#and now i'm shook

[84reedsy]

Core memory triggered

WCW Monday Night Nitro, July 13th 1998 1998 was a peak year, fight me.

[arlathen]

honestly i wish they'd leaned harder into mythal being an awful manipulative bitch (affectionate). da fans are bad with women who are mean to them who they're supposed to like but apparently LOVE women who suck who are supposed to suck. like ghilan'nain is a highlight of veilguard imo because she's scary and awful. and also has tentacles but let's not get into that.

mythal coercing and manipulating the guy who was most devoted to her, mythal not being too cowardly to do what's right but too shrewd, and that characteristic carries into her millennia as a fragment -- never doing anything to help except to gently tug the threads of fate. coming out with her image unscathed. her dog is still her dog and he only heels when she gives the command. the People who know the truth still cry mythalenaste when they avoid invoking the other evanuris' names. she was the best of them by the narrowest margin and now she's the only one left. they killed her and she outlasted them all. let her lean into it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1989taylorsversion]

This is one of the most revelatory things Taylor has ever publicly said

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Congrats on getting into the TMNT AU COMP again with The Neon Void!! I was wondering what do you think your boys would wear for the high fantasy theme?

I SAW????? OMG WOW 😭 Thank you to those of you who nominated my silly little story!!! I'll try to do something special to celebrate (like uhhhhhh fixing all my typos LMAO WHOOPSIE)

and gosh, that's a hard one!! sorry to say that my first thought is DND parties lol (i'm not well versed in high fantasy creatures and dynamics so forgive me lol)

I can see Raph as a kind of paladin. Perhaps a "giant" paladin because he's so big compared to his brothers LOL. I think it would be cute if Mikey was fairy-esque, or an elven-esque theme-- but definitely a fun cleric. Donnie would be a goblin because 1) that would be hilarious 2) he's my scrunkly little gremlin who loves to be in his lab mehehe. Definetly an arificer.

as for Leo....

perhaps a lost bard turned "evil" sorcerer lol

[cinamun]

Not your paper | Next

[sableprince]

been really struggling with art block but i had to get a couple chants of sennaar doodles out of my brain because it's a lovely game

[alvivaarts]

i am feeling exceptionally evil about the point this fic is going to get to eventually would you like to have a taste? Too bad you're gonna-

EDIT: Since folks have been asking, here's the link!

Also here's another bigger, nicer, more detailed piece from the scene/arc right here

[rakiloveslewis]

Thank you, Niki.

[lovelaceisntdead]

OH MY GOD??????

[leftoverspagehhti]

This is what I mean when I say *puts in a snow globe and shakes aggressively*

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

egodeath: the disappearance of one's sense of self, or the removal of one's ability to distinguish themselves as an entity separate from their social or physical environment.

[quietzap]

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[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

For once, I'm entirely okay with corrie having financial bother because it necessitates moving the Swains in with Carla and they couldn't be arsed doing a full house set for them. Don't do one. Remodel Carla's bathroom instead. Leave them there. They're fine. It'll be fine. Find a cat for them.

By all means, have them share whatever they want for as long as possible. Space, clothes, names, hopes and dreams, please excuse me while I-*sobs in overwhelmed lesbian*

[somewhereincairparavel]

todays most memorable episode as a first time watcher, is probably "the tales of ba sing se" and "the guru".

I decided not to watch the season 2 finale today, I'm saving the best for tomorrow because a part of me feels like "the crossroads of destiny" is a very impactful episode.

Alright, I CRIED when iroh sang the vines song to Lu Ten's picture :( it was so sad. Zuko being such an awkward date with Jin was so cute?? Like he never used firebending as he came to ba sing se but then used it for the first time to make jin happy :(💖

Now, im actually impressed with the way the plot is progressing?? I really thought team avatar has had a head start because of the solar eclipse invasion but now Azula found out about it?? But tbh when the gaurds told the earth King that "three kyoshi warriors" had arrived at ba sing se, I kinda guessed it was them. But still a great continuation regardless. Also, not from this episode, but Jet's death was super shocking to me??? I wasn't expecting that to happen, it was so random, I didn't like him much but I did feel sad with how his life ended.

Can I just say that I'm super happy with how Zuko was content with his tea shop life with iroh?? He looked so happy and peaceful for the first time, and was super cheery :( but I do know it won't stay that way for long so that's sad.

[bigassbowlingballhead]

six sentence sunday 2/11/2024

tagged by: @wordsofhoneydew @eusuntgratie @nocoastposts @magicandarchery @captainjunglegym @littlemisskittentoes

i come to you with another excerpt from the [untitled pool project]

Nick grabs Taylor’s hand, “Good game, mate.”  The grip of Nick’s hand sends a shock through Taylor’s arm. He’s not ready to walk away, not yet. “I’m just warming up, what do you say? Another game?” Nick furrows his brow, “You should really walk away while you still have your dignity.”  Taylor scoffs, “How 'bout a bet?” “A bet?”

no pressure tags: @anincompletelist @violetbaudelaire-quagmire @getmehighonmagic @firenati0n @heybuddy-drabbles @oldtshirtsouls @firstprincehornyramblings @lostcol and an open tag for anyone who has some words to share.

[blue-cat-shitposts]

Looking back on it after so many years, something that I remember was missing from early fandom discussion of Undertale's narrative and its themes was the understanding of Undertale as a heavily meta narrative.

Don't get me wrong, people knew and laughed at meta references or the game acknowledging game mechanics, but somehow, that fact was more often than not entirely omitted from the discussion of Undertale's storyline. As soon as discussion went into plot territory, its as if people would entirely forget that you, the player, are also treated as an acting agent in the narrative. Most people back then would treat Undertale as a self-contained story and would shift the game aspect onto "Frisk has magic time travel powers that work on video game-ish logic", and would address all of the "this is a game to you" remarks to Frisk as the fully-fledged character that belongs in this world and is playing god with their magic powers. Which is not necessarily a bad take, and it worked excellently for some Undertale fan stories, but it misses the true impact of the story by millimeters.

I remember that back then, this erasure of the player's involvement generated a lot of criticism for Undertale's pacifist route. People would complain about how it's unrealistic to expect a child that fell into a realm of monsters trying to kill it to be a True Pacifist, which people religiously believed it to be the only legal route endorsed by the game since it is the "true ending", after all - so it must be the "canon" ending of that story. I remember people critiquing it on the basis of the pacifistic mindset being completely inapplicable to real life, or even just realistic situations, which it is, because real life is more complicated than the world of Undertale.

The thing is though - the thing that everyone was somehow ignoring at the time - is that Undertale is not meant to be a realistic story. Undertale can hardly stand on its own as a self-contained story that isn't seen through the lens of the world being a video game without losing a lot of its sense and internal logic that makes it work.

And possibly the greatest example of that, and the reason why those joking critiques rub me the wrong way now, is that- you are not a helpless child. Your role in the story is not playing a helpless child. You, the player, are a character in the story yourself - and your role is NOT that of a helpless being. Quite the contrary, actually. You are the most powerful being in this world from this world's perspective. You are above everyone by the simple virtue of the way in which you, from your position behind the screen, can interact with the world. You, the player, are not in any physical pain from dying over and over, you have the power to replay, reset, redo, as much as you want, at no cost to yourself as an individual playing the game (maybe aside from eyestrain of hours spent behind a screen, but that's on you - you have the power to pause and quit anytime you want too, after all). You are not on the same level as the other characters, you are not their equal, and you are definitely not weaker than them. You are not the one who's at a disadvantaged position here. It's the monsters.

This isn't a story about a child who's at the mercy of ruthless, powerful monsters that they have to trust in the innocence of. This is a story about you - the individual reading this - having an incredible, unfathomable amount of power over an entire world and all its inhabitants, and choosing how you would use that power when there are no consequences that would stop you. Because there really aren't any. Physically, on a meta, real level, there genuinely aren't any consequences to you, the player, playing a goddamn video game. And the game knows that. The only question the game is asking is how do you, an individual playing a game, interact with it? What kind of a player are you? When you are given absolute power over a world that is presented as a plaything to you, do you believe that the characters of the game you're playing could be real people with feelings that you're toying with? You don't have to believe that, nobody out there in real life is forcing you or judging you for it (except for the aforementioned rabid fanbase, but that is outside the game's narrative). Every player is different, and each one is meant to experience the story in their own personal way - whether or not you like it, this story is a self-insert. But it doesn't change the fact that all players are inherently put in a position of power over this world, and they need to recognize that first in order to properly understand the actual moral dilemma of the game:

What would you do in a position of power if none of the people you have power over could stop you?

And I'm really glad that as the fandom developed over the years, people started recognizing that that was the true meaning of Undertale's narrative, and that Deltarune is doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on that theme. Because it really is a great one. It's a difficult and uncomfortable question to ask, for sure, but it is, undeniably, one that guarantees a deep emotional journey and a cathartic experience if you decide to search for the answer to it.