#assigned value

[passionfruitmango]

Assigned memories and morality to pixels

They mean so much to me

Their code so familiar to the friends long since deleted from cartridges

Created as a way to bring your team through the ages

They're not truly the same

Not the originals

A copy and paste of code edited just enough to work in the modern

Yet I still find myself so enthralled when I find a 14 year old pokemon trained by May.

And I feel almost guilt when I release the low IV'd mons someone sent me for my own breedject fodder.

I keep some.

Those with ribbons, 5-6 IVs, high levels.

Value ive assigned to them based on how i enjoy the games.

But without electricity and the systems that contain them

Its all just pixelized memories.

How real is something that's intangible?

Something that may not exist forever.

I'll always have the memories no?

Not entirely.

The human mind is a fleeting and fickle thing.

But when I try to imagine my life without the experiences those pixelized memories brought me?

Im left feeling empty.

Its so interesting how even half a lifetime later,

I'm still the same player,

Using so many different names,

But they're all me.

I lived through every part of them.

Just as they've found life through me.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[francesderwent]

Taylor Swift really wrote an album with the thesis “a man who tells you he loves you and lives together with you in a committed relationship for six years but never ever proposes is essentially the same as a man who tells you he loves you to get you into bed and then ghosts you a couple weeks later”

[chawliekin]

and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…

[emmaspolaroid]

and I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way I think of you

[hajihiko]

Practicing

(also lineart)

[eowynstwin]

Honestly I think half the reason Ghost likes a crybaby so much is that he gets to have his cake and eat it too. He gets to make you cry and then clean you up afterwords. Massive power trip that also proves to him that he isn’t the violent brute the world tried to make him into.

[m3tr0n0m333]

Neutral w/ few accents version

[from-ib-to-asshai]

me when people give canonically conventionally unattractive characters instagram face

[novelconcepts]

It really frees up so much mental real estate when you start thinking of sex as just: a thing people sometimes do. Some people are super into it! Some aren't! It's for fun! It's for intimacy! It's the deepest connection some people will ever feel and totally meaningless to others! It's hot! It's boring! It helps some people sleep! It exists as an exciting construct solely in fantasy for others! What it isn't is some complicated moral ground that needs to be fought against at every turn. It's just A Thing. Which means people who have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are all worth the same. Which means stories that have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are worth the same, too. Smut isn't less valuable than "clean" stories. People who have a high "body count" aren't less valuable than those who have never had sex at all. It's just A Thing. Making peace with sex as just A Thing that is natural to consentingly have or not have, want or not want, really is a great adjustment to your brainspace.

[veruca4seether]

they like you best when your good and quiet and dead and pliant as they shove your limp limbs into their own guilty idealism when they can stage your taxidermic form in whatever position best suits their angle when you wear their moral platitudes with the weight of honor and legacy through mortician-sewn lips

[soath]

It is genuinely not surprising that Ashton has such a strong The Gods Are Going To Kill Us take on the situation, given what they specifically have seen and what they have to relate to. They're about two weeks out from 1.) getting done violence onto them by an angel and then 2.) being told they have a bit of a dead thing that the gods tried to kill inside them. Then they go and put a lot of effort into getting that dead scrap to wake up (with disastrous consequences illustrating how incredibly volatile its power is). Then they have their only religious friend blow up in front of them. Then they watch a movie trilogy where the only non-god main character is another earth genasi broken-walking-timebomb whose main purpose on the mission is to explode when the gods need him to. They don't see the Lawbearer weep for her son, they only see the Emissary, a child, crying because he's afraid to die. Then they go to Vasselheim, the city of the gods, and see the corpse of a Titan, the dead thing the gods killed, yanked out of the earth and puppeted by one wannabe god and now desecrated in death by the overconfident followers of all the others. They're making something beautiful out of it, they're living on it, and normally he'd be in favor of that but they don't even know its name. They're building new temples on the corpse of the old world, hollowing it out and starting fresh, and Ashton is a part of that old world. They cannot stop being connected to a power the gods seem to, at best, be willing to weaponize. That would make anyone paranoid; given their background it's impressive that he's not more combative, tbh.

[blueskittlesart]

hands & feet for character design class :)

[planefood]

This is just a thing I see on my internet romps every now and then but it drives me crazy for no reason, bare with me. Why do people draw lines in the sand about different kinds of therians lol? Who cares if someone woke up and decided that they're wolf therian or something when you decided unconsciously you were a wolf therian instead. Why do people fight about whether or not someone can choose to be therian, its the most silly gatekeeping I see. And don't come at me saying "well theres this label for chosen therians because they're not actual therians like me" you guys... made these terms up in the first place it literally doesn't matter. There is absolutely zero difference between a chosen therian and a not chosen therian and you can't convince me otherwise. How would a self proclaimed "real" therian know that they didn't just choose to be therian one day, there's absolutely no way you can know that for sure.

Every time I become curious about a subculture there's always some ridiculous gatekeeping, even objectums seem to fight over silly bullshit.

[chilipepprr]

Hyena :3

[bananonbinary]

im gonna be honest whenever people talk about paying people "what they're worth" there's a part of me that feels a little like how it feels to say "gay people should be allowed in the military." like, yes, objectively true that it's fucked up the discrimination exists, and it's a good idea to fix that problem while we're working to fix the long-term problem, but also i am morally opposed to the entire overarching system, so. weird position to be in.