#adapt & adjust

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Reuse, recycle.

[dunmeshistash]

Mr Meshi, did Mithrun always have no sense of direction? (I thought it might be a side effect of what the demon did to him)

Great question, it's implied his "unique" sense of direction is a result of how his mindset was affected after being a Dungeon Lord, Kabru theorizes that when he finds the secret passage after getting rid of the hipogriff

I think the implication is rather than not having a sense of direction he's moving in a way that made sense in his own Dungeon without thinking about it.

Idk if that makes sense for anyone else but you know when you've been playing one game for so long that when you play a different game with a different way of doing things you get confused for a bit and keep trying to move/do things how you did in the other game? Just me? ok

[madamemiz]

drew @okavara's cryptid kel who lives rent free in my head now

pov you interrupted his snack time :(

[peliginspeaks]

Standing at a rainy cold bus stop and thinking about recipe books in the Neath. Battered old things from the Surface that perhaps sat in a cupboard for a good few years until their owners accepted that they couldn't afford the import on those ingredients now, and started crossing them out and replacing them with mushrooms, lichen powders, and the less dubious local meats. Glossy-covered ones titled in looping script, printed on something not quite unlike typical paper, trying to call on the tradition and elegance of a sunlit kitchen and not quite getting all the way there. Books that embrace the Neath entirely, with indexed guides to avoiding toxic ingredient lookalikes and descriptive flavour profiles entirely without comparison to Surface fare. I want to peek inside a PC's cupboards. let me see their recipes.

[melorambles]

had an unfortunate moment where i remembered how much the studios made the hobbit movies deviate from the books. Like, it's supposed to be a straight forward treasure hunt. You could read this to a kid, a chapter a night. There is moral complexity, but it's mostly in the category of 'hey, is it appropriate to risk waking up a dragon in exchange for treasure, when it's not us the dragon would go after? also, theoretically, if we, maybe, invaded a dragon's hoard, and it woke up and, coincidently, burned down a nearby town, would we owe reparations?' (now I'm imagining the reddit AITAH)

I know there's some discussion and speculation and excuses that well, the Hobbit as we know it was never the 'real' version anyway. It's the version Bilbo watered down to tell the kids in the Shire. But Bilbo would arguably have already been biased towards the dwarves in his version; he spent months travelling with them and getting to know them. The movie - which has events and conversations Bilbo isn't present for - is more even more favorable to the dwarves than Bilbo's own version. I have to think of the movies as the dwarf propaganda version of the Hobbit, because I remember so clearly Thranduil's line in the book about never wanting to go to war over gold and he got done so dirty in the movies. Except, you know who would have been told an extremely dwarf favorable version of the story?

Gimli.

The Hobbit movies could be the story as it was told to Gimli. It's an honorable quest to reclaim their homeland, not a treasure hunt at all. Bilbo is convinced to come along by their extremely moving songs of their homeland, definitely not the spite of being told he'd be useless. Of course all the elves were strange at best (serving salad in Rivendell - which is weird, elves have a god of the hunt and a history of great hunters, among which Elrond's sons could technically be counted, but that's not relevant right now) and actively hostile normally (Thranduil, though they imply he had his reasons, he's still an antagonist for them to face off with. In the book he does lock them up, but he has them brought food first thing. No mention of that in the movies.).

I don't know how to explain Legolas' presence in this version, or the thing with Tauriel. (None of that vibed with me for reasons I am happy to rant about elsewhere.) Maybe Merry or Pippin asks Gimli his version of the story and he's throwing in some outrageous story elements to try and mess with Legolas.

[quotelr]

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.

Debasish Mridha

[shannonsketches]

anyway i just constantly think about how bulma's dad has had a very successful habit of housing and rehabilitating stray animals all her life and it makes a lot of sense that she would know how to fearlessly and carefully handle something dangerous that is puffing up and hissing at her when it feels cornered

[volvolts]

i do kinda love the implication that the only reason why the grimwalkers keep betraying belos is because they have caleb's Good Noodle genes as opposed to just being decent normal people going "dude what the fuck is wrong with you" whenever they learn that belos wants to kill people

[thanakite]

The choice to make Jayce the founder and creator of Hextech in Arcane is probably the change that confuses me the most

Like I've never played League of Legends and probably never will (video games strain my hands too much), but like why make that choice when in the games Hextech was apparently around long before he was even born and that results in many people having items or weapons that run on Hextech and even people with Hextech limbs or Hextech inside them

Yet within Arcane none of that is the case besides from a select few because it is new technology plus it is being highly protected to not let it reach that point

Jayce could have had an obsession with Hextech without being the founder/creator and that could have led to inventions like the Hexgates and such

And yes, I get that it being a new technology led to the ending we got in season 2, but why was that change decided on and implemented in the first place? Yes it would have led to a different ending, but why was that the ending they chose to go with if it doesn't really have a lot to do with the canon of the games?

Wish I knew the answer to that, as it's likely to itch at my brain

[soullessjack]

photoshop keeps crashing and burning but i managed to pull this singular guy from the wreckage

pspspspsp click here if you’d like to support me or help a Palestinian family

[defaultyhero]

legend of vox machina you will always be famous to me

[appallinnballin]

MFM kiddos using Ruv as a mattress cuz he’s warm and soft :3

I feel demons are more susceptible to the cold.. he is the family furnace

[headfullof-ideas]

More Nate Incorrect Quotes. I think I’m gonna do some of Ant and Kari next, and then I have to draft up some for Anita. Kind of want to give a better feel of the characters to anyone interested in them before I drop their adult reference sheets, and then their kids reference sheets

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

There are a couple of lines in Psychonauts 2 that I think about quite a bit. I’m pretty sure these have already been done but if NOT, then. Uh. Spoilers for Psychonauts 2 I guess?

First off- one of Sam’s lines. There’s actually a lot about Sam that I think could have been put to better use—specifically a conversation about how psychic powers aren’t always controllable, giving parallels between Compton, Dogan, and Maligula and MAYBE Raz. But the line I SPECIFICALLY think about is a joke one.

“And if you use enough syrup, you can’t taste the difference between chicken and snake. Eggs is eggs!”

In Psychonauts, eggs are used as a metaphor for brains. Like, this isn’t some vague thing, it’s extremely front and center. Eggs and brains are directly linked. And, it should be noted, that Sam actually puts an entire nest—INCLUDING BIRD EGGS—in the, uh…. ‘Pancake mix’.

So, snakes and chickens and syrup, right? Chickens, generally used to describe someone who is cowardly or otherwise not the type to actually do anything, syrup being sweet enough to distract from other tastes, and snakes being, well, people who are not trustworthy.

And then there’s Nick Johnsmith, aka Gristol Malik, who is a well liked non psychic that Truman calls a lick spittle—someone who fawns over others easily. In other words, a snake (egg, brain) that acts sweet (and syrupy) enough to seem like a chicken (egg, brain).

Do you see. Do you SEE THE VISION HERE.

Anyways onto phrase 2. Said by Gristol Malik.

“He took a poor, sad, country girl and turned her into a mighty warrior. And I’m going to do it again.”

Now, usual context will say he means he’ll bring Maligula out of Lucy/Nona. I don’t think that’s incorrect, per se.

But one of the things that really, REALLY snapped Lucy/Maligula was the death of Marona, her sister.

And who do we have camping nearby? Why, it’s an entire family. In fact, it’s Raz’s entire family. And at LEAST half of them are psychics.

Gristol already views Raz as a puppet. He only kind of likes him because he’s half Grulovian. And, you know, during the Rhombus of Ruin, Loboto was no longer under Oleander’s employee, so�� who wanted Raz’s brain removed? Someone who, oh I don’t know, might have heard about Raz being a powerful psychic that MIGHT have noticed Raz’s rather unique name… or, more specifically, the last name of a circus that performed for the Gzar and his family, famous for water acts. One that, by chance, someone could have known that a Galochio, a family of psychics, recently married into?

And you know, Maligula is older, it’s good to have back-ups, right? I mean, this is the same guy that ACTUALLY pulled one over on an entire spy group of mind readers.

But, hey, maybe it wasn’t a plan to turn Raz into Maligula by killing one or some or all of his family! Raz is kind of pissed right now, and might not snap the way Gristol would want him to. I’m pretty sure murdering, say, Mirtala, his baby sister, might not work in Gristol’s favor when Raz is already against him.

That said… he’s not the only psychic in the Aquato family. And in fact some of those family members aren’t the most on board with the whole… Psychics and Psychonauts business.

Specifically, we have a barely used plot thread including Frazie Aquato and her acceptance of her psychic powers!

I’m sure that, oh say, her little brother dying in the middle of him helping the Psychonauts pick up their messes, when he should have been able to be saved by one of his heroes since he was literally at their headquarters and surrounded by psychic adults, will only have good things happen to the Psychonauts. I’m SO sure that Frazie won’t get extremely pissed at these people her brother looked up to so much. She’ll definitely be understanding and absolutely won’t use what seems to be a family trait of extremely powerful psychic power along with the hydrokinesis in her bloodline. Specifically because she, an acrobat since birth and taught to ignore a lot of the usual fears most people have about safety and the instinct to flee, definitely has a great relationship with her fight or flight mode.

:))))

Anyways I have a lot of thoughts about Psychonauts 2 (I’m not saying I’d do a fix it of some things that bother me, but I do tend to do canon rewrites to smooth out wrinkles as a fun writing exercise/my version of hyperfixation on media and with the time gap between the games there is PLENTY of those in the plot, so uhhhhhhhh) but no one to bother them to, so uhhhhh yeah thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

[glitter-stained]

Oh and btw fanon =/= fanfic

[kitkatpancakestack]

it's because you're always on that damn hamster wheel