can people please stop calling the fandom dead all the time and instead, do something to revive it?😃 if we all post stuff about it or talk about it, the fandom isn’t dead. So go on - share your ocs, headcanons, fanart, rants, etc. I’d personally love to see them and I’m sure others would, too🥰
(And before someone goes “uhm, actually 🤓☝🏻 the fandom really is less popular, so it is dead” - i’m aware it’s not as active as it used to be. But we can change that :) )
I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)
Streaming Music from Around the World - No algorithms, lots of options, amazing music nerds helping you discover more music.
Professor Shoelace - everything you ever needed to know about shoelaces
Commercial Pattern Archive - over 50,000 scanned sewing patterns dating back to the 1850s
Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright
Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford
Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries
The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories
Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!
RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!
Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s
Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.
Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!
Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.
Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns
Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.
Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819
The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.
Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!
blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them
im curious, do you think the M6 would play Tomodachi Life 2 if they were able to somehow get their hands on a Switch? How would they react to it? Would they have all their friends and family Miis? Would they make the MC’s Mii?
Hi anon friend! I'm so sorry, but I know nothing about switch games in general and tomodachi life in particular T~T
There's some other awesome headcanon writers in the arcana fandom who you could ask if you want to, though! Their stuff is amazing ^.^
Oh this is exactly the sort of game Asra would love.
Asra’s canonically an artist. He made the tarot deck, he knits sneaters (snake sweaters), so you know he is pushing the Facepaint mechanics to their absolute limits to create the most beautiful Mii creations possible
Asra goes through phases of Themed Miis, starting with themself and the MC, of course (the two of them deserve to be cozy and in love in every universe) then adding more of their friends and family
Then Asra starts recreating the Arcana themselves
And then it just dissolves into any theme he can think of.
Celestial bodies. Human versions of Faust and MC’s familiar (or maybe animal-headed beings like the Arcana). A personification of his favorite canal. The Embodiment of Pumpkin Bread. Whatever he can think of, he’s creating it.
(Asra even have a stylus for their Switch how do they make everything look so good?)
When adding people in his real life, they does what they can to make sure everyone's personalities and relationships are as true to life as possible
For everyone else, he lets them go wild
Only adds Lucio and/or the Devil if he can figure out a way to make them look/act stupid
Cries when his own Mii and MC’s Mii get married
(If he played any of the older versions of Tomodachi Life, he’s overjoyed that you can now make queer Miis. A Nonbinary Mii Asra? And you can change pronouns at any time? Perfection.)
Julian
MC, darling, he’s a doctor, he sadly doesn’t have the time to devote to video games like this, as much as he may-- wait, is that a tiny adorable version of him?
Can Tiny Julian have an eyepatch? What do you mean you haven’t unlocked the eyepatch yet?
And why does Mazelinka have maracas?
He really doesn’t play the game itself too often, but he hovers over your shoulder whenever he gets the chance.
He therefore gets far too invested in the lives of the little characters you’ve brought to life.
He’s both entertained and slightly terrified by how accurate the game can be.
A bit of a backseat driver, but in an endearing sort of way.
He’s more than happy to throw out some suggestions as to who to recreate next.
Most of the particularly odd phrases that echo around the island were invented by him.
Some of those phrases wind up being running jokes in real life.
The moment he sees one Mii “romantically” declare their love for another, he is stealing those lines. And using them on MC at every opportunity.
Giving his little Mii the Quirk that lets him greet others with a flourishing bow makes him laugh out loud.
Dramatically pretends to be offended if his Mii doesn’t like lobster.
Nadia
She doesn’t really understand the appeal at first, but admits the game is charming.
She’s glad that you’ve found something that brings a smile to your face, and will listen to any stories of Island Shenanigans, but please, MC, try not to neglect your duties over a game.
Can and will critique her own Mii’s choices, particularly in food.
While the conversations and interactions between the Miis are entertaining, she doesn’t really get into it until she discovers the Island Builder.
Then she must have an island of her own.
She’s only had the game for two days and she somehow managed to unlock everything she needed to make a near one-to-one replica of Vesuvia.
Uses the virtual island to test out potential layouts of the actual city.
She can’t put every citizen of Vesuvia on her island, of course, so she makes sure to recreate the people most important to her.
And has a bit too much fun designing the perfect outfits for every single character on her island.
She’s fully capable of affording her own Switch, but if you lend her yours... sorry, you’re probably not getting it back for a while.
Muriel
He doesn’t fully understand the appeal of video games in general.
What’s the point of fake nature? Real nature is right there? And much more relaxing?
Why would he make fake people when he doesn’t want to talk to real people?
But even if he doesn’t admit it out loud, he does enjoy watching you play.
Anything that makes you happy makes him happy, too.
You might be able to talk him into creating a character.
And then he’ll make another one. Just because he wasn’t sure if he did it right the first time, and clearly not because he loved it (he loved it).
Creating Miis becomes almost as soothing as whittling over time.
And he enjoys making little Treasures to hand out to the Miis as well.
He managed to make a halfway decent version of Inanna that way. Seeing his Mii take the virtual Inanna out on a walk is oddly heartwarming.
He blushes profusely when his Mii marries yours.
And he’s red for weeks if your Miis have a child.
It might actually start an interesting conversation about children in the real world...
Portia
She is a girl on a mission.
And that mission is a perfect recreation of the main city in the Detective Robin series.
The fact that the Mii for Detective Robin happens to look a bit like her dear MC is a total coincidence, of course, and not an attempt at flattery.
The fact that the Mii for Detective Robin’s arch rival/love interest, the Contessa, happens to look like her is also a total coincidence.
Stop teasing her about it MC.
(No, don’t, keep teasing her about it, she loves it)
Soon she’s made Detective Robin versions of all of her family and friends.
Gets impatient when the people who are supposed to fall in love take a long time to actually get there.
And she’s mildly disappointed when she doesn’t get any cool outfits right away.
Over the moon when she randomly discovers the Phantom Thief outfit.
Chats about her Miis and their interactions like they're real people. It's almost as good as palace gossip!
Lucio
A whole island about him? Sign him up!
Doesn’t really have the patience for all the nuances of the game, so that just means he makes you do most of the work for him.
May use the excuse that his golden hand isn’t made for pushing tiny buttons. But he really just doesn’t want to sit still long enough to make something that actually looks good.
Backseat Driver 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Very picky about any outfits you might give to his Mii.
Acts personally affronted if any of the Miis have an argument or disagreement with his own.
But at the same time, it’s oddly touching to see a world where everyone treats each other kindly... most of the time.
And extra odd and touching to see other Miis genuinely like his.
Maybe he should use some of the conversation topics that his Mii uses in real life...
(Please do not let him do that, it can only end in disaster)
frankly upsetting that so many people headcanon asra using they them pronouns bc he’s nonbinary. like 1 nonbinary doesn’t auto equal they them. but more importantly where’s the spice hmm? u think asra would be satisfied with they/them? that’s at LEAST a he/she. someone tells eir what neopronouns are and xe uses every single one. talking about asra is a brain exercise because of the complexity of the pronouns. which is a bonus bc then asra knows nobody talking about her behind fer back cause it’s too much work
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