3/27/22: Craft

imagine a fully open world, liminal space crafting survival game. like you can travel the world, build, and craft but you have to get all the resources from an endless loop of this nonsense:

i just think that would be neat.

Dallyrim, Scrybe of Prophecy

So, I’ve seen a lot of really cool OCs and this is the first fandom I’ve been “early”-ish too, so here’s an Inscryption oc! (Sorry for odd spacing or grammar, it was written in notepad).

GENERAL

-she can "predict" things in a more vaugue sense, she has no future sight but is analytical enough to guess major events. this is on a human skill level.

 -she loves fantastical stories as she cannot predict them and are her main comfort when things go wrong.

-is excited about the prospect of a challenger but will still be able to play with the other scrybes regardless. she is perhaps the only scrybe to actively duel other scrybes.

-acts like an adult for the most part, but absolute idiot when it comes to responsibility, humility or politeness.

-got turned into a sheep in Leshy's act, with the "frantic" sigil that makes it move into any empty space it can, and the "softer" sigil that automatically blocks all damage under three. you would find her card wedged in the doorframe after all tutorial deaths are complete. Leshy does not recall putting her there.

RELATIONS

-friendship with Leshy: good-ish. they both love storytelling but Leshy more thinks of her as "the weird cryptid that appears at the dead of night in the corner of my eye, just to ask for a card battle". He appreciates being able to play with somebody but would prefer a person with basic manners and respect.

-friendship with Magnificus: horrible. She doesn't like Mag because of how entitled and prick-ish he acts. Mag doesn't like her because he is 45% sure she is a challenger playing a prank, 95% sure that the bunker isn't real and accepting the "birthday party" invitation will end disastrously, and 99.99% sure that she should leave if she is going to whine at every loss.

-friendship with Grimora: act like old friends. Grimora is pretty used to people appearing from nowhere being the scrybe of the dead and all.

-friendship with P03: tolerable. P03 likes to flex his card skills without too much small talk, and she can be somewhat decent at that if it means getting to play.

CARDS her card’s mechanics can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/kyoshi-with-a-gun/673875112536178688 though they need some tweaks.

HER TEMPLE -she has no subordinates in her bunker and will instead fight you four times. to initiate each combat round, you must collect a key hidden in/around the bunker map.

-in the first fight, she will simply play tension cards.

-in the second fight, she will modify which cards she is going to play depending on the cards on your side.

-in the third fight, she does the same but with stronger cards, relying heavily on sigils.

-in the fourth fight, she will repeat fight number three with more difficulty in round 1, but then use her notebook to predict your actions. from then on, if you attack a space that she thinks you will, she will generate a tension card equal to the damage count.

-without subordinates, she would instead use Leshy, Grimora, and finally the Challenger for bosses in an act.

-after gaining power, she would make Leshy and Grimora cards by writing a prediction of them dying, then delete the mage tower and bridge to the eastern areas. Leshy would be the hunter, and Grimora the High Priestess. she would let you physically travel the islands, and even reward you for your discoveries.

-P03 would be alive as well but left to his/its own devices.

-would actually talk to the Grimora and Leshy cards and let Leshy help with the story but cannot comprehend the reason that her taking power is so bad since it is the exact same thing that Leshy did.

let me know what you think!

doubt this is going to get a comic or anything, I don't even have an anagram ready.

did this while thinking about the multiverse implications of deltarune. Outsiders(left) live in The Heresy, a location similar to earth, but the outsiders themselves are more akin to darkners or monsters. Insiders(right) are human-esque but live in a world of magic known as The Home.

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Saturday, December 18th: Hi everyone, I’m Gemma, and I'm unfortunately still on the struggle bus, as bills that were due in a few days have come out today, and the funds I've kept for my utilities and groceries are gone, and I don't receive my welfare until just after Christmas.

As most of you are already aware from my previous posts, I have been struggling financially for quite some time due to my welfare benefit being under a review, which is due to my worsening mental health and the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. And at the moment, I'm currently struggling to get by, as my application for Disability (PIP) was declined and I don't receive my U.C benefit until after Christmas, and all my previous donations have gone to pay off my rent and bills but I still have some outstanding bills to pay & groceries to get.

I know this is a huge ask, and I'm completely heartbroken to keep asking for help, but I still urgently need some as I don't receive my welfare until after Christmas (December 27th).

Additionally, I have a CHRISTMAS WISHLIST, as its Christmas next week, and I would appreciate it if anyone could have a look. Otherwise, my goal is £300!!

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to donate or buy anything from my wishlist if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling right now. ❤

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Disabled Representation Has Come Farther Than You Think

You’ve Just Been Conditioned Not to See It.

I recently got into a huge fight with an abled friend about disabled representation, in which he was completely convinced that the stance he held was that of an ally. He’s a long time friend of mine and I know he really did think he was fighting for us and coming from a place of trying to help us.

And it really got me thinking about the way abled people perceive disabled people. And how that message is internalised and reinforced in so many ways.

My friend was trying to say that characters like Cyborg, Misty knight, Daredevil, Toph, Edward Elric, Bucky, Nebula, etc were not good representation. And he at first refused to listen to me (an actual disabled person) when I was like; no, we like that. we love that. we LOVE seeing badass and competent and sexy disabled people. It’s validating and empowering.

His argument was that it didn’t really count because nobody saw them as disabled and that it would be the same thing as saying Gamora is black representation.

While I understand where he was coming from, both of us also being black, it was hard to get him to understand how it wasn’t the same thing.

Gamora is a black actress painted green to portray a green-skinned alien. She has black features, yes, but within the narrative she very much is not a black woman. She’s an alien.

But a disabled character is always still a disabled character. Regardless of how high tech or SciFi or magical or fantastical the world or universe is; an amputee with a prosthesis is still an amputee. They are still disabled. Yes, even if their prosthesis shoots lasers.

And other characters, like Toph and Daredevil, who are both blind, have superpowers/superhuman abilities that allow them to overcome their disability. That does not make them less disabled.

Their blindness still impacts their everyday lives. They can’t read. They can’t draw. They don’t know what things or people look like, or what color things are. They can’t read someone’s facial expressions during a conversation. They can’t follow a map without assistance.

When I asked my friend for examples of what he considered good disabled representation he said Professor X, Oracle, and the Thinker. And that made me pause and I won’t lie, it upset me. It felt degrading. I got kind of angry at him and it got a little heated.

Because what he was saying is: the smart one in the wheelchair that never actually joins the battle because their body is too frail? Those are the only good disabled characters? The ones who still need to be protected and treated tenderly and are physically weaker?

Do we only exist when you can view us as some subhuman lesser other that you can take pity on?

But it’s not only my friend who thinks this way.

I’ve seen quite a few arguments online about people who don’t think Edward Elric is disabled, despite being an amputee.

Who don’t think Cyborg is disabled, despite the fact that his entire power set is due to a life support and mobility aid device.

And my friend was shocked that I, and many other disabled people, find these depictions of strong and confident and capable disabled people empowering. He fully expected that I would find those depictions offensive.

And that’s when it really hit me.

The issue is not that characters like Bucky or Toph or Daredevil are bad representations of disabled characters.

The issue is that people don’t perceive them as disabled. They’ve internalized this belief that disabled people have to be weak and delicate and fragile and in some way physically inferior.

They’re only considered disabled if they’re tragic and/or weak. Or ugly. People love to project a tragic subhuman otherness onto disabled people who are ugly.

If they’re cool and badass that confuses them. That doesn’t fit with the narrative that’s been built in their heads.

The idea of a competent, confidant, and strong disabled character, especially a cool disabled character is just so completely foreign to them that they don’t even consider it.

Now I’m not saying that depictions of disabled characters like Oracle or professor X are bad or harmful. We need representation of disabled people who aren’t strong and don’t have superpowers and maybe don’t feel particularly empowered. That’s a genuine representation of many disabled people.

It just isn’t the only one.

I think the issue with disabled representation is not that it doesn’t exist (as I’ve seen many abled people online claim in our defense) but that we need to shift the way we think of disabled people so we stop overlooking a lot of the really cool and badass and awesome disabled characters we do already have.

So if you read this far through this essay, please stop for a moment and consider the preconceptions you have about disabled people.

Have you ever overlooked a disabled character because they were strong, powerful, charismatic, or, (God forbid!) SEXY?

And if so, I’d ask you to take some time to examine in yourself why you don’t think of disabled people as being able to be those things.

Mod Izzy

reblog if you think it’s ok to have plushies at any age

This is a gorgeous commission I got from the incredibly talented CabbageArtss (whose commission information is here WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE. No seriously please go get art from them, you won’t regret it)

What does this commission depict, might you ask? Well…

I have actually been continually writing/updating an Inscryption fanfic since September, and am just now posting about it here. 

Details under the cut!

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Why do you like leshy?

Leshy my good friend is four am so I'm not the most clear or trustworthy in answer but he reminds me of my late grandpa in certain ways and he's my friend and I don't know what he serves the winner player but he's trying and he tried with the other Scrybes and he really tried and there was like no malice in end and he just wanted to play and i want him to dm a campaign so bad is unreal and I just accidentally deleted like 20 words so yeah

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Dog woke me up again im a big more clear, he manages to sit in the realm of familiarity just enough that I care much more about other traits and the fact he puts so much care in his story telling is so good. Amongst other things, him actively perceiving the player positively makes me very happy

actually the thing abt matt murdock is there's stories disney could maybe (maybe) tell with some competence, like there's stories that can almost survive that degree of mass-appeal pro-establishment toothless passionless bullshit, but. daredevil? matthew michael daredevil murdock? if you disneyify matt he isn't matt anymore. daredevil is about the kind of bone-deep inextinguishable rage that ableism sparks and kindles in you. the way someone gets violent when violence is done to them ad nauseam. all superhero stories shld be about stepping up because you can't stand not to, but daredevil is that dialled up as far as it'll go

like. matt's whole deal is he is much more viscerally aware of the terrible shit most of us ignore, and his worldview means ignoring it is allowing it, and he is so incredibly traumatised. if a daredevil story doesn't piss anyone off it's a bad daredevil story. daredevil shld look u dead in the eye & say 'what are you allowing? what could you change?' because yeah matt is an insane person going above and beyond but he's trying to singlehandedly fix a community cuz if he doesn't who will. daredevil shld say solidarity with its whole chest.

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Guillermo Del Toro Reveals Original Plans For Pacific Rim 2

Del Toro left to direct The Shape of Water.

“The villain was this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0. And then they realized that all his patents came to him one morning. And so little by little, they started putting together this and they said, ‘Oh, he got them from the precursors.’ The guys that control the kaiju. And then we found out that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future. They’re trying to terraform, trying to re-harvest the earth to survive. Wow. And that we were in exo-bio-suits that looked alien, but they were not. We were inside. And it was a really interesting paradox... To me, the hero was Mako Mori. I wanted her not only to live, I wanted her to be one of the main characters in the second movie.”

I… what