#too much dopamine !!!!

[nottlefluff-moved]

i feel drunk

[uncharted-constellations]

The most anticipated link and zelda, cartoon verse of course

No funny page tho, just imagine excuse me princess echoing in your brain chamber

[crossthread]

No jokes here. The Navy’s best pilot and the Navy’s best admiral. Between them, eight air-to-air combat kills and five stars. These were men who commanded respect with or without your approval. This was the picture of ruthless competence.

Debriefing (& Other Stories) • part 2 of Easier Done Than Said by @compacflt

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Alright well look at that, some extra time in the oven and it looks mad crisp (old ver under the cut)

you vs the guy she tells you not to worry abt or something

[slaygentford]

ms reid calling dream lestat daffy is a huge win for my political stance as a top donor to the lestat not very smart party. so glad that we're all on the same page re lestat being utterly empty behind the eyes and not even in a psychopath way just in a truly and genuinely not a lot going on up there way

[sluckythewizard]

'I wont cry for you, I wont crucify the things you do. I wont cry for you, see, when you're gone, I'll still be BLOODY MARY'

[the-fallen-collective]

"You're not depressed,you still laugh at your screens!"

-My parents

.....

I'm not even gonna say anything

WHAT WHAT THE FUCK?????

KILLING THEM ACTUALLY WHAT????

[starpros-sunshine]

Eichi gives away the mask so easily because it was never meant to be an "engagement ring" like you delulu wataeis imagined it to be lmao. It was wataru saying that he will continue playing tsumugi clown role in fine and won't leave it for hokuto's mother troupe after graduation. Do you dumb fucks even read the stories? Eichi didn't even understand tf that mask meant when wataru gave it to him and wataru referenced fucking tsumugi in his "proporsal". I dunno why the f you think it's ok to lie about "! EnDiNG wItH wAtAeI EnGaGeMEnT" when the chapter it happened wasn't even close to the end of ep:link. Cope

PS: how do you live with the fact that Eichi clearly admitted to never being in love in his life and Wataru said that even though Eichi likes him, he still can easily discard him for the sake of his objectives?

I love you anon thank you for giving me a nice reason to ramble again beautiful ask 10/10 I'm sorry this is probably not how you hoped this would go but this is such a funny block of text delightful really thank you for the enrichment please marry me

But okay yes now to get down to the actual ask just to disclaim I am solely relying on translations seeing as I do not speak japanese well enough to understant the original text so if anyone has anything to add to this or to correct me on please feel free to do so.

Now to get started I'm not sure if one could say Eichi gave away the mask "So easily" seeing as he claimed that it was "a hard choice to make"? Which, as one might know, implies unease with an idea and pondering and debating and a general amount of thinking behind a decision so? I know this isn't really the main focus of this ask but I'm just a tad miffed with the semantics of it is all. And in either case giving the mask back to Wataru while expecting it back still shows a certain degree of trust in their relationship it wouldn't have been such a big deal for him (as it apparently was) if the mask didn't have a lot of sentimental value to him (the both of them really if we look at the whole exchange).

Now to the claim that the mask was "only" Watarus promise to stay with fine and "continue playing Tsumugis clown role". This is not entirely incorrect. Regarding the acting troupe and staying with fine bit at least.

I'm assuming this bit in EP:Link Deadend/7 is what you are referencing, and I see where you're coming from. But the bluebird line

from literally three dialogue lines further down, which references this line of dialogue (notorious Eichi line everyone should be familiar with)

kind of somewhat really recontextualises that? Because you see this is a reference to a fairytale about a pair of siblings and they get sent out by a nice fairy to find the bluebird of happiness for her sad daughter to make her happy again so they both go on an adventure and travel far and search and search but they can not find the bluebird of happiness and then when they return home again, disappointed because they couldn't find the blue bird, they realise only one night has actually passed and the journey was probably just a dream. But then their eyes fall upon their pet dove in it's cage which appears blue all of a sudden and so they gift it to the fairies sad daughter which becomes happy again and sets the bird free. The real bluebird of happiness is a dove. At least in the version of the story I'm familiar with but I mean everyone sees the symbolism right? It's. very hard to miss.

And then dropping this?

I'm not sure how to say this properly but in the overall context this makes it pretty clear that Tsumugi has nothing to do with this anymore this is Fully between Wataru and Eichi. And I am the last person to dismiss Tsumugis significance in the course of Wataeis relationship as characters I will be among the first to protest when someone dismisses the importance of Tsumugis and Eichis relationship in favour of some image they have of Wataei but he has nothing to do with this one.

Yes Tsumugi gets namedropped but - again - I don't really see how that would lessen the sentiment Wataru is triying to convey here? Because. Yes. Why wouldn't he mention Tsumugi?

The entire conversation pretty much boils down to "Yes I was initially only in this because I thought I could replace Tsumugis role in your life and then I wanted to leave but we have spent so much time together that I realised that that is definitely not working out because I really do love you. I love you as a teammate; I love you as a friend; I love you as a person and I am very angry at myself for not managing to get that into your head. So please allow me to stay with you for as long as you'll have me." And then also Eichi not understanding because he has the emotional self awareness of a very emotionally unaware loaf of bread and also because he hates himself that is a very big thing about his character huge part of his character arc actually that he. you know? Hates himself? And feels guitly for his actions during the war? And doesn't think he deserves love and companionship? Which is why Wataru wanting to stay with him for him and not for some twisted form of revenge is such an alien concept to him? Because he is projecting his insecurities onto Wataru? As one is wont to do when they hate themself? "EiChi Didn'T eVen UnDErStanD WhAt tf ThAT Mask MEAnt" Yeah. That's. That's the point? So he can think about it and come to that conclusion himself which works as a keymoment in his characters journey from hating life and himself to enjoying being alive and wanting to live on because of the people he's surrounded with? He literally explains why he didn't immediately understand the mask during the EP:Link Epilogue/4

And to get back to the "I dunno why the f you think it's ok to lie about "! EnDiNG wItH wAtAeI EnGaGeMEnT" about which I have two things to say:

"Lying" implies further intent and an effort. Neither of which exist in this case.

He literally went down on one knee while making a big proclamation of offering himself to Eichi with a very personal item that works as a symbol for their commitment to each other on a starlit rooftop. The comparison writes itself.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

And then I expected there to be a proper reason given and instead you proceed to follow that up with "when the chapter it happened wasn't even close to the end of ep:link". I know the shame is on me for expecting something sensical from an ask which has been near constant in it's lack of correct statements but such is human nature I suppose. And you are not wrong. Deadend/7 isn't very close to the end of EP:Link. That is true.

But do you know what Is very close to the end of EP:Link? The Epilogue Chapters 3-5.

Do you know what the content of those chapters is? I do. Very well actually :)

(Eichi literally explains why he didn't get it)

So if this answers your "Do you dumb fucks even read the stories?" questions, Yes. And I think I'm a lot better at it than you. So I'd say I'm coping quite well over here :p

PS: Regarding your PS, I take the "I've never been in love before so I wouldn't know" comment with a lot of humour actually as an aroace person who's emotional self awareness also ends at "good" and "Not good" I think it's very funny all things considered especially because he mentioned the loving Wataru thing several times before that and I'm generally of the belief that actions speak louder than words and also am in a happy long term relationship with the concept of "Reading Subtext". So please excuse me for not breaking down in tears everytime someone reminds me of that one singuar line of text in one of my favourite all time enstars stories that came out three years ago which also brought us the single best card set in the entire game

as well as absolute banger dialogue such as

Among others <33

And there are soooooo many other examples of wataei dialogue that simply make me swoon but I have already had to take out so many of the one's I wish I could put here so this wouldn't get "Do you love the colour of the sky" long

And also, regarding your "Wataru said that even though Eichi likes him, he still can easily discard him for the sake of his objectives" I'll just say that no he absolutely could not. I mean he'd say that and if pull comes to shove and he has no other option then he might seriously consider it but may I mention that Wataru was gone for a few days at most but really not that long of a time during Sanctuary and Eichi stopped considering being a normal rational person that doesn't leave helpless 17 year olds in the midst of a construction site. Very different situation but I feel like it's worth mentioninh here. Another example is Eichis almost not being able to go through with the war because of Wataru. Wataru had to actively come and tell Eichi to go through with it. Wataru isn't the reason Eichi started the war, that is wrong, but he is the reason Eichi almost didn't finish it. and during the war era that was his Main objective. Again I'm part of the fraction "actions speak louder than words" Show don't tell and all that, but even the words are pushing it.

And that concludes my essay :)

[a-memory-a-distant-echo]

sort of surprisingly, i've written a number of thousands of word this week, so i'm doing wip wednesday, i guess? (no the words are not all on the same project, yes at least a couple hundred of them are on something i'm explicitly not writing, no they're not all good or useful words, but we're going to go with it and celebrate the functional, thank you so much for your understanding.)

anyhow have…the start of a difang fic set just after they stop shan gudao?

‘Give him some space,’ Li Lianhua had said, and Di Feisheng had listened to him. After all, who knew Fang Duobing better than Li Lianhua?

But now, alone, Di Feisheng finds himself remembering Fang Duobing walking away, his head bowed. Li Lianhua would have wanted space. But Fang Duobing was not Li Lianhua. 

He finds him at the second inn that he checks. It’s the less nice of the two, and for a moment he hesitates. If Fang Duobing is here, maybe he truly doesn’t wish to be disturbed. 

He would know, though, that they would know to look for him here. Or, at least, Li Lianhua would. Maybe he only seeks to avoid his family right now. 

If he wishes to be alone, Fang Duobing will simply send him away. He hasn’t been shy of telling Di Feisheng to leave before, and this time, Di Feisheng will listen.

Decision made, he makes himself stop hiding his qi and knocks on the door. It’s uncomfortable, but he won’t force Fang Duobing to open the door to someone unknown, nor will he enter Fang Duobing's space uninvited, not now. 

If the door doesn’t open by the time he counts to ten, he decides, he will accept the dismissal and leave.

He gets to three.

Fang Duobing has been crying, but opens the door and steps back, nodding for Di Feisheng to enter. ‘Di mengzhu,’ he says, too politely. 

Di Feisheng shuts the door behind him, and Fang Duobing looks at him expectantly. 

This was a mistake, he thinks. He says, ‘I can leave, if you want. He said you’d want some space, but—’ 

‘That damned—’ chokes out Fang Duobing, and then he gulps air and turns away. Di Feisheng lets him, and waits. It’s a long time before Fang Duobing speaks again. ‘I thought… I thought this would feel different,’ he says, finally. When he turns around, his face is wet.

‘You thought you would feel free,’ Di Feisheng offers. Fang Duobing's head jerks up with shocked recognition, and Di Feisheng lets him stare. He knows they were there after him. He knows what they would have seen. Fang Duobing isn’t so foolish he wouldn’t have put it together.

[asclexe]

the house md fandom would be fixed by more femlash

[was-i-great]

it’s not enough to listen to this album i need to inhale it

[sudnormal]

@betinh3 with the only fanarts of my ship (I couldn't find the immaeatingwood , sorry sweetheart :( )

THE DRAWING DOES NOT BELONG TO ME IT WAS A REQUEST THAT I ASKED FROM THE WONDERFUL ARTIST 🎨 @betinh3 .

[skyloftian-nutcase]

✨Abel✨

Beautiful art by @ladye-zelda, @smilesrobotlover, @nancyheart11, @marenwithanm, @webhead3345, and @kikker-oma - I told y’all I save all the art you draw for the blorbos ❤️❤️❤️

I’m so, so glad you guys love him as much as I do ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[mishacakes]

how do I get excited for my characters?? I always seem to lose interest after a while😭😭 how do I make a memorable character that sticks??

bro you're asking the wrong person i got adhd i follow the good brain juice. or i get paid to keep drawing my characters.

[luetta]

the military, after inventing big mech robots that interface with your body and neural connections directly, discovered that their first choice of pilot: the battle hardened sexily-scarred war hero guy, was a complete failure. he was already so primed for combat, that they couldn't use inject dopamine into him to make him lust for death and destruction. he was almost apathetic. so after getting rid of him (you cant really survive a removal from a mech since they completely interlace through and replace parts of you), the engineers realised you'd need the complete opposite. so they sent out envoys to pristine little villages disguised as weary travellers, looking for the most kind-hearted, innocent, untainted-by-evil-ideas girl they could. because once they were tricked into coming to the research facility under guise of a random scholarship program, and were sedated and put into the mech, and their minds were flooded with chemicals and visuals far beyond their imagination ... they were perfect. their bloodlust was insatiable. nothing could have defended against the sheer joy that killing would inspire in such a once virtuous person. they were addicted to annihilation instantly. a junkie to aiming terror at wherever her superiors directed.

[billy-royalton]

just made a doctor's appointment for this wednesday to discuss medication for my depression let's goooooooooo