davestrider666:

witherless:

davestrider666:

witherless:

So call me into your party, maybe?

Why had nobody done this yet?

God, please no.

It’s like

How can you even make Enderance any worse than he already is? 

By spelling his name wrong.

He doesn’t deserve his name spelt correctly.

OMG PPL STOP LIKING THINGS I DONT LIKE!!!11

Even if you don’t like Endrance, a lot of people do, and whining about one piece of fanart isn’t going to change that. Deal with it and learn to use the block button.

Art by Chelate.

Art by Styx.

The image is frozen. It’s the 24^th of December 2018, and the image is frozen on Endrance’s screen, the colours of Mac Anu’s final sunset bleeding over the sky like a wound that won’t ever heal. Those last few moments in The World, overlaid by an ugly flashing box announcing server offline. CC Corp has tired of supporting this dangerous, troublesome game.

Sunset-bathed towers shattered into zeroes and ones, Dol Dona’s sparkling ocean and Indieglut Lugh’s silent, icy lake evaporated. This was his home for the past three years, his sanctuary, and there won’t even be a physical ruin left behind, a grave to leave flowers upon. He blinks rapidly as the last image he’ll see of Haseo blurs (reminding him of an older, deeper loss, each pain enhancing the other). It’s hard to breathe, to do anything.

There’s a noise in the real world, but his headphones muffle it, and The World’s background music is stuck on repeat. Not that every tune isn’t committed to memory, but… If he takes the M2D off now, he won’t be able to put it back on again. There will be nothing left.

Pressure, a touch, a hand on his shoulder. Then the warmth of lips against his own, light but unmistakable. He closes his eyes against the frozen image burned into his mind, breathes in, and lets Ryou slip off the M2D.

witherless:

shinkirou-hana:

THE PROBLEMS WITH FANFICTION

/gross sobbing at how painfully true this is 

Oh look is that me in the middle guys I think that’s me

also Elysian

except once a month is more like once a year, if that.

What are you talking about, I update way more often than once a year. …Most of the time. Even when I’m writing things nobody cares about D:

A month isn’t really that long to wait, though. And personally, the section of this chart that causes me most sadness is ‘why do you write my babies that way’. Because in my case it mostly means ‘why do you write Haseo being so mean to Endrance’.

30 Day .hack Challenge

Day 20 - A cool piece of art (official or fanmade).

This was another tough question, since I have a vast collection of .hack-related art scrounged from all across the internets, and I’m lucky enough to be friends with the two best artists on the English-speaking side of the fandom.

But in the end, this image seemed most appropriate. I like how Haseo is trying to be a Serious Business Artist here, while Bo is being an adorable little kid and Endrance is just…himself ♥

Image Source

I have thoughts on him. Let me tell you about them (spoiler alerts for the first two games).

I think I’m one of the few people who actually likes this guy. My girlfriend, who introduced me to Golden Sun, is also a fan, so that influenced me, but it surprises me that the prevailing attitude towards him is ‘omg what a jerk’. Because…okay, he kind of is one. But I don’t know if I’d really call him a villain, since I can’t think of any occasion when he actually causes harm to anyone. Sure, he says lots of things that annoy people - disowning the Mercury Clan, saying he would’ve ‘borrowed’ Piers’ ship, introducing Karst and Agiato as added pressure to Felix’s team. But not all of his actions are that bad. For example…

-At Mercury Lighthouse, he rescues Saturos from Isaac’s party
-At Venus Lighthouse, he fends off the guards to let Jenna and Kraden escape
-At Jupiter Lighthouse, he refuses to help Karst and Agiato (who are being asshats). He heals Felix’s team, then later drags the Proxians away before any of them can kill each other

As for trying to grab the Golden Sun’s power, why not? Nobody else was going after it, and it was the by-product of a positive event - it’s not like he’d been drinking the blood of innocents in order to get it. Sure, it was sneaky, and in a way he was leeching off the hard work of others, but if I was in that situation I’m pretty sure I’d go for it too. And it’s not like he seemed to have any evil, world-conquering intentions (okay so he wanted to destroy Vale, but it was deserted and doomed anyway, no big deal there).

I haven’t played Dark Dawn, so I don’t know if he gets worse in that (I do own a copy of Dark Dawn, but can’t play it because my DS is broken, and I’m having issues with emulators). But in the first two games, I don’t see what’s so terrible about him. He’s a smartass and a leech, but doesn’t lie and act like he’s BFFs with all his temporary allies - so while he’s clearly not the nicest guy ever, I do find myself liking him. He’s interesting, if nothing else.

It’s hard to get his characterisation right in fanfic, though :c

Day 19 - Merchandise you wish existed.

Well, I prefer collecting things like art books and doujinshi. And I’m infinitely more interested in stuff that features both Haseo and Endrance. So really and predictably, what would make me happiest is if there were a lot more Haseo/Endrance doujinshi in the world, with quality art and proper characterisation and storylines to melt my fangirl heart.

Because as far as I know, there are FOUR* Haseo/Endrance doujinshi in existence (and I own three of them). And that’s ridiculous considering that Endrance’s feelings are canon, and Haseo can actually marry him. And they’re both really pretty. Japanese fans, you disappoint me.

*It’s actually six, if you count another two which look so silly that I’m not interested in them.

Day 17 - Favourite antagonist.

I think the idea of Morganna, created to be mother to another AI but instead turning against her, is really interesting. But since I haven’t played IMOQ, I’ll go for Sakaki. He’s a villain I loved to hate, and yet there was a ‘good’, relatable motivation behind his actions that got twisted out of shape. I could never decide if he really thought Haseo was a bad guy trying to spoil his utopian vision, or if he was just making excuses to be mean, but in a way that was part of the fun, too.

Also, best defeat scene ever. For many reasons.

Day 18 - Favourite protagonist.

Gee, I wonder what my answer to this will be!

witherless:

I suck at drawing sappy romantic moments so I practiced.

You all know who these weirdos are. You should. I mean, if you follow me.

Next I’ll practice drawing the same person over and over until I stop drastically changing styles between doodles.

Fjsdfghj oh my goodness I just. I have no words to describe how sweet and perfect these are and…oh okay apparently I do have some words BUT STILL. Lovely lovely sketches, be proud of them.

brb dissolving into fangirl sparkles now also suddenly inspired to work on fics instead of that novel