#i dont make the rules its just how things are

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 727: The training camp's first battle!!

Pag 1

1: Oh, Touji-kun

Thank you so much for this year, too

2: Everyone else has already started running

Yeah, I was a little late with preparations

You have some lively first years

Thanks

3: It's the third time you stay here, so you can just park wherever

Thank you so much

4: It started already?

The “training camp”

5: It has already started

Pag 2

1: The first battle that will decide the Inter High's positions

3: The first “buddies battle”!!

Pag 3

1: E.... everyone has to pair up... choose their “buddy” and run, that's the rule of this training camp...

Huh.... Murakami.... your....

2: “Buddy”....

7: Is the second year Kaburagi-san!?

Pag 4

1: But... wait, our partner... shouldn't it be.... a fellow first year... huh!?

2: Can he do this!?

4: After all, before the start, Naruko-san only said.... “choose a partner among these people”!!

5: But the idea of choosing a second year senpai....

He played that card?

6: I didn't have good results in the first years' race

7: During the first years' race, at first, when Kinaka said we should accelerate

Pag 5

1: A small fry just fell, should we accelerate a little, Murakami-kun?

He's a nice guy. I think this pace is fine

I stopped Kinaka from accelerating and shaking off Rokudai

2: Now I regret being “nice”!!

5: After that Rokudai followed us on the mountain and the was at the top on the climb!! And even though he retired after that

6: He joined as a member in the qualifiers and his results were recognized!!

Seeing all that, I

Pag 6

1: I swore I would never show mercy to anyone!!

2: He opened them!!

Murakami's eyes!!

3: Let's go , Kaburagi-san

Let's quickly get rid of those who get in our way!!

But wait, why did Kaburagi-san pair up with Murakami

4: Uh... Murakami, you said “those who get in our way”....

No but Kaburagi-san is so fast!!

Pag 7

1: He got ahead of the line in a second!! And Murakami followed him!!

3: Please accelerate!!

4: Wait, Murakami! Oi, stop! That guy participated in the Inter High last year when he was a first year....

And he competed for the sprint line on the first and third day, too....

No, wait-

If you accelerate now, we....

Pag 8

1: Houru-

Pag 9

1: aaaaaaaagh

2: This is bad, waaaa

Follow them!! We have to follow them

Don't get left behind!!

Pag 10

1: Don't get lef.... ugh- waaaaa

So fast!! Dammit!!

3: Amazing!! So this is Kaburagi-san's acceleration!!

The legs that during the Inter High fought on par against Hakogaku!!

4: If I didn't know the timing and didn't bring myself as close to him as possible to cut the wind resistance, I would have been left behind too!!

5: But other than me, the other first years

Pag 11

2: Yes, we got rid of them!!

3: Haha.... hahaha!! I'll go to the Inter High!! That's why I joined Sohoku!!

4: Next, the second years... and then the third years!!

Pag 12

1: Straight road!!

2: Kinaka and Rokudai!!

They sticked close to us on the opposite side!!

Pag 13

1: You're keeping up, Rokudai!!

Somehow.... yeah, teh!!

2: You two again, dammit!!

They're entering the climb, teh!!

Pag 14

4: What a relief... they're not attacking on the climb for now....!!

Yeah

It's tough to keep up with that pace

5: But they'll attack at some point, so don't relax your attention, Rokudai

Yeah, teh

6: I'll keep an eye on Murakami's movement, if he starts moving I'll give you a signal!!

I'll leave it to you, teh!!

8: But Murakami's facial expression is difficult to read!!

Pag 15

1: First lap, clear!!

2:  1)Kaburagi; 2)  Murakami; 3) Kinaka; 4) Rokudai

3: Kaburagi, Murakami, me, and Rokudai!!

We cleared it almost at the same time!!

4: Suddenly.... the first lap was so hard? Kinaka-kun

5: Ah... well!! It's probably gonna get harder from here on

Look, behind us, there are no

6: first years following!!

Pag 17

1: Dammit!!

Wa-

2: Kinaka-kun is a road racer, so of course he turns around to check behind at key points!!

And since Rokudai clings to him, he looked behind too!!

3: That was our sign to accelerate, Kinaka!!

I told you I would show no mercy!!

4: Let's keep going like this, Kaburagi-san!!

Pag 18

1: We left them behind!!

Murakamii!!

2: Hahaha.... like this, I'll be the top among the first years....!!

3: Hahaha the top!!

4: Danchiku....

6: This is bad!!

Pag 19

1: It's- it's okay, Kaburagi-san! Danchiku-san said he'd just be a little late and come with Kanzaki-san's car, didn't he?

2: Yeah.... you think he will really come, Murakami?

3: He will definitely come!!

Yes!! And he'll be as healthy as ever!!

4: I believe so!!

5: Yeah!! You're right

You're a nice guy, Murakami

6: Ah but we promised I'll be your temporary buddy until Danchiku-san comes

Honestly, I'll be sad when he comes!! I really want to run all 1000km with Kaburagi-san!!

Pag 20

1: Just until Danchiku-san comes, is that okay, please

Hm... well anyone will do, if it's not Danchiku..

2: Until then, thank you!!

What do we do next?

Let's keep going atthis pace, please!!

5: Ah?

6: Danchiku-san?

7: No.... he won't come, right?

Even I can see that his condition is bad

Pag 21

1: He has a serious innjury or some other problem, right!?

2: He won't come, that guy!!

3: You and me will keep running like this until the end, Kaburagi-san!!

Pag 22

1: Can you see it, Danchiku?

2: Those guys are struggling to understand the course

3: … yes!!

[vigilskeep]

when you first start the cousland origin, you can have some conversations with arl howe, teyrn cousland, and duncan that shed some interesting light on the political situation in ferelden. it’s definitely the origin where you get the most context on the rebellion and on cailan and his father. while howe isn’t exactly the most trustworthy of sources, he is also one of the most openly critical of cailan that we have access to, which i think is worthy of interest

howe remembers maric with what the toolset describes as “genuine fondness”: “your father hasn’t spoken of our time with him? that man took care of his friends. as they say, he was large as life and twice as tall!” i think we should pay particular attention to that man took care of his friends.

what howe’s talking about is a really important aspect of kingship, where you win the consent and enthusiasm of the nobility for your rule by offering rewards like wealth, land, and prestige to the loyal. kingship is always less stable than it’s portrayed, and this is one of the ways that kings must essentially sell to the nobility that answering to them is worth their time, which would be especially important in ferelden given everything we know about its culture. fereldans believe someone only has power when it is given by the loyalty of those below them, who have the right to freely rescind that loyalty. the dao codex says that “the sight of [fereldan kings] asking for—and working to win—the support of ‘lesser’ men is a source of constant wonder to foreign ambassadors.”

i suspect howe is remembering a maric fresh from the victories of the rebellion, who was able to reward those who had followed him with the spoils of those victories. at the end of the stolen throne, we see that in the final days of the rebellion, maric was killing those who had betrayed his mother to the orlesians even when they arrived under truce to meet him on holy ground. in dao, we see no lingering orlesian nobility except for those who married in and continue to be met with marked hostility. i think we can safely surmise that maric elected to make no conciliatory measures and give everything to those who had followed him; with the orlesians on the run and his people out for blood, he was in a strong enough position to do so, and it certainly served to win the fond memories of men like howe.

by contrast, howe goes on to say, “it’s too bad cailan isn’t half that.” the toolset notes establish very clearly that it’s the same issue, elaborating on howe’s thoughts: “bitter turn, i don’t get as much from the current king”, and “disdainful, i have no use for him, he does me no favours”. this isn’t a minor character detail, if howe’s last words when killed by the player are anything to go by. “maker spit on you... i deserved... more...” whatever it is that howe feels he should have been given, by the crown or anyone else, it characterises his actions and his defining treachery.

it’s in these same conversations that we see another side of this demonstrated. there are two points where howe can openly criticise the king, and bryce immediately admonishes him for both. one even has the toolset note: “speaks sharply, as a lord to a lesser man, not a friend to an equal”. it definitely comes across that way; the way he tells howe “that’s enough” is not far off the voice he uses when the player, his child, displeases him. bryce can’t tolerate any criticism of cailan, as the couslands in dao are ardent supporters of the king. to venture some hc, i suspect that this is not merely royalist fervour, and that howe’s resentment for having been given less is matched by bryce’s awareness of the precariousness of having more.

over the centuries, the theirins have consolidated their power and eradicated almost all the teyrns (the noble rank that is second only to the king). with the only other lingering teyrn being loghain, who is essentially part and parcel of the royal family, the couslands stand alone as the only real rivals to theirin power within ferelden. there are rumours that bryce was once considered for king instead of the theirins; he too could have decided to believe he “deserved more”. but unlike howe, and perhaps understandably given his strong position and happy growing family, he is satisfied with what he has. he will not take the risk of even the slightest challenge being made within his hall

(i expect that bryce’s satisfaction with the current situation further spurred howe’s dissatisfaction to its heights, given the complicated cousland-howe history and the fact that he was expected to accept a friend he had fought beside as a superior for the rest of his life.)

i don’t think howe’s judgement on cailan is likely to be without basis. we don’t hear about any victories the young king has to his name, from which he could have passed around spoils. (to be fair, cailan had harder luck than maric in this regard. a king who raises a successful rebellion gets to bring glory and prestige to everyone who follows him, whereas a king trying to rebuild after that rebellion mostly gets to bring, uh, taxes probably. especially on wealthy centres of trade like howe’s amaranthine, one might assume.) cailan also takes a far more diplomatic approach to the question of orlais, which perhaps predictably did not win over many nobles of howe’s generation. it makes sense that cailan’s strongest supporters would instead be men like bryce who hope for things to simply continue, peacefully, as they are. perhaps in another world where cailan had won the battle of ostagar, he might have earned wider respect. (you could actually argue on this basis that there’s more sense and purpose to cailan’s glory-seeking than he usually gets credit for.) but howe already acts before ostagar, which can only demonstrate his certainty in cailan’s failings at this point: his belief that even if cailan could win, he would not be stable enough to pursue justice for the couslands

[fatedroses]

Man meets Morbol

[sparklecryptid]

I had no patience for people policing other peoples ships before i went to library tech school and library tech school has make me a little bit pissy about the entire thing actually.

[dykedvonte]

An independent Courier would actually hate being in charge or enforcing standards in New Vegas. At least in my mind.

They made Vegas independent but I feel like that playthrough/style so clearly makes it apparent it isn't for them. They are making Vegas a place where people can live freely, like how House genuinely didn't care what people did but without the behind-the-scenes Big Brother surveillance he did. Having every family, faction, and other influence group or person comes to them about alliances or rules would be draining, and boring, one note.

In an independent Vegas, The Courier is also Independent. They like getting rid of lines and borders that impede freedom, they like to help give people the tool but I don't believe they want to be the one to shape it.

[absolutelyzoned]

one awesome fact about me is that if i dont agree with a rule i simply dont follow it. i am so stubborn and my family hates me for it ❤️❤️

[bunnieswithknives]

sorry if idk this but what do you think about Wordgirl now in 2024 do you still like it do you still want to make art or talk about it or are you just done with all of it forever and plus i seen that you haven't made art of it since 2022 so you just done with all of it oh yeah and what about The Magnus Archives + Wordgirl ao3 fic too like is that just going to be and i know that your working on 2 au's now just wanting to know that's all

My interests tend to come in intense bursts and then fade. Unless something like, big happens like it gets a reboot its unlikely I'll be coming back to it anytime soon. As for the fic I don't have any current plans to finish it unfortunately.

[ratatatastic]

"Battle of Alberta, right? It was my first game: Calgary, Edmonton. We would play them in the preseason, and you know—trying to make the team I'd always be asking him to fight in preseason, always. I'd be runnin' my mouth—like, tryna fight the biggest, baddest guys, tryna make an impression.

And he would never fight me. He'd always tell me, like If you make the team, I'll fight ya. You don't have to worry about that, but I'm not fightin' ya preseason. And I totally respect it, I'm not gonna chase him down. It is what it is. He's established—I'm looking for my chance.

So I get called up, we're playing Edmonton in Edmonton: Battle of Alberta. [He's] over there on the other side, and it's like the coolest thing ever... you know, the buildup was crazy 'cuz I knew if the opportunity presented itself—if the game went the way I hoped it would, I would get an opportunity to fight him.

I remembered in warmups tryna skate by the redline initially just kind-of gettin' a feel for it—to see if I have to say something or whatever... He's got no bucket on, his big, bald head is glarin' around, he skates by the redline with the biggest smile on his face, and just gives me the biggest wink...

At that moment I knew Okay, he remembers. It's gonna happen at some point.

We were up 1, I think it was 2-1 going into intermission or whatever—Oh, no, I think it was 1-1 and we had just scored so the position I'm like Yeah, I don't know if I can fight him now because we have the momentum and we're winning the game. I don't want to lose a fight, then we lose a game and now I'm, like, never getting a chance again.

You kind-of gotta play the game within the game like [...] there's an opportunity to fight, and there's an opportunities where you shouldn't fight. Things weren't looking good, then they score and now we need a spark. I'm like Fucking perfect.

I just skate by their bench and I'm like It's time, big boy! He jumps out, we line up, and he goes We squarin' up or we goin' right away?

I'm like I'm not fuckin' squarin' up with you right now! We're goin' right away!

Drop em, we go right away, grab each other. I know he's a lefty so he's gonna let go—let's go of my right arm before he throws one. I threw one. Big boy went down, he jumped back up pretty quick. I don't know, I tell people all the time, I'm like I would've been in the league fuckin' 2 years earlier if there was good footage of this fuckin' fight!

For some reason—For some reason, the cameras cut out. I don't know if [he] had his cousins working the cameras or something that night, or if they're in the video room or what happened.

That was my first NHL game.

It's funny 'cuz Chucky was there—Chucky's there and he knows, he saw, he always laugh when I say that I would've been in the league earlier 'cuz he knows how things like that go. You get a little bit of energy and buzz around ya, and then kind-of momentum takes you a little bit further but unfortunate[ly], I missed that opportunity but I don't regret a thing.

[...]

The opportunity was there, I just—unfortunately, for whatever reason, the Hockey Gods said not yet." (Ryan Lomberg reminiscing over his first NHL game/fight) (x)(x) (please go watch the second link to see lombos giant smile as he tells this story jfc)

and other genuinely bonkers things to say about a hockey player in your first fight... like why did this need to be said like that...what

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

okay wait laughingstock concept Incoming: so im imagining some of the neighbors (maybe Julie & Frank) noticing that Barnaby & Howdy are a lil fruity, yk yk. and Julie's like damn, i guess we have to play matchmaker here.

so naturally they wind up getting the whole neighborhood involved. everybody's a wingman here. Poppy's dropping hints when Howdy drops off groceries, Wally is constantly asking Barnaby to go get him things from the bodega, etc etc. Howdy and Barnaby are facing this sudden change in town-wide behavior with slight concern and bemusement

eventually - lets say Julie, Sally, and Wally - get Barnaby into the bodega and then abruptly leave like "don't have too much fun without us you two *wink wink nudge nudge*". once they're gone (read: very obviously hiding outside & watching through the window) Barnaby & Howdy turn to each other like:

Barnaby: you think we should tell them we're already married?

Howdy: let them have their fun - they'll figure it out eventually

[storywestistrash]

i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans

[skunkes]

Before: i cant tell if the way I've stylized this body is Right or not...i dont want people to think that I'm stupid and don't know what im doing so i guess i better learn anatomy

After: i have learned and am learning anatomy, but i dont want people to think that im stupid and don't know what I'm doing if i exaggerate it so I better keep the stiff, rigid, "correct" anatomy instead of stylizing it to fit 👍

[thatonefreemanversefic]

Hi chat, I feel bad for not posting anything super fic related (besides updates themselves, which I'd say are the most fic related I can get on here) so let me hit you with two things. 1. Knowledge of what's actually going on behind the scenes!! So, not only has this next chapter been KICKING MY ASS FR FR, but the ass kicking has inspired me not once, not thrice, but twice now to... no, I shan't be specific, I'll give too much away. Twice now, it's inspired me to make the same kind of change to how this chapter is going (aka things I didn't intend to focus on yet are now getting focus, which is good because I actually didn't know when or where to do that, so. yeah. Good.) Anyways the chapter itself should come out on time, no worries there, but it might be a little short. Or not, I don't know yet. The thought train is just struggling to chug along the tracks (which I KNOW won't be an issue for 8 because I am having so many thoughts about it. The demons are trying to write it before I even finish 7) 2. I bring you a doodle page I churned out just now, one edited to be easier to see and easier to read, the other completely raw in case that's more your style. Knowers will cry, others will not, and Benrey lovers will also cry because I butchered my boy (in my defense, it has been a long while since I properly drew any of these guys and I put all I had left in me into that banner so like. It'll improve soon gang I promise. Trust in the process) (I am SO good at counting trust)

Call me a doctor because my hand writing is SHIT.

[boxheadpaint]

how do i start coming up w more interesting character designs like urs. they are sooooo cool and i try to make a character like that but it always comes out stinky

if it stinks thats great

[spotsupstuff]

here's a neat vid, go watch it if you haven't yet

there's Some things that i don't completely agree with personally, like attributing the Third sin to Materialism rather than Connection (i'd argue that the Ancients had no big issue with being materialistic, considering their golden attires and such- and that going with Connection overall better addresses both the core of Materialism and relationships overall) and then attributing the word Dynasty specifically to asian cultures but that's more history/word definition beef more than anything djgklsjlcgjkd

oh how i'd love to have a debate with this guy about Ancients...

[trans-estinien]

i love being autistic cause sometimes i get a glimpse into how regular people perceive things and its like. what the fuck. what the fuck is that? you live like this? and its normal?? i think YOURE the weird one actually. im fine. thanks though.

[insufferablemod]

do you have any tips for like... paneling? your lil comics, if i could call them that(?) with Dave are well made (to me at least) and I'd like to get into making comics! or if you know any resources that helped you. :') - sincerely, a beginner.

sorry to be answering this so late, wanted to try and give some kinda proper advice haha so what i do is i just make my posts as long as possible so that it takes up like all of ppls dash, this means they are forced to look at it and engage with it! no ok but for real, first off this is just how i do things and by no means any sort of proper tutorial or anything, most of this is prob kinda basic and intuitive stuff, but its good to be reminded of the basics and to notice why you might be doing said things intuitively so you can start doing it intentionally so how i approach things is by picking a focus panel whats the Punchline/Emotional pay off for the page/comic? and then i try and build the rest around that for actual Comics not every page is gonna have one of those ofcourse and thats fine i tend to often have to many focus panels,,,, lmao(which is why my posts end up so long,,,,) i try to group similar panels and make them smaller, it saves space, makes it so the attention goes to the more unique panels and makes things feel more sequential(or u can do like me and have too many similar panels and think, what if i just make it an animation, its just a few extra frames right,,,?<- clueless(i have done this twice now,,, the second is still a wip,,, )) heres one of my posts deconstructed using all this, id do more of them but i dont wanna make this even longer asdsd, but i think its pretty obvious to pick up on once you know the formula lol

after that i think its mostly just clear composition and flow so things dont get confusing(like what panel(also applies to text) youre suppose to read next and such(thats easier with this cus its usually just individual panels and not full pages)) edit: oh and resources that helped me, i mostly just looked at other comics, paying attention to how the paneling was effecting the story and mood! some comics ive looked at for paneling inspo are houseki no kuni, how they play with contrast and stuff, idk theyre all just very striking, i looked at ajin at some point as well for help with some action stuff, most action shonen are also great for that 2 so yeah, just find a comic scene that has the same vibe that youre trying to get and see how they did it, finding a few and comparing and contrasting what you feel works best thats my thought process while doing stuff at least! i hope this helps at least a bit haha