#what is the dorm used for

[maplefield]

finally started honkai impact 3rd. can someone please explain to me how anything works. i'm confused

#i mainly play for the story but id still like to understand what im doing #also ig stigmas are like relics/artifacts #weapons i understand although the lvl up system kinda confused me at first (it still does) #how do you do team comps. is 8t the standard main dps buffer sustain or like can you survive without a sustain if you can dodge #i believe im still too early to need a healer (i only did the first 4 chapters and the everlasting memory story stuff) but still #send help #honkai impact 3rd #hi3 #hi3rd #hoyoverse #also how tf do banners work. can you even check who/what can you get on each banner. am i just stupid #what is the dorm used for #there is so much stuff i dont get #i can read i swear!!! there is just. so much stuff. im overwhelmed #one more not minor thing. generally just. how does character building work. #i also appreciate any tips #honkai

[egophiliac]

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #because i need to talk for a minute about how the plot of the anniversary story so far is literally just #crowley jumpscares us in our living room to demand we make him lunch and yuu is just like 'i need to start locking the door' #oh twst you always know just how to get me #the qol updates though! CONVERTING SINGLE KEYS INTO 10-SETS YES THANK YOU OH MY GOD #SKIP LESSON TICKETS!!!! #3X BATTLE SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!! #SAVE TEAM BUILDS AND SUPPORT CARDS FINALLY AHHHHH #oh and some other stuff too but look i NEEDED these things #also master chef grim! he's so precious! #though he's not going to get a little sporty uniform after all? #grim canonically flies in the nude i guess #no it's okay chef grim is ADORABLE #if you zoom in on his card you can see little smoodges from his inexpert cake decoration 😭 #which on the one hand is cute but on the other hand i'd been convinced he'd just slapped some frosting and candles on an actual can of tuna #anyway happy (a few days until the) fourth anniversary everybody! #i've been here since the beginning (preregistered during the dorm reveals babyyyy) and it REALLY doesn't feel like it's been four years #you know what they say: time flies when you're watching anime characters have emotional problems

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 94

Danny has no clue what he’s just agreed to but Ellie seems happy about it, so it can’t be too bad. Ellie is honestly surprised but more than a little touched her template-dad gave her permission to let her new clone-union-totally-not-a-revolution use his lair as a home base. Now she just needs to help Klarion figure out how to make those portal-bracelets for each of them…

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #clonion #clone union #clones #ellie fenton #danny fenton #He's in the middle of finals before he hopefully graduates college give him a break #He's also learning ghost medicine so he's tired #Danny never wants to be unable to do anything while seeing someone dying -melting- right in front of him #What's his lair? #A big fantasy-esque observatory that has So Many rooms #It's like an entire dorm wing but space themed & with a library that he uses for his schoolwork #Danny squinting down at Klarion: Why is someone letting a 6 year old run around #Danny: Oh my ancients you don't know human customs like i didn't know realms one #Danny: Alright- hey Ellie c'mere we're doing a crash course in human 101 #Young Justice: Why has Klarion's attacks stopped- #Klarion throwing a pamphlet at Connor and disappearing:

[ollyrewind]

and they were frenemies turned lovers oh my god they were frenemies turned lovers

#nygmobblepot #edward nygma #oswald cobblepot #gotham #edward x oswald #don’t look at me like that #…yes…nygmobblepot in th year 2023 #staying true to my bio of revisiting old obsessions i guess #they’re so dear to me i wish love was real #once in 2019 during a particularly crazy nygmobblepot era my dorm roommates used to lock me out of the room cuz i wouldn’t stfu about them #i also refuse to rewatch gotham cuz i know i’m gonna be pissed off hence i’m operating solely based on what i remember

[thespineoftherighteous]

Neil just reeks of the same energy as those fanfiction authors who casually leave the most batshit insane personal updates in the writer's notes

#Neil bursting into the lounge ten minutes late for a team meeting: sorry im late #everyone: all good? #Neil: yeah yeah my science lab blew up and they kept us to do all these emergency tests in case anyone was affected..whatve i missed coach? #or #Neil: *gets back to the dorm hella late* #the others: ??? #Neil: oh i had to go to court. it took forever but they finally dropped the manslaughter charges #or like #after psu‚ one of the foxes texts him just to check in and he responds three days later like my bad i got a nasty hit last game and needed #to go to the hospital. i just got out tho what's up #aftg #neil josten #mine aftg #bangers

[turnipoddity]

once me and my dorm keeper bro down and drank a couple glass of wine and then he downright blabbed on how he used to stash drugs in my dorm and flushed it down the toilet when the cops are onto him

#literally it was only a glass of wine and i was like HUH #WHAT HAPPENED TO HELLO #WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAD BREAKING BAD ERA RIGHT BELOW MY ROOM HELLO #delete later #my dorm keeper used to be a drug dealer isnt in my bingo card #i literallt just know him it was like my second week in my dorm AKSHSKSK #he’s a drunk talker. good to know. mentally noted

[nguyenfinity]

Sometimes I think about how Hiiro said Hinata and Niki stay up late playing games and eating sugar.

@neptunite-stars

#enstars #hinata aoi #niki shiina #hiiro amagi #if the game won't give us hair down niki content i'll make it myself then damn #also i imagine hiiro first waking up in the morning with severe bedhead is when he most looks like rinne #so for the first week of living together niki got a mini-heart attack every morning #doodle req #also thinking about what games they might play and you think niki would like overcooked #he hates it. #“why is there a portal in the middle of-- HINATA STOP THROWING POTATOES AT ME” #maybe not hates but it is so overwhelmingly chaotic for him #he'd rather play cooking mama #dorm doodle

[wishchthumblr]

so i like to imagine its kind of like an unspoken tradition at hogwarts to carve or write your name/initials in your bed before you graduate so later students can get a little mystery trying to figure out who slept in their dorm before them

so what if in aus where Harry is sorted into slytherin, instead of JP being scratched into the post of his gryffindor dorm bed, in a slightly hidden part of the frame in his slytherin dorm bed it says R.A.B in nearly carved letters

and what if (especially if this is an au where slytherin harry is an evil little shit (as a treat)) he eventually finds another older carving on his bed that says T.M.R

#harry potter #slytherin #slytherin harry #regulus black #tom riddle #headcanon #omg…. new thought.. what if draco has the same bed as either snape or his dad #(depending on who treats him better in this particular au) #idk if the ages match for this to line up but idc let me believe #cute idea for draco x astoria shippers: draco has lucius’ bed and astoria has narcissa’s #hnnggg now im thinking about all the students who could have the same dorm and bed as their older siblings or family… #or as someone who is connected to them in some other way or are similar to them #like deamus and wolfstar #or imagine students using spells or just a knife to remove/hide the carving of their toxic relatives names from thier bed #i have so many thoughts about hogwarts dorms and beds now

[e-adlirez]

The art style of Cloud Castle is absolute ass bro why are their eyes so big

Idk man it just looks.... off

I wish they brought back the og art style like Blue Scarab Hunt because that was gorgeous

Well if you’re referring to the book's artstyle as a whole, then calm down buddy the illustrations as a whole are pretty good all things considered (believe me some of the illustrations in the later books are waaaaayyyyy iffier)

But if you are referring to Danilo Barozzi’s illustrations in the book then uhhhhh… yeah I don’t blame you, I didn’t like the big anime irises either, she didn’t cook with this one,,,

The interesting thing is Barozzi also did pieces for Secret of the Snow and those looked fine (she did well enough that I have to squint to determine which ones were done by her). My guess is either she did a lot of the illustrations for the latter half of SotS and we just got used to it, or it’s because the artstyle of special editions 2 and 3 were more… experimental? Books 4 onwards developed a very specific… look for the artstyle that adhered very closely to the main book illustrations of Spanish Dance Mission onwards, thus the illustrators had to follow suit, resulting in whatever looks off to look especially off.

(Even with this set of pictures, I’m only about 70% sure these are Barozzi’s because of how alike yet different the styles are from each other in the book. The first one could be Barozzi’s, but it could also be Giuseppe Facciotto’s, since he also did illustrations for SotS and his stylization means he sometimes puts the eyes really close to each other in a way that’s weird but still makes sense somehow.) On the contrary, books 2 and 3 (and I would probably even include book 1 there) had a more experimental look to the illustrations, which seems to be based more on (and this is just a theory of mine) Giuseppe Facciotto’s iconic work for the covers of Mouseford Academy books 2-12, 14, 15 and 17 in the English books (he did waaayyy more covers for the Italian Mouseford books— he was basically the cover guy for the Mouseford books for a WHILE) as well as the books from Spanish Dance Mission to Lost Letters. If you’re wondering why those covers go as hard as they do, then now you know why.

(These aren’t all of Facciotto’s works for the covers we know in English but you can see that he popped off <3)

But yeah as you can see with special editions 2 and 3, the art direction seems to be heavily inspired by Facciotto’s artstyle.

However, when Barbara Pellizzari’s works became the aesthetic poster child of the books’ brand, that was reflected in the illustrations and how their aesthetic changed, as seen in the main books and how they look currently, special editions 4-9, and the Treasure Seekers trilogy.

This new profile thing of the girls? This was done by Pellizzari (coloring was done by Flavio Ferron), and thus it became the main reference for how the girls look in the book’s illustrations.

And it’s not just in the general direction to the artists for how to draw the Thea Sisters, but also in the direction given to the colorists. Alessandro Muscillo was the colorist for the special edition books since book 1 and the Treasure Seekers trilogy, and you can see that the direction for the style varied through books 1-3, like maybe direction was experimenting with the mood the illustrations were to convey, beginning with the cartoony and bright colors of book 1, easing into the more grounded and layered palettes of books 2 and 3

Then book 4 was when they transitioned to using digital art /j

I jest, but seriously book 4 was the debut of the coloring style we end up keeping for the rest of the special editions and for all of Treasure Seekers, which is very… bright :D

(I would show more picture examples but I manually took pictures of my physical copies for the Cloud Castle and SotS illustrations and gwuh I’m too lazy to grab my entire collection just to take pictures,,)

Bright as in like… the colors are very defined and saturated. I dunno how to describe it, but when you see it, you get what I mean. It’s very bright and pretty and colorful and it stands out. There are still variations that happen on occasion (Star Fairies in particular uses a good dose of airbrush for the lighting and shadow effects, and Crystal Fairies looks like someone had a bit of fun using sparkle brushes), but other than that, it’s very bright. I don’t hate it, but I do acknowledge that yeah, if I was introduced to the series when it had fully transitioned to the new style, I never would’ve gotten into the series in the first place, because the older books had something that didn’t make it feel specifically catered to girls. The colors were bright, but not too bright. Colorful, but unified. They weren’t that complicated, and they didn’t have to be because the colorists (plural, there were at least 3 per book once upon a time) were popping the hell off with the colors they were given. But y’know, the newer books’ consistent style did give me a good spot to practice drawing mouse furries so I’m not complaining too much about the newer style, haha.

(Tiny baby E’s (it’s literally from 2020 what’re you on about mate) her first mouse Violet drawing using Barbara Pellizzari’s artstyle in Treasure Seekers 1 as an anatomy guide!!)

With that said tho, yeah I miss the old books -m- dunno if it’d fit the aesthetic of the special editions but m a n we could’ve had it and it probably would’ve looked cool

Also the illustrations go way harder in the older books, like Prince's Emerald? I've talked about Prince's Emerald and how it goes hard before, and I still stand by it and say that it does in fact still go hard

Maybe it won't fit the uh splash of color they gave the hardcovers, but imagine they grabbed Giulia Basile's coloring work for the graphic novels and used that as sort've a basis for the coloring style of the hardcovers. Not exactly the same-- would probably still add a touch of whimsical watercolor and/or paint to the very cel-shaded style, but we could've had something pretty dope -m-

Anyway that's my ramble simultaneously defending the hardcovers' artstyle and reminiscing on what could've been haha

#geronimo stilton #thea stilton #thea sisters #questions with e #rambles #the style of the older books is gorgeous but the main thing I'm wondering is can it pull off fantastical whimsy #that's the main thing i dunno if it can do (i would love to be proven wrong tho) #the style is so grounded that i'm wondering if it can pull off what the hardcovers needed it to do #which is convey the otherworldly fantastical thrill of exploring the fantasy worlds (which uh the newer books were able to do but #my main gripe is that fantasy and reality are near indistinguishable in vibes coloring-wise #sure there are sparkles and stuff is more saturated but the girls' dorm in book 4 still has the same-ish feel of the land of clouds #i dunno what it is. the bright colors just feel mundane somehow and don't take a shift when returning to reality) #looked at my books again and i think it might be the fact that the later books have no grounding color? #compare book 3 to book 5 and you'll see it the most distinctly methinks #the newer coloring style doesn't have a color that grounds the illustrations' palettes and thus everything's always bright 100% of the time #the girls' colors are always at their most saturated #like they're always under broad daylight in terms of lighting #it's not eyebleeding or anything but they don't look affected by the lighting in the setting they're currently in #and the result is it looks.... meh? #we get so used to the bright colors that they end up looking meh somehow #i'm not an art expert by any means this is just my observations as someone with a little too much brainrot

[pocketramblr]

What about an AU where Manual replaces Aizawa as the 1-A homeroom teacher?

Oh boy we can fit SO MUCH projection into this one

1- Manual only applied to UA because he was applying a bunch of hero schools, and he didn't think he'd get UA but why not try, at worst it's extra interview practice before he really tries at Ketsubutsu. And then he got only got a job at UA and no other school, somehow. And he can't technically complain because UA pays the best and it's a job he signed up for, but how???

2. He also didn't apply as a homeroom teacher, but they offered it to him anyway and he uh doesn't really say no. He figured he could change positions after a few years already if he wanted to, and planned on it, but then realized he liked this position much better and so kept it instead

3. Actually you know what sure all the projection. His third year he ended up being freshman homeroom team lead, which he's pretty sure isn't supposed to happen- Vlad had more experience but said he wanted a break this year from it and no one else applied so....

4. His third year is also when he gets our beloved class 1A! They do not get expulsion threats, and go to orientation. Then Manual tells them they have an essay due at the end of the week, about why they want to be heroes and what their current plan is, to be completed before any combat training. Several students pitch a fit about writing when they want to learn how to fight, but Manual points out that as part of their training, they'll have to do a lot of unpleasant things. Will they put effort into the record keeping they need to learn as pros if they aren't willing to write a paper? Will they be able to communicate in team exercises if they can't even put what they want as a hero into words? How patient can they be for slow moving cases? The class can see his point even if it's not exciting.

The second day of school, two students hand him papers. Bakugou asks if he can start fight training sooner now since he did the whole dumb essay. Midoriya asks him to look over the first draft if he doesn't mind, because he just had a lot of ideas where to take it and wants it to be really good.

By the start of homeroom the second day, these two are no longer sitting in desks right by each other.

5. On the fourth day of school, while Manual has his class looking over their costumes and getting peer feedback, he realizes that Vlad usually would be sending bragging pictures of his class in rescue training right about now, to see if Manual could get his kids to beat them next week when they went to USJ. He sends a message. It doesn't go through.

He thinks "huh, that's weird" right before robot sentry alarms go off about vines erupting from USJ's roof and throwing students out frantically. Manual grabs the closest non combat adult in the hall to watch his class and runs to help figure out what's going on.

#Manual using his excellent Vibe Check at the start of the school year: yeah ok we are gonna have to do some patience lessons early... #all might needs to figure out how to get his kid to stop breaking his bones... #oh yikes Todoroki....... Nedzu let's get a move on those dorms #but also Manual would not let ANY student within a hundred miles of hosu for internship #especially not iida #only reason he lets Izuku get as close as Torino is if because All Might brought the letter in himself #and he was like 'yes or no. that mentor will help him not break his bones on the quirk i just weirdly feel he has not had long enough' #all might is like 'ah ha what do you mean not had-' #'yes or no stop giving me more info i do not have the clearance for it i do not want the clearance for it' #'... yes?' #'ok fine ' #starredmoth #pocket talks to people #ask game

[egophiliac]

did you know that in one of dorm epel's voicelines he mentions he once got lost in pomefiore and ended up in a creepy basement. it's never mentioned again or given any clarification and i think about it every day

that comes up a couple of times actually! there's just like...a weird creepy dungeon slash old alchemy lab that the Pomefiore castle was built on top of. I think Vil might use it sometimes? but really it serves absolutely no purpose beyond the characters every once in a while being like "oh yeah, there's that secret underground laboratory we all apparently know about" and then never elaborating on it at all.

(I know it's a movie reference, but it's still pretty wild to just. in-universe have a not-so-secret basement alchemy dungeon that never has any relevance beyond a couple of throwaway lines. what other buckwild secrets does NRC hold that the characters just never talk about for some reason)

#art #twisted wonderland #the nrc campus is fascinating to me #do you ever just think about how the characters are like...stargating around all the time #you get out of class for the day and teleport to what might be a literal ancient castle to go to bed #i have been lowkey thinking about this ever since jamil yeeted us out of the dorm and to the end of the world that one time #and honestly i don't know what to do with this information #it just feels like something that should be more important than it is

[apollos-boyfriend]

i’m under the genuine belief that there is nothing more fucked up and evil than the fact that you have to WALK THROUGH OTHER CLASSROOMS to get to yours in our animation building

#icarus speaks #dorm life #i’ve never had a class in here before bc i am. notably not animations/game design #but we’re overbooked in the illu building (surprise surprise) so they shipped us here and let me tell you #it is hell. who thought of this. what devil designed this shit

[alexkablob]

Other favorite bits from the Dorley reread: Lorna's Paranormal Investigator Arc™

#tfw you're the only normal trans girl in a story about a forcefem kidnapping ring #and you're dating your ''cis'' girlfriend who gets you hormones ''from the internet'' #and slowly noticing how there's things she's not telling you and how her and her friend group are all weird about the same things #and then one day your girlfriend's equally cis friend is tired and distracted and asks your girlfriend if she can use some of her ''pills'' #and they both briefly freeze and then awkwardly smooth the interaction over but you KNOW #your whole social circle is trans people you go to trans rights rallies on the regular you KNOW that social interaction #you know this cis girl just asked your cis girlfriend if she could borrow some of her estrogen and what the FUCK #and all the little things are adding up and you start digging and they're all connected to this one dorm on campus-- #and IS MY GIRLFRIEND IN A CULT??? #WHAT IS HAPPENING #you're infiltrating this incredibly foreboding institution and all these girls are smiling too evenly at you and trying to steer you away #and IS THIS THE STEPFORD WIVES??? ARE THEY GOING TO HUMAN SACRIFICE ME??? WHAT IS GOING ON #because that's what Dorley is like looking in from the outside #and then all the while you see from the other PoVs what she's up against: #just the stupidest most neurotic group of codependent trans girls who are flailing rapidly in a comedy of errors #trying to figure out how to tell you the truth without you freaking out #or without it sounding stupid as hell #they're so fucking stupid Lorna I cannot emphasize enough what a pack of idiots these girls are it is NOT a slick operation #dorleyposting

[cerealmonster15]

Jamil is so funny anytime someone mentions octavinelle on purpose. He doesn’t even hide his distaste, he’s just immediately blatantly like 😒ew. why. 😒

#I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rewatched that part of caters union bday story #always had me CRYING laughing #the visual comedy of Jamil politely smiling #then IMMEDIATELY FROWNING the moment caters voiceover says ‘octavinelle’ #he’s so fucking funny #why the fuck us he so annoyed about what dorm CATER would pick dndngngnfjdjfnfng #he’s still got azul trauma #silly behavior. there was no need for him to be like that and yet hsjdjfngjggngjtng #number 1 fish hater Jamil viper #I would say riddle but riddle picked Jade for his birthday brother on purpose. so. #that’s the other union bday scene I’ve watched 900 times #the shock from azul. the shame from riddle immediately. dhdhcbfbfbfbfhyht #second years you are so silly and weird <3 #that first parts funny too #who are you getting gifts fo-OCTAVINELLE? ew. gross. why. #then he adivises you to stop being friends with anyone from that dorm LOL #awful boys lolol

[todayisafridaynight]

minedai yaoi could heal me

#snap chats #i love. the bastardized use of yaoi and its weird life cycle in vernacular over the years. has anyone noticed that <- of course we have #this post aint bout that tho anyway. #i just got back to my dorm and //screams// #WHATEVER all of thats done with ... still irritated .... but just one more week then i dont have to room with these people ever again #while i was driving i was thinking of this minedai fic i wanted to do but then i was like 'what if i wanted to do a comic of it' #i do this literally every time like how many times have i typed a variant of those tags i need to be shot yesterday #POINT IS. minedai yaoi could make me not aggro i think. i will think of writing this and then when i do ill let it rot in my docs #im going to bed in like twenty minutes i just wanna play a little minecraft first 💀💀💀 still ..... #ok bye

[arsonist-chicken]

I got to look at the room in the dormitory and now I'm torn between taking it and running, or maybe taking a bit more time to find something... less really cramped and where the washing machine doesn't smell sour, somehow

#and i have to decide today help #like yeah my flatmates are awful and I hate them and am in a bad mood whenever they're home #but they're usually gone on the weekends so at least I'm alone then #there's Something weird about the dormitory I looked at but I can't put my finger on it. apart from the awful smell in the laundry room #but I mean I could take my laundry to a laundromat if I really didn't want to use that washing machine I guess #there's shared kitchens there too but oh well i've done that before #but by god am I looking forward to living alone after university #all I want is a flat with enough space for a large bed or a pull-out couch for when friends visit #and ideally a balcony and cats allowed #mine #jess' flatmate rants #am I being too picky? all student rooms are very small and shared kitchens and bathrooms are normal #what really threw me off was the washing machine ngl #aaah maybe that's another thing: my old dorm was bigger so more anonymous #this one has a kitchen for 8-10 people #i'm not very social; I don't want to be friends with the people in my dorm; I want to be alone and left alone when I'm at home #anyway. guess I have that to consider for the next hour or so #aah Vse Kar Vem came up and I'm crying again; wonderful #also you know those days when anyone talking in the same room as you makes you want to murder them? i'm on like week two or three of that #with no stop and idk why and what's wrong; send help #ngl maybe my problem is less with the dorm itself and more that I literally can't imagine a good future for myself right now #where I get to not live either in my childhood bedroom forever or only ever with flatmates which. I'm never moving in with strangers again #and I have no friends I could move in with who would want that or don't already live with their boyfriends