Warthog Reporter

Official tumblr of the Warthog Report, a substack publication for one writer's fiction and non-fiction.

[warthogreporter]

Welcome. I'm the author of The Warthog Report, a free substack publication. While primarily made for my fiction, I also do regular non-fiction posts. My main trinity of subjects are fantasy, video games, and mythology.

My current serialized story, Battles Beneath the Stars, follows an international tournament in a fantasy world where the fates of fourteen fighters collide. It's written as a walkthrough and script for the platform fighter I dream of making, where each of the main fourteen fighters has their own story.

If any of the above interests you, you can subscribe here.

My Tumblr Policies

I'd love to receive asks about my writing and also weird random asks, but there are subjects, mainly current day politics, I prefer not to discuss online. So asks about those subjects will not be answered.

[warthogreporter]

Can tumblr stop talking about standard genre plotlines in new works like they're brand new insightful pieces of social commentary nobody has ever said before. This cannot possibly be your first time encountering a piece of media saying corporations are corrupt.

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Something I've found strange about some SMT games is how they seem to be written without awareness that you have demon allies when the whole gameplay loop revolves around demon allies. Monster collectors are all about getting attached to your guys why is this written like I'm supposed to hate them.

When I first played Strange Journey as a kid I immediately clocked that Mastema was full of shit because my demons were why I even got that far. Aogami in V seems confused when I say that I think the people fighting alongside me aren't categorically evil because they belong to the same broad class of sentient being as my enemies. And the ending the game pushes has you commit genocide against them, your own party members, which they can help you commit.

Devil Survivor I feel understood how to do a 'the demons go away' ending that's in line with the genre and not genocidal. And made you commit to it by doing the final boss with humans only.

[shinesurge]

i've been debating redesigning crow's shitty metaverse costume but every cool thing i can think of ends up in the ulrich outfit pile instead lmfao

[shinesurge]

i'm scrapping ulrich's backstory arc we're just doing a palace au now. mana and vane are personas who gives a fuck

[shinesurge]

agatha rips off her entire faceplate, vane sloshes onto the floor and goes "check out how hard i can cry" and obliterates all inorganic matter in the tristate area

[shinesurge]

i have no memory of making this post but i was right

[beastliness]

(while doing arts and crafts for fun) I will be killed for doing this less well than it is possible to do it

[beastliness]

your entire worth as a person DOES ride on doing every single task no matter how trivial to the utmost possible degree of skill

[beastliness]

there is a vast conspiracy to prevent me from buying double-sided tape

[warthogreporter]

*Looking at a random mythological figure/creature* It's a shame Kazuma Kaneko never made a design for you.

[threefates]

Bram Stoker's Dracula by Yoshitaka Amano

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I like a lot of the decisions that the Among Us show made as an adaptation.

Basic game information is used for dramatic irony with even the killer being an alien being a piece of info that takes time to acquire, but there are also new aspects that viewers need to realize too. There is only one voting scene but it has a lot of weight given to it. The show mostly sticks to the artstyle of the game but is willing to play with it.

Also they really lean into the crewmates as creatures, there are some lines that use 'crewmate' where you'd think human or person would go, so it seems to just be what they are as a species. For example there's a line about crewmates being displaced that refers to the population of a planet.

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I'm glad writing Battles Beneath the Stars got me to work out Nisha's dynamic with her husbands after having those characters for a while, because their dynamic is fun for me.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[warthogreporter]

It'd be one of the darker ones, but I think an episode of The Clone Wars where Anakin's past use of fake surrenders as traps leads to genuinely surrendering clones being executed could actually fit in creating a scenario that shows how poorly Anakin handles guilt and anger in a 'someone is getting force choked' way.

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Eshmel for the new Fire Emblem avatar is an interestingly layered name choice. It seems to be a variant of Ishmael, similar to the name Byleth being based on Beleth. But the namesake is a prophet rather than a demon and the design for Eshmel is definitely meant to have a holy vibe to it.

Of course there's another notable Ishmael, who is famously the POV character but not the main character, which would indicate that the story will be focused on the four route characters more than Eshmel themself. Which is basically what the trailers already seem to indicate at the moment.

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The way Fire Emblem lives rent free in the heads of some Smash fans is kind of funny at this point, there doesn't even need to be a new Smash let alone a new fighter for it announced for them to preemptively start raging about a major Nintendo game being acknowledged in the big Nintendo crossover.

[warthogreporter]

It's crazy how fighting game like the premise of the new Fire Emblem is. Oh there's a big fighting tournament where the winner gets a wish and you choose which character to follow? Watch it tell a better fighting game story than some actual fighting games.