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icys-junkyard · 2 years
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Ingo hears the rumbles of something massive and metal rushing through the underground caves. It sounds somewhat familiar.
This man deserves to have something train-adjacent in Hisui. Alpha Steelix is a very good multi-passenger mount, especially when Ingo has his Alakazam out to psychically keep everyone safe while riding.
Many passengers travel on Ingo’s Steelix! -Team Galaxy is rather hesitant and refuse to ride, other than their resident skyfaller. -The Ginkgo Guild is absolutely on board with the idea though. Fast? Safe? High carrying capacity? What else could a merchant want?? -Even the clans are pretty okay with it after realizing Steelix finds it amusing and that it’s sticking to preset ‘tracks’ rather than tearing up the land willy-nilly. Calaba won’t say it aloud, but she does appreciate actually being able to visit the Pearl camp easily and more often now that Steelix is taking passengers. -Sometimes other Pokémon will hitch a ride!!
Volo is banned from the Steelix. Giratina is suspended until it apologizes.
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crebbyhermit · 4 months
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aoilight enjoyers come get your food
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obihoe · 1 year
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i fucking love all these cultural references and details in naruto so much, i cannot believe madara's name is literally based on a "dancing god" who is known as a performer and associated with dreams .. has white wild-looking hair which madara also ends up having after his jinchuuriki transformation and is conflated with other gods who are sometimes depicted with a sickle on a fox. madara consistently referring to fighting as dancing, being concerned with aesthetics in battle (and fashion) to the point where he's condescending towards others that he doesnt find aesthetically pleasing like. all these references are so specific and fit him so well there's so much thought behind all of it and its so cool i think
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un-pearable · 2 months
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i think ninjago fans need to rewatch s3e7 every once in a while. to keep them humble and remind them of the wonders of an early 2010s lego that didn’t give a shit
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cinnamon-flame · 11 months
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Here are some Swoobats that I drew to reset my mind. I honestly love these guys so much and I want to spread the Swoobat love.
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This endless river of bats emerging from Cueva de los Murciélagos in Mexico
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jadeazora · 4 months
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As an aside to Pokemon Altair, I do think Wallace and Steven have aspects to their characters that makes them fit into the villain role pretty well (even tho they're still good people and wouldn't be evil of their own volition.)
With Wallace, it's mostly the bombastic personality and stage presence, really always makes a villain more fun to watch and interesting when they've got that charismatic side to them.
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Steven is genuinely a pretty nice guy, but does have a bit more of a merciless side to him that even Wallace notes. He'll do what he has to do in order to protect his interests. There's also that time in the anime where he showed up when Team Flare's plan was kicking off, presumably having headed to Lysandre Labs to put a stop to Lysandre himself, and had his Mega Metagross attack Mable and her Weavile directly (they barely avoided it and were sent flying in its wake), with its Meteor Mash blowing up the building behind her.
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It's a shame that's where being an older hack comes in (it dates back to 2010), since while they were pretty creative with the changes they made and how they handled the storyline basically having the same plot progression as Emerald's in spite of it being a sequel, I feel they could've done a little more with them and Nemea, the evil Legendary that's responsible for their turn (it would be cool to see a more modernized remake with an enhanced story, but I don't think anyone would bother enough):
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flame-shadow · 1 year
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Anthill Palace and Cave of Trials
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goldensunset · 2 months
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i was previously complaining about not having the fly hm yet but now that i do have it i’m like ehhh whatever it’s more fun to walk and appreciate the scenery and music. i think the primary difference might be that a lot of the routes between cities are straight shots that have little to no tall grass/deep sand/caves/etc that could potentially stop me. like there are definitely some routes i’m never again gonna want to travel through just as thru traffic (*cough* route 7 *cough cough* chargestone cave) but otherwise i’m like yeah i’ll just walk over to driftveil city. yeah route 3 to the daycare is a straight shot. yeah i’ll bike across skyarrow bridge. i’ll go back and forth for fun even. i don’t want to fast travel unless it really would be that much effort otherwise
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fanvoidkeith · 2 months
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hey remember when everyone thought axolotls were weird and ugly?
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me neither. that's my baby boy(?) right there
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korpikorppi · 2 years
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Some impressions of the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style (and some of the others, too)
This comment by @mylittleponygrrl
My one wish (regret) about the series is that we never got to see the Yunmeng Jiang fighting forms. What a wasted opportunity that we never got to see Wei Wuxian, their first disciple, actually sword fight 🥺
on this post about my favourite LWJ sword technique got me thinking. While I agree that There Should Have Been More!, we actually do see Wei Wuxian sword fight and we do also see the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style 🙂. Let's see...
We do, of course, have The Moonlight Duel™️. Wei Wuxian does not, as we know, draw Suibian, but he uses the sword in it's scabbard to parry Lan Wangji's attacks, using defence techniques we can safely assume to be part of the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style. And he fights Lan Wangji to a standstill, so they appear to be quite effective.
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The occasion where we see the best glimpses of Wei Wuxian fighting with a sword (even if the sword is not, unfortunately, Suibian) is the fight against the Wen in the cave of the Xuanwu, which is actually a really nice show of the various fighting styles. It is (also unfortunately) almost impossible to get good screencaps of him: he is a flurry of motion, twirling in tight circles (rather similar to the moves he uses when casting his talismans, come to think of it, so that is perhaps something typical for him), performing fast parries and strikes with relatively small movements, skillfully wreaking havoc as he goes.
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In this fight, Wei Wuxian also performs a neck slice, basically the same technique as my LWJ favourite (caps here), but the execution is more straight forward with him moving in after a nice little parry, keeping his body straight, barely leaning in, before pulling the blade back.
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Moving on... Wei Wuxian actually wields Suibian during the fight on the Jinlintai stairs! Even if he has not been using a sword for a long time, even if he no longer has his golden core nor a reservoir of spiritual energy, he's doing... quite ok, relying at this point (I imagine) on his reflexes and muscle memory from his years of training.
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And of course, regarding the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style, we must not forget Jiang Cheng. As the Young Master of the Jiang Clan he's sure to have received as thorough and rigorous a training in the Yunmeng Jiang sword techniques as Wei Wuxian, and we see him fighting both in the Xuanwu cave...
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...and during the Sunshot Campaign.
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Based on how the Yunmeng Shuangjie fight, I get an impression that where the Lan (or at least the Twin Jades) like to keep their enemies at a distance to employ their large, graceful sweeps and swirls, the Yunmeng Jiang seem to go by the principle of "keep your friends close and your enemies closer", also in practise.
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Both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng perform their parries relatively close to their bodies (as can be seen in some of the images above), keeping their movements precise, fast and economical. And even when thrusting and striking out, they do not seem to reach very far or lean in but keep their bodies straight and their weapons closer to their bodies than the Lan, who always seem to go for range, to bend and stretch (check out the contrast between Jiang Cheng above and Lan Wangji below). I also have a feeling that compared to the Lan, more emphasis is placed on defensive techniques in the Jiang style, which would make sense considering the above-mentioned difference in their "range of engagement".
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Also, the Yunmeng Jiang characteristic of fighting at a relatively close range allows Wei Wuxian to more easily adapt his sword style to fighting with Chenqing when he uses his flute (much shorter than a jian) as a melee weapon. Quite handy.
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To end this, I also have to mention that I absolutely love the way Jin Zixuan fights! If the Lan favour engaging at a long range and the Jiang at a relatively short range, Jin Zixuan seems to settle somewhere in between. His techniques are not as graceful as those of the Lan nor as fast as those of the Jiang, but they are very powerful and well grounded. And while all of the young masters are quite adept at unarmed combat (look at the fight in the Xuanwu cave!), Jin Zixuan strikes me as being the most comfortable with it. So are those things representative of the Jin fighting style? Probably, but it is pretty much impossibe to say to what extent, because we do not see anyone else really use it (and Jin Ling for sure had not been taught proper unarmed combat).
And oh, talking about the fight in the Xuanwu cave! It is also interesting to see Lan Wangji fight the Wen: his injured leg prevents him from moving much so he needs to adapt his preferred fighting style. Pretty cool!
And the Nie style? Beats me. There are sure to be clear differences compared to the rest of the great sects, stemming from the difference in their weapon to begin with, but the only Nie representative we really see fighting is Nie Mingjue. And I strongly suspect no one else fights like Nie Mingjue.
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The recontextualization of everything the survivors did with Nat, how they talked about her and listened to Her, and how just how she acted after the s2 finale revealed that Nat is the queen and that she was chosen for that by Lottie because she specifically didn't believe in the mysticality of it is so much to me.
Added with the acknowledgement that deep down they mostly knew that it really meant us but what difference does that make to them because they still need a reason for it all to happen.
I don't have like, smart coherent thoughts about it, but I certainly have thoughts.
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ironraven · 11 months
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deep reef, abandoned wip
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yesmissnyx · 3 months
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Looks like I'm going to have to make an audio masterpost, because there are some audios missing from my tag...
I assume this is because my account is only viewable on dash (because of adult content reasons), and that makes some of your posts unsearchable.
Ugh. That makes it really hard to keep track of the quick audio posts I make! Annoying!
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quibbs126 · 4 months
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Amber Sugar should get a costume next year, he’s gone a long time without one, and Sugar Glass got one this year
Maybe a rock candy theme, I feel like that fits with his ingredient
I also would like a cave themed update, that’d be neat (I assume that’s what rock candy would go with)
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gem-in-the-horizon · 4 months
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liveblogging my struggles!! power has been out since i woke up so going on five hours now. theoretically it will be back on in an hour. however, they also said that four hours ago so who knows!
at this point, it is now dark out so we get to scramble with flashlights. it's also barely above freezing right now, which is usually but not ideal when you have No Power and Shitty Windows that let out too much warm air and let in too much wind.
mind you, my situation is not dire. just mildly unpleasant. I do however, for some odd reason, find myself with a lot of inspiration for another "snowday" fic
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