#just-a-moon-phase

[utilitycaster]

@just-a-moon-phase replied to your post “I have a lot of things in fandom I'd call "Brown...”:

please OP, where is the theory... I am listening...

​re: having a theory about why using non-canon nicknames cor characters specifically tends to be technically harmless and minor but also is really frequently a signal that someone's takes will be bad:

I think it's that it's both a quick shortcut to indicate intimacy, but it's also really generic and often out of character for those doing it.

To use Caleb as an example: not only did various German speakers in the fandom (of which I am not one) say that it's just not really a common thing linguistically/culturally, the nicknames people tended to use (usually at the time for Veth) were intended by the writers to be fond and platonic but were often either the sort of thing you'd only say in a romantic context, or else were nicknames very much intended for one's own children.

However, more importantly, Caleb very, very specifically doesn't really use nicknames in canon. He in fact frequently calls Beau "Beauregard". During a very emotional moment at the time of her transformation, he specifically uses Nott/Veth's full name. He refers to two of the characters we know he had romantic feelings for, Jester and Essek, by only their last names on at least one occasion, which reads to American audiences as either formal or perhaps fratty, but distinctly not romantic. As @essektheylyss said at some point, Caleb tends to use epithets a lot though mostly when talking about someone in the third person (eg: "our Kryn friend,") and the closest we ever get to any term of endearment is him saying "my friend," which again sounds quite formal. Caleb in general gets more formal with those he loves, not less. It's a great character detail, and anyone who peppers "spatz" into their fic like it's going out of style kind of comes off as, to put it kindly, not very good at finding characters' voices. Unfortunately, that is in my opinion literally one of like two things you cannot fuck up in fanfic for it to be good; if you don't get the voice right, then even if it succeeds as a story it fails utterly as fanfiction.

Anyway Caleb is a really good illustrative example because it's so clear from canon that this isn't his voice, but it applies anywhere. It's a sign that this person is cutting corners instead of actually establishing a base from which there will be a rewarding payoff.

(will say: this also, bizarrely, often applies to people who called Trent Ickythong/Ickythot or people who call Ludinus Luda, though it's much less reliable there. I feel it's similarly like, people who rely on shortcuts and the idea that the fandom will agree with them because these are clear villains, and never actually go deep enough to come up with an argument. Like in the end it always just feels like a cheap and insubstantial discussion.)

[pocketgalaxies]

you watching cr2 is giving me so much life and i really appreciate the vibes. the pov is just?? so wholesome??? I'm living for it

thank you!! i like putting out good vibes

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 168

So. Apparently halfas are like phoenixes or something, which Danny would’ve really liked to know. 

See, usually with ghosts if they’re forced to retreat to their cores they reform as was, but apparently, since they’re still partially living, schrodinger's people and all that, halfas have to regrow their body from scratch. At least that’s what he’s understanding from Frostbite. 

But how come he has to deal with it? It’s Dan’s fault for trying to pull such a stunt! Oh, it’s either him or Vlad? Well fuck, he might have calmed down and is going to therapy in both the living realm and the Zone, but he’s waaay not equipped to raise a child except for like, monetarily wise. 

Well dammit, how long will this core incubation thing last, he has his new job in… let him check which offer he accepted again… He has his new job in Coast City that he needs to finish packing for and then all the rest of the stuff to do. 

What do you mean it’ll take months?! He doesn’t have months?! Urgh, fine. At least being a mortician isn’t that exciting, nor dangerous. Just hand him Dan’s core and he’ll figure things out for the living side of things. He’s sure Tucker and Sam wouldn’t be against helping, if only to try and claim favorite aunt or uncle spots. 

[misamoom]

[humming-fly]

Inktober Day 26 - Discarded

Once again I've started rereading @post-it-notes7's fic Heart and Soul and am as always having a Wonderful time with it unlike the protagonists

(will probably go back in and add the shading later but for now it's 2am so it's gettin posted!)

[coolnessgraphed]

[thatmooncake]

@maudiemoods I love your lil grumpy mischief maker Mini Moon so much and he’s so fun to draw so I did a few doodles! 💖

[kheprriverse]

Terminus/FD Lore!

The boys(tm) gossip not so subtly and find out Terminus’s hair changes colors based on the moon. (Also that he was blond once.)

Had this headcanon a bit ago, thought it’d be fun to draw smth for it. Then it turned into a big thing that took 4ish days to finish. Anyways FD with orange hair is just— MWAH chef’s kiss.

Stupid bonus below

Legend smacks the shit out of Hyrule

[monomori3]

full doodle dump page of moon god sans (again, by @aka-indulgence go check it out!) i like the idea that as "full moon" phase, his jewelry is more sun-colored, to reflect how close he was to Sun, as well as his robes being lighter back then. oh, also that maybe Sun gave him his jewelry as gifts during their friendship and later when she imprisoned him, they were re-forged into his chains. just my own ideas of course, feel free to take 'em or leave 'em!

[mymp3]

the boy who feels like death

[perfectlyripeclementine]

it’s been a long time since we’ve been together. you took me out tonight and i saw your eyes lingering on the rings on my fingers, at the gold around my neck dripping down my chest. i saw that look in your eyes like wonder, saw that smile of yours that i know means love. i saw you relax when you laughed at my jokes. i saw you almost take my hand, and then shy out of it.

when we left the restaurant you worked up your nerve and asked if you could kiss me. so i leaned in, touched my lips to yours, drew you into me. and the warmth, that marvelous warmth, filled me up. in the cab we couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t be separated by an inch. it was all the strength we had not to spend the whole car ride making out in the back seat like we were coming home drunk from a bar. but, no; this is holy; we didn’t want an audience for this moment.

there were no pretenses when we got home. we wanted to be close to one another. you sat on the couch and i asked if i could sit in your lap: you said, please. so i came and sat on top of you and flooded with your heat. i took your hands, laced our fingers and said: i missed you. your touch on me after that was all hunger, like i might disappear if you couldn’t feel me, like you could never have enough of me. pulled me down on you like you’d never felt so safe as you did under my weight. the shock i felt course through your body when i found the right spot to grind on - how it changed your breathing - how i held your beating heart in the soft of my hands.

hours later, we fell asleep entwined, me wrapped around you, holding hands.

[heraldofcrow]

If Azathoth wakes up, the dream of the world’s life will end, and everything will cease to exist.

If Rom is killed, the horrors of the Mensis rituals will be unveiled.

I like the implication that Miyazaki was like, “Wait, okay….what would happen if we KILLED Azathoth?” but he had to figure out a way to make it work without ending existence lol.

[snepfeathers]

silliest little inconsequential pet peeve: when people draw the moon phases as just a crescent getting thicker until it's a full moon.

like. no. that's not how it works! justice for half moons and gibbous moons!

at the very least there *is* technically an event involving the moon that produces those crescent shapes of varying thickness, but uh. it's a solar eclipse. not quite the same thing - the crescent in that scenario is the sun. cool as all hell but not the good ol monthly cycle we know and love!

(lunar eclipses.....sooort of take on the crescent shapes too? but the shadow moving across the lunar surface is pretty fuzzy and doesn't make nearly as clean a look.)

anyway. the moon does a lot of cool stuff and we should appreciate it in all its forms more <3

[spaciebabie]

finally working on this one post that has been bouncing around in my head since june. here's a sneek peek ig idk lol.

it was orig gonna b a comic but i realized that in order for the joke ta hit the way i want it ta there needs ta b audio sos...video it is (there's no audio on this one tho)

that's the kid from the sun kiss comic btw lol

[its-leethee]

Look, y'all, look. Do you see them?

They're PUFFER BATS!

Look at them floooooooat the little poofy balls.

So cute when they're not squished ;_;

[rontra]

Just wanted to tell you i adore how toriumi has the little moon widget on her date ui. The effects of coming from tatsumi port island.. no but really its so cool to me how they each have their game's ui elements.. EPIC.. she will know about the moon phases

HAHABH ME TOO IM GLAD... i fucking love toriumi's corner widget its so funny to me...why would she need to know that!!!!!!!!! sadayo having The Weather is p normal imo but

what tatsumi port island ca. 2009 does to a motherfucker...