#its super cringe mode

[yutadori]

my social anxiety is acting up again i hope i die

[jetra4ivor]

As a long time fan of Story Mode, this past week has been quite the whirlwind of revaluations.

For starters, we learned that the hate towards MCSM that we’ve believed was universal was in fact NOT. There were a lot of kids who grew up playing and loving MCSM who had absolutely no idea that it was ever hated UNTIL the movie trailer dropped and saw people in the comments were apologizing for hating it.

Additionally we learned that the Netflix version of the game was super popular and that many fans were only ever familiar with that version. This also explains why green suspenders and red hair clip Jessie is so popular for fanart too. Those are the only versions of Jessie available for the Netflix version.

For me the overwhelming support from fans and positive responses towards MCSM has been very vindicating and cathartic. I knew it was a good game, but it’s been so exhausting having to always temper my love of the game with caveats whenever I talked about it. Having to prematurely apologize for its cringe or writing. I’m really looking forward to not having to do that anymore and just being able to be open and happy about the game!

And if you’re curious about MCSM or want to replay it but don’t want to download it from archives, please play it here! The whole Wither Arc was saved as interactive YouTube videos. Re-live MCSM for yourself and enjoy what we already knew to be true!

[whyeverr]

I cringed my way through yesterday’s livestream and I think I am finally officially on board for this pack (after being hyped at the initial leaks / roadmap, then disappointed by lackluster trailers). I don’t think we’re in for a lackluster pack, I think they’re just reallyreally bad at marketing / explaining this particular kind of EP.

if it seems like the main features of this pack are the dating app and costume box, that’s on them 🤦🏼‍♀️ but there’s so much more that I am (finally) getting excited to dig into, like:

likes and dislikes and turn ons and turn offs being two separate (but similar) systems — I love that this means a sim can be attracted to something that doesn’t align with their platonic interaction preferences, like “I hate that this is doing it for me” 🫣

the turn ons and turn offs system in general! most of* the must-haves seem to be there and the options will be really fun to build characters or gameplay around (the turned on by Broke but Affectionate Arts & Crafts Slacker sims to “Why do I keep dating these losers?” pipeline or the black widow challenge with the Wealthy turn on???)

the specificity of the romantic boundaries system (technically coming to Basegame but still shouting it out) as well as the option to have it change over time based on dialog in game

the MWS of it all makes me nervous not gonna lie but truly customizable dates, e.g. with everything from “be funny” to woohoo available for get to know you-type dates, holds a lot of potential for fresh gameplay in an event that hopefully happens more than once a generation in most people’s games

autonomous breakups and divorce (!!!)

Ciudad Enamorada being based on a single culture (and not an amalgamation of cultures like Jungle Adventure) and working with Mexican creators to build the lots

telenovelas and reality dating tv 🫶🏻

the return of the vibrating heart bed and the attention to detail that the vibration makes sims’ voices change

lips couch lips couch lips couch 🫦

bed canopies! can’t wait to play with all the combos and always nice to have a new way to make old items feel fresh (like the decor pillow item(s) have done with old couches!)

juliette balcony with a shelf slot for outdoor plaaaaants 🥹

all the little cultural decor pieces I can’t wait to get a closer look at

aaaand for balance, here are some things I’m a lil disappointed about:

I’ve complained about this before and it’s pretty trivial but every neighborhood, lot, etc having an easily translatable Spanish word or phrase as its name feels like really lazy / shallow / cartoony world-building

all this progress in separating woohoo from courtship but still needing to have a super cheesy sheepish first kiss before you can move any further physically 😑

no catfishing (but catfish costume?)

no eye color option as a turn on / turn off 🥲

sorry but the plain version of the woohoo blanket looks like dogshit

all the colorful stucco (?) buildings in the historic neighborhood look suuuuper flat which really emphasizes the empty shellness of it all

modern black vinyl windows in otherwise very traditional window casings — imo they pretty well ruined Horse Ranch build mode with this exact move (unless you like 🤢… modern farmhouses) and now they’ve gone and done it to another pack 😭 definitely not helping how flat the world looks either

[sasaranurude]

I'm a loser who both spends too much time playing gacha games and loves to hear myself talk, so here's another game review style post, this time covering my first day playing Break My Case. This time I'm not even being a little hater! I'm a lover! I'm cringe! I'm free! I love you Coly! I love you ikemen gacha games!!!!!!!

Break My Case is a new puzzle-music-adventure mobile game from Coly, the developers behind Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku and On Air. More relevant to BMC/BreMai is their game Stand My Heroes, with which it shares a writer, some gameplay elements, and of course a naming convention. Coly has developed a bit of a cult following for their unique status in the Japanese mobile gaming world: they're a company that was founded by women and hires women to make games for women. They put a lot of soul into their games. From the start, BMC is no different!

"Could you have pulled a clean version of this image from the internet so it didn't have all the game junk" no. it's my tumblr and you get my screenshots.

I (with help from friends) overviewed the initial Break My Case announcement back when it dropped. You can read that here! I said in that post that I thought a "dark rhythm game" would be a really cool direction for the game… and that's more or less what we got! GO ME!!!!!

First: the game's presentation is fantastic. Super slick graphical design and just amazing atmosphere. The sound design of this game is incredible. Genuinely. Really, really, good. All the music is amazing—I'm not knowledgeable enough to say anything other than "IT SLAPS!", but it totally does slap. The illustrations for the cards are all wonderfully atmospheric in and of themselves, and are just a delight to look at on the homescreen with its chill background music. Even just navigating menus is a sleek, seamless experience. The live2d is well-done, although it clashes a tad with the art style for a bit of an uncanny look at times. 

The atmosphere! The atmospheeeeeeere!!!

Of course, the draw to this game is the characters and story, so let's jump into that. I'll admit right now that I read the story through a machine translation—I have aaaalmost enough Japanese knowledge to fill in the gaps, especially since the story is fully voiced, but I'm definitely not getting the full nuance of the story that someone fluent in Japanese is going to get. THAT SAID, after completing the prologue, I was definitely intrigued enough that I want to continue slogging through the MTL just to read more! There's a great setup, centered around the bar Aporia and its three modes—a daytime cafe, a nighttime members-only bar, and, secretly, a "fixer" service who'll help anyone with any problem. Our main character, a woman who was just forced to quit her job at a corrupt company, gets hired to replace Aporia's eccentric owner while he goes on a who-knows-how-long vacation. The owner also has the role of "tail"—as in, the tail a lizard sheds to avoid being eaten. If anything in the fixer service goes wrong, it's the owner who takes the fall and the blame. This hasn't come to mean much in practice yet in the (quite short) prologue, but it's a fascinating setup. The story promises to touch on themes of the threads that weave our lives together, how small meetings can lead to massive life changes, and whether any human being is truly replaceable, even in our modern corporate world where people are treated like cogs in a machine. According to a staff interview, there are a handful of references to Stand My Heroes in BreMai, but the games' settings aren't otherwise closely linked.

Rough translation in alt text. The Aporia manager Ai may be the most mysterious, intimidating character, but he also beefs with a parrot the first time you meet him, so...

All the characters are staff at Aporia with various unique roles and background. The prologue just gives you a little bit of each of them, but everyone does show up, and they all have interesting dynamics with each other already. Ai, the stern manager, has some history with the MC that he refuses to divulge, and goes so far as to force psychologist Riku to agree to not look into it. The range of relationships among the staff run the gamut from the calm and mature friendship between fortune teller Kiho and art teacher Kyoya, to the unfaltering dedication of Yu to his ex-mafioso savior Tomose, to the ridiculous Takeru and Soyogu who spend their first appearance waking up after having gotten black-out drunk together the night before. My favorite dynamic of all so far is that of Kou and Mao—Kou is a playboy who insists he's not a playboy, and is introduced evading a woman by… asking the icy Mao to pretend to be his boyfriend so that she thinks he's taken and gay and leaves him alone. Which Mao exasperatedly agrees to, telling Kou that he's used up his allotment for this month which ohmygod how often does Kou do this. Kou if you're asking this guy to pretend to be your gay lover so often he gives you a monthly limit I think you might just have to admit you want him to actually be your gay lover, Kou, oh my god— 

Rough TL in alt text. Kou is letting the implication do all the heavy lifting here. He technically never said he was dating Mao. Technically. 

On to the gameplay. There's gameplay! Unique gameplay! Good unique gameplay! Oh my god, uncharted joseimuke territory! The main gameplay mode is a match-3 puzzle game with rhythm elements. As in other rhythm games, each song in the game is its own level, more or less. (Each character has two unique songs, and three songs shared with the other members of their unit.) You set up a team with cards you've collected from the gacha, which determine your power level and special skills. The "leader" of the team has to be the character whose level you've selected. The puzzle gameplay is a tile-swapping match 3—think bejeweled or candy crush—but the tiles you've matched are only cleared once a bar sliding across the screen hits them, clearing them in tune with the song. Everything cleared in a single swipe of the bar ups the combo counter. There's also a life system, where if the bar slides across the screen without clearing a single match, you lose a life… But the bar moves pretty slow. You're not likely to game over or even lose a single life any time soon. There are more difficult versions of the levels I've yet to unlock, so I'm sure the life meter becomes relevant then. There's also "auto" and "loop" features if you want to grind a level over and over for exp and items, but, of course, the computer can't score as high as you playing it yourself.

And, really, it's fun to play, so why would you want to!? The sound of matches clearing with the music is so satisfying and really makes you want to combo as high as possible. Once you've matched some tiles, you can't move them again, nor use them in a second match (eg, in a cross shape), so if you want to maximize your combo and make as many matches as possible with what's on the board, you have to think ahead about which matches you're going to make. The bar slowly crossing the screen adds a visual timed element that gives some urgency to putting all the matches together. It definitely feels like a game you can pick up an instinct for over time, which is super fun. 

All in all, a really solid, enjoyable little puzzle game. It would be fun to play even without the promise of anime boys. Stand My Heroes is also a match-3, for the record, which is what really cements the two games as being part of the same series.

Admittedly, the anime boy staring at you while you play musical candy crush is a little disconcerting.

The second gameplay mode is "Snap'n Spin", a… gameplay-lite mode that just puts chibi characters in random strange situations and lets you take pictures of them. The mode is explained to be a video game within the world of BreMai, so it's not even trying to be realistic or relevant to anything else in the game. Once you take your pokemon snaps of the boys, they get a fun little caption. You can save up to 40 pictures in your album. Other than being cute, the main way this mode interfaces with the rest of the game is that it's the primary way to unlock card stories for the cards you pulled in gacha. 

This gameplay mode is... cute? I guess? It being so disconnected from the style and aesthetics of the entire rest of the game felt weird. The chibis are adorable, so it has that going for it. And I do like some of the captions you get on the photos afterwards. My favorite were the scenes you catch of a character drinking, and then the caption reveals their current favorite drink. That's a delightful detail for a game set in a bar. Mostly, though, this mode left me wondering "why?" ...And I imagine the answer is something like "because merchandisable chibi characters are a requirement for joseimuke games." This mode could've been anything so long as these cute, starry little dudes were in it.

Urara here hated the drink and the caption revealed that, lately, his favorite thing is sparkling water. He's the youngest character in the cast, so I guess he hasn't grown into booze yet...

One last feature I want to mention is the jukebox. Like many games, BreMai has a music player that lets you listen to tracks from the game… But its music player is, genuinely, a fully-featured music player app with shuffle, repeat, lyric displays, and even background play that works when you're in another app or your phone is off. What! Wild! When I first learned a few days ago that BreMai had a built-in player for its BGM tracks, my first thought was "Well, what's stopping someone from downloading the game just to use the music player and never spending a cent on it? Wouldn't you rather have the songs on spotify so you at least get a pittance of ad revenue, in that case? It's more than nothing."

But having played the game now, I see what they did to prevent that, lol. You don't unlock the songs in the jukebox until you get an SS score on the song's level. Which, I mean, that's normal rhythm game stuff, of course. Can't fault that decision. But, as in other gacha rhythm games, your score in a level depends on the power of your team of cards, and the cards you get from the initial handful of pulls aren't gonna get you anywhere near an SS score without significant investment. So you're either buying in-game currency to buy upgrade items, more gacha pulls, or both. Of course, you can also put a bunch of time into grinding for upgrade items—they drop from levels. Gacha currency is harder to come by. So you're not getting songs in the player without actually playing the game lmfao. The character solo songs in particular (the ones with vocals rather than just instrumentals) also require you to build up rapport with that character—the game calls it "Nice". You build up Nice with them by playing their other songs and using their cards in levels. It takes 1000 Nice on a character to unlock their song. In my first day of playing, I was able to get one character to about 250 Nice, another to 200, and a handful more with a few points, so it builds at an okay pace. There's ways to pay to speed up the grinding for Nice and for upgrade items with things like level skip tickets. So, basically: you're not getting that music player to a useful state without investing either money or time, lmao. Is paying-or-grinding to get cool music you can listen to while not playing the game more "worth it" than the usual freemium game goals of better units, new in-game outfits, or prettier card illustrations? ...Honestly, maybe it is? It's novel, at least.

All gacha rhythm games have the same card select screen, don't they. These were my cards' levels after my first day of play, and you can see they didn't quite reach a suggested score of "A", much less the maximum "SS".

But I do want to stress, the monetization is, for the most part, pretty easy to ignore. Nothing in-your-face. The button to go to the shop screen is a different color, but it's not flashing with an eternal indicator, it's not popping up at every second, it's just sitting there alongside all the other menu buttons. The game isn't shoving timers in your face at all times—there's a stamina meter, which is mildly annoying, but you get ten plays when it's full, and if you're just playing casually you're probably not going to want to play the puzzle game over and over enough to fully deplete that. I know the bar is on the damn floor here but Tokyo Debunker seriously made me realize how bad it can be with mobile game monetization. BreMai is freemium, yeah, but as far as dark patterns go, it's not egregiously bad.

So, the verdict: if you're a joseimuke game fan and aren't afraid to play a game that probably won't get an English port and doesn't even have a fan translation yet (which I realize is already counting out 99.99% of people), definitely give this one a try. See if you like the gameplay—it really is worth trying—and do check out the story if you've got the ability. Or just look at the pretty anime boys. 

[youll-rebel-2-anything]

MSI ALBUM RANKING??

THIS IS ACTUALLY MY FAVORITE THING TO YAP ABOUT!!!!!

1. You’ll rebel to anything

-I like every song on this album

- I like how much Jimmy yells

2. Frankenstein girls will be strangely sexy

-I don’t hate any songs there’s just like 3 I don’t listen too

- I hate Jimmy page has my heart

- I like the little noises and silly voices

3. if

-I love it but it doesn’t feel as intense as the other 2

-I like every song except I HATE one but you’ll never know which one

4. Another mindless ripoff

- Only 5 songs so not much to go off of

- I love Frying Pan and Born to be Beheaded

5. HILTSGASALMSI

- Fuck Machine and Ala Mode ignite something in me

- Anonymous sounds good but the lyrics make me cringe a little

-The rest of the songs are there

- I have a deep unending hatred of Witness and I’m not afraid to admit it.

6. Pink

- I adore This Hurts

- I’ve listened to a couple more that are good but I haven’t listened to the album in full

7. Tight/Tighter

- I personally don’t like how much he says the N word. I can’t really listen to any song on this album either because it says the N word or I don’t like the sound of it

-When I was super into Danganronpa I loved Molly so much and its not a bad song but it’s so overplayed that it pisses me off

Sorry for the huge yap sesh 😔

[dipworld-dippa]

I found there's an unauthorized musical and it made me go full simp mode regardless of its super duper cringeness

not gonna search it ever again

[sugareey-makes-stuff]

I am a tad bit late to the reccing party for @hprecfest, but I figured something is better than nothing. I'll be honest and say it's been a while since I've binge-read HP fics, but I def have a lot of favs I love to come back to again and again. I'll be combining a few recs per post in the coming days (especially while I play catch up). Hopefully, y'all will find something new to read or add to your TBR list. Cheers, and enjoy!

Day 1- A Fav Fic under 5k

She Was Pretty by @skeptiquex | skeptique (Parvender, E, 4.1k)

In the aftermath of the war, Lavender Brown rediscovers herself in a tiny flat above her Diagon Alley tea shop. Parvati helps.

This is such a gorgeous on for Parvati and Lavender. Tee's way of writing is flows so effortlessly here, telling us a story about friends who have gone through some terrible things and find their way back to each other again. It's realistic, angsty, and curious. Also, there's a tea shop!

Day 2- A Comfort Fic

I Await a Protector by megyal (Drarry, M, 5.7k)

A snarky Patronus and its even more snarky master insist on disturbing Harry's peace of mind.

I love this one so much, and it's been a long-time fav. I love the way Patronuses are used in this fic since it really makes the pull between Harry and Draco super solid. The way this story was written really cool...almost like taking pieces of a puzzle and putting everything together. If you love snarky Draco and Harry jumping into his usual Gryffindor mode to save the day, check this one out.!

Day 9- A Rare Pair Fic under 2k

Pick me up by SquaresAreNotCircles (Perciver, T, 680)

Oliver tries out some really, really bad pick up lines on Percy.

This is short as hell, but the pick-up lines are gold, I swear! I could totally see Percy cringing but also loving that Oliver is trying to use them on him, and maybe he's just fond? Oliver is totes trying, and it's awesome! XD

[thehumanversionofthishellsite]

may or may not have stayed up all night reading this book as soon as I could get my hands on it but anyway I have some thoughts and most of them are screaming.

I really loved the book. Did it have flaws? Yes. Do I care? No. I'm 22, the targeted age range is something like 10-16. When I first got into this series I was the same age as nico. It's been a long journey getting older and changing and healing. Seeing that for Nico was all I really wanted from this book.

Also, realistic relationship struggles and growth!! Loved that!! Having a chronic illness is hard, your partner watching you suffer with it is also hard for them!! Having conversations and misunderstandings and awkward moments is how it goes!! After being in a 3 year relationship with someone I love very much I'm like,,, yes!! Thank you!! I have lifelong chronic illness!! It's not going away I gotta learn to live with it it's a part of me!! My partner struggles with it but is trying so hard and I love them so much!!! But I'm so much more than a pile of suffering and that's the point!!! You choose to keep trying and that's the point the book makes!! there's a whole scene about it and it's so important!!! Will starts to be more accepting and understanding and we love to see it! Nico accepts he needs to let himself move on and that it's ok to do that and not be angry with your past self for trying to stay alive!!

I make no sense and I don't care. But also, they're cringey and memey and dumb. They're hysterical and going a little bit crazy and they love each other and like, I'm not ok. Neither are they. Its been an extremely stressful week for them.

And I don't think it's super out of character because we barely know these people!! Nico has been suffering and in survival mode almost the whole time we have known him!! Will has been a background character most of the time!! Nico was a bubbly 10 year old and Will was like 4 sentences. Nico has made occasional/awkward/dark jokes and Will was shown to be stubborn and concerned and caring because demigods are ridiculously hard to keep alive. Let them be weird and cringey they're literal teenagers. Have you been in a high school with people obnoxiously dating. They are. The worst.

Broke: camp is empty because people wanna see their families

Woke: camp is empty because will and nico are just that couple who are cringe 100% of the time and everyone just noped out

I know I keep getting sidetracked but. Point is. nico and will seem out of character because of circumstances and time skips probably. Nicos finally in a stable place and can actually process things, mans is curious about the world he's in no wonder he's a memelord the internet just does that to you. People change when they're not in survival mode, I definitely am not the same person I was when I was 16. Not even the same person I was when I was 18. Or 20. Like, mental health glow ups bring out some of the best parts of you.

AND THANK YOU PIPER I FEEL SO SEEN RN, don't know what label I fit under, I am confusion but it's ok!! I am a big ole ace spectrum mess and maybe tomorrow it'll be different! Either way the book had a lot of great moments and no it's not the same as old rr books but it was never gonna be, the nostalgia associated with the original pjo series means nothing will ever live up to those books and that's kind of just life for some of yall. fuck knows I crave the joy I felt playing crash bandicoot for the first time. I miss that time of my life and it's ok to miss that but it's also ok to move forward and find new things that bring life joy and meaning!!

anyway. I enjoyed the sun and the star and I will continue to enjoy it regardless of what other people think, I can like things just because I do, or just because they make me happy. And this book definitely made me happy. Also holy fuck I need some sleep. Sorry about all the exclamation points it's all that's keeping me awake!!

[delightfuldevin]

Splatoon OCs!! (Plus Rosie and Bowser cause I am cringe but I am free bdbcjsvbdbc)

I only have Neo 3 and 8 as OCs cause I specifically made them to wear the Teddy Band and Golden Toothpick respectively. My Inklingsona wears the Skull Bandanna (plus it’s my favorite in-game headgear so I never change it), but since I worked so hard for the Teddy Band and Golden Toothpick I felt like I needed someone to wear them for me hdncjsdnc

So yeah, that’s their sole purpose for existing and the reason I don’t have an Agent 4, yknow since they never got a super hard to get item from Splat 2 hero mode. I don’t have an og Agent 3 cause I never played Splat 1 so og 3 feels like an already established character to me, rather than one I can make into an OC, if that makes sense?

Notes below cut :3

Gem (Neo 3)

Jewel Squid (Histioteuthis reversa)

19

she/her

5 words to describe her: competitive, show-off, loud-mouth, loyal, try-hard

mains Tri-Stringer exclusively

Signature Color: HeroSoda from Splat 3 hero mode

Natural Color: Red

Extra: The jewel squid is a member of the cockeyed squids, a group of squids so named because the left eye grows to be about twice the size of the right eye. I wanted to show that in Gem’s design by making the left side of her mask bigger than the right side.

Nelly (Agent 8)

Deep Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica)

21 (as of Splat 3)

she/they/it

5 words to describe her: curious, soft-spoken, shy, excitable, logical

a bit like Marina, but less confident; Marina is her role model

mains Octoshot and occasionally Octobrush

Signature Color: Purple from Octo Expansion

Natural Color: Also Purple

Extra: The deep sea octopus has many warty things on its body, which is why Nelly’s tentacles are so bumpy looking. Also, her eyes are very round compared to the usual Octoling eyes because the deep sea octopus is described as googly-eyed.

No personality traits for Rosie and Bowser cause they’re literally just Rosie and Bowser as Octolings lmao but here’s their notes as well

Rosalina

Big-finned Jellyhead (Cirroteuthis muelleri)

mains Luna Blaster, as well as REEF-LUX 450 and Inkbrush

Signature Color: Turquoise from Splat 3 online modes

Natural Color: pale purplish/brown? Somewhat pearlescent? Idk just look at the pic lol

Extra: Note that she has webbed hands and much longer earfins than a typical Octoling. I know webbed hands would serve no purpose on Octolings since they can’t swim, but I wanted to show the octopus’s webs on her somehow.

Bowser

Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)

mains Heavy Splatling Deco, as well as Hydra Splatling and Clash Blaster

Signature Color: Red from Splat 3 online modes

Natural Color: Also Red

Extra: Note the wavy things on his tentacles, which represent the folds present on the octopus.

Also, for fun, my signature color is Soda from Splat 2 hero mode! I’ve always just called it seafoam green, but when I realized the colors in the games actually had names, I finally got to pick which one I actually meant!

[lovesick-level-up]

Zhongli + Diluc Designs (Ajax Memory Edition)

nobody requested, super self indulgent.

so recently the others decided to encourage me to make these. i don't know why, but they were pretty fun. basically, these are what zhongli and diluc looked like in my fictive memories. its not too complicated. there's not many actual changes i could show (like zhongli being literally 7 foot tall), but it was nice to do edits of them as i remember them. i could probably talk about my version of the genshin universe for hours. but i'm not going to do that.... i'll put it under the cut though, because fuck you, this is my blog too. ~ ajax 🐋🗡️🧊

please don't use or claim as your own! unless you want to make me some gifts, which i would be very greatful for.

cringe mode activated, time to talk about my fictive memories as if they were real and not our brain coping. i've accepted it, don't worry, its just fun to talk about.

so, i'm from an au. not much changed, zhongli was more of like a, figurehead like a british monarch, but was also still just a fucking nerd. i was his bodyguard for a bit. you can imagine how it went. he was seven foot tall, betrayed the shit out of me and did have a sexy dragon form. it was basically a fanfiction.

diluc ended up part of the fatui after realising that our stuff actually made sense and wasn't stupid - we were trained together. he never went back to mondstadt. he was five foot tall, beat me up constantly and he was great. the others find it hilarious how different my diluc was to our old diluc fictive.

i could talk about everyone else i knew, but this is already getting too long and i can't talk about everything, because i would be here forever. sadly.

i was a gay mess. no surprises there. everything was pretty much the same with me, except i got did in universe, i don't know how that works either.

my memories stop at like, the liyue arc. i think. though i did know yoimiya and xinyan. i should do them next, but i'll just do that with that redesign series we are doing.

and my thoughts on the new fontaine arc are 'it is not the first time i've been in prison or the last. or the first time i've been beaten up by a dragon guy either. people thinking i'm dead is hilarious. i'm just having a gay old time discovering my backstory.'

~ ajax 🐋🗡️🧊

[lifesver]

𝘒𝘕𝘖𝘞𝘐𝘕𝘎  𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙  𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘕𝘌𝘙  𝘞𝘌𝘓𝘓  𝘊𝘈𝘕  𝘗𝘖𝘛𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘐𝘈𝘓𝘓𝘠  𝘔𝘈𝘒𝘌  𝘞𝘙𝘐𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎  𝘛𝘖𝘎𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙  𝘈  𝘓𝘖𝘛  𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘐𝘌𝘙.

NAME :  kels

PRONOUNS :  she/they/he

PREFERENCE  OF  COMMUNICATION : ims on here are fine, im kind of bad at discord until i know people better, but i prefer to talk to my pals on discord obvi

NAME  OF  MUSE(S) : leland mckinney, tommy jarvis, jake park are most recent. but we were also out here for a long while w richie tozier and five hargreeves.

EXPERIENCE  /  HOW  LONG  (  MONTHS  /  YEARS? ) : oh god uh........... it really goes back to something like 2013? like i started in oc rp groups on and off mostly, i think i didn't get into actual tumblr rpc until maybe 2018? and w leland well we have been out here since last may agjsdk

BEST  EXPERIENCE : honestly like... as much as i sometimes still get embarrassed trying to explain [scare chord] Tumblr Roleplay to people outside of this particular circle, it's been such a large part of my enjoyment online for years and years. i've met some really close friends here, i've done some of my best writing here. and a lot of it is just the ability to bounce off my friends and their huge brain ideas. collaborative writing, to me, is just so much more fun than doing it alone. i really like taking one character and getting just way too deep into who they are, i like learning and picking things up from the variety of other writers on here. improving my writing from reading what my super talented friends do... and in particular this last year has been probably??? one of my most positive rpc experiences in a long while. having people jump into the tcsm rpc, making new friends, and putting together just completely off the shits wild aus and whatever. idk! my creative brain loves to go stupid mode in the paint. and besties we have written some good fucking horror narrative on this stupid website.

and also i'm cringe and i'm free (:

RP  PET  PEEVES  /  DEALBREAKERS :  i'm kind of just chilling like i really am very much non-confrontational in this space because it's... for fun. it's just imaginary internet collaborative writing hobby. mainly i just don't need passive aggression of any kind. i believe that you kind of get back what you put in on this kind of space, so make it comfortable for yourself, be kind to others, and understanding as often as you can be. if people aren't hurting anyone, let them vibe in their own space. not everyone has endless time anymore for rp, so don't make it weird or take it personally when people take time to get back to you about plots, or if they never get time. soft and hardblock as you need to to make your space chill for You it's just never that deep

MUSE  PREFERENCES  FLUFF,   ANGST  OR  SMUT : we like a bit of everything in this house (except anything remotely usfw goes to usfw shadow realm blog). like be serious i am always in the horror rpc for the angst and suffering and exploration of trauma but that needs to be balanced out by fluff and gentle vibes. [loudly into the megaphone] its about LOVE and HORROR-

PLOTS  OR  MEMES :  i like both! i think it's easiest to get things rolling with just whatever memes thrown my way and vice versa. i love plotting stuff out, but sometimes that takes a bit of existing in each others rpc space for a while. so i can be sort of slow w building dynamics, but i do like to!

LONG  OR  SHORT  REPLIES : i don't mind either, it's kind of refreshing to switch between the two, more rapid fire stuff is nice esp to start with, though i am known to be insane in the reply lengths for some prompts once stuff is plotted out.

BEST TIME TO WRITE :  i'm a morning person it's very cringe

ARE  YOU  LIKE  YOUR  MUSE(S) : idk if much really? but i do bring a sort of idiot jock(joth) energy to the function at times. i def project on him on the emotions side i think. and truly whoever i write at a given time reflects a bit on me bc hyperfixation go brrr

TAGGED  BY  :   did steal this from tsari thank u legend TAGGING  :  hands u it

[doggendoodle]

more Minecraft movie thoughts because i'm worried they're going to half-ass the theme of creation i feel they might try going for.

it appears a couple times - the voiceover from Steve, the guy slamming a hammer on a crafting table to create... whatever that was. and that's really it but it's the most the teaser has given us for an emotional throughline.

like OK here's an optimistic version of what the movie might be like. they start out being like "this is cringe" but then they start getting into it. learning how to craft, how to build, how this new world works. the boy reaching for the log is followed by him placing it and actually appreciating it. slowly the things they mocked before start to look beautiful. they appreciate the dyed wool of the pink sheep instead of mocking it.

and then the pillagers piglins come, when they've become invested. and they start to tear everything down. something they built gets destroyed and that's when they realise, oh shit, they care about this world now.

it's not the most original story in the world, but it's a story suited especially well for Minecraft. a story about the beauty of the world, the ability to shape it and create, and the desire to protect it from destruction. have them be entranced more like they are in the opening, have them explore the world and find weird things, if we must isekai these bitches, go all in and have them fall in love with the world. to bring it up again, for all its faults Minecraft Story Mode proved definitively that you can make a story that is quintessentially Minecraft, all about its themes of creation and exploration, and tell engaging stories with it.

of course, this is only one of many many stories you could tell. the Fallen Kingdom series proves you can make a simple Minecraft invasion story compelling. series like Minecraft Diaries, Stampy's Lovely World, and DanTDM's mod showcases show off the fun you can have in a world like Minecraft's. the plethora of SMPs broadcast a range of stories - serious ones like the Dream SMP, or silly slice-of-life ones like Hermitcraft. you could tell a comedic story about a particularly eventful time in a Minecraft city, or a serious one about the more mysterious parts of Minecraft.

like, looking back at the teaser for the Mario movie. obviously there was a lot of discourse about Crisp Rat, but it showed actual love for the Super Mario franchise, and gave a clear tone for the movie. Bowser is a menacing villain, Mario is an everyman on a huge adventure. and then the trailers were goofy, it was a comedic adventure, but the comedy came from things happening (like Mario sucking at platforming or getting his ass beat) and not the characters going "well THAT just happened" to undercut the emotion.

maybe we'll get another trailer closer to release and we'll see the characters actually experiencing the world. but i'm. not hopeful!

[hyunsvngs]

(selfishly, and if you’re comfy with it) i need to know how ot8 would be with an s/o that has ibs or other gastro issues. my tummy has not been feeling good lately and i just need cuddles

OBVIOUSLY COMFY WITH IT?? THATS SO CUTEEE AND ALSO I HAVE TUMMY ISSUES TOO SO DONT WORRY HAHAHAH

whenever i have super bad tummy issues, i always envision jisung rubbing my tummy n trying to take my mind off it by watching something w me. he’d be giggling like crazy at bits that aren’t even funny just to try and make you laugh and try to make u happier <3 cutiepie!!!!

changbin too would be so COMFORTING. kissing ur tummy, maybe doing a cringe shout at it to leave u alone tbh like that one text meme if u know what i’m talking about. changbin’s so cute and he would definitely want to take care of it. he’d make sure you ate even if you didn’t feel like it <3

chan would baby you too 100%. tucking you up in bed, kissing your forehead, bringing you hot drinks as if you’re on bed rest and dying when you just have a tummy ache. you’d be a literal cocoon in bed. unable to move. all bc u said ur tummy hurt a little. chan would not accept that. you must rest. you are ill. <3

i think minho would be similar to sungie. just tryna take ur mind off it, acting silly n crazy and tbh it would work. you wouldn’t even be thinking about it!!! he’d also get u drinks of water, making u take small sips if you felt sick. i think minho could be so so soft when he wants to be but he would try to hide it <3

innie would think ur dyin but like genuinely. he’d be like ur tummy hurts? we….. we need to go to a&e. now. and u’d be like ?? no innie it’s not that serious. eventually u’d convince him and he’d feel so fucking dumb. he’d just be there like oh. and he’d 100% cuddle you close and try to get you to sleep it off <3

im imagijing felix singing. singing in his deep voice, making you super relaxed and eepy so that you can drift off… i imagine he might be a lil hesitant to sing for you, refusing to do it a lot cos he gets a bit shy!! but his baby’s ILL??? HES GONNABSING GODDAMNIT! when u fell asleep he would sidle up close to u n sleep too <3

i think seungmin would be so quiet in that type of situation. just letting u lay with him, he’d just stroke ur tummy softly and if it hurt so bad you cried, he’d let you cry. just kissing ur tears away and again. he jsut wants to let u get it all out!!! he’s no doctor but he will cuddle and let u talk <3

hyunjin would be in full pamper mode tbh. do NOT lift a finger. warm bath already run for you, he’s picked out a movie, the softest blanket. he is taking it so seriously. u have to remind him its just your stomach issues, that you’re used to it, but he’s screaming because well he’s not used to it??!!! HIS BABY IS IN PAIN?? honestly so dramatic but we love him for it <3

♡ juno

[neitherabaron]

So I bought Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania as a potential thing for me and Sam to stream…but it doesn’t have pass-and-play multiplayer on the main levels, which is. The main fucking selling point of the whole series??? Since 2001?

…wtf?

This isn’t a game that’s meant to be played on your own! The whole idea is you get a group of people together and pass the controller between you to see who can beat the crazy level designs first?!

You laugh/cringe at each other’s misfortunes! You cheer when your mates finally stagger over the finish line! Why would they remove a core feature of the classic games they’re supposed to be future-proofing with this collection? Without an actual social dimension, it’s just a damn monkey in a damn ball.

“Oh, but you can still play up to 12 mini games in multiplayer! So you can still play with your friends -” *Oh, please.* Don’t give me that. The party games are shite. They’ve always been shite (apart from Monkey Target). We all know it, we’ve known it for 20 years, but we’ve been too afraid to admit it until now, when it’s too late. The best part of this series is dead for no reason and the monkeys are laughing all the way to the bank BUT I GUESS ITS OKAY BECAUSE YOU CAN BE TAILS FOR SOME REASON…just, only in single player. You’re not allowed to play the shite party games as Tails because that might be fun.

Sooooo, that’s why we will not be streaming the latest Super Monkey Ball. It’s still a gorgeously designed game (three of them actually) but they have surgically removed the fun stuff that would make it streamable.

And yeah, I am mostly joking in the above rant and I probably *will* have fun playing it single player at home. But the lack of the originals’ best mode is never gonna stop being a phantom pain. And I 100% wouldn’t have shelled out for this remake (even on sale) if I’d known about it.

[wrecking]

ok i know i say this every month now bc i'm old but like HOW is february already over. it just like got super warm and ended instantly like great month. anyways uh this one is defs gonna be one i look back on and cackle at. like what is this list. open for a little bit of commentary on each one bc ya

lady gaga - artpop (highlight this month - mary jane holland) : kind of an odd pick but tbh it's just kinda been in my head this month? messy and maximalist but very fun

kylie minogue - disco extended mixes (last chance) : this thing is just so good. super fun sleek listen and last chance is my fav of them all

boygenius - the record (cool about it) : shockingly to absolutely no one, women are still beating me with hammers, which will continue until i die

men i trust - untourable album (organon) : really good album that i spend random amounts of time with, but always lingers around in my head regardless of whether i listen to it or not tbh

yeule - softscars (4ui12) : 2023 didn't have many albums of note but the ones that were of note were Really Of Note cuz like holy shit this thing is so good. please just put the wav files playable on my tombstone

frost children - speed run (hi 5) : random choice but i've been watching the hi 5 video too much on youtube to not include this here

kesha - gag order (all i need is you) : really went under everyone's radars but wow what an album. perfect for the messy healing process and boy am i in that right now

aldous harding - warm chris (she'll be coming round the mountain) : probably not as good as i originally made it out to be, but damn the highs are high, and by the highs i mean the entire b side of this thing. all 5 of them

dorian electra - freak mode frost children remix : this is your free cringe comp pick for this month, enjoy the lack of taylor this time. anyways the base album is alright but not quite my thing, but this remix just fucks ok it's just fun and silly and funny. frost children sweep

cafune - love songs for the end (unchained memory) : i'll be waiting for a time where perspective doesn't stop me in my tracks every time i hear the opening guitar

deltarune - my castle town : yep i'm coping again

yeule - glitch princess (don't be so hard on your own beauty) : presented without comment

lizzy mcalpine - five seconds flat (reckless driving) : idk this has just snuck up on me, fun pleasant listen and i like her vibe a lot

ethel cain - preacher's daughter (hard times) : presented without comment

troye sivan - something to give each other (one of your girls) : this album has some bores on it but the bops are so good. troye please make a no-ballads album or something, for me

aly & aj - with love from (6 months of staring into the sun) : wrote this album off at its release but it's been growing on me, defs more subdued and a less immediate listen than a touch of the beat(...) but it's so good when it hits right

caroline polachek - desire i want to turn into you everasking edition (spring is coming with a strawberry in the mouth) : i still think this album probably doesn't hold a candle to pang, but i have to admit the deluxe version let me recontextualize it. not sure what was wrong with the original release but i kinda just ended up :/ abt it after like 2 weeks and now i'm like ok wait this is bops

paramore - this is why (the news) : when will this not be on here. it's so good they can do no wrong seriously

patricia taxxon - bicycle (big wheel) : finally starting to listen to her and damn what an intro. good sounds amazing sounds the autism won

mitski - the land is inhospitable and so are we (the frost) : this thing never leaves me alone like it's evergreen. all her other albums have the occasional song i care less about but this thing is perfect

lucy dacus - home video (thumbs) : presented without comment

willow - copingmechanism (hover like a godess) : so good, finally revisiting it after fixating on it in the middle of last year. holds up incredibly well

pinkpantheress - heaven knows (ophelia) : speaking of holding up well, this thing just gets better the more that i listen to it. she made me a stan i gotta say

hayley williams - flowers for vases (hyd) : this is such a depression spiral album. love it so much

allie x - girl with no face (black eye) : god this fucking album. i really don't have words like it's messy it's silly it's batshit it's brilliant. i don't think it's better than cape god per se, but god is it a strong contender for the title of her best work

[gremlinwithagachablog]

Looking back at my 2018 gacha stuff

Guess who found some of their old gacha stuff from 2018??

At first I thought gacha studio was gachaverse lol. Anyway this is actually Lila from my pokemon irl blog @vitamin-sea-enjoyer, except a version of her from a tvtropes forum rp.

So then I finally found actual gachaverse and made a bunch of my TvTropes RP characters there too. We have Lila again, her friend Eva, an early version of my sona called Quantum, Erin from a magic school rp and Echo and Layla from a superhero rp.

Then I made a couple of my other pokemon rp characters. The guy on the left is Danny. He's a were-Phantump who got turned on accident by his older sister, the pink haired one to the right of him. She's called Guinevere or Gwen and she's a were-gourgeist. I actually briefly posted as her on pkmn irl tumblr, as someone from a long line of gourgeist hybrids looking for information on her birth family. Then there's Lila again and Eva, showing a bit more of her mad scientist mechanical enthusiast side this time. The one in the back is Miriam Marcaul. The Macrauls were a big rich Kalosian family of collectors in this pokemon RP, and her collection was of plushies. It took me years to realise I'd been spelling the family name wrong.

Then gacha life 1 came out! (prepares grumpy old man voice) back in my day we were excited about 20 character slots! You whipper snappers never had to learn the struggle of deciding who to keep and taking screenshots of what they wore so you wouldn't forget!

I remember I got Gacha Life right before a family trip down to London and I spent the whole 3 hour car ride grinding to level 50 in life mode so I could unlock online exports. Then I made some halloween costumes for some of the characters because there was a party event going on in the RP.

At this point Danny does look quite a bit like my other pokemon OC @shinyhunterderek, but they're actually just inspired by the same yo kai watch character.

Derek was a character who I never ended up using much, so it's nice to have him on here finally doing stuff.

So yeah that's some of my older gacha stuff and the origins of a couple of my pokemon blog characters.

I have some even older OCs I made in gacha studio, but I thought they were cringe and deleted all the screenshots I had of them so I'm not sure if I'll be able to find my very first experiences with gacha.

Its mad to think about how I was there when gacha life came out and now gacha life 2 is here. I remember pre registering for it and being super hyped when I woke up and it was installed. Just like I was for gacha life 2 nearly 5 years later lmao.