#l rambles <3

[missmeinyourbones]

dad!eren tells your baby stupid anecdotes like “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for life” when ur poor child is 4 and just asked for another juice box

[saltpepperbeard]

so i was complaining talking to my dad about the suffering that is the renewal void, and he agreed that it would be a bit nonsensical for max to-

push physical merch on their site

create a bunch of custom icons for users on their site

put so much effort into marketing s2, to the point of putting spots on tv, hanging up gigantic billboards, and spreading teasers all across social media

-if they had no intention to see the show all the way through.

which was ✨validating✨ coming from an outside party, because it's something i've been thinking this whole time. now, granted, i don't trust streaming services, and stranger things have happened, buuuuut idk. it really seems like there's a part of them that realizes ofmd is a large, important property to them, but we shall seeeeeee,,,

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

bros shrekmaxxing

SHREKMAXXING???

[ask2pame]

regarding your rant on frances design: TELL ME ABOUT IT. tbh i think all the designs peaked with beautiful world, and everything after that was just...discount budget versions of whoever theyre supposed to be. the beautiful world designs are GORGEOUS on their own, but compared to world stars? theres no contest. some designs i do like, like england looks nice, if not a little too polished, and portugal is really cute, but everyone else just got twinkified and butchered. and i love a twink! i do! but they look like they could be swapped out with my little pony designs and it wouldnt make a difference. france to me will always be a blonde with a ponytail, a little unkempt, with chest hair and stubble and flamboyantly manly with a touch of tragedy. thats france to me. not whatever waif they cooked up in the more recent series

// ok ok i can't tell if u mean like ''oOOOh tell me about it' as a phrase or u actually are inviting me to tell you about it but i'm going to take it as permission to ramble <3 but im putting it under the cut so i dont spam

okok so UR SO RIGHT i think the new designs are so OFF... like it kinda lost the plot. the characters are all weirdly polished?

ok im just gonna run down the characters i have a lot of thoughts about CUZ my god

ENGLAND!!! its gotta be beautiful world

cuz the early seasons england gets his crankiness on point but this design fits just how cranky and posh(?) he is, like he dresses like an old man and wears outdated 'punk' fashion, he drinks tea like an old lady.. it fits hes cute and expressive.

this england isLOSING hair where did his EYEBROWS GO!!!! thats HIS WHOLE FUCKING CHARACTER but also i really dislike the change from him going from a dirty blond to a bleach blond... doesnt work...

i want my man to look like he has a nicotine addiction, rugged and smug as shit. i think they leaned too hard on the 'tsundere' trope for him cuz hes not puffy cheeks with pouty lips hes an old man with a laundry list of war crimes

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ROMANO

ok. this one is a little hard cuz romano is good in ever season but he has these little minor changes that drive me CRAZY but my favorite will always be the earlier seasons

this ver of romano was a NASTY bitch he just showed up to be an asshole and i love it so much , i love his hair being dark brown with brown eyes ok , at the minimum his design fit his voice...

for beautiful world i think hes cute but i really don't ? like his eyes being green? like i dont know it just never felt right to me:( i like him having brown eyes

and later his design leans into the prev but when u look at him u don't see that one guy who REALLY doesn't wanna be here hes . too soft?

and the newer romano does have the bad attitude but now he's suffering from the 'progressively becoming a ginger' syndrome that a lot of hws characters have now

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RUSSIA

my pick for him is all over the place bc i think his new design is SO FUCKING CUTE like i wanna bite him and crocodile death roll him but i think he is SUFFERING from cuteness.... hes so . soft?

earlier seasons of russia showed up just to say some morbid shit and be brutal as fuck but he could also lean into being cute, thats his whole gimmick, cute but scary. his current design is cute with no threat.

i think beautiful world had that balance between cute and scary, he was cute and say mean shit like before and was ready to throw down any time america showed up, thats his whole deal. and you know at the bare minimum he's supposed to be fucking BIG and world stars makes him look like a fucking twink

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SPAIN

beautiful world was WORKING to make spain look good, he was ugly . he was boring. and then he walked in with a new tan and a warm hair color and the cutest smile (tho its hard to find pics of spain in these seasons cuz hes younger in a lot of them) and then it's just

what the hell happened here. i feel like im going insane but did his skin tone get ashy? like it looks more grey. and i know saying spain is 'tan' is generous but what the fuck happened. why did all his colors dull, why is his hair so . boring. where did the body mass go, where did the attitude go... world stars spain is very 'head empty' and not in a good way ....

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CHINA

one of the most overlooked characters but i love him

i think my favorite ver of him is still his original cuz i preferred him with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and he's side part... it was so cute... and they swapped it for a middle part .... </3

like he was so cute ;; plus i preferred him as this kinda irritable older know it all character, like he was groaning and huffing and did NOT want to be there. but then he kind of got? infantalized(?) i think they wanted him to be cute but idk if china is considered one of the ancient nations by its own rules, then can we tone down the :333 factor on him a bit

like just comparing but this might be me raise hands at hima for this characterization. what did you do to my boy

like do u see it. am i crazy

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these bitches

these 4 just suffer from success in their OG and the beautiful world just made them way better (except i miss italy's darker hair </3) and then they just got handed bad animation in world stars

ok thats all i have time for rn BUT YEAH

[youngblood-valkyrie]

"Impressive work, Miss Vance..."

(more wip shots of this under the cut)

[eviiiiiiii]

religious trauma lifesteal!zam essay //lifesteal spoilers

call it projecting but like imagine the amount of religious trauma lifesteal!princezam has (presuming theres some sort of connection of the characters between seasons) like bro has had like 80% of his teamates become gods and watched them loose their sense of self in one way or another he himself started exploiting at one point then goes on to ban himself in season five theres something to be said their having reached the heart cap and having so much power after hours and hours of constant labour to achieve what he got handed to him by a divine like entity like just to ban himself something something sacirficing your life to a higher entity . something also about watching all of his loved ones betray him die or him having to betray them for his own self of moral justice which is very lackluster to his constantly changing beliefs and morality he will never find something that he can cling to (like religion) so. yeah.

[spacenintendogs]

i've opened commissions on my ko-fi!!

very happy to have my ko-fi page up and running again! feel free to peruse through it! sharing in any way is also greatly appreciated!

[maiiniee]

a recent obsession with love&deepspace. rafayel pouting :3

[arsenicflame]

hey does anyone wanna bounce bellhands/they all went to pirate school together ideas with me? im trying to figure out the missing pieces of my personal set up and it might be easier with someone else!

[hauntswitch]

Im so sorry but the L word is absolutely fucking hilarious - none of these women have an ounce of morality between them and yet they're all somehow still loveable characters. Despite the atrocities. And the bad 2000s haircuts. And the deeply questionable fashion choices.

[lemonitenite]

Sculptey lil guys :3

Transparent ones below :v

(pls click on them for better qualityyyy ty)

[missmeinyourbones]

i wanna tease jean so bad. i want to poke and prod and annoy the living shit out of him. i want to pull his hair when i walk past him and poke his side and see him jump and sit on top of him when he’s laying down and crawl all over him. he’s so big and gentle and of service at all times and i want to crack him like an egg. get him so annoyed and irritated that he snaps and manhandles me or somethin

[tragedykery]

I love you bed I love you pillow I love you weighted blanket I love you stuffed animal I love you hot water bottle I love you sleepy & cozy

[eclipixnova]

What if they told An about Nagi's death when she was still in middle school? Honestly there's a lot of possibilities,

She either gets more determination, doesn't get her dream to surpass rad weekend or maybe her personality somewhat changes?

and I wanna see what would happen in the present after that like. Actually, would she still be in a team with VBS? Will she form a team with Kanade and Emu- (BAHAHA), Will she still look out for Mizuki, Haruka and the others?? would she still be somewhat friendly rivals with Bad dogs??

And what if she did stay with VBS? What would she think of Kohane?

[seaofgoldensand]

Follow-up to that trial question, if it's not too much of a hassle, could you, whenever you're free, share your team details? So I can see where I'm lacking the most. I think I might've been neglecting the protocores a little 🫠 but thank you for responding! Appreciate it! ^-^

it's not too much to ask at all! i'm more than happy to help where i can whenever someone asks me about it these things!

so here are my two main teams for rafayel, depending on the stellactrum (if i can match it, otherwise i'm brute-forcing it, i'm a menace with leveled up 3* stars to match the colors)

i'll put them under the cut :) i hope it works out and that you are triumphant with rafayel in the deepspace trials and with xavier and zayne as well! 🩶

this is the team i had prior to obtaining his god of the tides myth pair, so i was running this exact time to get 11/12 in senior hunter contest and primarily in his directional orbit and open orbit

this is how my current team looks after obtaining his god of the tides myth pair and outside of the senior hunter contest and to this day i am still farming protocors, but only when the purple and pink stages are open

[jules-ln]

Once I read something, I don't remember if it was in a book or an essay. But I read that in the Iliad, in the chapter of the embassy, while it is pretty obvious that Cleopatra it's supposed to be Patroclus, within the story neither Phoenix nor Achilles know that

Because, think about it, why would they think Patroclus would be the one to make Achilles go back to fighting? Like, before that Patroclus seemed to be 100% on Achilles's side, why would he go to support the rest of the Greek army later?

So, I read that Phoenix meant Cleopatra to be Briseis not Patroclus

But!!!!!

I keep thinking about it, because that gave me an idea like, imagine you are a Homer contemporary, that you never heard about the story of the Iliad before and don't know the characters. Then you go to hear Homer's latest hit

And it's embassy time, and you think that Cleopatra it's obviously supposed to be Briseis; because women, and as soon as Briseis is back she'll convince Achilles to go back to fighting like Cleopatra does for Meleager

Except it doesn't work because Achilles doesn't care about Briseis and doesn't want her back. So Cleopatra can't be Briseis, because Cleopatra it's the person Meleager cares for the most

But who is Cleopatra then?

And the thing is, if you don't know the story, and you don't know the characters. You really can't know that it's going to be Patroclus, because at that point, he has just been a background character, he hasn't even talked yet! Why would anyone think he's Achilles's most beloved at that point in the story?

Then the story happens, and turns out that Patroclus IS Achilles most beloved, and Patroclus IS the reason why Achilles would return to fighting

And that's a twist!! The twist is that Achilles's most beloved isn’t a woman, but a man. Cleopatra IS Patroclus!!

Of course nowadays it doesn't work as a twist because everyone already knows the story before reading it or is familiar with it, but I think it'd still be surprising if someone who doesn't know anything about the Iliad reads it now