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[thebiggestmenace]

the long awaited giraffe plushes of the Last of Us post!

I am obsessed with the headcanon of Ellie, or Joel, finding one on a patrol and noticed there's a bunch in the games, so here are the screenshots :)

first, Sarah had a giraffe behind her door :(

then, there was a kid playing with one in the QZ, when you're going after Robert. (they actually hold the plush closer if you get too close)

with Sam and Henry, there are 2! the first one is in one of the bedrooms on a dresser. it's actually lined up with a bunch of other plushies! the second one is in the toy store, when Ellie grabs the toy robot that Henry made Sam put back :)

still with Sam and Henry, but specifcally with the sniper, there's a little guy on a suitcase! there's also another big boy! and a painting/drawing of one that I felt I had to include!

at the Lakeside Resort, there's a little arcade building (I think that's what it is? I always run through it as fast as I possibly can) and there's a little giraffe on the floor by the claw machine.

on the way to the hospital, there's a sign for giraffes! so honourary inclusion of that!

and of course, we have to include to the actual giraffe scene :) I have it to where they're wearing the fits from game 2 (I am doing just fine with this, too, just fine /sarc), but yes! here you go!

bonus inclusion for the dlc! since you can't play it together how it is in the show, it's under here :)

there is a very gross one mixed in with fungi? I don't know what the dead bodies of infected are called, but there's one there in the doll store

there's 4 in the arcade itself!

okay, that's the post! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did hehe! I'm gonna try to make one for the second game, cause I know there's at least one giraffe plush in there, but I don't have the game, so it's gonna be tougher and will probably take longer and also might not include all of them :) will also be making a post with the two of them in game 2 fits cause this has been hitting Hard, don't know when that'll be posted, but yes :)

extra extra bonus! my giraffe plush :)

I've had this little guy for years

[corpsentry]

pick your battles

[vanessakimballs]

restoration is good (TO ME) because after 12 years we finally get to see carolina gather the clarity to understanding tex. just as carolina was beaten down, when we don't have sarge or wash to guide us, it happens.

tex saves us. the woman who failed defies fate and saves the day.

[ricciardhoes]

from the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything. there will never be another like you. ever.

[heyitschartic]

When one of the Number Lads comes out as trans, you know that corny bitch is naming herself something like "Miss Calculation"

[quarks-pussy]

So I know we here at Startrekfandom love that "came back wrong but from the pov of the wrong" thing and apply it to many different characters and canon situations and I am far from trying to complain about it (I'm "came out wrong" trope myself so I was always gonna obsess over it) but having recently watched a very important episode (you'll know which one) for the first time I think there's a character who hits both tropes mentioned but llike, intertwined, opposite and subverted, and whom I wanna talk about.

Julian Bashir.

From his parents' pov he's "came out wrong but we got him help and he came back better" while from his own pov it's "came out 'insufficient', was destroyed for it, came back wrong and only later slowly came to terms with his new self tho never the process (justifiably so)" and it's heartbreaking because in a way, he's right! Jules Bashir died! His parents had an intellectually disabled child and decided to eugenics him! Julian is not the person he used to be and while I do love the person he is now, that doesn't bring back who he was! Part of me wishes we could've gotten to see Jules at least once and part of me hopes we never do because my heart would shatter.

This isn't a good comparison but nonetheless one I can't help drawing: it's giving similar vibes to anti-vaxxers. "I'd rather risk having a child who is dead than one who's autistic". Obviously this doesn't map over since Julian is still autistic and the procedure his parents subjected him to specifically targeted his intellectual disability and if any folks with id wanna comment on this I definitely recommend you listen to them over me, but it's a similarity I, as an autistic who has encountered anti-vaxxers again and again, can't help but point out. "Give me a normal child or give them death."

This may have been written about already but there needs to be stories about teenage Julian (after finding out and rediscovering who he was) practicing some good ol' recognition of the self through media. I need to hear about how he would encounter a story about someone who came back wrong (I'm gonna assume there's plenty of "wrong" pov stories floating around by the 24th century) and absolutely weep. I need to see Julian mourning Jules, taking years and years to process his feelings, experiencing guilt about how he, the imposter, didn't deserve to live Jules' life.

Came back wrong from the returned's pov but it wasn't an accident. It was done to you deliberately by the people who claim to love you. And now you are here, piloting the corpse of your predecessor.

Jules Bashir is dead. Long live Julian Bashir.

[sentientsky]

a very unserious collection of crack predictions for season 3, variously inspired by jokes from fellow users and also my own terrible little hamster brain

(disclaimer: i made this at like. 3 am. and tbh my brain is all over the place, so i don’t know which ideas i came up with myself and which are posts i’ve just internalized. if i’ve used an idea of yours here, please tell me so i can properly credit you <3)

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[littlelav107]

when i am giggly and flustered around people this does NOT mean i want a romantic relationship with them. nor do i want to be bound by the limits of what is "appropriate" for "just friends"

no no, there is no "just friends" in this household, when i fantasize about you i think of a cold windy december where i don't need an excuse to hug you and lean my head on your shoulder while we converse about a topic i don't know much about

break the relationship hierarchy with me?

[aimseytv]

someone once said that the people among possum springs aren’t actually animals, and instead humans. it’s why we see natural animals walking around, like cats and dogs and even pigeons, and what we are seeing is what mae sees. it’s not that they are animals, its not that they aren’t human, it’s just that they are shapes. everyone is just shapes.

[hearteyespierce]

god the hits really don’t stop fucking coming do they.

[constantvariations]

Watching RWBY Chibi for the first time for this essay and I'm in absolute agony. Do people actually find this funny?

[snackleggg]

Jamie McCrimmon was the Rose Tyler of ClassicWho and you can't convince me otherwise.

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

[sparklestheunicorn]

Me thinking about shallan davar and her relationship with her dad

[rottingmanifesto]

Vito for the 4 headcanon thingy!

Yee haw! Note that I’m not a Vito expert so y’all can correct me if I fuck up

Realistic

Fucking hates his birthday. It feels like a bad omen every time it comes around— especially without Joe— and he tries to forget its existence. I’m writing a fic on this so it’s on the mind

Unrealistic, but funny

Told Sal to suck a dick within 5 days of meeting him. Sal returned the favor and Vito said “gladly”. Off to a great start fellas (I swear Sal and Vito interactions are always funny)

Heart-crushing and awful

Typically you’d imagine you could remember the first life you took, but Vito doesn’t. Not that he was drunk— he was as sober as you could be while being shot at— but it just felt like nothing. Boom, done. The ease of it all scared him so bad he puked in the middle of a battle and the medic threw an anti-emetic at him and went back to more important work. It’s the vomit that lingered more than whoever died.

Unrealistic, but fuck canon

Someone once mentioned having Vito be Leo’s ��bird in a cage”, a trophy or even consolation prize for surviving Empire Bay. So instead of having Vito be shoved into the bum-ass part of town, he’s shoved into Frisco Fields, the land he always dreamed of with its manicured lawns and 3-story houses and pools in the backyard. It also means he has to deal with 1: the bigoted fucks, and 2: the unpleasant side of everything. The monotony of it all. He wanted security, but now he’s in a gilded cage that’s being melted down for its gold with him still in it. Idk, I’d have to develop it more but it’s a thought/AU

[mars-ipan]

this is gonna sound incredibly virtue signal-y i fear but i have been feeling. so fiercely protective of all the transfems i've ever met lately