#HOOOOLY SHOT

[puhpandas]

GUYS PEAK IS FUCKING INCOMING

[error-core-animations]

VANE LILY X CIRCUSP COLLAB REAL????

[icantalk710]

I got so carried away at this Passion Pit show--second time after their 2013 NYC show!--that I'll be such a sleepyhead tomorrow as I take a walk to work with my voice shot but I'll be alriiiiiight be aaaallright 🎶🔥😌🔥🎶

(Also maybe it was my ears being shot some but I didn't think I was so audible singing while hearing this back 😅 not sorry tho)

[salemoleander]

Yknow I've heard a lot of (generally very valid) complaints about the writing of Fallout games, but man. Why did no one tell me that Fallout 4 kinda fucks

I just dove into the memories of the man who killed my husband, who I killed in turn, and discovered in another life I could've been him, made the same choices, because of the same grief and fear and lack of agency. And all of that was experienced inside the synthetic brain of a man who considers himself the mechanical ghost of a long-dead detective, who volunteered without hesitation to help because he considers himself profoundly expendable.

I think some pieces of the story and world can feel rushed, or reward blunt violence too much, or lean a bit trite- but there's a LOT of pieces that are shockingly compelling, and (for all its faults!) make me want to make something even a tenth as good

[stonerzelda]

that fuckin sucked word of advice dont go to weddings where u onky know the got dam bride and groom bc the reception will fuckin sucks infinitely 4 u

[faultedloyalty]

The speed in which he has to turn his amusement into faux-apology cannot be understated; though the way in which the young man’s reactions serve only to further bring him closer to something like elation cannot be, either! Perhaps it’s merely his age, but from their severity to their depths, he finds that his baser urges to toy with those lesser than himself are growing. They are, of course, overwhelmingly easy to keep at bay—he has practiced, he has lived, too long to be any other way—but the fact that he has to acknowledge them at all on his own is exceedingly rare.

Not that he is one to ignore his own whims, either, however.

“So many apologies you need not make; truly, just what kind of butler am I?” Another melodramatic sigh, another shake of his head, follows in the wake of his own bastard-conceived plot and results. “Though I must apologize once more, myself, for inadvertently insulting your acquaintances.” For if they are neither friends nor anyone he considers worthy of such a word... I meant no harm, of course, but I fear I spoke too impulsively. Such is a failing of my own, unfortunately—I must admit that I do take heart in knowing you bear confidence-enough to correct me, however.”

For that, too, was amusing in and of itself—despite the irresolute clamber in which young Daisuke speaks his words, the fact that he speaks them at all is enough to make him want to chuckle. Companionship was of no use to himself, but the lengths in which those who find it so go to have others speak no ill-will of them, even when it was unsure, served to interestingly confuse him always.

“It is quite clear that they are of great import to you,” he continues on easily, however, belying his thoughts, “in spite of how little you know of them personally. Does not speaking of them in such a way also speak in turn, however, not just to their skills but to what skills they have imparted to you, as well?”

Even if mere beginner-work from another teenager, knowledge would forever be knowledge; “To gain any sort of understanding over the simplest of details is enough to learn the complex natures of this world, after all. One might argue that this is needed to do so, as what one might think of as a basis—though I dare not do so in my position, of course.”

(His position for the moment, at least, but there was little need to fret over frivolous details such as those, right then. He merely needs them known, still.)

“Special qualities or lack thereof aside, as well—and so long as I am permitted to say so—at the very least I find that your art is of quite the noticeable talent already.”

And there he goes to demonstrate—flipping through pages quickly, though keeping a thumb on the one he had scribbled on himself, with that self-satisfied smile! He doesn’t go far, and he isn’t even looking at it, but even this serves more to try for a reaction than anything else!

“It is clear that you don’t lack an eye for details,” he speaks as the pages turn, as casually as if he were discussing the weather, “and neither is there lack of intent behind your work! Really, this is more than enough to warrant an impart of your knowledge to myself, as the less-experienced artist, but I suppose...”

Just as quickly as he’d begun flipping through pages does he close them back up, keeping only the one he’d utilized himself open for the book’s owner to see. In the same breath, he holds it back out for the young man; silent encouragement that he is to, finally, take his own look at what Sebastian had done.

“Relieving as it is to hear that my work shan’t be considered by one who is, at heart, really mean’, I do urge you to give your most honest opinion. Shall my skills be lacking, I will endeavour to improve as quickly as I am able to do.”

Though he can already guess a few ways this is about to go—but he’s curious to see which of them will occur, so there’s no need to continue stalling.

' i-infamy ?! '

the word seems to instantly jolt him . close to hives , his skin prickling , every thin hair on his arm swift to stand up straight on end . a word like infamy ... was really bad , wasn't it ?! ( like horrible , like heinuous , like --- dark . )

' n-no ! it's not like that or anything ! like hiwatari-kun and sagami-sensei , i mean --- er , u-um ... ' would someone like sebastian have been able to recognize any of these names ? arrive , vanish , do everything in a blink and leave nary so much as a single trace behind --- his family had instructed him over and over to be capable of severing any sort of loose strings in the midst of plotted , robbing act .

( why dare to admire his enemies , anyways ? )

was it too simple , too laughable , that just because he wanted to think they were friends ... no , that because he just wanted to somehow be friends them , that he should have therefore made every effort to be kind , and speak up in their defense ? even knowing that they might never have done the same for him , or for his far more rotten , wretched parts .

' t-they're not that bad , i mean ... i don't think infamous is a good word for them ... ' though , maybe and maybe not . before the hikari alone , what other artists played god , to the extent that their creations came to life out of nothing but the meager likes of stone , paint and wax ? man's first golems and homonculi , created in the perverse shape of themselves : both infinitely beautiful and hideous .

their broach of every natural law and order could have lent itself to their infamy , if only what vicious storms of emotion surrounding their works didn't coil about them like the still , untouchable calm of an eye of a storm . and there , braving the cuts and razor , racing edge of the roughest winds , was the black half of the kokuyoku ... what black wings even now remained bound to his body .

' ... i'm sorry . ' trailing away , clutching to himself at his hands , daisuke's will shrinks and relents , wilting meekly beneath the other's blase accusations . certainly , he feels every invisible pressure like a block of lead , hitching his shoulders high in a hopeless defense against what felt like , polite and composed as it was , an adult's chide .

' i don't ... actually know if i'm really friends with any of them . i only sort of know them , so i didn't think anything was that interesting to talk about --- um , hiwatari-kun is the same age as me , and he's the one who comes from a really family . the hikari ? their artworks always end up in museums and stuff , they've been making masterpieces for over four hundred years . i've only really learned a few things about ... um , shadows and circles from him , though ... '

embarrassing basics that anyone , even a toddler should have been able to comprehend .

' sagami-sensei was a sculptor , and someone who won top prizes every year in azumano ... our standards for art are the highest in japan , so it was a big deal when he was going to start teaching part-time . but then he quit right after his practice internship and decided to go back to art --- ' cheeks flush and he laughs ; he doesn't dare to pry at sebastian's turn , deeply curious as he remained to the other's work . ' he was really cool . he always seemed to know what he was doing when he was making art , hiwatari-kun too , i think . i'm not really anything special , especially compared to them ... '

humility blends in warmly with a loitering sense of shame .

' really --- really-really , i don't think i could give you good advice or critiques even if i tried . not to mention , since i was the one who asked you to draw something for me in the first place , if i were to suddenly get all nit-picky or something over it when i probably couldn't do any better , i'd feel ... um , really mean . '

[ouroborosorder]

VFX ask! You've mentioned before that Jessica the Liberated has notably good bullet and glass shattering VFX, would you be willing to break down what makes them stand out?

Okay yes absolutely I will, and in order to do so, I am going to briefly talk about Arknights' history of guns because this is my feed and you can't stop me. This one will probably be long. I wanted it to be short. But it is not.

Guns in AK's worldbuilding are extremely rare, with only Blacksteel, Lateran, and collab ops wielding guns. So there's a sort of weight towards making the rare gun wielder... feel like they're using a gun, making them feel distinct from a crossbow.

Early on, AK did this in a very very simple way. Simple, single color muzzle flash, impact spark, no visible projectile. All the guns worked hitscan, which did really help to sell the illusion of a gun, it hits instantly.

Exusiai even amps it up a little and adds a visible bullet trail when she's in Unloading Mode!

But for a time, because of how rare guns were, that was kinda... It. After Nacho Cheese Executor, the next wielder of a traditional gun was the Rainbow 6 Siege Operators?? Really??

R6S is extremely important. Being from a shooter-ass shooter game, they had a lot of reason to make them feel like real guns. So what does Ash do? Well!

That's a VISIBLE BULLET baby!

It's WILD that removing the single biggest trait about guns - that they are instant - does a LOT to actually help sell that it is a Real Gun.

But on top of that, they do a few interesting things. The muzzle flash isn't just a single flash, it's a semi-realistic looking muzzle flash that also releases sparks. The bullet trail emits sparks as well, eschewing AK's stylization for the sake of making it feel like a Real Bullet Trail. This really helps sell the

Even on the impact, there's no Textures or traditional bursts to be found - instead it is black, white, and red sparks alongside a very very layered flash of light. This is really unique in AK, and it serves brilliantly to juxtapose the R6S ops within the world of Terra, while still being over-the-top enough to fit in within the game's cartoony artstyle.

What's interesting is that these choices carried forwards in the future! Enforcer has very realistic-looking muzzle smoke with Ash's black/white/red sparks. Meanwhile, Insider has a visible bullet and sparks coming out of the muzzle flash!

Also I just barely noticed while writing this but all the Lateran use the shape of their wings as part of their effects! Exusiai's bullet trails are triangular like her wings, Ezell's impacts are dark iregular polygons with a lip like his, Insider's trail is rectangular like his, and Cool Ranch Executor's shots are shattered diamonds that fade to black as they get closer to him. Neat!! That's SUPER fucking cool.

(Also notable is that Exusiai and Ezell's effects are the only lateran guns that don't have a predominantly white aesthetic. Just a little treat for Exu Errari Believers)

So, with a history of four ops with Real Guns and a bunch with weird magic guns, how do you make an operator whose gimmick is that she is definitively Terran who also uses a fuck ton of Guns?

Jessica's muzzle flash is a realistic-esque flash that quickly fades into a burst texture. She gives off a few sparks like Ash does, but there are few of them, and they're really large for stylization. Also her bullet is much larger, but is distinctly a realistic bullet.

I wish so badly I could get footage of this one properly but an image will have to do. The trail of the bullet is a rotating mesh spiralling like the bullet is rotating. Also the bullet itself is glowing, allowing it to stand out better against the background.

And when it hits, hooooly shit. There's blurry, semi-realistic looking light textures flying off the enemy, sparks, and the same hitflash she has on her muzzle flash (cool asset reuse there!) They went all out to show the impact of her shot, since it is a Real Ass gun.

AND ALL THIS FLAIR AND DRAMA FOR JUST HER NORMAL ATTACK. THIS IS OFF-SKILL. When she's on-skill...

WHOO. WHOOOO. WHOOOO.

The muzzle flashes become longer to sell a BIG impact, but they last MUCH shorter (this muzzle flash lasts one single frame), since all her skills are rapid-fire, making it feel like bigger shots in less time. The impacts become ABSURDLY BIG. And then. My absolute favorite part of the whole thing.

(These are Not The Texture, but a similar, oft-mistaken cousin of The Texture.)

This fucking followthrough. Every hit on an enemy creates a burst of shattered glass and fire. I would not have thought of adding EITHER of these, but I love it. It's a great call to her art, it's unique and distinct, and even though it can be "where is the glass coming from" it's so cool i don't care. I literally saw it and gasped and went "I have never seen this before." It adds great color contrast, conveys the armor-piercing nature of her bullets, adds unique shapes, makes it look more chaotic, I can't praise these glass shards enough, I love them, they're so cool.

Fortunately for you, Jessica's skills all kinda look the same, so I don't have much more to say about this. I like that her S3's muzzle flashes create more chaotic sparks, creating the look of a wild, uncontrollable spray and pray strat. I like that she fires multiple shots and muzzle flashes but only shoots one bullet, but you rarely ever notice it because of the weight of the impact.

But I have one final thing to say.

BEHIND HER IN HER S3 SHE HAS AN ACTUAL ROILING, BURNING, MOVING FLAME. WHY IS HOEDERER BEING SHOWN UP BY JESSICA. WHAT THE FUCK.

[w0lp3rtinger]

Hooooly shit. Finally did it.

weeping You don't understand- Two people left the nicest comments, and as such, I had to get this out by the end of the year.

Thank you to @killingthecringe, @lambpaca, and @shadowsfascination for looking this over. Truly- I could not have put this chapter out had these three not put their eyeballs on it.

Also, I notice when people write about Shadow's 'immortality' (debatable) or 'regenerative powers' they write it as if it's immediate. I always liked the representation in Sonic Brawl, however. In that game, Shadow HAS a health regen move, but it's literally the worst in the game. Secondly, in that very game, he gets shot by Eggman drones for using an abandoned base as a shelter since he's homeless, and he's literally out on Rouge's couch for several days healing. Finally, should we not mention SA2? That critter should have died, and would have were it not for Eggman's help. As such, I think it takes a little longer than a lot of people think it would.

Anyway, enough of my rambling. I hope you like this!

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Shadow was exhausted. 

He ran his hands down his face as he sat on the bench of the locker room. His breathing was painful, shaky as his body worked in overdrive to warm him from the freezing rains of Holoska. The sounds of dripping water against the floor echoed through his head along with the pounding of his heart. 

Thick was the stench of battle on him. It stuck to his skin like tar. There was no doubt he’d find gun casings stuck there in his quills, along with a few bullets that nearly made their target. 

A few holes where they did. 

Shadow grit his teeth, sinking deeper into his hands.

[userautumn]

i've been thinking about this lately but the thing about canon buddie is that... there's so much buck and eddie have not talked about. and it's gone from being a we (the viewers) need to see them address this kind of thing to being a how the fuck are these characters meant to address all of this? kind of thing. for context, here's a noncomprehensive list of things buck and eddie have simply Not Talked About:

buck's feelings about watching eddie get shot (grieving spouse)

eddie's feelings about watching buck die (grieving spouse)

the will

the way their intimacy exists on both platonic and romantic levels

the fact that they were kidnapped together

buck and christopher's entire relationship and how/why buck became his second in command

some other stuff too, but you get my drift. these are such significant things that neither the narrative nor the characters themselves have addressed. and at some point, it goes from being aw fuck this is gonna be so juicy when they talk about this to being hooooly fuck, there are so many layers of emotions wrapped up in these events that have completely changed the way they interact with each other and it's overwhelming to consider how they could possibly dive into all of these events that have shaped who/how they are to each other while still giving each event the gravitas and weight they deserve. like, from where i'm standing, the only thing that could completely bypass the need to unpack all of this is a Big Moment that encompasses [waves hand] all of that (trapped dads anyone?). but without that, it's like. fuck. there's so much. there's Too Much.

[11vein]

gonna be honest i thought rbb was a trans allegory, especially in the sense of discovering yourself throught the help of the internet. of course i know reckless battery burns technically isn't that in qualia automata and there's no deep meaning in the song itself but it's still smth that i saw when connecting dots (and not actually connecting shit) and went "hooooly fuck" at it all.

regardless i'm excited for what Team 6X111 has in store for both THaB and QA!! the teams songs and art have been a huge inspiration for me and I can't thank you guys enough for what ya do :-)

well to be fair, tamari was made with the thought “oh you are sooo transgender” . so its completely valid to get those vibes from rbb even without a full meaning to the song

thank you!! im excited for our future stuff as well

also rbb is part of qualia automata but we only started working on the lore like halfway through rbb so thats why its so disconnected as it was meant to be a one-shot (our asses get too attached to the characters we make tho so we ended up making lore loLL)

[windrunner]

can’t tell if it was the shot or how hot i’ve been running but. wow i went to bed at around 1:30 am and i Just woke up. hooooly shit

[pastafossa]

pasta i met charlie on saturday and im still recovering

he is So Sweet and his hands are So Big And Warm and he hugs So Good

YESSSS! There's DEFINITELY a floaty dopamine period after meeting him! And then you get little shots of it every time you think of it or see the pic or have a chance to go 'I MET HIM!' when you see him on your dash!

He really is absolutely the sweetest, 100% nicest celeb I've met. And hands are hooooly shit yes, BIG (my hands felt so small, it was lovely) AND HIS ARMS ARE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT FOR HUGGING.

I need to make a bunch of money so I can go again and get another photo. 😂

[alukaforyou]

hooooly fcking shit i have to tell yall smth nuts, WARNING there r semi detailed mentions AND A PIC of HUGE SYRINGES / NEEDLES

oookay so last month nyc got a heat wave and it was SO hot i was a sweaty gorl and not happy abt it, like hate summer too?? and then i remembered watching korean tv and these celebs were talking abt how they got underarm BOTOX cuz that stops you from sweating??? and i was like huh should i try that? but after doing some research, its not permanent. like hello im not gonna spend $ and have needles in my PITS for it to last a few months u kno?? but then i found this laser thing called miradry which is permanent, like its mainly used to treat hyperhydrosis which i dont even have so i thought the results would be stellar for regular ol' me right?? and they make it sound soo painless like "u can do it in ur lunchbreak and go back to work!" bruh u absolutely cannot go back to work after this LMFAO so i went to this veteran nyc med dude to do it today and HOLY SHIT IT HURT LIKE A MF-ER LIKE ACTUALLY WTF

so before they can go in w the laser they have to numb ur whole ass pit by injecting numbing fluid(?) which also protects ur nerves ok got it. i was expecting like. a normal shot right? hell no. so first i think they prelim numb u with a normal syringe shot business it was fine. BUT THEN THEY TAKE OUT THIS SHIT?

i swear to GOD it was the biggest mfing syringe i have ever seen in my LIFE i wish i took a pic so u guys can believe me, the needle was THICK AS FCK and also like TWICE as long as the pic above like for real it was at least a 4 inch needle i wish i was exaggerating but it was comically long & big i was like what the f? obvs i couldnt SEE what was going on but it FELT LIKE the whole 4 inches was going INTO my skin over and over again cuz u have to inject that fluid all over everywhere it was sooo crazy, the doc was basically f*king my armpits with this needle, AND!!!!! THEY PUT 3 FRICKIN SYRINGES WORTH OF FLUID!!! ON EACH SIDE??? HELLOOOO!!!!!!! from a scale of 1 to 10 that was a solid 15 😐😐😐 the actual lasering part wasnt bad, it felt like a crazy hard pinch with HEAT in some parts but i was so taken aback by that needle action, the laser part was negligible. i was such a champ for it tho like didnt even bat an eye outwardly, the tech was like wow ur the first person i've done that didnt even flinch. yes i didnt show it naruto ninja style but that was nuts yall u guys rly Did That LOL

needless to say, since a FCKTON of fluid is in my damb PITS they are sooo swollen, like the upper inner arm, the pit itself, underneath it nxt to ur b00b its frickin whack over there 😐 like tell me how my armpits have jiggle physics. thats full of water babey!!!! oh my god they are sooo sore and painful kms the hubris of it all i shouldve been ok w a normal amount of sweat LOLOL like appropriate levels for the heat but dambbb i rly tried it🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀 yall there needs to be a disclaimer do NOT get this shit done UNLESS u ACTUALLY have excess sweating that is actively ruining ur daily life because rn it feels like my armpits are in LABOR :) i just paid 2.3k to torture myself, but since its done & all, i hope im an armpit-sweatless bitch for the rest of my life

[yzafre]

Holy shit, it's done. My 3 year fanfic project is DONE. HOoooly shit. Fuck. Like, what do I even do with myself? It's done! I don't even know what I'm going to do next. Not commit myself to another big project for at minimum six months, I know that much, but.

All the ideas I've been sorta putting in the backlog or only dabbling in because I've only got so much bandwidth and it was all tied up in the KH fic - they're all on the table now.

How do I decide what to work on? I've got all these things to choose from now:

More animatics. I've proved to myself I can do them so now every idea I've ever had is up for grabs.

Mega Man Legends stuff. What does that mean? I don't know but there's not enough of it on the internet I've decided.

My DBQ2 "builder ascends" series re-write/AU thing. Could work on that.

That thing where I was drafting an outline for a theoretical Danny Phantom reboot? Like I don't want to actually right it as a series. But it might be fun to write a theoretical episode list?

TMNT stuff. No seriously SO MUCH TMNT stuff

I've been wanting to do a Rise re-watch specifically looking at and listing out the magic that appears in the show, to see if I can get a grasp on the ridiculously squishy magic system. I'd write out my thoughts episode-by-episode on that.

I've got an idea for a sort of "missing episode" Rise one-shot nestled inside the 4-part finale, featuring the turtles (trying to) learn from Karai.

Do more with the TMNT 2012 Mikey changes the timeline idea I've messed with a bit maybe. This one I feel weird about because it originates from someone else, but I have no way to get in contact with them and ask if they're okay with me taking off from their idea...

Sometimes I just want to sit down and synthesize my thoughts on all the 2012 characters, and interesting moments/traits dropped in and then forgotten about by the show, and how I imagine they could have been incorporated into clearer series-long arcs.

Especially for April. I have a lot of thoughts about 2012 April's potential, as I'm sure many do. I could write out all my thoughts and plot points and everything I want for her.

Also OC stuff. I've been having fun already over on my side-blog making a bunch of headcanons about the 2012 Foot Clan, which includes tentatively drafting characters to fill out the ranks. I can do more with that.

Also my 2012 mutant OC, and associated characters. I have a full-on story in my head to merge her with canon that might be fun to actually put out there.

Same with my Rise OC! Though that's admittedly less well developed. But just, in general, indulging the dreams of my teenage self and writing stories with all my OCs in it. You're never too old to live your dreams.

And there's! Probably more I'll come up with! My creative bandwidth is no longer constrained by this one project taking up more than half of it and the freedom is both exhilarating and daunting what do I do with myself???

Holy shit.

[melanodis]

I must be a lightweight when it comes to pain because hooooly shit my arms are in agony after just getting shots... maannn

[abyssalcunters]

god DAMN ambrose has such a fucking bullet of a shot hooooly shit