#brief glimmers

[stil-lindigo]

I have so many thoughts about how, in a world where so many in-game companions are barely tolerated or even outright hated, kim kitsuragi is universally beloved. How much it speaks to us that in our worse moments, we all hope to deserve the begrudging kindness he provides. He will not coddle you. He will tell you to get your shit together. But he will support you when you sing karaoke, off-key and mournful. He will play a board game with you in the middle of a murder investigation. He may dance with you inside a church. And in the end, when you leave this waking dream of an investigation to face the smoking wreckage of your life, he might go with you.

[shallowrambles]

And honestly when John is telling Mary it’s okay to discover herself outside of hunting? Thats it’s okay for her not to know and to be afraid of that? That’s been his most tragic, but healthiest moment.

[goldenhylia]

Takahashi told me this is how Xenoblade 4 will start

Commission by @thepeelucof87 (Twitter)

[doodle-empress66]

Deadass thought he was going to see Stolas

[pumpkinnkidd]

i don’t wanna be here, i just don’t know what to do.

[creekfiend]

she

[bi-force-1]

Can't sleep, guess I'll draw Erron Black.

[crackinwise]

Witnessing the last minutes of Loki s2ep4:

[perihelea]

i've always had a strange relationship with names. i don't hate the name my parents gave me, but i hate, sometimes, that no-one can say it right, that it means something so far away from me that it's almost somebody else's name.

when i was seven years old, i wanted to be named skye. i thought it was pretty, but it was picked purely for aesthetics and once again, meant nothing to me.

when i was twelve years old, i wanted to be named mari. by then, i had online accounts, and i'd always been told never to put my real name anywhere, so i invented a full name that felt more me. first, middle, last. but something about mari was grating, for me, and no matter what i tried, i couldn't be her.

my name is august, now, because when i needed a new name, the month was august. my name is arjun because once, i was looking at baby names, and at some point got sidetracked from naming my characters and ended up naming myself. and, somehow, these silly names feel more like home. like me.

i guess there's something about names, and all the ridiculous paths you might take to find a home that means something, in the spaces between the letters that make up me.

[downfallofi]

Document the good body days.

[thenightdayblogger]

19 and 41 for esme for ur most recent ask game 👀

Ask game here

19. What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

The sort of warped pride she takes in martyring herself—going at everything alone, never ever involving other people even when they are willing and able to help. Romantic or platonic, she can love someone, even arguably trust them, but if she had it their way they would literally just stand to the side watching her destroy herself in a way that is so wildly one-sided/fucking hypocritical as she so often is. I definitely read some of her decisions at end-book state as symptomatic of that, so I guess she's like. trying to LMAO. I don't think it's destroyed relationships before—partly because not enough time/relationships, partly because i think it's much worse now/people realize how bad it is.

41. Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?

If Esmé is given something she feels like she a. doesn't deserve or b. feels is so important that there's literally no way (in her mind) to even out the balance, she is going to be disconcerted/literally upset about it for the rest of her life. im sorry. if she didn't put her blood sweat tears into getting it and cause herself countless miseries in pursuit of what oftentimes looks futile she's like :/ don't pity me. [hands you back fifty million dollars/your forgiveness/an iced coffee/whatever]

Thank you for the ask auden :]

[falderaletcetera]

sometimes I get wistful about the very specific writing I've left or begun in very specific places that I can't easily use or show or make sense of elsewhere, even as I'm very thoroughly fantasising about writing something for an entirely different very niche purpose again, and not even "small corner of a fandom" niche this time.

and then sometimes I just get the urge to return to old writings because who except me is going to add an ikea to the already sprawling and strange (and infamously maze-like) building complex that served as a second home for some of the characters and put a minotaur inside, for maybe one or two people to stumble across while exploring.

(I feel like he'd be crocheting. I also feel like I'd be obligated to go into an actual ikea more than once in my life for research, and it's a bit of a trip to reach any from here, alas.)

[cellythefloshie]

Do you have an oc version of road wife? I just started and I prefer oc’s to reader insert!

Nonnie... I can do this for you. I will go in and personally edit every single chapter to be Delaney for you. Because I love her. And I can totally make this a reality. Just give me the word and I can make it happen.

[rassilon-imprimatur]

"Whoever I feel like, it feels absolutely splendid." 

vs

"It seems I must mend my ways."

[redrockbutch]

I just saw the worst take about gifted people ever, which is surprising given there are so very many!

Apparently, gifted people burn out because they get socially punished for being gifted (as adults??) and learn they have to hide their spark from jealous people 🥺

[generallyjl]

sometimes I get doubtful of my anarchistic faith in humanity's ability to organize and live fully liberated from hierarchy and authority.... but then thousands of fucking weirdos will get together to spontaneously manifest a goddamn mafia film with consistent themes of alienation and yearning and powerlessness, complete with art and discourse and analysis that creates the film itself through the act of dissecting and meditating on it.

like Katya said in that scene on the balcony as she and Sofia share a single lonely cigarette together, "I don't know if I feel more hopeful but I suppose I'm at least feeling something."