#i really have a lot of nicknames

[puppppppppy]

the heaven and earth siblings

[imerian]

Vr46 academy keychains

Set of five charms that all match in different ways

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Open for detailed pictures of each one

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ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆★⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ

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I ran out of tags so I'll say it here but i would greatly appreciate a reblog, especially if you share your thoughts on these pieces in tags (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

(Also i forgot that bez have matching part with luca so I didn’t add that to tags sorry

[moeblob]

Reverse!Gavin

[flowerakatsuka]

i should've gone to bed like 2 hours ago, but i needed to finished these doodles inspired by @laurzvahll & @wewerebornsextuplets's 18matsu aus. i think kuroba would've figured out their gender stuff a lot faster w/ sol around so they get a new 3rd year look here. ✌️✨

[faksyan]

Huey Emmerich, mgs v cast & hypocrisy, a character analysis

Prefacing this with the fact that this is the morally gray franchise with the morally gray characters and I love how it portrays Huey Emmerich precisely for him being Like That. I think he is one of the most nuanced and well-written mgs characters and I'm pretty sure like half of it wasn't on purpose. He is the guy everyone hates for killing his wife (understandabe reason), trying to make one of his kid pilot a giant robot and almost drowning another in a pool (also understandable reason), and, most of all, for being a traitor. And with such a list, feels a bit weird that the accent often falls on that last part, doesn't it. Which is exactly how the narrative wants you to feel about his betrayal, on a surface level.

Every character essential to the Phantom Pain plot gets their "please feel bad for them, sympathize with them" moment, no matter how horrible a person they are. We get multiple monologs from Kaz, we get the 'I was the same way once' interrogation room and the ending of the Truth with Ocelot, we get Paz tapes and 'you're all diamonds' with Venom, we get Code Talker, Quiet, Eli (if they actually finished mission 51), even Skull Face, somewhat (don't even make me start on that guy. how is he less hated than Huey). The point is, the game is trying to make you feel bad for people who murder, torture, and whatever else, and parts of it are working, because it's fiction, and humans and morality are complicated and layered things! But what does Huey get? Torture sessions and tantrums that are framed as pathetic and ridiculous, even when what he is saying makes sense. Because yeah, there's some of that there. It's just that everyone else in the room deliberately doesn't acknowledge it.

When Venom just finds him, the first thing Huey says is that what happened to MSF was Snake's fault. The same during his exile - that there wouldn't have been an inspection, if there weren't a nuke to begin with. and it's like. he's not wrong. Having their own nukes as an independent military organization was a risk Snake and Kaz didn't just take blindly, they knew what could have happened. It was a gamble, and it didn't work out. If it did, it would've been their achievement. It didn't, so it's all Huey's fault, even though literally anyone could've been in his place. XOF weren't even the first to attempt to attack them, Zero was, Paz just didn't succeed. And if Skull Face hadn't either, someone else would have, the attention of the entire world was on them. It wasn't about betrayal, it was Snake and Kaz being drunk on success and biting off more than they could chew. Yes, Huey is a bastard and a traitor, but are we really going to blame all of this on him?

The answer is yes. And the reason is that they need someone to blame that's not them. The whole big theme of Phantom Pain is that Ocelot, Venom and Kaz have to do their best to keep up appearances, for the sake of Big Boss and his reputation. He is a legend, he is above everyone else, and he can do no wrong. Except after the fall of MSF everyone thinks that he can, Ocelot says as much in the briefing tapes. And they can't have that. So they blame it all on Huey. (<- all of this is a dictatorship allegory and critique of governments and military systems btw. 1984 or whatever I haven't read it. yay symbolism.) And blaming Huey is easy.

Huey is not a fighter. His father was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born on the same day as the Hiroshima bombing, his disability was (presumably) caused by his father's exposure to radiation. It's not that there was no choice involved in what he was going to do in life, but it was kind of inevitable that he would get involved with building nuclear weapons. And even when he says he is thinking about quitting upon being found by Snake in Peace Walker, it's Snake who convinces him not to, offering him to join MSF instead. In the PW tapes he also expresses that if it weren't for his disability, he would've been anywhere else, doing something different and living a "normal life".

He talks about the concept of nuclear terrorism there too, about nukes falling into hands of people without state who would be able to use them however they want, and I wonder if that was part of the reason for his betrayal. He didn't make the decision to bring nukes to base, he doesn't actually know these people. If maybe he thought it prevented a hypothetical nuclear catastrophe. Huey does say that he trusts Snake not to use them, that he values how honest Snake is, and is honest with him in return, even telling him things he's never told anyone before, like about his plagiarism of Granin's work. So what changed between then and the inspection, what was his motivation for betraying MSF, why was he approached about it of all people? Did he lie in the tapes, did he change his mind, did Skull Face offer him something that seemed more compelling, just threaten him? We never get to find out anything about it aside from every other character screaming that he's just a coward. No villain monolog, nothing.

Maybe it was about feeling important, like he is in charge, something that the hostility he has faced throughout his life didn't allow him. Huey is a sheep among wolves (wolf in sheep's clothing more like, but still). He does not fit in with the buff cool masculine soldiers, and even while working with Strangelove at NASA, he was regarded as obnoxious and spineless. It's not surprising he agreed to work for Coldman, since he, apparently, was the first person to actually recognize his skills. And even that later turns out to be a lie told to use him. Huey rarely if at all has been treated seriously, he is an outcast, even among people who share his ideas.

All he has is his brain and his knowledge, but it's never framed as much of an achievement (despite people exploiting it left and right), nor is him essentially being the nerd in a military setting ever really viewed as something dorky or endearing by the narrative like with Otacon, because the characters around him don't see him as such (as a result, so don't the players). On top of that, every other person uses his mobility aids to further degrade/harm/threaten him, even though he is already harmless when it comes to physical confrontation. In short, people he is surrounded with just enjoy the powerplay.

Right up until the point he actually does something that hurts them. And this is where my favorite part kicks in.

All three Diamond Dogs' higher-ups blame Huey for slightly different reasons, some maybe even believing that they are in the right and entitled to it (looking at you Kazuhira), but I am more than sure they know what it is that they're doing. And it's not like Kaz lacks self-awareness either, I don't think. Maybe it's denial that some of his actions led to the death of his friends, maybe blind belief in his own martyrdom and self-righteousness (sounds an awful lot like another character we know, huh), it still doesn't change much. How they all frame the story is the same. Huey's powerless and pathetic, but has ruined everything at the same time. And it doesn't really make sense, but everyone on the base agrees. It's the moment where individuals turn into a crowd that demands blood, but at least it's not their commanders it's directed at!

The Questioning Huey (6) tape is a good example of that. I especially like the bit where he starts talking about how DD is not actually a dog, because on a smaller scale, it shows how people on Mother Base just roll with things that are objectively false and turn on anyone who says otherwise. No, DD is our beloved mascot, and we are called dogs, he is just like us. And it's not like DD is just a wolf either, so neither of them are right here. But each of them thinks that they are.

That's why the amount of genuine Huey hate is a bit amusing to see, I guess. Because it's precisely the thing the game is trying to commentate on. None of these people are good. None of them have it figured out. The point is that it's just narrative bias that makes you belive that some are, if not good, at least better than others. In reality, it's never about morals or being correct, just perspective.

Huey himself, on the other hand, falls into another extreme - in his eyes, he's done nothing wrong. Because he can do no wrong, he's powerless, like everyone's alway told him, remember? He sees himself as the victim, because in a lot of cases, he is.

You can say that he is a lying traitor and that the truth serum didn't work on him because of some failsafe Skull Face thought of, but really, would he bother? He didn't even view Huey as anything but a traitor he despised. you know, the guy who was in charge of organizing the betraying part. the guy who put bombs in people and wanted to commit mass-murder on a scale no one has seen before. So the obvious and the most simple answer here is that Huey whole-heartedly, truly believes he hasn't done anything wrong. He thinks he doesn't possess the power to, that he isn't important enough. And it's drilled so deep into him he never acknowledges it's not really true. Even when he kills Strangelove, he still doesn't accept that it is his fault and his actions matter.

That's my favorite part about him, I think. How deep in denial he is about having an impact on the people around him, while also having a sort of god complex when it comes to his machines. How everyone around despises him for it, while being the ones who caused it and doing the exact same thing, refusing to get off the high horse. Metal gear is a messy franchise about messy people, but it's good exactly because it shows what has messed these people up so much. And more often than not, it's the system they're surrounded by, or that they created themselves in an attempt to escape the previous one. It's easy to point at Huey as just a bad person and only that, but I find the context of his whole life and the ways he's coping with it really compelling. There is a lot of complexity to it, and in the end of the day, they are all hypocrites.

[aroaceleovaldez]

do you think they borrow each other’s rogue names after they die

also as a rogue name for thalia, blue bolt? (blue eyes, ‘bolt from the blue’ being an idiom for unexpected and important news, and also meaning a lighting bolt far from the parent storm (this being because a charge of electricity was so strong that it wandered away from the parent storm)

blue bolt felt so deviantart oc-coded but hell yeah that’s the fun part

oh absolutely i think rogues would name themselves after each other. Even besides just adopting each other's names when one of them dies, but also like trading names. Best friend rogue duo whose rogue names are just each other's real names.

tbh Thalia and Luke would have deviantart oc-coded rogue names lol. Blue Bolt is definitely a cool fitting one! I was joking in the TA discord yesterday that Luke might lightheartedly call Thalia "Green Day" or "Hot Topic" just to tease her.

Still dunno what Thalia might call Luke though 🤔 Cause he's already a little jaded of the gods to begin with so he'd probably try to lean away from directly Hermes-related nicknames? But he's super emo so he'd probably try for something dramatic and edgy. And Thalia would probably tease him about it as much as he teases her.

[rollforjackass]

i could KILL him for this. motherfucker's every interaction with children has him being, if not nice, then at minimum kind and forgiving and genuinely invested in their wellbeing.

he asks crying kids what's the matter, he's afraid to hold a baby because he's worried he'll drop it, he goes after people who are mean to kids without a second thought. his whole mentorship with timothy hunter is him trying to do right by that kid no matter how he feels about it at the time. man would be the most loving dad in the world but because of his own awful goddamn father and the ways he thinks he takes after thomas, he doesn't think that's true. i hate.

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[batsplat]

my takeaway after flicking through 'pushing the limits' for the first time: casey the type of guy who would give alex de angelis the nickname 'alex dangerous' and put it in his autobiography

my takeaway after flicking through 'pushing the limits' for the 10th time: ̴̸̗͚̗̗͕̇̀̀͠ẳ̵͍̪̫͈̅ ̶̢͖̊̔̐̈́n̵̙̙͆̒͆̈́a̵̱̓̀̋r̴̩͂̈́͗r̶̹̻̀͋̒à̸̟̼̓ţ̴̛̜̻̉i̶͙̯̤͂v̷̨̝͕̀̚e̸͓̊̒ ̴̞̯̭̙̓̆̕t̴̩͕͎̓h̷̠̦̲̥̽͘a̷̳̤̙̰̾t̷̡͓͉̣̽ ̵̛̭̘͚̓͠͝c̸͈̺͔̜͂u̴̘̫͈͚͝t̵͔̬͕̬̆s̶͉͉͉̓̑̈ ̴͇͐̈́ỉ̷̪͖͇̀ͅt̸̛͙͌͗ͅş̵̳̞́è̵͋̑͜l̶̯̯̈͋̓͝f̸̢̢̈̉́͊ ̸̪́́̀͝ơ̴͍̠̲̙̈́͒̕f̷̺̍̽̇̚f̴̭̻̉̀͝ ̵͕̻͕̈f̶̪̬̮̼̍͝r̵͉̞̙̀̾̐̚o̸̺͙̜̓̏̉̚m̶̩̟̜̽ ̷̟̭̹̪̈́̎̆͠t̷͖͖̋̿̇̂͜ͅh̵̰̀ę̷̧̒̽̀ ̶̰͓́̽̽v̵͔̆ù̵̧͕l̷͍͇͔̯̽n̷͙͍͇͑̚ĕ̴̢̻̑͌r̷̯̪̙̐̾ḁ̴̰̐̆b̵̟̼̰͐̐̿͘ͅḯ̵̮̙̬̘̽l̷̬͈̓̈͆ȋ̴̭͑t̶̖̬̀̇̇͜ÿ̵̞̥̠́͋ ̸͍̺̎̒̐o̶̤͕͎͗͠f̵͚̔͑́͜ ̷͎̯̤̹̀t̶̙̩͈̂̒̕͝h̷͓̖̮̿̔e̸̹̎͜ ̶̰̓̀e̶̯͙͛̂͘x̴̼͓͍̀͒̎̕p̷̩̾͂͜ẽ̷̡͎͙ŗ̵̛̻̳͛i̷̖͍͑͂͆̐è̴̡̹͔̳n̸̮̩̤̆͋c̵̡̛̖̝̮̄̊͛ȩ̷̨̭̣͐͊́͘ ̸̝̀̉̌͘t̴̝̓͛̐ȍ̶̡ ̴̨̝̿̔̆̐d̷̜̄̄e̶̱̒͌͠͝t̴̢̢̥̮̊̕̚a̵̡̖͆ȉ̵̩̭̘̮̉͛̓l̶͈̄̓ ̸̰̽̒̊̃ţ̸̤̂h̸̖͓̗̀̀̄e̴̮̮̓̈́͠ ̸̡̪̦̣̈́̇̕h̸̰̭̾͠o̴̭̹͑͌͛̃r̴̖̝͕͋r̸̘͍̂̊͐ͅọ̶̪͗r̸̡̞͒́̕͝ŝ̴̱̋̔ ̶͚͕̓̆̀̌w̸̥̱̳̭̌̓i̶͉̭̤͒̽t̷̺̝̊̐h̵̰͌̆ò̸̻͚͖͋u̵͍̣̅̒̕͠t̸̛̪͙̒́ͅ ̶̖̓̏͝͝t̸̮̱͓͑͊͠ŗ̶̥̠̲̏͑̈ū̶͈l̵͍̯̘͂̔̎͝y̵̹͂̈́́ ̷̺̠̦̒͝c̶̬͋͛o̵̧͗̎n̷͉͆f̵̛̹͔r̸̰̈ô̸̪͙̓ń̴̹̦̃̌̕��̲ẗ̴̯͚̺́i̴͓̓n̵̞͒̚͝g̵̨̧̉̏̀̈́͜ ̷͓̲́͊̈́t̷̼̽ḥ̵͕̮͒ͅè̷̜̦̮̯̓̄m̶͇͔̪̻͂

my takeaway after flicking through 'pushing the limits' for the 100th time: casey the type of guy who would give alex de angelis the nickname 'alex dangerous' and put it in his autobiography

[onemoreattempt]

Context isn’t too important, but she’s a small stripy shorthair tabby with the saddest sweetest little eyes.

Personality-wise she is smart and sweet. She’s already figuring out how to open doors, and I’ve only had her for 6 days. She has yet to wake me up, and she is already starting to trust the dog:) She is a bit more hesitant and skittish than her littermates were, and learns a lot from observation. She’s very friendly with new ppl and lets them hold her like a baby (but always crosses her paws bc she’s a lady). She likes belly rubs, she is very vocal, and she makes it very hard to leave through a variety of methods:

She’s adorable

She paws (not claws) at your legs bc she wants uppies

She weaves between your legs, so you really have to watch your step avoid tripping or stepping on her.

She tries to run out of your room (which she is kept in when no one can supervise her with the doggo)

If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them!!

[tothepointofinsanity]

Deeply enjoy the fact that Sayaka's translated name in Chinese in the manga is 美樹沙耶香 (Miki Sayaka). 沙 is literally sand. 耶 is pronounced similarly to "coconut", and the last character means "nice smelling". Her name is literally impressed as a sea breeze scented air freshener.

[fierykitten2]

I may actually need Pokémon Sleep. These are adorable

[mymelodyisme]

Helloooo farmer friends!! So last night my friend @pavusprince mentioned how she doesn’t understand the toothpaste mint chocolate chip ice cream comparison and that got me thinking!! Let’s talk about food!!

Does your farmer like mint chocolate ice cream? Does it taste like toothpaste? Are they neutral, or do they hate it?

During the summer does your farmer visit Alex’s ice cream stand? What flavor/treat do they buy? What’s their least favorite flavor?

What is one treat your farmer will ALWAYS have in their home? Is it healthy or unhealthy?

If your farmer was a snack item what would they be? (It cannot be a food that could be eaten like a meal, but it may be a dessert) Here’s some examples: chips, cookies, M&ms, Twinkies, crackers, bubblegum, lollipops, etc

What’s your farmer’s comfort food, favorite meal, and least favorite meal?

What’s something they will NEVER eat?

What do they cook if they know they will have a guest over?

If the town’s potluck didn’t matter so much, what ingredient would they take? And what food would they put at an event table if you had to bring something?

Finally, if your farmer was real, what would YOU give them to eat.

[moeblob]

Warning for: The (spider) legs showing below!

Under the hoodie/layers, she tends to wrap her legs around her kinda like a hug! And so in the first part that's the weird bumps under the hoodie. They're starting to unravel a bit. She hates being called a monkey cause it's NOT her fault she's short and has to climb on things and up things and includes people in "things" category.

[wordsgood]

i think i'm going to have to change jat's name. AGAIN

[fantomette22]

Also kind of funny how people say i’m quite discreet and don’t talk a lot when i’m afraid i talk too much (maybe too loud or too fast) and afraid i ended up annoyed them. (Can smn explain pls xD)

anyway it’s late i apologize if it doesn’t make so much sense it is late)