#MAKE THEM BELIEVE

[dleena2023]

IT'S QUATERFINALS DAYYY - T1 VS TES

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM

DEAREST ZOFGK & KTRBM

AHHHHHH IT'S FINALLY KNOCKOUTS STAGE. AND THIS IS THE 3RD SERIES. TODAY. T1 VS TES. WOOOOOOT. I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I'M KINDA STOKED FOR IT HAHAHAHA. I JUST DON'T FEEL TOO OVERWHELMED OR ANXIOUS TODAY?? LIKE IS THAT A BAD SIGN LOL. HOPEFULLY NOT IN SHA ALLAH BECAUSE I JUST FINISHED MY ASR PRAYER AND HONESTLY, I FELT SO CALM? LIKE LIKE I CAN FEEL IT, YOU KNOW? AT SOME POINT OF MY DO'A WHEN I MAKE FOR THE BOIS & COACHES, I JUST CAN FEEL IT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IT BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. THERE'S LIKE A SUDDEN MOTIVATION & FLAME OUT OF THE BLUES DURING MY WHOLE ENTIRE DO'A AND I REALLY FELT SO SERENE AND GOOD. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT IS A SIGN BUT IN SHA ALLAH IT IS AMINNN. AND MY HEART & SOUL ARE TELLING ME T1 WIN WILL EITHER 3-1 OR 3-0. BUT MORE TO 3-1. HMMMMM. OKAY BACK TO HERE, I JUST WANT TO SAT ALL THE BEST TO BOTH TEAMS COMPETING TODAY. I DON'T WANT TO UNDERESTIMATE TES BECASE THEY DEFEATED US IN THE SWISS STAGE SO YEAP ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN. I JUST WISH THE BOIS ALL GOODNESS AND THE BEST OF THE BEST. REMEMBER HOW WE DEFEATED TES DURING EWC? YEAP, WE GOT THIS AND WE CAN DO IT THIS TIME AGAIN!!!!! NEVER LOSE HOPE OKAY BOIS. OUR 1ST GAME AGAINST THEM WAS CLOSE- LIKE WE ALMOST WON WITH THE EARLY LEAD BUT WE DID SOME MISTAKES AND DECIDED TO THROW AND THAT LED TO OUR DOWNFALL. I PRAYED AND MADE DO'A FOR YOU LOVES DAY & NIGHT, PRAYING FOR THE BEST MACRO, BEST MICRO, BEST DRAFTS, BEST PICK & BANS, BEST COMMUNICATION, BEST SYNERGY, WINNING LANES, TEAMFIGHTS ON POINT, SMITES ON POINT, BEST & POSITIVE MINDSET, PLAY WITH EASE, COMFORT, NO STRESS, PRESSURE AND JUST GO ALL OUT JE. LET'S SHOW EM' WHAT WE GOT AND WHAT WE HAVE BEEN COOKING. REMEMBER MY LOVES, DO YOUR BEST EACH ONE OF YOU AND EVEN BETTER AS A TEAM, OKAY? DON'T BE COMPLACENT AND BE HUMBLE ALWAYS NO MATTER WHAT. PLAY SAFE AND ENJOY THE GAMES WITH EACH OTHER WITH NO REGRETS AITESSS!!! I'VE JUST WATCHED ONER'S DOC JUST NOW AND I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST. YOU GOT THIS ONER, WE BELIEVE IN YOU!!! IN SHA ALLAH WITH OUR TREMENDOUS EFFORT & ALLAH'S WILL, WE WILL TODAY/TONIGHT'S BO5S SERIES AMINNNN. COACHES TOM, KKOMA & ROACH, DO YOUR THING OKAY I BELIEVE IN YOUR MAGICAL, COOKING DRAFTS. PLAY LIKE IT'S YOUR LAST GAME TOGETHER AND PLAY LIKE IT'S YOUR FINAL BREATH. I'M NOT READY FOR THIS ROSTER TO END EARLY SO PLEASE MY BOIS, LET'S HAVE A GOOD SERIES & ENJOY THE JOURNEY. MAY WE HAVE MORE GAMES TOGETHER THIS WORLDS IN SHA ALLAH. LET'S ACTIVATE OUR T1 WORLDS BUFF!!!!! LET'S GET THAT 'LPL SLAYER' COMINGGG!!! ALHAMDULILLAH. IN SHA ALLAH. BISMILLAH. KAJAAAAAA!!! T1 FIGHTING!!! TO ZEUS, ONER, FAKER, GUMAYUSI, KERIA

ZOFGK FIGHTINGGGGG!!!! ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️

#MAKE THEM BELIEVE 👑

#NOT JUST CHASING THE WIN, BUT LETTING THE WIN COME TO US - GUMAYUSI

#EVERYONE BLOOMS AT THEIR OWN PACE. LET'S HANG IN THERE TOGETHER - ONER

IN T1 WE TRUST, T1 TAKE MY ENERGY AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

HERE'S SOME LOVES FOR ALL T1 FANS AROUND THE GLOBE:

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ROOTING FOR ZOFGK AND PRAYING FOR MORE GAMES TOGETHER

ADDIE 🤍✨

And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get Him to swap our places Be runnin' up that road Be runnin' up that hill Be runnin' up that building Say, if I only could, oh

Oh, come on, baby (yeah) Oh, come on, darlin' (yo) Let me steal this moment from you now Oh, come on, angel Come on, come on, darlin' Let's exchange the experience (yo), oh, ooh, ooh

[mychemicalbrromance]

Guys ive been reading peak

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Afton kids deserved better in FNAF..

[ariazou]

"Who are you to tell me how to hold it!?"

Persian Izutsumi strikes again and I'm dragging Senshi down with her 😼

I really love the head pieces on the women in Persian miniatures of the iconic Qajar era (if someone knows what theyre called please let me know 😭) And I definitely want to keep exploring the different looks on Izutsumi

[kinou]

early spring, back at the 41st

[bruciemilf]

Bruce who forgets he can’t just. Pick Jason up as easily as before.

Jason will get injured, — he hates ankle wounds; they’re not like shoulder wounds, which are his favorite.

They’re pesky, and tiny but powerful, like Damian, — and Bruce casually walks up to him, tries lifting him by the armpits. One time? No go. Two times? No. The third time, he cracks his neck and does it.

Other times, Jason pretends to be asleep in the Batmobile so Bruce would carry him. Bruce forces himself not to mention Jason can’t sleep without his Wonder Woman bear.

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[raphaerolo]

Zack and Cody (2005)

[ghosted-jazz]

I am not immune to this car salesman fairy and his traumaised iPad kid

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Can’t spell “Five nights at Freddy’s” without GAY

(Based off @/flashcs5 post)

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

I’m sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon

And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing

And I’m sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesn’t sound like anyone else we know

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.