#it's very frustrating tbh

[qoldenskies]

i think its so funny when people take the way donnie acts at face value even though its a horrible lie because he's a horrible liar, while understanding leo is bullshitting very well despite him actually being GOOD at bullshitting. many such cases

[turtletoads]

heyyyy *leans on old halo art i never posted*

[wewerepartners]

CHRIS REDFIELD —Code: Veronica X

[zytes]

snow over cold wires / nerine sarniensis

[foundfamilywhump]

see like the thing with 'carewhumpers' as a concept to me is it just like... i know this is prrrrobably not really how it's meant but something skeeves me out about the idea that kindness or caretaking mixed in with hurting someone can somehow meaningfully complicate or dilute the harm done to the point of making that character no longer a 'whumper' whereas someone doing the same 'bad' things but not ever being gentle or caring for them would just be a straight-out whumper. when like... that's how 90% of irl abuse dynamics work? so i just... don't really get the point, i guess. like to me it implies something about the 'care' provided somehow mitigating or combating the harm done that. i just do not personally appreciate or enjoy.

[lokh]

also i think if roleswap laios and canon laios met theyd immediately start fighting.

[vonnebenan]

"My father says you have been my friend. You came back for me." "You would have done the same for me."

oils on paper, A4

[sskk-manifesto]

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me

[royalarchivist]

[Immediately after Fit brutally roasted a chatter for being a filthy metagamer]

Dono: You became my comfort streamer. It has been great here.

Fit: Oh, thank you so much, thank you thank you thank you. I'm glad I can bring you comfort when I insult the sht out of some chatters, I'm glad I can comfort you. That's right!

Fit: People say I'm nice, no, I'm not nice. I'm polite. Mostly. There's a difference between being nice and being polite, I am polite. I am polite.

[goodbyenorthernlights]

tbh the thing I wind up thinking about the most when watching Villainess Level 99 is how it would look as an actual game where you play as Alicia.

Not the original Light Magic and the Hero where Yumiella's this mean rival girl, but a version of Light Magic and the Hero where Yumiella does indeed appear to the player as this terrifying shadowy mass (who everyone else seems to perceive as human, albeit a creepy looking human based on their reactions) and acts stoically unhinged and focused entirely on leveling up, and every time you try to interact with her there's like a 9 in 10 chance that one of the love interests will show up to interrupt the interaction.

Like I just wonder how that would feel to the average player.

[syn0vial]

after attempting to commission art of boba fett without his helmet, i am forced to consider that a good number of artists, subconsciously or not, cannot accept that temuera morrison has always been hot despite his lack of european features, and honestly this explains a lot about the fucking travesty that is every single clone's face in TCW and TBB

[rxttenfish]

merfolk in general are just. horrible horrible polyglots. their brains are already hardwired for language and quick language acquisition that remains active all their lives, further helped by retaining a high neural plasticity for their long lives, and especially enjoy complex language and language-based play and problem solving. but they also tend to have a lot of their society arranged where there's often multiple different languages at play within the same area, and only really stops being so once you get into especially small villages that have below the merfolk norm for outside contact. every merfolk alive today knows at least two languages, but most of them know far more than that, especially because one of those two will be the common-technical language. its been standardized and wide-scale implemented across the merkingdom after their dominance, to help bridge the gap between these different languages, basically as a successful version of esperanto. but its a trade language, and is mostly used for information you might want to reach as many people as possible, such as laws or business dealings or public announcements or the like. most merfolk don't view it as and don't treat it as a language proper, and its not what they prefer to converse in if they have another choice, usually finding it pretty limiting and restrictive, which is why its called common-technical.

miranda, being a royal who is regularly in contact with many different people around the merkingdom and regularly expected to be fully able to converse with them to do her job, knows just. so many languages. i might be changing exactly how many soon, but last time i counted it was in the low teens. like its just a perfect storm of her brain being wired for swift language acquisition and having a job that requires it and a position that means shes constantly around people from all around the merkingdom. not to mention having to know english too, which isn't just not her first language, it's not even her fourth language.

meanwhile, aaravi knows english and a little bit of hindi, less because of her mother and moreso because of her nana... its not that her mother never used it with her, but she was. less focused on using it or teaching aaravi, let's say. nana mishra uses it a lot more and is more interested in teaching aaravi when she asks her, especially in the intermittent period after her mom died and nana mishra was able to come back into her life to help aaravi pick up the pieces (though not after aaravi kind of. got left on her own. for an unfortunate amount of time). its just also fallen by the wayside with aaravi's whole Everything Else and kind of having a hard time accepting her nana's help and kind of being terrified of her (of no fault of her nana's, aaravi's just. she's just really traumatized after Everything, alright. having someone try to offer her help afterwards, especially when aaravi's scared of getting singled out as half human and half monster, is just. it's not something she can bring herself to trust.)

[froggerland]

Can i be real for a sec? When I come on here I feel like Hickey during the boat scene just shouting incoherent stuff and sharing his weird takes but instead it's my paragraph long explanations on any given subject that no one asked for and the niche fanart i throw at you and yall are are my personal mutineer crew but instead of throwing up and shouting back yall cheer and support me agsghsjs

[kolyasangel]

so sorry to make a post like this but i hate when people express that there’s a lack of fluff/angst or a lack of writing for a certain character and proceed to interact with everything but that or just don’t interact at all :/ as if it's so easy for authors to write and especially have the heart to SHARE it in the first place

[psalms-and-spells]

Okay. Welp that’s enough online harassment! If you are gonna harass me then you are gonna have to say it with your chest. If you are gonna question my faith question it with your chest!

I can’t believe a freaking Christmas post got this out of hand yet here we are. DMs are off for the foreseeable future and Asks are off anonymous. I get a decent amount of really sweet DMs and asks, some of which are genuinely asking for resources, so I feel bad but I can’t take this anymore and I want to have a peaceful Christmas.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

"i'm not bad at this language, i'm just bad at social interaction, promise": a neurodivergent language learner's catchphrase