#god help me why do I do this to myself

[atalienart]

Being yelled at by some clerk as if you're a twelve year old who didn't do her homework while you're a grown woman is a surreal experience.

[suntails]

got carried away with a sketch and now i dont feel like finishing it properly <3

[skitskatdacat63]

"Non paeniteo potitus."

+ details & process

And, process !!

The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️

What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:

I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!

There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!

[heyy-dont-mind-me]

I am so close to making an ask-blog of the Onceler and his best friend (my oc) Like im so legit rn, my impulses are coming onto me

[epsilon-13]

So I decided to randomly pick a Clone wars episode to watch, and I regret it greatly.

Especially because this is my first ever episode I'm watching... I should've gone in order.

[mabaki]

Yeah, that meme Cairadin @floral-necromaniac

and then i released it to the wild discord servers and got back...

I fucking love you guys oh my god you know who- you know what im tagging y'all LMAO

Tit, Mbk himself, Onlyhands 'who tf r u': @vitaeplaysgw2

cabbage: Hel (no tubml awh)

Ham: @zlidestuff but they also put the pilow but pillow by @the-skrool the art on pillow by Fenrilia ofc cuz its his waifu :ramblerambleramble:

Maweenie placed by @creativebrainrot (Theryn), maweenie art by @shroomlet

Cigarette: Theryn

White to black turtleneck: @fern-hounds

Black to black turtleneck Theryn

Peitha Smash: VITAEEEEE HAHAHAHHASLKFJlkjsdflkj

[zecoritheweirdone]

i was bored, so i made them into cubes

[themoonstonechronicler]

the vague sad

[nellasbookplanet]

I just finished my playthrough of me2, and as I put off the overlord and arrival dlcs until the end of it my thoughts on them are very fresh and Must be aired.

The frustrating thing is, they didn’t have to suck. The gameplay, like the shadowbroker dlc, is fun and stands out from the rest of the game! The story and themes of 'how far will you go in sacrificing individual lives in the name of winning a war/stopping extinction' fits well with the overall narrative and emphasis on hard choices! I mostly enjoy them! Only, overlord is completely undone by gross ableism, and arrival doesn’t actually let you engage with the choice it sets up; it fully forces your hand, and then makes the whole thing feel pointless by just having the reapers show up for a surprise attack in the next game anyway. It’s a trolley problem that doesn’t actually let you control the lever and then derails the entire train to hit both tracks no matter what you do.

So, how do you fix arrival? Personally, I would probably keep in the loss of the batarian colony as inevitable, but change the focus. As it is, barely a moment is spared to let it sink in that you're about to end 300 000 lives, and the only 'choice' you get is whether you attempt to (futilely) warn them in a blink and you'll miss it scene. I would've at a minimum added dialogue options where Shepard/the player could’ve expressed anger at how this work could’ve gone on for as long as it did without a warning being sent long before. For a bigger change, that could’ve led into a major conflict: a paragon Shepard trying to warn the colony, while her opponents argue that doing so would jeopordize the project/the hidden base and tries to stop her as part of the final fight of the dlc. If you choose to warn and do it in time, perhaps some small amount of people make it out, with the majority of the colony still being destroyed to keep the tone of sacrifice. If you want to keep it real dark, everyone dies no matter how hard you try to save them, but you should at least have been given the option to seriously try even if it’s hopeless.

But there isn’t really a workaround for how part of the problem with arrival is a problem with the batarians: had the colony been human, turian, or asari, most players would likely have been more upset because those are our allies. The batarians, however, are a one-note species never portrayed as anything other than slavers, criminals, and terrorists. While other species are allowed horrific acts while still being portrayed as complex people capable of both good and bad (need I remind you of the first contact war, the krogan rebellion, the genophage, the quarian's attempted genocide of the geth, the geth's war against biological life, and so on), the player is given little to no reason to sympathize with batarians. Had they been made to feel like actual people while still our enemies from the start of the game, arrival would've felt more like the gut punch of sacrifice it was and less like it was off-handedly writing off a people everyone hates, anyway. There could’ve been a discussion of 'are you more willing to sacrifice those you don’t know/don’t like and what does it say about you; is this a sacrifice or is it selfish revenge with the greater good as cover (a discussion especially brought up if you take the renegade choice)' but instead it feels almost vindictive.

[angellurgy2]

^_^

[purpurussy]

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[alaydabug2]

JESUS CHRIST

SOMEONE SHOOT ME NOW

PLEASE 😭

Ok ok ok so

I'm at a 4h camp rn

It's a week long

And my friend Peyton has been playing matchmaker with everyone in our cabin and has been very successful with helping them get with cute guys for the dance on Thursday

Well I wanted to try my luck with this really cute nice guy from gaga ball (below the knee dodgeball)

Well we approach him while we're at the beach and my friend says to him

"Hey you know my friend Alayda"

He said "OH YEAH I kicked her butt in gaga ball"

She goes "I think you two would be cute together"

He went "Oh HECK NO"

Me taking offense cause he was so nice to me earlier before

My friend gies over to him bout to beat him up and talk to him

She comes back and says

"He doesn't like girls"

HELPPPPP

HE GAY

HES LITTERLY GAY 😭

SHOOT ME PLEASE

[quietwingsinthesky]

youtube stop recommending me that five hour long “fall of doctor who” video challenge. there is not a video i could be less interested in watching.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[batfamfucker]

Appreciation post for 'girly girl' characters and/or shows that celebrate traditionally feminine things that girls and women are shamed for.

Characters on this list that love makeup, fashion, hair, etc. Characters that are still written as strong, intelligent, brave, etc. That told young girls that these interests are valid, they are not lesser interests. Being feminine and liking traditionally feminine things does not make them weak.

[bigbighouse]

doppelgängers will have you having a life altering freakout in the bathroom of a pizza restaurant