#slightly related

[haminamibami]

This take has probably been said before, but I like to think that the Lords in Black are slightly messed up in their human form. Whenever they interacted with humans they haven't paid much attention to all the minor stuff that make humans humans so they can't quite replicate their form, but each is weird in a different way.

Wiggly is way too sharp. His shoulders and elbows and teeth are super sharp angles, so at first glance he's normal, but at a second look you realize shoulders aren't supposed to look like that. Also he has no idea how many fingers a human has so he's got like nine on his hand. Also also, his tongue looks like a tentacle. The first time he took human form he did not realize there was supposed to be just one tongue. He learned, but still his tongue is tentacle like.

Blinky's eyes are just a little too small than what is humanly possible. Because he has so many eyes in his normal form, the logic behind his form is "okay, I should probably be able to fit in here more eyes" and then he doesn't have any more eyes. Also, his hair is so artificially neon orange. Like the orange marker you'd give to a kid.

Tinky is, unsurprisingly, very goat like. He looks like the idea of what humans would look like if we evolved from goats. He has the general silhouette of a human, since he knows how they look like (or, in particular, Ted and Pete), but every detail he isn't sure about he just figured it must be the same as goats. And much like Blinky, his hair is such an aggressive shade of yellow it just can't be normal.

Pokey is just too much or too little in all the wrong places. His mouth is too small, fit only to barely talk and make that sound of his. When you look too close, you realize his skin is very hard and slightly cracked. His limbs are too long and his voice makes your head hurt. When you look at him, you realize very clearly that 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 is extremely wrong but you can't quite put you finger on what.

Nibbly is the worst. Nibbly is the definition of "uncanny valley". Unlike his siblings, Nibbly knows everything there is to know about his favorite snack. He knows them inside and out and he knows everything that matters to make a convincing human. And still, he's wrong in all the ways he wants to be wrong just because he can. At the first look, he's normal. Like, there's a vibe about him, but this is 2025 and people are weird, so you ignore it. But his smile is wrong. His smile is simply too wide to be humanly possible, his teeth are too sharp, like a predator's fangs, and his tongue is weirdly long. Still, his eyes are the weirdest thing. They are hungry. Starved, ravenous, eager. There is something about that hunger, that greedy need to feast upon everything there is, that is just beyond human.

[flojouno]

chinese etho… i always think of you

[weirdocat83]

I still find it incredibly funny that zombie apocalypse AUs got a lot better after quarantine because now we know exactly how people react to a deadly virus going around.

[lazerzel]

Despite my pfp, I have not played cookie run in forever.

[technicolorxsn]

GOD I need to finish that oc wip I have going but if I think too hard about rj and angelica I get a bit sad

[crowwowo]

what if we both struggled with our faith and we got really toxic about it

[egophiliac]

You can’t pick Lilia for this. But who is your other favorite short character in Twst?

I like the angry little king boy 🌹

[speeedsters]

every speedster needs their human boyfriend

[bad-kendi]

[vargdottern]

why couldn't i have inherited the science autism. why did i get the one that makes me obsess over fictional gay people and men older than my dad

[wingsofthesun]

Instead of Shepard dragging Garrus around everywhere in ME1 because she wants to take him under her wing and teach him, I think it'd be a lot funnier if she drags him around everywhere because he comes pre-trained.

I mean, think about it. By the end of the first visit to the Citadel, besides Ashley and Kaidan (who are full members of the Alliance military), she has/is heading to recruit the following:

Wrex, a krogan mercenary who definitely doesn't have a file and who later admits mainly works alone and/or in very small groups, and has definitely not been part of any formal military structure or anything even remotely similar

Tali, who is a very wonderful person and very knowledgeable about the geth, but is only ~22 (her birth year is 2161 apparently), is on her people's rite of passage, and has never been formally attached to any kind of command nor has had any formal training as far as we know

Matriarch Benezia's daughter, Liara, who they know very little about at the moment other than she's an archaeologist who specializes in the Protheans and has never had any commando training, nor do they know if she even knows anything about her mother's actions

I love them, but they're not exactly on the level someone that's been part of a military for years would be.

By contrast, you have:

Garrus, who's not that much younger than Shepard herself, was part of the turian military for a few years (and had at least one ship posting from what we know from 2), and has also been part of C-Sec for awhile given he's a full fledged detective, so he's used to working in teams and being under someone's command

I feel like Shepard would have taken a look at his file and breathed a sigh of relief because there's at least one person that she won't have to worry will accidentally undermine her authority. He even comes with amazing sniping skills and tech expertise! Of course she's going to drag him around everywhere!

[catholic-on-main]

A misconception about the Christian faith that a lot of people (including Christians!) really struggle with is that forgiveness = no consequences for your sins. That's what people think Christianity preaches, and it is a major hurdle for them. They think that if a serial killer genuinely repents, that means that Christianity says they are able to get off scot-free with their crimes, or that it means they should be let out of jail, etc.

That is not true.

There are quite a few figures in the Bible who committed acts of evil, and repented for it. And God heard them! But oftentimes, their sins caused catastrophic damage to those around them, and they had to live (and die) with what they caused. The entirety of the Old Testament is a domino-effect of this happening over and over.

If someone genuinely repents before God, the forgiveness they receive from God is a perfect forgiveness. But we live in a fallen world affected by sin. Sin has consequences. Other people are often hurt by our sins, even if we aren't aware of it.

We have to live with the consequences of our actions in this world. Part of repentance requires accepting those consequences, otherwise it's not genuine.

[starduststorm]

I don't ever wanna render like this again screw that I'm going back to being lazy.

anyways I love manor drones how about you

[icy-dark-star]

A dark walk in the park

[gin-juice-tonic]

every time i see a book cover with a drawing in a really cute art style i go "Woah! Cool Graphic Novel", and it turns out to be a regular novel and I become a little more jaded with the world

[tessasilverswan]

i was just going over my molecular bio notes and look. I KNOW in my heart that this also happened to aaron minyard, pre-med student-athlete, sleep-deprived, at least once: