#but i got shafted

[fanotastic]

Man, I like this restaurant where I serve at but the worst fuckin thing is they do not have an automatic gratuity for large walk in parties. So if a 16 top were to come in and buy several hundred dollars worth of food and drink, I can get shafted with below average or no tip.

[padmestrilogy]

^ rare clip of a youtuber talking about the acolyte worth unmuting

[miscellaneoussketchlog]

[sayaberry]

just discovered that not only are there magireco witches present in the newest trailer for walpurgis rising, but they're all the witches of the girls who were involved in the factor of despair events that happened right before eos.....

chat what the actual hell are they cooking

[erotetica]

don’t worry claudeleine I’LL save you *runs and trips directly into metal trashcans, to cacophonous effect*

[asharaks]

i get the gentle healer trope completely like i understand the appeal fo a character who drains themself for the sake of others of a character who is self sacrificing to the nth degree who dedicates their life to saving people, often at their own expense.

but also clerics are fucking crazy man especially clerics of death and the grave and stuff. i love clerics who cause more damage than they heal who can't touch without harming clerics whose blood runs necrotic and whose gods gifts are acid and poison and violence - not even evil clerics. people who are sworn to the dark and distasteful aspects of service, who perform their tasks with filthy hands, bloodstained faith.

people who are so devoted to their god they take on the things no one else is willing to do, who sacrifice their own innocence and their own peace in the name of faith.

[kabutoden]

bug trolls… i am interested in kankri vantas. if that isn’t too much trouble. your buggy guys are so silly and interesting and i am a fan

here is kankri and his baby brother…. they don’t get along!! i wish they did though id love to see these two go on an adventure together where they look out each other. since kankri is a beforus troll and a vegan, his shell is pretty thin because he’s not getting enough iron. on the other hand, karkat’s shell is heavier then it should be due to stress. thanks for the RQ!! im soooo glad ppl like my sillies :D

[caninemotiff]

Narratives where it's the love that dooms them, love not as a positive force but a force to be reckoned with, when at the moment the hero could have chosen to save the world but they chose to save the one they love instead and now it's too late, love that is so strong that you can't let it go even if letting if go is the right thing to do

[calware]

"i happened to not find this character very interesting or likeable" doesn't automatically mean they're an objectively bland and boring character it just means you have a personal opinion

[detectiveneve]

listen it's very. even when playing gale's romance I am guaranteed several solid cutscenes of Astarion talking about his life, his perceptions of things, his ideas; the bite scene, the after that, the talking about your companions blood, the proposition, all the little conversations about being a vampire + how to become a vampire + what life was like that have several dialogue options. whereas these same "stock" conversations with the other companions tend to have ONE, maybe two dialogues with choices following if that much (for example, with Karlach it tends to be 1. ask question 2. she answers and it ends). there's a solid foundation of pacing and work put into astarion's storyline that even without his romance, his presence WILL be felt unless you just straight up never speak to him. which is to say, that THAT writing is really good! but if they couldn't uphold that same standard of effort and time across the board and ensure all the companions have some measure of equality, theeeeeen... something shouldve been done there to make sure it was at least somewhat equal. it also sucks that gale/wyll/lae'zel/shadowheart were all received ""poorly"" in contrast to astarion during EA (or received harsher critique anyways). I still believe there was a lot of solid character work and richness to their EA personalities that I dont know totally carried over in rewrites--decreasing the amount of conflict, lessening the "flaws" of these characters--contrary to what larian says about staying true to their core ideas in some places. so it sucks that you can see how with that effort and focus, astarion's storyline really is really well done for the kind of game that it is, and no one is saying bg3 is wanting for stuff to do, but there is a clear gap in effort and time put into the other companions when they absolutely deserved just as much time and effort as astarion, and the thing is. the writer confirmed it! confirmed that more time was put into him. like cmon man

[teratocore]

Disney Wish fandom is hilarious because they were all like “I could do it better” and were completely right.

[gensnix]

Notice how botw and totk don't have a line that connects them like the other games

[misty-wisp]

sumire could've been so much more interesting, like. okay. i get it. kasumi was really nice but at the same time she was insensitive as fuck to her sister and that made her feel like shit 24/7 and you'd think that'd piss sumire off, no? or at least you'd think it'd be made clear that she's not pissed purely because she thinks so lowly of herself. no. she just sings kasumi's praises even with everything in mind.

like. you'd think "hm maybe kasumi wasn't the best sister even though she meant well" no. no she's the perfect person and sumire still loves her and looks up to her well enough to wear her likeness even after accepting herself as sumire post-3rd semester. sumire didn't even like gymnastics as much as her and she obviously had more of an interest in cooking but she's gotta go on to fulfill her sister's dream even though hey maybe that's not what she wants--no that's exactly what she wants it's what the game says can't you read.

idk man sumire continuing to think her sister was perfect and following on with that "dream" of theirs even though it was holding down her mental health doesn't sound much like her rebelling to me. ik her real awakening was meant to be rebelling against maruki's reality but in that case her whole personal deal regarding how she sees herself and kasumi doesn't mean that much. she doesn't get to do her own thing. she has to go and achieve what her sister wanted for her, because god forbid sumire be her own person with her own interests and wants that have nothing to do with her dead sister.

fuck, kasumi could've been more interesting too. she doesn't have to be this perfect, well-meaning sister who did nothing wrong except make an oopsies that got her sister to have a mental breakdown and accidentally get her fucking killed. like, c'mon, you could infer that kasumi may have had her own ego over getting constantly praised for her efforts and skills and maybe that was what got her to be so insensitive to sumire's mental health. maybe she was so far up her own ass she couldn't see how she hurt her sister over the course of them doing gymnastics together because literally all she knew was that praise. maybe the way she was being treated got her to emotionally abuse her own sister without her even realizing it. maybe we could've seen more of how that affected sumire's mental health after her death--oh what's that? she still has to be a perfectly marketable waifu with next to no personality aside from being nice and cute and romantically interested in the protagonist? okay, ATLUS!!

[drkineildwicks]

A thought:

HTTYD AU where Hiccup shoots down a Deathgripper instead of a Night Fury

Hiccup names it Tuskless because he wasn’t aware of the whole retractable tusks thing

Tuskless did break a tusk in the crash so it still counts

Tuskless is also going I got downed by this thing and instead of killing me it wants to feed me and give me skritches?  I like this pack where do I sign up?

Hiccup has to keep a knitted sock/mitten on his stinger because if Tuskless were allowed to solve every problem with violence there would be issues

It takes a long time for Tuskless to stop giving the other riders and Stoick the stink-eye and if it were up to him Mildew and Alvin would have been dragon-chow way early

Is torn on Dagur because on one claw threat to pack alpha and on the other I vibe with this energy

Drago doesn’t get a chance to try his stunt because Tuskless agrees with Soick on this yes Hiccup I understand your feelings but the evidence says otherwise time to choose violence

Hiccup is mad at him for a long while afterwards until more of what Drago was doing comes to light

The Hidden World is less of finding tail the Hidden World because sometime in the RTTE era they stumble across a pack of Deathgrippers

Tuskless convinces them that Hiccup is a Good Alpha and suddenly Hiccup is very popular

Grimmel, instead of hearing of a Night Fury he missed (because one guy wiping out an entire species is bs) he hears of someone else controlling a pack of Deathgrippers and goes wtf no that’s illegal I trademarked that

Is Confused when he meets Hiccup and his Deathgrippers because how are you controlling them???

Hiccup: Uhhhh feed them?  Give them scritches?  Play fetch with them a lot they like that

They rescue a bunch of dragons from Grimmel’s allies and decide to escort one (the Light Fury) back to its territory because apparently Grimmel really wanted this one

Hidden World?  Other dragon sanctuary? IDK but I feel there should be a Fury meeting, specifically with Toothless

Toothless and Tuskless start arguing about who gets to be Hiccup’s best friend especially after the whole thing with Grimmel is taken care of

Hiccup is bemused but happy to be in high demand

Alternatively:

Hiccup as the Feral Dragon Boi AU but raised by Deathgrippers specifically

[juniperhillpatient]

i will fully admit I would 1000% be the first girl to die in a horror movie 🥺

[drwernicke]