#LakeSide Games

[strange-and-unusual-bibelot]

I just really like that little part when possessed Cybil is riding the horse on the Merry-go-round waiting to fight Harry, in Silent Hill, its just a fun little animation they did for the game and it gives it a little more personality.

[vastilyric]

[teamsilenthills]

What’s your favourite subtle detail in the SILENT HILL video games?

[tokumei1ka]

2 a.m. Rain

[eeveekitti]

CHAT. YOU SEE THIS SCREENSHOT RIGHT. I KNOW THERE'S A CAT IMAGE MEME THING OUT THERE THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THIS ITS JUST WITH A BROWN TABBY CAN ANYONE HELP ME FIND IT

[image from @bright--paws THANK YOU SIFFRIN]

[abbysthighs]

I really want to use these as reference photos for some landscape painting! I'm trying to get used to digital art "brushes" on my iPad. Digital art is definitely more accessible for me, but it's hard to get used to compared to the "real thing" (I did studio art in college so I am technically classically trained).

[anymorener]

[gallimaufryish]

[betweenthetimeandsound]

Dead Darlings (tag game)

Thanks @lexiklecksi for tagging me here!

Recently, I've been editing scenes for a musical I've written. It made me look back to a pivotal scene from it, in which Andrei Petrescu, the student body president, tries to go on a spiel. Either way, Elizabeth is encouraged to make a move, but I'm not sure how to approach it.

Andrei:

You see, we are all college-bound, but we are all in trouble. We have senior year issues to deal with: setting the tone for the underclassmen, leading our various clubs, assuring the school wouldn’t fall apart after our graduation. (Lifts the sabre so that the point was near Diego’s neck, and makes him stare at him.) 

We were once innocent freshmen, and now we have been corrupted. We have to compete—we want to go to the college of our dreams, don’t we? (Beat as Diego tries to flick sabre away, but Andrei thrusts it again.) 

But me, I have a greater responsibility than you can ever conceive: leading the school! Not just all the classes, not just all that, but I was elected to the President’s office for a reason! 

I am bound to improve Lakeside School, no matter what it takes! She deserves a fair, beautiful, and established captain like me. Not like you, a slanderous, vain, and cynical sarcastic person.  

@aimeewai, @andromedaexists, what about you?

[c-aelii]

Hogwarts is my home

[amiharana]

some of my thoughts on link, zelda, and the champions

this post actually started off with me trying to answer the last part of this anon's ask, and then it spiraled into something else, so i'm going to have to make another post about the actual idea 😭 for now, you can have this long-ass fucking thinkpiece i typed up because i love the champions dearly and i wanted a much larger presence from them as i played botw. this post is really long so if you want to read it, please sit down and have a snack while you read.

so the last part of anon's original ask was about the champions singing together and the idea of a found family—

anonymous asked:

Also: imagine all champions, Link and Zelda hanging out on one of the Divine Beasts and singing a song together (i am very weak to champions being a found family)

like you're so #real for this anon. i honestly do hope we get more champions content in TOTK because nintendo completely missed on not expanding on a found family dynamic between link, zelda, and the champions. sure there's the champion's ballad DLC and age of calamity (i haven't played either of these. sorry. i will soon!), but that's not.. they're still dead in the DLC and AoC isn't considered canon i think it's more of an alternative timeline? so that doesn't really count.

me personally i think daruk and urbosa are very mother and father, and they probably were if riju and yunobo are their direct descendants (which is a whole other rabbit hole in itself; urbosa and daruk died most likely leaving little children and spouses behind ㅠㅠ). and maybe that is the point; daruk is the rock (because he's a goron lol) that keeps the family together and in the botw memories is seen to be taking initiative to lead and tell the other champions to get to their divine beasts when the calamity awakens. he’s steadfast and encouraging and jovial and that’s very father of him! as for urbosa, she straight up mothers zelda and link in-game, she's basically zelda's maternal figure after zelda's mom dies. she's not a stepmom, she's the mother that stepped up 💪❤️

mipha bears the Eldest Daughter Curse™ and revali is the moody teenager who’s Not going through a phase, it’s a LIFESTYLE MOM!!!1!1!1!1 and imo link and zelda kinda give goofy twin siblings (imagine like the pine twins) vibes to me

i like the headcanon that link had a younger sister pre-calamity, but i’d like to add my own twist to that. assuming that link used to live in hateno village, what if link's parents split after the birth of his younger sister, with his father taking link and moving closer to hyrule castle to fulfill his duty as a knight, and his mother not wanting to get involved with the war against the calamity and taking his sister to stay in hateno? link must have been really young at the time and barely remembers being able to play with his little sister :( so even if he had a sibling, he was basically raised alone for most of his life. and if his father was a knight of hyrule, i doubt that he could have been the most present father to link either... with zelda's mother dying when she was young and her father being a complete dick, that makes both link and zelda the "only child" kids that were raised in less than desirable familial conditions. and so, i think link and zelda would have their own difficulties integrating into this found family dynamic with the champions.

now i'm not an only child (i have demons for siblings tbh), but i think both link and zelda are very independent people who feel like they can only rely and trust themselves with the way they've been raised. it takes a lot for both of them to learn to be vulnerable and trust others, and they're very much not used to the mismatched deck of personalities they have to deal with within the champions, that being jolly father daruk, very cutthroat mother urbosa, sweet and soft-spoken mipha, and dickhead ass bitch bird revali. how can they navigate through these relationships with their lonely childhoods swept up in prophecies of old? it's much easier than you think and it has to do with anon's idea: strengthening rapport with each other by singing together atop a divine beast >:]

ok i'm joking, i think that's more the apex of the roadmap to becoming a found family, but it's a very cute idea 🥺 after link and zelda are finally cool with each other, there are so many opportunities for each of them to bond with the other champions individually. there's of course zelda falling asleep on mama urbosa in vah naboris, link and daruk have their father-son bonding time by daruk protecting link from getting smashed to a pulp by volcanic boulders, etc etc, but what about mipha taking zelda to all the monuments that detail zora history throughout the domain so that zelda can study them? what about revali teaching link how to use the paraglider so that he can actually hit targets at the flight range and get a chance to finally settle the score between him and link? i actually like that idea a lot, because then we could get an explanation as to why the paraglider even exists in the botw universe (revalink for the win ehehe). nintendo, my dear friend, there could be so much more to this world that you've introduced to us.

on one hand, of course botw is narratively focused on link and zelda and calamity ganon, and mechanically about the open-world map, shrines/divine beasts, etc, that break free from traditional zelda conventions. but it leaves the champions to only be side characters that, though they played critical roles in handling the divine beasts, are nothing more than ghostly figures with a handful of one-dimensional character traits that only create a further disconnect between the current world of hyrule vs. its pre-calamity past. which is why we get champion's ballad and age of calamity, which both somewhat expands on the champions as characters, but never more than giving them a few more traits and interactions that, to me personally, feel empty and inadequate. i want to have these intimate interactions with the champions as characters in the botw map, ones that i can walk up to chat with as though they were sidon or beedle or a random npc traveler. i want to feel close to the champions, and nintendo, though with weak attempts, doesn't give me that.

the picture that purah takes of the champions is so important to me. this right here is peak found family, a group of the most mismatched individuals that somehow meld perfectly together and balance each other out, and we only receive it through the DLC. that's so stupid. sorry nintendo, i want more than three minute long memories of a singular moment in a past life, i want more than npcs telling me who i used to be. i want king dorephan to tell us about the time zelda fell off of a waterfall and mipha immediately jumped after her to save her clumsy ass. i want to look through historical records of the gerudo and find one about urbosa launching daruk at the mouth of a molduking and daruk chewing her out for it later. i want elder kaneli gossip with me about an old rumor about how revali and the hylian champion of the past used to be found asleep together on the floor of the flight range's hut after a long night of training. i want the world of botw to give me signs and stories about how close the champions were with each other and to make my heart ache, to wish desperately to have known them, instead of like, 20 memories that only serve the plot, or honestly don't at all. but i digress!

i know for some people, the presence of the champions were meant to teach link about tragedy and loss and the effect of war and ruin and evil and cherishing your loved ones or whatever, but i simply did not get that message. that was not what i perceived the champions to be, because to me, the game lacked showing the relationships link and zelda had with the champions. like okay, you died and you also happened to know me. what if link doesn't really remember them at all? then what?

you receive twenty or so memories about the champions when including the DLC, and yes i do concede it gives us some more insight about their characters, but it doesn't do much more than that. the cutscene where mipha moves vah ruta to ready its lasers at the castle, where she wishes to see her father and sidon one more time, especially is an excellent example of emphasizing their significance to the people around them, to us as players and spectators to this hyrule... i want more of that.

i could be wrong about some of the stuff i've said, so disclaimer again that i haven't played the DLC or age of calamity, and maybe you do feel closer to the champions when you play those games! fanmade fic and art and headcanons have been really great ways of helping me view them in a multi-dimensional way, but going off the game's content itself, the champions feel like hollow spectres of people we never truly remember or get to know. maybe that's what they're supposed to feel like, but i don't want to feel that way about them. i'm too attached to them now, and i want to get to know them! curse you nintendo!!!

[massgalaxy]

LakeSide OST is now available on bandcamp! https://martynstonehouse.bandcamp.com/album/lakeside-original-soundtrack Made by Martyn Stonehouse, art by @kirokazepixel

[bisexualalistairtheirin]

Tvtropes dearest you are SO Dumb McStupid. Redcliffe looks WHAT?

[tokumei1ka]

My flight over Lakeside, Montana.

[espressomylove]

Skyline

[sara-ide]

Arthuriana And Card Games: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Okay this is so niche but as someone who both loves Arthuriana and was into Yu-Gi-Oh, the Noble Knight archetype is something that I've had on my radar for a while. I'm underwhelmed by it because Arthurian lore is so vast and the potential for adaptation into a card game is HUGE but I don't feel super strongly about the archetype otherwise. So just for fun, I wanted to share what I thought were some Unique decisions made in regards to both the archetype itself and its lore.

Notable ones include:

1: Mixing Arthurian characters actual Welsh names with its own alternative spellings (Medraut and Peredur vs Eachtar and Iyvanne)

2: Gawain and Mordred getting their own cards but lumping Gaheris, Agravaine and Gareth into one

3: Also having Lancelot, Hector de Maris and Bors get cards but NOT Lionel

4: Not to mention Bedwyr but no Cei

5: Lancelot becoming a villain and killing Arthur because (checks notes) his sword got infected with Mordred's blood and it corrupted him?

6: Lancelot being the one to kill Mordred (Hence corruption via blood)

7: Lancelot having Excalibur in "Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn"

These are the ones that stick out to me personally but there might be more I glanced over.