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HIIIIIIIII NUGGET HELLO HELLOOOOOO
I JUST WANTED TO WISH YOU A HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND LET YOU KNOWā¦. I had a lot of fun with all these pieces so pretty please enjoy <33333
I know Iām probably late and Iām sorry I waited till like Monday š BUT theyāre here now and Iām happy!! I wouldāve done some fanart or animation butā¦ time constraints? Also I didnāt really know a lot soā¦HHHHHH JUST TAKE THEM ILY ššššš
it is a nine panel comic WOOOOOOO I did good but the last one is rendered sona and I LOVE BRI sheās very cool to draw and itās a nice change of pace from all my blorbs lmao. Struggled a bit with the flaps on her jacket but in the end it came out nice!! (Bonus sketch becuase I tried to go for 13 (or 14?? How old?) images to match how old you are now but I failed DX)
BUT! I donāt wanna keep you this is already really long but just!! Just happy birthday ok I wanted to ART A LOT and thatās what I did so yay!!
Lemme know if thereās anything else you want! Feel free to ask me anything too <3 Lots of love and lots of care for you!!
And feel free to INFODUMP after this ask because we havenāt gone mad with the OCs in a bit and iād love to if you wanna!
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(Wait a cotton picking minute Wtf is this?? New ficlet just dropped?)
(GASP WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SELF-INDULGENT GARBAGE HHH? you get no context guess it yourself)
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OMFG YOU MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD AND CRY HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT NOW?! gotta say, you got Sabrielle perfectly! (also, how you draw sabrielle suits her redisn really well, wtf?!) also, Foxglove just screaming for help is soooooo perfect. And me emoing? YES. I litarally told a teacher about my birthday spirall, how im getting closer to death, to the end, AND WRINKLES. >0<'
AND BRIBRIBRIIIIIIII SHES SO FUCKING AWESOME LOOKING AMAZING JOB SHE IS VERY FUN TO DRAW. and her flaps are hard at first, but you can get very creative with them, so yeah!
THE POSSTERRRRRRRRRS
is the page.....EMO PET-ER?!
#undertale#moogus#moogus you are so fucking amazing i hope you know that#all of you guys are. except maybe you#nugget daddy bestie. you know im talking about you#dont worry#still love ya nd bestie no homo anymore#amazing art#answerd asks#how am i supposed to get myself to delete my account without guilt now
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ik it was intended primarily for funny show reasons but shassie is just a crazy dichotomy. Guy with commitment issues vs guy who commits too hard. Guy with no dad vs guy with too much dad. Guy with net negative social skills who desperately wants them vs guy with incredible insight into people who hates himself for having it. Guy whoās surly and mean to hide need to be loved vs guy whoās breezy and charming to hide need to be loved
#and ācrucially these guys hit every one of each others insecurity buttons#shawn wishes he had half the discipline lassie does bc maybe then he couldve made his dad proud. lassie wishes he had a dad around at all#do you see where i'm going with this#meanwhile henry out grilling burgers: hm i should fish tomorrow?#shawn spencer#carlton lassiter#psych#shawnlassie#like āwho is creating this narrative foil aah duo in a goofy detective show?#just diametrically opposed at every corner#except that juliet is cool. they both agree juliet is really cool.
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cringe ass family ā¤
#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#valyrianscrolls#tywin lannister#joanna lannister#cersei lannister#jaime lannister#tyrion lannister#joffrey baratheon#myrcella baratheon#tommen baratheon#2 many of them......8 whole guys...#one day I'll draw a proper family portrait but for now all you get is floating heads. at least this time they have shoulders#um tywin looks weird idk whats wrong with him. like physically i mean. think i made his eyes too big#ive decided to give all of them slay earrings ā¤ except i couldnt figure out what 2 give tommen so he doesnt have them š#he does have his ears pierced tho ā maybe he like just got it done bc hes a baby#im aware thats not how that hat works btw ik the hair's not supposed 2 be out. idgaf#my art
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what if someone made a sitcom with Camp Half Blood and the whole premise is literally just showing the backgrounds characters while the main characters go save the world or smth.
Like.
[camera pans on Drewās face]
Drew: [looking at her nails indifferently] yeah someone let all the pagasai out of their stables and itās a chore to fix.
[explosions in the background]
Drew: [unfazed] Iām not saying that Iām helping, by the way. Iāve broken a nail and Iām still in pain.
[Percy is seen battling a cyclops while Annabeth slashes at its feet with her dagger before running off frame]
Drew: I know you must be wondering why I donāt just go to the infirmary, but theyāve been full ever since the stampede ā and Connor promised heād steal me some cute bandaids with pictures on them so I decided to wait it out.
[screams and more explosions and property damage]
Drew: [rolls her eyes] but now Connorās busy doing something else so I have to wait even longer. maybe I should just go to the infirmaryā¦ [walks away from camera]
[camera zooms in on the carnage near the stables where the seven can be seen herding the frightened winged horses back to their stables, while a beat-up cyclops lay unconscious with only its feet in frame]
EDIT : made smth kinda similar here if anyone wants to check it out :P
#do you get my vision???#like I think itād be really funny you know??#and they all have name cards except for the seven#because theyāre just āthe guys who save the world so we all can keep livingā#do YOU SEE??#I kind of wanna write a fic like this#hmmmm#maybe I will#percy jackson and the olympians#heroes of olympus#trails of apollo#percy jackson#annabeth chase#drew tanaka#camp half blood#jason grace#leo valdez#piper mclean#frank zhang#hazel levesque#connor stoll
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Why did no one tell me there was a batlantern moment in one of the latest Green Lantern issues??!!? This guy needing to fight his way out with his team mates chose a BAT-grapple to help pull a ring hunter off. That was the first thing that came to mind for this?!
#I always find it funny whenever thereās any reference to Bruce in any green lantern comic#like they have nothing to do with each other at all in their line of work#except maybe the justice league but more often than not the JL green lantern will be Guy or John#so Hal always thinking of Bruce in some way within his line of work is always a delight to see#like you can never stop thinking of your boo huh Hal#Green Lantern#Hal Jordan#DC comics#DC#Batman#Bruce Wayne#batlantern
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can i confess something else that will absolutely get me stoned in the town square since im dropping my unpopular opinions. I donāt like altean broadsword Lance. i already disliked red paladin Lance. the broadsword was like rubbing salt in the wound. why couldnāt he have his own niche. why was his character development just making him keith. i understand that it was like āhe accepts that he doesnāt have to be a leader and excels as a co-leader and you can find happiness that way yada yada yadaā. but you couldāve done that without making him keith. also now give him something unique, cool, that falls in line with his sniper bit. iām not saying just give him another gun, im saying give him something quiet and lethal. like a garotte. yeah i want garotte lance.
i yap a lot more in my notes by the way if you were interested in other unpopular opinions. donāt send me hate messages or comments i wonāt read it and will block viciously i also will not be debating this this is my hill to die on <3
#voltron#if you wanna hate on me uh maybe donāt#i just also think everyoneās writing was lazy except alluraās by the end#i donāt go into RP/BP klance posts and hate on them so donāt come into my space iām warning you im liberal with the block button#thatās my OPINIOOONNNNNN#voltron legendary defender#moths unpopular opinions#i hate red paladin lance and black paladin keith im not sorry#i also dislike the idea that the black paladin has a designated right hand man (figuratively)#that feels unfair in a way i canāt explain#to me#black paladin is someone that creates harmony in the group#not necessarily is the Ultimate Most Important dude#but the guy that can listen to all the noise and filter it out and come up with reasonable ideas and facilitate discussion#and make well informed snap decisions to guide the team#i donāt think thereās space for a right hand#moth speaks#lance mcclain#and i hate that shiro got side lined because they shot themselves in the foy#foot#anyways having a lion swap betrays the fundamentals of voltron we were introduced to#you canāt introduce a hard magic system and then say no thanks#like oh ok i guess it doesnāt matter if the lion chooses the paladin whatever#which by the way is my biggest issue with season one#i think it was structured badly and having allura designate lions from the get go also betrayed the principle#which you could argue for the lion swap using that argument but lance is really the only one who was without a doubt chosen by his lion#so#no#anyways#thanks for listening to me yap
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when your trying to live your life as a plagerist but a recently escaped psych ward patient wont let you
#I feel like people don't often talk about how he was under psychiatric observation IN SWITZERLAND for MONTHS#and (most likely) escaped and flew all the way to AMERICA not long after#like ššš#reanimator#reanimator 1985#herbert west#re animator#maybe not my best work#also im super sorry for not uploading recently id accidentally tired myself out drawing wise#almost forgot to add the little gleam in his eyes#fun fact did you guys know that I coloured this whole thing with a grass brush??#except for the lineart
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New background OC for my Salmon guys + Mui drinking
#i dont normally post sketches but i will make an exception for this#because i was talking w some friends and they were all telling me gilbert is hot and i do not see it#if u find gilbert hot let me know so i can remember this#literally oomf was like āhow abt middle aged men yaoi with ur ocs (mui)ā and i was like āmui and who??ā and theyre like āhis friends!ā#and i was like āMUI HAS FRIENDS?ā I LITERALLY FORGOT ABOUT GILBERT IDGAFFFF DHASJKFNSJKDGNDJN MY STANDARDS FOR MUI IS SO LOW#maybe theyre just not my type BUT I DONT SEE IT#then again. im sick in the head and mui is my favorite. literally the most middest guy ever. all he does is drink and kill salmon#tw alcohol#alcohol#splatoon#my ocs#mui#gilbert#im adding more white ass names into my collection of OCs bc im lacking. i also got a guy named paul fishtopher#i do have a sketch account on twitter but you will have to find it (you will never find it)
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Every day I stumble across vague mentions of new drama I have never seen / heard / imagined my whole life. Who the HELL are you guys following
#āThe ada found family dramaā āthe bsd interview dramaā what the HELL are you guys talking about#To be fair I knew the new interview would have caused malcontent. That said I've not seen any of it so far... ?#But I keep seeing people bring up the drama itself lol. Like idk what to tell you except get off Twitter maybe perhaps??#random rambles#I'm procrastinating on digging up the original posts queue so rambles is all you get for now š
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thinking about this post but also it's more than that. do you ever think about how stories starring men are allowed to be about humanity but stories starring women have to be about Womanhood
#it's just the same discourse from like the 2010s about how girls will read about boys but boys won't read about girls#and we haven't gotten anywhere#even when it's like in a feminist way!!! there's room for stories about Womanhood obviously#but believe it or not ''women'' is not the only significant trait or experience that that half of the population has#and frankly I think it's counterproductive to focus every woman-centric narrative on the Woman aspect in some kind of feminism way#especially I feel like in adaptations that get a more hashtag feminism focus! like that story was about a person that was a woman#and you made it into a story about Women. which. ok#but was it not enough for her to just be a human being#experiencing human experiences that perhaps men could relate to#but a story with a male main character is allowed to exist on its own terms#no one's like. okay the main theme of this is obviously something to do with masculinity#(unless that's actually true)#a man is still the default character to explore your ideas and adding the ''girl'' trait is seen as like this extra distortion#that you would add only if you wanted to explore Womenness#like everyone's putting a guy in situations but hey maybe your guy could be a woman#even if the specific situation doesn't call for it#did you ever think of that?#and a lot of it I think is because men are conditioned not to relate to female characters#so making a male character would work to expand your audience because female readers are still willing to invest in him but not vice versa#but that doesn't mean we should just keep perpetuating the cycle#and only making stories about women specifically for women about Womanhood#that's just cementing the problem even further#obviously this is all a generalization and there are exceptions#this also applies to things like race#like in the US if you're making a story with a nonwhite main character suddenly it has to be like About Race or something
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I LOVE UR BRAIN SO BAD ššš YOU ALWAYS POST THEBBEST HEADCANONS AND THOUGHTS LIKE. WORK HUSBAND GOJO. AND JUST HAVING A WHOLE IMAGINATION OF THE OFFICE W NANAMI AND HIGURUMA AND TOJI I?????? I WANT TO LIVE IN YOUR BRAIN
TEEHEEEE youāre so sweet <33333 the work husband to actual husband to househusband gojo pipeline is so so real to me and the office au that comes with it truly does take up space in my brain, so hereās some more loosely established pointsĀ
satoru has been your work husband since you got your first job in undergrad. you two met in your dorms, and became friends, and eventually you thought a job would help with your time management skills, so you got a very low-maintenance position at the front desk of the library. satoru applied right after you and schmoozed the two little old librarians into giving him the same shifts as you. that was probably the first moment satoru knew he was a little bit in love with youābecause he had no reason to have a job while in school, but this small change in your schedule made him miss you so much that he was moved to get his very first job, probably ever, just to spend more time with you.Ā
he wasnāt bad at his library receptionist job, but he technically wasnāt good at it, either. if a student asked him for a laptop charger or to check out a book or something, he could do that, but anything else heād just smile and say, āoh, youāve gotta ask the pretty girl right there about that, she knows way more than me,ā and bat his eyelashes at you. except, then, when you did need to get up to grab something for someone, satoru would just spring up instead, and tell you heās got it. itās likeā¦ he was incapable of helping anybody else unless he got to flirt with you, and then help you out to help them outā¦ā¦ā¦ strange boyĀ
anyways, satoru makes it a habit to assist you through your student jobs throughout undergrad, and then follows you to the same law school and repeats the process there. (also not to elle woods-ify him a bit but his father heavily questions him going to law school btw because satoru has never showed any interest in working, let alone following in his footsteps to be a lawyer, and now heās going to law school? his mom is a bit sharper though, because when satoru tells his parents heās going to the same law school as you, she just smiles and sips her tea and wonders if her son has already made a trip to their family jeweler).Ā
the firm is large, but the floor you work on is a pretty close knit group. thereās hiromiās office at the tail end, which is the largest because heās managing partner and he practically lives in there. on the other end, both you and nanami have decently sized offices. satoru doesnāt like hiromi at first because he thinks heās mean. then satoru watches him play a little prank on kento, and suddenly the two of them are best friends.Ā it would be a surprisingly wholesome friendship if their common denominator wasnāt irritating kento, and acting as guard dogs for you.Ā
kentoās office used to be just the bare necessitiesālaw books, his degree, basic furniture, maybe a fancy paperweight, until satoru got his hands on it and decked it out. which is not something kento asked for, nor he thinks is necessary, but that doesnāt stop satoru from continually adding little trinkets and decorations and art to his office to make it livelier. when kento first meets you, heās surprised when you tell him satoru gojo is going to be your secretary because kento interned for satoruās father for two summers during law school, but when kento sees you and satoru together for the first time, it answers all of his questions. satoru couldnāt be more of a lovesick fool if he tried.Ā
listen the ex-convict to single father to janitor to lawyer toji pipeline is so real to me. while toji is working as a janitor at the firm, satoru slips once and then jokes that toji shines the floors too aggressively on purpose to make him slip, toji tells him to fuck off and he can sue for harassment. they truly donāt like each other at first, but once satoru steals tojiās masterkey to get into your office one night after youāre gone to leave flowers, and handle some paperwork to lighten your load in the morning, toji is sort of impressed. he still almost hits him with a broomstick, but even someone as gruff as him can see that satoru had pure intentions. toji is a lot of things, but heās not immune to or devoid of love or passion. so, eventually he and satoru develop a weird sort of banter and respect for each other. one day someone actually tries to accuse toji of not putting the wet floor sign down and how itās gonna be a lawsuit because some lowlife janitor fucked up his $3000 suit. satoru catches the argument as heās heading upstairs and recognized the schmuck as the stuck up lawyer on the other side of kentoās case. satoruās ready to jump in, but tojiās displaying an impressive amount of physical restraint and legal knowledge that when the dust is all settled, satoru asks him if he ever considered being a lawyer. toji laughs at it at first, but after a month of serious consideration (and megumi becoming a college freshman), he figures it canāt be all that bad. and turns out, tojiās a half-decent lawyerāonce youāve spent so much of your life skirting (or blatantly breaking) the law, you become pretty good at getting people out or around it, too.Ā and with his life experience, heās a pretty good judge of character; so when it comes time to lock up the bad ones, toji makes sure they get the maximum sentence.
except he has a bad habit of sending out emails with āURGENT: NEEDS ATTNā in the subject, which prompts you, kento, and hiromi to rush to his office, just to see toji with his feet up on his desk tell you that, āthe emergency is i hate the opposing counsel, and now that i work on this side of the law iād really like to not kill him, so somebody else should take this case.āĀ
anyways back to work husband secretary satoru. he pulls you out of boring meetings under the guise of an urgency, just for him to admit that the emergency is that he missed you, and you two were gonna be late for your lunch reservation. because heās actually a licensed attorney, he can actually carry out duties an associate otherwise would, which saves you a lot of time and trouble; and it means that satoru gets to work even more closely with you, which is always an upside for him. sometimes you ask him to hand you documents and instead he just hands you his hand. and then pretends to blush and preen like a schoolgirl which always draws way too much attention to the two of you, but thereās no way to stop him either. he takes your coat off of your shoulders when you arrive in the morning, and helps you put it back on in the evening. when you tell him youāre looking for an apartment closer to the firm, he has eight places lined up for viewing, and one surprise at the end which happens to be the other vacant penthouse suite in his apartment building; which, conveniently, would make you satoruās neighbor. he claims that itāll be just like in college, but it certainly doesnāt feel that way when you finally move in and satoru can now loudly and proudly proclaim, āsee you at home!ā in the halls at work now.Ā
#answered#that was a lot..... sorry this universe is so vivid to me#maybe i should rewatch suits..............#tho the first time you actually go on A Date with a real dude nothing work related satoru crumbles#he's so quiet at work for the entire day everyone thinks he must be sick or something#the day after your date he's sort of back to normal but something is off.... you don't bring up the date tho so he takes that a good sign#for him at least bc if u have nothing to say u must not have found him all that interesting righ t#but then you briefly mention a second date and now satoru has to get serious#and by serious i mean dig up everything there is to possibly dig up on this guy#way past public records he's calling favors as the DA's office he's calling his dad he's calling moles in the police. if this dude is gonna#be serious about you then he better be squeaky clean#except satoru 100% gets caught by kento who tells him that he needs to stop digging up dirt on ur date#which makes satoru pout and whine but whatever he'll drop it (only bc kento reminds him that if You find out ur gonna be Pissed)#then he really goes back to being himself but 10x#arm around your shoulder driving you everywhere himself introducing himself to ur date with the most smug grin on his face#it doesnt take long for this guy to get uncomfortable/ask you whats up with you and satoru and in the end satoru drives him away anyway#he might not be able to confess to you but he sure can keep everybody else away#besides theres only so many hours in the day u should focus on the important things: him and work š#jjk x reader#satoru x reader#lawyer au#satoru.ask
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so did you guys know theres this character called tristan vik disventure camp and
#disventure camp#disventure camp fanart#tristan vik#disventure camp tristan#ghostofsnails#my art#It would be SO tedious to post all of these separately but to be honest ive been dead for so long that i think its just funnier like this#like. yeah. just in case you guys have been wondering what i've been up to.#I have like 2 more i think but i'll give them their own post so i can explain them#ive never hyperfixated on a character like this in my entire life. usually a character hyperfix is super intense and lasts like 2ish weeks.#GUYS ITS BEEN 2+ MONTHS. AND I STILL CANT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR CARTOON GOTH NONBINARY SILLY PERSON#actually fuck you can i write an essay in tags about why i love them. this is tumblr. and whose even gonna read this anyways. fukit we ball#i followed dc kinda casually as a guilty pleasure for a while but i was instantly drawn to tristan when the designs for the s4 cast dropped#i was like You're telling me there's a GOTH who is UPBEAT and isnt designed like a flawless elf TWINK and is NONBINARY? ME FR????#LIKE OHH THE GOTH NB GETS TO LOOK A LITTLE WEIRD. THEY GET TO BE UNCONVENTIONAL. my aesthetic attraction to them goes crazy. vampire style.#i remember when they got revealed people redesigned them to look more generically pretty & it PAINED ME bc it missed the point SO. BADLY.#ik some people find them boring also & even tho i disagree i can see it if u dont rlly care abt alt stuff. but for me the fact theyre so#kind & upbeat & extroverted WHILE being a SUBCULTURAL GOTH is the draw bc while i do get a kick out of the exaggerated depressed goth#stereotype - its not exactly true to life and so seeing a character that looks and acts like me and real goths makes feel so seen and happy#they also capture my desire to have goth friends SO BADLY im projecting on them SO HARD. They are such top tier friend material you guys...#AND THEYRE A FASHION DESIGNER WHICH FEELS SO IN THEME WITH BEING GOTH THAT IT MAKES ME SO JOYOUS AND CRAZY.#its all so funny because im 100x more excited about getting good goth rep than nonbinary rep LMFAOOO but them being nb is SO important too#Not to mention their voice actor is FANTASTIC and elevates them SOOO MUCH. Also the amount the va is obsessed with them fed my obsession -#sooo insanely you guys.... i feed off of other peoples emotional attachments. AND THEIR ACTING FOR TRIS ADDS SO MUCH DEPTH TO THEIR#CHARACTER IF YOU LOOK FOR IT. I COULD LITERALLY WRITE ESSAYS ABOUT TRISTAN YOU GUYS. IM NOT INSANE.#god you guys this is the first time ive ever had a genuine āi feel seenā feeling from a fictional character I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE NOW.#i LOVE NONBINARY PEOPLE EXPRESSING THEMSELVES. I LOVE HOW QUEERNESS AND GOTH CULTURE INTERSECTS AND HOW THATS REPRESENTED IN TRISTAN#THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME. AND I KNOW THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE. WHICH JUST MAKES THEM MEAN EVEN MORE TO ME. I LOVE LIFE.#its an endless feedback loop i fear. im trapped in it & loving every second. i will be drawing them until i am in my grave & maybe after.
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The fan perception of Merrill vs what she is actually like in game is so absolutely wild and unknowingly ableist isnāt it
#she is so smart you guys#and sheās not all sweetness#sheās very self assured and very determined#she is smarter than Hawke by some margin#sheās smarter than most of the companions except maybe Emmrich and Vivienne and Bull you guys get that right?#that you can be a fish out of water and not understand the customs of a city and still be super smart. right????
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so here's my honest thoughts on dragon age: the veilguard, after ~40 hours of playing. i finished the main quest after having finished all companion quests and major faction quests. just to clear up what content i saw, i played as an elven transmasc rook who is a member of the lords of fortune. he romanced lucanis (although after finishing the game i'm now leaning towards taash). i don't know what's happening in playthroughs that have a different race, gender identity, romance or faction going on.
full spoilers ahead, i mean it. don't read further if you want to avoid them. i don't want complaining about it in my asks.
oh and also, if you're worried because of a few negative reviews online i can comfort you by saying don't give a fuck about a certain big name youtuber who is very much tied to bethesda franchises giving this a negative review. i'll explain why.
i'm starting off with the things i liked
the game looks really pretty. i was worried it wouldn't feel like thedas anymore (with them trying to "focus on northern thedas only" i thought they'd make a clear cut in environmental design. they do and they don't. it's complicated. i'll elaborate on it when talking about the negative stuff). anyway it does. minrathous feels like kirkwall. treviso enchanted me like the winter palace did. the hossberg wetlands reminded me of the hinterlands and a couple other inquisition maps. arlathan looked like... arlathan. the crossroads were different, but familiar. overall i like the way it looks and feels. it's thedas, with a twist. it's a good one, and gives everything a solid but unique feel.
combat is top tier. if you're a hardcore dragon age player you WILL miss the tactical aspect of it for a bit, but i promise you, once you're used to the way the combat works, you will be lapping that shit up. and once you get to ability combos you'll mourn the control you used to have over your companions in battle a bit less
the MAIN quest and its story. i expected worse, way worse. and for a while the game even had me tricked (harr harr you'll get it in a second) it is Really That Much Worse. but holy shit was it good. i walked away satisfied ngl.
your choices have SOLID weight. there's consequences, good AND bad. i got minrathous blighted, ruled over by venatori, and the leader of the shadow dragons ultimately died because of my decisions. i made those at the beginning and throughout the game. he died at the end. DAVRIN died because i didn't expect what i was saying to have that much weight. i thought i was in the clear. he had hero status. well turns out, your choices can still get your companions killed even if you do everything right. i fucking love him. he shouldn't have made that sacrifice just because i told him to do everything it takes once.
the inquisitor, morrigan and dorian being there, surprisingly. there's also negatives to this though, see below.
speaking of companions dying and the inquisitor playing a bigger role: the final quest feels like me2's suicide mission. i was blown away by it and the fact that i got to see the results of all my efforts playing out in front of me.
bioware are NOT trying to redeem solas. they love him as a character yes, but i wasn't forced to see any good in him. he betrays you. he fucked my rook over twice. he fucked him over right back, for good this time (the veil wasn't torn down, i anchored it by binding him to it, he's doomed to uphold it). but solas really lives up to his name as the trickster elven god. rip to all the people who grew really attached to him over the years.
varric died. if you like him that's probably as hard reading it as it was watching it. varric died and the game lies about it until the very end. when the realisation hits, it hurts. but in the very best way.
the amount of care they put into gender expression and trans identities this time around. (i'll add onto this with negative points as well too).
rook feels very much ingrained in the world of thedas. he doesn't ask questions that expose the player to lore through dialogue as if he's stepped foot into thedas for the first time. those conversations feel very solid and good. i hope other faction players got as much joy out of this as i did.
and the things i didn't like and boy there's a lot unfortunately
the music. let's just get that out of the way holy shit. it doesn't feel like it belongs in this universe. it gets so incredibly sci-fi-y at times you'd think it's taken straight from mass effect andromeda. there's not a single song unique to veilguard that i really enjoyed. it broke my immersion, real bad. hearing a busker play the tavern songs from inquisition on a lute right after i killed some venatori with wobbly bass songs playing in the background is just odd. weird tonal shift. don't like it. it's made for people who like flashy light-weight cinema.
tevinter nights is required reading. the podcasts are required listening exercises. the game is so fast paced, especially at the start, that there's no time to introduce you to characters and how much weight their names carry in-game. i would not have known who half these people are if i hadn't skimmed over tevinter nights. i'd care even less about them than i already did. there is no time to get properly attached to them. people will act as if you're talking to a legend personified and you'll be thinking man goddamn which chapter of tevinter night were they in again and what did they do???
there's a weird mismatch with the animations. you'll have beautifully fluid ones, like emmrich casting spells. and then you'll have rook's face animating in the most unnatural manner that's sorta reminiscent of mass effect andromeda's "my face is tired" addison, when their emotions SHOULD be landing with the player rn instead.
i'm not vibing with the art style. sometimes it works. most of the time it doesn't. at points i felt like i was watching tangled.
that also brings me to some of the dialogue. same issue. i am watching frozen. i am watching tangled. someone on the writer's team really likes the adorkable trope. bellara is its victim.
for all the talk about identity, bioware sure doesn't like theirs. the grey warden armor got a redesign again and it just makes them look like a generic army. i hate it lol
in general, i don't like the armor design. the wardrobe/appearances system is fine, but it's just not helping if all the armors are just... kinda bland or downight bad looking? and don't get me started on the lords of fortune armor. that is orientalism personified.
the world states should have been carried over, full stop. i know they said they didn't because they want to separate what happens in the north from what happens in the south, which... i could have lived with that. but the inquisitor sends you letters that keep you up to date on... the south of thedas. you learn that there's a blight again, that people are standing strong but it's difficult, denerim's fallen, the rulers are taking care of it, orlais is fighting and they're successful for a while, etc etc. what's good bioware. i thought we don't care about the south this time around. why are you feeding me so much boring generic information. if you're not gonna show any of it and just write letters, then carrying the world state over should not have been an issue. i have a game dev background. those few lines of code would not have broken your budget or pushed your engine's limits. fuck right off.
this gripe of mine carries over to all the cameos. as a lord of fortune you have to deal with isabela a lot. it's fun. i missed her. you get to go drinking with her and taash and bellara! also my hawke romanced her. she's not mentioned once. they had the opportunity to put a sentence or two about her in there with not a lot of effort, trust me.
when varric dies, all she has is a single line about it. for gold, for fortune, for varric. she only says it if you interact with her on your way to the final push. that's not mandatory.
morrigan is there. kieran isn't. the old god soul that mythal and then solas absorbed? who cares at this point, the gods are dead now and solas is locked away for eternity. i suppose? why is morrigan there. she feels unneeded. i wish they'd just left her down south, at least that way i wouldn't have had to witness her god awful redesign.
dorian at least feels as if he belongs in this story. the shadow dragons are a crucial part to protecting minrathous. he's also weirdly underutilised. isabela and morrigan had more lines than him in my playthrough.
on the topic of romance: bro that was underwhelming. no, genuinely. you know when romance picked up a bit? after the point of no return. i heard maybe two lines of companion banter about it before that. maybe i missed something which i honestly doubt, but romance did not play much of a role in lucanis's storyline. i saved his grandmother as he wished me to (and if you read tevinter nights you know she was rather abusive and their relationship not the healthiest) and told him to focus on his family. a reunified family my rook wasn't even introduced to as a partner at the end of all that.
really, do not buy this game if you're only in it for the romances. others might be better, lucanis's basically gave me nothing. except for an outing (the second coffee date i had with him, it was getting repetitive) all of it played out once i committed to the final quest. the sex scene was a fade to black. annoyingly right after davrin died. if you're looking for well paced and good spice, pick up something else. the sweet talk and the final goodbye were nice though.
for all the good the ever-presence of gender identity does, it is brought up in such a disruptive manner too. it doesn't even play out naturally if you CHOOSE the lines that are meant to be said. hearing the words trans and non-binary in this setting doesn't feel right, and i'm saying this as a trans guy. i think it could have been handled more gracefully. the amount of times my rook went "i'm a MAN" as if he's about to start drumming on his chest and roaring any second now got super nerve-grating. "i'm so glad you're into me... the me who is trans. remember?" just. tell me one trans person who'd talk like that to a person they've grown close with and are trying to romance. this game doesn't handle sexuality well, so all this hey my body might not look like the way you're expecting it to look talk amounts to nothing anyway. i feel about this the way i feel about krem: this is partial exposition to trans experiences... packaged up for cis consumption. the ONLY exception to that is interacting with taash. holy shit was all of that heartwarming and bro did it feel good and natural to talk to them about theirs and rook's gender.
rivain and nevarra are new locations added by veilguard. they're also incredibly underwhelming, small and constricted maps. rivain is a coastline with a few ruins. the hall of valor is a partial ruin nestled into a cave on a beach, with a fighting pit. isabela is there in her skimpy outfit commentating your pit fights. that's it. i'm sorry if you were looking for a bustling pirate cove or whatever. you're not gonna get it. the nevarran crypts btw are a long ass dungeon crawl. that's it.
speaking of maps. i thought people were being dramatic when they said you're gonna be fighting the same enemies on them again and again. i thought they were figure of speeching it. they're not. you WILL fight the same amount of enemies. in the same spot. every time you reload the map. best to stay on a map and clear out the enemies and do as much questing on that map as you can before leaving, because you WILL have to do it all over again once you return.
the three choices i made for my inquisitor didn't matter lol she didn't have to face solas and therefore couldn't stop him at any cost as she had sworn (maybe because my rook tricked solas into binding himself to the veil, there was also an option to fight him. would she have stepped in? who knows). blackwall wasn't mentioned. and either her using a small amount of her forces in the final fight was the reason the civilians of minrathous fared so well..... or it just didn't matter. ultimately i think she had very little impact on anything
#datv#datv spoilers#dragon age: the veilguard#oh wow i hit a limit typing this#anyway to tie this up a bit: the good and bad to the environmental design being that well-known architecture like minrathous and dwarven#ruins look fire and remind me a lot of the previous games#but newly added locations are very... generic... very bland#i was very excited for rivain. i thought we'd get to see ships. not a bunch of ruins and a fighting pit and that's it#and why did i say to ignore a certain guy's review? bro because he was complaining about taash being ace and that taking up their screentim#and them being too up in your face about their identity. he did all this while she/her'ing them constantly#but my man they're trans. nb. not ace.#y'all need to be careful about bad reviews. they're coming from people who are upset about gender identity being handled as a topic in this#game. meanwhile they have no clue what they're even talking about. i don't think matty knows the difference between ace and trans#and neither do the hundreds of people who are one star rating this game currently#i liked this game. it's not top tier. it's not something i'll sink hours and hours and hours of my life into#it has tonal issues and it's moving away from what made dragon age stand out for me#but i do think that it's a genuinely fun play and people who are very invested in dragon age will squeeze joy out of it wherever they can#i had a hard time warming up to the new characters (taash and lucanis being the exception because they have an older bioware air about them#but solas's and varric's story (and don't get me wrong that's what veilguard is about) is GOOD. that is how bioware used to be.#and i wish they'd given us that energy all over the game. that direness. that grit. serious and mature writing.#that consistency is lacking#and whether you're gonna enjoy this game or not is entirely dependant on what you came here for and how well the game delivers on it#i think their weakest points are ironically the thing they advertised the most: the new companions and their writing#you won't find nuanced and good enemies here (i already reblogged something about this. you can go scroll around a bit and catch up on that#really the only thing that had me super invested and emotional was the main quest.#so make of that what you will. ultimately i was more frustrated with the game than i got enjoyment out of it. i was close to just put it#aside for now... until i went to minrathous to end ghila'nain's and elgar'nan's ritual. that all blew me away. still on a high off of it.#anyway yeah that review got cut short by the character limit maybe i'll add more to it tomorrow but rn... i am heading to bed#thanks for coming to my ted talk. also i'm sorry. zevran REALLY isn't in this.#dragon age
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this is the price of befriending your senior whoās way more of a mess than you thought
#pokemon#blue oak#green oak#trainer kris#trainer lyra#trainer ethan#trainer silver#rival silver#millidrew#art#millidew holiday queue marathon#my post#no id#is this oocā¦perhaps. maybe theyāre all tipsy idk#lyra is the only regurihead on the johtet unfortunately#i mean uh sheās the only supporter of blue and a mystery guy#except ethan whoās mostly doing a bit#ā¦mostly#silver does NOT care#kris is petty because they didnāt make a good impression#yes the implication of this is that theyāve yet to get their shit together even in alola. please pray for them some ppl are at their limit#ITS BEEN TEN YEARS!!! LONGER OF YOU COUNT THEIR ORIGINAL CHILDHOOD FRIENDSHIP#maybe it IS a mystery guy and thatās why kris is so mad
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Some creatures are more difficult to perceive than others
#Treecko#skitty#dusknoir#chatot#pokemon doodles#original art#context: Iāve said this before but explorers was the very first pokemon game I ever played#I wasnāt watching the anime then so it was also the first time I ever saw a dusknoir#And for whatever reason I just couldnāt quiteā¦.comprehend what he was supposed to be#Thought he was some kind of robot until he did his ghostly disappearing act#Definitely a fun game to play when you know nothing about pokemon!#Everything was so new and exciting! And you donāt know what anyone looks like until you meet them!#The other thing in a similar vein was with dialga#I didnāt know what dialga was SUPPOSED to look like so when theyāre all talking about how fucked up he is I was like damn#He DOES look pretty fucked up. Some kind of beast#And then after fixing time you see he looks THE SAME except with a palette change#Like oh. i see. Thatās just what you look like#Dialga shouldāve got a special form tho#Maybe something replacing the steel type with ghost#Bc without time heās technically not alive#And I read somewhere the steel typing mightāve represented the steady nature of time or something#So with time being stopped itās not flowing so steadily huh#This wasnāt supposed to be abt dialga tho. Get your own post#ANYWAY dusknoir is a weird looking guy especially when youāre not quite sure what youāre looking at#but he is canonically handsome so do with that what you will
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