#but its very good!

[berah-ronah]

so i think i remember you talking about fate and hwbm in relation to each other at some point (idr the context) but it made me curious what the pitch on hwbm was, like whatd you like in it?

OH RIGHT, the basic pitch for Heaven Will Be Mine is that it's a visual novel about homoerotic mech duels between the pilots from three factions that formed after humanity won a space war against an Existential Threat: Cradle's Grace, a space liberationist faction pursuing independence from earth; the Memorial Foundation, an earth-based faction that urges humanity to unite back in earth's gravity well now that their enemy has been defeated; and Celestial Mechanics, a space-based organization pursuing mysterious goals of their own

the basic pitch is that you control one of three characters, and duel/make out with the other two over eight days, choosing whether to win or lose (which allows you to side with your faction or betray it to help another faction win). The themes mostly revolve around transhumanism, transgenderism, and the need for humanity to unite themselves by defining specific groups of people as a nonhuman Existential Threat; lots of stuff about how culture is like gravity, and its difficult-to-impossible to escape.

Most of what I liked was the prose and the character writing; WKTD has fantastic writing, but its scope is fairly limited by them being awkward semi-closeted teens (which 100% works for the story they're telling); HWBM has a LOT of good mech duels that vary between homoerotic to just straight up erotic, and having a supporting cast of minor characters with their own personalities and motivations and political attitudes makes it feel like a much deeper world. WKTD showed a small glimpse of a world while giving us throwaway lines that hinted at what the rest of the world might be like, while HWBM shows a fully fleshed out world with larger political and societal stakes (while still leaving some ambiguity)

ALSO it asks questions like "what if Char was a hot white-haired trans lesbian" and "what if there was a pilot whose piloting style revolved around them being a brat"

[michameinmicha]

Stumbled upon this random ship (in a fandom im not active in myself) that has like 150 works on ao3 which are all from just two people gifting each other fics about this pairing back and forth and theyve been doing it for 3 years... i think thats true love probably

[sadmages]

Having ocs is fucked up they make you wake up and think stuff like what if i learn to code in renpy and make this into a visual novel. Who said that

[panakina]

I think it’d be funny if Dick and Jason, due to wearing bright yellow capes on the job for years, are capable of stealth to a frankly unhinged degree. They barely have to try anymore it’s so second nature. Dick can just completely disappear while in the loudest neon clothes imaginable. Jason is constantly startling people who don’t understand how they missed a guy the size of a fridge standing right there. Bruce is extremely grateful for his unbreakable poker face because they have both startled him by accident and would never ever let him live it down if they knew.

[thelostmoongazer]

more figuring out how i wanna draw the Lamb :3

[mroddmod]

everyone be quiet i'm manifesting

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

typical tavern scene

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

[razzafrazzle]

literally my favorite aspect of sock opera is bill calmly but repeatedly failing to buckle his seatbelt. like its funny enough that Bill Cipher of all people is putting on a seatbelt but its so funny that he keeps fucking it up. but he's still just smiling like a dumbass the entire time

[obsob]

to be loved is to be held!!! print

[hrokkall]

"Sad Cat Poem" by Spencer Madsen

[happyk44]

Yes yes I agree that if Percy should've remembered anyone it should've been Sally, but please, please, please understand that a) Hera was actively fucking with his memories, it's not that Annabeth was who he remembered, it was that Annabeth was who Hera wanted him to remember and b) the reason was because Annabeth has ties to California!! And Hera needed Percy to go there. If Percy remembered anyone else, he would've been headed straight for NYC and her whole "switch the boys" thing wouldn't have worked.

Yeah, part of the Wolf House training is making the journey from the Wolf House to Camp Jupiter but Percy isn't headed there because that's the plan, he's headed there because his memories tell him that Annabeth is connected to it. If his memories said "your mom is in New York", he would've said fuck the plan and walked in the opposite direction of where he was supposed to go.

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[hinamie]

spiraling