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They should make something that teases two male characters being 'brotherly' while not being related at all and having not grown up together and then after minimum three seasons have them confess they were just using the word brotherly because they had some internalised homophobia and didn't know how to put their feelings into words and the only template they knew for describing a strong relationship between two men was familial and then they fuck on screen and get married in that specific order
Thanks for the fanart!
i'm on a lot of nyquil right now
The thing is, I wish there WAS ace rep in the arcane. That would have been pretty nice. But, like, it is not there. It's like everyone saying falin is fat in dungeon meshi. I have no problem with fat headcanons for falin! But, like, in the canon itself, she's just curvier than marcille in all the scenes she's naked and wears baggy clothes in all the scenes she's not. I would say she has the average female body type, even. Do not put her on your good fat rep list or whatever. People are going to be disappointed if they watch arcane or dungeon meshi for ace or fat rep when they find out that is in fact not an element of the show at all.
I think the problem I have with the dragon prince (beyond a surprising lack of dragons), while finding most of it decently entertaining, is that by far the most interesting aspect of their magic system is dark magic and the other magic doesn't even remotely compare to the point where it feel unintentionally imbalanced. Not to sound like Viren but it IS clever and practical and until any of the other kinds of magic can prove that they're able to cure full body paralysis for the price of a single deer (who get hunted for their meat daily anyway) they don't hold a candle to it.
Yes, other dark magic spells bad, don't trap people in coins forever, but like, for a series that likes to dip its toe into grey morality sometimes, it's weird how 'we should evaluate spells on a case by case basis instead of painting all of a certain kind with the same brush because some of them are incredibly helpful' doesn't seem to be the final conclusion the series is/was headed towards. Am I supposed to give up all helpful drugs because some of them are poisonous or addictive? No, it's about which ones are used in which context and in what amount. Maybe 'regulations good' is just too boring a conclusion or something.
Was attempting to make Rivulet-Gourmand fusion. Didn't work. Fat Riv be upon ye.
Can't stop thinking about iterators as horrible little baby birds
Every day I'm plagued by project ideas beyond my current abilities
I'm gonna be real. I love detailed worldbuilding as a bonus thing, but the surface level shit has to be different and weird enough first before I can give a shit at all.
Rain world's lore pearls and deep background stuff is definitely something that keeps me interested, but I would care less if the basic premise of the world wasn't, when diluted, a weird fucking creature in a world of weird fucking creatures where the rain is so heavy it kills you, and even if it had never explained any of that it still would have been cool as fuck. In fact, most casual players DON'T get explanation or understand why basically anything happening for much of their playtime because it's deliberately obtuse about it, because it trusts that just existing in the world is interesting enough.
In the best of both worlds we can have both weird cool shit and stuff that explains it, but a lot of people think they can have a boring world as long as they put sooo much effort into explaining the economy and the crops and whatever else, and I'm sorry but unless your surface level world is interesting I actually don't give a shit at all. If I want to look into the details a mundane world it's actually just more interesting to read about real life history.
(Also, if I can read a paragraph about the way wheat grows and is harvested and made into bread and it works almost exactly the same way as your fantasy not-bread crop called daerb, then you haven't done any world building —you've just plagiarised wikipedia.)
I bring you crona once again
Rain world iterators but they're weird skrunkly bird things
Anthro gourmand!
"Words. Images. Sound. Moments and memories, frozen in time. If there is no true death, then let there be stillness. The world will be my pearl."
The Chef design update (chef is my gourmand descendant whose campaign takes place slightly before Saint's)
Ferengi card game called Profit: the Laundering where the amount of attack power your card has is determined by its monetary value in real life. The most powerful card ever made was a six foot tall rectangular block of engraved latinum
"this character should kill their abuser" they're 12
“this character should kill their abuser” i agree. unfortunately they wouldn’t do that.
The most random detail from AtLA that stuck with me is how much more comfortable Zuko always seemed using his swords compared to his bending. Firebending is such a big deal in the fire nation; even if if he isn't as good with it as Azula (which no doubt contributes to his discomfort), having it is such a big privilege, and yet... Sometimes the gifts we're born with aren't the ones we're meant to use.
I would pay for a mod that lets your slugpups grow up
The thing about modern mascot/cartoon animal design is you could never create another scooby doo. They would tell you to smooth him out and give him bigger eyes and simplify his design so he's easier to turn into a marketable plushie
It doesn't really make sense in canon because unfortunately star trek treats genetic modification like it's 100% reliable no downsides captain america super soldier brain enhancement juice so it's pretty easy to tell if augmentation works or not, but I think I would find it pretty compelling if the modifications Julian's parents did on him just. Didn't actually work. They did nothing. Julian grew as he would have already and everything about him that they credit to genetic modification is just how he happens to develop. The only effect it had on him was set up expectations for Julian based on the product they thought they should be getting, like those parents who make designer babies.
The Chef, a descendant of Gourmand who lives between Rivulet and Saint's time (closer to the latter). He has lots of fluff and blubber to keep him warm, and has learned to harness the power of fire. The Chef makes campfires, which allow you to make meals and save your game! His campaign revolves around making friends with various Scavenger tribes by dining with them.