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dapper-lil-arts · 1 year
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What are your thoughts on Super Lesbian Animal RPG?
Never played myself, but watched my gf play. It's pretty sweet! i'm not rly interested in playin it myself, (not my kind of RPG) but i respect the hell out of it! I hope this pathes the way for more furry indie games that are fun and inventive to make games and be very gay about it tbh! And i will say i really like the idea of making a game's title be describing the exact kind of experience you'll get when playing it lol. those animal lesbians do be super RPGing! One day i wanna make a game called "Busty Catgirl Destroys Capitalism" lmao
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zeravmeta · 2 years
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my one whole post contributing to the fgo attractive male discourse is that the actual appeal comes less from basic ideas of what makes someone attractive and rather the actual use of aesthetic and presentation using said characters traits. its not enough to have convenionally attractive traits but rather the characters traits combined with the aesthetic that theyre trying to achieve.
take limbo for example. limbo shows some tit and is buff sure but most of his appeal actually comes from his characterization and presentation with his buffed out look complementing those traits. the best examples of this are actually in his final ascension and his cbc ce
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so itd be easy to just say that limbo flaunting what hes got is what makes him sexy here, but its actually the opposite: its what he isnt showing you. limbo isnt showing any more skin than he usually is in his regular ascensions (just his upper body and knee), but the framing and the implications of him naked and staring down at you, the licking of his lips and the juxtaposition between him standing out from the rest of the bleak colors and skeletons, especially with his contorted look are what actually make it sensual and sexy because your focus is immediately drawn to him and the implications. then in his cbc it goes the entire opposite direction, putting him in a rather standard outfit that isnt really all that different from just sticking a male servant in a suit HOWEVER the use of the clothes to show creases and movement in the actual ce lets you actually feel how much weight and muscle limbo is throwing around here. his final ascension uses everything but limbos bare physical body to make him look sexy, but in his cbc where hes fully clothed its his body shape and the use of the clothing to convey that where it makes him sexy.
now compare this to kintoki
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yes laughing at raita is hip these days whatever but the genuine appeal with kintoki doesnt come fully from his buff body but instead the aesthetic surrounding it. in his final ascension hes full on manspreading sure but the most appealing thing here is his face, the way hes pulling his hair back and looking at you. its a confident and calm look, hes appealing here because of the aesthetic of him being in a club and the shirtless full on muscle bod actually enhances that because it makes him look powerful. the same thing happens in his costume as well: hes in battle, covered in blood and wounds, a storm of sakura petals surrounding him as he stands imposing, its a look that radiates cool factor in spades and the hyper muscle design actually looks more attractive because of it. again, a design that has conventional attractive features used to enhance an aesthetic and then in reverse. say what you will about raitas anatomy but his design philosophy is well thought out and his style does fit with these characters because kintoki himself (along with many other of his characters) is a half oni half god monster, and despite looking fully human the actual raita style adds that extra flavor that makes him feel inhuman.
now lets rock the boat a little bit
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obviously people like to meme on hajime enjoyers because he isnt bishe/conventionally attractive, but this is the one exception that proves the rule where a suit/basic look actually compliments the character. hajime looks like a scruffy overworked goblin whose lived off cigarette butts and beer for the past year, and it works because its actually part of his character that hes always tired. obviously hajime has so much more character to him that actually makes him more attractive but ill be bold and fully say the same appeal for hajime is the exact same appeal that izo has
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izo in all his ascensions is a full on messy unwashed murderous hobo who is consistently one of the most popular male characters as well as one of if not the most popular 3* around and its fully because of his hobo look and personality. hes one of the only servants where a suit look actually works because he looks out of place in it, izo here looks so damn proud of himself like hes made his first paycheck and is about to lose all of it on gambling, and much like hajime the appeal comes from the factors surrounding him.
now lets look at siegfried and talk about most cbc designs
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this is where a suit ultimately fails, because its taking a basic presentable 'attractive' look and putting it on a character who was already attractive where it doesnt enhance his look whatsoever. sure siegfried has his tits out but siegfried always has his tits out, however there isnt the appeal that limbo has with a full on outfit because its entirely uncreative. they just stuck him in a suit, gave him glasses and called it a day. his suit could have so easily been improved too by making it backless to conform with his legend, but it doesnt even have that and just feels lazy overall. this costume fails because it rides entirely on siegfriend looking good to make the outfit look good, so the outfit is functionally worthless in making him look attractive, because siegfried is already attractive. and the same trend follows with many of the cbc ces, theyre just uncreative.
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these are all incredibly homogeneous: they always have a ce where the round table is just hanging out, a ce where gil and ozy and maybe sometimes iskander or qsh are just stuck together on basic premise, a ce with the kids, some type of office setting, a male idol, maybe a bakery sometimes, so many cbcs fail because of simple uncreativity in using their characters and giving them a costume to enhance the character, so instead its the character that enhances the costume, and most times, this is done by just sticking them in a suit and calling it a day.
so yeah fgo men are fine and well and attractive, the devs are just so unsure of how to make them look attractive with costumes.
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littlemissclandestine · 2 months
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Why I think Russell Adler is going to make a comeback in COD 2024
WARNING⚠️: Contains spoilers for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
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Disclaimer: This is all just speculation on my behalf of course. I've just tried piecing stuff together for fun because Russ is one of my fave BO characters even though he's a bitch but i need more Adler content stat. <33
Let's get into it peeps. HEAR ME OUT.
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Buckle up. Gonna be one hell of a ride folks 🤪
We'll start off with some random/background info.
Russ was born on February 12th 1937 so that would make him 53/54 in the Gulf War era. This actually isn't that old because if you think about it, Woods was about to turn 51 in 1981 during the Cold War campaign. What's a few more years?
We last saw Adler in action post-campaign in Warzone 1.0 cinematics but we've been kept in the dark about Adler's whereabouts post-1984 (after being brainwashed and killing Stitch LOL).
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This meanie in a beanie wasn't forgotten about, oh no. He appears in the new cinematic intros on startup for both MWII (2022) and MWIII (2023). See below:
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He was also featured twice in the 20 year anniversary video for Call of Duty whereas COD Ghosts didn't even get an appearance (ouch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_w5HmxsPI
I personally believe Adler was a great addition to the Black Ops roster and is essentially the new Black Ops 'cover boy' now. Would be such a shame and a missed opportunity not to include a character like him in the upcoming COD. One who is morally grey, does whatever he deems necessary to get the job done - a bit like Cpt. Price in MW. Got the COD fans riled up about him brainwashing and pulling the trigger on Bell too - he's already got the spotlight in both a good and bad way.
Now, let's explore my main reasoning as to why I think Mr Shades 2.0 is most likely coming back in late 2024...
🎖️First up: Gulf War mission list 🔫
Here are some of the campaign missions that will be featured in Black Ops Gulf War. Obviously, this is subject to change, however, going off what we have, look closely...
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Credit: @MWIIINTEL on Twitter/X
Safehouse guys...SAFEHOUSE. Takes you right back to Cold War, doesn't it? Ugh the potential.
🕵️ Next up: The campaign for COD 2024 will dive into the CIA's role/the Black Ops timeline 🕘
I took the following snippet from this official article.
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From this, we know there will be a huge focus on the CIA and who's a CIA clandestine special officer? Mhm, you guessed it - Russell Adler.
Now, according to the events of BO2, it's evident which characters have the possibility of returning out of our original BO trio - Jason Hudson, Frank Woods and Alex Mason.
💫 Alex is presumed dead after Frank shot him so he's out the picture in '90/91 until 2025 when they canonically meet again.
🪵 Woods would be in his 60s during this time too so I'll let you decide whether that's too old for him to be in GW.
🧊 Hudson died on Dec 20th 1989 at the hands of Raul Menendez.
Feel free to check out this website (Call of Duty Wiki) for an outline of the events after CW to remind yourself. Here's a link to the Black Ops timeline from there.
➡️ Gulf War being a direct sequel to Cold War and what that could mean 💉
That brings me onto the rest of the safehouse crew. Since GW is a direct sequel to CW, it would make sense for some characters to carry over if possible:
We, as the player/Bell, get to choose whether Park or Lazar die (or both lovebirds) in 'End of the Line'. It's highly unlikely they'll return unless the devs make one decision canon maybe.
There could be a chance we see Sims again given his bond with Adler (Da Nang etc.), his age (late 40s in GW) and his status (alive).
That leaves the man himself, Russ. Everything from his age to the fact he's CIA and was the deuteragonist in COD 2020's campaign just makes sense for him to have at least a lil cameo or even a larger role, don't you think?
📱Finally: Hints from official posts 🔎
This post from Call of duty's official Instagram account kind of sealed the deal for me.
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Oh lookie - they dropped syringe-lover's famous line in a zombies post. Why would COD just drop it so casually like that without a reason and years after since CW came out? They could've said absolutely anything else but no, this was purposeful.
And that's all for this episode guys and gals!
Thank you for reading!! 🫂
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Do what you will with all this information but I have concluded in my silly little brain that scarface is coming back.
How he's only in one game is beyond me. Won't get a character like him ever again. Seems like a cliché war dude at first glance but dig a little deeper into the details of the CW campaign, peel back the layers and get into his psychology and WOWZERS.
Am I delusional? Most definitely.
But the possibility he might be returning...that little bit of hope is enough for me and i won't shut up about it.
This will age horribly if he isn't in GW. Forgive me for feeding your delusions too in that case. Please?
What are your thoughts? Feel free to share them! 😊
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minas-linkverse · 3 months
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Ngl I was going to ask about Breath of the Wild but I’d thought you’d get a million of those asks lol. I was also torn between asking about Wind Waker, so whichever one you want to answer more is chill!!
haha yea I thought I'd get a million asks too! Somehow even now this remains the only botw ask, I guess people just figured it must've been sent already 😅
Now to actually share my thoughts on botw... Man I hope people don't get mad at me.
I did not like it!. The first play through I had was mildly exciting simply due to there being a whole unknown world to see, but after a while that gimmick wore off. I knew that if I made my way to the cool looking mountain or interesting abandoned building I'd just find a bokoblin and/or a chest with a gem. Whats the point of a gorgeous expansive world when all I find is the same...! 😫
Oh wow! A town with a whole new atmosphere and culture I sure wonder what I'll get up to h- Ok they have the same shops with slightly different items. Ok cool. There's like a few small quests for more inventory filler I don't really need. Cool cool.
I understand that the game is really fun for some people, they'll do quests just to get to play more of the game. They want all that extra stuff to upgrade armour and really get into the nitty gritty mechanics of the game... But I did not. It was not for me.
Also ouugh the puzzles...! My favourite part of Zelda games is the puzzle solving, but these were in no way satisfying and often more fun to just break. Why would I bother even trying to get into the devs heads when A) I could just break it and B) I have too many options to consider! I can't possibly get a clean eureka moment when everything from monster guts to just climbing could be the solution...! Where's the engaging simplicity of knowing exactly what you have and following the devs' clues to reach the solution!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaa--
I also disliked the story, all the interesting bits in it happened a 100 years ago and I feel like I arrived late with a starbucks. I also will not get over the weird ending cutscene!! After countless fascinating memories of Zelda having very complex emotions at Link... What do you mean you're just going to have a vaguely romantic "Do you still remember me?" YEAH I DO, I thought u disliked me! Which is a fascinating story direction I would've loved continued but OK! I guess we're ignoring that! Women cant be angry that makes them less cute and marketable, I guess!!!!
I... Sorry this is so ranty, I've been holding it in a long time. I think there's a lot to love in botw and I wish I wasn't so sour about it. Other people's love and excitement for it is wonderful and I hope they keep making the art they love. If its your first game in the series and got you into it, that's nothing to be ashamed about. I'm just a grumpy old man waving at cloud /ref.
Honestly I think botw could've been wonderful if it was a new IP. It feels all the Zelda stuff was sort of glued onto a concept that wasn't prepared to carry that mantle. It would've been better off with a new exciting world and cast of characters. It still wouldn't be a game I much care for, but the freedom that could've granted the developers would've been a treat to see.
It's worth adding that even though I dislike botw, I want to treat the characters of that game with respect and care in my comic. I may not love them in game but I can see the passion others have and I am committed to make something worth their time. Your special guys are safe with me. I have 0 desire to dunk on them, and instead wish to honour the love you all have. In a way I'm learning to love them myself through that.
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rayroseu · 10 months
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I GOTTA LET THIS OUT OF MY FRANTIC MIND RN OR I'LL DETONATE FR
!! major spoilers for book 7 part 3 !!
i couldnt watch the entirety of the stream because it got released during my class D: ALSO BIG WARNING THAT THIS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE AKDJSK i just want to ramble💥
BUT from what i got--- ? The beginning was Idia's dream most likely and ofc, its the dream he wishes were real... where Ortho's alive-- 😭😭
I missed the following part after that but it seems Malleus was invited to the orientation AT LAST??!?!?!?!! I'm presuming that no matter what dream a person is having while asleep, Malleus is a part of it where he isn't excluded and feared???
Its well known now that Book 7 will heavily imply familial messages and from what we seen with Shroud Family so far, is that they were very communicative and supportive of each other in the loving way possible.
I assumed they were strict and cold parents before but I'm glad its wrong, cuz this is such a nice twist 💕 their dynamic reminds me of disney Hera and Zeus affection on Hercules--- I wonder if theyre showcasing this as parallel of Diasomnia's??? So far in canon, most of them rarely talk about much they actually mean w each other or even being wholesome like the Shrouds were lol But still... its undeniable theyre family as wellll 🙏
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Seems like the groovy nowadays are more 'wholesome'??? i wonder if theyre taking their whole message that "every villain isnt just purely a villain/evil" more strongly now-- 👀 idk if that will correlate w book 7 but i hope they (the devs) take time to finalize it since the impact of this overblot is so severe even I cant predict how they can mend this KAJSKAK
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I really have to watch Mickey Through the looking glass, the references are killing me--
ALSO YESSS HIGH FIVE WITH MICKEYY AAAA 🥺💕💕 IM SO glad Yuu remembers what happened!!! IVE BEEN HOPING FOR THAT, that they got to have a big role for this book!!😭😭 Thank you TWST for hearing Yuu stans collective wishes--
this is actually Mickey's Dream... The date seems to be flipped and many theorized its flipped number 15, which is Silver's Birthdate-- 👀 idk what that means and why on Mickey's place?? and beside the mirror as well💥
you know that GIF of Charlotte (Princess and the Frog) squealing with a newspaper??? THATS MEEEE--- AAAA SILYUUU FEAST!! SILYUU FEAST!!!! SILYUU NATION SO BLESSEDDD😭💖💖💖💖
when he says hold on tight while the surroundings crumbles down and we're about to get swallowed by ink blots, it is so!!!!! *delusional mind* SO ROMANTIC OF HIMMM 😭💖💕😭💖💕omg,,,, what a shoujo moment, we are winning everyone 👍🤲💕🤌✨🙌🙌
ALSO UNIQUE MAGIC REVEAL HOOYAAAHH🙌🙌
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also his magic is so complicated 😭😭 theres A LOT of conditions to be met before it can even be used--
i wonder if thats similar to how Ortho said that for Mickey to appear in the mirror (at book part 1 where the first years are at the cafeteria) , certain conditions should be met??? I mean, Silver And yuu have some parallels already... esp the fact that Lilia says during when yuu felt unwell at the party, he stated its similar to Silvers face when hes about to fall asleep--
Afterwards is Sebek's dream..... we alll collectively sobbed at this part of the livestream HNGGGG sebek why would ur dream be like that-- IT HURTS SO MUCH 😭😭😭
Malleus accepting his graduation(?) from NRC with no qualms, Lilia graduating as well and leaving for Red Dragon Nation because of his internship and not his weakening magic...🥺💔💔
Sebek's reaction at Malleus overblotting was the most relatable one (fear and disbelief) over others and his dream was the mirror to what we(the fandom) wouldve wished what happened-- IM SOBBING WHY U DO THIS SEBEK AIDUHFJEUFN!!!😭😭😭💥💔
DONT EVEN. GET ME STARTED. ON HOW DOTING LILIA WAS TO SILVER..!!!! like wthhksjdj THATS SO EVIL TWST!!! THATS SO LETHAL MALLEUS OHMYGOD--- so evil to use everything silver wanted from lilia just for him to stay in this dream where::
-lilias healthy, lilia is staying w silver, lilia is caring to him, and how hes returning to briar valley to live with him forever??? BRO HOW MANY TEARS WERE SHEDDING TONIGHT HUH...--💔💔💔😭😭😭
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MALLEUS IS SO MAD WE WOKE UP SEBEK OHMYGOODNESS 💥💥💥😭😭😭
I always love his voice, it seems his tone is so harsh and cold now when he overblotted its so sexy--- and at the same time terrifyingggg 👍🛐 Kazuki Kato, I love his performance in this, this is so haunting in the most agonizing way 😭💚💚
... NOT TSUNOTAROU GOING FULL BOARD ON THE DELUSIONAL LAND BESTIE I KNEW YOU WERE BAD BUT THIS IS ON A WHOLE NEW TIER OF BADNESS OORAUGJ😟💥💥
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HIS ATTACKS ARE SO COOL AAAAAA I WAS AMAZED AND SCARED THE WHOLE TIME I CANT WAIT TO MEET HIM ON TWST EN OMGGG😩🙏🙏
byeee i never wrote a reaction post as long as this before KDJKAKD
theyre really dropping the obvious hints that crowley is a fae alright....⁉️⁉️👀👀
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THE ALL AWAITED GENERAL VANROUGE REVEALLL!!!!!! im just.... oh... have we all PROPERLY look at him??? RIGHT NOW IM STILLLL SAVORING ALL THOSE DETAILS!!! MY GOODNESS---
i basically sped read allllll the musings twst twt and tumblr have been swooning about him and OH HE DESERVES ALL THE ADMIRATION 🙏🙏🙏ESPECIALLY HIS MAGIC AT HIS ENTRANCE!!!!!! ARE U KIDDING THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLL THE BATS SWAYING AND THE RED SPARKLES BEFORE HE TELEPORTED?????? SHIT I WOULDVE PASSED OUT FROM AMAZEMENT RIGHT THEN AND THERE-- BEGGING ON MY KNEES TO GET THAT ANIMATED 😩😩😩🙏🙏
AND IT ALL ENDED JUST LIKE THAT AAAIUSIAUSU!!!!! 😩😩😩 I WANT MORE BUT AAAA too much information will make me overload now akdjksd another long few more months before part 4 releases 😳😳 AND OOO I CANNOT WAITTT
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my prediction is that theyre delving more into briar valleys history in the lens of Lilia's past.
My interpretation is that Lilia's dream related to his past is bcs he kind of whispered to himself that the reason hes leaving is because of his weakening state and how he doesnt want to wish anyone to see him like that.... I guess his wish was that he could be as strong as he was before... Really reminds me of Mulan's father 😭
IM WISHING DESPERATELY FOR MORE YUU RELATION NEXT PART AND THIS TWITTER THREAD SUMS UP ALL MY SPECULATIONS AS TO WHY YUU ISNT INVOLVED IN THE DREAMS WE HAVE SO FAR
"malleyuu divorce" is my fave phrase from op from now on lol
livestream of book 7 part 3
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Ok so I’m really hoping it’s not a glitch, but after many months of weirdness with my follower count and my blog in general, I’m seeing I’m at 700 followers holy shit??? Uh, if this turns out to be a glitch of some kind, we will just pretend I’m at 700 anyway I guess lol.
No matter how many of you there actually are, thank you for sharing my enthusiasm for Hogwarts Legacy nearly a year after release. I’m really sad that the half life of fandoms is so short these days, but I’m old school and refuse to leave no matter how uncool it makes me. I still have many more things I’m doing this year and don’t plan on slowing down! Just a little look ahead:
1. I’m working as an editor and programmer on a dev team that’s making a Hogwarts Legacy dating sim, which I am absurdly excited about because we have such a great team comprised of some of the best contributors to the tumblr fandom.
2. I’m also currently drafting some plushies! Just gotta find time to actually order fabric and get out the sewing machine…
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3. And as always, I constantly have sooo many drafts on tumblr lol. I’m really close to finishing a cute little fic that’s gonna give me diabetes I stg.
Thanks again to however many of you are out there, ily 💚
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nerdy-talks · 7 months
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Obey Me! Nightbringer Lesson 23 sent me on an emotional roller coaster!
I have always been and always will be a massive Mammon simp. I love him. Genuinely and truly.
So when he said this :
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I felt terrible for him, I wanted to hug/hold him and comfort him so badly!!
Because that's not true at all! ; ^ ;
Mammon is NOT awful. He's never been awful. Just because he has "greedy" desires... That could be said of everyone.
Mammon is a wonderful, passionate person and a loving, caring brother. He has been my favorite since the very beginning because I could tell just how sweet and kind and pure he is deep down.
He deserves the very best. He is worthy of everything good in all three worlds!
I love Mammon, I will always love Mammon.
Then when he finally awakens...
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You can hug me as much as you want, any time you want, nonstop, please never let go! TwT
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I seriously was SO much happier with this pact scenario than in the OG.
I mean... in the OG, Mammon only wanted his credit card. So it seemed kind of... forced? Not special?
But this time! Making a pact with Mammon is special. It's meaningful. It felt right. In my opinion, it's perfect! Kudos to the devs for this one 💙
And it gets even better :
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I legitimately wanted to cry. I actually felt tears begin to form in my eyes, no joke or exaggeration.
Me.... special??? No.... No way.... Never.....
I know it's "just a game", but that hit me HARD! I took it personally, and it meant so much to me. Especially coming from Mammon (ಥ◡ಥ)
Forget the pact, where's our marriage certificate already?! lol
Anyway.... I was completely satisfied with this Lesson. I'm happy we made our pact with Mammon and how/why it happened.
Originally, I thought maybe Nightbringer would follow the OG in terms of forming pacts, which would mean that Levi was next.
But from how this lesson ended, it looks like Asmo is actually next! All I can say is.... I'm super excited for more 💙
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imasradiantasthesun · 3 months
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District 12 Family Trees
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Here are some family trees I made for my thg fic holding bright! I include a good amount of worldbuilding and fleshing out of some side characters (aka Bristel, Thom, Leevy, and Delly) in it, so I thought hey might as well draw some trees to help clarify my thinking. First, some notes on the structure:
The numbers in brackets are the characters' ages at the time of the Reaping for the 74th Hunger Games. I didn't feel like assigning specific birthdays for everyone, hence just the ages lol. Some characters' ages differ from canon in my fic: Katniss, Peeta, Delly, and Madge are all 18, Prim is 13, and Rory is 12
My use of "clan" here is super arbitrary, it doesn't actually mean anything lol
Names in quotation marks are nicknames/what they go by
Plenty of people in the older generations are dead, again I just didn't feel like specifying it unless it's relevant
Some notes on my decision-making in general:
I accidentally made Katniss and Peeta's maternal grandmothers have the same maiden names please ignore that lmao they are NOT related closely At All, it's a normal amount of distance lol
Some of the names chosen for some Seam characters are Indian names, because I headcanon that people from the Seam can be a mix of a ton of different stuff, including South Asian
The idea that Mrs Everdeen's first name is Alyssum (Alys for short) comes from Mejhiren's fic When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun
I continued the bread theme for Mellark names lol. Mr Mellark's first name is Nick, from pumpernickel. I also once read a fic where Peeta is of Jewish descent, which I really liked, so some of the breads are of Jewish origin: Hal is from challah (which can also be written as hallah), and Bab is from babka
In Holding Bright (which is an au, hence the variety of small changes I have made to canon lol) the Reaping takes place on June 1st (instead of the canonical July 4th), and it's also canon that the Games start exactly one week after the Reaping, so therefore in HB they always start on June 8th. Therefore, the teenaged deaths set after June 1st -- Glory Salsbury, Maysilee Donner, and Ridge Littlefield -- were all in the Games.
As explained in chapter 9 of Holding Bright, Ezra and Petunia Rainwater started a tradition of giving their kids long ass floral names lol. Their first child was relatively spared, with the name Foxglove, though he still went by Fox; their second child, Devil-in-a-Bush (or just Dev) fell in love with a woman who also just so happened to have a super long floral name, Queen Anne's Lace (though she went by Lace). All of Fox's descendants were spared from this naming tradition, to the point where his daughter, Hazelle, gave all of her children only four-letter names. Meanwhile, Dev's descendants got the longest names ever lmao: Chrysanthemum had five children: Morning Glory, Lily-of-the-Valley (aka Leevy), Stairway to Heaven, May Night Salvia, and Forget-Me-Not.
I have a headcanon that in Town they tend to give their children middle names, while in the Seam they don't (why? I don't know <3). In Town middle names came into use because they wanted to honor loved ones who have passed away, but because of the Games and all that it's considered bad luck to give your child the same first name as a deceased loved one
However, because I'm lazy I only wrote out the middle names for the youngest generation because I didn't want to come up with middle names for every single Merchant character lol
Katniss and Prim have middle names because their mother is from Town. Madge's middle name comes from Maysilee, just like Katniss's
I'm going with the popular headcanon that Katniss is indirectly related to Lucy Gray through Maude Ivory. Katniss's father's name follows the same conventions as those of the Covey (name from a ballad + a color). I had originally planned for people to only really know Mr Everdeen as Jet, hence why the family tree says Gordon Jet "Jet" Everdeen, but I have decided against that!! he went by Gordon Jet!!!
The first part of Mr Everdeen's name comes from the Scottish ballad Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie, in which the protagonist, Jeannie, is in love with a poor man named Auchanachie Gordon. However, despite Jeannie's resistance, she is married off by her parents to the wealthy Lord Salton/Saltoun; Jeannie then dies of a broken heart before Auchanachie Gordon returns and also dies. I thought Gordon is a fitting name, considering that Mrs Everdeen left her life in Town, where the wealthier Mr Mellark was in love with her, to marry the poorer Mr Everdeen
The second part of Mr Everdeen's name, Jet, comes from the color jet black; jet is also a type of coal
Some allusions to another canon character + my minor OCs:
Rooba is the name of the butcher in canon, so here she is Delly's aunt
Madge's maternal grandmother, Magnolia, has the maiden name Blackwell. She is distantly related to Maggie Blackwell, the carpenter's daughter who went missing about a decade ago
Thom’s maternal grandmother, Nomi Goodwin, was originally from Town
Bristel's mother, Juniper, passed away from complications at childbirth
Gale's maternal grandmother, Anika, has the maiden name Reeves. Gale is second cousins with Sparrow Reeves, the female tribute from 12 in the 68th Games who made a lasting impact on her district due to the brutality of her death
River & Rylee Ludlow are the 17-year-old twins who tend to pick on Madge a bit. No wonder they're related to Mrs Mellark...
Mrs Mellark's brother, Noah, died in the Games. Her other brother, Elijah, took over the apothecary shop from the Stewards after Alys ran away to be with Gordon Jet
Ivy Fairweather is the Undersees' housekeeper, usually referred to in HB as Mrs Fairweather. She and her husband probably have a ton of kids, but I just didn't feel like writing them all out lol. Ivy's maiden name is Claymore, which is also the last name of another OC, Hetty Claymore, who mysteriously died; Ivy is Hetty's like second cousin whatever-times-removed or something (aka practically a distant aunt)
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4438 Response to an ask: Jfc, this hurts so deeply to read. My trans friend was harassed off tumblr simply because they wrote fic of a canon character and interpreted them as cishet. They had wrote them for over a decade (which is insanely impressive to me!), but then some asshole with a huge performative axe to grind popped into the picture. They saw the character as trans, but there was no canon basis for it, and there was no plausible reason other people would see the same. In fact, most people from what I've seen actually interpret the character as cishet, even trans people! But that person saw my friend's work and said they had to tear up all ten years of worldbuilding, dev, and storytelling to make the character trans, actually. Or else they were a transphobe, and a transmisogynist. Revising all of this work would've changed, effectively, the entire character take and their history, and I do not blame my friend for jumping ship and leaving the site. Especially after the "Lol Funny" casual death wishes that were thrown at them as Entertainment fodder for the harasser's followers (who were equally disturbed). Fucking nightmare!
Posting since this is a response to a previous ask about a previous problem.
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nihilnovisubsole · 7 months
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i wasn't going to keep cluttering people's dashes up with my ffxiv stream-of-consciousness posts. but after a chance run-in with @arcanistvysoren in the dusk vigil one night, i was encouraged to make more. so, hey! heavensward! that was a lot!
one thing you can always count on final fantasy to do is give you leitmotifs. sad scene? leitmotif. climactic battle? leitmotif. quest accepted? leitmotif. hey, dragonsong is nice. why not?
it's difficult to overstate how habitually this game throws beautiful atmosphere at you and makes it look effortless. i know i keep repeating myself, but it keeps being true. the quiet desolation of riding through the coerthas western highlands at night with a blizzard battering you and fog obscuring the horizon. ough
i was looking forward to royce's role as a self-exiled ishgardian in this part of the story, and i was very much not let down. heavensward spends a lot of time emphasizing what an irreplaceable asset the warrior of light becomes to ishgard, so the bitter taste that she would have experienced during the early coerthas ARR quests rises to a nauseating pitch. oh, now the ishgardian authorities care. now they want her around. now they want to heap praise on her for pulling them out of the fire. when they did nothing to help save her squad five years ago and went damnatio memoriae on her when she vanished. they're lucky she's too heroic to let them burn.
i'm not exactly sure how she works through her feelings by the end. i'll have to think about it. write about it, maybe. we'll see.
the dragon plot is fine. it works! it's cool! it's all very mythic in scale and appropriately tragic. i'm just more drawn to the expansion's mundane side. it's easy for final fantasy to get carried away with itself when it's got aether and primals and multiverses flying around, so we need the periods where we deal with interpersonal conflict to keep it grounded and speak to lived human experience.
i mean, the windows into how ignorant ishgardian citizens are and how deep their religious indoctrination actually goes? that's meaty. a church covering up everything from their archbishop's love child to the history their core theology was founded on? that's the good stuff
god, it's hilarious how much estinien and aymeric were engineered in a lab for fans to fall in love with them. they're elves, they're tall, they have deep voices and piercing eyes and swooshy hair, they're brooding, they're burdened with great and terrible responsibility. estinien is beat-for-beat the "character 1" archetype of otome games: mysterious and mean, but defrosts over his story arc. you have dinner at aymeric's house! the dev team had to know that these fellows were going to have a following and leaned into it.
actually, wait, does aymeric fall into the "responsible authority figure" otome archetype? is haurchefant the "flirty, excitable younger guy" archetype? am i onto something here? pepesilvia.jpg
poor haurchefant ):
speaking of characters, cid is growing on me. i didn't pay much attention to him in ARR, but i like that he continues to play a major role. he's a fun guy to have around. royce draws heavily from cyan garamonde, who's a notorious technophobe, and i wonder whether she inherited some of that character DNA too. you are a good man and i trust you but do not dare augment my lance. more power means more parts to break. cold steel will never fail you
the vault and baelsar's wall are awesome as dungeons, but lol, lmao. there is something to be said for bark trigger volume. filthy rats! [crackling fireball noise] sickness must be purged! [explosion] filthy rats! [griffin sword swing] sloppyyy!! [another explosion] sickness must be purged!
i have finally found a part of the game i dislike: leap of faith. UGHHH. why am i good at every GATE except that one. UGHHH
oh i have THOUGHTS about that duel with raubahn
emmanellain's job is just beach
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emmys-grimoire · 1 year
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Nightbringer
Okay, emerging briefly from my hibernation to offer my thoughts on the livestream bombshell that dropped yesterday.
It looks like we’re getting a whole new game with the same characters and the same setting. I’m not sure what this means for the original game. Are they separating the fluff and the actual story now? The trailer is notably grittier and darker than anything we’ve seen yet, befitting the “Nightbringer” moniker.
Here’s a few notable things in the trailer which may or may not be getting attention. I don’t know: I hardly pay attention to most of the fandom.
Time travel shenanigans again
If you weren’t fond of how they handled the time travel in S1, well, you’re probably not going to like this.
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In the beginning of the trailer, and at the very end, we get a shot of a bunch of spiraling doors and Barbatos hushing us. Soooo... we’re probably the same MC and we’re deliberately being flung back in time to fix the future, or something along those lines. I would not pin hope on a brand new MC or one of the brothers being a PoV character.
How do the doors relate to Barbatos? Well besides his room featuring them, the devs were so keen on the concept of a room full of thousands of doors that they modeled Barbatos after this concept. They’re finally using it!
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The livestream suggested that the story will occur shortly after the Great Celestial War, and there’s several shots in the trailer that support this.
Namely, Satan’s.
We’re finally getting that Satan lore (probably)
One of the first scenes in the trailer is a before and after shot.
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We can tell it’s a before-after shot because of the setting (first is the Celestial Realm -- there’s no sun in the Devildom -- and, well, they’re clearly angels) and the fact that Satan isn’t in the first shot.
Additionally, the character reel...
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The parallels can’t be any more on the nose, really. Lucifer is in obvious pain and clutching his head, and Satan mirrors him and looks like he wants to gouge out Lucifer’s eyes. Everyone else is just looking cool.
Soon after, we get this scene.
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The brothers are filed behind Lucifer/Diavolo in order... except for Satan, who is the closest behind Lucifer. I’m guessing Lucifer just found out he’s a father. Congratulations!
There’s too much here for it not to be a relevant plot point.
Weird Ass (Evil?) Goo
I think one of the game’s weak points is the story doesn’t have any serious threats or big bads, and they don’t have the complex interpersonal relationships to fill in that gap and still make a compelling story -- or, rather, they’re now afraid of portraying our husbandos in unflattering lights for any prolonged period of time now that they’re hopelessly in love with us.
I think they might be changing that with Nightbringer.
Beyond the fact that we’ll need to go back in time for some reason, there’s this weird goop thing in the trailer.
It starts with the moon turning red.
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Not a big deal. It looks cool and I’d normally dismiss it as just artistic flair, but this shot follows it right after. It’s some strange liquid swirling around an orb of light (presumably the ‘moon’?)
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Weird. Not only that, but...
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They zoom in on it and the “moon” inside of it begins to disintegrate. It’s also featured in the background in of each character shot.
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I wonder if there’s going to be some evil symbiote messing things up and we’re being sent back in time to destroy it before it gets out of hand lol
Maybe it’s the Nightbringer or something
In conclusion...
I’m cautiously optimistic about this new game but slightly concerned about the old game. This might have been the alternative to writing season 5, but if it gives me the lore and conflict the story so desperately needs, then I’m happy; I’ve stopped logging in for a reason.
I’d like there to be no gacha elements in Nightbringer but hahahahaha that’s not gonna happen 
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What do you think of MC x Wayne? The devs' most favorable pairing above all the characters, in spite of Stella being the #1 popular Li. Isn't he supposed to be our otp for the main player? I know that you don't seem very fond of Wayne lately because of how he feels and treats your main Li, especially how he is going to feel about that character's unfortunate outcome in one of the bad endings involving a character's death? Also, who will you romance if you are not together with Reese? Oscar or Stella, perhaps?
gotta be honest, this feels like bait.
first off - i’m so confused by a lot of this. i don’t think the devs ever said mc x wayne was their favorite pairing, or that it was supposed to be an otp for the player character??? the way the game works is that there is no “otp” for the player character - you can choose to romance whoever you want, or no one at all; it’s all dependent on your individual playthrough.
second - i don’t really think ive said that the reason i dislike wayne is because of how he treats reese. i mean, that definitely doesn’t help, but my main beef with him is how he treats the MC. he acts like you’re an idiot who can’t make decisions for yourself (but only if you make decisions he doesn’t agree with - very controlling) and denies the MC autonomy by refusing to listen when they tell him to stop doing things, like following them around or threatening to hurt their friends (which, in the case of reese, he actually goes through with). he’s also just an asshole, and i don’t enjoy the way he talks about a lot of people and creatures.
in general, his behavior and personality remind me of creepy asshole guys i’ve had to deal with in my past, and it kind of baffles me when people try and paint him as a good guy. he’s not meant to be a good guy. i think a lot of people know that and that’s why they’re drawn to him (and i get it bc i have plenty of villains i love lol), but I’ve seen just as many people who act like it would be crazy to want to get away from Wayne and the best course of action is to let him have full control and “protect” you all the time. like, if you want that for your playthrough, that’s great, go for it. but i take umbrage with the idea that it’s an objective reality that everyone needs to accept.
now, all this is to say that i do think he’s a well written character. i like him as an antagonist and i think the devs did a great job of creating him in a way that elicits real fear. love him as a character, but despise him when i’m actually experiencing the game as MC, and when people act like I’m committing a crime by disliking him and i need to change my opinion. everyone seems to get it when you say you hate sybil, but if you say you don’t like wayne, people act like you’ve confessed to murder.
moving away from that rant, this message is just baffling in general lmao. quickly addressing most everything else - i’m fine with the concept of mc x wayne, everyone can ship what they want, it’s just not for me, and i dont want to be told that it is the “canon route/best route” and everyone should love it and choose it or whatever. ive never really talked about stella so idk where you got that i would want to romance her??? she’s one of the characters im just not attracted to bc she’s not my type. i will always choose reese in every playthrough bc i feel like im abandoning or betraying him if I don’t, but if I couldn’t choose him, I would choose oscar, followed by kaneeka.
i’m hoping this is enough to end any more questions from you, because if you come back with more bait/troll type messages, I’ll probably just block.
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asks you say um umm what inv and nightcat's dynamic is like
hmm!! apologies if I don't answer anything expected in this!!
okay, so
first off, I'll start with some lore for the two in my version(?? idk ig I'll call it that) of the rw universe
nightcat is like, a 4th wall break on its own, knows it was scrapped
they're also a coder, which is a headcanon I got from the dev console addon art! at least I think it's dev console?? hard to remember lol
inv is like, a weird thing that just APPEARED one day and started fucking up stuff with dev console and decided to make its own extremely hard campaign just for the funnies
now, to get more in depth into the relationship stuff
inv noticed nightcat was also like itself, aware it was a thing in a game, and started pestering and following nightcat around and asking it a bunch of questions
like: "how long have you been here?" "do you enjoy being able to mess with everything?" "do you not get bored?" "does anyone else know how they got here?" "why do you always seem to be mad at me?" and at first it REALLY pissed off nightcat, but eventually they just got used to it and started asking questions back to inv like "what are you?" "how'd you get here?" stuff like that
so in summary, it starts out as a "god please go away I do not like you." from nightcat, a "hii you're like me, wanna be friends?" from inv, to a "oh hey you're pretty cool!" from nightcat and a "you're pretty cool too!" from inv
after a while it turns into a pretty friendly relationship, though sometimes they have their ups and downs (like nightcat sometimes just not being in the mood for playing around, they can generally be very moody)
inv doesn't really like being alone, and nightcat notices that, so most the time they like to go mess around with creatures just for fun to cope with the cycle being a thing >:)
so yea, inv is a little guy, can barely stand up for itself despite having GODLY POWERS HIGHER THAN ITERATORS, and likes to pester nightcat to keep themselves from going insane
and nightcat is a moody cat that just sticks around inv because they think they're actually pretty cool but just struggle severely with showing any type of affection towards other creatures
any other questions I will gladly answer!
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thelazyhermits · 4 months
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Got some A Twisted Future timeline info I wanna share underneath the cut.
As I've stated in the past, it's been said that none of the TWST events are actually canon to the main story, because they take place in their own separate universe. That's why the game devs are allowed to do whatever they want for the events, like have everyone know each other relatively well by Halloween/have Epel & Deuce have their UM by that point, etc.
That's why my Halloween and New Year's event fics aren't canon to my A Twisted Future series, and that will likely be the case for future Halloween/New Year's themed event fics.
As far as all the other events are concerned, I really want them to be canon to my series, so I'm writing them as if they are canon, although I know that makes things a little difficult since I want the majority of them to happen after Book 6 and before Book 7 since Yuu has a good relationship with everyone by then/everyone knows each other, etc.
Considering we don't know when exactly Book 7 starts, although I'm suspecting some time in April, I realize that this doesn't give me a lot of time to fit in all the events that I want to happen before then.
I'm not opposed to some of the events happening after Book 7. It just all depends on how that book ends, so I won't say an event takes place after Book 7 until I know for certain what the main story situation will be like by that point.
So, in the meantime, I'm just gonna pretend there's an extra month in the year, located in between March and April, so I can do as I please with the event timeline since it's not like it's ever been stated that TW's years are the same as ours lol 😂
However, not all events will happen during that time frame. I've decided to have a few of them happen between Books 5 & 6, like the first Camp Vargas event, which is why I decided to tweak canon by not having the incident with Grim happen the night following Vil's OB since my Yuu had ended up in the infirmary that night and Grim would've wanted to stay with her and he would've definitely stuffed his face with all the food her friends had left at her bedside for her to eat once she woke up after having gotten knocked out by Lilia's specially prepared medicine lol
I just don't see the harm in just having Grim go to the coliseum at a later date after deciding one night that he wants to eat the blotstone from Vil's OB, so that's the route I'm gonna take with this series.
Regarding how everyone met up at Ramshackle a few days after the incident with Grim to talk about the SDC/VDC in canon, I don't see why it can't happen later on since I can just say Vil had a lot going on with his schedule following the SDC/VDC like his recovery, work, etc. And there were game events that took place during that period time as well. That's why he had to put off that meeting with the NRC Tribe at Ramshackle.
Aside from those changes, I've decided that, rather than have the SDC/VDC happen around the middle of February like in canon, I want it to happen at the beginning of February. That way I can fit in the three events that I think could happen before Book 6, one of which being Camp Vargas while the other two are a surprise 😉
I would also like to have a few events happen during the period of time when Ramshackle is under repairs following Idia's OB since in canon that's like the whole month of March, although I might make it shorter for my series. I think this would be perfect for events that don't involve the Shroud brothers who are still at Styx during that time.
Just wanted to share this in case anyone might be interested in the timeline for my TWST series ^^
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meat-wentz · 11 months
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you mentioned you were indie sleaze, can you talk more about that scene from the 2000's? i want to get into the scene but don't really know where to start and i don't trust tiktok lol.
omg of course. so to preface this i wanna say that there is a natural emo to indie pipeline that existed from around 2006-2008 and i was fully a part of that pipeline. there's a lot of crossover especially as emo evolved into scene and as scene evolved into party scene into indie sleaze. musicians like shiny toy guns, dev, cobra starship, amanda blank, hyper crush, etc were all like natural transitional bands that held little emo hands as they transitioned into indie sleaze. for instance, does he look familiar? well, he's the dear boy from sugar we're going down.
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indie sleaze was a mixture of nihilism and hedonism, a general mindset of nothing fucking matters let's destroy ourselves and fucking party. it was like this huge embrace of self-destruction and effacement, but also like a huge embrace for being young and saying fuck it and partying your face off. it glorified the unpolished, ripped stockings and hazy drunk eyes, hair plastered across your face with sweat, smudged makeup, looking like you've made out with everyone in your path and you probably have. it was body paint and underground hipsters and red bull chasers and ketamine bumps and perfect cocktails of pills. it was a bunch of jaded young people rejecting 9-5's and blending the party culture of raves with the rock and roll underground of sleazy clubs in nyc. there's a good documentary on this that follows some of the most notable bands in the nyc scene called "meet me in the bathroom" and it's available on showtime right now. they were the "new" club kid. there was a notable genre exchange, it was super eclectic sonically, ranging from techno and electronica to twangy bass riffs and dirty guitars to more folksy or preppy sounds (you'll see more prep aesthetics leak in particularly towards the latter half as indie sleaze evolved into millennial indie in the late 2000's and early 2010's, like vampire weekend, metronomy, two door cinema club, and chester french). aesthetically, flash photography became huge, rejecting the gloss of the mainstream. decade clashing was huge, drawing inspo from 70's vintage athletic wear, sleek 60's mod, 80's punk, vintage shopping was huge, neon and bright colors and american apparel basics, ironic t-shirts were huge, actually irony laid into the aesthetics and sound HEAVY, because irony indicated you didn't care but you were still fun.
photographers like the cobra snake super well documented the scene and all its most notable scenesters, and misshapes would throw these massive celebrity scattered parties with all the who's-who of musicians. they're two really good places to look into what and who and why and how. you might also want to look into kitsune maison compilations, urban outfitters playlists via the web archive, and ed banger records. soundtracks for shows like gossip girl, skins, and misfits were literally soooooooo influential to me as well.
perhaps the prime examples of what the scene looked like and what parties looked like:
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and here are some of my personal favorite indie sleaze mvs that i feel really encapsulate sort of the aesthetics and the draw:
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not an official video but literally so influential, my friends and i would pregame to this edit of babel so often its literally embedded in my bloodstream:
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here's some gems you might not find in any research:
my favorite musicians at the time were mgmt, metronomy, css, crystal castles, uffie, lcd soundsystem, yeah yeah yeahs, young love, the rapture, hot chip, girls, electric six, bloc party, bright eyes, the virgins, the teenagers, peaches, friendly fires, gorillaz, the xx, franz ferdinand, neon indian and kenna. i do actually have a musical archive @sleazeandscum where i just post songs every once in awhile from the time period. i hope this helps and ty for this question lol it was literally SUCH a formative period in my life and also the beginning of my time as a blogger.
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you gave me something to lose - nick blankenburg
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the much anticipated contract extension fic!! check this out before you read ;) title from ‘love someone’ by lucas graham! also don’t mind the messy timeline with dev camp🫣 it was already written before as y’all know lol
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“I talked to them this morning. Two years” Your eyebrows shot up.
“Nick! Babe that’s amazing, congratulations!”
“Thanks but I was actually think-”
“Don’t tell me you’re thinking about it or something stupid like that, Nicholas. This is all you’ve ever wanted! You would be an idiot if you turned this down and I can’t date an idiot”
Nick laughs. “Baby, calm down please” He waits for you to take a deep breath before continuing, “I was thinking… you should move with me”
“Me? In Ohio?” Your eyes widened. You hadn’t even thought about it if you were being honest. Ever since Nick signed in April, you two had been taking everything one day at a time, there was too much going on to think about the future and what it may hold for you both.
“Well yeah, I can’t exactly commute from Michigan” You roll your eyes while Nick smirks at you. “I don’t want to do this without you” Your heart pounded in your chest.
“Nick… of course I’ll go” It was simple, you loved Nick. You have ever since you saw him in your freshman year at the first hockey party of the season that your roommate dragged you to, claiming her ‘sophomore friend’ on the team would get you guys in.
“Good because I really didn’t want to live with Kent”
“This one… or this one?” You pointed to the final two options of kitchen bar stools and waited for Nick to share his opinion. You two were finally in Columbus and while you had pre-ordered the main things like your bed and couch to the apartment before you actually got here, there was still so much to buy.
So today has been primarily spent in Pottery Barn, you first had to reroute Nick from Ikea because that’s apparently where he thought the good furniture was.
Nick had decided to let you decorate since he didn’t care what the apartment looked like as long as it ‘had a place to sleep and a place to eat’ he was fine. However, since he was paying for most of it, you figured he should get a say also.
“They look the same”
“This one is white leather with gold metal and this one is cream with bronze metal” You explained, pointing to the two stools again. Nick looked between the options, clearly not seeing the difference and you sighed.
“I’ll just ask your sister” You groan as you snap pictures of both stools, texting them to her quickly. “I want you to actually like the stuff we get Nick! I don’t want this to be my apartment that you have to pay for” Nick was paying for the apartment and while you tried to convince him to let you pay half of the rent, which did cause a big argument, he didn’t budge.
“I will like it. If you picked it, I’ll like it, trust me” He smiles, stepping forwards and reaching for your hips, dragging you close to him.
“You at least have to help choose the bed” You grumble, looking at him with a pout.
“Fine, let’s go look at them now and then we’re going for lunch”
“I thought we were done for the day” Nick whined as you punched in the next address on his car’s gps.
“This one’s quick, I ordered online so I just have to pick it up” You explained and Nick huffed before starting to follow the car’s directions.
You had actually gotten a lot done today. All the furniture was ordered and should be in by next week and your car was full with random decor that was totally going to look amazing. Nick’s sister agreed on the white and gold bar stools so you luckily got those since they were the last few in stock and Nick even pretended to be excited about that.
With all the stuff you got today on top of everything from your last few Target runs, you were pretty much all set and now you just had to get everything out together in the apartment. There was just the final couple things you had to pick up and then you’d be done.
“Where’d these frames come from?” Nick pulled out three frames from the trunk of the car, trying to remember if they were from Ikea or Pottery Barn.
You dropped the box you were holding and rushed over to grab them from him. “I’ll show you inside, c’mon”
Nick helped you get them into the living room before you both unwrapped them. You grinned at Nick as he took in the three pictures you had gotten framed. The first one was from one of his last games as a Wolverine, him posed in his iconic celly. You got it because you knew how much Nick loved his time at Michigan and he definitely already missed it.
The second was a photo of the two of you at the graduation party his mom threw as soon as he got home from Finland. It was your favourite photo; Nick was looking at you with a huge smile on his face and your one arm was wrapped around him while a flute of champagne dangled from the other hand. Your mom said it looked like your engagement party which made you laugh at the time but now looking back on it, you kind of agreed.
The last one was a photo you took after his first NHL game. He was still in his uniform and you were wrapped around him, squeezing his torso tight as his arm draped around you. You both looked happy as can be and you figured it was a good memory to have framed in your house.
“Baby… these are awesome” Nick smiles. The pictures meant a lot more to him than they probably should have but he didn’t say much, he just looked at them again and then started carrying them around the apartment, trying to find the best place to hang them.
The rest of your day went similar to that. You worked together to bring everything in from the car and start organizing the apartment exactly the way you wanted it. Nick was an amazing helper and by the time the sun set, your were both ready to give up for the day.
You were moving around him in the kitchen, trying to throw together a quick dinner because today had quite literally wiped you out. “Here, relax” Nick said as he handed you a glass of wine with a smile. You eyed the open bottle on the counter behind him, your favourite rosé.
“Nicholas you’re too good to me” You grin, swiping the glass from his hand and taking a quick sip. Nick smiled as he turned back to the stove, stirring the pasta he’d been cooking while you prepped everything else.
“I’m just trying to make it worthwhile” Nick mumbled.
“Make what worthwhile?” You ask, looking up from the vegetables you were cutting. He turns to face you, leaning against the counter as he picks up his own wine glass, casually taking a sip.
“You coming here” He says quietly.
You raise an eyebrow, setting your glass down on the counter and stepping closer to him. “Nick…”
“I just feel guilty… I forced you to move away from home and I don’t know, I just want to make sure you enjoy it here” Nick was staring down at his hands, swirling the wine in his glass as a form of distraction.
“You did not force me to move here” You assure him but you’re not sure if it works.
He shrugs, telling you to forget it. “Today’s supposed to be a happy day, I don’t want to ruin it”
“No, hey- I don’t want you to think I’m only here because you asked. I wanted to come with you but I wasn’t sure if we were there or what”
“I always want you here, I don’t think I could do it without you” He says, placing his wine glass on the counter behind him and pulling you into him by your hips.
“You can do anything Nicholas, you should know that by now” He was nothing if not self-motivated. You’re almost positive there wasn’t a single thing he wanted to do that he hadn’t already accomplished. It was something you loved about him.
Nick hummed, “I’m happy you’re here”
“I’m happy to be here babe” You grin, bumping your nose against his. “But c’mon we need to finish dinner because we’ve got a long day tomorrow and I need some sleep”
You broke apart, resuming your movements around each other in the kitchen. It was so domestic all of a sudden, not that you weren’t used to cooking with Nick since you spent a fair amount of time in college cooking for the boys but this was different.
You were cooking in your own apartment. Your and Nick’s home. It felt so natural and the feeling excited you. You couldn’t stop your mind from thinking about what your life could turn out to be; entertaining the idea of marrying Nick and having kids. Sure, maybe it was a little soon but there was no harm in daydreaming, right?
The summer practically flew by. Nick was busy at development camp while you finished the final touches on your apartment, then he was training on and off the ice and was busier than you’d ever seen him.
It was fine though because you were together. He could come home from training and you’d be there, it made everything so much easier because on top of his ridiculous training schedule, there wasn’t also the aspect of trying to do long distance. You two made the trip back home for a couple weeks; Nick was happy to see his family and the boys a little before they all had to go back to their respective cities for the season.
However, after the way too short trip, you were headed back to Columbus. “This is crazy” You look over to Nick who was now staring at you.
“Yeah, planes are pretty cool” You joke back and Nick laughs while shaking his head.
“No like… we’re going to Columbus right now” You furrow your eyebrows. Did he not realize you’d already spent a few months in Columbus?
“Babe are you feeling okay?”
“It’s just a lot to take in” He shrugs and you smile, reaching for his hand.
“We’re going to Columbus for you to play in the NHL on your million dollar contract” Nick blushes when you continue to boost his ego.
“Yeah but also, we’re starting our life… like our real life outside of college” He said it like it was all hitting him at once and you smiled gently.
“We’re grown ups” You affirm.
“Thank you again for being here, I really wouldn’t want to do it alone”
“You wouldn’t be alone, you have Kent” You grin.
“Not what I mean”
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