#so I'll see

[origamihoshi]

don't know if I'll get around to drawing the other princesses but that would be fun to do... but dragon age is almost out so that will have to wait.

I really like the cage, it was fun and made me laugh more than it probably should have, but that's partly to do with throwing the knife away.

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[shiroselia]

Started Black Eagles now as my second playthrough, I know WAY less about both Black Eagles + Golden Deer, so I'm a lot more blind on their characters and how they're handled outside of the basic obvious

So far. I don't really know.

I'mma be real though there is a Very heavy "Omg look aren't they So Weird and Quirky" to a lot of the full early group scenes and it's. fine? But they're also not any weirder or quirkier than any other houses. Really. So it just feels a bit weirdly lampshaded and also. kinda overblown.

I really liked Dorothea and Edelgard's C-support, and I think I'm gonna really like Edelgard, she's well-written and that's just point blank.

I've recruited Mercedes because I want her supports with Jeritza, I have recruited Marianne because that's just a thing I'm always gonna do ig, and also I saw a snippet of her Ferdinand support and now I Cannot Not get it I'm so excited for that one. I'm gonna recruit Lysithea because I want her supports with Edelgard, but I couldn't New Game Purchase her A support so eh. normal recruitment moment.

But I'm interested in seeing how these guys play out.

Mildly unrelated character rant that delves into an Edelgard rant: (Hello, I treat fictional characters like chess pieces, I like all of them, don't worry about it.) Edelgard as a character makes my literary analysis brain go haywire so eh. Have this.

Every single character in Three Houses thinks THEY are right and that's why the story is interesting, and Edelgard especially I think proves this. Also I love how you can see a certain level of self-awareness in her already because Edelgard, as proven by her convo with Dimitri at the end of Azure Moon, she considers herself a necessary sacrifice (sidenote: Her going all Omg you think I'm Strong teehee at Dimitri in that convo will never not be funny it was SO funny, AND also one of the most important lines in the entire game that says SO MUCH ABOUT HER VIEW OF HERSELF??? Shit Self-Esteem Von Hresvelg is THAT YOU-), she doesn't consider herself one of the strong ones, she's doing this because Somebody Has To, and she realises not everybody will agree with her, and I just find it awfully interesting.

Mostly because I also interpret Edel as a LOT less in control than she thinks she is and Wants to think that she is and I might go off about this later but tldr that scene where she drops the dagger and seems legitimately surprised at Monica not being Monica to me is one of the most important things about Edelgard's entire situation, like, she has had those who slither surrounding her her entire life they're definitely diverting the blame a Little, and yes if you ask me, I think Edelgard's also a bit scared of admitting that she might've been wrong because that would mean admitting that she was had and if she admits that she was had, everything that she has put on the line for her life having any meaning left by now would. you know. crumble. ANYWAYS more about that once I have seen more of Edel's own views of herself but from Azure Moon alone this is such an easy reading of her to me.

(Tldr I think there's a reason why Edel and also I think Byleth's Crimson Flower ending is all about "Okay fuck now we gotta deal with those who slither fucking hell-")

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS S1EP1 ↔ S2EP9 (2021-2024) ↳ "I think the cycle only ends when you find the will to walk away."

[monstermonger]

Now the ash dances with the snow....

Lil winter dragon stickers ♡

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[wormtime123]

(like two weeks late) quangle 4! this just turned into the cody compilation sorry

[zuzu-draws]

[The Strongest "Hear Me Out"]

+ bonus Yuuji POV:

Apparently this boy ain't traumatized enough!!!🗣️🗣️

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

*after the events of the odyssey*

*telemachus and odysseus walking down to the docks, after odysseus said he'd go sailing with his son*

(listen the man had missed 20 years of his son's life, he could ask ody to dress in drag & do the hula and odysseus would already be shouting "LUAU" in a grass skirt before tele finished his sentence)

telemachus: i'm so excite- *looks ahead*

telemachus: *stops walking* oh no *sad noises*

odysseus: *still walking* what's wrong son?

telemachus: *points to the sea beyond ithaca's shores* poseidon must be angry today, look at the storm in the distance

odysseus: *looks ahead but without worry on his face* no need to worry, we can still go sailing, follow me

telemachus: *confused but follows his dad*

*both make it to the docks*

odysseus: you get started, i've just got something to do & then i'll join you on the ship

*telemachus hops on the ship and odysseus turns to face the sea*

odysseus: *red eyes activate* i'm. going. sailing. with . my. son.

*the sea storm dissipates in record speed*

odysseus: good.

odysseus: *red eyes deactivate*

odysseus: *turns to telemachus smiling like nothing happened* shall we go then?

telemachus: *happy but very confused*

telemachus: *mumbling to himself*what just happened?

(this has now become its own little au! friends in higher places au masterlist here!)

[evgar]

decided to redraw and improve this silly thing i did two years ago

here's the two compared like damn the colors on the first what was that 😭

[amiibo-king]

it's come to my attention that a lot of people don't know about bluemaxima's flashpoint and genuinely think they'll never be able to play their favorite 00s internet games ever again so i just want to remind everyone that flashpoint is a huge internet flash game preservation project that allows you to play just about any internet flash game/animation despite the death of flash. if they've got it in their database (and they probably do) you can play it. go forth and drink in the 00s nostalgia

even if you think there's no way they'll have the game u want. they probably do anyway. when i first downloaded flashpoint i thought for sure theres no way they will have the obscure flash game i played for hours as a kid that was only even available on the internet for like 2 months in 2006. but you know what. they had it. seriously, download flashpoint

[sunsestart]

It's one of my favorite headcanons that he doesn't have the greatest eyesight akshskdj he's just like me fr

[balimaria]

one day, I will set this right

[inkskinned]

in internet posts it is easy to cut them out of your life. they are hurting you! they aren't listening to you!

they held your hair back. they lent you lipstick. they held your hand at the train station and got you home safe. they rounded on your bully, got loud, said get fucked, spitting-mad in your defense.

they also cut the hair off again. told you that you should really think twice before wearing something like that. took you for granted. took your insecurities and threw them in your face again.

you know logically it should be easy. all the internet advice comments always read it will feel better. like an equation - if a person is rotten, you just remove them. you pull the tooth that's hurting.

but it was never a big flare-up moment. you don't live in a sitcom. they never tried to take your boyfriend or steal from your apartment. they showed up to birthdays and they wrote songs about you and bring you water without you asking. once you found out they carry an emergency inhaler for you, even though you haven't had an asthma attack in years - just in case.

where is the line? people fuck up. sometimes they fuck up badly. sometimes people have raw personalities, like a powerline, and being around them is dangerous. addicting. sometimes they can't help themselves, but you know they're trying. sometimes they are just rough-around-the-edges. sometimes they don't even realize how they sounded when they said that. sometimes it's just - you've both loved each other for so long now, the way this thing hurts goes back to the root.

and that's the fucked up part. you have pushed your fingers against the sweetheart of memory. things these days are electric, tense, harrowing. they didn't used to be. there were a lot of good days in there. sometimes you want to just close your eyes and say can this be over yet? do we still need to be fighting?

doing that would give up any chance you get of getting an apology, but you don't always know that you need an apology, you love them. once they flaked on your birthday party. once they told you to get over it, people are always dying. they also let you crash on their couch for a week after the breakup, handfeeding you when you were so sad you couldn't eat. they are also judgmental about everything, occasionally react to banal statements with an attitude that is weird and fiery. they also love you like a lighthouse sometimes, so strong they cut the storm like lightning.

but the problem is that you might be storm. you might be the thing that needs breaking. what if you are two forces who are desperately, horribly drawn to each other, shaped by the other person's passions, and both good for each other and bad in equal measure.

what if you're both just people, and you're no saint neither.

just cut them off! swallowing the saltwater, you catch yourself in the mirror. you've been shaking more than usual. there's an ache in you that is oblique, loud, impossible to soothe. is this what it looks like? when life is "easier"?

your mouth will always have a hole, is the thing, if you remove the tooth.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm back in the Tigers cage again.

(You too can join in on throwing a Rat Of A Man into a Tiger cage by reading Tiger Tiger)

[k1d1c4rus]

thinking about how armand was turned bc he was dying from being stabbed by a scorned grown man who was in love with him. he nearly died from rejecting unwanted advances. its such a key explicit detail of his origin that teaches him yet again that what he wants is utterly unimportant and even deadly in the face of survival. everything about his character is informed by the fact that he adapts entirely to the situation he is forced into because that's the only way he can survive. he adopts the satanic doctrine for 200 years not because he believes in it but because he knows that is the only way he'll survive and as soon as lestat arrives he knows he can abandon it. for half a millenium he believes he can't get what he wants and also survive, he has to choose one or the other. God.