#anyways. tired yapping

[realmrooikat]

thinking about how tr!tubbo's suicide/murder at the hands of cpk was a product of him feeling undervalued and that his voice didnt have any weight amongst blue is arguably the domino falling that lead to what could turn out to be a massive war on the server,,,

[silliestlittlecat]

mcr fans talking about their favorite member can be so predictable but i've found that,

mikey fans say shit like "i want to put this guy under a microscope and study him",

ray fans think he's underrated (HE IS SO UNDERRATED) "everyone overlooks that insane fucking guitar riff in this song. you guys don't appreciate ray enough LOOK AT HIM",

gerard fans will refer to gerard as "wife" and "girlfriend" and then Compare him to a picture of a bird,

and then we have frank's fans who just want to Kill the poor guy.

[lotus-pear]

HIII SORRY FOR NO NEW ART have some concept sketches for the fic i'm working on instead

[zan0tix]

Any general thoughts on/relating to the Brobot?

Have my half awake scrawlings...

I really love the brobot!!!! People really misconstrue it and also leave it out in a lot of dirkjake talk? Its a big player in not only how dirk expresses his affection/desire towards jake but also in their multi year spanning unspoken game of gay chicken 😭😭(all of dirks splinters are but Not about them rn)

It was sent yknow under the pretense that jake loves wrestling and wished so bad to have somebody he could wrestle with. But at the same time it protects jake from the horrors of hellmurder island (seen before they strife), pushing jake into the Damsel in distress role he wasnt expecting to play even before all the shit in the game, with Dirk being his hero.

Jake says he keeps it on a high difficulty because apparently in the Novice mode he says their interactions become "too tender" and doesnt want to elaborate, Friendly reminder! His convo with jane on the SAME DAY dirk pulled off that big romantic overture and the kiss happens and him and dirk begin "dating".. is the same day he asked jane if it didnt make him weird for wanting to date dirk. And he also says hed joke around with dirk about how theyd soo make a great couple if dirk were a girl haha.

I imagine the brobot and well. Getting physical like that with a robot that supposedly looks like dirk probably gave jake his internal gay awakening at 13 but he just never wanted to actually confront it and instead just wanted to brush past everything 😭😭 (See: every single time sexuality or romance comes up in relation to jake he is literally always thinking about dirk somehow and he never directly talks about his attraction to men or how that reflects/contradicts on his self image of the Movie Star Hero guy)

and jake doesnt actually hate the thing either, he tells jane he thinks it genuinely did improve his fighting capabilities (Which we see it did in collide! he beat basically the whole felt with guns and fisticuffs alone, no hope powers.) Which serves as a pretty evident parallel to dave who also is good at fighting, even if he doesnt want to be. (see dirk + dave convo)

This one comes from hussies authors notes in the aradiabot and equius scene (which equius imagery being invoked with dirk. something i could totally rant about another time haha) but yeah. Jake was being selfish asshat in that log forcing jane into a corner and wringing what he wanted to hear out of her, and also not giving a shit about the brobot (Which served as his protector and only other semblance of human connection since he was 13 and was a BIRTHDAY GIFT FROM DIRK) KILLING ITSELF? But hes so preoccupied talking about dirk. THE REAL DIRK. And immediately after jake loses the dirk splinter that protected him, HE (AND DIRK) CREATE A NEW ONE FOR HIMSELF USING THEIR COMBINED POWERS/?

Hussie is lying.. somebody Does care about dirks feelings. a whole lot to the point they activate their powers unwittingly Because of it. and its jake. but jake just cant admit that himself. (He cannot admit his real feelings until given permission to, dirk would have to concede the game of gay chicken first using his words and not just actions)

ANYWAY. hussie is so right its so easy to get sidetracked times one million talking about this comic. BUT AHH!! BROBOT. his existence.. tragic.. Jakes really smart in knowing that all of dirks splinters enlighten aspects of himself he doesnt oft share, and the brobot served as another dirk action on the pile of dirk actions he engineers to signify his deep immense care for jake, where he lets these grand gestures and implications sit out in the open without ever actually saying what they mean and where his feelings lay.

EVEN IF ITS SUPER OBVIOUS. The d man cant use his big boy words to actually describe his feelings despite how much a yaps! so jake doesnt know if hes even allowed to say anything about his own. Fellas: Is it gay if you labour for supposedly an extended period of time to create a custom robot in your own image to ship in pieces to your best bro guy crush who is HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN THE PAST because you cant be there yourself?

I think this hal message says enough about how bad dirk wished he could visit jake 💀💀

[08-47]

it shall be cuboided soon

[wenisman-tt]

Spreading my adventeroustoxic polycule propaganda.

Also this PEAK interaction!!

[Mini demo 4 spoiler for those who?? Some how haven't played yet??]

I couldn't get any good recordings of actually getting it after curing him so I jus screenshotted the wiki :cries:

[jazzy-flowerr]

Ok - and I think I've heard people theorize this before - but what if the reason Dandy wants tapes so bad is because watching his cartoon is the only thing keeping him from turning lethal?

He's heavily implied to be obsessed with the past, such as when Connie says that all Dandy talks about with Astro is just old episodes;

So what if it's the reminiscing about old times that keeps him a toon?

And when he doesn't get any tapes the first couple of times, he starts to show visible distress/impatience as well as showing signs of turning lethal [i.e; the red dots in his eyes]

Which, yes, could mean that he's becoming lethal because he's getting desperate, but there's a chance that it could mean he's getting desperate because he's becoming lethal. If that makes any sense.

[mellohiizz]

hiii how are we feeling about the recent wemmbu uu episode?? because im losing my mind im definitely not normal about it

[queeniehostapasta]

Just a silly concept prompt, hoping they get to interact in the future (thanks for the support btw with the *ahem* bite idea I have going on! >:3)

[plutoonwheels]

yk what kind of gets me. thematically or whatever love is always laurances downfall, and its such a profound one too because hes got so much of it

Like at first it made him very gentle and kind when he was human, he kept the village together when Joh died, he helped castor, went insane looking for cadenza - like he wears the great big veil of bravado and charm over it but hes so so soft hearted. and for love he stays behind in the nether to sacrifice himself.

and then hes a shadowknight, and you think "oh so hes losing that softness now" and no he does not. He's still valiant and kind and loving - despite the trauma and the nature of this new thing he's become, it's that intrinsic to him.

He stays with aphmau initially for the love of his home, and hayden, cadenza and kenmur - he knows going back risks him harming one (or all) of them too much, hes forced to leave all he knows and loves because that love is now dangerous.

and so now hes one of aphmau's knights or guards or whatever and hes coming to love phoenix drop, and aphmau, garroth, dante, everyone there. Thats so like him, thats literally just a part of him, his love (now away from home) spills over into phoenix drop and everyone there, and thats good.

because it means hes devout in protecting aphmau and the village, and he can form strong bonds with garroth and dante, but it also means garroth is that more hurt when he thinks laurance underhanded him with aphmau. It means laurance feels safe with garroth right up until he knocks him out for the amulet.

The irene dimension - his love means garroth comes back to himself and then he has to leave garroth and go back to this. echo of the world he knows. and all that is stressful and no wonder the shadowknight part of him became so steadfast, especially with everyone he knows sort of condemning that part of him. like that would drive so much resentment.

and then hes coming to love aphmau more as that shadowknight part of him gets stronger and garroth is away longer and things keep changing, and suddenly the tether that kept him together is becoming the thing slooowly wedging him apart - despite all the wood walks with vylad, things have changed so much that laurance struggles to change with it - or keep the violent part of himself at bay while his intrinsic love (or maybe a very tainted version of it) grows stronger.

so he has to leave again. for the safety of the people he loves the most because his love is now more dangerous than ever. He can't trust a short temper or mood swing not to be someones end. and theres still that softness buried inside under all the rage and anger, and so much will to leave instead of succumb to the rage (or love) within him.

his love is the one thing that always brings him down, its also the one thing he can never shed.

laurance goes to the one place where there is no love, the nether, and ultimately, even there, chases a goal still rooted in love; shadowknight rebellion. whether so he can be free of the burden of second-hand rage, or servitude to Shad, so he can go home, so they can all be free, its all rooted in him.

and then s3 was cancelled but listen i love laurance

but i think even if s3 continued, laurance is/would've been doomed by his capacity for love, maybe because he loves too much, and all his love always ends up spilling over

[betapopish]

more sparkvamp because the brain rot is getting to me (rip quality thx tumblr)

below is more art, cw for minor blood/bloodsucking

more vampire-ish vampire, in my head he still needs “juice” but occasionally he also needs and craves blood— although he doesn’t want to hurt anyone, so it takes him really long to open up about asking

[kenzan-brainrot-mp4]

The situation between Kiryu and Majima is mostly just really depressing. But I think you kinda got at a silver lining with Majima ending the game by talking to and spending time with Kiryu in a normal way.

Majima has done everything except be upfront with Kiryu about his feelings. Instead, he does a lot of self-destructive things for Kiryu’s sake that would only devastate Kiryu if he knew the extent of what’s been going on with him (thinking of Kiryu being a mess in 5 over Majima’s “death” and then Majima nearly actually dying for Kiryu’s sake).

Majima just spending time with Kiryu in the hospital and telling him about what he’s been up to probably goes a lot further in making Kiryu happy than if he had actually shown up with a immortal elixir that he put his life at risk to get.

Yeah, looking back I wish I'd taken more time to reflect on the new, more positive development between Majima and Kiryu at the end of the scene, because as depressing as their situation as a whole is, that silver lining is genuinely really significant. I believe it really does show that their relationship is not doomed to depressing hell forever, and that is largely in part to Majima's own growth in this game.

As I touched on in another post, Majima walking away from the viewer to Kiryu’s hospital room parallels very interestingly with how Yakuza 0 ended, when Majima walked away from Makoto. In y0 silences his feelings and walks away, choosing to maintain a physical And emotional distance between them that he carries all the way to yk2 (and that he Does Not Let Go Of, even In his saga in yk2), leaving all of the self-sacrificing and self-destructive gestures but none of the actual fulfillment of the ability to just. Enjoy each others' company when the danger has finally passed.

Meanwhile in pyih you see him walking towards Kiryu in the final seconds of the game, confronting him head-on (with encouragement from Saejima), just to. Talk. No business, no "take care of x for me" no "I'm Depending on your for y", just having a normal conversation like they should've, could've done in yakuza 3, like they could've done in infinite wealth, what I wish they'd done in 5 and what they Definitely didn't do enough of in Gaiden. (And, just like what Majima and Makoto should've done too in yk2, if Majima had actually grown).

Its interesting because Majima, who's all about impulsive and grandiose gestures and actions and the need to die in a way that matters for someone else, technically didn't even "win" with his plans this time, like he did with Makoto. He didn't get to pull off his hundred-millionth self-sacrificing gesture for Kiryu. He didn't get to die valiantly fighting. A giant squid (lmao) or run back to Japan with the treasure that he dug up with his own blood sweat and tears. But he seems. Strangely okay with the aftermath, all things considered (I know I've been sticking to the word "resigned" when describing how he feels in this particular moment all this time but. What I'm getting at is that he's more okay than you may expect, considering the circumstances and the stakes at hand.)

(I want to (very abruptly lol) point out the fact that we've seen this kind of arc with Majima on a smaller scale before. Majima had a lot of the same deal in y0/4, where he pushed himself with the goal to die for Saejima for Years before his release from prison and was ready to go through with it the day of. However, this ended up being another situation where he "didn't win." What he got by the end of it wasn't Saejima claiming his title as new Tojo patriarch over his dead body, but rather (after a fight goaded on by Majima himself and some pushing by Saejima) they got to just. Talk things down. And just go back to being the bros they were before that whole mess. And Saejima's been able to be Majima's rock for the rest of the games since.

I just think someone would've benefited a Lot from taking notes. And that someone is Not Saejima.)

Like I kinda-did-kinda-didn't get to at the end of the whale post, I think the most important takeaway for Majima at the end of this game is him learning to not constantly throw himself into the fire for every person he wants to protect. Getting himself killed for Saejima and Kiryu wouldn't have made them happy. Keeping himself away from Makoto didn't make her happy, and now the ship of them being involved in each other's lives has long since sailed.

Keeping himself emotionally distant hasn't helped any of them Once, and this is why it's so important that he tries to cross some of that gap now with what is honestly his worst case of lifelong devotion yet (even if it's in a way that's small, in a way that's arguably insignificant for the emotional rift they have, even if it's just through telling some pirate tale, even if Kiryu might not know the true significance of it all even now. At least its Something. At least they just get to be. People, together. It's much more casual than anything they've had with each other for the past like 5 games, but strangely that casualness is arguably more intimate, after everything that's happened.)

Honestly this decision from Majima aligns perfectly with the admittedly cheesy (but I mean this in a loving way) ending of the main plot of pyih itself; by the end of the adventure Majima seeks not the grand impossible treasure he was originally chasing after but to rather cherish and enjoy the time he spent with the people he has come to care about over the course of the game (the photo). Such simple kinds of wishes are rare for Majima at best, but that's why it's so important he gives himself that now: the ability to just sit down and talk with the people he cherishes. That literally would've saved him so many damn times, I think. I think that's something he's desperately needed with Kiryu especially since Yakuza 3. And I think that those final moments in the last cutscene of pirate yakuza means he'll let himself indulge in it, just a little.

I really just hope that it'll be enough to give him and Kiryu some of that peace and closure that they seem to chronically lack, especially when it comes to each other. I hope it means they really can be happy with each other, just for a little while. Most of all I hope it means Majima can be at least some degree of upfront one day, before it's straight up too late 💥

(tl;dr Yeah, honestly, Majima just sitting down and talking with Kiryu for once means more for himself than killing himself over that eternal life elixir ever could have. He's an old ass man, he should learn to settle down a bit, you know?)

[tropicalcontinental]

After Parkour Civilization can we all collectively watch Oneshef's videos

[mirensiart]

Marth being Mr Fire Emblem like basically the franchise's mascot, meaning that he appears as a cameo in a lot of crossover games AND is summoned as an ally in other Fire Emblem games (fe awakening, fe fates, fe engage, fe heroes, fe warriors) is so funny to me

Like imagine you go through a war 2 times, get the title of Hero King, become a legend to the point your entire bloodline is blessed by God and your magic sword is passed down through generations

And you would like to finally rest like u deserve it right? You have a wife like maybe spend time with her and with your sister who u never see cause life gets in the way

And then you keep getting summoned constantly to weird universes and forced to keep on fighting for other people's causes and like

You just want to spend time with your wife, man

[supernowa-art]

sleepless nights

[doink-boink]

Bought the silly "coloring puzzle" things from Dollar Tree, and uh! This took a lot more time than I expected lol - started at early 6PM and finished it at 9:40PM </3

My hand totally isn't cramping! Martin, you'll have to wait for... God knows how long