#this may be a little too niche

[minecrafttortie]

[areawest]

new year’s resolutions for 2023:

break free on a saturday morning

put the pedal to the floor

head north on mills avenue

listen to the engine roar

spend a little time with a girl named cathy

play video games in a drunken haze

hurt my knuckles punching the machines

lock eyes and hold hands

feast and dance in jerusalem

make it through this year if it kills me

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[nowletsfixthismess]

When I said I was going for the silliest iteration of a Malevolent cosplay I could think of, I meant it (I did take the silliness off for some pics though)

you have your hand back, let me shake it

[storeecbrcod]

I need some more highly intuitive Soap. This man has so much shit going through his head constantly, but I can guarantee half of it is just his mind breaking down how things are made, what he could use from certain substances to make totally new products (that may or may not combust).

We, as a fandom, have established that as much as we make fun of Soap’s little quirky characterisations, that at the character’s heart, he is incredibly smart. Chemistry, technology, engineering, math… this man is a himbo in STEM. He might not be able to tell you what he ate for breakfast, but you know damn well that if a recruit asked him how soap works as a stupid joke, this guy would go on a whole rant about saponification and how fricken cool it is. The blank stares from the recruits don’t ever concern him.

He’s got all kinds of things flying through his little noggin. You know how when you or someone you know buys a new car, and suddenly you see that car everywhere around you? Soap experiences the same thing, except it’s just chemical and mathematical theories. He can’t just exist in the world, his mind is in constant hyperdrive to perceive.

That’s why he’s so good at his job (and pool). His constant heightened sense of awareness allows him to soak up information like a sponge when he finally manages to turn the constant perception off, like out field. Instead of the molecular structure of different plastics, or the force needed to crush a can theoretically, he is able to manage and monitor multiple things at once; his position, his team’s position, the enemy, the direction of bullets, and sometimes even how many seconds it takes for the cease of gunfire from one weapon on the opposite side of the grounds to start up again, notifying a reload.

Ghost made the mistake of opening one of Soap’s chemistry textbooks, once. Once. Soap found him practically tweaking, just staring at the hexagons and lines and graphs and abbreviations, all making his head throb. Soap simply sighed with a smile, plucking the book from skeleton gloves and placing it down, leading the Lieutenant away.

“Don’t hurt yerself, Lt.”

“Careful, Sergeant.”

“You’re tellin’ me, yer eye’s twitchin’ like you’ve been rummagin’ through the contraband stores.”

Extra Ghoap Bonus!

Sometimes, Soap gets so overwhelmingly exhausted from not being able to turn his mind off. (Un)Surprisingly, science is everywhere, and he can’t help but think about it. When he feels a migraine coming on, neck and jaw straining after trying to rein in his overactive brain, he goes straight to Ghost.

Something about Ghost’s dry humour and blunt conversation helps ground him; he doesn’t have to worry about subtext, or necessarily work-related chat. Just silly (read: flirty) banter and bad, clear-cut jokes. Ghost allows his mind to focus on one thing while he occupies his hands. A journal, playful taps on Ghost, a Rubix Cube, fiddling.

Eventually, he manages to calm his thoughts enough to doze off, lying haphazardly across couches, a mattress, on the bench seats of the cargo planes, or even on the floor. Many soldiers could attest to seeing Ghost gently cradling the man’s head, moving him into a comfortable position, even once or twice carrying him to his barracks. Could, if a certain skull-faced soldier didn’t pierce them with a very clear warning glare at the memory, as if he could tell they were thinking about it.

[runefactorynonsense]

I am likely going to avoid more promotional material for that new RF game, as... I admittedly, really dislike the completely 3d style. It doesn't feel like Rune Factory anymore

This is supposed to be a tangent game, however, so I don't want to condem- I just hope they put more time into the story!

[vampyroteuthid]

talking to my old trainer at the barn i used to work at because i need references and she sent me this picture of my horse friend

and i feel this image in my chest in a bad way lol. girl his spine. 🥴

[suntails]

I just wanted to say that I utterly adored your pmv!! The way each picture went so well with the words and flowed with the dynamics of the song *chefs kiss* I always thought of myself as a Silver lover but you’ve blown me out of the water!

The Fairy Gala scenes were probably my favorite, just Silver being proud and everyone moving to catch him 🤧 AND THAT BACKGROUND AT THE END WAS SO SPOT ON!! Amazing job and I can’t wait to see what you do next!

i want to say that TRULY this means a lot, thank you!!!! <3 i've drawn silver over 270 times by now and my love for him is as strong as ever, it was such an honor to concentrate my efforts into such a big project just for him!! silver nation may be small but goddammit i will be DAMNED if i don't give 150% and weaponize my art for good!!

HIS PRIDE!!!! his pride at carrying forward the wish lilia repeats each and every year, for harmony and peace,,, the fact that he made PROGRESS and his method of being upfront and sincere with the fae was what saved the group, like im WEEPING. the way everyone has his back and supports him shown in the readiness to run catch him as he falls asleep IM SICK!!!!! and YES THANK U!!! backgrounds im realizing are prob my specialty and fav thing to draw at this point so im glad u like ^_^

[m0ther-fvcker]

I'm a pathetic loser

not in a misogynistic way

but in a sad, soppy guy lying in the rain way

I need someone to take me inside, wash me in bath, dry me off, and give me warm bowl of soup

[mokeonn]

So I heard that Tumblr is slowly being abandoned (they seem to be laying off a majority of their staff and keeping a skeleton crew) and we might be nearing the end of this webbed site. I don't think it's currently worth panicking over, but I'm definitely going to start making that neocities website.

I'll make a post soon about other places where you can find me. Unfortunately, I've spent quite some time these last couple years getting rid of a majority of my social media because most platforms were bad for my mental health. I do not plan on going back to these platforms, so if tumblr goes down, I'm going to be only on non social media.

Maybe if one of the new social medias being created, actually take off (like bluesky or pillowfort or whatever else these days) I might join, but if not I might be entirely on personal websites, patreon (I will start posting regularly like a blog and make more free posts), some old websites I deleted but not because I hated them (such as ko-fi, which I deleted due to inactivity) and possibly furaffinity. I'm still on the fence about furaffinity. I might also finally start using my toyhouse but that is an oc sharing website and not much of an art sharing website.

I really do hope Tumblr doesn't go down, this is my one social media and if it does go down I am going to lose nearly all of my audience. I can make do by creating a personal blog and using whatever I have left in terms of "can post my art there and people can find me", and it won't discourage me from making my personal projects. I can make do, and I will make do, but I don't really want to make do.

Anyways, that's all I have to say right now, I'll make a post later once I set up some alternative sites to find me at, but for now I want to give the heads up that if I'm gone, you're not gonna find me on twitter, Instagram, or whatever third option there is. I'm likely going to just make do, be offline more, and likely just become active on the discord servers I'm on.

[tea-of-destiny]

ooh wait niche merch idea: stickers of musical instruments colored and decorated to represent fandoms

[ct-hardcase]

we were kind of talking about this on twitter but god it really does get to you how few women bell prominently has in his life, and the few that are are just...discarded by the narrative

[thevalleyisjolly]

You know you're a (Canadian) archivist when you have RAD on the bookmarks toolbars of every single one of your browsers.

[illcasthealinghands]

i truly cannot express the journey my brain went through in the space of .000382638473 seconds when i realised that i, a gay who is an avid lover of games and has a tattoo to reference one series that was pretty much my entire childhood, had not made this connection.

david hayter, the dude who voices solid snake? this guy?

is a writer on this show

my favourite game as a kid and then my favourite little queer tv show a decade later. it is a small world we live in and my lizard brain could not cope for several minutes

[sometimes-love-is-enough]

Thank you for answering! I hadn’t expected one for the alt. ending for exactly the reason you said, haha.

I’m super excited to see where it goes, I’ve got a theory and everything (but I’m way too scared of being hit with Apollo’s dodgeball to share it publicly yet), the world alone has been so interesting to see and explore bit by bit.

Do you have any plans to tell more stories in the same setting but with different casts when this one is finished?

tbh, i can't wait to see if your theory is proven right or not, even not knowing what it is. may Apollo bless you with a dodgeball right to the side of the head when you least expect it.

I'm pretty sure whenever Syzygy is done and fully posted, I'm going to take a pretty long break from thinking about it, simply because... it's been in the works since early 2021, and that's a hell of a lot of time to be thinking about a universe like this one. I have other stories to tell, and more universes to explore! I like writing in a wide variety of places and times and genres, as you've probably guessed by now.

But that's not to entirely discount the prospect of returning, because there's definitely at least one or two or sixteen smaller stories about the Syzygy universe that I could definitely tell. It's a big weird place and there's a hell of a lot to explore.