#but regardless i'm confident

[winterinvelaris]

how i sleep at night knowing that ACOTAR always has been and always will be the happily ever after series and if sarah wanted to make a main character evil or dead or reject a mating bond it would have happened in TOG or CC

[monotcchi]

something tender 💛🩵

[eastbluecrewed]

things you can't get back

aka i've been waiting so patiently to see kidd get his ass beat by shanks (affectionate)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

just read the new mutants issue where Charles chose to stay behind in space and my god the juxtaposition between Charles trusting Erik and Erik joining the hellfire club and wondering at his own trust worthiness. I wonder how much of Charles decision was him ultimately trying to avoid the fact that his first class had seemingly betrayed mutant kind and not be willing to face them and how much of it was Dani and Illyana's reaction to him having Karma mind control Illyana. the fact that Illyana was depending on him to ease her mind through limbo and in choosing to stay he forced karma to do it instead, probably fucking up their relationship in the process.

I love him, this is crazy, how much of this is him trying to runaway and how much is this him not trusting himself to fix things and how much is it just him trusting Erik?

i keep trying to put into words my exact thoughts about the sitch but there really is a lot for one issue aintit... oh charles you and your brain...

[fluffydeoxys]

okayyyy hehe people were very nice and i shall write my thoughts.

one of my weirdly specific favourite things about madcom is specifically 4:56 through to 5:59 in expurgation, both in the song itself and in the animation (though the duration is a bit longer in the animation specifically). putting my yammering under the cut

You have such foreboding magnificence building in tandem with Sanford fighting alone through the horde of Tricky skeletons, outside and fully exposed with the backdrop in red. The music pairs so well with the scene, conveying this sense of "I'm fucking fighting against a power so much larger than me", it's so intimidating and grand in this menacing, otherworldly way.

5:00 through to 5:15 the sound design of the bullets pinging off the shields, Sanford struggling and throwing down his weapons is so fucking fantastic, it masterfully sells the visceral struggle that San is clawing through. Prying the shield off to protect against the Mossberg 500 and claiming it for himself...

and arghhh my fucking favourite bit 5:17. Put 5:17 Expurgation on my damn forehead because I will never ever stop thinking about it. The music swells with the tap of Tricky's hand against Sanford's shoulder, then sending him careening away with a mere swing of an axe.

You have this AMAZING choir-like sound ebbing and flowing through the background, punctuated by the immense weight and sound of rocks moving and chains clanking through 6:25-6:40, forming this huge tower that stands over Sanford.

then 6:40 is like I am fucking ascending man, the choir ascending as Sanford turns and grips his wound, directly facing Tricky who prepares the M60 far away, the terror of seeing it. The music and scene building up to that point. I really wonder what it was like watching it for the first time in 2019.

Like uurughhhhh have you seen anything so cool??? Music that's so fantastically orchestrated in tandem with the animation that fits its tone perfectly? That sensation of doom, of staring down a power that could and might actually kill you? That you're all alone, back against the wall but still holding it together by a hair fighting something you barely even understand?

Sort of related but a pretty minor but surprisingly significant detail after rewatching through madcom a few times is how important sound design is to conveying the visceral brutality and tension of these scenes. Every force of every bullet, every meaty impact of every punch, it matters a lot. The scraping of metal, and the crunch of stone, it really sells this power that is integral to what makes Madness Combat special. Though you do kinda miss the silly grunt noises the guys used to make when they were hit

[axel-ambassador]

Here's the thing alright in my mind I see 3 possible endings

The Good Ending: Axelle canon (dream come true)

The Neutral Ending: Axelle isn't canon but they still become friends (most likely to happen which I can come to terms with)

The Bad Ending: Rippaxel canon (I will never recover)

[taraxacum-vulpes]

why is everyone pretending like cyberpunk edgerunners is good. the writing is so bad i hate it

[sunlight-shunlight]

i had this idea for an au of inquisition, bc when i played it i had a mage lavellan, and i was a bit like "damn, is everyone really ok with yet another apostate being found at the scene of a giant explosion that kills the chantry leadership? anders 2.0, except the apostate is a dalish heathen this time, and doesn't even have any rich friends or 7 years of running a free clinic in their favour? is one vague female silhouette in the rift REALLY enough to make any meaningful number of people think that it's andraste there?"

and it was very convenient that the fade memory broadcast says things that make your character seem more innocent of the explosion, people actually believe it despite usually distrusting the fade, and corypheus speaks understandably rather than in ancient tevene, haha.

so, imagine if the inquisition was actually the antagonist. like the game starts, you get aggressively frogmarched down to the breach at sword point, the mood in haven is either "angry terrified mob" or "take this dangerous criminal to orlais for imprisonment and interrogation". and then there's no clear evidence found at the breach to make you less likely as a suspect.

so after partially sealing the breach and blacking out: rather than waking in a nice room with a starstruck servant, you wake up in a cell.

outside your cell, the mood is now like 90% angry mob, and 10% "but, what if that lady in the rift was andraste...? 🤔" which is still not enough to save you from execution. so, it's a prison break where solas, varric, leliana, and maybe cassandra get you out of jail! you are now pursued by chantry forces who have launched an inquisition. they see you as a dangerous criminal, and any sympathizers as heretics.

you flee down the frostback mountains, and what do you know. that's where rainesfere is. which is where bann teagan (the one and only) lives. he's the type of conscientious guy who'll be out fighting demons to protect the town, while also having an affair with his brother's wife (don't worry about it). so he's impressed when you swoop in and close the rifts for him, and offers to quietly shelter you from the chantry if you continue doing that.

rainesfere becomes the haven equivalent of your pre-skyhold base. teagan replaces cullen as your military advisor. you run around the map trying to still secure allies to support your cause of permanently sealing the breach, and more and more people start whispering about you being blessed by andraste. bc you are the one closing the rifts, when the chantry is not. which develops an interesting schism in the chantry faithful, and the chantry becomes even more desperate to regain legitimacy.

and! there could be a whole side plot where cassandra or cullen are antagonists for the first third of the game. they would be likely to reluctantly follow orders if told to arrest you, and cullen already has enough beef about explosions killing chantry leaders on his watch. after a few encounters, you win them over through the Marketplace Of Ideas/doing something cool enough that they buy into the andraste thing, and they can abandon the chantry and join you instead.

also, instead of being called the Herald at first (bc it's not a popular theory that you are one) you can be called the Anchorite.

[thesilverfullcr]

What is something you have been wanting to draw or paint more of?

art-related munday meme

What I really SHOULD draw more of is things like still life, backgrounds, and anatomy studies. What I'm INTERESTED in is what I draw the most of anyway -- faces and expressions.

To be more specific, I currently want to make more FFXIV art. I need to learn to draw Aymeric specifically because I cannot for the life of me figure out his hair. Something about the waves in it just confuse me. Maybe I should trace it sometime and figure it out.

[uncanny-tranny]

i know it's not transsexual thursday yet so you can just post this then or even as a separate thing, but i experienced some silly little gender joy today and wanted to share. i bought a bunch of clothes that make me feel more masc and they all arrived today!! i even rearranged my closet a little to have them nearer the front so i can see them. even though i can't really go out bc i'm disabled i'm so excited to just walk around my house finally able to look like the me i've pictured in my head for so long :>

I'll post this today because this is just a really sweet sentiment. I hope whenever it is that you might go out, you feel just as amazing as you look at home <3

[guidingalostchild]

mentioned this a long ass time ago but one of my favorite headcanons is that haruka is aroace.... more specifically i believe she and an dated briefly (like maybe a week or two) in middle school and that's when haruka first began to feel like dating wasn't really for her... there are no hard feelings between them, an was also just figuring out she liked girls and they both agreed that they worked better as friends.

in present day i don't think haruka would identify as aroace or even know that asexuality exists. she just figures that, surely, she'll one day grow to fall in love with someone. i think it would take until at least her twenties for her to truly question herself, do some research and find the right words to describe her experience

[gentlethorns]

you know what? i'm gonna say it. i miss being seventeen. not for the "glory days," bc they weren't, by a country mile lol. if i had glory days i'd say they were in 2020. but i miss the electricity, the constant undercurrent of euphoria and deep plunging black. i miss the fight i had. i was literally known for being scrappy. i was self-destructive and coping poorly, but goddamn if i didn't burn bright and long. it took me until my twenties to finally start to fizzle out. does the candle with its wax melted down to the base of its glass cage miss when the wick was lit?

[sunlitsighs]

i submitted my silly little assignment! (1/3) it's far from good but i would like to think that it is passable so i am hoping for the best now <3

[todayisafridaynight]

me when i ship zhaohan 😔 there's next to no content unless i'm just not looking in the right spots

be the change you want to see in the world my man.... if i can trick people into thinking masadai is real then i know you can rally the troupes with them lovable goobers......

[achilleswishes]

I think the biggest difference between natehawk via death dependency goes something like

Nate: You're going to kill me? Do you promise?

Hawk: You're going to kill me? Whyyyyyyy? Why? ;w;

[lonestatus]

i need to know how good of a girlfriend i am so i know where to place my cobfidebce level in a relationship unfortunately i dont have much luck in love so there's not exactly anyone to ask...