#and then somehow succeeding

[rikotin]

me getting the highest possible grade on my photo portfolio that I slapped together in about 4 hours is not only a testament to my hyperfocus but also the sheer queer audacity of succeeding

[coatl-cuddles]

More drawpile doodles, but this time MOTH edition

[brother-emperors]

I got. thoughts. about valens and voices in imperial roman history. but I also got a lot of thoughts about uhhhhhh choosing your brother for co ruling the Fratricide Foundation Story Empire. many thoughts about themistius' oration too

Brotherly Love, Themistius (trans. Peter Heather & David Moncur)

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta

[felassan]

🔍 Leafing through some old posts

releasing the Evanuris (Blighted?) and ALSO MAYBE the Blight? as in THE Blight. not a blight, the mother of ALL blights

-- 5 year old post

IGN preview: "The Blight, well, it was a slow-moving wall. It didn't have this almost-sentient, this almost-thought behind it. We've talked about how the gods that are out are Blighted. That probably has something to do with it."

I think [the Evanuris] sought to harness [the Blight], to use its power too. a bioweapon. 

-- 6 year old post

IGN preview: "The Blight is an organic weapon."

bindings, weaving, meshing, grafts (like different parts of different beasts being stitched together); the aim to improve coordination and sharpen the heart (the new darkspawn are more clever than the old ones) [...] given that organic life in our world originally crawled out of the sea during evolution (not unlike Mythal), I wonder if, with the saltwater pools and all, Ghilan’nain was trying to do what amounts to recreating the conditions which lead to the formation of organic life from inorganic materials. abiogenesis - the origin of life

-- 4 year old posts

IGN preview: "She uses Blight like a medium, to sculpt and warp. There are Blight pools, the darkspawn aren't just coming out of nowhere. The Blight is spawning them. Ghilan'nain, who has always been focused on using the Blight as essentially a crafting material, a way to alter life itself."

[itsbenedict]

How would you make mario a villain?

Huh! Tricky one. I mean, there's tons of Newgrounds parodies about how fucked up it is that Mario goes around crushing turts all day, and there's the obvious "silent scary henchman of the image-conscious dictator" angle. Tricky to cast him as the villain rather than the muscle, though...

There's only one thing that notably motivates Mario, and that's Princess Peach. Extreme devotion, there. For him to have agency, she needs to be removed from the picture- and I think that neatly answers the motive thing, too. Peach hasn't been kidnapped, this time- there's something more permanent. But what? "She's been killed and he's out for revenge" is a little 3edgy5me, and also if Mario sets out to get revenge I think he just gets it. His antagonists have rarely put up the kind of fight that would require him to concoct a villainous scheme.

Who's the protagonist, if not Mario? What is Mario doing that requires someone else to go on an adventure opposing him? How do we make this something that Nintendo would actually consider releasing?

...Okay, what's Mario's usual M.O.? How do we make that villainous? He... goes to dangerous places, nimbly circumvents all obstacles in his way, and claims powerful, usually star-shaped magical objects, in order to rescue the princess. This time... he isn't really concerning himself with who the rightful owners of said magical objects are.

It's a Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego situation. There's been a rash of heists committed by a strange masked phantom thief, and the protagonist's job is to find out how the relics were stolen and where the culprit hid them, and get them back before their clients suffer dire consequences as a result of missing-magic-item-itis. You investigate crime scenes, pick up the phantom thief's trail, chase him down, and bop him one but good to recover the relic and save the day.

This is complicated somewhat because this phantom thief is in league with Bowser, who keeps causing trouble in ways that the phantom thief takes advantage of to get past security. The Koopa Troop often assists the phantom thief in his getaways. Why are they working together???

Flash back. Mario standard plot- Bowser has kidnapped the princess. This time, he's done it using some magic item or invention doohickey whose provenance he doesn't quite understand, which has turned Princess Peach to stone. True to form, Mario goes through several another castles and thrashes Bowser and breaks his evil doohickey, and... uh. This fails to rescue the princess. She is still a statue.

Bowser doesn't know why she's still a statue, and both of them panic. How do they fix this?! They need to try something- find some new magic thing that'll bring her back! They've heard of the Sacred Star of Healing in one of the neighboring Kingdoms (which exist in infinite supply in the Mario universe to be adventured through precisely once and then forgotten about forever), and agree to work together to steal it and use it to restore Peach.

It doesn't work. They ditch it somewhere. They follow up on another rumor- the Golden Coin Spirit in the Treasure Kingdom or whatever, and that's a bust too. And after a couple of these, the international community is forced to call in an expert to catch this thief and bring him to justice.

So who's our protagonist? Who in the Mario universe is a famous detective who specializes in guarding star-shaped magical relics from would-be burglars? WHAT IMPROBABLY LARGE-BRAINED PENGUIN COULD POSSIBLY THWART THIS MASTER CRIMINAL?!?

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

The best (as in, the least angsty/heartwrenching) 'Where is Emma in the OG!Timeline'-headcanon I can think of is that she ran away to find Izana and that she succeeded in doing so

It's still angsty af

But Izana and Emma have each others at least (and also Emma and Kakucho can finally interact because I swear these two are such sweethearts and as Izana's most beloved people they should've met-)

[uldren-sov]

more evidence of Marazhai having a completely normal one and confessing to be completely normal since meeting the rogue trader

he does have some great little villain monologues though lol

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Durge: (falls in battle later in the game)

Astarion: NO! MY SWEET, BLOODTHIRSTY FRIEND!!!

Durge: (bleeding out, with raspy, shaky breath) Still just a "friend", huh?

[lilianade-comics]

I love the idea of plasmius being a father to Dani! I always wanted it to happen instead of what season three did.

As long as I've been a fandom-goer, I never fully understood what drove certain fans to create large AUs "fixing" the parts of canon they didn't agree with. Typically I'm pretty chill with canon, even if it's flawed.

Then I watched D-Stabilized.

Anyway, same here! More cheese melt art is coming soon because they're my favorites and i love them! <3

[age-of-moonknight]

“Soldier,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #3.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[green-mountain-goose]

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[keeps-ache]

the kinda gal to stick around

[flyers-deactivated]

morgan frost attempting to pull marcus foligno out of a scrum

PHI @ MIN || 01.26.23

[comradeboyhalo]

its kinda crazy how well bad integrated skeppy into his rp bc besides from third wheeling his viewers IT MAKES SENSE WITH HIS CHARACTER! ofc q!bbh is more desperate than others to leave the island! hes got a husband and son back home! he was one of the first to start theorizing because, from the start, the vacation for him was never idyllic to begin with

[icekingandbetty]

i'd like to think that f&c showing simon dead in every other universe so far is less foreshadowing and more stressing the point of how rare and lucky the situation he's in back in his ooo is. like just being alive there and then is pretty miraculous but he's that and in contact with his daughter (who is alive and happy) and a group of friends who- while they can't fully understand his distress and grief- love him!

[angeltannis]

What’s it like to have a special interest whose parent company isn’t actively trying to murder it lmao