#if that is indeed the mother

[onenicebugperday]

@galacticnova3 submitted: Absolutely miniscule infant has places to be and plants to see (and eat) already!

I'll probably be finding and evicting/evacuating a lot more of these little fellas soon enough given all the moth eggs in Nougat's terrarium. Possibly left by this wonderful and wise-looking chumby lady.

TINY. Wow. Criminally small. Love that child and their possible thick mother.

[inafieldofdaisies]

Jessica Chastain for Beymen's Fall-Winter 2024/25

[drenched-in-sunlight]

it’s a small detail but i really like that only in Duskborn ending the Mending Rune clung to the lower half of the Elden Ring? like how Godwyn’s body clung to the Erdtree’s roots.

and technically that is his second life, so it’s like we retuned him to his Mother (and the rune is placed in the position of her womb too).

In the DLC there’s also a similar imagery which is the Base Serpent shadow casting on Marika’s statue, giving an illusion of it curling around her.

Imo, this is kinda like an opposite parallel to Bloodborne? Queen Yharnam wanted us to free Mergo / we freed Orphan and return them back to Kos, so mother’s devotion set them all free in the end.

Meanwhile in Elden Ring, they’d rather cannibalize themselves into curses than let go of her.

[thegamingcatmom]

ATTENTION PLS!

This is of utmost hairy importance:

I keep getting stuck on her hair. Not literally, sadly.

Part of me imagines long, straight, silken strands that are so soft to the touch. When she´s leaning forward and she lacks her head piece, they fall slowly, strand by strand, framing her face like a curtain. Same when she´s leaning over you (which ain´t hard cause bish is tall af). This is why she keeps them nicely tucked behind her ears (*feral noises*) when she´s not parading as The Priestess, so they won´t get in her way when she´s working or seducing you. When stressed, she runs a hand through it, making it come loose before it falls forward even more persistently than before, and hair that had once been neatly parted in the middle just...isn´t anymore. And all of that just does things to me- 😩🤌

BUT THEN-

...Then there´s the other part of me who can´t help but see her as this ruthless mob boss (I mean) who keeps it so short that the ends are barely touching her neck, slicked back with gel or some other substance that gives them a stiff, almost coarse appearance. Not one hair out of place, the definition of well-groomed. When stressed, she runs her hands through it in frustration, slicking it back even further. OR, perhaps that´s even the reason for that slicked-back appearance. That woman can´t keep her hands still, that´s just a fact (to me). So, when she´s not busy cutting someone open, she´s busy running them through her hair. It´s become an automatic response. And imagining her all huffy and puffy after yet another failed experiment, closing her eyes in frustration while running her hands through her hair?? I- 😩🤌

And just imagine running your hands through it and probs lose them in the process?? No matter if long and soft or short and stiff, that thought just-

😩🤌

WITH THAT SAID:

[lafaiette]

Gods I feel you I'm only 10 hours in after having received the game as a gift and I REALLY try to like it but it just ... doesn't feel like Dragon Age. Characters know stuff they shouldn't know about, the game keeps talking down to me, nothing I did in the previous games mattered, the tone is completely different, the mature storytelling of the previous games seems to be missing so far & what I heard so far of how the lore and the characters from previous games have been handled is honestly the worst part and breaks my heart. idk even if i wanna finish the game at this point anymore, I'm just kinda ... sad.

I'm so sad and disappointed, too, I remember our conversations, fics, and headcanons about DA! We were so excited and happy, because Inquisition, DA2, and DAO were genuinely well-made and aimed at pleasing the fans, despite their faults.

DATV is a good action game, no doubt about that. The combat is fun, there is a lot to explore and discover, and many locations are beautiful, even though some are terrible to navigate (Dock Town's structure makes no sense). But that's it - it's a good action game with the name "Dragon Age" pasted on it. It doesn't feel like it's part of the series, it constantly treats the player like an idiot, some references to past games and characters are literally hidden in the brief descriptions of the mementos, and there is even a Glossary to make sure the new players don't get frustrated.

Everything is safe and aseptic, cleaned of every deep piece of lore that could have scared new fans into buying or continuing the game. Even the banters lack the depth of the previous games.

A good game company should lure new players in not by rejecting their past entries, but by making them look even more interesting with their sequels.

Bioware wasn't afraid of offering piece of lore after piece of lore in Inquisition - it was a game set in a precise moment, whose prologue was directly tied to the events of the previous game, and new players had to accept this if they decided to buy it and play it. If they liked that premise, all that information and those details, then they were more than welcome - they were encouraged! - to go back, try the older games, and see how it had all started. It was a game made for the fans the company had already managed to win over, not for possible fans who may or may not bring new money in.

In DATV the new players can jump right in after quickly learning who Solas is and what he's trying to do, and old fans are left with an empty shell, with minor references that are supposed to make us feel happy and accomplished peppered here and there, while all our past choices and our favorite characters are forgotten or brought back with a terrible case of amnesia. It's lazy, infuriating, and very sad, and it smells of reboot, because the new devs probably realized they couldn't keep up with the amount of lore and choices the series contain, and they needed to start anew.

[flovoid]

… 𝔗𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔞𝔴𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱

[selliho6530]

Just look how wonderful they are here!

Just look at the way Linda looks at Paul😍 (and Heather😌)

Cuties 😊

[chaos0pikachu]

huaien's dad really said jin xiaobao can be huaien's side chick he was like "you can have some bussy on the side as a treat" sir this is why your son wants to kill you twice

[michyeosseo]

I am determined to take Shen Li home.

[ihatedean]

this is actually incredibly funny. he's SO confused. like, what could possibly make you drive all the way here to help the assholes that tortured me? and the you didn't even know i was here he says so casually, too. i love that for sam it's a given: of course dean would drop everything to save him. he literally forgot their own mother was there bc in his mind the only person dean cared about was him lmao.

[ravlykpavlyk]

...but he'd violently disliked her [Mary] for half his life.

I don't know why I find this part that fascinating. I guess it's the fact that Neil does understand what Mary did to him was wrong (considering the fact that he disliked her and was aware of that). Neil also realizes that part of his opinion is a bit biased because of being on a run and all of that.

Now I see lots of fics where Neil defends his mother and stands on the fact that she was a good mother, but then I reread his part and ... I'm not so sure now that he would. Yeah, he would shrug on the things she did to him and he might try to justify them even, but would it be because of believing that Mary was a good mother or simply because of being used to being hurt and being blamed for it?

[mc-critical]

1.06 / 2.09 (33)

[bcbdrums]

Drakken: *freshening up* Shego: Whatcha doing? Drakken: WAAAHH!! Shego: Sheesh, you going out with your mother or something? Drakken: No, I'm...I'm...going out with my girlfriend! Shego: Drakken: It's true! Shego: All right, I'd like to meet her. Drakken: Uh...you can't! Shego: Why not? Drakken: She, ahh...doesn't speak English. She's from another nation. Shego: Oh yeah? Which one. Drakken: She's from...from.... Shego: Drakken: Shego: Your imagination? Drakken: Nnrgh! Zip it!

[primussavethesemechs]

Arcane season 2 act 2 spoilers

So uh

Anyone notice that vander gave powder her mother’s cup? And that jinx still uses it?

I’m gonna go play in traffic now 😁

[the---hermit]

From the fool who added handwritten notes on a non-fiction book of which the translation was lacking in useful context, we now present translating the entirety of the epic musical because my non english speaking family NEEDs to know how good this is by a writing point of view. And yes as you can tell I am that fool.

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

I know when seeing Toby Stephen in PJO you're supposed to get that sense of like, epicness because he's Poseidon, but ever since I learned that Maggie Smith is Toby's mother, all I can see is Maggie Smith's eyes when I look at him. :)