#Ruin category

[closet-of-nikki]

Wonderland Lotus

This is Wonderland Lotus! Released February 2024, it was an Abyssal Island recharge available for around $16. You will acquire Spindrift Song at the $5 tier before you can begin collecting this suit, which is pretty cute but not my favorite.

It comes with a lot of really interesting pieces. There's two posed hair, and a bonus unposed hair without the accessories. Two posed dress, one with the scarf and handheld fan and one without. A face item, a tattoo, two moveables, and two "cyborg" pieces. You can see the glove item on her right arm, and there's also a leglet that gives her a mechanical knee. Sadly, the glove item is specific to LST. I'll include a pic of what it looks like on a DST in the breakdown.

Individual items below the cut!

The face item looks really cool, and is easiest to see on a LST.

Fun mechanical bits!

Posed items and extra bonus unposed hair

And the moveables!

Overall, a lot of useful pieces, and really interesting and unique ones to boot.

[explomb]

my favourite thing about bllk is that everyone is clinical and then there's just kurona. he's done nothing wrong. he's just here to vibe, be cute, say weird catchphrases like a side character in a mid-rate kid's show and play football. i genuinely do not think we've ever seen him angry. meanwhile kaiser is knee-deep in his 52nd mental breakdown, hiori is going by "ultrasadist" on main, ness is a bad day away from a homicide charge and isagi has ruined nearly as many men as ones he's made fall in love with him.

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: death mention / strangulation mention / stabbing mention / blood mention / self-sacrifice / codependency mention in tags / ]

I think a lot about how common it is for Raph to be the one to have direct focus put on him when Leo gets into all his near death experiences.

Like, when Leo is thrown off a building, it’s Raph who’s right there jumping after him, not even thinking about the consequences to himself when he does. When Leo almost gets skewered by the Krang, Raph’s right there to take the blow and send Leo to safety without a second thought. When Leo’s being strangled to near death, it’s a Krangified Raph doing the job, doing exactly what Raph would never, ever want to do. When Leo is telling Casey Jr to close the portal, it’s Raph who tries desperately to convince Leo otherwise.

Likewise, Leo is consistently very single minded when Raph gets forcibly separated from them. Both when in the sewers and by the Krang, Leo is dead set on finding Raph first and foremost.

I also think it’s interesting that during each of Leo’s near death experiences, the lightheartedness of his words during them goes directly hand in hand with both how close Raph is to him physically and how much danger Raph is also in in that moment. From a literal “I told you so” as Leo’s falling away from Raph to a soft joke about how “hero moves” are Raph’s style - both of these are on the more morbidly carefree side and both of these notably take Leo farther away from Raph and, in turn, have Raph not in immediate danger.

On the other side of things is the apology from Leo, heedless of the danger he himself is in as he seriously and genuinely speaks to a Krangified Raph face to face. Then there’s Leo’s freezing and desperation as Raph takes a hit meant for him and sends just Leo to safety, leaving Raph himself behind. Both of these involve much closer proximity and Raph being directly harmed - these together make Leo much more vulnerable in his words and actions, something not even the threat of death can make him.

These two care about each other so much, and they’re way too much alike for their own good.

[wistfulwatcher]

emily prentiss + leaving and coming back for her family

[locusfandomtime]

i hope you guys understand my vision

[ssspringroll]

DUDE holy shit ????

[eosofspades]

okay i meant to make this post forever ago but my personal opinion on why so many people were so dissatisfied with lightfalll (disclaimer: i am not one of these people, i love lightfall SO much), is that lightfall was kind of subjected to a really aggressive marketing campaign.

like, stick with me here, i feel like almost all the lightfall release content (the trailers especially) were so focused on battling the witness, how this battle has been centuries in the making and this is the Second Collapse Finally Finding Us, only for there to be,,, no real resolution. the end was left on such a severe cliffhanger, but not only that, there was NO battle with the witness. the witness didn't even seem to be having a hard time at all with what we WERE throwing at it.

and for narrative reasons *i* am obsessed with this ending; in terms of storytelling i adore practically every creative decision that was made in lightfall, but i think the reason that so many people were so upset about it is because lightfall had such intense marketing and was rooted in the implication that this was the End of Days, only for us to get almost no closure, and instead so many more questions.

(there's also something to be said, i think, about the fact that the people who ARE most upset about this are like, the youtube gamer dudebros who's content is very very often rooted in the aggressive, violence-and-warfare, pvp-centric, no-interest-in-lore approach to destiny, and that the people i've seen primarily ENJOYING the narrative decisions (or at least being understanding about it) are the artists and writers and loremasters of the fandom, but i'm not quite sure,,, how to expand on that point.)

[yarboyandy]

Return flight home.

[allthegothihopgirls]

in the trenches rn

i'm 2 days into reading a 160k word fic and i'm nearing the end but tbh the good part is over and now i'm just waging through.

not in a bad way though the fic is like REALLY good. it's just, the part of the plot i really liked is over.

[bonefall]

ShadowClan Family Tree: Diagnosis

In preparation for the FINAL Family Tree Redux for ShadowClan, I've gone and mapped out the entire ShadowClan family tree as it exists in canon.

I've spoken about it before, but this tree is so bad that I cannot fix it. For my redux, I'm eschewing it completely. I'll show you why.

[ID: The ShadowClan family tree. It is a rectangle. A single cat crosses the "missing generation line;" Rowanclaw. The 4 Families of ShadowClan have been color-coded in pink, blue, red, and green. Characters who are alive as of ASC Book 3: Shadow have been underlined. I have not included orphan warriors.]

Right off the bat, this tree is already unacceptably small. Slightly more than 100 cats have relatives, with almost half of them being orphan warriors without kits or parents. I will be listing them in just a bit.

But, even worse, this tiny Clan then had a bunch of cats who had multiple mates, accounting for MOST of the kits produced in the Forest Territory whose parents are known. Finding mates for the BRICK of cats is frustratingly difficult in a Clan that's already frighteningly low on members.

It was in a dire situation, but don't even worry about it! The worst part about the entire Forest Tree is that it gets thrown out between TPB and TNP. Like RiverClan, we have NO idea who the progenitors of the Four Families are. It is a completely blank canvas for you to pick and choose relations.

And speaking of the Four Families...

ShadowClan consists of FOUR bloodlines, all of them extremely closely related. For my Family Tree fixes, I rule that cats cannot share a basic (3 gens above) grandparent, and apply that to an extra generation when the grandparents are alive to connect in the great-grandparent.

You would need to CAREFULLY breed the next few generations to avoid tripping my rules with Snowbird. She has TEN LIVING IMMEDIATE DESCENDANTS.

And they completely killed the little branch off the Tawnyrowan Family. Crowfrost's contributions with Dawnpelt are extinct with the death of Strikestone and exile of Sleekwhisker. Not only are there only 4 bloodlines, each of the bloodlines is closely knit.

And, worse, the three Guardian Cats that Tigerheart brought back were plugged into the families that did not need them... aaaaaand Antfur was killed off unceremoniously.

It's bad, Todd.

[avatarherobrine]

Man. I watched the puupy bowl and holy shit. They had their smallest dog this year at 1.7 pounds. Tiniest lil thing. Lil baby. Named Sweetpea. Look at her!

SHE FUCKING DIED BEFORE THE PUPPY BOWL COULD AIR. MAN. SHE WAS SO SMALL WHY WAS SHE THER???

[closet-of-nikki]

Gene Rhapsody

This is Gene Rhapsody! Released in February 2024, it's from the Blossom Messenger event, which is a pavillion with three suits that you'll likely finish at the same time. It costs an average of 2200 diamonds to finish the pavilion, and it gives a completion gift of three makeups when you do. All three suits have been tagged #Blossom Messenger event if you'd like to look at them together.

This suit comes with two posed gloves, makeup, and one moveable! Individual items below the cut.

And here's the posed items, moveable, and makeup!

[squidong]

I saw someone insisting ADHD never impacts anyone’s dietary habits, and now I’m curious what people actually experience.

This is about things like skipping meals because you don’t realize you’re hungry, or snacking even though you’re stuffed because you hope the food will give you the boost you need to get this one task finished.

[leahthedreamer]

Why can’t studios and streaming services just accept their hit mini/limited series and move on, why do we insist on forcing another season of a plot that has already been wrapped up

[basicallykiyotaka]

My simp list has three categories:

Actually has his life together and could actually make a really great and loving relationship

"Some shit happened when I was a kid and now my entire life revolves around my toxic masculinity and I hate myself so much and I really want to change cause I really do care about the people around me but it's hard when you've been so stressed out for so many years"

TALL AND EVIL

[rangertessadarling]

it’s so funny to me that the only intimidating villain in this whole goddamn series is morgarath lol

there are like 15 books now, there’s a new villain almost every book— if not ever 2-3 books. but the only one that got good ground on the intimidation factor was Morgarath. why is he the only fucking scary villain in the series make it make sense 😭😭😭