#but then i don't have a consistent art style

[mrsbsmooth]

I’ve been so turned off by what fusebox has been putting out lately that I haven’t even opened the app in a year or so, but I’m glad that people seem to be liking s8 so far!

I’m super curious to know how you would rank it against past seasons and what your thoughts are overall ❤️

RANK? YOU WANT ME TO RANK THEM

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omg okay. way to make my night. I'm supposed to be writing. Let's fucking gooooooo.

[Noting based on my recent post, this is my ranking for if you're pursuing a male LI. WLW rankings would be very different].

So, to me, I think there are two main criteria that define a season: Love Interests and Gameplay.

Love Interests can be further broken down into:

Sprite Design: How good they look overall as a cast. Are they proportionate? Unique?

Variety: How different/unique are they to previous seasons? Are they all models and carpenters and finance bros?

Fandom Impact: This one is silly and subjective. Are people still talking about them years later? Do they have fanfics and art? If you don't know this person, are you missing out?

Gameplay can be further broken down into:

Quality of Plot Drama: How it's written, how impactful it is. Is it stupid manufactured shit, or is it important and moves the game along? (Cherrygate? Great drama. Suresh wanting to 'give Lulu a chance' after he'd been all in for us? Shitty, awful drama).

Challenges: Are they engaging and interesting? Do they move the plot along?

Replayability: Are there enough unique aspects in the routes that you feel the need to replay?

So, based on these two criteria, I assigned rankings to each season, with Season 2 being the best that fusebox can possibly do. (We already know that it is).

These are completely subjective, but this is what I came up with.

Some brief explanations:

Season 1:

Not the best art style, but overall the proportions were spot on, the body shapes and types were different and unique. Personalities top tier (Tim? Jake? sigh.) Cherrygate, dunking challenge etc.

Season 2:

The best the fandom can do in terms of consistent art style, poses, challenges and replayability. Every route is unique. Characters are overhwhelmingly gorgeous. Some may not like the drama, but I think it's just enough.

Season 3:

I thought things were ranked too high but then remember Tai? Rafi? AJ? The waterfall date, the water balloon and tent challenges that meant something and caused drama?

Season 4:

Lost points for the NaJamUno character merge, but gained points for Youcef and Oliver. Great characters, poor challenges and drama points. Dylangate was dumb and so was making us sleep on the daybeds.

Season 5:

The less said the better. But the sprites were hot af.

Season 6:

The great character merge was atrocious. But the drama from Casa, the Marshall&Ozzy plotline, and HAMISH oh my god, he gets a bonus point for drama all on his own.

Season 7:

Personally very forgettable season. Some of the sprites were lovely. Evan was a highlight and he's gorgeous. But given how quickly everyone forgot about this season, it's loowww.

Season 8:

Gets a high ranking for fandom impact purely based on the immense amount of art and interest that's come about this season. Even with up to a half-point deduction to account for recency bias, this season ranks highly.

This gives us an updated ranking of:

Third? THIRD? Season 8 is THIRD?!?!?

This gives us an average season rating of 6.4. We could remove the outliers, but we're trying to plot how good each season is against the average, so let's not. If we then plotted this and threw in a bar to show the average:

It says the only seasons that are 'above average' are Seasons 1, 2, and 8. Which, honestly, given my adoration for Bruno, Ciaran, and Lewie, rude. How dare I hurt myself with my own chart!!!!!

I'm sure one of the maths people could do something statistically significant and make this fully mathematically valid, but this is just me latching on to a silly ask and being an idiot about it.

I like S8 a lot. It's worth playing.

In other words:

Yes. Play it.

[frenchublog]

grief

[eff-plays]

You can wizardsplain at a bard, but watch out

[jenjennhi]

more cowboy!bela sketches

thank you again @expiredsoda and @alexandroseleven for the inspiration!

[tvconefive]

[parroset]

Some more silly nonsense with these two, because I missed them. Aaravos does have a point, you know.

[gremlinisjay]

Human!Transfem!2012!Leonardo

I have no excuse.

[Image ID: digital drawing of human fem version of Leonardo from teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012. She's leaning on the blank space, like there's an invisible table. She's a little wide and has arms, that read as muscular. Her expression is neutral. Her skin is brown with lighter a-like freckles spots all over it. She has monolids, her eyes are blue. Her hair are dark blue colour. Her hair are in the bob cut touching her shoulders. She's wearing bandages around her fists, like original Leonardo. Her trousers are dark green, with darker green cut out on the side. Then she has a brown belt. And belts over her shoulder, holding her katanas. Also having elbow pads. All what original Leonardo wears. Her shirt is divided to front and back colours. Front is yellow, mimicking plastron of a turtle. Back is greenish colour, mimicking turtle's shell /.End Image ID]

Love her dearly.

[Image ID: digital drawing of the same character. She now sits on the floor. She hugs her knees with her arms under them. She has slightly opened mouth, that shows her teeth. She diastema between her teeth on the left side. She has black stars in her eyes. She's dressed in the blue hoodie. And loose jeans, that are ripped on her knees. On her feet, she has light blue socks. Beside her written “Watching Space Heroes”. With word “Space” surrounded by stars/.End ID]

[explodingstarlight]

hey :)

what if I said...things happened.

A sketch dump + some pose practice/studies (i say studies cuz i meant to do that but then didn't actually pull any references so 💀)

✨ close-ups: ✨

[ohdeargodnoo]

live laugh love casey jones junior.

inspired by @sleepy-starling's recent casey sketchdump. i saw @tapakah0 reblog it and knew i had to doodle my boy again.

[rei-is-hiding]

[somethingsomethingonepiece]

Thinkin about how dating Luffy is like skipping straight to the 3 yr deep status where personal space boundaries no longer exist. He probably plops down on Laws lap while he's poopin like "yeah so anyways, Nami got mad at me for-" etc etc

[clownlish]

First time drawing dirk, also, it's homestuck day :-)

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

smile for the camera!

crisis belongs to @amyupup47

[roadkillrats]

I hope to have this done by the end of the month, I wanted to share earlier because I love how this little guy looks so far :-)

[dnfery]

georgito and his juice (not ketchup) doodle

[spooky-activity]

Going insane over this Makoann fic because I’m gay with big feelings sometimes

+bonus I always forget how awful it is to be Makoto in the first bit of the game. Girl can’t catch a break. EVERYONE be bullying her