#t: grand

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

Mordremoth from Guild Wars 2

vs.

Grand from Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Mordremoth:

This song plays during a battle that was built up for the whole expansion it’s from and to an extent even before that. The instruments used are reflected in the rest of the expansion up to this point— the song is very cathartic.

Grand:

it lives up to its name and the atmosphere of the game it's in--grand, yes, but also lonely and forgotten

[shokansen]

My Fanservant idea of Raguel-Galahad, an archangel riddled with the sin of Wrath.

Due to his nature as an Angel of vengeance who rules over order and harmony, he does not know how to express his love for others with any other means outside of punishment.

[scuderiaspringsteen]

a young man in a hurry: prophecy, wonderkids, and the lifespan of a record

featuring excerpts from there's always this year: on basketball and ascension by hanif abdurraqib

[the-dragon-hearted]

Listen, I'm just saying, Ajax was a trap for Skirk. Idc what canon says: This random child falls into the Abyss and just happens to be found by Skirk. Skirk? AT RANDOM? SKIRK!?

Who has successfully distanced herself from all of Teyvat and made herself utterly forgettable in passing? Who is okay being alone (because she has to be with the constant threat of Surtalogi hanging over her. The less she values, the less he can take from her, the less she can lose again).

Skirk? Who has probably despaired before? She climbs that unending mountain with such determination now, but has that always been the case??

So, let's say for a moment that Skirk was losing hope. Maybe not completely, but stalling... how would she beat him? She wasn't progressing as fast, wasn't pushing forward as far. It's an incredible challenge that she cannot face now. Maybe ever. Does she even want to?

And we know Sutralogi is massively powerful with capabilities we're not fully aware of. All we know for certain is that this guy wants to fight his disciple at her full strength, and what better way to ensure that than to hand her something she cannot look away from.

A chance to do better than he did. So he gives her a disciple; an opportunity to put her dream of kindness to the test. A reason to be afraid.

I think Surtalogi's still watching. More than keeping tabs, he's setting the stage. He dropped Ajax in Skirk's lap because the fight would be nothing without stakes, and his apprentice was too good at detachment (he made it so, but he knows how to break it).

He gave her a reason to fight. More than that, a reason to win. Because it's easy to lose when it's just you on the line. With Ajax on it, it's not an option for Skirk.

Now she climbs the mountain with a renewed fervor. It doesn't matter what she wants. It doesn't matter if it's possible. She is going to beat him. She is going to win.

Because she cannot be the reason Childe dies.

And maybe she knows it's always been a trap - a way to push her forward. Maybe that's why she tries to keep him at arm's length. Call it denial, call it whatever you want, but she looked at this kid who had the remnants of her master's handiwork all over him, and chose to take him in anyway.

Maybe she needed a reason to keep going. Maybe she was just unable to look away. Maybe she just wanted to be the light in the world for one person. One person...

And now she has to win. She has to win. It's not an option.

[verstappentime]

p.s. this is no shade but mclaren didn't do the one stop because they COULDN'T, not because they weren't smart enough strategically to think of it. both drivers ate their front left tire and could not keep going. they tried to ask oscar to do a one stop and he said no. the reason charles won is because he is talented, and because his team had faith he could keep the car on track with 38-lap-old tires because he has been so incredible managing his tires this year. he won because he didn't incur that degradation, because he chose very specific methodical paths to balance the car equally on both front wheels and to get the rear straight in the turns, bc bryan was brilliant and coached him through all of it. mclaren did not "hand him" the win with a mistake. he won because he is an incredible driver. i think we forget because mclaren has the best car that charles has always been far and above the pack in terms of talent, barring a couple drivers. he's not just some guy in an inferior car. he's il predestinato and he earned it

[minutemanblues]

shitpost shitpost shitpost shitp-

[cute-pictures-of-trevor]

Bored so I made this

[daekiyu]

my contribution to the gta 2023 fanzine!! go check out everyones amazing works!

[jastervhett]

Phase-I Clone Trooper Armor

Although the Phase-II Clone Trooper Armor always got a lot of love…The Phase-I Clone Trooper Armor was always the best design to me due to the Phase-I Armor's likeness to Jango Fett's Mandalorian Armor.

From the Phase-I Clone Trooper Armor. To the Phase-I Clone Commando Katarn-Class Armor. And especially the Phase-I ARC Trooper Armor with its numerous Mandalorian influences (Helmet mounted Rangefinder, Kama, Jetpacks, Wrist Rockets, etc.)

Phase-I Armor for the Win...!

[sabrinaicons]

sabrina carpenter x wicked packs. like if you save.

[morsmortish]

when regulus complains about ‘walking in on’ barty and evan, he’s not talking about discovering them fucking in their room (although that does happen a fair amount). he talking about the times he’s entered their dorm to see evan stood over his boyfriend with his fingers probing around in barty’s mouth, whilst the latter sits on his own hands on a wooden chair in order to stop himself from squirming. he’s talking about having to witness, on multiple occasions, barty lying down on the floor, shirtless and flushed whilst evan’s traces over the key parts of his anatomy with a permanent marker, explaining each label in a monotone voice as barty blushes more and more. he’s talking about being subjected to the sight of barty lying in an ice bath, shivering but grinning ear to ear as evan lazily flicks through a book on his bed as he waits for barty’s body temperature to drop low enough to resemble a corpse. the worst part about living with these two freaks is not their disturbing sex life, but their disturbing everyday life.

[buotella]

“It really is a beautiful moment because I think these two women are making, in real time, out of this urgency to change and to fix in front of these people. [Elphaba is her] first and only real friend. Glinda has a lot of friends, and she's very popular, but she's never had a real friend, someone who makes her think outside of herself. And when Elphaba challenges her in that way, it's not pity or empathy in the way that I feel sorry for this person. It's empathy in the way that it's like, oh, I need to urgently become one with this person and take this on with her to alleviate some of this because I am responsible and then change it moving forward. This needs to change. And this woman doesn't deserve it.”

Ariana on the Oz Dust Ballroom scene (x)

[shokansen]

※ 奏章IV / OC4 spoilers ※ Galahad and Mash

Twitter Version

[scuderiaspringsteen]

monza is for dreamers

meditations in an emergency by cameron awkward-rich // charles leclerc after winning the italian grand prix, monza 2019 // bryan bozzi to charles leclerc, monza 2024

[untouchvbles]

Buick Grand National at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2025) - Meet 1 in Waukesha, WI.

[anghraine]

It's wild to me that I had heard of the prime Kirk/Spock content in various TOS episodes long before I saw them, but had never heard of what IMO is the shippiest moment of all thus far, in an interestingly O_o goddamn I do not want whatever you two have but you do you?? holy shit though what a moment way.

I'm of course referring to the otherwise rather mid episode "Requiem for Methuselah," in which Kirk has an underwritten love affair with a clueless woman whose various secrets have to be discovered before her inevitable death.

At one point in this relationship, her.......uh, guardian??? sort of???????? had Spock play the piano while she and Kirk waltzed, which (in-story) Spock did perfectly while somehow managing to silently exude even more intensity than usual. After the plot (and her life) were over, we end not with the usual cheerful bit of snark on the bridge that ends most episodes, but with a weary Kirk falling asleep with his head on his arms and Spock hovering not for away. McCoy exposits the last bit of detail and then goes on an unprompted and honestly pretty viciously racist speech about how Spock, unlike Kirk, will never suffer from the joys and travails of love because of his inherent lack of feeling as a Vulcan. The speech is longer than usual and just really mean-spirited as McCoy waxes rhapsodic about all the aspects of passionate true love that Spock will not and cannot experience as a Vulcan before he just leaves.

Spock then turns to look at Kirk, and now just bleeding intensity, takes a few slow, deliberate steps towards the sleeping Kirk, lays his hand against Kirk's cheek and neck, and then very obviously mind melds with the sleeping Kirk while murmuring, "Forget."

Is this healthy respectful behavior that honors Kirk's autonomy? No, obviously. Is it god-tier repressed homoerotic passion between two people who should probably just work their issues out and stop inflicting themselves on anyone else? Yes.