I’m Alive! Kind Of! I Keep Forgetting To Update Places That Aren’t The Bird Website.

fuck this time loop im leaving (walks into a different, worse time loop)

having edgy ocs is soooo embarassing like yeah this is johnny... he.. kills people... yeah with a knife and theres blood and stuff yeah... sorry i know...

i hate you rushed endings, i hate you final books split into multiple part movies for profit, i hate you unwarranted series cancellations and crunches, i hate you adaptations that completely disregard the source material, i hate you studios forcing writers to limit representation/diversity in the final product, i hate you rushed releases causing poor quality and exploited workers, i hate you devaluation of film as a product rather than a story to be shared with the world, i hate you outrageously low animator salaries.

holy shit I just found this blog and I LOVE YOUR XENOBLADE ART AAAAAAAAAAAA

Aww, thank you C: !! Definitely hoping to make more as I make my way through 3.

[wip] back on that pixel art grind and very pleased to learn that aseprite has dithering brushes

If terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening and horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing, name a time your character has been terrified and a time they were horrified. How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

A time your character was terrified

I make a lot of "Sena's dead boyfriend" jokes, but the moments leading up to that were pretty much exclusively this. He doesn't know where his friend went, anticipates the worst, and then something he's been scared of up to that point actually happens.

For things that happen in-story, he has a few of these, but being left alone in Ultima Thule really freaks him out.

More under the cut! Contains full spoilers for Endwalker.

A time they were horrified

THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY SUPER HARD TO ANSWER.

I want to say the massacre early in ARR, which got to him pretty bad; he starts to come out of being an "I only care about this one person" type edgelord, he starts getting along more with people, and then those people die and he goes right back to that.

Also slightly unusual one, but the combination of dragoon and having issues with his scales makes the conversation with Vrtra deeply unpleasant for him in a way that isn't quite horror, but comes close.

How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

Sena tends to deal with his negative emotions in general by covering them with anger and then not actually dealing with them, but even moreso when he's scared. Him wanting to be strong is an extension of this; he wants to protect his friends, but also, if he can fight it, he has agency in the situation.

Complete silence stops him in his tracks, though.

before you date someone, consider the following: would you want them in your party in a jrpg?

found these on twitter that might be helpful to all rpers who want to make sure their themes and carrds are accessible to all

tried a thing for my roegadyn warrior of light

Break in case of emergency?

Being back here after all this time feels pretty weird! Tumblr was my only socmed for a really long time, but I left ages ago for Twitter. I’m NOT leaving Twitter and I’m not sure how active I’ll be here, but I’ve set up this account to keep in touch with those who are or might be. I’ll be checking here, I do plan to do a little posting, but things are uncertain on the whole right now.

Please ignore the state of this place, I cannot remember how any of these settings work. I’ll try to set up a real theme when / if I start really posting!