It's about time I make a pinned post. It's been years now, it has to happen.
Hello! I'm Crossy and I like to draw for fun. I'm I'm agender, aro/ace, Canadian, in a lot of fandoms, and visibly unmedicated.
I currently have an ongoing webcomic, [YN] Observation Diary, about Cthulu self-inserting into an ordinary office in Korea, and the beautiful man with serious psychiatric disturbances who is the only one who can see it for what it truly is.
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How To Draw Fat Simple - A popular tutorial of mine that helps beginners stylize fat features.
Ghost Story Work Visual Guide - A powerpoint presentation and visualizer for Even If You Got Dropped in a Ghost Story You Still Go To Work, a webnovel by Baek Deoksoo about being isekai'd into an SCP-esque horror wiki.
Is Miku AI - An explainer that describes how deep-learning vocal synths work, and how they differ from corporate datacentre-based generative AI despite the similar technology (slightly out of date in that Miku is, in fact, AI now).
RPG Maker Is On Sale - One of these days I need to make a price-agnostic version of this post because RM gets cheaper every sale... The RPG Maker engine is an old special interest and in this post I review the pros and cons of every single one of them (as well as useful packs to buy), plus some other engines I've dabbled with. Always buy RPG Maker during a sale.
She's Just Like Me FR (Genshin Fancomic) - Beloved 6-part fancomic about Kaeya projecting his sibling hangups onto Lumine. Apparently this one got most of its fame on Pinterest.
everyone is posting how their ship's stocks felt as they went through the story up to the end of part 2 so here is mine
Braun is hitting the ML threshold the most frequently but he lets his stocks sag as he sits on his laurels as an evil toxic situationship / supportive friend who is always around. He's really fighting for consistency, and when he tries to respect Kim Soleum's boundaries, you have time to doubt the veracity of his highs. Even his heartfelt goodbye is kind of shady and suspicious. Divorce is a difficult thing... If Kim Soleum were trying to rate his own MLs Braun would be much higher and never drop below More Than Friends, but we all know his judgement is questionable in that regard.
Lee Jaheon is more stable but also sags after his strongest moments thanks to their strong platonic core. They are unquestionably more than friends but definitely not lovers. Unless...?
Was convinced Saheon didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of facilitating any romantic tension whatsoever but then, Grapes,
J3 is the most stable and consistent out of the bunch. It never shakes, and when it swells, it's the subtle strengthening of their bond. Nice and smooth.
Jaekwan exceeds "more than friends" effortlessly but is fighting for his life to get any higher. True second male lead performance. He does get an unexpected upswing at the end, but with nowhere to direct it, it drops back to its original trajectory.
Choi is stable and capable of much more growth than Jaekwan, and his direction and stability implies a solid male lead trajectory! But lest we forget: certain kinds of fumbles require huge recovery periods. Getting his worst fumble yet right before the end of part 2 was the worst anyone has ever done it. They'll be telling tales of this fuckup for generations. But have heart: thanks to his lack of impartiality, he will never give up on Kim Soleum and will strive to learn from his mistakes. They will surely be on the up in the future.
Ho has reached the point that anyone could become Kim Soleum's soulmate and he'd win anyway. He has the Dark Horsepower of Mine That Bird. Amazingly, when his stocks began to drop back to normal after his peak moment, he took advantage of part 2 ending to score a final upswing to keep himself at the top. We may never see a showing like this again, folks.
Also, I forgot the order of events in the latter half of part 2 so it gets real vague back there. Feel the flow with your heart
Jeong eunseok's—(from @skolomorphic)—past life never fails to intrigue me you mysterious man. Anyways i MIGHTY be a larper cs im only a few chapters in idkkk(fanart of jeong eunseok himself cs i only see acacius)
need to have an autism moment about ocarina of time releasing this year oh jesus
It makes me so excited how realistic and adult they've gone with the visuals because it means that this is the tone they're capturing, which means we are getting a more dense and mature game, and situating that game in one of the core pillars of the "lore" of Zelda, so every creative decision they make here is about to send shockwaves through the rest of the series. Here's thoughts
Gameplay I hope to see:
Gossip Stone save points/teleports that work like owl statues
Seamless regions :D
Navi to guide your item progression for primary itemgated dungeons now that the world is more "open"
Non-itemgated regional dungeons to fill out a bigger Hyrule (every region has a kakariko well/gerudo fortress equivalent)
Dungeon of light!!! Dungeon of light after you complete the triforce!!! I want to see what's in the realm of light!!! I want to see it turned into the dark world!! I want to feel how bad that is!!!!
Sidequests!!!!!!!!! All the iconic characters get stuff to do!!
Expanded happy mask shop role. So we all know Majora's Mask is next
Navi abilities from the original demo oh my god oh my god the medallions can actually do things. Spirit medallion could be driving Navi. Instead of the crystals we get a whole ability kit which can be utilized in full in the castle/dark world?. Oh my god.
Bring back that damn wind temple. It would actually be pretty cool if the forest temple was an old Hylian temple (it looks like one! It's shepherded by the dead!) and the wind temple is something established on top by kokiri.
I think a big part of how you move through Hyrule is that there's a bunch of shortcuts and later teleports that are easily accessible WITHIN the regions, but Hyrule Field is this big open expanse of nothing, it is a treacherous journey you must make only during the daylight, and it isolates each community. Journeying across this big swath of land to reach the communities tucked in its corners is so important to how Ocarina of Time feels as a world. The setting should be a character and "full of connections that abruptly stop when you leave your community" is the main character of Ocarina of Time. To ME.
Majora's Mask trade caravan minigame since traversing that space is so difficult would be really really fun.
I just want every region to feel very small, like there's a huge thriving community beyond those walls but the only version you see is what is left over by the war. We don't have to go to Gerudo city but we see the warriors Ganon brought. We don't have to go deeper into the Zora tunnels but we see the aristocracy and their court. We don't see the countless gorons who still travel the world but we see the Gorons who settled on the mountain. idk about Sheikah. I want a very small game space as saturated with as much personality as possible, I don't want a huge sparsely populated open community like BoTW. The setting! Is! A character!
Hyrule Field being so loose would make the pure open world that can be done in any order with a central hub in Majora's Mask feel much more fresh and a genuine new spin.
Make Majora's Mask the big open world BOTW-style game for people who wanted BOTW 3. The only core items you get are masks which don't really carry over between regions. Perfect
Story and worldbuilding I hope to see:
I found it so interesting that the next time we saw Kokiri in the series was a sage who had that much more Ordon-like outfit and in Twilight Princess the concept art was pointing to them resettling where Kokiri once lived and THEN in the new trailer Link is wearing a distinctive split skirt…Is Fado going to be more of a character. And a man now. It would be interesting if Link had a variety of relationships in Kokiri forest besides His Mom and His Opp
I want to see the relationship between Hylia and the three golden goddesses in detail. She only brought it up at the end of skyward sword and the 3 goddesses was canonically a royal secret in OoT. MORE
I actually want a relationship with Rauru I want to be comforted by grandpa after I destroy the world. I want Kaepora Gaebora to not only direct Link on his way but come back to help Link decompress after a scary event because he is 12 years old. Also makes it feel sharper when he's missing as an adult if he was always around as Link's de-facto guardian as a child.
I want some Twilight Princess vibes because TP is the game with the closest ties to OoT and Rauru was around for the interloper war that led to the Twilight Realm. If you're going to link the games do it backwards too
Please make Navi cool and Link's friend. Very little story with that fairy since in OoT she was a crude tooltip device. I did like she was so type-A it was funny
Expand Hyrule Castle story with more stuff for Zelda to do!!!
Expand every story where Link forms a meaningful relationship with a woman. Keep Fado a girl and retroactively make it so she dressed as a man to be a musician in the great wide world so Link's meaningful relationships are just The Girls And Darunia
Please make Gerudo fortress a prison full of convicts Ganondorf picked up. Please. I think it would be really cute if Gerudo prisoners and their guards have become one cooperative faction and sisters at arms. I want to hang out in a prison
More Gerudo NPCs who can have distinctive opinions on Ganondorf's fealty to the king and his usage of the prisoners.
Either scrap the Gerudo goddess or expand her into an actual character. In Ocarina of Time each faction have their own deity, with the great deku tree (tree), jabujabu (fish), hylia (bird), Volvagia (dragon), and the Gerudo (snake, abandoned??). tbh Sages would probably be best represented as the people who resonate the most deeply with their deity, but Gerudo are weird! They abandoned worship of the cobra goddess, the Fire Temple seems to exist simultaneously but contains Gerudo influence, there are Gerudo symbols all over every single temple, (might be a texture thing so it can just be ignored but i don't want to ignore it. I'm biased.) and Demise (boar) consistently picks the Gerudo to reincarnate into.
Can we PLEASE explore the demon war again. It was so cool. It was the coolest part of Skyward Sword's worldbuilding. The interloper war was kind of mid in comparison to how cool it is that there was a war between divine forces that the mortals were helpless to fight against
GIVE NABOORU SOMETHING TO DO!!!!!!!!!! Give her stakes and emotional investment. It does not have to be deep BoTW was not a deep game but "kid, we were ok with Ganondorf at first but his war decisions were nuts so now I'm not fucking with him. Fetch me gloves" is extremely silly. I want to scream when I see her in the armour
imho Darunia also kind of needs something to do...His vibe is very Is The Leader and most of the stakes were situated in the Goron's past relationship with Volvagia, who despite being some fucked up evil people-eating dragon ended up trading off to the benevolent spirit Valoo. Enemies-to-rivals...
More gorons who don't live on the mountain going "ougghh fucckkk I want to settle on the mountain and eat elite gourmet rocks too". Because it's really funny. They are a migratory race and yet built a city because that shit is so yummy
PLEASE ADDRESS SHEIKAH WAR CRIMES
I'm so serious I want Impa to grapple with the fact she has grown to inherit a military asset so closely tied to death and torture and having to directly confront it. I want her to bear that guilt and make peace with the dead that have manifested in the form of Bongo Bongo instead of hiding it away. This game is about post-war recovery!!!!!! It's literally about people recovering from a civil war coming together against a man who can only exist in a state of warfare and choosing peace and cooperation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let it be dark and difficult sometimes!!!!!!!!! I want her to seriously sit with the fact her dad may have been torturing people and she can't know for sure because of how Sheikah operate!!!!!!!!
I like the Yiga so we can bring them back by making the precipitous population drop of the Sheikah actually be because they, like Ganondorf, can only exist in warfare, and so they respond to his warfaring rhetoric by moving to his side. Sheikah tasked with uniting their kingdoms instead being key to how easily the castle was taken, and Impa has to bear their crimes in their place. Gerudo convicts and Sheikah exiles making each other worse, so Gerudo city and Kakariko Village are in the same spot of how they excise the evil in their community. Yummy
And make yiga women. Jesus christ. Why make the Ganon cult situated overlooking the Gerudo desert exclusively men with no Gerudo whatsoever. Evil decision
Sheikah researching those toxic green magic power wells using corpses (and maybe even human experimentation but that feels a little harsh even for a game that presents itself as very realistic-looking and mature) -> joining Ganondorf who is raised by two witches who are so magic they turned green and who is himself a witch-king who also turned green. Think about it
Bongo Bongo powerful evil spirit made of the dead, coming from the well where the green pools surrounded by gibdo are. Think about it.
You ever notice Sheikah don't have a spirit. I think it should stay that way, or even have Bongo Bongo replace the spirit to guide those who remained to cherish the dead. Zelda doesn't get to do much in the adult half, let her be a part of that struggle
And give her white hair.
And canonize that the Sheikah originally had dark skin. Did anyone notice that, that impa was dark-skinned in Skyward Sword and was one of the only olive-toned NPCs in OoT (light-skinned but every other character is pink except her!) and her original concept art has brown skin and Zelda chose to make her skin darker in disguise, almost as if she is imitating a racial marker of the Sheikah. Do not have high hopes here but come on.
Zelda's appearance is really odd because the king has dark skin in ALttP, WW, MC, and BotW, and when Daphnes breaks the cycle by abandoning Hyrule she has her father's skintone as Tetra. The implication seems to be that a specific version of Zelda is affecting how she looks. I think if she disguises herself as Sheik and suppresses her power she should have that light olive skin colour like Impa does. Makes sense with the disguise, connects her to Impa when she's vulnerable, makes sense for her being Daphnes' child, makes it so we don't have to see a brown girl get the melanin sucked out of her, and makes it clearer how Tetra tans as drastically as she does. But I don't have high hopes for this one either lol
So much to chew on. The realistic style is such a huge influence on my reading. I really feel that Ocarina of Time seems to be the Twilight Princess to Breath of the Wild's Windwaker, with a cartoony game shaking free of Zelda's highly context-sensitive world, followed by a mature and edgy game that matches the current aesthetic tastes of AAA gamers and revels in its connective tissue. Can't wait to see the discourse of the 2010s return in that sense lmfao
your Bamboo-Hatted Kim characterization may be inaccurate now but i will remember your kim forever. i miss him
I need to catch up soon I heard he came back a little while ago...I'm not really committed to the bullshit I make up about my favs so I'm actually intrigued by what they ended up going with
to get the most of out ot3s you have to consider that they consist of smaller 2 person subdynamics where the third person is always in a weird and fucked up position of being a permanent voyeur to an interpersonal dynamic they are privy to but never a fully participant in. that whatever u have with them its not the same as what they have with each other, in a way thats equally intimate and alienating. yeah a throuple is fun when its a couple and their third but in an ideal world per 1 threesome you should be getting three somewhat volatile couples with their own dedicated third. and i think yoohankim #gets that.
i think a great way of viewing the amazing digital circus is that it is thematically identical to jamie paige's "clouddrop" up to and including the fact clouddrop includes multiple voicebanks representing different perspectives used throughout the album
"who's your blorbo?" is singular? in this economy?? I don't know how y'all are doing it, but it costs me 6 blorbos minimum just to get through the fucking day. due to inflation. :(
I think a lot about who I am to other people in the world–particular who I am to strangers as a mere concept in their lives.
Today this woman called our information desk and said, “my son’s band is playing tonight. I want to come see him, but he never answers his phone…..I want to be there. Have you heard anything about his band?”
And I felt so bad for this lady but I’m not in the music scene around here so I had to tell her no, sorry.
Five hours later, I’m hiking and run into a group of guys setting up for some outdoor performance, and as I watch them unload the drums it hits me.
“Hey,” I said, “are y’all in a band?”
They said yeah and smiled and I told them “one of your moms called today. She wants to watch you play, but she can’t get a hold of you. Call your mom.”
And they all pulled out their phones and started discussing whose mom it probably was as they presumably dialed their own.
And now, unless we meet again and recognize each other, that’s who I’ll be forever to those guys–some mysterious courier for mom-messages who came out of the woods and told them their mom called.
I didn’t even tell them why their mom called me. Who am I to their mom?? Nobody even asked. They just took my word for it and called their mothers.
A year or so ago I went to wood carving club with a bruised eye from my dog slamming his nose into my eyesocket and like every old lady there pulled me aside at some point to ask if my partner hit me here are some of the solutions they had in case he did.
-Replacing his vitimens with poision
- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.
- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.
-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?
- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.
-One lady just cheerfully informed me she had a gun and only a few years left anyway
