Take Reality Altering Powers Seriously AU

Danny, decades into his stint as High King of the Infinite Realms, has Clockwork bring something to his attention.

There is a dimension that, periodically, will reset itself. There's different versions of those heroes that it threw aside to remake into something else, and it's starting to cause Problems.

So Danny is tasked with designing something that can contain the thing that's causing the problem; a being called "Speedforce". It behaves much like a god, and chooses people to act as avatars for it's powers.

He designs it's capture device much like his parents had designed the Fenton Thermos.

One day, much to the collective horror of the citizens Central City, the skies turn electric green, and a man dressed in a business suit made of indescribable materials descends.

He takes one look at the Flash, who came as quickly as he could to stop this new unknown, and pointed a strange device at him-and something ephemeral is torn from the Flash, something that feels really, really important.

Then the man in the suit thanks Flash, pulls out a strange looking gun, and shoots him with a tranq.

Then the man disappears, and hunts down every single Flash Family member and does the same thing.

Wally wakes up, confused and dazed, with a furious Dick at his bedside along with the rest of his family.

Only for their fury and fear to grow when he tries to run as fast as he normally does, only for it to be normal running speed for humans.

But.

Danny only agreed to do it under one caveat; he gets to give the Flash family another power instead of Speedforce.

He feels bad about stripping them of their powers, okay?! They were only trying to help.

@simplestoryteller

So I made these

If the codes are hard to read, here's text versions

Creator code: MA-2770-8864-1568

Vash Coat: MO-C5P3-H4HR-VXTH

Vash Coat DM (Dark Mode): MO-SH26-N2JY-4SJK

.... Enjoy?

better alternatives to purchasing from devilinspired

after seeing the 40,000th video of lolitas ordering from sites like devilinspired and my-lolita-dress and seething/coping/fuming/etc, i’ve decided to make a post giving resources for better alternatives if you want to purchase from brands on taobao and receive better pricing and customer service while doing so!

“but why are devilinspired/my-lolita-dress bad?”

they’re not necessarily evil sites that need to be boycotted per se, but they don’t exactly have a high standard for quality control (including selling design and print replicas), price gouge pretty badly, and have had less than stellar customer service, so i thought it would be better to give people resources for smarter purchasing!

here's a 2018 breakdown comparing the prices between the shopping service 42agent and buying through taobao directly

here's a tutorial on how to navigate and purchase from taobao directly without the use of a shopping service/agent

and here is a link to 42agent’s lolita vendor site, 42lolita, which has consistently better brand quality control, lower pricing, and better customer service than DI or MLD

i’ve also crossposted this info to twitter via a thread :)

okay, i've got some things i wanna say about twst EN's translation of scarabia's story that i was originally typing out as part of a response to an ask, but then i realized i was going off on a bit of a tangent and was like "this could basically be its own post"--so now it's going to be its own post!

i'm a twst EN player, and for the most part, i do really like the localization. i don't speak japanese but i love learning about language and the process of translation and localization, so at one point after finishing books 1-5 i went and reread them all (and 6 as well, once it was fully released on EN) with a fan translation and the localization side by side to compare them. and from what i could tell as someone who isn't a japanese speaker, i honestly thought it seemed like they usually did pretty well? sure, there were a few mistakes like cater claiming to be an only child (this one, i think, has actually been fixed recently), or how in book 2 they removed a small mention of falena making it seem like he's never mentioned at all until leona's flashback and they also removed the numerous times that he said "be prepared" (at least they finally properly translated it in book 6, though!!). but i thought most of these mistakes were somewhat minor and could be forgiven... until book 4 (well, and book 5, mostly in regards to vil and epel's conflict and i'm not talking about them here, so).

see, i actually realized that something was off about the localization when i first played through book 4, because i have a weird memory and have picked up a bunch of random words and phrases from being into japanese media and reading so much about the localization process. and i also play twst with the sound on because i love to hear the voice acting. so sometimes i would hear jamil speak, i'd pick out the words "shujin" and "juusha" for "master" and "servant", and then the subtitles wouldn't include them at all. so i'd guess certain things about the actual intent behind the story based on that. take this message i sent to my friend when i was sharing my blind reactions to the game:

and she ended up telling me that apparently, what i thought he should say essentially IS what he originally said!! according to the fan translation on wiki.gg he said this instead:

i had wondered if maybe i was reading into things and assuming too much, but it turned out i was completely spot on! but most people who play EN would not be able to pick up on this and realize that jamil was born into servitude to kalim and has no escape, because as i later discovered almost every single mention of him being a servant at all was removed, in events and vignettes as well. which is actually really weird to me because they don't remove it entirely, they do in fact bring up the fact that jamil has to test all of kalim's food for poison during book 4 and they also left in a line where he says he "works as kalim's servant". but they only really mention these things once or twice and then they try to sort of play it off as jamil being a paid employee or something most of the time... seriously, during beanfest there's dialogue where jamil says it would be rude to refuse an order from his boss but i've read that that line was originally him saying a servant couldn't disobey his master. and in the scalding sands event he calls himself "a dedicated employee" of kalim's... what, am i supposed to assume he works as a butler by choice or something? yeah, no. also, one of his birthday vignettes, which are fully voiced so i could TELL he said, with a devious smirk on his face, that if he had a parrot the first word he would teach it would be "shujin-sama". "master". what did EN change this into?

the person i was originally writing all of this in response to said that sometimes people's takes on jamil make them wonder if people are reading a completely different story but also that part of that can probably be blamed on the way EN completely changed the context of his situation with these translation choices. and yeah, i fully agree with that assessment: more casual fans or people who just aren't that interested in the scarabia duo could be said to be reading a different story with this whole "boss" and "employee" thing that has jamil make it sound like the worst that could ever happen to him if he got in trouble would be getting a really stern lecture from his parents.

and it makes me sad because i really do love both jamil and kalim so much and i think their dynamic is so tragic and complicated and interesting to think about. i think they're both really complex characters who are trapped in an awful situation. kalim is so kind and loving and would never wanna hurt anyone but he hurts jamil just by existing as part of the fucked up society they live in. kalim thought he and jamil were best friends, he had no idea of the toxicity of their dynamic and the pain jamil was in, and people say jamil should've just talked to him about it earlier... but jamil's first memory as a child is of seeing his parents bow to the asim family. being a servant is practically all he's ever known and he's had it drilled into his head since they were both small children that he can never be himself around kalim, can never just treat him like a normal person because he's a servant and kalim is his master. and even if he did accept kalim's offer to start over as equals and be friends, what would happen when they had to go home to their families? they won't be at school forever.

and i just. augh. i hate what the localization does with them. if you try to water them down to just an employee who's super mad at his obliviously crappy boss, or just two childhood friends who needed to communicate better or something like that, then you take away from the complexity of both characters. you also lose extremely cool writing choices like how jamil is a character who was born into servitude but has the power to make himself the master with his unique magic. i see so many takes about how jamil is just a jerk who betrayed his best friend and how kalim never did anything wrong in his entire life and i hate it but i'm sure the localization's choices are in fact to blame for a lot of this.

so anyway jamil and kalim's actual dynamic is fascinating and lives rent-free in my head, no thanks to how the EN version gutted it.

If you looked in TK’s camera roll, you’d be sure to see-

12 pictures of stranger’s dogs

11 “keep going” mantras from Cooper

10 pictures of Buttercup

9 of Carlos cooking

8 of Carlos doing yoga

7 sensational selfies

6 game night victories

5 unhinged memes

4 saved recipes

3 Mateo close ups

2 FaceTime screenshots

And an article about leaving the bag in your teaaaa 🎶

hey yall sorry for disappearing for *checks last post* nearly a month. ive been busy with school lol im sorry. school has been dragging me by the hair recently

also. henry stickmin hyperfixation gone. it was a good five weeks while it lasted, but i am back to my fnaf roots now im afraid

enjoy some michael bc i love my boy

the fuck you mean Megan Thee Stallion is the same age as me

started another violet playthrough as florian. I'm a big fan of her blank faced stare

sometimes I think about valjean owning a little bookshop and then I smile :)

That "cozy" marketed games post reminds me of an idle idea I had for a slow paced cafe game with grumpy folks that gradually open up. With maybe optional side mini games 'hidden' in it but not as part of the store running to not become tedious. Sorta classic animal crossing, but if rather than getting put to work by Tom Nook, it was Brewster.

My main gripe with lots of current games in the niche are that they're about making money in order to improve your shop and level up to unlock recipes that'll sell for more money, while barely—if ever—giving characters that I can get attached to and want to improve the place FOR besides an intrinsic desire to Make Pretty.

Entitled customers are funny, imagine kicking up such a fuss with our managers that 2 mall security guards had to be called to come mediate all because you and your wife not only can't read but also can't see that our menu literally serves soft poached egg, not a boiled egg, in our Japanese rice bowls

Anyway read the menu properly y'all and ask questions if you're unsure, don't be a dick to hospitality workers especially over dumb shit

The Premiere of Tron the Game at Flynn's Arcade - Our Lovely Photographer

Photo by: Kevin Flynn

And for those who would like it, the non-blurred version is under the cut:

miraculous and fnaf are cut from the same cloth. things were pretty basic and straightforward at first but then things went EXPONENTIALLY downhill after the third installation because the creators were literally just doing too much. things really did not have to be this crazy.

i wish it was acceptable to ask customers "and what on earth do you want me to do about that"

no but i literally cannot imagine pete ratting out emma for not singing idk who that guy was in tgwdlm

i hate when people at my job are like "wow you seem like you've been here long you're already so good" like am i wrong for being annoyed bc this is easy work imo like this is my very first retail job i've done mostly office stuff but i actually cannot fathom how easy retail is. it's literally just help customers (done that in office work), and stock shelves am i crazy for thinking this is light work????