehensibility/defining a generation] [please strike N/A] is ridiculous.

On the one hand it is true that most writing 'rules' can be safely disregarded, on the other hand it is true that there is such a thing as better or good writing and it is not solely down to taste, and on the third hand which I will need to borrow off someone real quick I currently cannot find the literary term for the example I wanted to use to illustrate this because the internet is top to bottom swamped with god-awful 'what is head-hopping and why is it RUINING YOUR NOVEL' writing 'help' articles completely obscuring the valid literary term for the valid literary technique this also refers to when you do it well & on purpose.

[roadtodiagnose]

I am writing a character with OSDD1a, is there anything I should avoid doing? Or something you particularly suggest?

Again, I'm assuming that you're the same anon. All the questions you've asked make it clear that you're a singlet. With that in mind, there is only one piece of advice I can give you in regards to writing a character with OSDD1a.

Don't.

Well, ok, here's a bit more nuance: A main character or just a side character? A side character who helps the MC for a chapter then goes about their own business, yeah, you can try your best.

But don't write your main character as someone with OSDD and most definitley don't write ABOUT having OSDD. You don't have the knowledge or experience to do that. Leave it to the people who are systems.

I'm going to talk now on the assumption that you want to write your main character as an OSDD1a system. I may be wrong on that, but this post is for everyone to see, so maybe it will reach someone who does have this plan. So this bit is for everyone.

WHY do you want to use a character with OSDD? Knowing your intentions can tell you a lot about how to go about something.

Representation? No. It's not your job nor your place to represent systems and the lives they live around being a part of one. That is something that ONLY a sytem can do. It's a job for lived experience only.

You think it's cool? No. It's not cool and you're strange for thinking that. It also tells me that you don't respect the condition beyond it's cool factor.

Sorry, anon, if this wasn' the answer you wanted to hear. But OSDD is such a complex and complicated condition. I don't think it's worth the risk of bad representation.

-Orpheus

[premamelody]

Hey Prema, can you please design your non-dragon interpretations of the fallen humans?

yes

patience, bravery, integrity, perserverance, kindness, justice then double red kidds

most of the 6 fallen human designs i made up recently except perserverance and kindness a bit hey're both Magpie and Emy respectively from my Purple&Green AU where both co-exist for a while protected by a group of monsters, the Echoes

patience is very much inspired by paula from earthbound, rest are random. for frisk id imagine they'd randomly collect pebbles for no reason so they drop into the underground with whatever pebbles didn't fly out of their pocket. idk silly thing. i wanted to match chara to the flashback scenes more, not a new interpretation for a personal chara design but not completely common either

[inuyashaographer]

Answerbox #128: The cruncylotusroot Edition

Okay, a lot of questions came in from @cruncylotusroot, many of which I answered, but conisdering they gave me so many questions, I thought I’d just consolidate and answer them in all one post.

So here goes.

"Hello I stumble across your analysis and kind of interesting. I just watching Inuyasha and reading the manga but a few things I couldn't understand. I will break down in few question and would like to know you thought on it. I could not understand why there is stake to throw around in manga and anime that Kikyo die following Inuyasha? Inuyasha is not dead, he is in fact being sealed and also Kikyo was pretty much wounded. So I don't really get the idea of Kikyo die following Inuyasha."

"What's your thought about Kikyo and Inuyasha mentioned and he owe Kikyo his life? Earlier in the Manga Inuyasha was saying that can't she rest in peace without him giving his life etc."

Okay I'll answer these two questions together.

Naraku was the one that pushed the idea of Kikyo following Inuyasha in death. While he was indeed there to see what happened, he was pretty out of earshot of what was happening. That and you generally have to factor in Naraku's jealousy approach, to him nobody does anything for a selfless reason.

And yes, we do indeed hear earlier in the series that Kikyo sealed Inuyasha away, she didn't have the power to kill him and that they were never meant to meet ever again.

It's actually amusing how it's one of the things that everyone takes at face value from him.

"Kikyo known as a powerful miko, if she wanted to free herself from duty before resurrection why she not wishes for shikon no tama to disappear instead of suggesting Inuyasha to turn himself human? She put the idea in Inu head it's appears that she did not know him well where Inu is showing throughout the series that he doesn't like in human form as he feel that is life is in danger."

Truth be told I don't think anyone ever thought of the idea of wishing it away, but at the same time we also know that the jewel tempts people. It “calls” to people, and when it gets into the hands of someone all that person usually desires is power.

Kikyo is one of the few able to avoid that temptation for herself. That said, her logic was a bit flawed as to Inuyasha's wish being selfless all around.

I'm not honestly a fan of how she coaxes him into it all things considered.

"One way or the other I feel sad for Kagome around the love triangle, i know kikyo present is necessary for Kagome development. If Inu is happy with Kikyo, I just wish Kagome to get better person for herself. What's your thought as why Inu not joing Kikyo during the quest and stick with Kagome? As Kikyo also could see the jewel just like how Kagome did. Iu want to protect Kikyo so much would not be better for him to travel with her instead?"

Kagome is him walking away from his past, while Kikyo is his past. When Inuyasha goes and meets Kikyo he's confronting his past.

He wants to be happy, but feels he can't be or he doesn't deserve to be. Honestly it's a pretty bad place for anyone to be in, hope and happiness is right in front of him, and Kagome is holding her hand out to him to grab so she can pull him away from the darkness, but that darkness is tugging back on him.

He cares for Kikyo, he wants to help her, but he's finally reached a point in his life, after years of abuse and rejection for most of his life that he can escape that, but now he feels trapped.

Situations like the Illusionary Death and Kaou, even when Kikyo tries to kill him) represent that point more than ever, all situations use Kikyo to drag him into darkness, and in both instances Kagome reaches out to him and pulls him back to the light.

"What's your thought about many comments posted on the internet that Inuyasha end up with Kagome by default because Kikyo's death?"

It's an odd thing to say though when you have one relationship (Kagome/Inuyasha) consistently on the forefront and developed on, and then you have a relationship (Kikyo/Inuyasha) built in the past and remaining pretty stagnant by comparison.

That or I'd point to Mt. Asuza where it was pretty explicitly stated Kagome learned more about Inuyasha than Kikyo ever did.

Honestly, I think for that to apply there would have to be even a chance that Inuyasha would die with Kikyo, and honestly I don't think that was going to happen.

"What's your thought of Kikyo plan to eliminate Naraku alone? I feel that plan has many flaws. She was saying that giving the jewel to Naraku will speed up the process, what different does it make to take the jewel to Naraku and combine with the one in Kagome possession instead? By doing so would that not also speed up the process too?"

I hate it, but I also realize that it was in heavy part for plot convenience as well. It was meant to toy around with the power structure, make Naraku more of a threat for Kagome, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, while bringing Kikyo up to the forefront.

In that way I actually understand it being around. As a plan? I dislike just about everything about the method that she took, but that all being said, the plan actually told us a lot about Kikyo's character. I'm pretty negative about it in general, but I can't help but like it because it gives us an interesting view into how Kikyo approached things, her agenda and characterization.

'Sorry to shower you with questions. Kikyo seems to be powerful but I have not find where she try to eliminate or kill Naraku by shooting the arrow or things like that. Was there an agenda behind it?"

Kikyo's powers can be debated, most of what carried her was her experience, but generally speaking she wasn't on the level of Naraku. She felt that helping Naraku with the jewel would actually keep her safe from him, when he turned around and attempted to actually kill her she had to find a way around that by using Onigumo.

She early on admits that Kagome is now a bigger threat to Naraku, after that she more or less did whatever she could to move her way up to make herself the primary threat. By all accounts, even her own, she couldn't do much of anything to Naraku.

"Inuyasha having rough childhood and struggle himself to survive. He deserve to be happy, it doesn't matter with who. Who do you think will be more happy with? Leading life as a human with Kikyo as be a# her is with Kagome? I notice he behaving differently around the 2 ladies, so I wonder which one is the real Inuyasha?"

If for no other reason, turning human would have been the death-kneel for any potential of a relationship.

Rumiko actually did this pretty brilliantly. She showed that being human for Inuyasha was one of the worst experiences of his life, he felt helpless. The she showed that him becoming a full demon could lead to an even worse experience in his life, again he felt helpless and now even fearful about the prospects. Staying the way he was, was the most obvious choice and really all he wanted was people to accept him, Kagome offered that, she then introduced them to others that did too.

"Kikyo said that she trust Inuyasha so much, but it seems to me that she doubt Inu capability and keep saying that he can't eliminate Naraku and she will be the only one could do it. I thought Inuyasha wounded Naraku in the castle when fighting with Sesshomaru.

I don't believe that Kikyo actually believed for a second that Inuyasha wasn't capable of doing it, the fact that she says it to his face is really discouraging, but I believe that was the idea. I full believe she understood that Inuyasha and Kagome could defeat Naraku, both came extremely close on numerous occasions, but think about that. Why try to discourage potential threats from going after Naraku?

Kikyo's plan actually had a two-fold effect, it made her more of a threat to Naraku, but it was equally making Naraku that much harder for Inuyasha, Kagome and Sesshomaru to take down. Her telling Inuyasha that she would be the one to defeat Naraku and he could not was an attempt to discourage him from even trying.

What is the one thing that Inuyasha can do to “repay his debt” without having to give up his life in the process? Killing Naraku and avenging the death of Kikyo. If he actually achieved that he wouldn't feel that he owed Kikyo.

[rao-mitzi]

[SCREAMS AND TACKLES TO THE GROUND]

thank you

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[pesticine]

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. 💕💕✨✨

Hello you 🥰

1- Being in a nice cosy bed while it rains outside on a sunday morning.

2- Talking with Friends. It's always great. I'm very lucky 🥰

3- Travelling. It makes me grow and it makes me dream. I adore it.

4- Sweets and cakes. Don't judge 🥺

5- Art. Art is an healing and apeasing wonder to me, be it to consume it or create it. It makes me happy to be able to read a great book, to contemplate a magnificent painting or to write with a friend. It's always accalming to see that there is good in the human soul even when it's a dark and twisted good. Only Art manages you to feel this.

I could have add the smell of warm bread or fruit, karaoké, to walk in a beautiful environnement etc but then it wouldn't be 5 choices.

[cadriona]

⭐⭐

I've been rambling too much with the previous answers that I haven't actually gotten to write much today so uh this'll be a shorter one imsosorry but (it got longer than expected LMAO) Teyvat Postal!

Like, I refuse to believe there isn't some method of efficient communication, or some relatively efficient method of communication between nations outside of merchant's way of mouth so voila, mora!verse has a named and somewhat defined postal system :D

It's not without basis, considering from Mona's stories we know of the existence of the Steambird- a newspaper from Fontaine, and considering Mona being able to submit entries all the way from Mondstadt that must mean she gets to send them in somehow, not to mention Albedo and Xingqiu collabing on the book series.

Besides, the existence of a functional postal system would make Inazuma's sudden silence all the more ominous, unless they manage to enlist Beidou's fleet into delivering letters... now that's a thought

Anyhow! in mora!verse, (yes I'm gonna start calling it mora!verse now pls bear with me) i'd assume the deliveries are carried out either by small convoys or people that can cross vast distances within short periods of time (coughAnemouserscough) although convoy sounds iffy what with us not having seen a single large mammal in game other than uh

boars

and while we know horses exist because Varka left Kaeya with exactly NONE OF THEM, that doesn't bode well for the scarcity of landmounts in Teyvat.

Mora!verse Ningguang dumping a shit ton of mora into the postal system was basically so they could hire more people and be able to hire better escorts ig?? both for security and for speed, although now that I'm thinking on it a monopoly on the postal system may be pretty bad actually 0.0

...oops?

Anyhow, thanks for listening to me ramble again and thanks for the ask!