#its frustrating at best

[kiwi]

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

[ajastu]

[Rook voice] maybe if you had some friends you'd calm down 🙄

[kinokochouchou]

at the start of vacation I was feeling kinda OK, but now I am back to my depression self and social anxious self. I just want to freely go around look at people without feeling like very mentally unhealthy shivering small dog

[hinamie]

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[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Choi Han, for a test from a god, is sent to an unknown land with "Cale."

Choi Han, upon arrival, realizes something is strange about this Cale. He's got a similar appearance to his own Cale but the eyes are sharper, with a witty bite to his tongue and a quick sneer always at the ready.

He's clearly confused and distressed about being in a strange place with a strange person but he does his best to not let it show. His hand reaches for a bottle of alcohol that isn't there.

Choi Han thinks that this Cale isn't like his Cale at all.

Choi Han has a hunch that this Cale is the one from before Kim Rok Soo's possession. It makes sense. So he isn't his Cale.

However, though Choi Han wants to become cold to this stranger version of Cale, when he looks into those red-brown eyes and sees fear, he draws back. It's an instinctual feeling that he gets, right as Cale is spitting more vile words to cover up the trembling in his hands, that he doesn't want to see even a terrible Cale be afraid of him.

This doesn't stop them from arguing. Through towns, forests, deserts, they both learn on an intimate level that they would never, ever get along. Cale is too loud, too threatening, and Choi Han can't resist from debating with this strange Cale about morals, of all things. They argue constantly.

Though they argue, Choi Han can't help himself from sometimes mistaking this Cale for his own. He tells himself it's because they look alike.

They're both in the midst of an argument when a noble-like individual approaches them with cloying words, which seek to lure them inside of the noble's home. Choi Han is suspicious, but before he has the chance to decline, Cale steps in front of Choi Han and demands to speak to the noble who wants to see them.

The noble-like individual turns out to be the servant of a more powerful man, something that Cale saw through immediately.

Choi Han is stunned.

How did this, this trashy Cale with no moral upstanding, clock the intentions of a person so quickly and accurately?

He asks him directly. Cale shrugs. Choi Han believes he's mistaken when Cale's eyes flicker with calculating intent. They don't discuss it further.

Little moments like these keep occurring. Cale does something impressive, Choi Han inquires, and Cale downplays it with a sneer or an insult and refuses to speak about it again. It's weird and strange but it's familiar. Extremely so. Not the insulting, and the sneer is too odd to be his own Cale's face, but it's familiar in the sense that they both underestimate themselves. They both refuse to acknowledge what lies under the surface of their visage.

This Cale is a strange individual. He swears and laughs and grins, he's too calm about their situation, and it's difficult to get through to him when he makes up his mind about something. But the strangest thing is that all of these things remind Choi Han of his Cale.

Finally, it all comes down to a final battle. One more fight and both himself and this Cale can go back to where they belong. Choi Han is ready.

Cale receives a power from a book before the battle and it's unlike anything Choi Han has ever seen. But the coughing up of blood makes him have Cale swear to never use it. Cale swears.

Choi Han makes Cale promise to stay on the sideline and not approach. Cale easily agrees.

They get to the last stage, the last time they'll see each other again, and the villain of this world is too powerful. It's as if he weren't meant for them to fight. It's as if he were made so that they struggle.

Choi Han swings his blade to block a blow that he knows he can't block, knows might end him, and he thinks about how he can't possibly die right now and leave this Cale behind... but he's too weak.

He wonders what his Cale would do in this moment, when everything seems hopeless and nothing is working.

Cale steps in front of him and uses his power to its fullest extent.

White light is shining everywhere, blinding Choi Han who keeps his burning eyes open, desperately keeps his eyes on the Cale that's bleeding from his mouth and his nose and his eyes and his skin is starting to crack, crack like he is about to turn into dust and disappear.

Cale turns to look at Choi Han.

"Ah. I was worried it wouldn't be enough to take out the villain." His eyes stained with blood curl up in a smile. A ball of dread sits in Choi Han's stomach. "I'm glad. I'm really, really..." eyes drifting closed, his body begins to shatter further and further. "Happy for you, Choi Han."

This is why they felt familiar.

It's with a cry of grief and anger, anger at himself, that Choi Han reaches out to hold Cale, hold onto even a piece of him.

Cale's eye, the only one left as he is disintegrating, widens.

Choi Han grasps a fragment that's about to vanish from Cale's chest, somewhere next to his heart, and this piece doesn't break, doesn't disappear from Choi Han's hand. It stays solid and firm and real-

And it's all that Choi Han is left with when the gods test ends.

Choi Han wakes up, surrounded by his family, with a red, glass marble in his hand. He holds it to his chest. It hurts.

It hurts.

[axel-tiredstudent]

⭐Part 1. Found You Again.⭐

(the first comic of my high school au! you can find more info about it here)

[mxwhore]

For some low-effort doodles, I'm dead curious about how the kids interact with their parents as they age. Just mundane stuff they do together. Does amayas or amara have a "favorite" dad? And like, if you wanna get wild with it, do either of them act Too Much Like Their Dad sometimes?

dropping some cute doodles before going into The Lore

[ronnabyte]

skyboudn was peak everybody is just weak (ignore how i forgot nadakhan's little beard and his stupid hook hand half the time)

[superbellsubways]

←bearer of the "gets attached to characters alot of people hate or dont care about" curse

[tea-cat-arts]

I simply think this fandom doesn't give Wei Wuxian enough credit for the various ways in which he saved Lan Wangji

[coolnonsenseworld]

A little promo with my little obsession on the side...........

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[koitaxa]

didn't join the wwe fandom bc of the storylines or the wrestling but a secret third thing (toxic old men yaoi)

[3416]

Bruins @ Leafs | 12.02.23

[xanams]

Loop would never call siffrin 'boy' or similar in any context. btw.

[the-maidofmischief]

I am so sorry, but Van's death is NOT a "bury your gays" situation, I need you guys to use your brain.

[scribz-ag24]

Whats the best pmd game?

I wanna start playing but idk which one to start with

^_^

I think the collectively agreed to be the best/most balanced game in the series is Explorers of Sky, it's the most popular one and its story is well crafted to hit well. Plus, due to it being a DS game, it's incredibly easy to run in different consoles or emulators.

However, I think Super Mystery Dungeon is also incredibly enjoyable if you learn how to use objects well (it's fairly easy, I am not a skilled player and only got one game over). You also have the remake of Rescue Team, PMD Rescue Team DX, which will probably be a less jarring experience than playing the original games without any prior experience (they are very good and enjoyable, and available in Nintendo Switch Online too! but due to them being the first games, they may still had some things to improve in their mechanics, that's why I'm recommending the remake despite not having played it myself).

I would stay away from Gates as an introduction to the franchise, because, in spite of its great story, themes and characters, its gameplay loop has some big pitfalls that make some parts of it very hard to get through or unsatisfying. If you feel you like the franchise after some games, i would advise you to check this one, though.

So yeah, tldr: Explorers of Sky would be the best one to start with imo. It's very accesible and overall gives the best pmd experience as a whole (despite its flaws in some parts of the plot and some plain characters).