The Balloon One. Just...the Balloon One.

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Tilda Swinton risked arrest waving a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in violation of Russia’s new homosexual propaganda bill. And she wants everyone who can to reblog it in solidarity.

Guys please reblog this, it won’t ruin your blog, this is important

Who now has the original 2 Kingdom Hearts games? And Re:COM? In addition to 358/2 Days and Re:Coded being already owned?

I do. Yes. YES. 

I may be becoming a fanboy.

Okay, this might be too much, some details re: Gem society may be headcanon:

Name: Spinel

Appearance: Kinda tall, average width (slightly thin for her height). More angular than curvy. Hands with long, slender fingers. Chin-length hair she doesn’t really do anything with, on a vaguely rounded-rectangular head. Two eyes. Red-orange skin, brown hair. Brown gem at base of neck.

Clothing: Amber polo with a folded down collar over a brown undershirt. Polo has a white diamond patch with her facet and cut (4S3E and 7DH, respectively). Dark brown pants, red low-cut flat boots.

What Spinels Do: Spinels handle security inspections, both routine and otherwise. They vary more than most in rank, as this is something that needs to be done at all most levels of the chain of command. Our particular Spinel is around a Jasper on the chain of command, but some are barely higher than Rubies (mostly ones who’ve messed up), while a few lucky ones may well report directly to a Diamond’s second in command. Their internal security job puts them under both White and Yellow Diamond’s purview, but they take their orders more from White Diamond. 

Personality: Spinel is a diligent worker and loyal Gem, almost to a fault. Most Spinels are not known for thinking outside the box; it’s not that they can’t, it’s that they won’t until they’ve extensively tried every single in-the-box idea. Our Spinel is like this too, albeit to a lesser degree. When not on the job, Spinel is formal, but not overly so. She is very respectful to and ready to take orders from anyone who seems to be above her on the chain of command, even if informally or temporarily so; otherwise, she is polite but slightly dismissive, not much of a conversationalist. Around friends, her formal demeanor slips only a bit, and she develops a somewhat wry sense of humor. On the job, though, she is very focused; she does not talk except in short, job-related sentences and does not like interruptions. She gets snippy when frustrated. Dislikes rule-breakers, has nothing but revulsion for people who don’t obey their own rules. Currently very loyal to White Diamond.

Notable Skills/Abilities: Spinel is highly adept at noticing things that seem out of place or otherwise not how they should be, though she may not know exactly how they’re supposed to be. She has an excellent memory for rules and procedures, and while she may not have an intuitive understanding of how a thing works, she is quite good at delicate or intricate technical tasks so long as nothing comes along that she doesn’t know how to do. Our Spinel is slowly getting better at the intuitive understanding thing where machines are concerned. Capable of fighting in a pinch (uses large letter openers), but not the best at it. Probably not completely terrible at being in charge and making the decisions, but probably not great at it either (she hasn’t really been in that position much if at all).

Current Task: Our Spinel was on the way to do a semi-important inspection at a relatively new gem colony after receiving distinctly nonstandard reports, but has been stranded (on Earth, maybe?) for reasons and has no means of contacting anyone. Is kinda freaking out.

AN OFFER

EVER WONDERED WHAT YOUR GEMSONA WOULD LOOK LIKE IN CHUUBO’S MARVELOUS WISH-GRANTING ENGINE?

OKAY, YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T. BUT BECAUSE I’M FEELING GENEROUS RIGHT NOW I THOUGHT I’D MAKE THE OFFER ANYWAY: GEMSONAS AND GEM OC’S STATTED UP, FREE OF CHARGE.

BEAR IN MIND THAT FOR THIS I’M GOING TO NEED PERSONALITY DETAILS AND POWERS MORE THAN APPEARANCE: WHAT THEY DO, WHERE THEY’RE GOING, HOW THEY DO IT.

It will.

The Harry Potter fandom persevered, and I dare say that we are more passionate than they. Who knows, having a finished story that can be analyzed and discussed in full could be a benefit. Besides, it's not like Mr. Hussie is going away. MSPA will be around for a while longer, acting as a reminder of the awesomeness we partook in.

People will continue to make fanart. People will continue to discuss it. We will make fanstuff, the fanstuff will help add to the fanbase, the additional fans might make more fanstuff and so on. This family will not stagnate and crumble, not for a long time. As long as there is electricity in our computers, lead in our pencils, ideas in our minds and fire in our hearts, we will create. We will discuss. We will analyze. We will inspire and be inspired.

That said, with Andrew contributing less, we as a fandom will really have to step up our game, so to speak. To survive, we will need to make awesome things of all kinds. We will need to make fanworks good enough to support the fandom themselves. The fandom may become a different beast altogether. If we can manage it, it will be glorious.

I'm almost looking forward to the end.

OKAY YOU GUYS

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FREAKING OUT BECAUSE OF THE GIGAPAUSE

I THINK THIS AS CALM AS I CAN GET FOR NOW

BUT IVE BEEN THINKING IT OVER AND

WHATEVER HAPPENS AFTER THE GIGAPAUSE AND WHETHER THERE IS A NEW COMIC AFTER OR NOT THE FANDOM IS NOT JUST GOING TO DIE OFF

WE ARE A FUCKING FAMILY A FUCKING OHANA 

WE CAN MAKE WITTY FANDOM RELATED PUNS AND CRY OVER HAPPY MEMORIES THE REST OF OUR LIVES

IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY GUYS PLEASE SOMEONE SAY IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY

I want a novel. A full length novel. 

Books have been written about far less worthwhile ideas.

this comic affects me in so many ways

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Indeed. Even the most serious blogs (I'm not one of them) should have a Charmander chasing its tail. Not having one would make one's tumblr a travesty.

if a charmander running in circles chasing its tail doesnt fit your blog then you are running the wrong kind of blog

Who are you kidding, of course he would. Hussie is to ships as the centre of the Sun is to snowflakes.

“But please try to be quiet in case the green beast is still nearby!”

oh no

hussie

you wouldnt

I'm not sure what's more surprising, that this is a thing, or that this was not a thing long before now.

Would be nicer with less people, though.

Twitch Plays Pokemon is the wildest thing I have ever watched and I frankly can’t stop.

If you’ve been living under a rock (or you’re just not up on Pokemon news, that could be a thing, in which case, your life must be so very sad), there’s a Twitch chat room with far too many people in it undergoing what the creator refers to as a “social experiment.” Each person in the chat submits a command they want the player to do and, with a 20-30 second delay, the Pokemon Trainer does the command.

It’s made it the most frustrating game of Pokemon ever played but also the best. Because they’ve been playing for five days straight, have four badges, and have somehow maneuvered two cave mazes.

Due to the delay and trolls, we have often found our poor trainer opening his menu, checking his bag, and looking to the Helix Fossil he acquired in Mount Moon. 

Which of course, does nothing.

But in the middle of a Pokemon battle, better open my bag and check on the Helix Fossil.

About to cut down a tree. Better open my bag and check on the Helix Fossil.

I’m trying to enter this cave. Gosh, I need to make sure I haven’t dropped my Helix Fossil.

The people in the chat room have come to the conclusion that the Helix Fossil is an artifact of the Pokemon Trainer’s religion and that his ultimate goal is to resurrect Omanyte from the fossil.

Oh yes, they’ve brought religion into the game.

Even to the point where, when players in the chat were discussing that they needed a Pokemon to learn Surf, some had said “Let’s just wait until we get a Lapras later in the game. That just gets handed to us and will be much easier to do and we won’t run the risk of needing to deposit anybody in the PC and accidentally releasing anybody.” (We’ve already accidentally released our starter, so our current strongest Pokemon is a Pidgeot we call Based Pidgeot or Bird Jesus) 

Others said “Let’s pick up the Eevee from Celadon Town! We’ll go to the Department Store, buy a Water Stone, and get a Vaporeon! It will be much better.”

We wasted all of our money on 8 Poke Dolls and an accidentally purchased Fire Stone.

Flareon has been called a heretic in this game.

Flareon is literally Satan to these players.

You weren’t there for the Celadon Department Store, okay. We got lost in there for one whole day and I watched it happen. It was awful. The work we put into getting this dumbass Flareon was awful.

So, we had to deposit Flareon in the PC because he was utterly useless. Which was when we accidentally released our Charmeleon.

The players determined this was simply what the Helix Fossil wanted and we had to trust in our Bird Jesus and never follow false gods again. Just let Lapras happen. Trust in the Helix Fossil.

Now, the players had been stuck in Rocket Hideout on those damn moving arrows for exactly two days. So the creator instated a chatroom based vote where you could decide on anarchy—the way we had been playing the whole time with individual players participating in a free-for-all—or democracy.

If 75% of the players had agreed on one form of governing, that was the system we were currently using in chat.

Democracy involves each player submitting a command and the game tallying to see which action is voted for most and popular vote wins.

This game has user-inserted religion and now creator inserted government.

The players spend so much time arguing over which form of government to use that we often get nowhere.

This is the weirdest virtual reality based Japanese RPG I have ever seen.

I have no idea what kind of social experiment the person who created this chat room is trying to do—they wish to remain anonymous—but this is positively delicious mayhem and I may never see this many people excited about a game made in 1996 again.