#Competency Cloud

[bluemoonscribbler]

Cloud Strife and the beefy dark-haired beauties that he crushes on lol he has a type. bisexual panic party

bonus brunettes underneath the cut

Someone save this man from thinking. He is an idiot /affectionate

i really wanted to draw arms. do i feel gypped outta beefa? yes. i do.

[caprart1]

I've made it to chapter 8 of the ff7 remake and it's wild how every interaction with Sephiroth so far has basically been a declaration of his love for Cloud.

"That which binds us together would be no more. And I would be loathe to live in such a world."

"Sleep. And dream the sweetest dreams."

"I am... your everything."

Oh yeah ok those are normal things to say, the fuck??? Just say "I love you" and move on to the afterlife already. He's so down bad it makes me SICK 🤧 this game was made for mentally ill bi people

[sanepersonhere]

Redraw of chapter 33's cover ^^

alt. ver below

[trialnumbergamma]

Breaking news: murderous lab rat alien man with no real immune system taken out by toddler’s macaroni art we are here on the scene with a witness now!

Cloud: I was grabbing an hi-potion when the necklace flew out of my pocket and slapped Sephiroth in the face, if I knew that was all it took to take him out I would have coughed on him months ago

[fancyfade]

Batman vs Robin #4

Wait would never let that (Damian breaking Nezha's will and succeeding in something) happen because he's scared of teenagers, Batman

[auntie-browning]

||: The two sides of Browning:

"No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great, remember girls...duty first. I haven't lost a girl out on the field yet, and it won't happen now. Stay safe and give em hell! Move out!"

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"I WHIFFED THE BURATINO SALVO! AHHHHH!!!"

*Proceeds to get kidnapped by a swarm of tiny magical dolls lifting the entire TOS-1 without a struggle.*

[untamedtempest]

Forecast: Two more days and I'm free to meance for a bit. Rough weekend on the work front, and makes everything kind of eh, but hope everyone is having best one you can. I'm up early so going to chip at some things, prep some memes, and an inbox call before heading in<3

[dark-elf-writes]

How are the Turks handling Cloud's everything in the leaf house au?

At first when Cissnei comes back to report someone new hanging around Aerith they were skeptical. Particularly when she told them with something between surprise and concern that he had seen her watching them.

(Cissnei is no slouch when it comes to stealth. If she didn’t want to be seen nothing short of a fellow Turk or SOLDIER should have been able to clock her.)

Reno laughed, told her she’s getting rusty, and was ordered to watch Aerith next.

He gets spotted too.

It becomes a bit of a game between them, seeing if any of them can be skipped over by those eyes. Yet without fail no matter who is sent, no matter what the blond is doing, they are spotted at least once. It would be more concerning if Cloud had any real interest in doing anything other than scowling at them while Aerith loaded a basket on his arm with flowers and didn’t almost always have at least one kid at his heels.

Then Tseng gets caught in an ambush between sectors five and six and is down to his last magazine when a blond blur leaps from the shadows and starts taking out the goons and monsters without hesitation.

Even when the sword, rusted and chipped as it shatters in his hands Cloud doesn’t stop as if breaking swords in the middle of battle was normal for him. (If Rude and Shotgun were to be believed it was.)

Tseng keeps shooting until his gun clicks is empty, covering the man his Turks had written off as ‘weird but mostly harmless’ as he cuts a path of distraction with only a broken sword and what looks like shards of materia set in several earrings.

It’s not until the dust settles and the blond is scowling down at his newly broken sword like it personally offended him that Tseng asks.

“Why?”

Blue eyes, brighter than they should be in the gloom but still dimmer than a Soldiers and without the glassy distance of an addict, blink. “They were going to kill you.” He says simply, like that answers everything.

Tseng sees it then, the loyalty this man commands, how he wins it from nearly every corner and gives it back just as readily. It’s intoxicating and alien to see in someone not from his department.

(Shinra would claim that Turks were only ever loyal to the company. In truth the only thing a Turk was ever loyal to were their fellow Turks.)

Cloud doesn’t know what to make of the neatly wrapped box waiting for him in the church the next day, nor does he know what to make of Aerith’s incredibly amused smile as he looks between the sword (far nicer than any of the rusted and broken things that he’s been able to scavenge from the scrap but not so nice that it would paint a target on his back) and her in stunned silence. He really doesn’t know what to make of the job offer Tseng brings him the next day.

He turns down the job, keeps the sword, and pretends like he doesn’t see another Turk giving him the thumbs up out of the corner of his eye when he asks how Tseng is healing.

There’s two betting pools: one for when Cloud (knowingly) lets Tseng take him on a date and the other for when Cloud takes the job offer. As far as the Turks are concerned he’s already one of them, it’s just a waiting game to make it official.

[cloudbattrolls]

@stuckstucktrolls @raitrolling

A Stupid Shirt for Every Arty.

[radiantmists]

many things i liked about this episode but did anyone feel like the whole damane situation was played sort of anticlimactically? this is the first time the one power's been used in war for a thousand years, and they get taken out by wooden catapults and one (1) aes sedai? really??

[thesluts2004]

i might cry

[itsclippingbinch]

the more i think about these adaptations the more annoyed i get. what is with this way of thinking that in order for things to be more mature and meaningful they need to be stripped of joy and swathed in grayscale? how do these clearly capable creative teams keep making projects less profound and competent than the original children's media they're trying to build upon?

[yume-fanfare]

"why don't artists finally start boycotting adobe" YOU THINK I'D BE USING THIS STUFF IF I ACTUALLY HAD A CHANCE NOT TO???

[parashy]

I feel like people who say that Shrek has always had pop culture references so Shrek 5 having tiktok is fine misses the point of making references.

Like I didn't know who tf Oj Simpson was or what Cop was when I watched Shrek 2 for the first time, but the scene still made sense without the context. Shrek and his friends are being arrested because they're disrupting the antagonists plans. Boom simple.

The other references are quick, few second gags. The matrix reference? The climax of a fight scene. The sir Justin poster? Some random hot guy teenage Fiona pinned over that Shrek couldn't measure up to.

I know it's just a teaser, but when your first joke is a pop culture reference that can't really be removed from context and is only funny to a small pool of people it's not a good look.

[angelajohnsonstory]

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[elainemorisi]

maybe I will cancel my nonexistent NYT subscription on grounds of platforming very very bad opinions on the quality of books