#guess ill put that in the tag

[p1x1x]

this is ROCK !

[post live exhilaration]

[fernsnailz]

some good future metal/neo pages i did while waiting at the mechanic yesterday

[hinamie]

corvidae

[lucabyte]

times ive drawn loop being used as a reading light: 2

[evenmorecrows]

man i love when varric shoots people that are about to betray hawke. just completely on his own he's like Nope nope I'm not letting hawke bad-decisions their way into getting killed by some flaky loser. the second this motherfucker trips my spidey senses its a bolt through the head. sayonara

[clovernment]

fluster fluster

[allpiesforourown]

Okay but imagine if in the love rivals AU, the ex is Liu Mingyan. Dating Binghe was a bit of an act of rebellion on her part to spite her overbearing brother but she did end up liking him a bit but will not stand a cheater. Of course Liu Qingge, messes up comforting his sister and basically goes "told you so." Ticked, she decides to get back at him by asking out Shen Yuan or more accurately, asking him to fake date her to get her ex off her back. Plus, being one of her brothers good friends, her brother won't have anything bad to say about the guy. A part of her hopes this will also make Liu Qingge jealous enough to finally confess to his friend after all these years. Everything seems to be going to plan until she starts to realize that Binghe target has changed. Oh heck no!

This is crazy imagine beefing with your brother so you steal the gay man he's crushing on... actually no that's extremely real younger sister behaviour.

She would NOT say heck no she'd be using this as material to write the love triangle romance of the century. This would be team Edward vs team Jacob all over again

[pinkpegacorn]

@akanemnon i love twin runes a lot!! i've been practicing trying to replicate your style for a bit and this is my first finished attempt! i might do some more in the future? probably!

[elevenveggiestraws]

“Take my right eye.”

“Excuse me?”

“Since I’ve already staked it once.”

…

“If you lose one of your eyes, won't your combat ability deteriorate? Why would you take such a loss because of me?"

"If I had to choose, I'd choose you, Han Yoojin-gun."

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

[nilovalentine]

Then and Now

[mifs]

i need to find more examples of my favorite media genre:

2 guys (MUST be in some kind of weird gay thing with each other) + dykemobile

[cloudysarts]

this show would be good if literally everything about it was different

[charrfie]

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[brookbee]

David Bowie talking about John Lennon, 1983