#but add a few tears

[rosicheeks]

I am envious of how talented you are. You sing. You paint. You have a caring and generous heart. I just want you to know I believe in you.

[amelia-yap]

yipee

[arinmoss]

funky lil guy TWO

[brianskangs]

(231209) YOUNG K x SAY YES

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

Rules: list five of your favorite movies and have people vote on which one matches your vibe the best!

Tagged by @biathediamond :)

If anyone wants to steal this poll game, feel free to do so!! Reblog with your poll or make a new post—and if the latter, please tag me so I can see & vote :D

ALSO if you would like to then please tell me what you voted for in a reply/reblog!! I am extremely curious!

[zeb-z]

been playing tears of the kingdom. I love being able to actually explore central hyrule (I never did in my 200+ hours of botw) (you know damn well why)

[noirandchocolate]

*sipping banana whiskey on a Wednesday night*

What if…guys what if. The Yiga Clan’s Blademaster exam historically wasn’t really that easy. What if Tears of the Kingdom simplified it (Doylist explanation) or the Clan changed and simplified it over the 100 years since the start of the Calamity for some reason (Watsonian explanation)?

Because. It just feels too easy. Even if the person attempting it isn’t Link, with access to fast-travel points and sky islands to drop from. The guy at the Blademaster Station who’s apparently in charge of administering the test even marks the locations of the frog statues on Link’s map! Come on. That’s too easy. And has nothing to do with swordsmanship either! It can’t be that simple.

*pours another shot*

Yeah I think…. There’s got to be more to it. Or there was. Way back when. (My primary headcanon focus is always on AoC timeline anyway.) I think! The banana offerings are just the first part. And the statutes are placed new for every candidate. And you have to journey about to find them yourself. It’s meant to test your scouting, perception, and overall survival skills, to make sure you’ll be useful on missions outside the Valley. Can you spot the statues? Climb/teleport up the cliffs? Be in the harsh wilderness of the Highlands and desert for a period of time? (Don’t worry, there’s always (more or less) someone around monitoring you, you (probably) won’t die, they’ll grab you and you’ll just fail the test attempt.)

But then if you can do it, that’s not all. I think! The exam has also got to include tests with the two-handed weapons Blademasters traditionally wield: the windcleaver and eightfold longblade. Tests on technique and form, performing certain strokes, draw speed, things like that. There would also be tests on the arcane arts like the Earthwake technique.

And then—!

You have a match with the Right Hand! Who’s the lead Blademaster teacher/mentor. You don’t have to beat them of course (and in the case of Sooga, you probably wouldn’t), you have to impress them. Hold your own. Get a hit in where you can. Show off everything you know, against the person who probably taught you a lot of it.

Oh and then if you manage to succeed at that?

You fight Master Kohga. And try to do the same. Imagine! Having to try countering all that magic, all that power! It’s a true test, to make absolutely sure you’re good enough for one of the elite martial positions in the Clan!

Afterward, the Master and Right Hand confer and make the final decision whether you pass and become a Blademaster or not. And then you get given your official blade (either type, your choice) and a lil’ feast/party to celebrate you joining the ranks.

*downs the rest of the drink*

Anyway that’s what I think.

(I also think it would’ve been fun in TotK if passing the exam earned you not just a pristine eightfold longblade (easily breakable and lost) but info on the locations of more Clan branches you could travel to to get the pieces of an actual Blademaster armor. Like you could do some kinda additional lil’ quests to get them, to make it more interesting/worthwhile. The Footsoldier-style armor gives you stealth and a set bonus nighttime speed boost for that light fast build. Maybe the Blademaster one could give stealth but the set bonus is proficiency with two-handed weapons? Either letting you swing them faster or they all get a little attack+ bonus?)

*waves glass on my way to bed* ANYWAY THAT’S WHAT I THINK.

[good-beanswrites]

🎬: Please do not remind me Kazui and Kotoko didn't get their songs covered by Es 😭 It was such a disservice. I'm gonna just chalk it up to Kazui's voice is so deep that Es couldn't sing it properly and by the time Kotoko's MV was shown to them, the first trial ended before they could even sing it.

Or, y'know. Your AU, so Es did cover their songs too.

Also another thing for post-MILGRAM hangout where Es joins in too...KARAOKE (didn't Milgram have some sort of karaoke-related event running earlier?) Or maybe they have their own karaoke party at someone's home (I know someone has a karaoke set at home!), so they sing their songs and encourage Es to sing too...and pleeeeease sing "half" and "harrow" too (this will lead to Es finding out they've been eavesdropping on their singing. Hey!). Bonus that Deco's song is such a bop in the AU that everyone sings the songs they covered.

...my train of thought is still running, but I just imagined this AU's Milgram allowed everyone to gradually accept their faults that almost led them to their crime. Soooo Mahiru is still just as sweet, BUT rocks it when she sings "Psychogram". Also Amane, I like to imagine at this point she can be a bit more of a kid (I can dream!), so she's sort of bouncing around when she sings "Positive Parade" and "Animal" while the girls dance with her.

But with that said, I hope we'll get more Es' song covers! Or at the very least make up for "half" and "harrow"...and c'mon, Es didn't get to sing at all this trial. What gives?!

RIP I know 😭 I'm hoping we'll get a bunch of covers to fill the trial hiatus, and that they'll start with those two!! I know some people were worried that they would never get covers because they didn't reach 1M before the trial closed, but I think that's an oddly unfair requirement for the later prisoners. So I'm confident we'll get them at some point!

Kotoko's does make a bit more sense -- it was right at the end of the trial, and there wasn't much too break down in the lyrics because she was very forthcoming with information/intention. And I like that explanation for Kazui's! Es was intimidated by his voice and didn't want to do it an injustice by singing it poorly. Maybe Kazui makes a snide comment that they would have actually understood his crime better if they'd studied/sang his lyrics like the others' 😅

And I love the post-Milgram thoughts! Given Yuno's mvs and her written response about liking karaoke, I can definitely see her taking everyone out to her favorite karaoke spot. I like that too because the covers were kind of an indulgent inclusion of mine -- I knew they didn't quite fit in during the trial hiatus but I really wanted it to happen asdfdsn. Like, I know Amane wouldn't do frivolous things, and Kotoko/Shidou/Kazui would try to take the situation seriously and not play around. But if it's all after the experiment... >:3

Thank you 🎬! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for those covers soon 😤🤞

[the-iron-shoulder]

Not a hot take or anything, but I still love that the current (TotK, and to some extent BotW) Link is both the most technologically advanced and also the most feral of all the Links.

Like. He eats like a starved dog, stuffing a whole pizza into his mouth with both hands and finishing it in three bites… but what other Link has mastered the art of cooking for himself?

TP Link: ooh, a pumpkin, better smash it and see if there’s money inside!

TotK Link, naked, having crash-landed an airplane in a field: ooh, a pumpkin, I’ll take it and cook it to maximize its potential (and then stuff it into my gob)!

He’ll stare transfixed at a fire for up to 23 hours like some kind of bipedal moth in the thralls of a hyperfocus session, but he can make a campfire wherever he wants. Other Links can only dream of such mastery of the elements. All your fire arrows and your Din’s Fires won’t keep you warm at night when you have nothing to light ablaze!

But like, I still can’t help but wonder what the NPCs see/think when they come across Link passing time by staring at flames like a maniac for hooooours at a time.

“is… is that the Princess’s swordsman?”

“I think so, I mean, that’s the sword that seals the darkness right there”

“is he okay? He hasn’t blinked in twelve hours”

“oh yeah, fires do this to him sometimes, it’s probably fine”

“nice outfit at least”

“yeah, the Moblin mask with the nips-out Gerudo fashion is nice, and the flameproof Goron-made pants keep his chestnuts from roasting on that open fire, very chic”

[iamjackstylerdurden]

songs stu wouldve gone feral over (if he didnt get a tv dropped on his head)

teenage dirtbag - wheatus

scotty doesnt know - lustra

teenagers - mcr

its the end of the world as we know it - r.e.m

high school never ends - bowling for soup

when your heart stops beating - +44

loser - beck

basket case - green day

whats my age again - blink-182

the party song - blink-182

self esteem - the offspring

fat lip - sum 41

mental health - zebrahead

call your friends - zebrahead

pumped up kicks - foster the people

the art of losing - american hi-fi

hes able to change the pronouns in any song (i.e scotty doesnt know) on the fly to fit him and billy. it simultaneously annoys and impresses billy

feel free to add more/completely rip this apart

edit: decided to make the playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Aa5Pgz6BjDQfvO8RE60dR?si=9c2c30ed1ca64838

[vodid]

store will reopen soon! gonna have stock this time so if things sell out, don't panic! i'll restock later :] just want to try having the prints on hand instead of waiting for them to deliver to me <3

hopefully this will mean having my store open/shipping things out more consistently!

[wishbonemotel]

whelp. got my last art fight attack in with literally 35 seconds to spare

[tjerra14]

for the many times I've been pointing out that he's not my pet I sure do worry a lot about my mother's dog

[mail-posting]

still thinking abt the wreck that is train!andrew's office once he falls asleep at the desk tbh because godd i love imagining messy workaholic offices

conductors also kind of do everything on the train, like they oversee the other train employees, take payments for boarding, check the tickets, make sure passengers are safe and comfortable, etc etc so he is. SO exhausted probably

i think bc to me this andrew is kind of. stoic and polite (he would still melt if you were nice to him i think) he doesn't have many signs other than getting slightly more unkempt and i think his hands shake REALLY bad w sleep deprivation, or he seems like he's focusing on not literally just crinkling to the ground and fifudhf anywaybi really like traindrew

i watched about 22 mins of the first murder on the nord express gameplay vid btw and i'm gonna cry both victor and andrew are so djfjfj

Exactly!!

[nessvn]

i just need to make it to shabbat i just need to make it to shabbat i just need

[cerealbishh]

"I feel like God's having a good laugh because I thought I was gonna get out of Wabang."