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cttncndyiscreamm · 5 months

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TRANS N GRAH!!! (Headcanon that must be written more in Nuzi)

While I work on my animatic, please GUYS write a Nuzi fic where N is transmasc. Like the transmasc headcanon is terribly underrated I literally only seen 6 fics with the trans tag on Archive Reader and most of them are trans Uzi like come on let our boy have some screen time! Keep in mind I am not much of a writer anyways so I just draw lol.

So I have Random/AU prompts which could have been taken from someone else but if it has been already thought of please tell me because I'm going off the top of my head.

Prompts under the cut!

Prompts

- Uzi and N work for the Elliotts and N makes a discovery about himself that leads him to having a weight off his shoulders with Uzi and Tessa supporting him in every way. It strengthens N and Uzi's bond even more.

- N is a popular kid at school but desperately doesn't want the life he has now because it doesn't show who he truly is, he begins hanging out with the outcast as she's the only one who truly knows who N is.

- In the middle of their relationship, N talks about his past and he says to Uzi that he's still the same N she knows but he changed in ways that made him see himself in a better light.

- N has been insisting to the other drones he's a boy but they deny his identity and continue to be misgendered and experience transphobia, luckily his friends don't tolerate that. Not even his short tempered girlfriend.

Alright I'm done rambling 😭

#murder drones #murder drones n #n murder drones #n md #transgender #transmasc #headcanon #fic ideas #fic prompt #raz is just rambling here #nuzi #biscuitbites #n x uzi #enzi

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lordoftherazzles · 1 year

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December is done, and now we’re into the new year! I can honestly say I’m far prouder of what I accomplished in December than what I anticipated! There was a lot going on, what with my sister getting married and the holiday season (and WORK) but I am very proud, and happy to see what January brings me!

Word Count Goal

Goal: 15000 words

Actual: 16604 words 🎉

Fics worked on in December

Bookbinder//Songwriter: 6794 words

Fuck Thy Neighbor: 6993 words

Fic outlines: 2302 words

Tumblr drabbles: 515 words

Fics updated in December

(Take Me Back To) The Night We Met (12.6.2022) - Complete!

Bookbinder//Songwriter (12.17.2022)

What to expect going forward...

January Goal: 17000 words

Fic Release: Fuck Thy Neighbor

Misc: January Trope Roulette drabbles

Primary Fic Focus for January

May Your Forge Burn Bright

Secret Trailmix Fic ( @sunnyrosewritesstuff )

Fuck Thy Neighbor

???? (I am feeling very inspired with so many fics)

Thank you everyone for your continued support and friendship!! I love writing, and am super happy to have found an overwhelming amount of joy in all of these stories <3

#razzy's rambles #raz goals #here's to hoping january is just as productive!

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jnixz · 2 years

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nodding my head solemnly, old people... I think a lot of my thoughts on Ford bounce off from thoughts you've written

Just thinking abt Ford just. being the absolute worst motherfucker on planet earth when it comes to asking for help. He's on that "I could survive an apocalypse in my own I'll ready the bunker and learn to fight zombies" type energy even as he's establishing a commune of likeminded psychics who he couldn't do anything without

my dear confident leader type who's only this way bc if someone tries to help him instead of the inverse he will teleport away

way early into the whole endeavor otto once had to drag ford flailing and cussing all the way to a doctor bc ford broke something too bad for either of them to fix properly and otto gets pissy at him about how much of a baby he was about it for weeks afterwards

Oh I am so honored to know that I have infected people with my Ford thoughts, Thank you for telling me! It’s a huge compliment <3

But yeah, I get the vibes that he is pretty used to doing things on his own early in his life, being quick to catch on a variety of things like a jack of trades and just about what to do life in general. Maybe he didn’t have people he could rely on or had the thought that what he had been doing was good enough on his own, self-learning type deal. (*pokes at own near canon backstory headcanon and the other more oc-fied bacstory headcanon regarding this thought* Ehem)

I also think that he can settle something quickly on his mind and have the next step ready, bouncing back up to speed, and that extends to taking a hit as ‘no big deal, he could take it’ mindset.

That even if he manage to grow a bit living with other people he could really on, he kinda just defaults back to self-reliance and doing things independently. Going off on his own, because he can, and its less time bothering other people who got their own thing going on when he has confidence he can do it by himself.

He is able to ask for help in a sense that these people know their expertise and can do a mighty fine job at it, but with ideas for plans and something that requires a bit more flexibility, he is probably the guy for it. Y’know the type of leader thing where it kinda has that connotation to reach out and help others with their thing instead. (and in the extremes, this make me think he’d be the type to hold onto a plan that is like a barbed wire, doing it for people he loves, despite the fact that it’s hurting him. He is the Stupidly stubborn type that would take things to his grave quite literally to keep that plan going unless it falls apart on its own)

Unfortunately, I think with regards to his own health he’d be a stubborn grouch about it, saying that ‘he’s fine-- he can handle it’ and being embarrassed when people notice it. It’s a something that results from his more sassy attitude as well. He still got that charming and cheeky-little-shit energy too which is a charming way to diverge the attention to something else when its brought up in a normal conversation. (then we get the attitude he has in pn2, dismissive to the recovery of his psyche, big ford constructs deterring and telling others to scream, the comment with the spray, ho boy)

He knows getting help would be better but refuses at his own sense of pride (and after his actions, maybe something else), and would rather bring forth other things at the insistence that they could focus on that’s more important and something they can actually do something about.

He’d really have to be down and not able to do anything by himself, as well as the necessity for him to be okay to ask others for their help with himself. It’s a realization he gets to have when the events of the as the game happens.

It starts off as a subconscious thing he understands, when letting Raz gather his fragments, because its finally really really time to let himself be helped, because if he doesn’t than Maligula might wreck havoc again. Then with the new astrolathe plan, he asks Raz for help and then the others when he reunite with them after his pretty self-impose isolation in a road to help Lucy. I like to imagine there is a bit of a weight lifting off his shoulders, to actually have others to share the burden with, even if he doesn’t quite notice it at first due to the urgency of the situation (even if it starts off as a metaphor that I chip off from doing psychic procedure as a group and not on his own).

Given his guilt however, I think there would be a rocky road regarding dealing with his own injuries and health. The Maligula thing has an energy of a mission as well, even if it is very personal, it’s more for Lucy than for him, so he has less stubborn on letting others help.

Given my previous posts, there is undoubtedly a lot of things they gotta talk about that can’t be quickly solved with self-realizations in the mindscape. They definitely didn’t had enough time to tackle the stuff they went through before the astrolathe procedure, but they understand that everyone went through a tough time and all happy to be back together again

#asks #ask #cosmignon #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts 2 spoilers #ford cruller #headcanon #buh the words here are a bit of the mess but i hope the idea persists #but ah I am getting ideas from my subconscious making headcanons based on raz and ford parallels #psyn rambles #out here discussing thoughts that just mingle together #attempting to destring it but alas it is here and its just like this #tag-rambling #btw love your fic showcasing the attitude you mention btw #it just fits him so well #i have a dnd character that may have gone a similar arc as him so that would be influencing my thought about him btw

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whistlingstarlight · 28 days

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Just nearly got hit by a car, how's everyone else's days going?

#NEARLY is the important word here #dw I am physically okay just very shaken up #raz rambles

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2hoothoots · 4 days

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So I was going through your blog (again) and found some of your stuff mentions fsau Raz having ADHD, as somebody with adhd I’m intrigued, may I have some of those headcanons (canons??) related to that? Also, I would give “a penny for your thoughts” but I’m out of pennies, so here’s various images of a drawing of ur blorbo I put next to my animals, note that a rock had to be added in one picture to keep him from flying away (BONUS: his now permanent place with the wifi guardian frog)

NOTHING brings me more joy than seeing physical drawings of these guys, like, out and about. in situations. thank you for this gift, and ALSO for the great ask because it's a perfect chance to ramble

so first of all, canon Raz having ADHD is very real to me. he's constantly fidgeting and moving around, getting distracted by sidequests and scavenger hunt objectives, always talking to himself out loud, gotta write everything down so he remembers it because there's so much to DO!, running away from home because his dad yelled at him one time and now Raz assumes he must hate him forever... i could go on, but i think there's a lot of room for interpretation there!

in my headcanon, he never got diagnosed as a kid. maybe there were some notes about it in his reports each year, sure - but a little hyperactivity and distractability never seemed to slow him down. he excelled in lessons and on missions, and when he was with his family their performances gave him something to focus that energy into. it was only really when he turned 18 and graduated to a full agent that the cracks started to show.

because there's a big difference between the responsibilities you have as a minor, and the responsibilities you have as an 18-year-old living away from home! one who's expected to cook and clean for themselves, and take care of adult life stuff, and also work the 9-to-5 office job he's just graduated into that involves sitting in front of a computer and write reports all day.

short-term, he found he could get himself to power through a deadline with energy drinks and psi-pops (a lot of psi-pops...)

long-term, something had to give. he was working himself to exhaustion, constantly stressed, swinging between days spent staring at his computer screen doing nothing and all-nighters desperately trying to finish his paperwork before the deadline. it just didn't make any sense to him. he'd finally started his job as a Psychonaut, he was living independently like he'd always dreamed, he'd gotten top surgery after planning it for so long. he should have everything he ever wanted. why wasn't he happy?

following a deep post-surgical depression, about a month before his 19th birthday Raz was living out of his car, couch-surfing or sleeping in his office. he got kicked out of his apartment after falling behind on bills and rent. it wasn't that he didn't have the money, it was all just too much for him to stay on top of.

he'd probably have stayed in that misery hole for a lot longer if Frazie hadn't marched into his life and demanded he let her help him move into a new place, or she was telling mom that he was homeless. together, they sorted through all of his possessions from the last place - everything that had been hastily shoved in his car, or tossed in a box in his office, piled in a heap that was giving him anxiety even looking at it.

things do get better for him from there.

when he eventually explains things to Hollis, she gently suggests that he should get a roommate. he ends up moving in with Phoebe, and they become pretty good friends after a couple months! something about having another person around to help do the chores and wash the dishes and share the space helps, even if it takes him a while to admit it.

he gets his ADHD diagnosis, and finding the exact right medication and dose is a journey he's still on years later - but they're a huge help in getting him to actually knuckle down and finish his work on time. and the whole thing ends up being a chance for him to take a step back and really think about what he wants to do with his life. he'd always assumed that being a Psychonaut was his dream, but he'd never really reckoned with what that dream would look like before.

in the end, he sticks with it, but also decides to follow Lili's example in branching out. he applies to study a part-time Bachelor's in Psychology on a remote course, and gets accepted. juggling missions and paperwork and study and relationships (because the whole thing made him realise he also wasn't setting aside any time for himself, and wow, dating is a thing) is a lot - but he manages to figure it out, day by day.

(Lili comes back to the Psychonauts after graduating. she and Raz have both changed a lot over those four years, but on their first mission together they hit it off like a house on fire - and the rest is history!)

#psychonauts #future superstar agents au #i really want to go more into this period of their lives for all three of them honestly #Raz and Phoebe's friendship is really sweet to me and i'd like to explore it more #and Lili's adventures at college! finding herself in an environment where for the first time in her life people /don't/ know her family nam #and Dogen finally realising he /has/ a life to live ahead of him. that it's not just isolation and tests and pills that don't work #young adulthood is a weird time! lots of ups and downs #but they all make it through okay #fsau raz #fsau frazie #babyfaced 18-yo raz is so funny to me. why are you making him experience the horrors he's literally just a little guy #ask #ALSO your pets are all wonderful. please give them kisses from me

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psitaniumpsichosis · 3 months

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~ Spoilers obviously ~

Here he is, Razputin Aquato! Lead vocalist of the Deluded Deluge and our favorite Psychonaut!

This band is just a tiny part of the Time Travel Terrors AU, a big passion project of mine that I've been working on for the past week or so :)!

If the font is too hard to read, tell me and I'll provide a transcription ASAP! Read more cause there is a tiny ramble oops

Quick note on April 21st, this au has been mostly abandoned. I've put my focus more into the Psichosis Timeline, which includes a handful of things from this au.

The only reason I've kept this posted is preservation!

OCs mentioned:

Ginnifer Barkys and Henry Zanotto-Fullbear Jr.

These two are a fun one. In the TTT au, Bob and Helmut adopted two children back in the day, Valley and Henry. Valley was a lot like Bob, a very withdrawn and shy girl who preferred plants over people. Henry however was a rambunctious, buckwild kid with no sense of self preservation.

After the Deluge, Bob fell into a depression and the two (at the time) teenagers had no choice but to leave once it got too hard to sustain themselves and stay on Bob's good side. They both ended up living in France and having families-- Valley having Ginnifer, and Henry having his Junior -- affectionately called Littlebear.

After the two returned, with their families in tow, they were able to reunite with their fathers-- only now, the previously non-psychic children showed psychic abilities!!... Well, okay, Valley did. Henry is still just nuts.

Ginny is very reserved but is extremely snappy, specializing in herbaphony and always carrying some mutated, psychic Venus flytraps in her bag. She's not afraid to beat Littlebear senseless.

Littlebear is a mini-Henry, but is a psychic-- specializing in Pyrokinesis. He has synesthesia, frequently describing the sensations people's voices/any music gives him.

Esther Cruller

Esther is, as you can assume, the granddaughter Ford Cruller. Turns out he had at least one kid running around he was unaware of, and Esther-- suspiciously-- popped up shortly after the first incident of the Time Travelling Terrors.. hmm...

Natalie O'Pia

Natalie is one of a set of twins, her brother being Nikolai O'Pia. They're Cassie's grandchildren, her daughter being their mother and a well respected Psychonaut. Their father is a mystery to them, but.. it's better they don't know about him just yet.

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More tidbits because I'm brainrotting

- Raz and Lili aren't dating, but they're very close friends-- Lili bullying Raz lovingly for his very obvious crush on Littlebear.

- In TTT, Lili's mother is Otto Mentallis' youngest daughter. Otto had three children, but the other two have been MIA since the Deluge.

- Raz has one more older sibling-- a sister named Jackie. Her original name was Vanya, but she changed it after leaving the family at 17(when Raz was 4).

- Otto completely erased empathy and most negative emotion from his mind with the astralathe after the Deluge, hence his strange behavior and lack of guilt or trauma. He had many reasons to do this, but Raz intends on going in to figure it out himself.

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doodle17 · 5 months

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PAYING RENT SOOOOO

What does T.J's mental world look like? Also her clairvoyance of Raz? RAMBLE AWAY BROSKIII

Sorry for taking so long AAAAAAAA

I was just busy thinking about this for a bit! I'm just going to get right into it,

So, the basic idea I have so far is that the layout and level will be based on a cabin. The cabin is inhabitated by a two headed dog thing, called the hound. The hound patrols around the cabin, kind of similar to an El Odio type of deal, only he's slower. Just don't get caught- also Raz gets shrinked down to the size of a penny (okay exaggeration, but still he's tiny)

HOWEVER she does fall asleep after a certain amount of tasks are completed. She'll curl up on big a pile of emotional baggage, and you can sneak by and enter new areas, get some T.J lore drops, and then the final level which is the outdoors. A lot of it is kind of a stealth level, because even though they tend to be widely hated, I actually really like stealth missions in games!

Anyways, the outdoor area is where the final boss occurs! The Hound wakes up and has been hunting Raz the whole time he's been in the outdoor level, and before he can enter the cabin, she blocks the entrance and the fight begins!

After she's almost defeated, she manages to pin Raz down with her massive paw, monologs on how she's her full size, and there's no way she can ever go back, how she's the lead emotions and she's in charge of all feeling. Then, a new entity called the Hunter pushes Hound off of Raz, and lifts up her Axe, slicing them down the middle. The hound, is now split up into to little puppies. Hunter grabs them by the scruffs of their necks and sighs, shaking her head. The aggressive one is barking and nipping, while the sad on cries and howls.

Hunter is basically T.J in lumberjack attire LMAO. Anyways, Raz is his normal size again, and the two of them are back in the cabin. The puppies are both sleeping soundly by Hunters feet. Raz asks what she plans to do with them, to which she says: "I'll probably try my best to take better care of them, I suppose. I can't just get rid of em, y'know? They're still part of me, always have been. I'll just have to start over, that's all... That way I can control them better to avoid another mess like this."

SO the metaphor I'm trying to use here is, y'know how if people neglect and don't take care of their dogs, they get aggressive and harder to control? Well, that can be similar to emotions, so yeah :)

Its pretty basic, BUT it's similar to what I've got going on so mmmmyeah

As for her clairvoyance of Raz, I'm still thinking about it. I think she'll probably see herself as a kid, since they were both similar when she was that age.

#doodles rants #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts oc #moots and babble

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heres-to-all-that-is-mine · 7 months

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Considering the votes were a unanimous yes heeere we go here’s One of my little story concepts I’ve been rotating passively in my head (as put together by copy-pasting several paragraphs worth of my rambling and a few additional or summarised sections);

Podcast pitch for you! A radio show host gets accidentally shunted into an alternate reality which appears to be an exact replica of the “real world”, except there’s no people in it (and things are a little more… dream-like, abstract, strange and supernatural perhaps)

However, the radio show connects them to the real world - people can call in, and they can still broadcast, but most of their time is spent trying to survive and make sense of their new life, not to mention trying to figure out how and why this happened, and how to get back

Wouldn’t it be fucked up if, in a season finale, they make it back to the real world… only to find it wasn’t the *right* world?

Unsure of how it would be “wrong” - perhaps some important person is missing and nobody knows what they’re talking about, or something is fundamentally *different* about the world

Or perhaps it’s an instance of the classic “being in the wrong dimension is making me sick/glitch out/other fucked up symptom”

Perhaps they never existed in this new world. Mm. Either way they’re not making it out of this situation entirely human. Whether figuratively or not,,, up for debate

(Above paragraph provided by my dear friend Raz who enables me)

Ha wouldn’t it be fucked up if their world never existed. They simply spawned into reality spontaneously at the moment that “shunted them into a parallel dimension”

Or perhaps their existence destabilised their dimension causing everyone to disappear rather than them disappearing from the world

I shall have to puzzle over it….. Was thinking of perhaps nightvale in terms of the strangeness of the “empty” world but that’s a bit much

Mayhaps,

Perhaps they’re wondering if the things they’re seeing are *real* or simply some kind of isolation induced hallucination

I can think of several sad or bittersweet endings for the guy but I do also wanna come up with some nicer ones……

For the former, for example - whatever caused them to pop into existence was only temporary, and time and space corrects itself and smooths out the wrinkle of their existence, causing them to cease to exist. Or perhaps they could choose to end the pocket dimension themself, snipping it off of the “real” world for whatever reason

To elaborate on my thoughts up there;

Season One Storyline;

Radio Show Host (let’s call them Cam as a temporary name) kicks up the broadcast, only for some sort of event to occur - they dismiss it as weird, but harmless, considering it only lasts a few seconds and nothing’s really gone wrong as far as they can tell.

The episode goes as it should pretty much; they take calls from listeners, talk about whatever the show is meant to be about, just Regular Radio Broadcast.

However, things go sideways when they step out of the room to find that there’s absolutely nobody else in the building. Maybe during a commercial/song break? Idk. Either way they come back unsettled and the episode ends on something of a strange, sour note.

Things kick into gear by episode two with them returning panicked, rambling about how everyone is gone and they’re all alone. In the whole town, and nobody they know outside the town is answering their messages. Listeners call in, confused, because they live in the town and everyone is still there, which does not help with Cam’s panicking.

From then on things devolve into some sort of chaos as strange things happen around town with Cam, while listeners remain confused if this is some sort of prank or interactive story or whatever.

Blah blah, somehow Cam manages to “get back to the real world” by the season finale, and things seem fine!

Season two!

This one is perhaps told through a different medium? Cam might be recording their own podcast or something like that, rather than a radio broadcast - unsure, might stick to broadcast. Either way it takes place a while after their “escape” but not too long, and they’ve noticed that people have no idea who they are. There’s no record of their existence, not even the few people they did know seem to recognise them, and they’re stuck staying at a motel or something because their residence isn’t under their name as it should be.

They come to the conclusion that this isn’t their universe, and they’re starting to feel off.

Season ends with them going to another dimension - perhaps back to the one they were in originally? - having come to the conclusion that rather than something transporting them to an empty dimension as they’d thought originally, it might instead have been that something did indeed happen to the people in their universe. Something they might be able to undo.

Season three?

I’m not sure what to put down for season three here but essentially, in this season, they come to the slow realisation that there’s something wrong with their home dimension - and themself, by extension.

Turns out, that event that kicked off the whole story? That was the event that created them. That was the moment they came into existence. Everything before that was just the world changing itself to retroactively exist, or at least fill in the gaps of Cam’s memory.

That’s like, all I’ve got. :)

#purples rambling #I don’t really have a name for it #feel free to suggest one?#uhh maybe I’ll make a tag for these things. hmm.#story scribbles!#sure that’ll do

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raz-writes-the-thing · 6 months

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raz I’m gonna be so real I’ve been in the sluttiest mood lately so i’m gonna send you a few ideas I’ve had and you can choose what to do with them 👀 if you wanted to write one (or multiple!) of them that’d be a dream come true, or if you just have some thoughts/headcanons/etc i’d love to hear them!!

1) overstimulation with the 10th doctor and him getting kind of playfully mean… like “oh, i know it’s too much, darling, but you’re going to take it anyway. you want to be a good girl for me, yeah? of course you do.” the idea has been driving me insane the last few days

2) more alec content with a daddy kink!! i’ve read the ones you’ve written a million times over and i can never get enough lol

3) riding martin whitly’s thigh 💖 (michael sheen has the sexiest fucking legs and he just makes me have so many dirty ideas)

anyways sorry for the rambling lol! sending all my love 💕

-🍓

Hiya Strawbs!

I'm gonna write the other two but for now, here's the Alec filth!

Hard agree on the Michael's thighs thing btw. 100% Mans could pop me like a melon with those bad boys and id thank him

Also hard agree on the slut mood thing. I basically live in Slutsville.

Check back later for the other two!

#🍓 anon #asked and answered

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wybienova · 1 year

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Tell me about psychonauts

OK SO psychonauts is a game about a 10 year old boy, raz, sneaking off into the woods to infiltrate a summer camp for psychic children training to become psychonauts— essentially psychic secret agents . he gets to the camp and starts his training alongside a bunch of other weird children .

supervising the camp is agents sasha nein (a slightly sketchy but probably well-meaning scientist), milla vodello (a master of disguise and also dancing), and coach oleander, who… was in the military. also hanging around camp is ford cruller, the founder of the psychonauts, who’s kind of an old weirdo now. he likes bacon.

raz gets some new psychic powers, makes friends (or not) with the other campers, and eventually finds out there might be something weird going on at this camp… not gonna elaborate here though bc this is my pitch ;]

the main like… gimmick of the game is that the actual levels take place inside of the minds of other characters. raz goes into their minds to train, help them with their mental problems, and other stuff. because of this, every level is very visually distinct, with different mechanics and stuff for each one! for example, the tutorial level is the coach’s mind, which is a giant battlefield filled with airplanes and soldiers and stuff. the war. another level is just a giant cube! there’s a ton of different, unique, cool stuff!!

all the characters are really good too . raz is one of my favorite protagonists ever, everyone is consistently funny, there’s even gay people in psychonauts 2. there’s even a rat. there’s even dogen boole.

anyways im running out of spoiler free things to ramble about. psychonauts came out in 2005 and as such has some dated language occasionally (and also can be kinda frustrating at times) but other than that warning (though I can give specific ones if needed) it’s like. i definitely recommend it. it’s really good. go play psychonauts now it’s only 10 dollars on steam

#originally i was gonna do some kind of joke response but um. i didn’t <3 #i only got into psychonauts recently #and it’s . older than i am lol #but it’s one of my favorite series now . it’s really good #wybie moment #asks #psychonauts

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cttncndyiscreamm · 7 months

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Chainsaw Man is a fucking masterpiece and I will die on this hill for it.

The visuals are fucking amazing, nobody leaves mentally stable (except maybe Aki idk), and the artstyle is amazing in both the anime and the manga.

So yes. I like Chainsaw Man, Sam I Am.

In fact I love it!

#anime #chainsaw man #manga #raz is just rambling here #help me

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snurgle07 · 8 months

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Say all your psychonauts 2 thoughtS

All of them huh? I think about this game so much, I’d be here all day, but this certainly gives me a good excuse to ramble about some things I love about pn2. :D

- The characters are amazing! 10/10 I care about pretty much all of those freaks. The art style makes them all look so charming in a lopsided weird sort of way, and the game is so empathetic to everyone that even the characters we don’t get much of or who serve a limited purpose still feel well rounded and real.

- Raz is excellent. He’s loads of fun in the first game and continues to be a blast in the second. He’s even more adorable and earnest in the sequel and I love that for him!! He’s definitely one of my favorite characters of all time, I adore him.

- Adoring the characters goes for everyone though. And pn2 has a whole new cast of characters who are all super fun in their own ways. The Psychic 7 especially are super cool. My biggest soft spot is for Lucy, but I love Bob, Ford, and well, the rest of the seven really, a whole lot. Getting to meet the Aquatos is also awesome, and the interns are cool too. Lotsa cool groups of characters to enjoy.

- The story? Awesome. Feels grander than pn1 to be honest, and I like that, but also it’s completely great on its own. It’s got loads of mind shenanigans, drama, great mental health commentary, and manages to balance out all the trauma with enough healing and empathy and even a bit of humor that it all still feels nice and hopeful despite everything. Like yeah there’s a lot of angst material certainly, and as a fan I gotta love that, buuuut sometimes I need a piece of media to punch me in the gut and then give me a warm hug afterward.

- On the note of mental health stuff, I feel it did great. It’s noticeable that they talked to experts and people with personal experience. They were able to convey the mindscapes of certain traumas and mental health issues with more accuracy. The first game was certainly empathetic and kind in regards to that, which was a big deal at the time, buuuut the accuracy was a bit lacking back then. Pn1 shows it’s age a bit in that regard. Pn2 improves on that wonderfully with both kind and more researched explorations into the mind.

-The morals regarding the complexity of the human mind and the messiness of humanity and how we often make mistakes and have more to us under the surface… heroes are often flawed, villains may just be a version of a person we made up in our mind based off of our limited perceptions… aughh good stuff. There are so many good takeaways from psychonauts 2 and I love it!

- Also on a more personal note, I probably owe this game my fascination with psychic powers and psychics in fiction. It’s tangentially what got me into Mob Psycho 100, and has inspired me to make some psychic ocs. The art direction really impacted me and even the way I draw. My style has opened up so much more since practicing drawing such funky looking characters. I genuinely think it has helped me improve a lot and helped me discover more about what kinds of art style I adore and inspired my own. The gameplay too, alongside the art direction, has impacted my aspirations a lot as far as being an artist and hopefully to work in game design— which is to say it’s super inspiring! I think it can inspire people in a myriad of ways, it’s a very unique game like that, and it really reminds me why I love art, storytelling, and games so much. I genuinely feel I owe it a lot for a variety of reasons and I’ve seen many others who play it feel the same. :)

TLDR: Psychonauts 2 my beloved…

Thanks for the ask! I will never not want to talk about psychonauts, this game is sticking in my brain for good.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #shut up snurgle

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sewersewersewercouch · 1 year

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headcanons about the aquatos when they're sick

I had the stomach flu earlier this week! it was not fun and sexy, it was awful and unsexy, but here's some headcanons to make some good out of a bad situation

Augustus: you can't keep this man in one place for long. he will keep trying to Get Up and Do Things while fully delirious and the rest of the family is trying to get him to get some rest. even in bed he'll usually find something to do with his hands, the model trains thing actually started this way

Donatella: drama queen. is this even a question? she will fully insist that she's dying and she has, like, a mild cold.

Lucrecia: the family tends to worry about her a lot if she's sick because she's old and seems fragile, but she always insists she's survived worse and they're all worrying too much. she likes the attention though. also she was exactly the same when she was younger and with the psychic 7 because ford was kind of a worrywart when it came to her. she found it endearing.

Dion: just, like, goes into a tent and refuses to talk to anyone. there is however at least one picture of, when he and raz were around 6 and 12 respectively, an under the weather dion asleep and hugging raz like a squishy toy while raz is just kinda sitting there. nobody will let him forget this even though he doesn't really remember it.

Frazie: it's really easy to tell if she isn't feeling well because she's usually so energetic and if she's not firing on all cylinders the energy goes out of her like a sad balloon. she does however have a bit of her mom's drama queen traits and will complain like hell.

Raz: I feel like I've seen a lot of people saying that Raz would be a kid who gets easily sick. (or at least he would catch lili's cold after the games. he kissed her full on the mouth! when she was sick! germs!) but also he's kind of the same as his dad and more than once he's gotten sick before an important psychonauts mission and continually tried to insist that no, he could go on the mission he's not sick while he's actively throwing up. it's never especially convincing to whoever's dealing with him at the moment.

Mirtala: pretty regular sick little kid. she tends to get high fevers with relatively mild illnesses, and she'll just ramble about the weirdest shit while she's completely delirious. Dona is trying to get her to take medicine and she's just there going "no!!!! if I don't run away the butterflies are going to eat my hair!" and Dona's just like "that's nice sweetheart"

Queepie: has barely gotten sick once since he was born. it's kind of scary.

#psychonauts #tw emetophobia #forgot to tag that the first time around! sorry!

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anatomical-puppet · 7 months

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got bored of just having my meet the artist as my pinned, so. here’s a bigger pinned post teehee

-call me max or raz, whichever suits your fancy

-he/they/it, nonbinary transmasc fagboy. little freak. i love men and also their tits

-audhd; right now, my main special interest is horror and my main hyperfix is ace attorney

-askbox is always open! i love getting random questions and messages, never hesitate to send me stuff i love stuff

-i do my best to tag trigger/content warnings, but i get a little lazy with tagging blood since i rb so much horror content. if you need anything in particular tagged, just send me an ask and usually i will be 100% down to tag that for you :)

-i’m too tired for a lengthy dni. proshitters and exclusionists fuck off. other than that, i block liberally, so if the vibes are off your ass is gone simple as that

-you can find my links and more about me and my interests in the carrd linked in my bio !!

i've been implementing an extremely barebones tagging system, it's pretty straightforward but here's a rundown anyway

#puppet scribbles - art tag

#puppet rambles - text post tag

#puppet answers - ask tag

#puppet ocs - oc tag

i also have tags for my main special interests; #horror, #medical, and #muppets :)

#yea this’ll do. god bless <3 #puppet rambles

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omega-floweys · 9 months

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more rambles MORE RAMBLES . i have been prompted to talk more about my guys . smiles .

so like GENERALLY. flowerguys live pretty similarly to us. they work regular jobs they get crushed under the horrible reality of capitalism.

complete side tangent but unfortunately i cannot Not make this a capitalist society because i am not economist andy i would not be able to portray anything else in a way that feels accurate because i Just Don't Know What That Would Look Like. things are a bit better than real world capitalism though. discrimination is just not really a thing either generally or in the workplace because there is nothing to really discriminate against. there is likely some level of lack of accommodation for disabled people but i am not dipping into adding like a flower equivalent to racism or anything because it would feel weird and unnecessary and it is not my place to elaborate on.

SIDE TANGENT OVER. OK. where was i.

generally a lot of communication in tone etc is done through tail+hand gestures. it is a big part of how they communicate and get across things like sarcasm etc. i was also considering a sort of greeting where two people wrap their tails together to gauge what kind of person they are and whether or not they'd really get along. this greeting is likely not done very often in professional settings and if it is, it's very brief and doesn't tend to really reflect on either person like it would normally.

AND THIS ALSO BRINGS ME TOOOOO...

V and raz are very explicitly autistic and for that reason are PERFECT EXAMPLES here to elaborate on how it ties into these gestures.

raz simply does not do these gestures. his tail will typically passively sway around without any sort of intent. he does not emote in general and does not emote through hand or tail gestures. it makes it even harder for others to know what he's thinking or what his intentions are.

V, on the other hand, has learned to replicate these gestures. he has a terrible time doing them though he HATES it he hates socialising in general. he tends to get things "right" but will mess up on occasion and get looked at weird and it makes him want to explode.

there are definitely likely other ways for these gestures to tie into being autistic but V and raz in particular are very good opposing examples.

jumping topics again. this is the last bit i swear.

the general opinion someone typically has on the previous civilization is really how you'd think about any previous human civilization. with distant curiosity, unless you are actively interested in the topic. when discoveries are made the message gets out pretty quickly and there is a large effort from... tech-archaeologists? i don't know what term to use here. to archive the information they do have in ways that are easier to preserve. there's a pretty decent amount that they know about who these people were and how they functioned, but unfortunately enough they have not found any images or record of exactly WHAT they were, so there is an additional effort to find any physical remnants of this society. it IS, ultimately, a background part of the story but is kind of important context in various religious and spiritual beliefs that i do want to elaborate on at some point just due to their unbelievably close proximity to how this former society lived.

#flowerguy worldbuilding

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salty-pixel · 3 months

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Its coming up on a year since I started using this blog, so its time for a little reflection I think. Long rambling thoughts after the cut.

When I started posting here I had three goals: To motivate myself to improve, to motivate myself to share more of my stuff, and to havge a sort of archive of my models. The results have been mixed.

I do think I've improved, maybe not a lot but enough that I can see it. My texture work in particular I feel way more confident in, both in creating the textures themselves and applying them. Unwrapping models for textures has gotten easier too, so that's good. Besides that tho I can't really tell if I'm getting any better.

I'd say my weakest point is still animation. Frankly I think my animations suck. Most if not all of my attempts look mechanical or awkward, which can work for the aesthetic of old video games, but I want to be able to animate well. I have so many projects in mind that are being held back by my animation ability and my improvement has been sloooooow.

Now the second and third goals have been less successful. I spend most of my free time making these 3D models, and have for a few years now, but I never used to share them, not even with friends. No goals, just the joy of creation. At some point I started thinking about that, and how if no one ever sees them they aren't really real. I decided that if I started sharing them it might push me to share more. That has not been the case. In the past year I have made at least double, maybe triple, the amount of stuff that I have posted. Some of them I don't feel are good enough, which is understandable, but for a lot of it I either feel like no one would be interested, and I don't want to waste their time, or I have no reason not to share. I don't know why I do it, but I'll finish a project and then just, do nothing with it. I'm not sure how I can start getting past it, but I do want to try.

I also find myself thinking of things in sets, and I hate the idea of not finishing a set. When I made Raz, my brain said I had to make all the campers. When I made a Motobug, my brain said I had to make ALL the classic Badniks (I did get past that by lowering it to just the ones from Sonic 1). It gets frustrating because I have several models done that I don't want to post because the either the set isn't done, or I'm not motivated to continue the set, and my brain HATES the idea of not having the finished set posted. As for the actual experience of posting, its been fun overall, but I find myself sort of struggling with how to post. If you look back you'll see that sometimes I'll just post a model, and sometimes I'll talk about my thoughts on it. I have no clue what anyone wants to see, so I've been sort of flip-flopping on that. If anyone has actually read this far, feel free to let me know: what would you like to see? Should I include more info about my models? Do you want to see the poly counts? Wireframes? Textures? Or should I stick to just the models and let them speak for themselves.

Just wanted to write this to get my thoughts in order, and hope if you stick around that you enjoy what you see.

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