#bit of daft

[weepingfoxfury]

Monday, Monday, Monday and Sean Bean is on the warpath.

"When I say winter is coming, I mean that winter is definitely coming. Do not question my frosty forecast!" shouted Sean.

"Well now, we're still watching the cold front and keeping an eye on its progress and we'll keep you posted" said the Met Office man in a very reasonable manner.

"Must I make myself heard a second and third time? Winter is coming!!" screamed Sean whilst brandishing his sword.

"Heard you the first time" responded the Met Office man in measured tones, casually sharpening his pencil "and we're about to put the kettle on. Will you have tea with us whilst we watch the weather's progress?"

Sean looks fit to burst but then spots the plate of biscuits. "Are those bourbons?" He enquires, edging forwards with eyebrows raised.

"Why yes" said the Met Office man smiling and jiggling the plate in Sean's general direction.

"Then winter can wait" said Sean and settled himself at the table. "Ooh ... and you've got jammy dodgers!"

[daftpart]

reading robots

[daftpatience]

big announcement!

hiya, daftpatience here! i've been so excited about the off remaster that i've been reminiscing a lot about playing off in highschool... and i've decided to revive my old askblog <3

it's a pretty big pivot, and i'm sure most of you don't remember my old blog (i don't even remember how to get into that acct so i figure i can just start again from here) but i'm excited!

lore recap under the cut:

this is a bit for april fools ♥

feel free to send some asks if you want to though it would be so fun to hold hands and play tumblr with you for the day

[theorionbunny]

french robots,good music 🤫🧏‍♂️

[daftdrac]

I hate everything so much (this is not a negative post I just dont know how to express my feelings other than hatred) because people are interacting with my ssmp posts again and I've been catching up on Legundo's hundred days multiverse (got severely hyperfixated on a very different group of YouTubers and then fnaf. Fnaf is still there but I'm slightly more normal about it now (lie) and I'm remembering why I love Legundo sm (I will never be able to not associate him with ssmp, I literally DO NOT CARE if he isn't in it anymore I will handcraft my own aus/fanfics and CREATE the interactions I love between him and the others.) and then shadow posted his newest video (which is another scenario) and that led me to watching Sneve's zombie apocalypse scenario where they all had jobs (medic/farmer/military/etc) and I was going INSANE over that because he and Shadow ally in it (and if you know me you know the horrors of Snedow that lurk in my mind 💔 I'm sorry I literally don't care that they're fully grown men with families they're SO GAY 😭) and now I'm watching the lifedrain video he did with shadow and AUGHSVSHSBSHS I was literally talking about how "Ive gotta be careful watching legundo videos so i dont re-activate this hyperfixation!" LIL BRO WAS NOT CAREFUL IN THE FUCKING SLIGHTEST

Anyway probably fanfiction or art or something mentally ill coming soon I don't fucking know I'm gonna go writhe while I rotate them in my head

[le-agent-egg]

I'm not sure if I've ever seen you draw Daiya (Mondo's brother in this case).... Can you draw him? 👉🏽👈🏽

don’t think i’ve ever drawn this guy alive… lmao

just wanted to draw a casual daiya wahhh

[fuzstar]

Something for independence day :] they uh,they're buying Traditional clothes. Baju melayu. And stuff. Click for better quality

It's okay,Stripe the one buy things for Daft. Stripe is broke cuz of him

Quill by @bokzbandeet

Stripe by @iknkeli

Daft is by a tired human

I LOVE YOU, MALAYSIA! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY 🇲🇾❤️🤍💙💛✨✨

Also,uh

Wow,it's Thailand guys. It Thailand! Turns out our flag is the exact same as Thailand

And this is something google did. Idk why I add this but I'm just being me

[horselawg]

[dianaagrotera]

why is there no dumb omegaverse fic where caleb takes ~heat suppressors and masquerades as alpha but OH NO they stop working because the power of mc being close again is just TOO STRONG

like please i just replayed hidden waves where mc asks if the red ears are from his fever and the woobie omegas always hide like that, too, i swear that fic is practically writing itself!!!!

…. i will see myself out sry plz dont unfollow me orz

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

I have a theory that the reason we as an audience feel like Sibuna in Season 3b are making monumentally stupid choices is because the show doesn’t actually spell out for us that the kids don’t have all the information we have. In fact, they are operating with less than half of our knowledge. (This is gonna be a longgggg post, so read under the cut if you dare)

On my latest rewatch of S3 for fanfic purposes, i found myself really struggling to justify why the hell Eddie couldn’t put two and two together with his vision of Patricia and the “traitor” in Sibuna. I was frustrated with him because to me it was incredibly obvious! Like who else could it possibly be?? But then, I rewatched it again with a closer eye and everything suddenly clicked:

We, the audience, are watching the action from a completely zoomed out angle. We’re not just following Sibuna, but we’re also following Team Evil. We know Robert is capturing Sinners and what a Sinner actually is, before Sibuna is even fully aware that they failed to stop the eclipse ceremony. The kids metaphorically tripped at the starting line.

Furthermore, this is the first time in the show that the Sibunas have not had either the upper hand or were even on equal playing field with the adults. In Season 1, the Society was wholly unprepared for a bunch of adolescents to start foiling in their plans (bc why would they be prepared for that??), and Sibuna basically destroyed them due to adults underestimating their willingness to fuck around and find out. In Season 2, Victor/Vera and Sibuna were on equal ground; no one knew how to solve the tasks and it was a matter of a bunch of separate parties trying to figure it out before each other. They were all just throwing shit at the wall and hoping it stuck.

At the top of Season 3, we play a lot with both the S1 and S2 dynamics. At first, Sibuna is leagues and bounds ahead of the adults, and then they pretty quickly end up on the same footing. Then, in the second half of the season, that entire dynamic is flipped on its head, and it’s Sibuna who are wholly unprepared for the adults. I’ve talked about how the kids, especially our Sibuna veterans, got a little too comfortable with Victor and co’s ineptitude and cocky with their own intelligence… but that’s not even why they were so slow on the uptake.

None of the Sibunas even hear the word “Sinner” until they find that book in the secret room and read it while sitting on the stage. And the book does not explain at all what a Sinner actually is. It tells them that Ammut needs “the souls of five human sinners who embody the greatest flaws of mankind” and once she has five of them she can enter the human realm and cause lots of problems. Absolutely nowhere in the book does it ever say “Also, much like Robert, the soulless body of the Sinner is reawakened in service to the underworld.” The only other hint that could have possibly clued anyone in is “when your friends are not your friends”. But like, that clue was ages ago! Why would they even be thinking about that, when it had absolutely no bearing on their hunt for the secret room/answers up to that point? I cannot stress this enough, THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT A SINNER IS! (I’m gonna repeat this sentence about 400 times in case you don’t get it now lol) Mind you, that atp in the timeline, this is approximately fifteen or so minutes before Denby captures Patricia.

But let’s rewind all the way back to when Team Evil devises a plan to kidnap Eddie. He’s in the crypt, right? It’s pretty evident to him that it was probably Denby, Victor, and/or Robert who trapped him here, but he’s got no real clue as to why. Of course, we all know that they’re planning on turning him into a Sinner, because we saw Victor get turned. But as far as Sibuna knows, Victor has never really been on their side, so all they think is that he’s being meaner than usual but of course he’s opposing them. That’s not strange.

Okay, so Eddie is stuck and distressed, but he’s not as panicked as he needs to be because nowhere in his mind does he think this could potentially end in what is essentially his death. Now, throw in the horrifying vision he has of Patricia getting dragged into a glowing sarcophagus. He still doesn’t know what a Sinner is, but he knows that whatever he just saw was really bad; it’s an incentive from the Osirian spirit (or the house, or the gods, or literally whatever) to actually try to get the hell out of there.

So we’re all sitting here watching going “Oh my god they’re gonna nab Patricia and make her evil! 😰” because we have context; Eddie has absolutely none. It’s also really important for later on that his vision ends when the sarcophagus door shuts. It’s framed as incredibly final, and for all Eddie knows, they’ve just stuffed Patricia in what he knows is a tiny cramped space and locked the door behind her. He thinks that at best they are going to kidnap her or, at worst, straight up kill her. Nothing in that vision indicates she’s walking out of there at all.

When Patricia ran off after the fake messages, Eddie is concerned for a lot of different reasons, but the two primary ones are the obvious “oh my god my girlfriend thinks I cheated on her what do I do???” and the other is “if she’s run off on her own, the adults could fulfill my vision!” But then she turns back up, which should be clear to us by now means that he thinks she’s safe. He’s waiting for her (for any of them) to disappear. But when none of them do, they think it’s fine. It’s not that Eddie doesn’t think Patricia is in danger of becoming a Sinner, he just doesn’t realize what that would actually look like.

Even when they’re all in the hallway morbidly joking about having to give up sinning, the language KT uses is telling of what they think being a Sinner means: “We don’t want to accidentally help out Team Evil [by sinning].” Of course, this statement works with the knowledge the audience has of everything, but if Sibuna actually knew what they were dealing with, KT would have said something more like “We don’t want to get captured/turned by Team Evil.” The jokes they’re making are still morbid, but because they think you just get put in the sarcophagus and that’s the end of it.

Let’s flash forward again to the phonograph getting smashed and Eddie’s second vision that prompts the witch hunt panic in the first place. The vision can be separated into three parts: 1) Eddie sees a hooded figure smash the phonograph (okay Sibuna already knows someone did it on purpose, not too crazy); 2) Robert approaches him creepily and has the mic-drop moment of “it was one of your little friends; you have a viper in your nest” (seriously what a raw line of dialogue… but also now Eddie is being told that there is a traitor. Pretty cut and dry); 3) he turns around and sees every other member of Sibuna mockingly throw up the Sibuna sign (uh oh!)

So here is where people (including me!) always got a little annoyed with Eddie for not doing the math. But upon several rewatches and actually listening to what everyone was saying, never once do any of the kids ever bring up the word “Sinner” during the entirety of this whodunnit arc. And that’s simply because it’s not even a thought that crosses their minds. The language they use is very telling: “traitor” and “betrayal” being the heavy hitters. If any of them actually had context for what was actually going on, the language they would be using would be more like “victim” or literally just “Sinner” as a noun. But they don’t, which is why they’re so hostile toward one another… and why KT was screwed from the moment Eddie had that vision.

Because the fact that they don’t know that a Sinner is an evil version of themselves (not just someone whose soul is being used as a power generator), means that on a subconscious level Fabian, Alfie, and even Eddie already assumed KT was guilty. And Sinner!Patricia knew that, and that’s why she was so easily able to pivot and pin it on her. KT was directly linked to Frobisher, and Fabian and Alfie had already been suspicious of her at the start of the season for other reasons. It’s why Fabian let Patricia help him with the finger printing in the first place: because he doesn’t believe it’s her. And Eddie would have no real reason to suspect Patricia for three reasons: 1) Because he’s in love with her; 2) Because he knows just how long Patricia (and Fabian, and Alfie) have been loyal to Sibuna and to each other; 3) Because he, like everyone else, was looking at this betrayal as a willing capitulation to the Team Evil.

The first time Sibuna becomes aware that a Sinner is an entity that they have to actually watch out for walking about (as opposed to just having to watch out becoming), is after KT and Harriet manage to escape Patricia in the Gatehouse. Harriet clearly knows what a Sinner is bc she has the presence of mind to actually explain (vaguely, of course, because she’s drugged to kingdom come) to KT what she’d just narrowly escaped.

And then when she confronts Sibuna and Patricia in the hallway after Miss Crocodile Tears is telling tales about KT trying to kidnap her, KT drops the bomb on the boys: “She was trying to make me a Sinner just like her!” Pause. Record scratch. Okay. Now everything they thought they knew about the situation is completely recontextualized as something much more sinister than what they initially thought. Because I’d always struggled with how cruel they were being to KT, especially if they thought it wasn’t her fault. But everything up until this point deeply suggests or rather expects us to understand that Sibuna only had two pieces of an 100 piece puzzle, and that them being mean to KT was because they thought she actually betrayed them.

With all of this in mind, Eddie is not stupid for not figuring it out right away. In fact, without knowing what a Sinner actually is, it would be an insane leap to assume Patricia had anything to do with the phonograph.

I’ve basically talked myself and all of you in several circles, but the bottom line is the show didn’t do a fabulous job of telling us that Sibuna had no clue what they were up against. It’s easy for us to sit back and go “what the hell is wrong with them are they stupid?” because we have all the knowledge of what’s going on eons before they do. This is a far more charitable read of the characters’ choices and thought process, and the only way any of their actions make any sense. In fact, this is less of a theory and more of what is… literally canon, I guess

[moghraidhs]

also me being teasing and self-indulgent… lisbeth & viv with “A beautiful face shining back on me” ;)

hehe ;))

It had taken Lisbeth approximately forty-five minutes to gather up the courage to go over to where Vivian Savorre lay sunbathing underneath the wing of her fort. Now she's here, all her bravery seems to have melted away.

"Um, I-I brought you some sunscreen." Her voice wavers pathetically and she hates it, hates herself for being such a coward. It takes everything in her not to turn tail and run as Vivian opens her eyes.

The other pilot stares at her a beat too long, and Lisbeth's cheeks burn scarlet. This is a mistake. She should never have come. "Is...Is something wrong?"

"Nope," Vivian drawls, and it's so unfair how the sound of her voice turns something inside Lisbeth all shivery and weak. "Was just wondering why the sun disappeared. Guess it's because of a beautiful face shining back on me."

Oh. Oh.

[affluent-havoc]

Back from playing some Chapter 2 of THH and my gooooosh. I'm trying so hard to take Byakuya seriously and I have at some moments. At the same time though, it's so haaaard! He's so dweeby looking and I know the narrative is trying to make me be intrigued and like "OOooOOO look at this mysterious guy being all mysterious and sinister." But, I just can't! At least not now. Feel I might feel something else once I actually get to the trial (even though I know exactly what's going to happen). For now though, he's just too stupid looking for me to be intimidated in any way. It doesn't help that any messed up stuff he's said so far isn't like, bad?? Sure, making Chihiro cry isn't exactly something one should be proud of him for. How dare he make Chihiro cry! Shame on him! At the same time though, it's more of just like "We be in a killing game" and "Friendship isn't magic, gang". In some ways, he does have a point despite how awful it sounds too. Additionally, sometimes I feel he could just be a lot meaner and he's oddly tame despite this being the doomsday chapter for any Byakuya fan. Maybe it's because with all the fan works I've seen where he's honestly way worse than in canon, anything he says that might've been remotely extreme just feels null to me. Also, again, most stuff is more or less just him affirming the situation their in, how much he's not planning on being buddy-buddy with everyone, and how he sees himself as superior. It also doesn't help with how dramatic the music is (which I am so down for ngl. I'd head bang if I could) which is signaling how "super awful" he's being. Though it just seems a bit too much when he's not being horrendously despicable. And, don't get me wrong! I'm not happy with him! Just shaking my head as he drags Makoto along while being all annoying whenever I click something that isn't the thing he wants me to look at. Like, don't yap at me when I'm looking around in the library that YOU dragged me to, Mister! Half of the extension cord is CLEARLY missing!! And, damn. He just seems like some whiny petulant brat bossing Makoto around honestly. So goofily though cus I know what happens in the chapter and I know what he knows and the way he's pulling Makoto along like he's so proud of his handiwork. He's such a nerd. Such a dweeb. Like, that scene when the group are worried about where the hell he is when he was just chilling in the library. For one, man sounded so damn calm talking to Makoto. Not even a hint of being pissed or anything at the beginning. Just kinda matter-of-fact with a slight bit of sass. But also, once he really started being shitty like, it just felt so DUMB! Like how everyone around him was like "Damn. He's smiling so creepy" but, for one, how am I do judge something I'm not allowed to see? Not like they gave him a CG of that said sinister smile. Also, every time I attempt to visualize it it just gets worse. Cus I KNOW he can be cool to me and kinda bad ass and even a bit sinister too! I know he's capable of it! But it's just not clicking with this dialogue for me. Every attempt my brain makes to think of him with a sinister smile just makes me laugh from how dumb and uncool he looks even though he probably thinks he's hot shit while being all pompous like that. Another thing I want to mention, and I have no way to segue into this, but when Byakuya said he was "having fun" with the killing game DAMN IT! It so goofy of him to say he's having fun while his sprite screams constipated energy. And, to top it all off, he's not going to get any better in the sense of "Byakuya being so cool and calculating" once Chapter 2 ends. And, in a way, I like that. If only Mondo and Aoi were allowed by the narrative to beat him up more. Such a shame u_u

[soup-sponge]

lucy "i'm not leaving without my husband" carlyle

[melonyfelonyfellonme]

Cerys de Riva (my Rook) is sitting in her room in the Lighthouse, an empty notebook sitting in front of her, the ink dripping slightly on to the page as her hand shakes and she tries to stifle her shocked laughter.

"Dear Diary,

I'm writing at a time of great distress: the Inquisitor, Ms Lavellan, has appeared. I'd heard rumours the Dread Wolf was her ex but evidently those feelings aren't gone. Anyway, they were arguing.

Then the door to Solas' room shut, and I was going to ask them something but I don't think the sound of that couch scraping is Lavellan kicking it in anger somehow.

Anyway, I haven't written a diary entry since I was 12 and I'm not enjoying the picture in my head right now, and I'm far too embarrassed to tell anyone; that doesn't mean I won't make fun of them for it later

I'd say Gods help me, but I don't think that's appropriate anymore somehow

Cerys de Riva, 24 years old, red-faced"

[kiwioala]

i miss familioier bring them back to me ,.

[cowboytrout]

sorry about all the daft punk... I just rediscovered them and as soon as "Get Lucky" started playing on Spotify my 7th grade self arose from the rubble of my middle school memories and started to go absolutely ham. don't worry though. I'm being completely normal and entirely hinged about it (<- the lying liar who lies)