#thank you! AUGH!

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Sad times prompt:

Roland nears final dispensation and notices that people are beginning to distance themselves from him.

He's six years, nine months, two days, 4 hours, and ten minutes old when he really starts to notice the change in behaviors. AI can't help but see patterns. It's what he was made for, a ship AI managing a crew of thousands for deployments that span months or years without resupply, and now it's plain as day that his crew is avoiding him.

Shying away and cringing from the signs of his age, from him.

It starts with avoided eye contact and tight lipped smiles. He sees it in mouths closing instead of asking him. Discomfort clear in their faces and biosigns. Avoidance. A dull ache in his own code - do no harm to humans - but he can't help what's happening to him.

It's been an eventful career, non-stop since his commissioning, but he hadn't felt this level of melancholy since the Created Conflict. When he chose his crew over Her and it still wasn't enough. The looks and whispers, the hard-won trust turning to suspicion, now those feelings return full force as he's beginning to lose trust in himself.

Recursive thoughts spiraling and disrupting standard procedures. Protocols out of order - starting and stopping with no rhyme or reason. His recall sluggish and incorrect. A fog over everything he does.

Roland is a spider at the center of an aging web, its threads snapping and leaving him alone, senseless and blind, untethered. Sight and sense return sporadically only to present him with a million points of data from his crew. Whispers and pointed looks, conversations halted and glances shared, the bridge crew triple checking his numbers before every jump, awkward silences from crew members, from scientists to Spartans. No more poker nights, fewer reports to the captain, and the commander taking him off Ops.

Distance. Turned backs. Treating him like he's not even there. What's worse are the sad looks, mourning him while he's still there. Stilted conversation and tiptoeing around his lapses.

Everyone knows the end, the ticking clock above his head. A second is an eternity and a month is a blink of an eye. There's so much he still hasn't seen. He's never gotten to fly the ship solo. Being ignored feels like they're speeding it along, ready for the next model.

[r-aindr0p]

Mini-rollo invasion : Diasomnia

Anypov :

Heartslabyul - Savanaclaw - Octavinelle - Scarabia - Pomefiore - Ignihyde

[elizakai]

CHATTT WE’VE WONNN🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[crispinkiss]

it wasn't so awful, was it?

stills below ->

[pocketgalaxies]

It feels good to be able to help. (for @overnighttosunflowers)

[froegs]

“ he and i are so similar. we are both so stubborn „

[canisalbus]

I have a dachshund and one day she looked at me with the sun behind her and her ears were glowing from the backlight. It made me want to draw a picture of Vasco that way! So here’s my best attempt at capturing the halo ear effect that occurred. Bonus: Vasco as a candy corn because his colors made me think of candy corn.

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[otome-dissection]

Dude I can't Luka's expressions in wiege fuck me up so bad all the parallels between Luka now and himself as a child get me so fucking bad like:

The wiege MV (for the mostpart) is about going back to the beginning. It's about the in-betweens we didn't get to see. It's about the journey and it's about all the small moments that built all the characters (most importantly Hyuba and, imo, Mizi) up into what they came to be. For better or for worse, Hyuna and Mizi both grew up so far from what they used to be, went through the whole spectrum of experiences that humans in their position could possibly have, and its shown by the wide range of scenes/experiences/flashbacks they have just how much they've lived.

Meanwhile Luka, who is, objectively, on top of everything, far above what Hyuna, Mizi, and everyone else could've been or ever was, is by far the most stagnant as a person. Where we see Hyuna and Mizi go through all the motions of loving and losing and loving again (and losing again), Luka has always been stuck on Hyuna, and the second he sees her everything he's built up to is all thrown to the wind without a second thought, without any fanfare, because nothing for him as changed.

Internally, Luka's still sitting against that tree in the garden and watching someone else grab his hand, Luka's still watching Hyuna count with his fingers and making him laugh for the first time ever, still clinging to her arm, still crossing the grass field to reach her.

Even years later, even as an adult, he's still looking at her like she's his salvation. When he sees her again on the stage he looks at her like he's just found his way back home after far too many years away from it, and when that gun is pointed at his head to stop him he looks at it like he's wondering why he's not allowed back inside.

And then when he looks at Hyuna more and remembers the moments with her that he's been clinging onto more he forgets about it entirely. And then you know what happens from there. I'm sickkkk

The fact that a lullaby. A Fucking Lullaby, and presumably a song that most if not all kids of Anakt know and learned when they were still young (see: that scene of the main 4 singing it) was the song choice for this video. The fact that seeing Hyuna, just seeing her again like that is what brings that lullaby back, a melody from the beginning of it all that should be so far beneath Luka by now, but isn't. I can't bro.

Luka, live with love. Or whatever. Augh I don't even know

[steamclouds]

finally I can offer a finished Jarlaxle, it only took me 8 months...

Funky interpretation of a look for him, that rainbow cape is still canon to me ✨🌈

Close-up under cut!

[payasita]

gotta tell you I've kept going back to look at the UPA style drawings over and over today they just make me so happy (especially the thespius and clickclack. obviously. I am a predictable sap) anyway thank you it has been providing me free serotonin all day

AAA TYSM!!

also, HARD AGREE. it like. it Goes

It Goes. bright n colorful toony boys. the aesthetic timelines are close enough

[kenzan-brainrot-mp4]

My ass has Not been drawing because I'm trying to get through Infinite Wealth as fast as possible but oughh kazumaji, oh the way things change

The fact that these two scenes are 16 Years Apart is crazy.

The fact that it took 16 years, 5 games, and countless instances of Kiryu leaving for Majima to finally just outright tell him "don't leave", whereas before he would've just stayed quiet.

The fact that Majima stayed silent in Yakuza 3 when Kiryu was leaving to live a new, free life while leaving Majima to take care of his responsibilities, meanwhile in IW he speaks up when Kiryu leaves to go throw his remaining life away for the yakuza while leaving the 3jimas to their quiet (if admittedly miserable) new lives. ohhh they make me sick

[paranoidkid]

I’ll rb thsi again in the morning but im like struggling to be able to afford anything rn because im unemployed. I know it’s rough out there but would anyone mind shooting me like a couple dollars or something like that. if I can’t get a job before next month it’ll be a little more dire but right now I just need like. maybe $150 to cover some upcoming dr appointments. and I’ll look for jobs and things. any help is appreciated

c^shapp is $AviEmery

v/nmo is AviEmery

[sparklode]

[saetiate]

expand on rin and sports bras pretty please..

context

i think rin in general likes when like you're wearing tight clothing and he takes it off because he gets to watch it bounce... like the difference between when it's on vs when it's off and him being the one causing it. that reveal does something for him. like seeing how your boobs look in a tight bra vs off and then the little sigh of relief you make when it comes off. applies to like those little spandex shorts too

i also think he gets weird about you being sweaty alsdkf like how his grip feels on you when your skin is a little sticky. or when you're both really going at it in bed. likes to feel your boobs and thighs and just have it all squished against his face. how your essence mixes with your salty sweat augh i think it drives him crazy ahaha

do NOT go to the gym w this man fr if he sees you in one of those cute gym outfits… it's soooo over for you ahaha. but even if u don't just tight clothing in general mhmm !!! i said tight jeans too and i stand by that like watching you jump into them tryna get your butt in there also applies

rin and nagi are similar in this they both like to watch the jiggle <3 just in diff ways

[skywerse]

[storytellering]

back to our regularly scheduled collared Neros