#haha get it a move of all time cause it is ... based on a game..... moves.....

[moeblob]

Hey so I have to inform you all because I am morally and legally obligated to inform people about this movie -

I have told you before that Clue (1985) was available on Amazon Prime and today I have even better news. I don't know when it was added BUT ! it's FREE TO WATCH (with ads) ON YOUTUBE !

Also it's my favorite movie (this doesn't matter I just have to say it).

Also also just because I found this out five minutes ago it was released on Dec 13, 1985. Which was a Friday. A movie about a board game about murder released on Friday the 13th ? Truly a move of all time.

EDIT: Someone wanted to know if you can watch it with adblock on and hey! You can! (I have watched it problem free)

[toothfa-1-ry]

YOU STILL LIKE IT THOUGH

GENRE: Fluff, crack fic ish?

PAIRING: Choi su-bong/thanos x preg!fem!reader

FEAT: Nam gyu as the supportive bestie (that he never rlly was)

A/N: this fic i based of a request from anon !! Tbh i changed ALOT of the request (haha- sorry 😞) because I felt like it was a little repetitive and idk i just can't write rlly emotional scenes with Thanos for some reason (??) ALSO I feel like there are parts where Thanos seems ooc? Idk.. i wrote this instead of studying in the span of 30 mins

"Whoo!" You hear Thanos shout on the top of his voice while he high fives nam gyu as they both jump up and down as if they were children in elementary school after winning a play ground game

You manage your groan, suppressing it while you stare at them from afar, of course that crazy fucker managed to pass through the first game.

You hated to admit it, but a part of you was relieved,

You always had a thing for psycho guys, and your ex boyfriend? The one with the brightly dyed hair who was now doing some weird dance seemed to proudly embody every part of that sentiment.

You carefully watch from afar, not wanting to catch his eyes, your hand unknowingly lay over your stomach while you move uncomfortably in the bunk bed

Fuck, your feeling dizzy all over again

You hear a thud against your bed post, you look up slowly, your eyes slightly squinting to see the purple haired boy with a usual frown on his face

"Hey" his eyebrows raise "are you okay"

"I thought I told you to get lost earlier"

Your mood swings weren't really helping either

"Geez woman" thanos tchs but sits beside you in your bed anyways "im just trying to help" grumbling under his breath but the cautious expression in his face saied otherwise

"I came here to brag about how amazing i usually am but seeing you like this is just killing the vibe yknow"

he makes a hand gesture in the air, leaning face closer in an attempt to make you smile which does not go wasted as the smile you tried to supress escaped your face

"Fuck off you loser" your still kneeling, your hands over your knees and your face hiding behind your knees but he hears the smile in your voice anyways.

He wouldn't want to admit it, but he was relieved

He always had a thing for girls with pretty voices and you? The girl right next to him had to have one of the prettiest voices he had ever heard. Ofcourse who would better know than a rapper like himself?

"I thought I told you to stick close to me, instead you leech to that crazy old man" thanos says as he points towards gi hun who sat far away in the opposite side

You immediately slap his hand, causing him to wince while retracing it back, rubbing it softly

"How many times will I tell you! You shouldn't point your hands at strangers especially to people who are older" you scold him rather loudly causing him to wince even more

"Agh" thanos ruffles his neon hair while complaining "why don't you shout louder so that everyone will hear and laugh at me?"

You resist the urge to roll your eyes upon his childish manners, he really didn't change

Thanos suddenly bangs the top of the bunk with a loud sound, taking you by shock

"Oi" his voice loud and almost threatening "nam gyu" calling out the man above the bed

Immediately your taken by shock once more when a man's head pops upside down, with black oily hair falling all over his face from above the bed

"Yes Thanos?" Nam gyu quickly inquired while sparing you a quick glance which didn't go unnoticed by the scowling man next to you

"Did you hear her telling me off?" He points at nam gyu before quickly adding "careful, there's only one correct answer"

Nam gyu pauses and thinks which seems to be the wrong thing to do as it just annoys Thanos

"Whats wrong with you, tell me quickly!"

"N-no! Not at all! Infact nobody heard anything!" Nam gyu quickly says, obviously lying but this seemed to please Thanos who now held a haughty face

Wow, this is was supposedly the father of your unborn child. Shame you and your taste in weird guys

Before Thanos could open his mouth to say something, a group of pink guards enter the room with large containers

Straight away you freeze up, shrinking behind the bed while your heart hammered, fear spread across your face

Noticing your expression on your face, instinctively Thanos covers you with his back, shielding you with his arms which covered your sides while his expression, though you could not see was filled with wariness

The pink guards open the large containers they were carrying as everyone watched quietly, scared as they were unsure of what to expect, you included

The pink guard with the white circle lifts up a piece of bread and milk "lunch time" announcing in the same robotic voice like all the other guards

A sigh of relief escapes your mouth as your shoulders relax, unlike you Thanos still shields you, covering your face with his back

You hit him with a thud on the back of his head

"What the hell man" thanos turns around, his eyes glaring at you

"Stop trying to act like a hero you shameless prick" you frown even though his actions did leave you with a warm feeling in your heart

"Your acting so protective after all the stunt you pulled before we broke up" you continue "seeing you act all so protective is just pissing me off even more"

Thanos throws his head back, groaning "give me a break woman. You know I was going through a hard time"

"Bullshit" your fold your arms, as if it was act to protect yourself, and the unborn baby in your stomach.

The poor thing was only 2 months old

The both of you hear nam gyu cough from above the bed, forgetting that he was there in the first place

Again Thanos bangs the top of the bunk, causing you to give him a look

"Stop doing that" you scold him

"doing what?" Thanos raises his eyebrow before banging the top of the bunk again while sticking his tongue at you

Nam gyu pops back down again, upside down, the sight would have been hilarious only if you weren't experiencing the pain in your stomach and the sight of the man sitting beside you

"Go get lunch for me and my girl" thanos tilts his head towards you while avoiding your eyecontact while you tell yourself not to think about the fact that he still referred to you as 'his girl'

"go fast what are you still doing here" thanks reprimanded nam gyu

Nam gyu awkwardly stood unsure of what to say "but it's just one bread and one milk per person"

"Then give her yours" thanos said simply "and go steal someone's lunch for me"

"Then what about for me?" Nam gyu asked dumbfounded which caused Thanos to pause and think for a while

"That's not my fucking problem man- now go" he pushes him away, leaving you with a heavy sigh

"I don't want to eat"

"Don't talk bullshit" thanos eyes you "you think i'm gonna let you starve? I never did, and i wont be starting now"

Again with the whole protective boyfriend act, fuck, why did it make your heart race a little?

"Your still such an asshole, you didnt change a bit" you huffed as you leaned behind, resting your back against the wall

"Well you changed" thanos says which quirks your curiosity

"How so?'

"I don't know" he shrugs "something is different. Something happened, i can't exactly ppint my fi ger at it though"

Your eyes dart away from his while your breathing started to fasten slightly

"Oh yea? How so?" You ask, your voice slightly higher than it was which Thanos picks up immediately

"Ohoho" he grins "did I get it right? Did you get something done?" He glances you up and down which leads you to hitting him

"Ow- i was just joking, you still take everything so seriously" he grumbled holding your hand from hitting him "I wish that part had changed'

Your other hand comes swinging which he again grabs softly

"jokingg" he says in a sing song voice before letting both your arms go leaving you with a scowl and him with a satisfied smirk in his face

"Asshole" you mutter which stretches his smirk even more

"You still like it though"

You almost swear you heard a hint of vulnerability in his tone, prompting you to glance at him quickly just to catch him already looking at you

"So? Aren't you gonna ask me what has changed?" You ask slowly, in your head trying to process whether your doing the right thing or not,

You first found out you were pregnant with your baby right after you and Thanos broke up.

The following days, whenever you went to pay him a visit, he was always missing, causing you to believe maybe it was better for him not to know. And then you suddenly meet him for the first time after your breakup during the squid games

The timing was almost comical

"Why?" Thanos continued still with an amused face "you still seem the same on the inside"

Your hand immediately goes to your stomach, slowly tracing along it from above the green track jacket which everyone wore

"Don't tell me your sick or something" thanos asks with his voice slightly raised as he notices your action "fuck are you?"

His eyes slightly widens as he frowns "hey" he snaps his finger upon your zoning out "are you sick?"

"Hm?" You ask confused

"What the fuck" he swears under his breath with a anxious expression on his face while his hand runs through his finger "is that why your here? To win some money for your treatment?"

"Su Bong its not like that-" All your attempts of correcting him seemed to be futile as he sweared loudly, getting out of the bed

"Shit shit shit!" He grabs his head while he paced around the floor, a sight you had seen a few times over the span of your relationship

"ofcourse that's why your here, you would only be here for a sensible reason"

"Oh, su bong" you attempt to appeal to him, reaching your hand out, pulling his closer towards you while he hands were still over his head, eyes lowered

"Fuck baby I'm so sorry" he breathed out "shit i never should have left, i thought" he paused "I thought I'd win some money and get you back, give you the life you really deserve but"

You watch his dazed expression while he rambled, you bit you underlip, hesitant of whether to tell him the truth still

"Fuck, i didn't even know that, i didn't even know you were sick-"

Before he could continue again you grab his face , forcing him to look at your face

"I'm not sick, that's not why im here"

Thanos breathed heavily, everything felt so real suddenly, he felt his cross necklace strapped around his neck, his fingers itching to pop a pill in his mouth to sooth his nerves

"I'm not sick" you shake your head as you lean your forehead against his "su-bong"

You can still feel his strained breaths and darting eyes

"I'm pregnant"

And it all stopped,

You held your breath, afraid of what would happen if you let go, your could heart your heartbeat from your ears, feel the realisation setting inside thanos,

You were scared. Scared of how he would react

He breaks away first, slowly and gently. Staring at you with no expression in his face,

"And it's yours" you rapidly feel the need to add, taken back by his silence which didn't not suit him "and i know having a kid was never in your plan, and i know things are over between us but-"

Your body is wrapped by his arms and his face nestles in your neck, pulling your deeper in his embrace

"Holy shit" thanos whispers in your ear, you can hear the giddiness radiating off his voice "im a dad"

"Yea you are" you laugh a little as you say "your a dad"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I never got the chance to"

Thanos furrows his eyebrows but doesn't press any more "will you let me be our baby's dad?" He ask

"You know I grew up without a dad, this kid doesn't deserve that" he pokes your stomach with a soft grin which looked slightly odd against his eccentric features "I wanna be in this kids life"

You nodd softly, hearing his words

"And yours too" thanos looks up to you, grinning while he winked at you "senorita"

"You corny bastard" you laugh shaking your head

"You still like it though"

You nodd your head, with tenderness in your eyes and voice

"I do"

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"Thanos!" Nam gyu came running with 3 pieces of sweet bread and 3 packets of milk "I got it! Do you know how much trouble i went to get all these-"

"Give it here " thanos grabbed all the bread and milk away "why did you take so long anyways"

Nam gyu held his hands as he pouted "I mean- i had to fight like 2 guys for bread and milk for us-"

Thanos brushed him off as he opened all the packets of bread and poked in the straw of all the milk packets

"Uhm thanos" nam gyu apprehensively called out "What are you doing?"

Thanos hands you all the bread and urges you to eat while he holds the packets of milk in his hand, ready to feed you

Thanos gestures towards you who was sitting in the bed, now wrapped in not only your jacket but his aswell "can't you see the lady is pregnant"

Nam gyu scratched his head "pregnant? With who?"

Thanos shakes his head, exaggerating his actions "dumb ass, she's pregnant with my baby ofcourse" he announced like it was the most obvious thing in the world

"Holy shit!" Nam gyu gaped his hand covering his mouth as he stares at you while you sheepishly smile at him

Thanos let out a small laugh which then slowly grew louder

"What? Why are you surprised? Ofcourse i succeeded in my first try- fuck" he kneels down in pain after being striked by you in the stomach

Nam gyu pulls a face in behalf of Thanos as he pats his back sympathetically while he whispers to you

"Don't worry. I know it probably wasnt his first try or anything- ow" nam gyu kneels on the ground after being hit in the stomach by thanos

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"What... what are you guys doing?" You question as you approach Thanos and nam gyu who were huddled up in a corner, in a long rather quiet conversation which seemed like an unusual activity for both of them to part take in

Both in the 'discussion' and 'quiet' part

Thanos loops his arm around your with a proud smirk on his face while urging nam gyu to announce what they were discussing

Nam gyu nodds eagerly as gets up in his two feet quickly, standing straight and tall with a loud and confident voice "we have decided the perfect name for the baby !!"

You see thanos's broad smile and nam gyu's confident voice, uneasiness settling in your stomach for whatever name they picked out

"These is the name that Thanos and i have personally given a lot of thought for and chosen after much contemplation !!"

Thanos nodded his head with a content expression while he winked at you, assuring that you'll like it

"Ahem" nam gyu clears his throat "before I announce the name that we have chosen, i would like to give recognition to the name we almost chose aswell !!"

Thanos immediately began clapping his hand loudly "waaah, I never knew you could speak so well "

This comment made nam gyu's chest fill swell with pride as he puffs out his chest a little

"I shall now, announce the first runners up, the name that almost was given to the new born baby"

nam gyu pauses which prompts Thanos to make the sound of drum rolls

"Nebula" nam gyu announces as he and thanos clap loudly.

Seeing your still figure both men urge you to claps aswell

"Nebula?" You mutter under your breath "where have i heard that name before?"

"And now, the name that has been selected over numerous selection test and discussion, the name of the baby is" nam gyu points at your stomach

"Gamora"

Thanos whoops loudly, both nam gyu and him clapping their hands in the air while you stand off handedly as it hits you

"Your naming our child after the daughter of the purple alien monster from a superhero movie?!"

[batsandbirdbrains]

I’m half asleep so have a half baked idea that’s keeping me awake

The one where Dick and Bruce troll everyone

Set during season one of young justice. Dick is just an overall menace who loves to make everyone question everything they know. His favorite topic to cause mass confusion amongst unknowing Justice league members and every member of the young Justice team? His relationship with Batman

There are days where he insinuates Batman kidnapped him off the streets of Gotham.

“He saved me from Killer Croc eating me like a chicken wing.”

“I was supposed to go with the nice CPS lady but then Batman showed up and shoved me in the Batmobile and now I’m here!”

“I was walking home from school one day and he snatched me out of the shadows (he was hiding behind a dumpster).”

Sometimes they act like brothers who can’t stand each other half the time

“You’re such a buttmunch I hate you!” “Literally all I’m asking you to do is shower after training before you come home. You stink, Robin. You’re smelly.” “You’re smelly! Did the bats crap on your cowl before you came here?” Batman’s sigh is long, drawn out, and dramatic. He turns on his heel. Robin sticks his tongue out at him.

“Hey if I get this training sim completed at 100% will you get me Batburger on the way home?” “Fine. Don’t tell Agent A.” “Only if you also promise to get me a milkshake.” “Fine.”

“Yes.” “No.” “Yes!” “No!” “YES!” “NO!” This goes on for three full minutes. They’ve forgotten what they were arguing about. They’re not sure who wins.

Sometimes Batman is such a dad it feels like they’re not supposed to be watching even though it’s in the middle of Mount Justice where anyone can see.

After a particularly tiring mission and the subsequent debrief, Robin leans against Batman and definitely doesn’t close his eyes. He’s just resting them. It’s a slow blink, nothing more. Batman has a hand very softly carding through Robin’s hair, and he’s basically carrying him to the zeta tubes a couple minutes later to go back to the batcave.

Sometimes there’s a new video game out or something that Robin really wants, and he’ll whine and hang off Batman’s arm until he weasels Batman into buying it for him. He has to pinky promise. No take-backsies

They’ve absolutely heard Batman call Robin “chum” in a soft, proud voice that sounds nothing like the big bad Bat they all know.

Sometimes he just says wild shit to send them way off base:

“I dunno Conner, maybe you’re not the only clone around here.”

“He made me by mixing his own DNA with an actual bat, that’s why I’m so acroBATic. Haha, get it? Acro-BAT?”

“He stole me from the circus.”

“He’s actually a cryptid. He asked lady Gotham for light and hope and she gave him me!” “Does that make you a cryptid too?” “I dunno, maybe!”

“I’m his love child with justice.”

He’s only said the circus one exactly once because Bruce told him off for it being too close to the truth, but they did both get a laugh out of everyone’s reactions.

And then one day someone just straight up asks Robin, in front of Batman, if they’re related. And Robin blinks once, twice.

“He’s my roommate.”

It’s said so matter of fact, Robin just shrugs, and goes about whatever he was doing. Batman grunts in a confirmation sort of way, busy looking at a data pad.

Artemis, standing a little ways away behind Conner (who the rest of the team elected to go ask the question), shoves her face in a couch pillow and lets out a muffled scream. M’gann and Conner are confused. Wally is laughing. Kaldur tries to remember different surface customs in when children move out and get roommates.

“Wait but so how old is Batman then?” Wally’s question makes them all now wonder if Batman is even that much older than all of them.

In the other room, away from curious, prying eyes, Dick is smothering a giggle behind a gloved hand and shoving his face in Bruce’s shoulder. Bruce lets his lips quirk up just a little.

[holorform2009]

𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐓

Part one

This is based in my dream, a dream where forsaken and block tales cross-overed but monsters AU, I quickly wrote it down in my note app to remember.

It all started a game, a harmless one.

A game of tag, It was simple.

But then, why are you here? With monsters around you?

You should've have listened.... If only you could've listened to your sister. None of this would have happened.

No plant monsters would keep you cage forever if you listened to your sister.

No spider monsters would constantly wraps you in it's webs everytime you attempted to escape if you listened to your sister.

No mysterious hooded people would lock you up if you listened to your sister.

No winged monsters will keep you in their nests if you listened to your sister.

No talking pumpkin headed monster would keep you by their side everytime if you listened to your sister.

No monsters would hurt nor trap you in their grasp if only you should've listened to your sister....

You let out a giggle as you ran, your sister following behind as she panted with exhaustion. "Haha! You're so slow sister!" You laughed as you jump over a river and almost slipped off the edge of the water but managed to stay balanced and continue to run. You hear your sister shout something at you but you couldn't quite hear what she's saying because of the wind entering your ears while you are running.

"[Name]! Don't go to far!— pant [Name]!" She yelled between her labored breaths as she tried to chase after you in the woods.

"Catch me sister! Try catching me!" You smiled and look over your shoulder to see her figure hunched over as she yells at you to stop.

But you did not stop.

You only responded with a laugh.

"Wait up [Name]!" Out of breath she gasped for air and went back to chasing you again. "Oh you little menace..! When I get you I will tell the monster to tickle you in your sleep!"

You turned around and stick your tongue at her before sprinting away. "Try me!" You giggled as you went deeper in the woods, the warning sign besides the tree went unnoticed as you pass by. Seeing this her eyes widen as she realized you went into the wrong path, the sign says; 'Warning: dangerous animals ahead' her skin turned pale as she quickly went after you while desperately yelling at you to stop.

"[Name]! Stop! Don't go in there!"

The first yell went unheard and you were still moving ahead of her.

"[Name] I'm serious! It's dangerous!"

The second yell did not reach your ears but you noticed the tone was seemed a bit sounded like a distressed parent.

And yet you didn't stop.

You went further into the Forrest, your sister almost tripped on a rock as she calls out to you again.

"[NAME] PLEASE STOP!"

The third yell finally reached you.

When you turned around to look at her, a root caught your ankle in a bad timing causing you to shriek and falls backwards, falling down into... the large hole behind you. You didn't notice that one.

You can hear your sister shout in pure distressed as she witnessed your small figure fall into the large pit. Unfortunately, that was the last thing you hear before you can no longer hear her voice anymore as the hole slowing turning into a dot in your point of view as you go down further into the black pit, and your screams fades away into nothing.

Meanwhile your sister was in a state of panic after you fell down into the hole and was now on a verge of crying, god knows how deep this hole is, yelling for help out here won't work and it might attract hostiles animal here. Her fingers were shaking, her heart beating fast. She looked behind her, then back at the large gaping hole where you've fallen. "Please.." she whispered as she shakily took a deep breath. "Please be alive down there..! I will get some help, I— I'll be back I promise." She stuttered, her fingers curled up into a fist.

As you were falling, roots and sharp thorned vines scraping your skin. The thick vines under you slowing your fall as you flailed your arms to try and grab something to stop you from falling down further. With each vines harshly made contact with your smaller figure leaving bruises forming in your body, your head landed something hard and you let out a chocked pain as your vision went black.

A vine shoots out and grabs your unconscious body, wrapping around your figure securely, catching you in mid fall. "Oh you poor thing..." A soft voice spoke in the dark.

The vines and roots suddenly moved on its own, slowly twisting and writhing until forming a humanoid figure with a masculine features while a green appendages moving from his back, his eyes opened and glanced at your unconscious body in his hold. His eyes softened. "A child.. so small...." He hummed as his claws reached to your face, gently caressing your soft cheek. He look up to where you came from and look back at you. "I see, your parents have failed to protect you. They even let you fall down here so carelessly..."

The vines around you slowly uncurled and carefully placed you in his hold with utmost gentleness, holding as if you're a toddler. "Don't worry, I would never let that happen to you again." He smiled softly as he holds you close to his chest and move a single strand of hair from your face with his digits, he pressed his palm on your forehead before moving his hand away.

He then turned around and move forward, entering a tunnel with you in his hold, his lower part have many large roots like a spider as he crawled deeper in the dark tunnel.

He looks down at you once more as he gently patted your head. "I'm sure Brad wouldn't mind to have little sibling" he said with a smile as he entered his lovely abode with various plants littered around his home while gently stoking your hair with his claws affectionately.

Dia notes: I wasn't safe in my dream y'all, I think it has something to do with my parents issues—

[aipurjopa]

So sorry to rant in your inbox but another part you brought up is spokes narration as this being a silly challenge. But if we’re dipping into the serious narrative and realistic story elements. Spoke is living in someone’s house without them knowing and driving the owners against each other and into insanity. That’s HORRIFYING. And because of the chipper music and the day counter and spokes silly attitude it’s less horrifying, it’s just a silly Minecraft video you don’t have to think too much about it!

But in the terms that the series goes into (with war, grief, all that) it’s something horrible, the fear that someone is watching you. Footsteps in the back of your mind, a shadow that’s moving just too much like a person. A subtle paranoia that you are being watched.

But to spoke it’s just a fun challenge! A game! That’s it, and now he has something to steal and it’s all so fun and silly (and think of how big of a shift this is from spokes season 1 episode, even there it was serious) it truly gives the effect he’s loosing it. And he’s torturing ash and squiddo too, effectively, he admits it himself in the description. That’s weird.

How I feel trying to figure out this episode cause it feels like a atomic bomb dropped in a sitcom haha slice of life episode:

no, yeah, EXACTLY!!!

i've been yapping about how this feels like the most... lifesteal!spoke thing we've seen out of uu!spoke since the whole parrot torture maze thing... it's so interesting to me. because the whole like... living inside someone's base and fucking with them and the whole paranoia is something that feels so lifesteal coded to me... (coughs) and like... the premise is very similar to that mapicc ls video where he lived in spoke's base for a while.

spoke treating it as a fun game/challenge is so reminiscent to how he operated in lifesteal almost? like in his 4hr wormhole video he ends it off by saying he enjoys the puzzle and trying to do something impossible and the challenge behind pulling that stuff off.

this video is like... when i watched those fucking spoke wormhole videos for the first time and thought to myself "haha, what a funny light hearted video haha poopies is a funny name for your endermite haha what a funny bit it is to place bedrock for every subscriber you get... hey how the fuck do you have op btw?"

btw i LOVE reading people's rambles never apologize <3

[sockatoothewafflebird]

Hatchling Asks!!! ::D

1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, and 50!

(Mostly just: what do they look like? Lol!)

yippee!!! okay here i go, apologies if this gets a little long haha. i do plan to make a colored piece of them soon but for now this will have to do ::]

(...putting it under the cut bc it got loooong. like seriously my autism went ham on this thing. infodumping explosion ahead, it is a skyscraper of text down there.)

1: do they have a name?

yes! their name is Elbaite. the people they're closest to call them Ellie (literally just feldspar, hal, and gabbro). i named them this because 1) ellie is a cute nickname and 2) they have heterochromia and their scale patterns are more vibrant than most, and elbaite as a rock is one of the most colorful out there.

2: how old were they on launch day?

i like to think elbaite was about 20-21. compared to the other astronauts, at least in the fic i'm working on, gabbro was 24 when they launched (later than most, you'll learn why, someday), riebeck was 22, and chert was 19 (because they seem like the type to graduate early in my opinion).

4: how tall are they?

i mostly think of their height as relative to gabbro's (height difference is a cute trope what can i say), and i think of gabbro as 6ft 2in or around 187-188cm? so that would make elbaite like 5ft 5in (around 165cm). they're average height. wahoo!

6: eye color?

at first i thought itd be fine to leave it as yellow, but then i remembered heterochromia exists. so multicolored it is!! one eye is yellow and the other is green because it fits their name and their design better.

7: ear perkiness?

i wanna say Very Perked, because it's cute! but at the same time, with my hc that hearthian ears are the gateway to their emotions, and only masters of acting or people that have something going on (cough cough autistic gabbro foreshadowing cough cough) can consciously control how their ears move... i think elbaite having them at a very neutral, "slightly perked but not enough to mean anything" position fits them better. because, while they like to seem friendly (even if they're a bit morbid or sassy sometimes), they're honestly just trying to get through the day.

8: what do they wear other than their suit?

ooo this is a fun one. fun but tough.

they like to wear the in-game outfit underneath their suit, but otherwise, they're an overall style-over-comfort person when it comes to fashion. i think theyre one of the only hearthians that cares THIS much about looks at all actually... ahem ahem. they wear overalls or maybe even a sundress if they're feeling cute but usually they're in an OWV issued flight jacket or a snug t-shirt and puffy pants. when i say puffy i mean like. the pants ARE the outfit.

13: how do they like their mallows?

they like them perfectly golden brown. like a VERY specific color that no one else really knows how to get right. theyre very particular about this, if anyone else makes a mallow for them it's always slightly-too-raw or slightly-too-brown for their taste. but they feel horrible about making them re-do it so they eat it anyway.

50: freebie... ooOoOOo...

hmmm okay i'll have some fun with this and dump about a part of their Backstory™️. ahem ahem, this gets long so be warned. maybe i overdid this.... meh who cares.

elbaite has some nasty burn scars from when they were a teen (maybe around 16?), that are mainly on their right side, one of which going from the base of their neck to their cheek. this is the most visible one but there are plenty more.

it was during the stormy season. a terribly windy day caused a tree to fall right on the roof of the cabin, starting a fire. and elbaite made sure everyone was out and safe before they even considered getting out themself. and then, of course, the cabin collapsed on them, as they were lost in the maze of smoke and broken wood. it's a miracle they made it out alive. a broken rib and knee, terrible amounts of smoke inhalation, not to mention the burns all over. were bedridden for weeks. (and to top it all off, they felt guilty for taking up space in the medical center.)

the reasons why they did this? well. time will tell. (...i'm writing a fic about it.)

they also have a fair share of scars just from being reckless, but those are tiny. a few more injuries include having broken their elbow while jetpacking, nicking off a bit of their ear from a bear-adjacent creature attacking their group on a camping trip (they fought it off like the loveable idiot they are), and breaking a finger from not disembarking their spaceship correctly on a test-launch. all of which they insisted they could walk off, because of course they would say that.

basically this whole thing is to say, they're a mini-feldspar, except with an added love for deciphering the nomai language on top of the recklessness and lack of self-preservation.

that's all!!! this was very fun to answer, tysm for the ask ::] and sorry this became a whole essay lmao. i promise i'll post some doodles of ellie someday, whenever i find the time and energy... toodles!!

[floofble]

Replied to a comment on Reddit asking why I shipped Floofty x Gramble and thought, wow I wrote like almost 800 words, this should NOT be stuck on Reddit. Remembered I made this side-blog just to take @floofble as my user, so here’s my 2AM rambling about why I enjoy the pairing.

Wording might be off because, again, 2AM and Reddit comment reply. Feel free to offer your own insight, or to bash me for my opinion if you want lol.

Frankly, it’s difficult for me to really explain why I love the two so much because a lot of it comes down to my own personal headcanons and just the fact that I’ve liked the pairing since I first got into the fandom (about four years ago. Side note but DAMN, long time.)

When I did first join the fandom, I hated Wiggle with a burning passion and loved Gramble with all of my soul, thus causing me to hate Gramble and Wiggle as a pairing (I have moved on from this and I do like them now, but not exactly important to my ranting haha). I honestly just had wanted someone to pair with Gramble in spite of Wiggle. Who else to pick but the scientist on the other side of the beach that everyone was already shipping with half of the cast? In the beginning it was mostly just “haha, purple and pink sillies” but as I got more and more fixated on them I realized a lot of things that could genuinely make them an interesting pairing.

Firstly, their relationships with the Bugsnax sort of oppose each other yet mirror eachother in a fascinating way to me. Floofty’s entire goal throughout the game is to figure out a way the Bugsnax could be useful in a scientific/medical context. Their goal is based off of good for other grumpuses, and yet they socially isolate themself, seemingly not WANTING to build any relationships. Gramble, however, is pretty much the opposite. His sole purpose for coming to Snaktooth was to become part of a family, and despite the plethora of people surrounding him he too seems to isolate and instead fill the absence of a family with Bugsnax. I think, if written correctly, interactions between the two (whether platonic or romantic) could have added a lot of growth to their characters in regard to their relationships with others.

While Gramble having to come to terms with the fact that Bugsnax don’t make up for real connection and Floofty realizing that without connection they can never truly understand the people they are trying to help ARE points that occur in the canon end game, I think that the resolution of it all could have been a bit more satisfying if they had both had more interactions with people outside their main counterparts, and the fact that both of their resolutions revolve around relationships with others makes the pairing stand out.

Besides the whole story logistics of it, I think the two also parallel pretty well with our main boys (DRUMROLL PLEAAAAASE… Snorpy and Chandlo.) I think that any of them could mirror the other, honestly. The obvious choice of Floofty mirroring Snorpy for their sharing of a lack of social understanding/connection, their overall sort of high regard for themselves compared to others despite their obvious insecurities, honestly just the fact that they’re siblings, etc etc. Chandlo and Gramble’s mirroring is a bit less obvious, but it’s still there. Both of them have a surplus of love and care to give out based off of their respective canons, both are the more lighthearted of their couples, both also having obvious insecurity that they tend to shadow behind their resilience or just brush off all together.

Less obviously, Gramble could mirror Snorpy and Floofty could mirror Chandlo. Bear with me here. Gramble and Snorpy both have their extremely obvious anxieties. They both tend to dance around topics, resulting in miscommunication. They both isolate and have limited interaction with the others in game. Now, with Chandlo and Floofty I do think I might be reaching a tad bit, but here we go. Floofty and Chandlo both have a need to get things done themselves, a sort of a complex in all honesty. They are both stubborn as hell, though it’s more blunt with Floofty. Their goals are similar, just with Chandlo wanting to help one specific Grumpus rather than the entire race as a whole like Floofty.

There’s honestly a bajillion things I could say to explain this pairing. I was not expecting myself to write this much 😭 I guess, in conclusion, they have a shit ton of writing potential that I enjoy. Also, Floofty watching Gramble sleepwalk is funny. Don’t they have research they could be doing? Watching Gramble certainly isn’t helping you with your Bugsnax studies, Floofty.

[floofanflurr]

Thoughts on Asgore? Just curious since a lotta people are divided on "divorced haha man" and "mass murderer"

Ohohoho this is very much a slippery slope for me! And a topic I have many opinions on. Thanks for the ask!

Please note for anyone that does not have the energy to read something like this, that this is overall, a critical piece of Asgore. (though not shamelessly bashing him.)

I'm prefacing this to anyone reading - I am not looking to fight, and I will not engage in any arguments around this. I don't have the energy to engage like that. I will delete/block any comments looking to start an argument and move on.

So here's my character analysis of Asgore under the cut, and my personal feelings about goat dad.

Asgore and his incomplete character arc, and why he honestly kind of got shafted:

I think Asgore is an interesting character, but I just... really struggle to like him.

"But Floo!" you may say "Why do you like Undyne, and the other monsters that killed/hurt Frisk/the other kids but not Asgore? Why is he different?"

I debated on that long and hard myself for a while. Why does Asgore rub me the wrong way when Undyne doesn't? Could it be because he is the reason everyone else is doing what they are, because he ordered it? But no, that didn't feel quite right.

And then I realized that it's because Asgore never truly grew as a person. There are some fics out there that I've read where I really do like Asgore. He's a fuzzy goat dad, and I just adore him! But when I examined the differences between those fics and canon, that's when it really stood out to me about WHY I don't like him in canon.

Every other character in the game gets growth that was (while caused by your/frisk's actions) still decided on by themselves. Let's go in order of the decisions these characters made that showcased their growth (in a pacifist run)-

Toriel - She, after having been given suitable time to ruminate, realizes that what she is doing will not work and tears herself out of her isolation to go after the last child and protect them. Her passivity wasn't saving anyone, so she changes herself, grows, and goes to protect them. (it's late, but it DOES happen)

Papyrus - I think the place he really shines in a pacifist/neutral run is when he beats Frisk 3 times and lets them go, but his character arc is all the same, anyway, even if you do beat him. Namely, that he lets them go. He could keep going, he could keep fighting, but he realizes that his want for friends and fame wasn't worth hurting someone. (even if that's not directly how he phrases it.)

Even if you outlast him and beat him the traditional way, he still decides to use his last special attack instead of fighting you until you're down. It's pretty clear he could have kept going if he wanted to.

Undyne - She, like Papyrus (and almost every other monster) has the character growth of letting Frisk go. A decision she actively makes. When Frisk saves her in hotland, pouring water over her head, she could have continued on with the chase, and kept going. But she didn't - she was honorable and conceded her defeat.

Mettaton - Same song and dance as Papyrus and Undyne (I love this character growth, and that's not to diminish ANYONES. They all have different flavors and motivations for going after Frisk that need confronted, even if the action is similar.) But he lets frisk go and realizes that the people underground need him more than anyone above ground. And also learns to touch base with his family a bit more, and value his friends/family more.

Alphys - Alphys decides to confront her crimes and reveal herself! There's still a bit of external pressure here (the "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID" note from Flowey) but still, she didn't have to come clean. But despite everything, she did, and she faced her wrongdoings and also told the people she loved.

Flowey - Do I need to explain this one? There's so many character essays on him (and Alphys tbh LMAO) Long story short, he learns to move on and let go. (and also broke the barrier and released the souls)

So now we move to the crux of the issue. Asgore.

He had a HELL of a character arc building up! So many flaws and bad decisions! We know he's kind, and a pushover, but also responsible for all of this hurt and death of children. (Yes, he had reasons, but that doesn't change his actions.) To be honest, it's the kind of character arc I love. Someone who has caused harm, learning to grow and be a better person. (Cough cough, Heart on the Table, cough cough)

...But he never actually got to the "better person" part.

We know monsters in Undertale are flawed. It's why it's such a great game! So many characters have done so much bad, but! The core of the game is that anyone can be a good person if they try! Look at all these people learning and growing, and being better people than they were before!

But the true pacifist ending kinda shafted Asgore, to be honest. He's a coward, and he never really has to face what he's done. He never decides to just... stop. To face his crimes and the world he's shaped around him.

If he had, independently of others, decided to spare Frisk, that would be one thing. But he didn't - it wasn't until Toriel showed up, and then all of Frisk's friends that he stopped.

Asgore's core conflict was that he was doing something he hated and he knew was bad, but he couldn't stop because how would everyone else react? His people needed him to do this bad thing.

A completed character arc for him, from a story telling perspective, would have had him stop what he was doing, while still under the impression that this would be a hard decision, and that everyone would hate him for it.

(A bed he made for himself! Through his action and inaction, he stoked monsterkind's hatred for humanity back up. There is a much larger discussion to be had around this topic, also how Chara was treated by him and monster kind (also his hand in Chara and Asriel's death) and many more factors. I am aware this is a highly debated topic, and I don't have the energy to fight it, so I will leave it at that.)

Regardless on if you agree if that would be a good or bad decision on his part, that would have been character growth - basically, Asgore having to face all of the accumulation of his cowardice and actions.

But he didn't. He didn't back down until he was basically told "hey yeah, so we all like this kid so you don't have to kill them."

He never wanted to kill them! That was never the issue! The issue was that he was willing to kill them anyway. And if Frisk's friends and his ex wife hadn't shown up and said "hey so we actually DONT want you to kill this kid" he would have! He was willing to kill a child because other people wanted him to, and we never get to see him overcome that hurdle of not killing a child despite other people wanting him to.

We can talk about the potential ending where he offers Frisk his soul, but even then, he still never actually confronts his actions. He's still unwilling to face all of the people he's harmed. (and YES allowing and ENCOURAGING his citizens to murder children is harming them, too. Especially because monsters don't see humans as people. (another essay I don't have time to get into right now, but is based on canon fact))

So... Yeah. I think Asgore has a lot of wonderful conflict baked into him, which is something I love in a character. He's torn, and a coward, and a father, and a broken ruler and king who is doing what he thinks his people want. But it's frustrating to me because he never got the character arc he deserved, and never got the chance to grow into a better person like everyone else in Undertale gets.

I do actually enjoy writing about him... and drawing him too on occasion! (though he's hard to draw) and ASGORE and Bergentrückung are actually my favorite songs in the soundtrack since they are filled with so much emotion. He really is a delightfully conflicted character and that conflict and hurt and pain in a character is addicting to me.

If he had a resolved character arc in game... well, to be honest, he'd probably be my favorite character??? Like, maybe even more than Papyrus (before the hyperfixation took hold, of course. That's a beast you can't reason with.)

But alas, it is what it is, and Asgore never grew. He's stuck being the same monster he was from the very beginning.

Thanks again for the ask and sorry you got a whole ass essay in response lol! I have many feelings about this game and the characters in it, Asgore included.

(Also, to anyone reading, I am aware what I have stated is simply my opinion, and many people have different ones. My opinion has no more value than any other persons.)

Another disclaimer - I love Undertale, and all of it's characters and everything that went into it, and while there are things that I feel about Asgore's character arc, I love and appreciate the way the game played out in actuality, and I wouldn't change a thing about it. Toby wrote a masterpiece, and is not only allowed, but should write characters the way he wants to. Who cares if it's not textbook?

Have a cookie for making it this far:

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(I was gonna drop an Asgore sketch but HOLY HECK it was not cooperating.)

[ninjagirlstar5]

This is for my mutual that requested that I do Kakeru next, so I did! I actually had this finished all in one day but it was very late where I was by the time I was done, so I had to shelve it for today instead.

Kakeru's OG design is just...funny, when you find out his Ultimate Talent. This man does not look like a lawyer and looks like any other muscular guy that probably does sports. Which makes it even funnier when you find out that, no, he doesn't actually do sports, he was literally just born like this! This man was blessed with the best health possible, and yet he feels ashamed for this because his sister was born very sickly, so he blames himself for "taking away her health" when it's not his fault. It's just how life goes sometimes. But anyways, back to his redesign. I chose to base this redesign off of his splash art as he actually looks like a lawyer in that than his in-game sprite, but changed it up and added details to it since I didn't want to straight up copy it. Based off of his OG design, he was dressed pretty casually, so I decided to have his shirt collar slightly unbuttoned and kept it untucked, his suit jacket open, and his tie a little more loose. I gave him boots to add a bit of flair to his design, gave him small earrings, an attorney badge, and a tie pin to keep it attached to his shirt and prevent it from flying off. It's to show that while he's casual, he's still a professional. Also, in his splash art, he's shown wearing glasses, so I'm questioning why LINUJ didn't let him keep that??? What, are those reading glasses, fake glasses to make himself look smarter, or are those glasses that he actually needs to see from? Imagine that those are prescribed glasses, and he's walking around the killing game with blurry vision the whole time he was alive, lmao. But seriously, it's weird cause in one of LINUJ's sketches where he drew what the 79th class would look like if they survived, he has his glasses again so the state of his eyesight is just one big question mark. So I just said, "Fuck it, he has glasses" and that was it. It honestly adds to his professional and smart aura, which actually adds to his intimidation since you'd expect him to be very serious...and then it turns out he's super sweet and shy outside of court. And what helps hint to his softer, sillier side would be the flame design on his tie, as ties with goofy designs like that can show that this person can be silly if they want to be (at least, character wise). And I didn't want to get rid of the flame design on his shirt completely, so I decided to call back to it by moving it onto his tie instead. A tie that his sister probably chose for him, so Kakeru would wear it all the time, hehe. His hair barely changed, I just adjusted it so that it has a better shape. As for the colors, I made Kakeru's tanned skin a bit more obvious, and kept his colors quite monotone aside from the tie and gold metal of his earrings, tie pin, attorney badge, and the buckles of his boots. Fun fact: I originally made his suit blue, but decided that he looked too much like Phoenix Wright and desaturated the colors to look more gray, haha.

Anyways, I love Kakeru. I just wished he acted more like a lawyer in-game, you know?

[dsnzfb]

Hi Dye! Would love to hear about 🏠🙄💭 for Cactus and Rose! They’re both so sweet, I love their dynamic haha

OMGGGG SCATTER HIIII. omg. When I tell u best laid plans had me in a CHOKEHOLD. I'm starstruck omg.... Thank u so much for asking I shall do my best to answer well!!!

As always, under the readmore 💖

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Their home!!!!!

I still have to like, make their places in some sort of program for a VN i wanna make (I'm on the 'writing script' stage rn), but until then I have to simply imagine...

When they don't live together:

Cac has a cute little house, his sister helped him get a mortgage for it. It's got a spare room for guests, a decently sized kitchen, living room with big telly and a few consoles, and, most importantly, a front and back garden. It's got the white picket fence and all. This is in some sort of amazing world where one person can afford the mortgage and bills on a house on their own. He's got a dedicated place where Barry (the saxophone) sits, a permanent fixture of a little step stool in his kitchen, a bathroom with a bathtub, not just a shower... It's not massive, but it's his, and he's happy.

Rose stays in an apartment - the majority of his money goes into his flower shop, so renting something like this is his only real option, but most surfaces (and floorspace) are taken up by houseplants. Some are for the store, especially trays full of seedlings and his crossbreeding experiments for different colours/traits. Some are just because he likes them.

He barely ever cooks, he's just AWFUL at it, so his kitchen is very small but relatively untouched. The only area that looks like it really sees use is the kettle, teabags organised into type.

When they're together, Rose moves in with Cactus. He helps out with the mortgage and bills, the spare room becomes a makeshift greenhouse with a sofabed in it. It's a struggle at first, but everything ends up slotting together and they all get their places. An area of the living room is dedicated to Cac Jr (a kitten) who starts living with Cactus when Rose hasn't moved in yet. He decides to make Rose's stuff all smell like him and rub up against/try to eat his plants.

"Any chance I could budge over-"

"Barry ain't movin', sorry. Find somewhere else for the that big ol' plant."

After Rose moves in, the kitchen is used even more 💖 he cannot be trusted to make food, but he can at least do the washing up.

OH AND AFTER ROSE MOVES IN THEY GET A CHAISE LOUNGE FOR HIM TO FAINT ON (he is very dramatic)

(The medicine cupboard is much better stocked as well...)

🙄 Pet peeves...

Very difficult...

I think it would both be endearing but ALSO annoying whenever Rose says some Very British Shit, like if he says 'wangle' or 'faffing about' or something... Endearing because cute, annoying cause they need to stop the conversation for Rose to explain what tf he just said.

Oh oh, Rose I think would sit in the middle of the sofa/chaise lounge instead of just picking a side, which frustrates Cac to no end. Budge over!

As for what Cactus does... He does a lot of stupid stuff. Probably singing along to songs and getting words blatantly wrong would annoy Rose something fierce!! Or like, phrases... OH and how Rose tries to talk to him when he's playing. Either a game or his sax, both fit...

💭 Inspiration

So like they were both originally Megaman ocs??? Robot Masters are usually based on a theme, like Magnet Man, Tundra Man, Elec Man... My sis started keeping cacti around the time of Cac's creation, so after some terrible designs I eventually settled on something similar enough. Through many RPs and drawings, his design solidified into two designs: robot master and human. I use human much more these days. That's why he's called Cactus, cause he was Cactus Man! (This is how Axo and Lotus were made, too. And Cac's sister, Serena, used to be Succulent Woman!)

Cac's scarf, in his Robot Master form, is actually a set of vines that come out from the back of his neck. They're fully controllable!

As for Rose, my friend made him, we did it about the same time and... They didn't start as 'supposed to be together' but antagonistic towards each other. He was Rose Man, and got a human design at the same time as Cactus. Through this and that, ownership has moved to me, so I own both Cac and Rose. I can't explain Rose's design decisions exactly because of this. His hair being shaped like a rose bud is so cute though...

[twin-chains]

Thoughts on the Zelda news

HOLY SHIT

I'm surprised we're getting a new mainline game so soon. I genuinely expected a port of older existing games at best if anything. (We did get Four Swords which I'm really happy about). I was worried TOTK would ruin future Zelda games for me but the prospect of playable zelda saved it (which almost feels purposeful so good on you Nintendo)

Speaking of TOTK, thank the stars they're not trying to squeeze a third game out of the BOTW map. TOTK is amazing and a third one would just be tired out

I like that it's in the Link's Awakening remake toy style. It'd feel wrong for Nintendo to make a new realistic 3D open world type game that we have to wait 6 years for like TOTK (still waiting on the TP port tho!). However, a shift to a more cute cartoony look makes more sense without regurgitating the same toon Link designs from the Wind Waker and Four Swords trilogies. Plus LA is so charming!

I'm hyped for playable Zelda! I know there's been Wand of Gamelon (and Spirit Tracks as a command-able companion) but this is so exciting since it's a more new mainline release. This truly is Zelda's Awakening (for taking a more active protagonist role in her own franchise). And hopefully this'll open the door for more playable Zelda? (but I'm getting ahead of myself). It truly is the legend of Zelda!

This might be controversial but I think it's a good decision for Zelda to not wield a sword and shield. Cause that would defeat the purpose of having a new protagonist in my mind; if you just swap Link for Zelda but don't change anything else than what's the point? What distinguishes the hero's Courage from Wisdom? She can fight but has the wisdom to take a more magic-based combat approach with the tri-rod or wand (of Gamelon haha). Though it'd still be pretty sweet if EOW Zelda pulled out some Sheik moves or a cool shot with a bow to be honest.

I really appreciate the union between the older top-down style (hopefully more linear!) and the newer mechanics that allows for multiple creative solutions for the same puzzles. Of course, Nintendo's trying to lean towards the openness and creativity of individualizing one's gameplay experience from TOTK by incorporating the echo mechanic but it really works to give it to Zelda! I will find a way to complete the game solely with the potted plant echo or something stupid.

The triforce is back, baby! The little fairy Tri reminds me of Rosalina's star pet thing from Mario Galaxy. I can't believe the essence of the triforce incarnate is Zelda's cute travelling companion. Does this make her one of the most powerful heroes? (aside from the earliest ones where Link wields the entire triforce). Also it's probably for the sake of the echo mechanic but I'm curious why Tri seems to have 4 little triangles instead of 3? Lore implications?

Speaking of lore implications, WHERE in the timeline will this go??? I've seen a lot of people suspect it's in the downfall timeline, maybe after Link's Awakening or ALTTP because it's the same Hyrule map so I'm willing to agree for now. Even if I'm getting OOT vibes for whatever reason. Though if Ganon isn't creating the purple cracks in space, there has to be a cool new villain for Zelda to face off against that messed with the triforce in some way for Tri to become the way they are. For lack of knowledge, my silly little theory is the multiverse is collapsing and Cia comes back or something idk (I may be biased tho because the cracks are visibly inspiring the rifts in space-time I'm planning for TC).

All in all, I'm so happy!

[davidthephoneguy]

Security Breach related rambling :3

I dunno if anyone has come up with this idea before but I feel like it would be pretty neat if someone made another version of security breach but instead of a massive pizza plex its much smaller and takes place over 5 nights like the other games. The main game play instead has a day night cycle with the same animatronics however freddy is also dangerous but only during the night time segments.

The other animatronics could be friendly during the daytime segments aswell but its not too important. I feel like it would also be smart to scrap the mind control thing too with vanny, shes just a normal security guard at this mall who is a copy cat killer of sorts who just looks up to william because that gives vannessa her own agency and would just make her more interesting in general i think. More interesting then steel wool made her which admittedly is a weak comparison haha.

My idea for the game play would be divided into a short day time section where you can explore the smaller mall and collect maybe batteries for a flashlight and interact with freddy who is aware of how all the animatronics including himself turn aggressive at night. The longer part of the game would be the night time segments in which you go into one of the areas of the pizza plex that maybe freddy would tell you about to try to help you avoid vanny. Similar game play to the first fnaf games utilizing cameras and your flashlight, doors ect. During the day time you could try to go back to the other places you were at the previous nights and you could see evidence of vanny trying to set up traps by breaking the cameras or something to keep the player moving to new areas.

The reason the animatronics are going hayware hunting you down wouldn't be a mind control thing, instead just vannessa messing with their programing like its presumed afton did. I'd also probably redesign vannessa a bit cause it does feel a bit weird that the first human 'antagonist' (idk if youd call her that with how little she does in security breach) is the one who got a skin tight bunny suit, idk just feels a bit weird. The mask and colour scheme are completely fine though so i wouldn't change that if you were to redesign vanny.

The finally night i think would have like a showdown type thing with vanny where we get confirmation that she is vannessa as up til now the game would have vannessa off interacting with people or something during the day segments. The player would probably be hiding from her during the day time segments. Also I'd probably take away the getting in freddy mechanic as cool as it is, as well as the fazer blaster or maybe making it so it can only stun once or twice per night.

The reasoning for the player character to be staying could be the cassie thing where their friend went missing at the pizzaplex and thats why they keep staying and investigating where they went. Possibly going from each place to find clues and ultimately find the missing friend maybe.

The animatronics would also probably do the shipwrecked 64 thing where they emit an atmospheric track when theyre near but its just one track so you have to check cameras to see which one and how many is there. So that you aren't aware exactly where they are or who is there which the voice lines in security breach often take the mystery away. I'd probably limit voice lines from them to just the day time segments.

One way I would make the space smaller but still seem big would be to make it a two story space but have the second story closed off for renovations and that closed off space is where vanny hides out at night and conducts her murder stuff ect. The renos have been undergoing for years and are mostly an abandonded plan which is why vanny set her base up there in an abandonded shop front. Then you get to go into that space at the end to find the vanny hide out.

I'm not a game dev or anything I'm sorta just rambling about things i think would be cool in a game so its probably not the most coherent. Some of it is what i sorta thought security breach was gonna be now that im reaching playthroughs in the background.

anyways thanks for reading if you did ^^

[radellama]

GOTY 2024

This year was pretty rough, ngl. Talking strictly in terms of gaming, I started out ok, but then was in hospital mid-March. That wrecked my wrists (and the rest of my body) so badly that I couldn’t hold a controller to play properly for months afterwards. Then… when my wrists were finally getting their strength back after a lot of physio work, MY TV SCREEN BROKE!!!

I had planned to try and go outside of my comfort zones this year, trying new stuff in genres I like, and new things in genres I’ve never tried before. I prepared a nice handful of games to try, mainly on my PS4 this year, but… without a functioning TV screen, I’m fucked lol. I had to shift focus towards stuff I can play on my handhelds and computer; which, I still had stuff to play for the year... But. Man. I wanted to play Sekiro so bad - the night I installed it I ended up in hospital, and then a few days into playing after I recovered enough to hold the controller, the TV broke! Made me a bit sad ngl!

Anyway, I have a very strange variety of games played this year. I’ve made the decision to skip writing about some of the games I played, as I either dropped them due to health issues OR simply didn’t enjoy them enough to keep slogging through. I generally don't want to write about games like this unless I've hit the credits, or gotten roughly 70%-85% through as the minumum to give it a fair go. Maybe I’ll come back to a few that I dropped, but I really don’t think I can write about my little stints that I played while utterly depressed and struggling with health issues, haha.

Regardless of dropping a few, I think I’ve got more than enough to write about this year. I have also made a neocities page where it’s easier to read everything (on mobile and web!), and spoilers are hidden if you don’t want to see them. I’ve made the decision that the full reviews will be hosted here from now on, as they’re like… the ultimate way to read these. They’re getting too long to comfortably put in a Tumblr post, but I’ll still make posts with each game’s intro and you can decide if you wanna read like usual hehe.

Usual warnings for mild-moderate game spoilers and abrasive opinions ahead.

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Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, 3DS

After playing Story of Seasons last year (and loving it!), I was exited to give Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns a go and see what improvements and changes they’d make. However, it was apparent very early on that this was going to be a frustrating play through. And that sucks, cause I love farming games! I gave it a fair go, getting halfway into the second year, and then I lost a save due to not getting my 3DS to the charger in time, and I really didn’t want to redo the previous couple of days lmao.

So, what happened!? I was very confused; the game still looked decent, clearly using the same engine and model bases as the previous game, it had a nice little story to it that helped contextualise why you move to the country and start farming, it had pretty much all the basic farming gameplay you’d expect… and yet, this felt really crap. I looked up when this game out, and it came out less than half a year after the previous Story of Seasons 3DS game. So, yeah, that kinda answers a lot for me. Now, I am just assuming that it was a rushed production based on how I felt while playing it, paired with those release dates being so close together- but this was not that fun for me!

You begin by wistfully daydreaming about becoming a farmer, and have a little spat with your father when you share that dream with him. He’s not keen on you becoming a farmer, despite coming from the farm life himself! Eventually, he concedes, and makes sure your uncle is there to greet you and help you set up everything you need on your farm. As you start to get acquainted with your new life, you’ll quickly notice that there are two blocked areas you can’t get to, and that you can only access one of the titular trio of towns. To unlock the other towns- and earn your father’s approval -you’ll have to complete certain tasks, upgrade various things, and work hard to thrive on your farm. This is a simple but sweet premise; and on it’s own, I have no issues with it- in fact, I really like that it gives a bit of motivation to do well! Who doesn’t love a bit of spite-fuelled success?

Read the full review here...

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Moonlighter, Switch

I’ve had this game for a while, but never got around to it until now. After having my first real exposure to rogue-likes through Hitman’s Freelancer mode, I was curious to try and get a feel for it as a more prominent game mechanic. I couldn’t remember why I’d originally bought the game (other than it was on sale lol), but here was the perfect excuse to give it a go!

You play as a merchant named Will, who’s inherited the sole responsibility for his family’s shop- the titular Moonlighter. In this world, there seem to be two main aspirational jobs; that of the Hero and the Merchant. Heroes go out into the mysterious dungeons on the outskirts of town to collect goods, and merchants sell those goods. Will wants to become the first Hero-Merchant, and ventures off to find things he can then sell at his shop.

This illustrates the two main aspects of the game you’ll be playing through, dungeon crawling and shop simulation. The common thread between both is inventory management- picking which items you’ll be keeping from your dungeon crawls and how much you wanna sell them for.

Read the full review here...

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The Sims 3, 3DS

This and the following entry are a call and response, as I played them back to back when my hands had recovered just enough after my hospital visit to hold my 3DS in bed. I wasn’t originally going to write about these, but hey… it could be fun.

Unlike this game.

I thought it would be more fun in the early stages – the character models look so much nicer than Sims 3 DS, and allowed for a better, yet still limited, range of customisation. I just wanted to play out my OC Harland becoming the best nurse in the world while having a fun romance with Magus, but this game made that so difficult!

To start, yes, I’m so happy that you can make multiple sims and build relationships, AND YOU CAN WHOO HOO!!!!!!! But... they’re not the only aspect of playing The Sims, as you’re balancing their whole life. This was really frustrating to play here, as you don’t have any metres for basic needs. You can’t see the basics like hunger, hygiene, tiredness, ect, through some simple colour coded bars and see what needs attention, like in every other Sims game. No, the only way to know what your Sim needs is via any moodlet/wishes that pop up- and this sucks because they usually only popped up when something was way too urgent, or at the most inconvenient of times!

This bled into how difficult it was to manage your Sim’s personal, work and social life. This blind balancing act was so frustrating, and it’d become even more so, as the Sims were incredibly needy and seemed to be programmed against you…

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The Sims 3: Pets, 3DS

In the Polo to the previous’ Marco, this game was muuuuuch better to play! And, there’s pets!

Immediately, the gameplay was more fun because I CAN SEE THE METRES FOR EVERYONE!!!!! I can tell when they’re hungry or stinky or lonely or tired, it should’t have to be said, but I’m so glad it’s there. You can even see these for your pets, so it’s easier for them to immediately feel like part of the family as you balance their needs as well.

The basic gameplay is the same as previous, but better and more balanced to let you play how you want a little bit more – though I found that it was still a bit tricky, as the Sims were very needy and things were still balanced against you, just less egregiously, so I didn’t mind. All the things you can do with your humans, you can do an equivalent of with your pets – this means you can help them build their skills with their owners, or alone, and there is always something to do, even if all the humans in the household are out to work or asleep. If you’re close enough with your pet, you can even bring them to work, and depending on your pet’s skills, you may be able to get a promotion too!

Read the full review here...

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Donut County, PS4

A simple premise for a simple game – you control a hole, and need to swallow up stuff.

I like that, I had fun playing.

This was a shorter indie game, and I remember when it was a hyped up fad years ago. I saw it on sale while I was getting Katamari as a game that’d have easier controls while my wrists and hands were still recovering from my trip to the hospital, so… why not?

I finished the game in one sitting, over an hour or two, and have come back to play it now and then when the itch hits. I really like the simple puzzle elements of swallowing items into the hole and getting progressively bigger as you swallow more stuff. In later levels, there are more mechanics added to this, like absorbing water which makes items float instead of getting swallowed, or a catapult that you can launch recently swallowed items up into the sky with. These get a few chances to evolve and force you to think about how to interact with the environment and solve the puzzle of swallowing up everything.

Read the full review here...

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Katamari Darmacy: Reroll, PS4

What a weird little game! A really fun one, but super weird. This one has been in my peripheral for years, and I’ve been wanting to play for a while - so it was nice to finally have the excuse to get it.

The game is pretty simple – there’s stuff everywhere, and you need to roll it up! You play as the little Prince, and have a self-absorbed father- The King of All Cosmos, who talks in exclusively in record scratches -who tasks you with rolling up stuff to turn into stars and refill the sky after he destroyed it. To do so, you will be dumped into an area and told to roll up a certain amount of stuff in a certain amount of time, and if you do a good enough job, you’ll get a slightly less condescending response from the King.

The vibe is really fun, with low poly models of everything and a distinctly jazzy soundtrack, bringing a unique and charismatic charm to the game. It’s easy to see why it became a bit of a cult classic, and still seems to be held in high regard from what I’ve seen; it’s genuinely pleasant to play when you get the hang of the controls and immerse yourself in the humour of it all. There are cutscenes here and there following two young children who notice the stars in the sky have disappeared, only to be dismissed by their mother. The more you fill the sky with stars, the more you’ll see what they’re up to, which is a funny but nice way to see your progress.

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Hitman: Blood Money, PS4

Having fallen in love with the World of Assassination Trilogy, I was curious about the previous entries in the series and wanted to see more of how Hitman came to be. I often hear everyone hype up Blood Money as the best one, so... why not start there?

The story is framed through a series of flashbacks during a conversation between a former FBI director and a journalist. They are discussing the many run-ins they’ve had with the elusive Agent 47, segueing into the missions you play. There’s background information you’ll notice if you pay attention, like the controversial nature of clones and how the current vice president is involved in some kind of political ploy for a rival agency to the one 47 works for. I won’t lie, the plot felt a little messy and melodramatic to me, so it wasn’t the easiest to follow along with, but on the whole it was engaging enough to keep me interested.

The game starts with a great tutorial, that- while a bit hand-holdy and linear -gave a thorough introduction to all of the main mechanics you’ll need to play the game. There’s basic stuff; like changing outfits, sneaking around, hiding bodies, and using various weapons and distractions to your advantage – but there’s also more advanced mechanics to be mindful of, like how to smuggle weapons, poison food and drink, setting up accidental kills and using people as covers while shooting. Some are more polished than others, with some feeling well executed for what it is, and others leaving a little to be desired.

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Power Wash Simulator, Switch

I wasn’t going to write about this, as I didn’t think there’d be much to say… but I got addicted.

And of course I have a lot to say.

After spending something like 300+ hours with the game this year, it’s safe to say I enjoyed it. So much so, that it became a danger for me to play. It was a great brain-off comfort while struggling with long term chronic pain and recovering from my hospital trip, and even when I’d worked hard and started to get a bit better physically, I’d still lose days to this game. I even bought the Shrek DLC (which was pretty fun), and would end up just mindlessly replaying my favourite levels over and over simply out of habit.

So, what do you do in this game?

You clean shit with a pressurised water spray. That’s pretty much it.

If you find no satisfaction with that kinda thing, then this isn’t the game for you! The more I played, however, the more I noticed some of the quirks and cool features of this game. So lets get into it.

To start with, this is a game played in first person, and you control the nozzle of your water gun. Walking around and aiming the water is pretty standard for dual sticks, but you can press a button to hold the camera still and only move the nozzle if that’s what you’d like. The main goal is to clean something that’s filthy, and at the end of every level you get to watch a little speed run of your cleaning. When replaying levels (and knowing what angle this speed run view is) I found it fun to clean away the dirt in patterns that’d be more interesting to watch sped up- it’s like one last treat at the end!

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JoJo's Bizzare Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, PS4

In my endeavours to try new things this year, I decided to play Eyes of Heaven while I stayed at my friend’s house a couple times this year. I’d watched JJBA parts 1-5 with her when we lived together, and had actually bought her this game as a gift - so why not give it a go?

I have historically not enjoyed fighting games; I just don’t understand the techniques or skill expected of me as a player, and the mechanics so often feel like they're held together with duct tape, resulting in button mashing being your best bet. Knowing this, I genuinely made an effort to try and learn what this game is asking of me, and figure out the best techniques to fight in my favour. That said, there was still a lot of button mashing- but that works. All I really expected from a JoJo game was to muda-muda-muda my way through enemies, and you can definitely do that!

The story was a lot more than I was expecting, and certainly was bizarre; so I was glad that there was a through-line, however vague, to keep players invested and show some sort of progress. The game didn’t recreate or adapt storylines straight from JoJo, rather, combined all of them vaguely in it’s own thing. There’s temporal/inter-dimensional rifts opening up and causing havoc, which connects to various points in the JoJo series. There are a bunch of enemies to fight, and for some reason, friends of the various JoJo’s are acting strange too! You’ll fight friend and foe alike, slowly revealing that you need to collect scattered parts of a holy corpse to save your friends, defeat your enemies, and get to the bottom of all this strangeness. It’s as simple as a JoJo plot can be, and was a clever way to have all the JoJo’s and pals across various points in time (and dimensions!) team up and fight their enemies.

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Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, DS

As someone who loves Paper Mario 64, I was talking with a friend about it, and he mentioned that he LOVES this game. It’s a game pitched to me as similar enough to the other Mario RPGs, but not quite the same as Paper Mario. I didn’t know anything about the game, and don’t think I’d really heard of the Mario and Luigi series properly until he brought it up, so why not give it a go?

Immediately upon booting, I noticed that this game world seemed quite flavourful and full of character, which was nice to see! I miss this sort of thing in Mario games, and it’s not something I’d expect to see out of any mainline 2D or 3D Mario games, especially not these days.

The plot started strong – the Mushroom Kingdom has been overrun with an epidemic of… the blorbs! Those suffering with a case of the blorbs will find themselves ballooned in size, feeling quite rotund, and unable to do anything. It’s quite the problem, so Peach holds an emergency meeting to figure out what to do. Starlow, a representative of the Star Sprites (who will be known as Chippy for most the game), has been sent to help, but even she can’t cure the blorbs. Just as Mario and Luigi arrive to this meeting, Bowser makes and appearance too. This causes a ruckus, he gets upset when he sees Mario, and havoc ensues.

Read the full review here...

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Fear and Hunger, PC/Mac

I wanted one last game to play before wrapping up the year and writing these, and I had two games on my computer that I really wanted to get to, but didn’t get the chance to squeeze both in because of my health issues this year. I was lamenting over this with my bestie, and they suggested I do a coin flip.

Funny, that, as flipping a coin is not just a mechanic of the game, but something I consider to be the main motif of everything this game is about. But, I’m getting ahead of myself here. This game is dreadful, leaves you feeling heavy and ick-ed out- and I love it for that.

Before I get too far into this review, I do want to preface some warnings about the game. It has a lot of dark and disturbing themes, and does not shy away from them – so take the trigger warnings seriously. I cannot talk about this game without covering the subject matter in depth, and I do not want to gloss over it for the sake of being ‘palatable,’ as that defeats the point. If depictions and discussion of nudity, sexual content, rape, drug use, substance abuse, suicide, bodily harm, dismemberment, or graphic depictions of violence and gore are too much for you, take this as the warning to skip over this one.

I went into this game pretty blind- all I knew is that it was an indie cult hit, the battle system intrigued me, and the dark themes drew me in. Now having played, I feel like that’s the optimal way to jump in; blindly trying to figure stuff out as you go. But, if you want a little more context, I’m certainly going to go in depth, so let’s get started.

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I played the "Fields of Mistria" Demo! Here's my thoughts:

(that title sounds like something a youtuber would say auuughhhhhhhh)

I found out about this game completely randomly and decided to give the demo a try. And surprisingly, or maybe not at all, I am completely taken with it and i can't wait to see how the game will develop! :D

So for now, until the 5th of August arrives, here's what i liked, disliked and what i wish to see in "Fields of Mistria" in the future <3

strap in yall it's a bit long. but there are photos! like. three of them skfjdkhfksj

Things I liked:

You don’t choose your character model’s sex. Also because all of the models being roughly the same size, there’s freedom to imagine your characters’ body type however you want. Surprisingly I also don't recall any of the characters assuming your gender based on your pronouns, which is nice.

Multiple pronouns options! My one suggestion would be to add a She/He option as well ^_^

Wide range of skin tones available. There’s currently 36 in the demo. (to compare, Stardew Valley has 24 and 10 of them are unusual colours like blue or green)

The fact that you can set your birthday on the calendar, although it doesn’t seem to do anything for now. In one of my playthroughs I set my birthday on the 3rd day of Spring, and the only thing that appeared was a pop up saying “It’s your birthday!”. Understandable, this is only the demo after all. I wonder if the early access will have characters react to your birthday and maybe even give you some gifts!

The few available hairstyles are really nice. My absolute favourite thing about hair in the demo was that it has a moving animation! Small detail but it really delighted me.

Same goes for clothes, they are cute!

The customization isn't locked and you can create a couple of outfits you can swap any time! You can also change everything about your character's looks at any time, including their pronouns.

The predetermined palette of colours you can choose your hair colour from is pretty good. There’s 40 colours so far.

I have a small problem with the opening cutscene but the rest of the beginning cutscenes are good! I like the one when you arrive at the bridge and meet Balor and the camera slides to him. And the Juniper cutscene haha

Now that I mentioned NPCs, I really like the cute, personalized animations they have, like Adeline snapping her fingers, Balor flicking his hair before walking away, Celine working in her garden, Josephine and Hemlock singing.

I absolutely love all of the character designs in this game. The 90s anime artstyle, colours, their poses and expressions. I really feel like this is the thing that really drew me to try this game as I wasn’t interested in a new farming simulator. But here I am! All with the power of anime. For example, here are the designs of the romanceable characters! The photo is from the Fields of Mistria website:

Another huge NPC win for me is that the characters interact with each other a lot! I noticed that a lot of them meet during the day and talk with little dialogue bubbles. It feels like the townspeople know each other quite well, I hope we get to learn even more about them and their dynamics!

One of the best things about interacting with characters is that you can talk to them multiple times during the day, getting a bunch of different dialogues. Once you talk to someone you have to wait either for them to change their location or for one of the other characters to approach them, to talk. I really like it since it means you get to interact with everyone couple times a day and it honestly makes the game more enjoyable.

From the little crumbs of lore we got, I am really intrigued about the setting. Prior to the player’s arrival to Mistria, the region has been hit by an earthquake. The disaster caused the main trading route bridge to collapse, the area getting destroyed and a lot of residents leaving the town. The town leader Adeline (daughter of a Baroness and Baron of Mistria) with her brother, Eiland's, help comes up with the idea to seek out an adventurer who could help to revitalize the town. We learn that Mistria is part of the Kingdom of Aldaria (so we have a monarchy), it has its own guardian deities and rich ancient history with the Sleeping Dragon Inn being a historical landmark and that magic is not hidden from people who can’t use it (Juniper freely uses magic in front of the kids in her cutscene after completing her request). Some characters offer some little hits to what their story might be about: Balor says that compared to Elsie he didn’t have a good time in the Capital, and other characters note how he is mysterious and obtains his wares in unknown ways. Elsie is a retired socialite from the Capital with many past romance stories to share, she probably knows a lot of interesting titbits about the Capital and people there. Juniper says that there’s something suspicious about Celine and Juniper herself is stuck in a town she doesn’t really seem to like but seemingly has something she needs to achieve here. When you meet March he slips for a second and says “I- We have everything under control” so it seems he views the player’s arrival as a threat to him in some way (emotionally i presume, not literally). Errol used to be a miner, Hayden can possibly talk to animals? And so much more. And of course, there’s the statue of dragon Caldarus who appears to be a marriageable character…? Anyways, I can’t wait to learn more about this setting!

I loved that you can talk with animals like Dozy and Henrietta, give them gifts and pet them. I really hope we can do the same with our pet.

The interior designs of all the buildings is extremely cute! I really like all of them, my favourite must be the Sleeping Dragon Inn, Celine’s cottage and the Carpenter’s Shop. Plus Elsie’s room at the manor and Hayden’s house.

I also like the beach a lot. It just feels nice and there’s a light house and I sure do love a light house /reference plus there's good ambience there

If you go to the manor there’s a portrait of the Baroness, the Baron and little Adeline and Eiland over the fireplace in the dining room :3

I really like Holt’s dad jokes. Pierre could never-

Guys I need Valen I need her

You are able to swim! It’s really cool and the animation is cute. Plus you can dive in certain spots to find stuff.

You can hold down the button to eat a bunch of food if you have multiple of something.

Saving your game having a form of a diary is very cute and I love that. Same with the crystal orb serving as a weather channel.

Fighting monsters feels dynamic! You actually have to put some thought into learning each individual monster’s behaviour and attack patterns. It’s challenging but not too hard. But they do quite a bit of damage at the start. Fighting that red mushroom felt like playing “Baba Jaga patrzy” again haha.

And speaking of fighting, i like our own character's fighting moves! But it took a bit to get used to them since they make the character move and it's not just. clicking with the mouse repeatedly skdhfjsf

I like the sound design!

Soundtrack is very nice. Not all of it is very memorable but it’s nice while you listen to it and it fits the game. There are some tracks that already got stuck in my head :] I like the one that plays at the Blacksmith, it’s intense for no reason, just like March lol

I cannot stop gushing about the characters, so far even just from the designs they all feel like they have distinct personalities and each one of them has their own thing going on. They all feel so warm and welcoming even if their actions aren’t (looking at you March). I don’t know, something about the artstyle, the pixels, design and colour palette just has me very enamoured with them. I really hope their character arcs or stories will deliver.

I like Caldarus. And the music that plays when he first speaks to us in our dream.

The museum is so nice. Also I love that Errol is an actual character we can talk to… Unlike another museum curator I know /j

You can buy stuff from shops even if no one is around!

Level tenth of the Mines… I’m SO intrigued

I like that there’s magic and can’t wait to see what other spells we can learn!

You can craft at the crafting station in town even if you don’t have the necessary materials on your person, but they are in chests at the farmhouse. As long as the stuff you need is in your chests you can craft stuff which is pretty cool.

Lastly, what I really loved about playing the demo is that not once did I feel rushed to do anything. Farming simulators often make you feel like you have to maximize your time in the day *cough* SDV *cough* and I do enjoy that sometimes, but other times I just want to chill. Somehow Fields of Mistria demo achieves this feeling of not having to rush and playing at your own pace and it feels great.

Things I disliked:

Not a lot of things mentioned here are going to be stuff I actively disliked, more like felt annoyed or confused by. And before any of my little complaints gets the “this is only a demo!” response, let me assure you: I am aware. If things change before or after the early release that’s great! This is specifically what I find ‘meh’ about the demo so far.

When the opening cutscene in Adeline’s office starts playing the room is positioned oddly on the screen. I think it’s so later the camera can follow the characters’ movements but when the cutscene starts and you only see the bottom half of the room at an angle, it feels really weird, like the room wasn’t centred by accident.

I’d love for the character creator to have the option to rotate the model of your character. I think it would be good to see what the options you picked look like from different angles before you jump into the game. Although the customization isn’t locked and you can change how you look whenever. Still, this could be a nice option

So I just said that the colour palette for hair is pretty good. Can’t say the same about the other ones, for eyes and clothes. The colours we get aren’t bad but I feel like there’s too little of them. Speaking of eye colours…

Choosing the eye colour is annoying. Once you pick an eye shape (cool feature btw) a window pops up in the middle of the screen with eye colours. The icons are too small to see the eye colour properly, especially when you want to compare the darker colours. I had to move my face closer to the screen to see what was I picking. And after you pick something the window disappears and you can see the colour you chose on the model. Okay, cool but now if I want to try out different options it I have to open the window again. Constantly opening the colours window to check other options is tedious and a bit frustrating. What I think would be good instead is once you click to choose the colours, next to the options appears a close up of your character model, and the window doesn’t close until you click an “X” button. To sum up my main problems are colour options visibility and the colour picking mechanic. Hair colour and colours for clothes and other stuff is picked in the same way BUT all of those elements are bigger than the four pixels the eyes are made out of.

The controls are not obvious. The game shows you to progress dialogues with “E” key but nothing aside from that. I didn’t realise until the last day of my first playthrough that you can jump, because in my previous experiences, 2D RPG, and especially farming simulator games don’t usually have that option, and the only instance of jumping happened in a cutscene, so I thought it was just an animation for the cutscene. I think it would be a good opportunity to use that moment in the cutscene for brief player interaction so they can learn how to jump, however silly that sounds. I think the player’s experience would benefit from a controls tutorial, in form of a window popping up or them showing up on the side of the screen like in Stardew Valley on the first day.

While interior designs are really cool I feel like the outside is kinda empty. Not so much the building but the areas around them. It is felt the most in the empty stretches of land outside the town but running through the paved roads in it can also feel a bit odd. Like the area is too empty. It’s definitely not a problem on the farm due to all the overgrown grass but everywhere else you really feel like it’s just a flat stretch of nothing. I think adding some more details could be nice, maybe some streetlights, plants, a bit more texture on surfaces.

I had a really odd moment that took me out entirely. While playing the demo you can get Juniper’s request on the board to bring her a Lilac. Once you complete it, a cutscene set at the bathhouse will start playing right away, regardless of where were you when you completed the request. This felt incredibly jarring to me. The first time I did this request I gave the Lilac at the bathhouse, but the second time it was late evening at Valen’s house. So it was pretty surprising to be essentially teleported to a completely different place. I don’t think it’s a great mechanic. It would be better if a cutscene set at a specific place on the map started when you arrive there, to help it feel more coherent.

As much as I like the warm and cozy feel of the characters, it felt like there wasn’t a lot of variety in reactions to the player’s arrival. Everyone except I think literally one person is all cheery. I don’t mind this that much, cause the community being excited for your arrival feels sweet. It makes sense with the story too, the player is there to help out around the town, and who living there wouldn’t be happy about that? I just really hope the character’s don’t end up with poorly defined personalities, that’s my main concern for now about the story. It would be tragic if the game only ended up having cute designs but nothing else. Needless to say I have pretty high hopes for the final version! I really hope it works out and I’m 100% rooting for the team.

The inventory system had me kinda confused at the start. The spaces are all in one line in game but once you open your journal they’re stacked on top of each other? Yeah took me a bit to get used to that, and I’m not sure how I feel about it still.

The user interface is very cute, I have one problem though. It’s hard to tell what a lot of the little icons mean, for example, when you open the chest there’s a chest icon next to the two arrows that sort stuff. I have no clue what it does and when you’re hovering over it, it doesn’t have a name or an explanation either.

You can’t hold down mouse button to use tools continuously. This is because when you upgrade your tools, for example a pickaxe, when you hold it down you get to mine more spaces at the same time. I’m not sure if that exchange is worth it.

You have to click one by one if you want to throw multiple items out in the inventory trashcan.

It’s a shame you can’t land on rocks/big water lily leaves on the water. And you can’t walk into the sea, you have to specifically jump into it. This isn’t really a complaint, I just think I’d be cool if you could just slowly walk into the sea. Like slowly getting submerged.

I feel like the scroll wheel directions are odd… Scrolling upwards will move you to the right of the inventory but I feel like it should be the other way… Maybe it can be changed later in settings.

The buildings on the map are not named. It would be nice if, when you hover over an area you see its name.

Credits get blurry when moving. It hurt my eyes :(

Things I hope to see in the Early Access (and in the game in general):

Interactivity within interiors. So like looking at bookshelves to see what books a character has, reading letters or notebooks that were left out, finding some stuff in their drawers… Basically snooping haha. Oh and more interactivity with objects placed outside too. Right now there are some signs and items you can't interact with, like that tent by the dig site.

More settings for in-game scale! It would be cool if there was one between 3x and 2x, like a 2.5x.

The ability to sell stuff directly at shops. Sometimes you need money but waiting until the next day would ruin your plans.

Sitting! I wanna sit in spots next to the characters and vibe :]

While I do like available colours, I think adding a colour wheel or sliders would be neat.

I wonder what are gender identities and sexual orientations of the characters :]

More clothes and hair options obviously! And furniture as well

What gets implemented for the player’s birthday

How the museum exhibition will look like :D

Lastly, I might be way out of my depth with this one but it would be cool if the romanceable characters could also move in with you platonically… Or if there was a character like Krobus, a little friend you can invite to live with you <3

And that's it :] sorry for the stardew comparison, it's like the only farming sim i'm very familiar with

I've been enjoying playing the demo a lot and i definitely will play more before it closes. And i will for sure be following the development and waiting for the early access in august!

it was a really fun experience over all and if ur interested i reccomend you try it out :D

cya

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Machina - Epilogue 1

Author: Kino Seitaro (with Akira)

Characters: Mika, Shu, Sora, Makoto

Translator: Mika Enstars

"We’ve had a painful experience due to equipment troubles before… Oshi-san didn’t say anything, but he seemed to be worried."

[Read on my blog for the best viewing experience with Oi~ssu ♪]

Season: Winter

Location: ES Live Stage Backstage

A couple weeks later, backstage at the venue for Valkyrie’s live…

Sora: HaHa~, HiHi~, HuHu~!

There’s so many things backstars, it’s exciting looking at them~!

Makoto: It’s dangerous if you move around too much, Harukawa-kun!

There’s a lot of video equipment in the area, even the slightest touch can shift their positions. It might be best to sit tight for a while.

Sora: Ah, Sora didn’t mean to get so excited!

Sora never expected to be called to work backstage with everyone! It’s way different than the backstages for Switch, so it’s really interesting~! ♪

Makoto: Ahaha, I also thought “there’s no way” when I first heard, too! The theme for Valkyrie’s live here is the fusion of digital technology and art.

The game company had apologized for what happened in the Test World.

That led to a strange sequence of events that ended up with them requesting the game company to be in charge of the live video.

Sora: But thanks to it, now Sora and the others can also work with the latest technology! It’s a win-win!

There’s a lot of expensive equipment being lent that most people normally cannot get their hands on, so Sora’s looking forward to seeing what kind of live this will be~! ♪

Mika: Nnah, Sora-kun, Mako-kun, thanks for yer hard work! So the both of ya are backstage, huh? I thought ya had already returned to the reserved guest’s seats!

Thank ya fer helpin’ bring in all that equipment. The staff said that they couldn’t have done it without ya~!

Sora: Nah, Sora also feels bad for the trouble Sora caused Mika-chan-san. So it’s an apology~!

At the start it helped Mika-chan-san get out of his slump, but in the end it turned into something amazing!

Makoto: That seriously was a super-mega raid battle, wasn’t it~?

It was fun in it’s own way, but it’s undeniable your efforts haven’t been rewarded. So the least I can do is to help out a little.

…What can I say, I’m just an equipment geek interested in live performances that utilize the latest technology. So I’m sorry for mixing up my public and private life, I guess?

Mika: Nah, no worries, no worries. We’re a household of two, so any help we can get is greatly appreciated!

Besides, it’s all thanks to the Test World I got to become savvy with the digital. I’m glad I was able t’experience both the good and the bad! ♪

Sora: HeHe~, then Sora’s glad too~!

And it looks like Mika-chan-san’s all changed into his outfit for the performance too, everything’s all ready to go~! ♪

Mika: Mhm, and Oshi-san gave me perfect maintenance, so I’m all good to go!

If anythin’, I’m more worried ‘bout the equipment. We’ve had a painful experience due to equipment troubles before… Oshi-san didn’t say anything, but he seemed to be worried.

So I thought to do a final check before all preparations are finished. You can never be too sure ‘bout things like this, can ya?

Makoto: That’s right. It’s easy to get carried away with something new and not think about the risks involved.

…Wait, why am I saying that? I’m the guy in Trickstar who always feels like he’s gotta come up with new things!

Sora: Rest assured! Switch is always enthusiastic about new ventures!

As long as Sora and Yuuki-sense~ are here, all equipment troubles will be prevented from happening~! ☆

Mika: Ahaha, yer right, yer very reliable.

You’ve been a real help, no kiddin’. It’s thanks to the help of all sort’sa people that we Valkyrie are able to further our own pursuit in art.

If ya could watch our live to the very end, I’d be real happy. ♪

Shu: Kagehira, it’s about time to begin. Don’t go and relax, you must keep a sense of tenseness.

This live, Machina… Will be a live with a new song based on our experience of the virtual world.

The stage production involves a number of monitors, so this live will require more control than usual.

Mika: Ahaha, I’ll do my best, do dont’cha worry, Oshi-san!

Shu: Hmph. You’ll lose your footing if you’re able to talk lightheartedly like that.

Well, I shall trust your autonomy here. You are no longer someone who is constantly chasing me.

With autonomy comes responsibility. So you must work harder than ever.

Mika: Nnah~… That’s different than what ya usually say, Oshi-san.

Well, that makes it easier fer me too. With yer eyes shining, Oshi-san, I can stand up straight, y’know?

Let’s create a performance of wonderful art, Oshi-san! ♪

Shu: Yes, and I’ll be living up to the theme this time too.

To control, to direct, and to express all—Not even a god upon a machine shall be able to get in the way.

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20 questions for fic writers

i felt like doing one of these lmao

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

30! Which most of them are for Nameless lmao

2. What's your total A03 word count?

304.751, about to go up again lol, probably another 80k in this month, 268,863 have been in 2023, lol. I spent a large portion of time not writing, but after my breakup this year I've started writing frequently again.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now really just pokemon, if something else comes to me I'll write it, I'm working on a dragon ball z fic, but I don't touch it a ton.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

This is sad for me cause they all suck. I wrote them late high school early college, and they're all based on the Avengers movies (although one i think may have been the comics) it's a huge fandom, and I've had them up for 10 years so (god it's been that long already???) All of my good marvel 616 fics are missing, buried in a discord that I don't have access to anymore and word docs from a computer long since recycled

But in order, I feel Salem, Astronaut, Almost Honest, Wicked Games, The Whole World Was Moving But I was Standing Still (God what was with my names then lol)

Please don't read them haha

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! Sometimes I miss them, but I try to respond when I see them, even a few weeks/months later. I really appreciate comments, and I feel like I've made some friends through them, or at least they comment on stuff I write, and I can reference my other fics to them lol, though they can totally make friends on here or discord, happy to talk to anyone. I've had people tell me I inspired them to write which is seriously the highest honor.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

ummmm prolly the one where Tony dies after Steve cheats on him, I think that one is 616 based, but don't quote me, or go read it, the writing is...undeveloped, I think at that point I just started writing them, my characterizations weren't great, they got better but none of that is available lol

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Ummmmm maybe Ode to my Soulmate? I can't do sad endings for the most part, my philosophy is real life sucks so I always try to make happy endings, Frank Left has a nice ending, that one gets almost no love, but I adore it.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I'm not good enough/big enough to get hate, lmao. Smaller fandom now, i think there might be some negative comments on the marvel ones but I haven't read those in yearsss.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I'm trying, Oral Fixation is my most recent published, but I'm working on one where Green gives Red a blowie in his Neo Champ uniform from masters, i've been writing that since the neochampion uniforms came out months ago ahha. I'm not great at smut, but I'm practicing, fun fact I learned how to give a bj through fanfics, and used to get compliments all the time in my younger sluttier years lol (Pre-kid haha)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Not anymore, I used to do 101 dalmatian crossovers lol, i doubt any are published, maybe on fanfic.net but i don't even remember my username haven't touched that since like 2011, i used to do x-men crossovers where various characters would have mutant powers, but i doubt those are published either.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so? I'm probably too small to get that kind of notice. I always welcome people to steal my aus and write their own fic with it (not copy paste my stuff, but write out the au the way they come up with with their own words)

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I doubt it, but anyone can, I might end up translating one or two when I finally start learning a new language, or maybe improve my output on spanish (i can read it but not write/speak/listen well lmao)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yeah but this was high school and I don't think we ever posted them, again might be on fanfic.net, but like I don't even remember my username

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I don't have a favorite, maybe reguri, or 616!stony which i don't read much anymore but will always hold a place in my heart, my oldest ship is probably rougexgambit

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Blood Bank- but only because there is no ending, I'm going to continue that thing for the rest of my life, (at least quarterly updates lol although working on a new chapter now), there's also a reguri one that i wrote like 10k words on after i first started writing again, but it sucks ass, I don't love the plot to rewrite, I've written a lot more better stuff for them

16. What are your writing strengths?

I feel like I do pretty well with hints/twists. Certain characters I'm really good at writing, feel like I've gotten really good at world building, and coming up with off the wall aus. IDK i'm not good at pointing out my strengths.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Everything not listed above? Lol. No, probably missing edits and not noticing them until I'm reading the fic months later, I'm getting better at pacing and general flow, sometimes I overdo it on dialog, and leave out movement. Smut too, but i'm working on everything, the key is to just keep writing, also too many fics going at once,

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I typically don't do it unless I know the language, I'll just put it in english and say they said it in whatever lang. So like for Kalos I just say they're speaking Kalosian lol

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I used to tell stories with 101 dalmatians, but the first I ever actually wrote was from Stargate SG-1, I was like 10ish, I didn't post it, it's long since been trashed, but I was obsessed with Carter/O'neil and wanted them to adopt Cassie (i think that was her name, it's been years since I watched that show), first published is probably x-men i remember writing phoenix's force fics and posting on fanfic, might have done a ginnyxdraco for harry potter. These would be on my old fanfic.net or possibly livejournal, i don't remember,

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I write all my fics for myself, so i really love them all, and go back and reread them often lol

Unfinished, Under the Alolan Sun and Blood Bank, those are my passion projects, I have fun writing them,

finished, either The Most Expansive Collection of Champion Red Merch in All of Kanto (probably one of my least angsty lol) or How to Beat Champion Red at Something (my silly little ficlet about Red being a picky eater, i just giggle when i reread it)

Ode to My Soulmate is also up there.