#Underwhelming.

[ophthalmotropy]

I suppose I cannot advise my friend to break up with his partner if he's really in love, even with the knowledge that he hasn't mentioned a single way in which the relationship has actually improved his life; he mostly talks about this person to either gush about how he's definitely going to get married or to vent about another issue they're having. The crux of the issue is that he seems to be in the same situation as me wrt wanting more than anything to actually feel something, and if he's anything like me then he treats the pain as being in itself proof of genuineness. Or maybe not. In any case, he seems more jazzed about being in love than analysing whether it's doing anything good for him.

[inkpotsprite]

The way Jon mirrors Talia's pose.

[obscenicon]

if homestuck was trolls.....

[skyplayssplatoon3]

Update: Amiibo Gear Revealed!

The new Squid Sisters/Off The Hook Amiibo have had their gear officially revealed by Nintendo!

For the Squid Sisters:

For Off The Hook:

[Source: SplatoonJP / NintendoEurope]

[twinkubus]

Bound Man by John Singer Sargent, c. 1917-21

[fiomeras]

Swagless and dripless . Just an average normal guy . Looks like you can move his white ass with the arrow keys. Nothing wrong with him

[divorcedfiddleford]

hold shifty gentle like hamburger

[sudoscience]

Disadvantages of audiobooks: hard to pay attention to sometimes, can't always understand everything that's said, no idea how things are spelled

Advantages of audiobooks: this

God bless you, Moira Quirk.

Transcript:

"No," said Dulcinea. "Oh, no no no. Stay awake."

Gideon couldn't say anything but blearrghhh, mainly because blood was coming enthusiastically out of every hole in her face.

🇵🇸 Gaza Funds 🇵🇸

[booigi-boi]

Crumb's voice won't leave my mind, I love that silly lil thing 🐸🐭✨

Ignore the fact they look scary, I tried

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

okay well from the untrained Mizuki card ALONE i can confirm that Miss Ace Horrors over here was definitely wrong as fuck for the word "underwhelming"

bit scared that Mizuki5 might cause mass outrage, but watch it be sooooo underwhelming instead. i think that would be equally shocking and also silly of them

[rqbossman]

Hey!

How’d you decide on the name The Magnus Archives?

If I remember correctly, Jonny said: "I want to make a show called The Magnus Archives" And I said: "Okay." That's the whole story from my perspective.

[2many-art]

🎉 Happy birthday Barbatos ! 🎉

[stil-lindigo]

a non-comprehensive guide to my favourite characters in claymore, the best manga you've never read (more under the cut)

don't know what I'm talking about? here's a crashcourse.

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

Your Forgeworld gets taken over by a Chaos Space Marine warband

Expectation:

Reality:

[pyralart]

Oh Luz...

First part - Previous part < Here

Last part I'll be making of this scenario for now!

Thank you so much for everyone's support and thank you again @petitprincess1 for letting me use your idea! It was fun putting my own twist on it, and definitely ended up longer than I had planned... guess you guys can't complain lol

I'm already working on the next fancomic I wanna make :)c

You can find the pages as soon as they're done and some exclusive art/extras on my Ko-fi! You even get a little extra comic under the cut, free of charge. I'm that nice

Luz is regretting accepting this deal. If she wasn't already...

[drenched-in-sunlight]

*SoTE spoilers undercut

This is a continued discussion in light of Marika's newly discovered tragedy. It changes so many things about how we look at the story thus far but more importantly - the DLC story trailer, especially this scene:

think about how Messmer knows, very acutely, that at one point his mother could have been cut up and put in a jar. and that his other kins were not so lucky....... it gives that scene such a tragic edge.

he wasn't doing this just for the violence. this is his answer to Marika's love and all she has done for him. yeah it's not right, it's not justified, but as something done to avenge for the kind of pain she went through? it won't be logical nor right but it's something he will do again without hesitation.

the infirmary in Shadow's Keep shows that he's trying to care for and save whatever left of her people. their people.

the line he said in his armor set description hits different when you consider all that. he wants to be the heir to all her sorrow and all of her pain. wishing that he could alleviate even just a bit of the burden of her grief and survivor guilt.

i wonder if, when Marika hid him in the Land of Shadow, fearing people will judge him for the malevolent snake he carried, she raised him in her home village? this will explain why the Tree Sentinels guarding the village drop two Blessing of Marika - the blessing that specifically stated Marika made it for Messmer's sake and him alone. it will also explain how he knew of his Mother's tragic past and took it upon himself to carry out her wish of vengeance for her people.

(also if you wanted to get to Marika's village, you have to perform the O Mother gesture before her statue in his Shadow Keep, implying he's guarding the way to her home village as well.)

One other thing I like is that in the story trailer, the heroic music sounds like it's for Miquella. and it is, in a way. it is his boss music, but the lyrics has "Ave Marika Aeterna" (Hail, Marika The Eternal).

Given that the boss arena is where Marika - the sole survivor of a whole village, walked through to salvage the remains of her people, making them the symbol of her divine ascension, I wonder if that OST is actually for her - the God, the woman whose story is finally realized in this DLC, and those female voices singing in honour of her are the spirits of her fallen kins: cheering on their last hope for justice. Through this girl, those people who had been wronged and died there will live on eternally.

All this of course seems like such a charitable take on all this, after all Marika ended up being just like the oppressors who used to put her people in jars, but I think I just want to appreciate how the environmental storytelling of this DLC is simply amazing. and once you consider that this is, in the end, Marika's story, everything will make a lot more sense.