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DigistarDBZ's stuff that she may or may not use. Expect reblogging, macros, some artwork/media, and anything else you'd expect from yours truly. THIS IS AN ANGST-FREE BLOG!! Go to another one if you want that nonsense. MAID OF HEARTBALANCED DERSE DREAMER

[seedersphd]

Us Chikorita stans have finally won. We have been paid back for our loyalty with dividends.

Access to 100 power fire-type weather ball for covering other grass types, instant solar beams, and 2/3 recovery synthesis all for free. OUR BULKY DIVA STAYS WINNING!

[shinyhappydigistar]

Don’t y’all haters start bandwagoning now, us D1 Believers saw you guys hating for decades. Blessed are those who do not see and still believe!

[chaobunnyarts]

I love them all

[pamshindouu]

Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the horse, so I drew my favorite horse (and his partner) 🐎

[burningcheese-merchant]

I don't have time to draw anything rn so take these meme edits explaining episodes 4, 6, 8 and 10, free of charge

[fandomfreakyay]

HELP THIS IS LITERALLY CANON BRO-

Wonder how Silent Salt and White Lily will turn out...

[j0urn3y]

“Bro we both need some fuckin ibuprofen”

“Ye”

[shinyhappydigistar]

Hey am I doing it right

[tea-leef]

LETS!

FUCKING!

G O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shinyhappydigistar]

…This isn’t a spoiler anymore, is it? >_>;

[shinyhappydigistar]

OMG 70s glam rock Satsuma???

Oh you had better believe it!

This was the late 1970’s of course, and hair metal wouldn’t be a thing for a couple of years yet! But 16-year-old Rentarou wasn’t happy with his father and paternal relatives berating him to be part of the police force. So in high school, he was part of a rock band club that had four other boys in it, and they all decided to be as polyester, lamé and caked with makeup as possible, because that’s what girls liked! (and that’s what young Rentarou thought would piss his dad off the most)

What’s worse is that one of the boys (the keyboardist) had a father who worked at a TV station, so they recorded a performance back around 1978-ish. Present-day Satsuma hopes the reels for that never get found, or were destroyed.

[shinyhappydigistar]

@prince-kallisto @crystal-clovers @windynebula I am outraged and appalled that Larry and Saguaro don't interact with each other when you invite them both as coaches. We need to fix this.

[prince-kallisto]

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE 🗣️ I was truly under the impression that the DLC would write every single interaction between teachers/gym leaders because…DLC. Why would they not include that? The good thing is so obvious, and Saguaro also has a lot of care and respect for his Pokemon like Larry does 🥲 Although I think that’s just the shipper in me speaking lol, but at least the food connection! It’s a tough day to be a Plaindonutshipper ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

The only way we can fix this is either storm Pokemon HQ or write fanfiction like we usually do lmaoo 😭 I’m dusting up my old word documents to finish my WIPs and work on this because this is ridiculous 🫡

On a slight positive note, I’m really glad the game emphasized how snarky/sarcastic Larry can be, it felt like a headcanon come true. His interactions with the others had me dying, he does not want to be there! 😭😭🤣

[shinyhappydigistar]

If it helps, I also had something in mind as I had traded an Espurr to Larry in exchange for a Dudunsparce. I wrote a whole thing and I have no idea if I can turn it into a full publishable story yet. 😵‍💫

(fwiw Saguaro trades you a Hattrem, I’m trying to decide what I’ll give him…I can’t give him an Alcremie as he already has one when you battle him, a Strawberry Sweet Ruby Cream one!)

[shinyhappydigistar]

@prince-kallisto @crystal-clovers @windynebula I am outraged and appalled that Larry and Saguaro don't interact with each other when you invite them both as coaches. We need to fix this.

[shinyhappydigistar]

Don’t give me hope

[yanderson]

FIRST LOOK AT GALVANTULA AND JOLTIK IN POKEMON SCARLET AND VIOLET!!!!! Go watch the new indigo disk trailer to see them!!!!!!@!!

[shinyhappydigistar]

MY BABY HAS COME BACK TO ME 😭💛💙

[shinyhappydigistar]

Just…hear me out for a second.

An anime of the 2017 Thrawn trilogy books, but Hikaru Miyoshi of “Moriarty The Patriot”-fame does the character designs. (No clue who does the animation character designs, depends on which studio animates it.)

Come on, if Tite Kubo could do Sakura Wars or Kazue Kato doing Godzilla, the person who made Sherlock Holmes gayer than even the BBC could can do this! Easily!!👏

[shinyhappydigistar]

A sequel? Really? Maybe.

This is more studies than anything else. If I was gonna do something more polished, I would have paid more attention to proportions and how Nendoroid heads behave. >_>

Did I get his lop-sided smirk right? You know that’d be one of his faceplates.

[shinyhappydigistar]

So who wants to listen to me ramble why an Empire reestablished by Grand Admiral Thrawn would be an “Empire” in name only? Nobody? Well that’s too bad, because you’re going to hear it. ^_^

Whether you like how it’s being portrayed or not, Thrawn’s ultimate goal as of the events in Ahsoka is to reestablish the Galactic Empire, all to help the Ascendancy against critical threats like the Grysks. Timothy Zahn has even stated this as such.

But it’d be an Empire in name only, as I just don’t see him being Emperor, nor do I even see him having someone in mind to be his figurehead/puppet ruler. After all, Thrawn is shown in canon (or the books at least) as being terrible at playing politics, which Palpatine was a master at thanks to the Force. I don’t even know who he’d even choose as Emperor, as ultimately what Thrawn wants is an overwhelming military power to crush the threats to the Ascendancy and his people, over anything else.

Realistically, any government led by Thrawn would be a military junta, where he works alongside other high-ranking Imperial military and regional governors to maintain order.

It makes the most sense, when you think about it: he can work behind the scenes to guide them and manipulate situations to best suit his needs. Like someone who can speak to the people on his behalf, someone who can play politics (but doesn’t outwit him), someone with charisma who can pacify the public, etc; It’s possible even other non-humans will be part of this council, if he deems them beneficial. (Which some of the more hard-lined, anti-alien council members wouldn’t like, for sure!)

All the while, he gets to operate in the background, where he works best. This makes him more a military dictator than an emperor, as he’s still the center of the council—he just doesn’t openly rule.

Would this be a fair system? Hell no, juntas are awful governments that oppress people and commit atrocities on the regular. Despite Thrawn’s best efforts to avoid this, he’s still cultivating an authoritarian regime that has shown in history to be built on sand and innocent blood. There’s going to be too many bad apples that he can’t—or feels he shouldn’t—cull from the system. They will do horrible things to people and some of those things he’ll allow as a lesser evil.

And there’s the fact he won’t live forever. He’s up there in age, and unless he’s okay with cloning—and we know trusting Imperials is not good—the paranoia is going to amp up. Who can he trust to keep up the system he’s so carefully crafted? Potentially none of the Imperial Shadow Council can be trusted outside of Captain Palleon, and maybe some of the humans he’s sent to the Ascendancy for aid. Somewhere down the line, someone will destroy what he built out of greed and egomania. And he knows this. Paranoia could be his ultimate downfall if he allows it.

This won’t happen, clearly, because the sequel trilogy (and the Legends Thrawn trilogy) indicates he won’t succeed. But I wanted to give you folks a more realistic vision of what the political makeup of galaxy would be like if he did. 🤔

[chissposting]

TAKE MY GOD DAMN MONEY 💰💸💸💸

[shinyhappydigistar]

Too late 🥲

[fenkaline]

[shinyhappydigistar]

You’re welcome

[dollsorwhatever]

Inners and Serenity

My Inner Senshi Styledolls arrived last week, and I actually deboxed them for once!!

Jupiter and Mercury are DEFINITELY my favorites, which is no surprise because they're usually my favorite Inners of the vintage Bandai JP lines too lol Jupiter's hair needed a lot of work (had to layer her ponytail to blend in the stupid short tendril they cut at the top) but Mercury only needed a slight trim to even things out!

Mars is third favorite! Her hair is a little too short imo but looks mostly correct and only needed some flat ironing to curl the ends more consistently. I don't love the way they added crimps to her bangs but it doesn't look horrible and it is pretty accurate to her design, I'm just really annoying about doll hair being as organized as possible lol Venus is definitely my least favorite; her hair is like half an inch shorter than Mars and her half-up style is severely over-engineered in a way that is incredibly confusing to me- she has an entire thatched parting under the half-up ponytail that stretches horizontally across the back of her head, and the ponytail can't lay flat as a result so it looks really wonky fresh from the box. I had to brush out the parting and redo the entire style to get it to lay somewhat correctly, but it's still too short and I hate her bangs lol Aside from Jupiter, none of the Inners have a lot of gel in their hair- maybe a tiny bit on the bangs, but otherwise it is incredibly soft and smooth nylon! Overall a really excellent set of dolls! They won't be dethroning the vintage dolls for me, but they're well made and very nice to handle. Much looking forward to the Outers whenever they get made, and hopefully Eternal Sailor Moon and Sailor Cosmos! While I was at it, I also deboxed and restyled my Princess Serenity that I got months ago! I have been hesitant to debox my Styledolls because it was an absolute nightmare trying to iron out the factory kinks left behind by the heinous amount of elastics in SSM's hair, but I decided to test fate and Serenity turned out to be much easier to style. From this:

To this!

I absolutely hate the way Bandai has done her hair so far, but I've been collecting SM dolls long enough to have figured out a relatively low effort way to get mostly-accurate Usagi hair that satisfies my personal vision for how her hair should look on a doll lol Still, Usagi is a lot luckier than Chibiusa when it comes to factory hair:

Her odango are literally just....spikes they cut into her hair. Probably the worst attempt at Chibiusa hair I have ever seen, and I will likely never debox her as a result (unless I decide to spring for a reroot lol).

[shinyhappydigistar]

Thankfully, it’s not a knot cut in half as I’d feared when I first read this post: it’s pigtails with half of the tail cut at an angle, and styled upward!

This being said, I had to use a really tough hair gel to get this style to look like Chibi Moon’s buns, and I’d prefer to convert the pins into actual pins that can be stuck into it. Think the Pullip dolls. But I’d have to untie and re-tie the style, and I don’t know if I have the patience for it yet. 8\

I wish I knew how this person did odango though! I love how it looks, but they don’t have a tutorial >~<