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thelowlysatsuma

@thelowlysatsuma

eldritch bastard. @thelowlysatsuma on instagram, AO3, and tiktok.
she/her/whatever. adult

My OCs Masterpost

hey gays! have decided it's finally time to make a masterpost about my story shift, so here goes!

what's the plot?

when two dipshit youtubers, one a conspiracy theorist and the other a paranormal investigator, come across folks stepping out of a glowing portal in the woods near their college dorm, they have to learn to accept that both of them are wrong, because parallel dimensions exist, and by god, there's a mystery afoot.

okay, so what's really the plot?

it's gravity falls but they can swear this time. also a fair dose of taz balance

who are the main characters?

tori nguyen: our protagonist. genderfluid queen. the first of the dipshit youtubers. ex-theatre kid who was turned emo from the trauma

ren clayden: tori's best (only?) friend. the second of the dipshit youtubers. dresses like a transmasc's deviantart account from 2012.

akira khan: one of the newcomers from the parallel dimension. demisexual legend. ex-gifted kid. too tired for this shit.

mirari "mitti" silva: the other newcomer from this new dimension. while aki's here to research, he's just here to be gay do crimes <3

what's this mystery you mentioned?

good question! turns out, people from earth and people from claeban know things about each others' dimensions, which is weird, because there's never been contact between these two dimensions before

is there an antagonist?

all will be revealed in time <3 let's just say that there are some morally grey bitches, a tumblr sexywoman, and enough henchpeople to shake a stick at

who are some other characters to ask about?

we have kamiko, shimon, hinna, the twins, hiro & mika (these two are a package deal), and tetsuo the beloved

what's wrong with you?

oh god, so many things. mainly i have oc brainrot

anyways, my tag for this story is #sats talks shift, and feel free to ask me any questions or asks from any of these ask games, or any others you may find!

love you all

sats out

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imagine you're in a timeloop and everything goes exactly the same every time, except for a random user that just posts completely differently each loop. sometimes they don't post at all. they never post about the timeloop, though

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during one loop you message them to ask if they know what's going on and they immediately block you and go back to posting

I love that amid the stress of being caught in a temporal paradox you are checking tumblr dot com

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nothing better to do

I think it's important to let guys be gender non conforming without telling them they're a girl, cause actually misgendering people is still shit even when you are pro trans. "You're a girl, an egg waiting to crack, and that's ok" how about you are a boy and a man and it's still ok if you want to do something that doesn't align with traditional ideals of your gender. You can still be he/him in a skirt and makeup.

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I have no idea what the story of this anime is, and it’s pretty obvious who the protag is, but I’m gonna add character to the girls to the left with no face

introducing these two background characters in this slice of life romantic comedy/drama - they love each other a lot, and the girl to the left is grumpy because her girlfriend to the right forgot to give her her good morning kiss.

taller girl on the right is oblivious because she was so excited when they got up because she’s treating her girlfriend to a surprise date at the amusement park that she forgot to give her a good morning kiss. they’ll have their first smooch of the day at the very top of the ferris wheel 💋

the guy to the right of the protag (with the glasses) is a simple office worker who loves his family very very much and cannot wait to get back home to his children

The guy on the far left is wanting to get home to make dinner. He lives alone, but he promised his kitten they would have some grilled fish as a treat! He loves her very much.

The tall one behind the two girls just got back from a job interview. He didn’t get the job but he’s confidant he’ll get the next one. He needs to provide for his son and two daughters after all.

Person to the left of the pink hair girl is a retired hit-man struggling to adjust to a normal life but hes recently found a woman that works at a cafe down the street from his new job and things seem to be going well.

the man on the far far right is anxious as it’s his and his boyfriend first date aniversary and that’s the longest he lasted in a relationship, he is confident that this one will last tho

This is so pure.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own story.

Everyone is the protagonist of their own story.

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Can we have an anime series like this?  where every episode starts on the same group of people in the train car and we follow a different protagonist from that group each episode?

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like, here’s the premise: each episode opens on an image like the one OP posted, with one person drawn as a typical anime protagonist while everyone else around them is in that faceless minimalist background style.  However, when the train stops, the camera follows one of the background characters out of the train. Over the course of the episode, we are shown a day in that character’s life, the people with whom they interact, the ups and downs they go through, etc, and as we learn more about them, their features gradually become more defined, until the episode ends with them fully drawn and all necessary details present.

Each episode focuses on a different background character, and the protagonist is never given the spotlight until the final episode, when it is revealed that they are just a cardboard cutout that one of the train’s occupants has been tasked with delivering

and there are subtle hints throughout the series that foreshadow this reveal; a figurine on a shelf in the foreground, a video on a screen in the background, a magazine cover, etc., but we don’t notice because our focus is on that episode’s character.

so it symbolically demonstrates how everyone is intimately familiar with this fictional character, hence their being drawn fully detailed from the beginning, but you have to take the time to get to know the actual people that you encounter on a daily basis, and that everyone truly is the protagonist of their own story.

SLEEP I want to try

Pillow is my favorite guy

REST I need some more

into bed where I go snore

PHEW I go honk and shoo

have a blanky feel the snooze

Tired system overload

Everybody SLEEEEEEPINGGGG

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"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media

obsessed with characters being saved against their will. being knocked unconscious and carried away from a danger they won't stop trying to fight. being shoved through a portal somewhere far away and safe right before it closes. trying to self-sacrifice only to have the exact person they're trying to save swap their places at the last second. getting the only cure to the disease or curse bc the person administering it loves them too much to give it to anyone else, including themselves. being thrown to safety right as they had accepted dying. someone else they thought had gotten to safety running back to drag them out of danger. it's so fucking tasty

i love headcanoning old men as ftm. like considering fandom loves to equate being transmasc to being young no one will probably agree with me but i look into his eyes and see the wisdom only a post-menopausal man could provide