That’s a neat design. Took me a minute to get the theme until I recognized Sauron’s tower. I recognize:

Edgar Allen Poe | ??? | ???

??? | Lewis Carroll

Mary Shelly | James Rolkein Rolkein Tolkein | Ol’ Billy Shakes

Jules Verne | ???

Would you mind terribly filling in the blanks for me?

Her whole body wracked with pain from her semblance overuse, but she ignored it.

Grammatically incorrect line, easy enough fix to “Pain wracked her whole body” instead.

Then, she took out her banner. “I don’t suppose you’ve seen the matching banner to this one?”

Yusha tilted her head. She had not. “Can’t say I have. What about this one?” She pulled out her own banner; it looked vaguely similar to Haru’s.

“Uh, yeah. That’s the matching banner to mine,” Haru replied.

This exchange was a bit weird. Like, why would both the narration and Yusha herself say “no” and then she pull out the banner and confirm that yes, it is the matching banner?

From the start of the island, she’s been on the backfoot of things and running for her life.

Tense issue: should be “she’d been on the backfoot”

Caught in thought, her foot got caught on a root and she fell tumbling down a hill.

Quick repetition of “caught” stands out here. Could change one of them like “lost in thought” or “snagged on a root”.

“Sorry to keep you waiting,” she said to the Grimm, even though they don’t speak or understand things like people do.

So, the “don’t” here isn’t the right tense but the second half of the sentence reads a little wonky to me. I would have phrased it something like “more for herself since Grimm weren’t known to possess speech or even higher thought beyond the destruction of humanity”.

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I can see what you’re doing echoing the canon initiation for Beacon (complete w/ part of the team dragging a bigger Grimm after them) and I’m not against it. It’s a nice nod without being a direct rip-off IMO.

There were some issues I had with understanding just what was happening this chapter (stuff like, how was Haru carrying the unconscious Yusha? Fireman carry? Piggy-back? over-the-shoulder?) but mostly minor stuff. I can see the intense shipping going on here but I’ve never been the best judge of that, not really one to engage in it myself.

Sorry it took so long for me to get to this, it was a long work week and I’m still not recharged yet.

Yeah, people were already having some issues w/ Oscar for that (mostly b/c of the Rosegarden ship) and it’s been brought up with Jaune effectively being like 40 years older than the rest of his friends now. I don’t expect them to actually address it in V10.

Yeah, Miles Luna voices Jaune which is why so many call foul for him getting so much screentime. Oddly enough – apart from that one scene in V3 where Jaune (Miles) talks to Neptune (Kerry) alone – I don’t actually believe he’s the writer’s self-insert. I do think they use Jaune as a crutch, tho, and if I may don my tin-foil hat I’ll say part of it is because they don’t know how to write women.

As for fanfiction, Jaune being the only available male of the main cast – the Renora ship is near-universally beloved by the fandom so basically Ren is off the table as a ship target – has made him THE author self-insert of the fanfiction space. It helps that he was canonically written as the audience surrogate, so re-imagining him as the pathetic anime MC with secret superpowers (think Naruto or Ichigo) was easy to do before and after we got his official Semblance.

I was going to say that I doubt they would because of how far out they’ve gone from ATLA but then I remembered there was a recent movie with the gaang so it’s possible, if they’ve been watching it. They made the Leviathan Grimm because they’d been watching Godzilla at the time and the dumb Ghira/Fennec (or was it Corsac?) punch scene was taken from HeroAca.

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. In general I don’t use social media the way a lot of other people do and was worried that having a pic show up even those 2-3 times in a row would get on people’s nerves and end up not drawing them to the community.

I was worried about seeming spammy if I was cross-posting immediately.

Hooray! ٩( ^ᴗ^ )۶

I mean, I’m not celebrating the woman’s tragic death (nor do I expect a happy ending for the driver in any event) but it’s good to hear Uber is being properly punished. I’d love for companies like them that try to claim separation from its own workers to either die off or be forced to operate ethically instead of all this arbitration and “independent contractors” BS.

I definitely don’t understand the full nuance at play here, but hearing that Uber has to pay $40M after trying to weasel out of it with the “he’s just an independent contractor” BS sounds good to me. Correct me if I’m misunderstanding.

Legitimately thanks for that. That had stood out to me as “one of these things is not like the others” but my mind only went to sex workers, I did not think at all about men who bought prostitutes.

Wow this took me back like 20 years. For a short time everyone else in my friend group would burst out in the entire song because of the original animation. Meanwhile I didn’t end up watching it for another 5 years because I had dial-up and could only get online like once a week.

This is super cool and I think a nice opportunity to geek out a bit with some relevant knowledge I have:

Warm-bloodedness isn’t as simple to split into on/off as most people might think. Both the hyrax and the naked mole rat – mammals by all accounts – have limited if any ability to regulate their own body temperatures. Meanwhile, traditionally cold-blooded animals like the great white shark or tuna are capable of producing body heat but just don’t regulate their core temperature the same way warm-blooded animals do.

Those larger cold-blooded animals also benefit from being so large that they simply lose less heat because of the square-cube law and are capable of simply retaining body heat for an effective constant elevated temperature. AFAIK that’s where science has thought a lot of dinosaurs have fallen for a LONG while, but I think the traditionally warm-blooded hypotheses has been around for a few decades at this point.

IIRC some hibernating mammals also stop thermoregulating while hibernating, so “warm-bloodedness” isn’t even continuous across individuals.

Is there maybe another reason you like this picture user Toes♀?

/jk in case that’s needed. It is a cute piece. Very soft looking, from the shapes and patterns to the palette to the… is that watercolor or are my eyes mistaken?

Yeah I think technically “Lady Amalthea” is only the name given to her human form and she’s only known as “the unicorn” otherwise but that’s so ambiguous I figured to use the name they gave her during their stay at Haggard’s castle.

I can totally see the Unicorn Tapestries inspiration, but the color palette of your work brought The Last Unicorn to mind. Looking forward to seeing the finished product <3

Why is that your question?

Kinda hate to show my whole ass on this topic, but I lived through this exact thing 5 or 6 years ago when AI Dungeon accused its entire userbase of being pedophiles.

Awww (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡

I get that it’s supposed to be a kinda generic unicorn but the coloring here is reminding me of the Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn.

“Either side of bestiality? So you disqualified the animal?”

I’ll admit, that quip got a guffaw out of me.

ヾ(´･ω･｀) hi that’s me. I know it’s an uphill battle but I’m trying to drum up activity b/c all my other social hangouts have been thoroughly enshittified (notably the recent changes to Discord and Reddit) and want a spot I can talk about my blorbos.

(T-T)ヾ(^^ )

There, there. At least she still lives on inside of Winter.