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justabigoldnerd · 6 months

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Okay okay okay @pippinoftheshire 's fic "The River Of My Blood Is Silver" has me back on my winged people bullshit SO here are what wings I think our Dream Team would have and why.

First on the roster: Illya Kuryakin, KGB

The Blakiston's Fish Owl

IMMEDIATELY, I knew Illya was going to be an owl. Completely silent flier, master killers, etc. But also playful and curious and SUPER FUCKING INTELLIGENT. With Illya being 6 ft 5, I looked up the owl with the longest wingspan, and it was this lovely gentleman. His wingspan can get up to 6 foot across. And get this....he is native to Russia

I picture Illya tucking his wings away as tightly as he can most days to make himself look smaller, but then on missions, they're on full display. He uses them to protect his partners (think that one scene from Lucifer), to silently take out enemies, to just straight up intimate the bad guys by fluffing up his feathers. And I imagine during episodes, they start to slowly bristle and unfurl and shake like his hands. And I also imagine that his attempts at hiding his wing span most of the time leads to terrible muscle spasms that he used to just try and ignore, but after he and Gaby and Solo get together, they help him literally stretch his wings and get the knots out of those fragile but powerful muscles.

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Next is Napoleon Solo, CIA

Obviously, my first instinct was the great Bald Eagle, but then

Then I remembered the fun fact that every time you hear a bald eagle in media, it's ALWAYS a Red Tailed Hawk

And just something about the boy-soldier black mailed into working for the American government and becoming their most effective agent really paralleled the Red Tailed Hawk's voice being stolen for the big USA Patriot Bird. Also, I mean LOOK at that plumage, it's DASHING!!! He'd love it!!! He'd preen CONSTANTLY and keep his feathers in tip-top shape.

I see Solo pretending not to be shy about his wings, flaunting them about and using them to seduce marks and shit, but then when then not letting the people he's close to see them or touch them (erogenous zone???) because deep down he doesn't trust them not to hurt him. UNTIL Illya and Gaby come along and slowly encourage him to let them help him preen hard to reach spots and break up keratin sheaths.

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And last but not least!!! Gaby Teller, British Naval Intelligence

The Peregrine Falcon

Not only the fastest bird on the planet, but the fastest animal alive today! And we've all seen how Gaby drives. She's fast and precise and quick witted and SMART AS FUCK. There was (in my opinion) no better choice for her.

Due to her shorter stature in comparison with her wings, she often keeps them tied to her back as part of her mechanic coveralls. They get oil-stained a lot, and she never minded it, or preened all that often, as a matter of fact, but then the boys caught sight of her wings and immediately went "Oooo honey, make over time" and took dawn to those babies and fluffed them up all nice and now she is deadly in the air, becoming just as feared as Illya in the field.

Anyway, that's my take! Hope you enjoyed, because I had a blast writing this up!!!!💕💕💕💕💕💕

#the man from uncle #tmfu #illya kuryakin #napoleon solo #tmfu movie #gaby teller #wings #winged people #headcanon

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pixelgrotto · 4 months

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Top-down Planes Galore

Over the last few years, thanks to my wife's English side of the family, I've visited a fair share of interesting British museums. One of these is the Shuttleworth Collection, a neat place that features an array of planes from the early half of the 20th century. If you're ever in Bedfordshire and have a hankering to see biplanes from the 1920s, I really can't recommend a visit enough. I wouldn't call myself an aviation geek, but there's something about seeing a World War II aircraft in person that stirred my imagination, and one of the souvenirs I bought from my visit was a cool pair of socks that had pixelated biplanes on them.

I specifically bought the socks because they reminded me of Capcom's 1942, the first entry in the 19XX series of shoot 'em ups, AKA shmups. Honestly, I hadn't played much of 1942 at the time, but I've always known enough about shmups to think of the game when I see pixelated biplanes. It probably stands out in my head as an interesting example of a Japanese company making a product where the whole goal is to blow up the Japanese. Yep, 1942 puts the player in the role of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning pilot maneuvering his aircraft through the skies of the Pacific Theater, on a mission to reach Tokyo and blast the heck out of everything. Apparently the game was made with Western audiences in mind, so I suppose we have capitalism to thank for a game that is both historically accurate and not historically accurate at all. (Yes, Japan lost the war, but I don't think any of the Lockheeds in the Battle of Midway had spray guns capable of shooting a billion bullets at once.)

I recently dove into 1942 and almost all of the other games in the 19XX series, mostly because I was inspired by my British nephew, who's recently been going on about planes for hours on end. You can play almost all of them via the Capcom Arcade Stadium compilations on Steam, which repackage classic arcade games and make them easily playable without the hassle of needing to fiddle with MAME emulation. (The decision to make each game DLC that you have to buy is probably questionable, but putting that aside, these packages are pretty okay.)

Anyway, I soon discovered that the original 1942 is the epitome of a 1980s arcade quarter gobbler, with a staggering 32 levels of monotony and some of the most annoyingly tinny background music known to man. It's fun to do loops around Japanese bombers for the first ten minutes, and I've always loved the power-up that gives you two flanking planes that help soak up extra damage, which would go on to be a series staple. Beyond that, 1942 grates at the soul and has not aged well.

1943: The Battle of Midway, and its slightly remixed semi-sequel 1943 Kai, are much better. Here, we bear witness to screen-filling tsunami attacks that can instantly wreck all enemies, a more forgiving difficulty level, and varied stages that don't consist of simply flying over the ocean and rice paddies. Everything's faster and a good deal more fun, and instead of solely taking down planes, now you've got boss battles against Imperial Japanese naval fleets, ending in a fight against the battleship Yamato. And thankfully, the tinny music is gone and replaced by battle-ready tracks that are nicely catchy.

This formula is refined even further in the later games, all of which loosen up on the feeling of "one American plane versus Japan" for a progressively zanier feel. 1941: Counter Attack ditches the Pacific Theater for firefights over European skies, and despite taking place in the earlier years of WWII, your pilot goes up against enemy crafts that are so extreme in size and flavor that they border on science fiction. You'll fire away at German rockets that look like they're designed to fly to the moon and tanks that take up a quarter of the screen. The end boss is a Horten Ho 229, the German prototype bomber that never went into mass production, yet is a formidable foe in this game that is sleek and almost alien-like in its movements.

19XX: The War Against Destiny takes that science fiction appeal to the maximum and says, "To hell with a historical shmup, let's go to the future with two X's, baby!" In an amusing move that would later be replicated by the Call of Duty series two decades later (when they jumped from WWII to the arena of Modern Warfare - and later Advanced Warfare), 19XX sees you taking on the Outer Limits, a terrorist organization that somehow has a futuristic army with hundreds of expendable fighter pilots. For the first time, you can choose between three different planes: the old school Lockheed P-38 Lightning (the well-balanced one), the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (the heavy firepower one), and the Kyushu J7W Shinden (the speedy one). All of these planes are worthy options against enemies that scale in a ludicrous fashion, and one of the bosses in the later levels is basically a mech. It's great. And because the game runs on Capcom's CPS-2 arcade board, which also powered the Street Fighter Alpha/Zero series, the action is fast and clean to a degree that's very reminiscent of the company's fighting game output.

1944: The Loop Master is the last 19XX game I played, because it's the last one available in the Capcom Arcade Stadium. It takes the action back to WWII, but the gusto and fury of all the futuristic stuff exhibited in 19XX: The War Against Destiny is present and accounted for. Hello, my biplane can shoot lasers? Sure, why not! Technically, this one was developed by Eighting and not by Capcom, and all I know about Eighting is that they made the Bloody Roar games and Battle Garegga, another shmup with a cool soundtrack that samples the techno track "Jupiter Jazz," by Underground Resistance. They did a good job, and while 1943 and 19XX: The War Against Destiny stick out in my memory more than The Loop Master, I can safely say that this one features a little dude who parachutes out of your plane when you die. About time I finally saw my pilot!

Honestly, I'm not a great shmup player. I played all of these casually on my Steam Deck, and I never would've made a dent in them in the arcades. But there's something about the 19XX series that's appealing to me, at the very least on an aesthetic level. It's probably the highly detailed 2D pixelated artistry that goes into the top-down depiction of these warplanes, which are given the same slavish fanboyism that you see in Japanese mecha franchises. I think back to the several times I've visited Japan and been to antiwar exhibits like the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Minus a few groups of nationalist nutjobs, Japan's by far and large a deeply antiwar country - but there do exist otaku who nerd out over WWII-era tech, usually not in a "the Imperial Japanese Army was right" sort of way, but in a way that basically says, "the Yamato was one of the biggest battleships ever constructed at 70,000+ tons, I shall now proceed to write an essay about why that was cool." And you know, I can appreciate that attention to technical detail, just like how I can respect the planes on exhibit in the Shuttleworth Collection. So give the 19XX games a whirl if you like planes or simply dig fine artistry - and go visit the Shuttleworth and buy those socks while you're at it.

#pixel grotto #now playing #1942 #1943: the battle of midway #1941: counter attack #19xx: the war against destiny #1944: the loop master

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magnetarbeam · 2 months

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I'm too tired to really be capable of coherence, but my ideas about the TCW-based fighter pilot drama fic - I've called it Jedi Ace so far - aren't very coherent yet anyway, so I feel like I can infodump about that.

This is meant to be about a whole squadron of pilots, which is twelve, but I want the most focus of those to be on Ahsoka and the troopers Kickback and Swoop, the only survivors of her fuckup at Ryloth. I've seen one or two fics that have her apologize to them after it, and I think in all of them they forgave her for it for reasons that revolve around that she was a kid forced into a command position with no choice and no training. Here, I want to acknowledge, in some capacity of substance, that there was more to it than that.

Yeah, it was Ahsoka not knowing what she was doing, but it was also her not thinking things out because her outstanding (for her age) skills at stuff like lightsaber combat had gone to her head and she assumed she'd be able to do this too.

(For what it's worth, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that Filoni thought she would have been able to take out a Lucrehulk with just the lasers on her Delta-7B, but in this case that ignorance is actually useful.)

And of course, Ahsoka also constantly feels the need to prove to her Master that she's good enough for him, so he doesn't decide to give her back after all, which she failed to do here.

The first thing I really need to do here is come up with actual characters for Kickback and Swoop, but I have a hard time imagining them both forgiving her instantly in this. Part of it depends on how much time actually passed between the two assaults on the blockade forces over Ryloth. If it was, like, a couple days, there could be time for some emotional processing.

(My Legends-supremacist attitudes are gonna bleed through a bit here because I'm using the books' description of Ryloth, and also completely rewriting the second assault to neutralize the bullshit about Ahsoka having come up witn the Marg Sabl, which itself is discussed in a completely fucking different context in the books.)

In any event, I want them to have forgiven her enough to fly with her again by the turn of the second year of the war. The setup for how she finds out about their Force-sensitivity is a battle I'm not gonna go into full detail about, but I'm using a generous dose of Canon-Typical Inaccurate Astrophysics by having it take place in the Roche system (I have no idea what side, if, any, the Verpines actually took in that war, but I like it as setup here, so I'm not gonna change it unless I specifically find out that they weren't loyal) when fleet elements working with the 501st and 327th are reprovisioning after retreating from Felucia for the fuckteenth time. For this battle, Kickback has to be transferred out of Ahsoka's squadron (which at that point is her Delta-7B and eleven of the weird clone spinoff models of the Z-95) and put in charge of twenty-three shinies in BTL-B Y-Wings. For tactical reasons, the fighters are limited to communications of a sufficiently low power to only reach the distances of a single squadron's formation.

Here, I've chosen to reference one of the few bits of IRL naval history I actually know, which is the Battle of Midway, and how (at least the way it was told to me) it was basically just dumb luck that the one guy's bomber squadron showed up to the Japanese fleet at exactly the same time that all the Zeros were going after the other guy's bomber squadron.

This time, however, the "dumb luck" of their two squadrons coordinating their attack perfectly, without comms, makes Ahsoka suspicious because she knows just as well as any other Jedi what that can be a sign of. After she investigates, she finds that Kickback and Swoop are both not only Force-sensitive, but have already formed a bond through which they're unconsciously coordinating in combat.

A few months later, the first operational squadron of the new Eta-2 Actis interceptors are delivered to the Resolute. These are not only faster than the preceding Delta-series interceptors, but they're also intended for mass production and use by clones and regular natborn pilots in addition to Jedi, who can strip out a bunch of sensor and targeting systems and cut mass to make them even faster, and they have to rely on the Force to make up for the ship's own capabilities that were stripped out. Ahsoka is inspired by this, and the sensitivity of two of her pilots, to conceive an idea that she presents to Anakin and Yularen: A full squadron of the new interceptors, all stripped down to Jedi specs, and flown by Ahsoka herself and eleven clones with the necessary ability and training to coordinate in combat through the Force.

Yularen and Anakin have their doubts about whether it'll work, especially since finding that many clone troopers with Force ability, let alone training them, is going to take weeks. (If I was not constrained by the timescale of the entire war, it would be a lot longer.)

Nevertheless, Anakin agrees to put the word out among the other battalions(/legions/what-the-fuck-ever) asking for more troopers that are suspected or confirmed as Force-sensitive, and in the meantime Ahsoka works on more training for Kickback and Swoop as the start of the idea.

That's about my attention span for now.

#star wars #star wars the clone wars #star wars legends #ahsoka tano #clone troopers #501st legion #force sensitive clones #force sensitive clone troopers

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battendownthewhatsit · 8 months

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I am really intrigued by the big Plot Choice in OFMD S2!

Spoilers for OFMD S2 (and S1, I suppose) under the cut

--specifically, the way the show has set up Queen Zheng Yi Sao as the now- biggest *external* threat to the Revenge crew (the internal threats are arguably worse but Not The Point here!)

Because last season , the Major External Threat was The Fucking English Empire, with the Badminton brothers as their Dragon. Which meant simple villains who were easy to Boo-- BOOOOO the Empire! BOOOO the hypernormative bullies! This is a good easy Comic Bad Guy for our scrappy crew, overwhelming in power but morally in the clear wrong--they could just leave our crew alone (..to violently harass naval traffic, but like the victims in WWDITS, those aren't Real Characters here) , and they are even, both in the show and IRL, largely responsible for Stede and Blackbeard as pirates even existing. Plus it's easy to make them ridiculous losers. Excellent comic villains, no complaints intended by me, dunk on the British Empire forever.

But now, S2? The definite Big Threat going forward is going to be THE PIRATE QUEEN. Who is competent, and effective, and makes wonderful soup.

The Pirate Queen, who saved their lives and gave them every chance to fit in on her crew, mostly because she liked Olu. Because he was kind, and gentle, and she values that.

The Pirate Queen who's about a million times more disruptive to the social order, the overarching problem in the series, then Stede has ever dreamed of being. Who was, yes, a danger to the Revenge crew after the mutiny, but who was also willing to negotiate that, was doing so as they made their escape, and who had definitely earned the trust to make the conversation at least worth trying. Only they chose not to trust her, and made their escape, and considerably screwed her over in the bargain.

I don't for a moment think Zheng Yi Sao's going to lose all her trust in her crew and spiral like Blackbeard did; she's way too established and self assured for that. I don't even think she's going to make hunting the Revenge a big part of her usual working day (though pirate culture pretty much requires her to let it be known they're her enemies now). But they're definitely going to meet again, maybe several times, and this time it can't be as friends.

And , like with running out on Mary, that's totally on Stede. And I think that Stede is finally starting to really realize that his whole "dump people and run" maneuver is genuinely fucked up and hurts people-- he seems to feel really lousy about it even as he's doing it-- but he hasn't figured out a new maneuver yet (even though he's talked about other ways often enough! a very realistic hypocrisy..)

anyway something something about how last season was mostly about Stede finding the courage to Be Himself without apology, saying Goodbye to his old externally imposed roles (some goodbyes being more sword-based than others) , and it looks like this one is going to be about learning how to be True to Yourself while needing to Apologize Lots Actually; the way more complicated balancing act of needs and commitments with people who do have reasonable expectations him, instead of the easily-hateable and irrelevant Badmintons, who he could kill without guilt.

(I mean also it's gonna be very very funny. I hope Buttons changes shape several times and also bites more people. But there's gonna be a Plot and Themes and so on too, yk yk )

#OFMD Spoilers #man I don't wanna maintag this #I need a good non-maintag OFMD tag #help me out crew #ETA someday I'll get used to the MORE cut not working! someday I will!!!!

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jrheatriz · 10 months

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I know you were talking about Glezra, but I’m still super curious about AWIA. What all have you fleshed out for your different kingdoms? What inspirations do you have for them? Any real world parallels or aspects to your world? Are there any communities under different rulings in the world?

OMGGGGG I COULD TALK ABOUT THIS ALL DAY. okay so i have several kingdoms where their concepts are somewhat to fully developed. here's a list.

Andanthe. so andanthe is a kingdom settled in a spot near the seaside, but mostly nestled in a forest grove. i based it heavily off of places i've been in new england, so they experience all four seasons and a considerable amount of precipitation, including snow. buildings are carved inside of large trees (deciduous mostly) or underground or slightly above ground to avoid flooding. i wanted to avoid having kingdoms while specific types of fairies exclusively inhabiting it, so andanthe is a very diverse kingdom population wise, but a considerable portion of fairies have moth wings, including the royal family. also i wanted to base the traditional clothes, textiles and architecture on some south asian cultures since the main character is south asian. (i mean she's not human technically but if she was, she'd be south asian.) andanthe exports quartz, gold, graphite and textiles to the other kingdoms, and have a mainly plant based cuisine. they are known for their strong army and due to their close ties with the seaside nation of the anwhines, they have a formidable navy. royalty and nobility wear forest green and gold, and this sets a trend for clothing styles throughout the kingdom.

The Anwhine Isles. so the anwhines are based off the caribbean/west indies bc i'm west indian and it would be illegal for me to not include a caribbean character if i'm world building. the isles are a group of islands in the middle of the sea. duh. but they're not that far from andanthe if u take a boat, which is why the two kingdoms have been close allies for millennia. their relationship has been a bit strained due to some #familydrama though. (the current king, marolas, is pissed that his sister althea refuses to take up her duties as princess, and morgan has unfortunately gotten caught in the crossfire.) the area doesn't really experience much "winter" weather, but they do have monsoon seasons and hot seasons and whatnot. alot of that is determined but what fruits are in bloom and stuff. they export pearls, sea foods, spices, and pretty textiles to their neighboring kingdoms. they also have a booming boat/naval resource industry and the best navy. the royal family, as well as a considerable portion of the population, have dragonfly wings. oh, and while they do have very colorful clothing, navy blue is the color that symbolized wealth and nobility.

Monerva. so monerva is a fairly new ally to andanthe, due to morgan and arwileth's tentative friendship. i say tentative because arwileth is kind of like a teacher's pet for the older and more powerful royals on the fairy council, and he gives status reports on andanthe's leadership because the morale on morgan being king is pretty shaky to her bougier political counterparts. that aside, monerva is located in a big and beautiful meadow surrounded by crustal clear river systems and a dense grove. they have a booming silk industry due to silkworms being plentiful in the region. their fashion reflects this: flowing white laces and cottons, floral perfumes, and colorful dyes (usually pastel pink, purple and blue). the most significant resource to their name, however, is that they are deeply connected to old forest magic, and use it to create healing medicinal resources and using magic for technological advancements. most of these tech advancements, specifically, were pioneered by arwileth. he's a bit of a prodigy in that respect. anyways, many of the fairies that live in monerva have butterfly wings; arwileth in particular has blue morpho wings.

okay finally, Ilwich. ilwich is located in a boggy/marshy/wetland area, with settlements nestled in, on, and around an interconnected weaving of mangroves trees. it's not super close to the other kingdoms, which kind of orbit each other, and is therefore fairly isolated both geographically and economically. therefore, they rely on trade and export of raw materials, as well as creating textiles and using imported materials to create things to export to other kingdoms--furniture, glass, potions, et cetera. due to the uhh. nature of their current leadership. they rely a whole lot on andanthe for economic support since the war. their clothing includes a lot of browns and dark greens, as well as flowy elements. in the past, ilwich had been a place of fervent religious history, and has catacombs full of texts dedicated to the Old Gods. (including the god Wrath, who is as u know. super important.) but uhhh other than that ilwich doesn't have much going for them. they pretty much just minded their own business until paladis' reign tbh. though due to current events the kingdom finds itself on the high council of fairies, which incites much drama between itself and the other kingdoms. fun! surely this won't cause any significant issues for anyone in particular. like say. the main character.

anyways yeah! there's some other stuff in development regarding the other kingdoms on the council, but those are Very half baked. so there is this. yippee

#ask #oc stuff #jrheatriz.awia #oc rant #worldbuilding

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hangingoffence · 9 months

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i simply must ask u about ur god oc, they're too cool not to! u've said they're angry and killing their siblings, any reason why? also, which battle/fight they've had is ur favorite so far? and! where does the horse come from? is it a deity/mystical as well?? and how did u come up with their design?

hahaaa you have walked into my trap and NOW you get a short history of my own fantasy world muwhahha

ANYWAY like all my ocs they too are mostly made bc of my own amusement and bc i wanted a character i could pour all my power fantasies to. But they too have been on the back burner of my mind for quite a while. and i have not written down any of this ever so it might be a little messy.

so the character who I have not named because that's too intimidating of a task is a part of a larger scale world that ive been "working" and building up step by step for a while.

None of the things in there don't have any names bc once again it's too taunting of a task, but anyway the world consists of two major continents, the much bigger northern and the smaller southern continents. They both are completely separated and only are accessible by the sea between them. The southern landmass is where 90% of the population live in and is much more habitable especially in the ares near the ocean. The northern continent on the other hand is mostly covered in dense pine forests and deserted tundra. Only one collection of closely knit cities and towns live there right in the edge of the sea line. Although its extremely cold climate and inhospitable areas, it is very rich in it's natural resources of minerals and iron. Which are highly sought off by the people in the south. So there developed a trade route through the ocean between the two continents and inevitably the single settlement of miners in the north developed into a town and then a city with it's own governance.

But besides the natural resources the south had another reason to have keen interest in the desolate place. Because it was told that in the high mountains far far north once lived a nation that prospered well in the cold harsh lands. They were said to be born warriors who could split mountains with their bare hands and they were rumored to protect the southern parts of the land and be the first line of defense against the gods that were popping up from the north. There is still some remains of their culture and architecture hidden within the land.

One of the major cities in the south(i used to just call it the golden city bc of their immense trade wealth) believe themselves to be decedents of these people. Their want to conqueror these areas and see and return to their "own land" and the hard push pack from the north ended up to them committing to a long lasting war. Naval battles dominated due to the advanced shipbuilding and experience the trade routes had brought to both sides. But they did also fight on land, mostly raiding each other's camps and settlements or ambushing and only in occasion fighting head to head in field battle.

ok ok now we get to the actual character. So the character is actually a decedent of a male warrior from the ancient nation from the north and a Goddess. So it makes them a demigod, which grants them abilities like heightened senses and high power and stamina. Also because their mother is a Goddess of nature they have a born familiarity with nature and how to live and survive in it. Their horse was a gift from their mother and it was born from the earth itself. So it too has the natural instincts of a god and the strength and power too. They were both bonded from a young age and can feel each other's presence from miles away.

And their siblings. They all come from the same father but different mothers (all Goddesses). There's total of three siblings including them. They are all highly trained and able. The reason for why they killed both their siblings was bc one of them served under the military of the golden city and they met on the battleground and uknow how that goes. The other sibling is still a bit ambiguous for me lmao but the important thing is that they killed them ;)

Also their anger manifests in a form of discontent. They aren't very social and almost never talk. Having been raised in isolation of the far north taiga by their father. Also being hundreds and hundreds of years old they don't bother with people that much. They fight within the ranks of the northern city only because they don't want anyone disturbing the nature far up the mountains, where their home and ancestry used to be.

And the designs! Well mostly I take random inspo from pinterest and then just smash all the things I like into one. Also with their design specifically I made the armour from copper only bc I thought the colour of the metal was the most interesting looking<333 Also the helmet they wear is somewhat inspired by the barbute helmet with the t-shaped gap for the eyes and the nose. But bc I wanted them to remain faceless the gap where you should see the face is just black, which I think brings a little more mystery and distance to everything. Also the part that protects the cheeks are supposed to be flaps that you can see in many non-visor helmets from Romans to vikings. Also the shape of the ornament on top of the helmet is taken from Roman and Greek helmet plume ornaments but with no feathers. And the rest of the armour is meant to be very decorated I just never draw all of it bc damn no thanks.

whoah anyway thanks for asking em <333 MWUHA MWUAH

#once again ILY EM thank you for asking<3333 #hope this was not that messy i just pulled it all from my head #also you can see my Sparta phase in this im sorry lmao #emyr #oc tag #ask

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behindthescenesobg · 8 months

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vincent post

vincent time okay so he's the director of the Aptorian Defence Fleet so he runs the place and tells people what to do and all that he's such a dude he lived and served through the Lily Arm Collapse (as a standard soldier, then officer, then naval captain because of a transfer), the big thing that happened because a planet sized god got bored of living as a planet and decided to assimilate everything it could reach it got stopped by a ship called the ADFS Condor, a giant cruiser that dealt the final blow that ship is now on display on Aptoris in the Galactic History Museum it was being captained by Vincent at the time and he ran the whole operation as a rogue from the rest of the ships warped it all the way to the host planet and drove the ship into the crust, then fired the massive guns in the nose (which he had ordered his engineers to draw all power to) [edit: these guns are HUGE. someone standing at 6ft tall would look like an ant next to one of these. they're called "Titan Slayers" in universe. TITAN SLAYERS. THEY'RE BUILT TO DESTROY GODS WHICH ARE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE POWERFUL THAN THIS FLESH BLOB. THEY CARVE THROUGH MOUNTAINS EVEN WHEN NOT FUELED BY 99.99% OF THE POWER OF 6 COLOSSAL REACTORS. anyway] which destroyed the core of the god thing, so it went bye bye he got reprimanded for damaging the ship obviously but he was promoted to a stupidly high ranking officer, who then took over when the current director passed away so he became the director of the entire ADF enough of that he is so. he's got a little romance thing going on with one of his top two officers he's the most emotionless guy you'll ever meet he does not show any emotions unless they're VERY strong only 3 people in his current squadron have seen true emotions out of him, and they are amanda (his "girlfriend"), kurt (his personal student and now friend from the academy), and holly (who he sees as a daughter) he's my second favourite to write so far, but he might be overtaken by xander when i bring him in he's got such a big backstory that i havent gone into properly yet and probably wont for the sake of showing it when the show comes out (hopefully) but he's such a rich character in my opinion he's also the only character to carry over to the rewrite so he holds a special place in my heart i love vincent vincentpost over might do john or boris next maybe both peace <3

#writing scifi #original character #scifi #tv writing #writing #writers on tumblr

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charaznablescanontoyota · 2 years

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!! SHOW ME THE OBJECT OF ADORATION

hi all of these are gonna come with a picrew as a visual aid bc all my oc art is like 2+ years old and i also dont feel like digging it up

this is ingrid kievsky, aka the admiral, fka pandora! she was the plucky teen sidekick to the starlight six, a superhero team that got completely massacred by a team of villains way above their weight class. ingrid was the only known survivor of the fight and - insult to injury - was arrested and prosecuted due to costumed heroism being outlawed in her city. she was ruled not guilty mostly on account of, you know, she almost just died trying to stop a bunch of murders from happening.

anyway that was like 5 years ago and now she's an english/music theory double major who goes to group therapy for former heroes. she also moonlights as the admiral, a naval/captain ahab themed vigilante hunting down the villains who killed her friends. she's doing her best to play nice with the city's other heroes/vigilantes because her powers only work when another person is around - she can pull any item out of hammerspace as long as someone else is thinking about it/intensely needs it. she tends to be too intense for a lot of the heroes she's usually around, and resorts to weaponry more easily than most of them since her powers are more supportive than offensive.

her parents are pretty normal folks who don't know much about ingrid's secret identity stuff (by choice), but disagree with the city's policies on heroes and throw their support behind their kid. they're a hindu-jewish couple who met playing in the city orchestra, and ingrid takes after her mom as a cellist!

send me !! and i'll tell you about an oc

#oc meme #marn ocs #vprp tag

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anne-lida · 1 year

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Hello, Lida *-* I saw some Japanese titles in your WIPs names, so... Do you speak Japanese and never told me??? Do you know I love Japan, Japanese folklore, culture and their traditional food?? Now you know (Nikujaga is on the menu for dinner tonight ٩◔‿◔۶)

So, tell me more about those titles. And... how many languages do you speak? Did I see some Spanish titles too? Mmh.. Interesting!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Hello, dearest Lady Connor!

I'd just ran around my bed in excitement for... maybe two minutes or more after seeing your ask. Really tired, but happy to see you in my ask box! ^^

Anyway, for the ask:

I'll be very honest, I just started learning Japanese last December and I still can't make a proper sentence yet--probably even less knowledgable about Japanese anything than even you ^^'. Really sorry for disappointing you ;_;

Other than their foods, I do really love tokusatsu, especially shows like Super Sentai (and its American adaptation Power Rangers) and Kamen Rider. But last year, I delved into Ultraman franchise and found a... deep liking into a certain character ._.

And that's when I made that first Japanese-titled WIP ^^

(Btw, all of my Japanese-titled WIPs are Ultraman fanfics and for now, they're still written in English ^^)

So, for 限界を超えろ (Genkai wo koero!), I did post the faceclaim of its main character, Kazuki Ōkami ^^

Story-wise, it's a story of Kazuki, a paralympic athlete who was once a big fan of his city's hero, Ultraman Srika. One day, Kazuki lost his best friend during an attack and he found out that his very idol caused it. He was boiled in hellish fury, but far from enough to give him an even chance to survive the giant's blow, if he should fight Srika.

On his lonely walk, he sacrificed his life to save a mysterious young man, who turned out to be a new Ultraman in disguise named Gala. To pay for Kazuki's heroic deed, Gala bonded with him. Reviving him in the process and giving him ability to become giant. A chance to fight alongside Ultraman Srika, or against him :)

Yeah, that's basically what the first episode is ^^

The story of ミスター • ウルトラマン (Misutā Urutoraman) is still not well developed. The main concept is this series' Ultra host is a CEO of a food company. He only turned into giant if the company's properties were at high risk of getting damaged by the Kaiju and often used the catastrophic attacks to create his company's heroic image as "the savior of starvation" kind of thing through food donation xD

強大な翼 (Kyōdaina Tsubasa) popped quite recently. There's a pair of twins who worked in a Kaiju defense force--one is a pilot, and the other's a naval flight officer. On one mission of finding the Kaiju's nest far outside the border of the outmost village, the pilot's team was attacked by a mama Kaiju and the base lost contact with them. As the Kaiju got closer to the populated village, a mysterious Ultraman appeared and saved the day. Yet, after a search, no trace of the fallen pilots had been found.

And this is his story of finding his sister (and the process of accepting the possibility of her death) and, while still in grieving state, helping other living pilots protecting their homeland (along with the unknown gigantic alien).

Btw, on how many languages I speak...

Uh, it's only three ^^'

Japanese and Spanish (and Bable aka Asturian) are not even one of them. So if you (or anyone else) notice any mistake, please correct me xD

Idk if you also ask about the "Spanish-titled" files, but I'll tell you about it anyway xD

It's all under a WIP folder of a very loose Power Rangers fanfic. It was inspired by social-deduction games mechanic (like Mafia, Werewolf, Town of Salem, Among Us).

"During the sickening century of old, there were murderous beasts called "Monscuros". At night, they searched for foods and followers amongst humans and at day, dressed like the humans. The people of Nagüestia didn't have strength to hold off against their devilish power. But under the slightest glare of sun, people took a chance to push anyone who looked like they did the darkest sin last night into trials.

"Those people claimed that was the only way to win. But seeing so many innocent blood spilt before a sinner was caught, some of them silently believed more in the fabled Layenda. The heroes of the stars, who also hid amongst the men until the sun went down, when they would strike the monsters at the heart with their silver blade and starlight spells. Saving humanity from those wretched creatures... and themselves."

And that's the somewhat romantization vibe of that WIP ^^'

Also, I posted a drawing of a Layenda in the past.

So, yeah. Thank you so much for asking me! ^^

#lida's story #ask box #tag game #names of files in wip folder #ultraman #Ultraman Gala #Ultraman Tunas #Ultraman Crow #ultraman oc #power rangers #Power Rangers Layenda #power rangers oc #I think it's been 4 years since the last time I got an ask--and around December too. maybe coincidence?#researching for fanfic purpose is a really fun way of learning new knowledge. at least for me.#is it effective? idk. I felt like I learned words from two dozens languages just through WIPs alone. but I can't make a sentence on my own.#but it pushed me to search for new foreign things with more open mind.#btw I had to hold back myself several times before this post become a wall of text xD #also sorry for the late answer ^^'

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So they're proving they are wizards from the stars by "turning off the sun" (Deus ex eclipse) and Alan started being fancy and saying poetry but no one knows English (or any other outside language) anyway so he's just telling his sailor friend to curse at it.

Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer’s objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.

#Captain reads King Solomon's Mines

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Throwback Thursday: Visiting the U.S. Navy Submarine Museum

On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible owned by OceanGate descended on its fourth dive down 4,000 meters, or over 13,000 feet, to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. However during this voyage, it suffered a "catastrophic implosion," and tragically all five lives on board were lost.

Now let's unceremoniously segue into the time I visited the U.S. Navy Submarine Museum in Connecticut a month ago.

The entrance to the “U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum”, as it says on the sign. Below, it says “Historic Ship NAUTILUS (SSN 571), referring to the post-WWII-era submarine that's docked off-shore. (“SSN” means it’s a nuclear-powered submarine, and its "hull number" is 571.) A “welcome” sign is blinking into view.

I know, I know! This is no laughing matter. But seeing as everyone's suddenly a carbon-fiber expert now, I could see no better time to bring up my visit to this place related to marine engineering.

It's also important to note the difference between “submarines” and “submersibles.” Submersibles, like the OceanGate craft was, need to be transported and supported by nearby ships, as opposed to submarines which are entirely self-sufficient. However, both may be called “subs,” as they both operate underwater.

Me standing next to the sail of a submarine called the "NR-1".

How could you tell this was a “submarine” museum? Well, you find out the moment you pull up. In front, several submarines were on display, including some imperial Japanese subs captured during WWII! Some were mini-submarines (or as they’re crudely called in the Navy, “midget” submarines), and some were originally large but now deconstructed for display. For example, do you see what I'm standing next to above? That's the SAIL of that submarine. If it was that big, imagine how big the original submarine was!

A zoomed-in label in front of the NR-1, with the sail circled in red. Do you see that? THAT'S what I'm standing next to.

Next, we walked into the museum proper. A television screen showing a muscly 3D-rendered sailor greeted us, and told us the importance of the Navy heading into the “War on Terror” in the present day. (If that's what it calls the “present day,” imagine how long this museum hasn't been updated for!) We also saw artifacts like a giant submarine hung from the museum ceiling, or a recovered imperial Japanese flag covered in outdated Kanji characters.

Left: My dad standing next to a submarine hung from the ceiling. Right: A flag that used to fly on an imperial Japanese ship.

Next, we entered a theater that was playing a movie called "Museum Theater: A Century of Silent Service: Part I." This 45-minute propaganda film from the George H. W. Bush-era showed mostly submariners who were successful in their operations, or died heroically for their country.

One interesting fact I learned from it is that the first submarine—the USS Plunger—was invented and proposed to the U.S. Navy with the express purpose of attacking enemy ships. It's strangely reflective of human nature that kids learn these during their childhoods as cool-looking, yet they're never told it was invented for violence. (I guess it's not hard to figure out if you think about it, but still.) But look at how far we've come! Sub crafts have diversified so much, deep-diving submersibles (first achieved in 1960) are able to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Also, the movie showed that many accidents occurred in the early history of this specific branch of naval engineering, which probably left viewers with the impression, "these problems must have gotten fixed later... right?" Well, most of them probably were. However... I can't speak for all of them.

Inside the USS Nautilus. On the left is me standing next to a kitchen with coffee machines, and on the right is a room that loaded torpedoes for deployment.

Anyways, we climbed on-board the USS Nautilus. It's a "nuclear submarine," which means it’s powered by nuclear energy, and that's better than using fossil fuel energy because those submarines need to surface constantly. All active U.S. submarines are now nuclear-powered. The USS Nautilus was the first nuclear submarine, and now the inside was converted into a tourist attraction, with many of the rooms having a see-through wall so we could see what goes on inside. (Also, some of the rooms had pin-up girls on the wall.)

The reason I'm bringing this up is while I was following the OceanGate story recently, I found a person in the comments of a Daily Mail video sharing information as an “ex-nuke submariner.” This person, an expert in something I found out about at the museum, was using his expertise to help people be better-informed about the Titan incident 🫡

The ex-nuke submariner, helping inform people in the comments of a news video.

So, what were your thoughts on the recent Titan incident? What were your initial reactions upon finding out the news? Or do you know someone in the Navy, who might recognize something I mentioned in this post? Do they also have a different perspective on the Titan incident than other people?

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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): "Do you think the key to remaining competitive with the Chinese military is more gender advisers?"

JESSE KELLY (GUEST): "Oh, there's no question, Tucker. I mean, China right now and Russia, they're both testing hypersonic missiles that can turn New York City to ash. Russia is actually developing and has developed satellites that can push our satellites out of orbit and completely cripple our military. Our military though, they're focused on the important things. We want to focus on climate change and we definitely have to make sure there are enough tampons in the restrooms at the Pentagon."

CARLSON: "That's kind of what they're saying. I mean, you -- I mean, I don't know, there's a psychological term for this and it escapes my memory at the moment, but -- where there's a massive real threat that you can't deal with, so you scurry off and deal with imaginary threats to make yourself feel in control. That kind of feels like what we're watching."

KELLY: "Well, what we're watching is the destruction of the U.S. military and what we're going to end up seeing, Tucker, is thousands, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans die. That's -- those are the stakes of the game we're playing here. We don't need a military that's woman-friendly, we don't need a military that's gay-friendly -- with all due respect to the Air Force. We need a military that's flat out hostile. We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls. But we don't -- we don't have that now. We can't even get women off of naval vessels. That should be step one, but most of them are already pregnant anyway." The United States Military should take Climate Change seriously. The United States Military is one of the world's largest polluters. And China is currently taking Climate Change seriously too. For all this fearmongering about Russia easily defeating our Armed Forces, Russia with all its "advance technology" cannot even defeat Ukraine. It is ironic that Tucker Carlson talks about dealing with imaginary problems while a real, tangible, massive threat looms in the distance. Tucker Carlson spends his days spouting Racist Conspiracy Theories and Bullsh*t Culture War Nonsense. Meanwhile the Upper Class and Politicians are getting richer and richer, while the Middle Class disappears, and Corporations gain more power/control.

Jesse Kelly is extremely disrespect to Gay Service Members and especially Female Service Members. Jesse Kelly is upset that places like the Pentagon have Tampons for the Female Members that work there. "We don't need a military that's woman-friendly, we don't need a military that's gay friendly... we need a military that is flat out hostile". Jesse Kelly, a White Cis Man, is advocating for a hostile work environment for Women and Minorities. This does not make sense if you want more people to enlist in and help the Armed Forces, Women are (around) Half the Population and a sizable amount of the younger generations are Queer! So arguably, to keep people in the military or willing to join, yes you do need a woman-friendly and queer-friendly environment. "We can't even get women off of naval vessels. That should be step one..." Jesse Kelly wants Women out of the Navy, out of the Army, and out of the Air Force. Jesse Kelly is disrespectful to the people serving the country. Conservatives get to say they are "pro-Armed Forces" while advocating against our Gay Service Members, against our Trans Service Members, and against our Female Service Members. "We need a military full of Type A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls". That is the exact opposite of what we need. We do not need Racists with "itchy trigger fingers" murdering Chinese People. We need the exact opposite. We need people willing to broker peace with the Chinese Government. We need people willing to find peaceful solutions. Because going to War with China means thousands of Dead Chinese Citizens and thousands of Dead American Citizens. We should not be advocating for that. We should not be recruiting folks who have a passion for killing Minorities. With Russia's useless, pathetic invasion of Ukraine and the United States foaming at the mouth to kill Asian People, it sometimes seems like China is the only Adult in the room.

#Rightwing Nonsense

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nerevar-quote-and-star · 3 years

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Artanis Felagund

The assassin, the Companion, the myth and legend. Boom.

Aka, The Life and CrimesTimes of Murder Mom the Bosmer Babe

Part I

Born in Leyawiin and raised climbing the trees of the surrounding swamps. Was a baby swamp rat through and through.

Was definitely a biter and the worst toddler you'd ever meet. Got away with 75%+ of it cos she was Smol and Cute.

Bosmer with a last name. Why a last name? Well, when her parents first immigrated to Cyrodiil all official like, they had to register at some Imperial office. Her mom got the name off of a sign she saw there in Anvil, and thus the family was named after Felagund's Forge and Smithy.

[Any Silmarillion fans might recognize that I named Arty after Lady Galadriel and her brother Finrod. Arty is not anything like either of them. RIP. Not good for Arty, but most amusing for me! 🤣]

Raised on stories kinda real and many fabricated about the Hero of Kvatch. Elven warrior lady saves the Empire? Her favorite story. Like, ever. Even had a redheaded ragdoll she called Avy.

Aside from Avy the Hero Doll, what else did she have? Oh yeah, a whole baby brother! Sercion! He was cute too! (They also had two older siblings but they're both dead. 😬)

What happened to Sercion? Well. He and Arty got sick when she was about six and he was twoish. And — no, he didn't die. He was picked up by a vampire cult searching for children to raise within their folds. Gwedhanar and Ruinil were bamboozled into thinking he WAS dead. But not Artanis. She knew her brother was alive. And yet no one believed her! This incident instilled the seeds for paranoia that would blossom later in life.

Why wasn't she taken, too? They tried. There was just something not right about Artanis, though. Everytime they came near to her, the world grew darker, a chill creeping out of the Void. Too old, they decided. It was the excuse the thralls gave their handlers. Too old.

Arty was aged nine when the Great War broke out. One day the passage into the lower Niben was open and the next the Topal side of the city was closed from any potential naval threat from the Dominion.

Leyawiin was super racist during the Oblivion Crisis and guess what? It still is during the Great War era. Argonians and Khajiit were already looked down at, but after the war starts, every wood elf, high elf, and even dark elf in town was looked at crossways. Even Artanis. Who was nine.

Did NOT help when her dad, Gwedhanar, was summoned back to Valenwood to help guard the northern borders.

He left one night in the wee hours of the morning, and the next day, without the family saying a word, everyone knew that Gwedhanar had "deflected to the Dominion's banner".

Is it really deflection to the Dominion when you're answering the call of your family to defend your ancestral home?

Regardless, her father was gone and Artanis and her mom remained fairly isolated — or at least Ruinil tried to keep Artanis tucked away — as the war encroached on Leyawiin.

The Aldmeri Dominos does, in fact, take the city, complete with a military governor. How else do their ships get to Lake Rumare? This isn't Peter Pan. Tinkerbell is not here to make them fly.

(Don't ask me what happened to the Count and Countess of Leyawiin. This isn't about them. But he's totally dead.)

Anyway so this governor, Alfakyn, took up residence in the castle and Artanis' mom ended up working for him as a chambermaid. Read: he came, he saw, he coveted. And Ruinil only deteriorated from there. Literally the only thing good left in her life was her daughter, and she bore everything for her sake.

Listen, Alfakyn was a huge creep. He was just the kind of man in power who believed his power entitled him to things. One of those being sad Bosmer mom, and another being Artanis. Because he was that kind of creepy.

Oh no, he never actually does anything to Artanis. Kid is loaded up on trauma, but thank every Divine and deity out there that she never experienced that kind of darkness.

He grabbed her arm one (1) time, when the kitchen maid shirked her duties and sent Artanis up with the tea tray, but who was there to stop him but — Elenwen? And Vilya (read: Leara Rose-blade).

Artanis makes it out without realizing she was that close to danger, and right into the arms of her frantic mother, who knew just how close to danger Arty really was.

Because let me tell you how dangerous this guy is: he follows Ruinil home that night. But Ruinil, she was a shrewd enough woman to know he'd do that, and hid Artanis near the pond on their way home.

That's when everything went up in flames.

Literally

Under the cover of nightfall, the governor followed Artanis' mom into their home, and that's when Ruinil started the fire. It quickly grew out of control. They and half the wooden buildings in Leyawiin burned to ashes.

And Artanis?

As soon as smoke started curling in the sky and fire began leaping from the shattering windows of her home, she ran screaming toward the inferno, shrieking for her mother. She would have yeeted herself directly into the blaze if she hadn't been grabbed by one of the Justiciers.

Leara, or Vilya, held little Arty back until the screeching and thrashing baby Bosmer went stiff and silent in shock, and then she gave her over to one of priests before reporting back to the castle.

Did the Dominion try to put out the fire? Or did they leave that to the bedraggled citizens of Leyawiin? I don't know. Artanis doesn't know. She spent the night shivering under a pile of blankets on a pew in the chapel. Waking and sleeping she saw fire.

And that's how Artanis developed pyrophobia! 🔥😎😁

And in the morning, when the priest came to check on her, she fled out of the chapel and out the gates of the city. When no one came after her and she found herself alone in the Blackwood, that only added to her fears of abandonment and isolation!

When Y'ffre was making Artanis, he meant to sprinkle a few issues into the mixture, but the cap came off and they ALL went in. Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound!

Somehow, SOMEHOW, she ran into a family of Argonians immigrating north through the Blackwood toward Morrowind. Cute bedraggled baby Bosmer managed to exploit this and hitched a ride, er, walk with them north as far as Cheydinhal.

And if she grew attached to them and cried herself to sleep when she runs away from them so they can't stop her from going to Cheydinhal by herself, well, who was there to see her cry but the wildlife?

Artanis is ten by this point, but her life has been sent to Oblivion in a gift basket — and I mean one of those expensive baskets with ALL the goodies in it! Except replace the goodies with trauma, misfortune, poverty, being orphaned, malnourishment, and the lot.

Baby Bosmer spends the rest of the war on the streets. No, I'm serious.

"Street rat", "biter", and "urchin" are only the more frequent (and nicest) names used for Artanis while she's on the streets

The Dominion may or may not attack Cheydinhal in 4E174. I dunno. But imagine the trauma!

Artanis was the first character I ever emotionally devastated. I know, I know, she's already been through so much. Isn't it fun!?

I haven't even mentioned — I mean, she's in Cheydinhal! Do you know what sorts of ghosts from the past plague this future assassin? The future Listener?

Anyway we have Arty the malnourished street urchin turning thirteen at the end of the war. She's been a victim of the war from the start during some of her most vulnerable years. The Artanis she would've been without the Great War is completely unfathomable to the young teen still begging for charity after the fires are put out and the soldiers sent home.

That winter something is finally, finally done for Artanis and the other war orphans in Cheydinhal. The dust is clearing and the current city administration is taking note of just how many kids are left adrift after the war.

But Artanis isn't from Cheydinhal, she's not on their records and neither are her parents. They don't have much in the way of orphaned refugees. Refugees usually come in the form of adults, not stray children.

And Arty is . . . reticent about her past.

(Things are different in the alternate universe where Aurora Orianus is Dragonborn. A lot of stuff is different . . .)

But not all things are bad! The old tavern owner and his wife take her in and Artanis learns about waiting tables and, when she's older, handling drunk patrons. It's good practice for living in a mead hall later in life.

No seriously, this is why she can totally vibe in a mead hall!

Arty learned Nibenese folk dances and songs and she loved them!

Barmaid Bosmer Lets Loose Like a Babe is literally what some of her peers said about her and they were right! 🥳🥳

So when Artanis was little, she loved apples, and the green ones were her favorite. During the Great War, they were hard to come by in both Leyawiin and Cheydinhal, so Artanis had to go without them for several years until the supply lines were opened again.

When she finally got one, it turned out to be from a bad bunch, infested with worms.

She never ate one again.

But she learned to drink really fast, especially working in a bar and especially with her bawdy friends who wanted nothing more than to forget what they should've never been exposed to.

It doesn't help her. Arty develops a habit of drinking herself under the table on very bad nights when the fire burns too bright behind her eyelids and she can't hear the music for the screams in her head.

Cheydinhal is kinda like a picture of Artanis: beautiful on the surface and dark and full of pain on the inside.

But Arty likes Cheydinhal. She likes being surface friends with people who don't know what happened to her beyond her years on the streets. She's just another pretty face.

And she really, really likes the count's son, Fendall.

Too bad the Dark Brotherhood doesn't like him too.

Or at least, one Dark Brother.

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Hey uh hetalia is about a bunch of countries running around being stupid. It doesnt promote japanese imperialism (japan is made fun of just like every other countries) OR fascism, like... it's pretty much all satire and anti-war it's not that deep... (the axis powers so called are NOT GLORIFIED. They're described as fucking useless also they cover history BEFORE and AFTER ww2) as opposed to countryhumans where the largest ship is literally nazi germany x soviet union

Hey, anon!

Hetalia is indeed about a bunch of anthropomorphised countries running around being stupid, with lots of silly gags. It has a fun art style, fun characters-countries.

Some of these countries happen to be, oopsie, Japan wearing a WW2 naval uniform, Germany wearing Wehrmacht and Waffen SS uniforms, Italy wearing WW2 uniforms, all of which are quite detailed too. Together, they form the Axis powers, a military alliance that formed during WW2 to fight against the Allies. It’s in the title of the anime.

There’s a storyline taking place during WW2. Wonder why you don’t mention that, anon. You probably forgot about that. Funny how memory works sometimes.

Now, would you agree that Germany committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war, including among other things the Holocaust? Would you agree that Italy was fascist during WW2 and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during that time? Would you agree that Japan militarism has lead to uncountable war crimes and crimes against humanity, including but not only the Nanjing Massacre of 1937?

Wait, you don’t have to agree, those things did happen, and if you think they haven’t, you’re a holocaust denier, a revisionist and a disgusting human being, simple as that.

The manga and anime pretend it’s possible to use these aesthetics without having to address the fact that, hey, maybe the people who wore nazi uniforms were nazis (or part of the royal family in the UK) and maybe having Germany be a funny bloke while wearing his nazi uniform isn’t a very good idea? Maybe presenting China and Japan as good pals is disingenuous? Maybe some of the jokes are really in poor taste?

The thing is, you could have had all these characters be anything but the representation of countries they are with the aesthetics they have adopted. You could have them be, I don’t know, part of an international campus, have them be a bunch of lads, have Germany wear Lederhosen, have Italy cooka da meataball, have France rock his striped jumper and whatnot instead of his WW1 uniform. No need to sweep horrifying warcrimes under the rug, because nothing there is making you think about it.

The aesthetics Hetalia uses are referential, they send back to other things. A character wearing a suit of armour sends back to the Middle Ages, for instance. The costumes Hetalia’s main cast wear mean things. The characters inside these costumes are shown as good-spirited chaps, fun scamps, and we don’t mention all the bad things that happened associated with these uniforms. Uniforms that are lovingly drawn, with impressive accuracy, too.

Hetalia’s aesthetics clash with its intended goal, fun comedy between bishounens, with some mildly stereotypical humour making for most of the jokes. Or is it really a clash?

What do I think of that? It’s simple, really. That’s a tacit endorsement of Japanese imperialism and fascism. You’re meant to think, aww, poor Germany, he likes to bake cakes, isn’t that cute and loveable? And that’d be really easy to get behind that if not for the uniform he wears all the time. Because Germany wears the damn uniform, several of them, in fact. So does Japan. So does Italy. And the rest of the cast as well.

By refusing to address all that comes with these uniforms, Hetalia makes them acceptable, and clumsily tries to decontextualise these aesthetics, but not really, but also really? Uh… Let’s only keep the good parts, alright? They’re bishounens, they’re sexy, funny and silly!! Weren’t the Axis powers funny bishounen, y’all? Don’t they look good in their uniforms? Don’t worry, jokes are made about them too so that it isn’t too obvious that they are meant to represent countries that are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity? Won’t you buy the manga/DVD/Nendoroids and not think about all the war crimes and crimes against humanity? Pretty please?

That isn’t directly glorification. The term I used in an earlier post was “commodification”. When you turn something, anything, into something that is a commodity, that you can buy and sell. Japan is less sensitive to the fact that, well, maybe the nazis weren’t the good guys, or worth looking up to in the first place. It’s an actual problem with Japan that needs to be addressed.

As for C*untryhumans, I didn’t know that existed, it seems pretty awful and I don’t care for it. One thing about that, though. It’s not because something worse than Hetalia exists that Hetalia isn’t ideologically disgusting.

There are lots and lots and lots of things you can enjoy that aren’t ideologically perfect, and that have questionable element in them, while not pretending that they aren’t there. I quite like Lupin the Third, but man, the nazi stuff that sometimes pops up sucks massively. It’s there. I won’t pretend it’s not there because it’d be dishonest to do so.

Why can’t you do the same with Hetalia? Well, you can’t, because the entire premise is rotten to its core. It’s not really satire, because satire points at what it makes fun of, while Hetalia makes vague gestures and purposefully omits what would make Japan, Germany and co characters you don’t want to engage with and spend money for. I did not walk out of Jojo Rabbit wanting to buy nazi memorabilia.

Anyway, hope you have a good day and find something less vile to enjoy, anon! Hetalia has been banned in South Korea and you really ought to wonder why that was

#hetalia #hetalia discourse #in the year of our lord 2020 #anti hetalia

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You can train yourself out of seasickness(occasionally you might still get sick, but you'll mostly be fine). So even if "Wens are bad with water" maybe WRH had a dedicated naval army? They swam it? And maybe Sunshot dragged on because like, someone still has to do nighthunts and we've got extra ghosties? Doesn't matter how much land you've taken back if all your citizens are getting eaten by demons. Anyway looking at these maps JFM needs to stop giving JC shit about not attempting the impossible

then why chase the waterborne abyss down to gusu? if you were used to water in some way, that would be a 'trivial' nighthunt to handle

(i fucking call bullshit on training out of seasickness for everyone, but maybe i have a brain that doesn't like to be wobbled. some people just like to stay put)

i also think of qishan wen like the kingdom of wei in three kingdoms since they occupy a similar territory (in the west, at least) - there's a famous battle across the yangtze where the wei kingdom's biggest weakness was their lack of familiarity w naval battles despite having the largest and most powerful army of all the kingdoms. and the kingdoms of wu and shu fucked wei's shit up by tricking them into chainlinking their ships together so it was like a floating island so they brought horses and shit aboard

and then wu and shu set their entire navy on fire and it was hilarious (battle of red cliffs)

^so we can't speculate. unless they're always on the water and dealing w its shit, it's annoying and wasteful to spread your army out like that. at least, that's what i'm going w in dbd, and some internal strife and shit too.

on nighthunts and crap, makes sense. but then it would make more sense for many of the 'fast-paced' events to also take a long time - otherwise you're overreaching and then it's easy to cut you off. unless the jc&lwj excursion was like a special forces/rambo thing, then sure. there's a lot to be fleshed out here when we get there.

i think jfm just didn't like how jc was spicy like mme yu, and his approach to teaching is very hands-off and indirect, and and you never praise your kids explicitly bc that's just gauche (not that it's good for your kids, mind you). in terms of mannerisms, jc is like, what chinese men do not aspire to be known as - very siu hei (小氣, stingy/narrow-minded as the closest translation). they rather be known as even-tempered, magnanimous, wise, bold, all that - like how jgs acts w his public persona.

it's not like jfm would have known how jc can rise to the occasion. they say that in times of strife, heroes are born (or something like that, i don't remember the exact phrasing in chinese)

#mdzs talk #Anonymous #inquiry #holy fuck i'm trying to pull 20k+ case files over from the school cluster and it's taking forever #hence why i'm answering asks during work hours

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