#they might be a little disappointed

[tag-if]

Petting the doggos is very cute until mc is scared of dogs 😔 How would the RO's react to seeing MC scared of dogs then? Especially A.B and T.B since they're the one who have them

(I also want to say that I really like the concept and the demo and I'm really excited to see what come next and ofc take good care of yourself and I hope you can enjoy that trip as much as you want!!)

AWW you guys are so sweet i swear

if MC was scared of dogs, i think the response would be universal; they would do their very best to keep the dogs away from MC

of course it isn't possible to do it All the time, that's an unreasonable ask and any MC to request as such would likely earn the cold shoulder from most characters, however where possible MC simply wouldn't see them

they're well trained, and extremely friendly, so if MC ever decided they wanted to try and meet them one at a time, the ROs would be happy to help with that as well; it's whatever they're comfortable with

[blondeaxolotl]

"They don't bite-" BRO YES THEY DO 😭😭😭

[vaguely-concerned]

huh. you know something I just consciously put together for the first time about caterina and lucanis' relationship is that through the game we get to hear them talk about each other a lot, but we get very few chances to hear them speak with each other at any length at all. contrast it with other companions whose storylines have elements of 'believed lost/long time no see relative returns!' like bellara and davrin, where we get to see both of them have several pretty in-depth conversations with cyrian and eldrin. hell I think even rook talks with varric longer in the regret prison scene than we ever get to see lucanis and caterina interact directly.

(and when we do see them interact, it's mostly one-sided -- it is, perhaps unsurprisingly, caterina who is doing most of the talking and giving all the orders, as he ruefully observes is her wont after murder of crows. including jumpscaring him with 'you're first talon now btw' and the shocked pikachu face in five acts he goes through in response lmao. perhaps it's more accurate to say that she talks at him and he reacts, than that they talk to each other much.)

it has such an interesting effect too, because in deliberately denying us direct insight or experience and only having this mosaic of description from each of them to go on, as well as forcing us to pay attention to the negative space of what is carefully not said, it's evocative along the same principle that you never actually show the monster in a horror film. if you've read the wigmaker job you have a clearer image of the more uh. worrying elements at play here going in, but there is something fascinatingly insidious and naturalistic in the way it's 'hushed up' in the game itself. she has his complete loyalty both as a member of her house and, more importantly, that of an abused child to a parent figure. he readily admits several times that she's a difficult person to live with, an even more difficult person to be loved by ("even for me. and I was her favourite")... but never once does he actively blame her nor truly conceptualize that he has every right to do so (that he can be angry with her and still love her, because whether he should or not he unavoidably does), or that she might have acted differently than she did, that she made a choice every time to hurt him. even affectionately he speaks of her as a force of nature, an act of god -- something that can't be reasoned or pleaded with or resisted, something you can only hope to navigate with as little pain as possible and pray to survive. let yourself get carried away by the riptide, resisting it will only make it worse. you don't compromise with a hurricane, you just try to find the best shelter you can and cross your fingers while you wait for it to pass and be calm again.

love is that hurricane. you do whatever she asks. you earn her continued affection day by day by never letting her down. you only want the things she tells you it's okay to want and cut everything else away preemptively. ("A wyvern tooth dagger?? I loved wyverns as a boy --Caterina would never let me have one of these, though." and as we have all wept and gnashed our teeth over, it never even OCCURS to him that he's a like thirty-five year old adult man who can buy himself any dagger he wants at any time. she said he couldn't have one. so he'll never have one. that's just how it works. and maybe if Illario could just accept that and find his peace with it like I have, this whole thing wouldn't be so difficult. oh lucanis.)

such is the price -- and the cost -- of being loved by her, it's a loan on which the interest will never stop piling up. you have to keep paying it down in perfection every day if you want to keep it. who got the worse deal there: the grandson who has abandoned everything else in life to live up to that and mostly succeeded, until the day he's so burned out and broken it threatens to no longer be an option, or the grandson who can never seem to scrape together enough worth in her eyes no matter how he begs, borrows or steals it, how he hustles and plays dirty?

one of the worst things that can happen to anyone is to be loved by a selfish god. another one of the worst things that can ever happen to anyone is to not be loved by a selfish god. (hope that helps, boys!) even in betraying everything else, Illario can't bring himself to hurt his grandmother, because that would defeat the whole point. who would he defiantly be proving himself worthy to, without her. in love, devotion, submission, hatred, frustration, bitterness, everything is defined in relation to her, you can spot the gravitational force of it through how the dellamorte family move through time and space. she -- her love and regard and attention -- is still the sun both of their worlds orbit around, even as adults. the game might never tell you outright 'she used to beat and starve them growing up. for their own good you see, so they'd be strong (and broken down enough for her to build them up again however she wanted but I'm sure that's incidental)', but if you know even a little bit about how these dynamics can work the writing is on the wall everywhere you look and all the more unsettling for it.

follow lucanis' freeze-logic and fraught interpersonal catch 22 irreconcilable mixed emotions problems back far enough, looong before the ossuary entered the picture, and you start to see caterina's ghost around every fucking corner. she is so proud of him. (well, she would be. she made him. she forged exactly the knife she needed and it rests willingly, devotedly, in her hands, it would return to her every time because it doesn't know love as anything but to be a knife. his tama never taught him how to be anything else. his biggest fear with her is that she won't even want him back, the way he is now.) to the best ability of her soul, whatever parts of it survived a lifetime of crow politics and 'five children, eight grandchildren, only Illario and me left now', I think she really does loves him. he certainly loves her, with all the sincerity and artless desperation of a child, of the little boy he was once. and what she's done to him (and to illario, for all his shitty gremlin scar-ass antics lol) is awful. the harm is real, and the love is real, and trying to find a way for these two truths to exist in the same space is driving all three of them their own individualized forms of insane. you know. the way only family can and so often does lol.

through implications and short glimpses and having to put the pieces together yourself, you can have the feeling that there is very genuine mutual love and attachment in this relationship... and that beneath that there is something so profoundly wrong. and the sneaking '...oh shit it gets worse the longer I think about it' horror of that is more effective for me at least than the stark in-your-face presentation of the facts of the matter could have been. the love is here. the love is here. it only ever makes it worse.

[hugs-and-stabbies]

[ part 6 : end ]

[link to previous part]

and we're done!! I made yall some lil epilogue type of doodles for sticking by me through this tiny little comic! they're under the cut ^^

[unicornblossom13]

Starscream: You’re mad at me.

Jetfire: I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

Starscream: Oh, come on! Everyone knows that’s worse!

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Okay, so while I don't think this is actually all that surprising considering the DCU is a mostly live action project and we appearently have confirmation that Phosphorus will show up in liveaction, I do just wanna point out that Dr Phosphorus' design before he became a Glowing Green Skeleton looks almost EXACTLY like his voice actor Alan Tudyk

Idk I just think it's a neat detail :)

[skitskatdacat63]

DTS S6E1 "Money Talks" - Fernando Alonso & Lance Stroll

[deadpoets]

GEORGE HARRISON’S OUTFITS: DAY THIRTEEN – JANUARY 22, 1969 The Beatles: Get Back (2021) dir. Peter Jackson

[ultipoter]

Good ol' sketchdump of Pokemon scrimbles I've done over time

[corseque]

can't believe after 10 years we still don't know any concrete details about Solas. Who the hell is he anyway lmao

[shares-a-vest]

Prompt: Five hand-written notes (Discord Drabble) 🎄

First, there is a note on Steve's pillow. It's the first thing Eddie sees when he awakens, smiling to himself as the practised – if a touch wonky – print comes into focus.

Merry Christmas, Sunshine.

Didn't want to wake you. Gotta make a start on the roast.

Steve.

Eddie hums to himself as he slips out of bed and makes his way to the kitchen. He can smell Steve's delicious cooking and he licks his lips, thinking of what he might sneak for himself for an (exceptionally late) breakfast.

But he stops at the swing door to the kitchen, halted by another note. This time a yellow Post-It.

Don't touch anything.

Eddie hisses and flicks at the command before pushing on the door. So much for some ooey-gooey Christmas notes of affection from his beloved.

He frowns at the next one – which would be better described as a sign sitting perched on the edge of the kitchen island. And yeah, the bearing, Please don't touch anything on this counter!! (yes, with two exclamation marks) has Eddie thinking that perhaps that first note was just buttering him up.

Steve is at the stove with his back turned and Eddie glares, hoping he was finally gifted some much-needed laser-powered eyes for Christmas. But all Steve does is shake his hips as he hums some Christmas tune and goddamn it, he is just so cute. Even when he is being bossy!

"Morning," Eddie greets, inching closer and passing several more Post-Its and slips of paper, each reading like annotations Steve made for himself.

Except for one next to a Christmas dinner plate labelled, Eddie's Leftovers with a little heart.

Eddie barely manages to kiss Steve on the cheek before his partner shoves an envelope in his hand.

"Take this into the living room," he says, "I'm almost done here. I'll make us coffee."

Eddie takes the envelope and Steve looks at his watch, shaking his head and grumbling to himself like the interruption cost him precious seconds of... cooking? Baking?

Basting?

Eddie isn't sure, but he high-tails it into the living room, ripping open his Christmas card as he goes. Two lined pieces of paper slip out and he only just catches them, once again greeted with Steve's handwriting.

And by the time Steve comes in with two coffees in hand, Eddie is blubbering away on the couch as he reads the most beautiful love letter he could ever hope to receive.

[mysticalcats]

finally finished starlight express so here is my silly train oc?! more about him under the cut :)

connie is extremely fast and prides himself on always being on time to his next stop. he gets impatient REALLY easily and you'll probably see him tapping his foot with a look of absolute fury on his face if he's being held up by something.

he often gets very frantic and panicked as he makes his way to his next stop, because he cares so much about being there on time. this guy does Not know how to relax

he loves his job tho and is like a jolly train conductor :) (ignoring all the other stuff he has going on)

[weepingalaxy]

my attempt at mimicking the style kinda grew out of control, oops. anyway, i like that new farm sim game

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[wildflowercryptid]

florian first realizes he's developing feelings for kieran when they go to the festival of masks together, but i think he'd really fall for them when kieran reveals that they told the town the truth about ogerpon.

he'd be stunned by kieran doing something so risky, ( after all, there was a possibility that telling the truth would've ended poorly like it almost did with their ancestor, ) and how much courage it must've taken them to do that for ogerpon. he'd have so much admiration for them in that moment and think they're so amazing... it'd really be his " oh. oh, i really like them a lot. " moment.

[random-autie-fangirl]

I drew another Chara- living with the Dreemurrs edition

"The King and Queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was filled with hope."

I don't like this as much as the last one but oh well... I ended up rambling a huge amount in the tag, so if you want details and headcanons about the actual drawing again, you'll have to look pretty far down this time, sorry (Also, I ran out of tags after a while. Tumblr is tired of me, lol. I might reblog this more tags later if I remember what I was going to say.)