#weapon's refrain

[faragonart]

WEAPONS REFRAIN ULTIMATE:

And clear we did.

Edit: Someone asked this, and yes. We cleared on the very next pull.

(ft. my lovely buddies @jolsondraws , @siphroseflame , @launindigo , @curbananimation , @kyle273 , @pali-himbo and @indra-lhove )

[asterlae]

May i offer some genderbend?

i have to say that i have not even finished the first tgaa since i want to finish aj first, but it will not stop me of hitting them with the yuri beam

A lot of these are inspired by this fanfic and this fanart, pls read ther fanfic, its called spring tides and im loving it

there's more kazuma sketches bellow if you are interested

with a katana

and with a naginata since she reminede me to onna-musha

can you tell i have a favoritism?

[shamefulzombie]

Drew my virus that i made in Plague Inc [They/Them]

Yes, Plague Inc.

[bullseyelover]

i want to talk about this scene briefly, it’s such a short scene only being about two minutes in length but this scene here is what sets dex completely on the path to becoming bullseye. no matter what, dex was going to become bullseye. nothing would’ve changed that. but this scene he completely falls into fisk’s grasp and manipulations, which sets him on a path he cannot turn back from.

the scene after when matt and ray break into his apartment, the first thing dex does is burn his therapy tapes. the therapy tapes are something that were vital to dex the majority of his life, he always kept them at arms reach to keep him in line. they were his emotional coping mechanism. so him burning them here is another crucial moment into his descent into bullseye, a destruction of his past life and coping strategies and another thing that makes the primal scream scene with fisk being something dex gives into so easily because he has nothing else. the one friend he thought he had, ray, had just lied to his face about being there for him and broken into his apartment and stolen his therapy tapes (even though matt stole them, dex didn’t know that.) matt and ray breaking into his apartment shattered the remaining sense of self he had left, in his eyes they completely violated his sense of self. his gun safe was the “real” him he kept from the world, but was something he cherished because they defined him. they had his coping mechanisms within them, the tapes being his emotional support and his weapons being his physical control. so matt and ray just breaking into his space, defiling it by listening to his therapy tapes without him knowing and then stealing them was a breaking point for him.

and fisk picks up these shattered pieces, and quite literally picking dex up from the ground in this scene and pulls him into his arms, are said pieces that will eventually build dex into the bullseye persona that he is in the comics. because that’s all he has left. dex already had these parts of bullseye within him, but he was also capable of genuine kindess and other good traits, and fisk made sure when picking up the pieces of dex to pick up the ones that would benefit only fisk, and leave out the potential goodness dex had within him. everything that fisk leaves him with by the end of the season are his negative traits and negative thoughts, which will make his volatility and instability as bullseye on another level. it’s just masterful writing i could go on and on for hours but i’ll stop myself here lol.

[moeblob]

Shavuli !

She's just. Into rocks. It's fine. She likes to collect shiny rocks. (this is dice related and I am not apologizing for giving her this trait)

[faunandfloraas]

"you cannot send live animals, weapons, fruit, radio transmitters, poisons or vegetables" well fuck. there goes my idea of sending a koala with a poison dart gun.

[xyzzymancy]

Meet The Diffuser

BLU version + info:

Hailing from Canada, the Diffuser is a sardonic and rebellious misfit with an aptitude for trouble. He specializes disrupting enemies and assisting teammates in favor of dealing direct damage, separating enemy groups and obscuring visuals to give his allies the upper hand.

CLASS DETAILS

Type: Support

Primary Weapon: Upon a successful hit, grapples an enemy and pulls them towards him. It can also be used to traverse the battlefield at a greater speed by latching onto surfaces and pulling him towards it. Deals minimal damage to enemies.

Secondary Weapon: Obscures enemy visuals by creating a small smoke cloud, best used at choke points to disrupt pushes by the enemy team. Allies are able to see silhouettes of enemies within the cloud's active range. It does not impact sentries.

Melee Weapon: Generally used as a last resort of self-defense, often in tandem with primary weapon use to close the gap between him and the enemy.

BIO

Name: Loren Ipson (Original name unknown)

Location of Origin: Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada

Job: Chaos Agent

Motto: "Don't tell me what to do."

Emblems:

Description: Fueled by delight in seeing others' frustrations, the Diffuser is well-versed in the art of causing problems. While he's inclined to focus his efforts on his enemies, even his closest friends aren't immune to his antics. His reasoning is simple; it makes for good entertainment.

[wherenymphsroam]

do NOT think about leon struggling with identity issues. because he totally doesn’t. noooo way.

[randomnameless]

Replying to @fantasyinvader’s post mentionning how Linhardt and Hanneman are more interested in - especially if you don’t poach them - science than leading the people, or even, the people themselves, I wanted to make a post about Lin’s support with Catherine, which is played as a “for science!” support where Cat is amazed at his dedication to research stuff...

But it has those ominous lines :

But to continue my research without taking this chance to know the truth—what would be the point?

Besides ignorance can breed even greater dangers.

Linhardt wants to know “the Truth” and says ignorance breeds dangers... Which is a reasonable point to make, but this is immediately followed by this :

For example, do you know for whom Thunderbrand was originally crafted?

We’re talking about the “truth” hidden about the relics - which is more dangerous, ignorance or people who know “the truth”??

The goddess.

Catherine replies with an argument of authority, most likely the only Rhea thought would make most people stop thinking too much about the hows of Relics and drop the topic...

But not Linhardt!

Correct. And because of that, everyone just stops thinking about it.

Yes, that’s the point.

No one really knows what the Relic is made of, how it was crafted, or what its very structure may be.

Until we know those things and truly understand the power and the danger Relics hold...

We won't be able to...gain any new knowledge. I'm tired of talking.

^^^^ 

This, this is the reason why that secret was made, and the truth hidden! And while those are, say, reasonable questions to have about “magic weapons”, bear in mind Linhardt’s natural route - i.e. where he isn’t poached - with Catherine is SS, where we later learn Nemesis got “more power” from the corpses of the Nabateans...

(Which can be tied to the WoH and Willy’s war, as depicted in Houses, as he “crushed people who wanted more power”, are we talking about people who knew where and how Nemesis got his shinies and wanted more shinies?)

Linhardt will have this new “knowledge”, but what will he do with that knowledge? What are going to be the consequences? Should that truth be revealed? Would he try to kill a Nabatean to test a theory about Relic making?

This support touches one of the themes completely eluded by the game about Truth and if it should always be shared with the World, or if some truths should be hidden to protect some people -

SS!Linhardt is someone sensible (sort of, he also has this line against SS’s final boss “Well, that's something, isn't it? A shame we must kill her. Consider the research potential...“...) who wouldn’t skin Flayn alive to see if her bones can really be used to make a relic...

But unrecruited Linhardt or even CF!Linhardt doesn’t give a fuck about being sensible or not, fights alongside Baldo’n’Waldi, which raises an entire can of worms, can we really believe Linhardt, who’s passioned by Crests and their applications, would just roll with Baldo’n’Waldi popping up as Crests Beasts, heck, when some of the War Assets are artificially engineered by the Empire, who also makes artificial Crest Stones? Wouldn’t Linhardt try to, idk, know how those “things” are made, and oversee researches himself?

He has the common sense to spare Indech, by not rattling him to Supreme Leader and Hubert in CF, but is it because Indech has no interest for him in CF, so he doesn’t want the battlefield to become more “bothersome” since it’s useless to kill him, or for some reason, wanted to spare him because he’s still the same guy who’s afraid of blood and hates bloodshed, but when it came to Baldo’n’Waldi he cannot give any fucks?

[andi-o-geyser]

im curious how you feel about how the lady vex moment was done in the show?

as someone who is only starting to watch the campaign (so i’ve seen just clips of that moment and not the whole thing) and who also watched the cr watch party as they explained it, i quite like how it was done. the intent and meaning was there so from a perc’ahlia standpoint i’d say it works (esp since they are still developing that relationship and they aren’t as close as in the stream i think) but also syldor’s (at least the show’s version) reaction felt appropriate and allowed for vex to stand up to him and for that to be the main part of the moment imo

Thanks for the ask! I’ve had some… conflicting feelings about the Lady Vex’ahlia moment, which I do think is in part due to me having built it up so much in my head over time. It’s such an incredible moment in the stream, and the victory of Syldor having to accept the title was lost in TLoVM which really threw me off. That being said, with a week to rewatch it and let my feelings about it settle, I’ve warmed up to the animated version much more. Objectively I think they did it wonderfully, and just like you said, the way Syldor didn’t accept it made much more sense in this context. They had so much more time to fit nuance with Syldor into the stream, but here they needed to make him an absolute asshole to convey the insecurity of the twins. it would have been a bit hollow if Vex so quickly had a win when Percy one-upped her father because that would have made her sadness and willingness to go with Saundor much less clear. Taking that win away from her in the show I think made this version hit much harder than it otherwise would have. The scene works perfectly in the stream as is, but TLOVM simply is not the stream. That's not to say TLOVM doesn't have its weaknesses, but as much as I first did, I no longer believe this moment is one of them.

I also think adding the new scene of Percy and Vex talking afterwards made it all come together really nicely. They haven't had nearly as much time to develop Percy and Vex’s relationship, so as much as I wanted more Perc'ahlia it almost would have been too abrupt for them to suddenly act the way they did with each other in the stream. In the stream, Vex was ecstatic with Percy and even gave him a kiss on the cheek, and that simply wouldn't have fit here (as much as I adore that scene). That deep feeling of the upset of not being able to rattle somebody so awful, and just like Vex said, telling them to fuck off usually feels like it hurts you more. Having her express those feelings gave her comfort while also not fixing her issues, so the audience can understand why she then has an emotional struggle with Saundor. I know that they have much more to squeeze in, and I think it will always take me some time to get used to the changes, but once I do it’s really fun to be able to appreciate them as a different medium. The stream will always be there, and I can always go back and watch the (absolutely marvellous by the way if you haven’t seen it) “I’ve known a lot of people with money” and “it’s Lady Vex'ahlia” scenes. Still, I think the way they adapted it was super well done and has made me more excited about it as time has gone on. I think you’re absolutely right about how the appropriate reaction from Syldor and Vex talking back to him worked here, and I’m so glad to see that people are enjoying it. As the expectations of it have worn off a bit for me I’ve been able to have much more fun with it as well :)

Also if you haven’t, I would HIGHLY suggest going to watch any Perc'ahlia scenes in the Feywild. The arc is much (by usual TV standards, but it's not actually too many CR episodes) longer in the streams and all of VM is there, and it’s so so enjoyable as a short few episodes of dumb fun and daddy issues. The “they are definitely not worth you” exchange is also objectively incredible in the stream and makes me lose my mind every time I watch it, so while they couldn’t fit it in its entirety, which is totally fine, I think it should be required viewing for everyone because it’s one of the most heartfelt Perc'ahlia scenes hands down.

[sirensongsea]

guess what i did today

[burger-goblin]

i know i've been MIA since nuking all my social media, but lookie what i got~

my boy is an ultimate legend 🥹

[medicinemane]

I will say that until russia withdraws all troops and ceases all hostilities in Ukraine I'm kinda a single issue voter

Like I just plain can't vote for someone that's not pro Ukraine, cause apart from it being what's right I just can't fucking trust them with anything else

Not saying there's not a whole complex host of shit... not saying I particularly like... fucking any of them really (like any US politician), and not saying it'll make a damn bit of difference given that like... the dumb asshole that's got my district's house seat is almost certainly gonna win again despite being a dumb asshole who I really don't like... but that's how it is for me

Just can't stomach politicians that block Ukraine aid, and a lot of people who I slightly respected despite not liking their politics made my blood boil with how quickly they turned when it was politically convenient

If they flip in a heartbeat from literally going to Kyiv and pledging our support to blocking aid... what else'll they flip on me with?

You do what you want with your life, hell I'm not even saying voting'll solve much. Just mostly saying that if you can vote you should (and try to vote by mail so it sucks less) cause maybe if enough of us do it can lean on those scum in office, but much more than that I'm saying I'm just in a pissed off mood right now and wanted to complain about one of the things pissing me off

[citrine-elephant]

unhinged thoughts with leon and simmons for some reason and now my mind is going wild via last rebloig iaosdmk

[desertdragon]

Deathbringer ugly but DB Ultima so beautiful 😭