#ten players

[anbaisai]

AU where Mostro Lounge launches it as an official sporting event, because Azul smelled the business opportunity (featuring @raven-at-the-writing-desk's Miss Raven with Jade)

(Continuation of the book 4 mystery)

Bonus of the nefarious opportunistic octopus:

[roobiedo]

obsessed with him 100% platonically

[beefcake-penguin]

Beefspired (beefcake inspired) by this hilarious Korrasami post:

Kara, playing beefopoly (beefcake monopoly): "Huh... I want to buy this property but I don’t have the money. Will the bank accept a smooch instead? 😚"

Lena, who is the bank: "The bank rejects your proposal. The price is twenty smooches. 😌"

Kara, smiling and leaning in: "I can do that... 😏"

Alex, loudly groaning: "You two know damn well that’s not how the game works! This is why Kara always wins! 🙄"

Nia, sighing: "We really need to stop letting Lena be the bank..."

[secretsimpleness]

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

stop me if ive made this post before but one of the great things about writing 10kdays is that i cannot write a martial arts without a philosophy, and i cannot write a philosophy without immersing myself in it. internalizing it, a little bit. i cant cook anymore without thinking of the patience and decisiveness of lightning flash sword, i take life obstacles with the swivel of silkspinning fist (which is to say, a largely daoist outlook), i fucking wash dishes to the rhythm of snake. it fucking rules

[emojackolantern]

just listened to lovegame lady gaga for maybe the first time since wdapteo. imagine a hammer labeled psychic damage bashing me over the head repeatedly.

[kyrup]

today’s episode of breaking news is your reminder to watch mice and murder because it’s criminally underrated and criminally good

[girl-named-matty]

Some Bards never change.

*The group playing D&D*

Ominis: *The Dungeon Master* Garreth, you walk into the siren's lair, ready to take the treasure but you find that she's already awake, ready to strike. What do you do?

Garreth: Okay great, I pull out my lute in an attempt to seduce her!

*Cue loud groans from everyone in the room*

Sebastian: Garreth, you can't just seduce EVERYTHING you come across.

Leander: You have a serious problem!

Garreth: C'mon, shut up, this could actually work! Think of how rich we'd be if it did.

Ominis: *sighs* Just roll already.

Garreth: *rolls* It's a twenty.

Sebastian and Leander: *Looks at Ominis* Sebastian: You're not gonna actually let him do it again, are you? Ominis: Sorry. A twenty is a twenty.

Garreth: YES!

[trentskis]

why do ppl even hate ben white what is there about him to hate he is the most offline man ever who does like one interview a year just say you can't handle his bad bitch tiger tits and fake tan and go

[rattkachuk]

this one’s for all my mattdrai besties :)

[hedghost]

okay guys i wasn’t joking when i said i had the urge to write a poem - i call this one…

an ode to fa player

the weeks drag on, an endless stream

of days which just all seem the same

but then it comes, a shining beam:

the search bar where i type your name

you’re slow to load, my laptop groans

log in, breathe out,

oh wait,

you froze

log in again,

this time,

please work,

third time lucky,

this is beserk

but now the sound won’t fucking work

i press refresh, you glitch and jerk

i’m slamming my head against my desk

a loyal fan’s most gruelling test

your blue screen taunts me time again

i’ll just give up, i think,

but then!

finally, you’re sailing true

the screen no longer buffers blue

the picture? grainy

the commentary? shit

but, with the game, i don’t mind one bit

and yet you’re never quite on track

the buffering starts, the glitch is back

refresh, log in, okay, on a roll!

except now i’ve missed

a fucking goal

this is the wsl lament

the endless reams of time misspent

staring at your log in page

my watching interspersed with rage

you buffered then, you buffer still

braved only by the strong of will

your loading screen, abhorred by all,

was football’s greatest obstacle

and yet i’ll miss your shitty site

fa player,

my friend,

goodnight

[lullabyshark]

hi can i talk about shinooka "has a crush on a guy specifically bc he will never ever like her back" chiyo is so real and relatable to me a lesbian who did the exact same thing in high school. and can i talk about "abe will never look at me as a romantic partner" while the panel is him looking at mihashi. this page is too much. gayest page in the manga because its mlm/wlw solidarity multiple colors of the rainbow etc can we talk about chiyo PLEASE!!!!!!!

[kradogsrats]

Fic: Closer to the Stars

a/n: me? co-opt a philosophically significant rayllum moment for my favorite sad wet cat man? surely not, how dare you

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The waves of heat that staggered him as he walked the balcony are nothing, once he begins the spell. He can feel the fire in his chest, how it boils his blood and chars his flesh. It eats the air from his lungs as he fights for the breath to speak the incantation, his own heart burning in an agony of desperation so others' will not.

He can barely stay upright. He might not be strong enough.

He has to be strong enough. He thinks of Lissa, of Soren, of Claudia—how he wishes he could see her, just one more time. Tell her, like he told her brother—

The flames around him spit their hungry sparks up into the smoke-dark sky, little clusters of false, fading stars against the choking blackness. They multiply, his own blurring vision doubling and tripling them, again and again until he's shrouded by a vast, sprawling cosmos as silent as it is beautiful. As beautiful as it is silent.

Time slows. Some part of him is still fighting to form the spell—he can distantly feel his lips moving, the tears that slide down his face—but the stars command his gaze. Each one stares back at him, a thousand eyes piercing his soul. Looking inside and through him. Demanding that he see, as they do.

He doesn't want to look. He has never wanted to look, not since—

It doesn't matter, anymore. He looks. He sees.

And he finally, finally understands.

It's the thing he'd always sought and yet always refused to see. What he'd been unable to accept, even as his every move had howled with grief and rage and desperation for it. It's the purpose he was meant for, before the sucking, starving darkness inside him swallowed it down and clamored for more.

His wife. His children. His king. His kingdom. His race. His world.

All of it. The truth. His truth.

The dragon's fire burns around him, but for a moment he burns brighter—he's full of light, his heart no longer crumbling to ash but blazing like a star that pulses with life and love. The hollow darkness cowers before it, shrinking and fading until not even a shadow remains.

He can feel that he's dying, but there's no pain—only the deep, wonderful ache of love and longing. The regret that he didn't understand earlier. The grateful awe at understanding, now.

His knees hit the stone. There are tears on his face, again. None of it matters.

His truth still glimmers within him, a tiny star to guide his way. He speaks its name, words he'd said before, but never allowed himself to believe. It falls with him.

The foundations of the world crumble, but he looks up, unseeing, to the empty sky.

[alluralater]

that anti-piracy commercial from the 2000s but every time they say piracy they’re instead talking about eating pussy

"you WOULDN'T eat pussy like a rabid animal" "you WOULDN'T suck on their clit while on your knees" "you WOULDN'T slurp up every drop of their cum" "EATING. PUSSY. LIKE THAT. IS ILLEGAL."

[racke7]

Trans-Kirito story-idea

After the SAO beta-test, Suguha "borrows" (read, follows her god-given right to be an annoying little sister) Kirito's NervGear.

As Suguha very much doesn't want to run around "as a boy" (yuck), she redoes the body-scan.

Kirito is very much not amused by Suguha stealing his shit, and takes it back. Kirito checks that nothing is actually broken (it works just fine), but doesn't think about "resetting" the body-scan.

The in-game avatar isn't changed (Kirito picks "male"), and Suguha the preteen and Kirito before his growth-spurt have very similar body-types), so any "this feels a bit odd to get used to"-feelings are attributed to Kirito lying about his height.

SAO starts, and Kirito is having zero issues with his avatar.

SAO becomes a death-game and Kayaba makes the mirror-item happen.

The mirror-item uses the recorded body-scan to create the avatar (and a video-feed for recording faces and facial-expressions).

So Kirito now has the body of a preteen girl, and the face of a very cute boy.

Let the chaos begin.

[thesnivy123]

yknow what. i hate to be rude but the oxygen not included fandom has to get their heads out of the sand and acknowledge that HEY, THERES LORE. I know minmaxxing is fun and all but holy fucking shit. the steam artwork page is 90% screenshots??? Theres a seperate tab for screenshots. People are just posting their screenshots in thebart page anyways for fuck knows what reason. like fuck you I don't wanna see your sourgas boiler in the fanart page, what do you even need to boil sourgas for, whys it so important you wanna smother any fucking ember of creativity left here???

like jesus fuck for once i got attached to a fairly major character and i cant even find anyone making fanart like AT ALL. Ive seen one singular person on tumblr acknowledge the characters in the lore logs beyond their dupe equivalents. The wiki page for the lore is horrifically outdated.

please. I beg. If you're readung this just. just spend five minutes reading the emails or investigations or whatever tab of your guidebook while ur waiting for your dupes to build something. acknowledge the fact that every menu and popup is written in first person. did you ever notice that the quit game confirm text uses i instead of you. Have you looked at the flavour text for the algae terrarium

please

theres so much lore. please j

i just want to see people care i cant be in another dead rotting fandom