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you know that feeling when you really like a character but you cannot find any good content for them because people just ... don't really get them.
#thats me with predator hawk and flying frog#from a rchie sonic#people really just forget he is a cannibal#like he says he hunts others views them as prey#and Flying once asked him when they were fighting someone how dinner is going#not to mention all the other issues he has#and was never satisfied#idk i just really love his backstory because he really was dealing with some kind of existential crisis#i will write the predator hawk analyze soon#but also what bothers me is when Flying Frog gets portrayed as this silly lil baby???#he'S NOT.#he is not dumb as people would like to believe he knows exactly what's going on#even Scourge is scared of him#he kills people#and he views it as a game#sorry was re reading the comics with them and man i love them#people forgot about pred's cannibal side or other issues and then make Flying...dumb?#idk its weird#flying is actually a capable fighter and incredible focused its terrifying
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going back through mockingjay and what do you MEAN clerk carmine is most likely the fiddler at annie and finnick's wedding, what do you MEAN clerk who was the one to bring lucy gray the katniss just before things fell apart and the one to raise the girl who became haymitch's reason for living what do you MEAN clerk got to see his sister and his niece's dreams come true as the hunger games are destroyed by a girl with lucy gray's fire and lenore dove's heart what do you MEAN clerk saw the arrows his friend made be part of the downfall of the capital what do you MEAN clerk lost his family but saw them live on in haymitch and katniss and peeta
#the covey is family and therefore i fully think clerk viewed lucy as his sister#and therefore when he met katniss#since burdock and lenore are maternal cousins#and the whole theory that burdock's mom was barb azure#AND when he realizes katniss has the mockingjay pin#i think clerk would look at katniss as family from afar#but oh god thinking about that#AND with tam being the one to make the arrow tips for burdock#i think they probably lasted many years#and katniss ended up holding onto them#every time i think sotr is done making me feel emotions#it brings up new things AGAIN#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#sunrise on the reaping#the hunger games#clerk carmine#katniss everdeen#lucy gray baird#lenore dove#haymitch abernathy#sunrise on the reaping spoilers
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headcanon that percy is historically hard to beat at monopoly. and it's intially the most mind-boggling thing ever watching him turn the tide of a game. because he's definitely losing at the beginning. but percy is not only an amazing strategist. he has a deep understanding of money and knows how and when to bet on the board. he knows when to test his luck. and he's amazing at getting into people's head.
#don't place your bets on percy's opponent#because what is his life if not turning the tide in his favor?#i honestly think annabeth can definitely challenge and win a handful of games against him#but he does not make it easy for her and she both hates and appreciates him for it#headcanon that he and estelle routinely team up against annabeth because she views percy as the king of the game#(plus he make funny voices when reading from the cards and it makes the girls laugh)#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo text post#pjo#pjo headcanon#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth#estelle blofis#percabeth + estelle
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the first time gihun nearly cracks a smile in the games is when inho calls him by his name and then goes oh i just wanted to try calling you by your name.. do you mind? which raises the two incredible questions of 1. was that a slip of the tongue and if yes, does inho call him gihun when he thinks about him? not player 456, even though that's how the frontman addresses him? and 2. was gihun actually suspicious for a second there or was he completely appeased by the idea that a random guy in the games is trying to speedrun being his bestie given what happened last time (everyone he was friends with died)
i really wonder how badly the games traumatised gihun, like hes meeting these new people and expecting them to die within days. he meets them and has mourned them before he knows their names. he nearly cracks a smile when someone becomes his friend despite the pre-emptive grief he must be feeling. it just speaks to the kind of man he is, trusting to a fault and desperate for any kind of connection
#like in his dream he thinks more about what 001 will react like than jungbae his actual friend#which i know. its because its a tv show where the dramatic irony is important. but its still such a Choice#but i think we need to think about this season more from gihuns point of view you know#squid game#squid game 2#sorry im stream of consciousness posting i just really like this show#ginho#gihun x inho#457
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a god´s view of his devoted subjects is as flawed as the view they got of themself, it is easier to believe that they are always happy to serve you, that their love for you will never fade. makes you forget why you loved em first.
"were you always this...."
"ugly? yeah."
"no, no ... this- rugged?"
#great god grove#great god grove spoilers#ggg capochin#capochin#samsa´s art stuff#eye contact#i know we think a lot abt capo´s pov of inspekta#but the implied view of inspekta to capo is sooo fascinating to me. the capo in propaganda n drawings is So Not like how he is in game.
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The look on his face, the realization 💔
#squidgameedit#squidgamegif#squid game#seong gi hun#characterization#balgif#the first 2 games were just competing against the clock really#but this time they had to compete against each other#they had to actively kill the other team#and he has the front row view#the abject horror on his face in the 3rd gif#everyone else has their eyes scrunched shut but gihuns are open#he’s looking he sees he will not close his eyes#he's not looking at the rope burns on his hands#hes looking at his hands because he just used them to kill 10 people#the blood is on his hands literally and symbolically#god this is so heartbreaking#a++ amazing acting and directing choices here
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There is a theory that the way children play serves as a means to simulate and prepare them for the tasks they'll take on as adults. So for all the narrative weight both Jinx and the story give the boxing machine at the arcade it would never have prepared her or the kids to take on Piltover.
What are the two things that Piltovans excel at over their Zaunite counterparts to keep the hierarchy? Weapons and technological development.
When you look at the way Piltovans invest in their children, they don't prioritize hand to hand/melee combat training. Piltovans focus on giving their children experiences in handling firearms, a pursuit that is both leisure sport for the wealthy and a key offense against dissenting Zaunites.

And from the show notes even Jayce, whose family occupies the upper middle class, was sent on educational excursions across Runeterra to explore the world and learn what it had to offer. Without Jayce's education abroad he would never have been inspired to pursue the concept hextech.
It's no wonder that the two figures that are set to be Piltover's biggest threats from Zaun are Jinx and Viktor, becasue they engaged in the same kinds of games and activities as their Piltovan counterparts.

Jinx didn't have an entire forest preserved to help her practice her sharpshooting like the high houses of Piltover, but she did excel in the few games at The Rift (the arcade) that built on her talents. She's the only Zaunite thus far who's long distance offensive is a strong counter to Piltover's forces.
Viktor couldn't travel the world like Jayce did, but for better or worse he managed to stumble into an opportunity to get real opportunity in research not offered to his peers through Singed. It was through that experience that Viktor knew to turn to Singed when he was at the end of his rope, and the consequences of that will be fully realized in season 2.
Ironically, the kind of skill the boxing game champions is only good for keeping other Zaunites in line. Vander's days of fighting Piltover were way behind him when we first met him, and Vi spends season 1 primarily fighting other Zaunites. It's no surprise the Zaunites who embody the old ideal of strength in Zaun that the game portrays, Vi and Vander, are largely at the mercy of Piltover and end up collaborating with them to avoid further harm.
Zaun's future as an independent city-state couldn't happen if they stuck to their old ideals. The people who stand a chance against Piltover are the ones that not only succeed but excel at playing Piltover's games against them.
#arcane#arcane meta#jinx arcane#vi arcane#caitlyn kiramman#jayce talis#viktor arcane#i also imagine silco heavily invested in jinx's technical education once he took her in#vander ensured the kids were warm safe and loved but he wasn't planning on advancing them or zaun in anyway like silco was#i guess there's also a parenting metaphor in here about the way a parent can harm their children based from their own trauma and ambition#i also think it's interesting that the boxing game kept score for the players and immediately ranked them for all to see#but the shooting game didn't do that instead players had to manually track their own score against each other#who knows how many kids in zaun actually know math that well to keep up with the game and their competitors#the boxing game also has more space in the arcade and is more centrally positioned for other people to view and admire the plaayers#there's more incentive in zaun for kids to play the boxing game rather than shoot
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i need to study this man in a lab
#hundred line#hundred line last defense academy#eito aotsuki#LDA#my art#my views of this guy went from fave->I HATE THIS GUY SO BAD->??? idk what i feel->I guess hes my fave again??#Anyway i was mostly trying to remember how to draw idk if ill do any more fanart of this game#bro this guy has so many aspects in his design i dont normally draw#glasses + forehead + pale color palette how am i supposed to work with this#is there a lore reason for why everyone is quite literally gray#anyway crumpling this guy up like a wad of paper and chucking it into the wall#for a game i consider a 7.5 and dont feel like im brainrotting over i sure have a lot of thoughts about it both positive and negative
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Do you have any plans on drawing twice-cursed Lyle in your "things that crawl? au? If he does indeed get twice-cursed?
Nnnot entirely sure if this is the final design I'll stick with but heres something
#The idea for Lyle was like. Leg rib cage. Leg guts. idk. he's less fixed and just more rearranged#Lyle so difficult for me idk why Im never satisfied by my designs for him so its kinda hard to adapt that#I think its funny to imagine that the Visitor has a really skewed view of certain body parts bcs its main pov of human biology is Sam#Who is missing a limb has differently colored eyes and has a mouth shape nobody else has#ALSO minor Sam redesign! not rlly too noticable but I was getting bored with the way I was drawing it#I might see if I can find a way to fuse legs more without it looking stupid so its more reasonable for the Visitor to think its fine.#Lyle keeps the abdomen a little cause he looks dumb and off balance without it but I might see if I can get rid of that too idk#Ooooh wait I could go with the Mental Map justification again. I really like that actually..#Spending nearly 2 weeks as big spider.. you have to start recognizing that as your own body at some point#but he still of course remembers himself as human. So when the Visitor turns him back into what he thinks he should look like#its this clusterfuck of both. Punished for coming to terms with his own body.....#look outside spoilers#look outside game#look outside#things that crawl AU#art#fanart#digital art
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if you okay with requests some jeaneil please ?? i absolutely adore your artstyle and your neil is so 🤲🤲🤲 lil guy 😺
hii thank u 🥺🥺🧡🧡!!! a few people requested jeanneil so here is them listening to music hehe (explodes into 9 million pieces)

#aftg#all for the game#all for the game fanart#aftg fanart#neil josten#jean moreau#i feel like ive never actually drawn jean properly.everytime i draw him hes in side view
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TBOSAS has me thinking about how Finnick was likely one of the only people alive who knew even some of the story of what happened in the 10th Hunger Games and after. It’s apparent that Snow or the Capitol in general buried any record of the 10th games and Lucy Gray to save face.
However, who knew all of Snow’s darkest secrets and dirty laundry? Finnick. It’s reasonable to assume he probably learned at least part of the story. Not only that but Mags won the 11th games, directly after Lucy Gray’s Games. It is canon that there wasn’t much coverage of the games in the districts but I’m sure even if she didn’t watch them there were likely rumors about it during the next game. And when Snow reappeared as the president she likely remembered his role. And as Finnick’s mentor and mother figure she probably told him a lot.
There’s no real point to this information but I just think it’s very interesting that despite how hard Snow worked to bury his past it probably still lived on. And despite his efforts to control, oppress, and abuse the victors, it was one of these victors who knew his dark past. It was one of the people he tried to control that eventually gained an upper hand over him and helped play a big role in his downfall.
#el rambles#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#finnick odair#coriolanus snow#thg#the hunger games#obviously i’m obsessed with the way katniss basically haunted him and brought his past/worst fears to life#but that’s been well discussed#and i think it’s interesting that a tribute who he viewed as less than human and he treated so horribly#also played a part in bringing his worst fears to life
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#sangihun#squid game#i have to say i view their dynamic as very. repressed i guess#i don't want anything to actually happen between them i suppose. besides when i want to jerk it to yaoi#there's the fujo side that wants to be like kyaa sangihun >w<#but then i'm like but what would sangwoo my beautiful princess with a disorder actually do here#at first i lold.. and then i serioused...#i think my other post about sangwoo explains the way i view their dynamic#it's very.. non sexual. can't even say it's pure emotions because sangwoo hasn't felt an emotion in 30 years and gihun is so deep into his#coping mechanisms so it's like if a relationship was a thought exercise#i view gihun as a guy who “doesn't want to push it”. you know what i mean?#in terms of getting inside sangwoo's head. even if he is genuinely worried#it would take them tons of alcohol (or being on the verge of death in the final battle) to finally feel#fully vulnerable and umm#god take all of my ocd and give it to sangwoo so his ocd doubles#maybe triples.#let me know what you think if you read this lol!!#cho sang woo#seong gi hun#<- forgot about the name tags
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i need you more than anything
#taevi.png#life series#scott smajor#jimmy solidarity#solidarity gaming#flower husbands#dangthatsalongname#trafficshipping#so guess who watched scott's and jimmy's 3rd life and is now insane about jimmy's death and the impact it had on scott#it's so interesting about scott's grief in 3l especially in the moments when he learns jimmy is dead and how he chooses to express it#i'm still thinking about that afterlife scene and how it's so deeply intergal to scott's character#everyone say thank you to bree for getting me into fh i will never view them the same again#taevi have a consistent scott design challenge instant fail#blood tw#blood cw
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so much of the wigmaker's job continues to stay with me but especially this bit.
like. do you think illario hearing lucanis brush off the possibility of his death again and again contributed to illario giving lucanis to zara.
because yes, of course there's jealousy. of course there is. lucanis is primed to get everything illario wants and nothing illario does seems to change that in the slightest. he can never be good enough, not when there's lucanis to measure up to.
but. not only does lucanis not actually want what's coming his way (he does not at all want to be first talon but they both know caterina DOES want this and lucanis could never tell her no), he's also throwing himself into these jobs with such disregard for his personal safety that there's a sense of inevitability that surrounds the idea of his death.
this conversation feels like... it may not have been discussed like this so clearly before, but they've at least poked around the edges in the past. thought about it. and this moment might have been a turning point, in a way -- illario coming to terms with the fact that lucanis really just will. not. stop. for ANYTHING. his cousin WILL get himself killed doing this and lucanis won’t have any regrets. he’ll leave illario to go this alone. (no one to follow after anymore.)
i wonder if he started to think -- if lucanis is going to die anyway, maybe it’d be better to have that happen sooner, rather than later.
lucanis wouldn’t be happy as first talon (+ honestly, maybe this part is a stretch, but illario seems to see that what lucanis is NOW isn’t so much ‘happy’ as it is ‘obedient and content to accept the scraps that gives him’), and he’s GOING to get himself killed doing this, anyway…
so yeah, he could wait it out. wait for lucanis to do something foolish enough that he can't just walk away from it. maybe he’ll even last long enough to be made first talon (if caterina can bear to loosen her grip from the title) and be miserable for a while. years even, maybe! before lucanis, again, does something he can’t walk away from.
or.
illario could cut through all the pointless waiting and get right to the point. go straight to where this was always going to end up. and if illario is in charge of this, maybe he can benefit from it, and salvage one good thing from this whole mess, instead of being caught up in it later down the line.
(which then might tread into the territory of anticipated grief, too – lucanis' loss will be agony, but, if illario controls when and how it happens, he can control his grief. …except he hadn’t accepted the inevitability of lucanis’ death quite as well as he’d thought and when he gets sloshed at the wake, real grief seeps through the cracks)
just... something about this conversation. both of them viewing lucanis’ death as a foregone conclusion. lucanis accepting that easily, and illario struggling with that more -- and maybe having that shape his actions. not exactly a healthy expression of grief, but since when has anything this family done been healthy?
#veilguard spoilers#this family!!!!#they're so......... augh#screwed. they're screwed.#illario dellamorte#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#when i got tevinter nights i KNEW i was probably going to become even more fixated on lucanis bc i nabbed it after starting the game#i did NOT anticipate liking illario so much or getting so entrenched in the tragedy of their dynamic#or their FAMILY dynamic. god where to START with that.#i could get even more corkboard conspiracy and start rambling about like#illario possibly feeling slighted at how easily lucanis shrugs off his offer to get to a point where he ISN'T constantly risking his life#and in some weird way viewing that as another selfish expression of lucanis'.#lucanis gets their grandmother's good regard. gets to have the position and the power. AND gets to leave them all like its nothing#like it wouldnt kill illario to watch lucanis fall like this#he's so easy to disregard yet again
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I think a very interesting idea and misconception within the fandom is the idea Curly himself spreads the idea about his superb leadership and status as a great idealistic person.
A big personal issue with him is the very idea that he doesn’t think he embodies much of either. Or rather doesn’t think it was meant for him. The status is placed onto him from people like Jimmy, the rest of the crew to an extent and Pony Express themselves. He is never exactly excited or eager to hear praise on those fronts as he’s grappling with the existential woe of imposter syndrome and feeling like he’s done nothing despite moving up in those roles.
We buy into Jimmy’s belief that Curly holds himself up on the same pedestal and cares when he’s placed up there and scared of coming down, not that he doesn’t want to. He also just sees himself as some guy. A guy with a lot on his plate. A guy with a lot of responsibilities he doesn’t want. But still just a normal guy. Good and bad. Average. He’s very honest with himself about his own faults, very aware of the the thoughts plaguing him, both by his dialogue in the HFIM DLC and the awareness he shows to Jimmy before he’s shit down. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s good at expressing it to other people but it is the stuff he actually believes about himself.
The reason he keeps up the facade is for others, the necessity of his job for the Captain to be put together but oddly enough he never tries to reinforce it himself. He falters at the praise and bristles at personal concerns to himself. If you outright asked him if he thought he was a good person or even a good captain, there’s of course the objective answer and then the one he’d have…
#ergo he does not have an answer cause at the end of the day he does not think that highly of himself and prefers that others don’t either#but that alas comes with the territory of being in such a high position and being both agreeable and a decent mediator up until#yknow but we are specifically not talking about that in terms of how curly viewed himself before the crash and his knowledge of things#more bullshit of this guy cause people really do not get he doesn’t like himself or being captain he feels hollow in his life#and he knows he only has himself to blame like that’s not the part he’s unaware of#curly is very aware of things he just processes them in such roundabout ways he starts stripping them and becoming obtuse#dudes thick headed but things still get through it#the funnel is just thin and it takes a long time for things to fully fall in#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#curly mouthwashing#captain curly
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On the topic of Gale being a jackass towards Katniss, anyone wants to talk about how he only got interested in Katniss when he saw Darius flirting with her? Possessive much?
#he was always a weirdo when it came to viewing katniss romantically#entitled jerk snogging people behind the slag heap all the time and then throwing a fit over darius pulling on katniss’ braid and teasing#like get outta here#and even after realizing he liked her (if we can even call it that because he explicitly said i minded as in he was just jealous)#he still did nothing to actually make their relationship progress in that way#only when he saw katniss and peeta were doing a very convincing romance on screen was he spurred into action#all that i had to do it at least once (because i now know you are capable of kissing people so i will just kiss you out of nowhere)#CREEEEEP#anti gale hawthrone#anti galeniss#katniss everdeen#the hunger games#mockingjay#everlark#tagging this everlark only because i want my everlark folks to see this ig
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