#volume is required

[dykealloy]

[klmt1]

car is bad for MANY reasons but being a private place to belt along to music is not one if them

[cilogram]

It's that time of year again; Sparks promo and new album!

Life has some good things in it!

Here is the swag lovingly made available at the listening party in Tokyo on Thursday (May 22nd), and when I say I sprinted through the busy streets to get there after work, I really mean it!

[flufflecat]

this is still not my beautiful wife (wip)

[ratwithhands]

Character relations/opinions!

Alright before I post any more Battle Addict stuff I should probably explain what a League Council is. Here's a summarized diagram:

A Pokemon League is a region's network of specialized skilled trainers. It is run by the League Council, which includes finance, HR, marketing, PR, and other managing departments which are divided into different branches depending on who they work with.

This is all to say that everything gets messy very quickly when news of the diagnosis spreads through the network. Originally the diagnosis was supposed to be private information for only the Battle and League departments, however certain higher ups felt it was a safety risk and notified gym leaders as well in the event of future collaborations.

The network is mostly divided into people who are positive/neutral about the news, and people who feel negatively about the twins as a result. Coworkers who were already familiar/close with the two tend to be positive, or at least supportive, whereas those who didn't know them got another reason to avoid them. Some people think they should go on leave for "recovery", but some are more forward and want them terminated.

If you're wondering where Cynthia falls in this, she's a foreign top league worker (Sinnoh Champion) who is hosted in Unova. Basically she has dept. employees assigned to help her connect to people around the region and get different services if requested. She's basically watching everything unfold from the sidelines, with every interview about her opinion boiling down to "lol if you're scared of people stronger than you then get good". She does also bring up historic accounts of CM/HCCM though, mostly to clarify that CM is not a new or scary thing. She's not for or against the twins, rather just hoping to use this as an opportunity to teach others.

I didn't end up drawing her because I got tired but Elesa got the news too!! She actually got it before everyone else since the twins decided to go tell her beforehand. The general scene basically had Ingo and Emmet deliberating in the car, Ingo telling Emmet it's not too late to turn around and go home while Emmet was hesitant but adamant that they needed to tell her first. She probably took it the worst out of everyone but that's mostly just cause it caught her off guard that her friends would just randomly drop in to deliver the news. She's still rooting for them though, mostly trying to support the Subway with more collaborative events to make the twins look better after the hit from the media. She also tries to rework Emmet's restraints where possible, usually trying to make them look more cohesive with the rest of an outfit or trying to make them less visible (cause as much as Emmet says it's not a big deal it's still the first thing he looks at in his reflection).

Here's them in alt clothes :7

Man is cuffed under there (T_T)

Can't really think of too much to say so hope you guys like the art and see you later!

[fictionadventurer]

Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book

[an-albino-pinetree]

CW: Arachnophobia (Solifugae Sun spider/Camel spider)

More crunchy sand burrowing ✨ Brought to you by Nostromo, and the random text I receive halfway through the video

[ranticore]

is when hate rules shelved for the time being? i mean no disrespect, these are your stories, just curious

I mean p.much everything is shelved while I finish mvf. Can't write two books at once

[statementlou]

ty for making sure to say that addiction =/= abusive, bc it’s definitely part of the discussion around liam that has been hurting me a lot is how some people are treating the addiction as being what makes him abusive. i just don’t like how people get weirdly dehumanizing about addicts or abusive people and then when someone is both it just gets amplified tenfold and like it just doesn’t help anyone at all. not to mention how people are talking about his nudes possibly being shared around, i don’t think someone being abusive means that their consent should be violated like that

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ALL! OF! THIS!!!!

[pancakeke]

US americans, we have got to destroy or dumbass systems of measurement.

drug dealers are too good to put up with this shit so why do the rest of us accept it.

[gayofthefae]

I know many of you don't read my long posts so here are my greatest recent Byler-canon comforts:

1. Lies, when revealed (especially when they directly influence the plot of the person lied to), have to affect the person lied to. Acceptance is a neutral response and therefore the only effects it can have on Mike are homo(phobic) or homo(sexual). (But homophobic wouldn't have impacted his actions and...well it isn't that one)

2. The nature of the tragedy of self-sabotage is that things would have gone differently had the character not self-sabotaged. Tragedy lies in the "what if". For season 4 to be a romantic tragedy for Will (which it canonically is even if the whole show isn't), there has to be a "what if"/"if only": if only Will hadn't lied, Mike would have reciprocated.

If these aren't true, the plot is pointless because it affects nothing if removed: Mike doesn't love Will? Then they wouldn't have ended up together whether Will told him or not. Mike doesn't love Will? Then he would have told El he loved her without the prompting of "you're the heart" and the painting from El. <- that is bad writing, and I trust the Duffers know better than that. They've demonstrated better in the past.

[arlathen]

ok. playing skyrim made me think about dragon age.

skyrim obviously is much beloved for its open world and it's no secret that inquisition had those big open worlds because, at least in part, of the success of skyrim. skyrim also does a great job with environmental story telling. which gets memed on at this point -- but genuinely. you are constantly coming across little stories in random locations, through voiced NPCs or journals or a dungeon with a bunch of shoes piled in a corner. it's one of the things an open world needs -- stories to FILL the open world. and it does so much for immersion. the NPCs need a strong world to live in with strong conflict to talk about, and they make the conflict stronger by engaging in it. every mf you meet has an opinion on the civil war. they drop little tidbits about their lives and you get a better picture of what the world looks like.

anyway. when bioware wanted to make an open world they had to fill that world, too, and did so with similar little stories. and their success at making fully exploring their worlds rewarding is... dubious. but the sheer amount of richness and depth that having hundreds of little NPC stories scattered around the world adds is, imo, unquestionable. i think I've said that veilguard feels much more shallow in comparison and in comparison to inquisition specifically yes it does. but really looking at dao and da2, specifically in the "fun little NPC stories and lore tidbits" area, it's just that inquisition did a really really good job and veilguard was a return to form more than anything.

[tittyinfinity]

Video editors and game makers really need to learn how to regulate their fucking audio bc there's no reason I should have to put my TV volume at 40 for some programs and 3 for others

[captainkurosolaire]

Sublunary Love

A ghastly apparition tread to where a contract flower would be reunited its garden. Upon crossing a bridge the rushing river-stream he foresaw that abhorrent reflection of a deathly harvester. It wasn't honorable to present himself in this manner. There's a moment to sheathe. Value's learned, conscious of choice was his belonging. Time to rectify his mistakes in their short-date. He'd clean, bandaging wounds, dressing formally. Having a hobble-step, but stony composed. Fellow amber-hues, enlarged of Kunoichi, as she opened a door-knock, with a coquettish grin, purring cat-like, "Wow our favorite slayer returns, meeeow. Strikingly!" The colorful-assassin imparted. Then gave a boop upon his nose, teasingly, "She's all yours, we'll reconvene one-day. Imagine repercussions will come. Should those-arise, I'll be close. Embrace solitude, stud." Companionship offered. Overall drowning her feelings. Answer was clear towards Shaman's effect on him. Those who're sentenced amongst darkness, may find a vigil-light they're in need to crawl out. Dangerous-heel's clacked distantly, his voice-interrupted, turned and eastern-bowed, "Thank you." Nerves in his facial-features couldn't function, yet emotion's in voice resonated harmonic. Ya'chi could truly-depart with a proven gleam; waving him off. His new-wielded blade; was a Sakurasou as he approached Client. She'd comment, "Someone's always got tricks! Arsenal of killer-techniques. Should've expected you'd complete my task without any hiccups. As I vowed, I'll not bother any-longer, you're free." Sorrow tinged in octaves, extending her fetch for flora retrieval. Unexpected, he struck. Knees collapsed beneath her stead, with-forgiveness. His thumb-ever bent the tip of a petal, intentionally, wasn't enough to damage, but showcase blemish. Sincerely billowed, "I'm afraid, I've failed the contract... I'd seemingly lose, again and again, with you." Inflection carried emotions. Crossed-hand's came over her facial-features gasping, awestruck. Confession played, "...But what's inside me tells me, I'm victorious within your company; that I am. If given opportunity, I Hoku, would properly like to show you a true date." Not only did the nameless-one, shed his name, he was proposing for a date? What a goof-ball! She'd hysterically cackle, eyes-teared happiness, "...Such unpredictability. I accept, also I'm Rokeia! You're silly too, even under those guises of a formidable-killer! Not certain what your disciplinary training did... Only thing, missing is this..." Two-fingers intersected across his lip's spread into a kingly smile. Her warm-sensations, made eyes-close; intoxicating peace. Revealing coyly, "I'll have to equip you with these from now-on Mister! Smiles lay important, keeping darkness at their bay not to be all-consuming; but still to be marveled. Like the Sun's Setting Shadow!" Thriving knowledge was given. She's life - a road light, left-on for creatures that hunt as night, a soothsayer which awakens those beastly hearts from captivity. He's shadow - avatar of death, cold-steel of security, carrying resolve that'd arm upon need. Hoku detached his weaponry, only him remained. "I only want to be with you." A palpable heart-beat, Thrummed... Thumped... Drummed Her own hypnotically sung. Blush-ignited her cheeks; crimson for once not of blood was made, "...Y-you assassinate many barriers, such trouble, it's unfair!" Making a pretend-pout. Spider-like-digits; heavenly splendors, tracing from his woven lips until her delicate palms melted his cheeks; wielding him. Attention orbited to her, type shadows followed if permitted. Mirror motions came descending to eye-level. Her violet-orbs encouraged those star-golden, twinkling for cosmic unity. Following, would be their first joining of many. A force known as [us.] emerged. Promising eternal, ever-afters. The balanced-kiss, sealed it.

[Prev:Chapter]: Unsheathe, Heart ~ ♪"Eternal Requiem"♪

[oceanno]

hanif abdurraqib <3

[5dtetris-revisited]

ohmyGodwait i didn't see frankenstein or trainspotting when i was on my wild goose book search. the four books i have historically gone nuts about are missing.