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Tiger Lily.

2009-05-27T07:05:08Z

I decided that steampunk Asian Tiger Lily should be a truncated cybernetic loli. With one eye. Who doesn't age.

Just throwing this out there

2009-04-29T09:02:22Z

FUCK specialization. The ignorance of the modern commoner is disgusting and it WILL come back to bite us someday.

Hopefully it will only be an annoying nip as opposed to a lethal chomp.

More Vesperia Shit

2009-03-13T02:35:34Z

Okay so I'm just going to think on paper about the ToV postgame world.

No more blastia. Shittons of technology was based on blastia, so there's a temporary lack of pretty much everything.

But! The spirits. The party ended up converting all those blastia into spirits. Now, when the party created the elemental spirits, they were using complete apatheia at the appropriate aer krene. But the massive army of spirits created during the end had neither advantage. Each spirit was created spontaneously, from a fragmented apatheia, with a formula engraved on it.

The result? I'm inclined to think that the resulting spirits are mentally fragmented, and are capable of little more than the function they performed as blastia. So we get an army of spirits basically doing the same job they did as rocks.

But according to the game, all the blastia cores did was convert aer into usable energy, which the rest of the blastia would then use to do its job. But the formula on blastia differs, yes? I'm most inclined to think that the spirits would simply have to be equipped with technology if they wanted to continue to perform their duties, but I need to clarify my thoughts and examine canon. There might not be a single perfect answer.

Moving on. I can only interpret the ending to mean that Witcher harnessed electricity during the postgame technological revolution. So those spirits unwilling to work as aer converters would be less necessary in any case. With an understanding of electricity, no doubt blastia could be converted into simple machinery with relative ease.

Politically, the Union and Empire are, I believe, working to unite under a single banner. This is occurring at the same time as the technological changes in the world. Leadership-wise, the Empire obviously has Ioder, a child king, and Flynn, who has built up a reputation as a hero and true knight. The Union meanwhile has Harry, who is becoming a child leader to match Ioder, and Raven, the charismatic righthand man with street cred for betraying the knights, and potent battle strength as a result of his work in the party. Strong leadership combined with fear and unrest could, ideally, make the unison of parties go smoothly.

Incidentally, the main reason Raven's heart wasn't converted into a spirit is because it wasn't hooked into the blastia network that Alexei began and the party perfected. The reason it didn't need to be converted was because it didn't use aer anyways. It used the life force that would normally power his heart to function as his heart.

Anyways. That's pretty much all I got logistically. There's a few other things, like the bodhi blastia spirits doing the "contract" deal with their users, so the party/other people still have superpowers. And there's the fact that, without aer overflow, the monsters would die out, leaving only normal animals. Or at least, the monsters would turn nonviolent. Duke's nature communing scene is a sign of this.

I think that's it? More to be added, I guess. I haven't done my character thoughts but I have those typed up elsewhere.

Tomoyo/Sakura OTP

2008-12-28T14:43:02Z

This is an edited conversation I had with an awesome dude about Cardcaptor Sakura. Shit is so cash.

Syaoran was raised without any real masculine influence in his life, with the only adult male he knew being Wei, the butler, who is much more a grandpa figure. As what seems to be a direct contradiction to this, he was raised to be a strong, stereotyped male, as his mother saw fit to eventually lead the prestigious Li clan. And as 'balance' to the absence of a father figure, he had very heavy feminine influence from three older sisters, and this combined with all the training he recieved as clan heir has no doubt permenently affected his psyche.

Taking the phrase, 'when in Rome...' to it's logical conclusion, the young Li would have liked nothing more than to be like his sisters, and grow up with a feminine tilt. He would of, too, but his mother's infuence forced him to suppress this, becoming an arrogant, bossy, hot-headed boy, who does not cry, saying that doing so accompishes nothing.

Meiling Li seems a foil to this inner, feminine, Syaoran, being quite masculine and overbearing. It is hypothesised that long term seperation from Sakura, whose femininity and relationship to Syaoran further inforce his internal beliefs about a man's role in a proper relationship, along with removal of his mother's influence, combined with presistence on Meiling's side could help him eliminate his overly masculine barrier, but therapy is reccomended regardless.

Syaoran's hidden side does show itself rarely, it's biggest occurance being his temporary crush on Tsukishiro Yukito.

Any further analysis threatens to cross the line into conjecture.

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    What do ya know? Clamp has a screwy sense of irony! Syaoran, a bigheaded guy is influenced by one awsome powerful mother and four wimpy sisters, while Sakura, the girlest character ever, is influenced by one super dad and one hotheaded bother. Syaoran-five women. Sakura-two guys (three if you count Yuki). Anyone else see the connection?

"Further analysis"? Come on, bring it on, what else do you think about Syaoran? I'm interested!

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    Well, on your comment, it could simply be a rejection of her surroundings in Sakura's case, but that seems unlikely, as her father is quite feminine, and she had an average school and social life to encourage normal development. It is more likely that Sakura, being as simple as she is, is a normal, well adjusted girl. As normal as the most powerful magician in the world can be, at any rate.

Upon further inspection, Sakura could be classified as somewhat more masculine than what we consider to be average. Her skill in physical things, combined with Syaoran's influence, could easily encourage a more gender role ambiguous Sakura, or a monstro-butch, but I must say that the latter seems rather unlikely, barring severe trauma in the future.

It must be taken into account that the ages of the characters, being ten or eleven at th beginning, and fifteen or sixteen by the end, in the scene in which Sakura and Syaoran are reunited. While these are estimates, and open to correction, I do not believe I am very far off. At this age, moreso at the start of the manga, a psyche is still very much forming, and quite open to outside infuence. With minor changes to canon, it is more than feasible to end up with very different characters than what the series actually end with.

Back to Syaoran, I refrained from this earlier, but why the hell not? I can see Meiling as a much more stable, long term mate for Syaoran, assuming his inner-outer problem is dealt with by a trained psychiatrist. Should this occur, Syaoran might easily end up quite the different man, almost eerily resembling Fujitaka, who I could easily sight as a very high quality human being, should anyone reqiure an ideal sample. Fujitaka is adept at both physical contest, as shown by his remarkable running speed, has much in the way of domestic talents, shown by his ability to sew, cook, clean, and garden, and is also very confident in himself and his masculinity, as shown by his frequent wearing of an apron, obvious lone of his children, and ever-present smile. Also of mention is the magic pwer gained at the end of the series, though irrelevant to this particular disscusion. While hoping for such things from Syaoran might be mildly excessive, it is still well within the range of possiblity, depending on the precisities of his situation.

And back to Meiling, her masculine nature might rise from similar roots as Syaoran's, but it is equally likely to simply be in her nature. My best guess regarding her possesive and overbaring nature, especially in regards to Syaoran, come from the very tentative grounds on which their 'engagement' was made, and her obvious love for the boy. This, combined with his ever more present distaste for her, most likely caused by the outer, masculine shell, have no doubt negatively affected her confidence towards his feeling in return, and forced her to become overly possessive of him, trying desperately to keep him with her, and inadvertently pushing him away. If she could be helped to discover her own inner insecurities, and hopefully do something about them, I have no doubt that she could try to woo Syaoran, and possibly succede.

Naturally, this is mostly conjecture, so, a grain of salt, if you would.

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    I like you. You just love writing and anaylsing things. I'm glad you took up my rather boastful remark.

However, there's one or two things I see differently (and, please, counter my arguments if I'm wrong.)

Sakura as a masculine figure is really questionable. There is no way that I, personally (and I might be wrong, considering the sillyness of my other statements), can see Sakura being classified as even somewhat more masculine because her character was made to contradict and oppose the other protagonist in the story, Syaoran. We view Syaoran as incredibly masculine because of the fact that Sakura is so dang girlish. Her skill in physical things merely add to her character, making her more believable for later in the story when we see she doesn't break a leg each time she falls down. Be it 10 years old, or 15, there is a sim chance that Sakura will ever have the brutality (heck, or testosterone!) to really become masculine.

On your next point, I have nothing to say (expect, dang, you're good). Here's a question; have you considering the maturing rates of the characters? You say,

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    ..It must be taken into account that the ages of the characters..., a psyche is still very much forming, and quite open to outside infuence..

It is known that girls mature faster than boys, and I know that Clamp really screws up with this in CCS (making Syaoran grow up so fast in order to claim the cards), but still, it is something to look into.

I agree with your next point, and can certainly see why Meiling would be a much more stable mate, though the romantic S+S fan inside me is screaming no (shut up, romantic side). Meiling's character seemed, to me, the one who matured the most throughout the series, for her own battle of love is much more dramatic and saddening then Syaoran and Sakura's. She went from the typical character that was Mary-Sueish in her hate, the character that the audience loves to hate, to one of understanding, who had to conform her own ideas and values, and, eventually, came out on top. Her and Tomoyo are the two characters that I think are much more mature than Sakura by the end, though I'm also sure that Sakura's growth will come soon enough.

I agree with most of what you said about Syaoran, though I can't really see Syaoran as the Fujitaka type. Fujitaka has come to terms with all the bad in his life and came out better. Than again, he's childhood did not seem to have as many life-changing events in it (this part I am completly taking out of the blue. I have no idea what Fujitaka's childhood was like, so correct me if I'm mistaken). While Fujitaka can be seen as an extrovert, like Sakura, Syaoran is more of an introvert, and therefore I don't think that he could achieve that. I guess I agree with what you said, it being "mildly excessive".

How's that for a reply?

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It is worth noting that I have no idea what I am talking about.

I do agree on Sakura and her masculinity, or rather lack thereof, and really said that for no reason. It does seem that Sakura is a stable, well developed, oblivious girl, and that a glimpse of her at twenty would reveal a character mostly unchanged, though hopefully somewhat more wise.

In regards to Fujitaka, my comparison comes from the fact that both are adept in maintaining a home, as well as being physically potent. The difference, of course, is in root personalities, as Syaoran seems a deal more passionate and has the inner-outer issue previously mentioned. I had hopes that, should his troubles be solved, the side effects, such as (some of) his hot-headedness, as well as his troubles with dealing with emotions, would fade. From what (very) little we see of post-timeskip Syaoran, during his fateful reuniting with Sakura, it could be drawn that he received the help he needs, and is still with Sakura, obviously.

It is indeed worth investigation the rate at which Syaoran matures, not only offscreen, for his clan, but onscreen, as he goes from angry, possessive, loud child, to a much more calm, collected, quiet teen. Such a change could be a result of the 'magic-attraction' mentioned, as I could easily say that, while Yukito and Kaho both had attractive moon magic, Eriol and Sakura had stablizing, dark and star magic. Or, an alternate theory is that, due to his dual-self issues, both of which had yet further issues, a third, 'adult' self formed, in hopes of ridding himself of the troubles that plague 'child' and 'man.'

And as a final, mostly aesthetic note, Meiling would no doubt be much more useful in leading the clan!

Peter Pan, a work in MUCH PROGRESS.

2008-12-24T21:22:40Z

Steampunk neverland

Wendy, John, Michael Darling from America
Costume change upon arrival- Wendy gets hat with gears

Peter Pan = aviator/punk

Tink = gothic loli
Fairies are generally replaced with nymphs, there are many nymphs all over Neverland

Fairies are born when a child laughs, nymphs are born when an adolescent begins puberty.
Fairies are into leaf fashion, nymphs are into gothic/victorian fashion.

Hook is a corporate exec
Not a ruthless douche but an honorable yet devious businessman
Lots of backstory/depth- not a 2D cartoon villain!

Shmee is still shmee
Book had some badass backstory- work that in

Hook lost his arm to Mothra's projectile acid. Replaced with STEAMPUNK CLAW ARM.
Arm ends in enormous hook, on chain. CRANE ARM.
Hook doesn't use a sword, fights with CRANE ARM ALONE

Pirates = corporate employees
Need to name/backstory a bunch

Ship = flying skyscraper? Think on this.

Croc is Mothra, ate Hook's PDA

Redskins have become yellowskins
Tiger Lily is an Asian princess, chief is a supercomputer
Warriors are like samurai, but with a lot less armor and a lot more battlemech.

Neverland as an island in the ocean has become Neverland as a floating island in the sky- scale is much larger than movie Neverland
NOTE: Define exact nature, relationship of NL

Obviously Neverland is a giant clockwork/pipe mass of metal etc.

Mermaids are angels (obviously still all female)
They also still totally hate Wendy- how does drowning/splashing work here? Just gusts of wind?

Swords = CHAINSAW SWORDS
We'll need to do something special for Pan. Gold and diamonds?

Lost boys use flying steamboards (enormous)
Feet fasten in, controls are a handle in the rear/balance.

"peter pan flies with thoughts of rebelling against authority, and tink's nymph ash. he takes wendy and her brothers away from their dull american conformist lives, and brings them to neverland"

Theme of story is not "abandoning innocence for maturity" and theme of neverland is not "eternal childhood"
Theme of story becomes "maintaining individuality" and theme of neverland becomes "eternal passion of adolescence"

Nana = beagle, comes to neverland as best dog nursemaid ever

Trust, faith, pixie dust
Confidence, knowledge, nymph ash

This should be good.

2008-12-23T10:55:42Z

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.

Why not. It's not like I know more than two people.

detsuahxe @ 2008-12-22T01:29:00

2008-12-22T08:45:02Z

The following is a heavily edited conversation about hair. Read at your own risk.

Me: If my cock were my nose, I would have an afro

Rudy: How does one shave their crack?

Me: I assume Rudy, this is why men first researched things like Nair. I've heard about dudes using electric razors for the crack. But that sounds dangerous and futile. I mean, you'd have to like keep the cheeks seperated, with like tape maybe? And arrange a complex series of mirrors.

Rudy: Or have someone hold them

Me: Yeah Rudy, it seems like butt shaving would have to be communal. You shave me, I shave you. That would probably extent to back hair. I wonder if there's a culture where people do that: you get married, and it's part of the duties of the wife to keep the husband smooth. And vice versa, I guess? Although the men would really only do it for politeness' sake. Also maybe it would be sexual for some of them? I read once about an h-game where a nun gets sexually aroused while you shave her arm pits, so who knows? It would be like a terrible form of anal sex. Only, the wife couldn't give her husband a reach around, seeing as butt shaving requires two hands. Unless we went back to using something to fix the cheeks in position. BDSM shaving? Roleplay where you're shaved against your will?

Rudy: I'd read a doujin about it.

Derp

2008-12-08T05:18:22Z

Another day, another failed attempt at using the internet as a social medium.

Although supposedly I am here for content.