#favorite babygirls of all time

[bronchitiss]

[knifefightandchill]

RESIDENT EVIL 4 (2023)

You haven't changed a damn bit.

[axel-tiredstudent]

Happy birthday to Cain from the Bible I mean Dabi from MHA

[feroluce]

Wooooooooo. God. Just imagining Gep sitting there and having all those feelings flood right through him as he reads, knowing that Sampo's gone for good but still kinda hoping it's all a mistake.

Can't even begin to imagine how he'd feel gettin the next dream from him. Probably still thinking it false, that it's just his hopes influencing his subconscious. He's probs on duty when the day comes, somehow gravitating towards the shipyard not knowing what to think.

Then he sees him, on top of some wall he's not meant to be anywhere near - don't think Sampo's capable of making a normal entrance.

Dude would probably feel 10x lighter, not realising the weight of the new's burden until it was gone, soft smile on his face as he turns around - having seen nothing at all.

N in the next few chases, if he's a little slower than usual, takes safer patrols when he notices he'sbeing followed, then he's merely out of practice.

((The context: Lucid Dreamer ficlet part 1, part 2, and an ask))

AAAAAAA ANON YOU'RE SO SMART. I have thought the same thing about Gepard's reaction to the dream; I think he'd be wary. He would be worried it was just a regular dream and not a Dream-dream, and I don't think he would tell anyone about it, because he doesn't want to break anyone's heart all over again with false hopes.

The part of this that's really killing me though is GEPARD NOTICING SAMPO IS STALKING HIM and TAKING SAFER ROUTES TO PROTECT HIM, THAT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. Gepard feeling eyes on the back of his neck in a way he hasn't felt in so long, and instead of being alarmed like a normal person, he just feels at peace. Like ah, he missed this feeling, and he didn't realize how badly he did until just now...

Absolute freaks, the both of them. I adore them.

[mxgoldenwood]

I CAN NOT stop thinking about Astarion with cleric-of-Ilmater Tav, so a few thoughts that have crossed my mind….

First… what could possibly be a more powerful religious experience for a follower of Ilmater than giving up your own blood, so that a friend in need won’t go hungry? The way Astarion’s first bite is narrated, it would almost certainly be a transcendent, divine experience.

Following on from this, though… the more Tav and Astarion spend time around each other, the more I think they would both gain from their relationship.

Yes, Astarion is annoyed by his companions playing the hero and he doesn’t like it when Tav promises to help people just because they’re sworn to relieve suffering wherever they can. He’s selfish and jaded and nobody ever did that for him (before now) so why are these strangers so special?

But on the flip side, there comes a point when Astarion has a point!! Tav doesn’t need to open their veins for every stranger in need. Maybe they shouldn’t sell their soul to help someone who would as soon kill them as look at them. You can’t fill up anyone else’s glass when your own is empty, and all that. I can easily imagine Astarion’s annoyance with Tav’s heroics shifting gradually from “ugh, what makes these people so special that they deserve help for nothing?” to “darling, you’re killing yourself slowly— and for what?” as he finds himself becoming more genuinely attached to Tav.

When you have people who care about you, your suffering becomes theirs. Cleric-of-Ilmater Tav may not see this at first, but they could come to understand it. By all means, help where you can. But don’t make your loved ones watch as you bind yourself onto the rack for someone whose gratitude can never cancel out the vicarious suffering of your (found) family watching you suffer. If anyone would speak up and talk some sense into Tav about this, it would be Astarion.

Just as Tav can set a good example for Astarion, reminding him that he has some goodness and maybe a little heroics of his own, buried under all the bitterness and trauma…. I believe Astarion would have a thing or two to teach cleric-of-Ilmater Tav about when it’s fine to help, and when they’re hurting themself for no good reason.

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….

[marsystars]

*screams from the heavens* HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBERT PATTINSON!

[babykittenteach]

2023 in review! I made an effort to try more things and it worked mostly (at least for TV and movies). New things, new-to-me things, and new installments of old things all had characters to love even if I didn't necessarily feel fannish about them, and I'm hoping 2024 does, too.

[disney-afternooniverse]

and if you too are alone on a friday night (or whenever you're reading this), you should go vote for discord here as part of @grim-vs-lizard 's bracket 😏

[sagechan]

those "name ten of your favorite female characters or you die" posts make me panic-sweat like a cartoon pig seeing the chopping block because I start thinking about all the myriad shows I've watched and books I've read and see the thing about me is I have an absolute crap memory so when I think about them it's not that I can't name any of the women in those shows, it's that I'm lucky if I can even name the shows

[solidors]

baldur's gate 3 is a comedy

[grollow]

the pale king :3?

/scratches out irl and puts 'on tumblr'

I find most PK enthusiasts have a wildly different take on him than I do (and I object strongly to the babygirlification of him). Wegh

[thejessis]

not to be a WEEB on MAIN but honestly so much of who i am as a person is almost exclusively because i read fruits basket at 11 years old

I was sitting here watching a lestat fancam (don't look at me) thinking "wow I really DO have a thing for flamboyantly bratty petulant toxic men in codependent relationships in fiction, that's such a weirdly specific niche, when did that even start—" and DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO FINISH THE THOUGHT

[chamamilechaos]

I need people to know that when I am screaming about “MY BABY” I am not referring to a literal baby or a person I am in a relationship with. I am in fact screaming about a 6’ tall fictional man in his 30s.

[theevilcactus]

barely awake rn but I’m thinking about that one scene. You know the one. That scene in season 2 where Jerome is on the schoolbus and he’s like “give me an o! Give me an h! Give me an n! Give me another o! What does that spell? Oh no.” And then pulls out the gasoline and starts dousing them in it because he’s gonna set the cheerleaders on fire

yeah. That scene. Laying in bed trying to sleep thinking about that scene and giggling.

[funsize-cenobites]

Best thing about my birthday being yesterday is that I get to go through so much new DMC3 art