#hfw duck

[robo-dino-puppy]

ducks in the forbidden west

bird experts correct me, but I think this is a cinnamon teal duck? i'd never heard about them until i was trying to figure out what duck i was looking at for this post - they're quite beautiful!

[untalented-and-tired]

• Game : Horizon Forbidden West (2022)

• Developer : Guerrilla Games

• Taken on : PS5

I just like seagulls

[nochi-quinn]

candela obscura chapter 3 episode 3: slay the empress

candles in the wind, got it

oh no aabria looks SO GOOD

the gold on the fingers???

hey what the fuck

"a chair outside of elsie's room" weh

not the vermin guard posted outside the room

wait hang on what are nokari's pronouns? am I delusional?

a brain right off the bat??

A TOKEN RIGHT OFF THE BAT??

"you…kept it?" you two are going to kill me but also is this the TIME

"oscar is an interesting fellow" ducks the shippers

AABRIA

"that's all of them, friend"

everyone here has two hands

cosmo

hey liam fuck you

LIGHTS?

HEARTBEAT??

SLOWING HEARTBEAT??

madame glask's mic is currently fucked

mama glask

"but I go here"

roll to convince child not to alcohol

I had to step away, did oscar just say he likes kids bc they're easy to lie to

samuel

"you're killing aabria. look at her."

cheese it it's the fuzz

party of Many

LIGHTS

are they fucking MOLOTOVING THE CASINO

"of COURSE"

GINA

samuel

people's elbow

aabria said no pigeons at this table

stress level: sam's going "oh boye"

"powers?? of….persuasion???"

"HEY STOP THAT"

"pop a titty out" aabria

"well then fuck"

"I WANT TO KICK ASS" noshir bby

roll to persuade the gm

HEY AABRIA???

"you guys can be here now" "…no thanks"

fuck bran the soldier all my homies hate bran the soldier

guns is cheating

YEAH

"can I have my dice back?"

okay flash powder pearl earring is pretty good

girl with the flash powder earring

"I feel like I would beast out immediately" "oh, GOOD"

I feel like two sixes should cancel out a one

aabria MEAN

"she'll probably choose nice things" press x

"fucking COCK"

"do you drive?" "who do I look like?"

"I have no depth perception!"

oh ashly's panic noises :(

RAJ. CONTROL THYSELF.

"DON'T KINKSHAME."

"this is the monsterfucker season!"

no we need travis reverse psychologizing the dice

oh no

oh NO

"BURCH"

"he's a billion years old"

"I think of my mother" fuck you liam o'brien

these monster noises are like bricks scraping together but bass-boosted and I'm into it

"I like that pitch"

aabria. aabria no.

"she's so mean"

"what are you doing over there?" HER BEST

these two are going to k i l l me

and possibly each other

probably definitely cosmo

"I could never strike my queen" lays in the floor

"and he's made of talcum powder"

"you need to roll like him"

hey liam

hey liam what the fuck does that mean

just a bunch of passed-out fuckers outside the burning casino

"I just want to let you know you're so pretty right now"

aabria: take a bleed and you can kill this gu sam: done

"we take it back, mina, you can drink"

oh buddy

buff mina!!

imposter god??

fuck yeah multisentry

she's in her morphing clothes

liam do not manipulate this so you die

I'm still not sure he didn't knock the tower over on purpose in sagas of sundry

I'm typing so I don't have to listen to his describe how horrifically he's fucked up

NOW I'M TYPING SO I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO NOSHIR

sam is me

"I'm gonna take off HIS coat and wrap his arm"

liam your noises are unneccesary and unappreciated

samuel

"he's very hittable"

"what a sight" rajan

underground??

"it's called rollies"

"you have to beat a 3" "well I got a 1"

MINA D:

I absolutely called he was going to block mina with his body

sam's just like that

"an os-scar"

"edit that out please" "they absolutely will not"

that's so many drive

spend 3 drive to Slap

gina

aabria's going to murder you

"every time I have a problem, I just throw a molotov. then boom, I have a different problem."

wait I need raj's arm to fall the rest of the way off so I can have HFW feels

sam

"everyone take three points of bleed"

slow-release molotov

sounds!

"they're like birthday candles"

OOH

I appreciate the committment to the bit

TIME BUGS

"'you' feels like a 'we' in your mouth"

oh jesus this is supposed to run another 2 and a half hours

"I wouldn't worry about that" too late am worried

noshir

you're going to give sam an anuerysm

candela obscura has magic pockets

hey sam

hey sam drop your location I just wanna talk

SAM

"there is a wish" sam's not allowed to say those words in my presence

"if you say it it won't come true"

"it never makes a splash" hey aabria what the fuck

THIS is why it's another two hours

"did you say 'friend'?!" "…NO."

baka rajan-kun

"I heard you~"

"don't hurt yourself"

…is aabria done up as Iomene

at this point I wouldn't be surprised if cosmo just pulled out his own literal jawbone

"how adorably pedestrian" rajan

I'm starting to get slay the princess vibes. I have no basis for this, it's literally just Vibes

"like a giant……maw."

"I'm gonna tiptoe into chernobyl"

these two are gonna KILL ME

bruce banner negotiating with the hulk vibes

ykw this polycule is canon and I'll fight you about it

not the breathing

"I would punch her out of the way"

w e l p

these five are going to all kill each other and also me

"there might be time later"

"WHICH ONE WAS IT"

"I'm sure that's fine"

if there's one thing liam o'brien's gonna do it's make me cry about his character's mom

is The Old Way blood

hey cosmo whatcha doin

aaaahhhhh noises

EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS

oh that's a cool idea for a scar

I've loved everybody's scars in general, they're all really creative

yeah yeah tears of the kingdom we've all played it

oh it's one of THOSE

I like the split screen but one of my favorite things is watching the other players react to the wild shit people do solo and I so desperately want to see ashly's face right now

aabria you can't just cut ALL the lights like that I have anxiety

and so does sam

hello 911 aabria and sam are killing me with acting again

the slay the princess vibes continue

lays in the floor about elsie roberts

"you contain multitudes" some of them have big big teeth

"I have notes"

"not as old as you" "rude"

he said the thing

oh sam's been crying, liam got sam

no fuck you I did the "five go in one comes out" with madness I'm not doing this again

erika ishii already ripped my heart out you can't have it aabria

lays in the floor about elsie roberts harder

sam

oh gina

liam just has that voice now

[h0riz0nstuff]

Flying with geese. It seems almost incredible to me that up to this week I never realized there were geese in HFW. I thought I had all the birds but when I found a list to check, I saw "geese" and I was all "… what ? what geese ? I didn't see any goose !! where are they ??" I thought the duck was the geese of HFW xD Also, I spent like 20 minutes walking the place where they were supposed to be without seeing a SINGLE FLIPPING GOOSE. (Also, I was attacked by that surprise thunderjaw, but that's beside the point.) But then, when I went back a bit later, because dammit they had to be there and I would find them (!!) they started spawning like crazy. I still have to take pics with gulls because while they were the first birds I took pics of while in flight, it was before I realized that birds flying with you mechanic existed, so I think what I got initially was one of the flocks of gulls while flying through it, not a single gull flying with me… Anyway, bird shenanigans.

[wildthunder312]

Summary: Beta experiences a thunderstorm for the first time- and Aloy helps her through it.

Finally finished the thunderstorm fic ive been writing!  its based on this post I wrote up a while back

[phoebesshippingmanifest]

Gotta say, and I'm definitely projecting, but I love the idea of Aloy being demisexual. Like, she goes through all of HZD being alternately awkward, eye-rolling, or dismissive with the people flirting with/fawning over her and boy did I empathize.

I get that being an Outcast made her very socially awkward, but the number of times she had to duck out of an "Oh crap, they're hitting on me!" situation dumped me right back in my highschool years, picking up my partners' hands off my upper thighs and being absolutely befuddled when random people made physical innuendos at me.

And then we get to HFW and Kotallo marches in, reminding me of my husband in a million little ways, and my heart sings out "Get it, gurl!" to Aloy because damn if attraction through deep emotional connection and profound mutual respect isn't actually fantastic and I want that for her. She deserves to feel that.

[occasionalbaker]

Ginger biscuits & ginger cake

My mum isn’t well at the moment. So last weekend I baked her a lemon drizzle cake. I’ve made lemon drizzle cakes a million times from this recipe. However, I went to a friends house recently and she made a cake from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s recipe, and it was even nicer. My friend put it down the duck eggs she used (she keeps ducks) but I think that the recipe is actually just more lemony. 

Anyway - made one, passed it on, and it was enjoyed greatly. I didn’t actually have any, but the general feeling was that it was lemony & moist, as hoped. Why am I telling you this? I’m not, really. Just using this as a reminder of where to find the recipe. I also made her some of the hobnob style biscuits and to be honest, they went down *really* well. Every time I’ve made the hobnob biscuits they’re a winner. Friends of the boyfriend managed to eat an entire batch in about 5 minutes.

This weekend I took my mum some ginger cookies. I didn’t have quite enough dark drown sugar so used black treacle instead, which gave the biscuits a really nice, rich colour.

They’re super easy to make. Also good if you don’t have a lot of room - nothing to roll out, just shape them with your hands and whack em on the tray (or silicone baking mat, which I have and absolutely love). 

Today I made another HFW cake - a sticky ginger cake. I can’t be bothered to take a photo for a blog no one reads, but if you are reading, it’s *amazing*. I don’t think I’ll ever make it again as there is so. much. sugar. in it, but it’s lovely. 100g golden syrup AND 100g of black treacle - and then some extra sugar, of course. The final mixture is properly runny, to the point that I thought there was something wrong. I read and re-read the recipe but everything sounded right, so I poured it into the tin and hoped for the best. The final cake is delicious. 

It takes like a posh, high quality Jamaican ginger cake. A much richer flavour, but also sticky and not worthy. You’re supposed to leave it a few days before you eat it, but... who is he kidding. 

Maybe I will make another one, but perhaps I’ll leave it a few weeks. A few days. 

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | aloy 41/?

large vertical version below the cut if anyone's interested in it :)

[h0riz0nstuff]

Flying with a duck.