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ambyandony · 1 year

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Cloud Nine Contrails - context post

So basically. Being mentally well as I am I have TWO JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanparts thought up, and the first one is "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Cloud Nine Contrails". The part doesn't have its own JoJo but keeping the name instead of changing it was favoured in a poll I did.

Here's what you need to know for the setting!

Cloud Nine Contrails takes place primarily in (a fictionalised version of) the US city of Detroit, Michigan, and the surrounding Metro Detroit area. It starts in 2020, and might supposedly take place in an alternate version of the original timeline where things didn't go to shit nearly as badly as they did in canon Stone Ocean (not gonna elaborate for spoilers' sake, if you know you know).

The main reason for referring to it as a "fictionalised version of" the city of Detroit is mostly the presence of a decently-sized patch of forested area which does not exist in real-life Detroit (where the closest forested area is approximately an hour away according to my previous research). This forested area is more towards the middle between east and west Detroit, but isn't in the centre of the city. It's located behind a children's playground. 1

Also, in this timeline, COVID-19 did not become a pandemic, likely handled a lot more quickly and responsibly than it was IRL, so COVID doesn't really come into play even though the part takes place in 2020.

Quick Summary

Detroit, the largest city in Michigan with a notoriously high crime rate; 2 while the average tourist might be fine, average crime isn't the only thing locals have to worry about—the city is also home to two rival gangs, the Urban Deathgrinds and the Metro Poppers. It goes unspoken, but everyone knows the gangs hold influence over the area; and they're not just ordinary gangs—both are Stand-based, making Detroit a hotbed for not just crime, but Stand activity.

Cloud Nine Contrails focuses on a very cutesy 17-year-old highschooler named Limbo Adkins, whose anxiety and good nature aren't exactly suitable traits for a gangster, however useful her Stand.

Other Important Details

Cloud Nine Contrails was created as an independent thing but became heavily influenced by events that happened in RP, which led to the presence of an interesting area loosely termed as a 'dimensional hub', the setting of which was mainly and initially an abandoned city with one standing building known as the hotel, referred to as simply "the Skylands Hotel", where most interactions occurred. Dimensional hubs are essentially a place with a weak metaphysical barrier, allowing for any individuals from different locations, worlds, time periods and universes to all arrive there and interact with each other... intentionally, or by being scooped up by the universe (the RPer's whim) and dumped through the barrier.

In this dimensional hub, one major access point is 2002 Naples, meaning that Cloud Nine Contrails features significant overlap with characters from Vento Aureo, that is specifically to say Guido Mista, Giorno Giovanna and Pannacotta Fugo.

Certain characters are revived due to 'shenanigans' (some explained, some not) and any canon character + OC relationships (platonic or romantic) are a result of RP progression. According to the events of RP and general consensus from my friends who RP the Vento Aureo characters, Purple Haze Feedback is canon.

There are no other significant involved overlaps with other JoJo parts, only having a few occasional 'guest appearances' from characters from Diamond is Unbreakable and Stone Ocean; notably Ermès and Emporio from Stone Ocean as recurring non-vital appearances, as well as Josuke Higashikata and a teenaged Shizuka Joestar from Diamond is Unbreakable as similar non-vital appearances. These overlaps are connected to the events of the game Eyes of Heaven, supposedly.

And unless I'm forgetting something by final note; my friends made characters to go in my fanpart so I'll mark any of their characters appropriately as not my design (all art is still mine unless otherwise stated).

I did forget something! A content warning for the thing.

I'm not gonna list everything but like... just know this is a general warning for some mature/heavy themes at some parts of the story; nothing terribly graphic (hopefully), I doubt any of the violence will be beyond what's canon-typical, but like- if you're very sensitive I get it, I'd recommend you proceed with caution or just avoid this,

but for some main things I figure I should warn about: mentions or implications of general abuse (multiple kinds), S/A, possibly self-harm; also some direct portrayal of an ED (but there's also recovery/catharsis), some pretty harsh toxicity in regards to the aforementioned, overall general discrimination (racism, homophobia, etc.). I've got a pretty diverse cast who've faced some pretty harsh parts of society.

I'd say a good chunk of my characters here are minorities in some way or another, whether they're queer, trans, disabled, POC, non-Christian, or neurodivergent.

I write characters from a lot of different backgrounds with a lot of different life experiences; as a white, cis-passing, able-bodied American, it's safe to say I don't share a lot of those experiences and I suppose I don't know what it's like, but I try my hardest to portray things as respectfully as possible (especially with things that are frequently demonised, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and to create normal, compelling characters who have these experiences without it coming across forced or offensive. I've been told I've done well portraying characters like this, so hopefully I can keep up that trend... I also still need to get better at drawing hijab. (Characters with ADHD is just me projecting)

and if you have a problem with, like, half of my roster being queer then the best time to leave is now . if i see homophobes or racists here im gonna

1 this location may not be real but by the time I realised there aren't forests in Detroit the forest and playground had already become a major setting. In my defense, I didn't know that not every place in every northern US State had a fuckton of forests. I'm from PA. There's forests fuckin' everywhere here, I thought that was just normal and never bothered to check. My bad.

2 "Homicides in Detroit rose 5% in 2019 over the previous year, when there were 259 killings in the city, according to the police figures." - George Hunter from The Detroit News

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aleatoryw · 1 year

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getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

#for context it says ''how high your streak is!'' but it crops at just the right point in the text and i misread it every time 💀#duolingo #unironically though i really like the characters in the duolingo stories i think they're fun

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tsuchinokoroyale · 1 year

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At a party and a guy was telling me about how one of his coworkers was complaining about how he thought his dealer was lacing his heroin with cocaine and then the party guy was like “but his dealer was his brother” and I said “that’s some cocaine and abel shit” and the joke flopped so hard but I stand by it so I had to share it somewhere

#drugs tw #in case anyone is wondering what the context was we were talking about kooky coworkers so this story was a lot to hear even in context

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juniperhillpatient · 1 year

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“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real

#I mean I care in the context of how it makes me feel & what it means for the story but like. ugh I can’t articulate this #do y’all understand what I mean lol

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outofcontextbokumono · 7 months

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#bokumono #bokujou monogatari #out of context #harvest moon #story of seasons #mod fav #hm fomt #harvest moon more friends of mineral town #harvest moon fomt #harvest moon friends of mineral town

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mint-mango · 2 months

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spotlight stolen yet again

later:

dw he got apollo to wear the shirt eventually

#more sdt stream doodles lmfao #the only necessary context is that the first image is in reference to 4-4 #and the overarching story of AJ tbh lol #not a diss on the game i have many thoughts that won’t fit into just the tags on a shitpost tho lol #will add to this later #ace attorney #apollo justice #phoenix wright #my art #comic #id in alt text

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xan-from-space · 1 month

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Senshi is probably the most fandomized character in Dungeon Meshi, and while I don't exactly mind it, I do think he has more depth than that. I find all his little quirks and idiosyncrasies to be fascinating; he's very stubborn and set in his ways about things that seemingly don't matter, he thinks about things that other people don't, he has a deeply set value system that informs everything he does. He cares A Lot, like, this man cares So Much. That's the kind of person you have to be to drop everything to help a random group of adventurers save one woman. But because he feels so strongly about things, he can also be surprisingly immature at times (although he's also the character most likely to admit he was wrong about something). I think part of that is because he's lived in the dungeon on his own so long that he's not used to working with other people. He will extend empathy and friendship to almost anyone, but he does things his own way, and he doesn’t always feel the need to explain his way of thinking because again, he's usually on his own. He's both incredibly wise and kind of childish in ways that seem contradictory at first, but make more and more sense the more we learn about him. Major kudos to Ryoko Kui's writing and pacing to make that transition so seamless and have all those details from his backstory click into place perfectly. And on a wider thematic level, Senshi is kind of a perfect counterpart to characters like Thistle (or any other dungeon lord). Senshi understands the dungeon in ways that even its creator doesn't. Although everyone is scrambling to take control of the dungeon, Senshi is the one who actually takes care of it. He's the one who thinks about things like nutrition and proper sleep and the ecosystem, all those things that it's easy to ignore when you get swept up by the grandeur of it all. He's the most important character to have present in a story that explores life and death and hunger. His constant, invisible presence holds everything together.

#I'm not finished it yet so I don't want to make any big sweeping claims about what his story means in the greater context of the manga #but. I really like him so. Senshi thought dump #I really thought this was going to be shorter...idk if I really got what I wanted to say across but once I started writing I couldn't stop #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #senshi #senshi of izganda #edit: yeah I should probably tag this #dungeon meshi spoilers #shouldn't I

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tapakah0 · 20 days

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#MHM #I need a context #a lot of stories #I will be collecting them like a dragon #and collecting songs #My favourite entertainment #marble sky fanart #tapadoodles

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chloesimaginationthings · 1 month

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oughh.. your movie william affers design is too silly… love him ❤️

Tbh I haven’t drawn him nearly enough, gotta fix that

#ask reply #goes for game William too #William overall I’ve just glossed over BAHA #in some regard the reason is because everyone else has drawn William a ton #that his character and story seems spoken for #while yknow I liked giving more context to characters with less understanding #like the movie Mike and Vanessa and game vanny #just they deserve the love too #though one thing that could be fun to explore is Williams dynamics to others #that could be fun fr fr but we’ll see #glad you like how I draw him though!!#idk if I have him perfectly down yet but definitely getting there 🙏🏾

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contact-guy · 4 months

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He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, the Creeping Man

#truly awful story but i love this quote and i WILL yank it out of context and use it for my own devices #happy birthday mr holmes #sherlock holmes #john watson #acd holmes #my art

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egophiliac · 3 months

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BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #eyestrain #(my knowledge of rave attire is very limited i am so sorry)#(to be fair i don't believe crowley knows anything about raving either)#(he's there in a misguided attempt to chaperone/make sure students don't do anything he might be legally liable for)#petition for an ssr of crowley's beach shorts and fedora #anyway i saw the banner and immediately assumed it was going to be another absolutely unhinged no-context episode 7 story card drop #and lost my MIND #and then i scrolled down and...oh it's an event whoops #alas another month without more main story #does this mean more staff cards in the future though? HEY TWST DOES THIS MEAN MORE STAFF CARDS 👀👀👀#are they going to have stories. do we get to see crowley try once again to convince the school board not to fire him. yes PLEASE #god i have NO keys what am i going to DO #i thought i had time to save for sebek's birthday!#but...but our terrible birddad...

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7amaspayrollmanager · 6 months

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Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

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nerdpoe · 10 days

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Young Justice is always a little...concerned. With Phantom's living situation. Now they're outright afraid for him, and Bart has decided it's time to Ask An Adult.

It was the little quips. The tiny little things. Stuff that didn't seem to matter to Phantom at all, or appeared to be normal for him, that he didn't realize weren't normal at all.

"Oh, better not hope my mom catches me." "Doing what, staying out past bedtime?" "Nah, using my powers; she'd vivisect me!"

"Another stab wound. Great." "Don't worry Phantom, I've got the med kit-" "Oh, I'm not a baby or anything, I can handle it just fine. Just gimme a sec to take it out."

"My dad has better aim than that." "...Like, when he's hunting, right?" "...At what other times would he be shooting at me?"

"Huh. Not as bad as my parents place. Look; they have a decontamination shower!" "Phantom, this lab has been vandalized to the point of needing a hazmat suit." "Did I stutter?"

Finding out each others identities did nothing to soothe the worry. Tim quietly told the others that every time he tried to run facial recognition, he kept hitting a government firewall he couldn't breach. Phantom never told them his last name, just his first, and 'Danny' is super common.

The thing that really did it though, the thing that made Bart snap and run off to ask Max, was when Danny had a nightmare.

He was talking in his sleep.

"No. Don't-stop. Stoooop. I need...my skin. Mom, no. You can't...peel off...my skin..."

Bart didn't even wait for them to wake Danny up before he was standing in front of Max, talking a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what to do, with Wally staring in horror over a plate of waffles as he computed everything that Bart was saying.

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Danny had a dream about his mom and Skulker arguing about how to skin him. He wouldn't really call it a nightmare, because it was just Skulker, but the scariest thing was Skulker insisting to his mom that it was possible to skin him with a potato peeler. Dream mom was arguing that it was not, and that from a scientific standpoint that was a really piss poor way to preserve a specimen.

He hadn't been begging them to stop hurting him, he'd been whining at them to knock it off.

But when he wakes up, it's to a room full of worried friends and an old man who calls himself Max.

"Kid, I think we need to talk."