#the red war

[eosofspades]

godddd thinking about the red war first couple missions and going insane . that was so good and for what

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: The Man Before

[archivists-trove]

Failsafe's Haunt - Viewed from atop the wreckage of the Exodus Black on Nessus.

[zalia]

Up today... a mishmash of smaller sets of screenshots I've taken. First Two: Mars Skybox from the top of the Enclave (climbing out through the relic room - you can apparently get to the back of the shooting range there, but I am not yet good enough at Titan sword flying to get there XD)

Next Five: Various shots from the EDZ.

Next Three: The Glykon! In news that will shock precisely no-one, the weird creepy haunted spaceship continues to be weird and creepy even when out of bounds. There's also a transparent floor at one point which gives you an amazing (or horrifying!) view of empty space beneath your feet! (I only did a quick look around this time, because I fell and got rezzed back inside).

Final Six: The EDZ again, this time inside the Echion Vae in the Sunken Isles, getting into the areas from the Unbroken mission from back in the Red War! Pretty cool to see it since I never got far in the campaign. Not many photo ops though because it... is not very distinct from any other Red Legion locations.

[slayanyhivegodslately]

"I can heal you, but I can't resurrect you. Not since..."

*Journey kicks in*

[destinylegendrpg]

Join us LIVE NOW on our twitch as we play another session using our custom ttrpg system inspired by Destiny!

This week, our heroes are flying off after defeating Ghaul to investigate how the Cabal managed to bring the Vex under their control during the Red War...

[thehollowtarnished]

They should remaster the Red War campaign with a Legendary difficulty. The destruction of the Last City and its people will be great symbolism to how Bungie is treating Destiny currently.

[eosofspades]

just... a thought

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: A Variety Of Tangles

[archivists-trove]

Wreckage of the Exodus - Taken from the Aft of the Exodus Black, now crashed on the Centaur, Nessus.

[sayruq]

Israel is also bombing Southern Lebanon

[frogcroaks]

The four heads of the wyrm god

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[vinamari]

How it feels going to bed after reading some words

It was angst

[rayfishandchips]

Tim's wing cape appreciation post, one of the best-looking robin equipment items in my humble opinion.

It doesn't always look good when stationary, but when it fly it is so alive with motion. Beautiful.

(from the comic robin war)

edit: found some more of them. Look here ↓