#i’m on mobile and i’m never on mobile

[gimmick-thief]

Achieve? You know the origins of the word achieve? It comes from the Old French word achever which comes from the phrase á chef (venir) which means “at an end.” You know what famous mobile game has no end? Subway Surfers. It was released on May 24th 2012. You know what artist has a song called 2012? Will Wood. You know what other song is in the same album? Hand me my Shovel, I’m Going in. You know what the 3rd line after the first chorus of that song is? “And I’m still picking up my molars.” You know what the word molar comes from? The Latin word mole, which means millstone. You know what a millstone is? A pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground. You know what else comes in pairs? Cherries. You know what a cherry is? A fruit. You know what else is a fruit? A pumpkin. You know when pumpkins are commonly carved? Halloween. You know what else Halloween is referred to as? All Hallows Eve. You know what rating the movie of the same name got on Rotten Tomatoes? 34% You know what half of 34 is? 17. You know what came out in 2017? Dead Cells. You know what game Dead Cells has a reference to? Firewatch. You know what game also has a reference to Firewatch? The Stanley Parable. The line that repeats over and over again in that game is “The End is Never The End.” You know what else doesn’t end? The amount of time I spend on Pantheon 5 just to get my ass kicked by Sly.

HOLLOW KNIGHT REFERENCE???

i dated a guy for a couple weeks once before i found out he was a chaser

[revelboo]

Prowl you emotionally constipated brick, you can't just approach someone while looking like an uncanny stranger and expect a hug 😫

He didn’t think that one through

Stand Too Close Pt 16

Prowl x Reader

• Why hadn’t he deadened his sensory nets!? “You absolute fragging brat,” he groans, doubling over as you struggle to get away before going still. Hears your incredulous ‘Prowl?’ And then you slap him and he hooks an arm around you, catching your wrists in one hand as he swallows a groan. Trying to keep you from smacking him again. Primus, you’re like a feral animal. Dragging you back away from the street, because other humans are staring now, you struggle to get free. And the other humans are pulling out their little mobile communications devices to aim his way, but not really bothering to interfere. “What is wrong with you?”

• “Me? You abandoned me. I’m homeless because of you.” And people are recording him dragging you into an alley. Not that he seems to really care that this looks incredibly sketchy. Hating that a part of you is just relieved he came back, because spending the night on the street, there’s a good chance you’d get your throat cut. “You’re such a bastard.”

• Homeless? You’re wiggling as he pulls you away from the watching humans. Are they recording him? Snarling when one dares try to follow him into the alley, little device raised and the man startles but doesn’t leave. Hears the guy muttering about police brutality and you’re shuddering against him. It takes him a moment to realize you’re laughing. What would a real human law enforcement officer do? Knows what he’d do and he smiles coldly. “Leave before I feed you that device.” Not a threat, but a promise. Pulling up on the other side of the alley, he flashes his lights and cycles his sirens. The human just keeps recording, though and if he does make good on his threat and attacks the man and Optimus finds out, he’ll never hear the end of it.

• Letting him pull you to his actual body, you slide into the passenger seat when the door opens and groan when Prowl just lets go of the avatar so it just disappears. Hear the poor guy screaming as the door closes and he rolls away. “What happened to secrecy? You realize he was recording everything, right?” Half tempted to throw open the door and run for it. Hating him even as you’re just glad he came back and didn’t leave you there. “I can’t believe you just abandoned me.” Tossed you aside like you didn’t matter. Twisting in his seat, you turn your back to the driver’s side. Shunning him as best you can when you’re inside him.

• “I thought you’d be happy,” he mutters and you laugh again, the sound bitter and angry. Had been trying to do right by you, but it had all gone wrong. Thought freeing you was for the best. Giving your life back to you. ‘You’re an idiot,’ you mutter, legs drawn up in his seat, facing the passenger door. Always angry with him and he can’t even begin to figure you out. Hating him no matter what he does, even when he tries to take care of you. Get to know you. Wanting more and being denied. Hurting each other the only language you have in common.

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[on-a-lucky-tide]

absolutely feel free to ignore this if you don’t feel like babying me through it lmaoo but i’m trying to get back into my physical therapy and picked up my dad’s old hand weights. i’ve never lifted a thing in my life and i’m severely chronically ill and deconditioned (hence the pt lmao) and i was just wondering if you had any tips for absolute beginners or things i should really avoid bc i have no idea what i’m doing and have no one to ask 😭😭

Yo, T, this is great news.

If by "hand weights", you mean those like... baby dumbbell thingies? Then absolutely I can help.

Top tips:

Form is more important than weight. You need to get the movement right to build strength without injury. So, don't be ashamed to start as light as you can at first. Ensure you get full range of motion (e.g., if you're gonna do a bicep curl, then all the way down, all the way up; slow, controlled).

You'll need to warm up first. You can do this by lifting lighter weights before moving to heavier in exactly the same movement you intend to do (e.g., I'll always lift an almost naked barbell for my first set, or with very few weights, just so my joints can uh... crunch their way into motion). Some people do some band work.

Don't be me; listen to your body. If things start to bubble, pop, grind, crunch or, my personal favourite, stab you in the nerve endings, stop. Pushing through leads to injury. If you are consistent and patient, you will get better.

I recommend downloading the free app 'FitBod'. It has .gifs and videos showing you how to do hundreds of exercises. The free version won't let you 'log workouts', but you just need a pen and paper for that tbh.

I'd suggest starting seated in a dining room chair. This will stabilise you. Once you get confident, you can begin to do standing exercises.

Supplement the hand weights with body weight movements, such as shallow squats, crunches, push ups on knees (or, push ups against the wall, against the edge of the sofa).

Do mobility work. A good app for this is Pliability. Although I do shit like the Weatherman push up challenge 'cause my brain is spicy and gets bored with shit like the frog pose.

There's a link in my pinned for a workout split if you want it. Good luck, stay safe! 💪

[ohtobealady]

💛 For Cobert (obvs!!!) 😁

Hi darling! Better late than never? Have an offering of an unedited mobile drabble. It’s very angsty, and I’m not sorry about that, but I do still hope you find something about it you like.

💛 reunion kiss / relief ——————————

Robert put his hand on the glass knob of the dividing door and waited a moment before he turned it. It was true he’d held her as they wept this afternoon. It was true he’d put his hand over hers in the motor as they journeyed home again. It was also true that when they returned home from Mama’s, she’d touched his arm—her gloved fingers holding the muscle—before she made her way upstairs to lie down. He’d nearly asked her then, if he should come up with her, but he was still unsure. The reconciliation was too fragile, too delicate, as if one wrong word would permanently sever whatever still tied them to one another. Holding her when Clarkson left—he hadn’t made the conscious decision to do that. He’d only seen her breaking—his Cora—and he’d gone to her. It wasn’t until he felt her soften against him that he’d realized she was in his arms, and he cried.

This was different. Joining her in her room again was different. Even though she’d looked at him across the table at dinner tonight with a gentleness that felt like the past, this was different. Going into her room again—asking to sleep beside her…if she turned him away, he wasn’t certain he could endure it.

She won’t, he told himself. His mind pleaded for him to acknowledge whatever it was that still tied them to one another. Not their past-–not anymore. It was too painful to think of the way they had been before…but perhaps their girls. Their living girls.

His heart ached.

Their grandchild.

And his heart ached more, for Cora.

Robert looked at the knob in his hand, and he turned it just as he’d done a thousand nights before. But this time, like a young, foolish boy hurrying through a churchyard, he held his breath as he went through.

Her room was dim, the blue darker than in his memory, but in the lamplight his eyes found hers immediately.

And he took in a shallow breath.

For the first time in weeks and weeks, when he looked at her, he felt her there with him again. And Robert’s aching heart broke.

“I’ll understand if you still need time apart, here. That is—” He fumbled his speech a little, not being able to bring himself to move any of his fears into words, and so instead he swallowed and started again. “I thought I might—“ and yet he could not say that either. Hope hurt nearly as much as grief did. No. He let his presence take the place of the words he couldn’t quite bring himself to say.

And he waited silently before, sitting in her bed, he saw as Cora drew in a long breath, her thin shoulders rising in her thinner nightdress.

“Oh, Robert.” Then, her towering breath came quavering out. “Stay.”

He found himself swallowing down the thick emotion choking him. This was a feeling greater than relief. Greater and more painfully dear than relief could ever be.

He worked off his housecoat as he heard Cora shifting the sheets of her bedding, and when he moved to her, he saw she’d pulled the bedclothes back, and then met her gaze.

Nearly immediately her lovely face stiffened and her mouth turned slowly into a frown, and Robert nearly fell into her bed to meet her.

She rolled to him, and he put his arms around her and held her shuddering form tightly to his chest. He felt her warm breath through the silk of his pajamas and he felt the way her face pushed into the space beneath his chin, her nose beneath the curve of his jaw, and he pulled her closer.

He cried even if what he felt was less like sorrow than it did all the weeks before. It was still grief, but softer now; his chest that Cora pressed against felt so tight and yet he found himself able to breathe with her there. Had he not been able to breathe before?

She shifted in his arms, shifted her face up to his, her temple against his jaw, and he heard as she breathed, too, taking in shaking pulls of air. And her wet lashes brushed against his cheek.

“I was so cruel.” Her voice hardly made any words at all through the tremble of her breath, but he heard her, and he shook his head against hers.

“—No, I—“

“—how can you ever forgive me?”

“Darling.”

“I was so angry that I still loved you.” Here, Cora pulled slightly away and he saw that she looked at him, her sobs controlled, her tears not. He closed his eyes, but he still heard her. “How can you forgive me? For not wanting to love you?”

Robert choked, shook, and then pulled her against him once more. He pushed his face against hers, his cheek feeling hers, and again though his chest ached, his body softened. And it was a comfort to sob against her.

“You don’t need my forgiveness,” he managed against her ear, and her head moved toward the sound, his lips. He felt them contort into a frown. “But I have needed you.”

And Cora sobbed anew, her face pushing against his, and their lips finding each other—jaw, cheeks, and tears—before he held her ever tighter and cried.

[this-user-is-new]

"proceeds to complain that i want the show to engage with the long-term consequences of piltover’s actions." how is that spoon-feeding? i mean yeah, imagine expecting a show that presents itself as a mature, political narrative to actually follow through on the themes it sets up. wild concept.

oh, and "gassy"? wtf? whatever. let’s entertain this "fantasy gas" idea for a second.

there’s literally no reason to assume it behaves any differently from real-world toxic gases. arcane itself establishes that the gas behaves like a real toxic substance when it comes to how it destroys the body (kiramman archives). so why would it suddenly not behave like real gas when it comes to spreading? you can’t have it both ways. either the show deliberately left out consequences for narrative convenience, or this is straight-up inconsistent writing. i’ll let you pick one. but i won’t waste time on this again since you’ve already decided the laws of chemistry just don’t apply here anyway.

also, we know children work in the factories of the chem-barons. why do you think isha and other kids were running from the chem-barons' goons? what did they want from them, huh? meaning, yes, kids would have been exposed to the gas at some point. (... even if they weren't there at the moment.) because that's literally where the gas was used. but again, that'd mean you actually understand how gas works so ... yeah. i'm not talking about this again.

and no one’s saying caitlyn and her team intentionally targeted children, the issue is that the show erases unintended consequences, making piltover’s actions seem cleaner than they realistically would be. learn how to fucking read. also, funny how you keep bringing this whole thing back to caitlyn specifically, like this is just some personal attack on your fave instead of a broader critique of how arcane rewrites piltover’s crimes to be more palatable. but do you actually like her? because if anything, this also makes her villain arc boring as hell. you should want to see the consequences of her actions.

"they never erased piltover’s guilt." lmao. really? so viktor’s suffering getting reframed as a personal failure instead of systemic neglect isn’t erasure? orianna’s story being stripped of its direct critique of piltover’s pollution isn’t erasure? the show giving just enough plausible deniability for fans like you to defend piltover’s actions isn’t erasure? be serious.

your focus on viktor’s leg is just a lazy attempt to reframe his struggle. his arc was never just about mobility, it was about survival. we literally see him suffering from chronic illness: fatigue, nosebleeds, coughing fits, and even slipping into a coma. he wasn’t just looking for a "fix" out of some internalized ableism, he was dying because piltover let zaunites rot. the "beauty in imperfection" framing is a deliberate rewrite that removes piltover’s guilt. it’s not just a misinterpretation of viktor’s motivations, it’s a calculated shift to make it seem like he should’ve just accepted his fate instead of demanding more from a system that abandoned him.

"singed’s daughter wasn’t dead, she was dying." you missed the point. orianna was a direct victim of piltover’s pollution. arcane stripped that context away so piltover wouldn’t be at fault. and you’re fine with that because it lets you pretend it wasn’t deliberate.

this isn’t just about individual changes, it’s a pattern. i was asking you about that.

"the seeds were there, you’re just a bad gardener." nah, the writers just ripped the roots out. so yeah, i’ll keep pointing out how arcane carefully sidesteps piltover’s worst atrocities while you keep pretending that’s nuance instead of narrative sanitization. keep dancing around my points, though. anyway, i’m not wasting my time responding again if you’re just going to misrepresent what i’m saying over and over.

has anyone else noticed that the writers were absolutely reluctant to fully commit to the darker implications of piltover's actions? like the gas attack on zaun? but tbh the writers' self-sabotaging of arcane's potential as social commentary is not what's really frustrating, it's that it's not just a missed opportunity, it’s a deliberate avoidance. the writers couldn't make piltover that bad, at least not through the characters we have to follow.

with the gas attack, what we get are scattered hints: a single man coughing, kids praying to janna in a song (in a way that’s super easy to miss), and worship of a painting of janna. but the show never fully depicts the suffering caused by the gas. it never commits to the atrocity and by refusing to depict the actual impact, the show softens piltover’s culpability and allows a big part of the audience to either overlook or justify it.

but the gas attack aside, the writers had two opportunities to make an explicit statement about systemic oppression, environmental racism, and the true cost of unchecked industrial power but they avoided doing so. and those two clearest instances of this avoidance are in how the show handles viktor and orianna:

in season 2, viktor’s story is literally warped to avoid blaming piltover. viktor, a character who should represent the suffering zaunites endure because of piltover’s neglect, is instead pushed into the role of an irredeemable villain for a marvelesque shit show. his transformation discards his humanity so blatantly that the audience is distracted from the actual injustice: he was dying because of piltover.

his ending is framed around jayce’s “beauty in imperfection” speech as if he should have just accepted his disability rather than seeking a cure, when the reality is, he wasn’t just disabled, he was dying because of the system piltover built. that was his entire struggle in season 1, but by season 2’s end, the narrative no longer engages with it to protect piltover.

as for orianna, she is reduced to an easter egg as a gift to league of legends fans (which is funny because the show ruined her lore for them), but more importantly, to avoid critiquing piltover.

her lore was an explicit condemnation of piltover’s disregard for zaunite lives. she was a little girl who helped zaunites, got sick due to piltover’s pollution, and had to slowly replace her own body with machinery until she lost all humanity. but arcane erases this. she’s barely a cameo, and the audience isn’t even told how she died. the show doesn’t just sideline her suffering, it removes it entirely, sanitizing piltover’s guilt in the process.

more importantly, all of this lets a big part of the audience defend piltover. for instance, by never showing the gas’s impact, the show gives certain viewers the option to ignore it: no bodies, no long-term sickness, no undeniable, inescapable horror. and i'm sure we've all seen how this allows for interpretations that justify piltover’s actions in the fandom, whether that means erasing the gas attack’s consequences or framing it as acceptable because the victims are zaunites (who are often conveniently portrayed as violent criminals).

also, ekko’s line about rescuing more people because of gang fighting is a perfect example of how the show subtly misdirects the audience. yes, gang violence is an issue, but it’s not the only crisis. the gas remains, it spreads, it poisons the people, especially the children working in factories. those are also people the firelights must have rescued. but the show chooses to highlight one crisis over another, and we know why ...

anyway, it's sad that the writers had no balls. they let so many people feel comfortable not thinking too hard about piltover’s crimes, and comfortable enough to insult anyone who criticizes characters participating in those crimes, especially caitlyn and her squad.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Public Divorce AU

Mostly Random ideas/events that will not leave me be. Some I am 100% “Yes, this is how it would play out”, others it’s more “this is the vibe, but I’m not sure on exact events and actions”. As always, we run on suggestions and ‘yes and'ing each other!

- So, the Rogercop thing goes a little differently, cause both André and Audrey showed up for Parents’ Day to try and score some good publicity points, and. Uh. One thing leads to another, and André fires Roger for…well, he gives some legit reason, but the ACTUAL one is that he thought Roger was “taking Audrey’s side”. He wasn’t, for the record. He was actually standing up for both Chloé and Sabrina, and was just trying to get the Bourgeois to maybe calm down. They did not, and Roger ends up fired. Shortly after, Roger starts working at the Museum as a security guard, which it turns out he’s actually pretty good at.

- Most Chloé related Akuma go differently. Instead of going after Chloé, most are going after André or Audrey, cause they showed up and did something stupid. Chloé’s still at root cause for a few, but not nearly so many.

- Chloé does end up meeting Zoé. Zoé and her dad get dragged to Paris by Audrey as part of the “divorce proceedings” (she’s really rubbing them in André’s face). Both are extremely apologetic to Chloé, who’s just “trust me, this is NOT your fault”. They end up sticking around Paris (everyone is confused on WHY) and Zoé starts attending school with the Miracuclass.

- Still stuck on Lila being baffled by how “low maintenance” the class is, when in actuality, it’s more effort, it’s just stuff she enjoys, so it FEELS like less effort. She’s kind of suspicious and waiting for the moment she’ll have to lie to keep these “friends” but it never comes.

- the incident that majorly contributed to Chloé’s current “Don’t Give A Fuck” attitude, was André, in an effort to prove how bad of a parent Audrey is, posting a video of a slightly younger Chloé having a breakdown over something Audrey had done (unsure of what). Like, it was a moment captured by an opportunistic reporter, and at the time, André went to great lengths to ensure that clip NEVER saw the light of day. He basically bought the rights to the footage, meaning if anyone else aired it without his permission, André would be within his rights to sue the hell out of them. Then, when he needs ammo for his dick-measuring contest with Audrey, he uses that clip to prove how awful of a parent she is, proving himself to be just as bad, because he just showed a very vulnerable moment of Chloé’s without her permission. When Chloé tries to confront him about it, André dismisses her concerns, and just points out it’s Audrey’s fault for upsetting Chloé in the first place. 

- André and Audrey start dipping into illegal activity to try and get back at each other.

- when André starts bringing home his new girlfriends, that’s when Chloé unofficially moves out of the Hotel. She does NOT want to be around for this. While she still technically lives at the hotel, and will occasionally spend the night if André had her show up at an event or something, she is otherwise packing up all her stuff and moving into the Agreste Mansion. (It took almost a week for Gabe to realize she’d taken over the guest room closest to Adrien’s.)

- the Style Queen Trilogy goes differently. Or rather, it goes mostly the same, right up until Style Queen is pointing her glitter ray at Adrien. At that point, it gets derailed, by Chloé bodily launching herself at Style Queen and grappling with her, shouting for Adrien to run. Adrien does indeed book it (if he changes into Chat fast enough-), but Chloé gets hit with a glancing blow. And rather than immediately changing into a statue, Chloé starts slowly turning to glitter, starting from where the ray hit, but she’s still conscious and mobile. So she keeps going. Keeps trying to fight Audrey, keeps trying to rip the item off. She kicks, bites, and claws at Audrey, snarling and shouting the whole time. Eventually, she’s too disintegrated to hold on, and Audrey throws her off, resulting in Chloé dissipating into a cloud of glitter upon hitting the ground, vanishing. Ladybug and Chat Noir beat Style Queen, and Miraculous Cure everyone back, but this is the incident that gets Fu to give Chloé the Bee. It’s also the incident that makes Gabe start running all his power ideas for André and Audrey by Nathalie.

- For almost a week after this, Adrien and Sabrina are both extremely clingy. So are most of their friends. Chloé’s actually pretty ok (it didn’t hurt, felt more like going numb, and she was so enraged she barely noticed) but everyone else has ✨trauma✨.

- Infinity War is now banned media for their class.

- Chloé tries to do a “I don’t feel so good, Mister Stark”, sends half her class into a panic attack. 

- the Incident that finally gets both Audrey and André “taken out” so to speak, is near the end of the divorce. Because everything is more or less settled, except for one thing. Who gets custody of Chloé. This is complicated (for them) by Chloé being old enough to have input, which is “I’d rather live in a sewer than with either of them”. The way they decide to handle this is by each trying a big spectacle to prove THEY are the better parent, and said spectacle ends up with Chloé (and possibly others) becoming endangered. Not by an Akuma either, this is just plain mortal stupidity. Also, probably illegal, whatever it is, resulting in both André and Audrey being arrested, and Chloé ends up under someone else’s Guardianship (Gabe? Someone else?). The thing that sprung to mind was they each separately hire some goons to kidnap Chloé, so that they can come in and “save” her, proving that THEY are the superior parent, but they accidentally do it on the same day, so instead they had a mutual shoot out or something.

- because Chloé’s parents get arrested, Chloé gains control over BOTH their financial assets. She promptly begins to sell off EVERYTHING SHE CAN. Some personal effects, she can’t touch, but what she can, she is selling. The hotel? Sold. Style Queen Magazine? Gone. Yachts, cars, jets, stocks - all sold to the highest bidder. Everything they fought over during the divorce, she sells as soon as she can.

Thoughts? Opinions? Comments?

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Ohohoho!

- Au where Roger is decent hell yeah!

- absolute rip to them getting involved but YEAH that’d cause Akumas

- they end up sticking around because Mr. Lee is like ‘well someone has to look out for this kid’s wellbeing’

- Lila is both happy and filled with anxiety.

- OH OUCH. Yeah that’d- that’d really break all love and trust huh? It’s one of those things that Chloé would’ve used to think that Andre scrubbed the video from existence because he cared, but now it’s just so clear that it was only to save his own reputation/image and it taints everything.

- these damn rich people

- I just imagine Gabriel actually showing up to breakfast with Adrien for once only for Chloé to waltz in still half-asleep in pajamas and messed up hair and just steal Adrien’s toast and Gabe is like ????

- Oh this HURTS

- Yeah everyone’s traumatized

- OH SHE WOULD LMAO

- Honestly yeah them doing some ridiculous shit that can’t be handwaved as Hawkmoth’s fault because hey no Akumas this time just them? And that’s the tipping point because sure before this was clearly an unhealthy environment for Chloé but it was never anything that could get them in legal trouble it just made everyone judge them. But now? This is Al Capone’s taxes. Also yeah the incident being them both staging danger to ‘save’ Chloé and prove themselves the ‘better parent’ makes sense.

- selling everything they fought over is the ultimate power move

[wisewitchbindery]

💖 𝓜𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶 𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮’𝓼 𝓑𝓲𝓷𝓭

❣️ This is the 2024 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓘𝓼 𝓘𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓲𝓻 fest bound into another obscure Hogwarts textbook. This is a multi fandom fest and features 13 fics.

❣️ One thing about me — I love obscure Harry Potter references as much as I love binding fests. This is inspired by the “𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓟𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼” textbook by 𝓓𝓻. 𝓢𝓬𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 in Hogwarts Mystery (@hphogwartsmystery a mobile video game). Yeah, I know I’m weird (although I prefer quirky 😋)

❣️ This is my favorite typeset to date, and I absolutely adore it. It’s also my first attempt at hand stitching my endbands, and woof, it’s hard!! So much respect for everyone who does this.

💕 Tagging the wonderful authors whose works are featured in this bind, I appreciate all of you: @heyvirgo4 , @allofthelights11 , darkcloud190, @wolfpadx, @forestknifefight , tesla.ember, @fairyofthesnakes, @elcieford, @riddikuluspuff, @undercoverdrxco, @greeninkredletters, bellairestrella

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💕 All fics and art were used per their respective policies or with explicit permission. This was hand bound by me for my personal collection. Never buy/sell fanfiction, it’s illegal. All fics are free to read on AO3 here.

[strawberri-draws]

Silly entry for day 3 of potsnpicksweek (Dinner/Modern AU/Gift)!

[wildfyrevalkyrie]

i like the idea of more games after 2 but i don’t like the games we got.

me and @dreamsy990 have discussed days at length and my opinion is that if i had to pick a set of existing kh material to keep and the rest to discard, i’d pick 1-com-2 and the days manga.

aside from minor things like the days game retconning one of roxas and riku’s fights, i feel that days weakens roxas by having us see every moment of his life from birth to death. there’s no room left for speculation of his past after days like there was in 2—questions like ‘how long was he in the digital twilight town’, ‘did he ever know the real hayner pence and olette’, ‘what happened between him and axel’, and ‘what was his relationship like w the other org members’ are all told to us in days and its just—sometimes you need to keep a couple of cards close to your chest. if you’ll pardon my brainrot for a minute, id like to briefly compare roxas in kh2 to azem in ff14. i feel like this is a fair comparison, as both characters are part of an on-going series that recently wrapped up a major story arc and is beginning a new one. both are characters related to the protagonist via soul shenanigans. both worked with the main villain organization at some point. both were best friends of a major antagonist in the organization. both had a falling out with said antagonist when they left the organization and then died. both of these antagonists then proceed to do some messed up stuff in a vain attempt to bring back their best friend, and i could go on but then id be comparing axel and emet-selch and not roxas and azem. now, there are obviously differences in the details, but the point is theyre mechanically similar characters who both have plenty of mystery in their backstories. the difference tho is that azem has been allowed to keep some of their mysteries. as of dawntrail, we know roughly why azem left their organization, but not the details of what they were doing before their death. we know roughly how they joined their organization, and we’ve learned about their relationship to several other characters that knew them in life. now, roxas is paralleling the concrete character of sora instead of the vaguer character of the wol, so i’d expect roxas to have more concrete information revealed. but i think kingdom hearts’s second biggest writing flaw is that it feels the need to share every nitty gritty detail, which limits canon-compliant speculation for both the fans and the writers. for example: 14 at any time could introduce Bingus, who met azem during azem’s time in the organization, without contradicting any existing lore. kh cant, because we know that roxas never met Bingus before, we know everything roxas ever did in his life, and meeting Bingus isnt one of them.

birth by sleep, meanwhile, exemplifies kh’s biggest writing flaw: trying to tie everything together in ways more complicated and unnecessary than how i weave in my ends when i crochet. answer me honestly: what value is added by having xehanort posses terra and lose his memory in order to look just like his younger self before working for ansem tw? ‘oh bc hes eldery in bbs and young in 2’—why is he elderly in bbs? heck, why is he the villain of bbs—or rather, why is the villain of bbs the same character as the villain of 1/com/2? im not saying there has to be no connection: the story could easily have been tweaked such that instead of the two xehanorts being the same character, the villain of bbs inspires/passes down his power/mission of opening kingdom hearts to xehanort in a parallel to how the wayfinder trio inspires/passes down the ability to use the keyblade to the destiny trio. im not knocking bbs’s story for not being my headcanon, just highlighting a way in which the writing prioritizes interconnecting things at the cost of being straightforward. (i’m also knocking it for not being fun to play)

ill leave the mobile games with the opinion that imo gatcha games should never be plot-relevant. plot-supplementing or lore-supplementing, fine, alright, but not plot-relevant.

ddd and 3 are… theyre alright from a gameplay perspective but the story as you play it isnt great. say what you want about how 3 ‘tied things together’ or w/e, but sora stating at the start of 3 that his mission is to help restore roxas, only to not contribute at all to that part of the plot isn’t good writing. we can debate the power of waking and the relevancy of the disney worlds until the cows come home (personally, i feel that space paranoids in 2 shows that the games can have plot-important disney worlds), but sora not even attempting to contribute to his stated mission is frustrating. birth by sleep did this right: aqua’s stated mission was to watch terra for signs of corruption and bring ventus home, and yes, she failed, but she tried. ddd technically did this right (‘technically’ bc sora and riku’s mission was ‘pass the mark of mastery exam’ and short of actively giving up they cant really fail to try to do that).

in summary: while i feel like 2 neatly wrapped up the destiny trio’s story, i can see the potential for more games in the franchise. however, i didnt really enjoy the later games from either a story or a gameplay perspective, so i think i’d rather sora’s story have ended completely with 2.

Question for Kingdom Hearts players!

[evasive-anon]

Let Danny’s Parents Be Criminals

I hate the reveal gone wrong trope in the dpxdc fandom because we know Jack and Maddie end up supporting Danny and Dani in the end. His parents have some major flaws but wanting to torture their actual child isn’t one. What they are guilty of is going way too hard on any plan they cook up without thinking of the consequences.

If I were writing a dpxdc fic and I wanted Danny in adoptable status I’d just have Jack and Maddie in jail on charges of domestic terrorism after they killed off GIW agents and destroyed the GIW’s bases. They realized their ghost kids were in potential danger and went at the government the same way they went at ghosts, guns blazing and with reckless driving.

They end up in federal prison and they Vlad wins custody cause he’s rich and there is your runaway Danny plot starter.

[parasitoidism]

Char Aznable Spring Breakers AMV

[stark-lord]

Side B

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

I just want to remind everyone that Wallace is canonically the worse one to sleep in the same bed with.

Scott can be a bad roommate in every other aspect but GUYS Wallace is the one that canonically snores and kicks in his sleep.

Scott sleeps like a princess with his back against the sheet lying perfectly straight (and also taking all the covers) and Wallace sleeps semi-on-his-side and apparently just fucking punting Scott in the leg every so often (not to mention he talked in his sleep too) and I don’t know why this is important to me but it is.

Because when people draw them cuddling in their sleep it’s always Wallace being normal and Scott turning and snoring and shit but you’re missing out on sleepy-cuddly Wallace turning and snoring on Scott. Let that cringe-fail 25 year old be annoying. Istg.

I’m talking to the Mobillace people too btw. Not that I’ve seen anyone draw them cuddling in bed (which is a CRIME btw. Draw that. For me.) but like imagine how funny it would be: Mobile stays the night for the first time and the hot-weirdo is a bed-menace, snoring and kicking and tossing and turning and suction cupping for warmth and Mobile is like “I want him to be my boyfriend” THATS FUNNY! LIKE-

[short666bread]

@maki-nsi TT wah sorry I’m incompetent and deleted your ask by mistake, but thank you so sm for the nice words re: my various iterations of these guys!!! I’m glad the different-ness is good and that my art feels friendly and comforting ;; anyways here’s the doodle I did based on your doodle :,)

[gojonanami]

I have three of the four five star memories

…yes I spent a lot of money to get them lmao…

[bumpscosity]

considering I’ve never done pixel art before and roblox starving artists is underdeveloped at best and "undo button doesn't work so you have to erase half your drawing" at worst I think these look pretty good