#cross train

[hinamie]

long way home

[cable-salamdr]

I see Frak on the Ninja team, I go insane. I think about Arin for two seconds with this new knowledge, and I go insane even more. Thank you and gnight.

(Vaguely based off of this post of mine)

[hungrybelly21]

message this Mistress if you are willing to be turn intoi slutty sissy, and if you are ready to go under my control. You will follow my my rules and requirements @goddess_mistress26

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[galoogamelady]

Happy first birthday to the Wastelands 2023 artbook! Here's my fav illustration I made for it, titled Tri.

Wastelands 2023 is still available here!

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

[transmommylunsworld]

Hello 👋 sissy sluts and lil faggot❤️💦💦

[cross-d-a]

I really really REALLY loved how SM-33 clearly adore the kids. Like him accepting Un-Claimsies bc it was “close enough”!!!!! Like!!!!!!!!! The kids and SM-33 are the best found family!!!!!!!! I really hope he gets to live with them in the end

[aria-greenhoodie]

New Banner just dropped. Oh look at all my blorbos… my beloveds… my scrimblo bimblos….

Click for Quality!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Tom Nook had a personal grudge against the fox from Spirit Of The North because he kept messing up the aesthetic of the mountain in his town by lighting the magic rune stones scattered around the mountain. He held a costume party on a train and told people to kill the fox if they found it. The fox was there, for some reason, and he was in disguise, dressed as a cat. When Tom Nook realised that the fox was there, he ordered everyone to chase after him, and the fox escaped by going down a giant stone slide until it fell down a well.

[bidoofcrossing]

[sleepybimbobambi2]

[quenepacrossing]

[nordsea-horizons]

i made a massive train station on my island🚂🛤️

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

okay but tuffnut and toothless totally have a secret handshake

[galoogamelady]

Wouldn't be me if I didn't draw a Buttons illustration for a post-apoc themed project.

This is my 3rd pic for Shaman's Wastelands 2023 art book!