#about goofy stories

[dovewingkinnie]

me when i have to narrate some assholes life and the only time i get to really think is when hes asleep

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

[pigeonfeather]

Can I offer you a snack in these trying times

[jesncin]

To The Open...Road!

Hellblazer: Dead In America but it's A Goofy Movie again. This one's a bit wordy but it's to establish Johnstantine and Noah Ikumelo's unique situation in america... and I thought it would be a neat way to remix their dynamic during the road trip. Instead of leaving the "Noah is John's son" reveal to the very end, how about early to halfway through the story? How would the two deal with that when they're stuck together?

[palin-tropos]

za/um weirdly baiting kimharry sucks because through reverse psychology it makes people think kimharry is this noncanon shallow fanservice element of the game and it’s really not

it’s not “shipping” it’s the main relationship of the game through which you explore the world of elysium. they are a duet, a dialectic. they’re explicitly queer and obviously are into each other

there is nothing wrong with admitting the story (which is about much more than “gay shipping”. it’s also sometimes about other queer people and queer-coded people, ta-dah! and sometimes it’s about the trauma of failed heterosexual masculinity) is told through the interactions between two men who have obvious crushes on each other. that’s not some kind of indulgence, I played the fucking game, it’s about queer people

you know that little spiel the smoker gives about the homo-sexual underground, he upfront discusses the politicization of queerness. disco elysium is political and queerness is political and queerness is in the game

so yeah “forbidden fruity kisses��� fucking sucks because it’s trivializing themes that actually do matter and framing queer content as a silly fandom thing

EDIT: well this got a lot of notes so basically I wanna remind people that the scandal primarily isn't about the gayness or not gayness of any update content or how it's handled it's about people's art being stolen from them!

this vent post happened because I was mad that fans were overcorrecting and almost acting like the art theft is somehow gay shipping fandom's fault or that rejecting the queer romantic analysis of the story is returning it to its purer, unsullied form

but you should probably actually be focusing your mad on the fact that the art, the entire game, was stolen

[lizzybeeee]

The Lucanis vs Illario story would have had greater emotional depth/intrigue if the writers didn't water down how fucked up the Crows are as an organization.

Just some thoughts about how, out of all the side villains, Illario had some great potential to be a really interesting/tragic character in my opinion.

TL;DR: Zevran Aranai has a knife with Caterina's name on it for good reason and Lucanis/Illario need therapy...or whatever the Thedas equivalent is called...talking to Rook, I dunno

Going into DATV as a new player, or even as a returning one, the whitewashing of the Crows has a lot of the potential complexities of that life simply ignored or barely touched upon. The entire 'Illario vs Lucanis' boils down to: Illario seething in the shadows about Lucanis being the 'best boy'™ of the family while Illario is an after thought - which he is.

Let's be real, Illario is not subtle and immediately comes across as the Scar to Lucanis' 'Mufasa'. It's a questline with a very straightforward villain who has pretty lackluster motivations from what info we're provided - being 'I want power and to be the First Talon'. The game does very little explore what motivations he may have beyond being jealous of Lucanis/wanting more power.

However, if you play the quest line knowing what previous games have set up about the Crows - about how cutthroat and brutal the life is behind the glamour - then you can see that the entire Lucanis vs Illario conflict has amazing potential to be a dramatic tragedy.

We've seen how the life of Crow can affect Zevran - someone who was sold into the life through child-slavery. How interesting would it be to see how the life of a Crow can affect someone who was born into it? It's pretty clear in-game that Caterina intends for her grandchildren to carry on the family tradition - despite the fact that this 'family tradition' has likely led to the deaths of most of her grandchildren and however many children she had.

If there's banter about how Illario's/Lucanis' parents/cousins died specifically I haven't heard it, but the impression I got in-game was that it was likely linked to the Crows/politics in some way? Feel free to correct me! Still majorly fucked up that she pushes her grandsons into this life regardless!

Lucanis/Illario's situation was not like Zevran's - who was sold into the Crow's through slavery, with no one to speak up for him. Caterina was a woman who had power, who knew what the life of a Crow meant, and who still pushed those she 'loved' into it because is consolidated her place in the system. For all the Crows talk of 'family' Caterina doesn't seem to give a shit about them unless if they're contributing to the family business in some way - not to mention the whole 'you fail and we kill you' clause of being a Crow in the first place.

In the 'Wigmaker Job' from Tevinter Nights Lucanis talks about how Caterina hit him [also Illario] with her cane for mistakes and had him spend days without food/water. How he used to hate her but now 'realizes' that it was her way of ensuring he survived the life of being an Antivan Crow. Did it end up protecting them? It likely pushed them both to refine their skills out of fear. It's likely that simply by association with her they would be targets and thus needed to know how to take care of themselves and fight.

But why have him as a Crow in the first place? Why not simply train them well to defend themselves? You can't deny that she doesn't benefit from having her grandchildren in the family business - intentionally wanting Lucanis to take over her position as First Talon. The Antivan Crows are a force to be reckoned with and being one brings a whole lot of power in Antiva - being part of the elite of that group even more so.

If the game showed us the ugly reality of the Crows - the brutality of the lifestyle and how cutthroat the organization is, it could have really added some depth to Illario's betrayal - having it be more than "I want more power/respect" to "this is the result of what you taught me was valuable in life."

Warden: "Do you actually enjoy being an assassin?" Zevran: "And why not? There are many things to enjoy about being a Crow in Antiva. You are respected. You are feared. The authorities go out of their way to overlook your trespasses. Even the rewards are nothing to turn your nose up at."

Illario, bitter about Caterina favoring Lucanis - resentful of the fact that she has already decided that Lucanis will be her successor, being offered power by the Venatori (at the expense of the Crows) and accepting because why not? How different is it from what the Crows do? Isn't power and status the whole point of working yourself up in the Crows? Getting into a relationship with Zara because why not? Isn't sex part of the allure of being a Crow? Why can't he have this? Why shouldn't he have this?

Rook: "When we met, it didn't seem like Illario and Caterina were close." Lucanis: "It was hard to be close to her. Even for me. And...I was her favorite."

Why would he have connections to his family? Why should he? Caterina certainly never seemed to value 'family' beyond what they could do for her and their family legacy. Most of his family is already dead, and of those that remain the only parental figure he has obviously favors Lucanis. We don't have a lot of evidence in-game to show that Illario ever really cared for Lucanis, but the prequel story 'The Wake' and Lucanis' own banter imply that they were practically brothers, best friends. Perhaps he did care and then ceased to at some point, perhaps he didn't at all, or perhaps he accepted that an early death for them both was inevitable like everyone else in their family. Dead now or later - what was the difference? At least if Illario sells him out now to the Venatori then he'll get something from it instead of another dead family member to bury.

It's the tragic result of raising a child in an environment where he was taught and experienced the need for self-preservation at all costs. Constantly threatened, punished, and made well aware of that fact that his life was an expendable commodity. Then, when things in the world went to shit he picked the only option that made sense to him. To save himself.

The irony of the potential fall of the Crows, the fall of House Dellamorte, coming at the hands of one of their own - not because he had a change of heart but because he was taught too well by them. The Crows view those that fail them as disposable, someone to be discarded - if the Crows fail Illario, what is to stop him from applying that mindset to them?

But this would require the writers to acknowledge how messed up the Crows are and we can't do that to our 'Noble Freedom Fighters'™. They'll also need to address Zevran's existence and what lore was established in past games...and we can't have that either lmao.

[deoxysacid]

(valence aka hgss timeskip) it must suck to lose your position as champion to some random teenager. man i wonder if anyone else can relate to that.

valence ethan thingy... i just like tormenting him. driven kind of mad by the stress of being champion and maintaining the title to the point where he neglects all his relationships and values and he sees that this is killing him but keeps it up anyway. damn. that sucks.

(yes he punched a hole in the wall. dont worry about it.) +bonus doodles

[llamahearted]

like it's no big deal at all

songs on repeat

[turianmailman]

My bestie requested I post this so he could reblog it so here ya go brother here’s the ABSOLUTELY CANON ENDING for Mr wolfwood trigun

[skimmeh]

It's almost 4am

Take these Stareater mumbo doodles

He's rather silly, with his stupid as fuck mullet-

[kinokoshoujoart]

oops all rock (springtime edition)

i’ll be able to draw digitally again soon! ;w; in the meantime i’ve been scribbling a lot on paper…

could not wait for Soon, so i resorted to coloring it using the markup tool in default iphone photos app (don’t do that ever again)

[inanimateinsanitywiki]

you can always tell when someone only got into inanimate insanity recently because they'll think knife is actually a cool guy tm. they didn't get to watch season twos episodes come out in real time and therefore did not get to sit with their thoughts as he got blackmailed for liking Girl Toys and fail to comprehend sarcasm even after nickel painstakingly explained it to him. he used to say shit like "kniferific" and "no more mr knife guy" unironically. the audience has fallen for the facade that is meant to be dismantled and reassessed by the viewers yet again i fear

[uhohdad]

Oh wow dad you're slaying so hard this was incredible (I wish I was as good with words as you so I could explain how much I loved the chapters) I have a question though, and be careful cuz this could break my itte bitte heart, did john not tell Ruby about the "dinner parties" because he didn't want her to worry/bear the burden of knowing?

Love u pops💞

⌜ KÖNIG X READER HUNGER GAMES AU ⌟

hi hi hi 💕🥹 thank you so much for asking i love yapping about this silly lil story

Partly, yes. Price has been keeping her in the dark about The Capitol being upset with Reader & König in general. She’s entirely oblivious to them being in danger overall, and he knows she will worry herself to the point it might become its own separate issue. Price has that habit of carrying the burden and only handing them out when it is absolutely necessary.

Mostly, though, it’s because Price couldn’t bring himself to admit his own failure to her. I cannot emphasize just how churned up Price is over not being able to get the kids out of it. This is a man who volunteered his own life to protect the love of his life, and he failed. And in his eyes, even after everything he has done to ensure König & Reader’s safety, he failed them, too. Just like he failed every tribute he’s had in the last twenty years.

He can’t block it out or down play it - because he knows what they’re going through.

Price knows he should have told Ruby so that she could act sensitively around the kids, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it, so he lied. He could hardly work up the nerve to tell König and Reader - and since Ruby didn’t really need to know unlike the kids, he couldn’t bring himself to get the words out.

He assumed Reader would explode on Ruby and she’d find out that way instead, but she didn’t (preoccupied with getting felt up & stressing about their crimes) That should have been his first clue that something was amiss, but he was too busy choking on his own guilt and couldn’t even look them in the eye.

[iloverumpusmcfowl]

These two should be pit against each other more often ngl I feel like it would be a great opportunity for the both of them to face a bigger challenge than usual (also they would hate eachover so much and I find that really funny)

Like Ellsworth is not afraid to throw tear gas at teenagers. He would go absolutely brutal against the blot

[tsukasalover]

I feel like wxs gets 100x more silly during their live performances. Idk if its just me but seeing little details put into they way they react and the stuff they get to babble on about is so fascinating. Like i dont think some of those random moments can be captured in event stories for quite a few reasons but I love seeing them just be comfortable with each other and go from random topic to random topic.

[charmac]

Cut Mac and Dee scene from The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby in which Dee attempts to leave D.B. at a police station: