#I CANNOT EXPRESS THIS ENOUGH

[ozlices]

as a death game connoisseur i may be ahead of myself but e1 of s2 alone puts squid game on a level far beyond anything any other death game media has ever made me feel or experience. just,, holy SHIT man

[revenantghost]

So... I just found this free papercraft.......

I don't suppose anyone in The Trigun fandom has a clean Bride logo they'd be willing to let me use to make this?

[aetherphobia]

Sometimes, with the current prices of halos, I sometimes have the urge to throw away all of my self respect out into orbit and become an RH stripper or something. Just become an absolute hoe via kitty dancing for a good 20 minutes and get rewarded with expensive shit for looking pretty and doing jack shit.

It's tough times out in RH rn. I mean- gotta respect the grind!

Obviously I'm not gonna do that. But this is a shower thought that sounded amusing enough to post.

[nishaapologist]

like i get it. y'all're thinking 'murphy why do you care so much about a tumblr poll' but if you didn't play fo3 and experienced the agonising wait for fo4 to come out? i just. it is so hard to find the words for the disappointment i experienced. sarah is such an iconic part of fo3 don't even hate about it, and i love her to bits, and then the next game comes out with All New Returning Friends like maxson and maccready and shit like that and what do we get? a terminal entry where one line mentions she died off-screen. to Something.

i honestly wouldn't even wish that experience onto someone. it was DEVASTATING. im still enraged about it. so if i must do anything for my girl i must have her become The fridged character. the one the writers really, actually, genuinely couldn't figure shit out for.

[lil-tumbles]

Watching House MD and ffs every one of those emotionally devestating "he hurts everyone around him" moments would be 1000% more impactful and angsty if they were fucking. Seriously, I cannot undersell how much pain I'd be in if they were fucking. Would make so much difference to the emotions and nothing else. Not difference to the plot, just angst and fuckery.

[ozymoron]

people who draw herbert with a hairy chest i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you

[mytardisisparked]

The reason Psych is the Important Show of All Time is because it said "friendship is the MOST important thing." Like, yes, the romances were good but the show spends even more time emphasizing and developing the friendships and that's why it rocks. Lassiter and Juliet love and support each other unconditionally without even the slightest whiff of romance and it is SO. REFRESHING. When Juliet almost dies, Lassie sacrifices his favorite gun to save her without any hesitation. He's the one there to hold her while she cries. She's his confidant. She leaves everything she knows behind so he can chase his dream of being chief without reprocussion. That's a deep, wholesome kind of platonic love. They also never had Shawn be jealous of how close Jules and Lassie are - instead, in the final episode, we see Shawn thanking Lassie for loving and supporting Juliet. We simply don't do that jealousy crap here. Lassie and Jules are best friends and that's an excellent thing. And then there's Shawn and Gus. Those characters are narratively and physically inseperable. The show makes it VERY clear that, without the other, neither one is complete. They balance each other and exacerbate each other's hijinks at the same time. They're closer than close and everyone around them just accepts it. It's just the way those two dumb boys are and no one is going to try to get between that. And then, of course, SO many friendships develop over the course of the show. Lassie and Shawn form a begrudging friendship eventually. Juliet and Karen end up bonding more than I think either expected. Friendship is the beating heart of this series and it's presented in a way that is unique and fun and I just don't see a lot of other shows that do it like Psych did.

[newttxt]

this is when i come clean and admit i sketched some stuff based on my own fic :///

(the full version is on my bsky, but its not actually explicit. tmblr just has Odd Rules)

[astrababyy]

i hate rhysand with every fiber of my being. like *objectively* he’s the worst out of all of them. but cassian… man, that guy brings out another LEVEL of hatred inside me. like the way he’s so *shudder* about the way he acts towards nesta and how he STILL got the girl in the end will never cease to make me hate life.

IMPORTANT

[commsroom]

sweetheart, baby, darlin', and so on. 💞 (by @jamisonrivv)

[mysunfreckle]

The Freckling, now fully upgraded to toddler, has begun gleefully screeching at the top of their lungs whenever they have nothing to say but are nevertheless full of desires and feelings. In an attempt to curb these sonic attacks the husband has started to just Gaze Calmly in deliberate silence whenever it happens, until the Freckling starts to mirror him.

I'm a big fan because it really seems to help co-regulate their mood. But it does mean I walk in on my husband and child sitting at the dinner table like:

[maxx-the-queer]

The Siege at Weisshaupt is honestly one of the best missions of any Dragon Age game, let alone Veilguard.

The stakes are already high: kill an Archdemon and then kill Ghilan'nain.

Killing an Archdemon - the big bad at the end of Origins whose very presence means apocalypse and certain sacrifice - is just the first step to killing an even greater force.

Ghilan'nain - an Ancient Elven Goddess blighted beyond recognition, whose unchecked ambition unleashed great horrors upon the world - is the real threat to face or else the Darkspawn Army will be the least of Thedas' worries.

The leader of the Grey Wardens, the only mortal force who have thus far been able to protect Thedas from utter annihilation, categorically refuses to face reality. Rook only has a ragtag team of half a dozen guys from all over to face an entire Darkspawn army with.

It's exactly as terrifying and daunting as it sounds, and neither task is something anyone treats with any amount of levity. Everyone is confident in their abilities to perform their task and get Lucanis to the right place to finish this contract, but there's no playfulness or divine certainty about their success.

Rook, whose only game plan is "get in and win by any means necessary," is then immediately confronted with the reality of their situation as absolutely everything goes wrong.

The Eluvian isn't where they thought it would be, the Grey Wardens are overwhelmed by Ghilan'nain's forces, and just to add to the sheer horror - there's a young child running through this battlefield of Darkspawn in search of her father and she will not listen to your pleas for her to get to safety.

All of that happens in the first ten minutes of the mission, mind you. This isn't even including the fact that Ghilan'nain appears as a damn spectral cloud face - which Lucanis rightfully points out is who he has to kill and "how am I supposed to kill a damn cloud?!"

Rook runs through the fortress, makes it to the East Battlements and hears the sounding of a horn begging for reinforcements, only to realise that they're the only ones coming and everything is falling apart, but they have no choice but to keep going.

Retreats are called, everywhere Rook goes is the wrong way, the forces are overwhelming beyond measure, and this battle is no longer about killing but surviving, because they're cornered like prey by horrors beyond comprehension.

When all of a sudden, the world's bravest little girl rushes in like a hero and guides them through impossible odds to somewhere with some semblance of safety. She's the only reason they haven't succumbed to death already and despite the waves upon waves of Hurlocks, Spikers, and Ogres - she finds her father.

Thanks to Mila, there's a moment of reprieve. Rook gets a chance to breathe. The Veilguard regroups, replans their approach. Distract Ghilan'nain with the dagger, trap her Archdemon in a dragon trap, and kill it to render her mortal. With time to breathe comes time to doubt, to fear.

A Warden has to die to kill the Archdemon. Davrin knows this, and is ready to go. But is Rook? What if they can't do this? What if this is how they die? Can they even spare the time to think about it?

Regardless, they fight through to the dragon trap. The Archdemon approaches as Rook all but dangles the dagger within reach. She takes the bait and sends her Archdemon forth, it seems all too easy - like putting cheese out for the mice.

The Archdemon is trapped. Davrin says his goodbyes, but the First Warden surges forward insistently. He plans to end this according to tradition. He'll die with dignity, he's not asking for your permission to do what all wardens must. He steps forward. Sword in hand, ready to end the Blight.

Ghilan'nain will not be so easily beat. She will not play by the rules they're used to, and the First Warden does not get to die a hero. She seizes him in her grasp, sucks the life out of him to empower Razikale, and changes the game once more. Her Archdemon is unlike any seen in history, and there's no time to revel in it because it's do or die and Rook cannot afford to die yet.

Every blow brings it closer to death, and therefore Ghilan'nain herself as she becomes more and more desperate. One snakelike head becomes two, becomes three, with blight everywhere - the time is at hand.

Davrin is the only one left who can kill the Archdemon, his death is inevitable, and he's ready to go as he sinks his sword in for the final blow.

Except, if there's one thing this seige should have taught them all, it was this: the rules have changed. Davrin is still standing, and he doesn't have time to think about why, because Ghilan'nain is mortal and the time to strike is now.

Rook tosses the Lyrium Dagger to Lucanis. He surges up, wings of Spite propelling him up to kill a goddess like she's any other target, because it's all that he came here to do.

And then, he misses.

With everything at stake, and everything to lose... Lucanis Dellamorte misses.

They don't have time to try again. If they stay, everyone dies. And so, the Veilguard flees through the Eluvian and back into the Lighthouse. It was a victory, but at what cost?

Nothing is how it's supposed to be. Weisshaupt is fallen. The Wardens are scattered. Razikale is dead, Ghilan'nain is mortal. And yet...

It wasn't enough.

[bittasol]

smile, iruma! | hey ive been here before

[applecherry108]

💜Leviathan 💜🌓🎭

[nukbody]

@dead-finch-420 threatened me only 40% so i better take my chances, but being completely honest having look at those old sketches made me just wanna redraw them all so here we are

[all-too-unwell-13]

once i read a fic that, in the notes, said that evan calls barty "bat" like a wooden bat, and pandora calls barty "bat" like the animal and when i tell you that has stuck with me ever since

(the same fic also said that evan calls barty "bee" like the letter "b," but pandora calls him "bee" like the animal and that too has stuck with me)