#stronger than ever before

[locitapurplepink]

Taglist: @photogirl894 , @kanerallels , @bigfrozensix , @lucy-shining-star , @animationfan3000 , and anyone else who's a fan of this series.

[tangledbea]

Thinking today about how Stronger Than Ever Before visually and lyrically references Kingdom Dance and the wedding. 

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Shout out to all artists who had to work without any strong direction or instruction.

I wish you a merry “the client likes it anyways”

[owlsie-hoot]

Siegfried cares, in his own special way ♥︎ // 05.02

[xxplastic-cubexx]

it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent

[yashley]

Say something true!

[deltarunebt]

Very normal about this Spam NEO fight, but I'm also curious how closely the fight plays out.

Does Frisk spare him by snapping wires still? Does he fall just like the base game when they're gone? I know he's gonna be better off at the end than becoming a pair of sunglasses, if only because he's gonna be a party member, but...

You assume this because he's a party member, but the Secret bosses are also only party Members for the duration of the Chapter they're from ;)

...

I could just leave this ask with that but, lets be honest here, I've said before that this AU initially spawned out of me joking about if Frisk was the Deltarune protag, freeing Spamton would've worked. Of course it ends better, this is happy ending city babey, that's all I do!

Frisk does snap the wires, yes, because that seems to be what Spamton's freaking out about as far as they can tell. Spamton doesn't actually get what they're doing until After all the strings are cut and he's fallen though, at which point he realizes they were trying to help him, feels somewhat guilty, and then feels a whole lot worse in general because it didn't Work.

Killing them didn't work (or, at least, he utterly failed to do so), cutting the strings Didn't Work, and now all his work was for Nothing and he tried to kill a child that did nothing but help him this entire time and that, despite how much he would attempt to convince himself otherwise, he DID get attached to. Everything's utterly fallen apart and there's nothing he can do to fix any of it. His one big plan was a dud and he has nothing else.

So Spamton is pretty ready to give up and just be a pair of glasses, but Frisk...

Well, Frisk isn't one to give up on a friend no matter what, and they will Not fail to save anyone ever again. So they try to help Spamton get back up. Again, and again, and again, and again.

And, well, that kinda Determination is enough to inspire a little hope in anyone, y'know?

And, you know, maybe, just maybe, sometimes, a little hope, a lotta determination, and a friend is all you need to defy the rules of the game.

Maybe, sometimes, you get to be more than Just A Puppet.

[furiosophie]

They’re quiet for a long moment, just taking drags of their cigarettes before finally stomping them out beneath their boots. It’s only when there’s nothing between them but the night, nothing in front of them but a base that never really sleeps, either, that Soap asks, quiet, nearly dragged away by the wind, “Did ye mean it?”  “What?” “That ye’d follow me.” He doesn’t say anywhere. It feels implied though. Ghost thinks of all the things he isn’t saying. He thinks of the way Soap looked at him when he cut him open. He thinks of how exhausted he is, how ten minutes ago he thought he was hallucinating. How he isn’t fully sure that’s not still the case. “Yes,” he says.

not from the absence | CHAPTER TWO [read on ao3]

COVER/CH1 | CH2 | CH3 | CH4 | CH5

[soupandflowers]

ALL CHINAS IN CHAPTER 524.....!!!!!!

[locitapurplepink]

Taglist: @photogirl894 , @kanerallels , @bigfrozensix , @lucy-shining-star , @animationfan3000 and anyone else who's a fan of this series.

[poke-is-a-dork]

Inktober day 22! Back to @jestierabbit 's Ostober list with the prompt 'Shadow'!

[struggling-jpg]

MORE DAN HENG APPRECIATION (2.5)

I RETURN AS THE DAN HENG LOVER TO APPRECIATE MY MAN SOME MORE AS THE NEW UPDATE HAS GIVEN US A FEAST!

(Cut to hide spoilers)

DAN HENGGGGGGGGGGGG

I'm such a mess over him right now that I'm not sure how coherently I can express my appreciation for him.

The knowledge of what the Preceptors did during his hatching rebirth specifically, gosh it feels a bit weird finally hearing it directly explained in-game after a year or so. AND HOW CHILLING it must've been for all of them to listen Taoran literally try to attempt the same thing Dan Feng did + try to get away with it by hatching rebirth. Dan Heng was NOT having it and rightfully so. This was such a notable moment for him.

Embracing Dan Feng as his past, with all the weight of those sins, but not letting it define his present and future...I really wanted to cry.

He knows better than anyone about this kind of thing. The line between past and present is thin and blurry, but it's one he chooses to bear.

These lines are so important to me. Responsibility of the past but also being his own separate person from Dan Feng. Being a Vidyadhara brings up so many interesting questions about identity and existence. Even with the way players have went back and forth about Dan Heng and Dan Feng despite Star Rail giving an answer, it's fascinating as it is painful at times.

GET HIM DAN HENG!!! (And then he proceeded to absolutely SPEAR THIS MAN, gave him the Blade experience frfr)

THAT AFFIRMATION OF WHO HE IS NOW. HE'S A NAMELESS, THE ASTRAL EXPRESS' DAN HENG!!! OUR BOY, OUR FAMILY, OUR ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME TREASURE!!!!

Bonus:

Despite this being the reaction to such a heavy reveal, this screenshot in a vaccum made me chuckle a bit lol

[magnoliamyrrh]

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[axolotlworld]

The turn Lavos gets trolled in the 2019 Smogon classic tournament recreated with the text from the resulting forum post