#i had my issues with 5

[avenger-concerto]

You could make a topic completely unrelated and people in the RF subreddit will still somehow find a way to shoehorn a potshot at Rune Factory 5.

[writer-room]

Dragons Rising really is the best sequel series for diehard Lloyd enjoyers, cause, yes, we acknowledge that he has panic attacks, crappy mental health, and also he's the grandson of God, but you know what really gets me? Lloyd is tired.

He's plagued with migraines (the visions are also migraines don't @ me), he's bemoaning about never getting a good nights sleep, hes struggling so hard to be a good leader and clearly doesn't have all the answers, and he's just some 20yo who's been cursed with saving the world since he was younger than his own students.

That's the realest way Lloyd could've ever been written in a future-series. It's what he is. But he's not angry (usually), he's not telling everyone to deal with it themselves, and he's not giving up. I love when Lloyd has finally had enough, but the real, genuine Lloyd? He'd never stop caring. He cares so much it'd kill him. He's tired and by god does he refuse to quit. I love that kid. Please get him a warm blanket

[decarabias]

forever thinking about royal’s bad ending. my thing with it is that maruki doesn’t necessarily give anyone what they want most, he gives them what’s most appropriate for them to want within a maruki-approved framework. iirc there’s a really interesting text sequence in the game where he just straight up changes someone’s career because they’re not “good” at it, regardless of whether that’s what they actually want. why struggle at all? ever? right?

and so ultimately i don’t think goro akechi’s greatest wish is necessarily ren. i think it’s a wish for sure, but his greatest wish is his own agency. despite any regrets he has and the fact that shido and yaldabaoth treated him like a pawn, he's generally pretty adamant about owning his choices and their consequences. he doesn't want that erased. and instead, you end up with pleasant boy™ if you take maruki’s deal. maybe maruki (incorrectly) thinks sanding off all of akechi’s rough edges will make him easier for ren to love. but the crux of it is really that maruki has to essentially lobotomize him to preserve the illusion of his perfect reality, because their ideologies are so diametrically opposed that akechi would spend every waking moment fighting back.

this isn’t to undermine ren’s importance to akechi btw — he explicitly acknowledges that he wishes they had met earlier, and there are countless moments throughout their confidant that underscore how much it means to him that they mirror each other so well. he absolutely does want more time with ren, just not under these circumstances.

and that’s also what makes ren’s choice on 2/2 doubly devastating. he knows that either way he loses akechi. and if he takes maruki’s deal, he loses him knowing that his last moments with the real akechi involved the two of them being unforgivably out of sync.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sorry i keep drawing them in bondage thats just like their thing atp

textless ver below the cut:

[hivemindscape]

im a big fan of esper powers slipping loose in harmless ways when they're happy

[fawnnbinary]

finally,,, East Blue Polycule Smooches,,,,,,

[rondoel]

Looked into my folder and there was so much of them! 😭

[gbirrd]

9/9 - Dick Grayson tarot card designs for Complete Candor by @vexfulfolly as part of the @batfam-big-bang

Read the fic here!

Other cards:

1-Babs 2-Cass 3-Bruce 4-Tim 5-Damian 6-Jason 7-Duke 8-Steph 9-Dick

Image IDs

Image 1:

A design of "The World" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE WORLD". A symbol of two clouds is visible behind the numeral "XXI".

Dick Grayson dives confidently downwards in his Nightwing uniform with pupil-less white eyes. His arms are spread wide. He plummets through a deep blue sky with large stylised cream-coloured clouds partially obscuring him in the foreground, and some less-visible in the background.

Image 2:

A design of "The World" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE WORLD" upside-down. A symbol of a theatre mask is visible behind the numeral "XXI".

Dick Grayson falls backwards in his Robin uniform, a hand reaching up desperately with one white pupil-less eye visible. He falls through a dark blue sky with partially- visible clouds in the background, and large stylised cream-coloured clouds in the foreground, partially covering him. The entire card is upside-down.

[cookiesandcantarella-art]

Do you ever think about the absolute euphoria Duck would feel at getting to be human again? I do. I do a lot.

[ID: a stylized digital painting of Fakir and Duck embracing each other as he lifts her in the air. Fakir stands ankle deep in a pond and water splashes around them. A few white feathers float through the air around Duck. She is nude and her hair is down. Fakir wears a simple white shirt with his pants rolled up above the water level. In the foreground, an open book rests upon the dock. Behind them, the clouds are lit with the pinks and blues of a sunrise. End ID]

[call-me-copycat]

C'mon... Really? Really?

Another person around with my blog that's openly riding the "I hate BakuDeku and everything about it is bad!" train?

After all my posts????

My goodness! What's happening lately? Has something happened to make so many people openly scream about these 2? Am I missing out on an event! I'm baffled, this hasn't happened so much before (·︿· `)

I'm sad! They were a fic writer too!

One last time! Then I'm going to update my pinned post:

I don't block people unless it's a very last resort, but I'm going to block anyone who explicitly, unnecessarily, and constantly complains about BakuDeku.

You can hate the ship, you can not want anything to do with it - I'm not a shipper, I get it! That's not my issue

But if you go out of your way to make hating a ship your entire personality to the point where you need to drag everyone around you down with you, then I can't let you hang around my blog anymore and risk having people harass my friends :⁠-⁠(

(please please please please just be nice! Please just be a nice person! Please please just stop harassing people! For me? Please it's so easy-)

I'm getting so tired of this

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 » T-shirts

[dano-locket]

variant covers for issues 1-6 of The Riddler: Year One

[batbabydamian]

🐱 Nightwing #110 rambling AKA wailing about how Dick and Jon love Damian

backtracking to 2 weeks ago in Titans #6 for a sec when Dick expressed how he wanted to look for Damian - it was nice to get a nod of Dick being concerned, but i was a bit bummed he didn't start a search. and i get it, the world needs saving, Dick's gotta do what he has to!!

different writer/story, but this line popped into my head the moment Babs said Earth needs the Titans

Damian means the world to Dick!! the Titans can take care of the literal world without him for a bit!!

but ykw it's fine since this issue proved me wrong, and Dick looks for Damian anyway!! 😭 basically "the world's still in danger but my brother needs me right now" this was just the start of the issue and i fell to my knees THEY BOTH REALLY DROPPED EVERYTHING FOR DAMIAN

the part where they plan to wait out Damian's match was so funny to me because Dick keeps repeating to Jon that they shouldn't engage, but then Dick just goes "NEVERMIND i'm going in" 😭 he couldn't stand watching Damian be hurt anymore i'm weeping

with context this is actually so sad for Damian orz otherwise i just wanted to say i love these drawings!! it's just a really cool page to me - i love the posing, especially in the hands/claws!! the intense expressions!! also so efficient in showing how the match escalates with Damian quickly overpowering Gail (along with seeing Jon's dread 🙁)

THEY WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THIS WOULD DO TO DAMIAN 😭

just more panels of Dick and Jon worrying over Damian :')

DYNAMIC DUO 2.0!! and ofc they have a dramatic entrance haha

HEAD IN MY HANDS...CRYING... i'm assuming Damian's hands are still supposed to be covered in blood since the first thing he thinks about when he returns to being human is what he had done without his control. and this bothers him to the end of the issue 😭 (HIS EXPRESSIONS EVEN WITH THE MASK ON 😭)

not sure if it's intentional, but Dick's speech to Damian in B:WFA ep 113 is kinda brought to canon here through both Dick and Jon

this was a sleep deprived reactionary rambling, so not much thought is left in my head lol i was hoping for some cute cat Damian shenanigans, but i'll happily take Dick and Jon being protective over Damian! 🥺

one last duo pic for the road :)

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[lyss-sketchbox]

Everyone say thank you wuwa for getting genshin to step up

[horsechestnut]

Sure we've all been making jokes about Cass hallucinating Steph ever since the summary for Batgirl #5 came out, but scrolling down to see it was actually her did something to my brain. I truly can't describe it. I think I laughed for five minutes straight.