#(throws this out into the void again)

[decarabias]

forever thinking about royal’s bad ending. my thing with it is that maruki doesn’t necessarily give anyone what they want most, he gives them what’s most appropriate for them to want within a maruki-approved framework. iirc there’s a really interesting text sequence in the game where he just straight up changes someone’s career because they’re not “good” at it, regardless of whether that’s what they actually want. why struggle at all? ever? right?

and so ultimately i don’t think goro akechi’s greatest wish is necessarily ren. i think it’s a wish for sure, but his greatest wish is his own agency. despite any regrets he has and the fact that shido and yaldabaoth treated him like a pawn, he's generally pretty adamant about owning his choices and their consequences. he doesn't want that erased. and instead, you end up with pleasant boy™ if you take maruki’s deal. maybe maruki (incorrectly) thinks sanding off all of akechi’s rough edges will make him easier for ren to love. but the crux of it is really that maruki has to essentially lobotomize him to preserve the illusion of his perfect reality, because their ideologies are so diametrically opposed that akechi would spend every waking moment fighting back.

this isn’t to undermine ren’s importance to akechi btw — he explicitly acknowledges that he wishes they had met earlier, and there are countless moments throughout their confidant that underscore how much it means to him that they mirror each other so well. he absolutely does want more time with ren, just not under these circumstances.

and that’s also what makes ren’s choice on 2/2 doubly devastating. he knows that either way he loses akechi. and if he takes maruki’s deal, he loses him knowing that his last moments with the real akechi involved the two of them being unforgivably out of sync.

[kacievvbbbb]

I don’t know why, maybe because I’ve been on a Garp kick lately.

But I do really think that Garp kind of became like a surrogate Uncle to the Roger boys and by extension Mihawk. Like I can just imagine Roger telling them that if they were ever separated from the crew or if something ever happened to him or Ray and they needed help they should go to Garp (I mean he entrusted his own baby to him it makes sense he’d also entrust his boys)

(for whatever reason Mihawk got this talk too despite him already traveling by himself and not being officially part of Rogers crew. But since Ray adopted him he’s Roger’s brat as well)

All this to say that Garp takes his uncle duties very seriously and what is an uncle if not an inconvenience and an embarrassment?

So Ofcourse he pulls up to Kuriagina during the timeskip (Hawain shirt and all) to visit his new grand babies (read Perona and Zoro) that he’s heard so much about. (read shanks immediately gossiped with him abou mt after stumbling upon them last time he came to visit Mihawk)

And because Garp is essentially the one piece equivalent of Florida man, this goes well for absolutely nobody

Except Zoro who is nothing if not a troll. And game must recognize game.

The monkeys love him tho, he communicates with them on a wavelength nobody can quite understand least of all Garp.

[alonetogether]

LUNATIC OF A GOD OR A GOD OF A LUNATIC

[ganondoodle]

honestly i dont know how many times i can keep trying to like and engage with things if they always end up disappointing me so badly i cant like what came before it anymore

im not trying to center this around me or something, but im having a hard time coping with arcane doing it too (to me)

few things can catch my attention and all interests in media i have ever had fumbled everything later so badly i often never want to see or think about it again

its happened with transformers (prime specifically, i think the ending of season2? i dont remember everything but after the fucking new guys show up and it killed my hyperfixation on it back in the day), one piece (stopped since whole cake island and anything new i see of it only makes it more clear i cant stand it anymore), zelda (ahah .. totk, fuck that game, basically killed my hyperfixation on the franchise and im only holding on for some projects and cool people i met through it), (edit; how could i forget fromsoft/elden ring and what the DLC did.....), arcane/league (arcane, lore retcons, and now its ending, but it happened before it turned into a hyperfixation so theres that bit of mercy lol) and those were only my super special hyperfixation ones i still clearly remember im sure im forgetting some, its happened with movies and other series i gave a try too (even mob psycho ... the series i thought couldnt disappoint me ...)

i feel so bad about it, i feel like i am somehow wrong to dislike or even hate how media goes, and bc it happens every time i feel like .. theres something wrong with me .. theres gotta be soemthing wrong with me right?.. i SWEAR i do NOT find joy in hating or disliking things, it is not fun for me, i hate hating things, especially when i once loved them, even if it may seem like there is nothing i can ever like i am NOT doign it on purpose, i feel the same, i feel like theres nothing i can ever just like, and i hate myself for it .. but also cant help it, i cant force myself to like thingsi dont either, i just want to rip my hair out and cry

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[bri-does-art]

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[lambs4slaughter]

Ahuu huu.. cringe pc posting of my fave game files... insane ramblings under cut...

wanted to write down relevant relationships... playing this game really is just making a character and then developing everything else as the game goes on. No name for this one because the identity crisis in my head is funny

Early game was sooo different. Went through different body transformations mostly getting in shape because of constant harrassment and then... Bigger boobs... Because of Remy... LOL.

Main income was mostly from getting artifacts from the museum + cafe during the day and being a dancer at night. Got caught lacking one blood moon and it changed her brain chemistry forever. Grew an almost parasitic attachment to the temple because of everything she's experienced afterwards... Corrupted Sydney prior to joining the temple and now kinda regrets it. But also doesn't. It's difficult out here. Fiercely protective of the other kids at the orphanage and helps them mindlessly, doing good things makes her feel good since everything else is so bad. Too much use of pepper spray normally calls for a bad criminal record tho. It's alright tho she's chilling (being hunted by multiple people) THIS IS GETTING TOO LONG IM EMBARRASSED NOW. NO MORE

[pastel-pinkish]

do I dare write something narilamb. where the one who waits falls for the lamb first

[silverraes]

the discord is here!

a couple of days ago I made a half-joking post asking who wants to be my dumb little thai bl friend circle and after getting a lot of reactions to that, some people seemed interested in joining a discord server where we can all scream together. If you're one of those people (or if you just happen to stumble upon this and are interested): here it is!

there's not much going on in there yet but I'm hoping to make it a bit prettier once I see what people are usually talking about :)

[chewbokachoi]

The next BiShang project can best be summed up as "two dumb guys can’t handle their feelings and end up destroying half the world for each other only to get thrown into (horny) jail. … separately"

[possamble]

im a crazy and insane poetry lover who likes connecting poetry to my fave stories and little creature is so canon in my brain that I've started doing it with ur fic. anyway. "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken is so so falin (and mildly marcille but mostly falin) core. like the lines "I can tell already you think I’m the dragon, / that would be so like me, but I’m not. I’m not the dragon. / I’m not the princess either." are just... Falin is and isn't the dragon she is inseparable now from the dragon but she is also Falin. And she is removing herself from this damsel in distress image that she was in for the entirety of the story and that Marcille still sort of sees her as...someone to be saved and protected and coddled and not someone doing the saving. and then also "Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we / lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell / and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. / Especially that, but I should have known. / You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together / to make a creature that will do what I say / or love me back." specifically with the last chapter like ougghghh my god I'm sorry I cant go in depth I have class in like 2 minutes but I'm sure u Get It like the dragon being willing to change so she can be something that falin loves and her refusing that ougghhhhh I love this fic so much

gosh i think this is one of the first times i've had my writing connected to poetry by someone else im very flattered;; thank you so much!!

[kacievvbbbb]

*this is not a criticism or call out in any way. I’m not thinking of anyone in particular just something interesting I noticed.

It’s interesting that in some fic especially older ones if there’s another event beyond shanks losing his left arm to explain their 10 year break up it’s usually Mihawk as the wronged party. Like shanks did something to him that he now has to atone for which is an interesting take (I don’t hate it again this isn’t a call out) it’s just interesting because from all we know in canon (which is like 2 sentences) it’s Mihawk. Mihawk is wholly the reason they didn’t see each other anymore. Because like Shanks lost an arm saving a kid and Mihawk made it about himself 😭. And refused to fight him and he can’t fight him they can’t be friends (because Mihawk is insane) and there we are. Like Shanks is very much the wronged party. Imagine almost losing your kid, losing your arm, leaving said kid and then your cherished rival/ close friend/maybe boyfriend breaks up with you in your goddam hour of need for as far as you can understand, losing your swordfighting arm. It’s just so ridiculous I would have gone ballistic 😭. Like I’m sure shanks had little illusions about who Mihawk was but goddam he probably thought he wouldn’t be so easy to leave again (another one for the abandonment issues) I can’t fucking…..god

And I think it was definitely more than the arm for Mihawk there was a myriad of feelings he couldn’t put into any words that weren’t sharp and cutting as he literally blows up what could have possibly been the most important and maybe only relationship in his life. So yeah Mihawk was definitely the wronger because babe…..what the fuck.

But honestly I can see why people give Mihawk this characterization he acts like he was the wronged party like shanks lost his arm just to spite him he’s so dramatic and insane I can’t.

I don’t know it’s why it had to be Mihawk extending out the olive branch because shanks never dropped his and him bringing the bounties and not killing Luffy are practically his own mentally ill way of apologizing.

[createandconstruct]

Sigh…

[cupiare]

i’m sick at the thought of being back on twt but i neeeed to revive my art acc 😭😭😭

[ruby-static]

Dead Money update: Well, turns out I majorly fucked up with Dean. Completely forgot that filling skill checks in the first meeting makes him backstab you later.

But I'm literally RIGHT before the final fight, and I am NOT rolling back all that progress.

Sorry, Dean. (Not really, he's a dick.)

[silverglass83]

Time of The Hourglass Series

What if Raistlin Majere had met someone who became a shining beacon in his dark existence… Where will this new illuminated path through the darkness lead him? Would the Archmage make different choices? What kind of man would he become if he had the support and understanding that he's always craved? And, most importantly, is his soul even worth saving? ~✰⧖✰~

"Time of The Hourglass" is a series where I endeavor - through love, blood, and sacrifice - to tell a tale of growth for our beloved Hourglass Mage. Each 'part' in this series will be its own consecutive story arc and are meant to be read in order. The parts will span the years beginning around, and replacing, the events in the 'Legends Trilogy'.

This series is Mature but I rate it Explicit due to the details in the sex scenes - more info in the notes found at the beginning of each part.