#the great blue queue

[northernpintail]

Scritches

[front-facing-pokemon]

[fourswordsannotated]

i have no clue what to even add onto this other than submissions ig

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….

[handbasket-to-helen]

[not-poignant]

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter? (For Nate!)

I was going to answer this separately for Falling Falling Stars and Underline the Blue but then I realised the answer is probably the same for both, lol

Outside of Janusz, who is Nate's ideal best friend (y'all, the partner is the very best friend anyone is ever going to have), it's Mosk Manytrees.

In Falling Falling Stars we find out very little about their friendship, but we get the sense that Mosk and Nate are close and companionable just from the way we see them spending quiet peaceful time outside together. I like to imagine Mosk is something of a mentor to Nate in that story. They both have similar personalities, except that Mosk is happy now and matured, and he makes a good role model.

In Underline the Blue, I actually think it might be the other way around. Nate has been at Hillview for longer than Mosk, and while I don't think their friendship was without its hiccups, Mosk and Nate definitely shared a lot in common and grew close. I thought it might be Flitmouse here at first, but I think Mosk will actually scoop the position of best friend because I like to imagine them as two little quiet mean-girl conspiratorialists, whispering bitchy things about everyone else behind their hands and then laughing about it.

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From the character meme!

[writerblue275]

To the random who changed their Ez skin to match my faerie court Lux once they saw it, hehehe that made me smile. (Also you have a lot of good Ezreal skins and I love that for you.)

[welcometololaland]

Thanks for the self-rec asks! I'm feeling very...not into my own ao3 right now so INSTEAD i'm going to send the asks on and tell you five things (in no particular order) that i've been thinking about this week <3

ONE: Swimming - I NEED TO FINISH THE SWIM FIC AKA THIS AMAZING WORK BY @carlos-in-glasses. I started reading and then I went overseas and I felt like I didn't have the time to go through and scream line by line and I'm so excited to dive back in (hehe see what I did there) now that it's finished!

TWO: State parks and secret service agents - not necessarily together, but I've been lowkey dreaming of obtaining my own slightly insane-looking garden gnome and a stock tank for a while thanks to the beautiful fic created by @iboatedhere (I don't have a pool and a stock tank seems like a good option right now). Also the secret service AU snippets are life giving (recent one here).

THREE: Guaranteeing nothing - screamed (literally) my way through the first fourteen chapters of Never a Guarantee and now I need to finish it!!!! @clottedcreamfudge and her writing make me so fucking feral in the best way and this fic is no exception. I had much fear about my sanity going into this because I knew it was going to drive me wild but my crops have been watered and I eagerly await completion of the arcs.

FOUR: Mythical things (aka. a dearly beloved universe) - to be fair, I'm not sure I ever stopped thinking about Jen's masterpiece - as if you were a mythical thing - because it lives rent free in my head (genuinely one of my favourite fics ever). I'm thinking about it a lot more now that @strandnreyes has put the idea of writing a sequel in my head (snippet is here). A re read is in my sights and I'm very excited about it! If you haven't read it, you absolutely have to.

FIVE: TK and Carlos getting unprofessional - @rmd-writes and I have been playing around in this document for ages, co-writing something so silly it borders on crack and it's the most fun I've had writing fic in ages (thank you to @celeritas2997 for putting up with us lol). Everything I do by myself seems so hard right now but this feels so easy and (I think it's fair to say) it's almost done? 1 and a little bit more chapters? I'm EXCITE. You can read the most recent snippets of the fic colloquially known as "(un)profesh" here (rmd) and here (me).

ALSO to anyone who has shared a doc link with me - I promise I am also thinking very hard about those and will give them the time and attention they deserve when I get home! I never know whether people like me specifically mentioning those types of things so I'll just like...sit down but please know i'm thinking of you and sorry that I haven't been around much!

[misspoetree]

Presenting: The Great KinnPorsche Fashion Showdown (nobody asked for)

A few weeks ago, I made a poll about the best dressed KinnPorsche character. Tankhun won that one, followed by Vegas and Tay. Legitimate results - but the tags had some really interesting arguments for a bunch of different contenders. So why don't we take a closer look? Why don't we go through all the characters and their outfits one by one, choose the best one for each of them and repeat the initial poll at the end?

Sooo...that's exactly what we're doing right now.

*For the characters with more than 10 outfits - like Porsche here - I'm going to make multiple polls and put the best voted ones into a final one

Tankhun - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | FINAL CONTENDERS (CLOSED) - WINNER: THE CAPE 🎉🎉🎉

Vegas - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | FINAL CONTENDERS (CLOSED) - WINNER: THE WITCHY SHIRT*TM 🎉🎉🎉

Kim - Part 1 (CLOSED) | Part 2 (CLOSED) | FINAL CONTENDERS (WHITE T-SHIRT*TM vs. BLACK TANK TOP OF DEATH) - (closes April 6th!!!)

Porsche - Part 1 (closes April 9th) | Part 3 coming soon

You can find the links to all the polls (as I gradually post them) HERE (pinned on my profile).

LET'S GET VOTING! 🎉

[zrllosyn-art]

Blue whale, my favorite of the bunch.

I dont have much art of her im willing to share, mainly because I'm still working on her. All you need to know is I love her.

[northernpintail]

GBHE perched on the wall at Kus-kus-sum. This was the site of a sawmill from 1949-2004, and is in the process of being rewilded thanks to Project Watershed :)

[lotusdumpling]

Jaime and Khaji Da are man love genderless-biotech-bug-thing.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

I hit the reblog limit yesterday lol

[televinita]

Things That I Made That I Love

After passing the umpteenth post about Tumblr reblogs and the state of commenting on AO3, I thought I'd take the opportunity to post about things I have written that I love looking at to this day, even though their audience has always been incredibly limited, because they were made with love for me.

Goodreads reviews

Fanfic

Episode reviews

My digital equivalent of a song scrapbook (no imagery but a list of all the new-to-me songs I fall in love with every year and a short lyric excerpt and mini-blurb about them)

Admittedly I do crave some connection; it's why I post full time here now, where I have a handful of mutuals and active followers, instead of on LJ, where I'm the last blogger standing from my old friends list.

But when it comes to getting feedback on my specifically creative and/or heartfelt thoughts? I've never gotten much. And not all of what I write is great but some of it IS, and though the world at large does not notice, it doesn't matter because I know what is good, and worth it, and that's why I keep putting it all out there. Mostly for my own ease of access, but also just in case one other person ever runs across and secretly appreciates it.

[razreads]

It doesn't matter where you come from or who your family is - you can always be great if you're true to yourself.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue

[julianbashir]

great blue heron in mountain view, ca