#and full of VEINS!

[radpool]

any excuse for wade to wrap himself around logan like a touch-starved giant squid amiright

[moonshynecybin]

have you seen this vale watching marc video???!!!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeKkBQuD/

it's making me insane for some reason. i need to know what's going on inside vale's head in that moment

vale looks like he’s gonna throw up 10/10

[rcmclachlan]

WIP Wednesday

tagged by the amazing @leashybebes and @buckevantommy. thanks, y'all 😚

here's some more s3 lawsuit arc alt meeting au!

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"You'll be walking away from 6932 Chisholm Ave with a car that isn't remotely street legal." Dana takes a dainty sip of her wine, then tips the glass in Tommy's direction, a small smile pulling at her lips.

Tommy doesn't deny the accusation, just snickers and clinks his beer bottle lightly against her glass.

They don't have the same brand of closeness that Hen and Chim have, nor the bond born of being thrown into insane situations and coming out the other side together that he and Eddie have—had?—but there's something there; quieter, but no less strong. The familiar ease Tommy and Dana have with each other is palpable and time-worn. Maybe they're sleeping together.

Buck's jaw goes heavy and sour out of nowhere. It's probably because of the stupidly expensive bottle of Cantillon Kriek that Tommy'd foisted on him. Belgian beer just isn't his thing, even though he kind of digs the cherry aftertaste.

"Don't be the screen door on the guy's submarine, Dane," Meyers chimes in with a guffaw. "Maybe he wants his Jeep to break the sound barrier."

"You should start a business. 'Come for the autobody repair, stay for the illegal mods' could be the company tagline," Buck adds quickly, before Dana can mount a reply.

Over the rim of the wine glass, her sharp gaze slowly cuts pieces of him away to study under the dim light fixture hanging over the table. The thoughtful purse of her crimson mouth makes her look like she's laid his wings down against a shadowbox but isn't sure where to put the pins.

Buck tosses her a cheeky grin and takes a too-big pull of the Kriek, hoping he doesn't look like the tryhard he absolutely is.

"Getting your car to achieve Mach 2 is just one of the many services offered at Kinard LTD." Tommy says it like he's wearing a name tag affixed to a cheap tie while he's standing in a showroom with every car from the Fast & Furious franchise.

"Y-Yeah? That a guarantee?" Buck asks teasingly, swaying with a laugh when Benowitz lightly shoves him. "Or just fancy marketing?"

Tommy turns his head a little to the right, and since he and Buck are sitting so close it brings their faces mere inches from each other. They're practically breathing the same air.

Buck's fingers tighten around the neck of the bottle of Kriek until the chill of the glass disappears entirely against his palm. He really needs to switch to something lighter. The Kriek is too tart and it's making his throat dry as hell. He doesn't have any saliva in his mouth to ease the way.

With a conspiratorial grin, Tommy says, "Closest to flying you'll ever get without leaving the ground or your money back."

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tagging leashy and bo right back, plus @geddyqueer, @firehose118, @screamlet, @liminalmemories21, @setmeatopthepyre, @beanarie, @ambernotember, @apollabarnes, and @newtkelly

[hmsdoodlin]

Smth smth…. the heart being simplified and made into an inviting shape that means love and affection, commercialized into something appealing and easy to digest when in reality it’s a complicated, powerful pulsating organ that’s ugly and so undeniably human.

[jenanigans1207]

Lu Guang is stronger than me fr because if I watched Vein kill Cheng Xiaoshi in a previous timeline, I’d never let them interact again. New timeline? It’s on sight. The moment I see Vein, I’m knocking him out. He won’t even get a chance to lay eyes on Cheng Xiaoshi.

[electrozeistyking]

More stuff on In Rot and Infection! Now presenting a basic idea of what happens in earlier loops of Siffrin being able to fight for clarity, along with the full extent of Rotfrin’s height (or how tall they truly are when they’re not hunched over, of course).

[leon-stupid-kennedy]

Leon truly did not care about Krauser at all originally.

I've talked about some of the differences between original and remake Operation Javier before, since then I've thought more about the ending and it's dawned on me just how little Leon cared about Krauser. (This doesn't conflict with anything in my first post, it's just an addition that didn't occur to me until more recently.) Comparing his "relationship" with Krauser to everyone else that meant something to him in DSC, it's clear that Krauser was not someone he was at all emotionally attached to. Krauser was obsessed with Leon from the start, every thought he had during that mission connected to Leon, he thought that they had some sort of weird bond and Leon was attached to him too, when that's very clearly not the case.

Looking at Memories of a Lost City… Leon quickly becomes attached to everyone. Claire's instantly his ride or die partner, he wants to help her find her brother and get out of the city. They encounter Sherry, she runs away from them. Leon is hell bent on finding and rescuing this little girl he doesn't know and saw for like 2 seconds, to the extent he kicks a damn door down when Sherry crawls through an opening too big for him to go through. (Of course Claire was also hell bent on helping Sherry too, this post is just focused on Leon.) Ada is incredibly sketchy and doesn't want Leon's help, but Leon's instantly attached and wants to follow and help her, although he does prioritize Sherry over Ada and chooses to look for Sherry instead of Ada when forced to make a decision.

And of course after making it out of Raccoon City, Leon is willing to stay behind with Sherry so that Claire is free to keep looking for her missing brother… Then ends up agreeing to be a government slave in order to keep Sherry safe. He's willing to sacrifice so much for someone he barely knows.

Moving on to Game of Oblivion, which is the strongest part of my argument and has the most direct comparisons to make to how Operation Javier ends. We learn that Leon's selflessness didn't stop at him becoming a government agent for Sherry, he also used that position to help Claire and Chris. He had never met Chris before, and yet one of his first thoughts was apparently "I now have access to resources that can help me find Chris Redfield, the missing brother of the girl I knew for a day." He is able to find Chris, only to learn he can't tell Claire because now she's missing. Naturally, he just starts trying to locate Claire next. Citing the relevant Game of Oblivion Leon narration (emphasis mine):

Once Chris disappeared from the Mansion incident he was near impossible to track down. But using my newfound position in the government, I eventually discovered his location. I would have contacted his sister, but she was a ghost herself. So I turned my search over to Claire then, and eventually learned of her confinement on Rockfort Island. I shared this information with Chris. And he asked me to arrange a rescue mission before he set off on his own to find her.

The big takeaway here is that when someone Leon cares about, either directly like Claire or even indirectly with Chris, goes missing, he does not rest. He does everything in his power to find them. (Honestly, I think he also would have put extensive effort into finding Ada again if she hadn't faked her death.)

And he did nothing when Krauser disappeared! From the cutscene The Return, the normal good ending OJ cutscene (emphasis mine):

Manuela was later taken into custody by the U.S. government. She was put under strict surveillance... But so far there have been no reports of any changes to her body. Krauser's arm never fully healed and he was forced to leave the army. Where he went, no one knows.

Why did Manuela never lose her conscience? Was it something genetic? Or was she sustained by this land that's so rich with life? The virus continues to grow. Altering its form, strengthening perpetually. until the day it can be destroyed... In our bodies... in our souls.

Krauser went missing after the mission. Just like Chris was missing, and Claire was missing. But unlike with Claire and Chris, Leon just doesn't care. At all. Doesn't care enough to try to find Krauser, despite the fact he'll chase after and track down people he barely knows. Doesn't care enough to even speculate what may have happened to Krauser. He does not care. He's far more concerned about the mysteries of Manuela's infection than he is about Krauser's fate. He knows that Manuela is alive and well, and he's still more concerned and curious about her than he is Krauser, who for all he knows could very well be dead in a ditch somewhere.

If Leon had remotely cared about Krauser, I would have expected his ending narration to have something more like "Krauser's arm never fully healed, and he was forced to leave the army. After that, he mysteriously disappeared without a trace. I used every resource at my disposal to try to find him, but came up empty handed. To this day, no one knows where he went or what happened to him." The fact he didn't say anything like that, just briefly mentioned the fact Krauser disappeared before continuing to talk about Manuela, is very telling. Operation Javier and being partnered with Leon was a pivotal moment in Krauser's life, that mission was life changing for him, he was forever changed by it. But for Leon? Operation Javier was just another mission. It wasn't special. It didn't change the trajectory of his life. Krauser wasn't special, Krauser was just another random stranger he was forced to work with for a day.

I guess I'll close this with a thought I've had regarding original vs remake OJ recently… Despite genuinely preferring the DSC RE2 retelling to RE2R and having fun with OJ, I used to think that the remake Krauser/Leon mentor/rookie-actually a strong bond that wasn't one sided thing was better than the original dynamic. Krauser was creepy and obsessed with Leon, but Leon also admired Krauser and looked up to him as his mentor. But the deeper I get into the original dynamic and analyze it, the more it grows on me… Leon actually being in a position of power over Krauser but mostly treating him like an equal, Krauser clearly thinking he's more experienced than Leon and should be in charge, the fact Krauser rearranged his entire life because of Leon and was obsessed while Leon pretty much just moved on after the mission and forgot about him, there's plenty of compelling stuff there. It's not the long-term, more two-sided mentor and student relationship the remake presents, there's not really room to insert any type of shipping, logistically speaking (at least not anything mutual– Krauser was weirdly obsessed and definitely would have been down for some sex, but 1. Leon would not be interested and 2. The fact they were only around each other for a single mission, and weren't just alone together, they had Manuela with them, they wouldn't have had an opportunity even if Leon was interested.) compared to the longer term relationship the remake presents, but that doesn't mean there's nothing there worth exploring!

[scribeofred]

THE WORLD EP.2 : OUTLAW jacket making film feat. Yunho and his hands

actual kpop sideblog

[miyamiwu]

The 3 times Xia Fei talks about Vein in YE3

[cmajalis]

Felix is like a puppy, no wonder why he and Cheng Xiaoshi get along so well. While I don't think he's as innocent as he seems, it looks like he can easily be manipulated by Vein and Liu Xiao. I didn't care that much before but now I'm very interested in the dynamic of this trio. Also I didn't expect him to be this close with Vein, it's cute

[veinsfullofstars]

“Quit laughin’, ya bastard, I’m dyin’ over here! Get me some starsdamn milk, for cryin’ out loud!”

(ID: Kirby series fanart comic of Dark Meta Knight and Daroach, in which lunch is interrupted by a disagreement on spicy food and some improper use of the Sharing mechanic. Transcript below the cut. END ID.)

Based on a personal headcanon that DMK enjoys spicy food and Daroach vehemently does not.

Started 04/06/24, finished and updated 04/09/24, updated for color correction 11/02/24.

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Transcript:

Panel 1

*DMK and DR sitting side-by-side enjoying some lunch together - a sandwich for the thief, a plate of spicy curry for the knight. DMK (his mask pushed up to the side of his head, bits of curry stuck to his face) idly eats his meal with a fork as DR picks up and scrutinizes a small bottle of hot sauce the knight had set aside, a brow raised in disappointment.*

DR: “Ultra spicy,” huh? Blech. How can you stand this stuff, Dark? Like, can you even taste anythin’ anymore? (Besides pain?)

Panel 2

DMK: Aw, c’mon, it’s not that bad. Here, want a bite~?

*setting his fork upright in the curry, DMK pushes his plate aside and turns towards DR with the most mischievous expression, reaching up to grab the collar of his cape. DR turns his head sharply, dropping the bottle and the sandwich, as the knight starts tugging him towards him.*

DR: What’re you-? Hey! No! No! Don’t you friggin’ dare, Dark, I swear to Nova-

Panel 3

*DMK stands up and yanks DR down towards his face, a hand clasped on the back of the thief’s head to hold him there. DR flinches (VFX: two large exclamation points), knocked off his feet and holding his paws out in surprise. A wisp of steam rises from between them, curling into a little pink heart at the top. Text reading “*Face-to-Face SFX*” hovers behind DMK.*

Panel 4

*DR jerks away from DMK, red-faced and doubled over in pain, his eyes squeezed shut and his tongue hanging out with a fresh red burn on the end, steam emitting from his face in puffs. He frantically fans at his mouth with one paw while shoving DMK away with the other.*

DR: (breaking the dialogue bubble in places) AAGH!! Ow! Star-burnin’ son-of-the-void what is wrong with you piece a’- aaaughh dammit stars dammit ow ow ow ow!!

*DMK cackles, leaning away with one arm held up against the rat’s pushing paw, one eye shut and mouth stretched open in a wide smile, a single incisor prominent within and a touch of blush at the corner. Text reading “HA HA HA HA HA HA HA” hovers behind him surrounded by laugh lines.*

[sarshles-cheescake-li]

Vein except I only watched his character MV and don't know what symbolism is

Detail not included here: he owns one of the largest restaurants in Chinatown but still hawks about the day's discounts like he's running a streetside barbecue in China

[ranchwamen]

Niklas furry (scalie) version concepts. He's a common European adder! I'm really vibing with the legless version and I think it fits with the rest of my furries (while the fish have arms and legs with digits, ordinary fish already have fins which are homologous with tetrapod limbs, snakes don’t). In any case there's also a limbed version.... because who am I to stop a man from achieving his dream of flipping the bird

[shrack]

coc1 moment that makes me crazy because 1) how small alex makes himself because hes genuinely uncomfortable, 2) alex's voice wavering when he says "the air—", 3) greg biting the pencil, and 4) "can i use the word that we use?" "yeah, use our word."

[oh-no-its-bird]

SO many amazing takes and additions in my reblogs and asks, I want to reply to each and every one of them but the skeletal claws of depression and unmedicated adhd keeps my ass sat in bed where I will read manga and stare blankly at a wall for 12 hours instead.

[getosugurusbangs]

worthless piece of trash.