#|| but until then I think my favorite part is - and idk if this is a glitch or what - but a majority of the time I check in on characters

[bimobuddy]

I keep thinking about this scenario over and over and I have for months now, so I think I need to make a thing

Aliens either keeping humans as pets or studying humans, but not in a horror way, in a wholesome way. Like how we view dogs as part of the family, imagine an alien cupping a person's face like "I would start an intergalactic war for you >:( " It's so sweet

The idea of aliens seeing humans as adorable and wanting to care for them just makes my heart so warm??

But on the 'studying humans' side, imagine they're gently prodding into the human's belly and the human starts curling up and squealing out in laughter, but one of the aliens is like "Don't worry, I've actually studied this behavior on earth, myself, and from what I've found, when humans make this sound it means they're comfortable and happy," and so the human just continues to get tickled until they've finished whatever they're studying because they think the human is just playing

It's not until after that the human explains that in this context, the laughter was an involuntary response, and the aliens, who have grown to adore humans, are like "Oh no, were you uncomfortable then??" and now the human has to explain they didn't necessarily mind because they don't want their new alien friends to worry about them

ughghg idk, I'm so soft for human and alien friendships like this

I think it's why my favorite media tends to be stuff like Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Guardians of the Galaxy

[justaz]

merlin’s secret being a visual thing. when he is around arthur or gwen or leon or morgana or [insert whatever character here] merlin seems pale and thin, almost like a ghost or an apparition. when the sun lands on him he reflects it like a corpse, he eyes seem dark and dull. he has this ethereal beauty to him, this otherworldly visage that leads many to believe he is of fae blood. he just doesn’t seem to be 100% human. but when he is ONLY with lancelot or gaius (cough or gwaine bc gwaine DEFINITELY knew) merlin is heartachingly human. merlin shines in the sunlight, colors are brighter and more vibrant around him, and his smiles are wide and his laughs are boisterous. he takes on color and leaves everyone wanting to know him. but when other join in or interact with the two, merlin shifts before their eyes so quickly and suddenly that they aren’t sure whether or not what they saw was a trick of the light. the idea still leaves them wanting more and wanting to see the merlin who is just so full of life but that merlin only appears for a small select group of people. merlin who has a guard so high that it has an effect of other’s perception of him.

[bylrndgm]

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) // JULIE E OS FANTASMAS (2011) 1.01 - Wake Up // 1.01 - Enfrentando Fantasmas -> Julie meets the Band.

[bunnieswithknives]

As an avid D&D player and DM, I love this magic system you've created so much- bc it means that necromancy exists like it does in D&D, but because David is David (TM), he just goes "yeah, but yk what would make this better? Puppets." and just is flying by the seat of his pants trying to create a fusion of DIY crafts and reanimation. he even could be inadvertendly creating an entirely new form of magic while messing around with the Book and his puppetry, but no one will ever know bc he just wants to play around with his little flesh puppets instead of, idk, sitting down and writing an actual grimoire/codex on it and i love him so much for that <3

Really tho!! This is the closest anyone has ever come come to actual reanimation in this universe, not just souless zombies or possessed lamps, real breathing creatures with the souls of people and working innards to back it up! And he's not even writing it down!

[thelunadiviner]

i'm thinking about making a pinned post but for now, hiii i've gained enough confidence to write and post said writing so here's a link to my first ever post on AO3 (its a valenwind fic for my fellow VW warriors).

i'd like to use tumblr to connect more with fellow squeenix fans because i lowkey miss having mutuals/people to talk to </3

[radio-4-is-static]

「LOST CORNER」 クロスフェード | Kenshi Yonezu listen to the new album here!!

[my-elder-scrolls-shit]

I've been replaying skyrim and- "Uh oh, Aph! Are you getting philosophical about a mid game that you've played 80 billion times now?" Yes, of course I am. Now, my take of the day is Astrid gets a bad rap in the fandom

If you have personal qualms for whatever reason with her (Cicero fan, upset she got everyone killed, her voice, whatever it may be), that's totally fine! However! I just finished the dbh quest line again, and she's honestly not as terrible as we've been painting her, I feel.

When you first join, she's pretty attentive - clearly keeping an eye on you because you're new, but as you prove yourself and she can worry less, she seems to almost losen up. I do think she asks you to do things that she wouldn't ask anyone else because she's testing you or because you're new and she's not as attached yet, but its clear she has some kind if concern for you and your safety. Especially when the Nightmother incident happens, and she thinks Cicero might have attempted to hurt you. Then shit hits the fan (in her eyes)

Now, here's something that might sound strange - I don't think she decides to sell you out until the last possible minute. Why would she ask you to find her husband otherwise? Why would she keep sending you out to further the plot against the emperor and keep rewarding you? These are shows of trust- and while maybe some could be seen as implicating you further as the sole thorn in the side of the emperor, again, why send you to kill Cicero- to help Abjorn? Someone she loves and cares for deeply? Why not send someone more experienced?

I think maybe her paranoia ramps up after the Cicero incident for sure- she gets more flighty and decides right around when you are going to kill the emperor, when things are seriously about to change, does she panic. I mean, imagine you've led a group for years and some stranger you brought into your family like last week, and a jester who brought a sacred corpse with him is claiming the stranger is supposed to be the faction leader and the only one who can hear the dead lady's voice! That's a shit deal! What the fuck!

If something goes wrong, everything will go wrong. She's probably not had a lot of control in her life previously (note: her story about her uncle making "unwanted advances" makes me think maybe it's something that had been happening and she finally decided to kill him after snapping but she definitely glosses over it very quickly in favor of being murder happy which is understandable) and now that control is once again slipping and everyone else can see she's paranoid (multiple members comment on it if you talk to them before hopping in the Nightmothers coffin the first time) so it's not a big surprise that you, the threat to her status quo and control, seem like the one to take out

And it all goes to shit! And she seems so desperately and genuinely sorry on her death bed - everyone she loved and cared for is dead, mind you. This is a woman who has lost everything and is now begging to die for a greater good and a desperate apology to you and to the people she's hurt. The game clearly doesn't want you to forgive her (based on the dialog options it presents), but i wish we could at least say something kind. But I that might just be me

[bonestrouslingbones]

btw if you ever wanna really look at the beauty of color theory & the importance of context in colors i really like how edge's armor communicates "black" pretty well imo and fluff's jacket communicates "purple" when this is the difference between both colors

[anthromimicry]

sorry, halsey — hopeless fountain kingdom.

[shwarmii]

i never realized Viktor was missing from Disenchanted Fashions before (or at least tumblr isnt showing him) and i am having so much fun with that bit of freedom towards his wardrobe jfc

[sapsolais]

i love nimona

[muse-stellium]

So on a nicer note than the whole notifications drama, the always wonderful and amazing @miimpii​ encouraged me to be more brave and talk about my tekken sims world more, so um have um pictures of the Queen before I chicken out again okay bye-

[hoshiyoshis]

also ughhghg im gonna get some stupid shit off my chest so

tw for talk abt body image shit

i think the weirdest part of growing up fat has been realizing... i’m not as big as i thought i was?

like. yes im chubby, yes i have a tummy, i know these things as a fact bc i can see myself in the mirror. but when i went off to school (pre-pandemic), i saw girls who were bigger than me. fuck, i was friends w girls who were bigger than me. im plus size, but idk one of them told me that i’m not fat compared to her (bc she was both taller and stockier than me) and it just made me realize how damaging theater was for me while growing up??? that my high school drama teacher claimed to understand what it was like being a bigger girl in theatre only for me to realize years later that i was nowhere near as big as she kept making me feel like i was

like. fuck man no wonder i dealt w body dysmorphia for so fucking long. even now i always feel bigger than i am and it fucks w me a lot. i know im fat, but im not morbidly obese as ppl kept (and keep) making me feel like i am. im just short-ish and i have a chubby tummy.

[occkalt]

thinking about various verses for kat rn............ like the idea of her becoming an urban legend in the modern day would be really fun i think. especially if it came complete with dumb teenagers trying to summon her through rituals - i'm not sure if i'd portray her as a vengeful ghost or something else entirely, but i really like the general idea a lot!!

a "non tragedy" au where her father never vanished might be interesting too potentially. i could have it linked to her canon verse as well - maybe someone prevented her father's fate through some means involving time travel, or maybe it's a parallel universe, kat she somehow comes into contact with the kat from the other one?? idk. i just love kat a whole lot!!

[llycaons]

something else I really love about feast and famine is how wwx isn't all 'wow lan zhan you're the best I can't believe you've been putting up with me I'm SO grateful you're literally perfect even though I'm so needy thank you so so so much' bc that sentiment arises in a lot of fics that handle his trauma or mental health and it's SO tiresome not to mention ooc. like it's not there for no reason bc wwx did express gratitude in canon and lwj IS a really good and supportive partner, but it's really refreshing to see wwx in a stable and reliable enough relationship where, except that one time he was triggered and panicking, he literally never once doubted that lwj would support and stand with him, nor did he ever feel the need to even thank lwj for being a good partner, even through the extremely heavy and difficult work of supporting him through what happened

and they DO communicate a lot, it's more that the gratitude is left unsaid because it's mutually understood to be unnecessary. and as much I'm in favor of them communicating their gratitude to each other, I feel like this dynamic for them is so much healthier and more mature and illustrates how strong their relationship is and how much they trust each other. also the idea of lwj as this...saintlike martyr who nobly supports and reassures a self-hating wwx is really tiring. he has his own struggles to be sure, but he has them away from wwx and the writing doesn't frame him as some tragic, self-sacrificing hero for it. like I love lwj but that's what it should be about, right? this was always going to be wwx's story first and foremost and I really appreciate works that let it be that

[phoenixfeatherandunicornhair]

The day that

a) I made a to do list I just did like half of

b) I opened my letters I’ve been collecting since November - Idk why I do this, but it keeps repeating

c) I had leftover money… until I paid my bills