#Fixed-Screen

[highretrogamelord]

Space Mining for the ZX81

[lavb-b]

Patching him up

Edit: Added ID thanks to @anistarrose !!

Edit: Also wanna take this chance to say in the original post, I already realised susie meant she patched tenna in the lightworld, not in the darkworld. Still, I liked envisioning how this would look like anyway :]

[alacryty]

The dead boys are detecting...!

Charles I said not to touch anything 😔 that boy's getting cursed by whatever's in there for sure

random extra stuff under the cut ↴

Here's just the background (this house has a suspiciously high quantity of lamps) from before I threw a bunch of random effects and color changes on it in davinki resolve. now we're rockin the cosmo and wanda color pallette

And some gifs that are an even BIGGER FILE SIZE as the other ones but they are eeeeever so slightly smoother in their slight camera shaking

Feel free to use any of this for whatever! :D For this one (1) artwork you have my permission yay thanks :)

[lylahammar]

Kabru 💎

[cecoeur]

the perpetual line of spit between a person's lips can sometimes be so personal

[ninjasmudge]

so, this post, huh

[zombolouge]

The thing is, it's not about the Therapy Speak. It's not that everyone who disliked DAV hates healthy communication as a dynamic in fiction. It's not even about only being allowed to be a good guy, really, because most of us did do that anyways (though the option not being there is a loss I grieve even if I never chose it myself, but that's another rant for another day).

It's that DAV does all that stuff at the expense of being believable. At the expense of characters being permitted to have personalities. At the expense of emotions behaving the way emotions actually work for people. At the expense of letting the plot build tension through the stakes we're forced to grapple with.

Half the fics out there take the conflicts between the characters in the previous games and resolve them. I do it myself ALL THE TIME because I like to find a path to resolution through just about any conflict, that's what fascinates me about telling these stories. But the higher the stakes, the harder a conflict is to resolve. You CAN resolve any conflict, you CAN communicate healthily through any emotion, but you can't skip the time it takes to process it all to even be able to communicate it. As someone whose got CPTSD and recovered from many Traumas, I can tell you that the TIME it takes to work through it is not something you can fast track, and the ups and downs of your emotions on that journey can't be skipped. It doesn't matter if you know exactly how to do it, exactly how it's going to feel, or exactly what the end state will be, you CAN'T speedrun it.

DAV has stakes that are astronomical, but nobody treats them that way. Nobody experiences denial - a common psychological reaction to being presented with information that shatters your worldview. Nobody expresses any distrust in the establishments handing out this information - something common among cultures that have at times been at war, even if those wars are "resolved" in the present. Nobody really ever breaks down - something that any person is capable of under extreme circumstances, especially when facing multiple crises of faith that challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves. Nobody blows their lid because they've been repressing the hell out of everything. Nobody grieves for southern Thedas, the entire thing dying off screen and giving you, the player, NO way to engage with it in any way.

Not to mention there are barely any inter-party conflicts, when there should be a lot more. Why is everyone (except Spite) fine with it if Emmrich sacrifices Manfred to become a lich? Why is everyone fine with Illario potentially being set free if he was working with the venatori and Elgar'nan, two sources that have actively attacked everyone in the party? Why doesn't Neve resent Lucanis if Treviso is picked? Why doesn't Harding get pissed off at Nevarra for having a secret society of liches that never helped during the Inquisition's war against the breach and corypheus? Why doesn't Harding feel ANYTHING about Ferelden and the rest of the south? Shouldn't Harding resent the fact that she's stuck in the north while her home dies?

All of these conflicts ARE resolvable, but not easily. And it's not believable that they're never brought up. It's not believable that these characters skip through everything that happens with like, barely a frowny face most of the time. In DAO, Alistair leaves if you don't treat his conflicts with respect. In DA2, your party members try to kill each other if you don't pay attention to their conflicts/emotional needs. In DAI, people can leave or betray you, Cassandra throws a chair at Varric and tries to body him out a window. ALL of these can be resolved but it takes effort, and the characters get to SHOW that they're bothered by them and struggling the way a person would when faced with those emotions.

The problem isn't the therapy speak, or that everyone is loyal and won't leave, or that they aren't mean to each other enough. It's that it's toxic positivity. It's toxic as fuck to imply that anger or grief should be smiled over or else you're giving up, and it's damaging to people to avoid engaging with their own negative emotional responses to extremely negative stimuli. It's pasting optimism over very real, very weighty issues, sweeping it all under the rug, and you keep waiting for the lid to blow off the pressure cooker that creates, but it never does. It never becomes anything that emulates real emotions, which is why the whole damn thing feels hollow. Everything's dying and nobody cares, not even about themselves, and that's NOT healthy communication.

It's bullshit, half-assed storytelling that didn't tell us the actual story, just the vague idea of what it could have been.

[loop-da-loop]

This is how the Duck V. Diesel arc went, right?

[thebrainrotsreal]

The way my brain activates when the brainrot kicks in. I don't even know what possessed me. Cecil stans please accept my offering of your pookie. My art style is evolving against my will <3

[nanihirunkits]

I’m sorry, Mon. Please don’t be mad. You didn’t do anything wrong. Why would you apologize? Because you’re upset. I must’ve done something wrong. You didn’t. I did. I should be the one apologizing. I was irritated and ended up taking it out on everyone. It was childish of me.

BOYS IN LOVE | EP5

[highretrogamelord]

Aliens (Marc Tebeka) for Windows 3.1

[kyurochurro]

🌙✨ woah man!! things that go bump in the night... totally spooky!!

[dykemithrun]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MITHRUN‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[zolo-san]

look I did the thing~

Alternate blue text for Sanji (x)

[spookdvde]

its Them ♥️

[harbek]

Rogue. (Played by Jonathan Groff, in Doctor Who.)

The first full, realistic portrait I've done in years.

Spent all weekend on this. Still room for improvement, because I'm a perfectionist. And I could tweak it forever, but in 5 hours I'm getting on a train to start the first week of my master's degree in art.

Detail shots and sketch:

Bonus: Comparison with a very old drawing I did of Jonathan, back in the days of Spring Awakening. If you wanna get better at drawing, just keep drawing, you'll get there. ♥