#halfbad

[will80sbyers]

[antiphotogenicfilmographer]

i was just rewatching tbsatdh and made a realization. clark is 29 and knew gabriel for 9 months. gabriel is 19. idk what to even think about that, like of course gabriel is gonna be afraid of commitment, he's 19 and probably doesn't want to spend his life with someone 10 years older than him, especially when he wants to seem a lot older than he is, and mentally, he would probably somehow feel inferior to clark because of how much experience clark has probably had in relationships in comparison to gabriel.

[weclassybouquetfun]

It's always hard when a ship never gets to fully thrive.

I guess it's for the best. I mean, we don't have to fret over anyone turning into a tree or summat.

[sleepyjo000]

Imagine if Ao3 being down for ten hours made some people want what they can't have, and publish some more Bastard Son fic.

[alec-1016]

ive been away cause of finaks and shit and depression but

i watched half bad, and i am now on the 3rd book. they are so good?? like they are vv different. gabriel is fucking amazing on both, my favorite character. nathan is soooo much darker in the books, it is vv cool. the council and soul are more ambiguous in the begginning of the series, while at the start of the first book they are already estabilished assholes. i looove annalise in the show, she is strong, badass, kind. in the books, and i think this is partly bc of nathan's changed feelings for her, she is very annoying, too innocent for the war they are forced to fight. i likd that jessica was more important in the show, but i also really loved to see arran and deborah in the books.

the show really caught my attention with the love triangle turned polyamory, which im always a fan of, but in the books i really cant see nathan and annalise ever being together.

i probably will talk more soon

[antiphotogenicfilmographer]

without a day i want all my followers on every social platform to binge watch the bastard son and the devil himself five times over and i am willing to binge watch with them, each and every time

new question if you could force all of ur followers to watch/play through/read one piece of media what would it be

[captain-cold-approved]

currently writing a coffee shop au and a slightly more angsty 5 + 1 fic (which is a format I've never done before) in an elaborate way to avoid doing homework.

[moonsworndandelion]

have a lil portrait

[yomigummies]

day 7; alternate universe

in another universe, selene (who is a guy in this universe) meets his bestie first, tamarack, and catches her throwing the paper plane while in the woods!

i did a callback to my first piece because i really liked how that turned out...this isn't halfbad for a re-attempt! :3

well, that's it! i managed to finish all the prompts for OLNF Week 2024! YIPPEE

[whosralf]

"What would happen if all your favorite characters found themselves in the same room?"

Just try to imagine Magnus(TMI),Gabriel(HALFBAD),Crowley(GO) and the Cat King(DBD) in the same fucking room.

TRY.

[wolf-among-mechs]

MW5: Clans

Having messed around with Mechwarrior 5 Clans for a bit I think I can throw out a pretty strong recommendation for it for anyone still uncertain. The TLDR: I enjoy it plenty, lore and gameplay. The cutscenes and characters are pretty good.

I apparently made a review of it because I felt like talking about it into the void. With largely positive things to say about it. Bunch of stuff I honestly want to hear other people's opinions on too.

It is quite back to the old days in Mechwarrior 4 with characters and opinions and how it flows with the fights. While I enjoyed MW5 Mercs, it is kindof lacking in that department though as the DLCs pile on you get a lot more of it or at least attempts that aren't halfbad. Good effort has gone into making the people sound right, with accents and affects. Like yes, the clanners talk as they're supposed to. When one of your team uses a contraction every clanner outside your star immediatly lose their shit. Not in the meme sense but it they might as well have said c*nt next to a bunch of americans in terms of foulness spoken out loud.

The story following the smoke jaguars during Operation Revival is interesting considering they commit the worst war crime during the invasion and also kindof continually fumble the ball against the Combine. Your star, five lone mechs against the inner sphere, are part of the proceedings and the different characters in the star interact, sometimes disagree or just give each other shit. Got a nice team atmosphere. It introduces stuff and concepts among the clans quite nicely so even if you're not familiar with them you'll pick up what they're on about.

I think it does a pretty nice job of showing things from the Clans perspective of Operation Revival and how they are completely unprepared for the Inner Sphere and continually frustrated with it and things just going increasingly awry. There's a few beats that I think could've been done better certainly but I think it's good drama and a fun time in that regard. I could go more into what I think of the depictions of the clans in the game but that's basically some nerding out about the larger battletech universe and stuff. After turtle bay I kinda had that feeling that I've had in the past when a game makes you a culprit of a war crime or something terrible. A special kind of disgust made all the more visceral as you see the people, the resistance, in Turtle bay reacting to the bombing. Then everything blowing up.

Another thing that I quite like of this depiction is that the inner sphere does put up some serious resistance. Stuff doesn't roll over. They put up some serious fights. More often than not this is called dishonourable because the inner sphere descends into trickery and lies even though aforementioned trickery and lies are often extremely basic ambushes or "send more mechs to the fight." It is funny to contrast with Mercs where this just is how the Inner sphere fights. That said the clanners do eventually learn that they will set traps and ambush and attempt to fight unfair. Very often sending tons of mechs and people into the meat grinder in so doing. Some of the fights do get pretty intense and hard. You also get to see Comstar be Comstar. Wearing their space wizard garbs and being a manipulative force that will never tell you the truth.

The maps while feeling a bit more lived in than most of what Mercs managed to do, are kindof cramped and not great half the time for the kindof long range shooting matches more than half your equipment is good for, not helped that even with the added control to your lance or star mates you still have to be the one to step into the breach. Luckily there's many things you can do to fit that problem. I kindof wish that the star command screen had a pause function so that you could assign targets or at least go into bullet time. Because by the time the enemies show up. They're usually ontop of you so that's not really time to get your map out and play mechcommander. The fact it doesn't pause or slow down so you can set attacks or even give things preferences such as "maybe don't waste all your ammo on the fricking Locust when it will fall over from a stiff breeze" is honestly kindof baffling. Especialy how exciting it otherwise looks and how much detailing you can do with the Star mates XP and omnipods for their mechs. Which is not quite like tabletop omnipod but makes more sense than those omnipods.

Because of the tight maps the AI will more often than not walk in front of you when you're trying to hose something down way more often than they did in mercs. And they will complain about it when you invariably remove all thier back armor by mistake. You get used to it.

The fights feel pretty good honestly. Good challenging combat maps. They got a lot more field repair bays around compared to MW5:mercs. Which... I think I only remember 2? And were introduced like they were going to be more common in the campaign. Which holy shit, you're going to need those repair bays. You get to visit some really varied battlefields, a Star League depot, a cave system, cities and country side. Lots of mountain passes. Deserts and even do battle on a space port.

There's boss battles now. With various levels of canonicity. I don't know if we needed those but I see the point of them. They are usually there to give some variety to shooting stuff after waves of mechs and vehicles and vtols. You can also shoot down shilones now. I'd say aerospace fighters but it's all shilones.

All in all. If you enjoy mechwarrior, if you enjoy battletech. Chances are Mechwarrior 5 clans will have you eating well.

[antiphotogenicfilmographer]

so, for absolutely no reason and completely unasked for, i have decided that on this, my fourth watch of the bastard son, i would pay super close attention and make some theories that will go absolutely nowhere.

my first one is that gabriel is a drug dealer and doing so is part of his gift

[olderthannetfic]

When you in a fandom, and there's a corner of that fandom where people raceflip random characters, but it's like almost impossible to figure out because they just looks like OCs. Art isn't halfbad, but man, your raceflip is a your raceflip, you can't get angry when random people don't know who that is anymore, pls don't expect people to act or treat it like its canon, because man, some of you guys have now written more rants about people not getting that "It's blorbo, how can you not see that?" Than just moving on and making the art. Can raceflips be fun? Idk guess so from the looks of, it but you are kinda choosing to also make it less accessible for folks to know who that is unless they do research, and that's just how it be. Nothing wrong with it, and nothing wrong with preferring the original designs either.

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[sleepyjo000]

Make some noise for HalfBad, fans. 'Don't give up. Please vote and share. We'll never get it back if we don't try, in great numbers.

[thiskryptonite]

If you click HERE you’ll find 500+ gifs of Emilien Vekemans from his role in Halfbad: the bastardson and the devil himself. He is white, so please cast accordingly. I’ll continue to update this pack week to week as episodes are released. All gifs were made by me and are 268 x 160. You are welcome to resize these/edit for personal use, but do not redistribute or claim them as your own. Content warning: blood and kissing

[will80sbyers]

Byler & parallels masterpost:

Halfbad + byler and the love triangle framing | gifs

Jon & Steve and their roles in the parallels

Heartstopper + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3

I am not okay with this + foreshadowing? (ST has the same producer): 1 | 2

Benverly + Byler (The Duffers love the IT saga): 1 | 2

All the couples holding hands in ST: 1 | 2

Rovickie + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

M*leven + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Jancy + Byler: 1

Jopper + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Lumax + Byler: 1

M*leven break up posts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Endgame couples

Not endgame couples

7 = endgame ?

People changing themselves to make someone like them

The posters in their rooms mean something

masterpost with the GIFs