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[afriendofblahaj]

every day the urge to cnc a metal core for a normal plastic beyblade and smoke a bunch of kids grows stronger

Beyblade heavyweight division

[the-great-horse-cocktail]

Alternate timeline where Stanley doesn’t accidentally ruin Ford’s project but he still doesn’t get into Geek Life University bc some kid showed up with a baking soda volcano

[aquamarinebling]

So I have a question about what is the relationship between king and Siffrin in the guard rouge au, like are they friends, mutuals, or did Siffrin just come to the king one day, said that he will help him and the king just rolled with it?

It’s complicated for sure- and it depends on which of the two you ask. But they are, to a certain degree, friends! It’s just that Siffrin is willing to die to protect the King, and the King is just as willing to kill Siffrin to further his own goals. I imagine they met before the King began to freeze Vaugarde, and Siffrin simply agreed to stay by his side. They’ve always been too loyal for their own good, and really, what else do they even have?

[possum-fiend]

Rather than working on any of my other WIP art (or my university work 〒▽〒).... I created a little crayon doodle sheet!!!

Ngl these are kinda just me shit posting but they're kinda cool. I'm not satified with the background or formatting, but I played with it for like an hour or two with no results so this needs to be posted, so..... yeah :)

Alt text and individual pics of each character below the cut:

Image above: Wirt looking exasperated and tired Alt Text: Sassy Gnome

Image above: Greg attempting to be serious (A/N: you're doing great, sweetie) Alt Text: It's a ROCK. FACT.

Image above (Left): Fred the Horse with a blank, deranged look Alt Text: I wanna' STEAL

Image above (Middle): Beatrice looking pissed off Alt Text: Angy birb

Image above (Right): Enoch looking like, well, just a guy Alt Text: meow

Image above: The Beast with a red and blue highlights (like 80s movie glasses) and sparkles surrounding him Alt Text: SLAY

[nixotinix]

I dunno if I'm allowed to ask for another request, and if not I can donate to a ko-fi for this

BUT, could you please draw Arkham Asylum Scarecrow? Your art style is SO FINE and colorful and WOW I love it <333

it is baffling to me that this motherfucker was doin all that stuff in the asylum while pushing 60. like i haven't even hit 20 yet and I get winded going up stairs how does he manage

thank you for the second request moffy!! i'm flattered that you offered a ko-fi but i am also,, not confident enough for that yet haha! multiple requests are very much allowed <3

[the-meme-monarch]

yeah that ship is fine it's whatever (<- hates it badly but doesn't have any reason to and doesn't want to seem like an ass over it)

[lukazade]

Gonna draw this if I find some time but I have to write it down while I'm thinking about it

[Cass and Steph, dressed in their Batgirl outfits, mid-fight with criminals]

Criminal A: You'll never win, Batgirls!

Steph: Batgirls? No. That's not who we are 🙄

Criminal B (stopping): ??? What do we call you then?

[Cass holds up her hand]

[Steph does the same]

[They're wearing wedding bands]

Steph: bat WIVES.

Criminal B: oh. Congratulations!

Criminal A: you still won't win though, batwives!

[oxygen-stealer]

THERES A RUSTED HALO ON MY HEAD

Ultratober 2024 // 17-19 character design swap

Y'know the first time i played Ultrakill I actually thought Gabriel was a machine until maybe halfway through the cutscene at the end of act 1. I was like oh its cool that they let a machine be an angel, thats probably why the council is being so hard on him. But no they were actually just assholes lmao.

[theythemmer]

want him to beat me over the head w that drumstick i won’t lie

[purplebutwarhammer]

I was doing some thinking about Rushal not having a tongue and that led me down a rabbit hole about kissing, specifically how all of his kisses would have to be chaste in a sense.

During his ‘recruitment’ Sevatar made him kiss his boot as a thank you for cutting out his traitorous tongue and preventing him from betraying anymore secrets. Sevatar makes a joke about how it’s a shame he can’t lick up the mess of blood his excoriated mouth left behind, Rushals just grateful he can only taste the blood at the back of his throat and that at least having no tongue limits what he can be made to do.

Later on Sevatar kisses him good and proper and he realises that he can’t deepen the kiss on his own, everything moves at Sevatars pace now and his role is to follow along like some kind of well trained pet. It’s at that point he starts getting more used to ‘Raven’ over his own name, not that he can really tell anyone his name, not in a way that doesn’t make him mourn what was.

Further down the line it’s a quiet moment between him and his captain, a moment that provides the perfect opportunity for vengeance instead Rushal kisses his hand in a show of devotion and internal penance for the thought. He’s figured out a little trick where he can let his mouth linger a little and gently suck on the flesh below it to put a little more feeling behind the gesture. (occasionally he does find himself wishing he could properly taste Sevatars skin in these gentle moments)

As Sevatars migraines get worse the only thing Rushal can really do is keep him alive, it almost reminds him of how they met right down to the hand feeding and weary hesitance. He’s not quite sure he likes being in his captains shoes, if he could say he’d say it wasn’t his place, so he does something Sevatar would never have done back then. A gentle kiss is placed on his forehead right in the centre, where the worst pain seems to be radiating. Gone just as quick as it came but Sevatar finds himself soothed regardless, it doesn’t alleviate the pain even slightly but knowing his Raven won’t let this kill him helps even just a little bit

[dizzybizz]

making gifs at 12am for my sanity

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[nullapophenia]

hiiiii lisaheads im back with Poasts <2 craft skills now

(this is isat act 5 spoilers shhhhh 🤫)

i dont wanna make names for thos skills </2 maybe i'll do it later

[voidcanarys]

ISAGI YOICHI // CH. 282

[torao-chan]

here's leo's lil ramble on the touchstarved demo update (from what we've been able to put time into so far) for anyone who wants ittttttt

I've spent a fair bit of time ruminating on the updated demo for touchstarved. haven't played it extensively yet (aka focused on leander [no one is surprised] and played the new background while doing so) because of real life restrictions, but i have played leander's section through and fiddled with his dialogue options at the latter half.

and my conclusion on the changes is that it's going to be hard for me to give solid feedback on it.

it feels, to me, as if they're attempting to shift what one's first impression of leander is.

they've changed his speech patterns- his lexicon, his boldness in giving opinions and taking a stance, his demeaner- in his introduction scene. There is, I think, only one line I can recall (off the top of my head) that I know hasn't changed in this demo...

(and it stand out to me because of that; the magical flower quote, about how they fade so quickly under closer inspection is the general gist. a line that feels quintessential to how leander's route will play out, based on my interpretation of everything redspring has put out so far.)

The mood has shifted in this whole introduction scene; Leander comes off as more obviously well educated, his 'business student bullshit' talk levels are higher, and in the scenes involving the other adderstones, he commands more more obvious level of respect (and, as a result, a less 'buddy-buddy we're all equals here' vibe). even his connection with the senobium is outright stated, though the degrees to which are not. i remember when that was just theory.

the change from bloodhounds to adderstones i'll address in a sec, but also i think the person who addressed the removal of dog/wolf references from both the player and leander's sections, but the way it remained in ais's was onto smth too

past the introduction scene (which, as I've said before; first impressions are essential, and character introduction scenes even more so as a result), the impression we get of leander... is both the same, and very different.

I feel like, if I were less 'me', I would pick up the vibes I got from the first version of the demo- which is good, because when play testing with my friend who is less uh. media literate??? media analysis brained??? than I am, she dismissed him as 'boring guy with nothing dangerous or interesting about him'. which is to say, in this demo, it feels more 'obvious' that he's a lil' sly, a fair bit yandere, and absolutely attempting to promise intimacy and 'love', but that it's empty-ish and self-motivated to an unknown degree.

however, because I am me, Leander in this demo- feels less dangerous to me. less competent, actually, might be a better word. this may be intentional, it may not, but its through the exact 'slip ups' that happen to clue in 'not-me' into Leander's 'wait... something funky is going on here' that make 'me' me go 'oh. he's not that good at this, huh? it's... really obvious what he's trying to do here.

to elaborate on these slightly....

during the intro scene, he doesn't turn to greet us until we go 'kuras sent us'. it feels intentional to me me, and heavy handed- but to not-me, it feels frustrating and forces us to be aware of 'other things' going on. (other things being the group dynamics internally and to outsiders, the weight of kuras' name, the power and sway leander holds, ect)

post group meet up, he pulls us out of the crowded pub for our lil one on one bonding session. this is nice, sure, because leander was previously the only person never really alone with the player in the post section. but it's in this section that he slips up- becomes more comfortable in the room too fast, self-corrects, and then forces intimacy too intentionally after.

his dialogue on the other characters is more flirty for all except kuras in my interpretation- and if I hadn't been looking directly at this prior to the demo update coming out, I may not have caught it- but there we have it.

lastly, not a slip up, but- the change to adderstone feels heavy handed, as someone who looks up symbolism and already has A Thousand And One Theories on leanders backstory, his other symbols, and the like. h o w e v e r to not-me who hasn't looked into these, and doesn't do so, however, the name is merely a "huh. that's a word" situation.

all this, as i've said, has lead me to the conclusion i've already stated-

the changes made to leander feel like changes i am ill-suited to give proper feedback on- because i already have a very solid opinion on leander, and have already experienced my 'first impression' of him.

that means I feel they're going to struggle to find proper feedback on the changes because it feels like it's trying to target that-- though i've tried my best to do so through this with my me/not-me versions.

me, as i am, would find him less intruiging at a glance- because, as an intro, it makes what he's doing feels so obvious to me that it's not worth a deeper look.

not-me, however, still likes these character tropes and would know what i was getting into, and would want to pursue it further.

overall, my conclusion is, I think the changes made are not made lightheartedly, and are a good change for previewing what Leander's route will involve to a wider audience. However, I solidly feel that they are changes that the longstanding fans are possibly ill-suited to review, and it would require newcomers to properly make that evaluation, simply because the change impacts first impression so much.

with that said.

there is one change however, that i noted, that gives me hope that when i have some more goddamned time and energy more of a chance to examine the demo update as i want to do so, i'll find that the 'less competent about what he's doing' is simply another deception.

Leander's dialogue tree, at the end of the demo, feels infamous to me. Well known for it's 'positive/negative' flip-flopping, but perhaps I'm biased. But it was the section I was studying right before the demo came out--and Leander's lines that caught my eye right before have changed.

Leander presses sexual passes into comments on all the other LIs one way or another- besides Kuras. We know Kuras has been a constant in Leander's life "since he was young", and that their relationship is "admires him professionally" from Leander and feels very parental from Kuras.

Which is why, in the prior demo, Leander slipping up and forgetting to comment negatively on Kuras when the player was positive about him up until the player reminds him that Kuras is a threat to Leander's grip over them was both in character and hilarious a chance to see the mask slip slightly.

he doesn't do that in the update.

I can't remember the exact new line- Imma gonna have to go through and compare all of them when I can (and I did take screenshots but have since had to get a whole ass new computer for Reasons™️) but he doesn't do that now.

and I find that a fascinating development.

But my fascination aside, that gives me hope that despite the 'dumbing down' of Leander's intro (so to speak; i can't find a better term atm pls forgive my tired brain) and the hints it gives to his path, the team haven't actually dumbed down Leander.

They've just more heavily sprinkled the chances for the player to learn more about what his route may contain.

And that, I can appreciate, is a smart move.

That's about as concise as my thoughts have gotten, with what I've gotten to play so far, and what I've been seeing floating around my dash.

I don't have much more to say about the update yet- simply due to a lack of chance to thoroughly explore it all- but I will comment that!! I do like the new background option!!

I didn't appreciate how all the prior backgrounds had to have the 'you have been betrayed and bitter by it' running in the background, and I also felt that they were??? Mildly unbalanced???

Not in the 'there's no option that Fits Me Better' way (though the new one, the Exile, has rung closest for me yet [it was the Unnamed prior]). But in the 'pick a skillset' way.

It was 'sixth sense' OR 'street smarts' OR 'bookworm smart'. You couldn't pick a 'moderate' options, there was no 'in between', and all of them felt very strongly like you were assigning a weak point/strong point that may cause a dissonence clash between you and the player character if you were, per say, a more balanced and moderate individual.

which is, in and of itself, a weak point, but like- there was no 'jack of all trades, master of none' option.

The Exile taking the hound slot, and being described not as 'STREET SMARTS', but as 'experienced with multiple cultures and experiences, so good sense and wide general knowledge, but not Trained In Anything' feels like a very good sub in for me.

I like that it was added, and where it was put.

But again, perhaps I'm biased, because I saw it and immediately went 'oh!! that!!! thats me!!! thats me right there!!!!!!!'. and, as anyone who knows me irl will tell you, 'well traveled hermit' is almost exactly how most would describe me OTL

I didn't want to leave that unsaid, cause I've seen a lot of differing opinions on the new background add in, but also. it's less 'analytical' compared to my leander commentary so.

mildly different section but!!!

had to be said.

overall, from what I've seen!

love the update, love the changes made, and can appreciate what the changes were going for. super geared up and excited to see the game when it's finished, and I'm loving all the lil breadcrumbs we're getting in the meantime!!

and last but not least!!

love this stupid lil mf and his lil stupid mf puppy eyes.

15/10 i am consuming him whole.

thank you for coming to my ted talk uwu

EDIT: OH AND ALSO! I like the blinks that were added in. and I like that they were tied to Specific Points In Dialogue.

[nixotinix]

For today's post, I figured that I might as well share a couple Monster High text memes that me and my best friend(@brovotics-art) made mostly for our own amusement. Enjoy!