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[delicateartisantrash]

I want to give you a hug so badly because that sounds lonely as heck.

yeah, sure, I don't think i'm gonna change any worlds overnight with my silly little post

but community IS here :P I've found it, and it's growing by the day, I am just so shocked that it's something i've even had to go looking under metaphorical rocks to find and nurture because it *used* to be an overflowing garden. I couldn't go anywhere online without seeing people converse and chatter and people posting stuff for fun because it was fun, and a side-effect of this was gaining 'followers' who liked the same fun you did.

For context, I'm almost thirty years old. I started using the internet when I was in middleschool, so I was about seven years old when I picked up an active presence online, and by active I mean the internet was more or less my social life because i had a weird upbringing and a lot of physical isolation from people outside of school/work. I was online way more than I should have been, and I zipped around all over the place. Tumblr was only one of the websites I participated on.

Things really have, indeed, changed a lot. Some things, for the better. Some things, i roll my eyes and sigh and wait patiently for the fads to run their course because eventually, people realize it's unsustainable and not satisfying, and come right back to what i'll call 'The Old Ways' or at least the part of the things of our past that *are* worth keeping. I've seen this pattern repeated by the former generations and the ones now.

Mostly, I think people at large are just shy and so convinced that they're going to fail, it's too scary to try and succeed (in the context of a social interaction, but that could apply in other contexts tbh).

idk how to word this properly but wrt the fanfic thing you reblogged earlier. Why do fanfic writers have such different expectations than any other content hosting platform?

Like lets take youtube as a point of comparison, Engagement like comments and likes largely exists to boost the works place in algorithm, thats why youtubers put in calls to action and other engament bait. Few with decent reach even read the comments and the audience shouldnt try to develop any weird parasocial relationship with the youtuber. Fanfic authors ask for likes (kudos, because the websites gotta use nonstandard language for some reason) and comments despite them not having any impact on an algorithm, and seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author based on tumblr posts like that one.

Why the radical difference in behaviour away from the norm? And honestly with all the (usually) metaphorical blood spilled online about parasociality why are authors really surprised that the audience tries to keep their distance as is best practice with any other content producer?

okay I am going to answer this as kindly and as calmly as I can and try to assume that you are asking this in good faith. because my friend, the fact that you feel the need to ask is, to me, The Problem.

[this is, for the record, in response to this post]

fanfiction writers are not *posting content.* (I also have reservations about engaging with the term "content producer" or "content creator" but let's put that aside for now, I'll circle back to it.) you say "they seem to want the audience to try and develop a relationship with the author" as though it is strange, off-putting, and incomprehensible to you, when in fact that is the point of writing fanfiction. it is a way of participating in fandom. it is a way of building community and exchanging ideas and becoming closer with people.

if authors wanted to solely ~generate content~ that would get them attention (?? to what end, the dynamic you have described seems to equate algorithmic supremacy as winning for winning's sake, as though all anyone wants to do is BUILD an audience without ENGAGING with them, which I cannot fathom but let's pretend for a moment that is, in fact, true) then like. if that were the case why on earth would they choose a medium in which they categorically cannot succeed and profit, because it isn't their IP?

you are equating two things that are not at all the same thing. to the degree that parasocial relationships are to be avoided, and "that person is not trying to be your friend they are trying to entertain you, please respect their boundaries" is a real dynamic -- which it is!! -- like. you have to understand that the reason that is true for the people of whom it is true is because it is their JOB. they are storytellers by profession, and they are either through direct payment, or sponsorship, or advertising, or through some other means, profiting off of your attention. i don't say this to be dismissive, many wonderful artists and actors and comedians and any number of a thousand things that i enjoy very much go this route but they do so as a *career choice.* and so when you violate the public/private boundary with them, you are presuming to know a Person rather than their Worksona. the people who work at Dropout or who stream their actual play tabletop games or who broadcast on TikTok or YouTube are inviting me to feel like i know them to the degree to which that helps them succeed in their medium and at their craft, but there MUST be a mutual understanding that that's a feeling, not a fact.

however.

a fanfiction writer is not an influencer, not a professional, and is not looking to garner "success." there is no share of audience we are trying to gain for gain's sake, because we are not competition with one another, because there is nothing to win other than the pleasure of each other's company. we are doing this for no other reason than the love of the game; because we have things we want desperately to say about these worlds, these characters, these dynamics, and because we *want more than anything to know we are not alone in our thoughts and feelings.* fanfiction is a bid for interaction, engagement, attention, and consideration. it is not meant to be consumed and then moved on from because we are NOT paid for our work, nor do we want to be. the reward we seek is "attention," but attention as in CONVERSATION, not attention as in clicks. we are not IN this for profit, or for number-go-up. there is no such thing: legally there cannot be. we are in this because we want to be seen and known.

like. please understand. i am now married to someone i met because of mutual comments on fanfiction. our close friend and roommate, with whom i have cohabitated for over a decade now, is someone I met because of mutual comments on fanfiction and livejournal posts. that is my household. beyond my household, the vast majority of my closest personal friends are people with whom I built relationships in this way.

you ask why fanfiction writers want THIS and not "the norm," but the idea of everything being built to cater to an algorithm to continue to build clout, as though the only method of reaching people is Distant Overlord Creator and Passive Receptive Audience being "the norm" is EXTREMELY NEW. this is not how it has always been!! please think of the writers of zines in a pre-internet fandom, using paper and glue and xerox to try and meet like-minded people in a world that was designed for you to only ever meet people in person, by happenstance, in your own hometown. imagine the writers of the early internet, building webrings from scratch to CREATE a community to find each other, despite distance. imagine livejournal groups, forums, and -- yes, indeed, of course -- comment threads IN STORIES -- as places where people go to *converse.* in the past, we had an entire Type Of Guy that everyone knew about, the BNF ("Big Name Fan") whose existence had to be described via meme because it was SO DIFFERENT THAN THE NORM. treating fellow fans like celebrities or people too cool for the regular kids to know was an OUTLIER, and one commonly understood to lead to toxicity.

in the past, I have likened writing fanfiction to echolocation. i am not screaming because I like hearing the sound of my own voice, though i can and do find my voice beautiful. i am screaming so that the vibrations can bounce back to me and show me the world. the purpose is in the feedback. otherwise it is just noise.

does this make any sense? can you see, when i describe it that way, why an ask like yours makes me feel despair, because it makes us all sound so horribly separate from one another?

perhaps I will try another metaphor:

a professional chef who runs a restaurant will not have her feelings hurt if you never fight your way into the kitchen to personally tell her how much you enjoyed the meal. that would, indeed, violate a boundary. professional kitchens are a place of work, and you have already showed her you enjoyed the meal by paying for it, or by perhaps spreading your enjoyment by word of mouth to your friends so they, too, can have good meals. you show your appreciation by continuing to come back. if a bunch of people sitting around randomly happen to have a conversation about how much they love the food, it wouldn't hurt that chef's feelings to not be included in the conversation. however: EVEN IN THIS INSTANCE, it is ADVISABLE AND APPROPRIATE to leave a good review! you might post about how much you like this restaurant on Yelp, and it would probably make the chef feel great to see those positive comments. but the chef doesn't NEED them, because the chef is, again, *also being paid to cook.* that's why she started the restaurant, to be paid to cook!

i am not being paid to cook.

i am at home in my own kitchen, making things for a community potluck where i hope everyone will bring something we can all enjoy together. some people at the potluck are better bakers, some better cooks; some can't cook at all but are great at logistics and make sure there's enough napkins for everyone; some people come just to enjoy the food, because that's what the party is for. and if I, as this enthusiast chef who made something from my heart for this reason alone, learned after the fact that a bunch of people got together in the parking lot to rave about my dish but no one of them had ever bothered to tell me while I sat alone at my table all night, occasionally seeing people come by to pick up a plate but never saying anything to me -- of course that would bother me, because I am not otherwise profiting off the labor I put in. this is not a bid to be paid, because if someone WERE to say "hey, great cake!! here's five bucks for a slice" i would say no, friend, that is not the point and give them the money back. i'm not trying to Get Mine. I am in it to see the look on your face. I'm in it so you can tell me what about it moved you, so that I can say back what moved me to make it in the first place. so we can TALK about it.

because what happened in the first place is this: one time I had a cake whose sweetness, richness, flavor, intensity, and composition moved me so much that I *taught myself to bake.* so I could see how much vanilla and sugar was too much, so I could learn how to make things rise instead of fall flat, so I could even better appreciate the original cake by seeing for myself the effort and talent and inspiration that goes into making one even half as good.

learning to do so is a satisfying accomplishment in and of itself, yes.

but I also did it because at the end of the day we should EAT the cake. and it's a lonely thing, to eat alone when a meal was always designed and intended to be shared.

so, to answer your last question: i'm not surprised, i'm just sad. because somehow two things that were never meant to be seen as the same have been labeled "content," and thus identical. and it diminishes both the things that ARE intended to be paid for AND the things that are not, because it removes any sense of intimacy or meaning from the work.

i hope you know i'm not mad at you for asking. but i'm frustrated we've come to live in a world where the question needs to be asked, because the answers are no longer intuitively obvious because we're so siloed.

[comradesummers]

the thing that i find so frustrating about the take that maddie is somehow a bad sister to buck is that i feel like you could only come to this conclusion if you view maddie exclusively in relation to buck and not as a character in her own right. i mean, it's not like anyone ever really asks whether buck is a good brother to maddie. It's only maddie who's scrutinized in this way. you could argue that this is because buck is just a perfect sibling who has never misunderstood maddie, or held things against her that weren't her fault, or given her questionable advice, etc., but that's just demonstrably untrue. take his "you're the one who leaves" speech to her in S03E16. buck essentially blames maddie, not only for "leaving" him while she was trapped in an abusive relationship with a partner who isolated her from her loved ones, but also for "abandoning" their parents (???), something buck also did, and for good reason. and to be clear, i don't think this speech makes buck a bad brother. he was feeling cornered and he lashed out, and while he could've been a lot more understanding of maddie's situation, his feelings of abandonment are understandable. but it seems to me that this kind of empathetic reading of character motivations is only ever applied to buck.

if, for example, maddie were to make an equivalent speech, about how buck couldn't possibly understand what she's feeling because he's never been physically abused or isolated by a partner, the fandom would tear her apart for it. people would be far less willing to extend empathy and understanding to her because they only see her as Buck's Sister and not as her own character. you're saying she's occasionally flawed and imperfect? that her traumatic childhood where she was parentified and forced to pretend her dead brother never existed has an effect on how she treats buck as an adult? that's just normal character stuff. characters that aren't flawed and complicated are boring. but if you only see her as an extension of buck, then her every interaction with him is judged by how well she serves his narrative rather than who she is and what she's going through.

despite the occasional flaws and mistakes, overall, maddie is a fantastic sister. similarly, buck is also sometimes flawed and doesn't always understand where Maddie is coming from but, overall, he's a great brother.

[resident-idiot-simp]

Masquerade AU

(This will be edited down at some point and posted to AO3)

Also shout out to @shy-canadian-snowflake with helping me with some of the ideas for this

Logan is minding his own business on a job. It's a masquerade dance he has to infiltrate and collect a data drive. It was going well or it was until a man approached him and pulled him into a dance.

Logan fumbled slightly but went with it confused. They were slow dancing, and he didn't know exactly how he got into this situation.

He knows it wasn't good though could feel it in his bones that something wasn't right. It got confirmed when the man leaned in and whispered in his ear.

"Wasn't expecting competition tonight. Got to say I'm flattered it's the Wolverine."

Logan almost locks up, but the other man forcefully keeps him in step.

"Hate to do it to you, really do. Big fan of your work and just you in general. Sadly however, a man's got to get paid. So I can't exactly allow you to get the drive."

Logan growls lightly.

"Oh, don't be like that. Professional courtesy and all that, I won't cause too much of an issue, won't rat you out. No, I'm just going to give you a choice."

Logan feels his heart sink. "What choice?"

"You can either save people or you can get the information. Your decision, though I don't think either of us is fooled for a moment on which you'll choose."

And on queue, an explosion sounds.

The man laughs likely in his ear, "Go get em' cowboy."

With that he twirls away and disappears into the crowd.

Logan curses to himself before heading off in the direction of the explosion. Conveniently in the opposite direction of where he needs to be.

Once Logan gets to the room he is supposed to after ensuring no one's going to get hurt. The explosion was more of a noise maker, no explosion to it, no danger. Logan doesn't know what to think about it, and he also can't help but feel duped.

He spots a note lying next to the computer that the drive was supposed to be connected to. He lets out a displeased rumble. He picks up the note and reads it quickly.

'It's been a fun night. We've got to do this again ~ DP'

Logan stuffs the note in his pocket and grumbles as he quickly exits the mansion. Deadpool of course it was fucking Deadpool who else would it be? He should be more pissed than he is in all honesty, but no one got hurt. At least that's the reason he tells himself.

They run into each other again and again though, it becomes a game of cat and mouse. It seems everywhere that he goes Deadpool is right there with him.

Both after the same thing, both for different reasons.

It takes only three more run-ins before Logan starts actually getting pissed off that he keeps getting outsmarted. He knows his own intelligence, and it's infuriating that this man keeps beating him. Planning steps ahead in ways that Logan hadn't expected.

Not once had he been able to predict something Wade had done. Also annoyingly, he's enjoying their interactions more and more. As well as this whole game they had started playing. Logan starts looking forward to their interactions. Despite it all Deadpool is charming and quite the character.

He's funny and a flirt as much as Logan would love to deny he enjoys it, he doesn't, and he's not sure he can bring himself to either. Deadpool would always spot him first and make his way over. He would then drape himself as best he could across Logan’s shoulders. 

Logan would growl and grumble as Deadpool 'Wade kitty cat, call me Wade' cooed at him.

From there, Wade would confirm they were here for the same thing (again), and Logan would try to get to it before Wade and fail again. Somehow Wade knew him well enough to outsmart and or trick him. 

He would then collect the note Wade left teasing him before leaving himself.

Truly a vicious cycle.

Many nights Logan had lain awake, flustered as he went over their interactions over and over again in his head. How Wade would always get as close to him as he could physically be. How he flirted with him incessantly, and how he was always three steps ahead. Wade was so effortlessly skillful, and he wondered what else he could do if given the chance.

It was another fucking masquerade when it happened. Wade had found him as always and Logan was determined not to fall for any of his tricks this time. He just ignored the merc and made his way steadily to where he had to go. The only issue was that Wade was quite the attention grabber, what with the never-ending chatter. 

But Logan was fine, he had it under control, he was a damn professional. He was nearly home free too when it happened.

Wade had grabbed him, twirled him around, and kissed him. It wasn't chased, it was nothing of the sort. Wade had just moved his own mask aside and shoved his tongue as deep into Logan's mouth as it could go.

Logan just melted. Couldn't help it, he'd imagined this far more than he was willing to admit. Wade giggled into his mouth at the lack of resistance and took the chance to run hands down his back to pull him closer and squeezing at his ass.

Logan was nothing but putty in his hands as he let out soft noises. Then, when Wade pulls back Logan chases after him. He can't help it, the texture and warmth were addicting, he wanted no needed more.

Wade ignores him however, just pulls something from his pocket tucks it in Logan's breast one before mercilessly sweeping his feet out from under him.

Logan goes down hard and Wade just cackles before disappearing in the direction of the objective. As silent and quick as ever when he wants to disappear.

Logan knows it's over as soon as his feet get swept out, he knows he's lost again. He takes out what Wade had tucked into his pocket.

The note, the damn fucking note.

‘You should call me <3’ and his number scribbled down.

He just buries his face in his hands, blushing with a groan that morphs into a cackle.

Fucking typical.

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[raitnrong]

ITS SO GOOD!!!!! i watched it w my friendo n its so fun seeing her clock all the kpop stuff as shes a big big fan

a really fun and BEAUTIFUl watch that shows how sony continues to dominate the animation industry nowadays in terms of quality >:D and the music is honestly fucking fire, especially if you've listened to kpop before bc it's almost uncanny how well they did the soundtrack on this bad boy >:3

just one main note to get the brainrot out :3

the movies amazing and verrrry enjoyable, but there are a few patches here and there :3

particularly bc of the subtle underdevelopment of characters other than rumi.

it rly felt like mira n zoey got pushed to being static characters in favor of highlighting the developing relationship between rumi and... juni i think err i forgor :3 for example they never rly did give a reason as to why the girls wanted to attack rumi after they found out abt her whole deal

it wouldve been an amazing showcase of their individuality if for example, n im just throwing the ball around but,, mari raising her weapon mostly due to her betrayal and half bc of her instinct. it wouldve made sense that as the lead dancer she wouldve been trained to be more physical and thus fighting is more “auto-pilot”-y. makes sense? (also i would've appreciated a mari dance break bc her being the choreographer never got to shine as much as rumi being lead vocals and zoey being a rapper+composer 👉👈 or again, just highlight that she's a better fighter than the rest of the girlie pops)

and speaking of zoey, she should never have immediately accepted fighting rumi what the heyhey? her loyalty was highlighted at the very beginning! she should've been the placating voice between them as mari struggles to see past the initial betrayal. a betrayal not just bc of the secret but mostly bc of how *she'd* specifically confronted rumi and asked her if she had anything she was hiding, only for rumi to lie to her point blank. zoey shouldve been terrified, yes, but still willing to protect rumi.

...until rumi is triggered into doing her powers and zoey also raises her weapons atp. the trigger couldve been the aforementioned argument w rumi getting heated still defending demons and junjun

bc honestly just the split second of the two rejecting her wouldve been more than enough for her to make her run. to which the two girls would immediately regret it after seeing rumi /hurt/ for godsakes that's their friend!! this makes mira get frustrated and yells that she always does this to the ppl she loves (referring to her family problems). and when zoey tries to console her ofc w overcompensated happiness, mira snaps at *her* for being a little too much (ofc something more subtle duh) and you see zoey take that comment closer to heart for a quick second

doing this honestly wouldve showed that yeah the two girls are also still relevant enough to give them the spotlight for a few minutes, even if its a story abt rumi. bc it shows a dynamic only they have. and thats the key to writing good character dynamics!! pair them up n watch them interact in ways unique to them.

it wouldve also planted the seed on why the girls succumb to shame later in the film when they were supposed to be better than stronger than ppl as hunters. their weak spot was hurting rumi. bc if you think about it, they never seem to regret hurting rumi later in the film? and rumi never apologizes for keeping them in the dark? i mean that probably happens off-screen but... y is it off-screen :'))

a few more underdeveloped characters and why: :)

juni: never rlyyy elucidated on why he cant share his success to his family. and on that note never rly reconciled with that specific guilt. his whole character motivation was he wanted to be free of the memory that causes the guilt that pains him,, not to repent for it. n while that's cool in the first-half bc he's still in selfish villain mode, it never seemed to resolve. it's also weird that he switched up so fast after meeting rumi. was he really wanting to help her? he shouldve been eager to manipulate her and then let her soften his resolve, rather than the instant empathy he seemed so burdened with BUT THEN WHY ISNT HIS FAMILY ALLOWED TO BE W HIM. also lolol you know he's quadruple fucked after the film i refuse to believe he perished. demons dont perish wahahah that guy is now satan's favorite chewtoy and y'all know he wont play nice.

celene: her mother-daughter bond with rumi is never resolved lol. yeahh so does rumi just hate her now? why is she so disgusted with her demonic blood. was the demon father... not a good guy? :')) her character seemed rly stale at the end by both trying to be the loving stepmother and strict hunter,, like girl u cant have both and be effective. she shouldve had a scene where she realizes the hurt rumi's repression was causing her.... or maybe she couldve if she could just face her daughter!!!! gods that stings bc now u sound like a manipulative hypocrite. which is okay but did the movie intend for her to be like that? also i wonder what happened to their third member :3c

the manager guy: he has this one confusing scene where it makes you think he was gonna turn to the demon boys bc the girls kept leaving him? like? his scene of succumbing to the demon call wouldve been more impactful if he never had that scene! if it instead showed that yes he like the saja boys but he's committed to the girls. so when rumi finally sings golden, it wouldve made it more meaningful to him. and when he does succumb to his shame, it's all the more powerful bc of how he's still caring for the girls.

the fucking doctor 😭???: im sorry but... so he's NOT mystical magical? he's just rly good at reading ppl then? BRO DID ZOEY JUST LITERALLY BRING THEM TO A SCAMMER THASSO FUNNY IF YOU THINK ABT IT? (⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠-̩̩̩⁠)

thoooo when u realize the problems of the movie, u also realize the the doctor is the exact problem with the the execution of their story-telling! :3 bc the doctor isnt there for plot reasons. no,, he was there to tell, not show, abt the characters issues :DD

still super frickin wonderful though and i appreciate them taking inspiration from different sorts of kpop genres! not just the mainstream ones rn

also i cant blame them for the structure of the movie being romanced based :3 you can also see it source a few inspos from kdramas ^^ overall a serious homage to korean media and the likes! :DD

KPop Demon Hunters comes out tomorrow on Netflix! I worked as a visdev artist on this film back in 2023 and it was a blast. Get ready for some high-energy fun with a killer soundtrack! Hope everyone enjoys the movie!!

[ladycremecaramel]

My BOTW/TOTK OC Ideas and personal rambles

I'm dumping all of my oc loz ideas here for my sanity because they've been bouncing around in my head for a long while.

So, I still can't draw very well, and ZoraMay is over, but I have an idea for two Zora oc's. One is inspired by @gargoylesister 's OC Littol. I never once thought about the possibility of tiny zora and I thought "Omg I wanna make one too!"

Zora OC 1's design is based off of a neon tetra. I always loved neon tetras since I was a little girl. I remember growing up with a freshwater fish tank with many fish and one that was a constant were neon tetras. They didn't always last long, but they were so pretty swimming in a school and how their scales reflected in the light. No name rn

Zora OC 2's design is based on my favorite fish. The red wagtail platy. I dunno what it is about this simple fish but they make me so happy. They were also common in the big fish tank my family had growing up. I vaguely remember always watching one swim up and down in a corner of the tank like it was trying to find a way to escape.

Also no name and might be full size or just as small or bigger than the Tetra Zora.

Some of you remember me talking about Rito OCs. I still have 2.

Rito oc 1 is Leela. Obviously I still want to keep the shadow puppeteer idea. And i like the idea of her pairing up with Harth. :>

Same bird design. The Chinese bulbul

Rito oc 2. This one would be my Ritosona. An Atlantic Puffin.

I always liked puffins. They're kind of the best of both worlds. They can fly AND swim.

My last OC . Besides my Hyliansona, Tabitha (not my real name), I have one other OC that isn't from Hyrule at all. I see her as one that can be easily put in most if not all fandoms.

I've talked about her before on my tumblr page as a potential character for the dragon age fandom and I nicknamed her Puddles.

Let's see...🤔

She was made for an original role-play forum that was freeform combat and the story is X-men inspired/superheroes teenagers going to a school in NYC. I think the RP was called Zankoku. This was in 2010

When I was invited to play, I knew next to nothing about how superpowers would work irl or the physics...stuff like that. So they told me to RP with a style I would be most familiar with and I chose water bending from the Last Airbender.

If I had to pick an image for what she would look like, it would be based on the cheerleader from the TV series Heroes, Claire Bennet.

Long curly blonde hair (curlier than the gif), gray eyes, tanned skin, thunder thighs, and was pretty tall for a 15-year-old teen. I think I made her height 5'7''.

Her name is April May Mickadoo and she had the powers to control water and ice (hydro and cyrokinesis). She was my most extroverted and emotional OC I think I ever created. Out of all of the characters that were created for the RP forum, she was one of the more friendly (if not the friendliest) of the Xhuman teens. She was definitely the most extroverted. Especially in the beginning. A lot of the Xteens were loners or generally stuck with one or two other characters to interact. April however, spoke with everyone thus giving everyone a reason to interact with each other in the story.

Compared to the rest of the Xteens, I think she had the most "normal" childhood. By that, I mean divorced parents, mostly raised by a single parent, moved because of their parent's work. That kind of stuff (from her POV at first). Others who discovered their abilities early in their backstory were subject to racism, bullying, being shunned, harassed in public, taken away by the government, and/or killed.

She wasn't consciously aware of her powers until the start of the RP. I was not very good at writing out combat/ fight scenes with my character in a balanced way (either god mode or weak and the RP didn't have stats, it was freeform). So because she learned of her powers much later than others, she was pretty weak with them. Physical fighting was average at the start. She did have power surges when she became distraught. In the beginning, she could only control water until a lucky roll from the mods and a very traumatic event, that she unlocked cyrokinesis. Due to other events during the RP before it suddenly died off, she obtained a 'break the cutie' trope under her belt and depression (or grieving). Depending on how things would've gone, there could've been a sanity slippage episode at some point.

There were perks with her powers. Underwater breathing, can handle the cold very well, and can turn her whole body to water and/or ice (hence the nickname Puddles). Those are the ones I can remember.

Her personality: when I say emotional, I mean she had pretty much all of her emotions on her sleeve. You knew when she was happy, sad, angry, etc. If I had to pick an alignment for her, I would say neutral/lawful good. She LOVES music. She was always ready to dance, sing, or play the piano (later on, she started learning acoustic guitar) when it came to music.

there is more of her backstory and events of the RP I'm not revealing because I want to weave it into whatever story I add her in and it would be post-events after what I could imagine more trauma that the mods had in store. For her, the rp was pretty much a trauma conga line.

[comfethan]

stanley n settings designs. expanding on them in the tags :3

[mooingwithmidnight]

When I criticize TV shows for re-framing not showing physical sapphic intimacy as some deep and meaningful message vs. the repackaged purity culture that it is- just know I am NEVER. EVER. speaking about Xena

[black-and-yellow]

The walk home from UA

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[seraristuff]

Ah I guess I can dump a few more Shuichi headcanons here :D

- He probably has a coffee addiction and a terrible diet. Running on 50% coffee, 35% instant food, 15% actual meals. He's a good cook but just doesn't have the time to prepare food. He's pretty physically weak and gets sick easily because of that

- On that note he has a TERRIBLE sleep schedule, partially because of the coffee, partially because he doesn't keep track of the time while working, and partially because of nightmares. Lots of insomnia and possibly passing out in the middle of the day

- Despite being perfectly logical when making deductions, he's pretty emotional and sentimental, which is not very good if he's in charge of a criminal case. He has a bleeding heart and knows that often, criminals have a good (or at least understandable) reason for what they do, yet he knows the victims are hurt and he'll still need to turn the culprits in. He learned how dark humanity can be after stumbling across horrible homicide cases when young, but he still tries to see the best in everyone and minimise all the pain. He felt especially guilty and terrible after the trials in the game, partially blaming himself for the blackened's executions

- Although he has worked on many cases involving and read a lot on how to interact with them, he's really nervous and awkward around children, because what if they get mad at him and run away? What if he makes them cry?? (He'd probably panic and start crying too if he makes a child genuinely cry.) Children mostly still like him though, since he treats them like a peer and with a lot of respect. He may still be a bit too formal for their liking sometimes

- (Okay not a headcanon but I just thought of an AU where Rantaro lives and he teaches Shuichi how to track animals in the wild. Just. Imagine him on the ground, very seriously sniffing dog tracks lmao-)

- He refers the missing pets like clients, so other people may not realise he's talking about animals. He also speaks to the animals like people. ("Sir, I am once again asking you not to do that. Sir, please get away from that cup. Sir- MY DOCUMENTS-)

- Cats like to bully him because they can sense he's (affectionately and endearingly) a pathetic loser. Randomly biting him, knocking his stuff over, trying to drink his coffee, sitting on his laptop/whatever he's doing, etc. Shuichi still loves them, though. If he gets a cat I think he'd name it something elegant, and it would be the most annoying wretched little gremlin creature.

- Post game, if he's still investigating missing children/abuse cases, I like to think Maki joins him (because I love their investigation duo <3 also lots of advantages having an investigation partner). She'd find his nervousness and fumbling when talking to children hilarious, while he thinks she's like a fairy or something, with how easily she talks to and gets children to trust her. Cats are also much nicer with her than him, which Shuichi's grumpy about

- Also if Maki learns how much he likes trashy romance plotlines, she'd keep teasing him about it, but secretly enjoy them as well. They can be hopeless romantics and secret trashy romance fans together <3

Anyway I'm gonna post some nice Shuichi HCs because. Yeah.

Shuichi takes his coffee blacker than the abyss, and he'll drink this coffee all night to finish working on a case.

He's so dedicated to finding pets and lost children in canon, so I think he would REALLY put his heart into solving cases as best as he could. Especially after he goes through his character arc and learns to face harsh truths. This man will NOT stop until he's solved it and given his clients closure.

I've also said this before on my other account I think, but I also don't think Shuichi would just stop at finding lost children and pets and satisfying the client. He'd check to make sure the missing pets or children weren't being neglected or abused and try to work things out to get the kids and/or pets into safe environments, whether that is at home or in a different form of shelter.

But also, on a less serious note--because Shuichi is a tracker kind of detective, he makes for the BEST seeker in games of hide and seek. No one ever wants to play hide and seek with him because they WILL lose.

In the manga, we learned that Shuichi used to find and catch bugs as a kid--I think that he didn't keep them, though. Catch, observe, then release. I also think tracking down bugs is how Shuichi got so good at tracking down animals and even kids later down the line.

When Shuichi is to learn a new subject, he is DILIGENT in his studies. Like in his first case with the pet alligator, he will do extensive research on subjects he is given to learn about until he's enough of an expert in them for the research to serve him. Mainly, this involves pets ofc, but I bet he's also got some form of child psychology knowledge due to the fact that he had to track kids down. He probably researched why kids run away from home, and what to do about it.

And finally, my sort of crack HC: Shuichi says he hates romance novels, but I think that's a bold faced lie. I think he specifically likes trashy romance novels, because they are trashy. It's his guilty pleasure and you will NEVER get him to admit he likes such terrible romance books.

I think he likes them as a form of comedy, or a way to turn his hyperactive brain off. Kinda like how Kokichi likes straight up comedy for the same reason! But sometimes, even if it's trashy, the romance does sometimes give him the Feels. He's always ashamed when a trashy romance novel manages to move him in such ways.

[crabsnpersimmons]

brought this little guy to work with me

might be a mistake

will find out soon

[drowned-cypress]

“Do you mind if I play some music?” Robin asked, shuffling through her PDA.

“What is music?” Al-An asked.

Robin had to stop and think about that one. “It’s… a form of expression,” she answered, setting the PDA aside.

“Expression?”

“Communication. Art,” Robin clarified. “Music is a combination of sounds using rhythm or harmony or melody or words, or some combination of those, which attempts to communicate complex or elusive ideas and emotions.”

“Is this not already a function of your system of language?”

“Well, yes, but music isn’t nearly so precise, and there’s an aesthetic component to it as well.”

“If it is not precise, why utilize it?”

Robin frowned. “The value of music isn’t in its utility. Music is often very beautiful, though not always. Usually music is just… more visceral than language. We experience it on an emotional level.”

“It is instinctual?”

Robin opened her mouth, then shut it again. Oh. Al-An wanted an explanation from a biological standpoint. “There is evidence of a biological basis for music. There have been arguments that it was an adaptive trait for our ancestors–a means of social cohesion when living in large groups, to convey and regulate emotions. It’s a kind of communication that’s thought to be older than language. Some research suggests that language evolved from music.”

“I would be interested to hear an example.”

Robin shrugged and scrolled through her PDA’s menu system to put on one of her favorite songs. It was a mostly instrumental piece, but it had choral accompaniment. She always felt like it conveyed triumph in adversity and a kind of breathless elation, the joy of success. It made her feel like she was flying. She closed her eyes and listened. There was one part of the song that never failed to give her chills.

“I believe I understand,” Al-An commented once the song faded to silence. “It has an impact on your pulse and breathing. It makes you move differently. This response could come from a kind of synesthesia endemic to your species, connoting combinations of sound frequencies with specific emotions in your brain’s emotional centers.”

Robin fidgeted with her PDA as she thought about that. He had apparently been observing her reaction as much as he had been listening to the music. “You’re probably not wrong, but the experience isn’t universal. The emotional responses people have to specific pieces of music depend on the kind of music they’ve been exposed to in the past, especially during their developmental years. It’s like language in that respect: a learned social behavior. Also, musicality isn’t limited to just humans. Plenty of other animals enjoy, and even make music. For example, there are many species of bird native to Earth that produce complex melodies as part of their calls.”

“My people have encountered species with complex vocal calls before. We have determined that those calls often elicit an emotional response in other members of the species.”

Robin nodded. “Exactly. Humans are not unique in that respect.”

“So music is the vocal call of humans?”

Robin hesitated. “We don’t really think about it like that, but you wouldn’t exactly be wrong to interpret it that way. Music can serve some of the same evolutionary functions as animal calls. Though, while humans are incredible vocal mimics, we use instruments as well as our voices to make music. These days though, music is mostly viewed as entertainment.” Robin paused before asking, “Does your species have a call? Even if you don’t use it anymore, I’d be interested to know more about the evolutionary origins of your species.”

There was quiet as Al-An gave the question some thought. “No, we do not have a vocal call,” he finally said. “We did not evolve a biological means of creating complex vocalizations. However, before we evolved telepathy, our ancestors first expressed emotions through bioluminescence.”

Robin’s eyes widened. “I would like to see that. That sounds amazing. Do you still have bioluminescence? Do you make visual displays with it as an art form?”

“Yes, we have kept the bioluminescence, but while we can control it to a small degree, it is largely an involuntary part of what you would likely call our limbic system.”

“Ah, so more like body language.”

“That is accurate.”

There was a long moment of quiet between them as Robin thought about what Al-An had said. “Didn’t you describe the network as a kind of harmony of strings?”

“Ah. Yes, but in a metaphorical sense. I had not realized your species utilized harmonies.”

“But you understand the concept of harmony? That’s a musical concept.”

“It is a known phenomenon. My people find the mathematics of sympathetic resonance to be aesthetically pleasing.”

Robin blinked. They found the mathematics to be aesthetically pleasing, but they held no opinion on the actual sound? She supposed that explained why he didn’t really understand music. Or perhaps they did have their own music, but it was unrecognizable in comparison to what she had played. “But why use that metaphor?”

“It is…” Al-An made an inarticulate, frustrated noise. “Trying to describe the sensation of the network to you is trying to describe a sensory experience you have never had using a communication method that is imprecise and inadequate for the task. Your language does not contain a word for the sensation because no human has experienced it. The best I can do is use one of your own senses as metaphor. It is like describing your tactile ability to detect vibrations as similar to your ability to sense temperature. They may be somewhat similar, and serve similar functions, but are by no means the same.”

“Ah, so the network doesn’t sound like literal strings.”

“No, it does not sound like anything at all. But as a metaphor for the network, the concept of harmony is appealing. Each individual has their own frequency, and when grouped properly, interactions may produce resonance. Your sense of hearing also works better as a metaphor than any other sense you possess, because humans communicate primarily through hearing.”

Robin chewed her lip, thinking. The picture he painted of his species was very alien: they didn’t produce complex sounds, and communicated through telepathy and bioluminescence. It sounded fascinating, but she didn’t want their differences to become a wall between them. “Will you still be able to communicate with me once you get your own body?”

“You need not worry.” Al-An’s usual monotone carried a softness Robin was not used to hearing. He was getting better at picking up on her emotions. “Even if I could not calibrate my telepathy to a frequency you are able to receive, I would still be able to produce sounds in your range of hearing through my cybernetic components.”

Robin smiled. “Want to hear more music?” she asked, changing the subject.

“Yes,” Al-An replied with a kind of eagerness that made Robin’s smile widen. “Please, proceed.”

[spotaus]

That Modern(ish) Tauverse AU where we have Nightmare and his four adoptive sons now has this lil collection of Bad Reference Doodles lol!

[astrxealis]

i miss being on here lowkey holy shit my queue is only 50 now i may need to #return soon Anyway Hi guys imy ily all meowmeowmeow :3 ٩( 'ω' )و

[normalbroadcast]

it's just one of those days (i am thinking about SINKHOLE podcast again)