#which is really cool to read tbh

[danganronpa96]

what was your inspiration behind monotora?

Since Rexx was the one to create Monotora, I've asked him to answer this question (everything below is what she's written):

When it came to replacing Monokuma for DR96 it took a lot of thought and planning on how we could have a character that can stand out to be a threat rather than something that's passive aggressive like Monokuma himself. Throughout the months of production they went through so many design ideas it was tough to find one where it wasn't too complex or it didn't fit in with the setting DR96 was taking place.

First one was done in around the end of September 2021, and originally they were going to be blue/dark grey - but I did not want to get any comparisons to Sans so I immediately changed them to a very desaturated orange/dark grey with blue eyes. It didn't really last long though since their colours felt like they weren't really popping out enough and were bland. I also went overboard with their markings so they needed to be simplified. (I would've shown what they'd be if they were blue but unfortunately it's been lost </3)

Second concept was a little after in around early October 2021 for a reference sheet, they were still going to be bipedal and had a lot more scars on their body (except those were done as a deliberate design choice rather than something you'll receive in a fight.) They were more scruffy with an ear notch included and had an overbite, but this didn't really last long until I did another concept design for them. Around this period I struggled a lot when it came to designing them without stepping into the complex design boundaries.

Third concept was originally going to be used for their splash art but I wasn't really fond of that pose and the yellow scars were so icky to me so then they were edited to be more fleshy coloured (as in a shade of red you'd get from freshly opened wounds) which leads to their splash art we used to reveal Monotora to the discord server during the announcement (which was drawn in November 2021 time) I was going through the period of learning to draw a lot of sharp teeth so the anatomy looked really rough.

A lot of these are really old and outdated but the most up to date version is what they currently look up to chapter 3, they have a more animalistic look and they're no longer bipedal. Generally they're really fun to draw and goof around with and it's been fun using them for DR96 :)

I do have a list of characters/creatures that are main inspirations to fleshing out Monotora's personality and traits here:

Monokuma + Monokid; these two were mainly a guideline to starting off with designing a mascot for the killing game.

Doraemon; at the very beginning his design was Monotora's main inspiration but overtime things would've been changed or scrapped, however a few traits are still there such as Monotora being able to hid things in their stomach like how Doraemon can hide things in his little pocket on his stomach.

Nightmare Fredbear + Montgomery (FNAF); these two characters helped flesh out that 'threatening robot' kind of thing (Fredbears off-putting dialogue in UCN and Montgomery's temperament and determination to hunt you down in SB). A fun fact is that Monty's voice is my personal HC voice for Monotora lol

The indoraptor (Jurassic World); a pretty obvious thing from the indoraptor is it being built to be used as a weapon, Monotora has the capability of killing just like the indoraptor (only differences is that Monotora doesn't have the laser targeting system and they're smaller than the indoraptor). But generally Monotora gets their animalistic behaviour from this dinosaur. I've also seen a few people mention how Monotora looks similar to Mapleshade from Warrior Cats but she was never ever used for inspiration (which is surprising considering I have the books) LMAOOOO

#this tackles both their design development and what inspired their character #which is really cool to read tbh #i remember trying to draw monotora once on paper in one of their early designs and failing miserably lol #rexx goes by he/she/they btw

[sarahjacobs]

punk spot and goth sarah stuff 🫰

i also made playlists of the kind of music i think they'd listen to :') you can listen to spot's here. most tracks fall under the hardcore subgenre, but there's also a good amount of ska and pop. generally has a chaotic, garage, and/or dated kind of sound, really wanted the kind of stuff that scratches my brain in a specific, rough way

there's also sarah's playlist, which i'm less confident about because i'm wayyy more immersed in punk subculture and music. but. i tried! some gothic rock, mostly punkabilly and gothabilly. i feel like she'd be into music that has that campy slasher feel, so that's the overall mood i was gunning for

#newsies #92sies #uksies #sarah jacobs #spot conlon #drawings #confession idk anything about uksies this is purely based on vibes bcuz the concept of a pinoy nonbinary spot has charmed me #anyways more nerdy stuff ahead i am so sorry >>> #i heart thinking about what characters would be like if they were punk it is so fun #i view sarah as punk usually so it's interesting to compare & contrast her and spot #like sarah i personally cant see modifying her hair or her body much. she'd mostly stick to diying clothes and jewelry #so while she IS punk she's not the kind of punk that most people auto think of #but spot feels like someone who'd /really/ want to lean into all the trappings of punk. being intimidating AND cool #so they're spiky all over. hair piercings jacket are sharp #sarah's battle jacket is a comfortable corduroy material. it's colorful and has random scraps of fabric bcuz the goal is #to make the original jacket last as long as possible #whereas spot's has more inflammatory patches and is strictly black and white and has the sleeves cut off #and has non fabric stuff attached like the spikes and studs and also soda can tabs #because they also strike me as someone who collects random odds and ends. hence the bottle caps repurposed as pins #i also wanted to play around with adding chains and safety pins onto their jacket but alas #ultimately had to prioritize readability #same thing w sarah i wanted to give her layered necklaces and more maximalist elements to her outfit but it ended up muddying everything up #anyways. im insane but specificity is very important to me for punk stuff just because i think #'punk versions of xyz' tend to water down what punk actually is by prioritizing the aesthetics of rebellion without being specific #in What they are rebelling against. which is why these headcanons lack inflammatory political ideas and punk bands #or like they'll just have the circle A sign and it's like ok but do you know what anarchism is and what anarchist praxis looks like #also spot would not be an anarchist tbh they read as more of a commie #they are not doing nonhierarchical based organizing iykyk

[illuxtre]

I rewatched the cat returns last week (I watched it once for the first time last year) and it's so funny that it became one of my absolute favorite ghibli movies for no reason

#the vibes are?? unmatched?? #like all ghibli movies have this comfortable vibe but there's something so light about the cat returns #I really like Haru as a protagonist tbh there's something charming about how normal she is #like I feel like I could have made up that story playing with my cat plusies as a kid and that's very special to me #The cat bureau is such a silly concept #I haven't watched whisper of the heart either WHICH MEANS I have no context for Baron and he is delightful like that!! yeah go cat figurine #Haru going from ''I can't marry a cat!!'' to ''...Ok maybe just MAYBE the fancy cat tho'' was the funniest thing they could have done #I do not judge her #also the cat returns ao3 has so much going on?? like hello?? it was not that deep but the ground was soft and the writers were ready to DIG #like for the movie popularity I read a lot of really cool fics it was a nice surprise

[delphilos]

actually is my carrd enough for ppl to want to send prompts or what

#ooc. #bc i am too tired to go to b&n only for . 1hr since i haven’t gone to the gym yet #ugh work killed me tbh i was expecting to get off early #but if it is…. someone lmk and ill share prompts (i wanna write literally so bad) #for ref. if ur reading these tags. my highest muses are: k.atniss & i.nej & g.ideon/h.arrowhark #feeling my lady muses lately hmmmmmm #but yea!!! also any of my ocs!! which have available info upon request since the carrd ain’t been updated yet! #really would also like to write my bg3 oc noquar (he isn’t up on the carrd but i promise he’s cool)

[diseaseriddencube]

looking at the akudrive perfumes again today and 1. why are they all bergamot based. is bergamot and pepper just the cyberpunk scent???? 2. what is with the character choices. cutthroat, courier and hacker???? why not swindler

#akudama drive #you just know they weren't brave enough to make a sniper perfume #I kinda want the funeral scented cutthroat perfume #just to know what it would smell like #but reading the notes #tbh I think I'd actually hate it #and then it'd be a probably $200 waste #assuming I could even find a reseller that ships here #I think I'd enjoy the green tea one though #which would probably only be $100 total assuming that listing is still up by the time I have money #both versions of the bottle seem really fucking generic and boring though #like for expensive merch I'd want a cool bottle #portals perfume style except a really ugly statue of cutthroat's head 😍 #anyways though. I guess I'll get the green tea one if possible #and sadly never know what a funeral smells like #I just. don't want to spend that much money and effort on a perfume I'd probably hate the smell of #I just hate florals and wood scents like that #I like more sweet or gourmand stuff

[note-boom]

Say what you will about Bungo Stray Dogs but the fact is that it has inspired a good number of an entire generation to pick up 1800s to 1900s great literature from Japan, North America, and Europe and i think that's very cool of it really

#and if not to actually read to books then to make them aware of their existence #and if you're like me to spiral on a tangent to see what other cool books not as well-teached countries have #honestly you guys the little ive managed to read among the bsd authors has been fascinating #the postwar mentality and the struggles of those who didnt have religion to fall back on as a center of morality and meaning #thats some GOOD stuff to dig into #of course you'll find that anywhere but each literary period has its own vibe #usually that vibe is oversimplified tbh...esp considering each period even questioned their own themes and moods and the liie #*like #im hoping asagiri also delves into south american and African literature as well as other parts of asia/middle east... #as they have pretty cool things as well...and also a really different postwar perspective to look at it from #mainly we're sort of seeing lit from what we could consider winners? of war (oversimplification i know) #which is amazing and all because of the schools of thought that pop up... #but it would be neat to see the schools of thought that pop up from the literary greats of the countries that were victimized in the war #esp because the victim/victor distinction is never as clear cut as it looks #but im rambling again oops.... #this is actually a literature appreciation post disguised as a bsd appreciation post heh... #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd musings #i havent mentioned australian lit....forgive me...i actually dont know if ive read any classic authors from there #though the modern authors from australia ive read are very good #spitting nonsense #rambling in the tags sorry #edit: or maybe dont go into other country lits cause....well it depends on how its handled really... #it would be cool but at the same time.....

[decompose1]

i. i avoided watching the springy episode for a WHILE because like. the amount everyone was shitting on it was horrible. it like genuinely ruined any passion i had in ii for a while because it was nonstop. you'd think they SHOT Cabby with the reactions. and then i watch it and it's like. eye-rolly at worst. what am i missing

#speaking as someone with brain damage and major memory loss #idk? maybe i'm biased because i came in with the knowledge that they fix it up the next ep?? but i feel lost???? #there IS a difference between ''well-intentioned but missed the mark and looks bad'' vs ''genuine egregious acts of ableism'' #you made it sound like the second. it was the first #anyways it was a cool ep otherwise #it felt very ''mascot horror'' which was kind of funny and i had to take a deep breath and go ''yea ok. i guess'' about it #made some jokes to callie abt springy #but like it was fine #i liked the fake past players #fun play on mephone's insecurities #i literally only didn't like bot lying + cabby rolling over the file #but it just sorta reads as cabby overcorrecting so people won't hate her #re: her overcorrecting BEFORE bc she was told she scares people #which sucks a lot yea and im sure it wouldve been more delicately handled in the hands of a disabled person but like #it really couldve been a lot worse #you all made it SOUND a lot worse #i avoided the episode because i was SCARED of it being worse #i went in expecting it to be awful #i dont rly think bot was wrong for not wanting a personal vent convo written down tbh but thats the only bit they were right for imho #other than that yea it felt weird and im glad they fixed it up next ep. ezpz. #wish they did not lead my dash to be convinced they hate the disabled for several months. that was a fun time for me (disabled) #anyways #im not saying it was handled amazingly but it really couldve been way way way worse. can we simmer down now #meow.txt

[lunariarts]

If a ttrpg has options for the player characters to be furries, they will succeed. Homebrew can solve any problem, but baked in RAW furry rules are your ticket to fame.

Cyberpunk: Absolute horseshit no one is running around as one those handsome little robot sergal fuckers

Lancer: Deergirl piloting a mech, fuck with me

Monster of the Week: Become Cryptid

DnD: Pirate all of their content, become tabaxi, come aarakocra, become harengon, become leonin

Monopoly: play it in your fursuit you had to pass go fifteen fucking times to afford I guess

SO fucking true. My enjoyment of a setting is hands in hands with how many weird lil fellas there are running around. Like one of my sonas is a kobold I'm not immune to furrybait ttrpgs

Also can you actually play as a deergirl in Lancer because uhhh uhmmm 👉👈

#love a ttrpg im slowly getting back into then after not playing for years #have so many game stories in my brain #lancer seems v cool!! #havent read it yet but mecha is rad and the crunchy combat style reminds me of my halcyon 4e days #need to play more systems tbh #like ive played d&d for years (4e and then 5e) #but ive also dabbled and run oneshots in FATE which was really fun i love how you design your own character feats #and the fate token system is a lot of fun #im actually now gearing up to run Blades in the Dark with some friends!! #very excited hehe been doing a lot of prep lately #not as many funny lil guys in there but i think cool heists make up for it #once again i have spent far more time throwing words in tags than in the actual ask #awe well hehe #thanks for the ask anon i hope ur having a great night :3 #ask #anon

[toastsnaffler]

reading this blurb made me realise this is possibly the first time ive ever seen my own life experiences shared by another person. damn

#liiike who else up having childhood meningitis leading to moderate-severe deafness thats disabling but also 'not disabling enough' #exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids GIRL ME TOOOOO we need to get coffee sometime #im reallyyy curious about this book now i wanna give it a go.. ive been meaning to read more abt deafness tbh #its never really bothered me before bc ive never really thought abt it that much. but actually theres very little lit on deafness #and also barely any fiction featuring deaf characters.... plus when it does exist theyre either a) old asf or b) fluent in sign #when actually like. if youre not raised with sign/dont have access to a signing community its very rare to learn it at all #ive met so many ppl irl across the deaf spectrum who cant sign like its WAY more prevalent than youd think #not that signing rep isnt cool!! but i guess no one wants to write deaf characters who cant sign bc then its not 'fun' #bit of a shame that ive never actually seen that massive part of my life + identity reflected in media like. ever lmao. #i mean ive seen more dyke rep than deaf rep.. which is weird thinking abt it bc deafness impacts my life so much more radically #anyway. might see if i can find a copy on abebooks 👀 #Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi is the book if anyones curious i just saw it on someones reading reclist #.diaries

[halfdeadfriedrice]

HULLO I am soliciting Homestuck historical content/a podcast rec. I need to simulate the feeling of being in the fandom and "Homestuck: the internet's Ulysses" is not a podcast that is unraveling the references, it's reading Homestuck and James Joyce's Ulysses in conversation

#which is cool #but what i really want is a know-it-all friend telling me about homestuck as i read along #a bookclub companion #etc #there are a Lot of podcasts many of them abandoned partway in #I'm working on just reading the thing but my memory for important tidbits hidden inside a repeated Bit has suffered #and tbh my visual literacy has never been Great #halfdeadhomestuck

[sparticus2000art]

Planning things

:)

I’ve been stewing on this idea for a while and may end up doing something with it soon (hopefully)

Though I also realised today I may have gotten inspired by something @nartothelar was talking about! (Sorry for the tag, feel free to ignore this!)

#emmet #subway boss emmet #celebi #Pokémon #sketch #idea sketch #I think it was related to their possession au #which is a very interesting comic to read and I would recommend it #they have a lot of cool concepts tbh #though that’s not really all that close to the route I want to take this in #I think the main thing in common was the involvement of celebi #but I also don’t remember if that was a hypothetical or the actual story behind what happened in their au #celebi is shiny because Pokémon mystery dungeon. #I need not explain myself further

[fadedapparition]

i just want to say i 100% agree with your take on fanon vivienne. reducing her to a girlboss when she's complex and has doubts and fears of her own is just insulting. and i'm not sure if i've seen any woobified blackwall content but honestly he's fun BECAUSE he's terrible but trying.

<3333 yes that’s exactly it! i think vivienne is pretty tragic, and interpretations of her that sand her down, reducing her to something elegant and invulnerable, make me go 🤨. she’s one of the more interesting companions of 3 imo, and that’s accounting for the fact that her questline is brief and there’s not a lot of narrative focus on her in particular.

re: woobified blackwall, i think it’s mostly just… amplifying ancillary traits without engaging with the core of the character. he’s funny and paternal to sera/cole. he gives good hugs and likes to chop wood. none of this is wrong, but i think he’s most interesting if there’s some acknowledgement of the fact that this is a morbid, weak-willed, deeply unhealthy man who’s proven himself capable of unforgivable atrocities. it’s not an interpretation i connect with bc it discards the parts of this guy that i think are most interesting.

you get me

#asks #dragon age #tbh i think the characters of 3 are in general weaker than those of the prior games but i find these two really interesting. and i think #they get MORE interesting the more you think about them. whoever did vivienne does most of the work via implication #which is a cool way to do it. but it does mean a lot of what makes her good is missable or easy to ignore #competing w the girlboss interpretation for my least favorite vivienne reading: ‘vivienne is a child of privilege who hates all human life’ #like that’s suuuuper wrong but ok! whatever you say! #vivienne #blackwall

[campingwiththecharmings]

When devs make single player games require online play 😑

#if it's single player I'm not playing with other people sooooooo #wtf #plus on ps you need to buy a subscription to play online so that's in addition to the game #almost makes be not wanna play at all tbh #ignore me #just ranting about an article I read on redfall #which looks really cool but #i hate when devs do shit like this

[polaraffect]

why must god give his toughest battles (an essay) to his strongest soldiers (a very sleepy boy)

#damien.txt #it's my final essay and it's due today but i haven't started any of it because i'm lowkey an idiot sjkdfhgsjk #nah it's like a 3 page essay it's really not hard i just have to like... actually read stuff and that's kinda rough #but also the articles are fascinating! did you know archival studies groups are looking into ao3 and vtubers as ways of transforming #information science and the ways in which we save our data? i didn't! i think it's really cool! #but i can't just talk about what i think is cool in the essay lol #but ahhh i'm so sleepy. i've yawned like 6 times in the past 10 minutes #and then after this i need to write my essay on d&d for my history class lol but that's not due until tomorrow and is arguably way easier #i'm really not even gonna have a finals week tbh it's just a finals weekend comprising of today and tomorrow and then i am finished

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#uuuuugh... i spend all day writing a stupid report that i dont Even kno if im wrting right #idk if im alloud to use figures idk what the deadline is. just: hey can u write abt this data? fucking sure i guess #and im not even done yet. but tonight i have to finish deconstructing and rebuilding my statement of purpose and working on my application #which is also gonna suck. but my mum says im a good writing. and then 2 sec later she was like well ur a good bullshitter. and im like lmao #thanks i guess. i think she means im good at justifying things #but its gonna b a long night. i dont actually have to finish these things tonight. its literally just my brain like: do it now or else >:-( #my boss: hope youve recharched after the sampling! me: fucking ???? was i supposed to? i just fell face first into writing instead #and i got invited to carve pumpkins tomorrow. i wasnt gonna bc ive got 3 phd interviews to prep for next week and i gotta read like a #million papers. but then today one of the other ppl texted me like: hey r u going? it would b cool if u did! i can drive u #and im like 😭 i have a friend?! so i told myself if i finish my application bullshit i can go. but again its gonna b a long night #i dont have a pumpkin tho. and i dont wanna get one. or deal with a rotting pumpking later #maybe ill just b a freak and bring a lump of clay. sculpt something as they carve. that would b a weird fucking move but like i also dont #really care. id rather play with clay than carve a pumpkin tbh #ugh. will i ever find the time to draw? maybe not. maybe ill just lay here and cry bleh #im glad that my friend reached out to me tho. that was super sweet. ive literally only hung out with her once sampling but we immediately #overshared bc it was one of those like connecting to another person probably on the spectrum things. all the interesting ppl i talk to prob #have adhd lmao. they have like exacly the opposite problems i do so i think their brians r so interesting. i mean my probs r the same but #diff. idk how to describe it. im too rigid and compulsive but also big executive function probs. im stuck somewhere between ocd and autism #lmao. or ocpd. probably definitely ocpd. hhhhhhhhh gotta love it #im just a compulsive lil goldfish swimming around and around in circles #brain wont even let me go home for Thanksgiving. annoying #and infantilizing bc i cant drive or do normal things for myself. sigh... #unrelated

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread

The Butterfly Assassin

set in a walled city ruled by assassin guilds

a traumatised teenage ex-assassin has escaped her corrupt parents and is trying to live a normal life, away from the guilds

good friendships

no romance

#The Butterfly Assassin #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #ahh #i really really loved this for the most part!!!! #at the end some things happened that im like :( #partially just. series tone setup i guess #the friendships!!!!!!!!!!! so good im weeping #(literally) #also loved the integration of esperanto #ngl i was struggling a little to not imagine her as isabel archivistwasp..... her name is isabel. angry traumitised murder girl. #cuts her hair messy in the first scene. has knife. doesn't know how to friend #the other thing i didn't love tho is the guild naming themselves katipo. just in general.....naming random things after #animals/plants from Aotearoa with Māori names is. not great #(plenty of pakeha here do it too which is also not good) #like use a latin name or something! #(Also I listened to the audiobook and i assume they spelled it katipo not katipō but idk) #it's also not a MASSIVE part of this book tbh #anyway - that's not something i expect someone not from here to know about really; it's just something i keep running into lately #(it's especially common with like. non-māori taking kiwi or tuatara or kakapo and being like wow cool unique animal and not acknowledging #their cultural significance when they use them as a mascot or whatever) #no romance