Ramattra doesn't know what that thing is, or how to repair it, but how can he resist a face like that? <3
(nobody tell him it can explode)
i remember muzzleroars answering an ask where they gave gabriel and v1 a pet drone, and i thought the idea was very cute, so thank you for the inspiration muzzleroars (+ asker)
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An incredible amount of the Downfall discourse comes off as people trying to game the trolley problem instead of recognizing that there simply isn’t a right answer.
Everyone fucked up. This was a horrible situation that might have been prevented with more time, communication, empathy, all sorts of corrections. But it’s the trolley problem: what we have is a bunch of gods on one set of tracks and a far larger number of mortals on the other, and ultimately, the gods switched the track to kill mortals.
It wasn’t right. Of course, we could justify it—I’m a lawyer, and I could justify anything. That doesn’t change that it isn’t moral, good, or right.
“But the gods couldn’t kill their family.” Did we not watch C2, filled with shitty genetic families and centered around a group of found family idiots? Family only means what you want it to. Of course the gods could have killed their family. Half of them even wanted to! But the PCs chose not to.
“But the gods are gods, of course they should win.” Maybe it’s the grew-up-a-poor-minority-and-climbed-the-social-ladder in me, but I don’t see the virtue in an argument that those born into power deserve to make decisions about those who weren’t. One of the gods was already replaced by a mortal. Aeorians came up with methods to repel, suppress, contain, and kill gods. Seats of power change, and power doesn’t make someone right. It’s been incredibly surreal to see how many people think this is an acceptable argument.
“But if the gods die, they really die, and mortal souls are immortal.” While we know souls are immortal, the actual experience of the afterlife is a mystery. Is what Deanna described how it always is, or just in the particular plane where her soul ended up? Is it really immortality if the sense of self is lost and that soul is separated from all they loved in life? Similarly, we don’t know what typically happens when gods die because there isn’t a normal way for it to happen. Why were some gods’ names forgotten but they are remembered by the silhouette left behind? Why are other gods remembered like Ethedok and Vordo? We don’t know. Why are we belittling the fact that mortal death is an end while also arguing that it’s horrible how divine death is an end? They’re both ends! That’s a terrible thing to force on someone. It’s wrong.
The point of Downfall is that it was wrong to destroy Aeor. The Prime Deities thought so themselves. Of all the wrong choices, that was what they chose in the moment. They didn’t succeed because they were right; they were simply more powerful and outsmarted their opponents.
Downfall is a wonderful example of a story where the protagonists are not heroes. Bask in the mistakes and failures. Cry. Mourn. It’s a tragedy that every key character contributed to. It didn’t have to end this way. There’s blood on everyone’s hands. They’re all monsters. They’re all people. They were all trying to save something. No one realized they were in a corner until there was no way out but through.
The only correct argument about a moral high ground in this kind of story is that someone survived to stand over the corpses.
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Commission for my friend @bongmedb. Jeanne gaming!
I cannot thank you enough for your support and your patience 😭💖
This is based on their CUUUTE nendo setup: Vanilla Jeanne is praying for Jalter to stop sucking at games 🤣
FGO version:
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An AU idea that just won't leave me be Hob defying 'death' to bring Dream back.
If Hob and Dream had just found each other, were in the beginnings of a loving relationship, a real chance at happiness. Would Hob truly accept Dream's death? Would he mourn? Or would he fight it? Hob's just the right side of selfish, just that touch too resolved. Would a man who dismissed death lay down to the whims of fate... Or battle againt it? Even if that means returning something to the universe that's no longer meant to be there. Could reality function with two Dreams? Would he be willing to risk that to right what he saw as an unjust death? And most importantly, what would an 'un' dead Endless be?
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Personally, I'm not shipping them, cause this is honesty built like a crackship to me lol. I just think him rizzing up the embodiment of death's sister is funny to me 💀💀
Unfortunately, Sonic did not get the memo.....
PIB Sonic belongs to @weirdozjunkary
edit: not based on this image but I found it on pinterest and I can't get over it 😭😭
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I've seen a good deal of confusion with the many versions of Cam, so I MADE A CAMUAL.
It was originally meant to be short and sweet and just colored sketches, but ofc I ended up fully rendering it bc I can't help myself hdhjwhd
Ah yes, the tutorial
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