#form a new opinion

[leona-florianova]

Ikuay

A commission for @serpentdeath

[vela-pulsars]

not enough stonjourner art out there

[timetravelingsherlockian]

I've seen mixed reports. So based on your knowledge....

Where "confirmed" means a) explicit in the text, b) an average straight viewer would notice.

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[budugaapologist]

still dont see how so many people say that dawntrail is poorly written in comparison to other expansions like. what, did you realize you had to learn about a new culture and immediately not care anymore lmao? you've done it before, was this one not white enough for you?

genuinely i think more people should do side quests during msq so idk you can form a heart about the characters you're interacting with if you struggle with that and understand the land better so when impactful shit happens your illiterate ass can actually read and have empathy. theres no excuse for this.

if you can't handle storybuilding and character introductions from the expansion that feels like stormblood and shadowbringers had passionate gay sex that got one of them pregnant and birthed a beautiful daughter they both love and care about then idk what to tell you, maybe youre just lame and can't read. best of luck with that.

[achyutapriya]

If you call yourself a Krishna Bhakt but at the same time disrespect the Mahishis (Queens) of Dwarka (this includes questioning the authenticity of their love for him and his love for them in return, comparing their love, putting them down, making abhorrent claims about how their love was not completely pure, claiming how they were jealous of each other and the gopis, making passive aggressive comments against them to even liking and sharing content which promote these kinds of beliefs) in the name of glorifying Kanha's leelas in Braj then it's beyond time for you to touch some grass, read actual scriptures and question your entire existence. *GLORIFICATION CAN BE DONE WITHOUT SHOWING DISRESPECT TO EITHER OF THE TWO GROUPS*

[mxtxfanatic]

People who started their mdzs journey with the donghua and came away with the idea that Madam Yu was some scorned wife crack me up, because you actively see Jiang Fengmian try to gift her something with sentimentality, and she outright rejects it because “should’ve thought of that before you liked someone 20+ years ago before we got together and decided to save her orphaned son 10+ years later 😤” And this is still after watching her be mean and caustic to him in their every interaction. But play some sad music while the moonlight shines down on her turned back, and suddenly she a victim 🤣

[front-facing-pokemon]

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 30 - Of The Seventh Dawn

"When I was very young, my aunt would often put me to bed with stories of her adventures with my late parents. They explored nearly all of Aldenard together, just the three of them; getting through every obstacle as a team, and caring for one another like family along the way. As I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep, the same question echoed in my mind: "Would tomorrow's dawn bring someone with whom I can do the same?" After so many lonely years I had but nearly given up on finding such things for myself. How lucky am I, that at the very last moment I was finally given an answer."

[echo-goes-mmm]

Ambrose and Elliot #30

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Warnings: past suicidal ideation 

The bank was crowded, but quiet. Elliot looked nervous, and Ambrose offered him his arm.

Elliot clutched him by the elbow, his head down, and Ambrose hoped Ellie would be able to stay calm.

“First, we’re going to get in line,” he explained, “I’ll take care of my business, and then we’ll get your paperwork from the teller.”

“Paperwork?”

“Mhm. You need to fill out some forms to make a bank account.”

“I- I don’t know how.”

“I’ll help you.”

Ambrose led them to the far teller, which wasn’t the shortest line but was away from most of the crowd.

It wasn’t a long wait, which was good because Elliot seemed jittery.

“Name?”

“Ambrose Ventas.”

The teller left to get the file. She looked at the details, glancing up at him and then back at the page.

“Let me get my manager,” she said with a weak smile. “It looks like there’s some… errors in your account.”

She must be new.

“What happened?” whispered Elliot. “Are we in trouble?”

“No, love,” soothed Ambrose. “I’m just a complicated case, unfortunately.”

The manager came over, the poor teller behind him.

“Mr. Ventas, I am so sorry. Shelly wasn’t aware of your circumstances.”

“It’s alright,” he said. “I wasn’t upfront about it.”

Shelly looked relieved, and Ambrose wondered exactly how the manager had explained his condition to her. 

“What can we do for you today?”

Ambrose submitted his deposit, and listened off the transfers to Shelly.

“Oh, and he needs to make a savings account,” Ambrose added, gesturing to Elliot.

Shelly looked up from her book, and Elliot shrank back when her eyes landed on him.

“Of course. Name?”

“Elliot,” he whispered.

“Last name?”

Ambrose could have smacked himself. Why didn’t he think of that? Elliot didn’t have a last name.

“I- I don’t-”

“Ventas,” Ambrose blurted. “Just put down Ventas.”

Shelly’s eyes flicked between them.

“I’m his guardian,” added Ambrose. 

It was a weak excuse, but hopefully it was enough.

Shelly wrote down the name, and passed the paperwork over. “Just fill out the details, and we’ll take care of it,” she said, clearly tired of complications.

“Thank you,” Ambrose smiled.

___________________

Elliot bit his lip, the pen in his hand trembling.

“I don’t know how old I am,” he admitted, “or what year I was born.”

Ambrose was sitting across from him. The chairs at the bank were nice, but Elliot couldn’t really relax. It felt like everyone was staring at him, even though they probably weren’t.

“Just make an estimate,” said Master. “You’re with me; age isn’t going to be looked at.”

Elliot wrote down twenty-two, and did some quick math to put down the year. “What about month and day?”

“Well, spring birthdays are nice. How about May sixth?”

“Okay.”

Elliot filled out his address, and the rest of the details as best he could.

A question dug at the corner of his mind as Ambrose went over the papers for him.

“How come they don’t check age if I’m with you?”

Ambrose lowered the papers and gave him an odd look. His insides squirmed.

“Sorry, sir.” 

“No, it’s…fine.”

Ambrose worked his jaw. “I’ll tell you after we’re done here, okay?”

His tone set Elliot’s nerves alight.

They submitted the paperwork to the bank lady, and Elliot handed over his money. He was sad to see it go, but Master assured him he would be able to take it out if he wanted.

“I’m sorry,” Master Ambrose said as they left the bank. “I forgot to tell you about my condition.”

Elliot stopped short. Alarm shot through him. “Condition? Are… are you dying?” 

Ambrose laughed, low and strange. 

“Quite the opposite,” he said, shaking his head. “I can’t. Or at least, I won’t. I’m not sure if someone can kill me or not. I never asked how it worked.”

Baffled, Elliot followed Ambrose to a cafe across the street. “How?”

“It was a gift,” Master said, the corner of his mouth twisting. “From my husband.”

Elliot didn’t understand. 

“A divine gift,” Master continued, and then he understood.

“Your husband,” he said slowly, making sure his words were respectful. “Is- is he-”

“I’m afraid so,” said Ambrose.

He ordered them lunch, and they sat at a table.

Elliot mulled over the new information. Master had never lied to him before. And he looked tired, and wary, and Elliot didn’t doubt he was telling the truth.

“Which one?” he choked out. He hoped for maybe the harvest god, or someone as pleasant. 

Ambrose looked up from his meal.

“The serpent god,” he admitted. Elliot sucked in a breath. He didn’t hear much about the gods, but the serpent god was… fickle.

“And I know what you’re thinking,” he added when he saw Elliot’s face. “He’s not like the stories. He’s caring, passionate, funny. Wonderful. Really wonderful.” 

He sighed, almost wistful, but Elliot knew there was no god living at Little Wood.

Ambrose’s beloved was not here. And hadn’t been for a long time.

“So now you don’t age.”

“Yes. I- I worried it wasn’t fair. I was mortal, and would die one day, and he would be alone. But he said I didn’t have to die, and so here we are.”

Elliot bit his lip. “Did it hurt?”

Ambrose smiled. “Not a bit.”

Master didn’t say more, tucking into his meal, and Elliot followed his example.

He wasn’t sure how to feel about Ambrose’s immortality. It seemed… sad.

The serpent god had abandoned him, and taken away his everlasting peace, and now Ambrose was doomed to be all alone forever.

Wasn’t it cruel? To do that to someone?

Elliot had thought a lot about dying. Dying was the end. To everything, good and bad,  and sometimes his old master made him want to die.

But his life was good now, and he didn’t want to anymore.

Did Master Ambrose ever want to die, now that he wasn’t allowed?

Elliot watched Ambrose’s face, but he didn’t seem sad.

Or was he hiding that, too?

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[saline-coelacanth]

I've been meaning to make a poll about this for a while because I'm curious about people's opinions, but I kept forgetting.

[frogaroundandfindout]

You remember when dick was in space (for the first time with the new teen titans) because komand’r took Kory back and they needed to save her? And you remember how he understood it was a war they were fighting and that they needed to do what they had to in order to survive it? And how when Gar told him he needed to control Kory, dick wondered if he even should try to stop her from killing her sister? And how he literally killed to save her (there’s some deniability but he’s literally hitting them with lasers described as deadly right in the head)? I do.

[beatriceportinari]

Izuna outfits ranked

white coffin outfit : 10/10. WITH the blindfold ? iconic

child soldier : he looks sooo sweet and cute. the only time he wears an armor ! 9/10 one point deduction for child endangerment

cinched waist battlecoat : perfect outfit to cough blood in ! ! ! ! ! 10000/10

itachi flashback : shout out to itachi for imagining a whole little wardrobe. I will never say it enough we need to recognise itachi's sense of needless drama. the cape? the double contrapposto belts? the vintage ant bindle fannypacks for training? it would be worth a million points but alas it is also combined with the ponytail. 0/10

Just an eye in a pouch: YEAH YOU FUCKING KNOW IT 5 STARS. THAT'S MY BOY.

[monstersinthecosmos]

gotta stop checking tumblr before I have caffeine because all my principles fly out the window and i feel like i'm gonna start being an obnoxious asshole when i see people citing events in their book posts that literally did not happen :SOB:

[drama-glob]

Behold him in all his glory! ^_^<3<3<3

[bongosinferno]

Interesting thing with the Bethesda fallouts (I've been playing a bit of Fallout 4 recently) is that they, at least in my opinion, misunderstand the fun parts of the first 2 games. I don't think think the setting is a very important part in those games, it's a part of it but it's just set-dressing for the gameplay and fun quest stories and how the players interact with them. I think there's some potential in say Fallout 4 for interesting quests or stories (I've done a couple of quests but a lot of my knowledge is from the Joseph Andersson video), but the solutions to any story just leads back into the shooting gameplay loop. This is, I think, antithetical to the format of the originals, which were based a lot more in having the format of a TTRPG. If your TTRPG sessions all boiled down to shooting people with basically no alternative solutions to quests I think your players would get bored. Since it's got shooter mechanics this kind of salvages it, it becomes it's very different own thing. But the wonderful gameplay loop of those first two games is lost, and I kind of miss it. Man, I need to replay Fallout 2.

[danothan]

did anyone else know that you’re allowed to have contradicting opinions. i feel like my worldview is shattering rn