#rta season 1

[locitapurplepink]

[izaacs-notdeadyet]

Okay but like, what if after the events of season 1 Ariana pardoned Varian because she knew what happened the sympathized with him and someone finally taught him some safety guidelines and by the time Rapunzel and friends came back he was the royal alchemist and everyone was happy?

[rhmis-user-2020]

Why is Rapunzel's angry in season 3 finale looks so similar to angry face of Varian from season 1 finale?

[tohlover05]

the helping hand 🫶🏼

[indigaygo]

I've been rewatching TTS again recently and I can't even begin to imagine how draining it must have been for Varian to be stuck in prison at 14 after losing his dad

Honestly who thought it would be a good idea to stick a child in jail

[andstuffsketches]

[three drawings of Rapunzel in her season 1 dress, her season 3 dress, and an original “post-canon” design that’s mainly purple. the skirt has a sunset-like gradient from pink to yellow on the bottom. In all three she has short brown hair]

wanted to redo my “season 4″ rapunzel design

[vgperson]

What Did I Do In 2022?

Game Translations That Aren't YTTD: 1. Okay, maybe 1.5.

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First of all, while I didn't add it until later in the year (not entirely unmotivated by the Stability of Platforms), my site now has an RSS feed for notable updates of any kind! I mention this upfront because I'm mostly just going over the things that are already listed there. It currently retroactively covers everything back to 2020, but I might add more past stuff over time so it can better serve as a general "everything I've ever done" page.

In February, I translated Kenshi Yonezu's POP SONG (and an interview). Noel The Mortal Fate Seasons 1-7 also got a revamped version on consoles (Switch, PS4); the console versions include a new Season 3.5 translated entirely by me, and the rest of the seasons have a revised script which is more thoroughly edited by me than even the redone Steam translation was.

In March, the update adding Kai to Your Time To Shine came out. Yes, he is Kai.

In April, I finally finished up my unofficial Japanese translation patch for Petal Crash. たのしいね、クラッシュ！ It actually just got some extra attention after the Petal Crash run for RTA In Japan about two days ago, which is kind of wild. Is this what it's like to be famous...? (clueless)

In May, I translated Kenshi Yonezu's Shin Ultraman theme song M87 (interview, interview), and the coupling song from the single, ETA. And there was an article about the 10th anniversary of his debut!

Also in May, the Ib remake came out on Steam in English! Told you they'd contact me. It was later announced to be coming to Switch, scheduled for March 2023.

In August, Your Turn To Die was announced to be coming to Steam. It's planned for early 2023, but to be clear, it'll release first in Early Access still with no final part, though with some exclusive mini-episodes and character profile sheets. Apparently once that's out, the actual completion is estimated for 6 to 12 months later... but, you know. Estimates are hard.

In September, I put together a guide for and officially "released" my Custom Translation Engine plugin for RPG Maker MV, the one I made for the Ib remake, and back-implemented into Your Turn To Die shortly after I was contacted about it coming to Steam. It's fancy (in-game language switching!), convenient (minimal direct editing of code!), and you can use it for your own translation projects if you want!

In October... well, I didn't do anything new for it, but I'll take credit for The Witch's House MV coming to consoles. (Switch, PS4, Xbox) I also translated everyone's favorite Chainsaw Man opening KICK BACK, associated interviews, and the single's coupling song Y'all Should Be Ashamed.

Finally, in December, after lots of spending my time elsewhere and indecision about how I should go about returning to doing some dang free game translations, I concluded that what I'd really wanted to do all year was translate Uri's PEDESTAL.

I think some people latched onto specific parts of Uri's original explanation for why it wasn't being translated, such as the cultural aspects (I honestly winced at her blunt remark that the story was "no good at all"), but while Uri indeed had those doubts at the time of release, the only real reason it wasn't translated at the time is that I did a less-than-ideal rushed playthrough that slightly hurt my overall impression of its quality, and I felt too busy at the time to work on something with lots of text that was likely to be divisive. So similarly, me finally feeling up to it was the reason it did get translated. I probably should've come back to it quite a bit sooner (after I was made to give up a certain other translation, say), but as I alluded to in last year's post, I was self-conscious about "my big return to free game translations" being something that might not have wide appeal. Uh, glad to be past that, hopefully.

Oh, and ever since finishing PEDESTAL, I've been working on all sorts of overhauls to my site, but like... not the kind that actually majorly changes any part of the visible design and annoys people (and if something did change in an annoying way, it's probably accidental). Some of it's just better consideration of mobile browsing (stuff like images or tables sticking out of bounds at mobile resolutions), or making things more convenient for myself behind the scenes (did you know I made a program to add "br"s to every line of all lyrics content before considering I could just have the page code do that, and also better?).

Some more major observable changes include general renovations to the lyrics page (bigger font size, buttons that hide individual languages to aid in side-by-side comparison), and more convenient navigation of OSTER's tweets, such that I could actually imagine someone reading through them all the way from the start without it being too much of a hassle.

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While I'm glad to be over the PEDESTAL hump, I don't... necessarily have any definite plans for upcoming free game translations. I mostly just have some stuff on a list that I may have to make myself check out soon enough. Also, Game Atsumaru (which you may know as The Site That Hosts YTTD's Japanese Version) is ending in June??? So uh, might have to accelerate checking out stuff on there, though I guess it depends on how many creators are able to migrate. (Nankidai does plan to put YTTD's Japanese browser version up somewhere else.)

As I mentioned, Your Turn To Die's Early Access release on Steam should be coming up early next year with those mini-episodes and character profiles, and the game might be completed within the year. No promises. I mean, I don't have anything to promise, it's not my game.

Speaking of my game... also no promises. But I'd really like to release one. We'll see what happens. There's also a different kind of original project I recently returned to trying to make real, which could come early in the year, but who knows. As should be apparent, I'm working on a lot of different fronts here, so I frequently feel bad about neglecting such-and-such type of creative work, which sometimes means nothing actually gets done and released. Ultimately, though, it's probably better to follow what I most feel like doing, rather than force focus on one thing and end up not actually getting much done.

Which is to say: hoping to finish something in the new year!

[dragonsongmakhali]

10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags:

Basic rules: choose 10 fandoms that you are part of/support, and choose a favorite character from each of those. Then, tag ten folks!

Tagged by: @jigschosai @sealrock @reikatsukihana and @sasslett! Thank y'all :'D

This is not ordered by how much I'm into them, they're just in whatever order came to mind :) I will caution that I don't tend to choose favorite characters, I'm more of an OC maker. Feeling chatty, so I'm putting the actual list under a cut. You're welcome.

1. FFXIV : Pretty self-explanatory for the xiv sideblog. Since I'm not as in to the MSQ, I don't think I actually have a favorite character (which I know is illegal, I'm sorry :<). I really love seeing what the community does with the characters, though!

2. Halo : The storyline went to hell long ago, but I do still adore the original trilogy and constantly mine it for gpose captions. It was basically what I lived off of in high school. If I had a tumblr back then, I'd have been insufferable. Favorite character is easily Rtas 'Vadum.

3. WoW : Kind of. Asterisk. I really only know Classic, and even then, I'm way more Horde than I am Alliance. I have approximate knowledge of many things. No favorite there either - I'm all about the world and making OCs. We have two concurrent WoW tabletop games running at the moment, so this is where most of my headspace is. Their shared timeline is different from the canon, so I'm not really in the fandom per se.

4. Mass Effect : Alien dating sim, my beloved. I even enjoyed Andromeda (jump jets implemented perfectly, fun combat, the Jardaan reminded me of Forerunners). If you ask me to choose a favorite, I'll cry. How is a mother supposed to choose between her two sons (Legion and Grunt)? Drack also gets an honorary mention for his 100s of low res pictures of guns email.

5. Elder Scrolls : Mostly Skyrim, some Oblivion. I know, I'm one of those fans. Anyway, I've probably played over 1k hours of Skyrim by this point and yet. And yet! I don't have a favorite. The entirety of the Companions? I just wish that the faction questlines in Skyrim weren't "you killed 3 wolves and have been here a week. You lead us all now", but it does give me good scaffolding which. As an OC fiend. Grabby hands.

6. The World Ends With You : This game made me good at calculus in high school. My favorite character from here is Sho Minamimoto, and I was a completely normal teenager who dealt with that by doing calculus problems for fun. Turns out, the trick to get good at math is repetition.

7. Pokémon : Probably my earliest fandom. Still play the games now and again, just got Legends Arceus (super late, I know), and that's been a lot of fun. My favorite character from the franchise is Sinnoh's Rock type leader, Roark. I had a long-running sideblog dedicated to the Sinnoh region because gen IV is my favorite in general! It's inactive at the moment.

8. Guild Wars : 2, to be more precise. I started playing about a month after release, and since it's f2p, I still drop in from time to time. Like every MMO, I have no favorites. I really love playing Sylvari, though! (The glow!! The nightmare!! The [[Heart of Thorns spoiler!!]] They're just so neat)

9. Star Trek : we're now getting into "shows I watched and didn't hate" because I'm definitely not in the 'fandom' for Trek. We've been going through the old series as a way to wind down before bed, starting with TNG. We're on Enterprise now, and I'm sad that it got canceled. Still will probably have a better ending than Voyager. I don't have a favorite, but I can tell you that the writers' collective favorite must be either Seven of Nine or Data.

10. Uh. Various anime? I can't say I've recently loved any particular series to the point of fandom, but as a whole, I've been a weeb since I was in middle school. "Recent" series that I've enjoyed have included Mob Psycho and Love is War. Coincidentally, they both saved the most banger opening for their third season.

We had to stretch a little bit, but we made it to ten! Proud of this community (this community is my brain desperately trying to remember 10 things I like)

Have no idea who's been tagged in this, so if you've done this, please ignore! Or reblog it again!

@miqojak @airis-ray @wilanserulia @ahollowgrave @blackestnight @starstrider @iron-sparrow @sumifinalfourteen @jump-n-dive @otherworldseekers

[spooky-lestibournes]

Thank you @just-cosmere-fan for tagging me! Also sorry. This got buried in notifications and I didn't see it right away

Last show/movie: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Currently watching: Kaguya Sama. Since I get my quota of complex overarching Epic™ plots from fantasy books, I turn to anime for turn-your-brain-off fun Please send help I binged 2 seasons in as many days I'm sinking in the romcom quicksand

Currently reading: it's late April, meaning: My yearly reading slog! The best way to describe it is my attention span suddenly drops to that of a goldfish, so I start a book, get bored quickly and run off to the next shiny thing on my TBR. Repeat until June. So technically I'm currently reading: the veiled throne (dandelion dynasty #3), sons of darkness (the raag of rta #1), the last colony (old man's war #3), golden son (red rising #4), kings of paradise (ash and sand #1), empire of silence (the sun eater #1) and J.S. Dewes' Rubicon

Current obsession: I've always been a history nerd, and my most recent fixation is traditional irrigation methods in arid regions. Cuz what's cooler than an aquaduct?

AN UNDERGROUND AQUADUCT THAT ALLOWS CONTROLLED WATER DISTRIBUTION AMONG FARMERS

and what's better than bringing water from an aquifer to your palm grove?

Why, BRINGING YOUR PALM GROVE TO THE AQUIFER BY PLANTING IT IN AN 8 METER DEEP BASIN SURROUNDED BY WINDBREAKS!

Just. Looking at the convoluted ways humanity comes up with to carve out a living.

Sahara: do not settle down here. I am one of the most inhospitable places on earth. Whatever you build or cultivate will be buried by a spring sandstorm.

Humans: :)

Aaaaanyways before I start gushing again, I'm tagging @shouldprobablybereading , @kainekron and @chumsterfire if y'all want to do this

[bestworstcase]

Hello, oh, its been a long time since Ive been in the rta fandom. I believe it was you that posted about the analysis that Rapunzel only seems to like lady-in-waiting Cassandra and not Cassandra as a whole, but I cannot seem to find it... the post elaborates on how all of Rapunzel's memories consist of Cassandra in her lady-in-waiting uniform.

If its not you, I apologize

iiiiit was probably me but i think as part of a larger post so . good luck finding it because i can’t either lmfao

i can however summarize the general thrust of the argument mgkgjfj basically:

1. i don’t think rapunzel ever quite grasped that lady in waiting cass was, like, cassandra filtered through the requirements of the LIW gig and more broadly her obligations, as a servant, to the royal family

2. as the hierarchical lines blurred on the road away from corona rapunzel got a few glimpses of unfiltered cass, most notably in goodbye and goodwill, and her reactions are generally less than positive—she enjoys cassandra’s bluntness, her adventurousness, but she’s nnnot comfortable with cass being loud and aggressive and the kind of person whose idea of a grand time is inciting a street brawl and injuring twenty-three people and then boasting to the sheriff about it: she is, in short, not keen on cassandra’s feral streak

3. RATGT has rapunzel remarking, negatively, on the changes she’s seen in cass since they left corona—not just the extreme outburst in the tree, but all of it. she then goes on to draw vent art of cass as a crazed monster with fangs and claws when cass is, like, curt and snappish on account of the barbecued hand thing

4. in the rapunzeltopia lotus dream designed by tromus to be as enticing to rapunzel as possible, cassandra is comfortable and happy in her role as rapunzel’s handmaiden without so much as a whiff of personal ambition or desire for anything more

5. RR upon returning to corona and mourning cassandra’s abandonment rapunzel opens the weapons cabinet, reaches past all the things cass actually cherished, and grabs her WORK UNIFORM to cry into; this is followed by a whole season of rapunzel explicitly romanticizing their past friendship and glossing over the tension and conflicts that always existed in order to reminisce in vague and rose-colored fashion about all the lovely times they had together—which includes fond memories of riding with cass-in-the-lady-in-waiting-gown which almost certainly is not an accurate reflection of the past given how allergic cassandra was to wearing the gown unless she absolutely had to. moreover, the torn LIW headpiece/veil thing is the EMOTIONAL FOCAL POINT of “i’d give anything”

6. rapunzel says herself, at the end of plus est, that she always imagined cassandra “belonged” in corona, by rapunzel’s side—& put into context with all of this and with raps spending virtually all of s3 convinced that the anger and resentment cass is spewing everywhere Isn’t Truly Cass, what all of this suggests to me is that rapunzel—for all that she does genuinely love cassandra—doesn’t particularly know cass, certainly doesn’t understand her as well as she thinks she does, and hasn’t ever really… reckoned with the parts of cass that are not palatable or nice to deal with: she’s got an idealized cassandra on a pedestal in her head, and it’s difficult for her to make the connection that cass isn’t actually like that.

so it’s like.. i think rapunzel can and will get to a point where she sees cassandra clearly and embraces the real, unfiltered cass—even if they’re never going to see eye to eye about some things—but she’s not there yet, and by the end of plus est she’s only just BARELY gotten to the point of recognizing that the cass in her head doesn’t match up with who cass is in actuality. and before she makes that connection, whenever she’s confronted with the real cass not aligning with the idealized conception she has of cass, she gets upset or confused about it because she’s like, why isn’t cass acting like herself? without realizing that the feeling she’s having is actually “why isn’t cass acting like i want her to?”

[tangledbea]

what was your fav season of TTS/RTA?

Hmmmm... I don't know. They all have something to recommend them, but 3 made me so mad that it can't even contend, even though it's got the best non-plot episodes, in my opinion.

1 is going around establishing the characters, 2 was really ramping up the plot and had me genuinely screaming the most.

The best songs are all over the place, too, so it's not like a single season lays claim to all of the best songs. (And there were some relative flops in each season, too.)

I honestly don't know.

[locitapurplepink]

Disney Princess/Fairies Poll Results so far 19

I have so much fun making disney princess polls with you guys. Here's the list of winner from each poll posts that I've made

109. Favorite disney princess round 12 (Elsa vs Mirabel)

Mirabel

110. Favorite TTS/RTA season ( 1 vs 2 vs 3 )

TTS/RTA Season 2

111. Favorite Princess Sofia's village theme outfit ( Bakery vs Berry picking )

Sofia's village berry picking theme outfit

112. Favorite Tinkerbell's dress (original vs update)

Tinkerbell's update dress

113. Favorite fairy sister (Tinkerbell vs Periwinke)

Tinkerbell

114. Favorite eoa season ( 1 vs 2 vs 3 )

Eoa season 2

Note : there are more ideas to come so get ready, guys !

[tides-of-truth]

Art Vimanika Comics

Varuna, the Lord of the West receives that which has outworn its purpose & must be returned to the cosmic ocean to by mashed & mingled in the cosmic cauldron (pot, ring, cup, pitcher etc.) to be recycled. He is one aspect of the create-and-destruct, birth-death-and-rebirth eternal cycle of the world-creating-maintaining-and-destroying process taking place around the central Sun/source/light/pillar - the one I. The Lords of Time obey & maintain the supreme cosmic law of Rta. Transcendental Truth, Om is the beyond that remains ever constant, but in manifestation truth is maintained by the laws of truth, or Natural Laws, and the laws of truth descend from the Supreme law Rta (truth, right, rhythm), which is the eternal cyclar, the birth-life-death-rebirth cycle of Nature represented as the cardinal directions of space & in time as the 4 seasons of a year— it is the changing of the phenomenal world (the not fundamentally 1), but indeed it is the ever-changing appearance of form without end - like praying with the beads on the rosary a or mala 4a. where a cycle ends & disappears another always starts again, out of the never-changing Supreme Self.

[tohlover05]

I can just imagine Pascal forcing Lance to clean all the dishes after he ate everything that he prepared for Rapunzel and himself and it’s hilarious

[meluhha]

Number Symbols of India: “Bhutasamkhya”

0 sky

1 moon, known as ‘indu’

2 eyes, ie. netra

(Agni? 3 kinds of it)

4 vedas

5 flower arrows of Kamadeva or Bāṇa 

(6 seasons, Rutu)

7 mountains (& rishis)

8 syllables in a foot metre (& vasu)

(9 Brahmas)

(10 Disi aka 8 directions, up and below)

(11 Rudras)

(12 Adityas of Surya/Sun God)

32 teeth

33 gods

** interestingly, the 72“Melaka-rta” ragas are split into 12 groups called chakras with some of these names for them (1, 2, 4,

earliest reference:  Yavanajātaka ("Greek horoscopy")