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[octoxicash]

🩸,💘 , 🍽️ !!

lots of alts below bc i made too many :p

no static

and no red overlay

and no red overlay or static :ppp

[mspaint-flower]

hey for food flower friday can we get a flower with a red velvet cake on their head?

love the existence of food flower friday now

[hesjust-a-boy]

Astyanax angst

(this is partially me projecting some of my struggles onto Asty so I can vent about them in some way…)

(this can be an open rp? sure why not. Can be aus, too! This isn’t set in one location so it can be on a ship, on an island, etc)

(CWs: numbness, depression, self deprecation)

Life has been exhausting.

Astyanax just didn’t feel like himself lately. It was harder to express how he felt. He felt…numb.

He tried to cover it up. He put on a smile and joked around with his friends and family…but his heart wasn’t in it.

He doesn’t want other people to worry about him.

So he keeps quiet.

No one had to know.

Oftentimes, he lied in his bed staring at the ceiling and thinking.

He felt like he was a bad person because of this. He should be happier, he thought. Why isn’t he happier?

The world is exhausting, and he was tired.

[thetisming]

nickys from art class. my boy

close ups:

[reikaniichan]

[Hydrate Or Diedrate]

it was basically just a random thought i had while trying to figure out a pose for him (i wanted to do a watercolor picture but didn't really have any ideas...)

also i might keep saying it's juatercolor, because it's juan. but anyway.

the lines are wiggly because i use a brush pen to line instead of a normal liner...

no text version under the read more

[mostlyvoid-partiallyturtles]

I made memes

All credit for tumblr posts goes to those who made them

[olymphianblood]

(through gritted teeth) and iiiii go........ (eyes swelling up with tears) back to december....,,,, all the time...,,,,.. (collapses on the floor)

[faksyan]

ocelot?

Ask game

When I saw that you asked about Ocelot. barking biting this guy occupies such a big portion of my thoughts.

First impression

If we're talking VERY first the gay guy Venom splashes in the rain with. kinda awesome that he does that. (I saw the model swap of the Quiet cutscene with no context and then thought it's the original for years).

If it's about the proper introduction to the series I started with mgs3 and lost my shit at the meow. I do that now too. Together with the hand gesture and the 'I've been waiting for this' he does at the waterfall. He's a dipshit for how he treated Eva even if it was for show. I didn't see him being a triple agent coming and thought that was cool.

Impression now

I have. so many thoughts about Revolver Adam Adamska (not a real name) Shalashaska Ocelot. fuck this guy. I hate him. he makes me so sad I want to cry. want to punch him in the face. make him a nice cup of tea and let him sleep. feed him to the bears.

He was raised to be a weapon, and yet he is a creature of emotion and love that exists hand in hand with violence. He was never meant to be a person but all that he cares about are people's real names and his comrades (that aren't actually that, he's a triple agent) that Volgin kills, and animal and plants facts. He loves westerns and made them his whole personality for decades and decades. He talked to guy once and then almost burned the world down for him. A lot of times.

I find it so interesting that in v he says he plays up the idea of himself being a sadist and enjoying torture to some extent. I think the Huey interrogations show a lot of how he actually likes doing his work, which has an accent on efficiency and not blood and guts. It's simultaneously cruel and merciful, and it saves time and lives that he can use for something else. I could go on and on about this guy honestly, there are so many fascinating things about him.

Favorite moment

What isn't honestly. The meow. The revolver spin. He tried to poke Snake in his missing fucking eye?? The way he dresses in mgs1&2. also

"It doesn’t feel right to shoot an unarmed man…but I’ll get over it." Slay.

Idea for a story

Let's see I have so many of those. The idea of Ocelot inheriting some of Sorrow's powers is really fun, I was thinking about writing about him using it for a mission with Kaz where they have to dig a dead guy up and interrogate him to get some info.

Unpopular opinion

His feelings towards bb have never been reciprocated, he has never tried to act on them, and is fine with that. him in v is the closest we ever get to seeing him being his genuine self. There is not enough information about how his hypnosis works but that's an interpretation of it that I really like. Also people seem to be really hung up on the fact that he is ""canonically"" gay when he isn't canonically anything. so I guess my unpopular opinion is not necessarily viewing him as specifically gay idk.

Favorite relationship

sigh. ocelhira. horrible terrible predictable I know. I have a big ass wall of text about them in my notes I need to finish. even the ship stuff aside, the things they were hypothetically up to during the nine year coma must have been insane. and after that? What about FOXHOUND? Or Kaz's death? So much could've happened during all of it aghhh. Even during events of v, we get so little of them together in it. Also Ocelot is a loser and has no other friends lol look at that guy. Him and Eva before mgs4 are such a cool duo though, a shame we didn't get to see any of their dynamic in that time period, or during the Patriots.

Favorite headcanon

He's on aroace spectrum. also stupidly in love with kaz miller and the reasoning for why and what and how is entirely in my head and hopefully in text at some point, it makes sense I promise. I just like when characters are in love even though I am so bad at understanding what that entails but so is he so that's fine. Their dynamic is really interesting to me.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

disjointed musings on the borderlands corporatocracy

Worlds of Borderlands has a lot of issues but it did confirm what I basically had in mind already; Borderlands megacorps are less like IRL corporate entities and more like Stellaris megacorporations; i.e. they resemble actual nations or similar systems of governance if you put them through the ancap hell-ifier.

The book straight up refers to the Six Galaxies' state of affairs as "the corporatocracy". It explicitly says some of the corporate leaders ruled more like feudal lords (which is a very apt comparison! Anarcho-capitalism is often, though jokingly, described as just diet feudalism lmao). Each of the major manufacturers has a distinct aesthetic, customer base, system of values, and internal corporate culture (the cutthroat, intrigue filled Hyperion offices, Maliwan being implied to have a cult like structure or at least elements of indoctrination, Jakobs describing themselves as one big family etc.); it's not a stretch to say they have other elements of culture beyond that, even if it's very, y'know, brand-ified.

My headcanon on all the corps being "governed" in a somewhat different way (the Crimson Lance being a political force within Atlas akin to the Praetorian Guard within the Roman Empire, Jakobs being akin to a noble court with the ruler of one dynasty and houses being specific departments, Dahl having military rank systems for EVERYTHING) has never felt more validated.

Also it's starting to make me think about the functions each division of a megacorp would have compared to irl corporations. Take Public Relations for example. This phrase means essentially what you think it is; keeping up the brand's image with the public. But in a world where all the other governmental bodies are corporations, it's not a stretch to imagine PR would also encompass what we think of as external diplomacy or espionage.

[askthephighttopiaparty]

...

The golem has been defeated, and the King has been saved.

The party decides to have a feast and stock up on new weapons once they manage to struggle back to the nearest inn, especially for Boombox and Shuriken who had done the least amount of damage.

[wuntrum]

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

For Years my brother has been fucking with me by periodically texting me to say Jimmy Carter had finally died. Today the bit has paid off.

The response to my reaction at work was “what do you MEAN ‘for real this time’?????”

I fucking hate it here I’m crying

[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[hauntingrabbits]

comic

[thestuffedalligator]