#aboutwhat

[garlic-cloves]

might be because I don’t have a good relatiomship with my father but i love the men from cod and you CANT take them away from me.

simon, my beloved…

and barrage…

and price…

and soap…

and könig…

and literally everyone else…

why am i still single

[bathylychnops]

if icouldchange only one thingabout deathloop itwould actually be the corpses disappearing, i wish the visionaries and eternalists didnt just POOF away cloud of dust, and instead when you killed them they were just like still and Dead. like its a game thats main THEME is killing over and over and over and its driving the protagonist crazy and these visionaries are his FRIENDS so like. its called DEATH-loop but the disappearing bodies effect doesnt feel like you actually KILLED anything like. i wish it was morelike Dishonored's very serious kill consequences but like WITH the timeloop factor. like. YES they reset everyday and theyre not REALLY dead but they should still BE DEAD until the day resets? like, the 'theyll be back tomorrow' and 'kill everyone no consequences part island' themes of blackreef, dont LAND well when like, ilike the residuum effect okay butlike. idontknow like it feelslike a videogame INSIDE the videogame bc theyjust poof! into a cloud of dust like 😭 ilove thisgame but this design choice just kindof bothers me lol like imnot evenbeing like oohh iwish there was more bloodd dark edgelord 😭its called DEATHloop, the eternalists literallu brag about killing eachother, the game leans INTO this with everything EXCEPT that one small detail and it bugs me

[veryaren]

here.... Take this bwforei go..... (To bed)

[woahpip]

So Be It, See to It: From the Archives of Octavia Butler

[ro-botany]

i'm just giggling now, what a delightfully silly ask lmao

[scottstiles]

'take your own life' is such an interesting expression. at once it means both the worst and the best possible things you could do for yourself.

[druckers]

they make me happy.......

[fragiledate]

regrets

[cherry-shipping]

oh also i didnt specify but while that last post is true for all versions of papyrus i was especially thinking about horrortale. because of their past making and sharing food and making sure the people you love are well fed is such a huge huge huge important thing 4 them so it matters even more that i eat regularly

[scrapshouse]

[plutoniclesbian]

heartcastiel >>> plutoniclesbian

might change my url just to feel something

[row-of-ribbons]

DREAM GIRL INTRO 1/5 How To Get Started: routines

GLOW UP/ noun/definition: to make oneself more attractive in appearance and/or an accomplished version of oneself. (the root to be your own dream girl)

glow up?, upgrade?, that girl? no matter what you call it we all want the same thing to be a better version of ourselves.

Start with Routine: It's easy to not worry aboutwhat others think about you if you have it all together(if you're an anxious person). It's time to get a pencil and paper and write down a routine that works for YOU. Not what everyone else is doing. I personally have a routine that I curated to my needs that helps me feel invincible and put together, now think about what you want to improve and put that in your everyday routine. do you want to take your vitamins every day write that down, do you want to be more productive? GET IT ON PAPER GIRL!!

once you have that routine STICK TO IT. you have to do it every day with no excuses. you don't want to do it? well don't complain nothing has changed. you have to be high-maintained with yourself to raise your standards for other things. if you start putting effort into your nails and proper care you will be more gentle when picking things up. and over time you are more gentle and more feminine. and I know that we all have bad days or sick days. that's why there are variations of those routines too. Most importantly don't let the routine control you. romanticize life, don't see it as a chore. do it with grace. it starts with the inside.

[tiredmimik]

!! UT/DR NEWSLETTER SPOILERS !!

(+ brain dump)

guys i cannot be the only one who can't get this out of my head

it wasn't explicitly stated but i'm pretty sure this is Asriel talking about Chara, and there's something so melancholy aboutwhat he's saying. you really get an insight into Chara's mentality about humanity and the world. "nothing can hurt you anymore, nothing can hurt anyone anymore"... it's further solidifies that Chara is a hurt kid that wants to fix things no matter the cost, even if the way they try and "fix" things is totally fucked up and wrong (referring to when they tried to get Asriel to kill the humans on the surface. like they fucked up big time and ended up killing their best friend but their heart was kinda in the right place)

also the last lines. "I just hope we'll be friends for 999 more years". is so messed up.

Asriel and Chara aren't going to see each other ever again, yet they're still going to stay "alive" for the next 999 years. Flowey (probably) can't die without a soul, and Chara is a ghost watching and narrating Frisk. they've both changed, they've both royally fucked up, and they're both going to live with that

for the next 999 years

[sharb]

I'm excited for sonic x shadow generations but im absolutaly worried aboutwhat will happen to the pre existing version of generations.

If you have any interest in the modding scene for generations, get it right now, we don't have any idea if that versions going to be around for much longer and we may lose a decades worth of modding history.

[sparklegemstone-cr]

The Legend of Vox Machina S3 E7-E9 Thoughts

Writing out some initial thoughts –

The non-verbal storytelling in the scene where Percy says “I’m in love with you” was cool to appreciate intellectually in a “I see what you did there” way.   The way the sun shines on Vex’s face with Percy’s confession and then how it disappears again as Vex isn’t sure how to handle it and her issues get in the way.  And then how Vex: “Percival I’m…” Vax: “Disarmed” uses Vax’s line to describe Vex’s internal state.

My favorite scene in E7 that stuck with me the most and was the most evocative and impactful was Vex’s vision of Percy burning alive in fire and screaming.  That was GREAT.

I’m still processing how I feel about the whole Ripley and Percy confrontation, right now I feel like overall it fine, but it could have been better and I feel like it’s partly my fault for having such high expectations.  I just wanted it to be more psychological and really build upon all the pithy angst with Percy’s history with Ripley and Orthax, and it ended up being a more of a plain action fight scene.  That’s not to say the fight scene was bad.  Like that tiny little flashback of Percy being tortured by Ripley induced by the gas was great, and I wanted that sort of thing to carry through more.  Not to say the action sequence was bad, though.  It was cool that it was an environment with infinite guns for Percy to pick up, the comment about Vax making the fall and roll looking easy was fun, and the feeling of Percy being injured and all alone in a one vs. many battle and still holding his own was neat.  But because he was alone it meant the dynamic between him and Ripley had to really shine to carry the sequences in the absence of Percy’s dynamic with his friends, and I didn’t feel it quite got there.

Seriously, fuck Ripley.  “Mages killed your family” fuck off.  Would not be surprised if she was directly responsible for killing at least one of the de Rolos.

I did notice how closely they are paralleling her backstory with what she did to Whitestone.  She’s doing exactly what was done to her.  The Assembly attacked the town specifically for the rock/mineral resources, which is what she did with the Briarwoods to create residuum and also just recently in E6 to steal more residuum.

I am shocked that Percy didn’t die protecting Vex.  I would have bet money that that’s what was being set up, particularly because Vex saved Percy AGAIN in the Whitestone battle.

The initial fake-out of Percy being mortally wounded and then him pulling out the protective metal from his shirt was great, playing with the moment a lot of fans were expecting.

I’ll have to go back and watch it again, but on first watch I wasn’t sold on Percy’s speech to Ripley right before she killed him, and like’s he’s halfway to smiling while offering her mercy.   Like maybe there’s a world where they really emphasized that Orthax and not Ripley was primarily responsible for everything she’s done this season (500 DEAD, 800 WOUNDED) and emphasized Percy empathizing with her soul being corrupted by Orthax where it would fit better?  I get they are pushing Percy in a lighter (i.e. opposite of dark, not frivolous) direction this season, but they spent so much time on how Percy feels responsible for Whitestone and protecting it, and then teased us (boo!) with darker Percy at the end of E6 that they then didn’t deliver on and didn’t really show how he could go from “washing my hands in Ripley’s blood” to what we got in E7.  Also, the speech itself didn’t even really make sense, talking about bringing her to justice, but then also talking about her future contributions, as if justice wouldn’t be execution or life imprisonment anyway.  Vox Machina kill bad guys all the time, and this is where you get precious?  It would have made a lot more sense to me if Percy not killing Ripley was aboutwhat he wanted for himself and what it would mean for him to commit the act or not commit the act, instead of making it about Ripley. But ultimately I’m assuming Ripley and Percy have a 3rd (!) and final showdown coming at some point, so I don’t have to hang my hat on this scene in particular being the end all and be all.  I’m thinking of this as more of an intermediate step in the Percy / Ripley arc and am glad there’s hopefully more to come and more for the writers to say on the matter. Maybe if this encounter wasn't darker / more psychological like I was hoping, that is still yet to come, and the problem is the expectations I had were more for a "finale" of an arc vs. when it ended up being was a stepping stone along the way that can't outshine what's to come.

I think they could have made the mortal wound hit the audience harder.  You could barely see he was injured, it went by kind of quickly without a lot of time for Percy to react, and then he was just still on the ground.  There’s so much you could have done – focusing on him in what he realizes are his last breaths, trying to drag himself away from Ripley and leaving a trail of blood on the floor, etc.

I also have mixed feelings about the song overlaying Vex finding Percy at the end.  It didn’t prevent me from feeling things, but I’m also not sure it was the most emotionally effective punch they could have thrown.

What did VM do with the massive factory of guns?  Kind of important.  Also what about all the guns that were in there?  Are we supposed to believe Ripley took them all?  It didn’t seem like there was that much time between the fight and VM entering the factory.

I’m surprised they didn’t tie Pike not being able to access the Everlight’s healing powers into the end of E7, like with Pike frantic not able to access her powers while trying to do something, anything over Percy’s dead body.

Orthax has been begging to eat Percy this whole season, they made a point to explain that Orthax gets the souls of the people killed by Ripley’s weapons, and then Ripley shoots Percy with said weapon.  No me gusta.  Mmm nmmm.  No thank you.  Haaaaaaaaa.  Literally just got goosebumps thinking about it.

LOST MY MIND at the opening of E8 being VM meeting Percy for the first time.  Was not expecting that at all and it was such a TREAT and I LOVED IT and it was also a balm for the soul to see that beginning and have another moment with Percy right after he died.  That was a great, great choice.

The thing that hurt the most in episode 8 for me was the full frame image of the stone sculpture of Percy on the top of his casket.  It wasn’t seeing his body or anyone reacting to his death, though I appreciated that they showed Vex really deeply affected by it.  Something about the stone, it just looks so much like him and really drilled home that he’s gone, part of history and the past now.  I would have liked to see more reactions from characters and for the episode to sit more in the emotion of loss and grieving rather than having to quickly gear up into the attack on Thordak instead.  I can kind of rationalize Vox Machina not being devastated and keeping going because 1) they’ve already processed and recognized that they could die doing what they are doing so it’s not like this is an unthinkable shock, it’s a probably outcome and 2) they need to keep pushing on the existential threat that is Thordak, but still like other episodes I think this episode suffers from trying to fit too much into it.  We didn’t even get a proper reaction from Cass.

Really enjoyed Vex and Syldor getting to hash things out more

The way they did Kash getting killed was great.  Like, you could see the massive amount of blood, but then he stands up and you’re like “oh, wait, he’s okay after all”, and then you realize that nope, he actually is very dead.  Great work keeping the viewer on their toes there.

The action fighting Thordak was awesome.  The carnage.  The screams.  The violence.  Armies getting mowed down.  You could really feel the impact and weight of everything.  The only scene that felt a bit weird to me is when they stopped the music and the intensity and Thordak just stood there for Scanlan to have a quick chat with him.  I’m sure there’s considerations about how you just can’t blast at 100% the whole time, but the Scanlan / Thordak scene felt like we suddenly took the foot off the pedal and was weirdly ‘folks just standing there chatting’.

I thought they did a great job balancing giving Pike her huge moment with the Plate and then also giving Vax the final kill.  Both felt like huge, earned moments and special for both of their characters without detracting from the other.

Over and over they were like “For Percy!” when fighting Thordak but Thordak didn’t kill Percy??  Like I know indirectly, without Thordak, they wouldn’t have gotten into the Glintshore situation to begin with, but still seemed kind of odd.

Even though we've still got the 'to be continued' with Raishan, because we don't know what she's doing and what the stakes are of her still being alive doing her thing, I don't feel the threat of her yet and Thordak still feels like the big bad so E9 feels a lot like a finale to me.

[stupidrant]

Atreus asking Kratos whether or not he thinks about whether or not he's doing the right thing, and Kratos responds "no"... Was he just lying because he didn't want to open up to Atreus aboutwhat's truly going on inside of his heart? Because that moment certainly struck me as such

i think he was lying as well. maybe he lost that sort of thinking during his revenge but before all of that id like to believe he was constantly thinking about doing the right thing. with his current life and the way so much has changed since then, he definitely is in his head everyday as we can also see in valhalla he;s been struggling alot mentally