#camomilafil

[laikamaeris]

Laika/Maeri reunion?

OK I UH, this ask may be from literal months (a month?) ago but , i thought this was cute ok   . laika & maeri reunion feat. gingie

[nyotasaimiri]

she’s a bandit alright ‘cause she stole my heart. I remembered that I love Hadley so there u go

(art by @camomilafil; your art is fabulous as ever~ she blep)

[vanquishedvaliant]

camomilafil replied to your post: Are you pro or anti SAO as a whole? I've never,...

I’m a big SAO fan myself and I agree with most of your points! About skipping arcs: I think SAO is the kind of show where you can skip an arc without getting *too* lost, but it does work better if you watch the story as a whole. That said, I thought the question asker meant GGO as in GGO Alternative the new spinoff anime as opposed to GGO the third main arc when they asked about watching it on its own? Which I would say that yes you can, no problem.

@camomilafil

They did mean Alternative on it’s own, and I forgot to add that into that response, but clarified afterwards!. Alternative GGO can easily for sure be watched alone, and I think it may actually be okay to start with Arc 3 if they have a general knowledge of what SAO is, but I definitely would recommend watching Arc 1 myself. Even it ‘working better’ i just find it really hard to actually advocate watching Arc 2. It’s really such a slog and there’s not a lot of emotional weight there that you can’t infer from reference.

Besides, going from the emotional high of the end of 14 when Kirito leaves the hospital right into the timeskip for Gun Gale Online and the opening of new worlds just... feels better to me. Other than the important continuity details like the SEED, to me ALO really just feels like an extended sidequest to do some chores and fill in some blanks that Aincrad could have done before moving back onto the main course.

But it’s much more comfortable reading a summary than 12 episodes with Asuna in a literal cage if you ask me.

[legendlarkpod]

A quick question: is fanfic okay, and what would be the best way to submit it to you guys (I tried the submit box but it seems to be closed)? It's okay if that's off limits BTW! I know how protective some people can be of their DND characters.

FANFIC IS 100% OKAY!!!  In fact, Noel said if she doesn’t read dames fanfic soon she’ll die so there is that to consider.

We don’t plan on opening up our submission box just because that’s a can of worms we don’t super want to deal with, but please feel free to post fanfic on ao3 or tumblr or wherever the fuck the kids are posting these days and send us a link because we DEF all want to read it!!!!!

[nyotasaimiri]

💅 and 💄 for Nyota, Hadley and Sonny

💅 What are some things they have strong opinions about?💄 Do they care about their physical appearance? What’s their routine like?

Nyota has very strong opinions about information, government, and caring for people, all of it born from first-hand (usually negative) experiences. Oddly enough, she also has very strong opinions about realism in film/media, especially combat realism. She’ll correct movies with running commentary (Isobu and Marcy found this hilarious).As far as appearance, she does like to stay relatively tidy, but that’s mostly because her fur is so dense that she can’t do otherwise without her hygiene rapidly descending into appalling. Her fur will never be properly neat no matter what she does. Saimiri family trait. Her morning routine usually involves grooming any sleeping partners, then getting up and giving herself a good brushing wherever she can reach before finding her uniform.

Hadley has strong opinions about a whole lot of things ^.^;; Her big ones are when it’s acceptable to kill someone (this was a big debate in her mom’s bandit clan thanks to her grandmother’s rather bloody policies), who should enforce laws overall, animal conservation, and Letheia. She hates Letheia. She tries not to show it, but Hadley actually does care quite a bit about her appearance. She’s also one of those lucky people who doesn’t have to do much to maintain it. Her hair gets a good combing every morning, right after she washes her face. Being out in space means she has access to more ‘toys’ than she did back home, so she’s been experimenting a little bit with makeup lately. Just light details, seeing what colors suit her. The whole process rarely takes more than 15 minutes.

Sonny is a fairly carefree soul and doesn’t have too many strong opinions yet. The only major ones are cheating during gambling (acceptable only in friendly games), animal care (gets in long talks with Hadley), the Occasus (loathed), and the quality of certain well-known Novakid brewers. She’s been known to get in heated debates with Lumen over that.Sonny likes looking her best at all times, though she doesn’t have the patience to spend hours working on her appearance. She’s got a good knack for picking colors and styles that suit her, which serves quite well. The only thing about her appearance that she really doesn’t like would be her “freckles” (the four free-floating brand-metal pieces around her starburst brand). Her morning routine is really simple: get up, maybe try a new way of hiding the freckles, and then just toss on whatever outfit feels right for the day. 

[nyotasaimiri]

Some random headcanons for the game: Hadley is trans, her hair is dyed (the original color is black), she'd be into over-the-top shounen anime/hylotl vids/whatever the sci fi equivalent is if it was available to her. The only memes Nyota understands are ones about not knowing what memes are (like the 'I don't know what X is and I'm too afraid to ask at this point' one). Nyota likes basketball.

The last two of these are definitely correct! (Nyota really doesn’t understand the point of basketball, but she does like it~) I’m not quite certain about Hadley’s hair color. Her mom has red hair too, but I think she miiiight have dyed it, and Hadley’s brothers range through black and brunet. …I dunno if she knows what anime/the equivalent is, beyond that her two oldest brothers like it (which is enough to put her off almost anything), but she would find it fun if she actually gave it a chance.

[nyotasaimiri]

Snowballs

( @camomilafil, Here’s for your first prompt, a short scene from Nyota’s first semester at the Protectorate!)

The first snow of the year dusted Nyota’s fur and crunched under her feet, fluffing out in a thick flurry as she shook it out of her hair. Marcy laughed and scooted out of the way as it drifted down around her. “Hey, watch it!” she scolded, lightly punching Nyota’s arm. “It’s like being caught in a blizzard, standing next to you.”

“Sorry,” Nyota said. She tugged her collar a little higher. “I forget how easily buried you short humans are.” She grinned as Marcy punched her arm harder.

“Ow. What are you made of, rock?” Marcy grumbled, shaking out her hand. “...don’t answer that. But at least that’s over with. Good-bye finals, hello winter vacation.”

“I hope we passed,” Nyota murmured, a trickle of anxiety clawing at the base of her throat. Professor Nikko had reassured her already that Protectorate exams had nothing close to the consequences for failure that Miniknog schooling did, but old fears died hard.

“Relax, Nyota… You studied more than any of us. You’ll be fine.” Marcy patted the Apex’s shoulder, then sighed. “I’m pretty sure I flubbed the combat exam. Your tip about picking something with reach to make up for my height helped, but I did terrible in hand to hand. I’m just not cut out for that. Maybe I should just stick to my books, but they’ll never let me off-ship once I graduate unless I can defend myself…”

“I can teach you a few tricks for that,” Nyota offered. “When I first learned, I was smaller than you. ...It’s not that unbelievable,” she protested at Marcy’s exaggerated look of surprise.

Her friend just laughed. “Yeah, I know. I remember the pictures from Xenobiology. Your people start off so tiny! And then you grow up so huge. ...guess those growth spurts are fun?”

“They are… something,” Nyota said, vaguely remembering how much she had grown after her fourteenth birthday, but her mind was elsewhere. They had reached the Tree, but still no sign of Isobu.

Marcy had noticed too. “Where is that Novakid?” she grumbled, looking around. “He said he’d meet us here so we could get lunch, right?”

“He did…” Nyota looked around. Isobu was probably just late, got sidetracked in talking to someone again. Just as she thought that, she caught sight of his telltale glow leaving the building.

Marcy spotted him in the same moment. “Hey! Iso--”

Nyota put a hand over her mouth. “Shh.” She let go and crouched down. Faint memories flickered in her head: a much younger Nyota, snow-laden trees, other children playing under them.

“Nyota, what?” Marcy started to ask, then saw the snow in Nyota’s hands and grinned. “You’re mean, you know that?”

“So I’ve been told.” Nyota straightened up, took aim, and hurled the snowball.

Isobu looked up just in time for the ball of cold powder to burst against his chest. “What the hell?” he crackled. A second ball took his hat off and knocked him flat.

The Novakid lay there for several seconds, then sat up and picked up his hat. He could hear Marcy laughing from here and saw Nyota forming another snowball. Isobu had never really played in the snow before. It was unpleasantly cold and melted too fast in his hands. But his gloves today were heavily insulated, and he just could not resist the challenge. “Right,” he muttered, scooping up a handful that started turning to slush at his touch. “Try this, hotshot.”

Nyota dodged the first one, the sudden movement making her miss her shot. She wasn’t ready for the second. It caught her right in the ear.

“Nyota! Hey, are you alright?” Marcy asked as the Apex fell over. She set her books down and leaned over. “Isobu, dang it, you threw too hard!”

Nyota was making a strange sound, low and rusty and unfamiliar enough to make Marcy worry. It grew louder as Isobu approached, his glow clouded and uncertain, and Marcy felt the worry melt away until her expression matched the wide smile on the Apex’s face. For the first time since they had met her, more than a year before, Nyota was laughing.

[legendlarkpod]

me listening to the ep 22 part where laika trusts the goddess with cutting off her manacles: "relatable because i, too, trust maeri with my life"

feel safe in the knowledge that all three of the dames once swore a pact in front of me that if anything happens to maeri they will kill their characters to end the podcast, and so have effectively shackled me from doing anything bad to maeri

--<3 kat