#but not the exaggerated version of literally

[just-slightly-chayotic]

@angreanyp on twitter

[onawhimsicot]

I take it back (I'll follow till I fly or till I'm dead) - [Zedaph & Tango Cult of the Lamb AU Fic]

Having lived his entire life ruled by the god of chaos, Leshy, Tango's had his fill of cults and tyrants—especially after he gets chosen to be a human sacrifice for a ritual. When the ritual goes awry, however, and Tango makes it out alive, he finds himself in a chance encounter with Zedaph, a fledgling god known as the Lamb. Zedaph invites Tango to come join his cult instead, promising a life of safety, fun, and freedom. But Tango suspects there's something more lurking underneath that pleasant smile. Maybe it's the way Zedaph doesn't seem to take anything seriously. Or maybe it has something to do with that strange black crown with the moving red eye on his head. Or maybe, it's the fact that the Lamb is also known as the harbinger of death, doom, and destruction. Could be anything, really. There's only one way to get to the bottom of this. And, well, it's not like Tango has anything better to do.

For @mcytblraufest this year, I had the most wonderful honor of working together with @chronological-knight (artist) and @locustime (beta reader) on a Cult of the Lamb AU centered around Zedaph and Tango!

It's an exploration of divinity, mortality, and devotion that plays fast and loose with COTL mechanics and is full of wacky magic experiments, messy and developing character relationships, eldritch transformations and body horror, and a strangely intense fishing merchant?? Please check it out if that sounds like a good time to you!

Please go check out Knight's amazing art piece and give it the love it deserves!!!

It was so evocative, it sent me down a rabbit hole of feverish inspiration and even though I swore I'd stick to 10k this year, I ended up with my longest fic yet clocking in at 23,147 words LOL. I loved having an excuse to play in the COTL space!

[sonknuxadow]

can they just say whos voicing shadow already so i can be free from the neverending cycle of random twitter users claiming to know who the va is and saying it with no evidence and people just believing it and spreading it as confirmed fact

[yanderespamton78]

Pinup!!!!! the baby!!!! the guy!!!!

sorry if this looks kinda iffy the majority of this was drawn between 11pm and 2:30am so i was very tired loll

also yes that is a totoro bag i dont care if totoro doesnt exist in cyber city he has a totoro bag come at me

Pinup belongs to @turntableart

[bi-shop]

i sometimes feel bad that my rtc designs are not too different from other fanon designs but also you cannot take my jane and constance design away from me .

[gregrulzok]

Love is when your DM writes you into the campaign as an NPC, then looks at you anxiously and impatiently as they wait for you to figure it out

[almonddirge]

I don’t know why I’ve seen so many people dislike Furina she’s so funny and I kinda relate to her on some level? Like it’s easy to project my feelings of learning to be an adult and all it’s uncertainties onto her relationship with being an archon idk there’s something there

Like obviously if you understand her character and she’s still not appealing yeah but the way some people talk about her,,,,

[suffarustuffaru]

so basically that one (1) scene of ottosuba in pride if is just. otto enters the room with a snarky sarcastic one liner… inwardly, ottos like god i fucking hate it here. lets get this over with. and prides like omg its u!! the cute dude with dead inside eyes… whats ur name… 🥰🥰🥰 and ottos like fuck you <3…. and prides like omg so true i loveeeee how dead inside u r babe thats like super relatable since i too am normal levels of dead inside. and ottos like hahahaha i hope we both die horribly. anyway im gonna go dispose of that corpse on the floor hahaha. and prides like hahaha i think we should both die too!!! …man….. we couldve been Great friends…. 😳😳😳😳😔😔😔😔 anyway its time to commit more atrocities :3333

[cruelsister-moved2]

God your post about how people treat masculine women in media and irl hit the nail exactly on the head. I also keep seeing these people rejoice when a masc woman is forced to present femininely bc it's now "genderfluid rep" or whatever which makes me feel kinda sick ngl bc it's so clear that they think being a butch dyke is a shallow uncomplicated gender experience but being forced to be feminine is more moral/attractive/complex. Haruka Sailormoon is like one of my favorite fictional characters ever but the amount of tepidly queer sm fans who openly hate butches while championing heterosexuality and gender conformity under a thin veneer of progressive language make me want to lose my mind

YES to everything!!! the weird delight when a masc woman does something feminine is actually so uncomfortable and it's like... they've literally BEEN being gnc every day of their life but it's not enough for you until its watered down to just like a generic androgyny its so weird anddd i think combined with the belief that butch women are doing that as some kind of statement and denying them the understanding thats afforded to other women that like they sometimes just do the stuff they do because they enjoy it and it feels natural. thats actually my favourite thing about haruka (and i liked it about utena too which actually comes out n SAYS it when wakaba is like "but this IS what's normal for you", and that still went massively over ppls heads) like she is so casually masculine and like she's just like that. not only is butchdykery so much more complex than whatever tepid futch androgyny people would prefer, even if it wasn't its like literally just how people are helloooo like butch lesbians arent there to be controversial and make a statement ... you should not be responding to the denigration of the gendered boundaries someone has set for themselves like ever in any context anywayyy. but let alone in the group whose boundaries people are probably the most determined to deny (not that people don't do this with all gender nonconformity but theres nothing like the desperation with which people want an unapologetically masculine women to make just one concession to femininity). the whole 'compensating for short hair with big earrings and winged eyeliner' girlboss in menswear industrial complex is why butchness is uniquely predicated on not JUST the embrace of masculinity but also the exclusion of coercive femininity completely at the same time like it's really hand in hand and its to do with a wider social labyrinth of coercion that every woman navigates so you can't just brush it off with choice feminism type platitudes because ummm we live in a society

[mechcity-skyline]

Oh wow. Two whole years of being TOME brained, huh?

I should've made this post a couple days ago, but this is a very special date that still regards it.

Today marks the second anniversary of me meeting Zetto TOME. My heart, my staple, my legacy.

Well, seeing as I have nothing prepared for this occasion due to unprecedented events, it is with great pain in my heart that I may not post much more than my rambling about One Guy.

Get ready.

And be warned, this is not an in-depth analysis like my friend @/zetto-protection-squad can so eloquently put together; the following paragraphs are nothing more than the written affections of a boykisser. Reader discretion is advised.

Because oh my god, that cartoon man is the best thing to have happened to me. So, so very few things can even dream of coming so close.

The 2011 version of him- were it not for the horrors he was facing, he'd be a happy-go-lucky guy. So kind and selfless, so willing to grab the virus raw for the people he cares about. Much too wonderful. He's perfect.

RPG Zetto, however... Where do I even start. Long-winded, silver-tongued, too snarky for his own good; no one can even tell he's actually grateful for the place he has currently. The only reason why he's kept his fears hidden for so long is because no one wants to be around him for longer than five seconds. He pulls the villain act so well, and I adore him for it. He lives rent-free in my head.

Both are evidently close to my heart, as one can so easily tell by how I describe even the cartoon supervillain with a rosy tint. And to be perfectly honest, I cannot bear to even breathe their way with the intention of mocking them; they are the reason I can even write this right now.

Really, they're just... Beautiful. I love them dearly.

Rant over. Needed to get this off my chest before the day was done.

[apollos-boyfriend]

i hate to tell u this but in the caption of the family tree u said u added skeppy but he is not in the image,

HE WAS THERE IN THE FILE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE I WROTE HIM DOWN AND EVERYTHING I SWEAR I COULD NEVER FORGET SKEPHALO I DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED

[johnny-and-dora]

🚨OBLIGATORY MYTHIC QUEST SEASON 3 POST🚨

i’ve had some time to think about it and i enjoyed s3 overall - there was some really funny stuff, great performances (especially from charlotte and rob) and some really great episodes. it’s nothing that people haven’t said before (and probably a lot better), but if there’s one criticism i have, it’s the lack of character development/arcs for anyone other than poppy & ian. i love their dyanmic and it’s always been the central dyanmic of the show, but mq has such a great talented ensemble cast with such varied rich characters and most of them were criminally underused this season, ESPECIALLY brad in my extremely biased yet valid opinion. (more under the cut)

it’s just frustrating bc the s2 finale set up so many interesting things that didn’t really matter in the end. how did brad going to prison for jo not matter? why did rachel give up on writing so easily, espeically after cw died? why is dana suddenly just another version of ian now who somehow has the power and resources to start her own studio? tbh i’m mainly mad that they called an episode “to catch a mouse” AND had a brad/jo subplot and didn’t explore their wonderful unhinged mouse/shark dyanmic. it was right there!!! and why completely scrap the movie subplot in the last episode, becuase that just made it feel like a big waste of time. i think mythic quest: playpen is a great way of compromising and a great way to get ian and poppy to rejoin mq, i’m much more into the plot of mq vs another rival studio (i’m assuming we might see that with studio dana in s4) as i thought mq vs grimpop was going to be a thing this season that we...didn’t see at all

i really liked the christmas episode (reminded me of everlight, my favourite ep) and sarian (holy shit that was some insanely perfect casting for young poppy). charlotte was fantastic as poppy the whole season, she had some of the funniest stuff and she nailed the sadder scenes too. i just thought s2 built on s1 so perfectly by playing with new dyanmics and showing whole new sides to characters (specifically brad and cw) so it’s frustrating to watch what felt like a backwards step in that sense, especially when it comes to brad, who felt like he was just...there. the “oh i’m just the janitor definitely not up to something nefarious” and david being so paranoid thing at the start of the season was so funny, so why did that go nowhere? brad and rachel is a really funny dyanmic, but brad saying he manipulated rachel into abandoning her ethics for the rewards of capitalism felt so much like tell, don’t show. like where is the evidence for that? also fuck nfts lol but this post is already far too long

i really like this show, that’s still true after this season. i think the two season renewal was probably a blessing and a curse and season 3 will end up being a transitionary season, maybe it was a little directionless because they knew they had another one guaranteed, i don’t know. the s3 finale did set up a lot of cool potential arcs for s4, i’m paticularly intersted in how that brad/dana/jo dyanmic will play out and i also love poppy/ian/david as a trio so that could be really fun. i just wanna see more from the whole cast, there’s so much potential for comedy and drama too with all of these characters! 

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Me at my family christmas gathering smiling uncontrollably at my phone about an evil android from a disney sitcom a decade ago

[deathwis-arc]

honestly, it's really interesting thinking about how the events of the desert dream in 1998 would get blown out of proportion in the coming years ; hell, it already kinda is twenty-four hours later. not only does the fbi get involved ( and they get involved quick ) but the entire thing is immediately labeled as 'the desert dream massacre' which is ... simply not true. if tyler doesn't kill joyce and michelle isn't shot then the total body count is four cops, with two on life support from the motel burning down. this is literally confirmed in game!

events get labeled as massacres if there's a huge body count, or if it's violent enough. the desert dream killings were neither. all the victims were shot, usually at a distance, or they suffered from burns ; which, while violent, it was more of an escape attempt on the holts' part than anything else. i also find it telling that, even if the holts kill a hostage or two, agent bradley doesn't bother mentioning that in private. all he cares about is the cops lost to the standoff. it's no surprise that killing an officer will get you a more severe punishment then if you kill a regular person, that it can sometimes send you straight to death row on its own, but the fact they don't even care about the deaths of any of the hostages ... it sure is something.

especially since the only hostage deaths in the desert dream can turn the only two kids in the game into orphans. or on the flip side, if the holts didn't harm a hostage, there's no mention of that either. or how the hostages were treated, which compared to usual hostage situations, they got it better than most. it's just the fact that they killed cops ( who were under the thumb of a corrupt sheriff, by the way ) that made this into a massacre. though i wouldn't be surprised if to the public the force would then heavily focus on any other victims, that's usually what happens normally, after all.

anyway, point is, classism does play a role in how cases and crimes are treated -- especially back then. the holts were poor, notoriously so, and they were a family full of drop-outs with nothing to their names. the very second they escape the motel, their names are plastered all over the country and their fates ( including jay's, who's merely an eighteen year old who was an accomplice at best ) are decided : they're going straight to death row. even if jay tries to do the right thing and come clean to agent bradley, tries to turn on his family, said guy immediately goes to pin all the murders on him, for seemingly no reason at all! it's very unjust, and ah ... shady!

the news and papers hype up their crime spree and i wouldn't be shocked that within a couple years, the holts would be presented as bloodthirsty rednecks who were simply greedy rather than a family that didn't have any help and got in way over their heads. the narrative would be twisted so much, especially if three of the holts were never found. there'd be no word from their side, no mention of the thugs who were threatening to kill them, just a true crime story where they were at the forefront of a very unfortunate situation and got away with it. leaving gossips to fill in the blanks as they please, and considering the police's and the fbi's behavior towards this case, they would only fuel the narrative that the holts were a family who did all this on purpose and relished in the aftermath, a family who loved doing the crime.

anyway, it's just something i love thinking about for post canon stuff when it comes to my adf muses. how wildly inaccurate the story's become in time, simply because people got bored or because of the classism back then that was so woven into the broadcasted crime that it's become impossible to separate the two. they'd paint the holts out to be wildly dangerous, cruel individuals and probably spin tales about unsolved murders and robberies and how it could be the work of a holt who had got away. their entire motivation would be obscured and would've gone unsaid, leaving random civilians and a force who hates them to speak for them instead. it'd be a whole thing! and the desert dream was dramatic, sure, but by the time everything is said and done you'd probably barely recognize what the media was talking about had you actually been there.

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

I hope the next vigilante they just go in on Vigilante being the antihero identity for asshole republicans who vote for Tough On Crime Candidates. I get the appeal of wanting to fix it but I think as it is its really interesting and can be used effectively for political commentary and shit. Like they keep being interesting about it fucking entirely on accident so imagine if somebody realized.

[thepandalion]

infinite frustration times in the house tonight...

(why did I choose an instrument that has. No sheet music available)