#never arrives

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . its atmosphere always promised relief, there was always a moment when relief seemed to be coming, and although in fact it never came, she went on hoping.

L. P. Hartley, from The Hireling

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[obsob]

the days are still dark but i have started to see wild flowers on my walks :)

[keferon]

…..I should be working rn but one of the songs in my playlist hit harder than usual so

[loveinstreams]

aziraphale literally just realized his feelings for crowley and proceeds to spend the rest of the night planning a batshit insane magical act involving said love of his life shooting him on stage. he’s very normal

[sandflakedraws]

my 'u should play ghost trick' propaganda starts now

[ganondoodle]

Empress and her Bodyguard.

(OCs, grey haired lady Zaphira she/her, demon Shargon he/they)

(also some details up close)

and this guy bc i find him funny

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 187

Clockwork would openly admit that he couldn’t see Danny’s timelines. Not since the moment he stepped into that portal and became something more. A child of Infinity, of the very Realms itself. 

But he’ll also admit that it always meant that the child surprised him all the time. This just happened to be a startling surprise, and an admittedly amusing one, even if Danny was openly complaining about the situation. 

“It’s not fair! You have to be able to fix this, right? Right?!” the ghostling, quite literally now, practically yanked at his cloak. “Clockwork, I was going to graduate, I can’t be two! Please, you’re the master of Time, you can fix this right!?” 

No, no he could not, seeing as young Daniel was in fact, immune to timeline machinations, doubly so for his own. To the ghostling’s open distress, which he did his best to soothe. What he could do instead, was stop time in his home dimension, and instead let him age back up again. 

Which the young halfa wasn’t happy about, but it was the best thing they had, so Clockwork supposed he had a ghostling now. A tiny adorable ghostling who kept pouting each time his much younger body had any sort of effect on his behavior. 

He’d never exactly had a ghostling before, nevermind one who was part human, but he would admit he honestly was enjoying it. Most time was spent alone, something he hadn’t realized until Danny ended up crashing into his unlife. 

Honestly he would openly admit that he absolutely adored his little ghostling. Who was now around four, at least physically, and had gotten into the adorable habit of curling up in the pendulum in his chest. Which was honestly the safest spot in Long Now, he’d admit. 

The singular issue however, with this habit, was that when someone attempted to summon him, they got his ghostling as well. And well, normally he could very much control himself for these summonings that happened every few hundred or so years, but well. There was a reason why even the Observants had stopped popping in the moment they realized he had a ghostling. 

Nesting ghosts do not mess around should they feel one is messing with their very vulnerable child, and really it’s not his fault the mortal cultists woke up and startled Danny. Perhaps deleting them from the timeline was a bit too far, if the other mortals rapid paling was to go by, but oh well. 

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Eddie "Can't Arrive On Time To Save His Life" Diaz

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I'm sorry but the irony of Nico calling Max unprofessional is sending me so bad like sir there's an entire garage full of people, who were literally in the trenches trying to survive the Brocedes fallout while just doing their jobs, who might have a few things to say about your (& Lewis') level of professionalism at that time 😭✋️

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Suspirium - Thom York

[my-darling-boy]

I love 20th century Navy trousers because when you’re standing upright it’s like oh this is a nice pair of trousers but when you bend over it’s like oh I am the sluttiest man who has ever lived

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)

[seneon]

★ jealousy, tomura shigaraki. written for @angeliicheartt !

"don't like him. at all," tomura grumbles and mumbles while his red crimson eyes avoids yours, leaving you to only let out a soft sigh. somehow to your boyfriend, "him" is someone you meddle about with. perhaps in tomura's eyes, this "him" matters to you more than tomura did. and it got him feeling like a wobbly jelly all jealous and agitated.

it tugs at the strings of his heart how you'd even open your mouth to speak to dabi, a colleague of yours in the league of villains. to tomura, dabi asking you for a cigarette because he ran out of his is somewhat a confession. maybe the fire villain wants some alone time with you or smoke together with you.

the console of tomura is on the brink of extinction, how his last finger is almost touching the tool unconsciously. the video game he plays is louder than usual, the television pretty much the only that has sound emitting from it. well, other than his opaque jealousy.

"tomura, i don't even have a cig with me," you said, eyes locked onto your boyfriend as he lets out an unsatisfied hum. "sure, dabi knows that. yet he still asked you for a stupid cigarette. stupid dabi, stupid cigarette. stupid—"

you plucked the game console out from tomura's hands and crossed your arms. "i said, i don't have a cigarette with me. he asked me to help him get a packet at the grocery store because i was going to the grocery store. hey, look at me," your hands cupped his cheeks and you leaned close to his face, causing light hues of roses to blush his cheeks red.

"i don't give a single shit about dabi, tomura. you're the one that matters the most, the only one for me. i love you, not him. and i ended up asking toga to get the cigs from the store instead. do you understand me? i only have eyes for you, because you're my boyfriend. and i'm your girlfriend."

tomura looks at you in silence for a moment before slowly nodding. your words seemed to have sunk into his mind, like they're slowly being typed out letter by letter to register.

"okay, sorry, y/n. i didn't mean to act like this," he murmurs before looking into your eyes. "1v1 with me? i'll let you win one game."

a smile crept up your cheek as you nodded, letting go of his cheeks before sitting close to him and grabbing your own console. as the game commences, you leaned close to tomura and pecked his cheek, leaning your head on his shoulders even though you know you'd lose like that. tomura lets you win anyways, with that silly little smile he only has for you.

© SENEON 2024 ♰ do not repost, alter, or translate.

[alexturntable]

pumamotorsport Charlos podcast incoming 🤭

episode 1: Barista drama 👀