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“Everyone in elden ring is doomed by the narrative” But what if I didn’t want them to be doomed by the narrative? What if I wanted them to be loved and accepted by the narrative? The power of fan fiction is truly endless 💖
#this is sort of a joke post#but I do really love everyone in Elden Ring#most of them anyway#I care them!!#tommie thoughts#elden ring#shadow of the erdtree#I still love the doomed narritive too!!#truly a beautiful game#makes me cry while I try to sleep at night
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Webfishing is awesome I'm fishing in a toilet in this tiny shop with some guy while some furries are rping getting drunk and making out sloppy and sucking each other off in the corner
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France’s defense really handed that gold to Curry in the last quarter huh? 😂
#personal#truly a beautiful game#but you can’t let Steph get shots in the 3 point zone dummies lol#he’s gonna nail them and you’re gonna lose#only men’s team I actually cared about this Olympics because it really was the greats
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my favourite underrated moment in aftg is when they're all shopping for halloween costumes and neil finds like. a milk carton costume with a cutout for his face and the caption "have you seen me?" and he holds it up in front of him, only for andrew to go "oh that's perfect neil!" like lmao?? that's such an unhinged comment to make??? we as a fandom don't talk enough about how little of a filter andrew has when he does bother to speak. what a silly man i love him
#aftg#all for the game#neil josten#andrew minyard#andreil#tfc#the foxhole court#they're truly the dynamic of all time like their collective dialogue is deranged and that's beautiful
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The musical episode.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#Remember jin guangyao: If you do any treachery you will face the wrath of five horses.#When are the horses going to come into play? You'll see.#s2.ep8 had beautiful music... I listened to it on loop while drawing!#Good music to chill out to before you fly into a rage.#This episode really cements how JGY's mind works - It is a matter of long-term outcomes at the sake of nearly everything else.#Morals do not matter to him if the outcome is more favourable.#and at the center of it all - he has learned that the only person he can truly trust is himself.#In turn - the only person his actions benefit are himself.#He will do anything and everything it takes to reach a position of power - not just for the power. But because it means safety.#Because it was something he was denied and the idea of not having control in his life again is unforgivable.#'Happiness' isn't a goal. We are looking at someone still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.#Everything and everyone is a piece in a game. Bonds and friendships are assets. People are dispensable.#He wants to climb for the sake of climbing. He wants praise and recognition because he feels it is deserved. It's all so hollow.#We could go deeper into his psyche on this.#But these are also tags under a comic in which 'evil penis music' is the punchline.
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Rosymorn short rest
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#tav#wyll#rosymorn monastery#voltaical ocs#bishop#this is from a screenshot but i did freehand the perspective so dont look at it too hard#truly in the mood to draw an Environment maybe once every six months#rosymorn is probably one of my favorite locations in the game i love the puzzles i love how you can figure out what happened there#its beautiful and somber
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KISS X KISS X KISS: Love ii Shower (2023) I Atelier Kiss "Aside from me, do you ask someone else to model for you?"
#kiss x kiss x kiss#kiss x kiss x kiss love ii shower#atelier kiss#nagumo shoma#takemoto yusuke#jdramaedit#jdramasource#asiandramasource#userfaiza#userrlaura#uservix#userharu#moonlightsdream#asiandramanet#naoki kinda gagged him when he said 'don't play dumb with me'#he is truly acting dumb#bro you're the one who invited him to come over to YOUR house so that he could model for YOU!!!!#and now you're provoking him to get a reaction out of him - so don't play fucking dumb with naoki pls bc naoki deserves better#but that's the game that yamashiro likes to play i guess#also absolutely obsessed with the contrast between them: naoki with his golden hair golden skin and honest temparement is like the sun#while yamashiro with the black hair black clothes and cold exterior is the like night sky#plus of course let's not forget to say the following: shoma is absolutely beautiful in this shot#this is the only moment where naoki seems to have the upper hand#plus kinda poetic that he's standing above yamashiro when he starts calling him out on his bs#and also the way the sun behind shoma hits him and makes him even more gorgeous and glowing GOD!!!!!!!!!#mywork
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so i have been bitten by the sam reich!master bug courtesy of some phenomenal art by @northernfireart and uh. as is too often the case i had to write something otherwise if i didn't get it out of my brain i would go absolutely insane
(there may be more vignettes coming if i have ideas..... there are definitely other episodes i'd like to give the Treatment to, plus with the new dw series coming out on the weekend i may have ideas for how to incorporate the dw gang! however, i promise neither more writing or no more writing. that said, this was a lot of fun so there'll probably be more at some stage :D )
this has full spoilers for the game changer ep "escape the greenroom", but hey that's been out for a while now so,,,, if you haven't seen it i'd highly recommend it as an episode!
so, without further ado:
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Samuel Dalton was a complete fiction, of course, but that didn't mean that when Sam Reich snuck back upstairs to get tied up in the “out of order” bathroom, the Sam that remained on the monitor, laughing at the contestants, was a pre-recording. And if Brennan, Siobhan and Lou had snorted at the idea of a time-travelling evil magician great-grandfather (for good reason), going in with the actual truth of the matter would have sounded like jumping the shark.
It sounded bizarre, but the time travel bit was the only part about his new partner in crime that was confirmably real. Admittedly, the jury was still out on “evil”—he gave off a weird vibe at times, but so far, no lines had been crossed, and it had all been funny as hell—so for now, Sam was willing to roll with it. But perhaps most surprisingly, there wasn’t even the possibility of blood relation between Samuel Dalton Reich and the guy who had shown up out of the blue one day with his exact face and a plan to really fuck around with things on Game Changer.
Yeah, the whole alien thing had really ruled out that particular prospect.
There had been various bits and pieces of confirmation that this guy wasn’t human through the time Sam had known him, but the final nail in the coffin for that one was when his doppelganger had looked him dead in the eye and tried on one of the heart rate monitors—sorry, “range extenders”—for As a Cucumber. The damn thing had literally sparked up, then died completely. Trying to process input from two separate heartbeats at once would do that, apparently.
His doppelganger was a Time Lord, or so he had nonchalantly said one afternoon in casual conversation, though Sam still wasn’t sure if that one was a joke or not. It was hard to tell, sometimes, because he said the wildest things with the straightest face, and so far, most of them had turned out to be one hundred percent certifiably true. The time travel, the space travel, even the changing faces thing—it sounded objectively insane, but the proof was undeniable.
There were some notable exceptions, though. Saying he’d been trapped for aeons inside Neil Patrick Harris’s gold tooth went just that bit too far to be believable, though Sam did appreciate his double’s slightly warped sense of humour.
It was that offbeat line of thinking that lent itself well to game design, as it turned out. He had a knack for coming up with ideas for Game Changer episodes, albeit with the occasional suggestion that went way beyond the bounds of good taste, and, as in the case of Escape the Greenroom, had devised some blinding twists on concepts Sam had already half-formed. The letter puzzle unlocking the secret door? It was perfect.
Understandably, Sam’s doppelganger had wanted to observe the fruits of their labours in real time, rather than watching the recording later. It happened, sometimes, particularly when it was one of his ideas that had made it through to the episode list—they’d swap places for a session, with nobody being any the wiser. Watching those edits back always felt a bit weird—it was uncanny how flawless the mimicry was—but hey, the guy was right. It was always fun.
Escape the Greenroom, specifically, with its “Samuel Dalton” conceit, provided them with a unique opportunity. Instead of swapping out the camera feed for a recording when the cast piled into the tiny secret room behind the wall, as per the original plan to get Sam in position to be discovered in the bathroom, they could just swap out the people. Sam would go upstairs, and his double would take his place at the podium, ducking out of sight when everyone came back to the main stage to “defuse the bomb”.
Sam was keen—hell, if their situations had been reversed, he’d want to be there to watch, too—but caution raised a flag. “You don’t think it’s too risky?” he’d asked when the subject was first raised. “Both of us being in the same place?”
His doppelganger had shrugged one shoulder with supreme unconcern. “The crew won't notice.”
At the time, Sam had shot him a sceptical look, but right now, Sam-Reich-in-a-purple-tie and Sam-Reich-in-an-orange-tie were standing backstage post-record, clearly visible and and calmly chatting, and not a single member of the crew had given them so much as a second glance.
…Hardly even a first glance, come to think about it. If anyone looked over their way, their eyes seemed to… not exactly go through them, but slide over the two of them like water. He was tempted to wave to Nico or Ash or someone, just out of pure curiosity, but something in the back of his mind told him that wouldn’t be the world’s greatest idea. He had a funny feeling he wouldn’t like to see what would happen next.
(He’d given the prop bomb back to the crew once the cameras stopped rolling, and though it looked the same as the one he remembered from before he’d headed upstairs, it felt different in his hands. Heavier, more… serious, somehow. He was sure nothing would have happened—but at the same time, he was suddenly very glad that the cast had cut the correct wire with no less than a minute fifteen to go.)
(The jury was still out on evil, after all.)
“Worth coming in for?” he asked instead.
“Absolutely,” his double replied with relish. “Locking those three in a small room for an hour? Brilliant, fantastic. Inspired. It was absolute chaos.”
“Have you seen up there?” Sam asked, a smile starting to spread across his face. “They messed up the set real bad.”
His doppelganger smirked at him. “You know it took literally two seconds from you telling them to escape the greenroom for Lou to smash that guitar?”
Sam shook his head. “Oh my god. Yeah, they were stressed.”
“Mmm. Some real panic in that room,” his doppelganger agreed, and Sam chose to ignore the faint note of satisfaction in his voice.
He shifted his weight, settling back to lean against the table behind the set, in the exact instant his double decided to do the same thing. It really was freaky how similar they were, down to the smallest mannerism—like looking in a mirror, only weirder, because the face that looked back at him was truly his own face, not mirror-reversed. Even now, it still caught Sam off guard from time to time, but at least it had faded into a more comfortable kind of strange. He had an exact lookalike who was an actual time-travelling alien. Cool. Doesn’t everyone?
The pair shared a companionable silence for a few moments, before a thought Sam had been turning over for a while rose to the top of his mind. He shifted again, this time on his own, and he felt his double’s regard swing up to fix on him like a magnet.
“Okay, real talk,” he started, and his doppelganger frowned back in an approximation of confused innocence. “What’s all this for?”
“Who says it has to be for anything? Aren't we just having fun?”
Sam hummed, considering. “Yeah. No, I'd believe that, if I didn't sometimes walk into production meetings and find out I'd apparently been very specific about the people I wanted for certain episodes.”
“Point for Sam,” his doppelganger acknowledged with a grin. “You got me. Wasn’t hard to make a few phone calls on our joint behalf.”
“Yeah, but why?” Sam pressed. “I mean, Siobhan, Brennan and Lou are always great comedy value when you put them together, and it was awesome to have them for this, but I get the feeling you’re thinking of something other than making good content.”
“Who, me?”
With that, his double gave him a look of such overdone pantomime innocence that Sam suddenly and thoroughly understood why, not half an hour earlier, Brennan had very seriously threatened to push him down the stairs.
He rolled his eyes, which earned him a smirk for his troubles.
Dropping the act, his doppelganger continued. “I’m expecting an… old friend, I guess, to show up at some point, and—well, I’d like to put on a really special show for them. I thought it would be a good opportunity to try a few things out, you know?”
Ominous pause aside, that was actually kind of sweet. Sweeter than he’d been expecting, that’s for sure—he was half anticipating the revelation that he and his cast were subjects in some weird experiment. Hey, that still couldn’t fully be ruled out, but still.
“Okay,” he acquiesced. “Well… just let me know, next time? Before you start ordering in my cast like takeout?”
“Who says they’re your cast?” his double shot back with a twinkle in his eye, and Sam snorted.
“Fine. Our cast, then. But seriously, let me know?”
His doppelganger nodded, which, if not quite fully convincing, was good enough.
“Oh, and do you know when your friend might be arriving?” Sam asked. “Because if you wanted to plan something, we can—”
“I don’t know,” his doppelganger interrupted. “So yeah, we’ll have to move fast when they do get here. But I’ve got it under control.”
He broke off, then shot Sam a mischievous grin. “In the meantime, though, I’ve had this fun thought about time loops…”
#sam reich!master#sam reich#the master#dw#doctor who#game changer#dropout#dropout tv#northernfireart#clari speaks#clari writes#in posting this i am fully aware that sam reich is a real human being who uses the internet and fuck. if this escapes containment.#mr reich sir if you ever see this i can only apologise but it was truly fucking funny to write#oh btw i imagine that reich!master asked for those specific 3 because across em you've got a good spread of personality traits#that the doctor and their companion(s) would have#we've got the monologues and the high-stakes-all-the-time from brennan.#we've got the puzzle focus and the 'oh this is my first time in this kinda situation' from game changer newbie siobhan#and lou is just. pure and beautiful chaos#plus they're all very smart and creative mfers#so it's a good test run#game master
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while isha was very much a cutesy character that helped soften some of the harsh moments of season 2, i ultimately feel that her existence was unnecessary.
the moment she appeared onscreen and immediately tagged along with jinx, i got the sense that she was incredibly hamfisted into the plot for the purpose of eventually making jinx Suffer More. the progression of their relationship (which i understand happened over a timeskip, but seriously that timeskip is doing too much heavy lifting -- a problem in its own) from "annoying kid following me around" to "new little sister" isn't elegantly alluded to, it's constantly made extremely obvious. and just to make sure we get the point, riot puts the final nail into that narrative coffin by having jinx literally say aloud that isha is a basically a younger version of powder and paints her hair blue. and then two episodes later, she's gone. just to give jinx yet another reason to go insane, which she doesn't really need.
isha has literally no dialogue. she serves to remind the audience of jinx's past, minus the trauma. it's easy and expected to project a young powder onto every scene she's in, which is just a waste of a new character. but even before the direct isha/powder comparison, jinx declares that she's discarded that persona, that "jinx" is no more. somehow, isha's mere presence even calms down jinx's psychosis to the point that she has a mild break for presumably the first time in a while only after isha is taken away, which just feels extremely lazy and gratuitous -- like the big bad Insanity is just a convenient lever to pull when the plot needs more tension and drama, rather than something that jinx has suffered from her whole life, and which silco's death amplified to the max.
all of the interesting plotlines i was looking forward to, like caitlyn's spiral into vengeance and fascism, jinx's rage and grief and psychosis causing chaos, vi and caitlyn either reconciling or being unable to in the end... it all just feels like it was brushed aside. jinx, after firing a rocket that killed half the piltover council, decides she just won't fight piltover anymore; caitlyn, who's grateful for ambessa's support and guidance in her crackdown on zaun, suddenly turns on her to aid vi; vi, forgetting her life-threatening feud with jinx, abruptly remembers they indeed are sisters who shared a life. so many conflicts conveniently resolved in seconds, when they should've taken at least a few minutes to untangle -- all because we needed so much time devoted to isha and jinx's relationship.
don't get me wrong, i LOVE the emotional moments that have been present so far. i think they do still hit, but their beauty is definitely muted because the pacing is a complete disaster. it was really difficult to enjoy isha having a bug battle with jinx when 1. i didn't even really recognize that jinx and 2. i was constantly thinking about what the other characters were doing. with how many plotlines need to be wrapped up before the finale (zaun's independence, the black rose vs. the medarda clan, mel's supposed magehood, etc.), i'm really not confident that we'll get a satisfying ending, and honestly i wouldn't have minded not having isha in the plot at all if it meant we could get a more coherent and less rushed overarching storyline.
#arcane isha#arcane#insights#arcane spoilers#sigh... and i really truly believed arcane would go the route of the legendary entirely faithful and high-quality game-to-tv adaptation#who knows? maybe i'm just an asshole for not being completely enamored with isha#but i really did not feel like her presence was organic#we don't need her to see what jinx as a normal adult could have been because we already KNOW she had that path closed off to her years ago#and she already had more than enough to propel her chaotic fury and madness after season 1#so now that most of season 2 has NOT been about her waging war on piltover... i do feel rather disappointed#despite the eternal beauty of the animation and the worldbuilding and the music... season 2 cannot hold a candle to season 1#i’m conflicted because she was honestly adorable and her moments were cute but i would take finished storylines over her any day
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I just finished Disco Elysium yesterday and I have to say my favorite part, or at least that I find the most interesting, is that you HAVE to pass the Shivers check. Every other check in the game can be worked around someway or somehow, but you must pass the Shivers check. You don't have to be smart, you don't have to be strong, but in order to finish the game you're forced to feel. You have to face the music. You have to accept this reality you're in, despite trying to escape it through alcohol. You can't. This is your world. This is your life. Tomorrow is just a whisper away.
#kennacanthink#disco elysium#sorry not to be poetic on main but#i don't know i just find it really powerful#Shivers is all about tuning in and truly listening to the city#even if you didn't go for a fys build and have low Shivers you increase the chances BY embedding yourself further into it#you establish a nightclub#reunite an old couple and to down a cryptozoology rabbit hole#break the news of a husband's death to an already lonely woman#your essence your imprint must seep in to help the check#you're not allowed to finish the game until you do#idk something about not being able to leave this dumpster-fire city until you've come to understand and be a part of it#i think it's really beautiful
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5 Years
this game is 5 years old. truly, and genuinely, it feels like just yesterday that I first got the chance to play through Smile for Me.
The Habitat was there through one of the worst times in my life, and helped me not only through it, but past it.
this game holds such a special, unique place in my heart and i am so truly thankful to @limbolanegames for making and putting this beautiful game out into the world
from the bottom of my heart, thank you so, so much
and i hope you smile for today!
#justaart#art#smile for me#smileforme#boris habit#dr habit#smile 4 me#smile4me#i could never truly get into the depth in which this game and these charactesr helped me#i will be eternally greatful#ngl smile for me inspired me to try and make my own game too#but shhh that's in the works#for now lets kick off pride with this beautiful florist#and this wonderful game#also i need ya'll to know his shirt is a blend of every color on that flag#that's so very important to me to share
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this is a mean question, the thing you like the least or gave you the most trouble while drawing?
Ok so u see. Spacedilves is in a space opera setting. and any self respecting epic has a map right at the start of the book right? right. so I thought it would have been really cool if spacedilves also had a map of the galaxy as an intro. Chinese astronomy galaxy maps are Abundant so how hard can it be to copy one right? right. reader I Died. several times. tracing every goddamn star. think of that when u see the final result that, if I may. in my humble opinion. is incredibly swagful <333 galaxy map my problem child whom I adore
ask us questions about spacedilves!
#truly the Most Clown moment of my life is when I was lamenting my slow map progress to rana#and they were like WAIT ARE YOU DRAWING EVERY STAR?? YOU'RE NOT USING A SCATTER BRUSH??#and I was like YEAH WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO???#I Might Be Stupid-#but the map is doneee she's beautiful and also Real Certified baybeee#ask game#spacedilves#ash replies
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graduation day 🌸
#persona 3#minato arisato#makoto yuki#lizzy does art#HELLO EVERYONE... i humbly offer a minato in these trying times... are you all prepared for the wave of march 5th art bc aha! im sure not#i looked at the promised day tag on twitter and GAAAH THE WORKS ARE ALL SOOO BEAUTIFUL#truly it touches my heart that soo many people are still drawing fan art for this important day even 16 years after the game has released#this is my second time celebrating it! and i couldn't be more grateful to have met minato and see his story....#genuinely though his growth throughout p3 is sooooo loooovely and it's rlly hard to put in words. but like. god. i love my wife#dont look @ me for calling him that. i have seen other ppl call him wife material in the tags. they're right btw#oh and uh if u want u can look at my art for last year its smwhere in my art tag.... i like to think i hav improved... LOL#anyway thats all i have to say... i will rb and cry and sing to kimi no kioku tmrw since its still the 4th where i live. take care everyon!
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Cal's arrival on Koboh Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
#My first playthrough I stood here and stared for so long#they truly made this game so beautiful#jedi survivor#star wars jedi survivor#cal kestis#Koboh#ps5#virtual photography#my captures#game environment
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I’m the #1 hater of female main character has kids at the end of the series, but NEVER for katniss
#katniss deciding to have kids was a beautiful ending#showing that she’s finally truly safe#Bella having a kid was an awful choice#you guys don’t understand how much I despise the powerful female character becomes a housewife trope#makes me so angry#katniss is the only exception#the hunger games#hunger games
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Just some thoughts on Clover
This kid, despite their name, was never lucky. They lived in poor, cramped conditions and were probably neglected and forced to grow up too fast, too. Even when they thought "hey I wonder how everyone up there's doing," the other part of them has "moved on."
All signs point to a bad life, or at least one that Clover found unsastisfying.
Then they climbed this dangerous mountain to deliver justice, to do something useful for once, to prove that they can be a hero, something more than they were (doesn't this remind you of a certain star monster?)
Starlo is this child's father you can't convince me he isn't
Did things change in the underground? Nope. They were literally killed who knows how many times before Flowey messed with the switch, and even on the pacifist route, the kid got beaten to the ground, tricked, attacked, discriminated against, used and insulted, yet they STILL always found it in their little yellow heart to look for the good hidden behind the 'bad sides' of these monsters, who became their family. And this underground, this messed up place, became their home. A home that they cared about so much they decided to lay their life down for it. For everyone they've come to love. Because Clover finally realized the truth: vengeance will only spread more hate, but through kindness and forgiveness, we can move past our mistakes and become better versions of ourselves. THAT in itself is the true meaning of justice. Giving others the opportunity to grow, to change, to improve, to live, to love. Even Star himself said it:
Clover was never meant to survive. But they did live and went out with no regrets and only the friends they made along the way on their mind.
They may not have been "lucky," but they brought luck to so many.
#god bless this beautiful beautiful game#I'm crying while writing this#it's so deep#clover uty#uty#undertale yellow#starlo uty#thank you devs#you've changed my life. Truly#martlet reference#clove lived a good life#a very good life
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