#yeah... fuckin sucks man

[flowercrowngods]

yes yes robin or eddie teaching steve about bisexuality that’s all good but consider!! steve talking to mike and explaining to him that sometimes people just like boys and girls, and that it’s okay. steve coming out to mike, telling him that he’s, like, kinda sorta dating eddie munson, and that that doesn’t mean he never loved nancy.

and then mike — prickly, ten walls around his heart, snarky comment on his tongue even when no one’s around, suppressed, confused, kinda scared, super in love with will — wheeler has a first, very tentative coming out. to steve harrington, of all people. and maybe that’s okay.

update: theres a fic now

[zouisalmightie]

TO ALL THE HATERS THAT SAID WE WERE MAKING BUDDIE UP IN OUR HEADS HOW DOES MY ASS TASTE???

[akascow]

splat 2 hero mode is so fucking frustrating omfg

[downfallofi]

Monday is truly Mondayin' here, friends.

[desalvar]

citing all my sources of inspiration for Nikodemus would mean unironically putting Misfits 2009-2013 at the top of the list

[todayisafridaynight]

masato's Super Serum bullshit is still wack to me but i hope it wears out while he and daigo are tryna get nasty in the back of a hot topic and now daigo has to carry him out and daigo's being supportive and just tryna be helpful and nice but masato's acting like a damp cat three seconds away from murder the entire time

[detectim]

saw a post talking about t.im as a 'nepo baby latchkey kid' and .... that's it that's him-

i think it was on the blog that i deleted a while back but i've always seen jack and janet d.rake in their late 30s / early 40s when they have tim, and only really having him because it's the societally acceptable thing to do. all their friends have kids already, and they need someone to pass things along to when they die, right? do they hate him? no. are they neglecting him on purpose? no. but are they good parents / do they put in any effort to parent responsibly? ALSO NO. <3

i definitely see the d.rakes viewing their parenting style as totally fine because 'what kid wouldn't want all this stuff? he's set for life!' janet stays with him when he's a baby, and they ship him off to the boarding school all their friends sent their kids to as soon as he's old enough. if his parents are gone on business trips during school breaks (really common), he's usually staying over at a friend's house or just vibing on his own at their estate when he's "old enough" (i wanna say 10-11 is when they start leaving him on his own, so he has time to go fan-stalk batman and the robins... but STILL TOO YOUNG).

t.im never sees it as a problem because that's how he was raised, he never really knew anything else. he treasures the time that he DOES get to spend with both his parents (going out to sporting events becomes something he's really into because he knows he can get them to go with him even if they'll spend most of the night talking business), but he's SO USED to being a latchkey kid and being left to his own devices that the mindset stays with him forever.

[poems-of-a-lover]

im so jealous of cis guys. being able to grow up how they want and being confident in themselves and just. im so fuckin jealous. it is so hard. SO hard. to feel comfortable with someone else in a relationship when im not comfortable with myself. i hate it.

[tortoise-teapot]

this tiny mortified storyboard solas is my favorite one i've ever drawn

[quirkle2]

After seeing your Wars and Noivern, I'm really intrigued now - do you have any more thoughts on for your pokemon au?

yes indeed!! i've answered some stuff in previous asks, but i cannot find them and they're kinda outdated answers anyway so <3

my pokemon au is sort of a "semi-realistic" version of pokemon, where attacks are Dangerous and pokemon training is like . equivalent to being a zookeeper tending to six separate tigers. not a job for kids, and u need actual training to not like . die

the details r still kinda vague, but i had a system in place where there were actually six different main pokemon leagues; one for 1v1s, 2v2s, 6v6s, etc. (there were also double and triple battle leagues) each league had their own elite four and their own champion !

in my art w wars and noivern, wars is wearing a trainer card around his neck with a silver pokeball emblem; the color of the pokeball on each trainer's card is indicative of how many pokemon they have on their team! i forget the exact order, but i think silver meant 5 pokemon and gold meant six, and if the color has a shiny, reflective material on it, then that means they're official contestants in their league! i believe the elite four and champions have black backgrounds for their cards to better distinguish them

wars' best lil pkmn buddy is viktor, the noivern :) he also has a little drifloon named val that follows him everywhere; he hatched her from an egg and she's stuck with him ever since, and she doesn't like battling, so wars never makes her. haven't figured out the rest of his team, but wars also has a shiny gardevoir named volmoir :)

legend is a 6v6er and is Good at it. it's a wip, but his team consists of luxray, staraptor, and umbreon so far—my cherished @/nitroish picks his pkmn out :]

fig specializes in 1v1s with his beloved venusaur ! the venusaur is old and lazy but still Destroys on the battlefield when the official matches come around. it also has a dragonair that doesn't battle and is just a pet

briar has a hydreigon, a midday lycanroc, and a mudsdale, tho he doesn't battle in the league and simply considers his trainer status a hobby. he loves all his pkmn tho . cherishes them so much

aaaand lumen is an absolute beast and carries a full team of six as well! archeops, alolan raichu, ninetails, a mega-evolving altaria, frosmoth, and a mega-evolving lucario!

[yappacadaver]

He’s just like me fr fr fr

[snekdood]

really wish vampires weren’t so tied w antisemitic bs bc “blood sucking rich” is a very accurate way to describe capitalists and wealthy republicans

[courfee]

And in a blinding moment of clarity, with his sister lying dead and his brother sobbing over her frail body, Albus lost all sense of love he had ever held for the other man. With the shovel he had used to dig up what was left of the youngest Peverell, he now caved another hole deep, deep into the chest of his lover. Until he, too, lay there, bones over bones, blood as deep red as the letters in the book in his now cold hands. And when Albus turned the stone over his remains, Gellert’s ghost appeared, laughing and laughing and laughing, until in a flash that shook the layers the world was made of and rippled the folds of the universe Albus got dragged away from all the people that once loved him.

a glimpse into the worldbuilding of the fic i'm writing. this isn't part of the fic (at least i don't think it will be) this genuinely only exists because i apparently can only think when i'm writing, but it was fun so here goes

[musical-chick-13]

I wish I liked the books. I really, really wish I liked the books.

[snobgoblin]

ah...yeah. had a feeling I'd fuck something up today, lost a friend just now

[lecliss]

You and tales of crestoria 🤝 me and final fantasy record keeper

I think they killed mine bc it was unprofitable (it was so so so ineffective to put real money into <3<3<3) and unpopular, but they really should've considered that i, the most important bird in the world, enjoyed it. Or some other reason that i could probably google *shrug

I miss it every day 💔💔💔🐦

Duuuuude, I played Record Keeper for a bit when it was new!!!!! I heard it was just the global version that shut down but the JP version is still going, so yeah, global probably just wasn't making enough money to be worth running. So, ya know. RK's still kinda alive but ToC is dead and buried. Lmao, not to diminish the RK situation cuz I'm sure restarting on JP would just absolutely not be worth the hassle so definitely still kind of a Lost Lenore.

I kinda wish Opera Omnia would consider adding characters from the other FF mobile games cuz there's untapped potential there. Like add Tyro at least for RK rep. And Wol from Mobius FF, which I also miss a lot!!!! I don't want Mobius to ever be forgotten. Plus the BE crew, but that's the only one that's shockingly still going strong. Meanwhile Square's adding TikTok influencers to Be:WotV, so :/

Man this sent me down a rabbit hole of other Square mobile games. I played both Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin and Star Ocean: Anamnesis without knowing anything about the original series but I loved those games and they didn't really last longer than 2-3 years. Plus the global server for SINoALICE either shutdown within the last week or is shutting down real soon. Even the JP server is being rumored to shut down relatively soon, but idk if that's willingly or not cuz they're supposedly taking their time to wrap up the story at least.

Both Square and Bamco just seem so bad at keeping most of their gachas alive. And years of constantly having good gachas I like getting shutting down has really given me a fear for all of them that I play. I genuinely don't believe Ever Crisis is gonna last more than a year and everyday I play Star Rail I'm afraid it's suddenly gonna bomb suddenly and get shut down. Tho Hoyoverse seems real good about that not happening with their games, but still when I see people say HSR is dipping it makes me a little paranoid and I gotta remind myself they just got bored and wanna find a reason to justify it.

Like honestly, I know mobile games get a lot of shit for how many of them are low quality and the massive amount of gachas that want your money from your gambling addiction, but I love the genre so much. I've found so many good games that are gachas and it sucks that the state/economy/whatever of the genre is so so fragile that the slightest dip in sales means it's existence has to be ripped out of the universe regardless of how good it may be. It's not like they stop selling it but you still have your copy like it's a console game or you can just emulate it once it closes. When it's gone, it's gone. People can record cutscenes and rip models and assets, but you can never play it again. At least thank god for those one-in-a-million games that leave up offline versions when they shutdown, but in all my life of mobile gaming I've only seen two, KHUX and Tokimeki Idol.

Anyway sorry to ramble on about the topic, I'm just feeling mega sad now about it all and I don't know what could possibly be done to like, make the mobile game scene better? At least about this issue. But I doubt anything ever would be done in terms of not losing games forever anyway.