#scars are a drama to me....

[heph]

Call me crazy for reading so much into a show like House MD but I think the main theme of House is that despite doing everything perfectly and being a good person, shit happens.

Sickness and pain will be inflicted on you and your loved ones and there's nothing you can do about it, but to persevere, to fight for your life, to keep living despite it all - to love is a part of the human condition; our capability of love is what makes life worth living, despite all the pain that you will inevitably experience.

This show exemplifies the pain of living and the needs and desires of human beings to keep going despite it all

And idk... There's something beautiful about how a show with so many stupid whimsical dumb scenes can impart something so profound in my stupid little brain

[al-luviec]

my art has been all over the place lately

[calllay]

I made an offhand post about AU Jayce and Vanco earlier, but I didn't really think it through enough so. Here.

Jayce and Viktor in the alternate universe.

After the deadly explosion, Jayce is banished from Piltover.

To Viktor, even a fascinating idea isn't worth people getting hurt. He won't be working on hextech. But I think he's intrigued enough to look at Jayce's work before it's destroyed - and to find Jayce and stop him from killing himself.

Viktor tells Jayce to keep going. That he shouldn't give up and kill himself or go off into banishment - he should keep working and make amends by helping people.

So Jayce (who started all this by blundering into Benzo's) hides out in the undercity instead of leaving. It's foreign to him at first, but he perseveres and becomes passionate about Zaun's cause. He works as a tinkerer and grows a sexy beard.

He meets Vander and Silco, and we can have all kinds of drama here of him realizing Vi was their kid and deciding whether to reveal it was his fault and what goes down after that.

Meanwhile, Viktor keeps following the rules for now, maybe becomes more important at the Academy, but he thinks often about Jayce. Maybe they can't meet up since Jayce is still supposed to be exiled, but they exchange letters where they discuss all the ideas Viktor is working on and inventions Jayce is trying.

Vi's death is a catalyst for Piltover to reconsider the undercity's plight, and with Vander, Silco, and now Jayce's efforts, things vastly improve for Zaun.

Heimerdinger from the other universe replaces this universe's Heimerdinger three years before episode 2x07. He groks what's going on, gets Jayce unbanished, and moves to Zaun to wait for Ekko and be part of the growing invention scene there.

Viktor - the Zaunite who became a respected Piltover scholar - and Jayce - the son of Piltover who became a beloved Zaun inventor - finally get to work together, and somehow, it's like they were never apart.

[morganafata]

The way Lovely Runner stayed winning right up until the end. God-tier OTP, and OST that was nothing but bangers, the best kpop boy band to never exist, and the most adorable heroine who will now be a forever fave with me. It even managed to do the impossible and made me fall in love with the most green flag hero by giving him the swagger of a kpop idol who is also the most embarrassing loser in love to exist. Throw in the most competent 2nd male lead who turns out to be the true hero and a finale that was nothing but fluff and it was pretty much perfect from start to finish.

Also, lmao at the fate the of the evil taxi guy. He gets hit by the kdrama White Truck of Doom, drowns, and the show proceeds to not give two shits about him ever again. Why spend another second on that guy when we can watch Im Sol and Sun Jae be stupid and in love with each other. What a flex!

Thanks, Lovely Runner! Here's hoping I'll be normal about Mondays from now on!

[zhivchik]

[linkito]

So about that hhau Before the Horrors brainstorming you were talking about 👀 can I convince you to share some thoughts? :3 How silly were they before they got dropped into the bads?

-🎀

oh my gosh sOOO It started with me coming up with some past relationship stuff for Scar! Because ange and I have agreed that Scar has relationship experience, while Grian, pointedly, does not. (because extra drama for the situation on Hermitcraft! Grian doesn’t know if his understanding of love is skewed and wrong!) (spoilers: it’s not)

I thought it would be funny if Scar once got a guy’s number and later on got a booty call but did not...realize it was a booty call. The guy messaged him “I’m lonely...come keep me company?<3” and Scar immediately thought oh no!! he must need comfort and homemade cookies!

He’s halfway out the door when Cub tells him to have fun on his hook-up and Scar scoffs like “It’s not like that, Cub, my god!” 

... it was indeed like that.

And listen. The guy is nice enough but he sort of just expected the hot guy he met on mcci to come over and kiss him senseless and now he’s...in his kitchen. baking. and it’s very endearing but!!! oh my god.

So he calls his friend on his comm, hushed in his room like “I can’t kick him out, he’s baking!” meanwhile she’s laughing and mocking him for somehow finding a problem in a cute guy making cookies for him like hello? huge win? She jokes to give him HER number, but ultimately tells her friend to just let him down easy.

Well, unfortunately for them... vex hearing. Scar overhears the whole thing and hoooo boy is he embarrassed now. When the guy comes out of his room, Scar is already packing up, saying something came up, sorry!

But he can’t help but throw in a “...you can give your friend my number” as he leaves just to have a mic drop moment pfffff-

ANYWAY what does this have to do with Grian and Scar being idiots???

Well back in Boatem, Scar gets an incREDIBLY similar message from Grian one night: I’m lonely. Come over?

And Scar is rushing to get his shoes on when he has to stop and think: oh god is this a booty call?

Surely not. No, no, Grian and him are just friends! But like...what if it is? What if he embarrasses himself again? 

Ultimately he decides it would be even MORE embarrassing to assume it is and be wrong than it would be to show up ready to comfort again.

So he heads over. And Grian answers the door in his pajamas: a short-sleeved button up (Grian normally wears long sleeves and oh my gosh the freckles are on his arms too) and most importantly: just the shortest little pajama shorts.

Scar about short-circuits. (pun intended)

Now here’s the thing. It wasn’t a booty call. And despite his flusterment, Scar still doesn’t assume it to be! He is a perfect gentleman! He eventually invites Grian over to his place (it’s bigger and cozier) so he can make cookies! And he gives Grian his overcoat as they walk over since it’s a little chilly.

And listen. The sight of Grian all dressed down like this? with Scar’s jacket on? with Jellie curled up in his lap? sitting in his kitchen while Scar bakes and rambles about nothing and everything?

Scar is down so bad. So darn smitten.

Also they absolutely fall asleep cuddled up together on Scar’s bed. But you know. 

Toooooootally just friends.

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

WOE, RATS BE UPON YE!!

more Ruju doodles because I lost control of my hands, oops

this time, featuring a later snapshot from Ruju's Commander timeline: set around the time of Secrets of the Obscure and Janthir Wilds, he's now even farther off model than he already was!!

and now some obligatory (non-spoiler) ratmander lore-dumping under the cut:

characterization notes as The Commander™

slowly comes into his own over the years, with his softer side finally showing itself mainly when Aurene chooses him

this rat was the softest little guy wherever she was concerned

no seriously he was almost as clingy with her as she was

Caithe was the serious parent he was the fun uncle/big bro

he used to race her up the jumping puzzle in the egg room

largely wanted her to get to have the childhood he never did

he still play-wrestled with her even once she was 1000x his size

his bond to Aurene helps stabilize his magic significantly

there is an inverted bell-curve of 'respect for the Commander' based on how much experience one has with him

step 1: celebrity hero. step 2: violently insane. step 3: ok yes he's insane but also thank every divinity he's on OUR side

actually did NOT get along with Gorrik at first. he is a grade A projector and also distrusts anyone Inquest immediately

Gorrik being enamored by the murderous beetles did not help.

(that entomologist almost wound up in the sea. oops)

after multiple interventions and a few sincere heart-to-hearts though he's become EXTREMELY protective of the guy

similarly protective of Taimi, though he teases her back too

genuinely struggles to keep track of things. he writes out the canon story journal in a small notebook to help with that

miscellaneous other details you didn't ask for

consistently chooses ferocity-aligned dialogue options even and especially when he has absolutely no good reason to do so

do not pick him up. do not pick him up. do not pick him up.

if he allows you to carry him either he really really likes you or he's pretty sure he'd serve a prison sentence for biting you

acts very big and tough but is a total softie deep down

no seriously if you hug him he might actually cry

(he'll claim it's just something in his eye though)

had some crushes in college and fumbled every single one

50/50 shot of whether the rats he picked on were just easy targets or if he liked them and was trying really hard to cover it up

(if he ever met them again he might actually burst into flames)

incapable of sleeping in normal positions. also snores LOUDLY

puts bloodstone dust on ALL his food. Oxbone would be proud

also makes his own food EXTREMELY spicy when he can

dw he won't put that on yours though. he's not THAT mean

originally got into cooking as a method of training his fire magic

LOVES to put on a big show with it if he has guests, too, complete with all sorts of fancy knife tricks. you get The Works

his ADHD hyperfixation is knives/cutlery. he has told no one this

constant motion/fidgeting, can't keep still. foot tapping, scratching, claw biting, pacing, etc are all very common

[t4tduncney]

woah. tdstuck be upon yee

homophobic transsexual Vs transphobic homosexual fight to the death (joke 🤤)

here’s the hemospectrum list which is the only thing i’m comfortable sharing

yeah alejandros name is just. alejandro. used to be just jandro but that made me feel ILL it felt so wrong. maybe he’s the solluxander……. sigh

[serandipity]

hey, look, if you've got an issue with how i portray any of my muses the unfollow button is right there. this is my playground not yours and you're free to leave if you find something you don't like, but sending me nasty anons on thanksgiving of all days is a choice. Lmao.

[tiredsurvivoronmain]

If I cannot live in a world without you, I will become you

[variousqueerthings]

finished reading "tell me I'm worthless," which was an interesting experience. I think there's something really good for you in your soul to be able to understand the genre conventions you're in and the kinds of structures and language and character that can be explored in these genres. I think about how people tend to -- with fiction about marginalisation and/or about people who are marginalised as a blanket whole, regardless of the story -- operate on a checklist of dos and donts, but mainly donts: don't ever tell us a deadname, don't ever use these "problematic" words to describe them/or have them describe themselves in this way, don't ever describe negative emotions or "problematic" emotions, don't let the characters have harmful traits (either towards themselves or others), don't hurt your characters at all actually, don't make your characters politically uncomfortable or "problematically" complicated in their political outlook and/or journey, don't make your characters be assholes ever, certainly don't traumatise your characters, and under no circumstance do you kill your characters!

which of course, this book does praaaactically every one of these things, thank goodness

[smallhatlogan]

been doing an astarion origin playthrough of bg3 going "I wonder how long I can hide my vampirism" and now I'm in the underdark all mad that no one's confronted me on it yet, it is far too easy not to bite anyone or do anything else crazy and vampiric, so i quicksave and go to wyll all like "I'm a vampire" to see what happens and he's like "yeah it's kind of obvious. nbd as long as you don't bite anyone innocent :3" and I go "ugh D<" and reload the save and go back to pretending he doesn't already know so I can pretend this is a big dramatic secret

like Astarion is just desperate for attention putting on this whole melodramatic tortured vampire show while everyone goes "we'll let him come out to us when he's ready :)"

[dumdum-snakemom]

Playing thought a lot of IFs recently (it's a problem) and I love the Fallen Hero serie way too much for my own good. Really got everything I could crave in a narrative frfr.

Anyway, all this to say that I love the Rat King. Favorite little manmade horror/scientific experiment/lil guy in fiction.

[axel-ambassador]

ok here's the thing I genuinely love island of the slaughtered like it's so cool but I'm a weak ass bitch and my problem is that people are too good at art.

Like, people are so talented that they effectively give me jitters when they redraw Tyler and beth especially and like, stop that, you're scaring me (compliment)

[imminent-danger-came]

Gimme shadowpeach shipping bingo my man pretty please

God. These two monkeys. Sometimes with a ship you have to ask "where's the drama"—that is not even a little bit of a problem with these two. They are. Oh boy. "Fine, just leave! Like you always do!" "No that's you! You're the one always running off, chasing for more power or more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead! Not the great Sage, he has to drag everyone else into his mess!"

Like YES. YEAAASSSSSSS.

[ithinkimblue]

Just an old sketch of Jason that I don't want to touch (I'm too afraid of ruining it...)