I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.
Hey, I'm running a Kingdom Hearts survey for a final project and I need data from fans!
This survey has three questions and should only take a couple of minutes.
I need data from Kingdom Hearts fans for a final project!
The data in question is to answer a few things:
Which combat system is preferred
I'd really appreciate any reblogs for reach, I only have a couple of weeks to gather this data and I want a reasonable sample size for a series with as many fans as Kingdom Hearts does. Thank you all so much!
It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone
This post from @letoasai about this year's Strifehart week reminded me that I did brainstorm some ideas last year based on that year's prompts! ... Which I just didn't have the time or brainspace to do much about back then, or since. 😅
But I cleaned up a couple and detailed the outlines a bit, so that they're now closer to a not-fic than a short list of bullet points. This is the first one, the second one is here.
The first one is inspired by the day 1 prompt, "Wrong reality", which I interpreted very loosely as a clash of worlds. Very much pre-slash, could probably qualify as a meet-ugly.
Post time compression/Meteorfall, the FF7 and FF8 worlds end up joined together, FF5 style.
Squall plus two teammates (Quistis? Zell?) are deposited quite far from home due to time/space shenanigans, and are soon happened upon by Cloud and the gang, who are all out searching for clues to what happened to their world.
Both groups are wary of the other: these are groups of combatants they have never seen before, looking ready to fight.
Reacting to one another's hostility (and a badly timed comment from Zell), the groups end up fighting.
It doesn't take too long for one of the FF7 gang to pull out a limit break, and it hits hard – harder than it should have. Squall does a quick mental count, and realizes that while his GF's are all accounted for, his magic has been severely depleted (due to the fight with Ultimecia or the following time compression, he doesn't know).
So of course he does the natural thing: he draws magic from his enemies. Unsurprisingly, they've got some good spells on them, and Squall starts drawing it to himself in between clashes.
At one point, he draws some cure magic from Cloud, and casts it on Quistis, the main recipient from that last major attack.
Cloud stops, confused. What just happened? Did... Did that guy just. Steal magic from him, somehow? He doesn't feel drained, or tired, or like he can't cast himself, but there's a niggling feeling of violation, somehow – how was he able to take his magic like that?? So rude?!
Meanwhile, Squall is building up a power boost from extracting and junctioning some powerful magic to himself. Healing magic for his endurance, some meteor-like spell for a boost to his magic, and Ultima to strengthen his attacks.
It takes some time, especially since he has to stop to heal so often from the frequent power moves these people seem to be able to access despite looking far from death's door. It gets easier the more magic he draws, though, and he can tell it's the same for his teammates.
It takes a while before Cloud picks up on it, but when he does, it's obvious: this guy is very noticeably gaining strength as he goes on stealing Cloud's magic, and Cloud doesn't like that at all.
He needs to end this, fast, so he tanks a few hits in order to unleash a Climhazzard, hopefully taking the guy out in one go. And if not, he knows he can probably tank one of whatever power move the guy can dish out after
And dish out he does; despite looking like he's on his last legs, his stormy grey eyes are filled with determination as he unleashes a devastating rush of attacks upon him with that strange blade of his, finishing with an energy blast that Cloud barely dodges, and that carves a long line of destruction im the ground across the entire battlefield.
Cloud sighs in relief, preparing to knock the guy out now that he's expended his power, but to his surprise he spots the guy preparing the same move again, which shouldn't be possible.
His surprise costs him a few hits, but it's enough for him to gather himself for a counter attack: if Climhazzard wasn't enough he'll have to pull out his strongest attack.
He's not the only one changing tactics though – there is no giant beam of light following the punishing rush of strikes this time. Instead Cloud finds himself locked in a duel with an opponent that matches his Omnistrike blow for blow, strike for strike
At the end of the sequence, they pull apart, both retreating to a safer distance to breathe. Cloud meets his opponents calculating eyes, and starts planning his next move. What will the guy do? Stop to heal? Throw out some magic while at distance? Pull out yet another finishing move, seeing as he has apparently no issue doing several in a row?
He doesn't get far in his planning; a shout of "Commander!" stops the other man in his tracks where he'd begun his approach towards Cloud again. A shout of his own name soon follows – it's Tifa, and she sounds a little exasperated, as if it's not the first time she's tried to get his attention.
Turns out that while he was fighting this commander, she'd been trading blows with the rival group's resident martial artist; a talkative fellow she managed to speak to long enough between bouts to trade explanations and negotiate a truce.
She'd quickly relied it to the rest of the group, narrowly saving Barret from getting torched by another round of fire spat out by the whip lady, but Cloud and their commander were both so immersed in their duel that no one could get to them.
Seeing as they all carried several tufts of Phoenix Down, the rest of them decided to let the pair of them finish up, or at least see if there would be a lull in the fighting for long enough to reach them before anyone was knocked out.
Cloud feels kinda miffed that they were prepared to let him or the other guy – of course, most likely the other guy, there's no way Cloud couldn't take him on no matter how long the battle dragged out – get knocked out for convenience instead of interfering, but right now he's more interested in whatever potions Tifa may have on her, seeing as his magic reserves are quite depleted after the intense fighting
Before she can answer him, though, he hears someone beside him telling him "No need, I've got this", before the familiar wash of healing magic soothes away his scrapes and exhaustion.
Blinking his eyes up at the guy he'd just been fighting – whom it turns out is quite a lot taller than him, which is slightly annoying – Cloud realized the guy has once again somehow pulled out a healing spell from Cloud himself, before casting it back on him, something that feels both impossible, and still somehow rude.
He doesn't let it get to him though, just nods his thanks before stepping back to let Tifa and Barret handle the upcoming talks and explanations.
He can't help but notice those grey eyes – no longer stormy, but determined still – follow him even as the man discusses their situation with the other two.
Cloud can't find it in himself to look away, either.
the funniest part about danny phantom is that the entirety of the ghost zone somehow decides they have beef with this one 14 year old from illinois in particular. like why don’t you have beef with something that makes sense. like the irs. or the church. like you have all of these cool powers for what? picking fights with teenagers? lame. get a hobby.
Danny Phantom just gets wilder the more you know about it, really.
first of all i gotta say that it's not actually canon that he's from Illinois. the show is just "generic American small city" for his hometown and the fandom took context cues from other parts of the show and decided "Fuck it Illinois makes sense" and just kept that.
But I guarantee you, nothing about the show makes sense when you look at it too closely so take everything with a grain of salt. Yes I'm looking at you, Timeline.
the teenager in question is also kind of a ghost, hence part of the reason why the other ghosts are picking fights with him. He arguably picks a bunch of the fights himself.
it's not just the entirety of the Ghost Zone that get put into the antagonist role in the show either. Danny's other antagonists include:
A literal billionaire (who is also a ghost) (and gets himself elected mayor)
his parents (literally ghost hunters. who also fight the ghosts.)
a circus ringmaster with mind control and reality bending artifacts
Classmates at school who bully Danny
the closest thing we get to an adult who is on Danny's side is Mr. Lancer, who also supports the school bullies
the ghost who impersonated a school counselor and was literally in the role of Danny's therapist for a bit that one episode
A U.S. government agency
a girl he dates was actually being controlled by a dragon ghost and didn't actually want to date him. Have fun with that fallout kid.
the girl he dates for a bit who *wanted* to date him also shows up in costume to shoot him on sight.
his clone shows up and is supposed to be his enemy. he adopts her instead. yes those pronouns are all correct.
she's not really an antagonist but one of his best friends arguably kills him twice. once very much on purpose.
his other best friend and whatever happened in King Tuck.
like it's not enough that this show puts Danny (and friends) against the regular ghosts and the God-Like Being level ghosts and the literal Ghost Tyrant King guy
he can't even catch a break at home either
kid's literally surrounded by people deliberately or accidentally making his life harder, there are no safe Adults, there are barely any safe friends, and he is fourteen and half dead.
and his parents canonically want to rip his alter-ego apart "molecule by molecule" i am not kidding with that one.
Like they made us a sandbox of a Nickelodeon cartoon and just half assed it by grabbing a bunch of two-by-fours, nailing them together... and then sticking them on the beach.
and then people still get mad when the fandom shows up to build sandcastles and dig to china. Yeah, we know they didn't make it That Deep on purpose.
But we're here with the good Tonka Toys anyway and ready to dig.
This post just slapped me in the face (again) with the fact that Danny is just, never safe.
He's never safe.
Home, school, the zone, hanging out with friends, walking down the street, in anotger state; there is nowhere for Danny to go and be safe.
Most ghosts he's met (pretty sure everyone but Frostbite and Pandora), his parents, his friends, Vlad, Jazz; there is almost no one who has not at least once been his enemy.
Can you imagine living like that? At any moment of any day, anywhere he is anyone; even one or both of his best friends, his sister, his mom and dad; anyone could turn around and suddenly become someone he has to fight.
Danny has to be living his life in a perpetual state of adrenaline response. Every waking moment must be spent on a hairpin trigger, ready to fight at the first sign of danger. Can you imagine how much that is going to fuck you up?
My man is struggling and any fics that feature PTSD, cptsd, anxiety, paranoia, or just general mental breakdown? 1000% justified. Canon compliant. More canon than Phantom Planet. (Especially since AGIT retcon'd that trash)
Y'know that common thing where we make Danny have a slower heart rate because ghost boi?
So, that's supposed to be true. As a halfa he should have a steady heart rate around 20bpm in both forms. And originally that was true after his body settled into its new healthy after the accident. But by the time anyone team Phantom thinks to actually check that stuff just in case, Danny is already Stressed™ 24/7, so they inaccurately judge his baselines to be in perfectly normal human ranges. Like, 70bpm at rest and 120 immediately after ghost fights.
And since consistently having your heart beat at 50-100bpm above what it should is, mm, not good for the organ... Danny has actually been experiencing frequent cardiac events and just not noticing it because it seems like it's all just his new normal and his ghostliness keeps him alive (enough) and lets him recover.
I've seen authors explore cardiac stress as one of the reasons he passed out so often in the show, which makes so much sense it's just canon to me now
The fandom gets creative because the show either deliberately or not, puts Danny in absolute batshit situations and tries to sell it to us as normal. He became evil in a timeline because he cheated on test once and it dominoed from there? Come on. The fandom basically takes the show apart (molecule by molecule) and comes up with insanely creative ideas to explain some of the trends
It's so fascinating and honestly I think it's the reason it's kept my attention for so long
It's that time of the year where i'm thinking about prompts for this pairing come Strifehart Week in August. I always feel like it's a little too early to be talking about it and then i realize i love having a decent amount of time to work on a weeks worth of posts.
