#my drafts is an interesting place

[expectiations]

the only goal i can objectively achieve in life is making sure my drafts stay under or the same as my follower count

[imclou]

can't believe fnaf brought me out of art hibernation man what a turn of events

[beneath-the-mask]

Hot take but if Miquella was a girl I don’t believe the discourse surrounding his character would have arose with the dlc ending. Or at least it wouldn’t have been so bad. Like his ‘crimes’ are definitely not worse than Marika’s and yet I rarely see anyone genuinely hating on her character for what she’s done. Because she’s an attractive woman and that’s all that matters to some people.

Like he’s not at all the worst we’ve seen in a souls game and yet people are treating him like the devil. Suspicious, if you ask me…

[customizablefriend]

My true self still loves Tommyinnit I am still an inniter at heart I have not changed

[twosides--samecoin]

I wish Maximus was allowed to exist as a character exploring/unlearning the institutional toxic masculinity of the Brotherhood without the racism he's introduced to us with.

The world asks of you to be tough. It pushes you down and takes everything you know and love. So you join up with whoever makes you feel strength, whatever institution makes you feel like there's a way to fight back. And if you conform, maybe someday you could be the powerful guy in the suit.

Maximus grows up in the Brotherhood of Steel as one of the only people of color at his camp. In exchange for an education and bare necessities, the Brotherhood requires of him to conform. He's introduced being beat up by a bunch of white people. He's shown tasked with digging latrines. Seriously, what the fuck? He's passed over for Scribe and he conspires with Dane to trade roles, something that happens by Maximus using violence and asserting his oath and conformity to his (white) Elder enough that he is given the role. And then he learns that there's no glory in the suit; it doesn't make him powerful.

And I like Maximus a lot! I want to see him grow and to keep breaking away from what the Brotherhood has taught him. But I think his arc could have been explored the same (including exploring otherness within a white and patriarchal society) without some of the gratuitous parts of what he's put through.

[sunkillerlovechild]

HELP ive been seeing so much poolverine fanart and so often they are stabbing eachother and now the only thing i can think of is like stab to the head might feel nice

like the same way taking out your brain and washing it, should sound like it wouldnt feel good, but god would i like to wash my brain

thats exactly the way i feel about like getting stabbed in the head or like a thigh

[noisytenant]

a really interesting customer service philosophy that my boss explained is that we should, essentially, act out the client's anticipated feelings so that they don't take it out on us.

so, if i need to share bad news that something's delayed, i should express frustration and even indignation if it seems like that would be the client's response.

people generally don't want to escalate when another person is already emotional, and it also makes the client feel like you "care" about the situation and understand their feelings. they don't feel the need to rush you because you make it clear that you're already rushing.

it's really fascinating since i feel like most customer service philosophies are very much about minimizing oneself and coming across endlessly polite and patient... i think it's a little specific to this more b2b line of work where we do a lot of liaising with larger systems, but it does see applications in other fields.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Pictures and things

[mumblingsage]

I'm reading my second Sherrilyn Kenyon book and it's giving me lots of thoughts I'll be sure to blog about next time I want to fire a rent-lowering gunshot.

(Not the highest priority but the one that communicates the most flavor in one sentence: "She really took the coward's way out by not letting the hero's trauma give him ED.")

[bare1ythere]

Okay, I just finished Strange Aeons' Dashcon video and I have two major conclusions, but the more important one is that the general experience for the participants, not the vendors in the artist alley, guests, staff, or security, but the nerds who bought tickets and attended the con, was generally MUCH more positive than I thought it was. And also, that people on tumblr who were not there were MUCH more vicious and mean than I thought they would be.

[velvetjune]

Spoilers for Alan Wake/Control games and DLCs: one of the things I really like in Alan Wake 2 is the confirmation that, no, Alan can’t create something out of nothing. There were implications in-story that supported that, but it was good to have that be a big part in the sequel. The AWE control dlc easily made it seem like Alan himself had a role in the events of the game and the formation of the FBC, and, personally, seeing it through that lens cheapened a lot of the game and Jesse’s story. Instead, having his writing influence the Hiss and try to manipulate (even out of desperation) Jesse/the FBC to end Hartman and get help, fit right into plot and conflicts of Alan Wake 2, with Alan being sympathetic, but also an asshole for trying to change and control people’s lives in his writing.

[dayurno]

[tlouramblings]

I wonder how Tommy’s new child will effect the plot

TLOU Part 2 Spoilers

The line “Couldn’t say I would’ve done different” will have a much deeper meaning in the show. Tommy will either be completely serious, as he would do the exact same for his child, or he will be furious there’s no cure for his child.

Will Tommy ruin his relationship with the child by avenging Joel?

He’ll essentially abandon his family in the name of revenge, knowing there’s a chance he may die.

The child will only be about 3-4 at that time, but Tommy leaves for a few months and then (somehow) comes back with a gunshot wound in his head, and missing an eye. I’d imagine the healing time was long and he was pry on bed rest a while.

So I’d estimate between going to Seattle, and the wound, Tommy went close to a year without doing a lot of parental duties.

Then Tommy and Maria break up sometime within the next year, and Tommy starts devoting time into finding Abby again.

The strain all that will put on his relationship with his kid.

It could mirror Joel and Tommy’s bar convo, “I think I’ll be a good dad” and show that Tommy’s grief has turned him into a bad/absent father. Which will pry be more painful for Tommy, as he wanted to be a good father like Joel was. His parenting style was pry based on how he saw Joel raise Sarah, and how Joel was trying to raise Ellie.

When Tommy goes to tell Ellie he found Abby I have a feeling he will be even more furious that she doesn’t want to go. He will throw it in her face that she once guilted him into leaving his wife and child for revenge and now she needs to do the same.

Tommy and Ellie are going to be much more parallel towards the end of the show. They both lost Joel, and in their grief they both destroy what’s left of their family.

Bonus: If it’s a girl I have a feeling they will give her Sarah as the first or middle name.

[princess-adronitis]

Cuckoo Bird

(And she began to recite my greatest fear) Unintentionally

what if you never find it ? She asked me

What if you flit from thing to thing

Never loving anything?

I bit my tongue and could only nod

I am like a bird I wanted to say

I never had a home anyways

Everything I loved I had no say

In when it gets taken away

Each finger broken to make an open palm

I surrendered up the word “belong”

Every home I had , I was forced to make

Every nest I had, I was forced to take

- Feb 26/24

jm

[camellia-thea]

another meta post for iwtv in the works btw

[dragongutsixofficial]

So somebody in a Discord server I'm in asked the question "what if Edelgard's mother, Anselma, was a Demonic Beast and was wandering around looking for her daughter" and now I'm in the process of drawing a big, scrawny, effectively blind, incredibly volatile murder lizard.

Ooooh i wanna see it when it's done so badly (only if you're comfortable with it of course) >=D

This is so angsty and I'm here for it ! Do you think she'd have some degree of sentience ?

On a similar note, if that ever were to happen I think that while Edelgard would be rather distraught (no shit), Loki has never really cared for his parents. My own take on it is that Anselma and Lambert's couple was already going to sh*t by the time he came around so they weren't as present nor as good a pair of parents as they would've wanted- so he clung to Dimitri most of all. He would be sad for her as a person but wouldn't grieve her as a mother, nor seek a relationship with her.

I feel like there'd be a lot of complicated feelings to unpack between Edelgard, Dimitri, Loki and Anselma- meanwhile Adel and Aline are just hanging out in the background using Ionius' portrait as a target for shooting practice