#Xen yaps

[braxenberry]

Starting PVP Civilization and I'm so exciteddddd. I see so much angst potential.

[braxenberry]

No he's actually such a lovable loser, it's crazy. 😨

Me before watching MP100: literally why do people thirst after Reigen he’s just like. Kind of a weird looking normal dude. He looks like a lawyer or something

Me now, having watched him hunched over puking outside of a bar on his birthday hitting rock bottom because he realized he doesn’t have any friends he’s a fraud and a failure and his life is spiraling out of his grasp: oh. I kinda need him actually.

[x3nshit]

holyyyyyyy fuck i’m back??

[edith-is-a-cat]

💭 who daydreamed about the other more often? what did they think about most?

Cashew since hes the one who daydreams the most (i mean its literally his hobby) I think he does a lot of senerio daydreams like "what if me and edie were in *insert book*" maybe via suggestion by me... i like listening to him talk cause like my daydreams aren't that vivid and are easily lost, unless I'm writing it down. though i do need to get better at asking about them,, im so curious but cant be so straight forward with asking cause. may or may not be projecting here but im sure if i asked he may just blank and look at me like "yes. i am daydreaming and things have happened" GRRR i need tom to naturally come up in conversations more i love his daydreams not even the ones specific to us i just like listening to his mind

[th1n-n-th1nn3r]

I keep forgetting to post here but guys I finally got past 43kg!!! I’m at 42.8kg now!! I know it’s not much but I’m so proud because I had a massive binge after binge for quite a while and I haven’t been able to get to the 42’s in MONTHS. I have to make sure not to slack off now!

Hard work pays off 💜

[braxenberry]

Last song: Dark Side by Divide Music (<3333)

Favourite colour: Purple! I never really have a specific shade, but I should probably pick one smhhh

Last movie / show: Blue Exorcist! :o

Sweet / spicy / savoury: Sweet!

Relationship status: ;0

Last thing googled: [Would doxx me]

Last thing googled [that won't doxx me]: "Haven't You Heard I'm Sakamoto"

Current obsession: Parkour Civilization

i wasn't tagged but this looked fun ♡ i got this from maddie @sliceofdyke ₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎

last song: curious by kep1er ♪

fave color: pink, but i feel like everyone knows that about me heh. recently, i've taken a liking to blue! especially the bright cerulean of the ocean.

last movie/tv show: i haven't seen it yet but i'm putting it on here since i'm watching it tomorrow...it's the haikyuu movie! i'm super excited to watch it because i miss my best friend kenma so much.

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet 🍰

relationship status: i have a crush(?) it's weird. i don't know how to describe my feelings for this girl.

last thing googled: "wolfe glick 2024 naic team"

current obsession: my kuroken pokémon VGC AU. please help me. this is the only thing i think about ever. coming to you...soon...hopefully. give me a minute.

tagging @radishnt @honeyviscera @peplos @aroace-poly-show @theguardianace @thedandelionthief 🐇

[yourstrulysims]

Solo Trip to Mt. Komo 🏔️ | Day 2 Part 4 🍜🍱

This was a fun day! Hillary was out all night with Xen and Suni at Komo Cuisine yapping and eating good food! They all hit it off so well!

So raaaaaaaandom, between us Tumblr… WHY DID THEY ALL GET HIGH OFF EDIBLES WHILE I WAS PLAYING????? No one had drugs on them 😂😂😂😂

While I was filming I noticed all 3 of them had red eyes and then in the buffs is it was like “good trip from THC” WHAT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so I guess Hill really had a good night 😂😂😂 I wonder which one of them was carrying the goods 👀👀👀👀

Continue for more Hillary

Previously

[shinysparklesapphires]

Jaune Stella Chats

"some say that there was a diamond so fierce, even the ground shook before her"

"my father told me how she was the one to shape the very first gem fae army, who would always follow her to victory."

"i hope one day i will follow in her footsteps."

"hm? you have a question for me?"

"very well, but make it quick, i don't have much time."

"my hair? is that all you wanted to hear about?"

"my father used to put it up like this when i was younger so i guess it just became a habit of mine."

"oh! i have to go now."

"Scarlett, this is the 3rd F you've gotten this month. I'm starting to think you don't pay attention to my tutoring."

"Wow really? Maybe it's just cuz you're boring."

"I ain't got time to listen to all your yapping about The Fairest Sorcerer and the Queen of the Undead and all of that."

"must you be so difficult all the time?"

"Emmiline!"

"Eeek! You scared meee!"

"Shouldn't you be in class right now?"

"I was just out for a walk! That's all!"

"Where's your hall pass then?"

"well..erm.."

"Exactly."

"Please don't tell Shiro!"

"Fine. I won't this time."

"Hooray!"

"The Diamonds had a perfect empire didn't they..."

"Of course they did. There is nothing to prove otherwise."

"It's because of them that we're here today.."

"If the diamonds' had an imperfect empire-"

"enough. that didn't happen did it? so no use worrying about it."

"Yellow."

"Yes my lord?"

"You do know about the diamond general correct?"

"yes sir."

"so i trust you are aware of her reviving a gem fae soilder from the dead right?"

"i had never heard of that before! that's amazing!"

"my mother said she could fix anything no matter what it was"

"such an amazing figure.."

💌: @lowcallyfruity @xen-blank @h2llish @boopshoops

[braxenberry]

Screaming and crying at Record of Ragnarok still

Spoilers ahead, of course. For round 2, I believe. (Adam vs Zeus)

I CANNOT BELIEVE ADAM LOST OH MY GOD

Yes I am listening to a song about him, okayy and???

It makes me so sad to listen to every single time, the lyrics are so good.

"Father if you don't mind

Sing me to sleep

Just one more time

Before I go"

HE WAS KILLED BY ZEUS

And he was just trying to protect his children cries

"Does someone need a reason to fight for those they love?"

I CANNOT DO THIS

[braxenberry]

When I tell you I LOVE THIS SONG

[queerhairycowboy]

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welcome 2 my blog !!!

my name is andromeda !! i go by andy/rome orr if ur extra special, parry.

this is not a coherant blog like, at all- i yap and yap and yap so...

i use they/he/she (could update !!)

i am genderqueer, a lesbian, demiromantic, asexual & poly !!

because im not a theme blog i don't really have anymore 2 say...

my tags r pretty basic- #xen 🫀 is my wonderful partner ! aaand #hairyqueer is the bullshit i spout...

one last thing!

DNI if you are: transphobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, ableist, sinophobic, xenophobic, a zionist, anti therian/furry/otherkin, antiyan, and most importantly have a bad music taste (/j /silly)

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[diegeticdivinity]

Hey!! This is really random coming from me since I usually yap to u abt catcf, but im rlly curious to know what the other fandom I keep seeing u post about is, something involving a G-man?? Idk what it is but it looks rlly cool :3 could u maybe explain it to me? Feel free to yap as much as u want.

Thank you for asking, I love rambling about my interests and this particular fandom is my special interest so I really love rambling about it :]

Anyway. Half-Life is a video game series released by Valve Software, the first game came out in 1998 and was about an experiment going horribly wrong at a research facility called Black Mesa. On May 16th 200-, 27-year-old theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman (this is our player character btw) did what his higher-ups told him to do and shoved a suspicious crystal under a beam. This resulted in the Resonance Cascade, the inciting incident of pretty much everything that happened since in the series, in which a bunch of portals to a borderworld (basically a universe that can serve as a bridge between other universes) called Xen opened and aliens started coming out of them and wreaking havoc on Black Mesa. Then things got worse somehow with the military showed up, but not to save the BM staff but to shoot everybody on-sight to cover up the incident. Gordon grabbed a crowbar and started fighting his way through all of the aliens and soldiers, eventually making his way to Xen and killing a creature called the Nihilanth, who was keeping the portals open and invading Earth with an enslaved species called the Vortigaunts because it wanted to get away from the Combine (we’ll get into what the Combine are and why they’re so scary in a bit). Then Gordon gets saved by the G-Man.

Since you asked about the G-Man specifically (and since he’s my biggest comfort character and I love him to death), I’ll explain what we know about him. He looks like a mostly ordinary human authority figure, just a tall man in a blue suit, if a little uncanny and with glowing eyes. The term ‘G-Man’ is old-fashioned slang for a government agent and is what the fandom calls him (I sometimes say G' for short) because it’s his name in the game files (it's not his in-universe name, he doesn’t have one to our knowledge). However, he’s strongly implied to be a far greater force than any human government just assuming a form humans can comprehend. He’s widely considered to be the greatest mystery in gaming; nobody knows exactly who he is, what he is or what his motivations are, the only things we know about him is that he more or less controls time and space and ensures the story of the games happens as intended with minor nudges in the timeline and by ‘hiring’ important people. Nominally, he answers to a group of even more nebulous ‘Employers’, but his goals don’t always align with theirs and he occasionally deviates from their orders.

Anyway, the G-Man says that him and his Employers are impressed with Gordon’s work liberating the borderworld and preventing further invasion of Earth, so he offers Gordon a job under him. Gordon accepts, and the G-Man puts him in stasis outside of time and space for about 20 years.

In this interval, a whole lot of things happen on Earth, mostly to do with the fact that this is when the Combine choose to come a-knocking, attracted by all of the interdimensional disturbance caused by the Resonance Cascade. The Combine are a nightmarish parasitic collection of alien species that cannot innovate on their own and therefore seek to invade and assimilate as many worlds as possible in order to steal their existing innovation. The Seven Hour War happens, and that name kinda speaks for itself. It ends when Wallace Breen, the former administrator of Black Mesa, strikes a desperate bargain with the Combine in exchange for humanity’s surrender, and so they keep humanity alive and establish an oppressive, dystopian regime on Earth with Breen as its puppet leader as they slowly drain Earth of its resources, turn humans into brainwashed soldiers and try to replicate the teleportation technology that caused the Resonance Cascade.

However, as it often is with humans, not all hope is lost: a handful of other Black Mesa survivors including scientist Eli Vance and his daughter Alyx Vance start a Resistance against the Combine, which includes teaming up with the now liberated Vortigaunts, who now live on Earth and are even more oppressed under the Combine than the humans are (poor guys can’t catch a break).

Half-Life 2 was released in 2004 and is about Gordon Freeman being returned to the post-Combine Earth after his stasis and teaming up with Alyx and the rest of the Resistance. A lot of humans see Gordon as a saviour figure come to liberate humanity for a second time after he already saved them from one alien invasion, which also paints quite the target on his back for the Combine. Quite a few things happen in this game: a Resistance member named Judith Mossman who wants to protect Eli and Alyx is manipulated by Breen into betraying Gordon’s location to the Combine but Gordon gets away and they get Eli instead and ship him off to torture prison, which Judith did not agree to. Alyx and Gordon then storm the torture prison to rescue Eli where they find Judith and figure out that she‘s been working with Breen and Alyx obviously doesn’t take that very well. They find Eli and go to escape with the Combine’s half-finished, clunky replica of a Black Mesa teleporter, but Judith panics and sends herself and Eli to Breen’s headquarters in the Combine Citadel instead. Alyx and Gordon reroute the teleporter back to a Resistance laboratory and make their escape, but the teleporter, being a half-finished, clunky mess, proceeds to explode and bring down the whole torture prison.

This explosion also messed up the teleportation process and Gordon and Alyx only made it back a full week later, when they find that the blowing up of the torture prison has sparked a full-blown uprising from the humans, who now have solid proof that the Combine aren’t untouchable. Gordon and Alyx join the fight, wanting to storm the Citadel and rescue Eli for real this time. They fight their way there but ultimately get captured, coming face to face with Breen himself, who tries to get them all to surrender. Judith then decides she’s had enough of Breen’s nonsense and backstabs him, setting Gordon, Alyx and Eli free. Breen attempts to make an escape using a Combine portal, but Combine teleportation devices aren’t exactly known for their stability, so Gordon destroys it before Breen gets there and Breen falls to his death in the elevator. Before the whole Citadel can explode and take the whole surrounding city with it, the G-Man freezes time and appears once again to save Gordon (and possibly also Alyx), putting him in stasis once more.

This is where things get a little messy, because instead of using another full game to wrap up this story, Valve decides to release the sequels via smaller expansions called ‘Episodes’; at least three were planned, but only two ever came out.

Not a whole lot happens in HL2 Episode 1, the most notable thing is that the Vortigaunts all team up and use their powers to pull Gordon (and possibly also Alyx) back out of stasis, which the G-Man isn’t pleased about but does let them go. The rest of the episode is everybody trying to get the sparkles out of the city before the Citadel blows up, which they successfully do.

HL2 Episode 2 is where the plot picks back up. The Resistance find out that the Combine are trying to use the leftover energy from the Citadel explosion to send a call for reinforcements to their home universe, something they can prevent if they launch a rocket into space from a Resistance base called White Forest, so that’s Gordon and Alyx’s next destination. They do have to stop for a bit when Alyx gets stabbed through the back by a Combine-made creature called a Hunter and almost dies, but Gordon helps some local Vortigaunts save her life, with the minor caveat that Gordon’s and Alyx’s fates and souls are now forever intertwined. The G-Man also appears here, telling Gordon that Alyx was originally meant to die at Black Mesa but he defied his Employers to save her life. Then he tells the still unconscious Alyx to tell her father to ‘prepare for unforeseen consequences’ and, as usual, mysteriously disappears.

Alyx wakes up and they make it to White Forest, where they receive a message from Judith informing them that she’s also been busy since she left the Citadel. She somehow managed to uncover the Borealis, a research ship that went missing many years ago from Aperture Science (Black Mesa’s rival research facility, they’re very unhinged and have their own games, the Portal series) and is thought to have incredible technology on-board. Most of the Resistance is enthusiastic about finding the Borealis and using its technology against the Combine. However, Eli, upon receiving the G-Man’s message through Alyx, reveals to Gordon that he’s heard these words before and that he’s certain they mean another Resonance-Cascade-level disaster is inevitable if they use the Borealis and decides they should destroy it instead. Then there’s a big battle with Combine forces as the Resistance try to launch the rocket. They’re successful, and the Combine fail to call for reinforcements. Then Gordon, Eli and Alyx go to board a helicopter to the Arctic where the Borealis is located, but before they can do that, they’re interrupted by a pair of Combine Advisors bursting through the wall. Advisors are creatures with powerful psychic capabilities, unlike anything the Resistance has faced before, and while they eventually retreat and Gordon and Alyx survive, Eli is killed in this struggle.

For a very, very long time, this exact cliffhanger was the end. HL2 Episode 2 came out in 2007 (which is also the year I was born, funnily enough). Half-Life 2 Episode 3 still does not exist, and neither does Half-Life 3, to the point where it’s a meme in the pc gaming community that Valve can only count to 2.

What does exist is Half-Life Alyx, a VR-only game with Alyx as the protagonist that released in 2020 and technically takes place between the first two games but also does a lot of cool wacky timeline things that would take a separate post to explain because this one is already getting absurdly long. Another thing I didn’t mention is the HL1 expansions, which are a handful of shorter campaigns released between 1999 and 2001 that tell the stories of other characters who survived Black Mesa and are also questionably canon due to being made by Gearbox Software, who got a few Valve canon things wrong. There is so much more to talk about here but, again. This post is very long and I would understand if you didn’t even read this far. If you did, thank you very much!!! I love my silly anti-nihilist video games about the indomitable human spirit standing in the face of forces beyond its comprehension, and it brought me great joy to get to yap about them for 14 paragraphs straight. Thank you again for sending this ask ^^

[braxenberry]

Okay so it took me a while to get to this only because I wanted to really think about the anime I could recommend.

But to be honest, I really mainly watch shounen anime (though I've recently been getting into isekai), and so I don't really have that many slice-of-life recommendations overall, much less ones that fit those parameters. </3

The ones I can give are the following:

School Babysitters (Gakuen Babysitters)

In this one, the main character is, admittedly, in high school, but the main focus of the show is on him being a babysitter for the children of the staff at said high school. It's a really cute slice-of-life with a lot of adorable toddlers and silly interactions. It's on Crunchyroll, but they only had it in sub, if that's a concern for you. It is 13 episodes long.

Kotaro Lives Alone

Kotaro is a 4 year old that lives alone. It's a cute slice-of-life anime with some comedy moments, though the ending gets a bit sad, so fair warning. Overall, it's an adorable found-family-esque show, and it has both a sub and dub! It has 10 episodes, and can be found on Netflix.

The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudou)

This anime is arguably more of a comedy than slice-of-life, but I feel like the genres have quite a bit of overlap, and one could argue that this belongs to the latter category also. But I digress. The Way of the Househusband is about ex-yakuza Tatsu and his life as a househusband. I thought it was really funny, and it also is in both dub and sub. It has 15 episodes (10 in Season 1 and 5 in Season 2), and is on Netflix.

I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level (Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita)

This is (as I'm sure you can tell from the title) an isekai, so do with that information what you will, but it's really just a slice-of-life in a fantasy setting. It follows Azusa through her life as "the strongest witch in the highlands", where she mostly dodges fame while trying to have a chill life. I watched this on Crunchyroll. It's offered in both sub and dub, and has 12 episodes.

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I hope these were helpful! Like I said above, I'm not much of a slice-of-life watcher (I tend to find them kinda boring. :']), but all of these anime listed were pretty good! Let me know if you watch any of them. :D

beloved moots and followers, you should give me recommendations for slice-of-life animes that aren't set in [or at least centered around] being in high school [unless they're really good, in which case I'll let it slide]

[sportssforsportss]

welcome to the field!

hi! my name’s xen and i go by she/her pronouns!! this blog has been made to purely talk about sport and my favourites!

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fave sports and teams:

football & women’s football

arsenal

formula 1

mclaren

mercedes

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fave athletes and players:

lando norris

oscar piastri

lewis hamilton

mary earps

vivianne miedema

leah williamson

kyra cooney-cross

lotte wubben-moy

bukayo saka

martin ødegarrd

aaron ramsdale

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other sports i think are cool:

netball

basketbal

tennis

motocross

nascar

indycar

♡ my dni’s ♡

Please don’t interact with my blog if you are:

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racists

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people over the age of 21 (i’m a minor it would make me abit uncomfy!!)

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my blogs

@sportssforsportss - this blog, a side blog dedicated to sports (mainly f1 and football)

@heartssforheartss - my main blog, general blabber

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[x3nshit]

Timothy the spider has invaded your ask box 🕷️

hi tim, please leave. i hate spiders :)

[edith-is-a-cat]

xen getting my half coherent yapping bc i love them