#the magic of console

[ghostoffuturespast]

The Setup:

The Shots:

[goshyesvintageads]

Admiral Corporation, 1948

[starrypawu]

mariokart

also tsc is the only one wearing the little bracelet from the controller bc he is a freak of nature (/affectionate)

[cornpickerart]

Champion of my heart🐦‍⬛💕

[waveofahand]

This just makes me sad, Paul!

A new project has me putting some time into studying facial expressions and body language, and one thing I have learned is that fiddling with your fingers or holding your own hand is an unconscious act of self-consolation: people put in situations that makes them feel stressed or anxious will instinctively hold their own hands to make themselves feel better, especially if they really need to have someone else hold their hand, and no one will. This solemn-looking little boy was consoling himself. Because nobody was holding his hand. And he grew up to write a song called "I Want to Hold Your Hand." And even while at "the toppermost of the poppermost," he still needed the consolation of a hand in his, and turned to himself.

"There he goes again, picking at his hands, like a little kid, the way he does when he's anxious or tired..." I'm also learning that a blank-faced expression absolutely IS "learned behavior" (as I'd suspected), particularly if someone has been put under stress by persons looking to get a particular reaction. The person learns to "show nothing" so as to give no satisfaction.

Good on you, Paul, for not giving your tormentors what they wanted. But I am also sad, too! Because I suspect that when you were blank-facing it, or sitting on your hands, or fiddling with your fingers, it's because inside you felt like this:

Still blank-facing it, but less successfully. And with a swollen cheek and a jaw that looked like it hurt. Poor lad. I would love to know what was up with all that!.

[ezlo-x]

ok i will vanish now <3 no more <3

[vxmpire-vxlle]

[weezardthewizard]

I was familiar with the term buttmonkey, but I didn't truly understand it until I got into DC and saw what the fandom does to Hal Jordan unprovoked

[supremefleadon]

[fatedroses]

I simply offer the dusty old man emet content that nobody asks for lmao (aka, I share the forbidden knowledge I learn when drawing character faces with the FF community, my ye old tradition)

[the2ndsanctuary]

Absolutely devastated to find out the game i remember playing and being extremely autistic about as a kid was not 3DS but a PSP one

[ghostoffuturespast]

[lastoneout]

me trying to solve a problem in literally any fantasy game

[tea-and-secrets]

moved into my college dorm yesterday and im so scared i havent made any friends yet and it seems like everyone else already knows ppl :[ im gonna like do it scared and keep trying to be outgoing but oh god this is so difficult

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[galactic-mayhem]

i miss the minecraft legacy console tutorial world

[wardencommander-surana]

incredibly subtle blood magic as always. life changing moments for neria surana.