#it was believed to be a failure.

[voidendron]

Death was meant to be permanent.

It held tightly to those to fall to it, waited patiently for those who didn't seem able to die to finally join its embrace. It would wait a day, a thousands years, longer - for it knew everyone would approach its door. Eventually. It could wait.

It was through the Force - through alchemy, through rituals - that one could make death unlatch its gnarled teeth from its possessive hold. (They always came back in the end. It could wait a little longer.)

It was through the Force, that the body could preserve itself as a silent clock began to tick-tick-tick.

It was through the Force that the runes carved into flesh would begin to burn, and the hole in a heart would heal over. That breaths would return to the lungs and - like a forgotten machine being powered on for the first time in centuries - the body would begin to respond.

Tick-tick - the first beating of a lifeless heart would begin again.

Tick-tick - the chest would spasm for air, the lungs would ache for it.

Tick-tick - thoughts would come back. Slowly, oh so slowly. Hazy memories; of pain, of loss, of the lightsaber driven through a chest.

Tick-tick - the countdown would end, with twitching fingers and eyes flying open to be met by darkness. End, with panicked breathing as he realized he was trapped, that there was a hole in his chest to tell him his brother was gone. End, as he shoved at the confines of his newfound prison through the Force.

The top of a stone coffin would crack in two as both halves flew off.

There would be tears on his face even as the rest of his body would be slow to come to.

His...his brother was dead. Varkhal was gone. Couldn't feel him anymore.

Or, so their master would want him to believe.

[chloesimaginationthings]

William is the most divorced man in the FNAF universe

[desultory-suggestions]

You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

don't stress about that opportunity that fell through or that friend you lost or that thing you really want to happen but isn't. as long as you keep your chin up and try try try again, better things will replace your losses. i'm looking at my life rn and actually marveling at how every single thing i stressed about, whether it be an opportunity or a person, got supplanted w another thing that is so much better. it really is true that loss makes space for better things. these days i don't get sad when something doesn't work out. i get excited that i'm now open to so many other possibilities out there, so long as i actively seek them. you never lack. you just transition.

[the-meme-monarch]

his swagless looks and absolutely rizzless personality captivates me

and then for art reasons i designed the auto axe. i'm happy w it :]

if you ship scc together go away Please and thank you 👍

[tekitothemagpie]

Luffy is so crazy for this, man.

Judge is spouting out all the things that make Sanji a failure in his eyes.

And then Luffy just says that it's all the good things about Sanji.

That does shit to a motherfucker Luffy, calm down.

[farshootergotme]

What's the worst lie the popular batfam fanon has made you believe?

I'll start:

'Worst' might be an exaggeration, but the fanon that says Jason is Bruce's favorite son.

[talesfromthecrypts]

I must sell my soul to the devil but I don't know how.

The Day of the Beast (1995) dir. Álex de la Iglesia

[bpdohwhatajoy]

It’s hard to believe I deserve anything good when I’ve been subjected to so much cruelty.

[filmfqiry]

me since i was 13

[ffcrazy15]

"Oh so when James Kirk refuses to believe in no-win scenarios it's 'changing the conditions of the test' and 'commendable original thinking,' but when I, Bradward Boimler, can't accept the possibility of failure and retake the Kobiyashi Maru sixteen times–"

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

[protagonist-art]

"or whatever"

[pastelchad]

Annoying that people say that Leon’s entire character is police and military propaganda when his entire character arc revolves around how the greed of the few big bosses at Umbrella and the corruption of the US government ruined his life

[qoldenskies]

ngl i think everything about the closet scene in CL gets way worse when you realize that donnie did, genuinely, 100% believe that they had left him in there to die. he didn't think it was just a punishment, or that he'd be let out eventually, he thought he was going to die in there. he considered it an attempt on his life.

really beyond the trauma of isolation itself i think its why it was such a breaking point for him. this was before they'd hit him, when their behavior was just neglect and bullying. he'd never had a reason to think he should fear for his life around them.

when they changed the lock on the door he thought they were going to do it again, and he thought that this time they were never going to let him out. he took it as a death threat, and it's why he completely shut down afterwards

[palin-tropos]

in my opinion, disco elysium writes its leftist characters to be flawed and their choices can be interpreted as wrong not as some kind of test of faith for the audience where if you say “hey that thing they did or said was wrong actually” then you failed and are a bad player who missed the point

I think it’s a game that wants to speak to the complexity and nuance of being a leftist and seeing the world that way. it wants to bare its soul. it expresses its opinions strongly but doesn’t doggedly seek to control the audience’s thoughts and morals. it seems to value emotional authenticity over brute ideological power. and that’s good

in giving the player the space to doubt, critique, get angry at, and question the beliefs and choices of leftist characters, but also giving them a world that is fundamentally structured around a leftist analysis, it’s inviting them to spontaneously engage in leftist discourse. I think it’s an intended part of the game