#preprogrammed

[chroniccarbondrinker]

So Caine is also capable of going through the horrors, that’s uh…

Hm

[payasita]

Quick question, how does one Visual Novel?

real answer: if you have no interest in programming, try Tyranobuilder on steam! if you want full control of functionality and gui, i recommend learning Ren'py! both programs are free.

joke answer: idk man ask someone who's actually made one

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

there's something very fucked up about how both lis1 and lis2 have an a violent fight in ep 1 between two teenage boys that gets interrupted by a gun-wielding official figure, but in lis1 that fight (between two white boys at a private school) has no institutional consequences and is rarely mentioned again while the lis2 fight (between a white boy and a Latino boy) leads to multiple people being killed and triggers the arc of the entire fucking game.

[phexart]

I love Savant and Cutthroat

[fatimajpeg]

everyone wants me to get married but no one wants to get me a wife like whats up with that

[sunb0ts]

heading out for the day and mikeko is looking at me with very high suspicion

[myrfing]

not to always be likeHow does this relate to Final 14 but aegir kind of tickles the part of my brain that was like what IF the sundering didn’t happen because that’s effectively what’s going on. a highly technologically advanced civilization of academics, isolated from the rest of the world that it views paternalistically at best, on the verge of an age of space exploration that was aborted by the sudden coming of an apocalyptic invasion of monsters (seaborn/blasphemies) that rapidly evolve and manifest in tandem with their civilization’s capacity to create fear/violence/brutality. what if they continued to struggle in the death loop where their need for control and order and their fearful imaginations only ever made the “enemy” stronger. so awesoame

[beebfreeb]

I just started following you and I think your OCs relationship with age (dot) as well as actually having older OCs is really neat!

Thank you so much! Weird relationships to age is one of my favorite things to do (autism metaphor) + I like to have variety in my characters as much as possible, though I do find myself having personal trends... Also, with older characters you can put fit more events in their life before it starts to sound silly.

[gusherguy]

i have always been...just a little puke freak....

just remembered when i was like 9 and made an animation with microsoft word clipart and MSpaint of....various creatures vomiting and eating each other's vomit....

[chipistrate]

Cassie protag propaganda maybe her dad being so connected to Bonnie he could have this mask

Vanessa protag propaganda maybe bnuuy connection generally shrug

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

I’m in a lot of pain so I’m thinking about my nova au to stay calm (tl;dr for it is basically metal sonic makes his own sonic oc the aforementioned nova to try and infiltrate and assassinate sonic's friendgroup, immediately instead decides that they're His Now bc being treated like a person is nice, transes her gender into literally all of them, and gets into the world's most hilariously consensually toxic qpr with sonic based around eventual murder) and the robotnik family in it is so fucking funny like.

eggman's first child ended up running off with his arch nemesis for one. i mean like nova and eggman's relationship is more complicated than that they do care for each other a lot even if their relationship is strained, in a mutually very fucked up way, but seeing your daughter making out with the guy you fucking hate so much you literally created your daughter solely to kill him is not exactly the best way to learn your little robot killing machine is growing up.

outside of that, though, their relationship is such a mess it’s very funny. like, nova is still metal just like his organicsona. but that also means nova has been treated like a person and until that point metal didn’t even see himself as one bc he wasn't ever treated as having full sentience. this isn’t because eggman is a dick- i mean, he is, and that does impact their relationship, but not in this case- he legitimately did not know metal had developed free will bc metal's response to it was literally just to be perfectly obedient anyway. so he basically learnt he had a very sapient mentally ill teenager Because he saw it hanging out with team sonic (specifically, nova took a blow meant for sonic bc it refuses to let anyone else kill him, the force interrupted it's shapeshifting and transformed him back to its neo metal sonic state, it was very awkward for everyone). so like, he genuinely feels kind of bad bc like even though his whole thing of having his robots see him like a father is mostly an ego thing bc like. that means he made a mistake!

and nova's relationships with Everyone are equally very ego based so in return she sees eggman as her father to boost her ego too- bc she views him as one of the few organic beings with worth, and therefore as special. but that also means xe treats him more like a young child than a father bc of hir superiority complex xe views organic life as inherently stupid and lesser unless they’re sonic bc it’s literally programmed into hir Because xe was made by someone equally as arrogant as them. so, like, their relationship seems very strained on the surface, especially since nova spends most of their time with sonic and his friends, but they actually get along great and have a great deal of respect for each other. i mean like it’s not like nova defected he's a neutral party who’s goal is to build up sonic to his peak to prove his superiority to him when he murders him he helps eggman as much as he helps sonic and his friends depending on the circumstances. she's tolerated bc she does make sure no one dies and also bc she’s a singularity level intelligence entirely fixated on that goal she's hilariously op in the au bc the idea of the most powerful being in a setting being someone who's so obsessed over a singular thing they never actually do anything with it is very funny to me.

sage is in this au definitely made as like a second attempt by eggman to be a decent dad and Not have his child run away and become skynet in a psychotic episode at fourteen. like probably not consciously but she’s definitely sort of a replacement metal in a subconscious way. which like you might expect would lead to resentment since nova is incredibly possessive but no they get along really well. by this point metal's been living primarily as his organic oc for four years and while he's not fundamentally a different person as nova a lot of his traits present differently and one of those ways is that his sense of superiority tends to manifest less as obvious smugness but instead as treating people like they're children or pets in need of care, which isn’t, like, exactly great but it is genuine progress for the guy who murdered people for fun as a fourteen year old y’know. and that means she ends up as sort of like a mentor big sister type of figure for sage, who looks up to her a lot.

speaking of like taking on a mentor role bc they view themselves as superior, we get into shadow. who Is nova's distant cousin technically bc sonic lore is wild like metal sonic and shadow being distantly related through adoption is actual canon i was given on a silver platter by sonic team. anyway like nova ends up being very much a sort of mentor figure to shadow during his amnesia mostly bc it sees itself in him. they’re both inherently superior to those around them, they’re both very lost and alone at that point, as far as nova's concerned shadow is close enough to themselves that he's worthy of “help”. which is mostly kicking him in the shin and smugly telling him if he was a robot he wouldn’t feel pain then horribly misunderstanding literally everything going on worse than shadow would alone but it is a genuine effort at helping. so after they do have a very awkward but cordial relationship bc nova does show genuine kindness through her own very warped perspective to him but also like it is absolutely not at all helpful. (that is generally a decent description of nova's relationship with everyone she cares about, though, she fundamentally does not think the same as an organic life form and therefore attempts at empathy and kindness come off as weird and uncanny bc she's a sadistic murderbot who views being damaged as fun bc she doesn’t have a sense of touch and thinks she knows better than everyone else).

so like, tl;dr they are the most dysfunctional family in the world but like. in a funny way.

[msclaritea]

Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy of Flanagan Film, I hope you, artist Michael Whelan and Stephen King don't think that I've forgotten about all of this. That painting, Deschain, was created right at the beginning of the sham. And the thing about Dark Tower, which no matter how it's adapted, it's never been very successful, is that it has a very similar theme to The Power of The Dog; "...a gunslinger in a world which has moved on" is quite similar to a cowboy, whose time has moved on. Benedict Cumberbatch, and his likeness has been fraudulently used by King and his cohorts, to try and boost this series. Interesting synopsis of a man alone, who lost his friends and headed towards "...the end of the line". Sounds too, too fucking familiar.

[dorianwolfforest]

WHY COULD HE OPEN MY DOOR????

[macbethz]

ah c'mon man don't put words in my mouth? i was Literally pointing out how worrying about shaming doesn't matter in one direction or another. that worrying about smth so trivial that someone who has never heard of ableton, like me, would have no idea what you're even worrying about, is a symptom of your own neuroses that you've honed through surveilling other people. it's true i'm not always able to understand hyperbole though.

Since you can’t understand hyperbole let me say this is not that and I mean this 100% literally something is wrong with you if you are trying to psychoanalyze strangers on tumblr through joke posts about electronic synthesis

[thunderin-brainstorm]

Oh I’m SUPER curious now. What would RB’s actual quotes be for the battle stuff that goes on in Legends Arceus? Things like their quotes for how they’d react to seeing an Alpha for the first time, getting hit by a wild Pokémon’s attack, fall damage, being spotted while sneaking up on a mon, low HP, battling a Noble Mon and stuff like that!

ooo you mean like if she had NPC stock dialogue type of quotes? 🤔hmm. honestly the lack of general dialogue options for the player character in PLA kind of makes this easier, but the way i took the story and developed it far beyond the simplified game plot makes it a bit harder lol. actually let me just lift a few bits from what i've drafted already!

her first time seeing an Alpha (or at least the first time she knows it's an Alpha) is actually when helping out Mai with the Kricketune. she's not paying attention to the explanation of Alphas so much as she's just staring at it like :/ "i don't mind bugs, i even like them, but this one is as tall as i am and i don't know how to feel about it"

getting hit by an attack is just a lot of cursing tbh. the first time a Zubat nips her she just starts praying that Poké-rabies doesn't exist please please please plea-- but honestly she starts giving back as good as she gets? she throws rocks at territorial Buizel that try hosing her from a distance, she dropkicks Paras before sprinting away, she gets very good ducking away from diving Staraptors and tossing one of her partners to nail them in the back. after months of being constantly annoyed by Drifloon pursuing her whenever she sets foot outside after sunset, she actually spins around and grabs one dogging her footsteps and literally POPS it with her bare hands! it's this kind of irritated pushback at local wildlife that earns her a dangerous reputation in Jubilife

her reactions to the Nobles vary wildly. battling Kleavor is mostly just. sad. this is an old creature being pushed to his limit by an outside force and she pities him despite the fact he's already managed to cut open her shoulder. Lilligant is more of a whirlwind she doesn't have time to think coherent thoughts about when she's just trying not to get hit, trying to breathe through the smoke, trying not to twist her ankle again, trying not to slip in the mud-- ouch being tackled by a plant ballerina SUCKS. dealing with Arcanine is... terrifying. RB isn't in there alone at least, she's got Iscan backing her up, but that's one more person to worry about and the active lava should be boiling them alive and it's raining so she can barely see through the steam and oh my god i'm going to die. Electrode is the worst one by far, being so fast and so dangerous and probably the most stressful event she's ever had to survive. with Avalugg by comparison she's almost willing to die, simply because the Noble is so huge that she feels like she's trying to fight a force of nature and honestly if she fails she's not going to blame herself for losing against a mountain.

sorry i don't have any specific dialogue, i've drafted 150k words worth of outline but haven't actually gotten to the prose part yet!

[brb-on-a-quest]

idk how ppl who actually went to school their entire life (and wore uniforms) did it. I'm going insane actually looking like an npc every day.