#3 is ultimate number

[nicodrawings]

Ganke and The Spiders fake comic cover issue #4

[madicham]

Thonkin hard

my piece for the @aygozineproduction o/ thank you for having me !

[idknothingfancyihope]

I made a little Ogata amigurumi

and im crying, he's so tiny and kinda ugly TwT (affectionate)

more pictures under the cut

unbundled

small brittish child voice: "Tsurumi, my brother smiled at me, I want him executed."

very grippable, i can finally satisfy my need to grip and squeeze this man

he keeps looking at me with judgement in his eyes

I guess I'll start counting my days

[orcelito]

While I don't like how easily the show is dismissing what Sasuke did to Karin...

This is, in fact, Really Fucking Funny.

Karin (who up until now thought Orochimaru was dead???) pouting and being like "Listen, Orochimaru!!! He Stabbed Me!!!" And Orochimaru just replying "What a coincidence, me too" hfkahfksbxk and they're like. Well, it can't be helped! Time to team up with Sasuke again!!!!

Fucking loved Suigetsu trying to make a run for it lmfaooooo bc Genuinely everyone else here is so freaky and he doesn't even have his damned sword!!!! He's just a guy who can turn into water!!!!! vs whatever the fuck the Rest of them have going on lmao

What a time this is.

[aprito]

finally got to play through naruto ultimate ninja connections which was supposedly the one game that would feature the most important boss fights (which are literally copy pastes from the remastered past games) across all games for people who wanted to get into the series

well guess which boss fight they left out and what generic pvp they replaced it with instead

[orchideae]

A casual note that as Liyue-native, as much as Yelan may be very well-traveled and thus may be familiar to various degrees with foreign cultures, they are still that to her: foreign. If we were to take Fontaine's inspiration of France to heart, it wouldn't surprise me if the common 'informal' greeting of the cheek kiss would be practiced there. Let it be known that if this were to ever be done to Yelan (and even the second, perhaps third, especially from each 'new' individual' as it would take some time getting used to), she'd likely show a semblance of confusion and retreat a little. Not out of uncertainty or insecurity, but simply out of confusion. It's important to remember that she is from Liyue, the nation that is firmly influenced and based on ancient China, and cultural differences are very much a thing. And while I still have much research to do on the social customs in both ancient and modern China (and taking these into account accordingly, just as Fontaine does not bear all customs and traditions from France and/or England by any means whatsoever), I am aware enough that this is not a custom that's shared between those countries.

[coquelicoq]

after spending the last week very stressed out and losing sleep over how much i regretted giving my number to a stranger, and after talking to several friends who all gave me the same very wise advice ("decide first what YOU want out of this and make decisions based on that" sounds obvious now but honestly blew my mind), i saw food truck man again today and he asked me if i have a boyfriend, told me he's all alone, hugged me twice, and tried to kiss me. i texted him after to be like just to be clear, i don't want a boyfriend, but i hope you find somebody! and he texted me back: i don't need a girlfriend. i'm married.

[kchasm]

Ryu Number Chart Update: Darksiders

Here's a potential puzzler for you. Is Death death? (Stick with me for a moment here, okay?)

For some context, in the Darksiders franchise, Death—one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—is a major character. Most media where the Horsemen are a Thing tend to have Death (the horsemen) be the same character as the general personification of death, just specifically doing the Horseman thing at the moment. Good Omens goes with this interpretation, if I remember Good Omens right, which I very much might not. It's been a while.

In Darksiders, however, the Four Horsemen are, uh, cosmologically complicated. Specifically, they're Nephilim—fusions of demons and angels yes I know that's not what nephilim are supposed to be I didn't make this game—who rebelled against the Charred Council (a mysterious body who nebulously keep the balance somehow; it's really not clear) and were in turn eradicated by the only four nephilim who sided with the Council. These four became the Horsemen, and were subsequently sent out as the Council's underlings whenever a Real Big Issue required that sort of response. In the four games in the Darksiders series, there's approximately one line that could maybe with some creativity and also if you looked at it sideways be interpreted as the Horseman Death being also Death in general, but... Nah, I dunno, man.

Anyway, that's why "Death/Grim Reaper" and "Death (Horseman)" now have their own respective points in The Chart. Don't at me.

Not being able to use the Grim Reaper skin from Minecraft to hop between Ryu and whichever Darksiders character you want is a bummer, admittedly.

Luckily, Lilith is a Marvel character.

(That's her in the background. That's her at the bar. Side. Losing her religion.)

Funny thing—Usiel (often seen spelled "Uziel" or "Uzziel") is usually depicted as either a fallen angel, or a demon. There are a few sources that put him on the side of being a good'un, though, so this portrayal is cromulent enough. I mean, as cromulent as anything from Darksiders can be in relation to varying and contradictory Judeo-Christian tradition.

(Per game lore, a bunch of pseudo-Celtic-Norsey Old Ones are hanging out in a side dimension or something. I dunno, man. Darksiders II was weird.)

Lilith appears in Darksiders II and Darksiders III, which is nice if you're trying to reach a character from Darksiders II and Darksiders III, but less so if you're working with the original Darksiders or Darksiders Genesis.

That's alright, though. Turns out the Four Horsemen are up and summonable in Scribblenauts Unlimited:

... Y'know, I really do think there ought to be a quicker path to Azrael that exists somewhere in the Wide Wide World Of Video Games, but if there is, it's not on The Chart at the moment, so it doesn't exist. Don't at me.

Or actually, do at me. Then I can put that game on The Chart, too, if it doesn't give my arbitrary taxonomy a tummyache.

Incidentally, because I read up on angels a whole lot going through these games and if I can't Show My Work on my own blog where else am I gonna do it: Here's a Thing.

"Now, hold on a tick," I hear you say. "What are Moloch, Astarte, and Dagon doing in this game as Lucifer's mooks? Astarte wasn't a demon; she was a goddess in Ancient Near East religion, sometimes considered the equivalent of Ishtar! And Dagon wasn't a demon; he was an ancient Syrian god of prosperity! And Moloch... well, actually, nowadays people don't think Moloch was even a Thing, but he was traditionally interpreted to be a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice! Excuse the pun, but what the Hell's going on?"

You might assume that some Final-Fantasy-style hinkiness is afoot—that the creators of Darksiders Genesis named their characters after mythological figures that are thematically similar but ultimately unrelated (go on, try to convince me that any incarnation of Final Fantasy's Leviathan is the same one from the Book of Job) (Please do not actually do this)—but it turns out we can heap the blame on one dude in particular: John Milton.

That's right, it's all Paradise Lost's fault. Turns out that according to Miltonic lore, Moloch, Astarte, and Dagon were originally angels, but then joined with Satan in his rebellion, fell, and subsequently played as gods to deceive mankind. Now, is it a little iffy that Milton took a bunch of non-Christian deities and went "yeah, these were demons all along"?

Most def. He was following in well-established Christian tradition, though. Ba'al-Zebub was a deity of the Philistines, while Belphegor comes from the deity worshipped by Moabites at the mountain peak of Peor, biblically referred to as "Ba'al-pe'or." Astaroth is another one that comes from Astarte. And of course, the less said about Baphomet, the better.

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that no, I'm not counting this Dagon as the Syrian one. Or the Lovecraftian one, for that matter.

Don't at me.

[good-enemy]

I remember I saw a post a few months ago that said something like to everyone who doesn't like fresh out the slammer it is going to click for you one day and you will love it and when I read it I was like ugh no that song sucks worst on the album but you know what. They were right. It clicked

[didsomeonesayventus]

thinking about how way to dawn really was like the most iconic keyblade ever that so neatly summarized riku's journey and ideals and had so much meaning and history and so uniquely his and kh3 really threw it away for a fucking car key

[queenharumiura]

Letting fate decide something (I'm curious)

[gingerteaonthetardis]

they cant keep doing this to me

[beeapocalypse]

one day and im already rlly in love w the physical kitty clones idea. cats tip-tapping around my brain. theres so many weird possibilities

[basileater]

i feel like i get a lot of notes and have a lot of tumblr famous mutuals for someone with 1.6k followers. but then again this website is so small that anything over 1k gets you some dedicated and insane people up in your notes daily

[plushie-lovey]

In the next 2 or 3 years when the pokemon company releases gen 7's sitting cuties I'm going feral and buying myself 3 stuffuls without hesitance

[iloveyoudie]

talked about this in discord today but my fave way to Keep My AU's Alive even when not actively writing them, is mentally check in with them around holidays!

I like to give everyone a halloween costume every year, ponder their life state, and update myself. I do this at christmas also.. and that can overlap with the new year to really round it out.

It also keeps you thinking about them because you never know when that urge to write will kick back in!