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I don’t know of anyone in Choices who had more ridiculous plot armor than the love interests in WTD.
They miraculously grew from small children into young adults in a mutant zombie apocalypse, some of them surviving outside of secure communities for the duration of the apocalypse like Eli and Angel. And somehow, none of them had ever seen any of the mutant variations aside from the drones. Ever.
IMO Angel’s plot armor was the worst. She survived in a zombie-infested mall alone from probably around 5 or 6 years old until young adulthood.
It made the stakes considerably less severe and made me feel detached from the love interests because they felt more like untouchable beings than characters who could live and die depending on the story’s outcome.
#plus y’know#the fact that they ALL survive#like none of them are determinant or anything#the it lives love interests could die if you fucked up#and that was a lower-stakes story#angel savage#troy hassan#eli sipes#shannon fox#choices wake the dead#wake the dead#choices wtd#wtd#choices stories you play#playchoices#choices stories we play#pixelberry#pixelberry studios#playchoices fandom#choices stories you play fandom#choices stories we play fandom
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Don't Wormy About Me.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#yu ziyuan#Please allow me to make it clear how important I think the hug between YZY and JC is in regards to several aspects of their characters#For one - it is the resolution and reveal that behind all the harsh words and bitterness...She really did love her son.#A hug is a soft gesture that you would never expect from someone like YZY and the fact she shows JC this affection now -#-Tells us how she knows that this upcoming battle is a death sentence for her.#Her giving away Zidan is honestly overkill but another sign of her truly showing him how she loves him and wants him to survive.#The dread of knowing she's walking back to a fight without zidian and trying to keep up brave face one last time...chilling.#Zidian represents legacy and promises. And this is going to both save and destroy Jiang Cheng as he carries this weight alone.#Heartbreaking stuff! Didn't draw it in the comic because I wanted to draw a silly worm on a string!#WWX tried to help JC out of the knot but got stuck in it.#Those worm on a string tricks are harder than they look!#Also; it's been about a year since the last boat joke - but indeed this is the 11th boat of pd-mdzs. No need to do the math.
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The thing abt john winchester is that he is too complex for the majority of the spn fandom and for a good portion of the writers on the show too.
Because at his core john is about love over everything else. When he looks up at his sons (yes, up, the fact that they’re both taller than him>>>>>), there is love seeping achingly from every single pore of his being even as he abuses them, as he destroys their souls beyond belief. He does it all entirely out of love. And he is so, so wrong for it. A part of him knows it. But he wants to keep dean alive, and he wants to keep Sam pure. And he loves them so much. And he damages them so horribly. John Winchester is the foundation upon which they are both built, they only become more of what he made them as the series goes on. Sam stops fighting it, Dean continues to mold into his image no matter how hard he tries to fight it.
Hell puts them both on steroids, but their individual trauma responses that influence this are the foundations that John built into them. No wonder azazel wanted sam to win so badly. John Winchester crafted his sons into alastair and Lucifer’s ideal victims, respectively, and dean was a better (worse) john than John ever was. John held out in hell. Dean acquiesced to his abuser despite all of his efforts to fight him, and he’s never been the same since.
Sam fought like hell, and he fought destiny, but at his core, he did what John always wanted him to by doing what dean wanted him to do, and then he stops fighting at all, loses the fire he showed john in adolescence that john immediately notices when he returns in s14.
And the sad thing is. They filled their roles so well that John is saddened by what they’ve become. He didn’t want dean to break. He didn’t want Sam to be dimmed. He’s sad to see what Sam is like in s14. In the process of recovering his wife, he ensured he would mold his sons into what he wanted them to be, and when he got what he wanted, he was devastated.
John Winchester is so driven by love and grief and he’s so filled to the brim with both that it’s painful to watch him on screen because he destroyed his family because of it. And he wanted this all along but he didn’t realize what he’d have to give up to get it.
#supernatural#john winchester#sam winchester#dean winchester#my meta#honestly the thing is#if john had survived past s2#I don’t think he would get the hate he receives today#bc the thing is. jdms portrayal is ridiculously complex and beautiful#that when the majority of people write him they lose all his nuance#the fact that John was gone more than he was there immensely damaged his rep in the eyes of the fandom#I think if John were alive for longer he would get similar treatment to dean#both narratively and fandom perception wise#he already does to some extent amongst some people#he’s an excellent complex character#but people can’t handle complex#that man is an abuser#that man also loves more deeply than anyone#you know who also fits those descriptors?#dean#and look how fandom views him
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honestly what i find most valuable about buffy's relationship with spike is that there is absolutely nobody else that could have followed her through the melting point restructuring phoenix fire ruination and rebirth of her entire life and come out the stronger for it with a bond forged of unbreakable steel except for him. i cannot imagine either angel or riley even coming close to surviving that process. they'd have burned and melted away completely before they ever reached the quenching.
#sorry i think about this all the time#spike is JUST enough of a chaotic and unshaped being in his own right to be able to do this#that paired with the fact that his dedication to her was something both fluid and strong enough to survive remelding#and that he was similar enough to her come along for the ride#is one of the most crucial aspects of their relationship#spuffy#buffy summers#spike#william pratt#btvs#anti bangel#i guess??#i mean i dont really hate it its just also i dont respect it
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case study of the self-identified god
#obsessed with the fact that rain world is a game about survival#yet every character we meet has the express goal of trying to optimize killing themselves#every creature in game seems perfectly content fulfilling their role in the ecosystem no matter how many cycles they do the same thing#(rly obvious with gourmand's entire route. guy who lives their life to the fullest without the slightest hint of resentment)#it was really only the ancients who thought they were above it and thought of it as something to escape from#5pebbles is so interesting because the only reason hes “”“godlike”“” is because of his vast knowledge. if he was in any slugcats shoes he#would die instantly which is ironically what hes been trying to do this whole time#this comic was kind of exploring the idea of awareness (divinity) as something that drags down ones enjoyment of life (walking).#if 5p would humble himself down enough to walk around like any other creature#he would a) be much happier in life and b) achieve the ascension he's been gunning for for millennia like all the slugcats did#but he never will.#getting rid of all his work on the problem or even his awareness of it entirely#would just be a trick of convenience that steals away his godhood#and him calling himself godlike is kind of a cope LOL#a cope being faced with a problem he was never meant to solve#a cope being faced with what he did to moon#a cope being faced with the rot inside him#oh well.#anyway fuck 5 pebbles i hate that guy#rain world#rain world fanart#rw five pebbles#rain world five pebbles#rw gourmand#rain world gourmand#five pebbles#rain world void worm#rain world ancients#also JUST KIDDING ilu 5p. you suck but i💛u
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i try to warm up and/or fight off burnout by making dumb memes/joke edits for anything (with middling success). this is the PL edition of the latest abominations i concoted in my lab
originals: [1] | [2] | [3 (blank)]
#professor layton#hershel layton#jean descole#desmond sycamore#keats the cat#emmy altava#raymond#raymond professor layton#luke triton#aurora#aurora professor layton#>>mango(t)art#it started with the first bc honestly that's just them it's On Sight#i love how sad keats turned out in the second one#after realising that keats was left on the Bostonius at the end of AL des just kind of accepted he had a cat now#layton learns of his brother's survival later through finding des' twitter and his live blogs of unwilling descent into cat fatherhood#the last idea got me good for a while because first it was funy to me bc the plane crash scenario and the fact they're all on an airship#then i realised all the options were gold and the bostonius crew are when you get down to it a weird bunch of mfers (and Raymond)#does this count as sycamore sunday he's in all of them idk
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the funniest thing to me about the saw series is that lawrence is still just like. alive
#like?? of all the people to be the last one standing#idk if i'd have picked him#it's just funny to me#he's still just walking around being cunty and for whAt#no one appreciates him#the fact that all he did in saw seven was lurk ominously in the corner#and then show up out of nowhere to absolutely ruin hoffman's day#and now the only surviving apprentices#bar logan#are lawrence#and BRAD AND RYAN#it's just.. funny#saw#lawrence gordon#saw 3d
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a support group for people with “unconventional” daemons. jeff with his flounder he has to carry everywhere in a huge tank. lois with her poison dart frog everyone is afraid to touch. sam with their elephant that’s the reason they can never go higher than two stories in most buildings.
#and then they all start dating#it’s a metaphor for people with traits society considers undesirable or some shit#his dark materials#daemons#dæmon#me and my bullshit#i think way too much about the societal implications of daemons#dæmon au#look but the servants of oxford all having dog daemons implies that hiring bias does exist based on the form people’s daemons settle into#so naturally i think that different societies would form biases against people with certain kinds of daemons#and we all know how inaccessibility is deeply baked into a lot of government structures#regardless of the fact that lots of people out there need those accommodations to survive#idk it just seemed like a neat idea
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Talking to Lurien in a dream
I'm sticking with the Godseeker ending, with a number of headcanons of my own
For example, that the Dreamers were aware of themselves and their surroundings the whole time they were in the Dreaming. And they could also keep an eye on the real world through the reveries of the not yet infected bugs
So, Herrah slipped into meditation, a dream within a dream, and didn't follow the real world, as she didn't see the point of it, since she couldn't affect it in any way anyway (Herrah didn't even follow her tribe or Hornet. She was used to controlling her life and always fighting for it, so when control was taken away from her, she simply withdrew into herself, for there was no point in aimless watching)
Monomon was mostly absorbed in Quirrell's dreams, following his wanderings, and her own musings on the nature of the mortal world and the dream world. The dreams of ordinary bugs didn't bother her much (Her biggest problem was her inability to write down her ideas. After a while, she even tried scratching out words on rocks, but that was hardly possible for non-existent objects. Especially if you only had soft tentacles)
Lurien, living up to his title of Watcher, had been watching the world through the bug's dream all this time (and since the King's plan went to hell, he's been subjected to the inevitable self-digging and self-loathing for giving his life away for free for a shitty plan by a shitty ruler) He's just too damn tired and frustrated, forgive him
And, after the ending of Godseeker, the Dreamers wake up from their slumber, and try to do something about the ruins of their kingdom. Working for free again ¦D
#I wanted to portray Lurien as less pathetic but he still looks pretty darn pathetic...#I'm sorry#In fact in my mind he's not so insignificant#He was an unassuming and withdrawn individual before becoming a Dreamer#But two decades spent isolated in the middle of nowhere while your King's plan cracks at the seams has awakened his resentment and anger#At least he realized he didn't want to live such a dismal life again if he could survive after all this of course#hollow knight#Hk#hk dreamers#hk little ghost#hk lurien#hk herrah#hk monomon#lurien the watcher#herrah the beast#monomon the teacher#hk the knight#hk ghost
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This reminded me of your boy
HEHEH!! Yeah pretty much Isles Jax! :]
This yo mans?
#art#survival asks#survival isles au#the amazing survival isles#survival isles jax#tadc#tadc au#digital circus#digital circus au#the amazing digital circus#jax fanart#jax#rory <3#the fact he did basically all of those listed#although the last one wasnt necessarily intentional#anyways someone come get ragatha hes digging through base camps trash again
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LOYALTY (PART 6/?)
#madness combat#madcom#madness combat comic#hank j wimbleton#2bhank#cw blood#been reading yalls notes on the reblogs and i just wanna say#they inspire me so much they give me LIFE#genuinely one of the reasons i draw in the first place#going through them kicking my feet and giggling to myself like a schoolgirl#also to the person that asked...... yes this is technically canon divergent!#as canon divergent as madcom fan content can be. considering the lore of madcom quite literally accounts for AU shenanigans#the ocurrent and the nowhere and the other place and all that. the improbability drive. also the fact that the animation lore and the game#lore CANNOT be fitted with each other no matter how hard you try#not linearly anyway.#or not yet#but yeah here the fall of the nexus hasn't happened yet. OR it happened but phobos survived. not sure yet lol#anyway sorry for rambling akjshdkasj#i love the bizarre nature of madcom's plot
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You're mine now, old man.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#a-qing#xiao xingchen#A-qing's story kicks off so strong. You really get a sense that she feels strongly attached to xxc during the pre-empathy scenes#and that she has a strong sense of loyalty and perseverance with strong survival instinct#but then you see her before all the tragedy and you *immediately* learn she is a clever trickster!#She follows xxc not out of gratitude but out of a sense that this guy is her meal ticket.#xxc is kind and strong but most importantly *noble*#she can smell the self-sacrificing bright eyed hope on this stranger. She knows the mere fact she's a young blind girl means#he will protect her. The fact he gives her a little money doesn't hurt her justification but tbh she would have followed all the same#a-qing is *the* catgirl of all time actually. Follows you for the fact you provide food and shelter. Opportunistic. May grow to be loyal.#That's not even getting into the parallels here between these two characters and wwx (who is seeing these events play out)#the yi city trio are arguably the three split aspects of wwx: who he feels like (a-qing the opportunist) who he wants to be (xxc the noble)#and who he feels seen as (xy the vengeful).#one day I'll write a more robust analysis on that. prob in the tags though#(His a-qing parallels are also tied with the fact they both were street rat orphans who learned how to code-switch to be whoever#they need to be to feel safe. I have a lot more thoughts to share but augh another time...another time)
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It's thinking about Maxwell and Jacobi hours
#tbf its often thinking about maxwell and jacobi hours#i just love them deeply#and i accidentally listened to all of s3 this weekend so feelings are high#wolf 359#alana maxwell#daniel jacobi#i wish there were recording scripts available for the mission mishaps I'd love to read the ones for happy holidays and no complaints#also a little night music but thats off topic#im just obsessed with them almost as much as they are with each other#its the fact that jacobi's devotion to alana is even higher than his dedication to kepler which is impressive honestly#and the fact that he sees his (and kepler's) role as just paving the way so maxwell can change the world#and the fact that he's the one to survive#but also just that they have so much fun together#yeah i think some of it is play acting to get the hephaestus crew to let their guard down around them#but they are also just like that™️#i love happy holidays so much
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Keyrin the man you are
#art#my art#artists on tumblr#dnd#dnd art#dnd character#dnd elf#dnd pirate#digital art#pirate oc#he’s my favorite npc I’ve made#he’s so pathetic dad coded#met the party after experiencing the horrors for twenty years and he reluctantly asked them for help because#they are all so young?? all under thirty and have been through so much??#he told them if shit goes south they should leave him because they are young and deserve to experience the world fully#the battle went great tho except for the fact that Keyring might not survive#we’ll see next session#campaign: fey farers
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can we see cottonleaf’s sprite
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cottonleaf!!! here's her normal sprite and also her sick sprite, which I get the feeling we'll be seeing a lot
#fallenasks#bat anon#fallensprites#fun fact! the reason her design has so many little hearts on it is because she has the heartbeat tortie patch#she's just so high white you cant see em all#everyone cross your fingers that she recovers ok :(#if anyone has any knowlege about redcough. like how long it usually lasts how many cats survive it etc#id love to have that information
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This is what a point blank shot to the head at 6.30AM feels like by the way
#my friends are smart and sometimes they fucking kill me#like jesus christ. where the lie though#but also considering the fact that Arkham initially was Martha's passion project—#and considering all the monsters with running mascaras in Arkham—#Batman#Batman meta#micro meta even xD#also tagging as#batjokes#because GUESS WHO'S BRUCE WAYNE'S LONGEST SURVIVING UTTERLY MANGLED VICTORIAN DOLL#batjokes meta
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