#but its def a lot to learn

[portsandstars]

vere cosplay progress:)

[pigeon-butch]

I certainly have my own concerns about the treatment of moo deng but um. well i think some of you may just be racist

[aroaessidhe]

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To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

[all-inmoderation]

do people who keep drawing sokka as spirits know that he doesnt have any respect for the spirits in the show

[higgs-the-god]

wanted to do the hev suits like this started out to be but! well! gordo lineup

[zhuhongs]

just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share

[crystalbehindthescenes]

We always talk shit about Mamorus bad fashion and usually think his manga fashion style is very decent (besides the cow print anyway lol)

But listen the boy literally cant dress right he doesnt even wear a tuxedo right, theres 3 types for specific occassions with specific etiquette and our boy is wearing all 3 styles at once what a mess.

imagine newspaper articles and forums just clowning in his drip lmaoooooo

[floralovebot]

@redemptionarcsucker

NO CAUSE LITERALLY HELIA IS ANYTHING BUT THE POET

I know it would be really easy to assume that Helia is a poet, most obviously due to him actually being a literal poet and yknow. writing poems. Add on that he is genuinely good with his words and it's like! Duh! BUT NO!! A huge part of his character is that he wants to be the poet but he isn't. Helia acts like a poet. He makes a great first impression, he watches people carefully and responds in whatever way will move the situation best, he can be bitterly truthful and secretive all at once. But while that is still part of him, it's also so, so small in comparison to how he feels inside and how he actually acts.

While I have pondered Helia being the soldier, I gravitate much more toward the King. The king archetype is all about the responsibility that you don't want, that you don't deserve, but still feeling so loyal to it that you can't get away. No matter what they truly want in life, the kings will always go back to that responsibility because it's become them, and leaving literally feels like part of them is gone. They believe they have an intense duty to that responsibility and that leaving would make them the worst person in the world. And like,,, anyone with Helia Brain knows that this is him!! It's everything he feels about Red Fountain!!

Being the poet is all about embracing freedom and that's the one thing Helia refuses to do. He can't do it. He feels so intensely loyal to Red Fountain, and now to his friends, that any other option feels like betrayal to him. His own freedom feels like a betrayal. And that's just such a sad king move,,,

[starburstsobsessions]

and seley el-then has nothing to say (I forgot he was there because he doesn’t do anything)

[toastsnaffler]

weekend melancholy is starting to kick in >~<

[bidilfs]

i've heard people say beginner DMs shouldn't get too invested in stuff by the Real Pros because you'll just compare yourself to an impossible standard, but apparently i'm built different bc yesterday i watched dimension 20 for the first time, got inspired and impulsively threw together a 'trial run' session in like an hour that spiraled into basically a whole oneshot of its own right, DMed for the first time ever and tbh it went pretty fucking decent i think

[avo-kat]

everytime im posting in the group chat i wonder if im annoying and everybody is just too polite to tell me to shut up

and yea ofc i know im annoying, everybody can be annoying, and i def realize when i have been particularly annoying, and i try very hard to not be too annoying, but im always afraid that i didnt notice it and that i did actually took it too far and i know its not realistic but i wish there was a socially acceptable way of telling smbdy they are a tad annoying and also that humans would be able to accept hearing that gracefully too.

its like.... its like, im not completely sure if my sound quality is fine with my headset when im on a voice call. nobody has ever said anything, but i have been on voice calls with people when the quality was horrible, or the connection was bad, but i def havent ever said anything. has anybody else? do they know? i wish people would tell me, but i dont tell anybody. argh.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[endbeginning]

and if i said.... pet.er peve.nsie.....

[schistcity]

you bought ac mirage recently? how are you liking it? i’ve heard conflicting things about it but from the same communities that are throwing a fit about shadows so i’m not sure how much to believe

i'm liking it!! i don't have the same nostalgia for the old assassin's creed titles a lot of fans do, mostly because i didn't get to play them until i was already in my 20s. i also didn't play ac valhalla, which mirage is ~technically~ a prequel to. BUT despite this i've really enjoyed mirage so far!! it definitely feels like the older games with a bit of the newer veneer on it.

highlights are definitely the gameplay over the story for the most part. the stealth system is really awesome to play with and there's a big focus on infiltration and information gathering, and some cool boots-on-the-ground environmental-storytelling-style mysteries you can chase down that makes exploration really fun. there's not a lot of support for brute force style play (positive!!) but LOTS of ways to approach stealth that more than fills that gap. the story is nothing to write home about, which i think is a common criticism, but it's honestly enjoyable enough 🤷‍♀️

important note i guess is that i picked it up for about $40 on sale (NZD!! NZD!! so about 24 USD) and even though i'm enjoying it i probably wouldn't have paid much more for it than that. definitely not full price, but that could just be me being cheap? guilty as charged. regardless of that i think it's a really solid game and i'd recommend it. also it's like easily 20-25 hours long which is so refreshing...

[snowshinobi]

hanahaki disease trope captivates me because (as I interpret it) the call is coming from inside the house. bc you see, the solution is easy. the flowers stop trying to tear their way out of your body if you confess your affections or get over them. go do stuff other than hanging out with your doomed crush for a while or speak your feelings: let the flowers see daylight. but sometimes ... catharsis ... is worse.

it's like when Fall Out Boy said "I'll keep my jealousy close 'cause it's all mine" and when Taking Back Sunday said "if it's not keeping you up nights, then what's the point?" these warm, bloody, one-sided feelings might be as close to reciprocal love as you're gonna get. if you flee or confess and aren't loved in return ... you're healed. free of pain. free of flowers. that precious thing you were holding onto so fiercely, for months ... vanishes.

hanahaki studies the compulsions that drive self-destruction. that turn pain into the means to its own end. human resilience is our greatest strength and an agent of literal body horror. hanahaki paints an intentionally romanticized picture of how vital wanting to get better is to actually getting better. as the adage goes, you can't control how you feel, but you can control what you do about it.

healing is terrifying. watching a character reject it until their death is sobering. watching a character choose it when they are at their most scared and sad and hopeless is ... devastating. it makes me press my hands against the walls of my consciousness.