#i'm still reeling over that one

[iturbide]

have you had a chance to play the new pokémon yet? bc i’d really like to hear your takes on the story

I HAVE IN FACT BEEN PLAYING IT I actually put off a side project for...a week or two because I got sucked into playing it.

I can't go into too many details on the story because I have one friend who is thinking about picking it up soon and I do not want to drop inadvertent spoilers but I think that storywise, it is up there with Gen 5 (Black/White) as one of my favorite mainline games. I loved the characters, particularly the rivals, in ways that I really haven't since Bianca. I loved their individual storylines, particularly the one with Team Star, which I went in expecting to be the one I'd slog through out of obligation -- instead it was one of my favorites, along with the Path of Legends. And the finale...I'm honestly still reeling from it. I was not expecting the way it all came together, and how poignant and heartfelt the whole thing felt in the end.

I know the game got a lot of buzz for problems (and oh there are problems, it cannot handle the lake even on a fresh load), but I've seen a not insignificant number of people point out how, if the game had been given the extra 6 to 12 months it needed for polish and fixes, it would probably be near-universally beloved. And despite some of the frustrations with my own experience, I fully ascribe to that because it is an excellent game with so much heart and love to it. It made me legitimately emotional on multiple occasions.

If you've been holding off on it, give the games a chance. They really are worth it.

[kiksniko]

was it really necessary to have that one close up panel of akutagawa sensually biting atsushi's neck

[carlyraejepsans]

i was chatting with two gamedev friends of mine a few weeks ago and mentioned wanting to make a videogame myself one day. and they talked about when they were younger and did game jams crammed in dingy cheap hotel rooms in milan for 3 days straight and how hysterical and fun it was and what a fast way to start making friends "in the industry" while sharpening your skills in a short amount of time and like. man... that does sound kinda fun

[seanicornspoice]

Daily life of local Disney princess, Swan

[thelastspeecher]

This may come as a bit of a surprise, but I don't often cry at books. Even the ones that hit me the hardest and most deeply, I don't cry.

But the ending of The Sun and the Star of all things got to me and now I'm crying at work bc I decided to finish it on my lunch break.

[proton-wobbler]

Loser's Bracket, Poll 4

Image Sources: Parrot (Lev Frid); Astrapia (Frédéric PELSY); Owl (Mat Gilfedder); Capuchinbird (Dubi Shapiro)

[starfiresky]

Yozora

[tomaturtles]

ALSO I!!!!!! GOT TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH JUN SENOUE AAAHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭💙💙💙💙💙

[nc-vb]

fanfic writers will be like "I'm sorry if this is terrible, English isn't my first language" AND THEN PROCEED TO BUST OUT A FRICKIN JANE AUSTEN/ERNEST HEMINGWAY-LEVEL MASTERPIECE THAT HAS ME CONTEMPLATING MY LIFE AND LITERATURE AS A WHOLE????

[fooltofancy]

a problem with running dungeons with friends is that every time i do something stupid it becomes canon baby mode behavior.

[mikesbasementbeets]

scheduled a gifset to post tomorrow and i've been itching for it all week. delayed gratification who i don't know her

[nightwingshero]

What form of love does your ship embody?

I was tagged by @simonxriley @voidika @baldurrs @playstationmademe @detectivelokis @socially-awkward-skeleton to use this uquiz for my ocs! Thank you!

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Wren and Leon (x: my little dark age)

love as tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

Grace and Charles (x: meet me in the woods)

 love as being known

[ love is knowing all of someone and loving them anyway ] when tim kreider said "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" and when joe wright said "The idea that these two people know each other, knew each other when they first saw each other. That they recognized each other from their future" and when micah nemerever said "it was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly"

[littlegildedswallow]

had a dream I was pregnant and my family were suddenly all pro life. woke up terrified and nauseated and sweating from places I didn't know I could sweat from.

[coquelicoq]

does anybody else say "hay is for horses, cows, and sheep. too bad you're a jackass" when someone yells "hey!" at them or is that another thing my dad made up

[madamescarlette]

Your sense of belief! In the good! in the world! You once believed in ME

[vulpinesaint]

fr like are people aware that i have a Thing about being too nice. like i am unerringly kind let's be honest however i feel boring as hell the whole time!! i feel uninteresting!!! fighting my demons and my demons are niceness!!!! in most of my close relationships i have been the nice/good/sweet/normal one of the pair and the other person has been the evil/interesting/dynamic one. clocks me over the head now to get to be the more sinister character when my friends and i assign ourselves characters from things we like. this is the same shit that had me convinced that i was not actually mentally ill btw i just happened to find the most mean nasty mentally ill main character motherfuckers that i could possibly have come across and immediately went out of my way to befriend them because i thought they were cool. Do You People Understand How Long I Have Lived Like This Thinking I Was Normal And Therefore Extremely Uninteresting. so validating to be considered weird or strange or have my little textposts be worthy of concern because bitch who was looking at me before and going "actually yeah you're gonna be the straight man (comedy usage of the term) in every interaction we have". i've been like this the whole time i was just consistently out-mentally-illed by everyone around me and now i think i'm boring. do you all know the mental struggle i go through to continue being kind in this economy sdkgfh