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The western pheonixes are rather bizzare members of the heron family, ardeidae. Pheonixes are sexually dimorphic and polyandrous, so that one colorful female controls a vast territory in which resides her harem of plainly-colored males. They also have a rather unusual life cycle. For most of her life, the female pheonix mates frequently with the ( Read more... )

So the Investigation segments of Ace Attorney gameplay are definately pure Visual Novel in their format, but the format of the Court sequences is vastly different. How the heck would you categorize it? It's kind of unique. Although they don't fit in any specific catagory, I think that the court segments might be influenced by fighting games a ( Read more... )

I.                 All stories are responses to other stories

A.     Agreement

1.      Most common response, copying of characters/themes/plots/etc, leads to storytelling norms

a.       Example: High fantasy’s norms come from agreement with Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and the Silmarillion

b.      Storytelling norms are the tropes and devices that ( Read more... )

So were the people working on designing human kenai and bear kenai in Brother Bear even, like, talking to each other? Human Kenai has a pretty good design that evokes a bear via posture, but bear Kenai looks absolutely nothing like human Kenai. His eyes are a completely different shape (as the eyes are the window to the soul, the eyes not looking ( Read more... )

1. Prince Naveen pushed my "sheltered faildude" button (which basically automatically tringers the reaction seen in #2, regardless of the overal quality of the characterization), but the fact that that was the only button he pushed further reinforces my theory that I was accidentally skipped the day they handed out sexuality.
--a. Also, I do not ( Read more... )

Character notes uwaaaaaaah. Interesting that he takes some notes on his character's relationships with countries he hasn't made into chracters. I have to wonder, just how many little notes does he have laying around? Unlike alot of the fandom, I don't think he should make a personification for EVERY COUNTRY EVAH - he's wearing himself thin trying ( Read more... )

( On how so many fanfic writers write him OOC )

- The various personifications (not just the nations and sub-nations, but things like the Mr. Newspapers or the clothing stores) in the hetalia-verse are, well, kind of the humanity-equivalent of nature spirits. People-spirits, I guess you could call them? They're alot more mortal and psychologically human than nature spirits, but in their ( Read more... )

I HAVE COMPLETELY RETURNED TO THE FANDOM!

lol, nobody cares.

But after having been freed the influence of the superhistorical!BNFs (whose fic depressed me and made me feel shitty about the world and about myself as a writer) for quite some time, I have learned THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS HETALIA.

Hetalia is not about history. It was never really ( Read more... )