#thats why I love the game so much

[earl-grey-love]

I love how creative the scenes of Barbs expressing his affection are. Instead of simply saying it outright, he will show it usually by pointing out something symbolic of his feelings. Often these symbolisms are quite literal in the sense magic will be involved. Like there will be a magical item that only works if he thinks of someone he loves while he uses it, or a spell that reveals someone's true thoughts and it shows how deeply he cares for mc.

I also love that it's also a way for him to avoid outright admitting what he wants or feels, which is a large part of his character. He usually places the responsibility of initiating intimacy on mc, which is part of a gameplay mechanic yes, but most characters at least lead you into the topic or outright ask. But Barbs generally prompts mc to "guess" what he wants, which is almost always physical contact. It's a way for him to avoid the responsibility of outright asking, as well as testing if mc actually wants and understands him.

He's a character that is both remarkably proactive and passive at the same time. I appreciate the subtlety and nuanaces of his self-expression, especially because he's rather limited due to his role as a butler. He's caught up in the trappings of living 24/7 working in the service industry, and while he is deeply passionate about his work, it puts him at several disadvantages. Especially because he has to keep up appearances constantly. His job literally never ends, even on days off, because the public know he's the prince's butler and he has a reputation to uphold.

Plus he's also a perfectionist on his own terms. He holds himself to such an impossibly high standard that it's no wonder he struggles to "let loose" unless given direct permission to do so. And even then, he almost exclusively refuses to unless completely alone with mc, with no possibility of being interrupted, such as in his room or a hotel. It's the textbook definition of being one person in public and someone else in private.

Therefore, it feels truly intimate when he reveals his thoughts, feelings, desires, and personal tastes. Even more so when he reveals his vulnerabilities, imperfections and mistakes. Those are the moments I treasure the most. The ones where Barbs is nothing more or less than truly himself.

I also love every opportunity that presents itself to take care of him as well. He works so hard to ensure everyone else is comfortable, happy, and well taken care of. He deserves to be loved, appreciated, and tenderly looked after as well. He's my favourite romantic interest in any game I have ever played.

[doctormori]

I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3

[catamaris]

It's so fucked how they suddenly removed cabanela from the remastered 2010 official art. i'm assuming they thought he might be too "spoilery" of a character (despite first showing up in the same chapter as kamila)

they took him out back and shot him

[cozylittleartblog]

when valve has enough money to buy god, but they let bots ruin their game for 5 years and dox people 🤖🔫 #FIXTF2

everyone who signs this 100k+ petition will have their name printed and sent to valve HQ. this shit is unacceptable.

[thou-babbling-brook]

it’s so funny when you play mirage because sometimes you forget Basim is supposed to be like 20 or younger and then he does some stupid shit like introduce himself with his legal name to the Templars and you remember because no Assassin with a fucking developed prefrontal cortex would do some stupid shit like that

[artuurle]

This isnt really an ask this is just me holding out my empty plate to you

More Grujaja stuff please!!!!! very yummers!!!! :D /noforce

Great news, i have a bit of unposted doodles of Grujaja cuz like i mention in other posts every time i draw smthn sad w him I cope by drawing cute or silly images. (and one other sad one oops)

the rest of the doodles are for my silly hc (honestly borderlining au at this point w the amount of images i've made for it lol) that caused this whole mess, those under the cut for the sanity of the people. [thumbs up]

Grujaja making Hector die from stress right before he tries to ascend to godhood.

bonus Capo trying and failing to pretend like he doesn't care as well. if you even cares. /silly

[proxythe]

mamas boy? ? ?? aka i dont pay attention to any of the official lore they drop n i make up my own

[othercrossee]

I miss yuchea so...look at my beautiful boy

[bacchuschucklefuck]

caps from comic Im doing

[ganondoodle]

okay i typed this in a reply but i need to say this more detailed here too, the way totk dealt with horses (and stables) is bad and worse than botw imo (yes i can rant about that too, these weird choices are in every little spot in totk, its almost impressive)

in a game that lets you build cars and stupid flying maschines, towers that shoot you into the stratosphere AND teleporting points all over the place, the chance is already low that you use a horse- though i would be one of them bc i love horses and hate building and didnt find it fun at all-

(also i almost never used any parts i had with me bc you cant put them back and your dumb vehicles despawn as soon as you dont look at them- also a negative thing about that system that reinforces the feeling of actually using it being more punishing than rewarding with the added bonus of the good ol saving your health potions forever problem)

-and something i DID like was that you can have more horses and the ... one.. new color (the lil spots but only AFTER you do that one quest in the spy post)

the stable points seemed like a neat idea, but like so many things, are utterly cheatable, imo the system should have only given you a point when you visit a new stable, so you actually have to go around and visit them all

(also .. add new stables, like mini ones or sth that dont offer beds- you dont need that anyway- so you have more places in which you can get them ... why did they remove some of them anyway, shouldn there be MORE now that the land is supposedly healing/being repaired? especially the one next to the big canyon, its so empty there it would have the perfect place for sth like a new settlement or a big boss arena but no its more empty than it was before, why?? and then putting yet another repeating annoying quest there in that weirld empty place?? i just dont get it)

letting you farm points by sleeping at a stable or bringing in a horse gives you LESS incentive to actually go around the world bc you can just farm it there

(and if that was done so youd 'discover' the malanya talks to you in your sleep 'secret' ... that is literally told to you, and if its bc you dont want to force players to go around and find every stable to get all those rewards ... why do you have 140 or whatver caves then with the majority of them being the literal same thing over and over ... to make people actually use the sleeping thing there? .. why, who uses that anyway, and farming points by sleeping there .. what the hell does that add? AND THEN the stupid sleep over tickets, probably the most nothign reward ever, dont count?? i dont think i ever used one- it just all doesnt make any sense, everything plays against each other)

the upgrading system for your horse is .. once again, a neat idea horribly executed, you have to go find malanya to upgrade them, and similarly stupidly like the fairies, they only tell you what food you need for what upgrade when you are there .. or when you are sleeping in the special tm bed at a stable, randomly, one food, bc the quantity changes too

which is just so ??????????? let me go and do a quest that rewards you with a lil booklet in which you can look up what an upgrade costs, or let the stables have that, either as a list or in the menu when selecting a horse or something?? (also why the hell is malanya in a different spot anyway, like, it feels like a modder just plopped them over there, their og spot is just empty now - except for yet again a stupid filler quest for .. another big horse and a yaaaaaaaaays crystal shrine quest- ... the spot is even still called spring of the horse god .... its so stupid, just like the fairy shuffling around, like you really couldnt think of a better way to reuse that concept other than to ... move it to a different spot in the same map and map level???? and not change anything in their og spot except idk, put a hole in the map ... for one of them like .. its like they moved them around last minute just to have the semblance of things being 'changed' with no regard what makes a change actually feel like one and what just feels like, pick up thing, click on random spot on map, drop thing- its like that for the fairies and shrines too, its so dumb and .. feels disrepectful to botw and how much thought seemed to have went into these spots that were clearly built about those things)

and like it couldnt get WORSE, they cut off the paths that horses follow automatically with one of those miasma buttholes (sorry its just a hole cut into the map, it doesnt even look like miasma burst through, it just .. cut out) a monster camp (that RESPAWNS, i thought those camps you clear with a quest would stay clear, but that would make sense, so of course it respawns and you can do the frame rate killer quest over and over yippieee) or otherwise like, with a big rock or a broken bridge-

and there is NO WAY to create a new path or fix or move anything in a game ABOUT BUILDING supposedly, like you needed more reasons to never use a horse????? i liked jsut hopping on and letting them follow a path and chill looking at the landscape, you cant do this here, and you cant even excuse it with 'its bc of the theme' as in, stuff is destroyed bc calamity 1.5 or whatever bc nothing in the game makes it feel like theres anything actually at stake, but the real crime is to make it not be fixable. WHY??? link moves entire buildings with ease but cant move one freaking rock that fell into a river?????? you swing around logs like a club but cant fix a bridge so your horse can get over it??????????????????????????????

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[geodesick]

[ID: a drawing of pye from outer wilds, standing with her writing staff. she's wearing an orange nomai space suit without the helmet, and she has a light brown face with curly darker brown fur. end ID]

figuring out how i want to draw the nomai, so here's a pye since i am obsessed with her !!!

[makeriia]

Fantober day 31!! A free day again.

Recently gotten into HADES, and I think about them a normal amount (lie)

[isatartdump]

ALSO LIKE A THING I NOTICED NOW BECAUSE I NEVER LOOK AT THESE I ONLY LOOK AT THE COMMENTS/TAGS BECAUSE I LIKE SEEING WHAT YOU GUYS SAY.

Why are there so many of you. I don't fit you all in my house. I don't even know how to thank you kMDLWQKNE

UHM?? You guys are cool thanks for giving me a place to ramble? And post my little sketches. That you seem to like

It means a lot to me

UHM UHM HERE !! HAVE- HAVE MORE OF MY SIFLOOP SKETCHES BECAUSE I TEND TO DO THEM ON MY FREE TIME

There's also a sifzaloop hidden in there

Haha.

[livinginteo]

The ending screen for TanTan TEO, the fin fin rhythm game!

[linkaholic]

Not at all sat here thinking about how in dungeons (especially in the older Zelda games) you often need to be going here there and everywhere to complete each stage. Like, the switch to open the door in Room A might be all the way over in Room X, for example.

So what I'm getting at, is imagine the LU boys (looking specifically at Wars and Wild) going crazy trying to figure out how to open the locked door in one of their rooms, and it suddenly opens for seemingly no reason when in reality one of the other boys shot a switch in a separate part of the dungeon.

Unseen teamwork my beloved