#this is just such a great game
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Have I mentioned lately that creating AUs is the most fun thing ever? You get to take a story you love and then mash it against another type of story you love and fit all their pieces together like they're a jigsaw puzzle. You get to find all the unexpected points of similarity where the stories fit together really well, and see the places where their differences change and make commentary on the original stories/genres in really interesting ways.
And then once you fit the pieces together, you get to look at the new world you've made and see how these characters in this specific world have different conflicts and explore new themes, and you get to play with another level of puzzles as you figure out what this means for this story.
It's the most fun ever. It's my favorite game.
#random thought of the day#adventures in writing#this goes for both fairy tale retellings and for aus of specific shows/novels#this last week was a week for aus#between the north and south sci fi au coming up again#making up a northanger abbey fantasy au#coming up with a new angle for retelling maid maleen#and having tons of new insight in how to rework a story that's a retelling of cinderella and three different austen novels#plus looking back on the powers and prejudice au#this is just such a great game#the moment when the pieces click into place in a way that makes both elements make sense#there's nothing quite as satisfying#to some extent this applies to plotting original fiction#but it's a different feeling when you're making an au of something#because you don't just get to work with malleable clay#you have specific pre-formed pieces#so you get the challenge of figuring out how to fit them together without damaging either one too much#and when you find the way they fit together it makes you appreciate both stories in a new way#plus it makes you feel clever for making the connection#astounding superb wondrous past time
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I politely ask for more of the vague modern AU art :3 they're so silly I LOVE them
They’re playing sister location, specifically night 4
#this is from real experience#me and my sister had to give up playing the game because that’s literally just impossible#modern aus are great bc what do you mean I can project my interest onto my blorbos#but viktor has spent like at least a few nights attempting to explain fnaf lore to Jayce#maybe even#five nights#my art#ask#arcane#Jayce arcane#jayce talis#viktor arcane#jayvik#jinx arcane
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Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!
#ISAT#in stars and time#siffrin#loop#I truly mean it when I say that this was the best game I have played since Disco Elysium.#It pulls off some of the best examples of Ludonarritive Harmony in a video game...possibly ever?#Not to mention just...wow. What a great story. What a tale of twists and introspection. What a tale about the need for home and connection#I know many of you have trusted me before with media recommendations. Trust me one more time.#Do you want to experience the torment of being in a timeloop? And *still* have fun and feel like your time is being respected?#PLAY IN STARS AND TIME!#Do you yearn for complex characters and love unravelling mysteries? PLAY IN STARS AND TIME!!!!#Please heed the content warnings; I took them a little too lightly on my playthrough! They are there for a reason! Don't be like me!#This game means a lot to me and so many others. On the small chance the dev sees this (they are on tumblr after all):#Thank you so much for all your hard work in creating this game and seeing the project through.#It has been a year for us fans but many years for you. So thank you!#I hope it has been a joyful year for you! Watching as people descend into shrieks of agony from playing your game.#It's good! It made me vomit blood. I had so much fun! I felt like I was torturing the protagonist when I played it. I loved it! I cried.
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Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.
Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.
You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.
#don't even get me started on beetee's line about how it's a miracle finnick is still with them giving all the abuse he suffered#that line is haunting#i just love him he's such a great character :((#finnick odair#annie cresta#odesta#mags flanagan#johanna mason#the hunger games#thg
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Thinking about the fact that, to pull Gale from the stone and get him in the game at all, you have to decide to try to touch an extremely dangerous looking swirling mass of unstable magic. Something that is, objectively, a terrible idea
Like, the options it gives you are to either touch the sigil or leave, and if you leave you just... don't get Gale in the party
You have to take the risk. You have to let your curiosity override your common sense. You have to look at this unstable, possibly dangerous malfunctioning magic sigil and go "...Ok, but what if I poke it?"
In short, to get Gale in your party, you have to do exactly what he would in that situation, and indulge in a moment of reckless curiosity. And I just think that's delightful
#meta#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#i'm positive this has all been said before but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#on a meta-gaming level of course it's just a matter of committing to the bit#the equivalent of that time in an actual dnd game when i said ''idk guys this sounds like a plot hook. we should probably go check it out''#but on a watsonian/character level? objectively not a great choice safety-wise#my husband for instance completely missed gale at first because he went ''...i'm not touching that thing it seems dangerous''#and idk. i just kinda love that for him. perfect introduction. nice little litmus test for if you can handle his chaos lol
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i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there
#i'm so sorry to anyone who hates da that follows me lmao i will keep stuff tagged#i'm probably going to be so annoying about this new game even if i hate it aofijeoijw which is probably likely#maybe i'll actually get around to replaying the other games now. we'll see#i had started origins but just wasn't feeling it bc tbqh it's just a bit clunky and none of the romance options really speak to me anymore#morrigan is great but i feel like she doesn't fit the character i wanted to play afoweijaoi and leliana scares me in dao lmao#i get such ick from overly religious characters faowiejfao#like i like her and cass in theory but in reality i want to run away screaming#it's different if the fake religion isn't overwhelmingly christianity-based but the da one is#and it makes me feel like there are bees under my flesh#dragon age#*dykeposting
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NEW OBSESSION AQUIRED
#digital art#art#isat#isat fanart#isat siffrin#isat king#isat loop#isat spoilers#?#not really but better safe than sorry#isat bonnie#isat isabeau#I love them so much#play this game#its so great#pixel art#i just remembered that the color is a spoiler#ive looked at this for so long i forgot#wow#really got siff memory now :')#ill probably still do some rottmnt stuff but imma do this for a while :)
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youll never guess where ive been
#i like vivian#like so much.shes so great#vivian mario and goombella qpr IM RIGHT IM RIGHTTTT#im.so normal about this game (lying lying lying)#im still drawing more of them and everyone else in the group i neeeeed to draw them more theyr so silly#but im mostly focused on vivian of course.why wouldnt i be#shes great#also fun fact my friend wrote that copypasta#shout out to lotings i love u buddy#anyway#paper mario the thousand year door#paper mario ttyd#paper mario#vivian ttyd#i dont think ill tag anyone else theyr smalllllll who care#well except maybe#yoshi ttyd#(?) i guess#anyway you arent free from me im only just getting started#buckle the fuck in bitches
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hhhnhhghgjjghgugujgutuutghn piskin……..
#dedicated to the one time i didn’t realise my game broke during the bomb defusing cutscene#and i just spent like 30 seconds just staring at pliskin’s profile and swooning#i’ve been trying to study ashley woods’s style so bad bc i love it anf omg i forgot that painting loosely can be so fun#anyways#im back bitches#i have some work to finish but im free from school for a month after which i will die yet again#i finished mgs2 last night and holy shit. i think i need to keep staring at a wall to comprehend wtf i watched#but omg i loved it so much such a great game will be thinking about it forever!!!#can’t wait to start mgs3 and meet bibo and his blonde army#yayyy yippeee#have a good day!#iroquois pliskin#pliskin#solid snake#snavid#metal gear#metal gear solid#mgs2#ok bye
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Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.
Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!
Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.
And what is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!
To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.
Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".
#thg#everlark#peeta mellark#katniss everdeen#the hunger games#sorry i hope this one's not too harsh#i just has to let it out lol#I'm not saying people only like gale because they misunderstand SC's writing#obviously everyone has preferences and that's great snd normal#but SC wrote Katniss to have preferences too?#and those preferences are pretty subtle at times I'll admit#but sometimes they're so glaringly obvious#i struggle to empathize with people who don't understand these books and honestly that's a me problem#but it really is difficult when people seem to hate Katniss because she didn't make THEIR choices#okay rant over
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How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? A thousand eyes, and one.
#Bloodraven#brynden rivers#asoiaf#game of thrones#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf fanart#the great bastards#dunk and egg#fanart#book fanart#hotd#house of the dragon#I'm planning to draw all of the great bastards but I have to actually start posting my art instead of hoarding it#Brynden.... Gwyn has been trying to contact you via dragon dream have you been getting any of his messages?#shaking cause I just remembered they're half brothers#my art#pigeon princess#I love asoiaf but I LOVEEE the Blackfyre rebellion era
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blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....
#solavellan#solas#gotta put out some tender stuff to balance the chaos target team leader solas has caused.#look i just need to go feral in the tags for a moment#okay the fucking. what's he call himself? the great adversary of her people's mythology....falls in love w a woman being forced into a role#not unlike his own#i t makes me c r a z y#like at one point he's all ooooh we're elves need to make sure the humans trust us to ensure safety. gives them a castle......#then he's all ''ooh you cant change the way your legend is getting out of hand. might as well accept it''#but he disapproves if you lean into it/call yourself the herald.#he approves of you fighting against the status quo. encourages sera to sow chaos and has a VERY interesting convo w her about power#''what lop of the top?'' ''yes.'' ''well what's that do except make room for a new top to come and fuck it all up?''#at which point he fuckin STUTTERS and is like. oh fuck. you're right. my bad. and then he shuts up in quiet contemplation#he's clearly wrestling w himself. and Ohmygod the felassanstuff.#like the Guilt. the Regret.#haunting that fucking rotunda.#and yet he's so in love w lavellan if they go that route.#like clearly some stuff was missing/fumbled in game. but like#how he fuckin screams for the inquisitor at the well?????!?! OK BOI?!#im just. the dread wolf. great adversary of the dalish pantheon.#turns out to be some somber grim guy with a fatalistic sense of humor who hates tea and greatly values free will#pina art
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The name's Thespius Green!
#its so nice to see openly trans characters in things <3 yaaay#i love when men. yippee#i just really love thespius's vibe#click clack is one LUCKY BASTARD#i plan on drawing inspekta next maybe. the thing. the wretched beast#anyways if limbolane sees this: hiiii your game's message about art was very needed. thank you geniunely#art by me#fanart#fan art#digital art#artists on tumblr#great god grove#thespius green#thespius ggg#limbolane
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ur afraid of being corny but i was born on the cob
#bonk.png#undescribed#ggg#great god grove#rare non spoiler art eat her while you can#its a cobbi kind of night vwv#first image is a redraw of a postcard i have on my pinboard i'll refrog in a second with a picture of it#n the gif is like frames from a thing but it looks kind of jank here bc i put it in a gif maker n i do not remember gif makers being thisbad#n it also probably looks a bit worse bc i have a gradient in the thing that hides a bit of the wonk of it#also having my mom play the game with me she enjoys it so far n an aspect she likes is that ''you can infer a lot from the way they talk''#<- paraphrasing her we're in hobbyhoo n just met patience who got a successfully chuckle from my mom with the meathat story :3
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Pranking your friend by dressing up as their twin is the uno reverse card to twins switching places
#kid icarus uprising#pit#dark pit#megaman#kh sora#ff7 cloud#sephiroth#smash bros#ssb#i rewatched all of kid icarus uprising recently out of nostalgia and UGH what a perfect game#i also just miss drawing megaman#sora makes a great pit doesnt he#anyway if you followed because of the halloween doodle surprise heres smash bros halloween#hashtag tricked#super smash bros
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how i imagine fnaf 3 went
#digital art#digital illustration#artists on tumblr#artwork#art#sketch#character design#springtrap#william afton#fnaf#fnaf fanart#fnaf 3#micheal afton#original 3 fnaf games ftw i wish they just did a reboot/remake instead of turning it into a game for children#rare fnaf 3 cutscene#spring bonnie#springtrap fnaf#fr someone do a really grungy and actualy scary fnaf reboot#cuz the lore has some great beats but there is so much useless garbage#hire the og voice actors though#not me thought i am computer challenged#theyre both commenting on their dashing looks#very healthy relationship
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