you mentioned you'd be at the dokomi this year? could you share what you're selling, i can't go myself but i wanted to ask my sister who IS going to get me something...
I will!
I'll have:
The big mob x moomin print
The big farcille print
Hopefully Dungeon meshi stickers with the theme "death"... They got delayed so I can only hope I can get them before Thursday!
wizard critter stickers
unicorn charms
like... one radish-fox charm... i dont have a lot left
The Envig Comic
Botw comic (I call it Stalling)
Mechtober, Knightober Beastober collabs with Ullbors!
Sexy radish soup print
Kelpie sushi print
Goblin kitchen print
a few tiefling hot springs prints
Goat Guy Print
Lots of tiny animal-couple prints!
I'll also have a bunch of REALLY old oofuri and haikyuu stickers, pins and charms that I found and will sell super cheap because they are from like... 2016 or something....
Generally I think the big prints will be 13 euro, smaller 6, stickers like 1.5 for critters, maybe 2 for dungeon meshi stickers (they are bigger), comics 9 euros, discount old stuff between 1 and 2 euro!
Here's a picture from a swedish con that has most of the things in it (not the dungeon meshi stuff obviously)(ignore me awkwardly sitting there I will surely look cooler at dokomi):
i just finished watching ooo today with friends & am curious on your opinion on any of the movies. i've been told they're mostly not worth it, though we'll probably check out the anniversary one (?)
congrats on finishing ooo!!!! i... am not really a toku movies watcher bc if it's not part of the main lineup i tend to just forget it exists >.> definitely watch movie war megamax though it's the only post-canon ooo content you'll ever need. also fair warning the anniversary movie made... a bold writing choice that was very divisive. i don't plan on watching it personally but ik a lot of people who liked it so maybe you will too 🤷♀️
yeah I meant 29 for wire guy lol. No clue where the 3 came from
29, we see! consider the 22 and 24 bonus answers, then. :}
29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [Wire Guy]? Explain your choices if you want!
@aurochsent also asked this, so we'll go ahead and answer! we're actually throwing together a wire guy playlist right now. because hey, why not?
here's what we've got so far!
this playlist isn't really all it should be, because it doesn't have taylor swift on it. or the superman theme. we just don't know enough about pop music with pseudo-poignant lyrics to give phrygian the playlist they deserve. we are taking suggestions.
we might post some thoughts and highlights under a cut later! for now, give it a listen. close listening may be rewarding. and don't skip curicó!
i haven't finished the episode so I can't actually read it yet but I just saw your gurpost while quickly scrolling by& am excited to get back to that later. thank you for your service(gurposting) o7
thank YOU for enjoying gurposting. it is one of my favorite things to do. everyone will look at him
just saw a post of yours from a year ago (i was searching for ibex art) talking about parallels between ibex + james flint & how you view them and its convinced me to finally check out black sails. the post was really interesting! im also planning to relisten to c/w soon, so im sure ill keep some of what you talked about in mind while doing both of that. thats all & i hope youre having a good day/night
love to know there was someone else having a random ‘looking for ibex art day’ on monday lol. and omg!!!! that makes me so happy to hear :) i love both flint and ibex soooo mcuh
i think the nature of how id frame some of the stuff with flint i vaguely mentioned in the post im assuming you’re talking about wrt flint has slightly shifted now but it doesnt change at all and if anything reinforces my black sails and counter/weight comparisons
i love black sails so much so i’m really excited to hear you want to check it out!!!
i will say that its simultaneously a show that requires a lot of trust and patience because it is very subtle with what it is trying to do at first (but was very carefully planned and makes for a very satisfying rewatch!), which can lead to understandable wariness due to superficial similarities in the first half of it with other media despite it working up to critique and deconstruct a lot of these things. but then also while it went a lot further with its engagement with colonialism and imperialism than i ever had expected, it still would have been a much better show if it had more creators of color, and any indigenous or black writers/directors/creators, if it had a season 3.5 to really flesh some of what it was trying to do with certain black characters, and if it had been more tactful with a plotline in episodes 3-6 of the first season where one of the main characters, a black woman, is raped. (there is no other sexual violence in the show beyond this)
but yeah!!! i hope you enjoy it and the prospect of having someone else out there beyond my gf who would understand my inane counter/weight and black sails parallels posting is soooo exciting to me lol i’d love to hear your thoughts when you watch it!
hi, have you seen this soma cameo from super bomberman r online? i found this today via raidens wikipedia page (hes playable in that game and i then checked which other konami characters also were). i really like the umbrella sword : )
ohh yes I have! I remember being really surprised when I saw it on Soma's fan wiki page, since it's not really a crossover I expected... but it's such a cute stylization of the design and I like the little bat so much :] and I agree the umbrella sword is fun! I wonder why it's an umbrella... thank you for sending :]
unsure if you meant 23 for wire guy or if it was one of the [insert fic] questions (probably 22 or 24!), so we're going to answer both of those! (if it was another number, you can always send in another ask)
anyways, putting this under a cut to spare your dash. wire guy talk and palisade stuff below.
(also, you should read wire guy.)
31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?
actually finishable is nice. so like, 12000 words? there are a few points that just feel nice to our brain. we can write a good 2200 and 2700, a pretty good 5k, and a really good 8k. a solid fic to us is right around the length of an average wire guy chapter. or it's one of our runaway projects, like oceanus. we do love getting tied up in a good longfic.
this doesn't answer your question. how about "the more words we can put in it without making it worse the better"?
23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?
we'd like to write a nonlinear weird fic or something with poetry. something experimental that might be incredibly unapproachable, at least to us.
41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”
well, our first favorite fic author was @estelraca, so we think we've gotta shout them out here. they turned apollo justice into a werewolf and we had a great time. more recently, we admired the ambience and construction and emotional nuance of the center cannot hold. it's a hunter x hunter fic that we really enjoyed. we also highly recommend Pound The Table! marvel universe lawyer fic written by an actual lawyer. it rules. we don't even go here, and it's so good and explains itself so well that we honestly don't need to.
and for wire guy;
5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [Wire Guy]? Answer it now!
The question is "what is wire guy actually about?"
The answer is "being a wire guy".
And then the actual question is "what does that mean?"
"what does that mean?" is also the actual answer to the first question. this is what wire guy is about.
(and then we've got two thousand words of elaboration, on both this and how it's juxtaposed with two other guys, which is what we would love to be asked about. or, arguably, we have like 120k words of elaboration, 74k of which are currently posted.)
(the other thing wire guy is about is the fact that phrygian had so many depression flags through all of palisade, but because brnine was brnine and cori and figure were having much louder breakdowns, the Copers on the team slipped through the cracks. so we wrote a novel.)
(it's also about pirates. and weird metal heists. we've been told that this fic has more metal heists than may be strictly necessary.)
22. Who is your favorite character in [Wire Guy] and why?
that's such a good question. the obvious answer is phrygian, which is why it's all in their POV! we think that some of the liberties we took with their character were pretty personal to us. working through trauma on their own, struggling with alienation and coersive pressure, being trapped and used, and just the general way they engage with reality was pretty bound up in where our mind was at. we think that given how many people have said they saw something of themselves in our phrygian depiction, too, we might have hit on something resonant. (haha.)
phrygian is such a tragic character, and we think about them a lot. not even just because we're attached to them! (admittedly we are attached to them and we get an emotional spike every time they're mentioned). not getting into heavy palisade spoilers for friendship reasons, but the degree of alienation that they experience and the fact that *the players* are weirded out by things that we personally parse as attempts to self express or connect just gets to us. it's one of those things where we want to crawl around in their brain and just talk about everything we find in there. there's so much depth! most of it is very sad even though it doesn't have to be! and canon does not explore it nearly as much as we want it to, because that's completely infeasible for a podcast or even a work of fiction! we wouldn't even want them to. what we want is like, drops of the pure extract of phrygian characterization juice at frequent and irregular intervals.
also, they're extremely cool and competent. we love the powergaming and watching them win. cool gun go brrrr.
(the second secret answer is lantana lao. this is because lan is a third option to the dreadful bind presented to phrygian in the form of lang silversite, someone who supports them and the branched enthusiastically but in a specifically military capacity, and wants them to go all in on using themself for war; and kel pire, someone who encourages their presence in a behind the scenes capacity, but undermines their boundaries and is much less open to the idea of them having any sort of public presence. what she is able to represent doesn't actually happen in wire guy, but it does happen both in an extras fic that we're also writing, and in our heart. and in wire guy, she's actually their friend! she actually wants to learn about the branched! we want them to have friends. we want them to get to talk to someone who actually talks to them and is a meaningful point of connection in a world that is so unwilling to give it. is that so much to ask?)
24. Are there any easter eggs in [Wire Guy], and if so, what are they?
there are a few! some are in future chapters. but most of them are little partizan nods, which we have a lot of fun with. the ring that lets leap listen in on nidean intelligence comes to mind.
does repeated symbolism count as an easter egg? if so, keep an eye out for things phrygian refers to as useful; keep an eye on wearing shoes; keep an eye on when phrasing is repeated back with small changes; keep an eye on that classic reference to blood in the back of their throat. and keep a close eye on the lights. phrygian does, sometimes.
waiting for a train rn so: another vision + tracks + bright + irritating for the wip thing : >
You are a jewel and a treasure and we are thrilled to get another ask!!
[ WIP ask game ]
Vision;
For a moment, they can only hear the ringing of their own wires, and their vision swims too much to see anything at all.
Tracks;
They were creaky and grouchy because they were old, Infelidel thought crossly, picking their way over the railroad tracks, and they were old because they'd gotten old.
Bright; (near miss: brighten, brighter)
For several minutes, they read it over and over, and every time they feel the same bright jolt and shiver go up their spine.
