#you are very giga-brain

[ghirahims-trophyhusband]

It’s still kiss day where I am, so shout out to these two for inventing gay people~

reblogs appreciated, thank you!

[madametrashbin]

Always Yours, Forever

Disney Princess AU, as @nicebonescomrade (tagging you, as I did say through main that I had planned to write this) chose to call it. The giga brain they have, it’s great and their anons too- whew. Good stuff, indeed. (And the memes, I resonate with them because the method to my bullshit involves memes... only when I actually write, I turn them into something more coherent and proper.)

Also @i-put-the-yan-in-polyandry because their Beth piece was S Grade and sublime. I’ve been reading that shit on repeat because what I would do to get spoiled or at least even a smidge of affection after traumatizing events.

Anyways, I’m going to tweak a little bit of that AU, if only to incorporate some other elements from Comrade’s posts that I thought was even more interesting and it did tempt me to go on a writing frenzy... I want to selfishly indulge in all of these situations because I’m in desperate need for some comfort.

Uhh... I guess it’s time for symbiotic relationship between Teyvat and Reader? Is that the right word? It’s 12am when I started writing this, please understand that I only get quiet time during the late hours as I suffer from insomnia + boomer back pains.

But anyways, enjoy... mightcontinuewiththisAUanothertimehah-

You run, because that’s all you can do.

You can hear the shouting behind you, your body screams at you as you narrowly duck away from another volley of arrows... your lungs burn, your legs are all but numb to the pain... everywhere is hurting.

You run, because you’re not ready to die a second time... you don’t want to die again either.

You do not understand where this aggression came from nor do you understand why they kept accusing you of imitating their God... and as far as you were concerned, you weren’t that attractive and weren’t even remotely close to looking like any of the Archons you’ve known thus far.

They were all really pretty... something you could have said when the situation was less dire and perhaps surrounded by friendly people.

(Barbatos, as far as you were concerned, didn’t have this much fanatical reverence from what you’ve seen and heard from in the game... ah, if only you weren’t in so much pain, you could be thinking about things with a clearer mind.)

Said God is watching from the sky no doubt as you could see a glimpse of green from the corner of your eye. You could see that sick amusement on his face and the same anger he held that matched the angry mob behind you.

The mockery hurt, especially from the many characters you were fond of when you were still...

You thoughts were cut off when you tripped, a noise of surprise leaving you as your foot unfortunately hit a rather solid stone embedded in the ground, making you rolling down the slope near Brightcrown Mountain and caused your hand to get a rather nasty cut... you still cannot get used to that golden color that leaves your wounds instead of the familiar crimson.

You took a moment to catch your breath, your body aching painfully yet the sound of the approaching mob had you force yourself to your feet to run again.

You don’t get that far until you reached a cliff, a dead end as you find yourself facing two unfortunately terrible choices... so all you could do was make a prayer for someone, anyone, to save you.

For what have you done to garner such hatred?

And so Teyvat answers with a dragon of blue, who soared across the sky with a powerful roar that matched its unadulterated fury for the recent events going on as of this moment.

Teyvat was born connected to the Creator... one whose face it has never seen yet felt the presence, small as it was, as a constant in its time alive.

The land, the sea, and the sky all knew that they were alive because of the Creator, and that they will continue to exist so long as they live... thus, when their master had descended upon the land, they rejoice.

They could finally see their beloved maker, they could hear and feel the very power that flowed through their veins with them... cycling through each other endlessly. 

A sacred connection that not even the Gods could ever hope to achieve, even if they and the humans that walk on their lands claim to be the closest to them...

Fools, they all were. 

There were no living beings that could ever hold a candle to the devotion of the very fabric of the world that lives because of them... and seeing the humans and those worthless Gods chase and harm their beloved Creator, it simply proved to be a true statement.

For in the end, the Creator’s life is Teyvat’s life... and if they die, Teyvat will die as well.

That is not something they can allow to happen, not while they still desperately wish to live with their Creator who finally graced them with their presence.

So, in response to the mess made by mankind, they sent the Dragon that was formed by their gales and skies to protect them before it was too late.

(Though, if one were to ask which living creature born not of their land, sea or sky were the closest to their Creator, one would say it was those who hailed from the land condemned by the Gods... one that remains in the form of the world’s many monsters and immortalized men.)

You had been momentarily terrified when you saw Dvalin... and yet when his form swept around you, his body of blue feathers and sharp claws of midnight skies brushing away the projectiles aimed your way, you had never felt so relieved in your life.

It had taken everything within you not to weep, not to collapse to your knees are your legs wobbled, struggling to stay standing while Dvalin had his claws hovering over you like a protective covering.

He roars, and you witness the familiar sight of the Energy Rain falling onto the mobs that had lost their composure upon sight of him... soon enough, it forces everyone including Venti to retreat... but neither of you move from your spots until Dvalin was certain they had all but left.

That was when your legs finally caved in, your whole body trembling as the tears you had suppressed finally flows freely from your eyes.

Your body hurts, stinging pain lingers everywhere on your skin... you’re dusty and covered in dirt from falling every now an again, dried golden blood that still kept its lustrous color sticks to your skin, but alas... you do not pay it any mind.

Nothing could truly beat the exhaustion that weighs down on you after days of running, no food or rest to spare after the beginning of the mob hunting.

“Creator... are you alright?”

“...no.”

You answer him after a long moment of silence, although the Dragon was hardly surprised given your current state.

You wordlessly accepted his invitation, shakily climbing onto his back before he makes his way to the tower, which you’re quite familiar with the lore that surrounded it... you immediately take notice of the hilichurls waiting, holding onto a variety of items that surprisingly did not contain weaponry. 

Of course, you were skeptical at first, given your initial situation until it dawned on you that while the Archons and the Humans do not particularly like you, you still had the ones that such people would call monsters.

When the hilichurls had carefully tended to your injuries and little birds that rested on your shoulders sang songs to you to soothe your weary heart, you find yourself crying quietly again if only out of relief when you finally understood what was going on.

You weren’t hated by everyone... well, at least, you still had a place to go to when times were too rough on your weary soul.

That much, you were eternally grateful for.

[stellocchia]

So I couldn’t watch Niki’s stream yesterday because I was VERY sleep deprived and could not focus...

So here’s some notes I’ve taken while watching the vod: 

Okay the black and white aesthetic for a character that sees the world in black and white was a giga brain move on cc!Niki’s part

“The only place I feel safe you have to invade” hmmm, that one’s interesting...

“Who are you gonna manipulate next?” Tommy apparently is the main one!

Jack and Niki friendship! Trust me when I say that I still live for that. “Jack is too smart to fall for his crap” I love the Jack defense squad!

“’He changed he changed, he’s a better man’ why would he change?!” No okay, I’m loving Niki right now. Don’t get me wrong, she’s not right on everything, but it’s true, why would death make you a better person? How would 13 years of isolation do that? Phil really is way too naive for an immortal man...

Oh, season 1 Niki lore I was not aware of, this is interesting! So she saw the tnt but trusted Wilbur too much and didn’t tell anyone? Now that’s gonna be a lot of guilt right there...

Please someone give Niki a hug...

I get the feeling that Niki thinks Wilbur is more dangerous or generally worst then Dream since she keeps asking why, knowing what he’s capable of, Dream would revive him. 

“You promised me that you would get me out of there. And I waited for weeks. And I waited for months. And the next time I saw you you were not you anymore” Now that’s sad... like actually sad. It’s the theme of the inevitable passage of time, people change and so do the circumstances and distance makes you loose some of them. It’s all inevitable but it still doesn’t hurt any less...

“God you [Jack] deserve so much more...” I’m living for this crumbs, just know that

And that’s it!

[alyss01]

|[Meeting his friends]|

[corpse husband x GN!reader]

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Genre: fluff

Word count: 1.3K

Requested: no

Synopsis: you get to meet Corpse's friends when he introduces you with a game of among us. He is there the whole time to calm your nerves and you calm his own by being there with him.

Warning: nothing

A/n: I don't know why but I thought this could be a really cute scenario. I'm still not used to writing short one shots instead of long fanfictions but I think I'm improving. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

Masterlist

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His fans had known for awhile that Corpse had found someone in his life. Probably about a week before he had made it official, although he of course left out your identity.

Ever since his friends had been teasing him about it when he joined a game. He'd usually wave them off with a laugh as the game started, and usually they'd stop about it.

Until a couple of days ago when Sean joined the lobby.

"So when will we meet them?" Rae asked him as dramatic gasps could be heard from Sean's end of the call. It was his first time joining after the news came out, "so the rumours were true! You replaced Sykunno and me!"

Sykunno gasped as Corpse quickly answered, "I could never, you guys know that."

When he killed Sean later that game as imposter he received an earful at the end of it, "first you cheat on Sykunno and me, and then you murder us!" Sean dramatically exclaimed as the lobby erupted in laughter.

You had of course not been blind to the obvious requests. After Corpse had told the world about you, you had made a separate instagram account where you hilariously posted your own version of Corpse's pictures.

It started with a sandwich perfectly wrapped in tin foil as a taunt to his frustrations but it has spiralled out of control. Although it was all in good fun of course.

Now you sat on Corpse's lap as he had his arms wrapped around your waist. Your hands on the keyboard and Corpse explaining to you how everything worked. Not that you needed it because he would be here the whole time anyway, but you felt more comfortable knowing how everything worked.

No one knew you were joining the lobby today and Corpse started the stream off casually as he introduced you to his chat.

You were nervous of course, but Corpse's arms across your waist and his breath in your neck calmed you. Ironically Corpse himself was also very nervous despite knowing his friends were incredibly supportive of his relationship, and the two of you comforted each other.

Corpse was comforted by holding you against him on his lap, and you were comforted by his presence alone.

His hands typed away on the keyboard as he started among us and joined the lobby while simultaneously joining the call in discord.

"Corpse!" Sykunno piped up immediately when Corpse joined the lobby and greeted the people inside. He couldn't hide the smile in his voice as he spoke, "Hi sykunno, by the way I have to introduce a very special person."

He laughed as the lobby was filled with dramatic gasps. You couldn't stifle your laugh either and immediately the lobby quieted at your voice.

"Uhm hey!" You awkwardly greeted the others, you had spoken with Rae before over instagram so it was comforting to know you knew at least someone in the lobby already.

Corpse squeezed his arms around you in reassurance as the voices broke out in the call. Many asked you questions and after a couple of minutes Corpse came in between and the game started.

You played instead of corpse, who was explaining to you what to do and when to do things. The first meeting was called and you observed the chaotic energy that immediately overtook the lobby.

Toast and Rae were accusing each other, Sean and Sykunno were hard vouching for each other and it was a overall mess.

"Aha! But now my giga brain tactic has been triggered!" Toast suddenly exclaimed loudly as the others were both skeptical and curious.

"N/n where were you this round!"

"I was failing at card swipe." You were well known with the joke it was in the community, but it was the truth as well. You had been struggling to swipe it correctly for at least the past five minutes. Corpse had tried as well but gave up after five tries. He still swore he had become better at it in the meantime.

Sykunno interrupted, "N/n are you the imposter?" He asked and you turned to look at corpse who was just smiling to see if it was some joke.

"No I'm not?" You responded hesitantly and Sykunno immediately gave up other questions he had.

Eventually you managed to win the game by throwing out both Toast and Sykunno.

You had a lot of fun getting to know tasks and figuring out the map with occasional hints from corpse behind you. He was incredibly happy with how well you got along with his friends.

Eventually the red letters that spelled imposter were written over the screen. You had grown kind of tired from playing so you turned to look at corpse with puppy eyes if he wanted to play. You had heard how stressful being the imposter could be and frankly didn't really feel up for it.

Corpse killed the lights and vented to a different part of the map to make a swift kill only to vent back immediately after.

The body was reported quite fast, and Corpse signalled for you to talk when they asked where you had been. You understood what he hinted at and explained exactly what you had done without mentioning the kill.

"So it wasn't N/n." Rae concluded as Toast immediately started to question her if she could vouch for you.

"There's just no way a new player would be able to make a kill like that." She concluded and most in the lobby agreed with her.

The next round Toast followed you closely so Corpse couldn't make a kill, and you depended on Sean to make the kill for you.

At the next meeting Toast immediately vouched for you.

It continued like that until you eventually won the game. You pecked a quick kiss on Corpse's cheek as the lobby was stunned to see you had been an imposter all along.

You ended up quitting after that, saying goodbye to the people in the lobby as Corpse wrapped up the stream.

When it was all closed you leaned back in his chest as he chuckled. "You did really well for your first time." He complimented you while pressing a kiss on the back of your head.

You smiled and turned to wrap you arms around his neck.

"Wanna order take out and watch movies on the couch tonight?" You asked as you reached for your phone.

"Sounds like a plan." He said as the two of you moved to the living room. He unwrapped his arms from your waist as he moved to the kitchen, "you want anything?"

"Nah I'm good, what do you want to eat tonight?" You yelled back from your position of the couch, scrolling through your phone thinking about what to eat for dinner.

"What about f/f?" He proposed as he took a sip from his drink. You nodded as you opened the app to order your food, "on it"

You leant your head against his shoulder, automatically he wrapped his arms around your shoulder you cuddled into his warmth as he held you comfortably.

Usually he was anxious and stressed after streams but he found it was easier with you there. You always seemed to comfort him with your presence alone.

"Today was fun." You said as you looked up at him, seemingly reading his thoughts.

"It was." He said as he smiled at you.

[littlemisssquiggles]

Kingdom Hearts may just be one of the most chaotically-written yet ridiculously brilliant ongoing stories this squiggle meister has ever followed.

While its rather convoluted plot and many twist and turns may have your head spinning faster than a Beyblade, you’d also simultaneously at times find yourself staring off into the distance in sheer unadulterated awe at just how much everything makes sense after a while.

You would think that many of the things in Kingdom Hearts should not work at all and if you’re a non-fan who’s not familiar with the series at all, KH probably sounds like Gibberish the Videogame. But for those of us who have been riding the tides of this long story since the very beginning, practically drowning ourselves in it like Sora in the very first cutscene of the first game, it’s…mind-boggling just how unique and interesting KH’s story is and somehow it keeps getting even more compelling with every new reveal unveiled.

I’m not saying you need to possess some kind of OP giga brain to understand the intricacies of the KH story. I’m more saying, it is really ridiculous just how much of KH’s lore adds up in the end and perfectly fits within the realm of the world Tetsuya Nomura has created with his team at Square Enix in collaboration with Disney.

As a longstanding fan of this series, it never ceases to amaze me just how much of KH’s lore makes perfect f***ing sense within its own narrative especially as it expands.

As a storyteller, I can only aspire to write a story so long yet so well-crafted enough that everything just lines up like a perfectly made puzzle, no matter how I chose to line the pieces.

I don’t even think that KH would be half as interesting if it was actually told in order.

I think the chaos of how out of order the story is told adds onto the fun of it especially as we get new reveals that shine light on certain lore that were introduced in games that came out before. But that’s just me.

That being said, this is just a long-winded way of me saying that the KH:Union X finale blew my mind.

Dagnabbit Nomura, you did it again, you mad lad.

~ LittleMissSquiggles (2021)

[0poole]

I LOVE No Straight Roads

Honestly it’s hard to keep me away from a game with great visuals and even greater character design. I knew from the INSTANT I saw these characters that I was going to love it. I just finished it because it’s (unfortunately) pretty short, and even though I cheesed the final boss through it’s very lenient death mechanics (Instant respawn at the cost of a good rank) I actually appreciated that it wasn’t a pure cake walk. I’ve yet to rematch all of the bosses, but since I had genuine trouble with the later ones I’ll hold off on that.

But who cares about gameplay, am I right? I sure as hell don’t. I would’ve bought the game no matter what the hell it was. I wanted the characters (and the music, although I realized that second) and that was it. 

First of all, I love any world that is super fantastical but cheesy in its concept, ala a city powered by music, and battles between artists using music. Ideas like this only spawn from a mind that wants to create a fun atmosphere, if nothing else, and it was sure as hell fun. I genuinely love when someone goes so far into a crazy idea and doesn’t waste your time explaining it with real world logic. Wanna know how a city can be powered by music? Shut up and look at the cute virtual mermaid. Lord knows I did. Every once in a while, it does you good to just let the player/reader/viewer just revel in the idea without having to go out of your way to make things seem realistic. It’s not about “turning your brain off” or whatever, it’s picking your battles.

Also, I can seriously love a world with great background characters to it. Any game with the right situation to insert the random nobodies you find onto the streets into the art in the credits really played into the greatness of the world’s less important characters, and that’s always a good thing. It’s technically world building. But, since I always love to pick favorites, I’d have to say my favorite background character is easily Mia, the NSR infodesk assistant. It’s funny, because you can literally search “nsr characters” into Google and she’s the third image result. I love how jumpy she is when you first interact with her, since NSR probably spread the word about B2J suggesting they’re rock thugs who’d beat up anyone, so for all she knows she could die right then and there with a guitar lodged in her skull. She’s probably just some intern trying to pay for college. She don’t want trouble.

Also, I just realized that 90% of the characters in this game have the same body structure that I always love, that being having arms/legs that sort of fan out in width into relatively large hands/feet. It’s a kind of limb structure I fall into so much because it just really hits me right for some reason. I really can’t explain why.

Anyways, I gotta talk about the big boys individually:

Mayday and Zuke are an amazing duo. I’m always a sucker for a cute and crazy girl, but honestly Zuke hit so many of the right notes too. I will say it’s weird to pair the martian Zuke with the humanly-skinned Mayday, but honestly it doesn’t even matter because he looks so cool on his own. I love his weird blocky blue dreadlocks, and his weirdly shaped shirt which bares his chest in the weirdest way... And, oh my god, Mayday’s weird Spongebob background flower eyes? It’s little tidbits like that that really make me jealous. How could I have ever thought of that? It looks so perfect, and I don’t know why. And her little booty jig she does in her idle animation? Adorable. I played as her as much as was reasonable not only because I’m a filthy button masher with little strategy but also because she’s so damn cute. I can also appreciate how she has a tough-as-nails persona while still keeping a semi-girly attitude, like with her falling for 1010 and Sayu. Characters are so much better when they’re a perfect blend of characteristics, instead of being all one-note, like how Zuke is the quiet one but gets heated against DK West, and all. 

Honestly the voice acting for every character is great, but I love when Mayday’s VA’s accent shows through. It’s a perfect twang to accent (consider this the only acknowledgement of a pun in this post) her snarkiness. 

DJ Subatomic Supernova was going to be an easy favorite since he’s all space-themed. Also, I don’t know why I always end up liking the egotistic characters. Not in the sense that I like their egotistic-ness, but in the sense that I like everything else about them and they just so happen to also be egotistic. The same applied with Empoleon (maybe like my 2nd favorite Pokemon) and Rarity from MLP, probably among others. Either way, I’ll never not love space themes. Not to mention he’s got a funky disco theme, and I’m slowly starting to realize that I am in extreme love with techno-funk styles of music. The instant I heard his music he cemented his place into my playlists. 

As for design, I still have no idea what the fuck he is. Clearly AI is at human levels in this world, but if he’s a robot why does he still have hairy legs? But, if he’s a human, is that weird orb his head? Is it just some sort of puppet which he controls from inside his giant jacket? I know I dissed explaining things realistically but I actually want to know with this guy. Even the wiki doesn’t say. Either way, he’s clearly the logical extreme of “being at the center of your own universe.” Even his jacket depicts a solar system, with his hood being the sun. Didn’t see that until I tried to draw him. I really wish this guy wasn’t so tied to his DJ stand so I could reasonably draw him without it. I don’t want to draw his hairy ass legs. It is a great touch for his design though (although I prefer his beta look with pants and long boots, another design trait I tend to gravitate to) since DJs could reasonably not wear pants, since they’re always behind a table.

Sayu is my favorite. It’s so plainly obvious. It’s weird to say that sometimes, because some characters like Sayu are so clearly engineered to be as adorable as possible, to the point where they’re basically a parody of whatever they’re supposed to be emulating, but then they do that so well that they are still likable for what they’re trying to parody. Also, even though I’ve never looked into any vocaloid superstars myself, the fact that they exist and are loved in real life is absolutely perfect to be used as a character design in a world like this. It’s so weird conceptually, but we all know it’s normal and realistic. But yeah, she’s a giga-cutie whom I’ve already drawn and I’ve listened to her theme on loop on many different occasions. Favorite character, favorite track, favorite weapon of choice (What did I say about Empoleon?), which, and I wouldn’t have noticed this myself, looks like the USB symbol you see above USB ports on computers. How crazy perfect is that?

Even apart from my unbridled love for cute monster robot(?) girls, her boss fight is probably the 2nd greatest of them all, at least conceptually. She’s just a hologram, so you can’t touch her, but you CAN disconnect the artists which control her in order to defeat her. It’s the kind of concept for a boss fight that could only work for this type of character. I’m a sucker for the cute girl that provides her voice, but I love how the animator (video editor? the yellow one) actually attacks you with a mouse and lowers the brightness of the setting once he appears. Also, the mocap guy being the deeply-voiced type but still providing the adorable movements of her body. It’s such a great combo of characters, and their little extra art in the credits makes me like them even more. I just wish we could interact with them individually.

DK West was probably one of the most interesting characters visually, especially since I knew of every other NSR member long before the game came out, but I only just heard of him closer to the release. I wasn’t sure where he was placed, but I definitely assumed his gig was the weird shadow demon we saw in the trailers. When I finally saw him in game, I was shocked to hear him speak an entirely different language most of the time, which was really cool. Also, finding out he was tied to Zuke and wasn’t strictly an NSR artist really made him more interesting. You know, if his fucking shadow clone magic didn’t make him crazy cool enough. Even though I suck at his game and am not especially fond of his raps, the visual of him rapping with this giant monster behind him and dozens of weird shadow wingmen by his side hyping him up was probably one of the coolest in the entire game. The dark way they were hyping him up too gave such a bizarre atmosphere, especially since it parallels his seemingly chill and smiley demeanor. 

I definitely hope they’ll introduce new bosses as DLC in the future, and make them sort of in the same vein as DK West, where they aren’t the biggest artists ever, but they want to pick a fight with B2J. I’d kill for any extra content this game can provide.

Yinu is obviously special since she was the subject of the demo they put out for the game. Even though I knew all her bells and whistles, she and her mom still beat me a few times in the full game. Considering she’s semi-tied to story-ish spoilers I kinda want to go more into her in a separate section. It is worth considering playing the game first since it’s not hard (with the easy going deaths) and it’s short length.

1010 seriously grew on me as I learned more about them and interacted with them. I got their shtick when I first looked at them, but after seeing that animation of them touring the city on Youtube I was kinda falling for them. Then, I learned that they’re apparently repurposed navy war robots? I mean, maybe not them specifically, but it seems to heavily point in that direction, with the warship cars and “attention!”s and all. It took me a bit to get into their music too, but once I actually fought them and put their actions to the music I fell in love with it. I swear, Neon J’s weird dancing can has some of the smoothest moves in all of gaming. I don’t know whether they mocapped out those movements or got one of the greatest animators ever, but it looks so impossibly clean his part of the song gets me like 30x more hype than it would normally. 

Also, their little art piece of them looking at fan mail in the credits is probably one of the most adorable things ever. Even if they’re just Neon J’s puppets, that piece of art really makes it seem like they love every one of their fans. I’m not gonna lie, I might swoon a bit too if they picked me out and gave me some special attention.

Oh yeah, and the fact that Mayday was super sad in her showstopper against them was adorable and hilarious at the same time. The little tweaks they made to the showstopper for each fight were great.

Eve just has to be Lady Gaga, right? Like, an even crazier Lady Gaga. DJSS is Daft Punk (or any artist with a helmet persona, you know what I’m talking about), Sayu is Hatsune Miku, DK West is Kanye West, Yinu is a generic child protege, 1010 is a KPop boyband (just pick one) and Eve is Lady Gaga. That’s just how things are. But, again, this is the kind of boss fight that only this type of character could provide. It’s not just surreal imagery, it’s ARTISTIC surreal imagery. The fight is so mesmerizing in every way, especially by how it starts off so slow and calm and progresses to insanity, as well as the increased emotional investment in the fight making you feel so much more into it than just “That’s the boy band. Let’s fight.” Not only does it get you more invested, but it makes her artistic persona go deeper than just “she looks weird.” She is genuinely conflicted about her relationship with Zuke, and naturally that leads her to literally split him and Mayday apart. That mechanic specifically was the coolest, although I do wish they made it more obvious when you needed to switch over to a different side. I was getting pulverized by her fight too, since there were so many things to pay attention to. Her fight was definitely the best one. 

Tatiana and Spoilers:

Let’s be real with ourselves, the twist was so obvious. I do also think, though, that obvious twists aren’t bad if they’re just good reveals. At some point, a person just has experienced so many stories that “only pretty good” twists are easy to spot. It doesn’t mean that the twists are bad, it just means you yourself experienced.

I feel like her transition from rock to EDM was pretty understandable, even as a non-musician. She was so caught up in what she assumed was popular that it basically consumed her. It’s easy as an artist to want to forgo what you truly want to make in favor of what makes you popular, and clearly since her transition to EDM made her the CEO of the biggest company in the city (world?) that probably made her think she truly needed to change her outlook. Then, when she saw B2J try to bring it back, she sort of coined them as being as misguided as she was and knocked them down a peg. Plus, they were kinda being jerks about it.

It’s kinda like the Trolls sequel, where everyone pegs rock music fanatics as being too stuck up in their own heads to appreciate other types of music, which honestly seems more like the case than the alternative. When I first heard of the story of the game, I was seriously hoping they did put an asterisk on B2J’s ambitions because they were a bit sketchy from the start. 

That’s kinda where I want to talk about Yinu, because she was the true turning point in what they were doing. She’s literally 9 and yet she’s getting dragged into all this BS. When she said “I hate you all” at the end of her fight, and played a somber tune on her broken piano after the fight destroyed it, you kinda got a kick in the face to realize you’re kinda being an asshole to some of them. Sure, they fight back, but they wouldn’t fight in the first place if they didn’t have to. They are just people who play music under a joint name that B2J just so happened to get in hot water with. 

Then, of course, there’s Kliff, who also reeked of surprise villain, and who’s basically the embodiment of the bad side of B2J, where he just wanted to destroy for his own sake and not for the actual greater good. Once B2J realized their mistake, they backed off, but Kliff was so hard pressed to do what he planned on in the first place he wouldn’t stop. I kinda wish he got a bigger fight to his own since he’s clearly a big enough tech genius to divert a whole satellite into one specific building. Maybe the Elliecopter chase bit was his thing, but I do kind of wish he was there to fight against them too.

Even though Tatiana did kind of reform a bit quick, It’s still not too crazy to assume she could see that B2J was just misguided and the fact that they worked to revert their wrongdoings for her sake would make a pretty strong impressions. They clearly can hold their own, so it’s not like she wouldn’t want them to join NSR too. 

Oh yeah, and her boss fight was clock/time themed. If there’s a theme under space that I love, it’s clocks/time. 

And If I am to be respected by the internet, I must provide a negative opinion to balance out my positive one. I will say that the character model physics (like Mayday’s braids, DK West’s vest thing, Neon J’s fluffy neck thing, etc) got kinda funky at times. Especially DK West’s vest, which was completely messed up for every scene he was in... Also, even though the voices are mostly great, some lines felt a bit off. Just a bit. That good enough? Good.

But yeah anyway that’s another favorite game to add to the pile. Eventually I’m gonna have to compile a true list of my all-time favorite games/movies because I do kind of want to have a solid idea of what my all-time favorites are.

[scattered-winter]

ranking the Creatures of Grimm (part 1)

I love monsters too much. here we go

The Geist

points for looking spooky. your general run-of-the-mill evil spirit that can possess shit (Arma Gigas my beloved). all in all I'd say it's a good monster. 6/10

Deathstalker

oh ho ho!! a giant scorpion with a big stinger!! Monkey Brain sees this as a threat. arachniphobia go brrr. points for a badass name. 9/10

Sea Feilong

SEA SERPENT SEA SERPENT SEA SERPENT!!!!! looks badass and also knows hyper-beam. 6-year-old me was so happy watching a sea serpent fuck some people up. 46/10

King Taijitu

snek :] you think you beat it, but then WHAM the other head gets you. iconic. 27/10

Lancer

ANOTHER giant bug monster!!!!! this one has evil lil squinty eyes. they travel in swarms. I want to study them. docked points for being used as one of Weiss's summons too often. boooo 11/10

Apathy

hell no. HELLLLL no. horrifying. I got nightmares from this thing. this whole episode was like a horror movie. I loved it. 3857/10

Monstra

*side-eyes the Leviathan trilogy*

all jokes aside: meh. big and scary. should've wrecked some cities or something. 5/10

Beowolf

ah, the classic Grimm. points for glowing eyes and big chompers. a Very Good Boy that will also rip your face off. 40/10

Griffin

scored low on account of only being in one (1) scene at the Fall of Beacon. boooo I wanna see them fuck people up. 3/10

(part 2)

[dragons-bones]

FFXIV Write Entry #2: Cursed Covenant

Prompt: aberrant || Master Post || On AO3

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“Do you even know how hard it is to make the front page of the Eye for a night of drunken debauchery?” Rereha said disparagingly, pulling herself up onto the chair.

The newspaper—indeed, a copy of the Mythril Eye, its front-page reporting on the aftermath of an orgy-turned-somnus-bust in lurid detail—being held in front of the table’s other seated patron folded over, and Nero glared at the lalafell over the rims of his tinted glasses. “First, don’t think I didn’t notice that deliberate choice of word in there,” he sniped, and sniffed derisively at Rere’s delighted, juvenile giggle. “Second, how the fuck did you know I was here?”

“Saw you from the third-floor solar of the Rising Stones,” she said, gently laying her bow on the tabletop and unceremoniously dumping her pack next to it. “And ain’t no mistaking that particular combination of platinum blonde hair and bloody red doublet. If you don’t want to be recognized from a distance, wear blue.”

“I’ll wear blue when Synnove decides she isn’t going to decapitate that Hannish fop with her bare hands.”

Rereha cackled in amusement, tipping her hat in a salute as Nero snapped his broadsheet back into place, and gave the waitress her breakfast order when the hyur came over.

Gloom hung over Mor Dhona, as it was wont to do five times out of six; Synnove had stayed overnight after conferring with Urianger and the twins (the elezen ones, not the carbuncle ones) about something arcanima-related, but had immediately teleported home to Limsa Lominsa that morning as soon as the weather began to turn, her face twisted into the peculiar grimace she wore during a synesthesia-induced migraine. Heron was assisting Slafborn with some sort of planned sortie with a number of other adventurers deep into gigas territory, and Alakhai had been gone to who-knew-where before anyone else had awakened, while the rest of the Scions were scattered about Eorzea on assorted business.

And Rere, not having any current immediate obligations since the Twin Adders had her out on permanent ‘loan’ to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, had spotted Nero sitting at a back table on the House of Splendors’ patio among the breakfast rush, and decided now was as good a time as any to see about implementing a little idea of hers.

A fun little idea she’d been rolling around her brain for a while now.

Rereha grinned into her newly arrived tea, and settled to the task of devouring her breakfast. Never conduct business on an empty stomach, after all.

As she scraped the last of her cheese-smothered scrambled eggs and smoked sausage and dragon pepper sauce into a pile of gooey, greasy goodness, Nero closed his newspaper and folded it in half, tossing it onto the table next to his own empty plate. He stared at her as she shoveled her perfect final bite into her mouth.

“All right,” he said waspishly, picking up his coffee mug, “what is it that Eorzea’s premier degenerate wants?”

She chewed thoroughly and swallowed, because while she was a degenerate, but she was a degenerate with manners. As she dabbed her mouth clean with a napkin and pushed her plate aside, Rere said, “I’m hurt, Nero. You’re a friend! I like to spend time with my friends, even the ones who wanted to shove me into a primal-eating warmachina at one point just to see what would happen.”

The lalafell smiled, angling her head just enough that she was sure she could catch the morning sunlight on her teeth in a blinding smile against her dark skin.

Nero pushed his sunglasses up his nose, and took a pointedly loud slurp of coffee.

Rere pouted. “Damnit, too thick again.” She glanced at him and said, sly, “It’s like your accent when you get too worked up and slip back into Garlean, the Echo translates it so you sound like an Eastern Thanalani hick who’s never had tea served properly with goat’s milk.”

“That’s more like it,” the Garlean muttered into his cup. He frowned, then, and tilted his head at her. “Why wouldn’t one have goat’s milk with their tea?”

“Argh!” Rereha shoved her hat back and faceplanted onto the table, hands flat next to her face. “Stupid northern farmer stock, stop making my insults fall flat!”

“Get new material. Get to the point, too, while you’re at it.”

“Fine, fine.” She grabbed her pack, opening it and digging into it. After a moment’s rummaging, she yanked out a rolled-up piece of parchment, and shoved the pack aside once more. Dropping it next to her, she crossed her arms on the table and stared at Nero. “I want you to build me a bow. A very special kind of bow.”

His sunglasses of course hid his eyes, but she recognized that particular twitch of his left cheek that usually meant he was interested. “And why should I do that?” he said, because he wouldn’t be Nero if he didn’t play a little bit hard to get.

Rereha smiled, and held up a finger. “One,” she said primly, “Cid won’t, because he doesn’t create weapons. We are going to ignore the whole thing with the G-Warrior, because we shouldn’t judge a man wanting to get his grubby little engineering hands all over a hot pristine Allagan warmachina.”

Nero muttered something that sounded like, The audacity of not telling myself or Synnove.

She didn’t comment. That had been very rude of Cid.

“Two,” she continued, raising another finger, “this would not be Synnove’s specialty. She likes engineering, but this requires precision and knowledge currently outside her wheelhouse, and while I have no doubt she would become a master in the course of this project, I’d rather not wait the extra time this will take.”

He hummed noncommittally; he’d become significantly less likely to bristle at the mention of other people’s brilliance in the last few years…so long as those other people weren’t present, at least.

“Finally,” Rereha said, holding up a third finger, “and most importantly: you do create weapons, you do have the precision and knowledge already to pull this off, and you have exactly the kind of creative deviousness necessary to ensure this is a masterwork.”

Nero tipped his sunglasses back down his nose, and harrumphed. “Flattery will get you everywhere,” he drawled. “What’s the project?”

She slid the parchment across the table towards him.

He picked it up and unrolled it, so it was flat before him. For a few long moments, he merely looked at it, absorbing what she had roughly sketched out, his blue eyes darting over to the corner to read some of her notes. And then his eyebrows began to rise.

“This,” Nero said, precise in a way that was deeply judgmental, “is an abomination.”

Rereha hummed in agreement.

“Absolutely disgusting.”

She shrugged, a what can you do? gesture.

Nero’s eyes glittered with manic energy as he looked at her. “I love it.”

Her grin was wide and demented and absolutely evil.

[airlockfailure]

With the season ending, it's important to remember that as much as many of us enjoy TBB, it is full of flaws that need to be addressed.

The clones are based on Temuera Morrison, a Māori man. The clones are meant to be dark skinned Polynesians with dark hair (curly) and eyes. You don't have to watch very long to realize how blatant the whitewashing is. This is harmful to minorities, the Māori in particular, who do not get to see themselves represented very often.

I am autistic. Tech's info-dumping is treated like a joke/like it's annoying. This is harmful to neuro-divergent audience member who don't get to see themselves represented very often.

Cid is a lizard, full of greed, played by a Jewish woman. This is openly anti-Semitic and harmful to all Jewish audience members, perpetuating a tired old stereotype used as propaganda.

Wrecker is treated like an idiot by the writers, but he's not? Do you know how smart you have to be to work with explosive ordinance? Also, he's the most POC designed out of TBB, and treated like the dumbest by the writers. Wrap your minds around that, please, and then try to tell me that's okay.

Echo is disabled. He has three prosthetic limbs. He has a respiratory apparatus for fuck's sake (or he did). He had a metal external spine for fuck's sake. Most of his brain is computer at this point. And none of that is ever addressed. Surely these bother him? I've only seen him joke about it. I think it's dangerous to have a disabled character (a soldier nonetheless) whose disability is ignored.

Star Wars steals from other cultures without appropriate representation. The artistic style is no excuse.

You can argue all you want that "oh, Airlock, there are more important problems happening in the world right now", but just because you've chosen to fight a different fight, doesn't mean I can't choose this one. This issue is important to me. It's important to a lot of fans.

Disney is a corrupt giga-corp with pockets deeper than a black hole. There is no excuse to not represent people appropriately. NO EXCUSE.

[cy-berbyte]

Giga Brained Cog Bosses HC Hours Feat BG (PART 2)

This one���s gunna include some self indulgent romantic shit cuz I’m a whore!!! LET’S GO:

-The Vice President can sing! I like to imagine that all four bosses can sing, but VP is the one who’s the most blatant about it, aka he’d be the first to bolt at the opportunity to go up on a stage, loving all the eyes on him.

-VP also probably approves of every single jingle that’s composed by Sellbot HQ, and they’re so good at making music that they’ve got it down to a fucking science, where every song they play for a product WILL get stuck in a toon’s head.

-And speaking of catchy songs, here’s my personal voice claim for the Vice President :> !! : https://youtu.be/w_9hkafRBso

-The Sellbot is a very cheeky and charming motherfucker, who loves publicly flirting with his Bodyguard so his crush on her is the most obvious.

-He’s a very affectionate man, and is the cog most into PDA outta the four of them. He will very much let BG sit with him while he works just so she can constantly keep complimenting him, and he’ll compliment the fuck outta them right back, whether there’s someone in front of him or not. In public, he puts up his charming act and reacts confidently to their words, but in a more private setting, the VP can’t help but feel a little flustered himself when BG gently plants kisses all over his two faces.

-Meanwhile, the Cashbot CFO believes that money and luxurious items and trips will surely win The Bodyguard over rather than “embarrassing them to the public with cheap words”.

-When it comes to emotions, however, the CFO is... a goddamn tsundere, not gunna fuckin lie! Like in public he acts like there’s nothing going on with his Bodyguard n him, based on how loud n cold he is at everyone, even to them, especially on bad days when toons are invading the Cashbot HQ. The Bodyguard will compliment him anyways, knowing him, and in public he doesn’t react affectionately. He instead responds with shit like “Of course i’m great with money.” or “You’re goddamn right those toons got what they had comin,” whenever he (or she) manages to Sadden an entire party. But once work’s done for the day, especially on those bad days, the CFO will take every opportunity to summon BG over to him just so they can... “help him relax,” as he puts it.

She knows the CFO has a hard time expressing himself, especially when it comes to love, so she already knows that when this boss says that, he means he just wants to be cuddled n shown lots of love n affection to wind down. And The Bodyguard has lots of fun getting to shower him in affection while the CFO can’t even look at her in the eyes while grumbling to them to keep going. Yes he is embarrassed, yes he is blushing, yes he enjoys it very much anyways.

-The Lawbot CJ is definitely the one out of the four who’s the most subtle about his feelings, and would rather spend his time with his BG having genuinely deep conversations, reading books about the history of lawmaking, and listening to fine, classical music than whatever the fuck the previous two bozos do.

-I absolutely had a voice for him in mind since day 1, and that’s Shere Khan from: https://youtu.be/wh39vNCoq8M

-Of course, Chief Justice is the MOST adamant about keeping himself and his lawbots as pristine and in-line as possible. Disrespecting him absolutely earns anyone a mallet to the fucking head like teachers with rulers KAHFJSHCJJSJDJSJ

-The Bossbot CEO is the type to show his Bodyguard a good time through games. He’ll challenge her whenever he’s in the mood for some fun to golf matches or games of her choosing, and the CEO’s surprised at how much of a quick learner she can be.

-Still, the Bodyguard isn’t the best at everything, including golf, so the CEO will often teach her the best ways to play while getting up close and personal with them. And they Never mind.

-He’s actually the finest dancer out of the four, when he’s got Legs to Use, that is. Like with his gothic music playing, he dances perfectly to the rhythm and often times likes to be a flirty show-off.

-Bosses the other bosses around, even though the other three have no problem talking back to him and sassing his ass.

-Also I have a personal HC that while the bosses DO prefer to roll in style with their treads, when they’re off the clock and want to just kick back(and be an even Bigger threat to toons), they can switch their lower bodies to an optional pair of legs instead of the treads, that way they have more legroom(ha) to move around AND they’ll be too tall for toons to ever throw shit at! That way they can vibe without issue.

-The CEO is commonly the one known for his frequent high-end banquets. However, once a year, all four bosses will gather to the Chief Executive Tower with all their cogs for their most massive, luxurious party yet. Every cog is required to look their absolute best, so you already Know both the cogs and their bosses will be wearing different, fancier outfits while the bosses have been dressed and polished to absolute perfection. Of course no toon has ever managed to crash one of these parties because it’s Literally Every Cog in one area, so the machines have been able to have these annual parties without a hitch or without worry. Even the Chairman makes an appearance at this event, but he always leaves before the night has barely begun, so it’s sort of an unspoken rule amongst the cogs that everyone has to Wait for the Chairman to leave before they can Really have fun.

Yes there will be food and drinks, yes there will be chatting and dancing, yes all four bosses are going to smoke and get wasted out of their minds on this ONE night, and Y E S they’re going to drunkenly sing songs together and play hilarious rounds of poker that end up with CJ passed out on the table, the CFO with wearing shitty lopsided oversized sunglasses arguing with the CEO who’s got an oversized lamp on his head, and the VP straight up eating the fucking chips, laughing his fucking ass off while watching the arguing.

BRIEF BODYGUARD MOMENTS/HCS:

-All four cogs are Very Much Aware that BG has feelings for them after one certain incident, and now all of them Relish, they fucking THRIVE on making BG super flustered. All they have to do is look Directly At Her and make flirty comments and she is MUSH she ME L T S Bodyguard dissolves into a GIGGLY BITCH AND HER FACE GETS SO RED

-BG was only meant to be one out of the four bodyguards, but after An Earlier, Much More Negative incident involving toons, she ended up embodying all four of the suits that were meant to be for four toons total.

-The Bodyguard, when she was still fully a toon, wanted to be a singer, and she still has the pipes for it to this day. So now, whenever a department is doing particularly low and she’s got the time for it, she can boost productivity with her voice and a bit of music.

[tea-and-conspiracy]

Prompt 23: Soul (Dragonfall AU Fic)

As requested by @littlegoldenbirdie​, a continuation of this piece I did last year (now updated to reflect all the lore we’ve learned since then). I wanted to go longer but my brain ran outta gas. Also minimal editing because I had to make the prompt deadline, haha. Hope it’s better than nothing though! XD

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Life returned to normal after a time. Much as Persephone hoped to remain and witness the dragon eggs hatching, her wanderlust was beginning to kick in again and Loghrif was getting pushy about the floral samples Persephone had promised ages ago. In truth Persephone wasn’t even certain she could find those particular flowers again, but Loghrif wanted to surprise Mitron for her birthday and Persephone found she just couldn’t say no.

It was a short jaunt in any case. Before she left, Persephone made Lahabrea swear up and down that he’d contact her the moment the dragon eggs stirred – and then she made Elidibus promise the same because she knew Lahabrea would forget.

With that, the Traveler saddled up her pegasus and left Amaurot behind once more, its gentle lights fading into the mist.

To the east lay a great black forest, a place where the trees grew so large and dense that they strangled away the sun. North of that ranged a flat expanse of grassy meadows, and it was there – while on her way to sort out a particularly cantankerous gigas problem years ago – Persephone discovered flowers of a like she’d never seen before. They were fiery and star-shaped, with stalks the color of bone. By night they shied away from the dark but when the sun rose they would unfurl like newly-lit candlewicks. When Persephone returned and spoke of them to Loghrif, she’d instantly fallen in love. Loghrif tended the most magnificent garden in the city in her spare time, and her goal was to fill it with every plant in the world – but the first cutting of every new plant she found always went to Mitron.

Lofty, to be sure. Persephone was always happy to provide samples, but sometimes Loghrif could be...difficult to work with. Then again she supposed that could be said of the entire Convocation.

On the first day she made it as far as the mainland before she had to rest. There was a town she loved to stop in whenever she first left Amaurot on a journey, and there she caught up on the local gossip and helped the locals repair a windmill. They rewarded her in wine, the most important part of all.

On the second day Persephone stayed and slept because she drank too much wine.

On the third she made it to the edge of the flats before the sun went down, and set about pitching her camp in the long silver grass. It was perfectly within her means to create a more comfortable shelter, of course, but Persephone found she rather liked sleeping under the stars. Sometimes, suffering indignities like cold and insects made her appreciate Amaurot all the more when she came home again.

She was just settling in to her bedroll when the sky opened up with a roar. A black object punctured the heavens, wreathed in fire and spewing sparks. There was no elegance to its descent, not as there had been when Midgardsormr fell. It simply plummeted, and smote the flats so hard that she and her pegasus were knocked to the ground.

“Was that it...?” she whispered, wide-eyed.

In a panic, Persephone’s mind slipped to the constellations overhead, to Gemini. Hades appeared in a flash – and a bath towel.

“Azem!” he cried. “What did I tell you?”

“I didn’t know!” she protested. “You’re usually asleep by now!”

“That would not have been an improvement.” He sighed, lofted his fingers, and snapped a pair of robes onto his body. Thus clothed, however, he could not help a tender smile. “Though I suppose I will not decline the opportunity to see you again so soon.”

“I wish it could be for better reasons,” she said softly, before pointing to the wound upon the horizon.

“...What is that?” he asked.

“A cosmic delivery.”

“Omega?”

“I don’t know. But if Midgardsormr was literal about it not having a soul...” She looked to him.

Hades chewed the idea for a time. “...Very well. We’ll take a look, but quietly.”

She nodded.

They didn’t dare approach from the air lest they make their presence obvious, so Persephone did her best to calculate where the object had landed and teleported them in close. They appeared behind a ruined stone formation on the edge of a crater, ducking behind it for shelter as Persephone was forced to cover her mouth and nose with a sleeve. The air was almost too hot to breathe, choked with ash and dust and acrid fumes she could not put name to. It was impossible for her to see through the haze, but she knew that would not limit Hades.

Sure enough he had pressed himself flat to the side of the stones and was staring into the swirling void. She could hear something heavy and metallic stumbling around beyond; there was something uneven to its gait, as though were a wounded beast.

And still Hades was silent, she realized. Persephone called out to him.

“Nothing.” He turned to face her, shaken. “There’s...nothing. No light. No soul. Not even an aetheric signature from its creators. But it’s moving, Persephone...like an insect.”

She blinked. “Then it’s...what? A machine? Someone made a machine that can use creation magic?”

He shrugged.

Persephone exhaled, attempting to wrap her mind around this information. She didn’t make it very far before being wrangled back to reality by the prickly feeling of being watched.

A voice mumbled something to itself from behind the cloud. It sounded like a record player, slowed down and played in reverse. The very timbre of it set Persephone’s hair standing on end.

It said something again, lumbering closer.

And again, closer still.

[Parsing language patterns...initializing fourth attempt. Life forms detected. Identify yourselves.]

Hades and Persephone locked eyes.

What in Creation did they do now?

[nightmarearian]

katakana v. Nobles

just listing out the other nobles' fights. :p

under cut

Frenzied Nobles. Since these are more the ���transport” nobles, it’ll be more of a chase. Katakana has to keep up with them.*There is no interval to throw your pokemon into battle ---- Wydeer - Meets on the ledge of deertracks, and has to chase around the fieldlands + the middle area of the fieldlands. (Forest area is Kleavor’s, after all.) (Wydeer is faster at random intervals: Time distortion) - Kana can use some balms and pokemon for about an eighth of health:- Then Wydeer will use hypnosis and then flee. - The damage still holds once Kana finds it again (backstrike. If Wydeer notices he flees. Thankfully there’s a lot of grass). - Will have a psychic attack like Kleavor’s whirlwind- Besides the chipping tactic and running, it’s a lot like Kleavor. ---- Ursaluna- Katakana has to find things along the marshlands - where there are the little bogs and such with croagunk and stuff. - Ursaluna can appear (hiding/digging) around - where the alpha hippowdon (Sludge Mound) is, - the alpha sliggoo (Holm of Trials), or- in the middle of the Scarlet Bog & Bolderoll Slope. Kana’ll have to dodge to mud it flings if it notices Kata’; If Kana didn't dodge, Ursaluna will flee to another place (space distortion) - If Katakana does catch Ursaluna, the battle will commence; -Ursaluna uses a series of mud bombs (calls, and then dropping mud bombs) like Electrode uses voltorbs - during dodging it’ll giga impact/headlong rush or do a muddy water sort of thing. - Shadows going darker as the mud bombs actually fall. By the last fourth there is no wait time. - Giga impact at first, then headlong rush for the moment without attack. - Either before or after the moment, Ursaluna will try to escape by slinging mud at Kana. (Dodge = escape) - The difficulty improves like electrode. ---- Bascelegion is underwater (- Katakana likes the floating feeling of underwater, maybe dissociates underwater which causes drowning. ) - Bascelegion is encountered around Tranquility Cove after a sighting around Islepsy-Seagrass. - Kana has to be underwater and xer’s the only one that’s like the actual nobles in the game, kinda. - The arena is outlined in rocks and such underneath the waves. - Xer will have a hit and run strat, hitting Kana with a wave crash or a spectral attack. - Then it’ll swim around, slowing down (time distortion) being the only times kana can hit xim.- Every time the bar goes down a fourth, the attacks increase. - Kana has to go up every once in a while for breath; This’ll be during when you actually threw pokemon out. ---- - Sneasler will climb the cliffs fast; - Sneasler will jump down from climbing onto you like Lilgant. - Her attacks are very similar to Lilgant. - The battle field either is a place similar or is the Ancient Quarry. - She’ll jump down and dash onto/through Kana with a poison jab or drain punch - Then distortions (teleports) onto the high walls - Rinse and repeat - Like lilligant her attacks become way faster to dodge as you get her health down. - She trails poison (poison jab) around the battle field, like Avalugg or Palkia/Dialga’s ice spike and/or draco meteor. - There’s a descending dark sort of move she does by half-¾ s way. - After descending dark is a good moment to hit her with balms (I guess she distorts more since she's closer to the rift?) ----- Braviary is like Avalugg in terms of hitting it - It’ll stay high in the air - and shoot out attacks (Esper Wing, psychic, air slash) - Esper wing is the projective icicles of avalugg - It uses psychic as the shock waves, and is in the category of Avalugg's beam (except it’s the circle going inwards) - Air slash is the icicles stalagmites - After each round he tires enough to get into hitting range.- Rinse and repeat. Right well I'm brain dead this is copy pasted from my brain

so i'll just edit this later I lie to myself

[dreamingofrascal]

Promises For You

A/N: HIIII! THIS IS MY FIRST REQUEST by the lovely @tenshiraaa!!! They requested for the confession scene and you’ll be in the place for Mai. You’re disappearing also and almost follow the same story like as her y’know. But I HOPE YALL ENJOY! Requests are always open, Nsfw ones too ;). (Also requests can be for ANY of the Bunny Senpai cast). YALL ARE JUST REALLY THRISTY FOR SAKUTA.

It happened. Even though he promised and crossed his heart he wouldn’t, he still did. He was liar. Yet, you knew this pain grew from the fact that you would soon be forgotten as you faded out of existence. You peered over his shoulder as he took his exam that you helped prep him for. His brain worked rapidly. His gentle voice murmured the words as he read.

You felt out of place. You felt pervert-like for watching him. You felt hopeless. The intense realization was setting in. You were gone. You had been forgotten. Even if you stayed around Sakuta’s whole life watching him, It wouldn’t change anything. In fact, You assumed it would probably make the pain even worse. You sucked a deep breath in. Your hand played with his brown, messy locks one last time.

“Goodbye, Sakuta. Thanks for everything.” And with that, you left.

Only five minutes had passed since you said your farewell when Sakutas quiet reading stopped. His eyes gazed at a word that wouldn’t be perceived special to any other person. Yet to him, he felt something in this word. He stopped at the letterings that spelt, “Admiration.”. He had made a witty remark the past night on it, ‘Sakuta admired Y/N with great admiration and absolute heart eyes’.

Sakuta’s pupils began to expand. His face lighting up again before getting replaced with a frown. He was thinking, thinking hard about something. That was when he suddenly stood up from his desk, half heartily told a teacher an excuse on going to the bathroom before running off. He dashed down the hallways, running towards the exit of the school.

Sakuta made his way to the outside of the school. His feet carried him swift and with purpose. He didn’t bother to look at other passing students or staff. He was determined. He had a plan. His footing stopped in front of the school. He took a deep breath in, “Please work.” His voice was barely above a whisper.

“Y/N L/N, I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU.” His voice was loud, clear, broke the silent peace of the blue skies. His voice was raw, full of passion and emotion. Sakuta looked around quickly for any sign of you...Nothing. He sighed deeply, “This one is gonna make my vocal cords hurt.”And with another clearing of his throat, he opened his mouth, “I WANT TO LOVE YOU. I WANT YOU TO BE MINE, Y/N L/N. I WANT TO HOLD YOU.”, Another quick breath was taken, “I, SAKUTA AZUSAGAWA, IS MEGA SUPER DUPER GIGA VERY MUCH...” Another gasp of air was taken in as he felt his vocal cords grow raw, “LOVE YOUUUUU! I WANT YOU BY MY SIDE. I WANT TO TAKE YOU ON DATES. YOU MAKE ME HAPPY.”

Sakuta could see the faces of familiar students peeking out of the school’s windows. Their expressions were all the same; Furrowed-eyebrows and a confused frown or, an amused smirk at how embarrassing his actions were. Yet, Sakuta didn’t pay them any mind. His eyes just darted all around him for you. He just wanted to see you again. It’s all he wanted. It’s all he was thinking about.

Disappointment was creeping over him.

“It-it...it didn’t-it didn’t work?” His voice was shaky. Hopelessness deep in his voice.

Then, there came a silhouette, but not just any silhouette. It was yours. Sakuta rushed towards you as the two of you met atlast. Your arms instantly wrapped around his torso, just taking his warmth in. You looked up to see him smiling at you. You looked up to see him looking at you, acknowledging you, seeing you, feeling you, looking directly into your pretty, pretty eyes.

“You sure do know how to make a scene, Azusagawa.” You smiled which he gave in return, “But, Did you mean it? Everything you said, Do you really mean it?” The questions slipped out as you looked at him for reassurance.

He gave a nod and smiled with this true genuine happiness in his expression, “Duh, Of course I am. You really think that it was possible for me to not fall in love with you, Y/N?” He teased as he held on tightly to you.

The amount of joy was overwhelming. It made your heart thump and do flips. You felt the adrenaline run through your body. That nonstop flow of serotonin rushed in.

“You’re quiet. Am i getting rejected?” He questioned jokingly. It took a few seconds of you trying to wiggle from his grasp before you stepped back from him swiftly.

“Sakuta Azusagawa, I hereby confess that I, Y/N L/N, super duper ultra mega super love you. And would gladly want to be yours.” And with one last nod after finishing your confession, you grabbed his hand, “Now, Back to class, Azusagawa. We don’t want all that studying to go to waste.”

“Mhm mhm mhm.” He nodded obediently as you led the way back to the school.

Sakuta simply admired you as you dragged him. You were back. Finally back. Officially back. Back for once and for all. The way your hair caught the sun was back. The way you smiled and warmed Sakuta’s heart came back. A new beginning to his life was back. The one person who had helped him more than one else, more than his parents who gave up when things got rough, more than his teachers, his friends. Everyone. You made him feel cared for. You made him feel something. And he would never let something ,who could’ve faded away so easily, leave his life again. He promised to himself he wouldn’t lose you again. This time he would keep his promise to you. This promise was forever

[firespirited]

grouch

I spent the weekend

*making a parcel work for a buyer from a country I hadn’t allowed (sent via letter post with a ton of bubble wrap) then having to check the listings again for these countries ebay keeps adding.

*a parcel and listing for a buyer without paypal who wanted a bunch of stuff from different bundles which meant redoing the bundles and making a custom listing for finland. But hey dolls out is good, I didn’t make my money back but I do have more space. Free real estate!

*trying to wrap the amazon return external harddrive enclosure better than it arrived (rattling around in a big box and broken) and sticking the harddrive in my computer to test if that wasn’t the problem. It’s fine, it’s a 1TB seagate because the harddrive I *was* going to buy was sold out, amz suggested another and my brain defaulted to 2005 and went 1 terrabyte is mega-giga-big right?!

anyway “just” plugging something in your computer case means crawling around on the floor in a tiny space: the weather’s suddenly changed and all your joints have decided they’re barometers. Like maybe if I was a cavewoman I might appreciate the painful (and rusty feeling ?) heads up that a massive thunderstorm is coming but modern me likes thunderstorms and doesn’t like hands about as useful as a bunch of bananas. anyway you get down there under your desk like a cosmonaut in a tin can and there’s a decade’s worth of the finest dust on all the delicate electronics even though you cleaned it last year because it’s literally a giant dust magnet. And it’s one of those things where one job turns into four, ya know?

*getting very messy sleep and naps because I’m stupidly sound sensitive right now and Lily has an ear infection and refuses to be alone. she doesn’t want contact, she doesn’t want to stay in one place but she can’t be alone. she’s seeing the vet on thursday.

*reworking the way I eat and drink because what do you know? cutting out all sugar leaves you with no energy to make food let alone fight the nausea and eat? *shocked face* I’d already moved to remove direct sucrose/fructose sugar last year (no dark chocolate, no biscuits, no orange juice) and went through a mental and physical withdrawal.  However, going down to just carbs this year has left me in a right mess and I was eating too much to compensate. So the compromise is that I have a 1.5L bottle of 0% lemonade with about 5g total of sugar fruit concentrate in it, it’s in my bedroom so I can have a glass or a swig when I need just a tiny boost to get going. I’m told eventually the body adapts and well yes last year I was using slightly larger amounts of sugar to power through things. We’re at a point where going completely without isn’t possible...yet. The irony of becoming diabetic is that my sugar consumption at it’s highest didn’t come close to average consumption and my body is reacting to fractions of the normal amounts because this wasn’t a normal onset and my pancreas and liver are still mildly inflamed. So online guides are pretty useless. I can get myself to the kitchen with 0.5g of sucrose then end up yellow and swollen because they added 3g of sucrose to the shepard’s pie. I have zero internal monitors or alarms because ADHD, constant pain, constant exhaustion and rollercoaster bloodpressure because of POTS so sugar and lack of sugar sort of happen AT me instead of I guess normal regulation and adaptation. I’m trying very hard to not fall into any kind of obsessive pattern and resentment or envy towards food, nor guilt when it poisons me.

I try to set aside a moment to enjoy my food however messed up i’m feeling, even if i’m hypo and wanting to throw it down me like a pelican, be grateful however painful it was to prepare. I would just really like the wild reactions to settle down so i can adapt to a new routine. I’m at peace with giving up sugar and being careful with carbs, there are other tastes to enjoy, I’m experimenting with different peppers! It would be nice to eat without it feeling like i’m on an internal energy bucking bronco. I’m really looking forward to finishing my new weekly menu so I don’t have to calculate or just be thinking about fuel all the time anymore. Back when my gallbladder broke and I wasn’t well enough for surgery I got so sick of the maths I made myself a weekly meal plan that was mostly rice,veg and lean fish/meat and stuck to it for 18 months. It was very boring but I didn’t have to *think* about it. I’d tell myself at least it wasn’t the protein goo they eat outside the matrix and try to not imagine myself as Cypher trading humanity away for a black forest gateau with mousse and biscuit layers.

[askkrenko]

Krenko’s Guide to Pokemon: Exeggcute line

They’re not even eggs. You all know that, right? They’re not eggs.

DESIGN: 

Exeggcute is a handful of cracked Exeggutor seeds hanging out together. Individually, they’d be kind of boring, but as a bunch of seeds, it gives it a unique appearance that, especially when they bounce and move around each other.

Exeggcute really raises an interesting question of ‘what is a Pokemon’ though, because while Magnemite suddenly gets two more Magnemites on evolution, Exeggcute is clearly six seeds, but they only become one tree. While we know the six seeds are telepathically linked, aren’t they still six different Pokemon? And why do they hatch from one egg?

And it can’t be that the Pokeball just counts minds, because while Exeggcute and Exeggutor are telepathically linked, there’s other multi-headed Pokemon that don’t get along well with themselves at all.

My brain hurts. On to the coconut tree.

Exeggcute’s evolved form, the thing that grows from the seeds, is a tree. A short, stumpy, multi-headed coconut tree.

At six feet tall, it’s pretty short for a tree, but it gets the job across as a tree Pokemon. It has legs for walking, no arms because it’s telekinetic, and three heads that think independently but work together.  Supposedly, Exeggcute fall from Exeggcutor, and maybe that is how it works because even though everything comes from eggs, nobody’s ever seen a Pokemon lay an egg.

So here’s my theory: Exeggcute ‘eggs’ grow on Exeggutors but they’re actually nuts. When they break open, there’s six Exeggcute inside, which work together, and then later grow into a full-sized Exeggutor.

Anyway, as far as its design goes, I love this goofy tree thing. It’s clearly a coconut tree, but it’s also clearly some sort of monster, and the big coconut heads give it a unique visual that really nothing else compares to. It’s likely based on a creature from Japanese mythology, but there’s still enough differences between Exeggutor and the Jinmenju that you wouldn’t confuse the two.

Its Alolan form is mostly the same except... more correct. 

See, we had hints pretty early on that the Exeggutor we knew and loved was wrong. Pokedex entries stated that it originally came from the tropics, and that harsh sunlight makes it grow more.  And the thing is, we first saw Alolan Exeggutor back in 1997, before Pokemon even came to the US, as a piece of art for the TCG featured a “Jungle Exeggutor.”

Nineteen years later, here’s Alolan Exeggutor.

So yeah, that’s our palm tree pokemon. Also it’s a dragon. This thing is basically the same as foreign Exeggutor, except bigger and even sillier, with an extra coconut tail. Why is it a dragon? There’s a few theories on that, but the best theory is that it’s based on one of a few types of trees called “Dragon Trees” that live in Hawaii.  There’s a variety of Dragon Trees, and some look more like Exeggutor than others, but considering there’s Dragon Pokemon based off of Sea Dragons, Dragon Slugs, and Dragonflies, and one extended pun involving a Wyrm in an Apple, well...  I’m willing to believe “Dragon Tree” is just the sort of thing they’d do.

Art by Ninjendo, which I have to assume is a Nintendo that flips out and kills things

EVOLUTIONS: 

Exeggcute evolves with a leaf stone. If you evolve it in Alola, you get a proper Exeggutor, and if you evolve it anywhere else, you get a short Exeggutor. This is a bit of a problem for introducing Alolan Exeggutor to other games. What I'd like to see in the future is some alternate item or something to get an Alolan Exeggutor (maybe just have it evolve with the Sun Stone instead of the Leaf Stone) but I suppose that defeats the purpose of regional forms. If we get another warm region, hopefully we’ll see Alolan Exeggutors there. 

Stats are such that there’s no need for anything before Exeggute or after Exeggutor, though a Mega Exeggutor could be fun and funny. 

Exeggutor Mirrored by TamberElla

TYPING:

Exeggutor benefits from pretty rare typings, as there’s not much competition for its specific movesets. 

Defensively, neither’s particularly special, with more weakensses than resistances, and each coming with a x4 weakness. What is noteworthy about Alolan Exeggutor is that it doubly resists water, grass, and electricity. While there’s plenty of types it’s weak to, those are some very common attacks that it can effectively no-sell.

Offensively, grass is resisted by a lot, but Psychic and Dragon are both hard to stop. Steel stops all three types, but stumpy Exeggutor is super-effective against five types, and Alolan Exeggutor is super-effective against four types. Neither case is anything special, but it’s still a lot better than being pure grass.

Enjoy the Alolan Way by limb92

STATS: 

The two forms of Exeggutor basically have the same stats: 125 Special Attack with higher-than-average defenses and low speed. Yes, Alolan has more Attack and less Speed, but Special is still better than Attack by far, and speed is poor on both. 

125 is a really solid special attack stat, and while low speed is a problem, Exeggutor can take a few hits as long as the type matchups aren’t actively going against it.

Art by elyoncat

ABILITIES: 

Alolan Exeggutor’s normal ability is Frisk. Nobody cares. 

Malnourished Exggutor’s normal ability is Chlorophyll. This is quite good. Chlorophyll doubles its speed during Sunny Day, and while Exeggutor is slow, it’s not so slow that doubling its speed won’t make it faster than most opponents. Couple this with the ability to use Solar Beam, and Exeggutor has a place on a Sun team.

Both versions share a hidden ability of Harvest, which has a 50% chance each turn to replenish a consumed (but not otherwise lost) berry. During harsh sunlight, this chance increases to 100%. This requires a lot more strategy to use than Chlorophyll, certainly, but there’s plenty that can be done with it.

Obviously if you don’t plan to use a berry, Alolan Exeggutor gets Frisk, but it’s really not impressive.

MOVES: 

Exeggutor has two signature abilities in Barrage and Dragon Hammer, but they’re both Physical and neither’s impressive enough to warrant the 20-30 point stat hit for using physical attacks, so ignore them.

For a Grass type move, the primary question is, of course “am I taking advantage of the sun?” If you are, it’s Solar Beam.  If not, even with it making you weaker each time you use it, Leaf Storm is an absurdly powerful hit.  On a similar note, Alolan Exeggutor is going to want Draco Meteor. Look, this Pokemon’s not a tank, your goal is to kill the opponent as fast as possible. By the time you get to a third Draco Meteor or Leaf Storm, your Exeggutor’s probably falling down anyway.

On the other hand, if you want to try more defensive fighting, Giga Drain’s a solid special attack that helps keep you going. You could also take both Giga Drain and Leaf Storm, softening them up with Giga Drain and only using Leaf Storm when you expect it to kill.

Psychic Exeggutor’s Psychic move is Psychic. I shouldn’t need to explain that one. It’s been using it since Gen 1. There’s an argument to be made for using Psyshock, but that really depends on the meta.

For coverage purposes, True Exeggutor can learn Flamethrower, which is especially good if using the Sunny Day route, and both can learn Sludge Bomb, though I’d only really recommend it on the Dragon type who wants to have Super Effective damage against Fairies. 

Exeggutor naturally learns Hypnosis, which is a great move, but also a trick. With breeding, an Exeggutor can have Sleep Powder, which is the same move but with higher accuracy. Take Sleep Powder.

Art by I don’t know I searched and couldn’t find the original posting

OVERALL: 

I love this stupid tree. It’s so goofy. Chlorophyll and Harvest are both interesting, build-around abilities, and it’s got a reasonable stat lineup. My only big problem is that its signature attacks are Physical and it’s primarily Special. Dragon Hammer’s a good move, but with the attack difference an Exeggutor gets more damage out of Dragon Pulse. And Barrage is just garbage. 

You know, in the old days, Exeggutor was literally one of the strongest Pokemon there was. Now, it’s basically a relic. It’s still mostly fine, but the Physical/Special move divide isn’t always kind to it. 

[lost-in-yujikiri]

Alicization Rewatch ep 24 (final) + early WoU spoilers

In Underworld, Divine Weapons have memories from its original materials attached with their special moves, that’s what the “Recollection” in “Release Recollection” chant means. And sometimes, these memories foreshadow the fate of their owners.

1) Blue Rose Sword’s memory: A Sad Tale of Blue Rose and Eternal Ice

Eugeo’s beautiful Blue Rose Sword has a story behind its creation, which is extremely beautiful and sad.

tl;dr: Long ago the Eternal Ice on top of the End Mountains found a seed, and  with the Ice’s extensive care it eventually bloomed into a beautiful Blue Rose, they became best friends. However the Rose can’t survive cold harsh winter, and told the Ice to freeze it inside the ice so the Rose’s body can remain forever with the Ice. The Ice cried so much for the loss of the Rose that its heart froze and it lost even the ability to speak or think for itself.

I think you guys have realized the foreshadowing, right? The Blue Rose is Eugeo, and the Ice is Kirito!

Eugeo, just like the Blue Rose in this tale, was discovered by Kirito, became Kirito’s best friend, got trained in Aincrad style and grew into a stronger swordman and a person. What a journey it was.

But sadly, he can’t survive the final fight, just like how the Blue Rose can’t survive cold winter.

For the beginning part of ep 24, in this part of the novel, Kirito was beaten by Administrator pretty badly, to the point that he fell into Eugeo’s pool of blood, was ready to give up and let Adminstrator kill him along with Eugeo too. That’s why Eugeo spoke up “This isn’t like you” to Kirito, and gave him a much needed final push. It’s a bit of a pity the anime’s changes made the scene lost a bit of its meaning.

Just like how the Blue Rose wanted to leave its beautiful form to the Ice as a remembrance, Eugeo left Kirito everything he still had right then: the memories Kirito & Eugeo both shared together in UW as children (with young Alice as well), as teenagers, and as young adults. That amounts to 12+ years alone (10+ years as children (from baby time until they’re both 11 years old) plus 2 years 2 months as partners from 17 to 19 years old), as well as Eugeo’s ice sword partly repaired from his blood.

With everything that rode on him in this fight, Kirito managed to use the sword Eugeo gave him to  cut off her remaining arm and push back Administrator, which forced her to use the “logout to real world” card. But then she got killed by burning with the very Prime Senator whom she treated lowlier than trash earlier.

And here comes the goodbye with Eugeo and little Alice, how beautiful and sad it is... Both of them might have left, but their memories will remain in Kirito’s heart.

The end of the episode comes with the scene when Kirito’s Fluctlight got hit with the surge that fried his brain.

Because Kirito is the Ice in the Blue Rose Sword’s memory, this isn’t the end of his suffering. The end of ep 24 isn’t as clear about this later point as the novel, but thankfully WoU ep 2 talked about it in details: Kirito’s regret and self-blaming for the death of Eugeo and everyone else he fought along with became too much, that he attacked his own Fluctlight, which was amplified with the power surge from the attack in real world, and ended up making him lose his own ability to speak and think properly, entering a catatonic state in Underworld. His 1st priority in this state seems to always holding on to the broken Blue Rose Sword Eugeo left for him.

Interestingly, Kirito isn’t just the Ice in Eugeo’s fate, he also has its own story foreshadowed by his Divine Weapon.

2) Night Sky Sword’s Memory: The Curse a Wise Old Tree Suffers

Kirito’s Night Sky Sword has a memory attached to it as well, which is from the branch of the Gigas Cedar that Kirito and Eugeo cut down.

tl;dr: Gigas Cedar in its past wanted to quench its loneliness of being a isolated old tree so much it tried to reach other trees, but because its nature is to sucking up other trees’ power to grow, the other trees died because of it. However it still doesn’t give up and continue to reach out, and thus its curse and the dead trees around it continues to grow with time.

When you look at Kirito’s life thus far, you can tell that all the people he befriended in a normal way, who liked him as his own person first before knowing he’s a strong swordman (Sachi and the Moonlit Black Cat in Aincrad; Cardinal, Charlotte, little Alice Zuberg and Eugeo, his other half in Alicization), all died horrible deaths. Until these days Kirito still blames himself for all of these deaths, because according to his POV they were all his faults.

Not delving into specific spoilers, yes Sachi and the Moon Black Cat guild are still relevant to Kirito, you will understand later with WoU anime. For other friends and partners who are still living around Kirito, they’re different. Kirito abandoned Klein on the first Aincrad day and he still finds himself awkward around the kind adult friend now because of it, and others like his girlfriend Asuna, his close friends Lisbeth, Silica, Sinon, Agil he originally met them during cooperation in either dangerous missions or uncalled-for situations, and ironically they still stay with him until now despite his original intentions with them. Even if he now has close friends and a lover around, they’re still a separate category from the dead comrades to him and can not help him forgive himself. What a sad curse Kirito is suffering.

However, both these foreshadowing stories of Eugeo and Kirito still don’t give us readers a conclusion to Kirito’s fate, because he still lives on. Even in Unital Ring arc, the sequel to Alicization, until now it still hasn’t come to that ending. I hope, no matter what fate is awaiting Kirito it will be a satisfying one and give his suffering a rest. Poor guy’s gotten so much despair for himself and misunderstanding from other characters as well as both fans and haters already.

Thank you for following my Alicization Rewatch series thus far! Personally I want to write one more post about WoU anime adaptation, but I think the anime needs to reach a certain point in vol 18 for me to give you my full thoughts. Can’t wait for the anime next July!