#because the whole video game format is very weird and different to them

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Linked Universe AU where Dink tortures the Chain by locking them in a room mini-boss style and forcing them to face their most difficult challenge yet…

…playing their own video games.

Time just straight up gets PTSD flashbacks the instant he starts playing either of his games and is like “nope we’re doing my games last I need time to mentally prepare for this nonsense.”

Warriors is laughing his butt off while hacking and slashing at armies “holy Hylia if I could actually kill twenty bokoblins in one swing that would have been AMAZING”

Twilight keeps forgetting to use the “wolf sense” button and missed literally everything because to him it’s just automatic, so if he doesn’t immediately see it when he becomes a wolf in the game then clearly it isn’t a thing. Wild has to keep reminding him ti hit the blasted button or the game will never progress.

Sky thinks his game is really fun until he remembers that everyone is going to find out about the curse and then he starts finding increasingly more insane ways to get his character killed just to delay the inevitable.

Legend straight up smashes Link’s Awakening to pieces before they can even play it.

Hyrule is just awed that he even has a game, but when everyone starts playing it they all just die over and over again. Wind starts flipping tables the twenty-seventh time.

Four loses his mind because the intro literally gives away his secret of the four sword.

Wild spends his entire game exploring instead of doing the main quest because “what, the pictures are pretty besides I have all the time in the world now!! I can learn all the recipes!!”

Wind thinks his game is clearly the coolest ever, even though no one will let him hear the end of it over the cartoon style (Sky thinks it’s nice). Then they all meet Tingle and break the TV in horror.

[cybermeep]

dream had many things in it so i will list them as best as i can, although saying them in a linear format will be difficult:

was in a cafeteria, but not a school one.. there was a dining area in this aquarium/zoo hybrid facility i was in. bottom floor was the aquarium, top zoo. ate a crab absolutely covered in a sauce… i do not like Seafood. jerma appeared to order something; he was a bit late.

i remember constantly trying to find a spot to sit that wasn’t too weird; earlier in the dream i apparently was eating… cardboard…. Odd logic, but i digress.. i was eating a board game or something and a girl came up to me— one i see in real life sometimes in passing— and told me i was quote disgusting and littering. i was going to eat the whole thing apparently, box and instructions and all, but after what she said i didnt. If i ate the whole thing, maybe it wouldn’t have been littering? Anyway went to go tell a boy a know what happened and accidentally told someone i didn’t know who looked like said boy. walked away after this & after girl from earlier was confused as to why i was at her table.

as to where i wanted to sit… anywhere. anywhere. there were tables with people at them but i didn’t want to sit there— someone was at a corner table and i was like shit, i cant be nearby thatd be weird, and kept trying to find good placement. i remember getting pissed because my seating placement was either very awkward or very odd. Eventually, time moved on. In another segment of the dream, i sat next to moistcritikal. I think he appeared because of the tummy time video he made with jerma being something i watched in my waking hours..

I had also found a friend there; he was a bit down, which made me sad.. dream is fading now cause im much more awake and off to do school things but i do remember he was there a bit. Also remember the aquarium being one from a previous dream i had… not akin to a real life one per se, but regardless reoccurring. Visited different exhibits with fish and friend said he disliked wolffish.. this made me sad! kept trying to look for a touch tank exhibit i remembered with stingrays, but it instead was gone. What was i going to do if i found it, you ask? Good question! Shift through the crowd like a bowling ball and tell people.

Instead, this time around there was a turtle exhibit in progress… also a seal exhibit on the side.. one of the workers asked me if i wanted to feed the seals, which i said yes but i didnt do it as i was looking for a particular person. Huh. Remember narwhal blood being in there as some exhibits were under construction or tampered… not very pretty… in the zoo section, i was able to look at some of the plushies they had! dude working at counter had a pikachu plush for a split second; probably cause i was holding a pikachu plush before deep REM sleep. think there was some dating sim aspect with fake characters.. i cant remember

Anyway thats it

[roughentumble]

when it comes to stand alone properties i genuine think 999 is just A Better Game, to quote yahtzee croshaw of zero punctuation fame, "it's a tighter whole, and i do like a nice, tight hole"

like, the ending is more emotional, it's a little more direct, with a very singular goal that really emotionally resonates. i like the controls better, i like the graphics better, and by virtue of being a first game that mostly works without a sequel, everything Feels a lot more complete by the time it's finished

but i cant exactly get mad at vlr for being a middle game in a trilogy, even if it means the ending of it doesnt make me sob like 999's so much as it just. makes me /ache/. plus, im almost certain some of my control quibbles come from moving across platforms, as i played 999 on the DS and vlr on my vita. and the game's just expansively BIGGER, with like..... what, twenty endings??? versus 999's 6.

and i like how the timeline mechanics are different to emphasize the way the different characters are experiencing Weird Time Stuff!!!! junpei being forced to live through every single loop, versus sigma jumping anywhere anytime he wants to, is because they're experiencing something different. the different types of gameplay are informing how you understand these different protagonist's situations and abilities and experiences! sigma and junpei simply Feel different to play, without the games losing what makes them Feel original, Feel like the same series. while also updating the gameplay format to make it, quite honestly, slightly less frustrating to play. really great stuff!!

(*grumble grumble* i still prefer the 999 method of forcing you to replay the entire game up to the diverging plot point, but what do i know, im just a crumudgeon *grumble grumble*)

i understand why they changed how you access the timeline, both from an external and internal reason. which is exactly how these things should be married in a video game, if at all possible.

and i like vlr!!! its good!!!!!! i love how many times dio gets kicked, its funny!!!!!

[tadpolesonalgae]

it's ok haha it might be because i'm a really emotional person in general so i cry over pretty much anything (just the other day i went to my mom crying to show a cute cat video and she was like "???" 😭)

oh i also wanted to say i really like your dark fics!! i tried to pick up a few dark romance books before but most of them quickly turned to hate-reading lmao and it's really weird because i usually don't have any problems with consuming dark content?? i think my problem with these books is that authors are tend to (over)romanticize almost everything (and they always have the same boring plot)

your dark fics are a godsend 🙏🏻 the desk pet series and the one with ghost azriel are my favorites

i'm really into visual novel games these days, especially the ones with romance and horror (yes. this girl is a yandere enjoyer 😭 it's been my guilty pleasure since middle school) my silly little insane fictional bfs and your fics are my motivation to write my own fics 🫶🏻

—🫧 (leaving this here so i can come back later with you knowing it's me hehe)

Awww that’s so sweet 😭 I haven’t met many people in my life who are that comfortable with their emotions! (I think I just told you that I’m happy you cry a lot??? I don’t mean it that way, I just mean I’m glad you haven’t been wrapped up in the whole ‘it’s bad to show negative emotion’ ideology 😭🫣)

‘oh i also wanted to say i really like your dark fics!!’

Thank you so much! I’m so flattered!! 😳🧡💛

I get what you mean with the kind of formulaic style, except I’m experiencing it with contemporary romance at the moment? I think I read too much of it all at once so now I’ve switched genres to something I find more interesting and it’s been super enjoyable branching out and reading different material than usual!! I think every now and then I’ll enjoy a contemporary romance book but I just can’t read them as frequently before!

‘i think my problem with these books is that authors are tend to (over)romanticize almost everything’

I can see how in dark romance it would be a fine line to walk because you definitely don’t want to actually romanticise that sort of thing in real life? It’s always important to keep reality and fantasy separate in these situations, the fun comes from it being fictional and contained within your own mind where you’re in control of the situation so I get where the problem is :)

‘your dark fics are a godsend 🙏🏻 the desk pet series and the one with ghost azriel are my favorites’

Ahhhh thank you so much!!! I really enjoyed writing the atmosphere for the ghost Azriel one and I feel it’s a bit spookier than the stuff I usually write so I’m so happy you enjoyed that little change! And the desk pet series is another one that’s very enjoyable! I think I prefer play-mate to desk pet overall, but I’m looking forward to adding another part to it after Two-Faced! 🧡💛

‘i'm really into visual novel games these days, especially the ones with romance and horror’

Wow I’ve never even heard of visual novel games? Video games, and graphic novels, sure, but visual novel games sound interesting?? I’d love to know more about what format they’re presented in! (I’ll probably have a nose at them later this evening)

‘my silly little insane fictional bfs and your fics are my motivation to write my own fics 🫶🏻’

🫣😭🫂🫂🫂 I hope you get to enjoy writing your own fics, it’s such a high compliment to receive thank you so much 😳 I’m just so happy you enjoy my fics enough to want to write your own 😭🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

‘—🫧 (leaving this here so i can come back later with you knowing it's me hehe)’

I’ll look forward to seeing you in my inbox again sometime, then!! 🧡💛

[papirouge]

oh, I understood that the supposed "trans allegory" applied to only one story, but I admit I didnt know about the animatronics being possesed by dead children. the problem is that i'm kind of a wimp so i usually avoid horror, but if even kids could play it it shouldn't be that horrible right? also, does that video feature screamers or something? some content creators do that when discussing horror related stories or formats like the iceberg videos and I really hate screamers lol

the american system is so weird in general to me, the fact that they only have a two party system when in my country there are like dozens of different political parties lmao. once we literally had 13 different presidencial candidates to choose from.

and notch is a certified asshole. after that, he simply stopped being involved in minecraft and kept on commenting on his twitter. i think he even mentioned the iq race theory once. he also seemed to be one of those guys that believes women only care about money, so when he finally became rich due to minecraft success, he was completely flabbergasted that women still kept rejecting him right and left lmao. he attributed this to him being too successful, and women being afraid of his success thus prefering subpar men to date. and I know all of this because he thought tweeting it all was a good idea. lets remember that a big part of his audience were literal kids.

i actually thought it was good that nintendo/game freak were attentive enough to change jynx skin and her facial features somewhat to avoid being insensitive even if it wasn't their intention. it has a different connotation in other countries, and it resembled black face whether people like to admit it or not, so some black kids could have been offended by it and decided to never play again. They had a similar but less known controversy with the character lenora, a black woman gym leader who wears an apron. nintendo of america thought she resembled a mammy so they removed her apron.

also, I remember once watching a video about the jynx controversy saying ganguro started earlier and in the same place the nintendo or pokemon office resided, but i dont remember well. then there's also mr popo from dragon ball, which is a very similar design, and in general akira toriyama designed his black characters with big pink lips, not to mr popo levels, but he did say he had never seen a black person before designing his characters and that's why they looked like that.

plus lets be honest, stereotypical racist black characters were actually somewhat common in japan, like the doll dakko chan which represented a little black girl.

I too stopped engaging with horror content since a while, but fnaf games are more like jumpscare type of games. There's nothing (visually) fundamentally horrific in them beside the lore.

And don't worry, I went through the whole 9 hours video and there's no jumpscare lol (that's something very shitty to do in a lore/iceberg video imo)

And LOL at that scrote coping about women feeling intimidated by his wealth? When there are entire armies of sugar babies around... Dead. 💀 Dude must be very awful to be around with because there are women willing to have sex with geriatric aged men with diapers for the money... They definitely aren't "intimidated" but much...

And sperging about IQ race theory is textbook White trash loser behavior. You know, those guys broke as hell and with a shitty life but they cling that narrative because "at least I'm not a low IQ nigger 🤪" to which I always wanna reply "sure but, where did that Caucasian high level IQ lead you to? look at your life. At least a bunch of those low IQ Africans have a house, family and job. You're obese, with no friends and living in a trailer park. Get your life on check before obsessing over people living on the other side of the globe 💀" Those people rely on fantasizing on other people's misery being worse, to make their own brand of misery less painful. "At least I'm not Black 🤪" they say while drowning under debt, on medication, with no job, and without any fulfilling human connection.... Tragic.

Africa has its own problem, but NGL when I see my uncles, aunt, cousins conservation on our family WhatsApp group they seem happier/more mentally stable than the average western netizen. It's really striking.

I'd rather have no Black character in anime than those shitty depictions 💀 the only japanese made Black character I'll acknowledge is HxH Canary and Kimberly in Street Fighter 8s freaking cute too (it's a GIANT step up compared to Elena from SF3 who was supposed to be Kenyan but had blue eyes and non textured(?) white hair(??)....💀). I heard they asked for an actual Black woman to give them tips so im not surprised the result is great. Black women are the only relevant ambassador of our owb representation). The average mangaka is to ignorant to properly pull out Black characters.For some reason I always assumed that Mr. Popo wasn't even human (more like an alien, like the namek lol) Toriyama excuse of not seeing a Black person irl to pull out such awful portrayal of black people is stupid. There were definitely photograph and shows featuring Black people. Wasn't Japan already industrialized in the 80s? They didn't have TV or poster magazine ? Bye.

[silasbug]

dream log Nr. -002

06/06/2022 (extracted from a chat, unstructured)

The dream starts off with me getting off of work, you meet me and I get Burger King for what is the third day in a row (there was the first two days before but i dont remember them, also I was eating the non-vegan nuggets for some reason and felt bad about it in my dream), we go and play some video games at some place. first we're sitting together, then suddenly I'm actually sitting at home and you show me WoW and I almost complete a whole Zone (except WoW was a weird MMO with elves in work clothes for different professions). We were writing in a chat on the side, but because I only had one screen I had to constantly tab out for Disc and when you wrote it only showed up some time later, so I would write sth unrelated and when your messages appeared later mine were interspersed and it looked like I was ignoring what you said, so I apologize. Eventually the game crashes because I had pressed to update ESO and my computer couldnt handle it simultaneously.

So we stop playing, I reorganize my tabs, turn off my PC and suddenly we are in the same room again, but sitting at two different tables with friend., two women who only seemed to know you (guildmembers? who knows) and some vegetables/fruits on fucking legs (two married corn cobs with legs and arms, another big type of veggie/fruit, and two cherries with a few cherry children, it was fking weird)

I was sitting at a table with Daniel across from me, one of those women, and i dont remember the rest but they felt familiarly unfamiliar. I was, for some reason, going through my phone looking for pictures I could print out to give to everyone (I used to print square format pictures at Rossman to hang on my wall, these were very similar), and I choose a picture of a tin lunch box with sunflowers on it laying in some grass. I had trouble finding another one but I asked you for advice and we settled on a picture of a cute fluffy orange cat laying in the grass in the sun. The first one I'd already printed and handed around, but I had too many (I'd printed 70 for what couldnt be more than 20 people). I repeatedly tried to count the number of people I had to print for but for some reason I kept counting 3/pictures per Person, my table was exactly 30, but I had trouble counting yours because of the size of the fruit/veg people.

Eventually I kind of give up and I decide I finally wanted to mod that tin box because I still have it and wanted to use it for LARP, so I was gonna put it in a bucket of saltwater to get it to rust , but instead the paint on the outside dissolved, and it happened super fast. When I decide it's enough, I toss it into the bathtub and spray it off with some water, then leave to let it dry, but as I turn my back, the bathtub catches fire ("oh, right! a sodium fire! you werent supposed to mix water and sodium!!" was the dream logic which is obviously bullshit lol), I run back to the tub to try and put it out, but it goes out by itself already. The fire caused wide open cracks in the bathtub, but as the fire goes out and it cools off again they warp almost shut again. Almost. Suddenly, those gaps grow teeth and become made of time and space fabric. The teeth close to hold the gaps together and you can barely see them, more like dents in the bathtub. But terrifying as fuck. I wondered if they'll hold up under pressure so I poke one of the closed gaps and it slightly opens again revealing the teeth. This sucked, we'll now have to shower without stepping on them, replace the bathtub, and if we dont replace it hope that the landlord doesnt notice when we move out so we dont lose our deposit.

I contemplate telling my SO but I assume we'll be fine. Then SO decides to do a bit in the shower where he dances in a fucking scream guy costume- sometimes he's big and sometimes he turns really small. He's barely missing the closed teeth gaps but eventually steps on one and it gives way and opens a lil. SO  thinking this to be part of his performance reaches in ad starts pulling out a hoodie of his that had been missing, but it's covered in a bit of bile as he pulls it out and the mouth pukes a little. Then he realizes "what the fuck" and I wake up.

Before this dream there was sth with containers full of junk, and some of them being lil rat/mouse cages for pets, with too many rats/mice in them, and I was throwing them out...

[obeythedemons]

His Office [Obey Me! Headcanons]

I got my own cubicle today with my promotion. I may or may not have bought cat-themed office supplies. They’re not masculine in any way, but they’re cute and I play Obey Me! do you think I’m worried about my masculinity and also I don’t care for gender norms

Obey Me! Masterlist

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Lucifer

Everything has its place

If something is moved even a centimeter he’ll know

Both as a way to ensure Mammon doesn’t steal something, but also to ensure he’s as efficient as possible when it comes to his work

Splurged on some very nice pens that write smoothly and doesn’t smudge

Everything is clean, he has a hand vacuum that he uses every day on his desk

Has a very high-end computer - he cannot deal with IT issues, not today

Mammon

Paperwork is everywhere

Not because he gets a lot, he just refuses to ever do it and it piles up

Has no idea where anything in his office is

Has a framed picture of Goldie on his desk

That picture changes to MC after a couple of days of knowing them

After that picture changes to MC, he starts to actually do his work and the pile of paperwork decreases and becomes more organized

Leviathan

Anime stationery, especially Ruri-chan themed!

Brings in a gamer chair to be his office chair, otherwise, he’s not comfortable

Has a bunch of sticky notes around his desk with anime doodles from when he’s in a meeting

Got rid of the phone to his office, if people want to talk to him they can IM him or email him

Set up RGB lights for his office and uses that as a light source

His desktop is whatever anime or video game he's obsessed with

Satan

Has binders that are clearly labeled and organized - he likes to read their contents when he's bored

Also has a binder that has whatever book he's reading in it - that way he can read and look like he's working

Knows everyone that works there, so he knows exactly who to contact when a problem comes up - meaning his workload is minimal

Also keeps a chair in his office for anyone that wants to visit with him

His desktop changes every five minutes to a new picture of a cat - it seems to never repeat itself

Asmodeus

Rose gold décor everywhere

Has a couple of mirrors in his office so he can look at himself when he's bored or fix his appearance

Has a cup for pens and a cup for makeup brushes

In fact, his desk has more beauty products than actual office supplies

Is the perfect person to go to if they need a breath mint, some lotion, chocolate, or menstrual hygiene product

Beelzebub

His desk is filled with snacks and like two pens

Has a minifridge under his desk for cold snacks and drinks

There are crumbs everywhere - Lucifer comes in once a week to clean up for him, but it's still not enough

There's a trophy he won for playing Fangol on a corner, it's not front and center

What's front and center are pictures of his family and MC, he got a digital frame so he can have a lot of photos of them

Belphegor

Has a blanket hanging off the back of his chair

His chair also has a cushion on it so he can sit on it and be comfortable - also uses it as a pillow for his desk

Has wrist supports for his keyboard and mouse - they're squishy

Has an essential oil diffuser where he regularly uses lavender

Uses a single lamp for light, but usually keeps it off so he can sleep

Diavolo

Has a very large desk, it's ridiculously large and he only uses a small portion of it

Though, what he doesn't use starts to fill up with knickknacks from the human realm after he meets MC - he likes to show MC them to try and make them laugh or smile

Keeps personal items to a minimum, he doesn't want business rivals to visit his office and try to blackmail him

He does have a couple of chairs for when people visit him - he likes it when it's just to visit and not for a business meeting

Tries to not be in his office too much, he'd rather go to other peoples' offices and see what they're up to

Barbatos

Has an electric tea kettle on his desk with a couple of mugs

One of his drawers is completely filled with different teas

The drawer below that has snacks that pair perfectly with the different teas

The top of his desk is completely clean and organized - has little to no paperwork as he completes it faster than anyone else

Is usually away from his office to meet with Diavolo

His desktop background is rarely seen as he always locks his computer when someone enters or when he leaves - it's a picture of Lord Diavolo, MC, and himself

Simeon

Has the oldest computer that he doesn't know how to work - he wouldn't know how to work a new one on either

Does all of his work on paper - much to the annoyance of some of his co-workers

Has so many binders, folders, and notebooks on his desk - they're unlabeled, but he knows exactly what is in each of them

He uses a Rolodex - no one knows where he found it or that they even made them anymore

Is the person people go to to rant about their job while he patiently listens and offers the best advice

Solomon

His office is off in a weird corner that people didn't know existed until they had to go find him

He looks young, but it seems like he knows everything that has ever happened in the office - that should be impossible

Has all of the old, archive documents that seem to be irrelevant and should be tossed

He has his own microwave in his office after the incident in the communal area

Has polaroid photos of Simeon, Luke, MC, and himself posted along a wall

Luke

People walk into his office and then back out thinking they have the wrong spot - who brought this child here? He works here? Is this legal?

Has a lot of HR forms at the ready that show he does work there!

Still not sure if it's legal

Is always bringing in baked goods for the whole office to try - is always nervous when Barbatos tries his baked good, but lights up when Barbatos praises him

Has a cushion on his chair to help him reach his computer, his legs dangle off the edge

Is in charge of converting Simeon's forms to a digital format

[ravenadottir]

Hi! It’s been so long since I’ve sent an ask—

What would the season two islanders reaction/feel like if MC was really tight knit with her family? Like the whole ‘It’s my cousin’s birthday’, they show up and everyone’s mother is there? Or everyone and their mother’s showing up to their place when it’s Mc’s birthday?

hi! no time like now!

li's x attached to her familly mc

the ones thriving:

gary. he's used to many gatherings of his own family. it comes natural to him to make friends and leave everyone with a good impression. he can crack dad jokes as fast as he can charm the mothers in the party.

bobby. cracking jokes is his specialty but also, pulling out that apron and helping out in the kitchen, enough to gossip about mc with her family and just having all those people around him while he tells them a story about him and mc.

henrik. LOVES lots of people around, especially at parties. his puppy eyes and sweet words are too cute to go unnoticed. he loves playing games with the little ones around, helping out in the kitchen with the salads and the desserts. i can definitely see younger cousins asking him to hurry so they can play something together.

ibrahim. it feels like he would be closed off but in fact it's better for him when he can go unnoticed among so many people. plus, he loves kids and to play with them, especially if he can show off his skills while planning a game with them. i reckon mothers love him because of how well behaved he comes across.

priya. her charisma is earning some serious laughs when she tells people her stories. she doesn't get attached to just one format but i think she would deal better with the adults while having a glass of wine. she's the type of girlfriend your mom says "she's so fun! i love her!"

the ones who can't cope

lucas. charming yet not into it. doesn't like too many family parties because he never had that many when younger. he doesn't get it. also, he might fake a headache or two to get out of them.

kassam. same as lucas, particularly about the faking something to get out of it. unless he can play and stay on his corner with people of his own age he's not comfortable.

noah. yes he likes family gatherings, but he would rather have something with just people his age or younger. even though moms love him it's hard to fake interest all the time.

hannah. she can't handle too many people in the same place. it's very intimidating and difficult for her to raise her voice enough to be heard. she would rather take a book and read on some corner.

marisol. too much noise, too many people, too much being talked about and not a lot being said. she doesn't understand family gatherings, especially the ones that happen all the time.

elisa. yah, no. she's the same as all of the above in this category. she feels her energy being drained the entire time she's somewhere too crowded and too happy. "no one should be this optimistic."

the ones who appreciate it because their family is so small and they're not close and they feel the warm welcome of a family gathering this size despite being completely lost on what to do:

carl. he didn't have siblings and i doubt he was the charismatic person at family gatherings if they ever had those. no, he was the introverted cousin playing video games on the corner. but now that he's grown he feels a little different. he understands why the families get together and try to have a good time together. he feels happy to be included this time. timidly talking about his work because he's used to have people rolling their eyes but if one person shows interest he's the happiest guy alive.

lottie. she's always the weird one because of how she dresses or talks. if they're welcoming of her she might even tear up. she has fomo, as she said previously, so i reckon she's having fun! as long as no one asks her to cook anything she's happy to help, to play games, to tell stories. it's so new then yet so cool to be in the middle of so many people because she feels she can be the center of attention, and she thrives when she is.

[movedtodykedvonte]

Motherly Miranda au Info

Been thinking about the 2p au and here are some results of that”

Alcina wears either a red sundress and sun hat with 3 white rose tied around it OR a toga sorta dress, with the three white roses around her head like a flower crown

Not neglectful but very lenient with her girls, like she lets them do whatever and they almost have no rules, still very well behaved 

Look up “ Estonian Television Girls Choir “ and like find that picture of those girls in v formation. That’s what her daughters wear now

The dungeon is now the maidens quarters and it is obviously much nicer, like most woman in the village fight when it comes time for Castle Dimitrescu to get new help

“No I’m gonna work for the big tiddied milf and her daughters!”

Hosts way too many banquets and parties . Her daughters do love  entertaining the locals

Donna basically runs a living doll house. Like her dolls run around as her little helpers and such while she sows.

Wants people to visit a lot and loves company. Part of the reason the dolls are always running around is she hates the feeling of being alone

Family died and this Donna had the opposite reaction, decided to throw herself into social interaction, however, she has never fully coped with their passing because of that. (no time to reflect)

Only covers her cadou, not her whole face. She still does not like people looking at her “scar”

Angie is still an emotional support item, but think of how Funtime Freddy and Bonbon interact in game. (Small calm one soothes excitable bigger one)

Does in fact, eat more than just candy (hates this)

Salvatore’s mutation is still fucked up. I don’t actually know if it should stay the same or be a different type but whatever the case he’s still upsetting to look at and be around. Though most react with a morbid fascination (like watching a pimple popping video) or worry

For this reason he covers up, as he himself does not really care. He’s more concerned doing doctor things and reenacting that scene from free willy. 

Mother Miranda however feels awful about how he turned out and is always trying to find a way to “fix” him. Sal insists its fine and not her fault but she can’t stand her children being in any sort of discomfort

Protective of his family to the end and it’s the fastest way to get him in a fit. A fit consists of “Doctor Moreau can’t see you now he’s currently a giant sea monster... Look at that he just took out that entire dock.”

Still watches romance movies but prefers the ones with sad endings (I don’t know this Sal is just as weird but in an opposite way)

Karl is really just Willy Wonka but his chocolate factory is a factory of tetanus

All his little robots are functionally perfect but he makes them have stupid functions. Like one robot’s entire purpose is to insist its NOT a robot

He just fucks around in his factory when he’s not making sure everything is up and running in the village.

Gets his weed from the Duke. Duke sells that good kush

Subsequently he’s always high which is probably why he only invents the most pointless things. Still a genius just a lot more ditzy

“So that’s how you do theoretical physics also What color is the pink panther?” Head ass

Does tours through the factory but its really just him losing like 20 people for 4 hours because he’s high and they got a contact high

Duke is literally the same. I don’t know but I feel like he transcends time and space. Universal constant

The village is aware the lords are... off... but they don’t necessarily know it’s because of the mold/cadou. They think it’s just deformities/them being eccentric

The lycans are a lot more docile, mainly because they are fed and kept far from the village. Still, a person going missing along with sightings of giant wolves are not uncommon

Miranda still tries to keep people in the village but this is more about parental worry and her genuinely trying to create a small town that provides everything one needs

Town population grows due to the fable that its the best place to live. People come and never want to leave... or can’t

Did she kidnap the lords in this au or is that up to semantics? Whose to say?

Chris is an anti-villian in this au for obvious reasons

This au is really just a spa day for Mia and Rose

Ethan, seriously, how the hell did you still manage to lose a hand in this au? His experience is like, what if Alice in Wonderland was real and moldy?

This au technically can double as a Coraline au with some rearranging but again, semantics

[4lph4kidz]

ma! ma they’re rambling about the epilogues again!

ok like, i’m attempting to set aside my emotional investment / reactions and opinions on like, the quality of the story content itself here. i’m pretty bad at that. but trust me i am trying to engage with the epilogues and HS^2 in something approaching good faith when i say... i just don’t think the epilogues ... work? especially not as a sequel to homestuck (if they were even really intended as such, which i very much doubt) - they’re just such huge departure in terms of tone and format, and i suppose in artistic purpose/intention/process as well? it’s wild. like, homestuck is (or Was) this weird coming of age improv comedy based on the culture of the internet and experimenting with the internet as a medium, with the audience and fandom interactivity playing a huge part in shaping the story - not directing it necessarily, not after the reader command system stops, but it still responds to the audience in some broad sense. there’s a lot of video game logic and pulling all sorts of diverse genres and elements of genres into the mix. it goes places and has much more serious moments but there’s still a very prominent focus on comedy to offset that tonally.

but the epilogues are trying to be something else entirely, something that is intended to be more sobering and, uh, mature, i suppose. coming of age story is over now, here’s adulthood. very fuckin’ cynical idea of what adulthood is like, though. and like, there’s some comedy there, but it... never really lands for me. a lot of it even feels horribly out of place. and they’re not exactly interactive but they do directly challenge the way the reader engages with the material in a couple of ways - that actually seems to be the one of the major Points of the epilogues as far as i understand them, to challenge the reader to think about how they consume fiction? the choice between meat and candy, the narrators outright addressing and challenging the reader at several points. there is a conversation between author and audience happening here, but i’m not sure what to make of it myself. it really feels like a reaction to the fandom as a whole and i don’t think its an especially positive one. also, unlike the comic, they were made without any input from the community, though they based on the concept of fan fiction at least superficially... i dunno. i dunno what to do with all that. i don’t think i’m smart enough to really connect the conceptual dots here, i can only point at things and go ‘???’

anyway that whole difference in tone and purpose is such a huge fundamental shift, one that invariably affects the presentation of the characters/story. and i just. i just plain don’t like what the epilogues do there, even if some of it is actually conceptually interesting to me. but they don’t sell a lot of what happens for me, they just cannot get away with as much horseshit as homestuck can because the tone and subject matter is so much heavier... and there’s a lot of things in there that are really not well handled imo. anyway. my point is, i’m not sold on the face of it at all. i have to look beyond the text itself. i can’t take any of it lying down, i feel compelled to dissect this thing (and it’s about as pleasant as i imagine a real dissection to be) because i’m just.. really wanting to try and understand what the authorial intent and purpose behind any of this shit is. and that’s? like, the inverse of the ‘death of the author’ concept, at as far as i understand it? like, i can’t really engage with the work EXCEPT as a cipher for authorial intent or commentary... which seems to be at least some of the intended effect? i dunno. it’s really hard to not feel defensive on behalf of the fandom. like. i know fandoms suck, pretty much across the board. i’ve always been very critical of them and especially in the way fandoms tend to interact with creators. i just think it’s maybe. a bad idea to do anything to provoke them? why would you ever drop something like this into a fanbase you know is pretty contentious and tetchy. it’s not conversing with fans, it’s condescending to them. it’s about as constructive dropping a load of dynamite in the load gaper. slash toilet. and, well, yeah it’s hard to not feel personally insulted by it, when the fan community has played such a fundamental role in what homestuck is, or was. 

i mean, it’s not like homestuck never had any issues with pacing or iffy elements to it’s writing or jokes that suck or any tensions with its readers or fans. but it still manages to pull off what it was doing, at least in my book, with its sheer scope and originality and sense of momentum. (strange how, in writing that sentence, i attributed those things to the work itself, even when it was the work of a singular author. who is very present in the work, like, literally there is an author self insert in there? idk.)

i do not feel the same way about the epilogues. i do not feel like they offer many worthwhile new new ideas, they only use and elaborate on existing characters and concepts in ways that are usually for the worse. in a lot of ways that fail to be in any way interesting. some of it is interesting, a few select elements i would even call pretty well written and impactful! but overall they are. sorely disappointing in that regard. destructive, even. everything that happens in the story, the characters flaws and unhappy lives and the mistakes they make and the outright metacommentary and the overly abstract stakes and shit... i get that it ties back to all those ideas behind the work. i think. but it just means the work itself is kinda weak. 

that said, i think i like what’s going on with egbert in post canon. that character was absolutely left in limbo when homestuck proper came to an end, and examining them outside of that narrative is actually a fascinating exercise. there is a little of that with all of the characters, but naturally egbert is the linchpin for all that, thematically. i do think it’s interesting. but i dislike the overall execution.

(jane and dirk becoming villainous characters is like... i’m actually more willing to acknowledge they sure are expounding on flaws both characters very much did have in canon... but it’s still a big jump. and i’m not really sold on it. they feel like strawmen, mouthpieces for specific ideas and arguments the writers presumably wanted to make. not fully dimensional characters. idk. i’m just a known liker of both those characters in particular, so what do i know.)

anyway that’s still me distancing myself emotionally in order to wonder out loud and do my best observe the things i think are like, conceptually interesting; when i try to actually read the text again i inevitably end up wanting to punch a wall. i’m only human, i grew up with homestuck, i’m emotionally invested in the characters. don’t get me wrong, i’m thoroughly enamoured with homestuck as a work, in terms of what it is and what it does; if you want to posit the conceits of the format and the plot and stuff as in some way opposed to characterisation, the way i think meat and candy are supposed to. but i also like the characters and if you are going to take the homestuck characters out homestuck and do something else with them in a different format then, yeah, naturally i would want good things for them, or at the very to see some least engaging and fulfilling content. 

so, yeah. engaging with the epilogues as a 23 year old who has spent god knows how many years in a horrible, dissociative depression, you know, like john? that has been an interesting experience. but also a very VEXING and kind of unpleasant experience that very has little to offer me in terms of even catharsis. even when i try to engage in good faith. the flaw could be in my approach and my expectations of course - my desire for escapism and my teenage fandom nostalgia goggles and shit. i’m willing to own up to that being a bad match, probably. 

but still. can we at least agree that the way gamzee was handled was bad???

mother fucker that got long. no way anyone read all that. anyway here’s a doodle of roxy for the road

[that-tall-queer-bassist]

My personal Pros and Cons of my ADHD

Pros

-noticing all the little details and appreciating them in the fullest

-Emotional Dysregulation, because when I get a new plant, or find that one oddly shaped metal marble I lost a while ago, I am so excited it’s pathetic, but I love that feeling of pure joy.

-hyperfixation of the week/day/hour (i know some people describe it differently, let me be pls) . I usually switch between art mediums, and/or a few video games/social media sites. for example, I’ve been on tumblr for 3 hours as i write this, after not touching it for, i think a month?

-nuerodivergent friends. They’re just better.

-the ability to completely drown myself in information to ignore reality. Is it healthy? no. But i simply cannot handle another existiential crissi rn, so i will instead play minecraft while listening to alt rock playlists on youtube because getting spotify sounds like a lot of work.

-my ability to retain absolutely useless information, from either my, or my other nuerodivergent friends hyperfixations/special interests. I can explain to you in terrible formatting if it’s out loud, the evolution, history, training, anatomy and roles of the horse in our world, and how ao3 works, and what makes or breaks a fanfiction.

-Object Impermanence. When i literally hide myself a treat or surprise and forget about it, then get so excited when i do find/discover it again. I hide google questions, and/or song lyrics in my tabs :) its so fun. Also, hiding away stressors. Again, healthy? no, but i don’t feel like having anxiety all day, so whatever.

-Emotional Dysregulation, again. I can switch from sad or angry to happy and excited/content in a few seconds. It’s also great for getting my siblings out of their funk. ex., my sister is mad at me. I make a silly voice repeating what she said or cross my eyes at her. she laughs, then we can talk and have constructive conversation about why she shouldn’t get that upset about me “cutting off her reading time” when we share a room and I want to sleep, and know that she will be very tired tomorrow if she doesn’t also go to sleep. (We have this conversation almost every single night, i’m not even joking)

Cons

-Emotional Dysregulation. When i get upset, I’m Upset. Like, big time, ruining friendships and familial ties if i let it get out of hand, Upset. Yeah.

-Time Blindness. Constantly late, or early, or under or over estimating the amount of time it takes to do a thing, not eating til 4 because you forgot but you also should just wait til dinner, but now its 9 and I still haven’t eaten-

-Executive Dysfunction. I can’t do the things needed to function. Don’t have the mental energy to explain this one, so google it i guess? There’s a whole checklist of things you need to be able to do to function, and i can do like, three on a good day.

-Sleeping Trouble. People with adhd have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up. So, sleeping trouble. So I’m constantly tired.

-Internal Clock is SLIGHTLY OFF. Nuerotypicals have that normal sleep schedule. Adhd ers have it shifted forward by, i think, 2, 3 hours. So we go to sleep later, and wake up later, and that’s the only way to get a healthy amount of sleep. My entire family also eats dinner super late, which might be because we’re weird, but I suspect the inner clock thing cuz we all got adhd.

-Object Impermanance. I hid my math homework one time. I failed that class. 

-Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Never trying, or starting cuz I’m so terrified to get a bad reaction. Constantly masking around certain people to appeal to the few of my Nuerotypical friends. Or, y’know, majority of my extended family. They’re ableist. and homophobic. And transphobic. And racist. and sexist. The list goes on, but, yeah. Never coming out to them! :D

-Masking. It’s exhausting and I can only handle so much of it.

-Not Masking around nuerotypicals. The shoot down after finally revealing my true thoughts, urges, feelings, stims, etc. just sucks. Super disheartening. 

-Squirrel or shiny jokes when they’re made by people without adhd. Yes, I do get distracted by squirrels, and shiny things, and dice. Stop pointing it out, and/or putting me into yet another box of your labeling. 

-saying that I’m lazy, worthless, or a disaster when really it’s not helping. I already have that internal monologue, you adding to it and giving it some truth/extra ammunition is not. helping.

-Emotional Dysregulation. Again, because mood swings. like, I’m trying to be rightfully angry with you. Stop making me laugh with you’re silly faces or pointing out of a weird face someone made in a picture you took. 

-the stigma about the hyperactive subtype. I’m inattentive. I have No Energy. Ever. Sometimes i have restlessness, but there is still no energy. Stop portraying me as bouncing off the walls, especially with caffeine. Caffeine just catches my body speed up to my brain speed, settling me down a bit, at least mentally. 

-people not getting when i say I’m overstimulated, or need some time alone to process or re-energize, and following me, or continuing to do the overstimulating thing. I will literally. lose. my. mind.

-when people shut me down after I share something that is really important to me, or make fun of me for liking something an “abnormal” amount. Flashbacks to overnight camp, when whenever I said anything about horses, they said I had to do five squats, and when i got really excited about discussing the differences in riding styles/types with another person who really liked horses, but rode english, they said that it was obnoxious, when i was just.. excited to finally find someone to talk to and who felt the same way after, basically, years and years of no one getting it or wanting to listen or talking with me about the thing. To this day I don’t discuss horses with anyone, cuz it hurts so much remembering that, and the fear of it happening again is still there. 

-seeing other people be ashamed about their adhd and hesitant to mention until i talk, like, super openly about having it, in like, the first 5 minutes of knowing each other. It just.. hurts.

-I’m super empathetic, not in a way that’s helpful though. Like, wincing, or limping myself because I saw you drop something on your foot, and am imagining it so vividly that it feels like it happened to me. Reading a fic about abuse or depression, and it hitting too hard and hurting me almost physically, and on a personal level because I simply cannot handle it. Feeling someone else’s pain so vividly that i can’t comfort or help them in any way, because I am so preoccupied with  feeling their pain. 

-never being able to finish things without starting something else. All the WIPs in my google docs, istg, i will be driven insane by it. 

(y’know, this was kinda fun. As a rant, but also as a way for me to identify things about myself and my adhd that i like. Like, I know its so much shorter, but I have a hard time with positive self affirmation, so it was kinda nice. I might do it again, but just the pros part cuz the cons are kinda depressing ngl.)

(OH, Y’all should reblog with your own personal pros added on! You can add cons if you’d like to :) I’m just interested in seeing how your experiences/feeling differ from mine :) )

[baconpal]

pokemon rant time

this one’s about the 2 new things, and is at least slightly intended for people actually excited/interested in them, click keep reading or perish

Gonna try and keep stuff short cus there's a lot of topics this time and I've already gone off about how pokemon Isn't meant for me or meant to be a good video game anymore, but gamefreak is right back on their bullshit, so I feel I need to at least point it out.

I'd like to preface all this with, if you are a fan of pokemon still, please realize you can ask for more out of this series. Expect perfection, even if you don't think you'll get it anytime soon. Pokemon won't go anywhere, the old games won't go anywhere, and gaming is a hobby, not a necessity; don't accept low quality products from a company just because you feel like you're supposed to.

With this next wave of pokemon games, gamefreak is clearly testing how little they can put in to a $60 game while still keeping the 2 major audiences they've cultivated. By responding to the most obvious and vocal complaints from the community, gamefreak is aiming to make games that seems like what most players want, without having to put in the work on quality products.

GEN 4 REMAKES Pokemon BS (I am not calling this shit BDSP) is intended for the audience that put up with let's go and RS remakes. The most vocal and obvious complaints for these games is their failure as definitive versions of the games they are remakes of, such as missing features/content, or drastically changed story/dialogue/style. In a way, the recent remakes are inferior versions of incredibly old games, which shows a lack of improvement in pokemon as a whole.

To address these issues, BS is very, very, VERY clearly aiming for a more 1-to-1 recreation of the DS games, but with fully 3d graphics. Clearly the map layout has been transferred exactly, and gen 4 already had mostly 3d environments to begin with, and everyone knows about the future-proof pokemon models at this point, so the amount of effort required to create something like this is absolutely minimal. Assuming dialogue, trainer teams, move lists, etc. are also lifted directly from DP, then this game could be developed in basically no time at all, leaving the team time to ensure the product is of decent quality and includes ALL of the content of the originals, if not more, like the earlier pokemon remakes did to ensure they were truly definitive versions of the games. That being said, it is unlikely the team behind BS has been making use of this saved time to improve the game.

One failing already clear is that the quality is not very good, at least graphical quality. The footage we have shows environments lacking in color compared to the original, with messy, unpleasant textures that contrast poorly with the simplistic environments. The characters especially do not work. As cute and fun the fanart of tiny dawn has been, BS dawn and all other characters look awful. They have gorilla arms that reach down to the floor and lifeless faces, as well as incredibly stiff/simplistic animations. As it stands, BS is a visually inferior game to DP, though most consumers will simply see it as 3D>2D without any understanding of what an artstyle is, so this might not be a problem for many, but that doesn't mean you should accept it.

What remains to be seen is what content will be added/missing from pokemon BS. It is very possible that massive parts of the game, such as the underground, variety of online modes, postgame areas, and content from platinum could be missing entirely. We also do not know if pokemon from after gen 4 will be worked into the region, or even supported. Gen 8 still currently does not support a large number of pokemon, and the remakes may continue this limited dex trend.

Even assuming the remake includes everything from the DS games and doesn't add anything that slows down the story or harms the experience, it will still only be an exercise in forced obsolescence. The main reason people can't really play DP still is that the online isn't supported anymore. If BS turns out to be exactly the same as DP, then you're buying the same game for at a higher price, only to play it until the online service goes away again, or the next game comes out, if both don't happen at the same time.

Don't let yourself buy a 13 year old game at twice the original price.

GEN 4 NOT-REMAKE KIND OF NEW THING On to legends now, gamefreak is targeting the people who put up with sun/moon and sword/shield. The obvious problem with those games to most people was simply a lack of change from the standard pokemon formula. Even when changing the gyms to trials or stadiums, most people still understand that the format and story structures are mostly unchanged. Of course, this problem has seemingly been addressed by changing the game structure a fair bit, but almost entirely by removal.

Trainer battles, and by extension, gyms and tournaments/elite 4 have been confirmed to be absent, meaning all battles are only vs single pokemon, in spite of the player likely having a team of 6 pokemon. Even if battle difficulty is increased to compensate (doubtful), this will still drastically increase the simplicity of combat and make it even less likely for the game to include any meaningful challenge. Exploring towns and meeting NPCs is also seemingly missing, as the game is confirmed to have only a single village, which frankly looks incredibly boring and we've yet to see a single NPC inhabiting the village.

Battles now use an ATB format instead of a turn-based format (for those of you who don't know what that means, it basically means nothing, it's still turn based, it just means the speed state determines who gets more turns instead of who goes first, that's it), but beyond that there seems to be no noteworthy changes, pokemon learn 4 moves with limited PP, type advantage will still definitely be the most important aspect to battle, and the player being able to walk around during battle provides no meaningful impact. While the little dash the pokemon do to approach each other is cool, it is already a sign that gamefreak will not be addressing the issue of lacking animations for pokemon battles, as they can't even be assed to animate and program pokemon walking around the environment during combat, and lucario doing 1 kick for a move described as a series of punches isn't a great sign either.

On the topic of lacking animations, the new "pet simulator feature" for legends seems to be an advancement on the ride system from sun/moon, which presumably people missed from sword/shield. Being able to ride on your pokemon to do stuff sounds cool, but in all likelihood, this system will be limited to only a select few pokemon who will each do a select few actions, and is not a reasonable replacement for all the other pet raising features that have been removed in the past. Similar to BS, the total number of pokemon included may also be limited arbitrarily, in spite of the fact that no new pokemon need to be added, as these games are not claiming to be a new generation.

The largest issues I personally have with this new game is the horrible technical quality and gameplay quality shown in the initial trailer. Unfortunately, these types of problems seem to be difficult to explain to the average consumer, even though the issues seem incredibly obvious and inexcusable to people like me.  Most people were able to understand the problem with the berry trees in gen 8, because it was easy to explain, "this tree doesn't look like the other trees, and it sticks out, isn't that weird?", and so gamefreak has eliminated any immediately obvious issues like that, sticking with a very consistent artstyle for legends, making it almost impossible to easily explain its faults to the average pokemon fan.

People have been really quick to compare legends to BoTW; the game that invented grass, trees, and mountains. In spite of these comparisons, nobody seems to point out that legends looks dramatically worse than that almost 5 year old game from the previous generation. Plants are stiff and lacking in energy, draw distances are poor, colors are drab, and textures are messy. Many parts of legends seems to ape BoTW on just the surface, essentially just following market trends. Even the controls seem to follow after modern 3rd person shooters/stealth games, including a seemingly pointless roll and a clunky looking ball lobbing arc that feels unfun before even getting to play it myself.

The largest issue, painfully obvious to some, and impossible to explain to others, is the framerate. The trailer clearly was ran on actual switch hardware, and not prerendered, which would be a good mark for gamefreak if it didn't result in a trailer that never once hit 30fps. Even with empty fields, with only 1 or 2 characters on screen, the game was incapable of meeting the target speed, and had to resort to optimizations like reducing the frame rate of pokemon only inches away from the player to stop-motion levels of choppy. If situations with almost nothing going on result in slow-down, how will the game perform during actual gameplay? Even though slow-down is something everyone can feel, many people aren't capable of identifying it.

The major things to wait and see for legends is if the removed aspects of the series are made up for by some additional systems or content, and definitely wait to see if the performance improves. As with BS, preordering a game like this only shows that gamefreak only has to market the game by saying it's different, not improved, like they've been doing for years now.

TL;DR FUCK GAMEFREAK One major thing of note is that gamefreak is releasing 2 games based on gen 4 at the nearly the same time, meaning they have no obligation to design new pokemon or even include pokemon not from sinnoh, and also that the sales of each game can be used as an indicator for which of their 2 audiences is more loyal to them. Both BS and Legends are in a position to be pushes aside if they fail, but if either succeeds, gamefreak can continue in the direction of the more successful game and reap the benefits, without any need to innovate, improve, or adapt to criticism.

The last thing I feel I have to remind people about is that gamefreak is a company; you don't need to be "grateful" to them. I've seen that word thrown around far too much by people who seem to buy pokemon games like its a tax, and not something they want to do. You don't have to suck up to a company that made games you liked as a kid if the games aren't what you want anymore. Pokemon is so wildly successful that it can't possible die, so don't buy the games out of pity, or out of some feeling of obligation. Buy the video games you want to play and nothing more.

Basically, if you are considering getting any of these new games, please wait until the games are out before purchasing them, and decide for yourself if they are worth your money, and more importantly, your time. Preordering these games only lets gamefreak know their audience will buy and put up with anything. They have no real competition at the moment, so the only thing the audience can do to encourage improvement is show some of restraint.

[thattimdrakeguy]

Started thinking about the idea of swapping Kon and Cassie for the formation of YJ, which leads me to two questions for you: 1) Do you have a 90s Cassie Recommended Reading List? Want to do a little research first. 2) Do you have any ideas yourself? (I’m just curious) Thanks for your time!

I read all of these, but--

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/wonder-woman/4050-3824/object-appearances/4005-10885/

Use this to fill in the gaps, and stop at Wonder Woman #136. Because that'll be all the ones written by her creator. I just went past to see if I could learn more about her school life, but it just wasn't happening.

The one issue that focused on it was absolutely terrible. They got Mark Millar, for only one issue, and he made Cassie the most generic typical teenage girl character ever, obsessed over a boy and changing how she looks to impress him, just for it all to be okay by just being herself.

She didn't act anything like Cassie. They made fun of her physical appearance. Put her in a mini-skirt, and had her and Cissie talk about if they should make Cassie's boobs look bigger.

And while I'm sure real girls are like, that and do that sort of stuff, it's not who Cassie was. Which is the problem--beyond a grown man writing about teenage girl’s boobs.

I greatly question the choice on hiring a 30 something year old man to write a singular issue of Wonder Woman focusing on the life of a teenage girl still in High School with a crush.

After reading it I straight up stopped reading any farther because I thought it was absolutely ridiculous.

---

And as far as the starting members of Young Justice being Bart, Cassie, and Timmy? Hmmm.

I'm going to say going with the characterization going with what their creators intended. Cause I do think Young Justice, characterization wise, was pretty freaking shabby. Which sucks, because it really is super funny.

But I think--hmmm.

I think the dynamics would be more like this.

Cause Tim was intended to be this morally innocent, very naïve little boy, who was pretty oblivious. And I keep saying socially oblivious with him, because that's part of it. But I should specify that he isn't a social mess. He can talk just fine, and can even be a great talker. He's just very obviously oblivious of a lot of stuff people his age and older are aware of.

Cassie's a wild-child who stays out past her curfew to party, thinks fights and battles are extremely cool, and while clever herself like Timmy, she gets ahead of herself often and ends up getting hurt. She's head-strong before anything else and doesn't like having to be protected. But she still does her best and shows that by baby sitting kids, and still being very quick-witted.

Bart is a total airhead, who quite literally doesn't know how the world works. Not in the Timmy way, but in a "I was literally raised in a video game" way. He's ill-tempered, can't relate to anyone, but loves doing Super Hero stuff and playing video games.

So I feel like their whole vibe would be like--sleepover time.

And the first issue of the actual series they're literally having a sleepover and stuff, but I mean, because I don't actually think Tim would be this Batman-esque figure, and try to act like him to be leader. I think it would be that without any sense of responsibility until they try to solve a crime.

Tim was made to be a positive-thinking, grounded person. Not a grump.

But if anyone was going to be trying to keep a lid on things it would still be Tim. He's the most level-headed one of the group so he'd have to be or else they'd all be running face first into walls.

At the same time though, I think, cause of Tim being the youngest looking, the most innocent minded, and well, literally being the youngest kid. He's have more of a little brotherly role despite being the one that keeps the lid on things. Like he'd naturally be the one that gets teased the most in that vein, and probably be protected more--Not cause he can't help himself, but I just think that because the others are both Super Powered, it'd be a reflex, and Young Justice itself originally portrayed Tim as being way more talented than he actually is. His whole thing was not being the best, but trying his best.

I think by default Cassie might have that sort of--older sister power, though. Mainly cause she's a babysitter and she's used to having to deal with brats. Just not ones closer to her own age. Even though Bart is actually the oldest of the three.

Bart's probably just a chill middle child that still gets into trouble a freaking lot, which freaks out baby brother, and makes older sister sigh, while they gotta bail him out.

Cause Tim's more prone to anxiety than Cassie is. Cassie just gets freaking annoyed over worried lol.

Also with Tim and Bart on two totally different sides of the responsibility spectrum, Cassie who's right in the middle sort of has to be the one to keep the oil in the machine or else they'd never get anything done. She's the deciding factor, and it's like flipping a coin if she's going to wanna do what Tim wants or what Bart once.

Timmy just has to deal with it and hopefully him and Cassie will be clever enough to keep them out of too much trouble.

And I feel like there'd be them mostly just playing around as kids and just talking about their interests. Because they can relate to each other a lot more, especially Tim and Cassie interest wise.

So more chaos, more kids being kids, and it being a lot more dorkier.

They'd probably just hang around Cassie's place all the time being partially babysat by Diana I imagine. Because they'd be less of a young Super Hero team, and more of just friends being friends, and they all happen to be Super Heroes.

No real leader role. Cassie and Tim both serving functions of a leader, but ultimately not a straight up leader. Tim's just the most grounded, morally innocent, and intuitive one, while Cassie I think would have the actual role of authority over them all. Her boys just following her around.

Cassie's also the most socially normal one. Bart literally doesn't know a freaking thing. Tim's not good at realizing how others will feel, and will actually break into your house with the most innocent of intentions, but still, that's wrong and creepy.

So she'd be there to reel the boys back from their weirdness. Someone's gotta pull Tim out of the trash cans looking through people’s garbage trying to solve mysteries.

I'm not sure if I explained any of that well, but that's the basics of what's in my head when I try to picture what they'd be like together.

[yuvon-writes-letters]

To whoever reads this...

Hi! My name’s (crossed out and scribbled over) whoops, call me Yuvon. Our mutual hacker friend would be upset if I gave out my real name, even in a format like this, ahaha.

Well, no. Not upset. Just disappointed. Which is worse, really, what with the whole

Ugh. I’m sorry. Apparently, my ability to ramble about everything but what’s important when I’m nervous carries over to physical mail.

Anyhow… like I said. Call me Yuvon. Or some nickname, if you like, I don’t mind. I’m writing this because I have a small issue. First, some background: yeah, I’m that chick who supposedly kidnapped a girl I’d never met before from across an ocean, somehow. No, it really doesn’t make sense to me either. Water under the bridge, though, it’s whatever. If you’re the person who should be reading this, I think you have an idea of who the real kidnapper is, or at least as much of an idea as I do.

Now. Onto the fun bit. I sorta freaked out a bit after that video of Jessy and Thomas getting away from the MWAF, like most sane people. So, once they got to one of their homes (I didn’t think it’d be smart to ask which they went to) I talked to the both of them. Everyone was shaken, but ultimately alright. I was so proud of Jessy, actually, given everything she’s had to go through rece

Anyhow. So. Everything settled down, and I finally let out one of the biggest sighs of relief of my life. We weren’t out of the metaphorical woods yet, sure, but Jessy and Thomas were fine, Jake was fine, Cleo and Lilly were fine, Phil was in jail but not actively dying, Dan was acting a little weird but fine, (this section is crossed out so violently that there’s a tear in the paper)

And now I’m in this… I don’t really know? There are dark woods all around, but there’s one of those invisible barrier thingies (good job Englishing Yuvon  -_- ) like in RPGs and other free-roam-ish games which keeps me from actually wandering very far into them. Then again, I haven’t tried feeling around the edges yet… hmm. I tried climbing, and I did actually get close to the top of a tree, but it was just trees everywhere as far as the eyes could see when I got up there. Then I came down the hard way.

Side note, injuries don’t actually happen here, apparently. I should’ve at least broken my wrist in that fall, but instead it just feels like a bruise with the ambition to be a broken bone, but can only manage it on the pain level rather than the permanence or functionality level. Only issue is, it’s my left wrist, and I’m left-handed. So, sorry if my handwriting’s illegible, I guess.

I also don’t really seem to need to eat or drink, since I think I’ve been here over a day without food or water and been fine. Or maybe it just feels like one, I don’t know. There’s no day or night here, my internal clock is screaming at my poor brain right now.

“So, if you’re trapped there, how are you sending me this letter?”

Good not-at-all-invented question, definitely-not-me. Let me tell you the few things I have with me. One, the clothes I was wearing since I was plopped in here, obviously. Two, my phone. Three, a pen and an (unsharpened!) pencil. The pencil is completely useless, by the way. When I say unsharpened, I mean came out of the factory unsharpened. End is completely flat.

Four, what so far seems to be an endless supply of paper and envelopes.

Five, a little note. Summarized, it said, “Write a letter, put it in an envelope, and someone going through the same Duskwood case as you (but maybe a little different) will see it. Maybe someone might even send you a response, maybe.”

Paraphrasing, but you get my point.

So that’s what I’m doing. Writing a small letter and sending it off into the aether in hopes that literally anything will happen. My hopes aren’t high. I’m pretty sure the note was a lie, anyhow.

Anyhow, if you read this… send me something. Anything. Or don’t, it’s fine, I didn’t mean to pressure you or anything. If you’re really like me, that means you get enough of that already, right?

—Yuvon

(When you finish reading, a paper clip materializes on the page.)

[animalinvestigator]

OK so a big thing that i want to say like in response to ur post is that I do agree that as they are right now petscop is WAY stronger than twf but i think a big reason for that is that petscop is like, a finished story, where twf is still In progress like only about 1/4th of it has been released rn, Especially in the wake of a thing the creator of twf has said about how the best analysis of it are ones that take all 3 currently released episodes into account rather than analyzing each episode on its own i think its a little disingenuous to make big comparisons about the stories when we dont know too much except the objective facts of it all rigth now

like of course petscop is going to stand way stronger (and i love petscop to DEATH like ive loved petscop for years it is one of my favorite series ever) because its like finished and it's loose ends are tied where as atm twf's loose ends just feel like poor writing since we dont know where its Going with them yet

i think the stories are trying to send completely different impressions (and i think u understood this in smth you said about how petscop is about childhood trauma+identity vs twf being about familial loss) and thats a big reason why the characters seem to have much more or less weight depending on which story ur looking at. Because in petscop its much more personal, youre seeing it thru paul and the game itself is cover to cover loaded with personal emotional shit left in by rainer and others, but in twf it's supposed to feel like ur getting a weird disjointed outside perspective on this family because even in universe thats what it is, it felt to me like it was trying toportray that feeling of family you lost a long time ago that you at this point dont have anything but the weird disjointed outside family photos and shit like that. Even the series name being like "walten files" gave me the impression that it was trying to be a series of 'disconnected-but-not-really' left behind documentations on these peoples lives rather than the people themselves, and, of course in that case the character weight in petscop would stand WAY stronger, because petscop is about the character weight where twf is about the tragedies themselves

NOT THAT I DONT RESPECT YOU FOR PREFERRING THAT, I mean typically i prefer that as well and i honestly wouldnt be surprised if as twf releases (because again i still hold my feeling that its unfair to twf to try and compare it to a story legend like petscop at the point it's at rn where only a fraction has been released) i continue to prefer petscop way over twf but i love petscop For the story its already told whereas i love twf for it's potential

Tho i do TOTALLY acknowledge most of these comparisons come from the fact that (and i agree w this) bunnyfarm is very obviously heavily petscop inspired with its formatting (and i do think there are some things that could have been done way better in that way) of course bunnyfarm falls flat when compared to petscop because petscop is a series thats putting its all into the "video game+dissoc amnesia" angle where as twf is supposed to feel likea bunch of odd disjointed things that When put together tell a story. So of course bunnyfarm falls flat because bunnyfarm isnt meant to be considered alone

There ARE a lot of things in twf that i feel could be done way better but i also have to concede that the story isnt done yet and even in the story itself one of the characters has urged us(the audience) to not try and piece anything together. And i at this point like petscop way more than twf but i appreciate twf heavily for what it is and i think comparing them both is unfair to twf for many reaosns

thats it im sorry this is like a whole essay but i care a LOT about internet horror and i thought your thoughts were really really good there were just a few things that i wanted to discuss really badly. thankyou for your time

LONG POST INCOMING EVERYONE BRACE FOR IMPACT

OMG I MEANT TO LIKE ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT TWF IS very muxh not finished in that original ask 😭 that is so true and super important to consider and i meant to write a paragraph about that in the ask i answered but i got too excited talking about petscop and i totally forgot. that is super important to remember about it and its also important to recognize that the person making twf is pretty young with what i assume is a small team and probably not anywhere near the amount of storytelling experience as pressedyes (hes been publishing internet stories since 2009) and for that like, no matter how many grievances i have with the pieces of the puzzle that we have, i have to cede that twf is really genuinely impressive and i do really admire all the work thats been done. and also like, i make a lot of jokes about it but i did have a fun time watching it and i have a fun time thinking about it and its Pretty damn good in a lot of ways.

i never really considered the personal vs impersonal presentation of the story and i like that angle of analysis a lot now that you mention it. the jumbled odds and ends thing will probably hopefully feel a lot better once we have a little more to start tying it together - a lot of my grievances are less with tying things together and more like how weak the introductions feel, but like, im hoping ans thinking that i will probably feel better about it with more information. thing is in a lot of ways petscop is disjointed in the same way - for the viewer at least, we're observing everything BUT the recordings from a secondhand, disjointed account from like, shit paul says on phone calls and in videos to outside observers who have a lot more information than either him or us as the viewers, and paul even grows gradually more distant from the audience too, and i feel like it still has stronger character work and first impressions . so i feel like the issue is that twf leans so hard into its "outside observer" perspective that it sacrifices a lot of character work that would help the episodes that are out stand on their own two legs better -- which is important, because the impression that the start of a story leaves is one of the most vital things to get right!! im hopedul that that disconnected perspective will be used in a similarly "invested but lacking information" type of way as petscop does in later episodes. i have hopefor it .

the reason the weaker parts of twf frustrate me so muxh is because i reallt really feel like it has a chance to be something really great, but the way its handling its influences right now and the lack of character work even when we have a lot of time to sit with the characters in question leaves a really sour taste in my mouth. i hope that as it continues to progress it'll be able to solidify its own identity somewhat! and i agree that irs not exactly a fair match when you pit it against pscop lol its just like; petscop is the best of the best to me and they do cover a lot of similar feelings and concepts, so comparing them helps me articulate my feelings more. its not really very helpful or anyone to earnestly be like "this story is better than the other", all you can really do is say what you like and dont like about different stories and compare and contrast :)

thanks for sending such a thought provoking message !! its nice to hear from a different perspective. i feel so strong about web horror also and i hope that someday soon i can regard twf a lot more positively because I Want More Good Art In The World and derive no joy from being negative. ok maybe sometimes but not aboit this!!!!!!! cos i want it to be good.

[wychive]

ATEEZ & THE TEAMS THEY WOULD BE IN IF THEY WERE IN HAIKYUU !!

content — food, a bit of character dating

reminder — please keep in mind that this is all fictional work!

< this is a milestone special !! thank you for your support since the start, i love you all so so much <3 you all mean so much to me, and im so so so proud of you for making it to 2021. thank you, once again my friends,, >

HONGJOONG — DATE TECH

this team is the least chaotic one out of the eight i chose pls

he would probably play setter

yea he's short but this mf is a FROG

thus, his nickname 'date tech's mighty frog'

he can jump really high and slap that ball with top notch strength

date tech's no touch ace !

this teammates would ruffle his hair whenever he gets a point for them (he likes it very much)

is scared of aone but they both get along just fine

example: joong bought aone a teddy bear sweater for his birthday and aone instantly hugged joong for a straight minute

kenji would probably act like his big brother during matches being like "im so proud of him" or "i taught him that!" since him and joong had been friends for a long time

SEONGHWA — SHIRATORIZAWA

he honestly just wanted to join the team bcs he liked the uniforms but after a while he started to like the sport

he's a setter, a good one at that

his arm strength gives him the opportunity to do a powerful serve

this man never skips leg day either-

his nickname would be 'mr. sunshine' because of his very pretty smile

seonghwa would be somewhat a mix of tendou and semi

a little bit chaotic when with the people he trust, but collected and a bit serious with others

he gives positive reactions to tendou's jokes or puns even if they were bad

tendou and him are the power pair, both in and out of the match

ushjimai would learn to be slightly more unhinged from both of their incfluences

seonghwa would also later on introduce ushijima and they would match their outfits a lot 

YUNHO — INARIZAKI

he joined because he wanted to try something different other than his regular sport

a middle blocker with suna and ren! (oo supremacy oo)

the three of them,, really are something else

the middle blocker players would be dubbed 'triple threat'

yunho is seen as a threat to the other teams whenever inarizaki played a match

he's calmest of the team but nonetheless still be a whole ass nerd behind the scenes

him and atsumu had been friends since middle school, needless to say osamu will always be there to tone down the chaos

he literally is the teammate who's mum would make snacks for the whole team during matches

his mum is inarizaki's mum and she treats everyone as her own child

honestly had a big fat crush on osamu and so she referred to osamu once accidentally using "yunho's precious onigiri"

yunho: MOTHER -/////u/////-

osamu: oh?

YEOSANG — FUKURODANI

this man LOVES the heck out of the school, not sure why but he really does

after all, that's where he met his bestest friends

he would be a libero hehe aka komi's partner in crime

he's one of the top liberos of japan too smirks

konoha's best friend forever

they both annoy the shit out of each other but what is anime without a bickering friends trope

whenever the team wins a match, he would treat them for a meal at the local restaurant

he's quiet around them but they never fail to make him smile or laugh

akaashi and him are the pro strategists of the team

they could make out a solution to their problem on the court in just a few seconds as the balls are passed around

that's pretty hot ngl

SAN — NEKOMA

san literally is a cat except for his physical form

he's a outside hitter and is nicknamed 'neko-san'

its because he can move swiftly and send the ball right back to the opposed team

the other nekoma teammates like him very much, especially kai

their friendship is basically chaotic x calm, with san being the chaotic one of course

but they get along very well, some describe them like the sun and the moon (different people but similar motives/personalities)

he and kenma would stay up at night playing video games with each other and ofc kai and kuroo would be hearing them through the team's discord server vc

the team would often go over to his house just to play with byeol <3 and hang

yaku has a secret crush on san's older sister LMAO

MINGI — KARASUNO

he joined because tanaka begged him (even bribed him with banana milk)

well it worked because he's karasuno's starlight

middle blocker mingi coming your way !!

he's narita's best friend, ever since elementary school

he's tall but his jumping skills make him a whole GIANT, which goes the same for his arms too

tsukki and him actually get along, which was weird at first but everyone just accepted it

he helps the others with their studies as he's an A+ student

he helps others with comforting them as well, seeing as he is there whenever someone needs a shoulder to cry on

he's actually dating watabe from the girl's team and they are vvv cute together

they sometimes practice volleyball together as well,,, ah what a couple

WOOYOUNG — SEIJOH

the only person who joined because he actually loves volleyball

he is a setter and no one can tell me different

he's close to the third years even though he's a year younger

loves to make fun of oikawa with iwaizumi during practices

though oikawa likes this junior of his very much

he's called "seijoh's medicine" because he could clear up the tension between his teammates even if it was high

he would be seen with mad dog, often at the library or in internet cafes

both of them enjoy each other's comfort very much

it was speculated that they both dated but the pair never said anything much

was supposed to move to nekoma but his family decided to stay

JONGHO — JOHZENJI

he joined volleyball because he wanted to continue his grandmother's legacy

johzenji's loved opposite hitter

he's their strategist too whenever their coach needed help with the formation

dubbed 'the sane one' by the other johzenji members

is not particularly close to the others but they get along just fine

he loves just seeing them in their natural way of chaotic mode, it just has him in awe

especially because he loves seeing one enjoying themselves

he's doesn't hate losing but when the team wins some happy tears can be seen

sometimes you can catch him and futama playing before practice just to get a headstart

after practice he buys the member's their favorite drinks from the gym's vending machine

bonus: he gets hugged by terushima a lot and teru calls him 'jongbear'