#i also just remember their designs the best

[neverpathia]

reinterpretation on the voice of the cold.

okay so I was designing vot cold and I had no idea what to put in his design, and then I remembered that I was Chinese (Malaysian and banana but still), so I just put in a bunch of oriental elements in his design as shown below (unfinished)

and then I JUST REALISED

COLD IS ACTUALLY KIND OF LIKE ONE OF US ASIAN KIDS, NO NO NO HEAR ME OUT

if we take Narrator as TLQ's father, which he technically kind of is, then it kind of puts the Spectre route in a new light. analysis under the cut

the Cold listens to his 'father' and does what he's told out of a sense of obligation. unquestioningly. immediately. even if it goes against all morals and all conscience and everything you may hear from outside influences.

the narrator is clearly manipulative. he shames and belittles you when you try to go against his ideals. he's angry and harsh with you when you try to question his teachings, or rather lack thereof. and yet he still expects you to listen and follow his orders. and yet he still expects you to succeed. but when you do follow him, he does try to be kind, like a father would to a son he ought to love.

the narrator is an Asian parent confirmed

the voice of the cold doesn't question it and just follows along. and I know it's probably because he was bored and wanted something to happen.

but what if he followed because it was his duty? and what if he wanted his father to be proud of him for once, for something? what if he finally attained the success his father promised him, for all the work he put in, only to realise it was a lie?

only to realise the glory would wear off and leave something hollow behind. or, to realise that there isn't enough of a person left to bask in that glory, because you've stripped all your humanity away for its sake.

the cold sets aside his humanity for the sake of the task his 'father' sets on him. because it's, according to his 'father', the only thing he is supposed to do. because it's apparently his purpose. because if he doesn't, he is a failure. because he brought him into this world and it's supposed to be who he is.

but after he 'succeeds', what happens next?

perhaps the cold wasn't always cold. perhaps he just forced himself to be cold because he couldn't let himself be otherwise if he wanted to please his 'father'. perhaps he's just disappointed, because he expected so much more. his 'father' was pleased, but was he himself pleased? no, he wasn't. but his 'father' wouldn't listen.

the success means nothing when you've lost who you are. when you dedicate yourself so thoroughly to your job that you forget how to feel.

this also kind of reframes how you loop to Chapter II. like this is going to be kind of dark, but. you're despairing and disappointed. you realise that the person you've looked up to all this time isn't actually as much as you thought he was. and worse still, he doesn't even try to hear you out or listen to you or even treat you as a human being. and you just killed someone and you're probably guilty, but he won't even try to properly comfort you. he'll just say you did your job, and you ought to be proud of it.

it's not going to be the best feeling in the world. so he, yeah. takes the pristine blade. raises it against...

cold my baby when did this happen I feel so sorry for him now what the fuck?

this could also explain why the cold represses his feelings, and why he's just willing to try anything afterwards. because he's lost his sense of self, his purpose in life. the only thing left is boredom and interest. bleak nothingness, against stimulation.

okay cold is growing on me cold is growing on me SO MUCH holy SHIT oh my god oh my god oh my god I love you paranoid I love you broken but????? new favourite voice?????? unless someone in the reblogs finds evidence against everything but shush can I please have headcanons

[combefier]

the thing that really gets me about how bad the writing for rook in particular is is that it would take so little effort to make it better. and it would probably make the writers' jobs a lot more interesting, too. you should be able to piss off your companions. in every other dragon age, you can piss off your companions. you can piss them off so badly that they try to kill you. if you just sort of fail to impress people one way or another in da2, you can end up having to fight your best friends to the death, or have one of them peace out after prompting an invasion of your city. the ability to have conflict with your companions wasn't always handled WELL (trying to talk to cullen about mage rights in dai comes to mind, as does trying to talk to dorian about slavery beyond the one conversation), but the option was there. it seems like the only way you can piss off your companions here is by making tactical disagreements they don't like. there's no room to have a personality some of your companions find off-putting, even though there are multiple points where your companions are put off by one another. purple hawke we're so not back. and the reason can't be "well you had to be someone varric would choose," because varric's best friend was hawke and there can be very many different kinds of hawke.

you're given a fascinating backstory and it will not come up beyond occasional comments relevant to your faction. mourn watch rook why does your backstory almost never come up i would tell people that story all the time. it's like dming for a player who came up with the most rich backstory you've ever seen and then watching them ignore it every time you dangle plot hooks in front of them. bioware do you remember what you wrote. bioware u good???? the sanitization of various factions aside because that's its whole own post, it would be so easy to give a dialogue here and there where rook could show more of what sort of rook they are by letting them reflect on their backstory. it would be so easy to write aggressive answers that are actually aggressive.

i've spent enough time in editing that i've just been trying to figure out if there's any possible motivation beyond a lack of investment in their own story, or a shocking paucity of good editors in their work environment. is it because the way they designed the game necessitates that everyone be there at the end? but you can still fuck up the ending by making the wrong choices there, à la me2, and you were allowed to piss people off in me2. if you can get people killed at the end anyway, why not let the choices you made and the responses you chose matter beyond "did you do enough sidequests?"

at a certain point, it's just confusing. they know how to do this, even if they don't always do it well. the lack of any real room for agency or personality or conflict is just... odd. this is also leaving aside how easy it would have been to incorporate SOME past choices from past games per their previous work. bioware i just want to talk

[blissfullyecho]

A Very Niche Level-Up + Looksmaxxing Idea List for 2025

This list is for the girls that get it. It’s niche and not for everyone, but I’m throwing up at the fact that every “how to level up in 2025” post talks about journaling sad pages 24/7, drinking 8 cups of water a day, and walking 10k steps. How original.

Again, this is a very niche set of ideas. If you can’t relate then you can’t relate. But if you enjoy a good plastic surgery post and luxe lifestyle, maybe you will :)

1. Upgrade your car. We’re getting the Lexus’, the BMW’s, the Mercedes, the Jag’s, etc.

2. Upgrade your home. We’re living in high rises, we’re living in coastal areas, we’re living up in the mountains, we’re living where Amazon can drop our package off and we don’t have to worry about a porch pirate; we’re living in nice areas and in nice units/homes.

3. Breast augmentation.

4. Rhinoplasty.

5. Medical grade skincare.

6. Fresh, organic whole foods; focusing on lean protein, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, onions, leafy greens, pro/prebiotics, sea moss gel, etc.

7. Russian manicures and pedicures or a good acrylic set. Dip powder had its thing for a while but I’m not going to dip my nail in a powder everyone else dipped their nails. I bet they don’t even wash their hands and if they did, they prob didn’t even use soap.

8. Laser hair removal. Everywhere. If you want a design down there that’s cool, but you literally use the bathroom and it drips in the hair. “Oh but I use a wipe”. Okay, next time you need to wash your hair.. don’t use shampoo. Use a wipe. Invest in a bidet but still, hair shouldn’t be in your 🍑 or near the sensitive areas of your 🦋 the top is fine but if you have a period, pee, or “the other thing”, hair should be no where near those areas.

9. Lip filler. Everyone can benefit. Ask for a pout that sticks out a little bit. I don’t suggest a lip flip, I couldn’t do anything with a lip flip and it was driving me nuts.

10. Fake tan. Sunlight is fine but a spray tan just makes you look a million times better. Every skin tone and every race benefits from a spray tan. Trust.

11. Muscle definition. Muscle looks so much better than fat AND bones. You want muscle. Did you see how Bella Hadid had her foot on our necks at the VS fashion show this year? I was sickkkkkk.

12. Long hair. But if you have a face shape like Hailey Beiber, short hair looks better.

13. Makeup. Remember water-based products and oil-based products don’t mix, so make sure you choose your products wisely so your makeup doesn’t separate and you look a mess.

14. A better paying job. I left my hospital job and now I work in luxury real estate and international yacht sales.

15. Red light therapy for face and body. I have a body red light therapy dome that I got online for around $3,000 (USD) and it’s life. The one I have for the face is from Sephora and I spent like $400-$500 on that one. Whatever it says on the website.

16. Lashes. If you’re a pro at strip lashes, then yes. But I get my lashes done. Do not go crazy. Natural lashes are in so I ask for a classic whispy set focused for thickening my lash line and NOT for length.

17. Morpheus8 for skin tightening. I used it on my inner thighs and it literally saved my life

18. Lipo. If you’re a good candidate, get it. Sometimes belly pooch is hard to lose. I don’t have a pooch but I’m sure when I have kids I will.

19. Vampire facials. I can confidently say my best facials were vampire facials. My med spa charges around $950 for each facial

20. People can tell you’re wearing Shein. Their clothes are cute online but I’m going to hold your hand when I say this, they never look flattering in person when they’re being worn. People can see the loose thread and the see-through material. They also don’t fit anyone well and makes a lot of you look square. You get what you pay for in clothing. Learn about the basics of clothing and you’ll quickly only buy quality.

Yeah this list isn’t meant for everyone, but walking 10,000 steps isn’t going to take you to the next level. Neither is drinking water. They’re good habits, but they’re not going to level you up. And yeah I understand my list requires having money, but this is literally what my blog is about.

My 2025 Mindset Level Up book is here!

[acesw]

Knowing our Arcanists 7: Charlie

Welcome to entry seven of my series: "Knowing our Arcanists"! This is a series in which I introduce and tell the stories of our fellow characters in Reverse: 1999. For our final character for this week, we have: Charlie!

Its my anxious queen who carried me in 1.0. Gosh her design needs a small reboot but I love her anyway because she can at least slay in it. Lets get started.

Charlie is an English arcanist from the 1650's, born on April 23rd. Her arcane skill is in relation to making brief illusions, which is fueled by her love for drama and acting.

She's a very anxious yet a daring person, who takes on the mantle of her grandfather William Shakespeare. Being a direct descendant, she was very much destined for a life full of drama, but she did not expect it to be like where she is now.

There was a troupe named the "King's Men," an acting company who was very much well known in the country as well as all of Europe at the time. First led by William, the company acted for many years until it was forced to officially close in 1640s, when the Puritans in Parliament gained control and forced the closure of theatre.

The English civil war led to the death of the king and the love for theatre, but the King's Men remained determined, shifting to become an outlaw troupe known as "The People's Men."

Prior to its outlawing, Charlie had not known her origins nor about the troupe, and did not want to take part in it until she was forced to join. Learning that the troupe planned to fight Cromwell, she made 13 attempts to run away before eventually giving up and reluctantly deciding to join them. She continued to hate it until one rehearsal where one of the actors fell ill and chose her to substitute for him.

She entered that stage full of nervousness, but by the end she received thunderous applause and cheering. She didn't anticipate such outcome, nor the fact that she was genuinely happy for the first time in her life. This is what allowed her to unlock her potential as an arcanist and a Shakespeare.

After the outlawing of plays and the dismissal of the actors, the current People's Men remained on the run for months or perhaps years, hosting illegal performances for those who request, and will make their run once they are seen.

Many of these requests needed to usually be decided by Charlie, but on some occasions, The Fool needs to try to convince her.

One such case was when they had gone to a town named "Autonoma" to perform for a secret festival. While I can't exactly remember much, this was one of the moments where the troupe had been close to being caught by the knights, but Charlie decided to keep the show going by making her defense against them by performing a trick with her skill.

When that trick failed and she was about to be caught, her troupe and the townspeople backed her up, and they drove the knights away. They celebrated the victory with the troupe's performance.

To think, Charlie's a very anxious and yet a very brave girl. While her anxiety causes her to have a great deal of self-doubt, her insecurities can be briefly burned away by her fiery passion and her unwavering resolve to put on a show. She'll forget how much she really hates herself in such moment.

But she also wishes to return home and lead a simple life as a farmer, taking her time to instead just read her grandfather's plays rather than perform them. But alas, her fate had other plans, and she can't exactly run away now. But would she really want to in the first place if this entire thing made her happy?

Charlie also greatly cares for her troupe, and wishes to do the best with them no matter what, but she can't shake off her gripes with them. She even hates the costume that she wears, curses them in her notes at times, and enjoys the days off that she gets.

However, her dedication to acting cannot be dismissed by her nor by others, so she'll keep going by her heart even if her mind refuses. She'll refuse to give up on the crew that refused to give up on her.

For what it's worth, she simply needs to be motivated enough to continuously ignite that passion, and follow by her hope that her performance and her illusions can also fill the joy and love in people's admiration in theatre. Maybe someday, through this, she'll find the confidence to love herself and what she's able to do as well.

[kerizaret]

I'm lacking in time a bit to draw rn so instead here's a collection of some doodles from class I collected over a while that I forgot to share

And some glasses Rui because I've been educated on this fantastic hc

[yogurtlid10000]

sss deceptitrio

[mintjeru]

a bite-sized everelle comic for pocky day!!

open for better quality | no reposts

[skrs-cats]

designing warrior cats whatever way u want outside of canon descriptions is awesome bc u have the creative freedom to do so ❌

designing warrior cats whatever way u want outside of canon descriptions is awesome bc u will mistake a word as a color of Something Else and no one will bat an eye bc they will think it is ur creative freedom when ur actually just stupid ✅

[mossypidder]

I have more reasons but I don’t have the energy to write them right now.

But yeah, I’ve been thinking about what I’d be if I were in Faas and Enya’s universe and I thought I’d be a changeling as well for a while for many reasons, but upon further consideration I think I was wrong. So here’s the first concept art for a my avian persona.

As for the songs (which was one of the main influences on why I started thinking about avians because I realized that over the last six months the majority of songs I’ve been obsessed with have bird centric undertones at the very least) you can find them here

[todayisafridaynight]

sometimes i think about daigo interacting with the mundane and thinking about mine and i throw up a little bit ngl

[arolesbianism]

Despite how much I suffered making my last isat au Aris sprite redraw, I decided to do it again and once again went through hell doing it. There’s like a billion mistakes in this (such as her having the wrong arm rip) but at the end of the day I’m still happy with how it turned out :]

[triglycercule]

triglycercule..

STOP I HAVENT FINISHED MY THANK YOU ART FOR THE FIRST BUNDLE OF JK AU DRAWINGS YOU SENT ME AND NOW YOURE GIVING ME THE FULL VERSION OF THE FOURTH ON E??? ����🙁‼️⁉️⁉️⁉️🙏🙏😭😭😭😭 THEH LOOK SO CUTE AND ADORABLE ANS PERFECT YOU DRAW THEM SO WELL I LOVE THE GRAYSCALE LOOK AND SEEINF THEM WITH LEGS THIS TIME IS SOOO CUTE I LOVE SEEING LEGWARMERS I M GENUINELY TEEKING GEEKING DYING IM SO THANKFUL FOR THIS‼️‼️‼️!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE A LEDGEND YIUR A GOD YOUR EVERYTHING THST THE WORLD NEEDED IM SO HAOPY SOMEONE DREW THE JK MTT I DIDN'T EVEN PUT THST MUCH EFFORT INTO IT.,,,,,.... theyre so happy they make ME so happy AND ASIDE FROM THST YOURE ACTUALLY SO GOOD AT ART THOUGH THIS IS JUST A sketch PROBABLY. clothing folds 🤤🤤🤤🤤 expressions 🤤🤤🤤🤤 hahhnds 🤤🤤🤤🤤 why do i feel like i shouldve see this artstyle from someone before. who are you gshaewru. what type of name is thatHUH??? NTBE TYPE OF NAMR AN AMAZING PERSON WOULD HAVE FOR THEIR UMBLR ACCOUNT YOURE SO AMAZING PLEASE DON'T DIE. ok but again thank you so much for the jk!mtt art i've never been more overjoyed in my life this is like a blessing from the gods themselves for me. NOBODY KNOWS HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME

[smittyw]

fred turnaround! hahaa bazinga

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than rules

Working on Modified Set 2.0! I've made some commons today and the ally-color archetypes are:

Auras

Modified

Equipment

Supplies

And Enchantments

A lot of these probably really need the context of the enemy-color archetypes to make sense, but this post is already long. One little hint: Red also gets Resonance creatures, but Differently.

[quibbs126]

Random thing I literally just thought up, but what if Golden Cheese was like, stuck in a sarcophagus?

Like, someone tricked her/overthrew her (maybe Cheedas?) and put her in the sarcophagus, telling her subjects that she died, and then making it so that no one will ever release her (maybe they put it in a tomb that’s littered with traps or something)

However, because of her Soul Jam, she can’t actually die or something, so she’s just stuck in this coffin with no clue where she actually is and just has to wait for someone to come and release her. She’s been stuck there for several years now and at some point she just like, fell into a coma or something because while she can’t die, she still hasn’t been eating or drinking and hasn’t moved in years, so her body’s pretty emaciated

So along comes Gingerbrave and friends, looking for Golden Cheese, only to find she apparently died. However they eventually hear word of where her tomb is and/or that people are suspicious of how exactly she died, and so they go there to see things for themselves. They eventually find her sarcophagus and think she did indeed die. Then someone accidentally opens the sarcophagus and her body falls out, which no one really wants to move, only for her to suddenly wake up and surprise everyone

I dunno, I just had a thought of Golden Cheese going “I was stuck in a sarcophagus for 50 years, I have no clue what’s going on”

Also I think some of her concept art has a sarcophagus, or at least what looks like one

[kg2hub]

kindergala? more like: lou singlehandedly revives the kindergarten tumblr rp community part 2 electric boogaloo /lh /silly