#started running around the building

[gabagoulie]

I had a dream not to long ago, and I can't remember a lot of what was in it, but I do remember having the Lorax's mustache and eyebrow(?) and it got stolen at some point and I could not figure out who took them

[rowrowronnie]

hiking time!!

[puppppppppy]

i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

[arcadewonder]

wildflower ranch

[harmoniouseclipse]

Quick Jean redesign + new Polish headcanon bc I remembered how cool Poland is, special shoutout 🗣🗣‼️‼️

[arolesbianism]

I caved and made them real. Obverse me losing more and more motivation to draw as I made each of these back to back lol

[anghraine]

Other tangentially related gaming thing: my bff J agreed to yet another run of Mass Effect to help me decompress/distract myself/maintain the even keel that's kind of required by the whole situation, but also difficult as an intensely anxious (if usually composed!) person.

For context: our first Shepard, who romanced Liara, was about as squeaky-clean Paragon as possible to be while still murdering the fuck out of Kai Leng. I had a blast with that one!

Then, we constructed a whole tragic arc for our second Shep, a somewhat older woman with maximal emotional scars (survivor of Mindoir + butcher of Torfan) and a lot more capacity for ruthlessness (we did every Renegade choice we could square with our consciences—no space racism but lots of space murder).

We decided she'd start to find love again with Kaidan, only for him, like everyone else in her life, to die (at Virmire in this case). Then she would experience a more mature and profound love with Thane that would be very gentle and fully reciprocated, yet bittersweet given that they both know he's dying soon. We had the idea that this initially harsh, ruthless Shepard coming to love Thane and diverge from her previous path of bloody vengeance would be really endearing, especially when the dying Thane wants the prayer read for her rather than himself, and then the rapport between Shep and Kolyat would also have this extra pathos, and killing Kai Leng would be even more satisfying.

(It totally was: our Shep was a Vanguard so there was a lot of punching involved, and then J indignantly went "this is for Thane, you fucker" as we stabbed KL.)

Anyway, the storyline did mostly work out, apart from any degree of nuance being rewarded by the game locking us out of cool dialogue options at particularly critical moments. Still, she was super enjoyable and I liked how we got her arc to weave into Thane's despite a bit of underwriting at times, and the idea of Shepard as this ultimately tragic figure who just keeps on living as her loved ones die over and over and over (we chose Destroy to underscore that fate!).

This time, we thought it'd be fun to go for a Shepard who isn't quiiiiiite as squeaky-clean as the first one, but more of a Paragon type than our tragic Shepard. Basically noble, but with more of an edge. She's a survivor of both Mindoir and Akuze, so she's seen some shit, but she's still quite young (we wanted her to be fresh-faced, pretty, yet also visibly scarred and managed all three :D). We particularly wanted a more youthful, impetuous Shepard who is less straitlaced and less world-weary than the previous ones for the Garrus romance, which after all these years, J has never done! And he's played both male and female Shepards to see how most of the romances play out, but not Garrus's specifically.

We thought it'd be especially fun for this Shepard to be a full Adept and for her to be basically a good influence on Garrus's unfortunate cowboy cop ways (we just shout out "RED TAPE!!!!" as a household joke at this point). But we didn't want her to be an elder mentor figure to him or an incredibly noble icon he'd revere so much as for them to be Reaper-fighting bros who help each other grow as people -> FWBs -> whatever happens in ME3.

So we've started our new run with our very attractive scarred Shepard (J: "I think it works for her, she's probably into scars"; me: "I bet Garrus is"; J: "Oh, for sure!") and it's a really nice distraction. Though now I'm thinking about the ME/P&P AU that's been percolating through my brain for upwards of seven months >_>

[heronsky]

save me I'm not in love by talking heads

[cityandking]

I'm generally enjoying the wealth of companion storyline and connection in this game but I really wish there were more to do with lucanis? I keep taking him on general crow/treviso missions and outside of the ones where he's a mandatory companion, he's got almost no commentary or banter. and I can't tell if his combat commentary has changed after being romanced??

[smolsix]

so more LN III thoughts (not as many at least, read more is just for users who are avoiding altogether)

I keep thinking abt how the single player you'll be playing with an AI like LN II, and I think the game would offer a lot of replay ability if you can choose which kid you play as as they both do different things (the wrench kid has the wrench for puzzles and breaking things, and the masked kid has the slingshot). in multiplayer it makes enough sense you can pick which one to play as, but if you can choose in single I think it'd make the game have a lot more play value and that's super cool.

the fact it has online co-op can mean so much for cool additional things, and i do hope character customisation is still there (LN with Six's masks/hats and LN II with Monos also) even if you have to unlock it which would also still offer replay ability.

[tricoufamily]

i have never been this bored in my life but i don't feel like doing anything i dont know what to do

[thevioletcaptain]

pov! you're me, considering signing up as a participant in a new challenge, but as you're reading the rules and requirements you notice that they've straight up pasted in several sections of copy you wrote for a challenge you founded and have been running for the past seven years (and they didn't ask permission or provide credit!!!)

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

[lookforanewangle]

so! I've been meaning to be active for uhhhhh a really long time. I haven't properly worked out in roughly a decade. I want to get back to it for muscle mass, cardio, and most importantly mental health, so I made a sideblog as a kind of workout diary to keep me accountable

there won't be any discussion of food or weight, this is all focused on activity! stretches, walks, bike rides, and (hopefully, eventually) the occasional actual work out in a gym. I just need to get back to moving first 😅

I'd love to have some people to help hold me accountable, so if you're interested in following my activity journey and/or joining me, I'm over at @movementlyss !

[noccolibroccoli]

I fucking love kids man there's this 7 year old kid who came in to work last week and told me that Kirby was a Pokémon and then he brought two Pokémon Manga up to the desk and was like "this one's gonna be better because it has THREE really strong Pokémon in it and the other one only has ONE" and I was like "idk bud how do you know which ones better without reading them?" and he was like "I just know!!!"

he came back in today, informed me that they were both good so he couldn't decide which one was better, then he started talking about star wars droids and telling me all the different kinds of droids and then he asked me if the R2D2 in the movies was a real robot in real life and I was like "no it was a person in a costume" and he was like WHAT

So I spent like 30 minutes on Google with this kid showing him pictures of star wars actors getting in and out of their costumes it was a fucking blast

[qqchurch]

thinking about it, why did the other AU Gundams in Build Fighters get to keep their gimmicks, especially Trans-Am, but there was no Phase Shift Armor for the Cosmic Era Suits since, y'know, the Build Strike is Right There