#murder tango

[theminecraftbee]

i think incidentally that tango loves complaining about the ravagers being dumb, right. and the ravagers LOVE killing tango. but the moment anyone else is like "oh the ravagers are stupid" "i hate the ravagers killing me so much" he's like. NO THAT IS HOW THEY SHOW THEIR LOVE. PUMPKIN LOVES YOU, ACTUALLY. THAT'S WHY SHE CHEWS ON YOUR BONES. do you understand the vision,

[sophieeee0105]

I’m enjoying the fact that this season tango and impulse are finally letting their true levels of unhinged show. Like this season tango has no Skizz to rein him in so he’s just a menace to society. And for impulse he has the one, the only, 5am Pearl herself to fuel his chaos

[bellshazes]

"I think he's going to hate you in real life" somehow maybe my favorite moment. bdubs being the one to process what Tango just did playing on loop in my brain

[evilrat-sabre]

Hey guys! Guess what? New chapter of Stardust! A beloved fic made by my amazing friend @a-plethora-of-peters. I got to draw a thing for todays chapter (:

Go check it out!

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

I’d like to throw my two cents in on the “Tango dies needlessly curse” subject, and say I disagree. I don’t think it was pointless this time

Is it a trend that he dies in a silly and stupid manner? Yes. Is that the case this time? In a way. Scar just broke the floor from under him and let him drop.

But it was a death borne of revenge for an act of revenge for a violent task. Scar wanted the Heart Foundation dead, and he dedicated himself to making that happen. Are the consequences of the tasks pointless? Especially for Scar, where the tasks he was given left him alone and hated?

Tango also just…knew it was coming. He was a dead man walking, no matter the amount of gifted hearts. He could’ve gone on a rampage, frantically setting traps, rushing in to score kills, never being able to let down his guard because anything could kill him. Or he could do what he did, which was spend time with his allies, goof off with them, and follow the man he knew would kill him. I think he was at peace with it, because any other action would be to live paranoid and violent and reckless, and who wants to go out like that? Best to go out laughing and setting something on fire for the hell of it. Is that choice pointless?

[willgrahamcracker2013]

what is THE hannigram song to you

[cyberkiller125]

I will never forgive Microsoft for this.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Fun fact that bloody mace from the monastery that I keep accidentally hitting Astarion with is indirectly linked to Bane (since it was created during the battle between Lathander and the fallen Chosen of Mystra Sammaster, who was manipulated by Bane at the time).

Also many of us shouldn't be able to wield it:

'If handled or moved by someone not of the Morninglord’s faith, the Blood of Lathander pulses in extremely bright, irregular flashes (brighter than a continual light spell) designed to make its carrier release it or to draw attention to its presence. If it is carried about by such a being, the bearer’s dreams are haunted by images of slowly dripping blood —drops of blood that turn to fire and blaze before they strike the ground. If a nonworshiper of Lathander continues to carry it for more than three days, it begins blazing with a bright light and heating up like metal affected by a heat metal spell; however, once is reaches searing heat in the third round, it stays that hot until discarded by the unauthorized bearer, whereupon it returns to ambient temperature in three rounds.'

...Or, quite possibly, the mace is not the real Blood of Lathander.

[miscellaneous--bones]

Hey guess what I finally watched

[minecraftbookshelf]

Should we be concerned about Torchy’s murderous tendencies?

[cattimeswithjellie]

Secret Life was great because every perspective on it is so fresh, you can watch just about everybody without even getting bored. Even in the finale, where everybody had the same secret, the plot unfolds like a flower, where you understand more of what actually happened the more you watch.

I just happened to watch Scar's episode first, which was a great place to start obviously because I got the basic story of the finale from beginning to end, and of course it was a wild ride! But there was so much left unknown, so many friends and enemies fallen without knowing what happened to them, so many plots unspooling outside of Scar's POV. In the end we were left with the same question he had: How did the guy with no friends win the game?

Part of the answer, of course, was obvious. Scar was absolutely on fire in Session 9, scoring an astonishing number of permakills and racking up the hearts to offset his recklessness. I'm not sure he quite realized the banger strategy he fell into by rushing in and just soaking damage while bashing his opponent to death, then using the ten hearts to repair the damage over and over again, but boy was it effective!

Beyond Scar himself, though, was a massive plot throughline that was only partially visible from his POV, and that was the loyalty the previous winners had to their teams above themselves. With the exception of Martyn, whose partner was lost two sessions ago, each previous Games winner had their own alliance and eventually their own favored player that they wanted to win.

Scott's loyalty to the Cherry Blossoms made their home into a fortress and Gem into a powerhouse partially fueled by his own life energy. She's a hell of a player on her own merits and tore a wide swath through the server in a brilliant first outing, but without Scott convincing Impulse to give her both their yellow lives, she would not have survived the combined effects of Grian's two ambushes to make her way into the final three. Along the way, the Cherry Blossoms took out both Bdubs and Joel, the two players who were Pearl's and who would otherwise have had her loyalty to the end of the line.

Grian's loyalty to the Roomies alliance was always more questionable than Scott's, because he is who he is, but he came through in the end and sent Cleo out of the portal cave while remaining behind to take on the near-suicidal task of triggering the explosion. And when he was discovered, he attempted to 1v3 the Cherry Blossoms to give his teammate more time to escape. (And it probably would've worked, if the remaining Mounders and Scar had not found Cleo and run her to ground at the same time.) Grian's last stand was perhaps the most pivotal moment in the late game because it changed the whole balance of power on the server. Scar never knew why Scott, Gem and Impulse were so much weaker than they were supposed to be at the end of the game, but we the audience know.

And of course Pearl's loyalty is unquestionable, even if by the end of the game, all the original targets for it were gone. Pearl proved herself a Mounder, bred and buttered (as they said in my neck of the woods.) She was quite wary of letting Scar into the alliance at all, but she is loyal and more interested in helping her team to victory than in taking a second crown for herself. Scott and Gem killed her guys before the end of the line, but she still had Scar, and she was still loyal to the end.

And thus the man with no friends wound up on the other side of a fight he'd already lived through four games ago, fighting an ally who didn't want to win for a victory he wasn't sure he deserved. But there's an important difference that I'm sure we'll be spending the entire rest of the series downtime dissecting: this time the victor _lived._

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

[cradletotomb]

just saw roxie hart hate. some people clearly don't appreciate a problematic queen.

[therizino-ao3]

Hermit Horror Week 2023

Day four: Taken Over

Summary: Tango knows being possessed by a bloodthirsty dungeon isn’t an ideal experience, but there’s not much he can do about it now.

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Contains: possession, controlling relationship, sapient Decked Out, murderous thoughts, cannibalistic thoughts, bad life decisions (tell your friends about your problems Tango!!!), temporary character death

Etho is talking to Tango about… something. Probably the new changes to treasure drops on floor one. Tango should be paying attention. He isn’t.

The thing is, it’s easy to forget when he’s on his own. The dungeon is merciful that way. It needs his human mind to maintain the dungeon and gives him free reign as long as he does as he’s told, sometimes he even gets rest. But here? Around others?

Etho’s heart is beating and his blood is rushing through his body and he’s breathing and Tango can feel all of it. Etho is right there and Hypno is to his left sitting on the leaderboard, swinging his legs and Gem is up above hiding in an alcove. And they’re all so relaxed and happy and his prey are so defenceless around him. Tango wants to tear his teeth into them and feel them die.

It’s maddening. The only times Tango can stand to be around others is if they’re actually running Decked Out, getting the same rush he imagines a wolf gets when it chases a rabbit. The rage and begrudging respect when Etho exploits parkour spots where there shouldn’t be or when Hypno escapes alive where anyone else would’ve died, and the sadistic satisfaction when Gem can’t find keys or when the vex descend on greedy players. And, the best part is, no matter how good they do, they’ll always fall victim to the dungeon, massacred in the survivor’s room. Tango gets to taste blood every time.

And, look, he knows this isn’t healthy. He should have clued into it when Zed started playtesting and he began to crave something he had never known before. But, it’s fine. Tango can manage. He nods along to what Etho is saying and does everything but look at his eyes. The alternative is telling his friends, which would be so awkward and uncomfortable and, worst scenario, they stop playing. And Tango can’t have that. Even just the week of vacation he took (mandated by Zed) was enough to leave him starving, shaking, barely able to think, an inch away from death. If Decked Out doesn’t get more sacrifices, Tango will- Well, he doesn’t know what will happen, but it won’t be good for him or his friends. So, he has no choice.

And as he watches, simultaneously, the dungeon that is an extension of himself, and sees Cub die to Willie’s trident. He feels warm and fed and satisfied. He wants more. He thinks - one of those thoughts he knows normal Tango would hate - maybe if it were a choice, he’d still choose this.

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

so a little while back I was talking to my sibling about jin guangyao’s customer service smile, used a pic of a meerkat to make my point and then was like Wait, actually I might be onto something here

cuz both JGY and meerkats? they are smol, got deceptively cute-looking, friendly faces + large dark eyes and seem so nice exCEPT

yup :)

and now i have a bunch of meerkat-jin-guangyao drawings

bonus; the pic i made that started this nonsense

[aromanticduck]

Violet Beauregarde 🤝 Bernie

All they did was chew some gum, calm down