#what is it? where'd it go?

[dragoncall]

sometimes i forget how genuinely gay this show was

[agenericplaceholdername]

One of my favorite scenes in Part 2

[g00seg1raffe]

So there was a post a while back about Ben Solo always being told "don't do (x), that's how uncle luke lost his hand" when he was a kid - and I raise you: Elrond and Elros being told "don't do (x), that's how Maedhros lost his hand"??

Like, at Amon Ereb when the twins were newly acquired and refusing to eat their vegetables and Maglor is Mag-mothering them until Erestor, feral half-sane clinically depressed anarchist Avari hostage/patient/infiltrator and Certified Little Shit, hits em with:

"I would listen to the Lord Maglor, winyamor, he well knows the dangers that come to young elflings who don't eat enough vegetables - after all, that's how his brother lost his hand."

Elrond looks conflicted. Elros squints suspiciously. "Truly?"

Erestor, practically comatose since the massacre but ultimately saved from Fading by the biological compulsion to fuck with you, lays a hand over his heart. "I would never lie about such a thing! Just what do you take me for? This is a true tale and a grave warning - the Lord Maedhros' hand was tragically lost in the days of his youth, whilst he was still growing as you are. He refused to eat his vegetables and so, cruelly deprived of the strength it needed to grow strong, his body started to fall apart! First his fingers, then his thumb, and then his palm and wrist - all turned blue and dropped off!"

"No!" Elrond gasps. Elros looks both terrified and impressed. Maglor's face is scrunched up into something that the twins probably interpret as pained - at reminder of the horrors of limbs falling off! - but is actually just him busting a rib trying not to laugh.

"Yes!" Erestor cries with relish. "And it never grew back. All because he didn't eat his vegetables. Isn't that right, Lord Maedhros?"

Maedhros, a looming terror at the head of the table, scarred and solemn and impenetrable as his fortresses, narrows his eyes consideringly at the unfolding shenanigans and the rascal behind it. His conclusion? Fuck it. He gives a slow, solemn nod. Completely deadpan and exaggeratedly formal, because it may have been centuries since he last had his brothers smothering laughter at political dinners but the Finwëan sense of humour, once caught, is not an ailment easily cured.

Maglor conceals his wheezes behind his goblet as Erestor nods sagely to the wide-eyed twins, who suddenly seem a sight more interested in their vegetables.

[emile-hides]

I was watching a Youtube video of all the Cinematic from the new Overwatch Invasion update (cause heaven knows I ain't buying it) and I noticed at the end Ramattra has this like.. Burn? Mark?? On his chest that goes through his cape

So I downloaded Overwatch on my PC to get a look at the Wandering/Traveling Monk skins this scene is using and I noticed..

Traveling and Wandering have a lot of visual differences, most notably in the burn the originally got my attention.

Wandering has been used canonically to show Ramattra's monk days previously, in his origin story and in the Developer commentary, but interestingly the artwork in those videos is lacking that very burn

Overwatch character designers are very good at visual storytelling, especially with Omnics (I could write an essay on what they've done with Zenyatta), so I believe this burn may very well be what became the Last Straw for Ramattra, what pushed him to leave the Shambali, what caused his fall into violence and eventually Talon.

Was he attacked? Or was he attempting to protect someone else? Despite his best efforts to shield them, the shot fired right past him, scorching his metal, cutting through his cape, and taking their life...

I hope we learn more about it.

[justanotherignot]

[hms-incorrect-quotes]

Mind: I'm going to take a shower, I'll be right back.

Heart: Why are you telling me this, I don't care.

Heart [right after Mind leaves the room] : I miss them already.

[n6co]

Q: If you could give anyone advice, what would it be? ( for starting a business/progressing your career )

NR6: You always meet twice in life.

Source here 📸

[slimey-wallz]

日本語ってかっこいいですね！(Japanese is cool!)

I at first was just going to leave it black and white, but the background was a little overwhelming so I just colored in Melly 💚

[prettyflyshyguy]

And now for something completely different; my card, the two of earth for Umbral Wings - a collaborative dragon themed tarot deck!

I had a fantastic time painting this and channeling the inner childhood dream, I am still a dragon kid at heart. If you like dragons, tarot, or want a collection of fantastic original art from over 70 different artists please consider checking out the kickstarter!

It's got 10 days left and we're onto awesome stretch goals!

[spasmoticchainsaw]

Idea for highschool designs hehe (and also still figuring out normal designs ig)

My computer is broke still so i tried ibis for the first time in ages :D

[kazu-naito]

at this point i should just replace ramesses on my bio cause i am certainly not being very faithful to him 😭

[thatonegaybrit]

TERFS: it doesn't matter if you're trans. you said you identify as a man so you're inherently respected, privileged and oppress trans women!! you've also never experienced mysoginy since you're a man!!

; hsbshsvsg throwing fish at you hnnsgshwvsgs

[novantinuum]

all right i've had my fill of writing happy nice things.

i'm in the mood to write Pain now.

might fuck around n find out with my garnet POV everything's fine intervention idea i've had in my head for a bit.

[cyphyra]

So I think enough time has passed since release to say firmly that Tears of the Kingdom was an unfortunately just-good game. [TotK spoiler post, obvs]

Like, if we're talking about anything BUT the story, it's a 10/10 all around, the music's great, the environments are breathtaking, the combat and weapon fusing system feels familiar yet offers great changes. But a game isn't judged by excluding it's story, which in my eyes, feels like it's just OK if you do it in the intended order.

That's the main issue with the game as a whole; its open world actively hurts its largely linear storytelling. You NEED to do geoglyphs in order to get the memories and have them make sense from one to another, but the game barely ushers you to do the geoglyphs, and the intended order is in the forgotten temple, a place Impa hints at you to go but never tells you explicitly to. Depending on how you travel, you might just skip seeing Impa altogether and stumble into a random glyph on your own.

Memories worked in Breath of the Wild because they were largely disconnected. You already know what happened shortly after you start the game, the memories just provide context and characterization. They're entirely optional, whereas in TotK they're pretty much required to know what's going on. On top of this, if you do even like, half of the TotK memories the player should know for a fact that the present-day Zelda is a fake, yet Link can't tell anyone about this ahead of time, because that would probably then screw up the castle confrontation, and it all feels kind of jank in that regard. If they were going to make a story with intended progression they should've either made that progression feel real in the game or just made a linear game like the series staple.

tl;dr: the story of TotK suffers from being intended to be completed a certain way, which in a game that promotes doing things in whatever way you want really defeats the purpose of doing things the way you want.

[introspectivememories]

whenever i read a fic and shanks doesn't mention buggy even once it always feels soo ooc bc like what do you mean shanks isn't vibrating with the need to see buggy at all times??? at the very least, shanks should be thinking about buggy passively, if not actively. like buggy lives that man's mind rent fucking free. buggy should be charging appearance fees for how often shanks thinks of him. like all it would take is one (1) denden call, where buggy shaky voiced goes "shanks... please... i need you" and shanks would be hauling ass across the grand line to get to buggy

[occasionaltouhou]

regular touhou #33: a beast feared as cerberus