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Intro
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Once upon a time, there was a group of cats…
Lignin took care of the younger ones… she named them too when they were given stupid names
She was sad and scared
Page was the youngest… so sweet and kind. He took care of Lignin because she couldn’t take care of herself
He was too pure for the world
Then there was Quill. He was troublesome and fun. Always made everyone smile, even when he was the most annoying thing alive
There seemed to be no end to his energy
And… Ink… he stepped in for Page when she couldn’t do everything… which was almost always…
The others joked that there were hearts on his pelt because he had too much love to contain it all inside him
There was also a cat named Story
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He was a jerk
#this is the intro to my clangen story!!#my art style is going to probably change a bunch and in fact already changed half way through this one post haha#lignin and page’s feet are different from everyone else cuz when I drew Quill I decided I liked little pointy feet instead#its easier plus I think it looks neat#and even more storybook kinda style#idk I’m just letting things happen as I go and seeing what I like and what I don’t lol#designs are also subject to randomly change or just be inconsistent#anyways I hope you guys enjoy the intro!! next post coming whenever I have time to finish it#prob this week unless I start drowning in assignments#warrior cats#clangen#warrior cats ocs#storybookclan#lignin#page#quill#ink#story
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@mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @irrealisms !! you had lots of prompt ideas for writing, but not for art, so i hope you're happy with eclipse federation misery and agony compilation, plus song lyrics
lyric credits: Temporary - Chase Petra / Stranger - The Mechanisms / Easier - The Crane Wives (appears four times) / Two Birds - Regina Spektor / Little Soldiers - The Crane Wives (appears twice) / Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
feel free to ask if you want me to adjust some text to make it more readable or something, i think it looks fine but i know different peoples eyes and devices are different, and if i had more time i would definitely have spent more time messing with the colors on everything
speaking. of time. im really sorry i took so long ._. i kind of suck at estimating how long projects will take and how much time i have. thanks for being so patient!!
oh, also, some lyrics and drawings have story reasons for being grouped together, and some went where they looked good. uh. ideally id make sure everything had reason for its location, but this is one area where i did correctly estimate my time, instead of getting stuck in the planning phase.
also in the process of typing all this ive already gone back twice to change stuff in the images and re-add them to the post lol
OH also!! the part where vitalasy jumps off to his death! is as far as i can tell NOT canon accurate!! all the footage shows him jumping off the prison, since thats where he respawns. i didnt think to check this until after id already drawn most of the stuff, and already had the prison drawn, and i didnt want to reorganize the drawing. im telling myself that we only see a few of the later deaths and so theoretically the first one could have been jumping off a grassy ledge somewhere but its still bothering me and i needed to mention it.
anyway yeah really hope you like it i tried some new stuff with this one im not sure how well it turned out and thanks again for being so patient!!
EDITING TO ADD SOME MORE WORDS!!! i love talking about my art! so first, all the text on signs and stuff i did go back and look at videos and vods to make sure was entirely accurate, and i wrote all the words entirely by myself. for the lyrics and other text(death message and DELIVERANCE), i used a text tool first to make sure the words would be neat and where i needed them, and then traced over that on a new layer and deleted the original text layer. my handwritting fucking sucks always no matter what, this was a very necessary step. also! this is officially the first thing i have drawn entirely on my phone, rather than on my ipad like i used to do! also i dont use a stylus of any type i just draw with my finger lol.
#eclipse federation#vitalasy#princezam#itzsubz#mcyt#edited to add EVEN MORE WORDS below the cut. i am the yapper#lifesteal smp#chara makes things#<-somehow both tags i originally forgot.#EDITING AGIN. third edit. first was extra text second was extra tags this is for a critical spelling error(used a - instead of a / as the#divider between two songs by accident)
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Raven-san you need to stop gaslighting yourself his hair is atrocious! OTL Its like rock paper scissors, and he lost to the scissors type of bad.
[Referencing this post!]
NO I SWEAR THAT iT ADDS TO HIS cHARACTER 😭 (I mean, I won’t pass up an opportunity to bully him for his haircut but I’ll still defend it with my life—)
It just suits him in a way that’s hard to put into words. Like, I can’t see him in any other hairstyle, it fits his neat and tidy look so well. But it also??? Sort of makes him look like a pathetic little constantly angry cat looking for something to claw into… which, again, is super fitting. I sadly find something oddly endearing about it 😔 It’s a resonant chaotic energy that matches up with how fucked up his character is… It’s got strong gap moe 💕 PLUS THE MORE FOREHEAD THERE IS, THE EASIER IT IS TO KISS—
I want to add that there might be a cultural disconnect regarding the haircut. Many of the TWST fans I’ve interacted with are predominantly English-speaking—and the kind of haircut Rollo has is rarely seen in those circles. I wasn’t as shocked or as put off by his hair at first because (at least from my own cultural background) it’s not uncommon to see little boys and young men with similar-looking hairdos. I’m more used to seeing it around, so I’m not as offended by it. This is also true of Rook’s bob cut, which is not typically found in western cultures on men but has a place in Asia. (Of course, there’s going to be people from the same background as me who think Rollo’s hair is ugly. I’m only speaking for myself in this post, not them.)
I personally find Malleus, Jack, and Trey's hair to be much more unappealing than Rollo’s 💀 Malleus and Jack basically have mullets, while Trey’s is super short and reminds me of a freshly mowed lawn.
#twisted wonderland#twst#disney twisted wonderland#Rollo Flamme#Rollo Flamm#notes from the writing raven#Rollo rot#Trey Clover#Jack Howl#Malleus Draconia#Rook Hunt
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DESIGN REFERENCES FOR LI JINZHA
⚠️NOTE⚠️ I am NOT a researcher, meaning I did not go beyond his baike article for this post, so please don't take this post as a concrete, definite description of Jinzha. Remember that there are different versions of mythology characters all the time, and these are simply some of them. I'm only making this so others can have a starting point in designing him!
Any rbs with corrections/additions are highly welcome!!
Throughout my year of Li Brother Illness TM, I've seen some li brother designs which always makes me incredibly happy. However, I still thought it'd be neat if I shared some stuff that helped inspire my headcannons/designs of the li siblings. This one will be about Jinzha!
I hope this gives a little more insight to my beloveds while also generating more ideas for them <33
Jinzha is described as a handsome young man who wears light yellow/white Taoist robes. Sometimes the ends of his Daoist robes is drawn poofy which is so cute,, he is also depicted wearing a golden hair crown (束发金冠). Other figures like Sun Wukong and Lu Bu wear this too, but with pheasant feathers attached to it
There are also designs that depict him in armor!
SNAKES (蛇）
This is an older version of Jinzha, Bodhisattva Jundali Mingwang. He is a Buddhist figure, and can be seen decorated with red snakes and yellow-collared snakes around his body. He also has a spirit snake (灵蛇), which could either mean a magical snake or a fast and precise one. He uses it as a weapon, which I think means he flings the lil guy at his opponent and it just starts biting them (erlang shen strat with his dog)
While this isn't fsyy Jinzha, I still think it'd be neat to include snake motifs in Jinzha's design more,, plus I think it'd tie in nicely with his Dragon Stake :)
(Bodhisattva Jundali also wields other weapons such as a spear, a whip and a polearm that looks similar to a halberd (戟). Jinzha doesn't have any of these in fsyy, but just gonna put these here if you want more weapons to draw him with :>)
DRAGON STAKE (遁龙桩)
I've shown this weapon briefly here, but I'll show it again so it's much more organized! The Dragon Stake appears time to time in fsyy alongside Jinzha's swords, and is a weapon that can bind any opponent. It's commonly depicted as a pole with three rings. It seems to be able to change its size, growing bigger when in use. In fsyy, Jinzha would sometimes bind the enemy first with the Dragon Stake before finishing them off with his swords.
I was luckily able to find an illustration showing how it looks like in action!
This weapon was used by Jinzha's master before it was passed onto Jinzha. It's also what was used to subdue Nezha when he tried to kill Li Jing
More illustrations with Jinzha holding it:
more illustrations of Jinzha and the stake!
(^illustration credits: 苍狼野兽 on weibo)
VASE OF SWEET DEW (甘露宝瓶)
(For those who use his wikipedia article, the 'Ganlu Treasure Vase' is this.)
甘露 gān lù, meaning sweet dew, is a special substance that functions like holy water. It is contained in a vase, and Bodhisattva Jundali used this to defeat demons. This one doesn't seem to have a particular design, but it looks similar to the one that Bodhisattva Guanyin holds in her hand.
I did find some variations of it online though!
I hope this can give more ideas when drawing Jinzha! There aren't many english sources about him, so maybe this helps make researching a little easier <33
#jinzha#li jinzha#fsyy#chinese mythology#needed my dad to help translate for some of this pfff#jinzha was that kid with a hardcore reptile phase pass it around#manifesting for jinzha content
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“How can we breathe?”
“Force field,” Barry replies, his legs dangling over the rim of the TARDIS. “Keeps the bad guys out and the oxygen in. I, uh, wouldn’t be able to answer the phone without it.” He reaches up sheepishly and pops open the hatch on the door to reveal a rotary phone.
Lup gives him a look that he’s beginning to realise means she thinks he’s being tremendously stupid. “Why couldn’t you wire it in to the console? Or install a door so it opens from the inside, even?”
“Hey, have you seen that?” He changes the subject with his usual tact. “Look, wow, supernova.”
She grins and sits down next to him, kicking her feet in the vacuum of space. “It is pretty.”
“I should think so,” he grumbles. “Take a girl halfway across the universe and a million years back in time and all she can do is criticise my phone.”
“I’m just saying, I thought the Time Lords would’ve invented better phones! It’s rotary, Barry, it’s from the sixties!”
“It’s retro,” he insists. “It fits the police box aesthetic. Did you miss where it says PUBLIC CALL on the top?”
“Did you miss where it says PULL TO OPEN?”
“Shut up.”
“Why is it a police box, though?” She asks. “That seems… very sixties. You’d be right at home with my gran.”
“Chameleon circuit got stuck,” he says. “She’s designed to change her outside to blend in. I could fix it but, honestly, I like the blue. Plus, uh, it used to be real hard to find the door on a rock or a tree or - if there was nothing else around sometimes she’d materialise as a blade of grass, or whatever, and then I couldn’t even get out. I’m not sure if she was messing with me, or if she was designed to do that, or - it’s just easier this way.”
“It’s nice, actually,” she says. “Comforting, somehow. It feels sturdy. I can’t imagine it as a rock or a tree.”
He pats the floor next to him, and the engines go dwummmm. “She used to be different inside, too. All white and sterile. She had these big roundels - it was really weird. I don’t know who designed the UI, but it wasn’t good. As soon as I figured out how to redecorate I got on it.”
“You designed the coral?” Lup hadn’t really questioned the organic-looking arches and pillars. They’d been low on her list of priorities when she’d found herself in a time machine, and then the question had just fallen by the wayside.
“Well, I mean, I gave her a brief. I wanted it to feel more comfy, you know? This is my home, not a science lab. Well, it’s a lab, a little bit, but it’s - you know what I mean.”
“Wait, wait, gave her a brief?” Lup looks back in at the console, with its mess of wires and mismatched switches and knobs. She’d assumed that was the result of a few decades of Barry conducting haphazard repairs, but now he mentions it, they do look a little like some kind of sophisticated nervous system. “How sentient is this ship, exactly?”
Barry pulls a face, hesitates, and shrugs. “I dunno.”
“What!”
“Well, like, I told you that she’s soulbound, so she’s intelligent to some extent. I have a degree of control over the interior, and - I always kind of feel like she is. Like, I can do everything right on the console, and I’ll find myself halfway across the universe from where I asked her to go.”
“That’s a broken satnav, Barry, not sentience.”
“But it’s always where I need to go,” he elaborates. “Like, there’ll be someone who needs help, or a distress call, or something neat to go and see. Like this! This supernova. I’ve never been here before, and I basically just told the TARDIS that I wanted to show you something ro - something cool.”
He blushes at his slip, but Lup’s wrapped up in her thoughts.
“So, what, you just said “make me something comfy” and she made big coral pillars?”
“It’s a little more elaborate than that, but yeah, pretty much. I don’t know either, really. She’s… eccentric.”
“And the car seats?”
Barry shrugs again. “No idea. I needed somewhere to sit, that’s what I got.”
Lup hums, unhappily. “Can she see us? Feel us? I don’t like the idea that we’re walking around inside a sentient being.”
“I don’t think she minds. She can lock you out, if she likes. One regeneration I got a haircut she didn’t like and she wouldn’t let me in til it grew out. I was trapped on Gorvon Six for months.” The engine makes another dwummm noise, and Barry scowls. “It’s not funny!”
Lup can’t help but laugh at the expression on his face. “The more I learn the more I realise who’s in charge here.”
“I’m in charge!” He protests. “I’m a Time Lord! You know they used to grow TARDISes like bonsai? In little pots?”
“Oh, you’re getting pushed around by a bonsai?”
“I’m gonna go find Taako,” Barry grumbles. “Maybe he’ll be polite and respectful.”
Lup gives him a look.
“Okay, yeah, fine,” he concedes.
She laughs again and turns back to the star, gleaming brilliantly before them. The light plays across her face, reddy-orange, making her hair seem to glow and her eyes seem to sparkle.
Barry’s seen beauty in the universe. He’s seen nebulae, the births of stars, watched the sunrise on Heloyus, which orbits in a complex path between thirty different suns and, once every ten thousand years, sees a simultaneous thirty-sun sunrise. And yet, somehow, watching Lup…
“Want to grab pizza?” He offers.
“Shit, yes,” she grins. “Alien pizza?”
“Future pizza,” he counteroffers, jumping up from the floor of the TARDIS. “November 18th, 2045. The restaurant opened that day and burned down the next, but it’s the best pizza I’ve ever had. I pretty much singlehandedly earned them their money back, cos I keep parking the TARDIS in different places and ordering takeaway. You should see the look on the delivery guy’s face every time he sees me and my enormous blue box in a different area of London, all on one night.” He holds a hand out to help her up, and she takes it gladly.
“How do you order takeaway! You don’t have an address!”
“I just tell them the street,” he says. “It’s not like there’s a lot of blue boxes lying around.”
She considers that for a second. “Okay, yeah, that’s fair, I guess. What’s your order? Hawaiian?”
He narrows his eyes, hands frozen above the console. “How did you know that?”
“Shot in the dark. You seem like you’d go nuts for pineapple on pizza, is all.”
“What does that mean?”
“Alien tastebuds,” she says with a shrug. “I’ll grab Taako.”
“So rude,” he murmurs, and flips a switch on the console, setting the rotors whirring once again as Lup skips out of the room.
#so. for context.#this is a fic of a fic#@mmmarty is writing a doctor who au and i wrote this based on that#they blame me for it not being finished but i can't read so who's really to blame#anyways#writing#the adventure zone#taz#i really hope i didn't post this before#i wrote it like eight months ago#also congrats to me on my first fic of the year lol
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Was Joe Sparrow planned to show up in the Newtopia Arc, before the Journal was released?
It's interesting to not have him now because our heroes can't easily travel back and forth to one location like in Canon. They have to be a bit more tactical in the route they take. Plus it lets Sasha use the skills she grabbed while being on the road with Yunan, which is fun to see.
In a way this kinda fixes a problem I heard people talk about with Joe. In that, he sort of breaks Amphibia's scale because the characters get to pretty much instant transmission to anywhere in the world. It's a complaint I never agreed but I always found it interesting.
Was Joe Sparrow planned to show up in the Newtopia Arc, before the Journal was released?
He was! I actually had a whole bunch of neat bird lore in my back pocket before the journal came out.
Tamed birds were going to be an extremely rare and valuable resource in Amphibia. They bonded to a rider for life. There was going to be a young starry eyed member of the knight guard who was Joe's rider in the AU. I was going to heavily implied was killed by Andrias in canon to gift Joe to Marcy. (He didn't do the same with Sasha in the AU since in their manipulation game he didn't want to show how important the box was to him.)
Ultimately when the book came out, the idea of there just not being a stable group of flyers simplified a lot of things. It was a lot easier to justify why Sasha and Yunan were on foot.
In a way this kinda fixes a problem I heard people talk about with Joe. In that, he sort of breaks Amphibia's scale because the characters get to pretty much instant transmission to anywhere in the world. It's a complaint I never agreed but I always found it interesting.
Yeah, I don't think that's on Joe, Early season 2 establishes the scale in Amphibia through the road trip to the capital. Joe traveling to the radically different environments in season 2 also establishes how far away they are from the familiar set pieces of Wartwood and Newtopia.
I think 3b really messes with the scale of the setting more than anything. Specifically Root of All Evil, Newts in Tights, and Beginning of the End.
The first two the locations feel increadibly generic and its hard to guess if they are supposed to be in the valley (like most of 3b) or a great distance from the valley, looking abroad for recruits. They seem to be going by cart so how far could they be? From what I recall the dialogue feels like they are far from home, but it doesn't really feel grounded in a place like the road trip episodes from 2a did
The more egregious offesnder though is Beginning of the End. Which, despite being a favorite of mine for the rest of what happens, has the entire resistance army marching, on foot, from their base under the Plantar's house in the valley to just outside the gates of Newtopia in less than a day(You can see the ruined capital behind Andrias's army). This kind of breaks everything since it took Anne and the Plantars what felt like Weeks in Season 2 to get there casually and at least a week to get back with no distractions.
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Re: the oneshots posts!
I am super pro posting separately. It's always been like that. FF.net actually forbids multiple oneshots in multichapter format, if I'm not mistaken.
I believe that posting and archiving fics is supposed to accommodate the reader, more than the author. And as a predominantly short story reader (and writer), I can attest that it's much easier to find what you're looking for in a much bigger pile of stories, but where each one has its own length and tags and summary, than it is to rummage through multichaptered collections.
Plus I think short stories deserve love and visibility each in their own right!
The only advantage of grouping the short stories together is that the author's page looks less cluttered, I guess? But it's like - having your clothes neatly organized in a wooden closet. It looks nice and neat, but if you're looking for something, you have to open it and make a mess. Whereas putting everything separately is hanging them in an open rack. It's no coincidence that they have open racks at the shops! They may look messier, but it's easier to pick and choose. And readers want that option. :)
Just my two cents 😊😘
I love this, Anna, thanks for chiming in! I’m definitely not someone who uses the search function often on ao3, but you make really good points. I’m definitely thinking about this leading into Jilytober since I’m doing the 31 prompts again (though, in my head I definitely like, see it as a collection around a theme even though they’re independent from each other plot-wise.)
(And yes I know that’s what series are for but the thought of adding 31 fics in one month gives me hives 😅)
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HAIIII :3 SPINS U!!!! HOW DO U MAKE UR BUTTONSSS, THEYRE SO NEAT ^_^
HAWOO!!! SPINS BACK @ U TYSM AA （＾∀＾●）ﾉｼ
NGL MY PROCESS IS SO MESSY(as in IM MEsSY & CANT EXPLAIN COHERENTLY) BUT ILL TRY 2 EXPLAIN IT!
((this got unnecessarily long bc i like 2 ramble so im doing this))
so-SO 1st is that all i was just handed a cookie hold on
ok cookie ate i 4got what i was OH RIGHT
OK SO ALL OF MY DRAWINGS R 1000 x 1000 pixals! or most @ least, so i have a consistent size 4 each of my buttons
HERES THE TIMBER BUTTON IM MAKING!!
i dont use bigger canvus bc my phone will explode in not the silly way but i also like how it turns out!
i draw everything in ibis then like copy + paste it in2 google docs where i can size them! i usually make them a bit bigger than whats listed, 4 example 2.5 inch buttons r printed in 2.55/2.6 inches if that makes any sense (￣▽￣)"
i also select break text bc i tetris them around
then i print them out & use a cookie cutter thing 2 cut them out! i have a button pressing machine(all manual bc im not that rich) so its all about sandwiching from there
i could fill the whole page w/that pink background to give me a "cleaner" result but honestly i dont think it changes anything? as long as u dont see the white on the front. but it IS easier 2 cut it out if the border is thicker(which is y i add a border in the 1st place plus it looks neat!)
((this 1 got messed up in printing but since im not selling it i rly dont care LOOK @ THE CUTIES!)
sometimes the machine cramps up or i will 4get the film ontop so i have 2 redo the entire process again but i like repeated activities!
ISTG THEY LOOK SO MUHC BETTER IRL MY CAMERAS JUST SHIT & I HAVE NO LIGHT LSKAHFKD BUT YEAH!!!
did this make any goddamn sense? i hope so. btw my button machines name is huey :3
this coouldve been more of an ask on how i draw my buttons but ong thats even mroe boring so- dsakjdghj
cause it literally jsut consists of me listening 2 wtnv dramatically & drawing @ like 1 am 4 4 hrs straight
KHFSKAG ANYWAYS I HOPE THIS ANSWERED SOMETHING!! SRRY 4 THE LONG(GER) POST TY 4 HTE ASK AGAIN! q(≧▽≦q)
#IM SURE THERES A LOT MORE COMPLICATED PROCESS BC THIS SEEMS RLLY SIMPLE KFLAHJDHF#but i feel like i wouldve cheated if i just said “i print them out & put them in machine brrr”#SO LONG#long post#or well#longer than i usually post bc i think ppl h8 long posts IDK#i try 2 keep my rambling in the tags :3#BUT TIMBER TREAT 4 U!!!#im using this as a lil gift 4 preordering my keychains tehe#they wont b as big as this 1- bc haha capitalism BOOO BUT YK IDKD AKSJDG#puppee answers#jesus i keep adding 2 this thing whoopsies
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can you review tangela and tangrowth
Tangela is a neat little guy. I always liked the mystery of what it really looks like (not really something isolated to this Pokemon, but always neat when they play into that angle), and how the tangles are actually vines that grow from it, much like how IRL vines will automatically wrap around nearby objects. The fact that the vines are blue rather than the expected green adds a bit of uniqueness to it, as does how the vines lack leaves.
Really, I don't have many issues with it. I think my only big thing is that I'm not huge on the red feet. I know some people like it because it looks like it's wearing little shoes, but it's just strange to emphasize the least important part of the design to me, you know?
Also, the middle of the body tends to be portrayed as an orb with tendrils around it, when the entire idea is that black area is supposed to be shadow (so in the official art, for example, there shouldn't be a highlight on the black). I also prefer the eyes being a little closer together. It's a minor thing, but it does look its best when it's just the 👀 emoji in a black void.
Tangela is also notable for having both a scrapped pre-evo and evo. The pre-evo was supposed to look like this:
Which I do like, but at the same time, I don't think it was a major loss to lose. It works really well with the scrapped evolution, which I'll get to in a bit, but on its own it's not really needed.
Tangrowth is a Bigger Tangela, for better or worse. Don't get me wrong, it's not identical--the lower body's different, it has vine arms now, the proportions are changed--but conceptually, it's more or less the same thing as Tangela. Whether or not this is a good or a bad thing really depends on how much you like the original Tangela.
For me, it's fine, but I do have a few visual problems with it. The body feels like it's a bit easier to make out (more like it's covered in vines rather than the entire shape underneath being ambiguous, if that makes sense), especially due the black on the face/body being more of a grey. The vines being merged together is okay in theory--keeps the design from being too complicated--but it also feels weirdly, I don't know, "melted" or fused when you see them in the actual model, if that makes any sense. On the plus side, the less red on the feet combined with the new accents on the arms make the red feel a lot more purposeful than it was on Tangela.
Still, though, I can't help but feel like they could've done more here. Though that may be because we know what the beta looks like, and let me tell you:
This. This is perfect, from both a visual and conceptual standpoint.
First, if you look at the original pre-evo, the line was supposed to go one eye -> two eyes -> mouth, something that adds a nice secondary element in addition to the tangles. The mouth also adds some great personality to this little creature, something somewhat lacking in the actual Tangela line as-is.
But secondly, look at the vines on this. The vines along the body are neatly stacked, the vines above the mouth form a set of "bangs", and the two vines on top form a bow. That's right: the original evolution of Tangela was supposed to have combed out the tangles. That is absolutely brilliant.
And visually speaking, I feel like this holds more of what I like about Tangela than Tangrowth does. The ambiguous body shape, the barely visible body parts, the individual tangles--all present.
Really, my only issues are that if those two vines below are supposed to be legs, they should be black, and the red could be worked in here somewhere (assuming the actual color would be blue); maybe along the bow or the two curls in front. It also could use maybe one more row of vines along the body, as it looks a little too short right now relative to Tangela. But that's it, and those are ultimately nitpicks.
And like I said: Tangela is good, and Tangrowth is perfectly fine for what it is. But when you consider how much this actually played off of Tangela's elements and themes in a clever way... my god, we were robbed.
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You know, I'm only ever gonna ask about Bachira...
Tell me why he's the best
LMAO YOURE VALID THERE! IM HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT HIM <3 okay so disclaimer but i sort of answered a slightly different question? instead of why hes the best i felt i could better talk about why i personally love bachira so much and think hes fantastic, so please enjoy this fuckin essay of a post
okay, we have to start with the basics here. the very first thing that drew me to bachira was for SURE his character design. i mean. once again i will mention that i'm growing my hair out to look like his. and hes soooo androgynous!!! and as a nonbinary person who leans towards masc/androgynous styles im HERE FOR IT!!!! plus the yellow was already cool, even before i knew the bee fact about his name :D
and ofc there's also his personality!!! as my friend grin has. accurately read off me. my favorite characters are typically those that are surprisingly competent, and those that embody the :3 face (and thus also the >:3 face), and like. bachira is introduced as a sleepy little guy and then kicks someone in the face so he IMMEDIATELY checks both of those boxes and he really fits my character type
also, elaborating on the surprisingly competent piece—bachira is DECIDEDLY competent, but its not in a like...power sort of way? its all about his technique and his ✨ style ✨ and i really enjoy characters who are great at what they do in a more unconventional way or not having to do with their physicality (coming from a weak little bitch) and i dont know. really anything about soccer irl. but its easy enough to see that bachiras good at this shit!!!!
okay so now we get into the meaty shit, starting with his backstory <3 immediately his being an outcast...really fit, honestly, it tracks a lot for him. but it hit me HARD as someone who was/is kinda an outcast and never really had a solid group of friends until relatively recently? and just...his loneliness resonates with me, a lot. but ANYWAYS im not here to vent or anything, the other thing abt his backstory is the monster metaphor and its beginnings, because it is SO easily read as an allegory for neurodivergence (and without too much stretching, queerness as well). being set apart and left out and seen as weird because of honest, genuine passion and this undeniable part of you and just feeling like something is WRONG with you even if you love it is...such an experience that ive had. and its so so easier to see that in bachira!!!! moral of the story, bachira is bisexual and nonbinary and autistic because i am and i say so <3
anyways anyways straying away from headcanons, bachira's development arc? WRECKS ME. it's so very well done, that evolution of the prior loneliness and the desire to both be independent and to not be left behind are...gorgeous. amazing. i can and will write an essay about it. it really builds well on his backstory and what he's done in blue lock prior to that game and seeing him evolve past his monster and his need for someone to play with but not fully abandon either? it means a lot that he still values companionship even if he feels like he doesnt need it <3
moving onwards, i really adore bachiras interactions with other characters!!! the most obvious example is him and isagi, and we all know at this point how big of a bachisagi fan i am (i just think theyre neat <3 <3 <3) but a genuine FRIENDLY rivalry, emphasis on the friends, doesnt seem to pop up that often in blue lock, and its really nice to see with isagi :D and just!!!! they make each other want to be better!!! its good stuff
theres also bachira and rin, which...that shit is COMPLICATED but it's really really interesting how rin like, almost sees bachira as a rival (and thus an equal) but is the first one to really recognize the idea that bachira is still deeply lonely and dependent on having someone with him? rin is the one who kickstarts bachiras development with the line, "[your soccer] is a soccer that is looking for someone," which i will NEVER forget. i like that bachira still tries to interact with rin and crack his shell despite rins cold behavior towards him, it makes for some fun fun interactions <3
AND I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT LAVINHO. LAVINHO IS AWFUL AT BEING A RESPONSIBLE ADULT AND THAT MEANS THAT HE IS THE PERFECT MENTOR FOR BACHIRA!!!! because bachira still cares about having FUN!!!! AND WHAT HE NEEDS IS THAT SENSE OF EXCITEMENT AND CREATIVITY THAT LAVINHI BRINGS HIM!!!!!!!!! LORD THEYRE SO PERFECT TOGETHER (IN THE MENTOR/MENTEE SENSE OFC) AND I LOVE THEM
okay finally, and ik we've talked about this before, but bachira's motivations are the perfect blend of being individual enough to survive in the environment of blue lock, while still not being completely disconnected from the idea of teamwork and companionship, you know? it means a lot to me that a lot of these characters arent wholely self-centered because. well. many reasons. i could make a whole other post about egoism in bllk and why it Worries Me A Little but i wont get into it here lmao, the important part is that bachira has enough of a goal on his own that he can keep himself going without anyone else, but he WANTS to play with isagi and make friends and have that companionship that he didnt have when he was young and that just.....it resonates and means a lot <3 <3 <3
anyways, this was the definitive why i love bachira post <3 hope you enjoyed!!!!
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I know this is old stuff that has been discussed already but I was watchin jimin's birthday live and can we talk about the cake situation?
Jungkook has joked about making it and so it was concluded that he did not actually do it. But the cake itself, when you compare the writing to other members cake is quite telling! They are bought by the staff from the same place. The thing is, the writing is always super neat. Letters are regular, same size, perfectly alligned. The quote is centered, everything is proportional. In short you can see it was written by a proffessional. Then you have the writing on Jimin's cake.... irregular, not centered, all over the place, like it was made from an amateur. It is not enough to conclude jungkook did it, but then the quote itself which feels very personal can easily make you wonder.
Lmao okay, so here is my post over Jimins birthday vlive
I think I'm in the minority of jikookers here. But I don't think JK prepared Jimins birthday cake. I think he was just joking with Hobi since JK clarified that it said Filter because of Jimins song, Filter. So Hobi asked if JK made the cake. And he just went "yes." Lol to which Jimin looked super confused and said "sorry, I already told everyone the staff made it." And they all laughed. I don't think Jimin would lie about the staff doing it if they didn't, and I also think he would've known if JK or a member made it. They also have admitted when a member decorates the cake for the others before. So... I'm fairly confident that was JK just messing around and being silly.
It looks like JK and RM were the only ones who had the same font on their cake, maybe Hobi but his looks a bit different too. Suga had a different one and to me, the font on Jimin and Jins looks the same to me too. The letters are all different but the "i" in particular look the same. Jimin, JK and RM got quotes from their solo songs + their names. Hobi got his Instagram handle, Jin got his WWH nickname and Suga got a cat lol. Tae didn't do a vlive and celebrated by going out with friends and family. So he didn't get a staff prepared cake, or at least we haven't seen it lol
There is also lots of different ways professional cake decorators or even non professional ones can write on a cake. Especially if it's a professional who will often can change font depending on what style you want. Or if it was just the staff themselves, perhaps just multiple different staff members wrote on those cakes.
You'd have an easier time convincing me (and I do buy this a bit) that JK helped decorate for Jimins birthday, or perhaps, simply added onto the already prepared staff decorations himself. Since it was his studio and he knew Jimin was coming for a vlive there for his birthday. Plus the addition of the extra colored hearts (not just purple like the others had) and his cutie sexy lovely nickname + happy birthday, when everyone else just had variations on Happy Birthday. And the JM balloons on top of purple heart balloons. There was just a lot happening back there. Lol the Happy Birthday + photos is normal from the staff. Sometimes even the banner.... but there were more. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
But even that is just theory, no confirmation. And honestly not worth being the main focus of everything that happened in the vlive. Lol but yeah, I don't think JK made that cake, I think it was staff like Jimin said. 🤷🏻♀️ but that's just me!
Thanks for the ask!!
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hi!! its q anon again!! may i ask advice when starting your own enstars writing acc hehe you dont have to but like id love to hear from you ^_^ - 🐧
Hello q anon!!! It’s nice to see you again! Rlly honoured that you would ask me for advice, especially since I literally just set up this blog two months ago and I’m vv inexperienced. These pieces of advice are also from other ppl who gave me advice
1. Enjoy the process of writing and don’t compare yourself to others
Well u should always enjoy whatever you write! When you enjoy the writing process and fic that you write, other people will definitely enjoy it too! And writing should never be a daunting task if you enjoy it, so take breaks when you have to and don’t push yourself to write things you don’t want to write.
Remember that other writing blogs have also started out small and trust me, I know the feeling to want people to like your posts and stuff but rlly if you enjoy what you do, you’re bound to attract people! Just let time do it’s thing.
2. Be neat (although this is just personal and I like it when it’s neat)
When posts are neat, especially the pinned post, I feel like its easier to look at but this is very obviously my personal opinion. And it helps when it is done from the get go, so there isn’t any procrastination on it later on!
3. Interact with others
Hehe from my own experience the enstars writing community is rlly welcoming as long as you urself is nice and respect other people’s boundaries. And it’s always great to reblog posts that you like and read more, helps with inspiration! Plus most of us like interaction anyways.
Other miscellaneous things:
Just be confident in urself! If you ever do start a enstars writing blog, then I wish you the best of luck! There will always be people who like your work and most importantly have fun with it!!
P.S feel free to drop ur blog’s url in my inbox if u ever make an enstars writing acc, and take ur time to think abt it yea!
If anyone has any tips they wanna share feel free to reblog and add on, it doesn’t hurt to do so anyways
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Digital Farmer Adventure
Logan didn't expect to see his partners and friends crowded around a computer in his home because of a video game. What was the appeal to this game anyway?
Pairing: background romantic LAMP
Wordcount: 1412
Warnings: None that I can think of
Notes: Tuliptober Prompt 4 - Ring
@radiocrushstarcrash
So, I've had the idea to somehow have characters in Laoft verse play Stardew Valley, one of my fav games. It just feels like the two have some similarities. I thought it would be funny if it was Adder from Sodorose's 'Enduring as the Dark' Laoft au.
Inspired by @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors Love and Other Fairytales series
Let me know if you have any questions about anything.
“Are you wearing the right ring!?”
Logan did not expect to hear such a strange question shouted when he came home that day. So, he of course had to follow to see what on earth was going on in his house today. It appeared that Adder was at a laptop, plugged in, at their dining room table, which was strange enough on its own. Logan couldn’t remember the last time Adder willingly took to a form of technology. The scaled fae often found them confusing. He didn’t like to be bested by manmade lightning machines when he was gentry. Something the other had said before.
Not only this, but it appeared many of Logan’s friends and partners were crowding around him. They were cheering Adder on about something he was doing on said computer.
“How am I supposed to remember what buff each ring gives to my digital person? There is a lot to keep track of here!” Adder exclaimed.
“…didn’t you used to run an entire kingdom of the forest? I would think that would be much more to keep track of than the details in a video game,” Roman deadpanned. Adder hissed.
“Shut up!”
Logan found listening in was not aiding his confusion anymore. So he walked over to them.
“What are you all doing?”
Some of his friends and partners looked over and then glanced back at watching Adder play the game.
“Hey, Remy introduced Adder to this farming game called Stardew Valley, so we wanted to see how he took to it,” Roman said.
Logan raised an eyebrow and glanced at Remy.
“Remy did? Really?”
Remy shrugged. “Yeah. Kai had suggested it to Emile one time. After seeing how much he got into it, I thought it was surely a good fit for our snake gentry here.”
Kai snickered at that. Adder hissed but didn’t look away from the screen.
Logan looked over and furrowed his brows in confusion.
“I thought you said it was a farming game.”
“It is, mostly,” Kai said.
“Why is he in a cave?”
“It’s part of it. You can get ore and stuff from the cave to build stuff you need, like farming equipment,” Roman said.
“Wouldn’t it be easier to buy that?”
“Well yeah, but not everything is available to just buy in the game,” Remy said. "Plus, you only have the income from what you make on the farm.”
“Yeah, it takes a while to get money-making going in this game,” Emile added.
Adder started grumbling and quickly clicking. His on-screen character swung a sword at some creature flying toward him.
“There’s fighting in this game?”
“Yep.”
“It’s not exactly fair fighting,” Adder said. “They come after you for no reason.”
There seemed to be a lot to this game. Logan could see why someone would see to recommend it to someone.
Adder let out a large groan when his character got knocked unconscious. Remus held Adder back before he could destroy the innocent computer.
A screen popped up that showed a little pixie creature fly over a farm field at night. She flicked her wand over a specific growing crop.
“Oo! You got the pixie scene! That’s rare,” Emile said.
“There are faeries in this game?” Logan asked. Emile nodded.
“Yeah. And that there means the crop she chose is gonna grow faster! That’s pretty neat.”
Adder scrunched his face. “Did I do something to incur her favor? I haven’t interacted with any fae in the game that I know of.’
Emile giggled. “No, it’s just a cool scene that happens.”
Adder scoffed. “Well, that’s just unrealistic. I don’t know of any pixies who would randomly aid a farmer just because. The last thing I need is to owe a random pixelated pixie a favor for a magically grown crop that I didn’t ask for.”
“I don’t think it’s anything like that. In fact, I’m pretty sure you never really interact with a pixie in the game. It’s just a cool thing that can happen in the game.” Emile said.
“Yeah, I think the assumption is that the nature spirits and such favor you because of what you do as a farmer,” Kai added. Adder tilted his head.
“I don’t know why farming alone would lead forest magical creatures of that nature to have any favor of me. Doesn’t the farmer take lots of forest resources as is?”
Remy groaned. “It’s just part of the game, scales.”
Adder scowled at him. Logan looked among them all.
“…you are aware that we have actual farming around here? Patton and Roman both work on actual farms. And we have actual fae around here. I don’t see the appeal to this in a virtual setting.”
Roman waved him off. “Oh, this is just different specs.”
“How?”
Roman rolled his eyes. “I mean, you’ve played video games, right?”
“Well yes…but not usually ones with such similar features to my own life.”
“There are other features to games that can appeal to people, even if it’s like the stuff you actually see,” Kai said.
“Well, I know. I’m not doubting that. I just don’t understand in this case.”
Patton smiled at him. “Maybe it will be different if you play it yourself?”
Logan tilted his head. “Oh?”
He nodded.
“Yeah,” Remy said, “I made sure to have everyone bring their own laptops, or bring extras in case we wanted to play co-op. I just thought the snake bro here might want to try it himself.”
“Why would I want to do that?” Adder asked, after pausing the game. “The game was clearly created so I would be able to maintain my own farm on my own. I get all the goods and power this way.”
“Well, you know most farms are run by many people right? It’s more efficient that way.”
Adder nodded. “I suppose that does make sense.”
Roman sat down and patted the seat next to him for Logan. He set down Logan’s laptop, which he must have gotten from Logan’s room, by the seat next to him. Logan rolled his eyes and sat by him
“I’ll set up the co-op farm, and give you all the code when it’s ready,” Roman said. “Kai, you said you know how to set up the game for more people to join a co-op?”
“Yeah, I’ll show you how to do it.” Kai leaned over and pointed out what Roman should do.
“How long has he been playing this game anyways?” Logan asked.
“Well, I came over this morning to show him, since it’s a weekend,” Remy said.
“He’s been playing all day?”
“Makes you curious about how good it is, right?” Patton asked with a wink. Logan huffed but couldn’t help the fond smile.
“I suppose I can’t help my curiosity given how Adder usually is with modern human technology.”
Adder huffed and crossed his arms, as they waited for the co-op to finish setting up before playing again.
“I couldn’t help my curiosity. I have heard so much about how your friend here could spend so much time in front of a screen playing such a thing. I didn’t know if there was magic involved.”
Kai made a face at that.
“I mean, might as well be at times,” Remy quipped. Kai shoved him a little. Remy laughed and noogied him, causing Kai to scrunch up his face and push the other off.
“Just admit you like us, and wanted to bond,” Roman said lightly. Adder stuck his nose up and didn’t say anything. Remus giggled and hugged Adder’s arm. Adder acted like he totally didn’t lean back into him. Roman cooed at them, which Adder stuck his tongue at.
Their shenanigans weren’t anything new for Logan at this point.
“Ok, code is ready for sharing. You want me to help you set up your farmer?” Roman asked Logan.
“I think I can manage,” Logan said with a smile.
After getting used to how the game worked, it took a bit for Logan to get into the game. It was a bit nice to hear them all working together, even if Logan couldn’t let go of the fact that this was a virtual farm. Yet, somehow he was still caught off guard when at the end of the day, he was informed it was dinner time. Perhaps this game would be a new time suck after all, at least when they played as a group. Logan couldn’t find much fault in that though.
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Pokémon Improvements I Loved
Gold to Ruby
The MUSIC! I never thought I was the biggest fan of RSE's soundtrack (I think my favorites are DPPt, HGSS, and XY), but just hearing the improvement in the quality of the music, seeing how the composers could play with more instruments and parts to make the music more dynamic, was really cool. I was particularly fond of the Dive theme.
RUNNING SHOES!!! It is soooo nice to be able to go fast without getting on and off the bike constantly. I'm not sure running had to be associated with an item, especially these days, but just the fact that you can run at all and run so easily was wonderful.
Being able to choose your gender. It's kind of wild how, 20 years ago, having the choice between a boy and girl player avatar was a big deal, especially because games nowadays are kind of moving away from that (e.g., in Animal Crossing New Horizons, you're prompted to choose your "style" instead of your gender, and you can change it at any time). But for me at least, being able to play as a girl is nice. I could mostly ignore the fact that you have to play as a boy in RBY, but in Gold and Silver, there's quite a bit of gendered language and it just took me by surprise. My favorite is when you battle Blue; before the fight, he says "Ready, Johto boy?" P.S. I know you could play as a girl in Crystal, but since I played Gold as my Gen II game, this is the first time I'm getting the option.
The game makes it much clearer when an attack misses and when an attack doesn't affect the opponent. In Gens I and II, if an attack misses or it doesn't affect the opponent (like, using a ground move on a flying type), the game just says "It didn't affect ____!" It was really unclear to me, so I'm glad they finally changed it in Gen III.
When you're going to teach a Pokémon a new move, the game shows you a screen with all its current moves and the new one. You can see all the moves' power and accuracy, so you can make an informed choice about which moves you want your Pokémon to have.
The little pop-ups that tell you what route or town you're (again, I know this was added in Crystal, see my point on gender above).
Every city has unique houses, which really sets them apart from each other.
Dive is a really cool concept as an HM. Unfortunately, I didn't end up using it that much, because I didn't have enough patience to deal with the slow movement speed. But it's such a neat idea! Diving underwater to discover new Pokémon and hidden caves (especially as a part of the Regi Trio side quest) made me feel like I was discovering an uncharted new world. I'm looking forward to diving more in ORAS, where your character will hopefully move faster than in the originals.
Double battles! As I've said before, I'm not a huge fan of the meta game, but double battles give a lot more variety for Pokémon. It's nice to just have a different style of battling in the main game from time to time. Plus, at least in later games if not this one, you can team up with a friend in multiplayer battles, so battling with your friends can be a teamwork experience or an adversarial one.
Every Pokémon has a unique sprite in the party menu. It's nothing particularly mind-blowing, but it's a nice touch.
The PC's Pokémon storage system! God, it is so much easier to organize your Pokémon into little boxes instead of having a bunch of lists to navigate. It makes the Boxes feel much bigger, too, like you can store more Pokémon than you used to.
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Random TotK Thoughts #5
Sheesh, it's been forever since I made mention of my progress. I'm bumping against the 200 hour mark and I am somehow still not bored. At all. I'm not done with the main story either, though I've found all the Dragon's Tears and done the four regional phenomena. I'm at 143 shrines completed, 83 lightroots found (finally making some progress in mapping the Depths), and 402 Koroks collected (no I am not aiming to find all of those, just what I need to get all the inventory upgrades).
I'll cover my thoughts on the Dragon's Tears in a different post, so this will be primarily about the Gerudo section and what happens when you complete the four regions.
-The Gerudo section started off a bit disappointing with the main obstacle being a sandstorm again, only worse than before. I did get pleasantly startled encountering Gibdos though, given that it's been awhile since their last appearance. Glad that I had a ton of fire fruits on hand!
-I'm relieved that Link no longer has to change clothes to enter Gerudo town, because that got annoying in a hurry when it was still required even after clearing the Divine Beast in BotW. I do miss having the disguise itself though, since he looked very cute in it, plus it was free heat protection even if its defensive stats sucked.
-Seeing the Gerudo hub as a ghost town was great for establishing the creepy atmosphere. And then finding the underground shelter was neat, if a bit predictable. I'm not saying I want the Gerudo to come to harm, but finding out everyone's fine chilling underground does undercut some of the spookiness of the zombie village above.
-Riju got a lot taller. Everyone in this game is taller than Link except for small children (and I think Robbie and Josha?), which is hilarious to me. Her ability is pretty cool, though really none of the other three come close to matching Tulin's utility.
-I really enjoyed the segments where you protect Kara Kara and then Gerudo Town from the Gibdo hoards. They fun and frantic but not in a way that felt overwhelming. I wish there was a way to repeat the town siege to see if choosing different groups to protect different gates made things easier or more challenging.
-I also liked finding and networking the various mirrors in the desert. It felt more in the vein of a classic Zelda puzzle, and then that shot of the Lightning Temple rising out of the sands was appropriately epic. I also liked that you confront the boss outside before she retreats to the temple. That was more interesting than the lame minibosses in the Goron and Zora sections, or hunting down random mooks in the Rito section.
-I'd heard stories that the Lightning Temple was the one most like a classic Zelda dungeon. I can see where people said that, but...eh, it's still definitely a BotW/TotK dungeon. Networking mirrors/manipulating light beams was a nice nostalgic callback, but I thought it was done better in previous games. (particularly the Ikana Canyon/Stone Tower area in Majora) The Temple certainly had a grand scale that I appreciated, but it seemed very empty, and once again it was just a matter of figuring out how to reach certain points so you could use the Sage's ability to activate a device. I finished this dungeon the fastest of the four.
-Queen Gibdo was a chaotic boss that was satisfying to beat but also very annoying, especially since I spent a good part of the fight chasing Riju down. It wasn't nearly as annoying as Mucktorok (thank god), but Colgera definitely sits as the best boss of the four regions, and the competition isn't even close.
-Why did we have to watch the same post-dungeon cutscene four times? There had to be a way to modify this part dependent on whether or not you've completed another region already. I've been craving some new insights or information about the Imprisoning War but each time I got bupkis.
-Overall, I give the whole Gerudo scenario a B+. I can't definitively say that I liked it better than the Zora section, but I liked it just as much.
-Naturally, I had to spend several hours running around hunting for shrines and farming for materials before I returned to Lookout Landing. The whole "evil Zelda" thing is the weakest part of this game's story; even if I hadn't already found all the Dragon's Tears at this point, I was never fooled into thinking this was the real Zelda. I suspect that no one else was either. I wish they'd cut out this thread entirely, or at least re-worked it so it was far less contrived.
-I like that they removed "Zelda" from the blood moon cutscene after this event. That's a nice detail.
-The best part of chasing fake Zelda was that I got to collect a bunch of monster parts quickly. I also found some great weapons scattered throughout the castle that I missed on the cursory pass I did much earlier on (I'm still carrying around the first Dusk Bow I found sometime after I finished the Wind Temple).
-I enjoyed the Phantom Ganon fight. It might've been more of a surprise if I hadn't already encountered him from the Grabby Hands, but at least this wasn't just a bland repeat of those encounters. Liked having all the Sages show up for a Power of Friendship moment too.
-I'm obsessed with the demonic horse Ganon was riding in the following cutscene. I desperately want to be able to tame and catch that beast because it looks amazing. I'd give it an ill-fitting name like Sugarcube and parade it all around Hyrule.
-I've just barely started the fifth Sage quest, in that I found the special clothes and cleared the storm from the sky islands. Since I'm invested in trying to clean up the remaining shrines and lightroots, it'll probably be awhile before I finish this quest. Even with Mario Wonder and the Mario RPG remake looming, I'm still enjoying TotK too much to want to rush to the end. Yes, even after 200 hours. It's going to easily overtake my BotW playtime at this rate, and that's assuming there really won't be any DLC.
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