#seaboigium

[aquato-family-circus]

Suggestion for the Analog-Horror ask you received; I think the closest thing you would find to a Psychonauts-Esque analog horror is BLUE_CHANNEL, the 2 or 3? ish videos for BLUE_CHANNEL are firmly rooted in psychological horror.

ooooh yeah I remember watching one of the BLUE_CHANNEL vids, it's very unnerving

psychological horror in psychonauts, who'dve thunk it'd be a good match

[manfrommars2049]

1964 Ford Aurora: ''The Station Wagon of the Future'' via RetroFuturism

[keepyourpantsongohan]

seaboigium reblogged your post “Timeline of Naruto Universe”

@keepyourpantsongohan I scrolled through this timeline but couldn’t find any info on when the 2nd Shinobi War began and ended.

Any ideas?

Check out Year 52 and 55! I noted the start of the war as around the time the Sannin are 26-27. When I think it began:

Year 52-53: Second Shinobi War begins; Tsunade develops her Yin seal; Hanzo names Sannin, Jiraiya remains in Ame

Notes: The Second Shinobi war supposedly takes place 20 years after the first (Second Naruto Fanbook, Kai No Sho). Additionally, at some point during this war, Tsunade develops her Yin seal, as during Chapter 160 during some stage of the war she is seen without it, but it is very likely that she had it behind her forehead protector during her combat in Ame (Chapter 446), and it is unlikely she would develop a combat-oriented seal after Dan’s death gave her a fear of blood (Chapter 160).  

And regarding its ending:

Year 55: Jiraiya returns to Konoha from Ame and becomes Minato’s teacher 

Notes: Since Jiraiya identified Nagato as the first Child of Prophecy, the Ame Orphans necessarily predate the Team Jiraiya that Minato was placed on. Jiraiya taught in Ame for 3 years before returning to Konoha, which means he couldn’t have taught Minato until three years after the Second Shinobi War had begun, placing Minato at age 14. It is unclear at what point the Second Shinobi War ended, though the implication made in the Second Naruto Fanbook is that conflict flowed from the Second Shinobi War to the Third Shinobi War without pause.

So a better question might be, “When did the Second Shinobi War transition into the Third Shinobi War?”

It has to be before Sasori kills the Third Kazekage, as his actions in Suna take place during the Third Shinobi War. But that’s a whole seven years later so that’s quite a gap.

My guess would be that transition happens the year after Jiraiya returns to Konoha (Year 56). It makes sense, given how quickly Minato made a name for himself, and given how Kakashi, aged 5 year old, was allowed to graduate, and Gai the year after, etc. All of Kakashi’s cohort are considered wartime graduations—but graduations of the Third Shinobi War, rather than the Second. So the Second War likely lasted 4 years, but immediately devolved into the Third Shinobi War, which lasted an additional 8 years.

(That they at some point believed the conflicts of the Second Shinobi War to have been replaced by those of the Third Shinobi War is interesting—so I might even suggest that that transition year, Year 56, would be a very interesting time to place the destruction of Uzushio.)

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Will Fanexus offer anything to NSFW worldbuilders or NSFW original fiction writers? I write NSFW fiction on r/NSFWWorldbuilding on Reddit but there's so much kinkshaming and brigading on Reddit that you have to be very careful about what you post or comment and genuine attention is rare.

Fanexus will have a rich text editor and allow for long text posts that will be placed behind a cut. Harassing someone over their tastes in fiction will not be tolerated.

[aquato-family-circus]

Do you think Psychonauts 2 takes a better approach to mental health than the first game?

I definitely think it does, yeah

the mental health advisory being there at all is a testament to that

not to say the original game did it..... The Worst? but there's definitely a lot of dated shit in that game, which I won't hold too hard against it. It's worth criticising but it's also 16 years old and critisisms for said game are directly addressed in PN2. Many other people have said this better than I can here.

But I do think PN2 can take the better approach it does at all because they made the smart decision in the first game to treat the asylum inmates with compassion. Like they have some dated jokes and conceptions about how some mental issues work but ultimately show that they're people who had the wacky worlds they did because of issues in their life we could relate to.

[aquato-family-circus]

Headcanon: In their teen years, Lili likes it when Raz speaks to her in Grulovian. The Grulovian language isn't particularly romantic sounding and Lili can't understand a word of it but she think's its neat.

Lili probably picks up like, words he'd commonly use around his family at the very least, assuming the language is something Augustus taught his kids which I feel like is a given

but that's cute ye, she's just happy to listen 2 him

[aquato-family-circus]

Theory: Grulovia is an alternate version of Romania and Moldova which greater Slavic influence. Its culture and language is a mish-mash of Romanian and Eastern Slavic, hence the unusual naming conventions of Grulovians and Lucretia's Romani-Esque dress style. This would also be fitting as it would border Bulgaria, the only other country in history to have a Czar as its head of state.

Oooo that’s a neat theory :0 I’ll admit to knowing jack shit about most countries beyond the America and Western Europe stuff I learned about in k-12 so hearing any speculation abt how Grulovia’s influence by its inspirations is new and interesting to me

[aquato-family-circus]

Speaking of songs for Psychonauts 2 characters, I'd like to recommend a song for Gristol: ''Party Like a Russian'' by Robbie Williams.

https://youtu.be/ZgoizwNhZ8c

i like the very first lyric for him a lot

"It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation to alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation"