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The magic of Majoras Mask is trying to comfort characters who are grieving their future through little acts of kindness. Like, the simple but layered juxtaposition of the joy of marching the chicks around on the third day to a little ocarina tune while the game vibrates every few minutes to signify that the moon is closer and closer to falling....
#snowhead rly destroyed me so have been collecting masks ever since#spent so much time gambling on dogs til i finally got a winner <3#anyway can we all agree that mm is genuinely a game about acts of kindness lmao#like one of the masks u literally just listen to the song of storms guy vent...how often i forget that actively listening is an act of#kindness in its own way 😭#entering incomprehensible posting era again just warning u all
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to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money
#it actually would be way better if they didnt work and made no money bc businesses would abandon them#this isnt like stocks where everythings abstract and is essentially gambling (i dont understand stocks)#like ppl in the ad industry create things. that make a tangible and quantifiable impact on the business#which is then used in further ad planning. it is NOT all smoke and mirrors#like its fake in that the industry is not providing a necessary service the way like. grocery stores are#but its not the level of fake where everything is abstract like theres deliverables#moreover there is an extensive body of academic work specifically on how to make ads more effective#ALSO i think some of u views ads like. as if they have a win condition. which is you buy product#but in current advertising this is pretty rare and comparatively ineffective#which is why you see MANY ads which dont seem to be selling anything in particular. or which have nothing all to do with the product#the 'win' condition for THAT kind of ad is something more like 'viewers remember our name'#like. ex i would say ads for temu have not been effective on me bc i havent bought anything from them#but temu probably thinks they were SUPER effective on me because i talked abt them like 5 different times at work#and i do in fact know exactly what the company does and what they sell#and they were able to capitalize on the reputations of existing companies (wish shein etc) to build their own brand#good idea generator
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i kind of knew in theory that all my hobbies involved my hands but i kind of just ignored it n was like oh well im sure id manage
top ten pics taken seconds before disaster
#tldr a lot of drawing + my dorm desk is Really Bad for my wrists and i didn’t realize has kind of fucked me up bad#i don’t do basically anything all week until it stops hurting and i draw a tiny bit and it goes back to hurting#i have literally nothing to do w myself bc brain doesn’t want to do anything but draw write or game and i Can’t Do Those Things#and even when my wrist stops hurting i have to basically exchange any time i’ve earned to do my classwork#leaving no time for myself and my own work unless i say fuck it and gamble more strain#i don’t want to say it’s depressing me bc it feels. pathetic? but as someone who Has to get ideas out lest they start rotting him#it’s… not great#on top of some irl frustrations it’s made for a kind of glum few weeks#oh well. back to laying on my side watching youtube i guess#sparks speaks#vent#? yeah i guess#“i’m not depressed” says the guy who wakes up feels his hand twinge and immediately almost starts crying#like. lame ass behavior but it’s not like it’s a choice#i just wish it didn’t make me so mean. i’ve started avoiding ppl cause i’ve been getting mad rlly easily#which is not helpinggggg
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@belabellissima's tags on this post deserve a post of their own, i—
#muffled screaming YOU GET IT#i think the ghost watched jude pull the riskiest gambles and repeatedly come out on top—#bloodied but with what she wanted—and was like. oh shit. she's not just a spoiled gentry kid#so taryn shows up and it's like. hm. yikes. there might be two of them#i'm not sure i subscribe to the idea that he fell for her while she was married to locke#(i think his feelings toward locke had to be so ugly that taryn would've gotten wrapped up in that at least a bit)#but i do think he never underestimated her#and had he not been otherwise occupied. i think he immediately would've noticed her posing as jude#i know holly is trying to telegraph romantic interest at the end of qon with him watching her#but i read it more like “you're a potential bomb that could detonate at any moment; there's no way in hell i'm taking my eyes off you”#she knows his TRUE NAME#he owes her his life#but i think that level of suspicion and vigilance would very naturally become fascination and admiration#she's lovely and kind but crafty and underhanded all at the same time#she's just human enough to make him ache. but she's just fae enough to accept him#oops this got long#anyways bela LOVE your tags thank u for giving me thoughts to chew on#tfota#the folk of the air#taryn duarte#taryn x ghost#tcp#larkin gorm garrett#ghostposting#tarynposting
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who can solve my plot/character problem in the sylki con artists au so that i can continue writing it
#The Problem: AU Loki scams rich people so that I can make (gentle! wholesome!) fun of Fandom Suit Kink Classism#which i'd think would give him a fairly good criminal income?#however the plot requires him to be A Poor and desperate for money enough to take daft risks with these scams#so i need to drain that income continually in some way to leave him hoping that This Next Scam Will Solve All Our Problems Bro#(AU Thor is not convinced and has got himself a job instead)#anyway the obvious drain that suggests itself is a gambling problem but that feels way too serious for this fic#as well as likely impossible to fix in time for the Happy Ending#and so i am kind of stuck at this point#debt incurred by some previous less successful crime? an ironic “he spends it all on suits duh” self-inflicted-by-the-solution problem?#what do people with money do to lose that money?!! halp!!!#fic related#oh the shark has such teeth dear
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Journal doodles from a while back! I love these goobers so much :>
featuring some doodles about some of my very favorite episodes (Super Best Friends, You're Getting Old, and Ass Burgers) as well as Tweek hanging out with Craig to cheer him up when he's home sick.
(click for better quality!)
#fanart#south park#kyle#stan#clyde#wendy#tweek#craig#sp creek#sp stendy#I love Stan he's up there as one of my favorite characters right behind Tweek and Craig#my friends and I refer to him as the “universe's chosen suffering child” because bad things just keep happening to him 😭#like people are mean to Butters on purpose but Stan seems to have the worst luck my man really lost the genetic lottery huh#inherited crippling alcoholism inherited crippling gambling addiction inherited crippling depression all at the ripe old age of ten LMAO#HE LOOKS SO MISERABLE ALL THE TIME I feel so bad for Stan but its also kind of funny because he is a sopping wet scrunkly cat of a child#somebody give him a hug for the love of god#I also feel like he is 1 year away from having a bisexual crisis#and lord knows that will make him depressed again VFHSGHDFFD
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Patrick Troughton guests as ruthless racketeer George, out to silence the man who can identify his brother as a murderer, in Dial 999: Key Witness (1.26, ABC, 1959)
#fave spotting#patrick troughton#dial 999#doctor who#classic doctor who#two#abc#key witness#1959#as with other Dial 999 posts‚ the episode number and year of transmission are more in the way of educated guesses#tho two separate sources identify this as ep 26 so that's good enough for me#yes it's been a while‚ i got very distracted and wandered away from Dial 999 but I'm mopping it up now#this was a very pleasant surprise‚ not least because Pat had already made two appearances in the series: a minor role as a heavy in 1.5 and#an uncredited appearance as a tramp in 1.16 (both can be found if you follow the fave spotting tag) so i wasn't really expecting him to#turn up again. but he does! and he finally gets a real meaty part! he's the villain of the week‚ a criminal of vague occupation (he has#something to do with gambling? race tracks maybe? idk it kind of gets glossed over) but when his kid brother kills a rival and is easily#apprehended‚ Pat decides it's time to silence the witness... cue a tense cat and mouse as Pat and goon tail their mark as the police tail#them. genuinely one of the most enjoyable episodes of this funny little series i think‚ and a lot of that is down to Pat giving it his#all as a dangerous gangster. he lounges around in a dressing gown‚ he slaps his bro around‚ he jeers at the cops and he#threatens his lawyer with a watery sack grave. he's gone full villain! and it's delightful!
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Tag drop: Aventurine.
#aventurine. [ mr. cavalier gambler: uptight. overcautious. inferiority complex. you've won so much but you're still so afraid of losing. ]#aventurine: ic. [ they see only the straight flush. they don't know the other hand below the table clutching your chips for dear life. ]#aventurine: inquiries. [ time to make a move my friend. say goodbye before you shuffle off. it's… best to die without regrets. ]#aventurine: countenance. [ now go. and pick the clothes that you like. then choose your desired identity and use them well. ]#aventurine: introspection. [ “sleep is the rehearsal of death”? why does life slumber? because we are not ready for the final rest. ]#aventurine: meta. [ the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. but you've never gone in any other direction. ]#aventurine: little notes. [ you will keep winning; having never lost before. but why you? why... must it be you? ]#aventurine: wishes. [ even if the chance of winning is close to zero. well... you can't win if you don't play; right? ]#aventurine: etc. [ the chance… no matter how small: the potential is what you hang onto. that is what justifies the gamble. ]#aventurine: ipc. [ … i'll give you that and much more than that. the ipc will give you whatever you want. even what you don't want. ]#aventurine: trio. [ three cornerstones who for a measly penacony... offered their everything. you're more united than the family. ]#aventurine: astral express. [ friends: the game has commenced and you cannot choose to decline… nor do you have grounds to. ]#aventurine: fate. [ if the dice of fate are always weighted then that is our destiny. why then... do we struggle against it? ]#aventurine: past. [ our paths will cross again beneath kakava's shimmering auroras. farewell: kakavasha. ]#aventurine: luck. [ he's only drunk on the moment that makes his very life quiver. hell is only one decision away from heaven. ]#aventurine: topaz. [ i never expected the beautiful and kind-hearted director topaz to resort to distorting concepts like that. ]#aventurine: topaz. [ but since i survived i realized: wherever you go that's where i'll follow; nobody's promised tomorrow. ] immobiliter.#aventurine: jade. [ it's often used as a counterfeit for jade. but it looks like jade… can be substituted for aventurine too. ]#aventurine: veritas ratio. [ unfortunately for him; i make for a more competent conversationalist than the other dimwits around here. ]#aventurine: black swan. [ nothing remains hidden from you… does it? i will find my place in the web of your schemes; memokeeper. ]#aventurine: sunday. [ is this what the harmony represents? is it built upon constraint and coercion? ]#aventurine: acheron. [ only by casting aside reason does one truly gamble. “emanator” — I know you'll match my wager. ]#aventurine: v. youth. [ but the sun could not kill me and the quicksand sent me back to the embrace of the guild and the ipc. ]#aventurine: v. penacony. [ i seem that way because i am nervous. maybe you can help. what do you say; put our palms together a last time? ]#aventurine: v. future. [ the once falling die has at last landed on its earthly rest. quietly… peacefully: it at last landed. ]#tag drop#[ ... i wanted to add in a tag for robin. but i think that may have to come personalized. ]#[ /rubs hands together. lets see if any of these are broken. ]#aventurine: robin. [ so she sings; but does she dance? ] avaere.#[ okay i changed my mind-- there's a robin tag. ]
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I really feel like we need to normalise the "it's not about the iranian yoghurt" phrase outside of reddit circles bc i'll be so real i don't think it's playing videogames that's unattractive, it's how men who spend a majority of their free time playing videogames behave that's unattractive.
#i've heard women say they don't want to date gym-goers bc gym-goers tend to be obsessed with gains and protein and shit#and that's generally annoying and i've heard women say they don't want to date men who play video games#bc they tend to value their league of legends rank more than their girlfriends#does that mean all gym-goers and video game players are the same? no#but there's a Pattern.#nobody wants to be a second priority in a relationship and being ranked below a hobby would suck i'm certain#i mean how many times do you see guys crack jokes about how they hate having to remember to text their girlfriends back between mmo matches?#if a text during loading breaks is difficult to do then you can kind of see how women would start associating videogames with men who don't#put in effort.#nobody's saying you can't play videogames at all but even i would think twice ab someone who plays 8h every day like it's a full time job#but gambling being on the list is also funny. a hobby is a hobby addiction is the problem#as gambling so videogame. bc people who do game as a hobby are more normal than those who are addicted to games anyway
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Drawings from the show
#tried doing quick diamond mouths since it looked good the last time I did some band drawings but came out kind of stupid this time…#that’s ok. always fun to draw people playing music even if the quality’s a gamble#silviesokay
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smth smth jinx doing silco's injections for him and him always flinching despite himself vs smeech targeting the very same eye and her visibly pushing past the instinct so she could buy herself time. is this anything
#aspen tag#idk. thinking about it#and also some other things.#conspiracy board. i've made a connection / u didn't connect shit. you know how it is#back against the wall. kind of guy who gets in close. her not being cowed is a gamble on intimidation#and it works. gets him on his back foot long enough to tip the scales#something about her and silco and the chembaron hierarchy and “i'm the one that killed him”#something something asserting herself as someone who's not going to just be a pawn now that silco's seat is empty#represented by her overcoming something he never could#kinda something kinda nothing#what fucking ever. postspam time
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trick or treat officially open
i sleep from like 0600-1400 so i'll be down a lot of today, but the askbox is temporarily up!! submit a trick or treat ask and i'll give you an undetermined answer. it could be a personalized doodle based on your blog/interests or it could be a gif of a spinning cockroach or it could be me assigning you a character from one of my favorite medias. you will only know when i respond.
#halloween#trick or treat#askbox open#ask game#halloween time babyyyy#i am excited for this#your flair on your trick or treat ask may or may not influence what you get. i will probably play favorites to people who impress me#/silly#its a gamble#my very favorite kind
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i KNOW my stupid ass father is doing or making something suspicious. every fucking morning at dawn i wake up from noises coming from his study, i hear that fuckass metal ladder he has and hear him faintly (and probably accidentally) banging on my floor (his study is directly under my room) so i know he's doing something in the upper closets or whatever they're called. i always hear him moving stuff around. im not paranoid i KNOW he's doing something that he cant do during the day when my mom and i are also awake
#idk what he's doing yet but one day im gonna catch him in the act#i cant even imagine though. what he's doing.#like this sounds so stupid and like i imagine im in a movie or something but he does have a history of . well losing all the money of the#family lol. like. he's an alcoholic who also believes every insane shit he hears (as i said he got into gambling and got cheated out of mon#ey) so. idk. idk what kind of fucked up suspicious activities he's into#but he's doing SOMETHING#zsófi rambles#it's always at dawn so next time he wakes me up with this shit i gotta get up and go down and catch him#damn i do sound paranoid and kinda insane.... jeez#also its so funny (not) how i talk abt my father like he's a stranger. he became a stranger to me and I'll never trust him again
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Hi, I'm sorry if this has already been asked, but I'm fascinated with your character Minerva and was wondering why she didn't betray Jowan to Irving?
ah good question thank u for it!!
minerva is a pragmatist about the circle. she's very aware that a certain number of mages die or are made tranquil and she's in the mindset, at that point in her life, where she's been taught to accept this as a necessary evil. which actually ends up meaning she knows more than anyone that if this is true irving will go ahead with it. she has a very realistic idea of who irving is and what he does. but it's been easier to conceptualise all those losses as um a statistic than it is to face the immediate threat to the person closest to her. especially when her way of dealing with it all has been to say that mages who die or are made tranquil didn't try hard enough, didn't study hard enough, didn't fight hard enough on their harrowings. she rationalises it that way because it means if she just tries hard enough and is polite and gifted and perfect as she always is then nothing's going to happen to her. but she knows how hard jowan tries. so it isn't right. it isn't fair!
the other thing is that in my canon, my amell, halliserre amell, was made tranquil a few months before dao starts. minerva had a bit of a fiery relationship with them (i'd like to summarise it as fierce academic rivals with benefits, jhghsfdgsk) and their tranquillity was a huge and sudden recent shock. that definitely affects minerva's decision-making here. though she tries to rationalise by blaming halliserre themself in that case (halliserre chose to submit to tranquillity rather than undergo the harrowing), she knows deep down there's more to it than that. it's a complicated and painful topic to come up again so soon, it makes her just that bit angrier with the templars and irving, and it makes the danger feel very real
but all of that is kind of blurring the main issue which is that jowan is like minerva's brother and she loves him. the above factors are kind of what allows her to actually do something about that, but the motivation is simply that she cares about jowan, he's her closest friend and the only person more important to her than irving, and she very much thinks it's her job to protect him. she's more skilled than he is, more socially capable than he is; it is and always has been her role to protect him from the templars, even if it that only meant helping him with his studies or calling in favours with senior enchanters. being able to do all that is what has made her feel comfortable with how much she's betrayed herself to be the ideal circle student in the first place. it proves keeping your head down to get influence works, that it's not just selfish, that in the long run it means mages are better off. so if she can't even protect him, then what's the point of it all? it's probably worth noting, too, that minerva's fatal flaw is arrogance: if she's always been able to look after jowan before, what's one more time?
i actually have this really fun um super rough dialogue snippet somewhere in my word doc from when she was little, um, talking to karl thekla actually. and she's being disapproving of anders while hes like benafflecksmoking.jpeg because that's the whole dynamic lmao. she's like, why would you spend time with someone like that, he's an escape artist, the templars hate him, he's not going to make it! (this last said in a kid's deadly serious tone where she expects it to be heard as a totally damning accusation.) and karl is like [in the voice of a very tired young academic] minerva what would you say if i told you, i don't know, your friend jowan wasnt going to make it. and she totally freaks out. shes like thats a lie, dont ever say that, hes trying with the spells, hes going to get it! she's only a kid she's nearly in tears over this immediately even though karl's the furthest thing from a threat and he barely meant anything by it. it's always been the one thing that makes her lose her head. she cares so much about keeping up this perfect image except this one thing, right, she's got this perceived weaker nobody mage trailing after her. she's supposed to be able to keep this one person safe and that will make it all worthwhile. and what she has to learn is that even for all her sacrifices and good behaviour, the circle simply does not care. there's nothing it won't take
#minerva surana#on a creator's note rather than an in-world note i knew from the start i couldn't create a character who would betray jowan#because i was trying to create a character who would eventually betray alistair#betrayal to betrayal is not an arc so i had no interest in it; not betrayal to betrayal very much is an arc and one im hugely interested in#i also think the kind of cognitive dissonance here where minerva believes in the circle#but at the same time refuses to accept what it plans to do to jowan is super interesting#and narratively#sets up the path minerva is on and where the circle is heading#as well as gives her a bit of a redeeming quality i think. minerva's not a wildly likeable person at the beginning of this story#and she continues to be... controversial let's say (and i say it with a great deal of affection). it's her most redeeming trait#as well as one of her most interesting#that even if she can be emotionally or socially treacherous.#even if she can throw away someone's ideals in front of their face. even if she gambles with people's happiness#if the people she loves are in what she considers true danger she will have their back#the amount of risk involved is inconsequential
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GRAAGAHAGAHHA I WON AN EBAY AT THE LAST SECOND!!!
nothin like that ^ scenario to get the heart workin (who am i kidding, my heart goes fast at everything :/ )
extra “Win Dopamine” came from the fact there was a power outage locally, and my phone was not on a good % charged so i had to use my laptop’s battery power, and no wi-fi meant i had to use phone data to use the internet but there is very little signal round here (lives in middle of nowhere) so i did that thing where u go outside and hold phone aloft dramatically BUT IT WORKED! MASSIVE LITTLE FREAK WIN‼️‼️
#now i just hope the thing is the right size…… EDIT IT IS!!!#dw i don’t use ebay as some kind of gambling i only use it like once every 6 months i don’t have a dopamine problem with it lol#i used to use those portable batteries all the time when i was an outdoor animal; need to start using one again for times like this#the offgrd siren song calls to me ever louder 💚🖤
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FLAME OF JUSTICE: REVENGEANCE
(poop link)
#megaman#mega man#fire man#quick man#scrib corner#i want you to imagine the most stock western film score you can possibly think of#thats whats playing for the duel#started writing a fic that was basically vigilante cowboy fire taking on sheriff quick#he came looking to claim the land and their darling flame of justice wasnt havin that shit#per quick's request they duel. kind of gambling with the townsfolks lives but they believe in their cowboy#unfortunately he lost. the sheriff was too quick on the draw and in flood his goons to raid the area#idk whatever happened to that fic!! it was on the old comp but i cant find it#swear it exists tho. it was probably shit tho i should be glad its gone lmao#man i'm tired#time for bed. if you see this tag i love you and hope you're well.
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