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Okay, listen, grown-up talk here, the only way it is ever socially acceptable to respond to someone saying “I like geese” is with the phrase “I would never have goosed!”
someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!
me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???
One of the wildest things about The Vampire Dies in No Time is that, once you get deeper into it (and also start finding the canon lore that fans who know Japanese have kindly translated), there’s just... so, so much world-building. And it’s not just more silly goofy, “This is character X’s crush, tee-hee!”
It’s,
“Actually the conflict between humans and vampires has been going on in bloody battle for centuries and it’s only in the last hundred years or so that real peace has begun and made interactions like Ronaldo and Draluc’s possible.
Draus is such an overindulgent father because he was genuinely terrified that his frail son would be killed, even with his OP regenerative ability, and thus kept him safe and spoiled but very isolated until super recently for his own safety.
We will never know Northdin’s full backstory because it’s too tragic for a gag manga, which is Genuinely Terrifying given what has been revealed about Nagiri’s backstory.
Grandfather once had a very dear human companion who was a hunter, whom he is still mourning even though the man died somewhere around a hundred years ago.
Northdin tried turning a human once, messed it up, and swore to never turn another person for fear of ruining another life.”
And this manga, this manga, is an extremely goofy series of gags involving a lot of equal opportunity T&A and an armadillo so adorable that some people started a cult around him in canon (much to the armadillo’s dismay). Bonnoki, the manga-ka, in no way needed to go this hard, he’s already freaking hilarious and sharp as a tack, he didn’t need to add more substance than you get in a lot of serious anime, but he did.
It’s just- it’s not the sort of thing you expect in a series that likes to go, “Tee-hee, a butt!”
being a fan of a character is sometimes “look at how complex he is. he’s so intricate and his story is so tragic and he’s so much more complicated than people give him credit for” and sometimes it’s like “haha look at this failure of a person. I wanna throw him off a cliff and see what happens”
Walks up to the microphone and leans in close: Survival-horror-romance dating simulator game based on Dracula, wherein you have the option to try and get a date with one of the canon characters, or just try and survive period. You are playing as Jonathan, there are an insane number of possibly endings (including many polyamorous ones) including, but not limited to: getting together with all three of Dracula’s weed-smoking girlfriends and Dracula, the previous one except Dracula’s excluded, helping Lucy land all three of the men courting her, stealing all three of Lucy’s beaus, and many more!
The entire thing is done in shojo manga art style, but loyal to the descriptions from the novel. Also, I really, really want the cover of the game to have Dracula holding a bouquet of roses and looking super shojo, while Jonathan hides behind a corner in the foreground with a look of absolute terror while writing frantically in his diary. Game title? “Don’t Notice Me, Sempai!” Because I’m a classy meme like that.
Also, if you go with the Dracula + weed-smoking-girlfriends option, yes you can help him try and take over England, and yes it’s possible to achieve this. This is also how you get the harem ending. You can also have Jonathan survive the entire thing but still wind up single - that’s how you unlock the ending wherein he can potentially end up with you, his trusted and loyal penpal, who’s been with him in spirit, if not physically, this whole time.
@musicluver44 #i will only take this if they make the lizard-wall-crawling look as ridiculous as i imagine it does
Not only does it look absolutely ridiculous, if you’ve romanced Dracula enough at this point, he’ll have a bouquet of flowers in his mouth that he was bringing you, which makes it look even sillier. If you manage to get him to do this, you also win affection points from the vampire ladies due to having gotten Dracula to act like such a nerd and then handling it well - you have proven you’re cool enough to chill with them as a buddy instead of a snack!
It turns out real life cooking skills do not translate into video game sandwich-making skills.
What is this monstrosity I have helped to create?
Wait, no! Don’t eat that!!!
😭 And definitely don’t NAME IT AFTER ME!!!
Then I did look upon the great and terrible face of God and wept for the beauty of it.
Sometimes you buy a game specifically so that you and your S.O.’s avatars can around together harassing Pokémon.
And it’s very much worth it.
Just noticed something: you realize you made a girl with cool eye and hair colour in a warm-coloured outfit, and he made a girl with a warm eye and hair colour in a cool-coloured outfit, right? The two of you visually inversed and coordinated without planning it.
Collaboration with @aroshi-wish (I did the line art, Aroshi those amazing colours!) for @greentrickster ‘s wonderful fic That Which Was Lost - in which a vampire lord and an ex-exorcist (also now a vampire) walk into a church, and don’t quite manage to keep their feet on holy ground for very different reasons than you’d think.
Image ID under the cut:
Okay, hello, yes, I love this SO MUCH, LOOK AT THIS, EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS RIGHT NOW, PLEASE AND THANK-YOU, HOLY FUCK!!! Lookit those colours, they’re so rich and vibrant, it gives a really warm, intimate feel that balances also the cool colours of the character and the night sky, that’s so hard to do with characters and settings that have a lot of cool blues, but @aroshi-wish has done a masterful job of it, lending a sense of privacy and closeness to what’s really a very open space! When people talk about mood lighting, this is what they’re talking about!!! And that tiny little pop of the brighter red for their eyes that helps ensure the characters don’t get lost in the background while also blending well with it - amazing!
And the line art itself! Not only do the characters beautifully convey the tenderness of this shared moment in the story, it’s absolutely wonderful, those soft expressions as they look at each other, even without context I’ll wager you can feel how important they are to each other, but also see that their feelings for each other aren’t quite the same, the subtle gratitude in Bob’s expression versus the slight sorrow in Northdin’s. And the extra-long scarf pulling double-duty of adding an extra sense of weightlessness to Bob while also beautifully highlighting their joined hands-?!? You know this is the sort of thing that makes me want to scream loud enough to shatter the void, right?!?!?! (I would be doing so right now, but, you know. Restraining orders.)
And all that would be just plenty and enough to make my day, but then. THEN. These two absolute mad lads have to go and get in on the religious themes that are a key part of both Bob’s backstory and the fic itself and set this entire ding-donged picture up like an actual painting of a Saint, complete with a red full moon standing in for the typical golden halo (since we’re dealing with the patron saint of vampires), Bob’s posture looks so reminiscent of those you see angels and saints in, like he’s descending from on high, and- wait. Wait a moment. (squints at Bob’s sweater and Northdin’s vest) AROSHI, DID YOU USE THE SAME COLOUR FAMILY FOR THOSE TO GIVEN A FURTHER SUBTLE INDICATION OF THE CONNECTION THESE TWO SHARE?!? FUCK THE RESTRAINING ORDER!!! (screams loud enough to shatter the void)
My gods, the care and detail put into every aspect of this piece is wow, just wow, I adore it, thank-you so much, both of you, I’m going to print this out and eat it!
TL;DR: What a pretty picture that I’m being so incredibly normal about! ^U^ <3
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Yo, LMKingdom, come get ya English-subbed season 4 special!
Probably an unpopular take, but I hope Alphinaud's death is a requirement at some point for the plot to progress, and I'd better not have to act sad about it.
Callyn is the saviour Eorza neither needs nor deserves, she is the saviour they endure.
Oh thank fuck, it’s also releasing on Steam and I’m going to be so incredibly normal about this once it’s out.
Me meeting Melli in Arceus: Well, you’re kinda obnoxious and a twerp, but it could be worse. Whatever.
Me five seconds after meeting Arven in Scarlet: Where’s the nearest cliff? I gotta drop kick this [censored] off it.
#greentrickster had a good laugh about this
Oh trust me, I’m still having a good laugh at this, and I will continue to have a good laugh about this for the entire game, first time I’ve ever seen such powerful hate at first sight! XD XD XD
I continue to tempt the isekai gods and Miles has several conversations.
Reminder: you are only small in comparison to the vastness of the universe if you view yourself as separate from it. You’re not something tiny and alone in the face of this expanse; you are part of what makes it vast. The only true ‘smaller’ in this situation is what the universe would be if it lost the piece of itself that is you.
Another year you are alive, I am so glad you did survive, Bless the stars and bless the skies, another year before your eyes.
If I ever manage to join another D&D group, I’ve thought of the character I want to play, and it’s pretty different than my usual. Basically, the guy is lawful good, has this string of good deeds to his name, comes highly recommended, but has the worst attitude.
The reason for this? Turns out he’s not actually lawful good at all - he’s chaotic evil. He got tricked into putting on a cursed item (gonna say a collar) that partially flips you’re alignment. His thoughts are his own, he can say what he wants (for the most part), but he can’t actually commit chaotic evil acts anymore, only lawful good ones (neutral acts stay neutral). He’s basically been trapped in an “I have morals now and I hate it” situation, but there isn’t really anything he can do about it, because he can’t get the collar off and no one’s willing to take it off for him.
I think this could be a fantastically fun way to play an evil character without wrecking things for everyone else in a good and neutral party without wrecking things for the other players - opens some fun RP opportunities and potential character arcs.
It's a nice night to clean the sanctuary a little, greet some visitors, lay to rest some old, inaccurate beliefs regarding vampires and religion…
(Also known as, 'Guess who wrote more Bob!fic'? Everyone thirsty for some Clergy-Northdin interaction, come 'n' get your juice!)
I think someone crossed some wires when making me, because the times I’m most likely to start gloating and laughing to myself like a supervillain are when I’m planning a nice surprise for someone. I’ll be writing a gift!fic or putting the final touches on a thoughtful present and be all, “They’ll never see this coming in a million years! All according to keikaku*! >3” (evil chuckle while doing the Gendo pose)
*keikaku means plan