#can you tell where I fixed it?

[getvalentined]

Vincent Valentine ❇ FINAL FANTASY VII: EVER CRISIS

Bouncer Suit.

[ screenshots free to use with credit ]

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

[redysetdare]

enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love. i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.

[everysongineverykey]

as part of the getting-worse-before-it-gets-better portion of aziraphale and crowley's season 3 relationship arc we NEED a desperate "i love you" from aziraphale met with a hissed, spiteful, and quickly regretted "i forgive you" from crowley

[amphibianaday]

Hello I would like to request your favourite little freak(amphibian) for day 1432

day 1432

[seiwas]

boyfriend iwaizumi hajime fixing your posture every time he sees you hunched over and slouching—the way he holds your shoulders and straightens it by rolling it back, thumbs pressing into your shoulder blades.

he gently pushes your lower back whenever he notices you curling into yourself, runs his fingers up your spine too.

and he does it all quietly, your only warning the feel of his hands on you.

it’s almost like he has a radar for it, some posture-sense that tingles every time your back is anything but straight.

when you complain about back pain, he snorts, mumbling a ‘wonder why’ before coming over to knead out the knots anyway.

he buys you an ergonomic chair to hopefully help out, even leaves x-rays and scans of bad backs lying around to give some subliminal message of what could happen if you don’t fix it now.

and when he takes you from behind, pushing down on your lower back to give him that arch he likes, he’s teasing, telling you that you only seem to listen when he has you like this.

he’s really starting to think, should he start fucking you with your back straight?

[autism-alley]

hi originally posted this at the end of a long thread of back and forth, here’s the og post if you want full context but i feel like this needs to be its own post especially bc i keep seeing this argument being made—the argument that the kids (in this case it was annabeth) SHOULD just know the monsters are monsters and who they are and how to defeat them before ever encountering them, that it’s a problem if they don’t.

the problem is not if 12 year olds should recognize a trap when they see one, even if they’re smart 12 year olds, and if that’s realistic. that is entirely beside the point.

the problem is rick riordan wrote a book series whose formula is bringing myths to the modern age and he’s not sticking true to that in the show—percy jackson and the olympians’ Shtick is taking these classic, ancient threats and giving them a new face. these traps work because these kids are not walking into a cave marked with Get Out and getting ambushed by monsters—the monsters are disguised as harmless mortal human beings, in harmless mortal human being places (for the most part) and i think we—and more importantly, the show—are all forgetting the mist, the magic involved here. it’s not just that medusa is a “creepy lady with her eyes covered” it’s that there is ancient magic at work here, magic that, like the systems of abuse pjo exists to criticize, has been evolving and continuing its malevolence for millennia. it’s formulaic, that’s the point. it’s the same trap you’ve learned about all your childhood, the same trap a thousand children before you learned all their childhoods, and still, it works. you fall into the trap. because that’s how generational abuse works. it’s a trap. it isn’t enough to learn monsters exist, what they look like from a second hand story that originated thousands of years ago. if you want to escape alive, you have to adapt as quickly as they do, recognize their face, and ultimately, beyond any individual trap, the game itself has to change. real, generational change.

so. the problem is rick riordan wrote a series with a formula for action that perfectly captures the overarching, systemic conflicts he was commentating on, and then threw that formula out in the show because it was “unrealistic”. i don’t give a damn about realism when it works to the detriment of the story. this is a story about generational abuse, yes, but it’s told through ‘a tale as old as time’ and that’s why it works so fucking well. and when it comes to basic storytelling, if your characters know the threat before they even walk in and you do practically nothing to then make up for the stakes you have removed, that’s a flaw. now you’ve lost the entertainment value for your audience, on top of also lessening your themes.

something else that is so. honestly soul-crushing as a writer and a creative, is that to me this is reflective of the way we are now afraid to tell earnest stories. stories where we care not for listening to the people who want to pick apart fictional, mythical, fantasy stories for not being “realistic” instead of aligning with our target audience who acknowledges reality is not what makes a story. think of your favorite movie, show, book, comic, what have you—has the reason for your favoritism ever been because it is the most reasonable, the most grounded, the most practical out of any you’ve seen? or is it because of the emotion? the way it speaks to you, to your life and the person you are? the journey it takes you on? is the percy jackson and the olympians book series so good because it’s inherently realistic?

the secret to storytelling is, very simply, focus on your story. everything else is secondary. if it’s written well, it doesn’t matter to me that the characters walk into a trap that, to the audience, is obviously a trap. because i can understand how the characters don’t know it, and how the story falls apart if the narrative just tells the characters it’s a trap from the jump. that’s what dramatic irony is—first used in greek tragedies! this is literally a tale as old as time in every sense except for the end—where it’s happy. and it’s not earned if we don’t first see, over and over, the status quo as a tragic trap.

it’s not about if annabeth (or the other kids) is “smart enough” to not walk into a trap, or about if she’s just too prideful to not walk into what she knows is a trap (or any reason that could apply to the other characters), it’s that annabeth, at the end of the day, is a character. she is a storytelling tool for the messages of the narrative. that doesn’t make her any lesser. in fact ignoring it reduces her, because it reduces what she represents. it’s about how rick riordan, or whoever else at disney, has fumbled the storytelling bag so ridiculously hard that they can’t take the simple, effective formula outlined from start to finish (by good ol 2009 rick himself) and adapt it to the screen without answering the most unimportant, derailing, anti-story questions.

[howcouldtheyletmebeanadult]

a bunch of itafushi redraws from official art i made yesterday, hopefully today we get to see them together

[samfangalore]

There’s so much depth built into the camps in RDR2 and it’s constant every time you’re at camp something is happening between two characters and depending on which camp you’re at the interactions amongst the crew really sets the tone for where you are horseshoe overlook really feels like a new beginning it really feels like a breathe of fresh air from the cold snow a new start vs shady belle there is a constant tension and fear in the air as everyone waits for the final shoe to drop another one of the things I love is when you’re doing chores the more you do them the more conversations you overhear and the more you see who actually does what around camp I feel like if you don’t spend time at camp you miss a whole layer of story and character development and just general quirks and kookiness amongst your fellow criminals

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

[sanshinexx]

Here's part two of drawing my family pictures as the Bad Batch because I can and you can't stop me

[onebizarrekai]

I've been playing beta minecraft for reasons

bonus: windowed mode obliterated color glitch

[landmine-doll]

i wonder how much longer i can convince myself to stay alive

all i do is distract myself with pointless things to take my mind off the constant emotional pain i feel and post stuff online in a desperate bid to get attention

none of it fills the emptiness

none of it gives life any meaning

...sure id like to be cute and famous

but then what?

ik its just an empty goal to distract myself

so i can pretend that my life has value and that i have something to live for

[bonefall]

Hi Bones, allegedly according to the WCRPForums spoiler thread, there will be a few stories in the new version of the Ultimate Guide, like how Skystar loses his last life. Ignoring that, apparently Dovewing and Ivypool might reconcile. Since we know BB!Dovewing will NOT make amends with Ivypool because she's sick of the way she treats her, how will you handle it? I can see it being Dovewing giving her one last chance before cutting her off- or being the moment shes cut off. What do you think?

i NEED to know how skystar fucking dies I have never needed to know anything more. I hope he fell down a flight of stairs. I hope stairs materialized in the middle of the woods and he fell down them. I hope it was an upwards escalator, and he's STILL tumbling down it to this day. I hope he's making funny Gmod noises on every step.

ANYWAY!

I have absolutely 0 intention of abiding by canon on Dovewing and Ivypool's relationship honestly. I simply know the girlies better than the writers do. Not everyone needs to reconcile. Sometimes a bridge is burnt and you CAN make a legitimate change, or have had a sad and tragic reason why you acted the way you did, and they will STILL not choose to re-open that relationship with you.

You are never entitled to another individual's company. People aren't rewards for personal growth.

Dovewing's tired of letting herself be an object. She's not Bumblestripe's project, she's not Ivypool's prize, and she's not Lionblaze's tool. She is the gift-bearer of ShadowClan's beavers, the mate of the leader, a massive and ferocious warrior. And she's not interested in giving up any of her own happiness for THEIR sakes, not anymore.

That's rough on Ivypool. But Dove's not responsible for her happiness-- and that's the angle I will be approaching it from for BB.

[martyrbat]

habeas corpus – detective comics #1086

(ID in alt!)

[darkfire359]

RIP OFMD.

I feel especially sad for Ed and Stede, who were the main two characters where I think a season 3 could have given them a happier ending. Like, Izzy didn’t end up with a happy ending regardless of S3, and the crew had a reasonably happy ending in S2 (except for Izzy dying), but the two leads?

It’s explicitly shown that Ed would be a bad innkeeper. It’s explicitly shown via parallels with Anne and Mary that settling down on a little island like that, living a mundane life without anyone else around, would be a recipe for resentment and unhappiness.

I feel like S1 as an ending is almost happier for Blackbonnet? Like, yes, they’re separated, but that was obviously on the path to change. There was a clear upwards trajectory. Whereas in S2, there’s nothing obviously stopping them from being doomed to repeat Anne and Mary’s fate. They’d need S3 for that, and now they’ll never get it…