#Resolute II

[alphamecha-mkii]

The ExoCarrier Resolute 02 by D. M. Phoenix

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[tiedsh0es]

starting 2025 off strong with pirates

[spicybanans]

Oh my god so that ENTIRE episode was just batshit insane, but I can't get over the taco pickle confrontation especially

It's SO GOOD. It's exactly how I pictured that talk and more. First of all, taco you suck at apologizing girl WHAT IS THIS!!! And pickle not having any of it, as he should. He has no reason to forgive her or even take her shit man, pickle is totally right for responding like he did.

and honestly this interaction is really funny LMAOO

As much as I love taco (and I love her a lot) she also SUCKS!!!!!! Girl that was the worst apology I've ever heard like stop making it about YOUU, "I never intended for you to be a part of the plan" it doesn't matter what you intended IT HAPPENED ANYWAY.,, and you were NOT playing together, pickle was right man you were playing him, and there was no teamwork because you were lying to him the entirety of the season bro. You can't have a relationship with mutual respect when you're keeping this huge ass secret from your supposed best friend girl

OKOKOK AND THEN THIS PART OH MY GOD

PICKLE COOOOKEDD HER

LIKE HE ATE HER UP I DONT EVEN CARE

and the VOICE ACTING??? This line delivery KILLED ME. OHMYGOD ITS SO GOOD. ACTUALLY GAVE ME SHIVERS.

Ok and taco getting offended by that is so perfect. she is absolutely GOBSMACKED that pickle would even suggest that she is still anything like the persona she put on during season 1, I think that's really why she reacts like this. Not because he's calling her stupid, but because he's telling her that she's just like her old fake self, like the version of herself that she absolutely despises.

[ghostchems]

I would love to know if you have any controversial yet brave opinions/hot takes on the band. xoxo, gossip ghoul

Copia can fuck

Copia is good at fucking

Copia can be awkward around those he loves but not like the blushing virgin people sometimes write him as (but to each their own of course!)

Copia is a bisexual king!

And, of course… Copia can be daddy

Secondo is a romantic at heart. Sometimes he’s written as this really mean guy but I do feel like he is extremely respectful, calculated and quiet because he is a thinker

When he loves, he really loves. The man is a gentleman!

He’s not some rage-filled horned up demon meanie butthole who treats people like trash

(Cardinal Secondo is a whole different story 😉)

There is WAY more to Terzo than just sex and being sexy. I feel like he can be crammed into the just sexy “box” a lot and it’s just not true to him.

xoxo, chems

[thatrandomblogsays]

HOTD AU where Aegon is crowned king and at his coronation he’s like:

“Thank you, thank you, as my first act of king I abdicate to my sister. Sayonara you weeaboo shits.”

He immediately flies off to dragonstone to give her the crown, and what are the hightowers going to do? Crown aemond? That’s usurping/disobeying the former king. TG technically only has 2 dragons now.

Someone goes “but my liege what about having your blood on throne?” So aegon just betroths his child to Jace and Baela’s future child before taking his family to a beach vacation.

[bossuary]

Incredible 3D rendering and fabrication of the Red Lyrium Idol.

Link to more shots/angles of this piece by Josh Town - Artstation Toten Fabrications - Instagram

[a-flappy-bat]

New Alan Wake behind the scenes video with Matt and Ilkka

Have some stills under the break :D

[dailyfloory]

[todaysdocument]

Women’s Army Corps Cpl. Barbara Fenster (left) and Cpl. Genevieve E. Guethlein secure information from German prisoner of war Pvt. Frederick Bonk, captured in Tunisia. September 7, 1943, at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation.

Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation

Series: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation

Image description: Inside a tent, a young man in a German uniform with “AFRIKAKORPS” on his sleeve stands to the side of a desk. Seated at the desk are two women in Women’s Army Corps uniforms, who are writing. In the background are more desks and more German prisoners of war. 

[saltlickmp3]

david tennant as richard ii

[cringefailcabitha]

Have to wonder why people don’t generally refer to TT’s season 2 arc as a redemption arc but Cabby’s arc somehow is?

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

Literally screaming that I can't share what I'm writing this very current instant of Ride or Die like my teeth are CLENCHED how am I supposed to handle not spoiling the Part 1 finale for my own series???

[mad-voidling]

been playing dd2 on and off since it launched on steam and I JUST be the act 3 boss. I think the fact that it was my first time actually getting to and fighting said boss, and I didn’t even team build around it

[annabelle--cane]

"the magnus protocol had a whole ARG beforehand? what?"

yes! it did!

"oh so I need to have participated in this whole big thing to actually understand the podcast?"

not at all! from the official post-mortem put out by RQ, "while the ARG was not something that was necessary to participate in to understand the magnus protocol, it was designed to contain a wealth of background story and context that would enrich any player's listening experience."

"a wealth of background context that would enrich my listening experience 👀👀👀 how can I learn about this?"

SO glad you asked. sadly, many of the materials made for the arg have been taken down since the game ended 😔 (ex., the official OIAR, magnus institute, and bonzoland websites. (edit ii: I found partial wayback machine captures! see below) though @strangehauntsuk is still up!), so we're a bit low on primary sources, but in terms of learning about what happened:

for a starting point, I would really recommend this video by @pinkelotjeart

it's super accessible, it was made in real time as the game progressed and follows the solving and revelation of clues as they happened, it hits all the major points of the mystery and moments of community insanity while eliding some of the nitty gritty puzzle grinding, 10/10 would recommend.

here's the official summary put out by RQ, and I'd recommend reading through this once you've already gotten a basic handle on the flow of the story and the basic connections between major clues and events. it's got some fun behind-the-scenes info and lays out the thought process behind the puzzles in simple terms

here's the full masterdoc of all puzzles and resolutions put together in the statement remains discord server. masterdoc my absolute BELOVED, masterdoc my bethrothed, masterdoc my soul mate. I'd recommend this as a second port of call after the above video as it either contains all details about the puzzles or links to other expanded docs that do.

here's the narrative summary doc that lays out all the plot and lore discovered in three pages of plain prose. if you just want to get to the good bits as fast as you can and get blasted directly in the face by contextless lore bombs, this is the doc for you. if you don't want to start with the video, I'd say this is another good entry point.

once you've got the lay of the land, some of the game materials that I found particularly interesting include:

the in-universe east germany expat usenet forum, with all content translated into english. most of it is irrelevant space filler with occasional extremely sus lore, but I still found it fun to read through. love to soak in some fictional forum drama.

chdb.xlsx, the spreadsheet of the names of all the children the protocol 'verse magnus institute was studying/experimenting on. EDIT: here is a version of the sheet without any annotations and with all of the names in their original order, kudos to @theboombutton for catching that the commonly shared copy had the order swapped around.

klaus.xls, a (very corrupted) spreadsheet with what looks like the classifications of a bunch of old OIAR cases.

EDIT: have a few more saved materials from the game that I forgot to include.

an in-universe audio ad to apply to the OIAR that ran before archives episodes and kicked off the whole game.

an in-universe video ad to apply to the OIAR, this one is an official upload that's still up from the game itself. you can subscribe to the OIAR's official youtube channel today, if you so chose.

the robo-voicemail greeting from the OIAR's phone line.

EDIT II:

here is a wayback machine capture of the OIAR's official website.

here is a wayback machine capture of the bonzoland website.

(pretty sure both of the above captures just archived the home pages, though I haven't tried clicking all of the links. I'd say they're still worth looking at, the home pages give a good window into the vibes.)

once you start poking around in these documents, you'll find a bunch of links to others with further information, the materials I've included here just contain what I feel to be the most relevant details to getting a broad feel for the whole game. once again, huge shout out to the statement remains server, I was barely in there as the ARG was in progress and only ducked my head in every so often to find links like these. true mvps of the fandom.

[k-star-holic]

Unprecedented 'Fifty!' finally got the music industry involved.