#I’d be pleased. okay.

[monards]

there should be a tierlist on the different shades of hair rhinedottir can possibly have for people to argue over

[stark-lord]

Which could, of course, mean nothing.

+ bonus

[sukunastoy]

~Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 17~

[selfinserttothestars]

Been thinking about @crystallizsch ‘s snake hair art lately

[apostaterevolutionary]

I am so sorry, apparently it’s 2024 and I’m arguing about dragon age again lmao. How did I get here! Why is this happening!! Time is a flat circle!!!

Anyway. People can feel how they want about the past games not mattering in this game. If you’re cool with it, I’m happy for you. But there’s one particular argument in defence of this choice that is really, really bothering me and I have to rant

The thing I keep seeing is “well all this other stuff has nothing to do with the main plot or Rook, so it should be cut” and that’s. Not a good way to tell stories in my opinion. Because here’s the thing: it’s not about the Big Overall Plot. It’s about the characters that live in this world, big and small

I’m going to use the example of Varric and Hawke cause I think it’s the easiest to explain quickly. Varric is a storyteller. That’s the defining trait of his character. He tells stories, and sometimes they’re true and sometimes they’re not and sometimes it’s something in between. In DA2 he tells you about his brother. In inquisition, he talks about hawke and there’s banter about several of the companions. Most of these are just little one liners that don’t “serve the overall plot” but they serve Varric’s character

And that matters

So if we take this character known for telling stories about people that have been in his life, well, he largely can’t do that now. How can he talk about Hawke, someone who can be a very close friend of his, without even their gender being a choice you can select? Or whether Varric should be saying ‘is’ or ‘was’ about them? How can he talk about the companions in DA2 or inquisition when a lot of them don’t have to be recruited or can die? Will he limit himself to only characters that are guaranteed to be a part of it and alive? Or is it that he and Rook will have such a shallow relationship that Varric, of all characters, never talks about his life and past exploits?

Or has Varric as a character changed so much that he doesn’t even want to tell stories anymore? That Hawke living or dying means nothing to him? That the friendships he built with people in 2 games mean nothing to him? That he’s become literally unrecognizable?

This is where the problem is. Sure, Rook maybe doesn’t care about these people they’ve never met. But do they care about Varric? What about if a companion mentions an old friend of theirs, talks about an experience they had that made them who they are - is that only okay if that experience isn’t from a previous game? Or are all the characters so flat that we never learn anything about their connections to others outside of Rook? Is this story SO focused on this player character and this plot that NOTHING else matters, even within the world, and there’s no depth to be found in any of the characters that feature in it?

Writing characters so that they only ever talk about things that “directly serve the plot” is how you get flat, unremarkable, boring, forgettable characters. And that’s not something I would have accused bioware of doing even if some instalments are stronger in this area than others. But it sounds like that’s what they’re doing here, at least with the past characters. Cause sure, maybe Morrigan is so closed off she’ll never mention her son and partner. That’s believable, even if iffy given that they’ve said she’s going to be more involved than we think. But Varric? VARRIC??? Never mentioning ANY of the people he used to spend time with and care about except Solas and maybe some of the inquisition characters that can’t die or not be recruited but also carefully skirting around what happened to them in the game? That’s literally not the same character

And I would expand this to like. A letter mentioning this or a codex mentioning that, or ambient dialogue about so and so - that makes the world feel deep and those random, unimportant NPCs feel richer by connecting them to the larger world. It’s not about “serving the plot”, it’s about making your world and characters deep enough that they feel real, lived in, and like something we can actually care about

[javierpena-inatacvest]

JAVIER PEÑA GIRLIES, RISE UP!!!! OUR TIME HAS COME ONCE AGAIN!!!!! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[boos-gh0st]

Guys please I love drawing ISAT but how the FUCK DO I DRAW SIFFRINS CLOAK IN DIFFERENT POSES IM GOING INSANE IT NEVER LOOKS RIGHT

[daffi-990]

Seven(ish) Sentence Sunday ✍️

Tagged by @diazsdimples @giddyupbuck and @wikiangela. Thank you lovelies mwah 😘

Have a little something from LA Lonely -> this is after the fun and orgasms of Buck and Eddie’s hook up. Still don’t know if I’m going to go full spice 🌶️ or just do a quick little run down of things.

Prev snippet & mood board here

Buck expects him to start pulling his clothes on and to give him the whole “this was fun, but I gotta bounce” speel, but Eddie surprises him by climbing back into bed and nudging Buck to roll onto his side so Eddie can scoot up behind him and hold him.

Buck freezes for a moment because no one does this. They have their fun and then they leave. They don’t stay and they definitely don’t cuddle.

Eddie must feel him go tense because his hold loosens and he moves as if he’s about to pull away. “Is this okay?”

Buck grabs at the arms that are wrapped around him, stopping Eddie’s descent. “Y-yeah. It’s-it’s okay.” He pulls at Eddie’s arms and the man settles back behind him, burrowing his face into the juncture where Buck’s neck meets his shoulder as he shuffles closer.

Soft kisses are pressed into his skin and Buck is helpless but to relax back into Eddie, letting the comfort and warmth of whatever is happening wrap around him.

“Stay?” He whispers, not sure if Eddie can hear him but not being brave enough to say it any louder. He feels like he’s asking too much.

A kiss behind his ear. “Okay.”

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[spineless-lobster]

Okay but like the way nyx revived zagreus and essentially gave him life for a second time thus being his mother but like not his birthmother but also more than a foster mother do you understand me?????

[lyrker]

PLUSHIE JOHN IS REAL !!! (+ crochet pattern !!)

he is SO goofy looking . so small and angry i love him sm <3

Want to make your very own Little Guy ? Well i was smart enough to write down the pattern, so you can make your very own eldritch horror blorbo plushie !!

he is crochet, you can’t knit this .

(I used a 4.0 mm hook)

Head (black yarn)

1: sc 6 in mc (6)

2: inc in each st around (12)

3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)

4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24)

5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)

6: (4 sc, inc) x6 (36)

7: (5 sc, inc) x6 (42)

8-14: sc each st around

15: (5 sc, dc) x6 (36)

16: (4 sc, dc) x6 (30)

17: (3 sc, dc) x6 (24)

18: (2 sc, dc) x6 (18)

19: (sc, dc) x6 (12)

20: dc all around

fasten off and leave a long tail for stitching together later !!

hood (yellow yarn)

1: sc 6 st in mc (6)

2: inc in each st (12)

3: (sc,inc) x6 (18)

4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24)

5: (3 sc, inc) x6 (30)

6: (4 sc, inc) x6 (36)

7: (5 sc, inc) x6 (42)

8: (6 sc, inc) x6 (48)

9-16: sc in each st

you can add more rounds to make the hood longer if you like ! make sure to test and stuff Johns head into it to find your preferred hood length.

Body (black yarn)

1: 6 sc in mc (6)

2: inc each st (12)

3: (sc, inc) x6 (18)

4: (2 sc, inc) x6 (24)

5: (3 sc, inc) x6 (30)

6: (4 sc, inc) x6 (36)

7: (5 sc, inc) x6 (42)

8: (6 sc, inc) x6 (48)

9-11: sc each st

12: (6 sc, dc) x6 (42)

13: (5 sc, dc) x6 (36)

14: sc each st around (36)

15: sc each st around (36)

16: (4 sc, dc) x6 (30)

17: sc each st around (30)

18: sc each st around (30)

19: (3 sc, dc) x 6 (24)

20: sc each st around (24)

21: (2 sc, dc) x6 (18)

Fasten off and leave a long tail for stitching later !!

Horns (I used a 3.0 mm hook) (Black yarn)

Make two !!

1: 3 sc in mc (3)

2: inc in each st around (6)

3: (sc, inc) x3 (9)

Cape (I use a 3.0 mm hook) (Yellow yarn)

Chain 14. I used half double crochet but you can use whatever you like, it just has to wrap around mini John nicely. in the case of my plush i did 32 rows of half double crochet.

Sewing together:

Sew on the horns first, and then do the eyes. I embroidered mine in, but you can use whatever you like !!

for the cape, sew a button into one top corner. in the other corner, chain enough to loop over the button and then slip stitch into the same side as the chain to make a loop.

I recommend using the string from the body rather than the head to stitch, but use whichever is more comfortable with you. go layer by layer and slow. you are stitching together the head, hood and body all at one time.

Then, you have made a mini John. Take care of him !! Or not, he deserves to go in a salad spinner, too.

[alluralater]

pls stop trying to make me as a lesbian feel more comfy by clarifying yourself as afab nonbinary. I DONT CARE <3<3<3 nonbinary is nonbinary is nonbinary, you know?? do you get me? are you reading me?? agab doesn’t matter to me. don’t undermine your identity to me. i fucking adore who you are !!!

[lady-grace-pens]

Slow writers of tumblr: has anyone figured out The Key to not comparing yourself to your peers who hit massive word counts daily? Or is this something we all struggle with together?

[kayzero]

hello, fellow zero escape fans, i need your help with something

i’m trying to explore the world of vlr, an Earth ravaged by Radical-6, and how such a world might change Sigma Klim so drastically from pervy unserious college kid to one of the greatest omnidisciplinary scientists that has ever or will ever exist

but i don’t know everything, or even a lot of things, so i don’t know what topics to explore. but i am Very Good at rationalizing things i know very little about.

this is where you come in. please send me comments, reblogs, DMs, and asks with topics to write about from the POV of Sigma Klim. anything will do as long as it relates to the VLR timeline in some way, but more specifically i’m looking for things that fit in these three categories:

What Went Wrong (micro, local events, reports from crash keys. e.g. perception of free the soul cult rallies from ‘crazy rambling asshole’ to ‘prophetic messiah’)

What Changed (macro, global events, e.g. antimatter bombs and rhizome construction)

What Sigma Learned (science stuff of all sizes, as minor as clockwork as dexterity exercises or as major as robotic prosthesis)

[sracha]

fan art I made of summer and raven making out and dying in a glue trap together.

[xayspancakeee]

pancake screams: shimmering midnight (Xavier)

okay, after finally ending the day and being able to just sit down and watch the trailer for the new banner, girl I have want to scream:

one, I was not expecting it to be a movie-esque theme? but I am pleasantly surprised. 😉 the bgm’s goooodddd.

uhm, HELLO?! we get a pouty xayxay whose jealous of his OWN alter ego Lumiere? good god this man is just crumbling my sanity. 😮‍💨

(like, let me just bite this bunny pls) 💋💋

YOU KNOW ID ALWAYS CHOOSE YOU IN A HEARTBEAT. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. (especially when you cage me like that 😮‍💨)

the new couple pose? IMMACULATE.

(yes just let me get lost in your eyes) 👀

don’t look at me like that. it’s too much adorable. this behind the scenes portion is also sweet. getting to see xav in a professional? setting outside of hunter duties is refreshing!

now this, this right here is what took me out. I had to take a minute to pause and just stare at him, ITS TOO CUTE. (like, I know he’s angry but come on, can you really get mad at this face? 🥺♥️♥️♥️)

the costumes for this new companion are a fave of mine personally. I can’t wait to use this new companion. 🥰 the combat is also raddd. excited to also see how this all ties in to his story lore/ myth?

13th May couldn’t come quicker. I can’t wait! okay thanks byeeeeee 👋🏻

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

ah I see what they’ve done