#control and release

[monotcchi]

dragon roast dreamin' 🍖💨✨

[hermit-frog]

[jakeperalta]

rachel zegler being a young new upcoming actress facing immense public hatred and reportedly significant pressure from disney to stop publicly supporting palestine but still standing her ground <3 a queen

[crazymecjc]

look at yourself… you’re the true puppet.

[egophiliac]

on the JP server, when does groovy art come out? cuz like ive been checking wiki gg to see if the rapunzel groovies have been released yet and idk it might just be the wiki holding off until the events over (but i haven't seen groovy art of it at all but it might just be me since im trying to avoid spoilers for riddles card specifically). but since EN is like a year behind JP all the cards and stuff have already been released so theres no wait time so idk if on JP you can only groovy new cards until like the event ends or smth

the schedule says the Lanterns groovies/personal stories will come out on the 5th, which is when the event ends! usually they release them along with the last part of the event (sometimes the SSRs afterwards), but this time they're waiting til after on all of them for some reason. 🤷

not too much longer to go though! the aesthetic of this one is sooooo pretty, I know already that they're going to absolutely ♪ murder meeee ♫ ( ᐛ )

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

“You can’t use TikTok anymore, it’s Chinese,” they said. “Read a book instead,” they said. Well jokes on them, all I read now is danmei anyway

[vodid]

release me

[jorvik-gazette-archive]

""Realistic""HorseController Update quote:

"Something something horse something, later versions are better as along we go, yes design will be open source at some point, this version allows jumps :DD yay, pedals are somewhat templates for stirrup-like components"

[elbdot]

Continuing on the whole "Alola thinks Mega Evos are bad!" thing... even though there ARE potential dangers associated with Mega Evolution that are touched upon even in the Generation they were introduced in, it was always framed in a way that suggested that any complications with Mega Evos tended to be the result of inexperience or other external factors. Not to mention that some Gen 7 Dex entries absolutely frame certain Mega Evo entries in such a way that it reinforces the cultural bias instead of challenging it. Like they carried out experiments to gather data on Mega Evolutions, but in such a way that the results were guaranteed to favor their already skewed viewpoints that favored the use of Z-Moves instead. Like a "We, the Obviously Biased Group of People, have done an internal investigation on whether or not we are in the wrong about this thing and have concluded that, on totally fair grounds, we are absolutely right and correct about this thing all the time forever." sort of thing.

Oh I really like this take, especially considering that we have a shady scientific organisation in Alola that could have absolutely fed into these "findings" through questionable studies (*cough cough* Aether Foundation *cough cough*)

[positivelypresent]

It’s time for new beginnings! 🦋

[rotisseries]

skyward sword was such a crazy insane game to make like ok what if there was a story about a great evil and a goddess. and that goddess locked away that great evil, but she knew it would come back, and it would need to be defeated again. and what if that goddess knew that for this impossible task, she would need a loyal soldier. so she reincarnates. she reincarnates into a human girl, because the best way, the most reliable way, to get a loyal soldier, is love. and a goddess is respected, and idolized, and revered, but a goddess isn't loved. not like a human girl is. so she reincarnates. and she is loved genuinely and wholeheartedly, by her family, by her peers, and most importantly, by her best friend.

and what if there was a story about a boy and a girl. this one boy loves her so much, that when she falls from the sky, crashing to the earth, and into her immortal destiny, he follows her. and she runs, because she has a destiny, because she's finding out she is part of a divine plot, she and the boy are pawns in a goddess' war plans. did she ever love him did he ever love her or were they just being manipulated by the goddess. SHE'S the goddess. was SHE just manipulating him this whole time? "I'm still your zelda" but is she really? does she know it for sure? she doubts it and doubts it and runs and runs and he keeps chasing her. and she locks herself in time to defeat this great evil and he watches her do it. and he fights because he loves her and he defeats the evil and he gets her back and they're happy.

but what if there was a story about a goddess and a great evil. the evil cursed them for the rest of time. their descendants will never be safe there will always be evil to fight and she'll always be running and sacrificing and he'll always be chasing and fighting.

what if there was a story about a goddess and a great evil. what if there was a story about a girl and a boy. what if it was about the innate mortality and humanity of love and the act of loving. ok. at the walls of nintendo hq

[age-of-moonknight]

“Scars,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, (Vol. 2/2024), #5.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Devmalya Pramanik; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[plinkoplinko]

I am usually not a wof poster and I don't follow the series very closely anymore, but there was something I was disappointed with in perils design over the course of the graphic novels. Here's what she looked like in the first one:

Really cute, I think! Her head shape is pretty unique and recognizable. Now, here's how she's drawn in the most recent comic.

She just looks like... Everyone else. She was reduced to the L-shaped head, just like all the other designs. This made me so sad because I remember being in love with how she was drawn in the first one. Is this an artist change? A style change? A design change? Who knows! Just something that made me sad.

[sleepyc63]

talking (just rambling, really) about the end game region of the echo ending, spoilers ahead!

-> please do not share information from the second ending of the game; i haven't played that far yet and would like to experience it for myself.

surprisingly, i haven't seen anyone really talk about how we got our first ever look at the world before the iterators.

in the spinning top watcher ending, our end game region is ancient urban, a region in which there is no rain timer. at first you could assume this is because you're atop an iterator structure, but the presence of sewers and old style shelters* could say otherwise.

*these shelters are only ever seen in outer expanse & ancient urban, so it can be assumed that these were an older model of shelters (assuming that downpour lore & watcher lore are connected, which is not confirmed as far as i'm aware).

this ending was incredible in terms of lore -- we get to see things only hinted at before now, while still not having full confirmation on a number of things. i think it was a fantastic way to keep the mystery of the game intact, while giving us a bit of fan-service as well.

think of all the things we now know for certain about the ancients: their heights (no, not the giant shadows lmao), the masks, the void baths, their voices. incredible, honestly. i cried for 30 minutes after the ancients reveal i won't lie (only made worse by spinning top's ending).

but anyway, nothing much to take away from this. i’m just being sentimental about this game lol

[the-meme-monarch]

i love liking video games that are difficult to play assuring that i will never actually play it. i love making my siblings play it for me