terabient

So! I spent last night reposting a bunch of PSO2 entries from Cohost b/c sigh the content guideline update--technically nothing I posted in a public entry violated the new rules but i mean. feel they're just restrictive enough to make any anime/jRPG shipfic writing complicated, so it's best not to use it for that purpose. Might use it for non-fandom hobbies like photography and music sharing but idk that might be Too Much Posting to keep up with. anyway, that will take a few more days to complete but in case you had a burning need to read, or re-read, something i wrote between March and May about minor characters in a gacha jRPG, you can do that now! how EXCITING!!!

- Made a bunch of new tags to sort entries by pairing and discovered it's really easy to make cutesy smushnames with Varuna ships (just stick "runa" wherever you want!) but couldn't think of anything for Luther/Casra that didn't sound awful, same with Ash/Afin.

- Need a whole bunch of character and pairing icons tbh. technically you can never have too many icons, but I literally only have a few for PSO2, RIP.

- I forgot that dreamwidth has pretty decent support for inline CSS and HTML tags so maybe some of the image/text styling generators I was using for cohost will work here...? Would be great if could keep using nex3's image grid for screenshot posts.

- In retrospect, a blogging platform that allows for anonymous commenting is probably a better solution than DMing several people on discord with links to posts I think they would like. i struggle with real-time chat to the poin that I'll avoid messaging people even when I want to talk to them because I know I won't be able to maintain a conversation. A comment thread is so much easier for me to approach and respond to...correspondence over chatting, I guess!

- it's cool that i can backdate posts so i don't flood people's reading pages with my reposts lol

Commissioned ArtistDaura for art of my video game husbando. you can view it on Twitter or beneath the cut~

( I wanted something that captured both his Omega and Photoner sides... )

inspired by recent fail_fandomanon threads of "who in your OTP says lovemaking, who says having sex:"

( Overthinking how to say 'let's fuck' )

Archive project:

★ Unbind recent book arrivals

★ Finish PSPEC scans

★ Start EP 5 material collection scans and capturing JP text

★ Check if PSO2 soundtracks are in MusicBrainz database; if not, add them for upload to Funkwhale

GAY FANFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

★ Actual honest to god replay of Episode 5 story instead of stopping whenever a battle is involved or the cutscene gets too long

★ just start writing oh my god even a sentence, a single sentence, is acceptable. nothing has to be perfect or completed in one day u fool

★ do porn drabbles if that's what i'm feeling atm. it's fine

OTHER STUFF

★ Episode Oracle rewatch/review thing? Something that sticks with me is just how much EP1 thru 3 have been revised and retconned over the years, and Episode Oracle stands as the"final," most compact version of that story, one that's generally regarded as PSO2's best. Instead of looking at plot and characterization changes as a matter of "better" or "worse" (or "cut for time") I'd like to focus on the thematic reasoning for such changes. I'm not sure how I'd go about presenting that, though...

★ Finish the "Varuna on Halpha" backstories for various RP plans. I've been meaning to do this for like a year now, but Halpha's history being revealed has helped me solidify how Varuna ends up there.

The "Bearserk" outfit caught a lot of flak on Reddit for being yet another disappointing entry in the T1 phashion catalog...but I will never turn my nose up at a sleek, skintight suit with a plunging neckline. (The outerwear, to be fair, is kind of a mess.)

I also forgot maintenance was 3 hours early this week. RIP my free SG scratch ticket.

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Luther, Varuna, and a quiet day by Luisa Lake, before the beginning of the end.

Credits

Luther & screenshot taker: zetchi
Varuna: terabient

me: shipping is just for funsies so why not imagine Varuna and Casra kissing it's hot lmao

also me: not only do they have a similar detached, calm demeanor and a "prepare for the worst" approach to problem solving, they've both spent most of their lives as servants to uncaring masters, knowing that inevitably, they will be killed in order to further the goals of said masters. in response to this cruel fate they dedicate themselves to ideals rather than people: Casra places the existence of ARKS above his own and Varuna embraces his sacrifice as the ultimate expression of devotion. this means that they would understand each other's trauma in a way that few others would be capable of. moreover, their reserved and perceptive personalities suggests they would quickly develop a strong rapport. indeed one of the great tragedies of Phantasy Star Online 2 is that these two characters never met, cursing me to imagine an endless amount of scenarios in which this calamitous mistake is addressed,

Varuna
Master Luther...?
(Hariette was adamant she had killed him. Could she have been mistaken? No...she would not make such a grave error.
Not when it concerns Luther.
Moreover, this appearance...he is a far cry from the man I knew.
I need to find out what's going on here.)

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some more Lutheruna that didn't exactly work out for the upcoming RP post.



1. goofing around with emote poses. as a fun aside, with the height difference between them, using the T2 version of "Look Up" put Varuna's face right at Luther's waist (¬‿¬ )



2. Luther who is more amused than moved by a confession....how harsh! :p

I go back and forth on whether Varuna would have ~issues~ about his height. He doesn't really give any indication that he's self-conscious about his body or appearance, but with his desire to be seen as a strong protector by others...maybe his stature is a little bit of a sore spot. 🤔

why is Luther SO TALL

Credits

Luther: a friend ❤️
Varuna: terabient