#not acit now lol

[rockgenrola]

Forgot I didn’t post this but this is an art project I had to do with only school martierals!!

I might digitalize this if it gets more than 35 likes

[isjasz]

The sand may brush off (Do memories last forever?)

Happy DL anniversary i am NOT LATE LETSGO

Dtiys from @pikorulli on twt!! (from like sept 2022 LOL)

[robyn-goodfellowe]

ok glad i got ch20 out of my system i really do feel normal now. i still have no idea what just happened i think i got possessed to do all of that because i have never written that fast, ever, in my entire life, and i am known for bullshitting essays half an hour before they’re due

[assassyart]

Odd question.

Who would you say was more unfairly sidelined?

Angela Cross, Sasha Phyronix or Talwyn?

Hmm. That's an interesting one. Sure, I'll bite!

I guess this may be a bit controversial, but I don't really think Angela was "unfairly sidelined" at all. She had her place in the story in Going Commando, a prominent one at that, and despite me thinking her arc kinda sucks in GC, it doesn't erase the fact that her character was basically done after Going Commando. Her one goal was to stop Fizzwidget Qwark from releasing the crazy Protopet.

It's only now with ACiT and RA that Angela actually serves a purpose beyond Going Commando (and even saying that is a stretch, considering the purpose as of right now is just a mix between "where did she go?", "is she a lombax?", and the fact she is presumably with max apogee). She was never *intentionally* sidelined, in my opinion.

Overall, she was just a fan-favorite side character until they accidentally messed up with the whole "last Lombax" thing, and she didn't really seem all that important to the main characters beyond being a girl Ratchet thinks is pretty and wants to impress lol.

The other two, on the other hand... they both have it pretty bad.

Sasha is never brought up after Deadlocked's intro scene until the comics, post-ACiT. Even in the comics, Ratchet and Sasha's relationship is barely touched on, so we don't really have any idea of why they broke up besides that one site that claimed it was because of political differences. Sasha is treated like she wasn't important to the cast when she clearly WAS important to, at the very least, Ratchet. She isn't that important of a character to the story which is why I wouldn't be all that surprised if we don't see her again, but she was still IMPORTANT to a character and that alone means she deserved more than just an offscreen send-off in the comics.

It's like they specifically took Ratchet to a completely different galaxy so they could avoid past characters and introduce new ones, and OH HEEY WAIT A MINUTE, does this kinda sound familiar...?

Because it happened again. That's essentially the same thing that Rift Apart does. To avoid the elephant in the room (Ratchet's important relationships with other characters that would add to his hesitation with risking it all to go find the Lombaxes, i.e. Azimuth, Vendra, Talwyn, Cronk, Zephyr, Tachyon, etc.) they straight up just ignore having to talk about those characters by putting him in a position where they will never realistically be brought up— a different dimension, with new characters.

Despite Into the Nexus cementing Talwyn as an important character and RA being the sequel to Nexus, Rift Apart chooses to play it as safely as possible by vaguely mentioning her in one very easily missable dialogue that is, while cute, not important whatsoever towards Ratchet's inner conflict.

If this was the first time her character was treated like this, it wouldn't be a big deal... but this isn't the first time. She was (allegedly) axed from A Crack in Time, axed from Full Frontal Assault, had her role minimized in Into the Nexus, and was reduced to a credits cameo in Rift Apart. Anytime she DID have screentime, it was rarely spent developing her or her goals, and instead developing Ratchet's character and motivations.

Things do HAPPEN to Talwyn, but they happen so that she can be more relatable to Ratchet, not because it'll benefit her character.

In conclusion: sasha got the worst of it by being completely ignored until the comics because she was too cool and capable and will probably never show up again. angela isn't that bad because she still gets referenced and the door is still wide open for her to be included in a future game whenever IG decides they've had enough fun messing with going commando fans, but i do understand and sympathize with the pain of waiting over twenty years to see her again. aaaaand talwyn is a big ole mess but she's my mess so i love her no matter how many times they cut her from the games :D

[lyranova]

Hey. Hope you're doing well. For your Fall request, can I please have Yami x f!reader with Autumn is Here. Thanks!

Talpup 🥺😭💕💕!! It’s so good to see you in my ask box, I hope you and your family are doing well (especially the new puppy hehe!). Of course you can I hope you enjoy it, I was trying to think of an “autumn acitivity” so I decided on this lol! But i hope you enjoy 🥰!

Word Count: 739

Warnings: None

Yami let out a sigh as he followed behind Y/N. Earlier that morning she told him that she had something to show him, but whenever he asked what it was she wouldn’t tell him. Instead she would smirk and tell him that he would see later.

And that later was now.

Y/N quickly asked Yami to close his eyes, which he thought was a little dumb, but because she asked him, he complied and closed his eyes. She took him by the hand and led him through the woods.

Yami couldn’t stop the small smile from appearing on his face as Y/N led him through the woods, he could hear her giggling like an excited child, and her ki was the same way. He was very curious as to what had her so excited, maybe she found a cave to explore? Or maybe she found a new pet?

When she finally told Yami to open his eyes he looked and a frown quickly appeared on his face: It was an orchard.

“ Uh, Y/N…why are we at an orchard?” He asked curiously, but she turned to him with a wide smile.

“ So we can pick apples of course! Since Autumn is here and we won’t be able to do much when winter comes, I thought this would be something fun and different we could do together.” Y/N said as she gestured to the orchard behind her, Yami rubbed the back of his neck. This wasn’t what he would usually find ‘fun’, but as he watched how happy and excited she was about it, he couldn’t help but slightly feel the same way.

Her happiness was contagious.

“ Alright Apple Sparkles, let’s go pick some fruit.” Yami told her as he walked past her and grabbed a basket.

“ A-Apple Sparkles?!” Y/N shouted as she chased after him and began to scold him for the terrible nickname, but Yami just laughed and patted her head.

The couple then went out to the orchard and began picking apples, well, Y/N was picking apples as Yami ate most of the ones that were in his basket. Y/N was glad to be spending this time with him, ever since the battle with Spade the two hadn’t gotten to spend much time together. Especially not alone time like this.

Soon the sun began to set and the two sat down under a tree and ate their apples. The two talked about the things that were going on and the things that were happening in the squad. Before finally Y/N decided to ask him a question that had been on her mind for a while.

“ What was fall like in Hino?” She asked curiously as she laid her head on his shoulder, Yami frowned as he tried to think.

“ Hm, it wasn’t much different then it is here. At least not that I remember. Maybe a little warmer since it’s kind of like an island, but the leaves change color like here. Although there are these really red trees called Weeping Hino Maples, I don’t really remember them much, except for the leaves. They were always a bright red when the seasons changed to fall and their trunks were kind of wavy?” He explained with a frown as he concentrated on trying to remember.

“ They sound really beautiful,” Y/N said with a soft smile. “ Do you ever want to go back home?”

Yami thought about that question, if he were being honest there were times he did want to go back home and see how his family were doing. But as he thought about it, he’s actually spent more time in Clover than he did in Hino. So would Hino still be considered his home?

“ I wouldn’t mind visiting Hino, but I wouldn’t exactly call it my home. Clover is more of my home.” Yami told her as he looked away, Y/N turned to look at him.

“ Why? Because I’m here?” She asked teasingly, when Yami’s face turned a shade of red she began to giggle. Of course there were plenty of other reasons why Clover was his home, but she was probably a big reason.

The couple sat together for a while longer, neither one wanting to leave. Eventually the two accidentally fell asleep under the apple tree, and weren’t awoken until all the Black Bulls all began to search for their Captain in a panic.

Thank you all so much for reading and I hope you all have a good day 🥰!

[goodfellowe]

I hope you don't mind me asking, but what originally got you into Hatstache? (If you ever answered this before, I am so sorry)

anon firstly i'm so sorry according to tumblr this ask has been sitting here since october 6th. i keep looking at it trying to word my thoughts and then telling myself ill answer it later and then... not doing that. lol

i got into ahit waaayyy back in 2019, when the fandom was mostly saturated with snatcher content at the time (people who have been following me since then probably remember that i hated him for like a solid two years just because he was everywhere lol). i remember very distinctly feeling very dissatisfied with how the game treated and wrote off mu after seeing her storybook, and i couldn't really find any postgame content that gave her a happy ending that i felt personally satisfied with. i ended up finding the hatstache tag on ao3 completely by chance trying to find that postgame content i wanted only to find that there were exactly two fics (neither of which i will not mention out of respect/not wanting that tied to my blog) that did not appeal to me for reasons lol.

the concept of it really stuck with me, though, even if i didn't find anything to fuel it with at the time. i like relationships where people who are hurting/have hurt each other work through it. and i am someone who looks way too into every little detail of everything, ever, and its always felt like mu both holds hk in a very high regard+was very hurt by her actions throughout the same. (see: dialogue+cut dialogue, graffiti around the game, the finale+mu's dialogue before it, the paintings, hk's 'betrayal', etc). paired with what little official content we did get of them being friends (postgame? maybe?) and it was a natural progression ehe

but even then i didn't actually feel super strong about it for a while. it was mostly just thoughts like 'damn, wish we got more content of them interacting' and 'it would be cute if mu had a little crush on hk without realizing'. i didn't actually get super passionate about it until i started writing the original version of twtt that summer/autumn (known as a crack in time at that point), and i only really wrote the ship in because 1.) i thought it would add some flavor and 2.) it made me really sad that there weren't too many options for people who wanted to read a hatstache fic at the time. and even then...

(screenshot from august 3rd, 2019. transcript in alt)

... it wasn't actually endgame. woah woah if you follow me for twtt please for the love of god put the pitchforks down they're endgame now and that's what matters. the story to twtt was significantly more different than it was now, but by the time i had actually wrote hatstache in, the ending i had planned for it was pretty bittersweet. it was just something i wanted to explore in my own self-indulgent way (as i always do ehe), and i was working through some stuff with my own sexuality and relationships at the time, so... yeah. threw it in for spice :D

then i started actually writing it and i just instantly fell in love with their dynamic and just how well their characterization worked with each other. i tend to write them as characters who come off as opposites at first interaction but are very similar at the core and that just makes them bounce off of each other really well. i got attached really fast, and as the story went down a totally different path than i originally expected, i was incapable of letting it go. it really just kind of worked its way into my heart. and the more i analyzed things and learned about the game and all of the little stuff hidden within/cut out, the more it seared itself into my brain until i was like... damn. i understand why they call it an otp now because i would go down with it. even when i trashed acit and took my year-and-a-half break from the fandom, hatstache was just a dynamic that lived in my head rent free.

it has a really special place in my heart because it is, in a way, what pushed me to start writing again and really exploring what i was capable of with my writing, too. and again its just a dynamic that i think can be explored in so many different wonderful ways. despite it all i want them to be happy and by god they will be... eventually :)

i guess basically to answer your question i just kind of wrote myself into it... but i hope you enjoyed my little trip down memory lane+some history behind the creation of twtt (there's a lot of it)

thank you for asking <3

[theygotlost]

TWENTY. YEARS. OF RATCHET AND CLANK. LOOKS AT YOU WITH BLOODSHOT EYES. i really wish i had the foresight to draw something for the anniversary but it just didnt happen. i think i still will draw something but it will just be late and thats ok. anyway I would like to share MY experience with the series ❤

my first ever rac game was tools of destruction. my dad brought it home one day and i had no idea what it was, I dont think HE knew what it was, I have no idea why he bought it. we never had a ps2, only a ps3, so nobody in my family had ever played the og trilogy. I didnt even know there were earlier games in the series for several more years. idk exactly how old I was, maybe 8 or 9, so this was a few years after tod's release (2009-10??). I watched my dad play it, and I thought it was the most awesome shit ever. I rarely actually played it myself cause I was bad at video games but I had such a huge crush on ratchet i wanted him to be my catboy bf so bad (some things never change 😑....) but my little brother became OBSESSED with it and played it over and over and over. he was only like 6 so he couldnt even read and didnt know the actual title of the game so he just called it "THE ROBOT GAME". i remember being so fucking confused and pissed off by the ending LOL. we had quest for booty pretty shortly after that and played that a million times too. i dont even think i registered that it was a separate game from tod and tbh i still think of it as tod dlc.

next was the acit demo, which again we played a million times, until finally our parents got us the full game (again a few years after release so probably around 2011-12). I distinctly remember my brother and i thought qwarks line in the opening cutscene "space. its big. so big in fact, that if you lost your car keys in it, they would be almost impossible to find" was the funniest shit ever and we quoted it constantly.

(and when I say "we played", i mostly mean i watched my le epic gamer brother play while I pissed him off with my backseat driving the entire time. sometimes this ended in physical violence.)

then we got all4one, and i remember my brother and I begging our dad and a family friend to play it with us so we would have a full party. our friend was like "idk guys, this is kinda wacky and quirky 🤨". I always insisted on playing as ratchet cause he was my specialest little boy and my brother mained nefarious. he LOVED nefarious he would run around screaming ANNIHILATE HIM!!!!!!!!!!

our parents got my brother into the nexus for christmas 2013, but at that point i had kind of lost interest and didnt care so i didnt play it (or just watch him play it like i did most of the time). for the next several years I really didnt give the series much thought. I might have played some of tod or acit again, i dont remember, but it was just something I used to like as kid.

and then well. spring 2020. I think a lot of people returned to things from their childhood after the pandemic started because all that fear and uncertainty makes you want to return to a seemingly simpler and safer time, especially if you were living away from your family and had to suddenly move back in with them like i did. so during quarantine I replayed all the rac games we had just for kicks, and it reignited my passion for these games and reminded me just how special they were to me. i became so intensely obsessed with them (especially acit). MY HORRIBLE SON DEX WAS BORN. (dexo is 2 years old now awwwwwwwwww) and ciro lent me his copy of the og trilogy ps3 port and I played the original games for the first ever time. and as luck would have it, rift apart was announced at e3 during that same period. kind of insane to think about. there was no way I was gonna get a ps5 so I just watch other peoples playthroughs 1 million times. i still wanna play it so bad 😭

ratchet and clank isnt even a game series its like a brother to me. its everything. its so important. learn your herstory. for some reason I was under the impression for a long time that rac was a super mainstream series that everyone has played. that a playstation and a copy of acit was made free for all americans by the president. but unfortunately the fandom is so so small with barely any active members on tumblr. there was a HUGE surge in content last year cause of rift apart, but 90% of people quickly forgot about it and moved on. i am eternally grateful to my rac mutuals and followers that continue to post and talk about it. o7

[theangryjikooker]

I am totally crossing RPS boundaries with this. But here is my personal Jikook fanfiction called „A day in the life of Jikook“: Considering their sleeping schedule, they probably get up somehwere around 6 AM to 5 PM. They then eat breakfast. What we know from their eating habits it could be something like a khale smoothy or a mukbang worthy assortment of dishes (with JK giving Jimin puppy eyes to ask for the last piece of pork belly).

They then go on with their individual schedules, working on their albums (maybe even having a subunit song or a Troye Sivan collab, maybe something that sounds like 'Bloom' - pretty, pretty please. I don't ask for much in life).

After that, and we're now talking about a time frame from somewhere around 3 PM to 1 AM, they meet up for some boxing practice, not giving each other an inch (tbh, JK might be a little bit bigger, but hot damn I think Jimin might really be able to give JK a run for his money and then some). The boxing practice might end up with them playfully hitting each other over the head, maybe do some weird Tik Tok couple workout challenge or JK running around the room with Jimin on his shoulders.

They then go home and eat ramen deliciously (I mean like really eat ramen not Netflix and chill, lol). They might drink some Soju or, if they're feeling really snobbish, some single malt whiskey (but not red whine!). At this point, we might get a weird amalgamation of all the above mentioned acitivities (eating, singing, boxing, running around, drinking) while they drunkenly fall over one of the many mattresses.

It now might be around 10 PM or 6 AM, who the f*ck knows with these two. They then fall asleep together watching some Kdrama they will definitely reference to each other in some later Bangtan Bombs or, if they're feeling really, really sappy: The Notebook or Titanic - maybe Cinderella (and lets be honest: JK would be a great, dainty-sassy Cinderkoo)...

...this probably never happened or will happen, but I have dreams okay.

This isn't really my cup of tea, but thank you for sharing it in case others might enjoy it. I know that there are shippers who like to imagine what their "couple" life might be like, but this isn't something I actively engage in.

I think a lot of people like to lean into this domestic narrative between them when I think the reality is much more mundane. I believe they hang out together once in a while (visiting each other at home, eating out for dinner–things of that nature, things we know have already occurred outside of "work filming"), but that's the extent of what I think they might be doing, and I honestly believe that their solo endeavors are being prioritized right now to do much else. Everything else is more of a fantasy.

This isn't to say that they're not often domestic towards one another, but that's referring to something behavioral rather than a lifestyle. Also, I don't want people to think that "mundane" is inherently a bad thing. I think for people whose lives have been exceptional and punctuated with excitement for most of their developing years, a "normal and boring" life might be a welcome reprieve.

[cdesu]

Is England worried of his relationship with Scotland? I mean I have this weird fancanon were England passes that phase of "the world is mine and everyone should listen to me, I'm the ruler" and now he truly wants to have a good relationship with his brothers. And also he tries to be a good husband to Scotland (?)

England is quite used to a bad relationship so he doesn’t ‘worry’ as long as it’s not acitally causing him troubles. (Unfortunately it is seemly a trouble now)

I like to imagine aggressive England in the past too lol, there’s obviously a hierarchy in the family at that time.

They are in better relationships now but you still finds the invisible wall in between. I think it’s already the best he can do.

[wetookanoath]

Nini’s birthday plan 2019 to be annoyingly postive ~

So, it’s that time of the year again. 

My birthday is coming soon on November 18th, and like every year, I thought of making a wish list. But, this year I decided to actually make a little activity. 

I love my birthday, and I want to share it with all of you because this place has been a great source of positiveness lately and, even after the worst parts of it, I’ve been blessed with your support.

That said,

~ ACITIVITIES

I’ve decided that, starting November 10th, there are a few things I would love to do and they include your participation. From the 10th to the 18th, we are going to be positive as fuck, let’s annoy haters.

November 10th: Fanartists appreciation day. Like last year, I’ll make a post appreciating my favorite artists in the shyan fandom, I’ll be also reblogging my favorite works from them even If I have reblogged them before. I would totally love to see if other people make their own appreciation posts as well, don’t doubt on sending them my way to reblog them or tag me in them.

I’m doing only shyan artists because there aren’t many and to avoid unpleasant encounters with other sides of the fandom. I want peace, I’m not fighting anyone on my birthday month!

November 11th: Follow Forever. I know this is something most people do on New Year’s or whatnot, but I already have other plans for December so I’ll be doing this now. It’s a little post appreciating my favorite blogs that include mutuals, writers, gif and graphic makers, etc. All people I follow and that I love seeing on my dash.

On this day, you can totally rec to me and others your favorite blogs. Can be off or on anon, I’ll post the messages and we can check out blogs together. 

You can include in your ask with your recs postive messages directed to said blogs, I will @ them and we can have an appreciation day for everyone.

November 12th: Favorite fanfiction. I’ll be doing a rec list of my top 50 favorite shyan fanfics in the fandom and a smaller list for my favorite buzzships fanfics in the fandom. 

I would love it if you guys could recommend me your favorite shyan fanfics on that day. Can be off or on anon, I may read the ones that take my attention, but I will certainly rec them all at the Library in one single list that will be posted on the 13th. 

If you want to also make your own list, please do. Tag the Library and/or this blog, I will reblog them for sure in the Library!

I will also be commenting on said fanfics I will put on those recs, even if I had commented them before. This is just to remind the authors how much I love their work and why. I encourague you guys to do the same!

November 13th: Rec your fave something to someone. Which means, send me and other people you like, off or on anon, recs for music, tv shows, blogs, fics, movies, books, FANDOMS IF YOU WANT, and talk about why you love it. I sure as hell want to hear it.

By the end of the day or on November 14th, I’ll do a post with all recs by category. Meaning, music list, tv shows list, etc.

I’ll also rec my favorite things, too!

November 14th: Apreciate your own work day. That. We are gonna go as hard as we go for our faves and appreciate our own work, doesn’t matter what kind of work is.

On November 3th, I’m going to post a poll where you can vote for your favorite fanfics written by me. On this day, I’ll post the results and talk about each fic. This was my original plan to celebrate my birthday, but I decided I really prefer if I can give something to people instead of just having one benefit for me.

Though, it’s my birthday and a little ego bust never hurt anyone. On this day, I will start posting a series of edits made by me based on the top5 fics you guys chose.

I’ll be self-reblogging my fics, some edits and my favorite headcanons/aus I have made for the fandom on this day. I invite you guys to do the same.

Rec your own fics, art, headcanons, blog, do it!

Make edits and art for your fics, post them that day. If you don’t have fics or what, make art or edits that you want to see, do it for yourself and other will love it, too.

Don’t be afraid to say “I fucking nailed this one”, be proud of your creations and how you have gotten better with time. Appreciate your work!

November 15th: Pet Day! Which means, show me your cute pets. You can submit your pics, make your own post and tag me, or just send me an ask talking about your pets. I’ll be making a post showing mine!

We can also appreciate the boys’, the crew’s and other buzzfeeder’s pets!

Make headcanons, art, fics, whatever about your fave buzzfeeder’s pets!

November 16th: Favorite Author appreciation. We all have one and like with the fanartist appreciation day, I’ll be doing a post to appreciate all my favorite authors on tumblr and another one for all my favorite authors only on AO3 (or that I know only on AO3 lol).

I’ll be making a rec list with one or two favorite fics for each author on my appreciation post, will be posted at the Library.

If you make a similar post, make sure to send the link my way or tag me and/or the Library so I can reblog it!

Same if you make rec lists with your fave author’s fics.

November 17th: Shyan Positivity Day. On this day, we are gonna fill our tags (shyan, skeptic believer, shyan fic, shyan art and even buzzfeed unclean) with shyan things. Can be headcanons, metafiction, edits, art, fics, drabbles, memes, funny text posts, appreciation posts, anything related to shyan in a positive way (although, angst is also accepted).

Send to me or your favorite shipper your headcanons, au ideas, little observations or fic recs.

Or make your own posts about these things and have fun with the interactions!

Post your edits, videos, art, fics, whatever as long as it’s shyan and you love it.

REMEMBER TO NOT USE THE GENERAL TAGS! For real, I don’t want to fight anyone on this day.

And a second reminder that if you are going to send me n/s/f/w stuff, send it at @bigdickmadej! I promise to have anon on for that day.

November 18th: It’s my birthday! I may not be much around that day, so for the final day of this little positive thing, I’m going to leave it to you guys to go on and please be the most loving you can be.

Go have a nice day, do whatever you want.

Maybe comment on that fic you’ve been reading or that one you liked the other day.

Check out your favorite fic again, comment it even if you have done it before, remind that author that you love their work and why you do it.

Send nice anons! Or nice messages off anon!

Buy a coffee for your favorite artist, author, etc. Maybe donate to your charity of preference. 

If maybe you want to do something for me, keep reading the next part for my little wish list for this year!

~ WISH LIST

It would mean the world to me if you guys really would like to participate in this little project. Even if just for one day, doesn’t matter which one, It really would mean so much to me.

I love getting messages on my birthday! And that’s really a great gift to me, so off or on anon, you can totally send me your birthday wishes and make me the happiest person alive.

Not gonna lie, I would cry if I get comments on my fics, kudos and whatnot.

And of course, I’m a big slut for blessed gifts such as fanfics, edits, headcanons, art. Especially if made based on my fanfics when it comes to edits and art.

Because of the laptop situation, I’m considering setting up a ko-fi and then close it or retire it from my blog once I get shit sorted and fix my laptop or even get the chance to buy a new one. It’s not much what I need to get to the amount I need, this is why I’m considering getting it. I really don’t like asking for money, but sadly my economy is on the ground at the moment and I really need that laptop thingy. Still, I’m honestly just considering it.

~ REMINDERS

You don’t have to participate.

If you do, please don’t use the general tags when posting and/or talking about shippy stuff.

Use the hashtag #shyanpositiveparty for all your posts regarding the project! Why this tag? Because while it was inspired by my birthday, I would love for everyone to feel included. Put this tag on the first five tags of your post so the post will appear on it and we can all see it.

If posting stuff made especifically for my birthday, then please use the tag #nini’s bday 2k19 :)

Again, you DON’T have to participate.

I’m very aware that some people have no chill and may want to spoil the party by either sending me hate or other people, even inviding the tags. I recommend to everyone to not let them win. I will be blocking and blocking only, I don’t want to fight anyone on this day and I will not post anything negative regarding it.

I’m also prepared for the scenario in which no one may actually be interested on this. I will still post on these days what I have planned. Even if no one wants to do this, I still would love for the people I’ll be sending positive vibes to get them. It’s my birthday after all. I want it to be a happy one.

I still don’t know when my birthday party in real life may be, so that day I may not have much time to be around, but I will still programm my posts on that day and answer stuff on mobile. If I don’t, I’ll do it the next day, no problem at all.

If you missed a day and wanted to participate on it anyway, it doesn’t matter. Do it, please. Have fun with us.

~ POLLS

Last thing. I would love for your guys to help me decide a few things regarding this:

What is your favorite fanfiction by me (poetdameron)?

Should I set up a ko-fi?

That’s all. I’m sorry I made you guys read so much, but I really hope you want to participate! You can reblog this post so others can see it, that would be amazing. Thank you!

[myhyperfixationisback]

Playing Tools of Destruction for the first time since middle school is interesting because the story hits very different now.

(I would put a read more here but I’m on mobile :\)

I used to think this was the honest to god pinnacle of storytelling LOL and I mean it’s still good, but even for a video game there’s pacing problems. Things go by so quickly and the story jumps into a few things that should have been introduced more steadily. For example, Tachyon is played up as this huge emperor but Ratchet easily ditches him and all of his minions in the first level and even steals his ship (idk why he did that either was he trying to go find out if Quark was on another planet? Was he just trying to escape?) and the it’s almost like the story is assuming the one or two times Ratchet is mentioned to be the “last of his kind” are impactful enough to invest us in the Lombaxes. The thing is, alien races and species were never really made to be a big deal before this point in the series. There were casual mentions of Ratchet being a Lombax previously, but none of them carried the connotations that mentions of the species do from R&C:TOD and onward. And Ratchet was never really shown to be sensitive about that either. Even when Tachyon taunts him in the beginning, Ratchet is just bantering back at him, and he seems more like he’s moderately curious instead of genuinely affected by any of Tachyon’s acute hate towards Lombaxes. With Clank and the Zoni I can give a little bit of a pass, because it’s meant to seem out there and a little concerning, but the fact that Clank doesn’t question the sudden appearance of these creatures that only he can see, or even act a little confused, is a bit of an odd exception on Clank’s part. I know Clank can be a bit too trusting sometimes (it must run in the family) but it still feels odd for him to react to something like this by just accepting it immediately. It may have something to do with the Zoni hive mind, but that wasn’t explained until ACIT I don’t think? I haven’t finished playing the game so the story may provide more to work with further in. For Ratchet, though, there’s no amount of later explanation that can take away how rushed his mood change on his first trip to Fastoon is. First of all, I don’t understand why either of them expected to see Lombaxes when Tachyon had mentioned him being the last in the universe and everyone else that mentions them speaks in past tense, but sure maybe that was denial. But when they find an old plane left behind, Ratchet all of the sudden gets SUPER invested. He’s begging to fix this old plane left on a planet in ruins instead of continuing to evade Emperor Tachyon who’s trying to have him killed. I don’t get the transition there. Even Clank is confused, but gives in because Ratchet is begging like a girl in a horse movie. Don’t get me wrong, I feel for Ratchet learning about something he never had and is wishing he could have been a part of it, but I think it could have been built up more before Ratchet got to that level. There’s been a whole era of PS2 games where Ratchet never once indicated he wanted to know where he came from, so either he’s have an extremely early midlife crisis, or they rushed his development into wanting to know about the Lombaxes in favor of getting it over with early so they could play with the angst of it throughout the game. But that seems cheap to me. Part of what makes angst in a story effective is the buildup, so if you jump the gun the impact is lessened according to how early you started the angst. Also, I get this is a video game, and story elements are a bit secondary to gameplay, but if you market your game as a “Pixar-like experience”, you better make sure your story reflects that, and not just your animation. And the build up doesn’t even have to take half the game! I mean, one of the saddest twists in Up came at the beginning, and the story used that angst all the way through to the end— the difference is how it was done. I’m running out of room, but I may make more of these as I go! It’s interesting and fun to look at this game with a fresh perspective!!

[mcrmadness]

Gosh I love the feeling of being an outsider. This has been a huge problem for me like... forever. Or not really even a problem but just something that has occured ALWAYS and there’s not a single thing I can do about it and I’ve got so used to it that I have accepted it that I’ll be an outsider forever. And I’m also isolating myself and leaving myself out of everything because I don’t feel like I’m allowed to be a part of anything.

Like. For example, Die Ärzte fandom is probably the biggest one with this. I loved it so much to be to the concert in Warsaw as it felt like meeting again with a long lost family. But now I’ve again feeling quite lonely as I can’t fangirl with anyone really. And I’ve got used to fangirling all alone. 10 years and only people I could have been talking to are my siblings and my dad (thanks to him I even know about DÄ at all!), sometimes talking to or fangirling to online friends but it’s different when these people do not like the band or at least not as much as I do or when they don’t see why I like them SO MUCH, even if this person also liked them a bit.

I was just browsing my old drawings yesterday. And there’s so many stupid brainsless DÄ sketchings too that make absolutely no sense - I have drawn them while fooling around with my siblings at the time, or maybe alone, idk. And I felt like I wanna show them to people. But they are making me so embarrassed, because I have drawn them when I was a very fresh fan, just 18 or 19 and I spoke no German (now I’m like on the intermediate or almost advanced level) and it’s embarrassing to me to browse those because I have written down phrases or things that were the only things I knew something about, but now, as I understand German quite okay and know a much more about the band itself, these drawings are just getting on my nerves :D And I feel like if I showed them to people, I should do some really long disclaimer about how “I spoke no German at all and they’re stupid as hell but at least I had fun, right?” And well, maybe we can also blame the fact I was just _18-19 years old.

However, I was also browsing those comics I made. It seems to me that I have drawn my first humans-DÄ comic in the early 2010. Before that I had no idea how to draw human comic book characters but I definitely wanted to create something as drawing them all the time as horses or rats was starting to annoy me A LOT :D And I also felt like they’d come off just weird and creepy to other fans lol. (Btw: A veeeeeery long time ago my 16-years-old self draw the guys from MCR as horses and I remember browsing some kind of a forum where was asked what was the weirdest MCR fanart they had seen, and someone said MCR horses, and it’s very likely it was not mine they had seen because I was not the only fan in the world; but somehow I still thought what if it was mine and since then I felt awful for drawing people as animals but I couldn’t stop because I had no idea how to draw humans and I needed to draw something :D)

But yeah, the feeling of being an outsider. It’s also something that... just always keeps happening. If other people have fun without me, I start isolating as I feel like everyone is actually better off me and I shouldn’t bother them and I can’t trust people being genuine when they say they enjoy my company. And I’ve been so lonely lately again that it is never a good thing as I slowly start turning everyone against me. I mean, I start having delusions of people being angry at me for reasons I don’t know just because I sometimes don’t see it when I’m being stupid unless I’m told about it. Maybe it’s the bullying stuff coming back to me. “Maybe if we acit as if this person doesn’t exist, they will give up and move on and leave us alone..?” Also it’s the seasonal affective disorder speaking here a bit.

Another thing to this outsider thing. For example if I think about myself as a DÄ fan, or just anything I like. I never include myself when these “idols” or other people talk about their fans or viewers whatsoever. I’m always like “oh they’re acknowledging their fans? Nice, good for them!” and I’m genuinely happy for that, but I am excluding myself from the word fans. I am a fan, but I feel like I’m this weird outsider individual who’s just somewhere far away enjoying their time and taking part to the overall mood and hype outside of the venue but not being invited to the party, you know? This is why I can relate a lot to the Oingo Boingo song On the Outside. That is literally me...

Another example: DÄ has this song, “Nicht allein” I’m now somewhat aware of the lyrics and this is also something, like, I can relate to many things but here as well I have this feeling “everyone BUT me”. I relate more to lyrics that talk to “you” or about “I” instead of “we” because I feel like I’m not allowed to be a part of any group unless I’m personally told “you’re welcome here”. That’s why I’m this loner who doesn’t really belong to anything or anywhere, I do things on my own and I’ve got used to fangirling alone and I learnt to how to have fun alone and I’m basically imagining that I’m spending time with people when there actually is no one else there.

I think I started having hallucinations and other stuff when I was 14 just from the pure loneliness. I talked about ghosts and supernatural phenomenons a lot and of course the psychiatrists got worried by that (sent me to a psych ward too) and thought I’m psychotic or something. But now I know I was just so lonely and my social needs were so so so low I started creating “people” around me just to have some company. I also had “voices” in my head, I called them ‘crazy one’ and ‘boss one’ and I was talking with them in my head cos I had no one else to talk to nor with and I had a blast. I had online friends but no friends at school and everyone hated me, the place where you need friends the most as a teenager and turning to adults all the time starts to get too embarrassing. And this all stopped once I finally had friends, finished with school when I was 16 and started antidepressants at the age of 17. Now have been without meds for over 6 years, tho.

Anyway, it’s crazy what just loneliness alone can do to one’s mind.

[assassyart]

Hi. Me again. I’ve heard a stupid idea regarding ratchet & clank that he and rivet NEED to pair up to save the Lombax species? Apparently. Even though the rest of them are doing okay in another dimension. It’s weird and creepy and I don’t like it. Probably won’t happen. I hope now. “You want me and Rivet to do WHAT?!” “No way! I’m bad with kids and I don’t even have a uterus!”. It’s a stupid idea. What do you think? As daft as that question may be.

"I'm pretty sure you're me, after all."

"What makes you think you aren't me?" — Rift Apart

Even if people don't want to believe Ratchet and Rivet are the same person, it's undeniable that they believe they are the same person. And it's okay to ship them. I don't really mind it? God knows I have a bunch of ships that I know will never be canon lol But to expect canon to turn this way after 12 mainline games is pretty silly. I'd be pretty upset if the first female playable character in the series that just got introduced 13 games in is resorted only to a love interest/baby-making machine, especially when the current love interest has been seriously neglected by canon ever since her debut.

"There's more for me here, than over there." — Into the Nexus

The whole "they must bang to repopulate" is also so so unsettling lol. Two of a species could not bring the whole species back from the grave without incest being involved (not taking into the account that lombaxes aren't even endangered, just misplaced in a different dimension as Tools, ACiT, Nexus, and Rift Apart have stated).

"The lombaxes aren't gone they've just...moved on. And we'll find them." — A Crack in Time

Overall, I think it's okay to dabble in shipping. It's fun! In theory, Rivet and Ratchet could be a fun relationship to play with. But demanding canon to do things just because you want it to (especially if you haven't played any of the other games) is kinda silly to me.

[rowdyboysofpolaris-blog]

Slag

Send Me a Character and I will tell you my:

First impression: I’m not gonna lie, I thought he was a pompous asshole at first. I enjoyed beating the hell out of him in his boss battle. Impression now: But now I see more than that and I wish other people would too. He’s a machine that was abandoned by his creator and in response not only did he break free of his original programming he also created a new life for himself. And he is such a good father because he knows how much it hurts to have parents who don’t care for you. He strives to be what Tachyon wasn’t. He would give his life for his children without second thought. Favorite moment: On pirate radio in ACIT it was confirmed Slag had daddy issues by Pete and I was just so proud of myself cause I headcannoned that before I knew about it. I know the pirates v well lol. Idea for a story: An AU where Kaden failed to send Ratchet to Veldin and instead he ended up in pirate territory. But instead of Slag turning him in he keeps Ratchet and raises him as a pirate to spite Tachyon.Unpopular opinion: HE NEEDS MORE LOVE IN THIS FANDOM DAMN ITFavorite relationship: He doesn’t need one he already has everything he wants. Favorite headcanon: Slag didn’t originally look like what he does now. He altered his own appearance and abilities to better represent his life style. 

[ryuuppai]

[i7] Yaotome Gaku Birthday Photobook Part 2: Gaku and his Senior Idols

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

Tsumugi: Re:vale have gathered here for us, today!

Momo: I'm here~! -=≡∑(((⊃°∀°)つ

Yuki: Greetings

Momo: Still early, but happy birthday~! (≧∇≦)▼☆▼(≧∇≦)

Gaku: Sorry for making you do this when you're busy. Thank you. 

Tsumugi: IDOLISH7 has received both Re:vale and TRIGGER together as guests, but due to the large number of people, this time we will conduct the talk with only Re:vale and Yaotome-san! 

Tsumugi: I apologize for calling you during busy times, but please talk like you usually do!

Momo: Hey~ Isn't Gaku pretty co~ld lately? I'm lo~ne~ly~

Yuki: I bet you got a boyfriend~ come on~ tell us~ (1)

Gaku: This isn't how you usually talk, right (lol)

Momo:  (・ω<）Heehee (2)

Gaku: Since it's my birthday, I have something I want to ask Re:vale. 

Momo: Oh! What is it what is it~! We'll do anything! ☆

Gaku: Momo-san, you have a sports club with Ryu and the older Izumi, don't you. Yuki-san, let's make some club too.

Yuki: A club huh...

Gaku: You said you'd do anything, didn't you!

Momo: It's because Yuki is an indoor type! Lol What kind of club do you want to make?

Gaku: Anything's fine. I want to fool around like you and the others too. I'll invite Nikaido from IDOLiSH7. 

Tsumugi: I'm happy that Yamato-san would be invited! I'm sure he'll be happy too! 

Yuki: If that would make Yamato-kun happy. It's Gaku-kun's birthday, so it's fine.

Gaku: Alright, so it's been decided. I wonder what would be good. If it's me, Yuki-san, and Nikaido, I guess something about acting or drinking. What about visiting wineries?

Yuki: Since we'll all be drinking, I don't think anyone will want to drive

Momo: Wouldn't a movie club be good!? Not watching them, but making them!（*>ω<) 

Gaku: Sounds good! I want to be the director!

Yuki: I don't think we can finish that in one day

Gaku: We won't. It's club acitivities, after all. Let's make a parody of "Mission." Please come as a guest too, Momo-san.

Momo: Is that okay!? Yay–! \ﾞ( °∀°)ﾉﾞ●～*

Yuki: Isn't having only a corpse collector and a bomber as partners too much?

Gaku: It's fine. I'll be a guardian angel.

Momo: It's LastDime– (3)!! •_ε(°-°*)ß☆*°¨ﾟﾟAngel☆Eight*:..☆☆。

Gaku: If you're worried, let's call Yotsuba as a boxer too.

Momo: It's KoiKake–  (4) !! (o≧ω≦)〇))Whoosh whoosh＝〇）°0°).。

Yuki: Do that one, Gaku-kun. I like that one.

Gaku: That one?

Momo: The Shinsengumi's Hijikata Toshizo (5)! You were saying that before too, right Yuki!

Gaku: Ah–! You did praise me for it!

Tsumugi: You were really cool as the Shinsengumi, so I loved it too! The picture that Yamato-san took of you is also appearing in the Gaku Photobook, isn't it!

Momo: The one where Yuki unexpectedly got the first comment!

Yuki: That's right. I liked it so I took it

Gaku: Really!? That makes me super happy!

Momo: You were a miracle pretty boy! I even printed it on a T-shirt and wore it! （ノ∀*）

Gaku: Ah–, that's a lie. This one's a lie. I've become able to tell, lately......

Yuki: Lol

Momo: Lolololololol

Gaku: I got really happy for nothing, didn't I.

Gaku: 

Momo: Gaku is cute lololol

Yuki: I mean it when I say that I liked it. It's my favourite Hijikata that I've seen so far

Gaku: Thank you. I'm glad. Momo-san, please wear that T-shirt one of these days (lol)

Momo: I will I will I will! （・∀・)=b

Tsumugi: You're being lively talking about your movie club, but I've received some questions from Re:vale for you, Yaotome-san!

[Tsumugi: If I want to bribe Yaotome Papa, what do you think would work?]

Gaku: A bribe!? I don't think his mood would improve upon receiving objects. He was looking for a good music producer.

[Tsumugi: Natural curls?]

Gaku: (lol) That's right. Can't you tell, looking at my old man.

[Tsumugi: When you're in a pinch, what would you want the person you like to do?]

Gaku: I don't need anything. I just want them to watch me overcome it on my own.

Gaku: Is it alright like this?

Momo: It's perfect! Thanks, Gaku–!

Tsumugi: Thank you, everyone! Finally, Re:vale, please send your messages to Yaotome-san!

Momo: Gaku, happy birthday!! Gaku-chan gets poked at by Tenn a lot, but this well-informed Momo-chan knows that as TRIGGER's leader, you have to get through all kinds of hardships! That's the Gaku that I love! +.(≧∀≦)°+.°

Momo: From now one, keep being our handsome, cool and cute junior! 

Yuki: Gaku-kun, happy birthday. No one really pays attention to me on location, so I'm happy that you come talk to me. Thanks. We're both busy, but take care of your body. 

Gaku: Thank you, Re:vale. I'm really moved. 

Gaku: I'm deeply endebted to both Yuki-san and Momo-san, but if it's okay for me to say something so pretentious, then I'll be thinking of you as rivals, or as a goal. 

Gaku: I love you both, so I definitely want to win against you sometime.

Yuki: That's right

Momo: Come at us with all you've got!

Tsumugi: Even I got fired up. . Re:vale, Yaotome-san, thank you!

T/N

(1) Yuki and Momo are imitating teenage girls talking.

(2) Momo says "tehepero" which is a word used when you giggle (tehe) and stick out your tongue (pero) in a cheeky way. 

(3) In the musical for Last Dimension, Gaku played the role of an angel called Eight. 

(4) MEZZO'' 's song "Fragments of Love" (koi no kakera). It was mentioned in Part 2 that the song was used in a drama starring MEZZO'', in which Tamaki played the role of a boxer. 

(5) During the late Edo period, the Shinsengumi were a kind of private police force made of samurai, employed by the Tokugawa shogunate to defend the rule of the emperor. Hijikata Toshizo was a vice-commander of the Shinsengumi, and one of its most famous members. In Japan, the Shinsengumi is a very common theme for historical dramas, games, etc. It was mentioned in a previous chat that Gaku played Hijikata in a historical drama (here). They included a photo card of him in costume in his Birthday Photobook (here).

Trying to reproduce Momo’s kaomojis was absolute hell. Thank you for testing me I have come out of this stronger. 

[evethelombax]

This is my omniwrench that I made last weekend. I can see some mistakes but I don't care XDD!!! As long as I'm happy lol Now I just need to do the lombax ears and I was thinking (since my dad brought it up) I was thinking that I'll make/ do all or Ratchets weapons and gadgets in ACiT and I was surprised but I'm going to do it, no lies. I hope you guys like it and have and awesome day :) I also made a nut but I taped it with black tape. The nut is from those boxes that Ratchet breaks from his wrench and its so cute. I'll take a picture later on.