#it’s enrichment for me lol

[wizardguy1993]

Okay so. I saw a post saying that Star Wars and g4 MLP are basically impossible to make good crossover designs for. And it seems pretty tough…But I think I can do it. My years of watching all that bullshit have prepared me lmao.

almost all species are now pony shaped with alien features. The only exceptions are species that would have fit within the mlp universe in the first place. Like Yoda and Ewoks. I judge this based entirely on vibes.

no more common magic, unicorn horns are just horns ( though the categories of Pegasus, earth, and unicorn are part of every species).

The Force is accessed as usual-having an innate ability or a lot of gumption, and is renamed to just being Magic, so we can keep spells that do things instead of mostly telekinesis. However, it still runs off of being an energy field made of the hopes and fears of all living things.

All awakened Magic users naturally turn into far less-op versions of Alicorn, it’s the only way to fully access the entirety of Magic. This happens usually after a year or two of training. This gives the user an Alicorn horn with which to do more complex magic. Different from unicorn horn.

No cutie marks that would give me a massive headache trying to figure out. Destiny is already a huge part of Star Wars anyways.

Lightsabers…an icon of Star Wars. But a huge logistical problem for a crossover with horses. So no lightsabers. Instead they fight like, well, how animals with horns fight, or by blasting magic at each other. It would look silly otherwise.

Darth Vader would have to be redesigned a bit. He would look stupid as hell with that giant Helmet on a pony shaped body. Doesn’t work at all.

I would also make the pony designs slightly less cartoony as well due to the more serious nature of Star Wars.

That’s all I can think of for now…

[bacchuschucklefuck]

gukgak specifically from my typing (man w/ three jobs & a creeping sense of dread)

[deoidesign]

This is your sign to be unhinged about your own characters and stories

I am giving you permission to make yourself whatever you want. set yourself free.

Make relationship charts.

Quizzes.

AUs.

Memes.

Moodboards.

Gifsets.

Animations.

Comics.

Form headcanons of your own characters, write yourself fanfic, dream up theories!

If it's fun, do it! DO IT!!!

You and your characters deserve to live!!!

It's enrichment!!! do it!!! Be alive and breathe life into your work! let it live!

[astronomodome]

oh haha theyre just harmless butterflies... so cute lol... wait why are you running. come back

[heybiji]

double life

[vaguely-concerned]

I have seen people question whether dios apate minor really needed to happen the way it did. it's the 'this could have been an email' of htn. 'augustine this did not have to be a threesome', I hear people saying. and boy do I have an obnoxious amount of things to say to protest this perfectly sensible assertion so here we go haha

1) yes it absolutely had to be like that. It says so on this piece of paper *hands you a piece of paper that says "because I said so and also it's narratively and thematically Sexy"* in my half-legible handwriting. seeing tamsyn muir describe harrow the ninth as a book about being a kid and realizing your parents probably had sex has given me such validation, I am unstoppable now. (to be serious for a moment, harrow the ninth is essentially a bildungsroman, and the threesome scene does a whole lot of thematic heavy lifting around harrow glimpsing elements of adulthood, relationships, and sexuality she clearly finds at the same time repulsive, bewildering and fascinating, and around opening her and especially our eyes to how much john is just a man with human longings still, under the god stuff. dios apate is crucial plot- and character-wise too -- it's a loadbearing threesome in terms of delivering the clues you need to piece together the mystery plot of the book, which is simply delightful -- but even more so thematically. and then the scene at the end where they confront john gives gideon some of that same opportunity to peek into adulthood and go '...well shit I guess', as a sort of mirror, just without the french kissing that time and more murder. the things magnus and abigail model for the girls about love and adulthood? mercy and augustine are providing the opposite-day batshit insane version of that fhdskjfa, you know, for contrast and spice)

2) listen... it gets lonely out there in deep space with your 'legendary unamorous' brother, two infant pathetic baby kitten sisters who you'll probably have to kill one day when you take another stab at god if they don't manage to get themselves killed along the way on their own, and the two people you've spent the last ten thousand years having separate yet connected married & divorced arcs with and also btw one of them is god... honestly a threesome over the dinner table is probably The most well-adjusted reaction one might hope for under those circumstances

3) on a characterization level I think Augustine is actually doing something incredibly deliberate with it: he's presenting John with yet another chance to admit what he did. which is notable especially since the deal he and mercy agree on as a condition for the threesome to happen at all seems to be that they're going to give the ol' godslaying another game try sooner rather than later. (I get the sense that it's not so much that he disagrees with her ultimate goal so much as that he thinks she's being dangerously indiscreet and hasty going about it, before. “though I think it will be the death of us,” huh.)

notice how he's structuring the whole thing: he's invoking the intimacy and love in their strange little threeway relationship and how long it's been by truly playing along with john's 'we're a happy family really when we're at home! :)' delusion (helped along by lowered inhibitions via enormous amounts of alcohol and what I've previously described as a joint mercy/augustine leyendecker themed thirst trap. ah, a classic). he brings up alecto and what happened to her -- or rather, he is clever enough to make john bring up alecto and how she is totally dead, right?? by seeming to make a careless statement that leads there and then acting contrite about it after. he (helped along by mercy, who I think realizes exactly what he's doing -- this is very much a two-man con) brings up how much they all loved their cavaliers, and wow funny how that's been haunting us for ten thousand years now huh :) wow, a lot of our other lyctor friends slash family sure are super dead in the name of some unknowable greater reason neither of us quite grasp and that you won't fucking tell us, aren't they. these are all the main grievances he and mercy confront john about at the end of the book, but put forth much more subtly and not phrased as an accusation -- he's baring his and mercy's vulnerabilities as bait, essentially. if john had, say, a conscience where his conscience should be instead of a black hole, it probably should have stirred something in him.

(also let me just say... the way augustine just takes a pneumatic drill to the TWO tender spots g1deon seems to have and then has the audacity to be like 'oh dear. did that upset him. ooof my bad *loooong dead-eyed slurp of his wine*' is just sooo... he's such a bitch!!! he's the only person who could ever have held their own in a ten-thousand-year bitch-off with mercy and I love him so much. well even if it wasn't all to get g1deon into murder range for harrow I think he wouldn't enjoy sticking around for the 'getting our tongues on god' part of the evening so maybe it's a kindness, really, and totally not pent-up aggression from the last twenty years or so breaking through)

he is all but shaking john by the lapels begging him to just... come clean about it already, to stop thinking he's still kidding everyone else along with himself. it's clear throughout the book that augustine knows exactly what john is at this point -- and all of the most cynical things he does say about it turn out to be distressingly right. john is always less sentimental than you'd think. john wouldn't forgive mercy, he will abandon in a heartbeat anything that isn’t necessary to him anymore, whether emotionally or in some other way. and still he seems to hold out some desperate absurd hope that the man he wants, the man he thought was there, is in there, somewhere deep deep down, if he just gives him the chance to show himself.

(mercy definitely has her own side of this whole thing, I'm just focusing more on augustine because this evening was like. his idea in the first place and I feel like we can Read Some Things into that fact lol. now that we have both ntn and htn to go from I sort of have this sense that the things augustine wants from john are more... personal? more interpersonal? they both love him equally, but mercy's love seems tinged slightly more towards the religious (augustine accuses her of knowing 'only worship without adoration', which like... also the eight house's entire Vibe lol) -- mercy at the end of that book is totally a person breaking up with GOD, not just with john -- while augustine's vibe is more like a man in the last not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper days of a marriage that sort of felt like it could have been something real and good once but all your illusions about it have since been taken from you and trampled underfoot into the mud and you've had the divorce papers signed and ready in a drawer for over a year now, hell, as it turns out, is other people etc. lmao)

having a threesome over the dinner table with god is one thing, having a threesome over the dinner table centered on the one man and god who has yet again let you down in a way so fundamental it can barely fit into words and who you both still love in a way anyway, miserably, and also just reaffirmed your joint resolution to murder (all under the pretense that it gives your baby sisters the chance to murder your brother of ten thousand years yeah that's why this is happening no other underlying aching emotional motivations here haha)... listen mercy and augustine are simply on a different level, theologically. they've added horny shrimp colours to the religious spectrum. who else does it like them

[lycanthroid]

lasso tool komaeda

[babacontainsmultitudes]

smh it's always "don't enact code purple" or "I'll never forgive you for enacting code purple" and never "how was code purple? Did you enjoy enacting code purple?"

[nox-sssscraps]

Artist struggle

[hauntedhayderide]

Found some nice pencil brushes for csp so decided to do rendering practice while watching some let’s plays. Death Mark fandom I am new here please take my humble offering 🙇‍♂️

[random-lil-illing]

player appreciation week day 3: homeschool!!

okay so i know it was said in the last post that player doesnt get homework, but that was not what i meant to say haha. i wanted to say they didnt have homework that week, but usually their mom does give them (very little) homework. also player is bad at maths and hates triangles bc i hate triangles too and its MY comfort caharcter so i get to project my struggles onto them

[slowdesire]

i cannot stop thinking about my conversation with a friend about how sports and religion overlap in my heart for some reason. rooting for one guy in particular and living for the hope of it all from week to week is almost spiritual. when you’re supporting someone who has what it takes to win but for some reason has so many odds stacked against him then betting on a losing dog is akin to faith. at times sports can even have you holding your breath in anticipation for a miracle and clasping your hands together like in prayer

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I just got an air fryer for the first time and I know nothing about it! Do you have any advice/recipes/warnings/things I should know?

[girlboyburger]

What are your favorite cow breeds?

SO i've answered this question before BUT i want to answer it again but my opinion have slightly changed i love literally all bovines. they're such a neat type of animal that come in sooo so many shapes and sizes with the connecting factor being incredibly cute and big all across the board. thhhat being said, i'd say that jersey / holstein cows are still pretty close to the top of my list in faves. jerseys are just. gonjus. pretty pretty shades of brown / orange and decently docile temperaments. also very common around where i live so bonus points for being a type of cow i've interacted with

holstiens are your Average Black and White cow ! equally pretty and make up about 90% of cow breeds in the US. they've been around for almost 2,000 years and i can not stress ENOUGH how much of a weak spot i have for animals that have cute pink noses. big big babies ;u; also a cow i have Experience With because i'm in da midwest, so i can drive about 20 mins in any direction and come upon these guys

(also only partially related; don't cows just have such kind eyes?? such a warm and soulful animal everytime i look at pics like this i want to kiss them on the tall forehead.) so, those answers are the same as last time. BUT. but. i want to take this post to direct everyone's attention to zebu cattle. because they're absolutely beautiful and interesting and underrated imo. Feast your eyes on this Beast

theyre just s. so the animal of all time.

[butchhansolo]

ATTENTION REX GIRLIES

YOUR MAN is about to sweep ANOTHER sexiest clone poll. Do you really need Another win? Another title to the pile? I have something else to offer you:

if YOU (🫵) vote FIVES (5555) then I (me) will complete these drawings of rex PER the following percentage votes for fives:

45% - clean sketch

51% - lineart

53% - cell shade

55% ;) - rendered

AND if YOU (🫵) help me get EITHER fives OR howzer to win sexiest clone overall i will do versions of both these in full rendering COMPLETELY NAKED

please. rex has already won so many polls does he really need another. we already know he's sexy. let someone else win for a change

!! VOTE FIVES TODAY !!

[lunasilvis]

Working on becoming less of a true shitbag at texting back... Big thanks to everyone who has ever given me the space to reply in like a week, if not 2 🫠 Know I always think about our little chats in the back of my head :)