#Free Schemes

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

everyone's joking about a lesbian love triangle being the focus of rhaenyra/alicent/mysaria's stories in hotd s3 but that will literally be what happens when mysaria acts to uphold and support the image of rhaenyra as queen (or rhaenyra's duty) and alicent is kept prisoner (or a hidden but unavoidable reminder of rhaenyra's love). and so the love triangle will serve to represent rhaenyra's internal conflict between love and duty

[starcurtain]

Hear me out. I know it's unlikely that Ratio would ever have been foolish enough to directly get taken in by a scam, but considering that we know:

One of the groups specifically tricked by Kakavasha before he joined the IPC was the Intelligentsia Guild

What he tricked them about was Tayzzyronth's Swarm remnants, the exact same thing we see Ratio investigating in his very first appearance in the game, and

The researchers were described as "extremely cautious"

I am surprised that "Ratio was at least somehow connected to the Intelligentsia Guild team fooled by Kakavasha before he was ever even a Stoneheart" isn't more popular with the Ratio and Aventurine fandom.

Like imagine being Dr. Ratio. You tell your colleagues, "This seems like a scam. Are you sure you should trust this 'local guide' you've made contact with? Tell me about him. A picture? Does this even look like an Egyhazan native to you? I won't save you fools from making idiotic decisions." (You end up having to clean up the aftermath of their idiotic decisions anyway. There is sand in places on your body you didn't even know existed before this. How mortifying for the Guild. For you, by association.)

Then, next thing you know, you get a mission briefing slid across your desk from your IPC connections. They want you to work with their new Stoneheart. You open the packet to see... that little bastard with the enthralling eyes who had your moronic colleagues scrambling in the dirt on a backwater planet for months. Apparently he's made a career out of fooling you your supposedly competent guildmates.

You run off to confront him. You never met him personally back then, but you deserve compensation for the idiocy you were subjected to nonetheless. He deserves to know how much of a pain in the ass he's been in your life already without ever having met your eyes--

He proceeds to shove a gun into your hands and tries to make you an accomplice to a suicide. Apparently, this is normal behavior for the man now called Aventurine. Somehow, it's supposed to prove to you that he is a sane and reliable individual.

Absolutely nothing in your life has been normal since Egyhazo.

You would like to have mundane problems, sometimes.

How do you keep ending up in this beautiful manic clever conman's orbit, and why, like binary stars, can you not escape the gravitational pull?

[amaltheas-garden]

I miss when Alicent was allowed to have emotions

the range 🤌

[mangosaurus]

sketch request for @unnecessary-dinosaurs! she asked for brooklynn teaching darius how to skateboard 🛹 aftermath down below 👇

[gregspectations]

EDIT: Prints Available 

[art-soboro]

my turn to draw cute contextless kemonomimis of despicable people

[thisisnotthenerd]

thinking about riz gukgak and how he feels so alone and yet how his words, his works, are the first thought for his friends when they don’t know what to do

thinking about how love is work, how love is the act of giving and giving and giving until you have nothing left and yet he cannot ever prioritize himself

thinking about how he takes every nickname, every gift, every moment of care with an eagerness that far outstrips the gift in its giving

thinking about how his every stress comes from a moment of devotion and care for his friends, from unraveling the mysteries that permeate their lives

thinking about how he could call them to action with a single warning because they trust in him so much

thinking about how he justifies what he gives to his friends even as his mother asks him to consider himself for once

thinking about riz ‘the ball’ gukgak

[ironrose-stylistlegion]

Paper Games Release More Skin Tones For Free challenge

[ambusterpm]

Has it become obvious yet that I just really like drawing characters as kids

[frogsottersandbees]

thinking about how Brennan Lee Mulligan’s poetry teacher told him that poems are the hardest to write because they always have to rhyme as i flip through the book in which i got free verse poetry published

[mythandral]

You know this is the right choice Let's switch off together Let's flow to no more Goodbye, goodbye to everything

[doweesig]

Green Yoshi’s favorite fruit is watermelon 🍉 🇵🇸

[tsubasaclones]

girls night 🫶

[transmutationisms]

i hate all of those dedicated 'scam busting' blogs anyway because even when they do sometimes identify actual scams or bots, the number of times i've seen them assert wildly untrue things about how to tell someone is lying is just reprehensible. noticeably in regards to disability, like i distinctly remember this one whole saga where one of those blogs was insisting that it was impossible for a bedbound person to be typing well enough to continually ask for help, or that if they werr actually that desperate then gov't assistance would have been covering them. like actually stfu and kill yourself, i don't know why self proclaimed ~leftists still take these peoples opinions seriously at all. well i do but.

[drrav3nb]

Ja-yu's colleagues realises that her and her bodyguard have become inseparable and being annoyed about it

[thisisaname-whatahappyname]

LMAOOO