#like. ok buddy

[epicdogymoment]

> open twitter

> no nuance "ai bad" take

> close twitter

[smileyobrien]

I really don't care where we end up as long as we're together.

[cavernous-skull]

Krobus beloved why can't it be Both 🥲

[zorangezest]

ART TRADE WITH MY GOATED FRIEND WE DREW EACH OTHERS FAVOURITE CHARACTERSSS

skybound starscream for her!

AND SHE DREW A HEARTS OF STEEL SOUNDWAVE FOR ME?????

CHECK HER OUT ON TWITTER‼️‼️or on Instagram!! heads up she posts some hardcore nsfw so minors I am spraying you with pepper spray sorry!!

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[undead-cypress]

Strohl and Hulkenberg are so funny to me as a duo. They're the exact same type of people - they NEED to pledge their life to a liege or they'll start ripping up your couch like an understimulated shepherd dog. However they go about it in polar opposite directions. (Early-game story spoilers ahead, mid-game gameplay spoilers) Hulkenberg had her life purpose taken away years back and comes to realize hyperfocusing probably isn't the optimal way to go about it, so she expands her horizons to do her duty better. Strohl had no will to live until joining the assassination plot, and then it fails so bad he resolves to hyperfocus so hard the classes he unlocks can only do one thing, critical slash damage really really well

Hulkenberg is the formal knightly one but she delights in mucking around and would rather fist fight people than think. But then she demolishes you in chess and teaches you tactics while Strohl, the familiar casual guy who's a lot more stategically minded is the one always sharpening a sword and implying if anything happened to you, seppuku may be on the table - Gallica this is so scary play encounter music - my courage has increased

It all clicked when I saw their third tier classes are paladin/dark knight and samurai. Ohhhh you guys are henchmen. You wanna be henchmen so bad. They're the exact same kinda guy but are completely baffled by everything the other guy does. They have everything in common and nothing in common. They both think they're the normal one of the group. They have completely different ideas about how to best do their jobs but they simply must beat the shit out of each other on the deck daily or else they might have to actually go to therapy. I need an early 2000s team up/roadtrip action movie with these two where Will is faking being kidnapped to draw out the bad guys but Gallica didn't tell Strohl and Hulkenberg because their bad acting would immediately give it away and they proceed to absolutely demolish the metaphorical furniture of the house of Euchronia looking for the world's most specialest lil' captain. Do you see my vision 🤌

[madscientistreaction]

cool guy with a sword

[hyruling]

the more i reflect it really does feel like tim got scared about buddie and killed bobby about it. like buddie goggles aside, buck and eddie have been the emotional core of this season up until bobby died tbh. nearly every other main character has had one or two brief impactful/emotional plots that were quickly resolved or swept under the rug with one or two lines to wrap things up, which is bad writing for an ensemble show but we can’t even get into that rn. buck and eddie however each had an individual emotional arc that overlapped with each other, especially buck, that lasted through the entire season in one way or another. to the point that it was the only consistent plot line for most of the season, and the only ending that made any narrative sense was some kind of shakeup in their dynamic or at least a meaningful and satisfying resolution to everything they’ve stewed in for 18 episodes. but instead we got a grief arc out of nowhere that wasn’t even done well in any sense of the word, aside from one strong episode that makes the entire season feel so fucking off by comparison

[buckwheeler]

I rlly see buck having a very like ‘No Laurie you’re being mean’ type of moment with an Eddie who’s trying to tell him he loves him. because buck deffo is convinced there is no universe in which Eddie could ever want him Like That -he just thinks that’s categorically impossible and he thinks Eddie knows this and that he knows, because he must, how buck feels, or how he would feel if it was possible but he doesn’t because he can’t. and this whole tower of suffering and bucks whole project of denying and bearing the weight of his feelings and the things he can’t feel- is built on that presupposition- the presupposition that Eddie does not could not can not want him. And so the thought of Eddie saying something that doesn’t align with that and in fact refutes it would feel surreal, impossible and cruel. So I can so see buck’s face going hard and just saying that’s not funny. And Eddie kind of offended by the idea that he could make such a joke saying I’m not joking. And buck saying you’re being mean, then. And Eddie so confused saying I’m not being mean and buck saying you are Eddie. you’re being mean

[voiider]

I need codependent Danny/Jason as a little treat (for me) and I love the idea of them having some sort of instant connection the moment they meet (bc ghost stuff idk)

Danny who's been dropped in Gotham with no way home (alt universe??) and he's been here for 36 hours and having a Very bad time senses a liminal being and immediately latches onto them heedless of the fact that his new best friend is shooting at some seedy guys in an alley and goes off about how stressed he is and how he can't make it back to the ghost zone and what a bad day he's been having (and it's important to note Danny is a littol ghost boy literally hanging off of Jason's neck as he floats aimlessly) and Jason is like "who are you??" And Danny is like "oh sorry I'm Danny lol" and then just continues lamenting his woes

And honestly ? This might as well happen. Nothing about this Danny guy(is he human?) gives Jason a bad vibe and tbh he's never felt more calm and level headed before so he just keeps up his usual Red Hood patrol and doesn't even think about it when he heads back to a safehouse and feeds Danny dinner (breakfast) before crashing for half the day

The only thing I actually need is Jason meeting up with the bats for some sort of Intel meeting and they're like "uhhh who's that" and Jason is like "that's Danny." And does not elaborate (very ".... What do you have there?" "A smoothie" vibes)

And it takes them a while to realize that these two have known each other for less than 12 hours and are literally attached at the hip

[mythmagicetc]

my contribution to the “is buck messy or neat” discourse is i think after they’ve been living together for a month, eddie comes up to him in the kitchen and says “hey um. i know you said you’re looking for an apartment but—” and buck starts crying and begging for forgiveness for leaving a spatula on the counter last night

[buddivorce]

recapping for the sake of verbalizing it all at the same time.

buck can't sleep or unpack his stuff because the house feels like eddie's old place instead of bucks new place.

sleeps at madney's for MULTIPLE nights about it.

says he will GET A HOTEL TO SLEEP IN instead of sleeping at eddie's.

maddie makes him go get more friends because he hasn't had to make a friend in seven years.

instead of going out to FIND a friend he attempts befriending eddie's replacement on the 118.

he already knows this guy is not a fan of his shenanigans.

ravi indulges him anyway.

they hang out and the ONLY TOPIC!!!!!! buck discusses is eddie. including the game of quarters.

the story is about the lakers game he actually fucking took eddie to with the tickets that tommy gifted him.

ravi has endured for SO LONG that he props up buck's EX BOYFRIEND at the table and runs away.

buck sleeps with him in eddie's house in eddie's bed.

morning after, ex boyfriend suggests that he has a better chance with buck now that eddie, the competition, is gone for good.

buck is so upset at this implication that he 1. admits to having "feelings" for eddie 2. tells tommy that he was sleeping with him for sex alone, no feelings attached.

tommy LEAVES.

buck visits maddie and relays the story.

says that sleeping with tommy was a distraction from eddie being gone.

maddie asks him if he is in love with eddie.

buck says no.

because, and only because, eddie is straight.

says there is now a hole in his life where eddie used to be.

says he is not "pining after his straight best friend" despite "everyone wanting him to."

tommy and maddie both lightly suggested it.

who is everyone.

the end.

[neodiekido]

one of my fave bits in v3 is when kaito will be like No lol im fine. im completely healthy. What makes you guys think I'm sick? Lol. and his sprite just fucking looks like fhis

[saragrosie]

I may have started the woke communist rpg...

Bonus feelings about Kim's design (Kim my beloved) and some close-ups under here:

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about how deeply lucanis' life has been defined by a lack of control of that life -- as he himself points out, even before the ossuary went and carved the headline out again with big bloody letters. of course he reacts badly to losing what little control he did manage to construct for himself even within those circumstances.

(namely: experience has taught him that things (caterina, loss, pain, love, all horribly and indelibly intermingled) will happen to him whether he wants them to or not and there's nothing he can do about that... but he gets to decide what's let in or out of his soul as it happens, even if he has to close it all down and deaden and numb himself out in the process. (even if that means he drifts further and further away from illario, who's been desperately reaching out and trying to keep hold of him until he finally gives up completely and tries to cut the bond all at once when lucanis doesn't seem to reach back anymore.) it's such rare well-observed freeze logic solidly constructed from the bottom up, I'm still so impressed with it.

the way illario seeks constant external means to cope with caterina's abuse and importance in his life -- he can't win her admiration or acceptance or warmth (or like. acknowledgement even, at times :') ), no matter what, so he goes out and finds those things in others and then disdains and dismisses it for how easily and falsely it's won from them. he plots, he conspires, he tries to beat her at her own game however clumsily, he tries. lucanis doesn't try things that way. he's not about 'how do I improve my situation' by nature, he's 'how can I stop this from getting worse'. he avoids, he internalizes, he hunkers down and makes himself nothing until the pain maybe ends. he's fundamentally not a plotter, he's a reacter. an expert assassin pantser, if you will, to illario's clear and stated exasperation fhsak. man I love them. illario says 'get us out of here!!! if you loved me as I love you you'd help me get us out of here before it kills us both', lucanis says 'there is no other place, there's nowhere to go, all we can do is endure. and if it kills us... well, that's just family. that's what love is (the way things are headed I'll die first anyway so it's fine I won't have to face losing you)', and they're equally baffled and hurt by each other's POV. but they're both right, and they're both wrong. there's no 'right' way to deal with caterina's treatment of them, or their situation. the house always wins, if you pardon the expression. house dellamorte still stands and that is what matters to caterina in the end more than anything.

it also fits so well b/c like... their core wounds are that illario is the least favourite and is constantly dismissed, so he has to prove to caterina again and again that he matters. not even that he's worth love or respect or warm regard, but that he's here at all and as such should be considered. he has to shout 'in case u forgot I EXIST!!' at the top of his lungs or else be rendered nothing within the family structure (and himself, because it's all about family, that's all that really matters. in some weird twisted way I think caterina openly declaring him before all the other crows to still be of house dellamorte -- and no one from house dellamorte kneels -- is kind of a victory for him, as much as it's also a furthering of a prison sentence and public humiliation. house dellamorte brainfuckery goes hard.). lucanis is the favourite, and it's the double-edged sword that he gets all the affection and attention but also all the control and impossible expectations. drowning under all of that constant stress and close evaluation, his brain whispers 'I don't exist' to try to escape, to hide and hold on to the deep parts of himself that are crucial to life but not part of the perfect grandson caterina demands of him as the price of her love.)

I think a lot about how what seems to disquiet lucanis the most post-ossuary (as it would anyone with that psychological makeup) is the dissolving of internal boundaries and control he's been relying on, which is part of what spite symbolizes. his anger and reactivity has seceded from the union to the point of personification as a little guy (a little guy he resents and fears for his unpredictability and invasions into regions of his psyche he wishes to stay frozen and barren, and yet cares about deeply, loves! and also constantly dismisses and frequently helplessly lets down unless he's helped to learn to do otherwise. does this remind you of another relationship in his life, perhaps. it makes me feel nuts to think about the illario/spite parallels thanks for asking), and now that little guy is out there running the show freely the moment he glances away or closes his eyes. literal nightmare scenario I feel for him so deeply. so much of his coping is predicated on being able to Not do or feel or want certain things, and that's out the window now, Spite has Opinions. Spite refuses to stay wisely in place even if that place is hell on the logic that if you move you could find yourself in a place that's even worse, somehow. Spite actually wants to experience the world, however fucked up and scarring the way he arrived here, not just endure it. Spite means he has to face that maybe illario wasn't wrong all those years, at the same time as having to admit and face what illario has done to him, and figure out what to do about any of it.

anyway. mary kirby ma'am that's some good fucking metaphor work. thank you, and sorry about all the shit that happened

[epiaphany]

i'm gonna love you for a long time x