#all the cast is great this better be good

[kats-chaotic-wonderland]

Yeeeeeeah, unpopular opinion but botw and Tok are the most boring Zelda games. Skyward sword is great, better writing with similar set up. Spirit tracks and phantom hourglass are really fun too, spirit tracks requires a mic though just a heads up. And of course the classics of ocarina, majoras mask, and twilight princess, those are all good.

Any of those are going to have a very expressive link with a distinct personality, and a really enjoyable cast and story.

Also Goose is a wonderful goober, believe me he gets so much development for where he is.

I was replaying BOTW for the third time to play the DLC but I got bored halfway and decided to boot up Skyward Sword and play it for the first time…

I didn’t know Link was this expressive 😭

[prettyangellllll]

First drive

Summary: When Rafe Cameron offers to teach his girlfriend how to drive, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. What starts as a simple driving lesson soon turns into a day filled with laughter, tender moments, and plenty of support. As his girlfriend nervously takes the wheel for the first time, Rafe is patient, encouraging, and ever the gentleman. He’s not just teaching her to drive—he’s showing her the little ways he cares for her.

Warnings:

Sweet, fluff-filled moments

Light teasing

Gentle encouragement

Low-stakes, feel-good moments

Pairing: Rafe Cameron x Female Reader

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The sun was setting, casting a warm golden glow over the Outer Banks as you sat nervously in the passenger seat of Rafe’s truck. It was supposed to be a simple driving lesson, a fun and casual way for you to finally learn how to drive, but your nerves were doing anything but calming down. You had never been behind the wheel before, and now here you were, about to take on the responsibility of navigating a two-ton vehicle.

Rafe had been patient with you the last few weeks, offering advice and words of encouragement, but there was something about today that made you more anxious than usual. You could feel the tightness in your chest as you adjusted the seat and the mirrors. He glanced at you from the driver's side, a small, reassuring smile playing on his lips.

"You okay?" he asked, his voice low, with a soft concern that made you feel a little better.

You let out a nervous laugh, tapping your fingers on the seatbelt. "I think so. It's just… a lot."

Rafe chuckled, the sound warm and comforting. "I get it. But it’s just us out here, so no pressure, alright?" He glanced over at you again, his eyes crinkling at the edges as he gave you a wink. "I promise, I’m a good teacher. I'll be patient."

His reassurance made you feel a little more at ease, and you gave him a small nod. "Alright. Let’s do this."

He reached over to grab your hand for a moment, giving it a quick squeeze. "You’ve got this, babe."

You smiled at his words and took a deep breath, placing your hands on the wheel. It felt huge in your grip—like the weight of the world, but Rafe was right there beside you, making everything feel a little less intimidating.

He guided you through the basics, showing you how to start the truck, how to ease the gear shift, and how to press the gas pedal gently. You could tell he was being extra careful with his instructions, his tone calm and steady. Each time you made a small mistake, like pressing the gas too hard or jerking the wheel too quickly, Rafe simply chuckled and gently guided your hands back to the right position.

"Easy there, pretty girl," he teased softly, his voice just the right amount of playful. "It’s not a race. Slow and steady wins the ride."

You rolled your eyes, but couldn’t help the small smile that spread across your face. "I’m trying," you muttered, your cheeks flushing slightly.

"Don’t be embarrassed," he said, squeezing your hand again. "You’re doing great. You’re already better than I thought you’d be." His tone was light, but there was a sincerity in it that made you feel proud of yourself. "Just focus on the road, and everything else will fall into place."

You took his advice to heart and focused, slowly getting the hang of shifting gears and keeping the truck steady as it rolled down the quiet, winding roads of the Outer Banks. Rafe was right there with you every step of the way, offering tips, reminders, and occasional words of praise.

After a while, the anxiety you’d felt earlier seemed to melt away. You even started to relax, allowing yourself to enjoy the sense of freedom that came with being behind the wheel. Rafe’s presence was grounding, and his support made all the difference. It was hard to explain, but it felt like you weren’t just learning how to drive—you were learning how to trust yourself, with Rafe right beside you to help guide you along the way.

When you made it through a particularly tricky turn without stalling, Rafe clapped his hands together. "See? I told you you could do it," he said with that smile you loved so much. "You're a natural."

You couldn’t help but laugh at his enthusiasm, the feeling of accomplishment warming you from the inside out. "I’m not sure about natural," you teased, "but I’ll take the compliment."

Rafe chuckled, glancing at you fondly. "Trust me, you’re doing awesome. I’m just glad I get to be the one to teach you."

As you cruised along the road, the sky turning from orange to pink, and the soft sound of the truck’s engine hums around you, you realized that this moment, this quiet lesson, was something you’d remember for a long time. It wasn’t just about learning how to drive—it was about sharing this little piece of life with Rafe, a memory that would be tied to him forever.

"Rafe," you said softly, breaking the comfortable silence. "Thanks for being so patient with me."

He turned to you with a smile that could melt anyone’s heart. "Anything for you, babe. You’re my favorite student."

[tainbocuailnge]

some general is5 observations & tips having done every ending currently available and some souls level 10 runs

a lot of maps, particularly bosses but also regular ones, happen in two phases and make it difficult to use one set of units for both phases. because of this you essentially want to have an A team and a B team who can swap for each other as needed. there's usually only one chokepoint to defend, but you do want two sets of units who can defend this chokepoint.

my personal checklist of things I need is this:

a way to quickly get rid of spines of epoch, both to free up tiles and to get plans early on for more options

someone who can bait (seeds of withering, bind casters, stun snipers, those guys who call in drones, mobile artillery, corruption tanks, ch14 lasers, lich wizards with their necrosis field cast, sankta jumpscares)

helidrop damage

aoe damage

someone who can just hold a guy for a while and ideally can also take the manfred cannon

a healer who can heal without needing skills for it and a healer who can heal without needing to attack enemies about it

low priority but less of a luxury the further you go: dedicated anti-air damage

not strictly necessary but convenient: some source of spare bodies to feed to vore sarkaz

bonus: block 4 for duck lord maps, low-altitude hovering counters in case a bunch of flying treasure chests try to be funny, elemental damage to melt reborn creations

phantom with his IS module covers half of these points by himself so he's like playing easy mode. I took him for fun on my first several runs and then stopped bringing him for a bit so i could learn how to actually solve these maps.

there are a lot of holes and collectibles and inspirers to combo with shift gaming (50% increased damage taken for 10 seconds after being shifted lmao) but I'm just not very shifterbrained so I haven't done much of that

for spines of epoch elemental and true damage are the easiest but any arts damage is generally fine. aciddrop is my favourite for this job though, a lot of sarkaz enemies have innate res so physical damage is better early on and thanks to her high minimum damage she can reliably take out the spines even at e1 and stays relevant on later floors after enemy def starts scaling. aoe damage (be it splash or chain) is good because lots of maps have big groups of enemies but also because it lets you somewhat circumvent the taunt on spines by still hitting enemies around it.

all three bosses counter fast-redeploy strats in some way (locking up units / +3 dp cost / increased redeployment time on manual retreats) but there's so many maps where taking out priority targets fast makes things easier that fast-redeploys are still really strong picks. in general someone you can drop on a guy to immediately deal a bunch of damage (executors, dreadnoughts, musha, surtr, etc) works extremely well against every midboss and is a great asset in face-off nodes.

you generally don't need a lot of dedicated block in is5 but you do want at least one sturdy defender (ideally two on the principle of having A and B teams) and someone who can handle cannon jumpscares, as well as a bunch of extra melee bodies that can be less durable (your vanguards, your bait, your summons, etc). passage blockade is much easier if you can just hold one of the knights for a bit while you wear down the other, and having a bunch of spare bodies makes past the aquapit free as hell and the norport civilians in epochal gaps much easier to manage. I like to bring poncirus because she's very bulky for a vanguard.

between necrosis and corruption you don't want to solely rely on skill-based healing or attack-based healing, you either need one of each or just a healer that heals. a wandering medic isn't a requirement the way it was in is2 and arguably is3 but it gives you more leeway in deploying around spines of epoch. swire the elegant wit's s1 is notably unaffected by necrosis because it's technically always active, and she's very good at holding a guy.

[iamacolor]

this is what dreams are made of

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[steeltwigz]

Saw a post abt the Sonic movies that was like "plz filter negativity posts better" which is GOOD AND TRUE you should be doing that. Ok. But then they kept going to imply that the criticisms of the Sonic movies are all entirely Personal and Ignorable and not like. Usually abt the horrific copaganda, misogynistic writing, and Paramount's disgusting zionism.... Guys a lot of ppls problem w the Knuckles show wasn't JUST a bastardization of Knuckles' character or thinking Wade was annoying or whatever, but like was focused on the grotesque Zionist message from that one episode 😭😭😭 you can enjoy something and still recognize that it has intrinsic and huge glaring flaws and talk abt them. I think actually you Should be speaking up abt the misogyny, zionism and propaganda the SCU supports and discusses, ESPECIALLY if you like the movies! Its important to be able to recognize these things in media and admit that even media you personally enjoy can be deeply problematic, instead of hiding it away and pretending those HUGE FLAWS aren't issues actually....

[herenvibing]

cr3 is gonna end and the pc’s still feel like the same people to me :|

(crcritical content in the tags feel free to skip)

[sysig]

Anime good :) (Patreon)

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

yea hold on a second *walks out of the room and a second later you hear a gun go off* *walks back in with a hole in my chest* anyway! you were saying?

[not-a-mawmouth]

Hm. Something about how Avrana Kern partially despises humanity for its history of genocide, hates them for being so prone to ideological stupidity, and yet not only is she actively advocating for the genocide of humanity (despite those humans being victims of the same awful event that caused her to believe humanity wasn’t worth saving) pretty much the only reason the humans are willing to resort to genocide is because her “humans are bastards” ideology meant she kept trying to kill them. And refused to grant them asylum when they asked for it. And told the spiders time and time again that the humans were an ancient enemy that would inevitably destroy them.

So, naturally, the humans stopped trusting anything to do with her. Including the entire sapient species they had no idea existed as a result of her experiment.

[britneyshakespeare]

screw whatever else i've said; the most important thing you can do in this lifetime is watch tv

[dykerikki]

god whatever. WHATever. whatEVERR

[mariocki]

The Island (1980)

"Are you wise enough to feel privileged? You and I are the only living men ever to see what you see now."

"A bunch of arseholes playing Long John fucking Silver?"

"Hardly, dear boy. Living history: an anthropologist's dream. You're witnessing the seventeenth century."

[heatmiiiiser]

Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.

[sampilled]

😒😒😒😒 i understand all of the bitter samgirls...

[bmpmp3]

the really beautiful landscape/skyscape animation in makoto shinkai's works tends to be the big thing i see focused on and that is understandable and deserved like the weather and lighting effects are unREAL but i do think we should also appreciate how absolute insane the plotlines of his original movies get. at least two movies with in universe catastrophes with major ecological implications. the guns and explosions. theres that one movie i havent seen yet with the guy who turns into a chair (?)