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[ezlo-x]

late night posting as always :eyeroll_emoji: drew Sheik and Navi as little palicoes <3 (take a guess who I made as a hunter)

[ordinary-lab-assistant]

idk what this says about me as a person, but i'm pretty sure it's not good

[morninkim]

As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.

These two turned out to be... not the best choices.

The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.

To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.

[smalltowncryptidfucker]

GOOD LUCK, BABE!!!!!!!!!!

[wavetapper]

it's GENUINELY INSANE how phones literally halve in price A YEAR after their release. why do people buy new phones even are you not sick of it all

[as-above-rp]

🫦 something for Yué and Eamon

@splinter-sister

New years was always a special time to Yue. It marked the beginning of new milestones, and added tallies to his achievements. The end of this year marked 11 years sober, 10 years since he stopped taking bounty and mercenary jobs, 9 years since he graduated and met his baby nephew, and 6 years since he adopted Sloan. It also marked a year and some change that he and Eamon had been official, after their first break up and getting back together--so it was especially nice to be spending this New Year's celebration with him.

The BIG celebration wouldn't be happening until February for the Chinese New Year, so it was nice for Yue to get to spend this celebration doing something small and intimate with his partner. They'd made some special foods from both of their respective cultures to mark the occasion, had some (alcohol free) drinks, and played a couple games to pass the time. They had a countdown and music playing all the while in the background. All night long though, Yue couldn't stop looking at Eamon and thinking about how lucky he was to be here with him.

When the countdown finally got to the last twenty seconds, Yue took Eamon's hands in his own.

"I know our beginnings were a little rough." Yue started, with a sheepish smile. "And those months in recovery without you at my side really put things into perspective for me. I told myself, if I managed to get you back, I'd do anything to make sure I never hurt you again. Going into this new year, I plan to keep that promise. Good and bad, sickness and health, highs and lows-- I want to go through it all with you."

The final countdown was beginning. Yue let go of one of Eamon's hands to cradle one side of his face, brushing his thumb softly over his cheek. And as the new year was rung in, he leaned in to capture Eamon's lips in a gentle, deep kiss. He lingered there for a good while, hand sliding back along Eamon's face to cradle the back of his head and hold him close like it was the first and last kiss the two would share for the new year.

When he finally pulled away after the long kiss, Yue rested his forehead against Eamon's and looked him in the eyes tenderly.

"Happy new year, Eamon. I love you."

[cienie-isengardu]

Just a bit about MK's gender swap of Sektor and Cyrax

Unless there is a solid reason behind such a choice, I’m not a big fan of turning established characters into a different gender. Since Cyrax and Sektor’s gender has never played any vital part in their relationship with Bi-Han, Tomas or Kuai Liang, I can accept the gender swap for now, although my final judgment will depend on how those characters will be used in the upcoming expanded story.

That said, I have some legitimate concerns about those changes. For one, if this is NRS’s way to introduce more female fighters, then I’m pretty offended. I’m still awaiting the return of Sonya (one of the original cast!). There is also Sheeva, D’Vorah, Jade, Frost, Skarlet, Khameleon (already mentioned in intro dialogues as Umgadi), Sareena (as actual character not supporting background cameo), Jataaka, Kia. There is Harumi that definitely deserves to be flashed out beyond Scorpion’s fiance/wife, not to mention a chance to introduce us to a totally new female protagonist, like Raiden’s sister. Or NRS could bring comics!Hydro as a woman (or gender-fluid hydromancer. I’m not picky, though I doubt the NRS has any intention to explore gender issues beyond characters being women or men).

And let’s not forget about Cassie Cage & Jacqui Briggs, but those two as New Generation may not fit yet into the story, which is understandable. 

I’m happy to see Sektor and Cyrax back, but there are plenty of female characters that deserve no less to be brought back into lore and I’m afraid that gender swapping Cyrax and Sektor is NRS’s way to kill two birds with one stone. Bi-Han’s supporters are important to expand the Lin Kuei vs Shirai Ryu conflict, but by being now women, their presence on the roster reduces the chance of other female characters.  

The second, more prominent concern I have is the fear that the game will rely on or imply there was romance - still ongoing or in the past - between Bi-Han or Kuai Liang with either Sektor or Cyrax. I said it countless times before that I see Sub-Zero as aromantic & asexual so any romance for him simply doesn’t work for me, but that is actually beside the point.

My point is, if the major addition to the relationship between Lin Kuei characters will be Sektor and/or Cyrax having romantic feelings for any of the brothers and for that addition NRS needed to gender swap them into women I WILL BE FURIOUS. Not for the romance itself, but because Sektor and Cyrax as men could have the same feelings and their gender should not play any role in that. Homosexual and/or bisexual men should be part of MK lore no less than heterosexual characters. And I feel lately that the Mortal Kombat franchise likes to erase a lot of previously established diversity. Homosexual Kung Jin was playable only in MKX (2015) and just referred here or there since then. Previous timelines Mileena showed interest (or sometimes was just sexually creepy?) toward men and women alike, now she is only interested in Tanya. On one hand, cool, an established lesbian woman. On another the bisexual vibe is kicked out of the window - or at least this is my impression. Johnny may be seen as bisexual man, but how intentional that was on the NRS’ part or just came out naturally as there is no female character in the group of Liu Kang’s Earthrealm Champions for him to interact with, I’m not sure. 

My fear is that NRS is just a coward that would rather gender-swap male characters to present them and their relationship as heterosexual than just go with them as they are. MK1 has already the token homosexual pair (Tanya & Mileena) to balance Liu Kang/Kitana,  Sindel/Jerrod and background Johnny’s ex-marriage or Kenshi/Suchin. So if female Cyrax and Sektor’s purpose is to either avoid homosexual implication or to explore the relationship of  Lin Kuei characters through some romantic bullshit, I will be furious. But if studio’s choice to gender swap Sektor and Cyrax will change literally nothing about what we already knew from previous timelines then WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL OF THIS?

Like I said, my final judgment about NRS’s choice for female Cyrax and Sektor will be based on story mode alone. For now, I’m pretty much indifferent, as their gender has never affected their relationship with Bi-Han before and so far the only complaint I have is, the visually-wise impression that female Cyrax and Sektor seem to look thinner than rest of female characters? But that may be just the armor playing a trick on my eyes.

(I lied. I have a second complaint, their armor should be more bulky, and better covering their body/gender. This seems like a wasted opportunity to have a cool reveal that yes, under the armor there are two kick-ass awesome women).

So, female Cyrax and Sektor for now does not change anything for me, but I do remain suspicious about the reasoning of NRS for gender swap.

[periwinkla]

Wanna know something funny about the comic? Y'know that image I posted with all the pages together?? That's my canvas. I had all the pages on the same canvas. I thought it would be faster and it would make it look consistent but damn that was a beast of a file and my tablet hated me. Next time I am at least breaking it up into two chunks. The program stuttered so much it basically became a patience game. (btw it's still a terrible idea to have it all in one file or even two - don't follow my ways, I don't make good choices)

[neriyon]

Okay benchmark test is go, I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this.

Loading up his saved apperance data he isn't that bad. Eyes are kinda funny but he's kinda cute. But after checking the current Hawu'li I uh, do not like the changes anymore.

First (left) is CURRENT Hawu'li, second (right) is BENCHMARK

My poor child, what did they do to you...... New one looks so tired? Skintone is a bit funny but I'll put that on the current lighting (took the screenshot facing the wrong way oops). But his eyes???? He has the eyeshape that's biggest/most open and he still has that half-lidded sleepy look??? Lips are almost same but lost that signature catboy :3 with the upturned corners, and nose looks (at least from front) a bit more squished. And his little eye shine.... now he looks like a dead fish :c

[lordzuuko]

Pinocchio doesn't even blink. He's too confident to deal 5k damage in one go AHHAHAHAH XD

[link-lonk]

The game might be going down but my list of magical girls is not

[sieglinde-freud]

HES COMPLETE. I HAVE FINALLY, AFTER SEVEN LONG, LONG YEARS… FINALLY. +10 INIGO FIRE EMBLEM!!! THE INIGO FIRE EMBLEM!!! GOD!!!!!!!!

also. best pull of my life. the other orbs are irrelevant but getting the legendary version of the best 3h character AND my last inigo merge in one go? oh my god. whatever god threw me a bone for this one lets make out sloppy style

[permafrown]

If I wanna see my guy again I'm gonna have to replay the whole game because there isn't a mechanic that lets me just do the fight again wahhh

[appalachianlich]

I have nothing to post, so take this tiny crop of a wip save menu

[as-above-rp]

If you're still doing them! 🫦 Your choice of lad!

NYE Kisses | Closed!

"Hey, Mack? Do you have a second?"

Kairi quietly pulled him aside during the New Years festivities, a little bit after the countdown had officially welcomed in the new year. She had a colorfully wrapped box in her hands, held closed by a red ribbon.

"You know how i said your Christmas gift wasn't ready in time for Christmas? Well, I finally got it all put together about a week ago, and figured i'd wait until today to give it to you. Here!"

Within the box would be two things; One was another embroidery circle for him to hang in his office next to the one she made him last year. Rather than an intricately beaded and detailed jellyfish, it was a much simpler (but no less painstakingly made) recreation of a night sky, with a date stitched at the bottom. A note on the back would fill Mack in if you couldn't remember that the date was the day that they'd first met, at the gas station that Kairi was working at before coming to work for him.

The other item, and more likely to be of interest to him, was tucked into a leather sheath with his initials burned onto it. It was a new hunting bowie knife, made with a high quality steal and a sturdy handle that was half mahogany, half bone. Etched into the base of the blade was Mack's villain symbol.

"That ones a custom, so it took a bit to get here--don't ask how much I spent on it cuz I won't tell you." Kairi quickly added. "The bone part is actually part of made from one of the horns of one of the bulls we had here! I had to ship it out to them so they could use it for this. The leather for the sheath was ethically sourced too. I hope these gifts were worth the wait!"

When Mack was done looking over the two gifts, Kairi would have pulled him down by the front of his shirt to give him a tender kiss--their first one of the new year.

"Happy new year, starlight. I love you ♡."

[simarcana]

The save has been quiet lately. Aodh and Alika kept practicing magic, the band kept performing and Alika went on two more dates with Noah. The only honorable mention is that I discovered Ebe is getting married and Alika is going to be their sim of honor!