#good quality-loading

[modmad]

Wait you have a dog?!?!!? Any chance of pictures?

BEHOLD. THE SNOOTLE.

[floorpancakes]

if only candy spilled out from the cracks where blood should be 🍫🍬🍭🧡💛💜💙

this is my favourite arc focusing on my favourite character so i had to prepare something while i had some free time between other things! ive been a big fan of higurashi for ages but im only just reading the original material through these streams, so discovering so much more depth about the series i love (especially with your amazing VA work and getting to see newbies' theories and what was cut from the anime) has been an absolute joy!

im not exactly the same as rena but something about her feels so relatable to me in a way i can't quite articulate. the most obvious surface-level aspect is my love for cute things, sweets, and collecting old forgotten things though, so i poured it into this piece. hope the artstyle gives that 2000s VN feel with a little original fancy touch added to her classic design (because i can’t resist the fashion design urge even for fanart lol)

keep up the amazing work, and to the first-timers in chat, I look forward to seeing what you make of the mystery of hinamizawa going forward! It'll only keep getting more exciting from here on out!

-melty

[temporaltourguide]

[baphomuttt]

gabriel doodle

[ranchstoryblog]

March Community Poll: That Folksy Feeling

Way, way back, for the original Super Famicom release of the first Bokujou Monogatari, there was a Satellaview broadcast version of the game that had an accompanying live radio show that included Japanese folk music while you played. To my knowledge, this is the first time any sort of licensed musical performance was associated with the series, though later Japanese ads would use songs from pop groups like Dreams Come True.

So naturally, it got me thinkin': If they were to try something like that again with the modern series, and outside Japan this time, what would they pick? It could be for a trailer, opening, credits, festival, whatever. For those who've never heard these songs before, I threw together a playlist real quick for ya:

Of course, I'm no expert. This is hardly a comprehensive list and more of a jumping off point since folk music was what the Japanese side of the series used first. Plenty of stuff from Europe and before the 20th century out there too, like Scarborough Fair, or songs from other genres like Fields of Gold that touch on the themes and imagery of the series. There's a lot to explore.

Maybe some day it'd be worth talking to someone more well versed in older music and really digging into the concept. If nothing else, it'd probably give characters like Griffin and Gustafa more songs to play if there was some good traditional music that didn't need licensing at all. Might also be worth it for an indie dev out there looking to give their own game's musicians something to sing at their festivals.

[elizabeth-mitchells]

i did download a few of my favorite episodes and the screenshots are great i should've done this from the start

[cinerins]

The thing that pisses me off the most about the inhibitor chip retcon is that they act as if Order 66 is the primary directive while attributing the rest to a vague ✨️Mindcontrol✨️ obedience. The way TCW introduced the whole deal with Tup immediately trying to kill any Jedi in sight when his chip malfunctions was so incredibly stupid to me.

How does a "malfunction" like that even work? Why would it specifically trigger that response and not also any of the other contingency orders, like, I don't know, the one that has them blowing up an entire planet or arresting everyone in the room.

Yes, the clones' main purpose was as an effectively cruel way to kill 99.9% of germs Jedi but that was... hardly all of it. They're an intrinsic part of the imperial machine; there's a reason so many orders exist and that reason is control. If Palpatine only wanted to get rid of the Jedi, he could've just invested in assassins or a nuke, but that wasn't the point.

It's meant to be systematic. It's about how easily a democracy can slip into fascism simply by taking one step after another. That's why I personally preferred the idea of the clones being indoctrinated into following these orders; they were quite literally made and raised to think that way. They serve as the deliberate template that would help shape the galaxy in a way where soon enough willing participants would continue to take their place.

Pushing all of that off on a conventional mindcontrol chip just feels cheap and undermines the whole idea of how anyone could end up thinking that way. How despite all of their individuality and differences, at large, the clones still follow the same orders, the same expectations. And how much more meaningful it is when you question it and consciously choose to break away from it. To fight it.

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

"Now citizens, vote!"

"....Guilty!"

Inspired by my previous post, because I made myself sad thinking about this scene. 💔I cannot believe this isn't included in the PBS concert proshot. SMH.

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[minthynights]

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I keep opening Bg3 to take pics of Wyll I can use as a phone wallpaper but then I get distracted kissing Wyll and forget to take pictures

[bereft-of-frogs]

I wrote a longer and more overwrought version of this post when I was slightly drunker (yay distillery book club) but the shorter, more sober-clarity version is: it's so ridiculous that about 50% of my current fandom experience is based on things that are now 25 years old (thanks for the reminder, lucasfilm) and yet I'm terrified of being left behind because I 'can't move on' from something that is now barely 5 years old

you could probably attempt to make some sort of sweeping statement about this, like the lifespan of media now versus the early 00s, but what it's really about is my own issues with abandonment which is affecting both my ability to move on (I really struggle with the 'crew breaks up between installment thing', always have) and also the general fear of behind left behind, rather than any real trends in fandom as a whole

ok I think that's enough for superb owl sunday

[aiizaph]

Ah, damn.

Well at least it’s not the disk :’)

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

bro faith (horror game) is so good wtfff

[pyrriax]

i continue to take screenshots of the two (2) things i have built on this server because im not really a Builder but i like making pretty block combinations

[chevvy-ryder]

I'm updating 😩

[dragonofthestone]

[On a completely unrelated note thinking about horns has me once again thinking about Iruma-kun where there is a character who as a child some how managed to break off - his magic/mana is considered pretty weak so I doubt he used any of that to assist- one of his horns. On Purpose mind you. So either he's physically stronger then he looks or maybe as a kid, young demon horns are more brittle/easier to break because smaller

These are very much horn, horns. With a core/blood vessels, nerves ect.

They can clearly grow back if only a little- he does still have two horns one is just smaller then the other

Ami Kiriwo is uh.. special to say the least

(Even other demons find this kid unsettling) ]