#yes it does have a reason as to why

[repmet]

[insp] [Alex]

Prince Henry of Edinburgh is accurate to the movie don't @ me

[lucabyte]

So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 124

Bruce crouched next to the small child that had been bounding around for the last few months healing people, watching idly as they scribbled on a paper with quiet chirps. Spirit, the rest of Gotham had named them, Spirit and their Sister. 

“Hi Mr. Bat!” The child beamed from behind the mask when they finally looked up, burn scar stretching slightly. 

He ignored the gibbering man in the corner, at least for now, seeing as he’d just arrived. “Is your sister around?” The other, well he wouldn’t call them vigilantes seeing as the kids (He’d be surprised if Sister was an adult) focused more on evacuation or healing, but it was the closest word. 

“Nope!” the child put their crayons away in one of the many pockets inside the almost victorian-styled coat, one of the reasons they’d gotten their name. “Uncle Kerian is watchin’ me tonight, ‘cause Sister is busy.” 

“Uncle?” 

“Uncle!” 

Bruce could be forgiven for the startled wheeze when the literal shadows twisted and ripped, a pair of Lazarus-green eyes- or whatever they were- gleaming from the darkness, dark hair twisting as sharp teeth similar to the siblings’ were bared in very open warning. As if the giant flaming sword wasn’t enough of a warning already. 

Ah. That’s who had traumatized the several would-be kidnappers then. 

[what-an-art-blog-huh]

All cats are fueled by autism in their own unique way

[thegreatyin]

while on the topic of iron posting. a very small very insignificant thing that i really enjoy is that nobody really harasses it for not speaking. and like. we don't know precisely why it doesn't speak. it could be because it's mute, it could be due to an unseen injury, it could just be a selective choice, it could be that it never bothered to learn human language to begin with, etc etc. but there's never been a scene (at least as far as i can recall) where mr iron is specifically called out or pressured or anything of the sort. not even by its own haters 4 haters coworkers. and yeah this is realistically probably because its an ESPECIALLY deadly space bat that could kill you six ways from sunday if you pissed it off, but also, y'know, sometimes it's really nice just having a mute character that's treated Normally for once

[hakusins]

tw // blood red water, slight nudity

There stands the root of all the world's corruption, the seed of ruin - Auriga

Pose reference under the cut!

Fate Grand Order Durga's Final Ascension Art

[teleportationmagic]

The thing about Jayce and Mel is that like. She does not view him as an investment. That is just certifiably false. You have to skip over all her scenes to believe that.

In the beginning she does! She absolutely does! She conceives of their relationship as a business one - where she makes profit off his inventions, and he profits from her business and political acumen, both monetarily and powerwise. And overall, she believes she's fulfilled her half of the bargain.

It's only when he comes back to her after Viktor gets sick that she realizes he believes this is something deeper. And it's notable that she responds to that emotion - she opens up about herself too, comforts him, and expresses real emotionality about it. It's then that we see his ideals start to influence her - especially reawakening in her a desire for nonviolence.

Wanting to do things peacefully is something that's been with her since she was a child. It is what guides her away from Noxus, because her pacifism just does not fit there. It's why she loved Piltover so - they aren't a violent expansionist empire, which is a really low bar, but that's what she's grown up in.

She never finds the violence in Zaun, because she never goes looking for it. This is her fault, and her flaw, let me make that clear. She has some of the most power in the city, and should know about what kind of violence is holding up, and work to resolve it, truly. But she doesn't, because she's focused on her own exploits, and has so insulated herself away from the class struggle that it does not register for her until it grows to violence.

And then, once that violence comes, she maintains that pacifism with an iron grip, more than Jayce himself. It is Jayce who constructs (almost) all the HexTech weapons that are used in the Undercity, in Caitlyn's police squadron. He betrays the oaths that he's made to his partner, where Mel keeps the promise she's made to her's. She is the only politician left to try to tamp down on the worst of Ambessa's instincts, and her removal from Piltover is what marks it's descent into militarism.

She is ultimately a complicated woman, with a bunch of interesting relationships to Piltover and Zaun. I think you can divide Piltover as a city neatly between her, Jayce, and Caitlyn - each of them standing for some of Piltover's best instincts, and some of its worst.

[blaithnne]

I don’t draw her just for the sake of drawing her enough smh. Always asking myself okay but what would she be doing as if looking pretty isn’t a perfectly good answer.

[blusandbirds]

allison was unserious for sending scott that dumb little picture of isaac's bad boy smolder on the back of aiden's motorcycle instead of just texting "hey we got the bike" because she knew both she and scott wanted that picture for future reference

[trabandovidas]

What nationality are you? Well, you see, my nacionality is "Eastern"

?? Ok so you, uh, were born in some country in the eastern part of the world? Not really, not

So you were born in the country the most to the east in your continent or something...? Noup, is not that either jaja sorry lol

"Oriental" as a nacionality for Uruguayans was (and is) an incredible concept because it makes completely no sense whatsoever for anyone but us

[kacievvbbbb]

Shanks, because he is infinitely more politically minded than Mihawk (a man actually in the government) will ever have the patience to be, is more than likely aware that the marines will be extremely rattled and that the blow back would be intense if a Warlord of the sea was seen around an Emperor.

And sinces he’s not trying to cause a WG incident everytime he tried to go on a date with his pretty bird and also because he’s just a troll at heart. Shanks has collection of increasingly ridiculous giant sunglasses that he insists (read pouts) that Mihawk wear to hide his gorgeous eyes, before they go anywhere they could be seen.

What started out as a “necessity” had quickly grown into Shanks’ pet project of finding out just how absurd a pair of sunglasses could be and how much would he have to beg before Mihawk put them on?

[cent-scratchnsniff]

it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)

[projectjasper]

i love how the show made sure 1) to show us that for once boston was extremely reluctant to make sexual advances on someone and atom absolutely did all the work, and then also blamed boston for not wanting to see him again, despite the clearly established boundaries; and 2) to explicitly frame the fact that boston as a gay man (particularly a promiscuous gay man) is seen as predatory by having chueam verbally frame the situation as the classic deeply homophobic "homosexual preying on the young and inexperienced and turning them to the "homosexual lifestyle"" idea (reflected in anything from 1961's "boys beware" short to the current "protect children from drag queens" moral panic), and y'all are STILL somehow saying that boston is at fault here, just because he is a shitty friend and a selfish person. like i'm sorry, but a leap from these honestly regular human traits to literal blackmail and sexual assault is not as obvious and easy as some of you seem to think.

[katrinasis]

hrm ok. so personally i think if you try and say that superego was just pretending to have a change of heart at the end of 305 it sorta ruins max’s entire character arc and completely guts the tragedy of the ending? like the entire game has been leading up to the reveal that max is suicidal— he thinks his life has been a waste, he thinks he’s “useless,” his brain is literally trying to kill him. the game is about max’s brain. the devil’s playhouse explicitly equals max’s brain.

but because max would of course never admit to any of his Problems, we need superego to act as an in-between, to be the personification of the part of max that hates himself so badly. the reason his heel-face turn is so effective, then, is because we’re not just seeing superego himself realize that max is worth saving, we’re seeing max realize his life is worth saving. and that sudden desire to live again is exactly why the ending is so tragic. in the end max wanted to be saved, he wanted to live, but he still chose to save sybil and her baby over himself. the moment he realized he wanted to live was the moment he realized he was going to die, but he went through with it anyway.

so what if superego was just pretending? well it kind of just ruins all that huh. max’s sacrifice stops being a selfless act to save someone he cares about at the cost of his own life, and instead becomes something he’s doing seemingly just to push everyone away so they don’t get caught up in his own self-destruction. its hardly a sacrifice at that point; max isn’t giving up his life for sybil because he doesn’t even want his life. so what is the arc there? that max hates himself and continues to hate himself and then dies hating himself? it is just not as tragic or satisfying. nothing was accomplished here. rip to max i guess

also superego’s stated plan was the blow up the northeast right. this would have killed sam and all his friends right. why would he lie about saving max in order to save sam instead if his original plan was to kill them all anyway and nothing in the “superego is lying” scenario would have made him change his mind about exploding. we have no reason to think he was lying about this plan in the first place because max’s brain does in fact explode and would have killed them all had superego successfully kept sam out of max’s brain for long enough, which he was trying very hard to do. where did this 5 paragraph essay about sam and max come from

[marsisnotgreen]

It frustrates me when I read isekai/reincarnation webtoons where only the main lead knows they transmigrated. I need more reveals, more characters finding out. I need the male leads to find out that their partner is actually from another universe and see how they react to it. I need them to find out and still fall in love but this time it’s more romantic cause there’s no major secrets between both leads.

Also I feel like what happened to the previous body is an underutilized plot point in itself. Like you have a perfectly interesting plot point right there, why are you ignoring it? I’m not saying that all stories ignore it, but a majority of isekai stories do. You can have someone from the original universe try and bring the main lead back to their body, or someone else possessing their original body and doing evil with it, and ya’ll are doing nothing with these potential plot points?

Like give me a plot where after the main lead reincarnates into their new universe, the love interest finds out and instead of living happily ever after there, the main lead is forced back into their body in their original universe and the love interest who is absolutely dedicated to them, follows them back. That. Give me more like that. There is no better profession of love to you by someone than literally jumping universes for you because they love you so much. Why isn’t there more like that?

[romans-empire]

Hi, I adore your analysis posts! I do have to say something I do really love about Clover is the huge emphasis on how Clovers' choices are their OWN. This isn't like Frisk or Kris where they're controlled by some outside force, and they make many huge choices that you can't control as a result

Like off the top of my head there's the fact that Clover refuses to go over the velvet rope, stopping you from going to Asgore, the fact that you can't kill Martlet until the Vengeance final boss (Even the way that Clover lets her go free TWICE before then), the way you can't kill Moe, just rob him, or the fact that they will ALWAYS accept Martlet's offer if you take a Neutral route

Just...the way that they're doomed by the narrative but they have such strong conviction in their beliefs that they can at least steer the narrative how they want (even if that ending is either bad for them or everyone else) is so cool

Also just the fact that Clover is doomed by the narrative except for when they forcibly take control in the Vengeance Route, but that's a ramble for another day I think

This!

I agree so much! Clover has always been their own person. This is first illustrated by the fact that when you first start up the game, you don't get the option to name them. When opening the status tab, it says point blank that their name is Clover and there is no way of changing that.

They've always done what they want with no input from the player. This could also be seen with the very little dialogue options we have. Unlike Frisk or Kris where your dialogue options could dictate their personality from true to their actual personality to complete asshole, Clover gives you very little options. Most of the time none at all! The options are either something rather short and blunt or silence, doesn't leave much to the imagination I must say. The only dialogue choice I could think of that doesn't follow this is the option of correcting Flowey or playing along with the name "GunHat". Either way, both dialogue options do align with how other characters describe Clover without the player's influence, especially in the team talk dialogues.

While I don't deny that Clover is doomed by the narrative (they very much are), I have to point out how their last act of agency was choosing how they will go. It's such a fantastic display of control. We know that Clover will inevitably die but the way they took that and made it their own is just fantastic. They could've lived with one of UTY adults and waited for the day it would end but no, they've made their choice and they're going to stick to it. The player doesn't get to choose, that is Clover's right and only Clover's alone.

Clover has always had agency over themself and I think that's why they're such a good silent protagonist. A lot of games struggle with writing a compelling silent protagonist and this game just hits it out of the park. Props to the game devs for writing such a good and beloved protagonist!