#new your flight

[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!!!

[reality-detective]

9/11 - Flight 93 - Was there a plane? 🤔

[crazyw3irdo]

okay, i think any time anyone asks what superpower we’d like to have most everyone on this website would say shapeshifting but what kind of shapeshifting would you like

type 1- wild shape, you can turn into any animal, real or fictional

type 2- mystique, you can turn into any real person

type 3- cosplay, you can turn into any humanoid fictional character

type 4- jake the dog, you’re super stretchy

type 5- character creator, you can alter your own appearance- like changing voice hair length texture color, changing height and weight, transing gender, etc, but you can’t add anything non-human (ie horns, wings, claws, etc)

type 6- additional features, you can add things like snake eyes, horns, cat ears, tail, claws, wings, mermaid tail, but you remain humanoid overall and can’t change things like height or gender presentation or hair color. you can still change your voice tho

type 7- were-wolf, we all know what a werewolf is, lads. can be any kind of animal. can be straight up wolf or more monstrous wolf form that’s up to you.

type 8- furry, you just become your fursona. or any kind of fursona really you can change between them

type 9- antman, can become small or big

type 10- other, say what kind ya want

[httyd-art-requests]

Heya! I wasn't sure if this was a legal request since it wasnt listed in your bio, but it is an official httyd video game

I'd love to see the goofy guy Patch from dawn of new riders! Chimeragons really made one appearance, became way too op, and then disappeared into obscurity. But look at the guy...he so ugly and goofy I love him

Your art is gorgeous btw!

( @yuendelahoya )

So funny story. I watched a playthrough of this game when it first came out in 2019, and it's been on my wish list ever since (mostly because of the flight mechanics lol) And now that I found these asks in my inbox again, I checked the Nintendo Store just in case, and it had a 55% discount??? So I got the game and spent the last 2 days playing it and now I'm a changed man (as of posting this, the discount lasts for 2 more days!)

Dragon #125 - MLM Patch (and Scribbler)

I hope they're doing well, wherever they are...

More thoughts and spoilers for the game under the cut!

I made Patch MLM colored instead of some other random Chimeragon, because the game has shown us that he can change colors with every rebirth, which I think is pretty neat :) It also explains why neither Scribbler nor Eir recognize Patch, even after he grows to be a Broadwing and then a Titanwing- if he changes his colors every time he hatches again, then yeah, no wonder they believed there's more than one Chimeragon

I knew what the big twist was going to be at the end because of the playthrough, but MAN does this game not hold its punches. The writers really asked "How can we elevate the Best Friends Forever thing to a whole new level?" and then made Scribbler witness the death and rebirth of his best friend, and now I have to draw these guys with literal tears in my eyes 👍

The sentiment that their friendship literally transcends life and death is so meaningful to me. Patch will continue to die and resurrect, and Scribbler will be there every time to welcome him and forge their bond all over again. The mystery of Scribbler's past, his involvement with Grimmel, and the open ending leave so much room for speculation and theorizing and it's just so incredibly up my alley, it's like it was made in a lab for me lol

This game ended up being a lot darker than I was expecting, but it was honestly so refreshing. The mechanics are simple enough for younger kids to learn, and the artstyle is very evidently targeted at kids as well, but some of the dialogue and the entire theme of death and inevitable loss feels surprisingly mature in contrast. They make you go to Vanaheim and hold a burial for Patch before he resurrects, literally what other kids' game does that?? /pos

Anyways play this game, it's a short and sweet little self-contained adventure, which accomplishes the one task it set out to accomplish: making me cry, specifically

[a-timely-problem]

Overheard at the BAU

JJ, giving a press conference: "On a sidenote, to the person that decided to drive past my house and honk at 3 am, fuck you!"

Hotch, trying to do damage control: "She doesn't mean that!"

Emily, stepping up: "Seriously, whatever our unsub did, your fate will be much worse!"

Emily, grumpy: "waking us up at 3. Who raised you?"

Hotch, looking at the reporters: "She means that... so good luck."

[fareehaandspaniards]

Happy belated birthday, @heraldofcrow !! I hope you'll like this drawing! I really love these two in your version, and I can always sense from your artwork, headcanons, that you put your heart and love into them. You're a very bright (in the goth sense hpfkdksks) person, kind, with an open heart, I am happy to be mutuals with you!

[epiphainie]

i genuinely do not care if the time jump between season 7 finale and season 8 premiere is like 6 months or a year or ten years or that bucktommy will have been dating for centuries in 8x04 or whatever. i dont care about in-show time, i care about the time i had them on screen and i will be pissed af if they move in together that early

[gargoylegirly]

8/25 🕊 Frequent Flyers Club

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

TOP CHARACTER OF ALL TIME (bigcats-birds-and-books edition)

hi yes hello @asexualbookbird tagged me to do the TOP FAVE CHARACTERS thing. in the name of Gender Balance (with a pivot point of "N/A"), i have gone with seven (7) options for you all to vote on. choose wisely.

(no non-option option, if you don't know any of these people but still want to push a button, show laverne some love, i think she'll need it most and she's a fucking delight)(and then go check out NOTHING BUT THE RAIN, because it's SO GOOD)

i tag: @sixofravens-reads, @emoclone, @e-b-reads, and @pyr0clast, if you wanna play!! no pressure, as always

[dizzybevvie]

"Kingdom Hearts is so complicated" "Nomura made it up as he went along" "KH makes no sense" Have you considered that Riku is 15 and autistic and gay bc if you do I think itll change things

[ten-cent-sleuth]

I love taking the airport express in my city because it’s amusingly dissonant to see people in full pilot get-up on public transportation. Like logically it makes sense that pilots would take the city bus to get to the airport just like the rest of us can, but it doesn’t feel right. You have the fancy cap and the starched shirt, sir, shouldn’t you be driving the heavy machinery, not sitting with us passenger plebs?

[reality-detective]

• So not only is Bill Clinton a pedophile, but the US government, the DNC, the MSM, and Big Tech, went out of their way to hide this reality from you. They also smeared, destroyed, or murdered, all the journalists who tried to expose this reality. It’s not a theory anymore.

• Trump has been fully exonerated by unsealed court documents. Despite what the Fake Lame Stream Media would have you believe, he was never on Epstein Island, never in Epstein homes.

• Some of the Celebrities and Global Elites named on Epstein Documents: Pope Francis, Prince Andrew (76 times), Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Clinton (73 times), Hillary Clinton (36 times), Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Colbert, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Hawkin, Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Willis, Alan Dershowitz (137 times), Hyatt Hotels Executive Chairman Thomas Pritzker, Ellen Degenerous, Michelle Obama, Rachel Maddow, Joe Biden, Bruce Willis, Paris Hilton, Whoopie Goldberg, Anderson Cooper, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, John Travolta, Madonna, Prince Charles, Stephen Spielberg, Charlie Sheen, Demi Moore, Jim Carrey, Kathy Griffin, Miley Cyrus, Robert DeNiro.

- JBIA SB via Judith

David Wilcock 🤔

[danielnelsen]

update: peach is doing very well!! she's eating and sleeping normally (sleeping more than normal, really, but that's to be expected)!! after 3 days of not sleeping and a few changes in painkillers, she finally just napped for an hr then, after another day, slept through the whole night (and most of the next day). she's started following all her usual routines again and is very keen to eat! still on some painkillers, but they're not having any horrific side effects anymore

now that im not staying up to keep an eye on her all night (while also dealing with upgrading my computer and my phone and also my sister preparing to go overseas and the dogs barking and howling constantly due to all of the above), i finally got some decent sleep too and slept for about 14 hrs. so today ive got that weird shakiness that i get from sleeping too much, but hey it's better than the whole of the last week

[lorelune]

LORE?

vic the things this woman is going to make you do. you might as well be her second dog. just a more spoiled one with a shinier collar <3

[eijiroukiriot]

kirishima nation!! i’m setting off on a 12 hour flight (with nobody in the seat next to me!!! 🕺) - if you have anything nice that’s happened to you recently or any updates you want to share about how your year’s gone or any thoughts about kirishima my inbox is open!

[quaranmine]

experienced the horrors this weekend (bought a new laptop, spent like 12 cumulative hours agonizing over it first)