#shatehlure

[patzweigz]

This is also re: the fire emblem 'new anime' post I DONT WANNA SPAM OPS NOTES LOL but the success of Awakening is also why FE fates ended up... Like That. Conquest was for the FE old fans, it's brutally punishing with genuinely good map design, Birthright was to appeal more to the new fans who didn't care about the challenge so its kind of a joke how easy it is, and Revelations(? I think that was the name anyway) was like a middle of the road thing. The success of FE Awakening with its child units is also why Fates got the Baby Dimension and weird lore fuckery with that lmao. The story is also just a mess in general as they tried to appeal to both old and new fans

re: the post in question

oh yeah i'm not at all surprised by that, frankly. i have played a little of one of the older fire emblem games (one for gameboy advance, i can't recall the title but it was on the 3DS store lol) and it was really interesting to compare it to the only other FE title i've played, which is Awakening.

frankly, i like the older, more senien western fantasy style of the pre-Awakening titles. i'd even take the tamer designs in Awakening over some of the stuff in the newer titles... but it's not what appeals to more casual players, so it's not what we're going to get. i'd love it if we could just have the older games with the option to turn off permadeath, as i WILL save scum but prefer not to have to...

what WAS a surprise was learning that awakening basically saved the franchise. i had no idea they were planning on sunsetting it if the game didn't do well which is. so interesting. i wonder why it was one of the nintendo properties that just never got a proper western release up until that game... especially given the presence of fire emblem characters in smash games before the games themselves were brought over to the west?? and now i'm torn as to whether i think it's great it's having a second life now, because the direction the games are taking is clearly. not for me, let's say

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Applied to EI when I should have applied to CERB (yay me), AND screwed up on my report. Which to fix I have to call them. I've spent 7+ hours on hold and I cannot reach an actual human being. Does anyone have any advice, because I'm seriously at my wits end and if I don't get this sorted out i have absolutely no income or way to pay my bills, since I can't apply to CERB with an active EI claim.

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[f-nodragonart]

@shatehlure: I'm pleased to see I got the wings right skfjsjg, as for the tail some context on the dragon is that he's not really eh... intended as a species per se? I was aiming for a mix of everything kinda look if that helps. He's more intended as a sort of deity. That being said I can easily tweak the tail and gill placement on him, and removing the extra fins is no problem. Tysm for the advice as always! ^^

ahhh I get what u mean, then. in that case, u might not need to change the tail at all, depending on the nature of his godly-ness. an inorganic form (or even an organic form that’s held together by godly magic) doesn’t have to be constrained by the laws of evolution or even anatomy. he could stand to be even more wild if that’s something u’d want to explore-- like more along the lines of a standard chimera (different front/hind legs, for example), or even more unbalanced and chaotic like MLP Discord

of course, how wild he is would depend on what his body even is. is his body more of a projection of how he views himself, or maybe a projection of how his followers collectively view him? does he have no “true form”, and his body is whatever an individual’s mind slaps together whenever they look at him? is he an otherworldly being whose body makes sense on his own plane/planet, but doesn’t conform to the planet he currently inhabits? the source of his form would inform what he looks like and how much he conforms (or actively contradicts, depending) to the ‘rules’ of a given world

-Mod Spiral

[kaijutegu]

hi! I've been looking through your husbandry/reptile care tags and i was wondering if perhaps you have any good or trustworthy resources on corn snakes? I've been looking into getting one, and while I probably won't be anywhere close to owning a tank (or even the snake) for a few months (maybe even years!), I thought maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to start my research now :) thanks so much if you can throw anything my way. I've never raised any reptiles and id love any and all advice!

oh heck heck heck who do I know who keeps corns!

i think @sunfish-exotics has corns, and probably @tokays (she keeps like, everything good). @omg-snakes is also good at corns! and @i-m-snek has her good ol’ boy Dante.

Any other corn keepers, please reblog with cornformation! 

[decodad]

due to personal reasons, i will be making the lore of this (potentially) obscure media That Deep

new ask game: complete “due to personal reasons, i ______” based on something you think i’d say

oh this is so me...

[puniper]

WAIt where can we listen to the ost omg, I'm curious about Necrozma's theme

this channel has some of the songs!, here’s necrozma’s theme

(also i love your felt mothman icon)

[cerastes]

I've heard that Robin Hood is a psychopath before but I've never actually read any myths regarding him that really had him come across as such... hilarious and violent definitely- the fact he and little john beat each other with sticks comes immediately to mind, but I've never read one where he comes across as a psychopath. I'm curious as to where that comes from, actually, if you could perhaps point me in the right direction?

wELL, THERE’S HIS ORIGIN STORY, where he becomes an outlaw in the first place, and why. I did a retelling of those that you can read here.

There’s also how he recruited John “Little John” Little into his Merry Band, which is the two of them giving each other concussions. I also did a retelling of that here.

And there’s also that one time he recruited Friar “Dogmaster” Tuck into his Merry band by literally giving each other piggyback rides before trying to kill each other before trying to get their respective armies (Robin: his Merry Men/Tuck: his army of attack dogs, yes, Friar Tuck had an army of attack dogs) to kill each other before realizing they can combine psychopath dudes with psychopath dogs to make a truly formidable force of banditry instead of trying to kill each other. Retelling of that one can be found here.

So like

there’s plenty of material that suggests so, yeah!

[nootsuit]

OUt of curiosity where did Abeo's name come from?? where do you get your characters names in general omg

a long time ago on a far long land named flipnote hatena i really wanted to make a new villain that played the split personality trope (i was like 11-12 oops) and I thought something in Latin would sound cool as shit. so Abeo is ‘death’ in Latin. (or somethin like that lmao. maybe. maybe it’s the word for male genitalia. i didn’t do lots of research.) too bad it stuck and i’m using it forever now. annnNNND OC NAMES. Most of them? Are words run through translators. (Athru, Muschel, Hasira, Persa, etc)Some of them are just names I like (Damien. I think it’s just him. oops) and some of them are honestly just funny words I thought would be cute as a character name (Noot, Dot, Bean, Yogurt. i have a weakness for food names)