#bones positivity

[my-midlife-crisis]

[mewdoodles]

More skeletons flexing for anatomy practice... more excuses to draw my favourite boys~

[jijidraws]

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[vitaminthick]

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[5-pp-man]

wait hold on. before i forget.

i had this dream abt sesame street doing a collab with some company that made sleep accessories and beds, and the Bert and Ernie one was this twin bed perfectly separated in the middle with one side themed after each of them.

for the commercial it showed them sleeping in it, but they were lying like this;

[andieburky]

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Illustration by AndieBurky

When I tell you this book was GOOD good…….

*Do not steal/copy/print or reupload to any platforms without permission. Reblogs welcome!

[marvinthecrow]

Some crows to celebrate International Non Binary People's Day! 💛🤍💜🖤

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[a-most-beloved-fool]

y'know, a lot of people like to write possessive Spock in spirk fics, where he claims Jim as his own, but I kinda feel like he's less likely to say that Jim is his, and more likely to say that he is Jim's.

[gyrmirr]

can i tell you that i'm empty?

[millaniumcat]

My AroAce folks, my Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows Folks, i have something for you.

I took this at MagicCon. Please don't repost or post anywhere else!

Freddy even tapped my shoulder and asked "Excuse me, which flag is that?"

And Jack wanted to hold the flag

They are so amazing, and this pic helps me accept my aroace identity, not gonna lie.

[ediblechainsaw]

ghost being your trainer.

cw. dark dubcon/noncon (consent isn't explicitly said), mean ghost

he's been training for years, something he lets you and the other soldiers know quite a bit.

at least once, with every batch of recruits he gets, he has this 'exercise' he does where he wakes you all up in the middle of the night and takes you to the woods. he sets you free at the edge of the trees and tell you all to run and hide, he'll even give you a minute head start. then, he'll find you. last one not found wins.

"what if we get out of the trees?" one recruit asks.

under his balaclava, ghost grins. "no one ever has."

after he gives a gruff nod, you all run.

you separate from the group, knowing that if they get caught then you'll be pulled along with them. you keep your footsteps soft, making the least amount of noise possible.

it's hard to tell how long you're out there. you can hear soldiers cursing and twigs snapping.

ghost has never not won at this exercise. ever.

but he counts the soldiers that he's caught. and he's one short.

where you are in the woods, you can see a clearing, just a little ways in front of you. the other side of the woods. it fills you with pride and hope, at the thought of being the first one to ever win this game and showing off your talent to your intimidating hot lieutenant.

while every part of you is screaming to run for it, you want to be caught don't want to give away your position. slow and steady wins the race, right?

you're almost to the trees when ghost creeps up on you. he knows every inch of this forest. really, it was cute that you thought for a moment that you could escape him, but you're a guest in this gathering of trees he hunts in every year.

before you can react, he's grabbing you and knocking you to the ground. you squirm and fight back happy that you can't gasping in surprise when he shoves your face into the dirt and grass.

then his hands are yanking at your pants, tugging them down your hips. not even taking them off, just shoving them down far enough for him to shove his leaking cock head into your hole and fucking you ruthless. his large hands press against the back of your head, pressing your nose into the dirt, his other hand digging into your hips.

he laughs each time you half-heartedly try to get away.

"thought you could outsmart me, huh? be the first to win my game?" he growls into your ear, hitting that sweet spot that makes your fingernails dig into the earth.

"bloody 'ell, look at you. enjoying this. fuckin' whore," he repeats that last part into your ear, pulling out before you even finish because losers don't getta fuckin' cum.

he jerks off and pulls your shirt up to finish on your back, then pulls your pants back up and gets off of you.

while you're collecting himself, he just walks away, wishing you luck on finding your way back to base.

[xxautumnivyxx]

Your did it

[ajastu]

People complain about not being able to 'be mean' in datv, but like. You can be. Not in a 'sell people into slavery' way like you could in the other games, because narratively it just would not Work, but you can very well be mean. It just won't end well for you.

Like, okay. By virtue of being recruited by Varric and working with him for a year prior to the events of Veilguard, Rook cannot be, like....morally bankrupt? Because Varric wouldn't recruit them if they were, or would kick them to the curb if he realized they were soooo so chill with wanton murder and other such things (him and Harding kept getting distracted on their search for Solas because they kept stopping to Help People, after all) So. there are certain limitations to the choices you can make, but they Make Sense. And you can still be an asshole, in a way. Like...I think people maybe....forget? that you can get your Entire Team killed by just...not caring? A thing that you couldn't really do on a similar scale in the previous games? 'Oh you have to play the team therapist-' You don't, actually! You can ignore everyone's problems! The game doesn't stop you from just pushing on with the main plot! You can leave your companions to their own devices. It will not end well, but you can do it. Pretty much everyone will die and Rook may just end up being locked in the Fade with Solas forever, but it's an option that was Very Much Put Into The Game. But I don't think ive ever seen that ending mentioned in posts that complain about Veilguard being 'too nice'. And i'm not gonna make assumptions as to why that might be, but. Bear with me here.

It kind of, in a way, reminds me of when people were like 'ummm why does it suck so much to play a fascist in Disco Elysium??' Because it sucks to be a fascist, Period. you know? Like. You cannot want to get a good ending in the game and then also choose to be an asshole of unimaginable magnitude.

(obligatory 'piss on the poor' disclaimer: I am not saying that people who have those complaints abt veilguard are fascists or anything of the sort, it was just an example that came to mind that i thought would convey my point more efficiently)

I love origins, but it kind of...I don't know, it trivializes the acts of violence you can commit by still, inevitably, leaving your character in the position of the Hero That Saves The World. There are no real consequences in the overall story arc. It's kind of just flavor, but it never feels like an actual consequence. The story will still end approximately the same way. And I mean...it makes sense, too. There's basically only one other guy who can get the job done, so the HoF is kind of Needed for the job, no matter how much of a monster u can choose to be. You can leave the world worse than you found it, but at least there is still a world left in the end.

With Veilguard, that is not the case. The thing that makes Rook special is not their background, or their skills, or the dagger. Anyone could take their place. They're just Some Guy! And anyone WOULD take their place if they suddenly decided to start selling people into slavery. Because no one on the team is going to just sit back and let them do it. Half of the factions wouldn't even cooperate with them. They'd probably get stabbed by a shadow dragon somewhere in a dark alleyway n dropped into the sea, you know?

What makes Rook special, what secures the good ending, is their inherent kindness and care for the world and other people. The connection they build with others, who, in turn, lend their support to them. (like. something, something, almost every companion having some sort of healing/revive ability? u know?) Its the commitment to doing the Right Thing. And that is, by definition, incompatible with the option of making evil choices.

You have to want to leave the world better than you found it if you want to actually do so. The game gives you the option to do that. It also gives you the option of saving the world without caring for it or the people around you. And it gets the job done! It doesn't leave the world worse off, but it doesn't leave it better, either.

At the end of the day, all art is political in some way. And I think it's good that Veilguard is a story about hope and the value of kindness, among other things. Considering the current....Everything, I think it's kind of tone-deaf to demand that the story let you be evil for evil's sake. Look around for a moment. We really need more hope and kindness in the world right now.

The previous games were not necessarily wrong or bad for providing those options. But they were also each a product of it's time. They also each told a different story.

Veilguard is not 'sanitized', or 'dumbed down', or whatever people like to say. The mundane horrors and violence of the world don't need to be spelled out or thrown in your face via slurs against your PC. Frankly, if certain bits of the game did not horrify you on some level just from the environmental storytelling alone, then maybe you need to think about why that might be. Maybe you just need to stop and actually process what the game is showing you.

Like, i might be getting a bit off topic here, but i will be the first guy (gender-neutral) to tell you about how much of a lasting impression the broodmother bit from dao left on me. But it wasn't just the sheer violence of the experience described by Hespith. It was, well...

It's not that it occurred, it's that it was allowed.

When you go through D'meta's Crossing, through blighted Minrathous with bodies piled in the streets and hanging from the improvised gallows? Hell, the very beginning of the game, with demons snatching people left and right? The horror here is not just that it occurred, it's that it was allowed. Do you get what i mean? The fact that these things aren't spelled out to you in the form of a poem or a dialogue tree doesn't mean that they're somehow 'sanitized'.

People complain the dialogue is over-explanatory sometimes (and okay, it is, but i can think of several good reasons as to why it would be, like keeping in mind players completely new to the franchise), and then completely miss out on things that are not spelled out to them directly, and then present the 'lack' of those things as a failure of the game. I'm just saying.

So, in conclusion. I don't think Veilguard is too nice. I don't think the game has to let you commit atrocities to be complex or to show the darker bits of the world. I think datv uses it's gameplay mechanics in a way that helps it drive the point of the story home. I think the choices the developers made were made with intent, especially given the limitations they were under. And i also think that many of the 'faults' that people like to complain about are not actually faults at all.

Veilguard is not a perfect game. It IS a solid one, though. It has bits that I wish the developers were allowed to work on more and under less stress. There IS room for constructive criticism (while keeping in mind, you know, the dev hell etc). Being 'too nice'? That is not one of the game's faults. I think people who complain about that just maybe missed the entire point.

[bonefall]

hey, it's angel (positive) again! ik he's less at risk than other, much more noteworthy characters, but could u keep the angel in angelshade's name if u do evolve BB into BaB? I don't wanna lose my evil counterpart haha

(also fun fact, build-a-bear also abreviates as BaB, which feels fitting to me lol)

Yes don't worry Angelshade is staying LMAO. He was like 10% canon and 90% Bones to begin with. His kids will also probably be getting more shroomy names, too.

The opportunity also opens up to explore how he acquired Whitewater and Brownstone, and even explore the gray rogue next to him who got beefed up. In fact, one of the quiet reasons I was considering breaking orbit so strongly is because Tigerclan needs to be worse.

Broth and Bones explores authoritarianism as a major theme, and I NEED to be able to make the first example of a Fascist takeover in the Clans as fleshed-out as possible. TPB actually does not show enough of the horror. The body count is too small. I had lots of plans to scrape out moments to show the tyranny using repurposed side stories, but it's not enough.

Cats like Angelshade have a huge role to play in that.

[whiskeyswifty]

the way clara bow is written both with the optimism she once had and the hindsight she has now, layering both often at the same time. you'd be picked like a rose both in how in the moment she felt beautiful, chosen as the most beautiful one adored by all, but she knows now that cutting her stem froze her as she was, never allowed to grow further, only slowly fading until she's a dried, dull husk of what she once was, pressed between the pages of someone else's book. also the crown is stained but you're the real queen both in how she felt holier than thou once crowned, and the mistakes of the fallen monarchs were markers of their own unworthiness but she is the real queen; she is different because she is pure and true and deserves it. but writing it now, she knows that the crown was stained not just from previous owners, but with blood shed by her own hands, and how it will never be scrubbed clean because of horrors she had to endure to get it that she will never entirely suppress and what she will have have to continue to do to keep it. however my favorite is I'm not trying to exaggerate but I think I might die if it happened to me... Die if I made it.... both in how as a young dreamer she felt so small and it felt so impossible, the shock of knowing she would achieve fame and fortune would nearly kill her. but she knows now the grim truth in what was once hyperbolic, how when it did happen, the breaks didn't come gently and the beast that is beauty tore her to shreds. parts of her at least, and perhaps the most significantly that little dreamer who scribbled that unintended prophecy in her diary decades ago. she made it and slowly and brutally and quietly without fanfare, she died. it harkens back to the lucky one, when she was just embarking on her rocket to fame and fortune, and she pondered another name goes up in lights. You wonder if you'll make it out alive. clara bow seems to answer that question with no, you won't, but nobody before you made it out alive either, not fully, not whole. the machine grinds ever on and on and there was never any other way.

[bumpscosity]

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the second someone makes an accent that's just Holding A Big Bone i'll make these real.