#ty for sending one!

[a-certain-elf]

4, 13 and 14 for the female character ask please?

4. Childhood favourite

Mira from The Last Legion. She kicks ass, she looks amazing, her character is just *chef kiss*. Probably my first introduction to *woman with a sword* too.

13. Underappreciated character

Chris Sanchez from the movie S.W.A.T. from 2003. Played by Michelle Rodriguez. Badass single mother and also a badass police officer? Yes Ma'am.

14. Side character

Riyo Chuchi. I just think she´s neat AND she cares about the clones alot. And I love all the clones so.

[sailermoon]

🎧 ^-^

side note: this song got me thru soooo many study nights LOL highly recommended this soundtrack if u need chill music 💕

[fluxofthemouth]

 📝 for a rule you think is important when it comes to role playing

@the-haunted-office

Willingness to go along with/respect the other writer's artistic vision for their character!

Like, my guy Piter hates nobility, so I have to be careful when I'm writing with muses who actually are nobility. If someone feels moved to write Daenerys Targaryen or Princess Peach or whoever as a roleplay muse, like obviously they understand that actually living under royalty in real life would suck in a lot of ways and they're not trying to advocate for the divine right of kings. They just wanna write a girlboss in peace. A person with nobility status is a very common type of character in fantasy stories. So I try to warn people that Piter hates nobles so it's not a surprise & they can decline to write if that sounds too awkward. And I try, as a writer, not to fuse so completely with Piter's perspective that all I can see is his little hate vision view of The Enemy and not the fullness and dimensionality of this beloved character someone is putting love and effort into writing. It would be sucky of me if I were to ask someone to write & then (as the writer) went on to treat their character who's clearly meant to be aspirational and cool like The Enemy, just because my character happens to think that.

[serpercival]

mash + text posts (5)

[hinamie]

hhmmmmm uh im dusting the cobwebs off my brain trying 2 come up w something interestinf uhh.......anything non spoiler-y you can discuss w regards to geto in the atla au perchance?

hi rin !!!!! tysm fr sending i hope u r doing well <3

atla geto lore fr u courtesy of sam:

he's a waterbender from the northern water tribe. he can bloodbend but finds it distasteful

he gave gojo the betrothal necklace/proposed to him when they were 20 (all of the adult characters are aged up in the fic vs jjk canon ages)

all of his decisions are driven by a desire to lighten the burden placed on gojo's shoulders

aaaaand atla geto draws fr u courtesy of Me :3

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[homielander]

ohhh antony is carrying the show on his back 😭 https://x.com/screenrant/status/1805265919741989352?s=46

i don't want to discredit the work that writers do, especially in laying the groundwork for a character like homelander and crafting a compelling arc for him with every new season. and i'm sure they were very involved in the making of ep 4 as well, despite kripke generously giving credit where it's due here. however...

it is nice to know that antony starr has not only elevated the character with a superb performance but also made some pretty valuable contributions to the script :) obviously i'm biased but i think he is the standout of every episode. i'm throwing emmys at him

[mikaikaika]

:D

THE SILLIES OMG <3333 bugs when you lift up a rock :3

[ribbononline]

I love how much culture is built from your design motifs for Pokémon fusions. I feel like every Diancie fusion live in the same country. It would be a fun challenge to world build with your designs~

Ahh, thank you! Im glad you think so :] When designing fusions I tend to use the body as- well, the body (and sometimes personality), and then the head for the 'aesthetics'. For Diancie heads, that's really leaning into it's royalty theming- be it by leaning into the classic regal pretty princess elements, the cute wedding ones, or even a more armored knight look using it's golden parts. That way, even when they're not necessarily designed to resemble one another they all still look properly like they came from the same 'family'.

Same way I tend to really lean Ho-oh into a very 'elegant' theme, colorful, but something commanding respect too- even stuff like a Carbink body should still look like it has something legendary in there, even if its just a silly baby!

I dont necessarily have lore for most of my fusions, but I always do make an attempt to make them look at least somewhat grounded and connected to both the established Pokémon world and eachother, so I'm super happy to hear they're working in that way.

[omg-just-peachy]

Number 35 for the Spotify wrapped ask!

35 is we can't be friends by ariana grande! <3

[shrimparts-blog888]

Can we get a drawing of Darling and Apple kissing? 👉👈💕

[thecmaly]

I just love the Sakura-nyan comics! ^^ Kitty!

WAA TYSM!!! sakura-nyan is my absolute fave so that makes me happy to hear! :') Have a lil guy as thanks!

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[coldshrugs]

they're having a slumber party. best not to knock tho... 😳 (feat. @hythlodaes's emile, my io, and of course estinien ♥)

[felassan]

John Epler mentions that he is the writer of Bellara: "As Bellara's writer i love this." [source]

[crushedsweets]

eyeless jack eating spaghetti with his long-ass tongue

I got so many good asks today y’all .

[beepboopappreciation]

Say hello to ELM-3R. Quite the darling Luminoscope, is he not? 💙