#UMM. don't look at this tag

[halflifebutawesome]

BEHOLD! FOR THE SECOND TIME, THE GBVRAI LINEUP! now with another weird old dude!

waves my hands around vaguely I wanted to make a nicer looking lineup and more coherent post actually explaining the au. I've now made 2 gbvrai lineups but never a plain old hlvrai lineup. Whatever.

There's a complete AU explanation and individual character profiles (?) under the cut! check it out! ASK ME ABOUT IT !!! SMILES!!!!!

The basic gist of this au is that the science team, are a group of ghost hunting paranormal researchers. The Ghostbusters. You mightve heard of them. This isn't a 1 for 1 au where certain characters take the role of others, it's more just. What if the science team existed in the Ghostbusters universe. They're just the Ghostbusters now.

On a particularly odd case, they bust a ghost that seems... off. It's sentient, it's talking back, and it's psychokinetic energy is off the charts.

Thinking nothing of it, they return to the firehouse and prep the trap for containment disposal. Gordon's the new guy, so he's the unlucky dude who's been assigned the job of disposing of the traps. All the while the ghost will NOT shut up. It's weirdly powerful and seems mostly unbothered. It's name is Benry, and he's a little freak.

the ghost containment unit has been unstable for a while, overfilled with ghosts, but they have to dispose of Benry somehow, so they go ahead with it.

In this AU I'm kind of combining the Resonance Cascade with the Manhattan Crossrip (the Manhattan crossrip is the big scary ghost event that happens at the end of GB1). Basically what happens is that Benrys weirdly powerful ghostly energy, combined with an unstable ghost containment unit, tears a big rip in the fabric between the ghost realm and ours, letting all sorts of ghouls and specters free.

Imagine the Resonance Cascade, with all the aliens getting out and ravaging Black Mesa, but it's a bunch of ghosts getting out and ravaging New York. Gordon and the rest of the team have to fight their way through the ghost filled streets of NYC, and close the crossrip.

Heres some closeups and more individual info/thoughts for the gang!!

GORDON FREEMAN! The new guy. Again, this is less a direct 1 for 1 swap au kind of deal, and more just putting these guys in situations. Gordon's HEV suit, tho, I wanna talk about.

In Ghostbusters canon, they DO have a weird fucked up hazard suit. It first appears in the TRGB episode "Xmas Marks The Spot", where Egon uses it to travel into the ghost realm. I know it makes another appearance in the comics, in a way that's more HEV-esque, but I never finished the comics so idk. It's real tho.

I imagine here that the ghost containment unit is more like the reactor in half life, where it's hazardous to be around for too long, probably bcos of like. I don't know. Concentrated psychokinetic energy. Sure. In any case he needs to wear the HEV to use the containment unit.

My design here is taking the chest piece, helmet, gloves and belts and modifying them to look a little more HEV-esque.

Bennyyyy. Benrey benry beny. He's a ghost, as far as they can tell. It would be more appropriate to call him an entity of sorts.

He's not a ghost simply for the fact that he wasn't ever human. He wasn't ever a living person that died. He's some pure, really powerful, concentrate entity/being that leaked through from the ghost realm. He looks like. A guy, for the most part, but he's a mimic. Something pretending to be human. He's been around for a while, and has settled into this form. He's mostly corporeal, but can phase in and out as he pleases (noclipping) Switching from corporeal/incorporeal when it's funny.

He met Tommy when they were both a lot younger, Benry being fresh out of the ghost realm, and have been bestfriends ever since. ☝️ my au my weirdly specific tommybenny dynamic. Dw about it

TOMMY & SUNKIST!!!! Tommy has grown up around ghosts his whole life, and is pretty in-tune with them. This is proven with his bond to Sunkist, who's decidedly not a real dog, and his longtime friendship with Benry.

I gave him the goggles cos. Tommy's my fave and Ray's my fave and I think they're fun. Also cos if it WAS a 1 to 1 swap I would def have Tommy as Ray. Anyway. He's been a part of the Ghostbusters since he was little, like I said he grew up with them and around them. He's really knowledgeable about ghost types and physics. He knows all the ghost rules.

Sunkist isn't like. His dead childhood dog cos that seems. Kind of sad. Instead she's kind of a church Grimm or hell hound. An entity taking the form of a big huge dog that Tommy befriended when he was a kid, and has now kind of bonded to him. She's pretty corporeal as far as ghosts go, and can interact w the physical environment pretty well.

DARNOLD ^^ my friend darnold. Darnolds not usually super involved in the actual ghostbusting, and prefers to stay behind. He's more of the research and tech kind of guy, he studies the readings and takes measurements.

He's interested in psychokinetic energy and ghost residue and all sorts of like. Ghost sciences. Why some people stay behind, why some people just seem to die and disappear, the properties of the ghost realm and the ghosts themselves. Corporeality and degradation of personhood the longer someone's been a ghost.

When the Resonance Crossrip happens, he opts to stay behind and observe the effects of the insane amounts of ghost energy on the corporeal world.

Hes also a transfer over from the ghost engineers! That's a fun thing for me. I love the ghost engineers idc frozen empire gave me everything I wanted

FORZEN. Forzen is... the same thing as Benry. A mimic, something taking the form of a normal ghost to blend in or hide in plain sight.

He came through with the Resonance Crossrip, but obviously like. He knew Benry before (we WERE bestfriends..). He's not as powerful, which is why he wasn't able to sneak through when Benry did. He's also not super corporeal. He can only interact with the physical world if he's exerting a LOT of energy. Prone to flickering in and out of vision.

Upon coming thru the Crossrip, he kind of just. Decided to hang around the firehouse. Didn't wanna go much further, for fear of being ghostbusted and sent back into the containment unit. The source is the last place they'd look for him!

Darnold, who's holed up in the firehouse, is more than delighted to meet a ghost who's sentient and willing to cooperate to do some tests and experimentation to get never before documented results. They bond and they're cutesit. ☝️ DARZEN WIN. hi splash 👋

Dr Coomer and Dr Bubby are two of the three original founders of the Ghostbusters! They've been around for a looooong time. They're also married obviously but that's like a given.

They helped found the Ghostbusters, having met in college while both were studying parapsychology. I imagine their like. Parapsychology -> Ghostbusters pipeline was very in line with how GB1 starts, where they used to work in an academic environment before getting kicked out and founding the GB.

They're also both. Psychic. Because frozen empire has once again given me everything. Coomers got some like. Idk something that lines up with his self awareness in HLVRAI, maybe prophecy? Vauge visions of the future? Bubby has pyrokinesis. Duh.

and... Mr. Coolatta..... Tommy's dad...he was one of the founders along w Coomer and Bubby and at some point he. Died. And is now a reeeally really powerful ghost. maybe from the exposure to ghost energy or smth?

Now hes got gman powers and just kinda hangs around. Pretty corporeal and solid and. Present. For lack of a better word. But he IS a dead guy. Used to be human.

This is why Tommy kind of grew up around ghosts and knows alot about them :) Mr Coolatta is pretty benevolent, and mostly just kind of spooky and fucked up.

And that's. About it? I believe?? PLEAAASE ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS I have so many thoughts. I've been working on this for like 2 months now. Lol.

[scooterpengie]

I saw this tweet and I knew I had to draw them 😭

[wereh0gz]

Made some phone wallpapers on a whim and thought I'd post them bc I really like how they turned out :]

Might make some more with other flags if I feel like it

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

Let Your Music Predict Your 2024

Shuffle your on-repeat playlist, and the first 12 songs represent your 2024

thanks for the tag @kanonavi !

i took half of these from my mp3 player and half of them from my youtube mix of songs that i basically listen to on repeat because i use both of those equally lol so i thought that would be the Most Accurate idk

january: It Happened Quiet - Aurora

february: Line Without a Hook - Ricky Montgomery

march: Contemplation in Snow (albedo's theme basically) - HOYO-MiX

april: IDOL - YOASOBI

may: The Writing's On the Wall - OK Go

june: La Vaguelette - HOYO-MiX/Cécilia Cara

july: Turn Up the Radio - OK Go

august: Breathe - Seafret

september: Homemade Dynamite - Lorde

october: Wildfire - HOYO-MiX

november: Buzzcut Season - Lorde

december: Russian Roulette - Red Velvet (English cover by Mitchel Joseph)

tagging (with no pressure ofc): @moth-of-chaos @dopefrickingjelysquid and anyone else who wants to do this :3

[beetroot-merchant]

W E ' V E B E E N T R Y I N G T O C O N T A C T Y O U A B O U T Y O U R C A R ' S E X T E N D E D W A R R A N T Y

[pyriteplates]

Пусть собираются все

(without spiders under the cut)

[prettyinpunk]

have some miscellaneous self indulgent muse portraits???

[benetnvsch]

:thumbsup:

[xbraveheartx]

So I know the quality sucks and we don't get any better quality to compare, but I just wanted to point out that, yes. Baby Carlo has freckles. Very few of them. But you can see the ones he had since he was a wee young lad standing out in his painting.

Go ahead and go into the game and stand in front of the portrait. Compare their faces. I'll wait c:

Here's a full/clean version of his portrait if you want to stare at it

So anyways like I was saying before--

[toothandfeather]

I wonder...

[namisweatheria]

Oh wait I guess there’s three exceptions if you count Baby 5 but you see the Dressrosa arc is not real to me. Law’s story is one of my favorites but it’s the only part of that arc I have a clear memory of because I binge read it in order to GET THROUGH IT and it’s like a black hole in my wan peace knowledge.

Which isn’t good because like every other arc there is important pay off for the things it set-up happening now but you know if Oda wanted me to remember that stuff he should have made it a good arc that was good and not bad. So that’s on him.

I do love pathetic fanboy Barto though. I do remember that made me laugh. A bright spot in endless lightless hells. And obviously the reunion is wonderful.

You know now that I’m thinking about it (sucks.) I think the problem might boil down to the fact they tried to have Rebecca and Law BOTH be the tragic new friend who needs help of the arc. Unfortunately there’s only really room for one so it left Rebecca out to dry, she just could not compete with Law.

I think it might have made more sense to combine Baby 5 and Rebecca’s characters so the exploitation of the country and Doffy’s evil “found family” could be effectively concentrated into one compelling character. If she was raised to be a weapon against her people, having her memories erased the same way everyone else’s was, only to find out what happened when the spell is undone and turn on her evil adoptive family could have been SOOO COOL.

And it also feels really obvious now but you see I have literally never thought about it ever.

It also would have made Baby 5 and Law’s relationship a lot more interesting. Which it DESERVES TO BE since they were briefly siblings in the same evil gang. His dismissive annoyance of her is so irritating and misogynistic tropey and pretty out of character for him and UGH. If he has been trying to free her specifically and felt guilty for not doing so sooner that could have been soooo fun.

Dressrosa sucks because the girls are not important or original enough like they usually are and IT COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN SOOO DIFFERENT. NOW THAT I CONSIDER IT.

Someone give me a time machine and a hypnosis device I need to go back and make Oda fix Dressrosa. I could do it let me in.

[adhdtsukasa]

my english teacher asked us what satisfying thing we did during the summer break and i deadass started talking about my ohe tiering i guess my school year is going awesome so far

[angeltism]

i need to draw my unit shuffle

[softly-n-sweetly]

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[ralseinumberonebiggestsupporter]

TRISCRIPT PROPHECY REAL (yes there is a kinemaster watermark. no i cannot remove it. please pretend it's funny)

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

When you're on a time crunch but your (presumably) ADHD brain decides "fuck you I want to write"