HERE THEY COME.

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!

Current Ability Scores Part 2

I plan on doing 2 characters at a time, so next up is Yann and Hannah! Yann has a 10 in Strength (STR), a 14 in Dexterity (DEX), a 12 in Constitution (CON), a 16 Intelligence (INT), a 11 Wisdom (WIS), and a 12 Charisma (CHA).

Hannah has a 10 in STR, a 14 in DEX, a 12 in CON, a 16 INT, a 10 WIS, and a 12 CHA.

The reasoning under the cut!

Both Hannah and Yann have similar stats, it wasn't intentional but now is a good time to mention that these stats are more so their base stats, when the levels from their classes are added the 4th level will allow for either a feat or an ASI (Ability Score Improvement) so that's why Yann's WIS is an uneven number. Yann's an Artificer! The Alchemist subclass to be specific! 10 in STR is just enough to be able to pick up heavy equipment and his kids. The 14 in DEX is useful for his sleight of hand, I imagine it'd be useful for the more delicate lab procedures. A 12 in CON gives him a sturdy nature from living on his own and traveling the world. An Artificer's spellcasting modifier is INT so his 16 in INT reflects that and the knowledge gained from being a Forensic Expert. Now, an 11 in WIS, it's like that for a reason, odd numbers in DND stay on the same modifier as the even number before it, so a 10 and 11 have a +0 modifier when it comes to adding a bonus to a roll. That's also the reason why anything less than a 10 is on the bad side. With an 11 WIS I'm planning on using his 4th level to boost it to a 12, he's able to understand a lot quicker when someone might be upset or the saying of when you get older you get wiser. A 12 CHA is from his kindness, he knows what to say and keeps good conversation. Hannah! She's also an Artificer, but the Artillerist subclass. 10 in STR so she can pick up heavy equipment and her girlfriend with ease. 14 in DEX because I like to think it'd be used for super-fast typing and hacking. A 12 in CON from her time in Inner Chaos, have you seen that base? I'd want a good CON if I was in there. Like Yann an Artificer's spellcasting modifier is INT, the higher the INT the better for the class, hence the 16, and her knowledge and skills in technology from both hacking and becoming a Tech Expert. Hannah is on the younger side of the cast, so she gets a 10 in WIS, she makes good decisions most of the time. Her 12 in CHA is from her time in Inner Chaos, spreading propaganda is easier when you know what to say to earn the people's favor. I'd like to think she made some herself and it wasn't just her spreading what the others made the entire time.

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⚠️ END ROAD WORK ⚠️

Keying/graffiti-ing someones car is old news now if someone cheats we go at their wardrobe with a seam ripper

yknow what? Fuck you *unstitches all your shirts and jeans*

Calling all Submas fans!

Do you want Ingo and Emmet to reunite in Pokemon Masters?

The game developers have released a player feedback survey, which, among other things, asks what stories and trainers we'd like to see in Masters in the future. Notably, one suggested option is whether we would like "stories that continue the ones in the main Pokémon games". Another asks "what combination of trainers you would most like to see interact in Masters?"

It would be great for all Submas fans to fill it out and suggest that they give closure to Ingo and Emmet's story! There's precedent for such a thing - the long awaited reunion between N and the BW protagonist (Hilbert in Masters) happened in the Story Event "The Ideal Formula" (a YouTube recording of the story can be seen here https://youtu.be/zWyiuVVigMo?si=8UHz6xbcVvgI4URN).

Some reasons you could use to justify why they should let Ingo and Emmet reunite in Masters:

The arrival of Hisuian sync pairs such as Irida, Adaman, Akari and Rei make this interaction plausible and highly anticipated.

Ingo and Emmet are two of the most popular trainers from BW/B2W2, and only got more popular after PLA. They have a massive fanbase, both in Japan and internationally, that would be attracted to the game (and incentivised to pull) if such an event occurred.

Although another version of Ingo already exists on Pasio, similar things have happened before with alts such as Classic Elesa, Champion Iris and Kimono Grimsley (from his appearance in Alola).

One of Masters' greatest strengths is that it is uniquely positioned to deliver character writing and interactions that the main games were not able to address. Such as the aforementioned reunion between the BW protagonist and N. This would utilise that unique space to finally give closure on Ingo and Emmet's unexplained and heartwrenching separation.

But don't feel the need to use my words - use your own! Unique responses are great and also increase the chances that we'll be taken seriously.

So where's the survey link? Well, I would link it, but every user account in Pokémon Masters (when set to English - you can change this in the settings!) has its own unique link with an id generated on the end. The survey technically still works without it but I'd prefer to be on the safe side to make sure our answers count! The survey can be found in your message box (after setting your game language to English as necessary.)

The survey runs from 10/29/2023 11:00 p.m. PT – 11/12/2023 9:59 p.m. PT. So we've got until November 12 to spread the word!

Note that every person can only fill the survey out once.

We nearly got Ingo to be the #1 Tumblr Sexyman. We can do this!

credit to @cefren for the getting the ball rolling on this campaign!

Tldr: Frank calls Amy's mother a Harpy, with the lore of Dungeons and Dragons what if I make her worse, like a Hag. Now with the lore of The Dead Three.

It's probably just me, but when I look at the symbol for Bhaal and Myrkul I get reminded of The Crimson Order and the Utopians. Yes yes I know Bhaal and Myrkul have a skull in the middle of their symbols but like, The Crimson Order basically murdered whoever needed to stay a secret and stay rich and Bhaal is the Faerûn God of murder. The Utopians prophecy was believed to be the bringing back of lost ones, was it a lie to cover up a brainwashing scheme? Possibly, but the whole talk of bringing back people from the dead makes me think of Myrkul, the Lord of Bones. Myrkul and Bhaal usually come with a third, Bane, the God of Tyranny, and I thought SOMBRA would go hand in hand with him. The only problem is his symbol is a hand. A hand. Sigh. All in all I am now playing a dnd campaign with my friend that takes place in a modern Faerûn in the Criminal Case universe.

I would lie and say I planned it out because I thought it'd be fun to add dnd lore and creatures to the world of Criminal Case, you know, Supernatural Investigations but more dnd based.

It's true for the most part, but then my mind went, 'I could give Amy the Hexblood lineage to make her mother a Hag, and Hags are waaaaaaaaaay worse than Harpies.'

I miss Criminal Case; it was a good chunk of my childhood and my introduction to the works of fiction I've come to love. Fanfiction. So why not make it another universe that I take and add dnd lore to it?

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

This might be the greatest Pokémon game of all time.

Current Ability Scores Part 4

Last but certainly not least, Roxie and Russell!

Roxie has a 14 in Strength (STR), a 16 in Dexterity (DEX), a 10 in Constitution (CON), a 13 Intelligence (INT), a 10 Wisdom (WIS), and a 12 Charisma (CHA).

Russell has a 10 in STR, a 12 in DEX, a 12 in CON, a 16 INT, a 13 WIS, and a 14 CHA. Let's get into those stats, yes?

Roxie is our Rogue, she's a Rogue because my friend made a subclass called Surgeon. I made her STR a 14 so she'd be able to lift bodies on her own from a body bag to the autopsy table. Her DEX is a 16 for her sleight of hand skills, I think they'd be quite necessary for working efficiently with bodies. Her CON is a 10 from how often she's in the lab, but it's going to be the first to get a boost from her travels in the Wastes. Her INT is a 13 from studies of anatomy, I thought it would be quite needed. A 10 WIS from some bad decisions but hey, we all make those. She gets a 12 CHA from her lively personality, it used to be a 14 at the cost of INT but I changed it in favor of a higher INT. Russell is a Wizard/Artificer. He used to be just a Wizard, but I'll get into class changes and choices another time. His STR is a 10 so he's strong enough to carry Amy but not too costly that I'd have to sacrifice his other stats. He gets a 12 in DEX from working on small electronics. A 12 in CON because honestly, he needs it, I don't think someone of fair health could handle being in a headlock from a guy 60lbs stronger than you. Both Wizards and Artificers have INT as their spellcasting ability, and Wizard is one of the only full casters to have use of spells, a 16 INT is important for learning more spells and I think it's fair for our lab personal to have high intelligence. Russell is our Profiler, it's important that he's able to understand on a good level how people are feeling, able to psychoanalyze them, tell when they're upset, a 13 WIS reflects that. A 14 CHA is self-explanatory, Russell's traits as stated by Pretty Simple are charming, obsessive and manipulative. He's used his charm to get information from others, a high CHA just reflects that.