#or ones stucked in a cycle

[vellichor-lover]

Kavinsky, trying to drag Ronan away from the gangsey: UGH don’t you do ANYTHING but suck Gansey’s dick?? SURE maybe he’s hot but you know what he CAN’T give you? UNDERSTANDING. He doesn’t GET you like I do, man. There’s NO ONE like us. You and me against the WORLD, man. Fuck Dick, you should stop following him around like a DOG. You KNOW who you’re meant to be with

Ronan, just tuning in after staring at Adam’s hands and thinking pleasepleasepleaseplease for the last 5 minutes: huh?

[erinwantstowrite]

doodles because im having severe art block right now and everything feels awful

[bellherald]

While reading, I noticed something incredibly intriguing about Law's departure from Sabaody during the Marineford arc. The snails had been reporting on everything and showing the audience gathered around the visual den dens on Sabaody history unfold until this moment.

We see the supernovas reacting to the news, commenting on the ludicrous accusation handed out by the Navy and the censorship of the war. Whitebeard is legendary because he doesn't sell out his men, they are his treasures and why this war was started in the first place. They begin to disperse, the show is over after all, but very specifically we see this at the end.

Law is the last part of this scene and he's already departing the island.

Why Law decided to intervene in Marineford has long been a curious topic, especially since the man does not give any conclusive answers on the matter himself, but this made me consider something new. Luffy and Ace's family history had already been aired to the world, two D.'s of notorious lineages that have had world shattering effects already now are the center stage. Law did not act yet. Only here is Law motivated into action.

Law set sail to Marineford because the government was cutting the feed and controlling the flow of information. Now, I wonder why Law specifically might’ve had irreconcilable issues with misinformation and a fake narrative being perpetrated to justify killing swathes of people? Law hates the World Government for lying about Flevance and blames them for killing all of his family, so to see the Navy doing the same thing again?

Recklessly as the D.'s can be, Law charges his ship and crew straight into the fray. Law saved Monkey D. Luffy's life. Saved Jinbe too, who did not have the D. and he did not just see oppose the god's by punching a Celestial Dragon in the face. Law made sure neither of them died and even went out of his way to care for them the next couple weeks.

Law went against their flimsy pretense of justice and claims that someone deserved to die because of their birth; that because of something they do not control and are instead victims of through circumstance that means they don't deserve to live. That executing them would be justified for the good of other people.

Law was the type of person that he wished stood up for Flevance and intervened to save his home over a decade ago.

[slugcatmusings]

So I was throwing myself back into hell again (starting to replay the Watcher), minding my own business, when I suddenly had a flashback to that one lore pearl from Subterranean (it’s the teal one, I think), and went “wait… wait a second.”

“If you leave a stone on the ground, and come back some time later, it’s covered in dust.  This happens everywhere, and over several lifetimes of creatures such as you, the ground slowly builds upwards.”

Implying the dust falls from the sky, since the Void Sea is what lies below, right?  So… if it’s falling from above, somewhere…

(Endgame region spoilers below the cut)

There are falling stars in Outer Rim.  The sandstorms here have the same green as the stars in it.  There are things in the background apparently called STARCATCHERS.  The architecture here is OLD.  It’s Depths architecture, the same civilization that predated the Benefactors/Ancients/whatever you want to call the iterators’ creators by who knows how long, and it’s being buried in the sands by the ever-blowing sandstorms.

I looked at Shattered Terrace next since it’s the other ending-related endgame area and… 

It’s newer architecture, more akin to the architecture we see in the base game, but it’s falling apart.  Bits of rubble are floating off in defiance of gravity, while other parts of it have collapsed and been worn down into the dust you see blowing on the wind. 

In Outer Rim, we see the ground being built up with stardust.  In Shattered Terrace, we see the world dissolving.  The two endgame areas of the Watcher are representations of the beginning and end of that very cycle of the world that Moon explains to us with the Subterranean pearl.

[little-meowyao]

Hi,

JIN LING IS NOT HOW AN ABUSED CHILD BEHAVES. He sasses at JC and he KNOWS he's all bark no bite. The instances of JC hitting JL in canon are EXCEPTIONAL. If JC hit JL regularly, he would NOT have said "Not even my uncle hits me!" at WWX. That shit STICKS. You are all stupid

[bits-and-beasts]

is.. this anything?

I'm fairly ill at the moment and was watching tfa before sleeping. had a dream that Wreck-gar and Starscream where friends. since they where both factionless and disliked. it was very sweet and now I'm making it everyone else's problem.

I dunno, I like the idea of them trying to figure out how to survive on earth together. you've got one guy who's overly trusting and one guy who thinks everyone wants him dead. its a fun dynamic.

the big scary warframe and their little trash boyfriend :D

[prissyprince]

I think ventrue were always my fave because their evil is so banal and grounded. (Well, I’m also an Ancient Rome guy but that’s a bonus)

I love me monstrous looking vamps and dark wizard vamps, don’t get me wrong, but I love those prim and proper blood sucking royals and politicians and the soldiers that uphold the clan that views them as pawns.

It obviously mirrors the systems of governance from real life and I don’t need to elaborate on that, but so many of them choosing to uphold these rigid and oppressive traditions and rules of their clan, in hopes that one day they will be the one on top giving orders, is peak idiot human behaviour, and I love that.

[raconteur-wanpi]

Actually I really do hope that after we get to know Loki a bit, now that he has been freed, there's a gag about him completely shedding his cruel tough guy exterior, but only when Lola comes up.

Like he's all like "I am Loki, the incarnation of destruction itself, I shall inherit the Sun God's will and paint the world in blood and chao-" and then someone just says the world "Lola" and he just goes "AAAAUUUUUGGHHR......... 🥺🥺🥺🥲😭😭🥺🥺" until he calms down again.

That's probably not the bit Oda is planning for him, but it'd be so funny. Please.

[randomness-is-my-order]

the thing about jiang cheng’s relationship with jin ling is that it is not the sugar-coated caretaking film which people wish to see it through and this is besides the fact that jiang cheng was physically abusive towards jin ling. jc was not interested in imparting good values to jin ling or partaking in his upbringing in any meaningful manner. what he taught jin ling was violence and anger and his own abrasive and entitled world views. he exposed jin ling to his treatment of demonic cultivators for a substantial enough time for jin ling to have been desensitised to it in some capacity. his lessons to jin ling were about being indiscriminately ruthless to anyone who he perceived to practice demonic cultivation. jiang cheng wasn’t “raising” jin ling to be a good, upstanding individual but moulding him with his worst impulses and never once reflecting over what that meant for jin ling and his future. people citing jiang cheng’s displays of overprotectiveness (which themselves are a detriment to jin ling’s progress) as proof of jiang cheng being this caring, kind uncle is an oversight of how utterly careless jiang cheng is with jin ling. jiang cheng wielded his influence over his nephew quite callously and he did jin ling damage by trying to make him another wheel in his vehicle of violence and that is unrefutable.

[seabeck]

I had to go through all of the stages of grief this morning (I got stuck behind a bike race)

[radioactive-cloud]

the amazing devil had no right writing the lines "i wish i'd done things different, i wish that i'd been brave" and singing them with their angelic voices while the soft music is playing because they make me sob every fucking time

[suntails]

⚔️🐬

[speciouspessimism]

short passage in “opal” that makes gansey’s minimal appearance in the dreamer trilogy make more sense

[solanumflare]

IM SO ILL ABOUT SCARLET HOLLOW OH MY GOD. OH MY GODDDD. okay so you know the "status quo" ending for chapter four right. the one where you help dr kelly lock reese up.

well. haha. hahahahahaha. hahahahahahaaaaaaaaa someone sedate me I am LOSING IT. every time I think about reese I go slightly more insane

any conversation they have in status quo is going to further grow the gap between them! reese is never going to trust her so he's never going to agree with her and because he's never going to agree with her she's never going to let him out and because she's never going to let him out then he's going to keep on thinking she's trying to make him suffer and he's never going to trust her

dr kelly says she's going to talk to him and win him over and they'll live happily ever after but it's never going to happen! he doesn't even know he doesn't look human! he's never going to trust her and he's going to keep believing that she poisoned him to keep him sick to control him! and she's never going to trust him and she's going to keep believing that he's a threat to anything and everything and can't be free until he's completely won over to her side!

they are a cycle!!!!! they could break the cycle at any moment!!!!! any fucking moment!!!!!! but they're never going to!!!!!

[lynx-doodles-indie-games]

sorry for the late post! i thought this wouldn't take long but it did whooooooops

a chronicle of the random buff hunter playthrough @koboldwizardstuff and i played yesterday

it. was a fustercluck, let me tell you that..

we technically did complete the hunter campaign! we just didn't know it had a world state similar to expedition mode.

[delicioustarong]

| "Wake Up" |

2/2(?)

Pt 1 | Pt 2

Context:

Bill trapped Ford in a bubble, screwing his view of reality. In order to trick Ford, Bill has repressed his memories and manipulated him into believing that he lives with Bill back in the shack where they're both working to complete the 'portal'. Bill's goal here is to get the equation he desperately needed in order to escape Gravity Falls.

An important thing to note is that whenever Ford remembers, the whole scenario resets.