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Hey Discord’s about to fuck things up

Short version is that they’re changing how usernames work, most notably by getting rid of the discriminator (the #1234 or whatever at the end of your username). Here’s the full thing.

https://discord.com/blog/usernames

Yeah this fucking sucks. Spread the word, if we’re lucky we can bully them out of doing this.

question because i'm curious...

+ tell me your favorite pokemon/reasoning in the tags i'm nosy

I can't believe I forgot about Amy (and also Tom I guess). I was on Miiverse so much when it was around and I met my best friends there, Nintendo please bring a version of it back. Nothing else will ever fill the void.

ROUND 1D: DUMMY GIRL (FriendAddTool 3DS Debug) vs AMY (Miiverse)

i think they would be friends if they ever met

Akkala indeed. Also full region ranking for fun.

Akkala, I love the fall look. Tarrey Town is also the best town.

Necluda, it has Kakariko and Hateno.

Hebra, winter is my favorite season and the Rito are cool. Just wish all the constant snow didn't make things hard to see.

Faron, mainly because of Lurelin and Eventide. Wish the ocean had a bit more to it. Also I don't normally notice performance issues in games, but things always seem to slow down a bit when I'm in the jungle area, even if I'm just walking around doing nothing.

Lanayru, I like the Zora but it feels like something's missing here. Don't want underwater exploration, I'd be too scared to handle that.

Central Hyrule, couldn't do anything there in BotW since it was Guardian Central. They're gone in TotK so I can finally explore all the ruins.

Eldin, the heat around Death Mountain is annoying but I like the Gorons and it's not as big of a problem in TotK. Also the Lost Woods are here, but I haven't been there in TotK yet because I can see that something's up.

Gerudo, I like the town and bazaar, but I don't like how both games start off by having sandstorms that make it hard to see and get rid of your map. I haven't even seen much of it in TotK because of it. The Highlands also just exist.

Sky Islands, I expected more from them based on the trailers and starting area, but there's not much up there.

The Depths, actual nightmare land. I'm afraid of the dark, can barely get myself to go down there. And of course it's where most of the cool amiibo stuff from BotW is. It's scary and full of demons from what I've seen I do not like it.

Personally I’m a big fan of ten gerudo desert but I do like necluda, faron, and the sky islands

WAKE UP BLADES NEW XENOBLADE X TRAILER

Thinking about the world for this Xenoblade idea. Initially I was thinking of an island world (either in a normal ocean or sky islands) but that could get too similar to Alrest. Then it hit me, cave world. People live underground in these giant cave systems. You can have funky glowing crystals and wildlife, lakes, lava caves, icy caves, weird magnetism stuff like Pokemon's Chargestone Cave, super dark areas, ruins, mines, there's plenty of variety for these caves. There's also the whole "why the fuck is everyone underground what's going on on the surface". Were they forced to go underground, and if so was it because of some natural disaster or the actions of other people? Is it dangerous on the surface? Do the cave dwellers even know the world above even exists? Lot that can be done here.

Haven't done much on the characters yet since I'd like to get the whole situation with the cave world and the surface first. Will probably have a starting trio like Shulk/Reyn/Fiora and Noah/Lanz/Eunie, trio of childhood friends. Mentor figure is also likely, might have a kid join the group, and of course there's got to be a Nopon in the group but I'm not sure what they'd do. 5-7 is the range for permanent party members in Xenoblade games so I don't want to get too carried away.

Aside from humans and Nopon (they are everywhere), there's probably other new races but I don't have any ideas yet. Another thing is that while the numbered games lean towards British accents with some American and Australian accents thrown in and X has mostly American accents, I'd like to think that the cast of this game would have their own accent(s) to help signify that this is it's own universe. Not sure what accent they'd have, I am unfortunately a dumb American.

I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.

Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.

The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.

It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”

Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.

And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.

Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.

There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!

So three of the people in Colony Delta are Blades. I know most Blades in Xenoblade 3 are just kind of generic and don't really show any connections to the Blade elements from 2 (I think the only exceptions are Sena, Nimue, and Cammuravi). I gave the Delta Blade trio elements because I think it'd be cool but I'm not sure how to show that in their designs.

Thea: She's the main OC in this project so she really needs to stand out like the heroes in game. She's an electric Blade. I've heard lightning can leave some neat patterns where it strikes so that could be used as the pattern for her ether lines, but I'm afraid of seeing how those marks would look on real people since I'm worried those images might look too gruesome (I'm weak).

Hilda: She's a dark Blade. Thinking about giving her some kind of space theme, but I don't have much more than that.

Ulrich: He's a wind Blade. Looked at Blades from Xenoblade 2 for inspiration and like half of the wind Blades there aren't even close to looking human. Some bird traits would be the easy thing to do but that might make him look too much like a High Entia.