#tnc spoilers

[onefey]

WAIT actually have i ever told y'all my "wilfre is the headlights of the car" take. bc yeah

[eggoyolkk]

redraw of some of my oldest dtl fanart <3

i think it's really funny to just draw him as Wilfre but with a Fancy Outfit and slightly curled hair. he's vain enough for it 100%. also throws a lot of suspicion Off sock if his disguise was really obvious yk

[weepingwitchkingdom]

Spoilers for TNC and A bunch of rambling

I wonder if Audrian ever considered stopping and living the rest of his life as Edwyn. Did he ever consider trying to fix things? Did he ever consider letting things return to how they were before? Did he ever stop to reconsider his plan, did he ever realize that flooding the Elsewheres with Lore would only make Elsies more afraid of Lore? If he did, why is he doing all of this? Is it because Yasha lost everything to a blight? Did Audrian lose something because of a Blight? Does Audrian even realize what he is doing? Does Audrian even know why he is doing all of this? Is he scared?

[drawntomemes]

Credit to Wilfre#6574

[bregee13]

Memory

"What do you remember about that day?"

[drawntolifeforall]

This is amazing!! Hope Heather can remember soon!

[lordoftheweevils]

MAJOR SPOILERS- YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Y’all my delusional ass can’t take this. Barsha isn’t canon, at least not in this book 😭😭😭

Also Zenzi was such a weird choice for a love interest? She just kinda came out of the blue and we literally don’t really know much about her. She could’ve been such a cooler side character if she wasn’t the love interest. Barsha had so much potential. Hoping it will be canon in the future but I don’t want to get my hopes up. Pre-relationship Zenzi you will always be famous

[tnc-n3cl]

More Rito Headcanons!

Something of an expansion of my "Rito Biology 101" post, but I'm not going to bother with the in-universe POV and talking about a couple different things here so...

Here's the original. Now that TotK is out, we got some new info so I'm going to go over things. (Namely a new Tribe for Penn and some thoughts on the aged up kiddos.) There my be some minor spoilers in the images, so I'm going to put them below the read more line.

Minor edit: 7/30/23, realized that one of the new NPC's mentioned something I forgot to talk about!

New Rito Guy! Penn is a reporter who you team up with for a few sidequests. Clearly he's some kind of pelican, so a quick search on Wikipedia and... Pelca Tribe (from Pelecanus the genus that contains all living pelicans)

So a couple things here. One: the triangles on his little sash reminds me of Kass' scarf. (What did you do to Kass Nintendo?!) Two: his outfit appears to be made of some kind of blue leather. I'm assuming that all Rito wear leather armor basically (except Saki and the little ones). Interestingly, I had drawn an axe that had talon grip handles in the axe head that are sometimes made out of leather sourced from blue monster hides. Doubt that's the case here since he's not a warrior but still...

His catchphrase... You can see they did the little hook on his beak! Is that yellow on his chest part of his clothes? Hm...

Including this because, A: this is quite possibly my favorite quote from him and B: you can see he has webbed feets! (Still say they should have given the Rito four toes but whatever...)

Look at his tiny pen and notebook! (The dangles on his hood are shaped like pens!)

Okay, that's enough Penn for now... In other news, new color morphs just dropped ya'll!

So the first guy looks like he might be a shade or two lighter than Huck, but the second guy is a new color altogether. We gots purple Orni Tribe Ritos now! Really don't have much to say about these two, but more variety is nice.

EDIT: Actually I do have something to say about Ornest. He mentions that all Rito have the ability to manipulate the wind, something I was theorizing to be the case. So, headcanon confirmed!

Moving on to the kiddos!

Kotts! Again her headband makes me think of her father's scarf and I miss him so much!

Here's BotW Kotts for comparison. As you can see, the white on her face is starting to fade, and she's lost her "bangs", and her head is starting to be more bird shaped. Rough estimation is that TotK is around 5 years after BotW and I'm assuming that she's 5 during BotW so that would make her 10 in TotK. (I'm going with Rito living around 80 years on average BTW).

She's almost as tall as Link! Also that dialog speaks to me on like, a molecular level. (She gets up at 10AM BTW) Also note her Saki-like clothing.

BotW Molli

TotK Molli

I, uh, don't think she grew at all...

She wants to make cool arrows so her dad will use them with his bows... (Why's there no emoji/emoticon button?! I need a big eyed sad face here!)

Speaking of her dad... Here enjoy this totally unrelated to anything I'm talking about shot of Harth actually standing! He gets to do stuff in this game guys! (Can you believe I almost forgot he existed when I went from BotW to Age of Calamity? How could I forget this unique bird?!)

Last but not least, Bird Son himself...

Tulin!!!! Look at this adorable little guy! LOOK AT HIM!!!!

I like to think he admires the hell out of Link and so he's mimicking Link's pose as much as he can. Speaking of which... Get that guy a cowboy outfit and a giant belt buckle!

Look at him some more!

So I don't know if that's eyeliner or just natural markings but he's doing his mom's thing and I can't even you guys!

I am SO normal about these birds...

*regains composure*

Okay, so what have we learned from this? Rito start off with blue sclera (the whites of the eye) when they're little. Around 10 or so the sclera becomes white and the irises are blue. Given that neither Kass nor Amali have blue eyes, I'm going to assume at some point their daughters will develop yellow eyes like them. Tulin... Let's just say his eyes stay blue.

Fluffy white baby feathers on the face slowly fade over the years until they their faces are solid colors (Orni Tribe at least). Tulin's little bun, is this like his mom's "hair" or more like his dad's floof? His he tying it back? You can make out something around the base of it in that second image of him so I think so... What if he ends up with a braid like the Ancient Wind Sage? (Why couldn't you just name them Nintendo? You could have just used the Divine Beasts' names and it would have been fine!)

None of the kids have proper tail feathers yet, so I hesitate to call them juveniles... Give them a few more years and they'll probably start growing them.

I like Penn, and pelican/waterfowl Rito fit in with ideas I was having for my fanfic so... Just gotta find a way to fit him in...

I made it so that different Rito settlements have different symbols. Normally these would be found on the cloth around their waist. However, Penn has this unique symbol on his chestpiece... Granted there's some similar symbols around the village but...

[t-n-c]

A Comprehensive List of my Thoughts on Elemental (STILL WITH SPOILERS!)

So here's the rundown I promised of my feelings toward Elemental

SPOILERS BELOW PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

The Good

The music--I found it memorable and unique; the main theme had soft vocalizations that felt almost ethereal, like it was an ancient hymn. I also found the song that played during the montage of Ember and Wade's dates catchy and fun. It was pretty great soundtrack imho.

The design of the world--I really loved how they creators took into account how all these different elements would move and interact in the city. It made the setting feel, for lack of a better term, more "real" to me. It also set up some of Ember's conflict as a Fire element living in a city that wasn't made with her people in mind.

The designs of (most of*) the characters--for the most part, the characters looked unique and, even better, they looked like average people (for lack of a better term) to me; call me a sap or whatever, but I've always preferred characters that have all the "flaws" of average folks than the ones that look like some iteration of "perfect," they just feel more relatable to me I guess. I also found it fun to see how design features such as "hair" were incorporated in the characters and how those same features varied between the elements. If there's one thing I can consistantly praise Pixar for it's for not being afraid to play around with design.

The animation---I loved how the characters moved and interacted in the world. The felt like living things and I appreciated that.

Wade and Ember are adults implied to be in their mid-to-late 20s--This is probably just a me thing, but I find it nice when I see shows where the protagonists aren't adolescents or barely-18 young adults going through some sort of coming-of-age scenario; there's nothing wrong with those kinds of stories of course, I just find them a bit boring and over-done myself. That and whenever I see films like that it always feels like they're insinuating that people over XYZ age can't be protagonists, so I tend to avoid them these days. On a related note, here are some other reasons why I like that Ember and Wade are adults: a) They both still live with their parents but neither of them is shamed or mocked for it--I've seen waaaay too many "comedies" that pick fun at the "25-year-old-living-in-their-mom's-basement" so I found it nice to not have to sit through that kind of "joke" again, b) Neither of them have got their lives "figured out" yet--Wade's gone through multiple jobs, and Ember's just begun to understand what she actually wants for her life--as someone who's gone through multiple jobs, earned 2 bachelor's degrees and is in the process of getting a master’s, and is still trying to make sense of their life, I found their struggles extremely relatable; it's nice to see adult protagonists be allowed to struggle with figuring out who they are and what they want to be, c) They're allowed to have fun and goof off--in a lot of films I've seen, the adult characters are always depicted as being so serious and "boring" it's nice to see adult characters actually have fun and enjoy life.

Ember' relationship with her parents, specifically her father--I found the interactions they had very sweet and moving; it made Ember's conflict between choosing to take over her father's shop or pursue her romance with Wade all the more relatable, imo.

How Ember and Wade's romance developed--it wasn't a love-at-first-sight kind of thing; they actually had to spend time interacting and getting to know each other before they fell in love--and most importantly, they showed us on the actual screen how/when they started to fall for each other. They went on dates, opened up to each other, fought with each other, etc--all the things that normal relationships have; while sure, there's still an aspect of "forbidden romance" to their relationship, it's more subtle and in the background than the trailers implied it would be. It also doesn't end with marriage and kids--they leave together for Ember’s internship and it’s implied that they’ve moved in together but that’s all; idk I thought it was nice that they could just be a couple.

The Bad

1. The blink-and-miss representation LGBTQ+ representation--I've gotten reeeeeeaaaally tired of how LGBTQ+ characters are treated in films; to clarify, there's a scene where Wade introduces Ember to his family and he introduces her to his youngest sibling, Lake (who is described as being nonbinary in supplemental materials) and her/them girlfriend, Ghibli. Lake's identity as nonbinary is a bit ambiguous in the film (Wade does refer to them as his youngest sibling, but that's all we get--without the tie-in material it's to mistake them for being WLW). Further, between them Lake and Ghibli have at most 2-3 lines in the entire movie--like I appreciate that us LGBTQ+ are being recognized and put in films, but I'm tired of all our rep always being the side characters that hold no weight in the story; I think they can start making shows with LGBTQ+ leads now, thank you.

2. Wade's fake death--I'm not a fan of having characters (and the audience) go through huge, life-changing events only to have the events "fixed" and everything be all hunky-dory again--imo, it's a cheap trick to manipulate the audiences' emotions at best, and at worst, it's a disrespectful act that not-to subtly implies that the audience "can't handle" seeing the characters go through heavy stuff. I'm a firm believer that if you're going to have your characters go through something as serious as having one die on screen you need to commit to it--you need to take it seriously, pulling a 180 and undoing all that development is cliche to the point of annoyance. Now, I'm not saying I wanted Wade to die, I'm not even saying that I think he should have stayed dead--what I'm saying is that I don't think there should have ever been a "death" scene in the film at all--there are plenty of other ways they could have had Ember realize her feelings for Wade/be honest with her father.

Mixed Feelings Section

1. Ember and Wade's designs*--it's not that they're terrible or anything, but they are a bit generic imo. In comparison to their family members and the background characters, they both have that "typical protagonist" look that I find a bit cliche

2. Wade's family being 'good' rich people who don't mind that Wade's in love with Ember vs Ember's father who spends most of the film being aggressively anti-water--I'm kind on the fence with this tbh; on the one hand, if both sides had been against Ember and Wade's relationship, I feel it would have put too much emphasis on the romance and taken away Ember's story as the child of immigrants, and it's not like Wade's family weren't bigoted at all--they threw plenty of micro-aggressions at Ember when she first met them; that being said I do have to side-eye how they made the ones more accepting of fire people Wade's rich, probably-descendents-of-the-founders-of-Element-City family and made the one most aggressively against water people Ember's immigrant-built-his-family-a-home-and-business-from-scratch father. Idk, it feels iffy to me.

3. Most of the Wade and Ember's interactions takes place within a week--As much as I felt that their romance was pretty well-paced, I can't deny that they still fell for each other very quickly--I get that the main plot point had set it up that they only had a week to fix the broken water-spill doors, but I don't know why it had to be a week; why couldn't it have been a couple of weeks or a month? It would have made a lot more sense both for the romance and the main plot, but I digress, I still found their relationship adorable.

4. The experiences of immigrants is homogenized--The culture of the fire people draws on a lot of different types of immigrants, the Irish, different Asiatic groups, maybe some Middle Eastern groups, etc--and while I appreciate that the story was about immigrants and experiences they share in common I also felt a bit iffy about taking all these different cultures and merging them together. I feel it would have been better they made the fire people's culture more of a unique entity than a combination of cultures.

Like I said before, I highly recommend this movie; it's cute and tugs at your heart-strings.

[choi-soobin]

TAEHYUN ✦ The Name Chapter: Temptation (Weverse Album ver.)

[gaudebo]

Compiling these for... yknow... reasons Arcade Spirits: TNC Ultimate Attacks! Proper ID under the cut.

Domino is hunched over, his face shadowed ominously except for a glowing white smile. His body is distorted by small glitches. The pink textbox reads "You can't run from this. You can't hide. You can't win. It's funny when you try..." in bright blue text. In the background, the FOD2 character Sensei directs glowing blue ninja to attack the opponent's character, Silent Blade. Grace stands with one hand raised as though explaining something. Her eyes are glowing orange and there is a halo of pixelated yellow light behind her head. Her heart shaped necklace also has a glowing plus sign and a halo around it. The pink textbox reads "I hope you've learned something this day. It'd be a pity to experience such a crushing loss without gaining knowledge." in orange text. In the background, Sensei directs glowing blue ninja to attack the opponent's character, Akari.

Jynx stands with both hands resting on her cane. Her face is twisted in a snarl and her eyes are glowing purple. Behind her, six black cats stare at the viewer with the same glowing purple eyes. The pink textbox reads "Scared already? But we've just begun. Step into hell and face me." in purple text. In the background, her character Akari drops a magic fireball on the opponent's character, also Akari.

Locksley stands with one hand on his hip, his face shadowed by his hood except for ominously glowing green eyes. His body is also outlined in glowing green. The pink textbox reads "I am the ghost that haunts you by nightfall, and the monster that hunts you by daybreak." in green text. In the background, Silent Blade delivers several visible slashes to the opponent's character, Akari.

Locksley stands with one hand on his hip, his face shadowed by his hood except for ominously glowing green eyes. His body is also outlined in glowing green. The pink textbox reads "I am the ghost that haunts you by nightfall, and the monster that hunts you by daybreak." in green text. In the background, Silent Blade delivers several visible slashes to the opponent's character, Akari.

Rhapsody has their fists raised in a gesture of excitement. They are smirking confidently, and their eyes glow blue. Behind their head is a glowing blue flower, most likely a daffodil. The pink textbox reads "This is it! This is when you learn what it's like to play against a pro." in blue text, a softer blue than Domino's. In the background, Akari drops a magic fireball on the opponent's character, also Akari.

Zapper is holding two plastic lightguns, one red and one blue. Her eyes are sparking and glowing red. She is visibly angry. Behind her, a glowing red lightning bolt strikes the ground. The pink textbox reads "You can't step to this with that weak-ass determination. Embrace the impossible! Fight gods! Eat the sun!" in red text. In the background, Silent Blade delivers several visible slashes to the opponent's character, also Silent Blade. /End ID]

[onefey]

"i'm not wilfre," wilfre said,

[onlyoneofyouu]

TXT, TNC: TEMPTATION – preview lyrics

(c. @/translatingTXT on twitter)

Track 1: Devil by the Window

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT!

Soobin: I met the devil by the window, traded my life / Temptation touched my tongue with the wings of desire

Taehyun: This whisper won’t give up but you put up a fight / It’s just the devil by the window / Dream on, dream on, goodnight

Track 05: Farewell, Neverland [Translation]

Soobin: My Peter Pan

Hueningkai: Running above the air / At full speed, towards the moon / Time to fall, it’s time

Yeonjun: Neverland, my love, I bid you farewell now / And I’m free fallin’ / Stars, sleep with comfort, till I be callin’

Track 03: Happy Fools (feat. Coi Leray) [Translation]

Yeonjun: Happy happy happy fools (x2)

Hueningkai: Happy happy happy happy (x2)

Yeonjun: I have a ton of things to do / But I don’t have plans of doing any of them

Track 04 Tinnitus (Wanna be a Rock) [Translation]

Beomgyu: Even if I block both my ears / Daze, it gets louder / The empty noise / It’s deafening

Soobin: Locked away in the darkness, it’s a / Daze, my density comes to attack me / Inside the empty noise, it feels so lonely

Taehyun: If you remove ‘star’ from Rockstar, / Just a rock, okay?

Yeonjun: I had a dream about it, nobody knew

Track 02: Sugar Rush Ride [Translation]

Taehyun: You’re bad, you’re a liar / What are you doing to me, sugar?

[drawntomemes]

[bregee13]

Raposa/Human

For the Drawn to Life 15th anniversary event!

Y'know, to Heather, Real Life probably feels less colorful than what she'd want it to be.

Wonder how she's is doing. If she even has any memories of her Raposa self.

[drawntolifeforall]