#source: damage

[team-iceflower]

Weiss: I can't sleep.

Ruby, pulling back the covers: Yes you can. Come here.

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[fairy-bard]

i’ve been loving watching critical role recently if for no other reason than because i get to watch a decent portion of viewers actively falling for cult tactics lmao

a forbes article describes cult tactics as when cult leaders “censor dissenting viewpoints, promote a distorted narrative and use relentless repetition and peer pressure”

ludinus needing to monologue at everyone he meets. cherry picking what information to let people know (ie the orb). showing popular world leaders (gods?) at their absolute worst as a means to win over the vulnerable. creating dissent between cult prospects and the people who they’re close to outside the cult. doesn’t take no for an answer. repeating his points over and over, in whatever context he thinks will be most persuasive. targeting people who’ve lost everything. convincing people that they’re special

matt is a genius.

[failsquirrel]

magical cat design

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

lmao it's actually really vague and possibly fake but i want this to blow up so obama has to come out as straight on twitter thus irreparably linking him to future presidential elect Misha Collins

[deoidesign]

"what do hands mean about a character?"

Their hands mean they love eachother

(webcomic)

[weirwoodsugar]

ok anyway. i’m killing reblogs/replies on that tully/cat post bc everyone gets on my nerves but let us consult the text for a moment. cat stark isn’t a big mean evil step mother out to get him the entire foundation for the dynamic between her and jon is that he does not exist to her. every memory he has of her is about her ignoring him/looking at him like he is a stranger. she makes up what she thinks he is like after the fact because she functionally never met him despite living with him for 14 years. the single on page interaction they have is when she is in the middle of a nervous breakdown. i need people to have some precision about what this dynamic actually is because it is bad in a very specific and interesting way that affects both characters in a very specific way. the “this is not your place” situation is not grown out of active cruelty it is grown out of total absence

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

ROSE: Most attractive aspect of a woman?

JUNE: physically larger than me.

JADE: angler fish response :B

DAVE: reptile type answer

KANAYA: Are You Aquatic Or A Kind Of Bug Perhaps

JUNE: is this what i get for being open and honest?

[stevetwisp]

ZEE AND JINGLEBELL IN THE YEAR 2024

[onesidedradiostatic]

god am I tempted to do a social experiment and poll on how many people will say husk is canonically pan without question and then poll on the canonicity of alastor's aromanticism and compare the results

[thatswhatsushesaid]

as always i remain absolutely gobsmacked by the preponderance of takes in certain corners of this fandom that boil down to "lan xichen missed all of jin guangyao's red flags" while rarely if ever considering that nie mingjue himself should qualify as a walking red flag. the personification of a parental advisory notice. the human embodiment of a surgeon general's warning.

hangs this sign around nmj's neck like a cowbell

[acheronist]

so as far as i can tell, he got hit with a moment of Existential Panic And Misery and then wrote down his account of his entire sailing career to add in next to his issued ID papers in the wallet. so if the wallet survived then we would know who he was. thanks bestie the clues did help.

[eelzeal]

"Xenk is the always busy PC" this "Xenk is the exposition NPC" that. You're all wrong. Xenk is the hot and powerful NPC the DM makes to entice and be cherished by the party that keeps popping back up in the game whenever a tiny bit of railroading or "what a coincidence!" Needs to happen. The greatest tool a DM can have.

[haunted-xander]

BBS is a tragedy in many ways, but one of the things that gets me is that the catalyst, the one big thing that caused this mess to begin with, is so avoidable.

Like, the story starts primarily because Terra starts to fear himself (because of the darkness he has unwittingly 'used') and this causes a spiral of doubt and obsession. A spiral which he could've escaped from or maybe not even started if he just 1) had been taught the balance between light and dark properly (that darkness is more than just unquestionable evil, that light is more than unquestionable good, that they can and should co-exist in balance), and 2) had consistent socialization from more than the same 3 people.

Like. BBS is a cautionary tale about what happens when people aren't exposed to a wide enough variety of people and, therefore, end up naive and overly trusting because they never learned that people have ulterior motives. Terra is consistently manipulated and used by people literally everywhere he goes, because he can't see that they might not have the best intentions! He can't see the red flags because he doesn't know there are red flags to look for!

Xehanort knows this. It's why he targeted Terra to begin with: because he would be susceptable to his words. The main reason he couldn't use Aqua is because she was too confident in her own values, she didn't have the seed of doubt that Terra had. It's the only thing that prevents her from being used the same way he is, even though she is just as naive and trusting as he is.

Ven probably has it the worst socialization wise. Unlike Terra and Aqua who, presumably, has/had a family and life outside of the Land of Departure prior to beginning training there, Ven doesn't remember anything before then (not that he had much he'd be happy to remember anyway). And since he's the youngest and most 'fragile' one (due to being in recovery for most of his time here), he gets somewhat coddled and shielded by everyone else. Not to mention the way Eraqus completely forbid him from leaving and never intented for him to ever see worlds outside the Land of Departure. Sure, Terra and Aqua aren't typically supposed to leave either, but at least they'd be allowed in certain situations. Ven wouldn't.

Ven isn't allowed to interact with anyone outside of home. He's not allowed anything that involves the outer worlds. (He and Naminé are a bit alike in that sense. Though at least the people he's stuck with are nice to Ven and do genuinely care for him, unlike Naminé...)

BBS happens largely because Eraqus failed as both a teacher and a parental figure to all of them, but Terra most of all.

[lucksea]

mid-canon design for Camembert btw. inspired by both the german Landsknecht of the renaissance era and the crusaders of the medieval era bc i liked the ribbon sleeves and also the marked tarp folded over and tied as a sort of tunic. idk if the tall leather boots are historic at all but theyre cool

[rwac96]

Wake Up Prank (RWBY Shitpost)

*Weiss Schnee was enjoying her beauty sleep...which was about to be ended by Ruby & Yang*

Ruby: *facing her Scroll, hushed tone* "What's up, peeps! It's your girl Ruby, and we're gonna wake up Weiss. She's having her 'beauty sleep', and we'll wake up this lazy, entitled princess." *turns to Yang* "Let's go wake her up." *lifts up Crescent Rose and switches it to scythe mode*

Yang: "Yeah, on 'Go'." *uncocking Ember Celica*

Ruby: *gets into position* "3...2...1..."

*Ruby & Yang kicks down the dorm door, the latter's hair igniting*

Yang: "GOOO!!" *opens fire on Weiss' books* "WEISSCREAM!!

Ruby: "WEISS!!" *slices a portrait of Winter in two*

Weiss: *wakes up abruptly* "Wha--AAAAAHHH!!"

Ruby: "WAKE UP!!" *twirls her scythe, decapitating the small statue of Nicholas Schnee*

Weiss: *horrified* "WHAT?! BROTHERS!!" *ducks to avoid gunfire from Yang's gauntlets* "STOP!!"

Yang: "GET HER LAMP!" *punches the object*

Weiss: "GIRLS!! STOP IT, YOU BRUTES!!"

Ruby: "FUDGE THIS HEAD-STATUE!!" *slices the bust of Klein in two*

Weiss: *enraged* "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"

Ruby: *chops up Weiss' copy of 'Rules of Finance* "WE'RE WRECKING YOUR CRUD! WAKING YOUR BUTT UP!" *swings her scythe, slicing off one of the legs of Weiss' bed*

Yang: "FUCK THIS PICTURE!!" *tears up a framed picture of Neptune*

Weiss: *screams of unimaginable but justified rage*

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*Blake was down the hall, her feline ears picking up the chaos taking place obviously from the dorm room*

Blake: *exhales* "I should've stayed in the hotel room with Sun."