#That works :] -Amelia

[loadingbones]

Vicar Amelia 🫰🏻

[sugarrushsato]

Martyred by her transformation

[amelias-art]

we hit LL2 which means NEW FRAMES!! i tried to mimic the lancer art style a bit hehe

[snoozerin]

The voices took over gootbye

[dokries]

from the start

pairing: yoon jeonghan x gender neutral reader

genre: fluff, established relationship

word count: 495

warnings: calling each other weird lovingly (reader gets called a weirdo affectionately LOL), passing mention of food, they both talk about slightly embarrassing things

author note: this was also requested by my fav melimeli HAHA ily amelia thank you 🫶 have fun reading and i hope it lives up to your expectations 🙏 also, i love the laufey song that has the same title (okay i just love laufey) but sadly this isn’t based off of it 😞 lots of love <33

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“you know, you always were a little weird from the start,” jeonghan says when you get comfortable on the bed beside him, patting your hair gently before staring at the tv screen in front of the two of you as if he hasn’t said anything offensive.

you turn to glare at him before settling back comfortably against his chest—it’s way too late for your brain to function, and you would’ve been sleeping if your boyfriend hadn’t convinced you to stay up with him to watch a movie together. in fact, if he wants to be with you for longer even though you spent the entire day out with him, why is he dissing you out of nowhere? something isn’t adding up.

“hey! what do you mean by ‘a little weird’?” you whine, hand going up to smack his upper arm half heartedly before falling to your side once more. “you’re the weird one, not me.”

jeonghan raises an eyebrow before nudging your shoulder. “okay, so who was the one who tripped over their shoelaces when we first met and said my laces ‘must be trusty’ again? sweetie, who even says that?”

you purse your lips before glaring at him once more. “hey, i was nervous, okay! it’s not my fault you looked so good that day and my shoelaces just happened to be untied!”

jeonghan mocks your words, exaggerating the way he moves his mouth before smirking at your expression, finding this conversation way too funny.

“hannie…” you start, and he hums for you to continue, his smirk falling as one grows on your face. “aren’t you the one who was begging seungkwan to ditch his friend date with me? that one day i was supposed to go to the summer festival with him? he said you were practically on your knees and offered to buy him iced americanos for a month.”

your boyfriend opens his mouth to defend himself but realizes he really can’t, considering that what you’re saying is nothing but the truth—jeonghan was glued to seungkwan’s side that entire day, and kept asking him to let him go instead of his friend just so he could have an excuse to spend time with you.

“yeah, yeah, so maybe i did. but you’re the one who got told by those little kids that you looked like the lorax during halloween when you were matching with junnie with those carrot costumes—i told you back then that you should’ve gotten matching angel costumes with me but no,” he drags the last word out before booping your nose with a pointed look. “you never listen to me, do you?”

you groan, hiding your face in your boyfriend’s arm as he chuckles. “yeah, i thought so.”

“shut up, hannie.” you move back to glare at him once more but end up smiling at his upturned mouth.

jeonghan hums under his breath as he sighs, going back to patting your head. “i love you too, my little weirdo.”

[eemamminy-art]

Commission for @annetastic1981a !

This is inspired by her fic, Taking It Slow As Fast As We Can. Not giving anything away about the context of the scene, as it's from an upcoming chapter! Thanks so much for commissioning me Anne, it was a pleasure! 😊💛

[reagent-leon]

If I had any say in the development of The Outlast Trials, my plea to Red Barrels would be this: expand on the characters you’ve already got instead of adding new ones. Franco, the Pitcher, Amelia, Henrietta, they’ve all been great. But do you know what’s been one of my favourite updates? The one for the Imposter. Making them able to interact with players more. I was hanging out with one for quite a while in Kill the Snitch, thinking it was my buddy @cannibalizedcadavers. He even offered me a lockpick, and if Danny hadn’t picked up a key elsewhere in the trial at that exact moment, I would’ve taken the bait and gotten stabbed. I got out of there sharpish, but it was super unsettling being misled like that, much better than the telltale giggling they used to do. 

I feel like they should add new mechanics to the guys already on the roster, refine them a little, maybe even design alternative versions. There are supposed to be multiple Pushers, multiple Night Hunters, multiple Pitchers, and yet they all have the same voice lines and appearance. The Jaeger being unique makes sense because she’s Henrietta, and we know some of the other ex-pops have names, Frank, George, Danny, etc. But we see two heavy ex-pops die. The Black Big Grunt dies twice in Franco’s trials (that I can recall), first in Poison the Medicine, then again in Poison the Cattle. So, where does that fit into the timeline? I take it we’re supposed to assume it's a different Big Grunt. 

Teach the old dogs some new tricks instead of trying to distract us with new playmates. Refine some new mechanics or behaviours, even if they’re not strictly player-related.

I’ve always found it odd that ex-pops don’t react to one another, or at least not to the Prime Assets. I’m not asking for Prime Time-level dialogue, just something, especially from specialist ex-pops. I think they’d all have something funny to say about the Pusher, and the Pusher mistakenly thinking he’s still their doctor? Come on. Give me some chemistry between the characters. There’s a severe lack of interactivity within the game, both with the characters and their environments. Actually, I think it’s only Franco and maaaaybe Phyllis who mention there’s something weird about their respective trial environments.

The Prime Assets are supposed to be these charismatic leaders, but we never get to see Phyllis playing mother hen, Coyle playing drill sergeant, or Franco building up a new gang. There’s a lot of tell, don’t show, which made sense in the beginning. I admit that during Amelia’s Escape, I was hoping to see more of the Sinyala Facility. Specifically, I was hoping to get a peek at where they’re keeping the ex-pops when they’re not in active trials. I’m imagining an asylum-type environment, which at some point could be used as a map itself. Imagine trying to escape and instead winding up in a sleep room full of ex-pops who want you dead. I know the developers have talked about this before, but I’m sorry, with how volatile the ex-pops are, I cannot see them all getting along enough to be in a sleep room like the Reagents. There must be containment procedures, something to keep them more docile when they aren’t on patrol. 

Also, they fucking killed Clyde Perry. I was really hoping to see him in-game, even if he was just looking down on us like Wernicke, maybe hear some voice lines from him. But no. He’s gone. Wasted just to big up Henrietta’s arrival. It’s interesting that both Clyde and Henrietta were victimised by Coyle, and it was Henrietta who ended Clyde. I really wonder how the Jaeger will work in Coyle’s trial environments. Because surely she’d want revenge? She could crack him like a pistachio, especially with all her new enhancements. How are they going to keep Coyle safe? Just not let them out of the insertion gate at the same time? Seems reasonable, I guess. But they probably won’t think it through that thoroughly.

I wish that story informed gameplay in more ways than just introducing new hazards. I don’t need gas or frost. What I need is for the Prime Assets to bark at their underlings and call the Pitcher a creepy bastard. For general ex-pops to maybe keep their distance from Prime Assets, or risk friendly fire.

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UPDATE

So, as you probably guessed, I started writing this before the Jaeger was released (21st April, to be exact). And just as I suspected, there’s no new dialogue between ex-pops. I expected Henrietta/the Jaeger to at least hint at something to do with Coyle. Coyle’s voice actor, Julian Bailey, seems to be tied up with other acting work at the moment, so I suppose I can understand why we’re not getting anything new from him. But come on, there’s no hostility from the Jaeger towards him? Nothing about the man who is responsible for what’s happened to her? No long-standing fear of cops or men in general? 

Uuuuugh. I just wish it mattered more which ex-pops are actually in the trial, and that they acknowledged their surroundings. Phyllis mentions feeling like she’s living the same day over and over again, and that the doctors have “moved things around again”. But she was also the one to notice Amelia running around and that the rules were changing.

I suppose this is more of a vent piece than my usual analysis-style post. In between these big, story-altering events, I’d love it if Red Barrels would sneak in some little character updates, additional dialogue, maybe a few model changes. Something. Anything. Something more than just evidence documents.

[artistnamedlg]

my love

[kinky-cas]

if you watch season 8 of supernatural and don’t come away understanding that dean is a practicing queer man (and written that way on purpose!) then I honestly don’t know how to help you.

[epiclad]

POV: every ant and envoy in Miquella's Haligtree today

[izuizzy]

Now that the fic is out! Please enjoy the refs of Shadow and Amy for Crown of Thorns!!! 😈🙌🏼

do not repost/edit/reference/use these au designs

[itswilliamleonard]

ame sees everything twice

[intramoon]

Finally, working on custom tattoos for Wednesday - 40% done?

[freckleslikestars]

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'not bad, they're okay', and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just... they turn into something so beautiful...

Karen Gillan as Amy Pond | DOCTOR WHO (2008-2013)

[inspo: ★☆★]

{credit for the Google overlay goes to @cal-kestis}

[anistarrose]

The thing about the "fridged" trope is that obviously you can't have a female love interest dying as a defining moment for a male character because that's not feminist, but you also can't have a male love interest dying as a defining moment for a female character because then she's just going to have an arc revolving around her relationship with a man and that's also not feminist, and you also can't kill off a love interest from a gay relationship or a relationship involving a nonbinary person because that's burying your queers, which is at least as bad as misogyny if not even worse, and now suddenly you can't kill off romantic partners at all in stories because no matter the demographics, it's going to be problematic somehow, which is... a pretty ridiculous limitation to impose on storytelling.

And, like, it would be satisfying to have a solution other than "it depends on context if not straight-up vibes, and it's usually very reasonable for audience members to have a range of opinions on the execution of one specific instance," but. Yeah, you do kind of have to just vibe check it in a deeply subjective manner sometimes.

[dokries]

rockstar bf!joshua

pairing: hong jisoo (joshua) x gender neutral reader

genre: fluff, rockstar!joshua x non celebrity!reader, established relationship au

word count: 490

warnings: kisses, mentions of a dinner in passing, joshua is down bad

author note: this was requested by my dear amelia <3 i hope this is good 😭 to be honest i don’t really know if this still counts as rockstar!shua but…here you go! lots of love :D

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★ first of all: “are you guys ready to rock with us? because we’re ready to rock with you.” you can’t think rockstar joshua without that, let’s be real.

★ he dedicates songs to you whenever he can because you’re his muse and inspiration—the other guys would be sick of it if they weren’t the same way with their own partners.

★ of course, he has electric guitar solos in the band’s songs and is down so bad, he names his guitar after you so you’re always with him on stage in some way.

★ speaking of “being on stage” with him, he always has something you’ve gifted, whether it be a ring or a guitar pick, and kisses it with a wink in your direction before he performs—he says he does it to draw on your energy so he can do his very best.

★ if your relationship is private, he’s good at keeping it that way but even then, he makes sure he walks to your side of the stage as much as he can.

★ if you’re public, he’ll always blow kisses if he sees you, and all the fans around you swoon even if they know it’s directed to you (in fact, if you’re comfortable, many of them love to nudge you and wiggle their eyebrows as if you’re best friends)

★ even if you’re not loud at concerts, he’d always recognize your voice—and screams, since he’s heard enough of you squealing over his performances already.

★ loves to just fall down onto you after a post concert dinner with everyone, and only giggles when you groan because he knows you love him…even if you’re trapped under his limbs like every night.

★ whines “darling…” when you try to push him off, and suddenly you don’t have strength in your arms anymore and let him lay on you after he moves to kiss you on the cheek with a mischievous smile.

★ when he’s on tour, you join him when he’s in an area that you can go to! he doesn’t expect you to be there the whole time but you continue to make the effort to be in his hotel room (he always tells you where he is in a text message as soon as he arrives) when he comes back from rehearsals and the such.

★ when you can’t join him, he always tries to call you when possible, and leaves voice messages whining your name when you don’t pick up—you’re the only one he actually checks his messages for, and he loves to use that as leverage when teasing you.

★ “i can’t believe you didn’t pick up my call five minutes ago! you’re the only one i check my notifications for too…”

★ asks you how well he did out of ten after a performance if you were there and gives you as many kisses as your rating (you always say ten because it’s true…and maybe you want more kisses but who can blame you?)