#and too focused on the game

[nocanonhere]

*sigh* gonna have to write a 3 parter for both my DurgexWyll campaign and KeraxGale campaign. I technically already did a series for AiyaxWyll under the guise of WyllWeek. They won’t leave me alone.

[adamsrcnan]

can we please talk about this

because it's giving

and it's making me feel thingsss

[rival-ado]

devolving shenanigans

[astagsart]

from the requests, baseball game!! this was actually so fun i got to be all loose and sketchy about it good time must say

[drenched-in-sunlight]

*SoTE spoilers undercut

This is a continued discussion in light of Marika's newly discovered tragedy. It changes so many things about how we look at the story thus far but more importantly - the DLC story trailer, especially this scene:

think about how Messmer knows, very acutely, that at one point his mother could have been cut up and put in a jar. and that his other kins were not so lucky....... it gives that scene such a tragic edge.

he wasn't doing this just for the violence. this is his answer to Marika's love and all she has done for him. yeah it's not right, it's not justified, but as something done to avenge for the kind of pain she went through? it won't be logical nor right but it's something he will do again without hesitation.

the infirmary in Shadow's Keep shows that he's trying to care for and save whatever left of her people. their people.

the line he said in his armor set description hits different when you consider all that. he wants to be the heir to all her sorrow and all of her pain. wishing that he could alleviate even just a bit of the burden of her grief and survivor guilt.

i wonder if, when Marika hid him in the Land of Shadow, fearing people will judge him for the malevolent snake he carried, she raised him in her home village? this will explain why the Tree Sentinels guarding the village drop two Blessing of Marika - the blessing that specifically stated Marika made it for Messmer's sake and him alone. it will also explain how he knew of his Mother's tragic past and took it upon himself to carry out her wish of vengeance for her people.

(also if you wanted to get to Marika's village, you have to perform the O Mother gesture before her statue in his Shadow Keep, implying he's guarding the way to her home village as well.)

One other thing I like is that in the story trailer, the heroic music sounds like it's for Miquella. and it is, in a way. it is his boss music, but the lyrics has "Ave Marika Aeterna" (Hail, Marika The Eternal).

Given that the boss arena is where Marika - the sole survivor of a whole village, walked through to salvage the remains of her people, making them the symbol of her divine ascension, I wonder if that OST is actually for her - the God, the woman whose story is finally realized in this DLC, and those female voices singing in honour of her are the spirits of her fallen kins: cheering on their last hope for justice. Through this girl, those people who had been wronged and died there will live on eternally.

All this of course seems like such a charitable take on all this, after all Marika ended up being just like the oppressors who used to put her people in jars, but I think I just want to appreciate how the environmental storytelling of this DLC is simply amazing. and once you consider that this is, in the end, Marika's story, everything will make a lot more sense.

[mickedy]

You have quite the task ahead of you

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Siffrin plays Disco Elysium AU: Featuring backseat gamer Loop.

[someiicecube]

Touchstarved Memes I Still Don't Remember Making

[atariaaren]

i literally could not get this out of my head after this post (version without the text below the cut)

[bizarrelittlemew]

🖌️ BEFORE & AFTER COLORING CHALLENGE 🎨

tagged by @blakbonnet, thank you <3 gonna tag (with no pressure!) @saltpepperbeard @darkinerry @kiwistede @milkovichy (if you've already been tagged I'd love to see your posts <3)

everyone should read Jodi's excellent post about giving credit to gifmakers <3

AND since I've also had to read comments like "what's the big deal, it only takes five minutes" with my own two eyes, let's do an experiment, shall we? I'll make the same gif in 5 minutes with the first online gif converter that pops up (cheating a bit, since I already cut the clip and adjusted the frame rate so it runs smoother. also I used about 8 minutes minus the time it took to upload the video because I haven't used ezgif.com before) and through my usual methods ✌️ here they are:

and you know, the first gif is perfectly fine!! especially if you really just want to show a quick clip or need a reaction gif. BUT the second one is the kind that usually gets stolen (reposted without credit). we all like pretty gifs, and the best way to get more of those is to appreciate the people who make them (reblog!! give credit if you use them!!), because seeing them stolen is deeply demotivating - we make them to share excitement and love for shows with fellow fans, and you're taking that away from us when you don't credit. making gifs is work (and a skill that takes practice), and there's a person behind every gif (even the 5 min gif converter one), they don't just magically appear ✌️ give credit!!

[funkbun]

the funkbun

[frobby]

rin 1000000% has a list somewhere of things hes good at that yukio is bad at

[ganondoodle]

totk made me feel like i got scammed so badly i dont think i want to get any new zelda on release and instead wait until i know its worth it

im afraid zelda will turn into half baked games with flashy imagery to distract you from its shitty writing and superficial references to older games to catch your nostalgia, that the name alone will sell anyway so why try

[opal-owl-flight]

"And theyre singing!"

4 notices that the second she gets to her homeland with 3 in tow, they,,, change

Into someone who doesnt have the world on their shoulders.

They frequently hold their arms out, feeling the gusting winds of the highlands rushing past them. They like the feeling of flight!

[plenaurum]

The funniest thing about THG is that most of the happenings could've been prevented if the Gamemakers didn't try to renege on the rule change. If they just allowed Katniss and Peeta to win at the same time without trying to milk as much melodrama as possible out of their star-crossed-lover story, Katniss wouldn't have done that shit with the berries. And the uprisings would've arguably been kept at a minimum.

So really, it's their fault for trying to push their luck.