#is blade huge or is it just me

[tecchan]

[moeblob]

Me, too, Blade. Me. Too.

(I am taking donations to buy a gigantic $250 stuffed cheeseburger. It's giant. I want it. I will never obtain it. I saw it in a shop window and..... wow. Big.)

[herd-reject-arts]

So I deliver mail now

Though it's not really part of the job, I can and will block a street to momentarily move a turtle across. There's a lot of water in the area, so a lot of street turtles. Luckily, my temporary route is 90% back roads and neighborhoods, so I'm not actually obstructing traffic. It was a nice Saturday afternoon, so literally no one was out on the roads. I just thought this phrasing was funny.

[melancholia00]

This is another of my headcanon and from the first episode I’d say Olrox was a priest or a teopixqui meaning “god guard.” He carries an obsidian dagger here:

And how precisely he aimed straight to the heart:

I’m just SAYING!

[fuckimrowan]

i say give the 7 more unhinged weapons

jason. an axe but there’s no handle. his bare hands. hazel. metal pole. a shield to bash in people’s heads. annabeth. mace on chains. need i elaborate frank. metal gauntlets. wolf teeth. percy. crescent moon blades. honorary sword guy, though. piper. a trumpet. the cornucopia because it’s inherently unhinged.

and leo just gets a huge fucking machine gun.

[masked-alien-lesbian]

It's been a LONG ass time since we got to flirt (run) from Valax...

[lunar-gl1tch]

anyway sorry for being super flaky at the moment i'm having a bit of an extended depressive episode between fatigue and the fact my smap oshi had a sexual scandal during the holidays

i don't wanna go into it but it doesn't feel great

[tastycitrus]

me for some damn reason

[yourqueenb]

Thank you for your answer, and thank you for putting so much thought into that 💞💞💞 mal and nia are my main LIs and at first I was really glad that at least two members of the party stayed with each other and mb even got closer but I can see how it would be annoying and/or sad for people who romance one of them exclusively. I think that I mostly just want to see eeal bonds between our party bc idk it just feels a bit hollow? In the first book they were just thrown together by chance but a whole year has passed and without MC there to hold them together it just shows how much less there is with exception of some banter and general sympathy towards one another. I also think that excluding Threep and other non-romancable characters from the main friend group makes most of the dynamic in choices hollow bc lmao all these people are here to try and fuck us and no one cares about each other beyond that. I don't really like TRR or TF but I feel like friendship was so much richer in previous books, like those two series, OH and TE - and in PM they managed to create a poly route where I could feel solid platonic bonds between people other than MC and LIs (Sloane and Hayden, Steve and Hayden or Damien and Nadia). Or mb I'm just a bit underwhelmed with the current plot course in blades lmao (sorry for rambling around the same three thoughts I just can't seem to gather my thoughts on this whole thing together 🫡)

I’m so sorry, I meant to respond to this sooner. But no, I completely get what you’re saying! You made some good points.

Even though all of these characters were kind of thrown together in book 1, personally I did feel like they were more like a family by the end of it. And I think that’s one of the reasons why everyone loved Blades so much. However, I do understand why the bonds aren’t as tight in this book. It makes sense for there to be some distance between everyone after what happened to MC and the apparent strife it caused. But I feel like they haven’t done enough to fully bring the group back together again and reform those poignant emotional bonds.

As you basically said with the exception of some banter and general sympathy towards one another, pretty much all of the focus is on each member’s relationship with MC alone. And even those relationships are very one sided with each person relying on MC for support, but not giving much in return. When the main cast is tied together by genuine relationships with each other rather than simply all waiting for their turns in MC’s bed, it’s really great to see and makes for a better book overall. That’s why the Pend Pals are still my personal favorite friend group to this day.

I will say that I actually don’t feel like the relationship dynamics in Blades specifically are hollow because everyone’s trying to sleep with MC though. And maybe that’s because I’m only romancing Mal (and flirting with Aerin on the side). But yeah, I think it’s because the writers have really been ignoring the opportunities to capitalize off of emotional beats (which I’ve said a few times before) rather than the characters just not having more to their relationships at all

[whumble-beeee]

I'm designing the super brands for the past several days (as in the the symbols that every super get branded with) instead of working on the actual story. If you wanna know what's going on with me rn

[aestheticitii]

the thought of roy and lilina dancing after roy convinces his parents to have a wedding reception with their friends...

they talk about how lilina was hoping to get the bouquet for herself, after she comments that seeing her parents getting married would be so so wonderful. they talk about how she's seriously considering re-entering next year for that reason, because askr is the only time she can relive the times when her family was together, just like roy

and roy offers to pair up with her or otherwise help her in her quest. because he knows how much it would mean to her, because her very-obviously-in-love parents are half the reason she wants to get married

when she ends up hinting at who it is that she'd want her fairytale wedding with, he picks it up immediately because they used to talk about it all the time. how could they not?

after all, roy's dad leaves little love notes for his mom, and his mom rolls her eyes lovingly before carefully pasting them into a diary she keeps. she's got at least fifteen of those by the time she dies because he gives out at least one per day and he gets one kiss per so sometimes he writes more. after they spar, if she even just compliments him, his dad feels like he was the one who won their bout instead because he's so happy about it

she buys him a gift every time she heads to town because "it reminds me of you" but they're very, very loosely related things, so much so that even she can't recall what connection they have to her husband. she just thinks about him a lot and it shows in the way she accidentally slips into praising him any time someone says something remotely nice about him

meanwhile, everyone's quietly scared of lilina's mom because they know her dad will be furious if they disrespect or hurt her in any way—he's her biggest supporter and it's something she mentions often whenever lilina talks about wanting to get married. "find someone who supports you like your father supports me. and make sure to support him just as much."

and her mom goes out of her way to give him a singular wild flower—sometimes a weed—she found every day to let him know she's thinking of him. he keeps a list of their descriptions. anytime she complains about any sort of pain, he'll take it as an excuse to carry her around and even though she acts like she'd be fine if he didn't, she makes no moves to let go, even when she's teased about it

but like back to their dream wedding—lilina's dream wedding really is just what they both wanted, what they both talked about as kids. and roy's never really thought about it too hard, because in the back of his mind, he's always assumed it's going to be lilina walking down the aisle and well, he's already talked about it to her

she kisses him on the cheek when the dance ends and he asks, hesitating slightly before telling him that she's always liked him, and apologizes for taking the moment away from his parents

he asks her to dinner instead

lilina never gets to answer because everyone starts taking pictures with the bride and groom, and of course, lyn and eliwood insist on roy being in most of them.

but when he shows up at the place he mentioned, she's waiting for him.

[bonnieisaway]

uh kind of scissor seven three and four spoilers? i think

Beat within a fucking inch of his goddamn life literally bandaged head to toe and treated several times and the one the SINGULAR fucking wound that's still open and is seeming like it will actually leave a scar on him is the one where Thirteen stabbed him. nobody fucking talk to me

[enbyblades]

I justs realized you re the representant of the starop fandom lol

OUghfngbsngnd thats so sweet of u teehee...feels wrong to take that title tho when my dear @zviyeri is the one who opened my eyes and heart and mind to begin with !!!

[unnerving-presence]

Gah it is too bad about the voice actor of Wesker but it made me look into his other roles and he does this one anime villain 😤 so good, he even says cock in one episode

literally 😭 i’m so sad rn like what

i did hear abt him voicing someone in an anime though. too bad i don’t watch anime cause i’d totally go through and watch that shit just to hear him say cock

[pinkfey]

i hate the “and they got married and had babies” trope so i’m thinking abt the very precious few ocs who have children 🤔 😔

[slumbering-shadows]

I finally bit the bullet and just made a new xbox account. My old one was originally made on my mom's email (I was very young and she watches too much dateline) and since it is a microsoft email, there is??? No way to change the email attached to the account without straight up deleting the email itself??? because Microsoft hates me personally i guess. Anyway that means that

1) when my mom changes her email password and forgets to tell me, I am locked out of my whole ass xbox until she answers me which could take anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 days. which doesn't seem like a lot but it is MY xbox. with MY games. and I should be able to play it on my schedule not hers.

2) I cannot personalize my account because it changes her email information. rip my mother's professional image because she still hasn't noticed I accidentally changed her pfp to a chibi stefano valentini like 6yesrs ago

3) if there's some sort of security issue where Microsoft says its time for 2 step verification, I either have to wait for her to send me the code from her email, OR, I have to get her to send me. the code. That Microsoft will text her. In order for me to sign into her email on my computer to grab the xbox code myself. both of which require both of us to be available at the exact same time bc those codes expire in 1 minute usually

4) cannot enter giveaways

5) my mother is petty and vindictive and I'm always terrified that if she gets into a Mood she will simply change the password and never let me into my xbox account ever again which will cost me (what I thought was) hundreds of dollars and literal years of progress

well turns out I only digitally own like 3 games. The rest of them are on disc or my husband's. So I'm not out so much money! However. There's no way to transfer my progress between accounts I don't think. Which means I get to completely replay diablo 3 (AGAIN!!! FUCKING AGAIN!!! THIRD FUCKING TIME!!!!!), the witcher 3, monster hunter world, and assassins creed origins.... from scratch. you know. huge long games. that I've sunk literally hundreds of hours into already. fucking hell