#and i cant fight for nothing

[mychemicalbrromance]

Guys ive been reading peak

[definitivelynotanalien]

Spent 5 minutes dragging my Gramoss to oasis so i could chill (Seemed like a nice server) only to get my ass pulled down to the depths of the pond by a random ass creature. God i hate this game /nsrs

[astronnova]

proposition: danny's hair turns white in random patches when he's used too much power, he just dyes it back to all black when he gets home

[ganondoodle]

did a little sketch yesterday that i really liked and tried to get it done today just so i got literally anything to post- but i fell into the trap of 'making sketches to elaborate and thus really stiff and non fun' (for me), ... soooooo .. im redoing the whole thing

but the idea was a mummy ganondorf for my (yes still existing) totk rewrite; i wanted to make him more scary looking and also emphasize just how horrid it must be to be kept in between life and death by having your heart grabbed by a cold and vengeful magical hand for thousands of years (in this case the ancient queen .. which i also tried to sketch despite not showing up aside from her dissolving hand)

the spell starting to fail and his body being more damaged in some parts (jaw being only the bones left for example) and his chest open from being slowly eaten up by the queens magic, the ribs contorting around it like its a gravitational pull- sounds cooler than it looks bc this sketch did not work out, so im saving the details for the .. hopefully, better version

[frobby]

i think a core component of the okumura twins relationship is that if you told them before the series what happens in the future, they would worry about each other before themselves

[juniemunie]

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Don't you get it?"

"This is all just a show... and we're playing parts~"

[spaciebabie]

more of him

[mcytegg]

GOD i need to yap abt flames loyalty to mane bc i find it endlessly fascinating that he will put up w so much shit and do things he himself doesnt particularly like or believe in simply bc mane asks it of him. bc mane is his teammate, and flames sense of loyalty to him bc of that is possibly the closest thing LS has to a relationship w unconditional loyalty.

[paiirupie]

hi i'm alive *posts league of legends fanart and runs away*

[simandy]

WhatsApp simply forced an AI inside of it's app and the thing is SO UGLY. Literally ugly! There's a hovering button and it's colors aren't even in the WhatsApp colors so now the main page makes me feel so overwhelmed..... i hate it so much

[bunabi]

I feel like I'm the odd man out but what i was actually most disappointed that Bioware has had every opportunity to bring back Sten as the Arishok but decided to put it in a codex instead. We get Varric for 3/4 games when he really doesn't need to be there but in the middle of all the very relevant Qunari drama you can't give us an Arishok Sten cameo? No? We're supposed to just read in a throw away codex that he got attacked off screen and is now serving with the Ben-Hassrath? Ok, guess I'll sit through tedious Solas monologue 987...thanks Bioware.

I wanted Sten very badly 🥲

Easily-thwarted villains and mindless mobs isn't the note I wanted to end on with the Qunari Invasion. It was one of my biggest disappointments too.

I makes me appreciate the DA2 presentation of the Qunari more. Is it perfect: no. But the Qunari being invaders doesn't detract from them being people with beliefs and thoughts worth investigating. They're 'problematic' but you look around Kirkwall and think damn what faction isn't in (Southern) Thedas. I liked that approach.

We get to know the Arishok's motivations and beliefs. We're introduced to the Tal-Vashoth and speak with one (Maraas). We learn about Seheron and the Fog Warriors through Fenris. We have a whole quest centered around a Saarebas where we learn how mages are treated under the Qun, how non-mages born from a mage-bearing womb are treated even. Ridiculous amount of depth. They didn't have to go that hard.

I finally read the Bioware portion of Blood Sweat And Pixels this morning after many years so I feel exceptionally out of my mind praising the hot hell that was DA2's development. But it really did hit all the right notes for storytelling. I hope it blows the tits clean off of new fans coming in from DAV.

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Thinking about Soda’s breakdown again. Thinking about how scared he sounds. Thinking about how he’s begging his family to not fall apart and crumble any further. Thinking about how long he must’ve been bottling it up just to keep them together. Thinking about how much he needed it. Just, thinking about Soda’s breakdown.

[rbtlvr]

AND ANOTHER THING. i know that on a meta level this is literally just How Video Game Bosses Work. but also with how well the game mechanics work into the story in many other cases i don't think it's unreasonable to look at it from an in universe perspective

SO

i think it really says something that loop only uses their stronger attacks in their second phase. i think it really says something that you have to bring them down to 0hp four (4) times, attacking them repeatedly + proving that you are willing to genuinely hurt/kill them, before they'll use their most powerful attacks on siffrin

[ganondoodle]

tumblr too will sell all user data to A/I fuckers. the toggle is apparently just to tell the techbros i dont want it, they "believe" they will "honor" that, like techbros ever honored anything but money.

sharing my art and connecting with people has been, literally, whats kept me alive through my darkest days.

i do not want it stolen, mangled and used to generate more money for people that already have more money than god.

creative labors of love that we share with people for free, to connect with people, to find joy in art and to bring joy to others, only for it to be ripped from you against your will, stolen, mangled, twisted into an algorythm just so some disgustingly rich guys gain more money.

and you lagerly cant do anything against it, the things you have ever posted anywhere, be it written or drawn, already taken without your consent.

it makes me feel ill.

right now, im questioning my will to be an artist.

to live.

[room-surprise]

Man, everyone is always talking about how Kabru is wearing eye makeup, but you guys understand that he is just naturally heart-stoppingly gorgeous right? He's probably not wearing any makeup, he's South Asian and he has naturally long, dark lashes, and a delicate, feminine face. He's a beautiful man! He'd look radiant even naked and covered in mud.

He's the type of beautiful that people write poetry about and start wars over!

This is just canon. It's shown and told to us multiple times and ways. People see him and swoon on sight, even when he's barely trying. Even when he's dirty and tired, even when they are hardened warriors and spies. And it's implied that he can and does do this sort of thing regularly... He has a whole flock of women that he's charmed.

And it's not like Dungeon Meshi has sameface syndrome. There's plenty of other men that don't look like Kabru. Kabru's meant to be very, very beautiful. AND on top of that, he's also insanely charismatic and genuinely good at reading people, figuring out what they want, and finding ways to give it to them that makes them like and trust him. He manages to do it within minutes of meeting Daya's hostile, jealous fiancee.

He's a Cleopatra, an Alexander the Great, a Caesar. If he was in a war he'd go out with 10 soldiers and come back with 20 because he convinced the enemy to defect and join his mission.

He's not perfect but he's damn close. His biggest flaw, Kui explicitly tells us, is not having enough experience, and specifically not knowing enough about monsters. The first will naturally be fixed as time passes, and the second.... well, it isn't a problem as long as he's not in a dungeon, which is 99% of his life....