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I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"
Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.
............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.
#I finished guards guards just yesterday and I forgot that vimes and wonse were set up to be mirror images#both boys from the shades of very different natures; who made good (ish) in wildly different ways#also it's interesting reading this books from an adult perspective; my mind isn't blown that these books exist#anymore; plus I've read so many good books since#and they're not perfectly constructed novels! especially these early books;#there are plenty of spots where I can feel the narrative get thin; where there's more handwaving than I remember#but each book IS better and tighter; the jokes are funnier and the irony sharpens; the footnotes are better utilized#the characters are getting more interesting and complicated as opposed to set-ups for jokes.#it's an illustration of someone getting better at their chosen field and that in itself is more impressive than I was anticipating.#discworld
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STARES AT THIS
@muzzlemouths VHS!Wclipse from “Lost in Transmission” lives rent free in my head. I’m low vision so just this much took me FOREVER, but I wanted to share it now! Thanks for posting your fics :> 💜
Let me know if something need to be brightened. My eye issues force me to keep my screens pretty dark so it’s hard for me to tell~
#STARING STARING STARING#AYO THIS IS SO COOL#I looooooove his positioning and his menacing (affectionate) grin#like you've perfectly captured his gremlin appeal#AND THE HANDS#huuuuuuge envy for the way you draw hands#they're VERY impressive#THE SCREEN YOU GOT THE SCREEN IN THERE AHH#ogh and the monochrome look aside from his bells and the cat collar!!!!!#I'M YELLING#the detail in this is just. OGH. CHEF'S KISS#all the fabric and wrinkles and shadows at work#it LOOKS like it took you forever cause this level of art would take ME months to finish personally#AND THE BACKGROUND DETAIL#the art pieces that are worn and have tears!#the tv with an error screen!#THE WAY IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE HE'S COMING OUT OF IT SJDKSFDJKLSFD#HE'S GONNA GETCHA#I love this so much#like I really really love this#thank you SO MUCH for drawing this#❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕💕💕❤️#Lost in Transmission#VHS Eclipse
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alas, motivation granted me more ponies as was promised yesterday. A joyous occasion this is indeed
#total drama#td dakota#td ezekiel#td cody#mlp#my little pony#mlp au#all were requests!#tumblr user mary-kasexual follows through with what they say they're going to do in a previous post (shocking) (impossible)#Camera Action's half-dragon half-pony but the draconic features show up later in life when she molts#she has no magic but vaguely resembles a unicorn in appearance minus the horn#Hay Fever's from a rock farm similarly to Pinkie Pie#later becomes a bat pony during WT after he's bit by a vampire bat while hiding in the cargo hold#Swooning Stumble's very naturally gifted at magic but tends to be unfocused and overconfident#he likes to cast advanced spells to impress ponies only for them to inevitably backfire on him#my art
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camilla and alec for my life and death gameplay save <3
#goth couple let's go!!#they're married#i'm so obsessed with their bathing suits#can i just say the masc clothes work BEAUTIFULLY on fem frames!!#alec is wearing mainly masc stuff and you basically can't tell#at least with the body preset i'm using#i'm very impressed#ts4#ts4 lookbook#ts4 life and death#the sims 4#the sims 4 lookbook#the sims 4 life and death#sims 4#sims 4 lookbook#sims 4 life and death#my screenshots#my lookbook
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#sorry that I disappeared last time#looking for a job and being told by recruiters that they're very impressed but then not getting the job#and then my family telling me that I'm a failure and should switch fields altogether like go to engineering school#is a unique kind of hell#I also got sick so bad I couldn't speak and could barely get up for the first two days (I'm better now though)
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me: *seeing people yell about how they did Glintshore & Percy's death in the show*
also me: ..................anyway
#maybe its because its been fuck knows how many years since i watched 90% of c1#but i actually find the way they're changing things up super fascinating#i have questions to be sure and i think they're all having so much fun watching people go THEY'RE NOT GONNA PERMAKILL PERCY ??#(they're obviously not going to leave percy dead)#but because so many things have been folded on top of each other to keep the pace in this several hundred hour campaign adaptation#idk! i just think it's neat! obviously we're not done with ripley yet so we'll see what happens there#also people being like “i didnt need a sad backstory for ripley” like that wasn't the most obvious vehicle to introduce the assembly#a lot of these scenes they're adding in or folding together are doing a LOT of work#the storytelling action economy is honestly astounding#like don't get me wrong i get why people are weirded out by it (i am too! It's strange!) BUT it's not being done carelessly#some of you lot just want everything done 1:1 when they simply do not have the time to be doing that#i think i might do a full write up of how impressive some of this is when the season ends bc it really is a mammoth task they've had#the legend of vox machina#tlovm#legend of vox machina#critical role#c1#vox machina#lvm spoilers#tlovm spoilers#edit: to be very clear. i have been here since the very beginning. don't fuck with me lmao
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okay, this may be either the most genius or the dumbest idea i've had so far but.
what if JGY and SJ swapped their men?
i mean, LXC with his pristine reputation could actually make for a pretty good defender for the victim of an intentional smear campaign as long as LXC himself is willing to defend the man. and i kinda feel that LXC wouldn't be all that appalled by SJ's crimes? he had sympathetic reasons for the qiu family massacre and running away with WYZ and he didn't - as far as we know - kill anyone after joining the sect. we'll have to assume, of course, that in this scenario he's willing to actually talk and explain himself instead of being the world's most uncooperative defendant.
(some of y'all may ask, "what about his abuse of LBH, the one crime he actually committed with no sympathetic reason behind it?". and i'll say, what about it? let's be real here, no one in that setting including LXC would send a respectable sect master to jail over accusations of child abuse alone.)
and as for JGY. well. what JGY needs is a man with a huge ass sword who'll hear out the accusations against him and will, without a hint of hesitation, say that he doesn't actually care and he's taking his shidi back to his sect right this instance, thank you.
and like YQY would do it even if he believed JGY to be a cold-hearted murderer, but given that JGY is much more open to the idea of defending himself, YQY wouldn't even have to silently suffer in doubt! thank you for clearly explaining your actions and motivation behind them, i'm so glad i know exactly what you did and didn't do, and why you had to kill the people you killed! i'm so happy you can actually talk and explain yourself to me. i would've defended you regardless, but it's nice not to feel like i'm betraying my own conscience by staying at your side.
#obviously this is an impossible scenario#because both xiyao and qijiu had very specific circumstances#that brought them together and shaped their relationships#like SJ would NOT have put his own life at risk to save a random young master fleeing from his enemies#so he wouldn't have met LXC#much less make a favourable impression on him#and as for JGY#hmmmm#it kinda depends on whether they're still in the setting of MDZS or SVSSS#or a secret third thing#jin guangyao#shen jiu#lan xichen#yue qingyuan#mdzs#svsss
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day 5 at the job. i redid their whole paperwork organisational system to make it easier to learn and to follow. with their permission and encouragement.
(because when i was being trained i found it hard to remember what file went where so i reimagined a system that made sense instead of having to learn all of that.)
tomorrow i'll take a look at the computer.
#they're very impressed#lady i used to manage a team of a dozen people and a billion dollar project-- please let me rearrange and optimize your workplace
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BG3 has two of the most thoughtful, unapologetic, no holds barred depictions of men with abusive female partners I've every seen (Wyll + Mizora and Gale + Mystra), which is so rare to see in any media but especially video games, and some of the Larian writers seem determined to convince me it was 100% by accident
#and like with mystra they even managed to do it without demonizing women as a whole!!#like wow if I could believe y'all did that on purpose I'd be impressed!#i know mizora isn't technically wyll's partner but you know what I mean#imo larian is running into a similar trap bioware has fallen into#where they are waaayyyy too present in their fan communities#bc like nearly everything the writers said about the game recently has made me go :/#and I think a large part of what they're doing is trying to appeal to a specific and very weird part of their fanbase#i'm conflicted bc on one hand i'd love to get a patch to give some of the underwritten companions more content#but on the other hand I like what we have and really *really* don't want them to change/take it#bg3#wyll ravengard#gale of waterdeep#marie speaks
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shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc
#witch hat tag#orufrey#the first image is qifrey dressed as that guy. i'm glad she has an inexplicable attachment to some dorky pokemon man like i do#someone was like 'wouldn't it make more sense for deanreldea to be the champion' .... well no. not in my world .#it maps onto magic skill. champions aren't like the Rulers of the land they're just the most skilled at this thing#oru as a burnt out champion who's gently encouraging a kid like coco to reach him one day means a lot to me. i like pokemon narratives#agott went shiny hunting for the same thing coco had but cooler - just to impress her. she really is a pokemon rival type girl#pushing myself to the limit to prove my worth to you - to get to the summit first so i'm waiting for you..#and then realising it wasn't just to be strong - i realised i started wanting to see your smile. i wanted you to have fun.#i think coco would defeat agott at the end of victory road and then defeat oru & i'll probably draw one last thing abt that at least..#the image is very cinematic..the dialogue and music in my mind..I WANT TO FACE ORU!!!!!!!!!!#the super cool insanely powerful awesome champion is the spouse of my professor and he gave me advice at the beginning...no way....#btw the elite four would be the sages which is perfect (and maybe easthies as the first guy?) evil Team Brimhats#coustas as their renegade gladion-type figure. the gym leaders would be like sun/moon and s/v combined#travelling around facing the best students from different classes - so jujy and eunie etc.#i've barely thought about 'teams' or anything bc i care amore about the narrative side of things always lol#but idk. tetia with a swirlix - eunie would be ghost type boy - riche with small things but also a ceruledge or a steelix something massiv#and brushbug would have a final form which is really long like an eastern dragon- fluffy and with wings like a fairy. It's beautiful to me#well anyway *tries to move on to the rest of life now the brief obsession has passed*#obviously oru would be fire-type tho and qifrey would be water-type and they set off together and traded their starters etc.....it goes on
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Can eldrich Berdly make the funny berdly face?
Whether or not he can and whether or not he should are separate questions.
#ask lynx stuff#lynx art#Eldritchrune#yes Berdly they're all very impressed by your human impersonation
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So do you guys actually think that Jason's entire story, relationship to the others, and philosophy amounts to him being a rebellious teen who wants his dad's attention? Like are you 100% serious? I thought you were joking about that but too many of you are saying it with your whole chest.
And what the fuck is this "Bruce antagonizing Jason is fanon!" Shit I've been seeing? You guys are aware that a parent can love their kid and still be a shit parent right? I know you guys don't want to fathom the thought that maybe your blorbo might also occasionally have to face responsibility for consistently endangering children but let's not start being delusional now.
Bruce does love his kids, that doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt them. And I'd also argue that for the most part he feels in the right for it, and he's said multiple times that he believes it's for their own good, so you can't even argue that he's sorry about it. It's okay for you guys to admit that your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the character wouldn't do that but don't sit here and pretend that it's not a facet of the source.
#you can argue meta until you're blue in the face#but I can't ignore the ingerent abuse of Batman and Robin because DC is always drawing attention to it#Stephanie and Jason directly died because of Robin#Stephanie wanted to impress Bruce to live up to his idea of a sidekick and prove her worth#Sheila only sold Jason out when she found out he was Robin#Damians life certainly got worse when he became Robin/moved with Bruce#if you bring up racist retcons I'll kill you btw#how are we supposed to read children dying and being tortured and traumatized constantly#and just ignore that these are children#I can ignore the reality of child sidekicks in campy light hearted early comics#but if DC wants to deal with serious topic they're going to have to deal with some serious implications too#Also that post that's going around about “Bruce loves Jason and it's Jason who's causing all the animosity” is such bullshit#what the fuck are you even talking about#and let's not act like Jason is the ONLY one at fault and Bruce is just a poor loving father#is Bruce spreading that utter bullshit about Jason's death and who he was not an act of violence?#was he not the one to cast the first stone by disgracing Jason's legacy and using a version of him that never existed as a cautionary tale#and I know some of you are going to argue that with most of the kids there's nothing Bruce could have done to stop them#and this is the one time in which I will ignore all the very real ways that he could have#but I still think that in universe the characters have a right to be angry about it#Jason always since his debut as red hood been a vehicle for calling out Bruce#he's so heavily steeped in meta narrative because his run is when they started dealing with the real BAD cases#The Cult Garzonas onscreen murders were getting more common#AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME THAT BEING ROBIN DIDN'T MAKE JASON'S LIFE WORSE#THERE WAS NO REASON TO MAKE HIM ROBIN HE COULD HAVE BEEN VERY HAPPY AS JUST A NORMAL KID#But Bruce made having a place in his home synonymous with being Robin because the narrative dictated it had to be#what was homeless orphan Jason going to do? say no?#it was basically coercion and it doomed him and he has every right to blame the adult that put him in that position#dc#bruce wayne critical#bat family
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Froggy Moon from @daycarefriendpickup's saturday magma!! I've been having so much fun with these events!! If you're not already part of the server you should come join us :3c
#the impromptu frog theme came from some very impressive kermit!DCA doodles and i could not be more thrilled#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf security breach#daycare attendant#fnaf moon#moondrop#dfpu discord#dca fandom#frog#moon#magma doodles#i tried to make a little firefly print for his pants but i'm not sure if you can tell they're fireflies aksjdhs#the idea was cool tho!! (thanks plum)#snailems art tag
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Noise game.
#winging it#raven beak#samus aran#samus#metroid dread#metroid#chozo#metroid comic#Chozo have a habit of just making noise. it's fun!#Samus does it too (picked it up during childhood) though her smaller human throat doesn't allow her quite as much range.#make no mistake: her mimicry is very impressive. she just can't flawlessly imitate an oncoming 16-wheeler.#She can do other Things though. As Raven Beak displays his mastery over the ringtone. so too does she have this power.#she has the upper hand in some places: lips and teeth allow her more tools with which to execute the finer points of complex noises#but her elders have tricks of their own.#Raven Beak can imitate human kissy noises in his throat using the very back of his tongue#making noises at each other is honestly one of their best bonding activities so far.#though they're usually sitting across the room from each other when they come out with the ear blast-tier moves#they don't need to talk to each other. don't even need to look at each other. they can just sit in the living room and go back and forth#with noises. they get competitive sometimes. that's typically when the loud stuff comes into play.#sometimes they have these wordless competitions of who can make the most intricate noises or the loudest noises or the weirdest noises#or they try to see who can make the most outlandish sound that flesh can feasibly make. like heavy machinery. stuff that you wouldn't expec#someone to be able to make on their own without the help of equipment.
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you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'
#AfO has a very flat picture of Yoichi in his head#His Possession. Weak and small. and taught him language reading and socialization with Captain Hero#he's THORS POPTARTS-ing his own brother in his memories#what sort of art styles did yoichi like? how did he interact with gender? did he like his eyes or did he wish they were different? was he a#morning person or a night person? were there clothing textures he loved or couldn't stand? did he like to collect feathers or leaves? did h#ever pick up any sense of religious knowledge from his assorted readings? cultural identity? did he learn how to cook in theory but never#had the materials to practice? or did he cook once they were older as AfO sort of internalized that as yoichi's subservient role?#or did he make absolute monstrosities when he attempted to bake anything?#We dont know because all we see of Yoichi is:#his brother's memories of him. could be flanderization for all we know#and an imprint of Yoichi in ofa#who by necessity has to be focused on his brother#we'll never get to see the whole picture of the dead holders. they're dead. and we can't change that. can't know their vibrant lives#so yeah lets see. a five+one fic about yoichi's changing relationship with media property captain hero over time in his life and death#compared to afo's static impression of yoichi's relationship / afo's own unchanging relationship with it#hmmmm
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Kingdom Hearts 2 - The World That Never Was
#kingdom hearts 2#kh2#the world that never was#my gif#scenery#<- new tag :] check it out to view all of my gifs that showcase kh worlds#OKAY finally done giffing every world in this game#these take a lot of time and effort but it's worth it i think! they're fun to browse through#this world was really difficult because even though it has an amazing aesthetic a lot of these rooms are basically just hallways#BUT#the sheer scope of these rooms is VERY impressive#what i mean is if you're able to pull the camera out or take a moment to look out the windows you'll see just how much of#the castle and surrounding environment you can see. seriously it's huge and there's a lot you might have never known was there#unfortunately though it was not possible for me to capture a whole lot of that because the in game first person camera can only do so much
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