#Control guides

[sheabutterbitch]

She’s right

[circuitfurscaleandvine]

🦉Hypotizing a floret into believing she has a little dial on the side of her head.

Click click click, each notch turns down her thoughts a little more.

First it takes away the frantic edge, letting urgency fade into the background.

Then slowly removes complexity, til confusion feels natural and safe, til she's non-verbal, becoming my little puppy.

Click click click, down until she's slower than animal, draining background thoughts away, moving doesn't feel so important, thinking is something she needn't do, until she's a nice empty doll in my lap...

Give it a few weeks, I'll have the biomod on the market soon enough.

[mostlyfate]

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 · 2024 20 | Ziqi… I’m so sorry… Now, I know.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 173

Danny might have made a mistake. On one hand, thankfully, his class hasn’t realized he’s Phantom, which is good. On the other hand, he’s somehow become their arms dealer after maybe, just maybe er, being done with Skulker’s shit when he was just trying to do his test and er… maybe beating him to a pulp. As Danny Fenton. 

Well, the good news is apparently everyone now thinks that he doesn’t fight back lest he accidentally snap someone’s spine. Which is honestly kind of nice to not have to deal with the harassment anymore. 

How has he become the fenton technology arms dealer though?! Legitimately, he has no idea how it happened except for sleep deprivation and someone mentioning how one of the places that they might be going to for the field trip was Gotham. 

At least everyone has their weapons and knows how to use them when some sort of clown-masked people decide to break into the mall and attempt to take them hostage. So. He guess he can’t complain, and at least he got food that doesn’t come alive in exchange. 

[shijiujun]

Ling Miaomiao: First, I must find a way to increase Mu Sheng's positive sentiment score for me

Also Ling Miaomiao: The Grand Plan — Make Hotel Towel Swans

— Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 (2024) | EP. 07

[surreal-duck]

es rarepair week 2024 day 1 | AU/future

lil ghostic au of mine!!! yuzuru and the rest of fine are long since trapped souls in an abandoned mansion of which rst come across while looking for shelter during a storm :] it doesnt um. particularly end well

[mobius-m-mobius]

I mean, who even are you on the timeline, do you know? Doesn’t matter. I think it does matter because none of this is real.

Loki 2x01 // 2x02 (anon requested parallels between the war room and interrogation)

[foone]

[sheepwavehdg]

nothing like psychoactive sap to help a girl grow (the flower in her head, not the pet)

[n1pp]

75 Hard & Soft Versions

75 Soft:

Eat well & only drink alcohol during social occasions

Drink 2 liters of water per day

Exercise 45 minutes per day + 1 active recovery day per week

10 pages of any reading per day

No progress pictures required

75 Hard:

Follow a diet w/ no "cheat" meals & no alcohol

Drink 3 liters water per day

Two 45 minutes workouts per day, one must be outside

10 pages of non-fiction reading per day

Take a progress picture every day

[vaguely-concerned]

you know it is hard to not feel for caterina a little in my worldstate. she loses sight of lucanis for a couple of months while her other grandson has her in jail for grandmother time-out, and by the time she sees him again he is in full undying devotion mode for the guy she sent to get him back. her grandson finally brought someone home, and it's a fairly low-level elven mortalitasi whose family background is 'idk we found this baby in a crypt and liked their vibes' who will not be giving her any biological grandchildren. not even one of the politically well-connected scheming mortalitasi, which could at least have been useful (nevarra is a bustling market for the crows! twenty contracts on the king alone and still going strong! still a payday baby let the good times roll!), but one of the dutybound earnest little freaks they keep down in the necropolis to wrangle skeletons and write esoteric papers and who frankly don't care that much about murder b/c death comes to us all in its own time anyway trust us on this one. lucanis looks at him like he hung the moon, the sun, every celestial object and glittering star in the sky, like he's the only real thing in the world. and in caterina vision she sees this weird little slip of a goth mage guy wearing too much kohl who cracks jokes at strange times and is so hard to read but also gives her the unmistakable flinty 'I'll try to keep this civil if you do the same. If.' eye contact over lucanis' shoulder sometimes, with the utter grave calm that only someone who's a speaker to the dead (and the dead are savage) and who has killed several gods and wouldn't back down from second deicide if necessary could bring to bear. she sucks and deserves this and more but she also does have a whole Situation on her hands here

(I love that rye's relationship to lucanis' family is basically 'I met some of the most insufferable people. but, they also met me'. he tangoed with the god of lies and betrayal so he could waltz his way through a dellamorte family dinner relatively unscathed)

[isalabells]

- And we pulled that stupid prank on you. - Wiener schnitzel and sauerkraut. - Yeah, we thought we were so clever. Eva von Braun, right? But you– you just set it aside, and you put your head down and got to work.

FOR ALL MANKIND 1.02 He Built the Saturn V || 3.03 All In

[honeyspotpie]

Trudy angst is being given to us CRUMB BY CRUMB GUYS. GUYS :( her tapping into her personhood. Her rediscovering the things that defined her, learning to be human again. Not an accessory in her house or a pleasure for her husband. Not being a disposable object yet being something alive. GUYS SHE LOVED READING!!!!! SHE LOVED READING GUYS,, GUYS

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

 Nissan EV Guide-II Concept, 1985. A second electric guide vehicle, presented at the 26th Tokyo Motor Show. The open roof EV Guide-II was used for transporting royalty and other state guests on VIP factory visits.

[romans-empire]

Hi, I adore your analysis posts! I do have to say something I do really love about Clover is the huge emphasis on how Clovers' choices are their OWN. This isn't like Frisk or Kris where they're controlled by some outside force, and they make many huge choices that you can't control as a result

Like off the top of my head there's the fact that Clover refuses to go over the velvet rope, stopping you from going to Asgore, the fact that you can't kill Martlet until the Vengeance final boss (Even the way that Clover lets her go free TWICE before then), the way you can't kill Moe, just rob him, or the fact that they will ALWAYS accept Martlet's offer if you take a Neutral route

Just...the way that they're doomed by the narrative but they have such strong conviction in their beliefs that they can at least steer the narrative how they want (even if that ending is either bad for them or everyone else) is so cool

Also just the fact that Clover is doomed by the narrative except for when they forcibly take control in the Vengeance Route, but that's a ramble for another day I think

This!

I agree so much! Clover has always been their own person. This is first illustrated by the fact that when you first start up the game, you don't get the option to name them. When opening the status tab, it says point blank that their name is Clover and there is no way of changing that.

They've always done what they want with no input from the player. This could also be seen with the very little dialogue options we have. Unlike Frisk or Kris where your dialogue options could dictate their personality from true to their actual personality to complete asshole, Clover gives you very little options. Most of the time none at all! The options are either something rather short and blunt or silence, doesn't leave much to the imagination I must say. The only dialogue choice I could think of that doesn't follow this is the option of correcting Flowey or playing along with the name "GunHat". Either way, both dialogue options do align with how other characters describe Clover without the player's influence, especially in the team talk dialogues.

While I don't deny that Clover is doomed by the narrative (they very much are), I have to point out how their last act of agency was choosing how they will go. It's such a fantastic display of control. We know that Clover will inevitably die but the way they took that and made it their own is just fantastic. They could've lived with one of UTY adults and waited for the day it would end but no, they've made their choice and they're going to stick to it. The player doesn't get to choose, that is Clover's right and only Clover's alone.

Clover has always had agency over themself and I think that's why they're such a good silent protagonist. A lot of games struggle with writing a compelling silent protagonist and this game just hits it out of the park. Props to the game devs for writing such a good and beloved protagonist!