#or the pivotal thing

[turtleblogatlast]

AU where Leo is trapped in the Prison Dimension for months instead of minutes and the only way he gets by with his sanity intact is through recording himself talking to his wrist comm.

When they finally manage to get Leo back and make him rest up to heal, Donnie can’t help but listen to the recordings left behind.

He’s not sure what exactly he’s expecting, only that his subconscious is screaming at him that it has to be heartbreaking, that it has to be torturous.

Instead, what Donnie is subject to is a full thousand hours’ worth of Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitsu crossover fanfiction. More than one part in the series. Spanning well over a million words.

(The worst part is that it’s actually good.)

[amphiptere]

sometimes I see a cover so perfect it bums me out that the job of making a Perfect cover for that book has already been done but I am also very happy because it exists and is lovely and the book deserves that

I have discovered jeffrey nguyen’s narnia covers, in other words, and I love them.

[puppyeared]

first time playing ace attorney

[infiniteentertainment]

So we saw Tammy Thompson sing the national anthem in the first episode of s4...

Which prompted Robin and Steve to give each other looks because they remembered Robin's coming out moment in the bathroom, where they made fun of Tammy's singing...

Vickie overheard them joking, and Robin took the opportunity to talk to her, saying that she "used to think that Tammy sounded good because I had this massive crush—um, we took a massively hard class together. We were in Mrs. Click's class together," reminding the audience of Robin's explanation that, in the class, she wanted Tammy to look at her, while Tammy only looked at Steve.

So episodes later, in the boat out on Lovers Lake, where Robin looked at Nancy looking at Steve? Yeah. This was a direct callback.

And it's interesting that even though Robin's crush was specifically mentioned when talking to Vickie, it's this scene with Nancy that we see what Robin referenced in action.

But the question is: why do any of this?

Even though Robin said Vickie is the girl of her dreams, we saw Vickie for approximately 3 min of s4, and it's within the last 20 min of the final episode that they had their first actual on-screen conversation. Meanwhile, Robin had been glued to Nancy's side all season. The writers are smart, they could've inserted Vickie into the main group at any point, to give her and Robin a chance to bond, and to develop their relationship. It's been done before with other characters. If anything, it seems like the last thing the writers would want is to give clear preferential treatment to Robin's dynamic with a character who's (supposedly) not meant to be a love interest for her (especially in the season where the actual love interest is first introduced, and the audience has been mentally prepped for Robin to have romantic interactions). I'm not saying Robin can't have platonic female friends, I'm just pointing out interesting writing choices, and the usage of show vs tell.

[msmoon-and-the-cyberdemon]

On this day, Victim was born and the Animation vs Animator series began. It’s been such a crazy ride and I can’t wait for the next episode! *dies*

[after-witch]

Sometimes I think about the rare times I would write OCs back in the 2001-2010 fandom days and the whole "Mary Sue callout" thing was so big so you had to make your OC just like... so boring and ordinary and the canon characters must find them unimportant and never ever let them be a love interest, and even then, people would probably still criticize you making an OC at all.

now I'm like YES my reader OC would catch the eye of this important character who would obsess over her and kill for her because he thinks she's the most sublime being in the world and he'll steal her away to keep her forever <3333

[flickering-nightfall]

behold. ARM

(continuation of this)

[flareboi]

get mercenaried on

[for clarfication, these are all adults]

[thestraggletag]

Game over.

[vultures-and-scavengers]

cullen is 100% unqualified.

cullen is unqualified for the role he ends up playing, but also there is NO ONE in thedas who would be qualified.

he is creating an entirely new military and on a massive scale. he is not taking a place in an already established structure. you can be a general who spent their life in the military, but if that military has been around, then you are not creating a power structure, you are taking your place in one. much of this has been organized for you.

and militaries are not just infantry. you need to set up A LOT.

you need construction. you need to be able to house your people. you need fortifications to project your objectives. you need storage space because you will need a fuck ton of supplies. you might need bridges and you might need walls and you need to be able to be flexible with what you have the ability to build.

you need acquisitions. you need to know appropriate amounts of supplies you need. you need to be able to outfit your soldiers with the gear they need, which can change depending on their assignment. you need to know the supplies you're acquiring come from reputable sources and are not sabotaged in any way. you need to have redundancies within your supply chain.

you need transportation. you need to be able to move people. you need to be able to move food. you need to be able to move weapons and armor. you need these transports to be secure and well guarded. you need to (probably) vary their routes so you don't risk predictable convoys being seized. you need animals to provide transportation. you need stablehands who also need housing and pay and food and supplies. you need to feed the animals. you need to fulfill your animals' needs adequately. you need medical care for your animals.

you need personnel management. you need to feed them. you need to manage morale and you need to manage pay. you need to know how to encourage cohesion within units while making sure those units can work with others. you need to assign differing specialties and duties appropriately and you need to provide guidance for how each role should be filled.

you need to train them. this is not just swinging a sword; this is enemy recognition, this is how to work within a rank structure, this is how to operate within a highly regulated environment. you need your people to be educated enough to handle what tasks they need to carry out. you need exercises and wargaming so your people know what to expect from the field.

you need coherent rank structure. you need uniforms so your people know who they are and who those around them. you need to plan units with different capabilities that also fall within a coherent rank structure. you need to have emblems for ranks that are easy to read. you need guidelines and standards for what is expected of different ranks because different ranks have vastly different responsibilities. you need to have standards for promotion and demotion.

you need regulation. you need to ban criminal activity. you need standards for discipline. you need to write all the guidelines and be able to provide them to your units. you need one set of rules that all your units adhere to. you need to balance the needs of the people serving with the regulations that need to be written. you need appropriate ways to alter regulations and then publicize these changes.

you need doctrine. you need to plan out how you fight and why. how do you strategize. how do your larger tactics filter down to the smallest fighting units. how centralized or how flexible is your command structure. how are you appropriately using the resources you have. how do you work with allies. why are your units set up the way they are.

you need health services. you need pest management. you need disease control. you need battlefield medicine. you need standard guidelines for triage and care that all your healers understand so they're not doing wildly different things. you need care for long term issues like broken bones. you need to consider what to do with people who are in long-term care. you need to consider what happens to those who are injured and no longer able to serve.

you need security. you need to know your communications are encrypted, obfuscated, or otherwise made difficult to intercept. you need counterintelligence. you need to have guards on patrol. you need to secure your food and water sources. you need to secure incoming shipments.

this is not at all a complete list. but cullen has to find people who can organize all of this, or he has to organize it himself. he is starting from scratch. the inquisition has nothing at the beginning. there is not a single person in thedas who knows how to come up with all this on the scale that the inquisition will require of cullen and with haste.

the inquisition's army must respond to multiple unprecedented threats: hole in the sky raining demons, tears in reality all over ferelden and orlais, red templars, a tevinter cult led by a returned darkspawn magister with a quasi-archdemon, and an army of mind-controlled wardens and demons.

respond. not plan for. they have to pivot and face these things, which all present different challenges and require different tools and methods to fix.

so yes. he is unqualified. fucking find me someone who isn't.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo getting hit with a truth curse but instead of forcing him to admit to super sad or worrying things it’s things like “it was me who broke the remote” “I saw Mikey prank Donnie and helped hide it because it’s way funnier if he didn’t know who it was” “I rip my clothes to look more like Raph’s because he’s really cool” “my stripes aren’t even red they’re pink!”

[olasketches]

the fact that megumi was supposed to be the MC makes me giddy as hell. ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER GUYS

[cementcornfield]

There's no secret the relationship you and Ja'Marr have... when you have a guy like that on your team, a friend like that, what is like to know that dedication and the relationship that you guys have continued to build?

Yeah, it's priceless really, you can't really... you know, we have the kind of relationship that we can talk through just about anything on or off the field. And when you have that kind of relationship, it makes creating that chemistry and building that chemistry that much easier on the field and I think it shows on Sundays.

[msmoon-and-the-cyberdemon]

Being very normal about the last sneak peak for AVA 11

Close ups

[virtues-end]

I wonder how would Shea react if one way or another - with a MC who is a generally nice, helpful and selfless person - they somehow learned how they were before the transformation... only to realize they were exactly the same. That the amnesia, the stuff that happened to them and what not didn't change anything significant about their personality, simply because said traits are so profoundly rooted into them.

I can't help but headcanon my MC as someone who took the blame for some stuff to protect someone else and ended up in the situation they were thrown into because stuff escalated beyond control.

They would only find that extremely admirable. To go through absolute hell, through some of the worst things the world could throw at you, and to still emerge unscathed, true to your values, even with the added complication of amnesia... that takes strength. Real strength.

I will say, on the subject of the main character's past, their imprisonment by the Virtuous Order was precipitated by a significant event they were directly involved in. The event is the same for every character, but you, as the player, will be able to choose your character's motivations, or whether they were manipulated into action.

I'm not sure if everyone will like/agree with the way I've chosen to handle this (having no real choice in the matter), but I also think that that person, the old version of who the helvling used to be before, might not necessarily be who they are now, the character you control.

Sorry for being so vague about it all. 😔

[bunnieswithknives]

How would David react to Rowan catching him sewing up his face and trying to stop or help him from doing that?

LOL that actually sorta happens in the Worms animatic! I imagine this happened before they were really good friends, in the 'barely warming up to each other' phase, and yeah, lets just say Rowan was kinda horrified.

I figure what ended up happening David is was so startled by being caught that, before Rowan could even try to talk him down or help him clean up David just kinda freaked out and retreated into his room, refusing to leave or even speak except to desperately tell him not to call an ambulance, which Rowan tentatively agrees to even tho he's freaking the hell out and their house is full of blood now.

Rowan leaves some medical supplies outside of his door then goes to calm down in the hall outside. When he comes back in again the supplies have vanished. After that its literal days/weeks before they see each other again cause David is mortified of what Rowan must think of him and cant bare for Rowan to see him again after that. By the time Rowan manages to catch David out and about the stitches have already healed into his face.

David is terrified that he just scared off the one person in the world who was even trying to make the effort to be his friend but the whole incident makes actually just makes Rowan more determined.

I think this was the beginning of the end actually.