#who needs the main story anyway!

[icharchivist]

god i really did play for 6 hours straight

usually my concentration level is too bad for that, i tried playing a game recently for the first time and i liked it, but i couldn’t play more than one hour without it feeling like a torture

and there i just. played. 6 hours. 

crying once in a while because “ahah we’re so lucky Ignis has his four eyes to keep us on the road” or Noctis’s “i wish i could sit all day and nap” who wrote that i just wanna talk

but mostly being filled with this sort of bittersweet joy because man. I really like those characters. And those banters always make me so happy. A lot of them are so unconsequencial and everything but it’s just. so intimate in the sense it FEELS like it’s old friends joking around and caring for one another and it makes me soft. They’re all so sweet....

so at least it IS working on the plans of: wanting to make me feel something (sadness was expected, joy is a surprise), keeping me concentrated into something and distracted from my worries for a long time ect.

Meanwhile, it’s also just, the fact i’m way better at the game now. I didn’t pick New Game +, i went back from scratch to see how well i handled myself from the ground up. And i do so well. Despite being rusty from not having played in a year, i have a hand back on the control and remember the logics of the fights (basically wrap wrap wr-); I even remember some enemies weaknesses so it really help me with the flow of things. And, on newer levels, i’m understanding some old gameplay i didn’t get very much because they skipped my mind during the tutorial, or just, never got a hand on it. So now it’s going more smoothly. (i can pary now!!!!!! hourray!!!)

I’m still bad at driving the Regalia tho rip beautiful car i’m sorry i can’t fucking drive

so far i only did mostly exploration of the North East part of the map in general. I’m doing this thing i do with DA too where i just stubborningly refuse to use fast travel so i’m always a bit taking the long ways around for things (makes the night exciting!) so it took a while. I’ve left out two area i know will be explored with the main story anyway (near the first king tomb, and near Insomnia’s gates), and ofc i avoided every dungeon for now. 

I’ve only reached legit the first station after Hammerhead DKLJFDKLF i didn’t even go to the beach yet nor taken the path to get down south.  But i’ve done the majority of the hunts from hunter level 1 and stopped before going south.

so it was really just, 6 hours, of me running around in the beginning area, fighting monsters, flexing my fightings, ignoring the main story, crying and laughing with the characters. And it was super fun. Loved it.

so yeah the experiment is working out well. Now onto hoping i keep surviving it once stuff becomes. Harder to swallow.

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[ruvviks]

All That's Left follows two journalists and their friends in post-apocalyptic United States as they travel from the fallen east coast megalopolis Opportunity back to Los Angeles, crossing through a harsh wasteland overrun with zombies— only to find out that there is a lot more life left than what the protected cities want them to believe. On their journey they meet dozens of people living their lives as peaceful as possible away from military forces, corporations, and corrupt governments; and they learn that the same mutated ghouls that took down Opportunity are spreading rapidly through the country, destroying everything in their path. Will this finally be the end of the world as we know it?

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@vvanessaives, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[moonsun2010]

crying in the club (at home) over black myth wukong (BMW) chapter 1 really grabbed us by the throat and said "Hey have you considered the extraordinarily tragic side of the allegories of JTTW? That the villains of it are not simply one-dimensional obstacles in the path of the main cast but fully realised narratives in their own right". and then didnt wait for an answer before slapping us with a masterpiece. I know the game's only just came out but I really hope there'll be more of a community discussing the mythos and culture in BMW. i need to inject the OST directly into my veins. this is every Asian kiddo who's grown up with JTTW's dream come true

[verflares]

nothing more frustrating than playing New Video Game and/or digesting new media in general and you're like "mmmm this is kinda bad/boring. honestly." so out of curiosity you look up to see if anybody else feels this way but you are instead greeted with if you think anything about this is bad or boring you need to be put in front of a firing squad

[silverskye13]

Trying to analyze the tropes in my own fics to see if I think they're successful as component pieces and getting so confused I give myself psychic damage send help

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

That cute bunny girl is called Noisette.Can you please tell me what you cooked besides pizza?

Pep: "...!"

Pep: "Si! Noisette was her name! Grazie friends! And grazie for Poco Noisette!"

Pep: "…Reh ot yrros yas ot deen I... Niaga reh ees nac I epoh I…"

Pep: "Bocnroc etalocohc ekil! Wonk I sepicer rehto eht fo emos em thguat ehs! Ssendnik reh rof reh knaht ot deen osla I tub."

Pep: "Enoyreve deef ot dah I tahw htiw dluoc I revetahw gnikam yltsom saw ti. Oot gnikab fo stol dna atsap fo stol saw ereht, azzip sediseb dekooc I tahw rof sa."

Pep: "Niaga yrt ot ecin eb dluow ti os, elihw a ni nevo gnikrow a dah t'nevah I. Noos gnikooc emos uoy wohs nac I ebyam!"

Pep: "Yrros... Naem uoy ohw wonk I kniht t'nod I... 'Sessob niam'...? Noitseuq rehto eht dna..."

[kirisclangen]

Larchpaw

She/her, 8 moons, cis molly

[themyscirah]

Ok game time which 3 series would you just DIE to get a run on ? I'm talking full creative control, can be as a writer or an artist + plotter if that suits your vibe best

My 3 are

Suicide Squad

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern Corps/Green Lanterns

(in that order)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[boypussydilf]

the montage of cake ruining shit in ooo by Doing Cat Things… the thing i vaguely half-remember from an adam muto interview abt fionna fucking things up in magical worlds sometimes bc shes coming from an angle of reacting like it’s a Video Game or something…. and simons whole. the way he interacts w absolutely everyone he doesnt feel a need to be “okay” for… I think our main cast might be the Making The Situation Worse gang. theyre here to roll up and ruin everything. cake is magic now but she still has the mind and perspective of a normal cat, fionna doesn’t know how to interact with any of these universes from the perspective of them being unique worlds with real people, and simon just wants to make a fucking beeline to trying to shut his brain off. this is going to go poorly ❤️

[pekoeboo]

man. I've been reworking a lot of content involving Act II of Home Is Where You Are and like. ugh. it'd work so freaking well in novel form but I just Do Not have the dedication or the drive to start from scratch and rewrite everything that happens.

idk how else to share the updated version of that part of the story with y'all tho, considering that Khalan's journal is insanely outdated now and isn't entirely canon anymore, so I'll probably just have to accept that I likely won't ever be able to update the story for y'all in the way I wish I could. >n<;;

[anxiously-sidequesting]

So I don't know if it was ever revealed how Duncan felt when we killed Malistaire all three times but I'm wondering if maybe some part of him could hate us for that too. Like you hear that and you go "but why. Malistaire was terrible and even Duncan knew that(?). Why would he hate you for getting rid of him."

But like I think it's so....... interesting in a very, very, very sad way how Duncan so easily latches onto anyone who directly feeds into his delusions of grandeur. And that's no fault of his own that he was manipulated by the nasty Schism but when you think about how desperately clung to the idea that Malistaire, easily one of the greatest necromancers any of us had ever heard of (at that time), somehow actually recognized Duncan's talents (even when canon supports that Duncan wasn't all that talented, at least no more than the next necromancer) and then praised him for it so often that Duncan believed that he would be the next Death Professor is. I mean ☹️

So like with that mindset I unfortunately feel like it would be quite easy to twist even Malistaire's death as something that's horrible and awful and all our fault. ESPECIALLY if the Schism was feeding into Duncan's already broken mind and shattered ego and was constantly telling him that everything bad that ever happened to him ever in his life was Our Fault. That's like a realistic conclusion that someone like Duncan could come to

And like, at this point in time, are Malistaire's crimes even a factor in how he thinks????? Was Duncan ever able to separate Malistaire's talent and skills and prowess from the terrible and awful things he did? If Duncan wasn't able to consciously tell that distinction in the first place I can't imagine it would be any better during the years he was being manipulated and isolated and lied to

Like in Duncan's mind it probably isn't, "maybe I shouldn't idolize a national criminal, or idolize anyone at all for that matter, and aspire to be like someone so harmful when I can recognize my own talent and build from there" it's probably more like, "you (the wizard) permanently got rid of a brilliant mind, an innocent person who just made a few mistakes, and someone who believed in me no matter what just so that you could be the better than me and loved by everyone else" and that's! very sad actually!

[sebille]

taaales of looss and fiiiireeee and faiiiiiiiiiiiiith