#//giving me nobody vibes

[koopzilla]

@blockbourne | cont.

A claw through his mane restores its flowing splendor. Old lectures from a wizard echo in his mind, coaxing the king to assert his posture as quickly as possible against the little people. Beads of water and sweat swimming down his scales collect tender sunlight, presenting the sovereign in a regal glow worthy of the crown. A crown which comes apart as he snorts a bit of river from his nostrils to open the channels.

"There's lots of someones out there. None of them are as scary as me!" Dinosaur Land is not a graveyard. Still, his eyes wandered towards the sprawling Donut Plains. The weight of observation hangs on his shoulders... it feels like they are being watched. Bowser can only hope his aimless scowl finds the audience.

"Too bad for you. There's a lake between us and my summer castle." More wet is to come. A smack against his heart simmers it into a regular rhythm. With that, he continued his march. Waving fingers encourage the dinosaur to follow.

Bowser so nonchalantly passes a history lesson. A ruined tower sullies the ambiance of the road. More knowledgeable Yoshies would recognize it: it is one of the many haunted constructions which the Koopalings used to capture Yoshies. It is one of the many factories where dinosaurs like poor Transit were stuffed into blocks... Its former owner stampedes over its rubble, unaware the ironwork once bore his name.

Instead, he is focused on the shimmer of blue on the horizon. "There's a shortcut across the lake! Keep up!"

[anti-kawaii-daily]

Today's Anti-Kawaii Character of The Day is Lacey from the Lacey's Flash Games web series! The outfits she wears remind me of Gyaru fashion, and she fits into digital horror based Gurokawa and Menhera due to some of the horrifying events seen in her videos. She also fits into the Utsudere archetype!

This character was requested by @gradiientjoe!

[cannibalmapleshade]

eve, first woman

[vamptits]

really fascinated by the word of mouth evolution of the story behind love languages. we went from 'love languages were invented by a baptist marriage counselor with the express purpose to keep women stuck in loveless, implied to be abusive marriages' (true, easily verifiable) to 'the guy who invented them just wanted his wife to fuck him and made it up to justify it' (extrapolating from 0 information) all the way to. there's a baby now? where are we all getting this. misinformation is still bad when applied to shitty people. where did the baby come from!!!!

[marciliedonato]

hey uh so the new paramore is out...... 😌 🤠 😃  🎉 🎆 😭 😮‍💨 💅🏻 💃 🦦

[pitske]

I think you need a Software Upgrade!

[evansbby]

I’m on season 3 of Lost and omfg DESMOND GIVES SUCH STRONG ARI VIBES LITERALLY THE SAME HAIR SAME TAN EVEN DOWN TO THE SLUTTY UNBUTTONED SHIRTS OMG 😭😭😭😭😭

[vonlipvig]

started reading the half-life of valery k--so far so good--, and it did something that i really appreciate in books, which is telling us early on those physical characteristics of the main character that the author considers pertinent to know. chapter one, and boom, he looks in a mirror, hair is red. good! that's good to know! because if you had told me he was a redhead any later than chapter one i would have thrown my kindle into outer space. this is an author that cares for their readers.

[cat-mentality]

Love doomed Team Soulfire.

Because they all love so very deeply don't they? They love their children, they love their friends, they love their homes, they love the little peace they have found in the Island.

They love so deeply that they just want to go home.

But love can be a curse.

Love can lead to nothing but pain and disaster when that love blinds you.

The Entity says that their children's lives are at stake, that they must win if they ever want to see them again, that there is a cursed team and they cannot lose, that their lose is death to their children. And Team Blue cannot risk it, they cannot allow themselves to let their children be put at risk in case they are the cursed them.

For love, they would do anything.

And that was exactly what they did. When other's are getting their resources, when they are thinking about what to do, how to proceed, Team Soulfire already knew, they knew they would do anything for their children, they would kill and they would die.

Surely everyone else was on the same page wasn't them? Their deaths meant nothing as long as their children could be saved.

Love blinded Team Soulfire.

Love blinded them to the pain they inflicted on others. Made them unable to realize exactly what they are doing the moment they spilled first blood, because that? That was the moment Purgatory began.

Not when they landed on the desolate Island, not when they were separeted on teams, not when their children's lives were considered a prize in a twisted game.

That first death? That started Purgaroty. Because what Team Blue didn't realize was that not everyone else was blinded by love as much as they were, that for others killing wasn't their first goal, that for a brief moment people thought they could fight against the system, that they could try in other ways.

But after that? Oh no, there was no turning back from that.

They didn't realize that when you kill someone over and over and over and over again, without mercy, without pause, without thinking about the sort of pain you are inflicting on them, it doesn't matter why you are doing it. They wouldn't look at you and see a friend, they wouldn't see a person who just wants to go home, who just wants to end this hell.

They will see a murderer.

They will see someone who sees their suffering as a means of gaining points, they will see someone who doesn't care about anyone else.

They will only see betrayal.

They will only see a enemy.

You cannot burn your bridges and expect to find a way home. You cannot stab the people around you, even if you do it for love, even if you believe yourself to be doing it for good reasons, and expect them to open your arms to you when you need it.

Team Soulfire loves. They love so deeply, so intensely, so very much.

And their love doomed them to be hated. To be viewed as the ones willing to do anything, to kill and betray and destroy anything the others have. Their love blinded them to the suffering they inflicted upon the others.

And the most painful thing?

Team Soulfire does not realize others are not playing the game as they are. That when they try to even the scoreboard, when they try to make things "fair" they are just feeding an uncontrollable fire, they are just scattering the ashes even further, they are hugging the broken pieces of what once was and they don't realize that the blood coating their hands.

Oh my darlings, how they put so much faith in a verbal agreement about the safety of the egg statues. How they love the children so much that they could not imagine that others wouldn't see those stones the same way they did, that they wouldn't be petrified that there was the slight chance that hurting the statue could hurt their children, how they believed that people would feel the same, would respect it as much as they did.

But of course they didn't. Because Team Bolas Rojas has been stabbed in the back from all the sides multiple times, they could not phantom the idea of trusting the people who have hunted them for sport, who have killed them for points in their own home, who have done nothing but hurt and betray them, they don't look at Team Soulfire and see friends just trying to go home, trying to protect their loved ones, they just see the people who hurt them multiple times.

And Team Green Ninjas agreed to not kill the statues, they truly had never any intention of finishing the job, but at no point their ever promised they wouldn't try to win, because at the end of the day they too worry so fucking much they couldn't imagine the possibility of not trying to win to save their children.

So that leaves Team Soulfire isolated, burned by love, forever to be distrusted and hated and avoided because of the actions they took in day one, because they believed that anything done in Purgatory was done for love and would be forgiven because they all have the same goal, they all want the same thing, because they believed people would understand their motivations.

And they did! They do!

It just doesn't matter.

Because the hurt they caused is too deep to be soothed by that.

For love, they have caused what seems like irreparable amounts of pain.

For love, they doomed themselves to be the villains in the eyes of everyone they know.

[ettawritesnstudies]

I've been pretty terrible about promoting this recently but I just uploaded two new sketches! I find picrews very useful for figuring out costume design and they're such a talented musician so go check out their work too.

[paimonial-rage]

My favorite works in no particular order:

Tipsy Tales (Anemo Boys)

Symbiosis (Ayato)

What Destiny Has Brought (Fischl)

Hello How Are You (Gorou)

Follow the Wind II (Kazuha)

Of the Same Coin (Mika)

Songs of the Wind (Venti)

Nothing Lasts Forever (Yae Miko)

Sharing a Drink They Call Loneliness (Zhongli)

Of Hopes and Prayers (Zhongli)

[niklausxcaroline]

[panevanbuckley]

of course of course eddie immediately takes over from chim the moment he's out of the ambulance why doesn't this surprise me

[pollyna]

White Collar au where Goose is Peter, Carole is Elizabeth and Slider is Neal. And everybody kinda have their own role, with Pete as Goose's right arm and a boyfriend who's a fiancè whom Goose adores and Mozzie could totally be Hollywood.

[sygneth]

The confirmation that Harry's squad abandoning him is just poor writing just so the player can continue doing shit on their own is the fact that it never gets explained. Harry even tries to bring it up but kim just. Shuts him up about about it is so so sooooo absurd. Jean's inaction could also harm him but he just makes harry drop the subject? C'mon folk it could have not been more obvious that the writers simply did not come up with that part 💀 I wish people would just take things as they are: de is not really a detailed novel. It's a fuckin game. With excellent writing, excellent characters and worldbuilding, but still a game

I don't think there is much to add here anon. This is a very solid point.

EDIT: I figured it may be worth adding that this is about the posse leaving on the day of the mercenary tribunal, not before the events of the game

[hopecel]

The sadness of thousands kicked puppies in damon daunno's eyes when he talks about hadestown makes me kinda wish we'd stop asking him about it