#soldier's of fortune

[tentacion3099]

[nataliliv]

Whitesnake - Soldier Of Fortune

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[goldiipond]

regardless of how you feel about modern paper mario leaning hard into the 'THE WORLD IS PAPER' thing for their gimmicks you do gotta admit its kind of impressive how much wild cartoon body horror the origami king devs managed to stuff into an e rated game simply because all of the characters are made of paper

[one-time-i-dreamt]

This cover is a magical experience

[yoondepity]

the walnuts again man imma cry pls don't do this to me

[icescrabblerjerky]

I'm so bad at my first shot at whatever main protag I have in Dragon age. Every single time my original protag gets binned for something else. I love who I eventually turn up with but it sometimes takes... YEARS for me to land on one I want to keep.

This time, however, I have the opportunity to be my own biggest troll and possibly get myself cancelled all over again and I cannot fucking WAIT to unleash Sema on the world.

Canon timelines can go fuck themselves.

[mvfm-25]

" Warning! Your hard drive is officially obsolete! "

Computer Gaming World Magazine n180 - July, 1999.

[everygameover]

Soldiers of Fortune 1993 - SNES

[fortune-maiden]

Pei Ming Week Day 4: Sacrifice

Today I give you 3 drabbles because I went from having no ideas to multiple ideas! xD

Huge thank you to @kefis for the prompts @ococor for cheerleading <3

The first two are sort of related, the last one is not

I.

“I still say we should be helping Xianle,” Pei Ming grumbles. “This is disgraceful.” “Yong’an is the practical choice,” Rong Guang replies. “Xianle’s fall is a given. May as well farm goodwill with the future king.” Xianle has their prince, Pei Ming wants to retort, but the words taste like bile. Once again, his mind is dragged to Yushi, to the beloved queen that won her kingdom a scant few months. Already they don’t speak of her. Is Xianle’s god-pleasing prince doomed to the same fate? Rong Guang pats his shoulder. “There’s nothing praiseworthy about self-sacrifice. You should remember that.”

II.

“For his Highness,” the scrawny excuse of a soldier mutters as he swings his splintered practice sword. So young, head wrapped in bandages, a sword slipping from his grip, and still ready to sacrifice everything for some prince. There are many things Pei Ming wants to say to him. Dozens of scoldings, criticisms of his priorities – “Hey,” he called out despite himself. “Your sword grip is wrong.” Pei Ming gives some pointers and leaves, saluting the soldier in his heart. He doesn’t know why he’s bothering. This child won’t survive the battlefield anyway. His prince will never know his sacrifice.

III.

“How could you do this?” Pei Ming shouts. “This is your future – your divinity! How could you just throw it all away? And for a girl!” Pei Xiu forehead smacks against the ground.  “I have no regrets, General,” he pleads, voice quivering with emotion unfelt in two hundred years. “She sacrificed everything for my ambitions. She never deserved her fate. Even if I’m to be a disappointment in your eyes, this path for her freedom is a small price – please understand.” Pei Ming does not understand. Despite being heralded as the God of Love, he’s not much of a romantic.

[sporkberries]

solid snake grapples with his propensity for violence, he knows a part of him enjoys the killing. he's done awful terrible things for awful terrible people but its hard to blame him isnt it? its all he's ever known its what he was made for. the patriots and big boss ensured he'd never know a life outside the battlefield, that he'd crave it.

is big boss to blame?

big boss joined the military when he was only 15 and continued to be used as a tool by the us government and the patriots till he died. he did awful terrible things but its all he ever knew. the boss taught him to eat or be eaten since he was but a child. could he have been anything else.

so the boss must be to blame right?

the boss was born as a child of the philosophers, this life was her birthright in a way. sure she chose to join the military but its wwii and she was a hero, was that wrong? and then the war ends and how does her nation treat her, she is brutalized and used as a tool and eventually discarded so the states can have more cash. did she really have a choice in what was done to her? when they held her child hostage?

the point is that nobody has a fair hand and even the worst people can have sympathetic stories and tragedy. but in the end big boss chose to be what he was, solid snake defeats the patriots beats the system of war and abuse not by resigning himself to his fate and the cycle of killing but by rejecting it outright, by CHOOSING who he wanted to be

[tentacion3099]

[schnuron]

[masoncarr2244]

[kbade]

On this day in 1983, The A-Team premiered.

To celebrate, here’s some of my favorite fan art I’ve come across.

All pictures were found on Pinterest and belong to their rightful owners.

[rubberbandballqueen]

it's unlikely to happen due to globalization, but i think it would be really funny if countries that use the latin alphabet in their writing systems started developing their own slightly different standards of writing each glyph and got obsessively picky about it.

like yeah i know there's like british vs. american standard spelling nitpicks, and that's something, but i'm thinking something more along the lines of "you put a slash through your 7's? that's the british standard but all right i guess" kind of subtle. we need to replicate what taiwan/hong kong/japan (and to an extent mainland china) have going on.

[shpulkabunny]

Ms Fortune (foot soldier)

By me