#tank mai

[livastia-universe]

I would like to make an announcement that it’s canon in Livastia that a lot of LAI and MAI are fans of the cartoons of and before our present day that feature sentient vehicles. Like c’mon look that them, they’re all such cute and sweet assumptions about what they were going to turn out like! The Magic School Bus holds a special place in my heart and it’s also one of the shows I blame for making me Like This, so I thought it was only fitting to turn the bus into a marketable plushie - also rare Pogo Foyer representation I haven’t drawn her in a while

[staracket]

why didnt they just stay home and hang out and block alex on twitter or something. are they Srupid?

[bitchfitch]

Recommendation on this April fools:

Enter a death pact with a mutual and boop each other into jelly to get the Boop Breaker Badge by booping each other 1000 times. Forge a Bond Today. Fucking Kill Eachother.

[th3e-m4ng0]

glub glub

[captain-price-unofficially]

Hamas members emerge from tunnels near several Merkava IV tanks, attaching anti-tank explosives to the tanks' hulls,and engaging a 3rd with a RPG. 14 May 2024

[guineapiggies]

Via badger_y_bear

[thesimquarter]

Man, this town really IS full of Strange.

vv bonus headshots below the cut vv

[theworldatwar]

US M4 Sherman tanks of the 10th Armoured Division make their way through the streets of the mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Germany 11th May 1945

[tinofstatic]

Omg, researching Dante’s weapons for a fic of mine and coming to realise that Dante modifies his own weapons??? 😭😭

Maybe I’m just fawning over anything and everything atp but that’s really endearing?? In a way??

Now I’m in the middle of a fic, thinking about a NEW fic where Dante’s tinkering with guns after loosing Nell because he can’t find someone new to actually do the job right

Like,,, Dante hunched over, in the middle of the night grumbling because he’s wired a part wrong and the trigger won’t, you know, trigger. So he has to pull it apart all over again and figure out what part went wrong before he accidentally breaks another gun with his lack of intelligence

Nico’s report makes it 10x funnier because apparently he sucks at it but somehow makes it work — which makes me think about Dante carefully taking apart old guns he has of Nell’s to examine how she’s engineered them so he can learn off of her work. Trying to reverse engineer and note down everything before his brain overloads and realises just how good Nell was at her job (and how patient she was for dealing with him) (none of his blueprints make any goddamn sense)

He’s pulling shit together, screwing it in place, and hoping when he goes on his next mission it doesn’t just blow up (though he’ll happily use it as a smokescreen or a makeshift grenade if it gets the job done, despite the shame it is on the parts he could’ve reused). After a bit of time, he learns what to mess with and what not to touch or move around too much and slowly gets better with the parts he has

Augh I’m being plagued with visions of Nico trying to teach him how a shotgun is supposed to look like inside and him getting all embarrassed because he thought he did a pretty good job, but now he has someone younger and more knowledgable than him pointing out all of his mistakes. Makes me also partly wonder if he would hang out around Nico to feel like he’s close to Nell again because of how similar they are in their passion for weapon making

(And Nico loving the joint time with Dante because she’s getting close to THE Dante and tries to squeeze out as many stories from him as possible because she’s just so excited) (and she can’t help but yap and ask questions and try to learn as much as she can during this one-on-one time because she doesn’t know when she’ll get it again) (okay I think I’ve exhausted myself now)

[pheonixed]

What procrastination on physics coursework does to a man

:D!! Dr. Mobius my beloved <3

[mariyekos]

I like to imagine Dante's able to use some basic magic beyond just typical demonic stuff. In the opening of DMC1, a magic circle appears below Trish when Dante shoots the motorcycle back at her, so I like to think Dante knows some basic spells, wards, and the like. For the most part he uses it for little things like making a special lock for his Devil Arm vault, maybe heating up soup or a drink that's gone cold, and so on, rather than any combat things. Dante's spells are not at all refined and he doesn't have a natural talent for it, per se, but he has a lot of power he can put into things so he often ends up brute forcing whatever it is. It's not necessarily efficient, but it works, and that's all he cares about. He's not really interested in most precise or specific things.

Vergil on the other hand has a lot more control and a much greater interest in magic in general. A post DMC5 Vergil (and pre DMC3) would use magic a lot more often, and without as much prep. He spent a lot of time learning different charms etc. to use in daily life, and he's a lot more elegant about it. Some he learned when on the run and trying to hide from demons, while others he learned when trying to track down Sparda, and others still he learned for purely convenience reasons. Post DMC5 he gets a lot more into it than he did pre DMC3 when it was more a thing of survival, even if it had the convenience aspect back then too. He's the kind of person who would learn spells for the sake of knowing them, and while he prefers using demonic abilities in combat, he might try to learn a magical combat spell or two just to see what it's like. He mostly sticks to practical things though (which sit on the border of practicality, but he considers them practical, uses them often, and makes Dante's magic look like child's play).

On the magical third (regrown!) hand, Nero's absolutely horrible at magic, to the point of not being able to do basically anything. He's got the magical reserves, but unlike Vergil who can cast precise spells with relatively little effort, or Dante who gets through spells by basically overloading them until they work, Nero just can't get magic to work for him at all. Lessons with Vergil end with him stomping out when he gets fed up with Vergil commenting on how easy it should be, while attempts to get Dante to explain how he casts magic end in frustration when Dante's explanations basically start and end at "I dunno, it, it just works." Sure Nero can memorize and draw a warding sigil perfectly, but any and all attempts to get it to actually do anything end in failure.

Kyrie, in a reveal that surprises everyone, most of all herself, is apparently extremely talented at magic, which she does not know until she sees Nero trying and failing to activate a warding sigil Vergil taught him, puts a finger on it so she can trace over it as she reviews Nero's work in case he messed something up, and inadvertently activates it. After that they end up doing some testing and discover Kyrie is a natural when it comes to magic. The only problem is that while casting spells, activating sigils, and the like come easily to her, her magical reserves are rather small, limiting what she's able to do. When she first activates the sigil Nero had drawn, she ends up unable to get up and Nero has to carry her to bed (which she insists he doesn't have to do, because she just needs a minute to catch her breath, but he insists on)

Nico is stoked to hear about this and ends up figuring out a way to essentially fit Kyrie and Nero with a magic converter that allows Kyrie to draw on the magical reserves Nero can't utilize so that she can use them for whatever she wants to. While Kyrie isn't someone who really cares to use magic for things in her daily life like Dante and Vergil, she does use it to make little charms for the kids, and to establish wards around the house to protect them from demon attacks and other small misfortunes. She and Vergil end up bonding a little bit as he teaches her the spells and other bits of magic Nero was never able to pick up on.

(Vergil himself feels a mixture of pride at how quickly she picks up on things with his instruction, and jealousy when he sees how good she is at things first or second try when he knows it took him a good five or ten attempts to get it down when he was first learning. Kyrie notices and tells him that he's still much better than her in the long run since he's able to use magic without needing a separate "battery" to power him, but Nero absolutely digs into Vergil about it when Kyrie isn't there. Dante meanwhile finds it all hilarious. But he and Nero are pretty proud of Kyrie too.)

[propertyofsamcollins]

Darlin' is a certified yapper when they're alone with Sam

Argue with the wall

[isayoldbean]

BOUNTY WANTED: M4S CLEAR

sooo my static decided to replace me with a friend of the raid lead's during my month of dealing with hurricanes and gnarly infections and no internet and other various horrors with zero communication from them except to drop the hammer despite them knowing what i was going through and so i need to clear m4s before them At All Costs out of spite

i've already powered myself into phase 2 but i am also at the whims of party finder so if anybody who has already cleared has the kindness in their heart to contribute to my cause of being temporarily evil and petty i will be posted up on primal for the entirety of the day until i clear, even if i have to go all night until reset. amount of chests doesn't matter all i need is the sweet, sweet rush of being able to post a pic of me having cleared in their server while they've only just gotten to phase 2 transition in their month without me. i am even willing to give you some gil or smth as compensation for your time

currently in a pf made by @gailiag under her character name etrii hartrael if you are interested. she has been kind enough to organize prog parties for me the past two days as well and i can't thank her enough for it but i am also ready to call in every single debt to get this done and finished today so please come find us if you're interested. i will owe you my life

[leadmetothegardenbetty]

Kyle and Holland Roden on set for Mother, May I?

[captain-price-unofficially]

17 May 1995: Shawn Nelson steals a M60A3 from a National Guard armory and goes on a six mile rampage, crushing cars and smashing street-lights.

[griffincastle]

Straight shooter