#also the quality is ehhhhh i am sorry

[arcanegifs]

Vi and Caitlyn's Recall Animations in their Valentine's Day Heartthrob skins

Bonus: Official Splash Art

[boxoftheskyking]

First off I LOVE YOUR RESPONSE TO THE DRUNK AT 4AM BAKERY POST that was hilarious also I am a sucker for identity reveals ie "so you're a popstar apparently well that would be nice to know before we slept together" but wangxian

Ps: do you accept xiyao and/or what other cql/mdzs ships are like your jam thanks your the best ily

Thank you friend! This is what came to mind and it's way too long. I sort of just keep writing the same shit over and over but hey.

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"Huh." It's not his most eloquent response, but it captures the various layers he's feeling at the moment.

Lan Zhan looks profoundly guilty. "I'm sorry. Again, I am so sorry. I shouldn't have lied—"

Wei Ying holds up a finger. "No, no, I'm processing. You be quiet and let me process."

"Right. Yes. Of course."

"Huh."

Lan Zhan clenches his jaw. "I wouldn't have—"

Wei Ying raises his finger up higher. "Lan Zhan. I never thought I'd have to reprimand you for interrupting."

Lan Zhan sits back, cowed, and holds on to his teacup. It's a very nice teacup—minimalist but a good weight. Good quality. Rich people stuff. This whole apartment is rich people stuff, which suddenly makes a lot of sense.

"On the one hand," Wei Ying starts. "It's kind of adorable that the Twin Jades are actually brothers."

"I—"

"No! Shush. I still think the mask thing is a weird gimmick. But I guess you save on makeup artists."

Lan Zhan looks like he wants to reply, but he behaves.

"On another hand, I get the sneaking around. I'm a little relieved, to be honest. I genuinely thought you were married."

"Wei Ying!" Lan Zhan gasps, scandalized.

"What? It made sense."

"You would sleep with a married man for four months?" He sounds just as judgy as Wen Qing did when she asked him that just last week. He shrugs and doesn't say what he said to her then ("I don't know, man. The dick, it's good.")

"I'm glad you're not married. For the record."

"Are you—?"

"No, I'm not married, don't be ridiculous. I don't have the attention span for long-term deception."

"I'm glad." Lan Zhan smiles that tiny, sweet little smile that makes Wei Ying wants to smash plates in the street. "That's why I had to tell you. The magazine, they were asking me if I was bringing anyone to the awards show, and I had to say No but all I was thinking was I did want to bring someone, and I wanted it to be you, and—"

Wei Ying holds up his finger again. "Eh."

Lan Zhan shuts up.

Wei Ying taps his front teeth with this fingernail, thinking. "On another hand. You've put me in a tricky position, Lan Zhan."

"I know, and I—"

"Eh!"

Lan Zhan hunches over his teacup like a little kid.

"This is an odd position. Lan Zhan." Wei Ying sighs. "I don't listen to your music, Lan Zhan."

That makes him straighten up. "What?"

Wei Ying shrugs again. "I don't really like it."

"You don't."

"Eh, no, not really. It's not my thing."

"What is your thing?"

"See," he waves his finger around like a grandma. "This is what comes of sneaking around. You've never seen me working, you've never been in my car, you've never seen me dancing while I cook, you have no idea what kind of music I like."

"So what do you like?"

"I dunno. Indie stuff. Punk. I don't really like pop."

Lan Zhan frowns. "You like ABBA."

"I'm bisexual, I have to like ABBA. It's in the handbook."

"What don't you like about it?"

"About your stuff?"

"Yes."

"Let's not do this, Lan Zhan."

"Tell me."

Wei Ying leans his chin on his folded arms. "It's too saccharine for me."

"Saccharine?"

"It lacks a, you know. An edge."

Lan Zhan stares at him.

"It's like, I dunno, it sounds too focus-grouped."

Lan Zhan looks out the window, over the park. "Huh."

"Sorry."

"It is focus-grouped."

"Yeah, I figured. Do you still want to have sex with me?"

"Do you..." Lan Zhan trails off, drawing a spiral on the side of his cup with one finger. "Do you like my voice, at least?"

"I don't know. I couldn't say. I don't know which one you are."

"I'm— Hang on."

Wei Ying realizes his mistake at the same moment. "Oh no."

"So there's one of us that you don't like?"

"Hey! Wanna have sex? Right now?"

"Uh-uh, tell me."

"I could really go for some—"

"Lan Huan sings higher. I sing lower. Which one do you not like?"

Wei Ying yanks his shirt over his head. "Look, a shiny thing!"

"No. Tell me." Lan Zhan scoots his chair closer and leans in, way too intense.

"Nope." Wei Ying hops away from the table and makes a dash for the couch, struggling out of his jeans. "Not doing it! Come have sex instead."

"The last album was edgy." Lan Zhan is very near pouting.

Wei Ying pauses, one foot still stuck in his trousers, and wiggles his hand. "Ehhhhh."

"Wei Ying!"

"Hey, I found the living room lube!"

Lan Zhan stands up from the table. "So that means you heard it. If you don't think it's edgy."

"Lan Zhan, I'm going to stick some stuff up my butt now."

"So you do listen to it."

"Don't you want to come over here and stick stuff—"

"What wasn't edgy? I thought it was edgy. My manager said it was—"

"It's gonna be weird stuff, Lan Zhan, come on."

Lan Zhan considers him for a long moment, and Wei Ying can see him waver. "This conversation isn't over."

Wei Ying pumps his fist in the air. "Yes!"

Lan Zhan prowls over to him and snags the lube from the table. "I mean it, we're talking about this later."

"That's what you think." Wei Ying grins up at him, in a shit-eating sort of way. Lan Zhan sticks his thumb in Wei Ying's mouth.

"How weird are we talking?"

the end

[itsbenedict]

I didn’t post about everything I played this year, so here’s my opinions on the stuff I played that I didn’t make a rec post for:

Raging Loop 

Raging Loop is one of them twisty meta Zero Escape-y branching-path visual novels where an ensemble cast is trapped in a mysterious circumstance where people are dying gruesomely, and you have to find out what’s happening and stop it by looping a bunch. 

I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it, because... it tries to have its cake and eat it too with the supernatural elements. Clearly magic is real and has important impacts on the scenario, but then other parts are trickery you’re supposed to see through, and it’s entirely uninterested in cluing you in to how that trickery was accomplished. Not exactly a fair play mystery, in that regard- you have to kind of just be along for the ride, rather than try to figure it out.

That said, it’s a good ride- pretty strong character writing, and the central conceit of the Werewolf/Mafia-style murder scenario creates really interesting drama. It’s more concerned with making itself feel clever than letting the player feel clever, but it’s still well-paced and gripping and has a pretty decent resolution.

Detective Grimoire

I recommended Tangle Tower, the sequel, pretty strongly- and this one, while obviously a little rougher around the edges with the art and mechanics (the suspicion tracker system is a total dud; I didn’t even realize it existed until I realized I was missing an achievement for using it), it’s still pretty darn good. Really fun character designs and animations, fully-voiced, and a solid whodunit backing it all. Plus- while the two are more or less self-contained, the continuity threads with Tangle Tower raised some really interesting questions.

Contradiction - the all-video murder mystery

This one was pretty fun, largely on the strength of the actors. The main mechanic of interrogating people on evidence and using their own statements against each other was some good stuff, too. Definitely had that Phoenix Wright quality to the deductions, and Jenks is a really fun character. (Had a few points where progression was just linked to standing in a certain previously-abandoned area of the map where a clue was suddenly there for no reason, there- good thing it had a hint system.)

As a mystery, it could use a little work- most of what you end up finding out is sequel bait (for a sequel that never actually came together, unfortunately), and the actual whodunit is just sort of hiding in the cracks of all that. And... cornering the culprit just sort of happens out of nowhere once you’ve got your hands on the right piece of evidence, without much fanfare. You’re following up on leads like usual, you find a little lie in someone’s testimony, and then- oh, shit, they’re just confessing everything! Unlike all the previous times you questioned them and they were super evasive like everyone else! And then the game is over. 

All in all, it’s pretty meaty and entertaining and I’d recommend it, but unfortunately the creators have moved on to other things, so there’s not going to be any follow-up on the stuff it left unresolved.

Ikenfell

Ikenfell is a tightly-designed RPG about kids at a magic school, with Paper Mario-style action command mechanics and a battle system that makes a big deal out of careful positioning and movement, which was really enjoyable. The difficulty’s a little high (I recommend always always always speccing into max damage because killing things before they kill you is worth more than any amount of defense, speed doesn’t work, and healing is cheap), but I found it really satisfying.

There’s... something... off? About... I don’t know how to put it, it’s... doing that “yes, everyone is queer and mentally ill, deal with it” thing, which, sure, okay. But for a lot of them it’s such a background thing, like... half the playable cast is unambiguously nonbinary, but like... I don’t know if it’s trying to make some statement on how there are no rules to being NB and you can 100% perform a particular binary gender presentation but still count, or if they wrote the whole story and then changed the pronouns of some of the characters for Representation Points, or what. Probably the former? I dunno, it just feels weird. Maybe I’m just not woke enough to Get It.

(unrelatedly: why the heck is the official art they use everywhere so... off-model? none of them look like they do in-game- they look like the creator commissioned someone to draw a group shot with one reference image each and didn’t tell them anything about the characters. how much you wanna bet they commissioned a friend and it came out wrong but they were too polite to say “sorry, no, this is wrong, can you do it over?”)

Trails of Cold Steel IV

Hoo boy. It’s... not great, and it’s not great in a pretty predictable way for an even-numbered entry in the Trails series. It happens every time- first there’s a game in a new engine with new characters and a new world to explore, and it’s really nice and does interesting things... and then it ends on a cliffhanger, and then there’s a sequel game in the same engine with the same characters and the same world, reusing as many assets as possible. Also the League Of Generically Evil Anime Supervillains is there causing trouble for reasons they refuse to explain, and the plot is a storm of magicbabble and macguffin-chasing that makes little to no sense. 

Cold Steel IV is that for Cold Steel III, full stop. Welcome back to all the same places you visited last game, except this time there’s some stupid magic apocalypse happening (not that it stops you from taking the time to do random sidequests constantly, of course). The whole “oh, the evil curse mind controls people and that’s why they do stupid bullshit that’s in no one’s interest” plot point is leaned on super hard, and it’s just a big yawn the whole way through.

It’s still really fun, though, because the battle system remains really well-designed. (The same battle system that was just as fun in Cold Steel III, mind you, but it hasn’t gotten old.) And- though they’re struggling to square it with the dumb mind control apocalypse plot, the NPC dialogue continues to make the world feel believable and lived-in. They don’t slack on the parts that make Trails good- it’s just the parts that make Trails bad are making themselves more evident than ever.

did finally get to date Towa though so that’s a win

One Step From Eden

OSFE is... uh. It’s fucking hard is what it is. It’s sort of a deckbuilding roguelike, and there’s this combat that takes place on a grid, and- wait, it’s like Mega Man Battle Network, it’s exactly like Mega Man Battle Network. Man, I forgot about that, but the mechanical influence is extremely obvious. It’s MMBN meets Slay the Spire.

Except it’s super duper hard as hell, because unlike MMBN you can’t pause and swap out chips or anything- everything is just always happening so much, all at once, everywhere, and you have no recourse but to git gud and learn all the enemy patterns and the behavior of your own spells and develop the twitch reflexes necessary to not fucking die from all the shit that’s on the screen always.

(What’s the story? Uhhhh, there was some kind of magic apocalypse, and some anime girls are trying to reach a city for some reason that doesn’t really get explained ever. The game doesn’t really care to build its world at all- it’s all mechanics plus a little token character dialogue that doesn’t say much.)

The point is it’s really frickin’ hard but I am an epic pro gamer and I got ALL THE ACHIEVEMENTS, MOTHERFUCKER. If you’ve played it, I expect you to be really god damn impressed with me, okay???

A Short Hike

This one was really relaxing! It’s a platformer where you explore an Animal Crossing-y island of cartoon animal people, collecting mobility upgrades- but like, mainly it’s about straight chillin’. The flight controls are fun and there’s lots of little secrets to find and it’s just a nice time that doesn’t drag on too long. Not too much to say about this one.

Pokémon Sword

Ehhhhh.

I’m not here for the hot takes about how Dexit is good actually. Development hell happened, they had to make cuts for time, I get it. It’s disappointing and makes the game a little bit worse, but it’s not the end of the world.

Apart from that... perfectly serviceable? The Wild Area could’ve used a little more technical polish (as could most things in the game, really) but was a step in the right direction, giving the player a wider array of early-game team-building options than ever before. No HMs is good. Story and characters were kind of nothing, but that’s par for the course. “At least this time they’re not shoehorning in some kind of stupid evil-team-wants-legendary-pokemon-to-destroy-the-world apocalypse plot”, I thought to myself before they managed to shoehorn one in at the last minute with zero buildup- but, hey, beats wasting half the game on it.

It’s nothing special and it’s missing a lot of polish, but its problems are mainly due to being rushed, and presumably next gen they’ll be able to reuse a lot of the models and animations (maybe even improve the animations so they’re not so boring??? a man can dream) and make something interesting. SwSh seem like they were testing the waters for something else, and not taking too many chances in the meantime. 

(yo why would you sell all these cosmetic items and then turn them all off during gym battles, though) 

Hades

Hades is- oh, who am I kidding? Everyone knows Hades, it’s the game of the year, greatest thing since sliced bread, Supergiant are heroes, yada yada yada. I’ve played almost 300 hours of it and I’ve completed everything except all the Resources Director levels (currently a Sigma Wraith), it’s extremely fun and you don’t need me to tell you that.

Petal Crash

It was that thing the Paranatural creator helped on? It’s, uh. It’s a block-sliding puzzle game thing, sort of in a Puyo Puyo vein. It has fun character designs and some good dialogue, like you’d expect from Zack’s involvement, but it didn’t really leave an impression otherwise (besides how got dang infuriating some of its Turn Trial puzzles can be.) The story is... kinda heartwarming, kinda didactic, kinda childish, not especially deep or interesting. Hard for it to be, when it’s told through little bits of fluffy character dialogue that exist to set up a puzzle battle as quickly as possible. Not super recommended unless you really really like block-sliding puzzles.

Hollow Knight

Man, why’d I sleep on this for so long? It’s a metroidvania platformer with heavy Dark Souls inspiration, in terms of tone and difficulty and death mechanics and environmental storytelling. And it’s... apart from all that, just really good as a game, with tight controls and juicy movement and great animation. Progression is linked as much to mastery as it is to upgrades collected- I found myself in lategame areas facing down things that would’ve killed me ten times over at the start- not because I had the best gear, but because I’d learned the game’s language and understood how to move in ways that wouldn’t get me killed.

(Usually. Sometimes I’d walk into a room and sit on a bench and suddenly there’d be a boss fight and I’d get slaughtered. Ain’t that just the way it goes?)

Anyway, on top of all that it’s just charming as hell, with a really unique and well-realized world full of little bug people. I love how, like, your character is clearly some kind of eldritch abomination, but it’s small and cute and so everyone (besides enemies that attack you on sight because they’re possessed by some kinda evil mold) is like “awww, who’s this little guy? want some help, little guy?”

(except Zote, who is just an ass hole. i love him.)

[lonelyghosts-stuff]

Avengers Infinity War-First Time Watching Reaction Play-by-Play (Pt. 2)

Part 1

I wonder how many people Gamora has killed? What made her finally snap to not serve Thanos anymore?

How DID Gamora find it? Like, who told her?

How did Thanos capture nebula?

Poor nebula. She’s literally been through hell and back.

Ohhhh she snuck on board...

Thanos you suck so much. You favor one daughter over another.

Oh. Where was said map to the soul stone?

Gosh I feel so damn bad for nebula. She was raised as his daughter too but he tortured her and tore her apart. Nebula never had the chance to be her equal. She deserves so much.

Taught groot as an elective? What about all speak?

Buckle up rocket. It’s gonna get emotional.

Thor is literally all alone. He needs a time to sit alone and cry and break a whole building.

Rocket and Thor friends? Please

1500 years old? Jane, honey, you escaped.

Gotta give it up to Hemsworth’s acting chops here. Especially talking to nobody in reality. Just a bunch of cgi

Ew ew ew eye socket

Should have washed that yikes

Snuck it out by hiding it up your? Huh? You watch too many movies rocket.

Huge title card. Thank you. I wouldn’t have known where we were despite them saying their location many times.

How is that video game battery not dead?

Perceptive rabbit

I LOVE that they used a dwarf to play a giant character!!! This is brilliant! (And that dwarves are giant for some reason lol.)

Soooo again Thanos killed everyone EXCEPT Eitri despite his “morality” supposedly being balance

Poor hands

Poor nebula

Smart nebula

Maybe should have waited to be fixed fully first

Ah crap. SOMEONE PICK UP THE SPACE PHONE

MANTIS

Love how Stark asks for peters help in steering and not Stephen lmao

Nice parking job

Peter, stop popping pop culture refs

Lmao ITS ABOUT TO BE THE ICONIC SCENE

YES PLEASE

Blanket of Death. Capey has a new nickname.

Where’s Gamora

Who’s Gamora

Why is Gamora

What master do you serve?

Jesus?

I mean, yea I do. So does Pratt lmaoo.

LMAO PARKER’S FACE WHEN QUILL SAID THOR WASNT HANDSOME

Storm breaker time baby

“In theory it could summon the bifrost” who theorized this? How do you only theorize and not know?

Oh my gosh mantis is just bouncing around

Mr. Clean lmao

Kick names, take ass

Hey now, these guys saved the galaxy and universe from Ego so lmao

Oh no I know the scene coming up

Poor quill lmao

“I’m half human. So the 50% of me that’s stupid, that’s 100% of you.” “Your math is, blowing my mind.” What’s funny is that Quill’s math was actually completely accurate lol

Stephen having a stroke or a seizure? You good homie?

Soooo if Strange looked to the future and so possible outcomes, what does that mean for the TVA? According to them, there’s ONE sacred timeline, so all other branches are erased (which again messes up what smart hulk eventually says in end game. See kids, this is why you don’t mess with time travel in stories. There’s no way to go back in time without creating a time loop). Ehhhhh I’ll let it slide. Just ignore it... sigh... I can’t help it if I’ve studied paradoxes

Hmmmm not good odds I’ve gotta say...

Watch like, outside of the millions of realities that strange saw, there were like a million or billion more he missed where they won with no casualties lol

Hey Red Skull. Long time no see. How did he get here anyways and why?

Yea you’re prepared all right...

Gotta say, Lord Elrond has seen better days

I’m not ready to say good bye to this Gamora. Gamora and Loki and Nat go down as my favorite characters, gotta say. I know that Tony does and it’s sad, but his feels more satisfying because his sacrifice directly results in them winning. Loki is murdered. Gamora is murdered. Nat died just for a stepping stone for the avengers. She has no idea whether or not they will actually win in the end.

I’m hopeful they may bring Nat back like in the comics, red room clone style.

We got back vision, Loki (kinda), variant Gamora, a new captain America, why not Nat? Yea we have a prequel, but gosh I love her so much.

“You must lose that which you love.” Couldn’t that apply to like an object or something? Could I not throw my Nintendo switch over the cliff? Or my dog? (I would hate that just as much as a person, don’t get me wrong, I’m just curious about the rules)

Yea boohoo sad for Thanos... loses his favorite daughter. I don’t care about him. He deserves suffering.

Poor Gamora doesn’t think he’s willing to do it.. GIRL RUN!!!

Thanos deserves all the suffering.

He does love you Gamora... but that love... it’s selfish. It’s blind... Thanos seems to be a chaotic vigilante who is narrowminded, tunnel vision on his goal with no regards of the cost. But he is evil. If there is ever an alternate route to an end that doesn’t result in the loss of innocent lives, and you know that but you willingly choose the once that costs innocent lives, that is an evil decision. Maybe Thanos isn’t evil, but he’s not good. Far from it. He’s obsessed with this idyllic Utopia but he rushes to one method of getting there. Yes, people suffer. It sucks... it’s unfair... it’s horrible. But it is never the right of someone else to dictate whether or not said person would be better off dead. Who lives, who dies. If Thanos truly was neutral and not selfish, he would have thrown his own life into the mix of the potential 50/50 snap. Thanos is not good. He’s not misunderstood. He’s a murderer. A genocidal cult leader. I have no tears for him. Only for those who suffered more at his hands.

Rant over, time to try not to cry about Gamora...

Her face of realization

Gamora run please

Thanos, I hate you. (Great character her, but not a good person)

Poor Gamora

Oh my gosh the emotion here is great but I’ve heard this sound used as a meme on TikTok too many times aghhhh

Gamora!

What a way to die

I’m crying again. I miss her already...

Who the hell designed this place and put the stone here???? Who did this?

Cry Thanos. Suffer. My only comfort here is that you are sad. You deserve suffering. You really do...

The TVA is laughing here and I’m not okay..

Poor Peter Quill... he’s also lost a lot like Thor, but has had the “luck” of not knowing his family too close.

Wakanda babyyyy

No, you don’t want Starbucks, you want Dutch bros

Lmao I love rhodey. Poor Bruce.

BUCKY BUCKY BUCKY

HUG

NO CMON HAVE A LONG HUG

MALE FRIENDSHIPS ARE SO IMPORTANT.

Yea Shuri show em up.

Okay quick pause, I love love LOVE how Shuri is smarter. It’s a powerful moment for females BUT it’s not done in a way that’s condescending to males! It’s not saying women power because men bad, she’s just good! (And she has had access to technology they never could have but I digress). More of this please Hollywood. Don’t let being a female be the power. I don’t want strong female characters, I want strong characters who happen to be female. Ones who hold their own, have faults like anyone else, struggle, have weaknesses and strengths, but are strong without putting down others. Just a comment, just because a woman character may not be as strong as a man character, that is not saying she’s weak. If you’re the second strongest human in the world, you are NOT weak. You’re just not as strong as the strongest human ever, but that’s nothing against you. LET WOMEN STAND ON THEIR OWN MERITS WITHOUT SEX AFFECTING THEM!

Anyways

I love Shuri

I wish they had more time. She definitely could have done it. But stupid Thanos

Ughhhghhg

I know what many scenes are upcoming... with quill and peter and vision and everyone else

Let👏🏻Bucky👏🏻Have👏🏻Peace👏🏻

Thank you Nat!!! I love that Nat is so protective and selfless.

GET THIS MAN A SHIELD

Bucky needs love please. He’s my stand in, manipulated, greasy, long haired, dark and mysterious, stabby boy. (Also I need Bucky and Loki to meet. But let Loki finish his show (and come out of it alive because if he doesn’t I will sue) and be the antihero hero we need. Please. If he doesn’t get reintroduced into the mcu as a hero I will sue.

Thor, sweetie, are you a masochist?

Back to wakanda

Oh no, bad CGI, floating head Bruce banner. I’ll let it slide... sigh....

Can’t like, you just rain bombs on them forever?

JIBARI TRIBE YEA BOYYYYY

Sorry Proxima Midnight, you look like a frog and your name sounds like a middle schooler’s OC.

How nice. Diplomatic meeting.

“Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood.” Reeeeeeally wish you didn’t say that, T’Challa...

Yay big CGI battle commence! It’s like a really expensive animated cartoon at this point

WAKANDA FOREVER!

Poor Bucky. Forgot this dude doesn’t know much about the modern world.

Ahhhh Kamikazi aliens

I just wanna say that I love that Wakanda still has the artistic culture in their clothing and tradition all the while having badass, super advanced technology.

Why can’t they just rain bombs down the whole fight lol. Rhodey has those super nice bombs, like, do that they he whole time? Please? Why do you not have a barrier around the entire king.

No M’Baku, it’s not the end of wakanda. But half of all life, yea

WAKANDA FOREVER YEAAAAAAA

They should honesty all have nano tech suits like black panther lol. Or iron man suits. Fine maybe the most powerful one with the best quality material for the king, but besides that, yknow.

Wow Steve is hot with a beard.

So much happening at once. Thor, Wakanda, Vormir, Knowhere, am I missing anything?

Okay, but what IS the full force of a star? Like in Newton’s or something? Juls? Is it heat?

What’s this metal? How does it fare with vibranium?

Get off your wooden butt, groot.

“He needs the axe” are you Thor, the god of axes?

Soooo, I thought Thor didn’t NEED the hammer, it just helped him concentrate his powers or act as a conduit. Is that retconned already?

Cmon groot, put down your game. Soooo, is Groot worthy? He technically lifted it. Or is it a technicality because it wasn’t fully finished yet?

Cmon bucky, use that fancy arm of yours.

Wow they’re getting destroyed.

They need wanda to help.

BADASS ENTRANCE BABYYYY

How did Thor know to come to wakanda?

Floaty head Bruce

“BRING ME THANOS!”

Ahhhhhahahaha yeaaaaaa

Cry Thanos. Do it. I hate you.

Much more of a purple grape nutsack.

Oh gosh... I know what Peter Quill is going to do. I still don’t hate him.

“With all six stone I would simply snap my fingers. They would all cease to exist.” Orrrr, now hear me out, I know I sound like a broken record now but... MAYBE DOUBLE THE RESOURCES INSTEAD?? That’s not mercy. That’s not up to you to decide whether or not someone’s better off dead.

Smoosh

Yea quill has experience with the power stone

AIM FOR THE HEAD

Cmon it’s basic zombie tactics

I love peter quill lmao

Go capey!!!

Magic with a kick!

Poor Peter

CAPEY NOOOOOO

Wow he’s OP

Ouch quill just got majorly clotheslined

NEBULA

“Where’s Gamora?” 😭😭😭 SHE CARES AGHHHH

Restrain him! Work it mantis!!!

Why even remove the gauntlet, just slit his throat... kill him....

Quill no... stop being cocky...

Oh no

Quill please don’t

JUST SLIT THANOS’ THROAT

Quill please....

Poor quill. Just lost the person who really really loved him

Okay, I still love star lord. Idc what others think. He reacted realistically. If you hate peter quill for how he reacted, you better also hate Tony Stark for how he reacted to bucky when he learned bucky killed his parents despite knowing for a fact that bucky was brainwashed. Yes it was annoying... yes they were so close, but quill is so human here. I don’t hate him. He gets too much hate for acting like any normal person would have. Distraught, grief filled, he lost his love. Someone who helped him open up and finally move on from his mother’s death and fathers villainy.

Spider man saving mantis gives me life

How did that power stone blast not kill them?

Clearly Thanos has played Majora’s Mask. At least he has good taste.

So close vision.... but I know... I know what happens.

YES BUCKY AND ROCKET GUN CIRCLE.

Lmao give rocket Bucky’s old arm.

“I am Groot.” “I am Steve Rogers.” Comedy gold

Cmon Thor, go after the big one first.

Cmon wanda, save them. We need some scarlet witch magic up here to stop these

Okay that was so cool. AND THEN SHE USED THE BLADES

Oh no but now Shuri is alone

So close yet so far.... Dangit... vision was almost good

Ouch. Bonk to the head

YEA BLACK WIDOW

BADASS TIME

AND OKOYE!!

LETS GOOOOOOO

BADASS WOMEN

Ouch poor vision

Cmon Thor back up vision

Please

Hulk is in his feels

Cmon hulk grow up

Ooooh smart move banner

Aaaaand he’s gone

Giant blade look oit

Corvus, screw off.

YEA STEVE

WHERE IS THOR WHEN YOU NEED HIM

CMON NAT

Oh dang. Nice one wanda. But also, sheesh. Helluva way to go. But no big.

Yea vision. Stabby time.

Now vision and Steve, kiss.

Spider man saving everyone’s lives.

YEA STRANGE

Where was this in New York???

MULTIPLYING

WHY DIDNT YOU DO THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE????

Oh no

Well then... ouch. Soooo where’s the real stone???

Hey look Tony, you have a fan.

Okay I’m just pissed odd they didn’t just kill Thanos when they had him subdued. Like, worry about the glove AFTER he’s not longer a threat

Oof

Tony is taking a beating

HE WAS STABBED

WHAT

I don’t want your respect Thanos. That’s an insult.

They will remember him. They will remember him Thanos. When he kills you.

DOCTOR STRANGE WHAT?

You really doing this??? I guess he knows what needs to unfold for them to win... dang. I wouldn’t trust him tho.

Peter Quill in berserker mode

Where’d he go?

Name dropping the second movie

Strange knows everything about to go down. Who dies, who lives, what Thanos is about to do... he’s accepting his soon dusted demise because Stark needs to live...

AIM FOR THE HEAD UGHHHHH

Stop teleporting. That’s Loki’s gimmick.

KILL THIS RAISIN LOOKING NUTSACK UGH

Homie way too OP

Poor wanda and Vis...

HER LIP TREMBLE

PHENOMENAL ACTING

SAY I LOVE YOU

I JUST FEEL YOU

AGGHHHH IM CRYING AGAIN

Poor wanda. To have to kill her love... this.. this is a sacrifice Thanos... not your murder....

Wow Steve is holding back Thanos with pure brute

WANDA IS SO STRONG

HOLDING BACK THANOS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BREAKING THE MIND STONE

I LOVE YOU

AGHHHHHHHHH

And I know what happens next...

Poor wanda

Piss off thanos you understand nothing

You lost more than she could know? Bull crap. You are causing everyone to lose...

Cruel reality. Wanda has to see him die twice. RIP Vision

RIP half of all life...

AIM FOR THE DAMN HEAD

IF THOR KILLED HIM THEY COULD HAVE USED THE GAUNTLET TO BRING EVERYONE BACK TO LIFE. USED THE TIME STONE TO REVIVE THEM ALL.

How did that not kill Thanos tho. It may not have been a head shot but still.

Lil Gamora

What is this place?

Is this the soul realm?

Thanos, I hope you suffer forever. You deserve all the pain...

Rest In Peace: Vision, Loki, Bucky, T’Challa, Groot, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, Mantis, Drax, Peter Quill, Dr. Strange, Peter Parker (I don’t feel so good), and everyone else...

Thank you Nebula.

Thanos, you do NOT deserve to retire peacefully—wipe that smile off of your face

Oop, Rest In Peace Maria Hill and Nick Fury too... Motherfu— (so close Sammy boy...)

Yea Thanos you didn’t really think that through. Much more than half will died since other people rely on other peoples lives

Good thing he hit that button last minute huh? I wonder how captain marvel would fare in the TVA? are her powers considered magic? I mean, she clearly doesn’t know everything since she only just learned about Thanos (which is funny because she was supposedly traversing the universe to protect people)

Welp... onto movie two!

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meet the simblr! i was tagged by the wonderful @highhopesforasimming and also did all 125 questions (two times bc the first time i was doing this my browser crashed YEET)! i don’t rlly have anyone to tag so uh! here we go! 

1. what is your full name? julian [redacted] [nope]. 2. what are your nicknames? jules but not enough people call me that tbh 3. birthday? [nope] 4. what is your favorite book series? agatha christie’s whole body of work 5. do you believe in aliens or ghosts? aliens yes, ghosts not rlly  6. who is your favorite author? richard siken! 7. what is your favorite radio station? i never listen to my car radio but i listen to a lot of kpop radios on spotify 8. what is your favorite flavor of anything? ARTIFICIAL CHERRY FLAVOR 9. what word would you often use to describe something great or wonderful? “cool beans” bc i am a dad from 1995 10. what is your current favorite song? mitski “your best american girl,” exo “monster,” nothing but thieves “graveyard whistling,” nct u “baby don’t stop,” studio killers “ode to the bouncer,” red velvet “butterflies” and lots more! 11. what is your favorite word? verisimilitude! the property of being real or true 12. what was the last song you listened to? “be the star” by pristin! 13. what tv show would you recommend for everyone to watch? tidying up w marie kondo & london spy! 14. what is your favorite movie to watch when you’re feeling down? coraline and lately the incredibles 2! 15. do you play video games? in my free i’m either 1) playing video games or 2) editing video game content 16. what is your biggest fear? birds, caves, and open water 17. what is your best quality, in your opinion? i am very empathetic 18. what is your worst quality, in your opinion? i am A Big Bastard 19. do you like cats or dogs better? cats! 20. what’s your favorite season? summer/fall cusp! 21. are you in a relationship? nope. nope! n o p e r i p  22. what is something you miss from your childhood? it being acceptable to be rlly into winx club 23. who is your best friend? i have two! one from college and one i know from other stuff! 24. what is your eye color? blue! 25. what is your hair color? naturally brown but its like pink and brown rn as my purple dye fade out/roots come in 26. who is someone you love? MY CAT 27. who is someone you trust? MY CAT 28. who is someone you think about often? MY CAT 29. are you currently excited about/for something? eventually graduating college omg 30. what is your biggest obsession? kpop + video games 31. what was your favorite tv show as a child? the marvelous misadventures of flapjack BOY 32. who of the opposite gender can you tell anything to, if anyone? best friends! 33. are you superstitious? i knock on wood/glass a lot 34. do you have any unusual phobias? i mentioned ornithophobia earlier! so ig that counts 35. do you prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? behiiiiiiiind 36. what is your favorite hobby? video games. 37. what was the last book you read? kindred by octavia butler! 38. what was the last movie you watched? i just watched bohemian rhapsody last night! 39. what musical instruments do you play, if any? oof i shouldn’t rlly say that i can play the violin because i haven’t practiced in years but ig that a little. 40. what is your favorite animal? cats! big cats small cats all cats 41. what are your top 5 tumblr blogs that you follow? i rlly like bloomlet and infinityonsims! 42. what superpower do you wish you had? time stopping. 43. when and where do you feel most at peace? WHEN I AM IN BED AND UNCONSCIOUS 44. what makes you smile? anything funny 45. what sports do you play, if any? i am a fat bitch so no 46. what is your favorite drink? strawberry ramune its pink sweet and carbonated and even the bottle has Drama 47. when was the last time you wrote a hand-written letter or note to somebody? i cannot even remember 48. are you afraid of heights? YES. 49. what is your biggest pet peeve? just general rudeness 50. have you ever been to a concert? yep a few 51. are you vegan/vegetarian? neither! 52. when you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? same thing i wanna be now, a writer in some capacity 53. what fictional world would you like to live in? harry potter ig! 54. what is something you worry about? everything lol 55. are you scared of the dark? less so the dark and more the things in the dark 56. do you like to sing? NOPE i can’t 57. have you ever skipped school? oh yeah 58. what is your favorite place on the planet? best friend’s house! 59. where would you like to live? tiny house. in the forest. close to town  60. do you have any pets? two dogs and two cats that live w my parents and a cat of my own! 61. are you more of an early bird or night owl? night owl. 62. do you like sunrises or sunsets better? sunset 63. do you know how to drive? yes and i love it 64. do you prefer earbuds or headphones? headphones 65. have you ever had braces? yep! 66. what is your favorite genre of music? kpop and alternative! 67. who is your hero? my bff’s parents! they’ve lived their lives in ways i want to! 68. do you read comic books? yeah a few! 69. what makes you the most angry? dani said it best TERFS 70. do you prefer to read on an electronic device or a real book? real book always 71. what is your favorite subject in school? english! 72. do you have any siblings? yep 73. what was the last thing you bought? statistically, fast food 74. how tall are you? 5″4 shut up 75. can you cook? yeah! 76. what are three things that you love? lavender, fried chicken, being gay 77. what are three things that you hate? waking up, being tired, PEOPLE TALKING IN MOVIES 78. do you have more female friends or male friends? female! 79. what is your sexual orientation? i’m bi baby 80. where do you currently live? usa! 81. who was the last person you texted? bff! 82. when was the last night you cried? oh idk 83. who is your favorite youtuber? rn rtgame! 84. do you like to take selfies? not rlly tbh 85. what is your favorite app? just my pure usage time spotify or twitter but my actual fave is a lil dress up app called pastel girl 86. what is your relationship with your parent(s) like? bad! 87. what is your favorite foreign accent? some form of european idk 88. what is a place that you’ve never been to, but want to visit? japan! 89. what is your favorite number? eight 90. can you juggle? nope 91. are you religious? nOPE 92. do you find outer space or the deep ocean to be more interesting? space! 93. do you consider yourself to be a daredevil? nah 94. are you allergic to anything? i think a specific type of sunscreen 95. can you curl your tongue? nope 96. can you wiggle your ears? nope 97. how often do you admit that you were wrong about something? i will as long as it wasn’t my parents 98. do you prefer the forest or beach? FOREST beach sucks 99. what is your favorite piece of advice that anyone has ever given you? “be gay do crimes” 100. are you a good liar? moderately good i think. 101. what is your hogwarts house? hufflepuff! 102. do you talk to yourself? nah and i hate when people do 103. are you an introvert or extrovert? introvert 104. do you keep a journal/diary? nope, not committed enough and it gets depressing 105. do you believe in second chances? usually yeah but obv if its rlly severe than no 106. if you found a wallet full of money on the ground, what would you do? return it bc 1) i’d be afraid of getting caught 2) i wouldn’t want to accidentally take money from someone who needed it 107. do you believe people are capable of change? ehhhhh 108. are you ticklish? yep unfortunately  109. have you ever been on a plane? mhmm! 110. do you have any piercings? just my ears  111. what fictional character do you wish was real? HAL JORDAN 112. do you have any tattoos? not yet! 113. what is the best decision that you’ve made in your life so far? coming out probs 114. do you believe in karma? not cosmically but if you are enough of an asshole its gonna disadvantage you eventually 115. do you wear glasses/contacts? yep 116. do you want children? nope 117. who is the smartest person you know? i’m the biggest smartass i know does that count 118. what is your most embarrassing memory? every one? 119. have you ever pulled an all-nighter? yeah all the time 120. what color are most of your clothes? dark w majority black  121. do you like adventures? not rlly tbh. or up to a point 122. have you ever been on tv? probably not 123. how old are you? over 18! (sorry i’ve been very vague i’ve just gotten over sharing personal information!) 124. what is your favorite quote? “some days in late august at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar” - the sound and the fury 125. do you prefer sweet or savory foods? i like both equally!