#also *collapses from exhaustion*

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[binah-beloved]

university senior Binah who rides a motorcycle and is known for her cool demeanor and complex philosophical musings, gradually becoming smitten with you, another senior who's trying to balance your studies while also trying to support yourself with a part-time job. she meets you first at the cafe where you work, then in the halls at school, normally bored gaze almost instinctively drawn to you.

she starts visiting the cafe more often, hoping you'd be there, eventually striking up conversation and saying hello to you in the corridors. you're surprisingly insightful and always consider multiple perspectives, and Binah finds herself clutching the iron key to her locked heart.

it becomes ordinary routine soon, for her to drop in during your working hours and for you to immediately say "Black tea, hot", cracking a smile in the hopes that one day, she'll let you see the smile she gives back rather than hiding it behind a gloved hand.

[arolesbianism]

Time for more eternal gales isat au, this time featuring Sier as Isabeau, creating a sprite I can never use next to Aris’ because despite my best efforts it would make them look tall

[yohankang]

my daily routine: i'm extremely anxious for about 90% of the day and i feel like i can't do this anymore and then i get like. 1 hour of clarity (post-finishing a task) and i'm like okay maybe i'll get through this somehow. and then the horrors start again

[madwickedawesome]

i go back to school tomorrow everyone please pray that i dont literally die from stress 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[rimouskis]

yes yes very cool to see the video of chappel at lolla but seeing that crowd just made me think of the fact that I've been to lolla once and I highly doubt I will ever go back again lol. that is simply Too Many People

[tangled-pixel-harpsichord]

Shoutout to the member of my staff who tried to get me in trouble with my supervisor bc he saw me spending 2 minutes goofing around in the middle of 4 straight hours of paperwork while he was playing games with kids, quality teamwork there my man

[polarized-here]

Anywaydhfnmhkff for @spinningbagel’s Zombie aunmdmssm it’s one am and I need to be up around like 6 am oopsjjdjjsjsj

[whumpity-whumpwhump]

Failed escape attempts are great and all but you know what’s even better? Failed escape attempts that get civilians involved.

The whumpee nearly escaped and yes they will suffer for it but you know what else will happen? The whumper can kill whatever poor innocent soul was trying to help whumpee. And they can make the whumpee watch as they do it, making sure that they know that this wouldn’t have happened if not for them. That this person is only dead because the whumpee tried to escape and they tried to help them.

The whumpee then gets to spend some wonderful moments stirring in guilt and self loathing, along with anger at whumper.

Bonus points if the next time they have a chance to escape or alert someone they don’t. They stay silent and pliable as whumper guides them through a train station. They barely even need the threat of the knife in their back to comply, all too aware that whumper won’t hesitate to kill anyone who helps them. Or they go out of their way to assure the police officer that pulled them over that everything is fine, they haven’t seen anyone or anything suspicious. They’re just on a trip with their friends.

[sapphire-weapon]

Curious if you have any headcanons for Leon after analyzing him for so long ?

hmmm

uhhh

I mean. yeah. But they're all kinda boring and benign. Some of you kids out here fuckin wildin with your goddamn headcanons (god bless), and my old ass is over here like

look at my shitpost about Leon's 90s white boy music tastes!! lmao

I do have some more serious ones, like -- Leon's parents think that he died in Raccoon City, and there are a myriad of reasons why he's never reached back out to them, if even just to let them know he's alive (he thinks it's safer for them, kinder to them, all that stupid Leon hero bullshit that he does). And he's pretty sure (like 99.99% sure) that there's a headstone up for him in a cemetery somewhere dated 1977-1998, and he thinks about that way more often than he probably should.

A really dumb headcanon that I have just for fun is that Leon and Ashley have some kind of lingering, intuitive bond due to them having once been connected to the same hivemind via their plagas. Like, on nights when Leon's depression gets really fucking bad -- like, "have you ever had the urge to just jump" bad (+100 points to anyone who gets that reference) -- Ashley suddenly gets overwhelmed with anxiety out of nowhere, and she feels like she really needs to call him for some reason, and she's not sure why. There's absolutely no canonical basis for this at all whatsoever; I just think it's fun.

Probably my spiciest Leon headcanon is that remake!Leon was definitely still a virgin during RE2. Like, I did write that whole thing as a shitpost, but I have actually adopted it as a headcanon lmao

But I also think that, like... the usage of the word "headcanon" has changed slightly over the years?

Back in my day, headcanons were considered gap fillers. Little factoids about a character's life that weren't ever mentioned in canon, but still something that you might need to have/know for a fic or something. Like, where is this character from/where did they grow up? Things like that.

It seems like, these days, "headcanon" is more a shorthand for "the way I interpret a character might be/act/react in x specific situation." And I think of those things as just being part of the whole character analysis thing that I already do. So I never really know how to answer when someone asks me about my headcanons.

If there's some specific thing or situation any of y'all would like to hear my thoughts on, re: Leon, then pls feel free to ask that. But in terms of just, like. General headcanons. idk I'm too fuckin old for a question like that LMAO break it down and make it simpler for me.

[nikkisticki]

You know what you all get to suffer another pointless post about reddit and what I call the Defensive Wave

Whenever a game has common critiques that a large share of players agree on (generally bearing discontent about the state of the game) places like reddit will undergo this amusing shift of dialogue where a post or posts will get some hype, usually looking like

This [content] isn't well done because of (reasons)

Instead of the people who disagree actually trying to prove their stance, within 24 hours another post (or posts) will arrive making counter arguments without actually making anything resembling a real defense. Instead, it'll just be:

Well I loved [content] and your opinion is just an opinion, it doesn't make it objectively bad!

This is happening on r/FFXIV right now and has been since 6.5 launched three days ago, with that exact post chain happening yet again. I'll save you the braincells and just tell you that none of the posts or comments are actually discussing the issues presented, nor are they even acknowledging them. Instead, it's a direct critique of the ones who complained for speaking, usually while engaging in sideways manipulations of reality to pretend they are simply mad because of x and y reasons.

Ex. The Cyberpunk subreddit claiming people are just mad that the game didn't hold up to the players lofty expectations, ignoring that the devs promised those exact things.

This will continue until something draws the discourse away, smothering any chance of the complaints to be taken seriously while also silencing those who wish to speak under the false positivity of...attacking people for not agreeing with you.

I've seen it happen dozens of times and it's at the point that I can predict the posts of a subreddit before they happen. This isn't difficult to do mind you, people aren't particularly bright and will readily waste a few minutes complaining about those mean people pointing out the issues! It's just human nature to be a fuckwit, I suppose.

If people were slightly more intelligent, they'd realize discourse and negative comments are important for the health of an ongoing game, but no no we gotta act like everyone loves this shit in case (Dev) is sad!

Of course repeated negative discourse cycles exist, but those are a separate matter.

[almightyandroid]

sorry for no art lately i am trying to stay sane

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[martyrbat]

no but thinking of that one back up story where bruce is EXHAUSTED and falling down on his own feet after such a long patrol but goes after a criminal who stole a blind man's camera... then personally fixing it when it got broken just to make sure he would be happy.... literally 8 pages of him looking pathetic and making me love him more

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I emailed my landlord to end my tenancy, which really means there's no going back now. I'm officially moving, so I officially need to get ready to move. Fuck

[error404vnotfound]

my day was going okay until I came home and my mother decided to ruin my day week month and semester