#cries and sobs at them both

[ronkeyroo]

Koda & Saturn on a lil walk because I love!!!!!!!!! Autumn 🍂

[lil-vibes]

i caved and drew the cursed shitten and now i love them more than anything

+ bonus one parent on the verge of sobbing hysterically

[starspangledsteeve]

shout out to those who put themselves through severance s2 finale and sunrise on the reaping this week - we are gods strongest soldiers I guess

[anxious-alyssia]

Wesper proposal:

*Jesper polishing his guns in the library* *Wylan walks up to him*

Jesper: I haven't forgotten about our reading session, just give me a minute, k? Pick a book. *Wylan picks a seemingly random book off the shelf near his head*

Wylan: *hands Jesper the book and takes his guns* open it. Now. Jesper: ??ok??? Jesper: *opens it* Jesper: Wylan: Will you read to me? Jesper: Wylan: Forever?

/Inside the book a small square section in the middles of the pages has been hollowed out and there's a small velvet cushion with a ring in it/

idk what to put after this but long story short he said yes :)

[smile-files]

ernest's plot was executed MUCH better in the anime, in my opinion, and that's largely because in this version of the story he didn't have it out for the seven dragons from the get-go. he just "knew" someone had betrayed his grandfather and his family, and wanted to find out who. he only learned of the seven dragons' involvement much later on, after already having lived most of his life: including attending gressenheller, becoming kat's assistant, and helping the seven dragons during investigations.

one of my gripes with the version of his story in the game is that he's supposedly had this specific, burning hatred for the seven dragons his entire life, but this somehow doesn't affect his actions at all until the very moment he enacts his revenge plot on them - which is ridiculous, whether or not ernest was so single-minded about it or not! it's much more plausible in this version, where his desire for revenge was always somewhat nebulous, as he didn't yet know who to blame for his family's plight: that anger was strong enough to push him forward, but not so precisely focused into hatred that it should be odd for him to reasonably live life normally outside of it. it makes more sense in this scenario that his promise to his mother should channel primarily into his becoming independent, rather than actually getting revenge, as he spent most of his life not even knowing who to get revenge on; in the meantime of not being able to fulfill the latter half of the promise, why not work on the former?

anyway, in terms of these specific screenshots... i don't think the game specifically described ernest as a "weak" boy, but that's how i always interpreted him to have been: lacking his own will and dependent on others for direction, particularly family members like his mother. after all, this all was a promise to her... and for all of ernest's growth as a person, you can see how many of his childhood weaknesses have carried over into adulthood: among other things, he's eager to assist katrielle to the point of being servile to her, and notably she's a very passionate, bold, and kind person herself. ernest is more than happy to be told what to do, when the person directing him is strong and makes him feel safe! aside from having a crush on her, he likely admires her on a personal level... because she's brave, which he's always found difficult to be himself.

something which i'll never forgive the anime for, though, is paralleling ernest to emmy in the end: having him wish to leave katrielle's side as her assistant out of a feeling of guilt. that just breaks my heart! they didn't need to do that to me! fortunately, though, kat comes by with more tasks for ernest to help with, and he returns to her side... some things never change, it seems!

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[tappuman]

hey chat . Its me.back at it again.

Theres a ship below , lol

I . NEED SOMEKNE. To HEAR me out theyre PLAUGING my brain

[good-beans]

I know most of our focus goes (rightfully) to the trial songs, but I genuinely believe Baptism of Fire is equally a masterpiece of meaningful writing and intense vocal acting

Incoming tag rant because I need to yell about this, feel free to yell back

[definitelynotshouting]

Can I ask, since you mentioned agreeing 'even if under duress' - how did the Watchers convince Player Grian to join them in hunger au?

So take this with the specific grain of salt that ive never watched Evo directly (but have friends who have ((thank you wren)), so i know tidbits via osmosis from them), but my thought has always been that the riddles the Watchers gave the Evo Players were all tests used to measure cleverness and intelligence-- the whole point of them attempting to copy the mind of a Player into a Watcher larva in the first place was to try and avoid the insanely high infant mortality rate their typical juveniles go through, bc they dont understand their own limits enough to even know they have them yet. So they needed a Player they knew they could instruct and who would listen to them, and, well. Grian, for all he was rebellious and outright defiant of the Watchers, still solved their puzzles and only had to be punished once before he stopped trying to mess with them

What ive always pictured is after the dragon fight the two main elders of the Watcher colony finally revealed themselves to Grian properly-- i have this crystal clear image of the two of them hovering above and next to the central end island, looming over Grian, and like, these guys are big. HUGE. A good 5x bigger than the ender dragon itself, at LEAST. It would be hard not to feel insanely intimidated by that, honestly, especially when there are two of them side by side, blocking your entire view of the End from that direction.

Anyway picture that with the context of these two giant floating winged worms youve never seen before, who have demonstrated their powerful ability to manipulate code in a way you cant.... telling you that they have chosen you to become one of them. Thats an immense amount of pressure, both from flattery and fear, especially considering theyve punished you before for defying them. I like to think even then, Grian balked a bit, and while i dont have exact dialogue beats here, i know the Watchers continued putting that pressure on him (likely while leveraging his friendships too-- like ive always said, if Grian hadnt been chosen, BigB wouldve been, and i can absolutely see the Watchers offering to take him in Grian's stead) until he finally caved and accepted their "offer" of joining them.

Unfortunately, he didnt find out exactly what that entailed until it was far too late.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

GOD there's like one specific piece of defiant fanart i can't find for the life of me bc i think it was just tagged as defiant and i can't FIND IT......... it was just a simple headshot of him and the background was green i think but i wanna find it again bc that's literally the defiant design of all time to me like that's what he looks like in my brain!!!! and the artist also made a matching dragon one BUT FINDING THAT WOULD SUCK TOO BC IT WAS JUST TAGGED AS DRAGON.....

[vonbirden]

▒ ANSWERED ᴹᴱᴹᴱ! ❛ i just wanted to say thank you for protecting me. ❜ ➳ @armoredone ＋ annie!!

They were both DEFEATED. Heavy eyes burdened, the cold and piercing spark of warriors so dim they barely reflected in their bright hues. What more must they shoulder. For Annie, nothing ━━ it didn't matter to her much anymore. A part of her doesn't care what happens next, doesn't mind if the entire world is crushed flat, she doesn't have much left to her ... didn't have much to begin with either. Yet, on those heavy shoulders of theirs, what comes through is a sincerity not enforced by a mission. Not just warriors in arms for a single purpose, not merely comrades for the sake of their task, for survival.

Annie has no room in her heart left for hate. All the blame, the hardships, their fragile bond ... which, in a new light, she knows was never so weak ... it's all empty to her now. Is this what it meant to be a NORMAL GIRL? No. There is melancholy in her heart that is still tormented with sin. She would never be normal, not as she was, not who she was, of all the things she has done and would do again, in a heartbeat, if it meant she could return home. A home that was no longer waiting for her.

It's funny how she looks at Reiner now. As things were ... she might not complain so much about listening to him. It was only them who could understand each other. For everything that happened. They were not warriors right now, even if it haunted them still. Reiner's words aren't fabricated, no lies he tells her, or himself, nothing to suspect or worry about anymore. Honesty, regret, care; was it only now, or had it always been this way? Annie can't quite recall.

“ Don't mention it. ” She finally breathes out. Calm, fatigued in manner, her own concerns echo within a prying, dull, gaze. “ Though, I should be saying the same to you. ” They had each others backs out there. Why had it taken them so long, she wonders, to really understand one another. How deeply she cared for them. How she had for both of them. “ So, thanks. ”

[solarisburns]

Do you know that scene in the first captain america where Steve drinks an abandoned bar dry after bucky falls off the train? That but its Sirius after Regulus' death

Diagon Alley had been all but abandoned during the worst of the war, so when Pandora Rosier had wrote him and asked to meet in the old bar Sirius knew something was wrong. The girl who he had seen in hogwarts was decked in some kind of colour and crystals but the young woman in front of him was wearing all black.

"Regulus is dead. I can't tell you how or why but he'd want you to know he died doing the right thing." She told him, her voice cracking and looking ready to cry. She didn't say anything else and left the bar, he thinks she may have been crying, he couldn't be sure.

And Sirius couldn't say anything, couldn't do anything. Regulus was dead. His little brother was dead in some nameless grave somewhere. So he poured himself a firewhiskey and downed it. Went to pour himself another but decided to forgo the glass and just drink straight from the bottle. Was this what shock was?

He sat there in that bar half hoping some death eater would come and finish him off. He had promised to follow his brother anywhere. But, he had promised that James, not Regulus, in truth he hasn't followed Regulus in many years. So he keeps his wand on him and sends a patronus. Even years later he couldn't tell you who he sent it to but none the less Lily found him in that abandoned bar.

"It's not your fault, Sirius."

"You know what our family was like, right Evans?" He'd asked with a bitter laugh.

"Yes?" She responded eyeing him with worry.

"Then you know that's not true," He told her before taking another swig of the firewhiskey. Lily sighed before sitting down next to him, she eye'd the bottle with envy, right she'd been pregnant with a mini prongs and she's was still there cleaning up his mess.

"You did everything you could, you cannot save someone who didn't want to be saved," She told him and gave him a look when he tried to cut her off. "Do not disrespect your brother by second guessing him. He made his choice. We both know he was involved with Dumbledore's schemes somehow. He died and he did it doing the right thing. Let Regulus keep his dignity in death, if he died for a cause, you know he would've only done it for something he thought was worth it. Now lets go home, it's bloody cold out here."

There were no more words that Sirius could give to his dead little brother. There were no words that would bring him back. There were no words that were worth it all. So he didn't say anything to Lily just nodded his head and brought the bottle with him when they left.

[heyitsspaceace]

yeah so i just finished s2ep9 of doctor who, im having a full on crisis over rose and the doctor and im SO scared for the next few episodes ESPECIALLY AFTER WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS ONE

it was a great idea for my neurodivergent ass to watch this show

no one say ANYTHING

[tariah23]

Omg….

I had not idea that kotteri’s works are finally being translated to English, I’m buying everything-

[nomaishuttle]

outer wilds is so strong it is literally the first media In existance that i loved enough to make my blog be themed after it. i have an ow url. b4 this i literally never had a fandom url and i never had a fandom themed blog. aside from my hamilton roleplay side acct on quotev.com when i was 11 but thats neither here nor there.

[youremyonlyhope]

Stupidly I decided to watch this video just now.

Today would have been my Grandma's birthday, but we lost her last fall and then my Nanna in the winter.

I did not think that a commentary video on Rugrats would make me uncontrollably sob. But I blocked out how sad the Mother's Day episode was. And combining it with Grandma's birthday...

I've spent the last 10 minutes or so doubled over crying.