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plain-moth

a note:

this blog is not spoiler free

i do tag everything as:

sky spoilers

spoilers

sky beta spoilers

so please be aware if you want to avoid spoilers!

plain-moth

adding on to this:

i’m trying to add another tag for all the moths

so…if you need any help try looking at the tag:

moth guide

#sky cotl #sky children of the light

sykloni

Good attitude to go to Eden

#i found this on pinterest while going through some sky cotl pins #it brought back really good memories :)#thank you for helping me through eden and being so kind to me #sorry for dropping of the face of the earth ✌️

edenstorm

I think the reason I enjoy social interaction in journey/sky much more than I do in other games is that… it’s almost entirely wordless. (Well, in Sky, people often gesture to benches or place tables if they can, but…)

Like, I’m bad with words. Terrible at them. I never shut the hell up on here because I have time to properly read over what I type so that I know my point gets across, but in most online games, I just can’t think of what to say or type fast enough. I stumble over words verbally a lot because my brain moves faster than my mouth, and my hands are just an even slower version of that. It’s dreadful. If you have ever met me in a chatroom, I am so sorry.

But anyway, with games that rely less on words, it’s way less stressful. Everyone knows that walking in circles around someone and beeping at them is a friendly gesture! Beeping excitedly is a universal “Yay!/come here!/I’m terrified about what just happened there, oh geez!” and like. it takes so little time, and you don’t have to worry about language barriers or coming across as strange or aggressive due to phrasing, and just. I could go on and on but I feel like I’m running out of ways to put this that isn’t just “this is great for my occasionally nonverbal self, I wish I had a friendly beep button irl and that running circles around strangers and friends on the street did not make them think poorly of me.”

days-of-reminiscent

Y'all seems to like him so here's the baby

His name is God Tamer, GT or Gotye for short. He was found almost drowning in dark water because somehow, unlike other baby shrimps, he can't float/fly

snoutbug

diversity win!

krillbones

@scrimbly .. so true

fireflysoda

ideas for updating the menus

EMOTES

Let us make our own folders

Emote wheel for quick use!

STANCE

Expand this menu to be non-cosmetic options in general

Standing, Sitting, Relaxing and Laying: Allow these to be individually set, so you can have eg. polite stance with sassy sitting stance and wise laying stance

Call: Remains as is!

Height: Make chibi mask usable with other masks and add a Tall mask (Chibi/Tall mode can be equipped and removed here)

Build: If builds/body type diversity is added to the game (eg. round, thicker limbs, stout, buff, pear shaped) i think it should be freely selectable here

Trail: let us use ascended candles to turn a trail spell into a permanent one to equip here.

Idle: Let us choose a set of idle animations! I think it would add a lot of character to our skykids. Ideas: the mask-adjusting and cape equipping animations, dusting shoulders, dozing off and startling awake / yawning, swaying/idle little dances, shy shuffling

PROPS/ITEMS

With the number of items and the different uses they have we should be able to carry at least one Instrument and one Prop - or, we can choose an Instrument/Tool, a Fire Source, and a Social/Decorative Prop. then we can also choose which item is 'visually' equipped to our back.

spacem0th

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLITCH CLOUD

ALL HAIL

#sky children of the light #sky beta #wtnv #welcome to night vale #glow cloud

maxanite

Not to blog Sky disc horse but the fact that TGC is releasing an update that makes it so you can’t send hearts to anyone unless you’ve spent time with them in “”social spaces”” which is only CERTAIN areas in the game and that if you have a friend from a QR you can send hearts but not receive them??? And there are more limitations too. Not only is this shitty RIGHT before a double heart event coming up but they also DIDN’T beta test this and DIDN’T put it in the patch notes which is incredibly shitty.

And their reasoning?? Because of “heart and candle sharing explorations”…. EXPLOITATIONS??? Hearts are only used for buying cosmetics from spirits. It has NO gameplay effects whatsoever. I send hearts to people all the time, even people I don’t know we’ll and just want to share my appreciation!! It’s silent communication!

TL:DR This update effectively means you CANT send hearts to your friends unless you’ve spent a certain a certain amount of time with them in certain areas in game I think??? Which is insanely dumb. And TGC did not tell anyone about this update nor put it in the patch notes and only put it as a single message in the discord.

Please I’m begging you to use the live-feedback channel in the Offical discord and let the team know this is incredibly dumb and rude for them to try and slide under the radar. Or any other way you know how.

thoughtportal

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1430159902551445514

marxistcrap

[Image description: The linked Twitter thread posted by Alex Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) on August 24th, 2021, which reads:

“THREAD: I have studied crime data and police violence for years. I have come away from this work with the firm belief that police commit orders of magnitude more illegal physical assaults than the number of arrests that they make for serious crime.

That reality fits nicely with this little fact: police steal more property through civil forfeiture than all of the “property crimes” that happen in the U.S. combined.

(quote tweet of a tweet from the same person on July 6th:) To understand the scope of this problem, you should know that cops take more money from people in civil asset forfeiture than all burglaries combined in the U.S. (end quote tweet)

People’s minds would be blown if they realized that police themselves commit more of virtually every common crime than everyone they arrest combined.

(quote tweet of a tweet from the same person on June 4th:) If all the crimes committed by police and jail/prison guards was counted, it would completely change the police crime stats that these “experts” regurgitate in the media to support police propaganda. (end quote tweet)

To take just one example, DOJ reviewed tens of thousands of police assaults in Newark, and found that 93 percent were illegal. Each was a criminal assault by cops that could have been prosecuted but wasn’t. The scope of police criminality is breathtaking.“ -end ID]

the-vault-apprentice

..... I know their universes don't intersect at ALL, but does anyone else think that Jack Frost from the Rise of the Guardians movie would ABSOLUTELY get along fantastic with the Skykids? Because I had the thought that he basically IS one and now I'm like..... Yeah? Am I seeing things that aren't there or does it click for anybody else?

always-anxious-skychild

Keep calm, Anxy. Keep your fangirling down...

YES

Not just Jack, but all of the guardians. Like they discover new places with wonder; they relive memories; they give hope in this post war world; they restart dreams for the future; and they do it with fun.

Also, krills looks like nightmare creatures.

And here's a thing for y'all: Rise of the Guardians is based from a book series. TGC can contact William Joyce for a crossover, maybeeeeee??? Hehehe

Ok, I'm done fangirling ^_^;;

the-vault-apprentice

I MEAN COME ON

You're running around restoring and collecting memories, there's a location literally named the village of dreams, North built a fantastic flying ship in that book series, Bunny is a NERD who would just adore the creatures, it's about LIGHT overcoming DARKNESS, like.....

Seriously I only singled out Jack because let's be honest.

White hair, brown cape, no shoes, flight aided by the wind? He's. He's literally just a default moth. Come on.

Holy crap, though, the Eye of Eden would be an extremely traumatic experience for these people, since they're supposed to.... Y'know. Protect kids.

justsomeectoplasm

"The eye of eden would be an extremely traumatic experience for them"

Imagine if they discovered wasteland first and saw what the hell krills are and how they just book it towards skykids on sight. They probably started to suspect that something ain't right with the kingdom if things like krills are crawling all over the place.

Oh man the Eye of eden would mess them up even more when the children are insisting that they go. That they have to die in order for this kingdom to be free of darkness. That they have to do this and that they promise they will return by falling as a star from the sky. I think the guardians would try to stop them, or at least protect them as they traverse eden.

I swear if any of them discovered the truth behind why the kids are there in the first place they would try to find out if they can talk to Megabird through Man on the moon to negotiate a much less gruesome way of saving the kingdom.

And que a group hug from all of the guardians when you return.

opal-owl-flight

“MEGABIRD CMERE WE JUST WANT TO TALK”

always-anxious-skychild

-Bunny, most likely

justsomeectoplasm

This but in North's workshop and you just see a bunch of skykids playing around.

kittyburger

Adding to this, Jack would LOVE having these masses and masses of children able to see him and want to interact with him all the time. Just doing things like playing music for him, tag, ice skating, teaching each other flying tricks, racing each other down valley's slopes... the list goes on.

The best part? Jack wouldn't have to worry about accidentally hurting them with his ice magic. These children spend hours and hours in the icy mountaintops of Valley and never show any problem going under the water in the mostly iced-up lake (angsters, there's potential for pain in this. Have at 'er).

the-vault-apprentice

!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the kind of stuff I absolutely LIVE for

forgetful-storyteller

Hey skyblr if someone ever tries to talk at a table with you and u don't want to talk. Grab google translate and speak in any language that's not english or chinese (or if they speak first, anything that's not that language) and then when they don't speak the same language just get up and cry emote and leave

justsomeectoplasm

My unpopular sky opinions (Cause why not)

- The rainbow cape doesn't look that good tbh. I regret candlerunning for 3 months to get it.

- I like it when a seasonal area is a bit deeper into the realm because sometimes I'd visit them more on my candleruns. Also it makes the world feel a bit realistic, like you're slowly uncovering the kingdom the deeper you go into it and the more adventurous you are. (For example sanctuary island and the belonging sunlight forest)

- Wasteland is fun.

- I hate that TS has such a high price and is just generally not newbie friendly. I get that this is to appease to those who did buy a pass to earn those cosmetics,but when I was a moth I just dropped TS unwillingly because their prices where too out of reach to me at that time. I don't believe a spirit should cost over 180 candles and only come around twice. That just feels like an unrealistic goal to me since when I was a pre vet I didn't have much candles and it took me 3 months to get 175 candles while juggling my other intrests and work. And that was when I was pre vet. Imagine you're a moth. I'm not saying that it's impossible to get 175 candles in 2 weeks (Some of ya'll can get 200.) but not everyone dedicates that much of their time to the game. I really think that TGC should reprice the spirits to make it more possible for moths and busy players.

- Speaking of cosmetics, we seriously need to drop the whole "The older the cosmetics are, the more admired you are" idea in sky completely. It's very toxic and comes off as snobbish.

- Prairie elder hair is cute.