#hahah...

[radiance1]

"You know what happened to Odin?"

"No, what happened to Odin?"

"Exactly, you cannot step foot in the mortal realm like you are now. Follow in Odin's footsteps."

"No, I don't want to follow in the Allfather's footsteps."

"Stop whining like a child and take a mortal form love."

"No, I will not."

[Deep inhale] "Do you know what happened to Loki?"

"Loki? The trickster? What happened to that one?"

"Well, he's currently still trapped inside of a cave, chained by his son's own entrails as a snake eternally drips poison onto him, but that is beside the point."

"No that is exactly the point."

"No, it is not. His fate has no relation to the main subject of our conversation."

"Yes, it does."

"No, it does not- No. Stop making that face. I am not doing this again."

"What face?"

"You know what you're doing. Stop it."

"I don't think I will."

[Exasperated exhale.]

"You should follow in the god of mischief's footsteps, even he- no especially he knew the point of a convincing disguise."

"Hmmm."

"No."

"Dearly beloved if you do not take on a mortal form while living out your farmer fantasy then so help me, I will place you back inside the coffin from which you came."

"..."

"That would be beautiful really, but no thank you I'll take that mortal form now."

"Good." Clockwork smiled

An hour later....

"Is this convincing enough for you, my love?" Pariah Dark adjusted the straw hat sitting upon his head, trying to shift it into a position better suited for his hair.

Clockwork hummed, floating around Pariah to take in his new form from every angle. "Well, it is certainly better than your first try."

"Then can I leave now?"

"No."

Pariah sighed. Feeling as hands were gently placed on his shoulders and slowly guided him down to rest on his own legs as he felt hands run through his hair and his straw hat gently taken from his head. He sighed with small indignation as crossed his arms. "I spent a while trying to fit that over my hair properly, you were the one who told me to fit in, so why take it off?" Pariah grumbled.

"Yes, yes. I know love." Clockwork's fingers gently worked themselves through his king's hair, a deep and long sigh leaving the man's body as he fully relaxed, causing Clockwork to smile.

As he worked, Clockwork hummed a small tune lost to the seas of time, causing Pariah to perk up slightly, before, a few minutes later, also joining his lover's humming.

"There we are." Clockwork removed his hands from the other's hair, and Pariah took that as a single to stand up. He turned his head, carefully pulling the braid over his shoulder, he then quirked a brow. "Where did you get the flowers from?"

"From here and there." Clockwork smirked, one that Pariah knew meant he was receiving no answer to his question from, so he shrugged, moving the braid off his shoulder. "So, where exactly are you going to send me?"

"Right, yes." Clockwork waved him over, pulling up a small mirror of time as he shifted through locations. "So, you'll be going to this world and..."

===

Pariah Dark stared down at the door, in one hand holding a basket as he brought the other up in preparation to knock before freezing.

How does one interact with a human outside of violence and threats again?

He shifted, not for the first time realizing that he had to crouch down to even fit to get to his new neighbors door.

Humans are intimated by height, right?

Should he shrink?

His beloved never walked him through how to talk with humans what does he do????

Should he leave?

But then his beloved would be disappointed...

Okay, first things first.

Knocking.

He gently brought his fist forward, and tapped his knuckles against the door frame, small thunks sounding out with each and every knock.

He tapped a bit harder, each series good louder than the last.

Okay, he thinks he's getting good at this! He's practically a natural!

Oh, the door opened.

The door opened.

"Hello?" An old mortal woman peered up at him, or tried to, at the very least, for his head was well above the door.

Pariah Cleared his throat, moving his hand back in a small wave. "Greetings, mortal-" Shoot. Normal mortals don't talk like that. "I am Pariah Dar- I mean Ark."

He coughed, moving his other hand forwards to present her with the basket. "I bring you an offering in hopes of creating an alliance-" Alliance, really Pariah? Really? "Between the two of us that will foster until the end of time!"

The human woman below hesitantly took the basket, probably shocked, and then just. Stood, there.

Ancients, did he accidentally kill her? He didn't even do anything! Were humans always so fragile?!

The woman cleared her throat, and stepped out of the doorway. "Thank you very much dearie, that's very kind of you!"

Why is she smiling.

Ancients she's smiling he wasn't prepared for this. His beloved never told him his neighbors would smile he wasn't ready-

Annnnd he already teleported away.

Pariah groaned, reaching up his hands to his hair before suddenly remembering who it was braided by, before lowering down to cover his face as he crouched besides his own house.

A nearby horse wandered over and nipped at his hair.

"I was supposed to get a name, Elizabeth." Pariah despaired. "A name!"

@pennerjones

[luciluck2046]

TW: VENT

It's about the future and stuff...

Why is our future so fucked up

I'm serious

Why did they take away our future!?

It's awful

Our future is awful

We aren't going to have jobs

The AI will have it

Since almost no one wants to pay people. They just want money

And the AI will give them money without taking it.

So how am I going to have a promising future?

Where are my dreams of being a comic artist?

If no one has money, being an artist is useless.

Or think about it

AI will do the art

A lot of people believe that it's gonna be fine, the ai will never get that good at art but...

It's not about the quality. It's about the fact that more people would rather go to an AI to draw them stuff than to pay an artist.

I'm saying this knowing damn well that my dad is one of those people and that literally only artists respect other artists and their work. And not even all the artists do that.

So our future is fucked.

Very fucked.

"try to have a little hope-" NO, I'M DONE WITH HOPE. "HOPE DIES LAST" WELL IT'S FUCKING DEAD. Hope does nothing. I want to see YOU hope that you get a good grade at a test you did everything wrong. If we all just hope and no one actually does something it's literally the same as if we don't hope.

"everything is gonna be fine, don't worry!" HOW CAN I NOT WORRY, TELL ME!?!? IT'S MY, EVERYONE'S FUTURE I'M TALKING ABOUT. CAN'T YOU FUCKING SEE IT?

"you're overreacting blah blah blah" I'm not. I've always been better at seeing where things go from little clues. That's why I'm always searching for movies with BIG twists. Nothing is interesting when you know where it's going.

And I see where the stuff with the AI is going.

If we don't do something, we're good as done.

You know?

But let's imagine we actually DO something about the AI.

"yay everything is good" no.

You're living in lies if you think that's where it's stopped.

Fun fact! WE LITERALLY HAVE ONLY UNTIL 2030 TO UNFUCK OUR CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEM.

Dumbasses.

Idiots

They all want MONEY

So they will do ANYTHING for it

Even destroy our PLANET

Can't you see it?

WHY CAN'T THE PEOPLE SEE IT!?!?

I want a future.

Some might not but...

I want one

I want a future where I feel safe.

The problem is that in this PRESENT I don't feel safe. Even in my own house. I can't even call it "home", considering the fact that "home" is a place where I feel safe.

I DON'T HAVE A HOME

I do have a house. Where I sleep, eat, do anything. Not a home.

I don't feel home

I want home

I WANT HOME

BUT I'M NOT, AND I WON'T

I JUST WANT HOME.

I want fucking home.

...

...

...

I just want home...

Can I go home..?

where is it...

Where is my safe place...

When did I lose it?

Why are so many idiots around the planet...

Why are we destroying the future..?

Why ...

JUST WHY CAN'T I FEEL SAFE A SINGLE SECOND OF MY LIFE!?!?

Why can't I feel safe...

Why can't I go home...

I want home

I want home

I want HOME

I JUST WANT HOME

I. Want. Home.

I want...

I...

...

Where is home...

Why do I keep going?

There's no reason to keep going

But I do it

For some reason

I don't want to die

Even though it would be so much easier...

I don't.

I just keep on living.

In this fucked up city

From this fucked up country

ON THIS FUCKED UP PLANET.

..

...

..........

I want home...

[prettyboythings-blog]

Welcome to Burger King, what would you like to order today?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

A whopper with some fries and coke.

;) ;)

[lavander-aavaros]

After browsing through 2 and 3 year old reddit posts, I can definitely understand why some people ended up feeling betrayed by RE:H. Even though I had the complete opposite experience. I distinctly remember seeing "anti-dating sim" on the itchio page back in 2019, but I guess they didn't keep that to the very end?

It's certainly a depressing game, but browsing all those comments really just makes me appreciate that this game exists even more

(Spoilers ahead)

I can certainly relate to Dov's feelings of frustration at dating sims, the standard of a "happy ending reward" and fluffy sex/romance, all that

I played it when it first came out (and holy shit, it really has been 3 years), and at that point, I hadn't yet accepted my asexuality, let alone aromanticism.

I guess, my point is, the sex and romance in the game really hit a part of me that took a few more years to decipher. I flirted with all the characters in the "standard" way and I honestly dreaded the "relationship end" that would inevitably come. But I was prepared to bear it for vampires and pretty art. And honestly, because I'm used to it. No matter how much you try, you can't escape sex and romance. The best case scenario is finding a few friends that will shut up about it around you

And it is what it is, you know? People find joy in sex and romance and they're not wrong for it. Conflicting needs and all that

...And then, that "relationship end" never came.

I've been replaying the game, currently on Markus' route, which is what sparked all of this.

And Markus... oh, Markus. I did the flirting, I said I wanted to have sex. Some of it was curiosity, I wanted to see ALL the text. And some of it was going along with what I was used to. You flirted, now have sex. This is your own doing.

Now, I'm not much into noncon. On a good day, I simply don't think about it, on a bad day it squicks the hell out of me. Which is a problem when I want to vent out my sex repulsion and read some straight up Bad Sex, and the only Bad Sex I can find is noncon. (I can write my own, but sometimes you just want to relate to a character, you know?)

And then Markus' scene came along, and it was the first time I'd seen some downright uncomfortable consensual sex. He asks if you want to have sex. You say yes. It's on his own terms and he says he will be "doing the impaling". You have sex. It's not good sex.

And with Markus, with honestly the entirety of RE:H, it was the first time that Sex And Romance Conclusion felt... good. It was the first time that reading sex and romance didn't feel like a punishment for my curiosity. "I started this, now I have to see how it ends. Ah fuck, the characters fell in love and now they're having sex. If only I wasn't playing a dating sim. Oh well, it's too late to turn back now"

Which, I admit, is an... odd mindset, given that I could just not play dating sims. But I like clicking the spacebar button and looking at pretty pictures!

I am half joking, I did spend a good chunk of my life reading and playing romance in hopes that, one day, if i did it long enough, I would just get over my repulsion and "be normal"

I've seen people say that the RE:H sex and relationships felt like a punishment. I think that was Dov's original plan, if I remember correctly?

But for me, it was the first time I actually felt rewarded for bearing the flirting. The happy Relationship And Sex reward was never rewarding to me, because honestly, I don't get why anyone would like that in the first place. Why would you ever want something that makes you feel gross and uncomfortable, you know? (I am aware that people in this world do like sex, but I just cannot relate)

So when I got uncomfortable and downright bad sex, I finally felt rewarded with relatability. "Yes! This is what sex is! This is what flirting and relationships feel like!"

This is what sex and relationships have always been to me. Repulsive and uncomfortable and, worst of all, unavoidable. Yes, sure, in real life, you can simply not have sex, you can stay single. But let's be real here, it's unavoidable when you like vampire fiction and action movies. And I could never relate to the fluffy ace characters that just... don't have sex.

I don't have a problem with people feeling betrayed and disliking the game, we all have different tastes. But, for me, at a point in my life where I hadn't accepted myself, at a time in my life where I was trying to "fix myself", RE:H was the first time I could have my cake and eat it too

I'm getting quite emotional. RE:H wasn't my saving grace. It wasn't everything and it still took years for me to get comfortable with myself. But, perhaps, call it a helping hand. A step on the ladder out of my own self-inflicted hell.

Though RE:H is bleak and depressing, and I can't risk playing it when I haven't had enough sleep, it truly means a lot to me and it will always have a place in my heart

[magnoliawaltz]

I wish we had more Kazuki in TBY

Me too, anon. He was cool in a somewhat dangerous way, but also looked like he was going to disappear at any moment, as if only a mere vestige of his existence remained there.

But to be honest, following TBY's line of thought, if they showed more scenes of Kazuki just to have him be a scumbag father figure to KoSoushi I don't think I could take it lol. Do you realize he left the island without saying sorry to him once? Now that I think about, I don't remember him apologizing even to Soushi in DA. He only said he wanted to do that, but then there was nothing to forgive because Soushi was actually grateful.

Hohoh... Is that also part of Makabe Kazuki's hubris...

TBY was trying to remove itself from the shadow of Kazuki and Soushi's story, right. That's fine (it's not but let's pretend it is), but it also refused to give us relief by presenting his conclusion. It feels incomplete. Purposefully so (eternal return...), but still.

More than that, it feels like they intentionally omitted some vital scenes here and there to leave us speculating. The fact I keep seeing wildly different interpretations about his behavior in the last two episodes in the Japanese side is a good indicative of that. It's like the tabula rasa in that way. It could go either towards a positive development or a negative one, it is only full of potential.

And I am a pessimistic person, so I can only imagine somewhat gloomy scenarios after that ending lol. Because what I want most is to Kazuki to come to reject that island's way of thinking too. KoSoushi did a lot but it wasn't nearly enough, and he too embraced militaristic power with real zeal, otherwise he would have no voice there. Even the meaning of a blessing has been re-contextualized, so they've all supposedly been freed from any restrictions imposed by the Mir, right? Stop being a soldier, Kazuki. Stop.

Well, he already left that place anyway, maybe that's enough for now. I think it was meaningful to end TBY by having two characters who had to fight since childhood, to the point they stopped being human, leave with their deadly machines. They finally earned the opportunity to see the world with their own eyes and reevaluate their experiences.

[cryptide-tr]

these two images are honestly a massive labor of love during my time with my 2nd encounter with covid, these cars are drawn by hand as vintage hearse images at these angles don’t exist along with me just loving these two ocs

[sunnylolli]

Something, something, what if it all went really wrong and they were forced to speed-run the brotherly bonding

[moccasins]

if we're mutuals, i see you as a good friend but i am allergic to starting conversations

sometimes i see art from mutuals on my dash and think "LOOK. LOOK MY FRIEND DREW THAT EVERYONE LOOK" and then i remember that they probably don't really know who i am lmao

[gamblingluck]

nghtshroud asked:

hi he's here to grab a fistful of ace's hair

The gambler simply hadn't a clue that was going to happen in this odd conversation he'd been having with another (Kate) but after they'd gone off away, he's freezing up before immediately putting a hand to his mouth to silence what had ALMOST happened.

Getting a sideways glance at who it was, Ace just groans out in response after that. Not EVERYONE needed to hear that-- They were immediately red in the face from that or so it felt like anyway.

"H-HEY--"

[notherpuppet]

Aftermath

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[kimeoshi]

Final Victor lightcone but make it SO much worse

[kaptnkablooey]

Part one of gravity falls oldies as incorrect quotes :)

I’ve got many more left to draw but I’ve got studies so it might be a bit hfsdjfnsefk

[wolfythewitch]

Guys you have to understand, every horny comment I've ever made was a bit. I am so very asexual

[soulmvtes]

i love finding heart shapes everywhere

[therearecookiesdraws]

[fairydrowning]

"Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality."

– Nizar Qabbani