#did everything else after

[bluedeedeedoop]

Barrissoka Human AU Aquarium date!! @eleventhsister helped me a lot with this piece and actually gave me the idea to do it so thank you sm!!! I'll provide the concept art i made for it under the cut! Im actually really happy with how it turned out and im glad for the background painting practice! (click for better quality i think?)

[m4g0hun]

lost child

[egophiliac]

EGO EFO EGO OVERBLOT SSR ANNOUNCED OVERBLOTS SSR ANNOUNCED MALLEUS' HAS BEEN SHOWN BANGS POTS AND PANS EGOOOOOO

OH NO

[lazylittledragon]

ok so i'm like. overwhelmed

i'm having one of the shittiest weeks of my life and i was really worried my store was going to be a complete flop (honestly i expected my friends to order some stuff and maybe a few other people and that was it)

and then half the things sold out in 2 hours so i'm!!!!! in shock

also the best part: the fundraiser stickers sold out completely!!

[assorted-aesthetics]

like i want to write a fic where england executes eleanor and her ghost claws it's way back to nassau but someone already made that and it's called black sails seasons 3 & 4.

[halfusek]

what's wrong? dig in! ^o^

collab with @rinkopatateneko <3

[tennessoui]

Hahaha i loved the pregnant one! What about the #19 with obikin please?

aw thank you!! and yes, here you go! tbh i had like....no idea what to do with this one but...enjoy!

[from this list of prompts]

[5. 'are you jealous' - 13. 'kiss me.' (LATEST) - 14. 'hey, i'm with you, okay? always.' - 18. 'this is the stupidest plan you've ever had. of course i'm in.' - 24. 'you're the only one i trust to do this' - 27. 'i'm pregnant' - 28. 'marry me?' - 29. 'i thought you were dead' - 32. 'i think i'm in love with you and i'm terrified' - 37. 'wanna dance?' - 44. 'if you die, i'm gonna kill you' - 41. 'you did all of this for me?' - 46. 'hey, have you seen...? oh']

19. 'the paint's supposed to go where?'

Anakin looks around at the assembled members of the Council, but no one is smiling. He risks a glance at Obi-Wan, only to find his master looking just as confused as he feels. This is both not a good sign, because that means the Council has gone so rogue that not even Obi-Wan understands what they're up to, and a great sign, because it means that Anakin isn't alone in...whatever this is.

"A break?" He repeats. The word sounds as foreign as it feels for him to speak. "You want me to...take a break. From the war."

"Not a matter of what, it is," Grandmaster Yoda assures him as he crosses his hands over the handle of his gimer stick. "Need a break, you do. Need a moment for yourselves, you both do."

"I quite disagree," Obi-Wan says immediately, and Anakin feels himself relax. If his master can be counted on for anything, it is to disagree in such well-articulated manner that other people just sort of get tired of arguing. "Perhaps a short wartime leave for General Skywalker would be permissible, even recommended, but I can assure you that I need no such intervention."

Anakin scowls. His master can't be counted on for anything these days. How could he have forgotten? After Rako Hardeen, after everything....

"A rest, you need as well, Master Obi-Wan," Yoda disagrees, sounding stern. "Asked for much from you, we have. Spent too long on the front lines, you have. Forgotten life outside the war, you both have."

"We're generals," Anakin points out, crossing his arms over his chest. He glares at the wall somewhere above Yoda's head. "I would think you'd want us to be focused on the ongoing war effort."

"Not to the detriment of your health," Master Windu says quietly. He's sitting straight-backed and tense in his Council seat, but his eyes look kind. Anakin doesn't think he can bear his kindness right now. Not while he's getting--getting demoted.

"My health is--" both Obi-Wan and Anakin snap at the same time before they cut off and look at each other before looking away. Anakin's throat feels tight, and he squeezes his mech-hand into a tight fist before forcing himself to relax.

"A bond, you share," Grandmaster Yoda intones as he looks between the pair of them. "Let it fall to ruin, we should not. All the more special, our ties to one another, in times of war and ruin. All the closer, we should keep the other."

"I'm sorry," Obi-Wan says, sitting upright in his chair for the first time this session. There's a rosy pink blush staining his cheeks. Anakin knows that looking at it for too long would be incredibly unwise for his long-term emotional stability. "But I have to ask: on what information are you basing these orders on? Have we acted in any way to make you think an intervention from the Council was necessary? Over something so personal?"

Yoda's ears flick backwards, and his face remains impassive. His Force signature, however, tinges with disbelief and something that feels a lot like amusement.

"Show them, we should," he tells Windu, and the other master agrees with a sigh, pulling up a file on his datapaad and keying it into the projecting device in the Council Room.

Anakin blinks and then narrows his eyes in confusion. He recognizes the still image projected in front of him. Or at least, half of it.

On the right side, it's him, sat in front of a holo camera with a printed picture in front of him. He remembers this. This was from a week ago. They'd brought in a Coruscanti mind-healer for the day to take observations of the Jedi fighting in the war. Anakin had been asked to participate in the study, given that he'd just returned for a short leave from the war front.

He hadn't realized Obi-Wan had also been asked to participate in the same thing, but there his master was in the split screen next to him.

"Oh," he says and he can feel the flush working its way across his cheeks as he remembers the sort of questions the mind-healer had asked him and how he'd responded. "I--I thought that was anonymous."

"It is," Master Windu says. "For most all of the other participants. Your results were worrying enough that Healer Soleuk flagged them for us."

"That's not how anonymity works," Obi-Wan bites out from his seat, and his flush has grown deeper as well. Red now, down to his neck. "Really, Mace--"

"Play it," Grandmaster Yoda commands, and Anakin's side of the screen bursts into motion.

"So I'm just here to get an understanding of how you've been while at war, Anakin," the mind healer's voice says from off-holo camera. "I'm not here to pass judgement or tell your supervisors anything you tell me. Do you understand?"

The Anakin on the screen nods, arms crossed tightly over his chest in a posture that looks incredibly defensive.

In the here and now, Anakin carefully uncrosses his arms and lets them drop to his side.

"Good," the mindhealer says. "Now, on the flimsi sheet before you, there's an outline of a humanoid body. I have about 10 other generic outlines of common sentient forms if you would like to switch to something else, but I wanted to start us out with this one. Do you see it?"

The Anakin on screen nods, and Anakin remembers how tedious he'd found the mind healer's commitment to describing every single thing she said or did as if he were a youngling who couldn't speak Galactic basic.

"Good," the healer says, and the Anakin on the screen's eye twitches. "Now, there are five vials of differently colored paint in before you. I'm going to give you ten minutes. Please use whichever paint, or combinations of paints, you would like to express yourself."

"What?" the Anakin on the screen says, eyebrows furrowing as he looks between the flimsi on the table and the mind healer. "Sorry, but--the paint's supposed to go where?"

"Wherever you want it to go, though I suppose preferably somewhere on the flimsi," the mindhealer tells him in the sort of tone Anakin's only ever heard the crechémaster use. "View this as...an opportunity to express yourself and your thoughts on the war. How has it impacted your body, your mind, if you decide that flimsi outline is yourself? How do you carry it? If I were looking for the war, where would I find it on this humanoid outline?"

The Anakin on the screen blinks at her and then his face flinches. Anakin remembers the feeling. He'd thought she was stupid or something. He'd thought she was wasting his time with finger paintings.

It's almost a relief, then, that Windu pauses the holo right as Anakin bends over his flimsi to start painting. And it's definitely a relief that apparently Obi-Wan was subjected to the same indignities.

Though of course his master handles himself with much more poise than Anakin had. He doesn't cross his arms as he listens to the mind healer, at least. And he seems to have so much patience for her dumb experiment and so many questions in turn that it's the mind healer's voice that goes high and thin with impatience, not Obi-Wan's.

But the holo is paused at the same moment, with Obi-Wan pulling the piece of flimis towards him and picking up one of the vials of paints.

Master Windu flicks the holoprojection to the next picture. Anakin squints at it. He recognizes his own work, of course, but his attention is caught by trying to study Obi-Wan's.

"One hundred Jedi were asked to participate in Healer Soleuk's study over the course of 5 days," Master Windu tells them. "As she said, she offered ten different outlines of sentient forms and five different colors of paint to use to map onto the bodies. You two were unique in two aspects. You were the only ones to solely use the color red in your drawings. And you were also the only ones to make your outlines look recognizably like another Jedi. Specifically, Master Kenobi drew a mech-arm on his figurine as well as a scar through the eyebrow of its right eye, and Knight Skywalker gave his figurine an orange beard--which he spent three minutes of his ten allotted minutes mixing paint for."

Anakin doesn't think anyone could pay him enough credits to get him to look at his master right now, and if the man's sudden silence in the Force is any indication, Obi-Wan feels the same way.

"Now, our understanding is that both of you painted the wounds that the other has incurred during the war. From memory, including the wounds received on missions where you were assigned apart. Is this correct?"

Anakin crosses his arms and frowns down at his feet.

"So," Master Windu says when neither of them replies, "to sum this up: your understanding of the war and its costs--your visualization of the whole of the galactic-wide war that has claimed the lives of many and disrupted everyone's peace and put at risk everyone's future--is, specifically, the wartime injuries that your partner has sustained while fighting it?"

Obi-Wan doesn't say anything so Anakin doesn't say anything either. Like Master, like padawan, he supposes.

"Right," Master Windu says. "So obviously, you're being given a two week leave. We've booked the pair of you passage to Scarif to leave in four hours. Please do remember to pack your sunscreen, Kenobi. I would hate to see how much red paint Knight Skywalker would have to use on your body-map the next time if you don't."

[shanklin]

Stanford never became friends with Fiddleford.

Instead he got himself a different small friend group who cares a lot about him. At least about the Ford he pretended to be in college.

A kind, soft spoken formerly bullied genius who researches very dull stuff in Oregon and definitely not anything weird. Their Ford would never break any rules or ignore safety measures [unlike that other student they heard about during their college years.]

And then Ford stops answering their calls and loses his grant. 

It’s time for an intervention and they start pestering Ford with letters and calls until he finally agrees to meet them at a science convention, but he’ll take his brother with him.

They’re relieved! Ford is with Shermie! They like Shermie! It's a good thing that Ford still has one brother who isn't a good for nothing selfish criminal who destroyed his entire future!

If they ever get their hands on Ford’s evil twin they’ll make sure he’ll regret ever messing with their friend. Ford is too nice for revenge. They aren’t.

Meanwhile at the not-yet Mystery Shack, the Stans freshly survived their own angsty canon divergent tale of two stans AU and locked Bill out of Ford's mind like a week ago.

Stan: I don’t know how long Ford will keep me around but this will be good for him. He needs some friends to take care of him after I inevitably get kicked out again!

Ford: I only agreed to this because Stan insisted and I still haven’t found a way to thank him and apologize. I hope all my “friends” die in a fire.

[crowlhoard]

So, about everything that is wrong with Veilguard have already been expressed, but I have one more issue I have barely seen mentioned anywhere, and my annoyance with it is buzzing in my skull like an angry hornet's nest, so I want to let it out.

The issue's name is Assan. And I loath him.

Specifically, I can't stand his archetype of a cute mascot, replacing an animal companion. I'm used to this archetype oversaturating kids cartoons, but I definitely didn't expect Dragon Age of all things to fall victim to it.

First - a mini tangent about dragons. Some posts here already mentioned how DAV dropped out a chunk of dragon lore, equating them to simple animals (although the change started already in DAI), instead of "The blood of the dragons is the blood of the world". Dragons, massive superpredators, living in a world with no comparable size of prey animal (maybe elephants or whales, at best), somehow find enough prey to diverge into whole different species with specific adaptations to certain habitats, kind of locking them in their territories. Unlike a more reasonable DAO approach, where there was one species of dragons, periodically going onto massive hunts, devouring whole regions to feed their brood and being comparable to a natural disaster. Which made their rarity also very reasonable, given the absolute swaths of territories they would need to sustain themselves. DAV did make an attempt at thinking environmentally about such creatures by mentioning that one beach dragon species that eats marine life.

Now - back to griffons. That one dragon is where environmental thinking ends. Griffons, supposed half-lions, half-eagles. The mixture of two HYPERCARNIVORES that somehow created a facultative omnivore, like a dog. That needs carrots and truffles in their diet. When the majority of their fiber and vitamins needs should be covered by stomach contents of their prey. Like, say... I dunno.... nugs? But Maker forbid some kid sees an animal eating another animal.

The species, with such an obvious hybrid look, but conveniently NOT created by the evil Elven Goddess, that is known for creating the whole new species for her people. Mother of the Halla and all that. They also conveniently hate everything Blight related, behave like an absolutely domesticated animal and not a tamed one, so they have no hunting behaviors and just wanna feed sick animals and protect the forest! While acting like a cutesy pug!

Mabari in the first and second game were fascinating. A breed, magically created to potentially have a human comparable intelligence, and an ability to pass their own judgment to pick a side. We are informed straight away that they are allies, companions, not some lap-warming pets.

While mounts in Inquisition are props, their codex descriptions are still fascinating. Proud Hallas, having little tolerance for stupid riders. Vicious dracolisks, ready to snap away your extremities at the slightest show of weakness.

But griffons? Nah. It's a baby to the single dad Davrin and a convenient pet to snuggle with. Not a look at an ancient species of valiant flying hunters, ferocious enough to challenge an Archdemon with their riders. Not a mysterious species, with their own unique behaviors and adaptations and abilities.

Assan is a Disney cartoon mascot and nothing more.

P.S. The commentors from the community in which this was posted first, brought up another important detail to my attention: those griffons are 10 years old! For them to be this small, they'd have to be a second generation. And Wardens are keeping them in cages for some reason? I guess it's for easier kidnapping... This game seems to intensely hate the Wardens.

[mrmeepsmadmind]

Metalhawk: bro stop calling my people NAILS

Starscream: if you tase me im gonna make u my dead wife istg

Wheeljack: why do your optics turn separate directions whenever i mention the word 'plan'.

Ratchet: yeah i have arthritis so idc if i die tbh :/

rodimus: im buying an rv and me and all these strangers (who like me more than u, not that it matters ) (im hot) are gonna * EXPLODES EVERYONE *

wheeljack, in the middle of discussing a very elaborate pain-staking plan:... ... something just exploded & i wasn't the cause 😢...

prowl: WHERE IS YOUR RAGE

needlenose: i sure love my big dumb evil husband. sure hope a disgruntled little popcorn kernel doesn't detonate a bomb in his head

Wheeljack: fuck my life

Starscream: i love lying, so, naturally-- im gonna become a politician.

ironhide: i saw the hat man

the intelligent Bumble (bee):

[gonchillunchis]

ancient josuyasu doodle (circa 536 a.d)

[chirpsythismorning]

El being *12 hours earlier* than the Cali timeline when she arrives at Nina. Will saying ‘it’s been 9 hrs’ in the scene following his monologue in the van.

We know that at some point their timelines merged when they arrived to save her…

But we don’t know when exactly those alignments took place when they were still apart… which just makes you wonder…

[vikt0ren]

Just saw someone comment that there is no one who would mourn Viktor and I am ILL

[andi-o-geyser]

Is it a little sacrilegious that they're killing the slow burn right before the gut punch of true love's nat 20? Yes. Did I love seeing the 'I open up the door completely naked' scene come to life even though it was (WAY) earlier then I expected? Also yes. I'm trying to go with the flow and am holding out hope that they're doing things differently, and they obviously have less time to work with (which is the most critical thing to understand), but will still pull it off. It's hard because from an analysis perspective there is something so crucially important about Vex's repressed feelings only coming out under extreme duress and still not admitting she loved Percy until they talked later and even then finding their footing in a very different way than we're seeing here?? Like it's kinda throwing me for both Vex and Percy to be so open and upfront about their desire to get together? It's certainly a different take on it that does have an interesting dynamic to explore. At this point I'm trying to trust the process and just enjoy what we're given and acknowledge they're not creating the exact same story as the original.

Eventhoughi'mgoingtobegoingbacktowatchthecampaignafterthistofixthelossofthelongestjuiciestslowburnihaveeverexperiencedbutthatsfine woahhhhhh who said that

[beedreamscape]

This has to be the last thing I say on C3 finale because otherwise, I will not stop, it simply baffles me in its mediocrity. And obviously, this will be negative, if you loved it, good for you, this is my takeaway as someone who loved this campaign and was severely let down.

This finale changes everything that came before and not for good, better yet, it emphasizes all the faults in the structure of what c3 tried to be, it made most of the campaign feel like a true exercise in futility — How far can we go in a campaign that is meandering and unsatisfying? How long can we have the same discussion over and over and over again despite everyone knowing how this will end? How long can we drag out characters that don't change without anyone noticing? (spoiler everyone noticed)

Can't say I was emotionally invested in the finale because I tapped out back in the 70s, came back for Aeor/Downfall shenanigans, and left again. But in experiencing the finale something became clear to me:

THIS STORY NEEDED TO BE SHORTER.

WITH ANOTHER PARTY AT THE HELM.

If the objective from the very conception of C3 was to wipe out the gods, that had to be clear from the very start. And it wasn't clear, at all — not in the characters, not in the starting city, not in theme. This was a completely different campaign at the start! That clarity was what made Calamity so great, it was short and precise, and every pc SERVICED THE THEME, filled with hubris and contempt, not to mention the setting.

Even Ludinus went in circles for convenience of the campaign length and became a weaker opponent for it, more of a nuisance than a villain. The threat he posed at episode 50 was much stronger than now at 120 something. The battle against Otohan was more nail-biting and emotionally engaging than fighting Ludinus and Predathos, a god eater!!!!

This campaign would've benefited from three to four acts instead of one overarching objective like the past campaigns because urgency is the name of the game and we can't carry urgency for 70 episodes straight (and they didn't).

The constant inclusion of the other parties made it clear how easy it was to detach BH from the story, how easy and fun it was for them to tell it through another party's eyes (one of the main reasons why I walked away back when I did, but that's more of a personal preference).

Which is not to say Bells Hell's didn't deserve a long story! They could very well have existed in a more intimate campaign which these characters were clearly built for! Their premises begged for closer looks in slow moments, something tragicomical, exploration of the inner world while developing MARQUET and its microcosm of injustice and politics which was left in the dust mid-campaign (pun intended).

And I'm not suggesting this just for our enjoyment, I know it's them playing and their enjoyment comes first blah blah, though this is a multi-million company therefore their jobs but this would contribute to their enjoyment! You could see several moments in the campaign how tapped out they felt and acted. I doubt it was "fun" discussing the gods situation ad naseaum, trudging through landscapes they barely cared about, with empty arcs.

I could nitpick every fault I see in the finale but it would be pointless, these issues have been dragged from ages ago and poor character matching, and now this is a culmination of everything and it barely fazes me anymore.

(And yeah it's their game and it's "free", but that doesn't undermine its weight as a story, stories were made be analyzed, and it was a poorly structured one no matter how much I still like and admire them as people.)

WHICH is not to say I had no fun at all ever, I did! several times! and that's what makes me upset, it could've been great instead is just meh.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

Sorry, but can I just stress something about Louis that drives me insane? 

In his route where you've saved him, he kills Dorian. Louis directly kills another person. He shot her with a crossbow through the mouth.

It’s unavoidable. 

Sure, it’s considered an accident, and even so, it was also self-defense—Dorian sure wasn’t there for a friendly chat, after all. 

But here's the thing... of the Ericson crew, we know that Clementine, AJ, and Marlon have killed someone. And Minerva if you want to count her, too, since she once was part of the group . But the others? Maybe they have killed before and we just don’t know about it, whether it be out of mercy or self-defense.

Violet in her route had the chance to kill Minerva, but understandably, she didn’t. She opted to shoot her in the shoulder instead… but we never see her kill anyone herself. 

Maybe you could count indirect kills because of the bag of bricks/log that kills Yonatan, and maybe you could consider Mitch’s death as indirectly Tenn’s fault… Speaking of Mitch, he tried to kill Lilly, but we all saw how that turned out, didn't we? 

…but Louis? He killed Dorian. That was his first kill. His first. 

And he feels awful about it! He apologizes to the body as it lays warm at his feet! He’s shaking and can barely speak!! It feels like bile! He doesn't even have time to process it because uh oh, the boat's going to explode!

But he’s also been so hardened over the season by everything that’s happened to him that he comes out of it glad that he has it in him to kill because if that’s what it takes to protect Clementine, AJ, and his family and home, then he’ll do it even if he doesn’t want to.

How does that not drive anyone else utterly mad?

Fandom considers him the funny guy! He's cute and silly! He makes Clementine laugh!

He's also done murder! He's taken a life! Just like Clementine and AJ have! Just like Marlon did!

And honestly, I think this also leads to him forgiving AJ for killing Tenn because at this point, he understands. He hates it, and he wishes it didn’t have to be this way, but he gets that AJ saw something that he didn’t. Louis knows that AJ’s hurting just as much as he is, he even says as much if Clementine says anything other than “AJ saved your life” on the bridge. 

He relived Marlon’s death when Tenn died, but it’s not like his hands are clean, either… and neither were Marlon’s. Clementine’s hands definitely aren’t clean. 

It drives me crazy that best friends Louis and Marlon have each killed someone in TFS but Marlon killed Brody in a moment of panic because he’s a coward who wanted hide what he did while Louis killed Dorian in a moment of panic because he was trying to save Clementine from Minerva and she came up behind him like… hhhhnnnnggggggggg, y’know?

Oh, and don't even get me started on the clouis aspect of this because I'll lose it. He talks to her about it because he knows she'll understand, just like how she's always understood him. How he goes out of his way to tell her that having a home means protecting it and he's going to protect it [that home being her, AJ, and Ericson] no matter what because he wants to build this new life with her aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I've lost it—