saw ur louimar comic on twitter, ate that shit up. a little scared for the au :) in a positive way because i love it like im scared for louie cos that was a terrible "first impression" shhshd anyways yea 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈 evil gang evil gang evil gang

AHHHHH this ask made me post that comic here

YEAH.... imagine you're chilling with your pikmin homies, carefree (and also unable to remember anything a year prior) and suddenly some guy comes bursting out of the grass trying to grab you

i have some more drawings for this au... lots of thoughts.... hehe

Hi Bingo! I just wanted to say that I've been lurking and looking at your art for your lancer campaign for a while now and I think it's so cool! You've kinda inspired me to check out the system for myself too! I hope it's not too much trouble/making you retread anything you've talked about before, but I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on the system and how it's worked out for your campaign! I really love mecha stuff, but I think the genre can be pretty rife with militarism that I'm not super into. I get the sense though that you've been able to find a good way to slot these really cool characters into the setting and focus on their interactions while also getting the fun of that sweet sweet mech combat. My inquiry is very low stakes haha, so nw if you don't have time to gather all your thoughts (I know that if I was tasked to talk about my own campaigns my head would burst into flames just trying to sift through what I'd want to say :P) Anyway, just a little friendly wave to you to say your art is very inspirational, and keep up the great work!

OH WOW this is . whuhh. WOW! sorry im like. wtff. i mean i ramble about my characters a lot but i didn't think anyone else actually gave a fuck which is completely ok, i just WHUHH..!!! holy shit. excitement aside, i get where you're coming from. honestly i was never into the mecha genre, but lancer rpg really made me realize how cool it is! like im not a really technical guy, and i feel like lancer is VERY strategy-heavy in combat; unless you know what you're doing and what everything does, you can easily get overwhelmed with all the features and all the things to consider in the math. for me its a lot because i struggle with spatial understanding and any sort of mathematics. that's my only real gripe on the system, but that might also just be every other system as well. it's more of a personal issue than that of the system, my friends all picked it up super quick. as for the genre, yeah, i find militaristic shit a drag and mecha has the same feel to me. its got a layer of professionalism and seriousness i don't enjoy, nor wish to play along with, so i get what you mean yeah. thankfully my friend who dms the campaign is just. Holy fuck; she just has a huuuge extra care for character stories and weaving them into the narrative she explores. so really, its her i've to thank for making mecha stuff FUN for me. lancer can certainly run hand-in-hand with militaristic-focused rp, i was in a oneshot with that sole focus and while it was interesting, without that interesting narrative stuff you kind of lose steam, but ive grown so fond of dog days cuz of how my friend lets our characters develop AND helps them do that. that and the way she sets up the story, just. FUUUUCK. the military is an afterthought in what is a fight against time and para-causality sinking its teeth into what little sanity we have. we fight against something that is a victim and a perpetrator. we're the worst people to be tasked to be saving an entire planet too, but here we are. as cheesy as it is, it's all about who you play with. thats the feel i get about most systems. honestly why im so ehhh about playing with strangers, when i'd rather play with people i like. all systems strike me as more of a tool; its the way you use em yk? the experience you get from them are more reflective of who you're telling a story with (or fighting alongside, there's no right way to play. i just really like narrative storytelling). so really, ive to thank my friends, especially @spaginithethird who introduced me to lancer in the first place as a dm!!!!!!!!!! TO A LOT OF SYSTEMS ACTUALLY shes rlly knowledgeable abt this stuff and very very very sweet too o7 so yeah really, its a really fun system BUT to me, i wouldnt be playing lancer if i didn't have a narrative to go by and follow with people i like. i am always sayin this but its my favorite thing when it comes to ttrpgs

"owner of 75 pfps of Anton Herzen" Can i see them? :^0

ok 75 was a bit of an exaggeration (at least for the time being, I'll definitely get more when I have the time to peruse everything with him featured) but here's all the ones i currently have

a total of 17 so far, my collection will grow once my executive dysfunction chills out enough to let me screenshot and edit more stuff

polearms? [Y/N]

A resounding yes. My absolute favorite class of melee weapons.

From the humble spear

To some of the most gorgeous, elegant, and versatile weapons I've seen

Absolutely nothing she can't do.

3, 6, 7 for the headcanon asks :)c

3. What names did they give their kid(s)? Whose idea were they?

they have a daughter named sam !!! chase 100% suggested it.

6. What did they like to do for dates?

I don’t think they would go out on many romantic dates, but when they do it’s nothing too crazy I feel like. Just comfy? They go out to eat and go watch a movie or something.

7. What did they like to do as a family?

They definitely play video games together. Stacy is very good at Mario kart. Going to the beach. Also even though I don’t think they would go there often: the aquarium. Sam would love jellyfish a lot :3

🍒🩷🍅🪐🦋 for the ask game!

I'll just go with Mystery Matter for this one.

🍒 (Cherry) - Out of all of the Dream Friends [Kirby included], which ones would they get along with the most? The least?

I imagine she'd get along pretty well with Gooey post-DL3. Aside from her, I imagine she'd get along really well with Meta Knight and Bandana since she also has that fighting spirit in her and her weapon of choice is a spear.

🩷 (Pink Heart) - If they were a Dream Friend, what would their moveset be like? How much HP do they have? Would they be a strong attacker, or would they take on more of a support role?

I imagine she'd borrow a bit from the Spear moveset, but with some kind of dark twist to it. I also imagine she'd share similar abilities to her brothers being a Dark Matter except for the eye lasar, since her eye doesn't really work.

She'd be an attacker for sure.

🍅 (Tomato) - If Kirby absorbed them or their attacks, what Copy Ability [or Abilities] would he get? Alternatively, if they themselves are capable of using the Copy Ability, do they have a favourite?

Definitely Spear. I'm not sure if Dark Matter CAN give copy abilities to Kirby though.

🪐 (Saturn) - What planet are they from? Is it in Gamble Galaxy, Another Dimension, the Mirror World, the New World, or somewhere else? Where do they live now?

She used to live on Dark Star with the rest of her colony (including Gooey and Blade). After DL3 though she's settled with living on Popstar.

🦋 (Butterfly) - Does your OC ‘fear the reaper’, so to speak? If they fused with Morpho Knight, what sort of form would they take on?

Mystery has been through so much shit that she doesn't really care. I already imagine Morpho could take on the form of a Dark Matter if it wanted to, but I think a fusion between it and Mystery would be interesting.

If you end up doing anything with a divergent au let me know! I never read divergent so I can’t contribute anything to it, but I’d love to see what direction it might be taken in!! ^^

I WILL TRY 07 I think it'd be really funny.. there are a few too many parallels. I haven't read it all either tbh but I know a little too much about it. It'd be a shit post au anyway

bloodborne questions time: in your mind what kept laurence going? why did he keep trying to administer the old blood to the public, even after he knew of its consequences? misguided compassion? sunk cost fallacy?? simply not giving a fuck??? good ol fashioned god complex???? something else entirely?????

everyone has a unique answer to this type of thing and its fascinating :)

OOOH this is a tough one! There are so many incredibly compelling answers to "why did Laurence do the things he did" and it's left beautifully unanswered in game. Personally, I like the interpretation that it's a little bit of all those things- a smorgasbord of compounding issues.

I think it's pretty safe to say that his intentions were originally 'good'. For all the Healing Church does horribly wrong it does provide safe, affordable medical care in an era where death and disease were a constant looming threat. Laurence originally wanting to give something good back to Yharnam and genuinely help just makes everything else that little more tragic IMO. Particularly if he knew about the Beast Side Effects (tm) but thought that medicinal care was more important or that he'd find a cure before it got too bad.

That said he's not innocent at all. From what we know the Research Hall was pretty early in the Chruch's life (or at least when it was at its height) and I wouldn't call anything in there virtuous. He can have good intentions and do awful things with them. The same thing applies to the Church's pushing of xenophobia towards Cainhurst. Like I personally read it as a strategic move on Laurence's part but the intentions behind bigotry don't fix the bigotry (specially cus it was the 'justification' the Church used for actual genocide!!!)

That said, I've talked about the value (or lack thereof) that Laurence places on human life before. He seems to care for people but levies this ultimate goal of ascension as much more important. This is something it seems like all the other Byrgenwerth Scholars share: be it Master Willem's influence, the kind of people that get accepted into the college, or just something in the water giving them delusions of grandeur. I can see this view, and Laurence's deliberate placing of himself as a religious leader in Yharnam, as developing into some sort of complex yeah. The "they don't know what's best for them. I'm enlightened to the truth! They may think me cruel now but when humanity ascends its flesh prison into the cosmos, then they'll understand" kinda thing.

Going on from that, all of Laurence's friends die or leave him and he eventually starts losing his memories. The translated lyrics to his theme imply a reluctance towards the blood at a certain point and I can see that being exasperated by the Burning of Old Yharnam or the Creation of the Dream or some other awful situation he put himself in. But at this point, he's been masquerading dictator for going on 2 decades and he can't just... dismantle his doctrine. That's where the sunk costs come in. He just has to double down. I can ABSOLUTELY see him becoming even more tyrannical in the last few years of his life.

Anyway, I see Laurence's motives as in a constant shift and change in reaction to his current standing. He's continually trying to justify something he knows is deeply harmful to both himself and others and it fucks with him.

it could be interesting for jiu to ask qinghua if his friend is particularly touchy about anything? in his typical way of asking anything where he acts as if hes just insulting anyone to get them to talk rather than "hey is he mad at me". get some silence translator in here. or possibly mobei leaves a note thats like 'cant talk rn sorry' but wont elaborate because telling people youre too traumatised to speak rn is cringe (not true but yknow). or mobei could say hi via musical flourish?

I'm open to ideas on this one bc while I had a period when I had a similar struggle (for the first three years of elemental school I was bullied and beaten by the older kids a lot) it got better when my situation got better and I compartmentalized the whole thing away so I don't really remember it anymore.

What I really need to consider is how the characters are going to act and how it will affect the flow of the story. Like, the chapter is supposed to be the lead-up to SQQ finally breaking down and confiding in MBJ about how the situation with Qi-ge is hurting him (not in those words, but that's the gist). So he's feeling stressed out bc he has to interact with YQY a lot more than usual (they are finally fixing the issue of YQY being overworked af and have to basically rebuild Qiong Ding Peak to do it) and 'losing' his safe space temporarily (he hears SQH and MBJ play together one time he goes there and then avoids the garden for a while).

So feeling like his friend has abandoned him might be too much. Push him too far so he won't even try to come back. Definitely wouldn't get over it enough to tell MBJ about YQY. And I'm not sure he has the emotional bandwidth at the time to parse the situation and handle it even if MBJ makes an effort to communicate that he's there.

Like, can I imagine SJ playing yes-no questions with MBJ to get a handle on why the demon can't talk? Sure. But not in the headspace he is in for the rest of the chapter. Hell, he'd probably bolt before MBJ can get over his instinct to withdraw when his vulnerable and try to explain what's going on.

So it might be better to keep this for a post-reveal scenario and go with the other scene I was considering for the chapter.

I'm watching quietly from the shadows............ and here's the thing I wanna ask

What's the thing between Ash and Natalie?

Asking about what’s going on with Ash and Natalie I see

Sadly not much I can really go into detail when I first need to rewrite Natalie's lore so it makes more sense and all but there is something I can say about your question

Natalie is someone who collects puppets

Puppets that will make good use for her

And Ash is perfect as a puppet

Ash on the hand feels hatred and hatred only towards Natalie

this is ur excuse to talk about hot fuzz :)

tell us something about it! anything

OK SO. AHGHHHHHHHHHHH THERE'S THIS ONE DETAIL THAT I STILL HARP ON TO THIS DAY. i rewatched the movie like 40 times during the quarantine and i have the dvds and stuff and so i got bored one time and was all. Hey why not make an edit. so i did! one thing i did not notice until after the edit, wright is so fucking. HROW. i swear to god his visuals and cinematography are EVERYTHING to me but in the train scene.. ohhggh.. at this point we already know nicholas is completely disconnected from everything that isnt his job, he's. well. isolated. particularly cuz his fiance just left him (through no fault of her own, nicholas and her just didn't really compromise. it didnt work...) and also all of his coworkers hate him.. so this visual, nicholas in the middle with his lily, surrounded by four distinct couples. this is a romance movie... this was a rom com. really emphasized that hes fucking alone and frankly miserable because he has no idea how to connect to people. its like... show dont tell to a perfect fucking degree. you SEE it. this guy is fucking alone.

danny hes sooo in love with you hes using your slangs and mimicking your behavior. i think he's autistic im pretty sure he is, i very much like nicholas as a character and how he seemingly comes off as uncaring but he REALLY does. its just not as obvious, and danny took the time to see him when no one else would and that really does a lot to my brain.

i constantly think about your post about like your grandma in a cabin in the woods only being able to load the brendon urie coming out article on her phone. like I'll be at work and it'll pop into my head for real

Lmaooo that's so funny. That's such a treasured memory bc it was my whole family in a cabin at Yellowstone and she just announced to my whole family "Brendon Urie comes out as pansexual??" and we lost it bc we knew she only understood 1/3 of that sentence.

Favorite type of water?

-Glass

Honestly I just drink tap water. I am such a germ phobe but for some reason that does not mmm gross me out. I almost exclusively drink lemonade though. And yes I am aware how fucked up that is. But I also think it's mmmm kind of hilarious (and I mean. It's on-brand)

Saw your post abt sparkle tfs..... I dunno if they quite count but here's my Crescent...

hey hey, i love them??

lot of different ways to describe 'sparkle' and i think they fit the bill

my only sparkle tf oc (sorta) is exabyte, his brand is more about the edgy and black + red color palette that has always been my favorite

wait what’s wrong with soft top ashton? 🥲 not hating i’m just genuinely curious

it’s totally fine! i’m not mad at anyone who writes/reads it. in fact, there are some really good ones out there. i just am tired of seeing only that trope. it’s like hard to be immersed in. i more so like when a character/fanfiction character has flaws and the sweet moments are earned. i don’t want him to be abusive or like actually mean, but i’m a sucker for grumpy x sunshine idk. 🤍🧸🦋🫧

Ghost: How do you feel about where you and Zero are at right now in your lives?

Translation: We're starting to move past everything I guess

"Zero is still a bastard and I'm never going to forgive him.

But I guess.. He's still like a brother to me. Had his reasons anyway."