#i am literally FERAL

[bucketofchum]

"Don't you ever die....I won't allow it..."

"Yes, Master"

[puppetmaster13u]

Cryptid Batfam Prompt- But in Memes

[blackkat15]

*BARK BARK* *SNARL* *BARK BARK*

[starryemeralds]

“i know the odds of this finding you are slim, but so were the odds of us finding each other in the first place”

someone please force feed drywall to me

[galedekarios]

seeing a post that basically confirmed the obvious disparity in content made me think more about a scene i would have liked to see with gale and that i've been thinking about for a while now.

i always felt a bit sad that his condition is so often treated as a joke by the fandom and to a lesser extent by the game itself. i always thought that this is partially down to the fact that we don't truly get so see gale actively be in pain due to his condition, other than brief glimpses and hints:

we do hear the urgency in his voice when he explains when and why he needs an artefact and the relief in his voice when the protag chooses to help him.

we see it, too, when he is afflicted by the arcane hunger condition:

we get glimpses of it when he consumes an artefact:

he mentions it, too, in his dialogues, but it's very much downplayed by gale or phrased in such a way that is meant to overplay it with humour, or perhaps even to distance himself from it by using metaphors:

that is until we actually get to see it through his eyes, if only for the briefest of moments:

*Its teeth, its claws, it's unstoppable as it digs through and becomes part of you. And gods, it is ever-hungry...*

gale also has an idle animation where he--quite often--reaches up to touch the orb, perhaps because it flares with pain, like an old wound is wont to do:

(gif by @bladeofavernus)

from the last conversation we have with gale, and after catching all of these little moments of things he says or does with how the orb affects him, we learn that consuming the magic from artefacts no longer has any effect at all. the only solution that tara and he were able to find no longer works:

it would scare him and imbalance him, and it would finally destabilise the orb, make it more volatile.

but what happens in the game after that? the orb becoming volatile enough for the artefacts to no longer have an effect has no consequences at all: you are able to do the tiefling party, all quests in the underdark, the entirety of the grymforge, and, should you choose to do so, the entirety of the mountain pass and rosymorn monastery without an incident at all or any mention of the condition itself/any discomfort or fear it might cause.

there's no urgency here, no follow-up, to what the narrative set up... and then we meet deus ex elminster and the orb is stabilised, and the urgency that came before literally is handwaved out of existence.

what i would have liked instead to happen--or at least to bridge the gap between the artefacts no longer working and elminster stabilising it to be used on mystra's behalf--is the following:

i think it would have been nice to have a scene with gale where we do get to see--on a much smaller scale--him losing control over the orb, have the protag and the companions see what he is trying desperately to keep contained within himself, what gnaws at him, what continues to haunt him.

it could happen perhaps after a particular gruelling and intense fight--and there are enough of that in the underdark and at the mountain pass. it could have been a ! conversation, providing both friendship and romance content.

have the orb act up after expending so much energy to manipulate the weave to the fullest of his abilities, have gale manage to reign it in, but barely, show that it takes a lot of power and effort for him to do so.

that it hurts, with none of gale's metaphors to hide behind or jokes to play it off.

have the audience truly see the gravity of what he is going through.

[my-fall-from-grace]

perhaps if people weren’t so MEAN then logan wouldn’t be so mean to himself have some of you ever thought about THAT

[deoidesign]

47 episodes later

I am completely normal

(webcomic)

[selfindulgentraptor]

YES YIPPEE YIPPEE YIPPEE MY SNAKE REGRESSED INTO A PATHETIC MANIAC DRAMA QUEEN SO FAST

I was so worried that they were just gonna skip his actual character growth after episode 2 resolved the way it did, but fortunately sassy trainwreck villain snake is far from redeemed<33

[qpjianghu]

Li Lianhua + saying "I love you" without saying "I love you" (1/?)

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

[anemicjellyfish]

Something about the way Blitzø will flirt with anyone, anytime, for any reason

Except Stolas (after their arrangement was made)

Blitzø, you are denial personified

[chai-and-cherries]

aftg top three dripping in sex moments™️ no particular order - kevin you-know-i’ve-never-been-skiing day tapping the butt of his racquet on the floor before passing it to his other hand, andrew don’t-nothing-me minyard telling wymack to pick a number and letting the opposing team score that many before absolutely obliterating their offense, neil me-and-kevin-talk-about-your-intricate-and-endless-daddy-issues-all-the-goddamn-time josten telling the king of exy on national fucking television risking the wrath of his father and the fucking japanese yakuza that ‘pity only gets you so many concessions and you used yours up about six insults ago’ bc wHO is doing it like them not a goddamn soul

[talkingadult]

[supernowa-art]

guess who got to whole cake island

[philocalistwrites]

I'm going fucking feral

[artbyblastweave]

Many years ago J. Michael Straczynski wrote a miniseries for Marvel's MAX imprint called Supreme Power, which was itself a spin on the classic Marvel Faux Justice League The Squadron Supreme. And in this miniseries you've got a Flash Expy, The Blur, who in a very compelling way is like the inverse of A-train from The Boys. They're both black speedsters from impoverished backgrounds who use their powers to become walking billboards instead of going directly into conventional superheroism- at least in part because there isn't actually a lot of call for conventional superheroism. They even share a color scheme.

But unlike A-Train, whose moral core is thoroughly corroded by celebrity, Blur's apparent crass commercialism ends up being thematically linked to the fact that he's easily the most moral and considerate of the entire first wave of superheroes, because he's literally the only one of these people who's ever had to work any kind of day job, and thus the only one who's really in any way beholden to the logic of human society and its associated common courtesy.

[bara-izu]

"You... you are full of surprises aren't you?"