#they have outlier powers

[elo-the-ghost]

i wouldn't normally post sketches (doodles, sure), but i figure this is as good a warning as any that i like the giant alien robot vehicles given i haven't posted anything BUT pokemon before.

there is kinda a story here??? i have it in my brain that In-Bound and Out-Bound are split-spark twins that were engineers/conductors with train alt-modes before the war kicked off. where they worked got attacked and they got separated, with In-Bound getting his processor scrambled super bad. He ends up being rescued by Autobots and joining their side, while Out-Bound initially joins the Decepticons because he blames the 'bots for "killing" his brother. They find each other again some years later and Out-Bound switches sides (though he probably was already considering just leaving Cybertron because the 'cons are full of Assholes and he could easily see the war wasn't going anywhere fast).

also Prime and Prowl are on the right for size comparison. these two are Big Dudes.

[adobe-outdesign]

"Why doesn't everyone just use master balls if they're the best kind of pokeball" I mean you're not out there buying Gucci handbags when the $10 purse you bought from Walmart works just fine now are you

[decalight20]

slight spoilers for ep 4

so like, the heroes are controlled and changed by trust and what ppl believe is true about them (lin ling’s appearance changing and him being unable to go after the enlighter)

let’s say ghostblade (or any of the heroes) were to fuck up while stopping a villian and accidentally seriously injuring a civilian (or someone who looks like a civilian), and the ppl started to believe that he was a monster, would he physically (or mentally) become a monster??

if the ppl loved and believed in x and his abilities enough to the point where he’s basically omnipotent, could the opposite happen where if theyre feared and thought to be monstrous that they would become that monster? we’ve only rlly seen what happens when a hero isn’t believed in as much as before, but i don’t think we’ve seen a hero be outright hated and feared so idk

[foursaints]

What is Barty's biggest dream? What would he do if he found out that there would be no tomorrow? (I mean the stupidest things, but also the honest ones)

@fernhelm put it very beautifully: it is difficult to have dreams when you live your life in opposition to others…. it would be crushing to discover that there is no tomorrow because he would reckon with the idea that he has spent his entire life as a tool :(

to me it’s the same principle as how none of the death eaters can cast a patronus. i do not think that most teenagers groomed into what is essentially a murdersuicide cult would have something as precious & fully formed as a Big Dream

but that is what makes the death eaters who ARE still animated by their (delusional) hopes and dreams so interesting. alecto dreams of wealth. sev dreams of love. i think regulus dreams of acceptance and there is an almost innocent quality to him holding onto that… these dreams make them unique among their other pureblood peers because they are something held & acknowledged & chased after, as opposed to the others (like barty or bella) who do not consciously know what they are acting in service of, but rather navigating structures of power in their own vague self interests

[airitree]

Graduating art school and job searching awakened the theological sleeper agent in me like forcing an axolotl to hormonally morph into its adult form

[birdyverdie]

Damn. A tornado hit my area and I still don't have power.

I'm good tho! But outside is a whole mess

[whatwooshkai]

19!! ( I just found your blog and I AM LOVING IT !! You write them so well <3333)

Sometimes Heatwave gets so used to knowing what's about to happen that he forgets Primus likes to actively troll him at every turn.

It started out as a normal day. Heatwave was walking from one room into another, when a bucket of paint splashed down over the top of his helm, spraying out over the brim of his hat.

"What the-?" He'd looked up to see Cody and Frankie, holding an empty bucket with maniacal grins on their faces.

"YOU JUST GOT PRANKED!" they shout, before running off, their manic laughter bouncing off the walls of the firehouse.

And so it began.

Heatwave takes an unwilling role in the prank war on the side of the rescue bots, but only because multiple times a day he is either covered in paint or some other substance, hit in the face, or suffers some other kind of public humiliation while Cody and Frankie shout their now hated catchphrase and run before he can throw them as far as he can.

There's a little solace in the fact that he is not alone, the rest of the bots are suffering the same fate (although they did stop dumping paint on Chase after the first sensory meltdown), but the thing is, it shouldn't be happening to him. He should be able to see this coming!

There's little he and his bots can do in retaliation, as they are ten times the size of the kids and lack the same resources, but getting them by slicking the garage of the firehouse's floor with oil was so worth the cleanup.

But for every prank they successfully pull off, the kids have done ten more.

And so after days in the trenches he sits in the washracks under warm solvent, grumbling unintelligibly as he, Boulder and Blades try to clean glitter out of their own and each other's frames. Forget the kids.

Heatwave is going to find and yell at god.

[smolsix]

-blows dust off this blog-

So

Little Nightmares III, huh???

I was trying to avoid being excited about it because no solid release date and 2024 could be a few months from now or a year from now and Idk how long I can handle being so fuckin hyped for this game YEEHAW

BUT I CAN'T, I KEEP THINKING ABT THE GAME AAHAHHGAGA

so here are my thoughts, if you wanted to know

FIRST OF ALL, i am so glad that after we saw LTNM II we thought it'd be co-op but it was just an AI, that we finally get co-op! AND ONLINE TOO, i spent the first day worried it'd be shared screen same room situation since i wasn't trying to get my hopes up but then I realised I can just.. google it.. AND IT IS!!! ONLINE!! IDK WHO I AM GONNA PLAY IT W FIRST AAAAAAAA

anyways, you can definitely tell it's a new studio working on this game, the world feels mostly the same but the character designs themselves are definitely stylistically similar, but not the same. With Six especially, the MC designs were very simplistic and realistic but used colour (or for Mono, a single design quirk being the bag) to stand out against their backgrounds and against the enemies which are largely neutral colours. But these new ones feel... "over designed"? On their own they definitely aren't, but in comparison to Mono, Six, Seven, and even NPCs like the flashlight girl, they have a lot more going on (especially the little wrench kid, Idk which one is Alone and which one is Low yet btw OOP)

Despite it being a new studio and you can tell, new puzzles and environments, they're still doing their best to have the OGs vibes and whatnot to feel familiar, namely in the trailer they bring back the fuses, and the additional gameplay video there's a short scene with an environment with all the shelves you can find in LTNM 1s gnome section (the one with the cart that is affected by the Maws swaying).

But regardless, it still feels different enough my brain is still nervous about it. I also feel In A Way about Tarsier having LTNM II explode and their franchise getting the attention it deserves, only to have it stuck with Bandai and now it's going to likely explode again and they aren't involved. Idk how anyone on that team feels about it, but if it were me omg.

Also the only boss we've seen so far (i hope they add more and i def want some to be a surprise so im not gonna assume this is the only one for now) feels... out of place? it has the design qualities of a LTNM boss, but the size of it makes it more of a spectacle than a warped/corruption of an adult. All the previous bosses fit in their environment, we are the small ones and they are scaled to the world around them. This is the first time, outside monster Six who imo is a bit of an outlier anyways due to her circumstances, we're getting a boss who is this huge and doesn't even fit their own environment. I hope we get a lore reason for this in some way, because currently the boss doesn't have the same vibe as the others and it's throwing me off a bit. Don't get me wrong, it'll be terrifying, but looking at the picture as a whole they are sort of out of place for me rn. I don't hate the bitch either, I'm not gonna be like omg get rid of it or change it, but it does strike me as odd seeing it for now.

And yes the tall man is too tall for a lot of things, but he's not THAT big. He's more like yer tall guy who hits his head off doorways, which happens irl anyways LMAO

Little Nightmares primarily tries to capture the feeling of being a small child and how everything is big and scary, but a doll that huge is out of the realm of reality set up for us already. It's gone from scary corrupted animal to godzilla, if that makes sense.

OH AND THE MIRRORS ARE VERY LTNM COMICS OF THEM TEE HEE < 3

[samferd]

The zodiac is so funny to me cause it’s all these real animals and then just. Dragon. Like one here is obviously infinitely better than the others and shouldn’t be included because of that.

[asterdeer]

by some miracle i haven’t been insulted, called a communist, or had the door slammed in my face loud enough to hurt my teeth this year (yet), but today a full grown man sighed directly into my face and then, while i was explaining how our office works, stuck one fingertip in his mouth and held eye contact while he just. sucked on his fingertip. occasionally swapped fingers. and honestly i wish he could have just insinuated i was personally receiving bribe money from nancy pelosi, given the door a big loud slam, and had done with it, so much less psychic damage would have been done that way

[airandangels]

I first learned the word "bogus" from Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, in which Danny warns us that if somebody smiles with their mouth but the look in their eyes doesn't change, "it's sure to be bogus." In some editions (I'm not sure if this is a US/UK thing or an updating thing) the word is replaced with "phoney," which I find less satisfying. There are just a few words where I can specifically remember what or who I learned them from; "bogus" is one and "brittle" is another (my mother explaining why I might not be able to keep the little plastic cocktail animal* that was on the rim of my milkshake glass at a restaurant forever)

In both cases, I think I initially thought of the word as just having that extremely specific meaning (the falsity of a smile that doesn't reach the eyes, the fragility of thin inflexible plastic), didn't encounter it again for some time, and when it came up again in a different context I was like "What are you doing here?"

*twas a donkey

[chaos0pikachu]

Only Friends really got me up on a Saturday, the lords day, at 930am to watch a group of friends be gay, messy and horny on main

[fifteensjukebox]

i know im just having A Day but a conversation just ended w me feeling like i overstayed my welcome which made me feel like i simply shouldn't have bothered but i was asked to contribute !!

it's like. this was a spoken conversation but it's comparable to when u send one more text that's not actually adding anything to keep the conversation going and the person understandably doesn't reply

except my response felt necessary to me i can't just leave the conversation where it was left when the last thing said to me clarified something why shouldn't i have the opportunity to say "yeah i was going based on this incorrect information"

admittedly i am talking to one of the busiest people in existence at the moment (engineering student with midterms and a music career) but why does every conversation we have feel like this at the end

[proustianrevelry]

raised as a girl? raised as a boy?

honestly, "raised as the youngest" contains much more useful information about the childhood I had and the person I became as a result

[aria0fgold]

Alec and Ray is safe from being doomed by the narrative all because Alec's hair is red.

[rinokami]

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