#i am definitely overthinking

[atomicradiogirl]

okay but did wilson buy a whole new engagement ring to propose to house with? or was it from one of his old proposals that his ex wives returned to him? i doubt he would buy a new ring to fake propose with but like i also wouldn’t put it past him. and what did he do with it after? did he just like hold onto it for the next time or did he actually give it to house in a joking “haha i mean you didn’t say no so here’s the ring” even though he definitely won’t wear it and it definitely won’t fit him.

[introspectivememories]

this is timbern immediately after first kiss:

and then this is them 3 hours later:

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Why does Christmas shopping feel so high-stakes?

Like what if I buy my friend something she doesn't love and she kills me or something?

[plumadot]

i made an ao3 account so i can finally leave comments but but but that's a big step for me so it may take a while hehe

[heliomanteia]

Organizing & contamination OCD Will Solace 🤝🏼 OCPD Annabeth Chase friendship forever in my head.

[apettypetrifiedbitch]

she asks that i tell you to remember her

the storylines with no way to change the outcome are amazing, and yet they inspire hate in my heart. especially if i end up in them repeatedly without planning to. i realised that i do not, in fact, like when all-powerful women step on me. and sadly that does mean that replaying this game again and again, i have come to dislike shifty quite a bit.

during my first playthrough, we felt like equals. we're both confused. we're both trapped. i'm still not sure wth is up with the narrator, but i'll be damned if i trust that dude. shifty, or "hands" as i was calling her at the time, felt like an ally. but overtime, she has started to feel like another captor. especially since i knew what she was going to become (specifically how frickin mean and domineering she was gonna get all of a sudden).

and then... one of my favorite repeating moments in the entire game is the end of the first loop.

she asks that i tell you to remember her

you won't *glass shatters*

chilling. amazing. love it.

but then i thought about it a bit more and... i love this moment even more.

cause this is classic shifty. she talks about the vessel as if it's just a vessel and her wishes don't matter that much, she doesn't give you a chance to respond, she's kind of distantly cruel, flexes her power while sitting on her high frickin horse. but she's also wrong.

cause you do remember her. not just because you're a player and remember the route you took and not because she reminds you with the montage. you just remember her. that's who the hero takes you to. the vessel you met the first time. the one that asked you to remember her.

and i think that's beautiful. not just because it feels like i'm flippin an all-powerful shifty off.

[comma-tose]

Something interesting I noticed about Tales, specifically regarding Fiona, is that she's seemingly the only one with a bounty and a wanted poster.

Now obviously all three of the con artist group are criminals, but when you scan the group using Rhys' echo eye at the murder rally, Felix's is obviously hacked to make sure no one scanning him can see his crimes, Sasha's mentions that she's a criminal but that she doesn't have as long a list of crimes as her sister does, but when you scan Fiona it actively mentions that she's wanted and lists her crimes (those being scamming, conning, forgery, and theft).

When going through Hollowpoint Fiona is the only one with a wanted poster, when Rhys is deciding whether to go Hollowpoint or to Old Haven a bounty notice pops up that specifically mentions Fiona being sighted, and that the price on her head has risen to $38,000 with no mention of Sasha.

Another notable couple of mentions regarding this has to do with Athena. She tells the girls that she's there to mentor them, which is true, but if you scan Fiona during the Atlas bio-dome section of the game, it shows that she has a high-end protection contract placed on her. If you scan Sasha there's no mention of that, which would make sense if Fiona's the only one with the bounty she's the one who needs the most protection. She's also the only one that Athena constantly stays next to and talks with which again would make sense if she's the only one with the protection contract.

So here's where we reach headcanon/theory territory (and also where I'm probably wrong and easily disproven or whatever). In my eyes, Fiona IS the only one with a bounty out of the con artist family. She's the one who takes the fall and gets blamed for most of the cons, so that Felix and Sasha can engage in scams without immediately being caught and noticed. In the fake vault key job, if it had worked, Fiona is likely the one who would've been blamed due to her being the one who gave him the fake vault key, even if August had eventually figured out Sasha was in on it as well.

She's the one who is the face of most of the cons, the one people talk to and later realise that they've been tricked by her. She takes the blame so that the whole family doesn't get immediately spotted and turned in every time they go somewhere new to do a new job.

[hardwiredd]

hello chat i um have a sort of questionn

i made these two banners; one to go under sfw posts, the other to go on under-the-cut nsfw. they're lighthearted but to the point. i generally have just fully planned to use these, but i realized i follow plenty of nsfw artists who post sfw art without anything like these. they ofc have the mdni in their bios, but nothing on specific posts. i know i'm definitely overthinking this, but i just wanted to get any sorta second opinion to see if it was a good idea to use these or not. any insight is heavily appreciated!!

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

questioning sexuality is so exhausting

[spookygibberish]

Mildly worried that some people will be Upsetti at the weird and gross shit in my weird vaguely bronze age "Pokémon-is-slavery" bodyhorror setting

[goldengodcannibal]

"everybody also definitely constantly asks themselves what it means to be a human or a person, and they definitely also always ask themselves who they actually are or what makes them"

- me, in denial

[elephantlovemedleys]

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[blooming-cecilia]

here's a thought: we all know by now that scene in furina's demo where she imitates other archons on the swing yeah?

i had the thought while watching it again,, what if she studied up on other nation's lores particularly how their archons (and other highly revered beings, ex, adepti) are like or how they are depicted in human literature and historical writings?

like... she had absolutely no idea how to be a god, and an actor does need to be acquainted with their role to ne able to portray and embody it... call it role study lol

[allforhavoc]

etho's bow's name (2 less inventory spots) has me in tears. why does it come off so passive aggressive. what did the bow and arrows do to him. we know this man loves his inventory space but... for someone who whiffs so hard all the time with his sword you would think he'd find the bow to be his best asset. very good use of inventory space.

[drieddpetals]

just had the random thought of... what if people from certain spiderverse dimensions come to ones in the future (or vice versa) and get viruses from the future and accidentally bring them back to their dimension?? 😭😭 like what if spider noir went to gwen's dimension and he got covid?? is that even allowed???? now i'm thinking there's gotta be some kind of spider society disease control bc i feel like this is a serious issue

[estinininininen]

FFIV liveblog: okay. misconception. i thought the paladin role was the big hot shot deal within mysidia with regards to the legend but it's the sword that kluya gives cecil that really shocks the elder. okay. daddy set up giving the sword to cecil one day in the far future, after hearing the mysidia legend? did kluya give the prophecy? have an inkling of what was going to happen? someone would need it someday?

theoretically could a paladin exist without the sword? doesn't seem like it - it's what changes cecil from dark knight. fun ideas! to me anyway, because this is my hyperfocus! is paladinny-ness, which the ffiv world knows about but hasn't ever seen, about just receiving the light, being "chosen," or is it about redemption, choosing your own en-lightening? aside from cecil's situation (a bit of cheeky spiritual nepotism), if someone else could be a paladin, can they be someone who hasn't been a dark knight/spiritually ill-defined official Bad Guy? or is that redemption a key definition of "paladin?"

see, it doesn't seem important (and it really isn't) but the christian reading of FFIV would necessarily lean towards redemption being in the definition - but it also breaks down cecil's parallel as the christ-figure, because he's the sinner.