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halloween thing i drew for an art trade with @cherry-207 ! she asked for edgar and scri dressed as angel and devil . you can see her part here !
edgar vargas belongs to jhonen vasquez
scriabin belongs to @zarla-s
#hello . uhhhhhhhhhhh#UHHH WAIT WAIT I CAN EXPLAIN I SWEAR#i know i haven't posted a thing since like A MONTH AND I'M SORRY BUT i have a really nice excuse for this . yes .#right after posting devi's drawing my mom BROKE HER FOOT ?? WOAH !#and idk maybe i was sad or . stressed because i had to do a bunch of things my mom used to take care of and it was really stressing#this + school stuff + a drawing a day + some other things pretty much started killing me#and suddenly i was getting hives every single day after 11.30pm . yeah . it was TERRIBLE#so uh . i had to stop doing some stuff for my own wellbeing . like . drawing . for example#but it worked !#now i just have a bunch of mosquito bites on my hands . they seem to like them .#OH SO well um YEAH DRAWING#an art trade with one of my friends !!!! drawing this was honestly so fun#as you can see this is from october 25th . but i wanted to wait for brusk to finish her piece before posting it#te quedó precioso emily . valió totalmente la pena la espera . tqm#edgar's costume looked so boring next to scriabin's#he looked way prettier with wings but if i wanted to add them i would have to erase 90% of scriabin and he came out so pretty to do that#so . instead of making him wear something pretty and detailed like scri's costume i had to make him wear something you could see and think#“ oh yeah that's an angel ”#i explained this to brusk after showing her the drawing and she said#“ if you think about it . him having a traditional costume fits his character "#and i was like OH#ACTUALLY YEAH THAT'S COOL#anyways i really like this one . the colors are so pretty . i finally found a way to make my colors warm and pretty .#WELL UH THAT'S TOO MANY TAGS BYE#vargas#zarla s#vargas zarla#scriabin vargas#edgar vargas#sunny's art
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why does thei remind me of stupws
#the stupendium#😎#read all about it! read all about it!#biscuit rations to increase by degree of the masters!#missing baby found in spider we-#oh#well hello there friend!#taht shiny badge there tells me you're here with the ministry of accounting and recounting!#taking the census?#oh well youve picked a spot alright!#theres no shortage of colorful characters here kn the neath#and they all oass through here at the singing mandrake!#let old harry teller show you about#theres a fella up top by the name of#robert rackett#but these days#everyone calls him honest bob#he can talk for england#i should say you pay him a visit!#nice to meet ya guv'nor what you want to know#trying to keep a track of numbers now we've dumped here down below?#oh!#fine come take a look you'll see#im an open book to read#something took this city then this city really took to mean#*me#i'm not a crook or thief!#i just do what i got to do#bloke's still got to eat!#beef is more than a bob or two
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Okay while I have absolutely no desire to write Jiuming/Jonas fanfic from Meg 2, I do want to read roughly 80- 100 fanfics about them and AO3 is somehow hitting me with a very disappointing 0.
#meg 2#meg 2: the trench#hello they are freaking coparenting meiying???#also totally unrelated but i looked over halfway through this movie and there was a petite lil frog sitting on the pillow next to me#like WHAT. HOW.#i'm glad we're both enjoying the movie little lady but you are an outside animal my friend#also when i set it back outside there was another bigger frog sitting literally RIGHT outside my door like:#heard movie night was a thing here??#anyway i'm really glad they knew who they were absolutely not allowed to kill in this movie and acted accordingly lol#also i say i have no desire but like....... how are there ZERO FICS?! i don't wanna do it guysss buuuuuuuuuut#these tags are out of hand lol i apologize#uh oh i've found the keyboard again
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SMALL HELLO PAINT POST RAGHHH!!!
I was drawing a little on @artastic-friend's DJMM/MM Hello Paint board last night, now I'm gonna throw my drawings up. :D
FIRST OF ALL HOWEVER, I painfully DREW @ntls-24722's OC COMET BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON HE HAD A GRIP ON ME IN THAT VERY MOMENT.
March was there to witness me draw this nearly the entire time. 💀 I wanna say this took around 1 hour or so? Maybe a little more because I could not stop looking over it. 😭 As you can see by my tiny doodle alone, my hand was going through it. 💀💀💀 BUT I DID THIS FOR THE BIG MAN BECAUSE HE PRETTY!! ✨✨✨ I definitely wanna try to draw Comet more, but god damn, he is a piece of WORK. /lh
Anyway here are the rest of the doodles! :D This time they're just of DJ. Not a lot of drawings, but that's because I literally draw at a snail's pace. 🗿
Little March cameo
Anyway yea that's it *crawls in a hole and dies*
#djmm#fnaf djmm#dj music man#hello paint#ntls-24722#artastic-friend#akikothefuzzball#never gonna be over that Comet drawing dude#I love that I managed to draw it- BUT AT WHAT COST 💀#oh right the cost of my hand nearly falling off :D#it's fine now don't worry 💀#BUT YEA RARRAGARAGARSDJBZH COMET GO BRRR#I think March had mentioned to me that they found it funny that NTLS had logged off the board literally as I started to draw Comet 💀#IT WAS FINE EITHER WAY LMAO#especially since I have a problem with my drawings being recognized by others as I'm drawing them#like if I feel eyes on me while I'm drawing then it gets harder to draw 💀💀💀#but ragargrss anyway#IDK IF YOU'VE SEEN IT YET BUT I HOPE YOU LIKE THE COMET DRAWING MAN 😭‼️✨
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AU where the entire old mondstadt gang gets revived into modern (as in version 4.4 give or take) teyvat. Nb and venti are absolutely overjoyed to see eachother again, gunnhildr and jean have an “:D twinsies!!!!!!!” moment, diluc has to take a few seconds to comprehend that the redhaired warrior is not in fact his dad (genetics is one thing but those two look nearly identical), and amos is off somewhere teaching amber and razor how to hunt. everything is going great until the traveler reports to venti a few days later that they can’t do their weekly dvalin bossfight because someone keeps arguing with him and occupying the domain (deca comes along too but the only reason no one knew is because he was too busy trying to negotiate who lives in the tower and how)
This is all wonderful but consider this: Decarabian is just laying on the floor of the boss fight and Dvalin is just. "TRAVELER PLEASE MOVE HIM. I THINK HE'S DEAD. HE HASN'T MOVED IN .... A WEEK OR SO"
Dvalin has no context on who this guy is. He smells kinda like Barbatos but why is just???? Laying down???? He could feel the sadness emanating from the guy and its Really killing the vibe.
The old Mondstadt and new Mondstadt team barge into the tower battle ready and are "..." when he's not even attempting to fight.
Deca is just in shock and has been processing things. For instance apparently his entire city hates him???? And then they tried to murder him???? And.... and they succeeded. He could feel ever speck of light inside him fade away. His citizens murder him. Amos murderes him. They set fire to the tower and killed him.
So many emotions are going through his head. Sadness. Bitterness. Fear for his citizens. Anger. All the stages of grief and betrayal!!!
Also theres a giant dragon here now and a blonde person with a talking toddler trying to swordfight. Huh. This might as well be happening.
#Diluc did not tell Keaya that his ancestor was back and so imagine his shock when he walks into Angel's share and sees his dad#<Diluc. You could have told me.>#<... you would have found out on your own>#<Oh hello! Are you friends with my kin?>#<His brother actually>#< :0. Diluc why didn't you->#<That is none of your business. drink your wine and / or leave >#steel text#Decarabian#genshin#old Mondstadt
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Your mind on crack sounds like this I guess
#hello???? yes there were obviously friends within the da2 crew but it's not a realistic friendship#so many people within the group hate each other and straight up would kill each other#you can let that be real and still appreciate the characters and their relationships#both the good and the bad#but in a friend group you don't have characters who want to kill one another or sell one another into slavery or believe each other to be#evil and stupid#or spend years calling one another whores#it's not a realistic friendship or found family#some of them are friends all of them are friends with hawke and that's fine#but they're not all friends with each other and that's okay let them hate one another oh my god#VEILGUARD is a realistic picture of a friend group#not da2#christ...#dragon age
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reading through old rps while the prazosin does its best and—
"It was the first time I'd seen you really smile, and I knew I couldn't let that disappear."
—is going to make me fucking explode actually. what the fuck do you mean someone's real smile meant so much to you that you had to draw it to preserve it. that's such a raw form of love. oh my god. I'M gonna cry over that what the fuck.
#the citrus speaks#healing hands#the ttrpg tag(tm)#AND THIS WAS NITHRAL THAT SAID THIS BY THE WAY#HELLO????#i think about this moment a lot anyway but fucking oh my god#that line rn is just like#my brother in christ that was beautiful#mr. “sorry you got stuck with a bunch of assholes lmao” dropping things like THIS LIKE. OKAY YEAH SURE WHATEVER YOU SAY#god. asshole with a heart of gold but that gold is fucking gleaming#not to blorbopost about my friend's pc.......again...........but i fucking love nithral#looking at this jaded doctor voted least likely to consider his found family a family proceeding to call them a family FIRST#AND HE'S STILL AN ASSHOLE!!! AND I WOULDN'T HAVE HIM ANY OTHER WAY#ahem#anyway#sorry for screaming about him again i'm Normal#i talk about him like he's blorbo from my shows and it's embarrassing but like. urghhh.#Good Character.
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I made this blog mainly as a place to store art + memes for my fandoms and doodles of my original stories. I’ve posted a lot of the former, but none of the latter, so… Here you go? Have some goofy “incorrect quotes” inspired jokes of a project of mine called The Name-Oath.
Context is indented and italicized, but you can probably read through the doodles below without getting too confused if you skip it:
The first half of the actual plot is your standard fae romance starring a human woman who doesn’t realize the male lead is a supernatural creature, and just thinks he’s really into cosplaying alone in a mansion in some freaky forest. The second half is rom-com shenanigans between the divorced human woman and male lead after the world's ugliest breakup. He desperately tries to get back together at every waking moment and she just wants to hang out with her bestie Summer and raise her half-fae daughter in peace. The human woman is named Eglantine, but goes by Egg. She got stuck with the nickname during high school and decided to start going by it in an effort to have a more "average" sounding name. This did not work as intended, but it certainly helped her avoid getting her name stolen when she first met the male lead. She's something called a skipwitch. This is a whole worldbuilding thing I'm not going to get into here. The male lead is named Kieran. He is a drama king. He spent several centuries under magical house arrest. He can talk to rats. He has pretty hair. This is all you need to know about him, except maybe the fact that he's royalty. Summer is Egg's best friend, and she is the resident fae expert in her and Egg's coven. Competitive and protective of Egg. She hates Kieran's guts, and the feeling is mutual. Egg and Kieran's daughter is named Violet, but she goes by Froggy. She is a terrifying force of nature by virtue of being the offspring of a skipwitch and Unseelie prince. Enjoys microwave pizzas, her pet beta fish, video games, and getting her way. Alois is Kieran's invisible butler. He's a surprisingly talented singer.
#I've had this sitting in my drafts for ages bc I was too nervous to post it. oops.#That one comic wasn't an exaggeration btw--- Egg DID survive her first encounter with Kieran despite not knowing magic existed#She kept evading all the stereotypical Fae tricks like asking for your name / trying to get you to eat and drink Fae food#COMPLETELY by accident#Like.#“Hello there. May I have your name?” “Just call me Egg dude. Everyone does it."#“Would you stay a moment and have a drink with me?” “No thanks I just want to use your phone so I can call a friend to pick me up.”#Kieran was spent a lot of the evening they met being very angry that none of his tricks were working.#And then he later found out it wasn't that they weren't working because this mortal woman knew exactly how to slither her way past them---#she had NO CLUE what she was doing.#He is even angrier when he learns this#and his anger is compounded by the fact#that he is developing a crush on the mortal woman who he's been trying to woo to break a curse on himself#and she is not at all wooed despite his best efforts#Like. At all.#His plan to break the curse has backfired horribly.#Oh “Lady Killer in Love” trope how I love thee#stuff by sofie#The Name-Oath#fae folk#fae#faecore#fae romance#fantasy romance
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#imma be real watching someone get into a marriage that you KNOW already has a massively problematic element is...frustrating#friend of sister is engaged to be married#but found out that she potentially couldn't have kids#and her fiance said 'if you can't have kids i'm breaking off the marriage'#which is just GROSS#HELLO IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH?!#and then the doc said she was fine and so fiance was like 'oh okay then :) '#just UGH#like clearly the dude's love is conditional#if he's going to treat his wife like that what about his kids???#i mean he has other super problematic characteristics but that is the one that directly involves the love for his future wife#anyway that's my GRRRRRRRRR AAAAARRGGGHH rant#not happy things
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Tuvok’s intake of breath/slight straightening of posture when Janeway says she spoke to his family before she left....................................................I can’t speak
#yes this is important enough to merit its own post <- favortism#Janeway & Tuvok are so <3#you know that fanfiction trope where Kirk is like 'Spock please - we're in private. No need with this Captain stuff' ?#they are the COMPLETE opposite HEHEHE#Janeway (to her friend of twenty years): Hello Mr. Tuvok. / Tuvok: Hello Captain v_v <- just got done telling an ensign that HE knows the#captain would not appreciate being referred to as 'ma'am'#Janeway & Tuvok: what if 'you're right as usual' could be our always?? <- something's wrong with them#AAAAAAAAA 'they're worried about you' (Vulcans do not worry) 'they...miss you.' (...as I do them.)#Then Janeway immediately rising with her wide eyes and promising to get him back to them like she's making a blood oath AAAAA#H E ALREADY MISSED THEM. HE ALREADY MISSED THEM AND THE Y ALREADY MISSED HIM.#Tuvok is the 'I lived bitch' meme twiceover but specifically to T'Pel#Tuvok's goes undercover with the Maquis - The Maquis ship is lost - Voyager is lost - Voyager is found but thousands of light years away -#AND YET HE MAKES IT BACK TO HER IN THE END#NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN!!!! I'LL CRAWL HOME TO HER!!!!!!#Anyway Janeway and Tuvok would make a blood oath to each other about anything they are so dramatic and duty bound#O H MYGFUCKING GOD IS THAT NEELIX~!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!#HI NEELIX~!!!!!!!!! <3<3<3 HIII!!!#Janeway (to some guy she found in a dumpster): My Name Is Captain Kathryn Janeway Of The Federation Starship V-#Also I love Neelix trying to act like 'oh there's just ONE thing really you could get me to make me cooperate...'#when the one thing is LITERALLY water...GIRL....!!!! HE 'S DYING!!!#me seeing the scene where Tuvok meets Neelix: WOOW just like leolaroot's moth to the flame music video!!#Tuvok's speech pattern my beloved <3#'I aSsure you that everything in thisrom HAS a specific fuuunctiooon.'#B'Elanna: (so scared she's literally shaking) Sorry I'm just freaking out bc I'm Klingon#BABY. GIRL. NO. YOU ARE /NOT/.#how she pronounces her name changes...here she says BAY-lanna instead of BUH-lanna#livetweeting
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Hello, it's been a while!
Today I accidentally acquired two baby Wyandottes
#so here's the situation#a friend of my mom got 6 chicks but can only have 4. so she asked if i could take two of them#but i want to move out in the next year or so if i can and I'll have to leave my chickens behind in my mom's care#i already have 12 which is already too many for her to care for without me#so i said sure I'll take the babies BUT I'll be looking for a new home for them#luckily my sister's friend wants more chickens so she said she'll take em#great! except when the babies arrived i found out my mom didn't mention that I won't be keeping them#so now i feel bad giving them away#what's more I'm pretty sure one is a cockerel and the home i was sending them to eats their roosters#so now i feel doubly bad bc these chicks' previous owner clearly loves them and was happy that i was taking them#so HOOOUUUUHHHGGGHHH okay#yes hello conscience you win. I'm keeping the babies#for now!#i have another home lined up for some of my chickens when i do move out so i guess it's fine if i add two more in the meantime#i am also going to give a couple of my hens away next month to the person i was going to give the chicks to#probably margaret and penelope and maybe one other but idk yet. it's a hard choice :(#they'll be well cared for but I'll miss them#oh btw these chicks were named tofu and dumpling by their last owner and those are cute names so I'll probably keep them#whew i am exhausted after all that#tofu#dumpling
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#utada hikaru !!! sanctuary just brings me baaaaack#I remember the first time I heard that song when I was but a child(teen?) it was many moons ago#and being Obsessed and noooobody understood#nobody Got It#and like — y’know when it’s just nice that you’re around people who Do Get it 🥲#not even just sanctuary / kingdom hearts related just. the things I liked back in school there was maybe 3 people who got it -#oh hey mao looking at you#fuck what’s your url Ansjsjsn having a moment#me saving this to drafts to go and look >.>#stardustdaemon#found you AHJSJDND#but anyway!#yes hello#I’m happy for all the friends I have here who understand the insanity hehehe <3#sANCTUARY IN THE CAR FULL BLAST IS ANOTHER EXPERIENCE#pyriic#sicsemper#militus#manusregis#tHERE#ANSJSJNDJD
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Please listen carefully Please listen carefully🙏 I need you to read this..🥹
On the seventh of October I am teacher Mahmoud Atta. I work as a teacher teaching secondary school students.
✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #365 )✅️
On October 7th, I was getting ready to go to school. On October 7th, while I was getting ready to go to school, my life was completely turned upside down. Israel declared war on Gaza. After that, they announced their entry into the roads and cities and forced us to leave the city from Khan Yunis to Rafah
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We passed through a road called the Road of Death. Tanks were everywhere. Bullets were raining down. We passed through a road called the Road of Death. Tanks were everywhere. Bullets were raining down. If you survived, your brother would not.
We've all seen the end of the world movies on the big screen. We have all seen end of the world movies on cinema screens, but what we saw was real and not imaginary. I wish it was imaginary.
We finally arrived in Rafah Finally we arrived in Rafah, the safe city as it is called, but where to go? The sea is behind us, the weather is freezing, and the borders are closed with Egypt on the other side and Israel on the third and fourth sides. I found myself making a tent out of nylon for myself and my family.
No water, no electricity, no food, no place to go to the bathroom, no life. I wish I had died sooner.
We returned after a long time to our city.After a long time, we returned to our city. The first sight was that a giant monster had entered the city and left it in ruins, so much so that I did not recognize my house or my neighborhood. Oh my God, is this Khan Yunis?
fI searched to find my home, to find my apartment, which contained my memories and my most beautiful days, destroyed. I searched to find my home, to find my apartment, which contained my memories and my most beautiful days, destroyed.
Today I stand before you to search for Today I stand in your hands to search for any help to restore myself again thanks to you.. I am waiting for your help
#donate#free gaza#free palestine#fundraiser#gaza genocide#gaza strip#gazaunderattack#gofundme#palestine#save gaza#education#united states#palestine news#news
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The moment I saw the thumbnail for Citlali's character trailer I had a feeling someone - almost everyone in the comment section would make it about shipping when Citlali goes "You annoy me too but I wouldn't mind if you stuck around"
We literally just got a glimpse of how much of a hell it is for her as an immortal who doesn't age, she closed herself off I bet to make sure she doesn't get hurt when they do eventually pass by natural means in Nat.lan, yet she can't help at least letting one person into her life to ensure a connection, and not numerous ones.
That's at least what Oloron sees so he goes out of his way to make sure the Traveler twin can be the first person to show it's alright to have multiple people in your life regardless of immortality.
#ooc // let's start the show!#ay and how the hell did no one notice Pai.mon being in the art and in the trailer? Its not that hard to miss the floating pixie-#“oh but she blushes around them” bud the pixel grandma is on a level of shut in some introverts wish they could have#not to mention if someone found out about the stuff I liked I probably get flustered too because hello left field how did they know?#also she'd want to make a good impression on this person that might save her people and she SAW what they've been through#hello why did that get forgotten as well as “I'm glad being friends with you”
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fascinating to me, that while abby was gone, she gained a fiancé and two step daughters, and buck gained a husband and a son, and buck isn’t aware of said husband and son, because he thinks they’re just his best friend and his son, who he sometimes has play dates with 🤦🏼♀️
#“’it’s eddie’s house i’m not really a guest.’ 😑#evan buckley get your head out of your ass i’m begging#i wish abby found out about chris but both buck and eddie were busy being weirdo#s over her return#like why is eddie so heated???#oh your boy best friend’s ex came back to town#it was before they even met#it would be like buck getting jealous of shannon#him storming off after saying sam is abby’s fiancé#like okay???#i’d expect that from buck not eddie but sure#why is he jealous over a woman that buck is very not getting back together with#why is he shown to be jealous in general#like hello?? can you hear me??#also s3 having neither of them date is interesting#like buck complaining about being single#(and totally not minding getting not-set up with josh)#like buddie are married (and briefly divorced) in s3#like so bad#and i know it gets worse and more brain melting#but like yeah s3 you are interesting™️#and likeeee the implication that buck almost thinks abby cheated on him while he was waiting for her#my man you met eddie the episode after abby left#like i know it supposed to be a few weeks later but like#literally speed ran a marriage and having a son and you#are mad she has a new family#make it make sense#like the whole point was that they needed to change each other then leave each other#anyways crazy shit happening on the weewoo show#gwen watches stuff
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Recently I decided to go to my local fighting game tournament.
Here's how it went.
I had been getting pretty good at Guilty Gear over the past few weeks, to the point where I was getting the input correctly for the Potemkin Buster 1 out of every 4 or 5 times I tried it. So I thought "I might not be the best yet, but, surely good enough for my local" -- and I decided to go.
It took place at a the comic & games store in the town center. The venue was full of people 10-15 years younger than me and even more drastically cooler. They all turned to glare at me as I walked through the door, but as I stood completely motionless like a gazelle hoping to blend into the grassland, their gazes slowly returned to each other and they continued to banter friendlily.
I sat down next to me first opponent, and reached out to shake their hand. They looked down at my hand, and then up at my eyes slowly.
"You're supposed to do that at the end of the match."
"Oh, s-sorry"
I got perfected twice and lost the match. At the end, I reached out again to shake their hand, but they just stood up and walked away.
Because I lost, I got moved down to the loser's bracket, which was literally below the main tournament because it took place in the basement of the comic shop. I could hear footsteps, cheering, and happy conversation in the floor above. Here in the loser's bracket though, the mood was a lot more somber.
My next opponent reminded me a little bit of me. They were equally nervous and disheveled looking. They said "Um, h-hello" and reached out their hand for a handshake as they saw me approaching. I said "you're s-supposed to do that at the end of the match." But as a look of deep sadness came over their face and they slowly put down their hand, I pulled them in for a hug.
I'm not sure why I did that.
I think that some part of me knew that, in this dark, dank, alien place, illuminated only by a single failing ceiling light and the neon glow of a few arcade machines, I had at last found a friend -- someone I understood, and who might understand me too.
They hugged back.
I lost that match by a very narrow margin, and as they jumped up and began dancing around and cheering ecstatically, I began to hate them. This was no friend of mine. A friend would not do this to me. After they were done dancing, they reached out to shake my hand. After a few seconds of pause, I stuck out my hand too, but didn't look at them and refused to close it around theirs as they grasped it. They shook my karate chop.
I thought that at that point, since I had lost and then lost in loser's bracket, I was free to go home. But one of the tournament organizers approached me and informed me that I was going down to sub-loser's bracket in the sub-basement of the store, and pointed me towards a descending staircase.
The people there were fewer, and it was darker. I could faintly hear sobbing in one of the corners, but as I went to investigate, another participant put his hand on my shoulder. He furrowed his brow in a look of pain and shook his head slowly.
"You can't do anything for them."
In sub-loser's bracket I went up against a man in a suit whose face was cloaked in shadow. He spammed May's dolphin move. I lost.
As I went to go back upstairs, one of the tournament organizers held out her palm to stop me, and pointed towards a staircase leading further down instead.
Going down through the levels, I lost to many interesting participants. One player played exclusively by bashing the controller against his face. One player was a mushroom with a few circuit cables clipped onto it, that I later learned was able to play because its bioelectrical signals got sent to a machine that interpreted them as fighting game inputs. One player didn't touch their controller at all, but instead just told me their life story, which was so tragic that I picked up their controller and won for them.
Finally, at the very bottom floor, where construction standards were long abandoned and the stairs and walls were just messily carved out of the earth's stone, I faced my final player. It was a small bit of metal framework, with a controller nestled in it. On it was a tiny piston that just pressed the jab button exactly once every second. I lost.
I hung my head for a moment, then said "close game" and stuck my hand out for a handshake, before remembering that I had played against a metal framework cube with a piston in it and retracting my hand slowly. Then I heard a slow clapping from the darkness.
"No neutral. No footsies."
Out of the darkness slowly walked a woman about my age, clad in a decorative poofy dress that looked more expensive than my entire life savings. She smiled at me warmly, continuing to clap slowly, but there was a hint of mischief in her eyes.
"No meter management. No mixups. No spacing. No learning. No strategy…
…You're perfect."
"Wh-what?"
"You're perfect. I absolutely must have you."
"Have me for…um…for what…"
(Her eyes went wide as her smile grew more manic.)
"WHY, MY MORON FAILSON HAREM OF COURSE."
"Um, I-I"
"Tell me, what do you do for a living? Let me guess, you work at a fast food restaurant? Or, retail?"
"No, I'm a--I'm a comic artist."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oh my god, you are PERFECT. What will it take to get you."
"To-to ge--"
"You would be well taken care of, of course. 3 Michelin star dining for every meal. Only the finest, softest sweatpants and sweatshirts, pre-stained with whatever flavor of Takis your little heart desires. You would have access to the entire mansion except for the main foyer when I'm in business calls, and you could make all the comics and play all the fighting games you want."
"I'm uh--"
I knew that I had to think fast here.
"I'm already i-in a moron failson harem."
"Oh, DARN IT!! TELL ME, WHO IS IT??? WHO GOT YOU??"
"I-I think I'm not allowed to s-sa--"
She stomped her foot petulantly, her shoe clacking against the stone floor.
"WAS IT SHUXUAN?? IT'S ALWAYS SHUXUAN HOGGING ALL OF THE GOOD ONES."
"I-I'm sorry," I blurted out, shuffling along the wall to make a wide radius around her and then running up the staircase.
As I got home and began making my standard dinner of Trader Joe's microwave falafel, I thought about her offer. Maybe I should have taken her up on it after all. A 3 Michelin star meal right now wouldn't be so bad.
Then I hopped on Guilty Gear and lost 22 matches in a row.
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