#psudopod

GREGOR THE OVERLANDER WAS SO IMPORTANT TO ME friend I was OBSESSED.

I very genuinely wrote a letter to Disney as a 10 year old asking them to make an adaption and consider casting my new baby nephew and me as a gender-reversed Gregor and Boots I shit you not. I refuse to be embarassed by that, it wasn't cringe, baby me was just That Fucking Into It and wanted to share it with the world lol

My first fanfic was Code of Claw post-series fix-it fic written on a legal pad my mom gave me to use when I was bored silly partway through a day of errands. Complete with fanart of Gregor climbing into a sewer drain and all.

Frankly your excitement bouncing off of my excitement is making me think I need to read it again too, it's been so long. At my peak I could chant every prophecy in the books and tap and scratch messages to myself in code bc I had for some reason memorized the whole Tree of Transmission better than I ever managed to memorize Morse Code.

I'm so overjoyed to talk with someone who was also in love with that series. I completely agree that they need to make a Gregor the Overlander adaption, but also I'm 100% sure they NEED to animate it and never, ever, EVER fucking do a live show. I don't think there's any way to capture the depth and scale of the world/creatures and the differences between adult and kid perspectives of what's going on in the Underland and a lot of the unique features into live action stuff without weakening it, and for me, I felt as a kid like these books were the first and only series for KIDS (not teens) that really really made me feel known as a kid-who-knew-adults-in-charge-can-lie-and-be-bad-sometimes AND as a kid-who-still-defaults-to-believing-the-best-anyway and how those intersect.

I feel like The Underland Chronicles, Ender's Game, and The Hunger Games all are in a specific category of story and boy is that category important. The Gregor books additionally take kids more seriously than any of the others, which was extra cool.

The only game I really play on my phone is one called nonogram galaxy. it's just a picross game I paid like 8 bucks years ago but it has hundreds of puzzles on it. Whenever I feel the need I can just play a few puzzles. got relaxing sounds in it too which is nice

I did, yeah. both with and without the pikmin. It's... fine. it's cute enough. i know it's mostly just nintendo reminding everyone that they have an animation studio. but if i can be a hater for a second...

what is with the humans? what happened to the post-apocalyptic trappings of the original game? why can't they see the pikmin, what? what? why are they trying to do it like they're fairies or something? when has that ever been what this series is about? they don't grant wishes or have their own fae world or whatever, they're the bottom of the food chain on an incredibly dangerous planet! how did we get to this point???

The first pikmin game has this very specific tone to it. it's not dark or edgy about it, but it is a game with a very grim premise. Olimar is marooned on a hostile planet with a month to repair his ship or die. The pikmin that are his only allies are so weak that only by expertly managing your troops and your time can you possibly survive in this dangerous world, that you can't help but notice looks a lot like our own. there is a tension that is inherently woven into the game that you can't escape, only get slight respite from at the end of a day. it's the kind of atmosphere a game can only achieve when gameplay, characters, and world are all working in perfect sync. it captivated me greatly as a child and still compels me now as an adult.

It was fairly popular among fediverse people. Tumblr felt like it could have been a big player that didn't have an embrace-extend-extinguish mindset about joining. Unlike Meta, who's attempt to join the fediverse with Threads was roundly rejected by most fedi instances for that reason.

i forgot what the other two were so i'll just do ball.

of course it's the dusk ball

yes, the items in minish cap are excellent. multiple uses for all of them, which makes puzzle solving that much more involved.

I'd have to go with the gust jar. it's simple and fun and used for so much, and it's a jar full of gusts that link aims like a cannon! gust bellows could NEVER. i also love the roc's cape just for the novelty of being able to jump in a zelda game, this game had remote bombs waaaaay before botw, and the mirror shield is great, shame it's a post-game item? why do it like that?