#bonus card

[poppyberry]

Everybody NEEDS to listen to the new Wild Life retrospective on Imp and Skizz's podcast. They got Grian called in and they give so many cool insights into the series (and honestly say so many things I think people need to hear)

Highlights for me:

Grian designed each wild card to be weaponized and wanted everyone to take advantage of them. He goes over each individually and all the thought he put into them and all the work the backend team put into their execution. He's rightfully really proud of them. Him gushing about Trivia Bot and how excited he was to show his friends the "coolest snail ever" is particularly sweet.

Skizz says discovering each wild card was a LOT of fun. He says something like "I can't believe as an adult I get to have so much fun." Impulse is really impressed with the execution of each, citing stuff like making it rain when the time one activated and the passive mobs spawning in before being replaced, and how the little details like that built excitement and tension.

Grian says how he understands that some viewers maybe just want more seasons of the essentially the same series, ie six seasons of just Third Life, but it's more important to him that the Lifers get to experience something new and fresh. He also doesn't like comparing each series, preferring to consider each one as its own thing.

Impulse can't wait to do another Life series, Skizz is equally excited but tries to hold discussion about it back since he doesn't want anyone pressuring Grian, who is palpably burned out. Like, you can hear how tired this man is. Grian says there will probably be more series since everyone is still enjoying it, but he's not trying to outdo himself and not to expect him to keep escalating.

Skizz always tries to do something new each season yet feels like he always falls back into the same habits and dynamics, but not this time: he feels like he got to explore a new dynamic with the Spanners and had a blast doing it. He and Grian gush about how much fun they had with their "big brother trying to keep his little brothers alive" routine.

They have a grand time making fun of Impulse and his "Sweats". Impulse is unabashedly still hungry to win a series.

Impulse didn't want to kill zombie Skizz, because of the five minute cooldown, but Skizz makes clear that he was really happy with being a zombie, even if there was a lot of doing nothing in between summons. He says it means a lot to him that he got to help with the burden of facilitating the series, even just a little bit.

Grian gives good insight into his personal life strategy: he does some things to deliberately test his relationship with other players. Standing in the Danger Zone was a trust exercise, testing Jimmy and Scar. Jimmy and Scar failed.

Despite Scar failing the trust exercise, Grian heard the disappointment in Scar's voice about the Snail Bot thing and immediately caved, but he's really happy that it led them to in-canon reconciling and becoming strong allies again.

Grian's favorite moment was making Jimmy pay for the failed trust exercise by blowing up the bunker, particularly pleased with his one liner of "it was always gonna be like this". He says Wild Life as a whole has been the most enjoyable series for him, even though he didn't get to have as much fun as the other players due to knowing all the wild cards.

All three of them gush over the scene of everybody failing to kill Joel as he teleports around, laughing about how it was straight out of a movie or an anime. Impulse feels like Joel took his superpower to a new level, but Grian reminds him the he didn't have an army chasing him around trying to kill him. They're all super impressed with how the finale turned out.

Some of the powers were assigned (Cleo, BigB, BDubs, Scar, Lizzie), some were random (Impulse, Martyn). Some were based on players' names, others on their personal narratives, but coming up with ~16 different powers without including any that would just be exploited for cheap instakills was really difficult, which is why there were so many espionage ones. Hilariously, Grian was hoping Scar would accidentally kill Jimmy by punching him off a cliff because of their ritual of trying punching in the earlier episodes. He also gave Scar that power because he knew Scar wouldn't feel bad about killing people with it.

Grian chose to give himself the mimic so he could show people how their powers worked if he needed to, and so that it wasn't given to somebody else who'd have to spend the whole session figuring out the mechanics of 15 separate superpowers and potentially dying because of it. And because he thinks its the coolest one and he wanted it (lol)

All around there's tons of fun details and stuff in this episode of the podcast and absolutely everybody should listen to it all the way through.

[pixelmesh-studio]

Die toom Vorteilskarte für einen gepflegten Baumarkteinkauf.

[suntails]

toot toot!

[epiphainie]

i'm genuinely so obsessed with tommy's deadpan, dry humor. "probably all gonna die anyway" "mm, not like that" "enjoy it while it lasts" while face looking like 😐😐

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Silver + glasses = wise old man trope...

. this has been a wip for like. weeks - i had no energy left to finish it properly lol so i'm posting it as is-----

'bonus' (VERY. UNFINISHED- )

[cinamun]

Happy Winterfest & Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

The Drake Holiday Card 2020

The Drake Holiday Card 2021

The Drake Holiday Card 2022

*Bonus: The Drake Holiday Card Before They Were The Drakes

Follow me under the cut to learn why this Winterfest is a bittersweet one for the Drake family:

Well friends, as you can see over the years, the children are all grown and there really is no need for Darren & Indya Drake to hold on to the sprawling seaside mansion they've called home for a very long time. They've raised all their kids there and brought home their very first grandchildren there (and a new niece!). So its bittersweet as they begin to pack up all those memories and downsize for the next leg of the journey.

Some of you may remember every single one of those holiday cards lol its been a wild ride but as has always been the case, its been full of growth.

Happy Holidays to all my friends and I wish you all peace, joy, happiness, love and full bellies.

[hotwaterandmilk]

Kaitou Saint Tail 30th Anniversary POP UP shop - Saint Tail & Ruby acrylic stand + Foil-stamped postcard set in clear pouch (09/2024)

[sleepsucks]

[project-sekai-facts]

The Never Ending Showtime set seems to be based on various RPG roles. In this set, Tsukasa fills the role of chef, and a few references to him can be found on other cards from the set.

The sign above the counter in the background of Nene's trained All of My Sadness 4* card has the same chef's hat symbol found on Tsukasa's cooking utensils and scarf tie. The 4-pointed star from Tsukasa's hat can also be seen on the bunting outside the restaurant and as part of the pattern on Emu's bowl.

A flyer for a restaurant can be seen in the background of Rui's trained Midnight Conflict 3*. This flyer has the same chef's hat symbol from Tsukasa's card, and the same fish sign from Nene's card.

Tsukasa's restaurant being represented by a fish logo is possibly a reference to his favorite food being acqua pazza, or the fact he often wears clothes with fish embroidery (though the former option is most likely).

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

Silvio really became the "do you need a dog? I can bark" meme ... we've come full circle now 🤭

[asherasgayagenda]

la mort if it was based

[kkoct-ik]

wait! a! minute! something's! not! right!

[ultopias]

sherliam in tuxedo art dump

(i like to imagine sherlock sometimes says things like this... but it doesn't work because i personally think liam can flirt much better than sherlock so he thinks it's lame)

heheh (⺣◡⺣)♡

[ryuusea]

Yuumori Miss Hudson in High Card Wendy’s outfit 💖

(Nanaki Kanon is Morimu Hudson and High Card stage Wendy)

[dailyfigures]

Kinomoto Sakura ; Card Captor Sakura ☆ Good Smile Company

[thegreatyin]

scoundrel?? what scoundrel???? the magnificent mr cards (who ironically has more of a flower aesthetic going on) is completely unrelated to any "bandaged scoundrels" running around the neath. in fact it's never heard of the word scoundrel ever in its entire definitely long definitely ancient life. but yknow, hypothetically, if it did know the scoundrel, it's confident that they're really really really handsome and cool and epic and they're almost just as amazing as it is and you should totally donate all your valuables to them and stuff

aaand because i like them too much, have a transparent version. the Creachure. the Thing, even.