#((that's just how i am))

[ajaxskingdom]

hello, yes, i would like to push him down a flight of stairs please :D

[sunny-days-and-warm-mournings]

You ship the Six-Eared Macaque with Sun WuKong and I make the Six-Eared Macaque Sun WuKong's kid.

We are not the same.

[wanderingmind867]

I don't know if this is actually a new change with tumblr or if my brain's just playing tricks on me now, but the tumblr tag bar doesn't move with the tags now. If I'm tagging something long, the bar stays at the very front and it never moves. I know this isn't a very big change (if it actually is a change, and not something in my head), but changes of any kind can annoy me. So now i'm just really bugged by this.

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

man u just love to complain

yeah i'm glad you noticed i am very vocal on here about how much i complain so this isn't news to me or to anyone else who has come onto my blog regularly

[tired-fandom-ndn]

OH MY GOD THE NEW COFFIN OF ANDY AND LEYLEY PROGRESS REPORT HAS A VIDEO OF STUFF FROM THEIR MOM'S POINT OF VIEW YOU SHOULD WATCH IT

I'VE SEEN POSTS ABOUT IT AND I AM VERY EXCITED

Unfortunately I do not look at the progress reports, I want to be completely suprised when the update comes out :)

[enniewritesathing]

To-do list

because I am getting a little too ahead of myself with the editing

get reaquainted with using TOOL again

continue to dink around in PS/Procreate (but not too much and get fixated on that)

go through Incident poses and pick them out (UGH)

finish outlining section

make more rips

do some editing/adding swatches to things

make vital signs screens (i said I wasn't gonna do that shit again but it just looks WAY nicer than what I had before 🤡🤡🤡)

it's a long; I keep telling myself "I'm not doing that shit again" and here I am doing that shit again

[turuin]

I no longer open Animal Crossing: New Horizons on my Switch because. I've been away. For months. And it will shame me.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

A man-eating giant that feeds on souls and eats human bones once a month (at least in the manga).

[ashen-voidscape]

Officially made a sideblog for myself. As fun as what my headmate Liz has going on with the main blog is, it doesn’t really suit me. I’m not actually sure how much use this blog is going to see in the long run but I do intend on using it whenever I’m around. Minors do not interact with this blog, you’ll get blocked. Content warnings for watersports, omo, blood (and pain in general), and vore, all of which will be tagged. Aforementioned main blog is @dragongirltum for those discovering me somewhere other than there. Profile pic is Scarlet from the webcomic I am the Grim Reaper.

[lord-radish]

I've almost finished Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel, and I've gotta say, the Claptastic Voyage DLC is the Borderlands 1 throwback I was waiting for. It still has that overexaggerated Borderlands 2 comic relief in the main level, but there was a really nice throwback with Dr. Zed and Patricia Tannis, and I think they reused BL1 assets in the BL2 engine which was a cute touch.

I played a lot of Borderlands 1 as a teenager, and I only played the second game as an adult years later. That first game is really empty and dry and a little generic and flaky for the most part, but I really enjoy that spread-out, lonely feeling mixed with the PvE with the skags and rakk and stuff.

It isn't particularly light on dialogue, but it pales in comparison to the second game, where every mission has at least eight entirely voiced lines and random citizens make dubstep noises as you walk around the main hub area - I prefer the sparseness.

Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel is cut entirely from the cloth of Borderlands 2, and it's not a bad thing because BL2 is a technological upgrade from the first game and has way more functionality and flexibility on a gameplay scale. But it also takes after the second game way, way more than the first game, in that the dialogue is fairly dense and they're going for an actual story with key players, not a morally dubious treasure hunt sign-posted with story missions. The humor also has that thing where it's always undercutting itself and it feels like it's trying too hard - more of a BL2 thing than a BL1 thing.

Jack is a very talky character in the Pre-Sequel, given his prominent role and being set up for Borderlands 2, and you have the game's framing device as well which provides running commentary the whole time. You have a motif of heroes and villains not being who you thought they were, which I wasn't super into. It's very much Borderlands 2.5 in function rather than Borderlands 1.5, and while it's understandable on a gameplay level, I just didn't vibe with how hard the story and dialogue tries.

That being said? Claptastic Voyage is another page out of that book, but through the framing device of you going through Claptrap's memories, it acts as more of a bridge between the first two games than the main game does imo. I'm not done yet, but going back to this virtual Fyrestone to get this MacGuffin was a cute segment.

I also like Claptrap for the most part, even if he has a reputation for being a flat comic relief character in the first game. His hateablity was ramped up for the second game and he was turned into a caricature for the sake of humor, but I found it much more obnoxious when the second game continued to shit on him and outright call him unloved than even his small repertoire of canned lines in the first game.

He wasn't perfect in BL1, nor was he a sacred cow - one of my favorite parts of the first game was the Claptrap that gets ganked in the Island of Dr. Ned DLC. But he wasn't the outright punching bag and serial annoyance he was in the second game. Basically, I'm more in line with Angel's "funny little robot" comment than BL2 starting off by ripping out his eye and giving him an inferiority complex.

The Pre-Sequel proper and the DLC still has Claptrap being the point of much mockery and derision, but through seeing his memories and having his inner world be the setting of the DLC - having the character of Claptrap as a focus, in both the BL2 school of beating the shit out of him and giving him more of a straightforward way of addressing the past of BL1 - I think this DLC has bridged the gap between the games a whole lot more than the base Pre-Sequel game did.

To sum up my feelings, it's like the Pre-Sequel existed first and foremost to flesh things out for the second game - the next chronological entry in the series, released two years before - and the Claptastic Voyage DLC is acting more as a bridge between Borderlands 1 and 2. Borderlands 2.5 vs Borderlands 1.5, at least as far as tone and vibes go, even if the DLC still focuses a ton on that BL2 quality of writing.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[razzafrazzle]

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the thing about Professor Utonium is he didn't accidentally create 3 daughters, he purposely created 3 daughters who accidentally have superpowers. the sugar, spice, and everything nice was intentional, only Chemical X was an accident

this guy became a girl dad on purpose and I am so proud of him for achieving his dream!

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[christadeguchi]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[sadclowncentral]

my (very white, very middle european, very protestant christian, very sixty-year old) father just dropped an inshallah in casual conversation. without precedent or without any acknowledgement. "inshallah they will send us a new internet router" he said. didn't even stutter. what did he mean by this.