#but i guess we can only wait and see

[m-says-hi]

In a recent post you mentioned Sampo having some biblical references. Which ones? I think I missed them! 😳

so, it's a bit of a stretch which is why i describe them as vague but then again everything with sampo is a bit of a stretch

but @/windr0sea on twt made a whole chart about it

considering we don't know if the annihilation gang is even alive, this might be null and void. But I still think it's interesting because snakes (especially paired with apples) have always held a bit of religious symbolism due to the story of satan disguising himself as a snake and convincing adam and eve to eat the forbidden fruit (commonly thought of as an apple)

Again, this is a bit of a stretch but it's also sampo koski we're talking aoutm

[fisheito]

Today's topic is:

-bithc i 'm gonna kilg him

yaku and rei wear the same eyeliner. maybe not the exact same pencil, because of hygiene reasons, but certainly MATCHING eyeliner. rei is teaching yakumo how to wear eye makeup.

i even checked the other two to make sure it wasn't an "everyone gets red eye makeup as an Artistic Decision"

just some happy reflected light in garu's eyes, and quincy? that's All-Natural Depression Brand eyebags, baybeieee!!!!

wait, if the red glow on garu's eyes is just a lighting effect,... and it looks similar to rei's............

no, you know what? rei and yaku share the SAME physical eyeliner now. if yakumo can have shower sex in a public bathroom stall!!BAREFOOT! and not get foot fungus, he's immune to everything. they are passing the pencil between each other. Father applied it onto both of them before this photo.

my hungry brain thought this was a carrot. :(.

the detail on the EYES!! the STITCHING! the artist didn't have to add the TEXTURE of the thing because. you know. fictional 2D men. BUT NO!!! THAT'SSOME REAL THREAD RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!

GOTDAMB YAKUMO HANDSTICTTCHING THE ENTIRE CUTE LITTLE FACE AND EMBROIDERING THE. EEVRYTHING

i doubt he got fabric with those kitty spots already on it. he must have handpainted or stitched or...SOMETHING those patterns onto the base fabric.

AND it's TWO TONED with the white belly and underside of the paws

AND THE WIDDLE CLAWS

insane seamstress powers

if garu made that meat block, then he's pretty DAMNNABLYT good at sewing too

clean seams!!! and some juicy decor, for the texture of the flesh! AND the shape of the bone! wow! puppy's handy with a needle too!!

i cooooould imagine that someone else sewed the meat charm and gave it to garu, but why would i think that,,,

when i can imagine garu ALSO being adept at arts AND crafts. he can draw AND make cute plushies.

Garu, coming to an artist alley near u!!!!!!!!

quincy's handiwork also lookin pretty clean.

is it artist simplification of objects in the background, or is it a genuine representation of that character's ability to sew evenly? WE'LL NEVER KNOW! but i'm treating it as the latter!!

possibly hand-painted topper blush. cute and round. non lopsided ears. once again, hands with Experience

and here is where we get more HOMELY

i doubt that rei's bad with needles. man is injecting himself with substances at least once a day (hypothesis)

but he's also not gonna be a neat freak and put 4000% effort into a project like this just for fun. he'll join in the escapades but who cares about the Professional Sellable Quality of his final Father scent powder orb?

even if the stitches are more visible than the others, they're even. that's more than i can accomplish. THUS, rei has skillz but is simply not that invested

he is MORE invested in seeing the wolf pup have a fun time

:') soft expression

and now, back to my first point:

case in point:

wtf you mean he just SMILING. and CONTENT. and RELAXED? not an inkling of ancxieity for once. just staring down happily at his eiden-assigned fursona ball. did all the clan members get together and discuss what eiden's fursona was? how did they come to consensus? when did yakumo start sewing emotional support plush avatars of his crush? (during Feast of Roses, porobably)

hehe. i like it when Father is relaxed in a pic. he's not flying in front of any of his children to preserve their Clothed Primness. he's not getting actively bothered by overenthusiastic Other children. he is not pecking at eiden for getting too close to his treasure hoard. he is simply squeezing the presented Meat. Quality Assurance. sharing in the act of crafty creation with Sweet Puppy. talons are NOT out (more than necessary).

wait a minute.

is that a pectoral? wtf? ARENT YOU SUPPOSED TO BE CONCAVE? FLAT AS A BOARD? GET OUTTA HERE WITH YOUR EXISTING MUSCLE GROUP AND A WAY TOO TIGHT---

i wonder what room they're in. it's really nice. so peaceful with the bundles of flowers hung up, too. it's giving me the ambience of that atrium where they locked all the bottoms up in suits that one time. those two times? looks like they finally let the tops have some sunlight. good. they need to mingle

I HATE YOUR EDGY SKELETON 3D PAINTED SPINE ART DID YOU PAINT IT YOURSELF? SNAKEY BRUSH-WIELDINGWHORE.....................

i wonder if there's a reason why both charms have a blue rope. is it the only colour they have available? is it blue for eiden? are they all going to attach blue ropes to their charms and gift them to eiden? quincy and rei aren't finished yet (old timers moving more leisurely), so i don't know what colour they're gonna use.

yeah i'm gonna pretend they're all going to eiden. eidenblue ribbons everywhere. but they're the same as the garublue in this pic. . ................. WHATEVER,,,,,, garu belongs to eiden (master) so they can share the blue. EIDENblue coded gifts for EVERYEONE!!!!!

[akkivee]

🚨THE MOVIE WAS REAAALLLLLLLLLLLL🚨

hypnosis mic the movie is being touted as japan’s first ever interactive movie, where the audience can influence the story with their votes!!!!! what are they voting on you ask????? the 3rd drb!!!!!!! the audience gets to choose who wins the third drb in their theatre showing, meaning there are at the very least, six possible endings!!!!!!

[16archive]

daily faceoff's matt larkin on the toronto maple leafs as a playoff team that could miss in 2026

full transcript below the cut

toronto maple leafs

mitch marner's playoff struggles are well documented, but he's the nhl's eighth-leading scorer since debuting in 2016-17. he's also an excellent two-way forward who plays in all situations. matias macelli and nicolas roy were savvy additions but don't come close to replacing marner's production. now the leafs' top-end scoring will largely depend on auston matthews fighting off the chronic injury that reduced him from superstar to merely great in 2024-25, while they'll hope john tavares can repeat a 38-goal season at 35 years old. the leafs, despite their reputation as a tighter-checking team under coach craig berube, were a mid-pack defensive team at best this past season, relying heavily on fantastic years from goaltenders anthony stolarz and joseph woll. if I'm placing a bet, I still have the leafs making the playoffs next season – calm down – but they may slide back in a highly competitive atlantic division. if matthews can't stay healthy and the goaltending regresses, the leafs could be playing white-knuckle april games to earn a berth. if they don't add another top-fix forward by any means necessary between now and october, gm brad treliving's offseason is a massive failure.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

the charles statue made me easily overlook that the design the magneto statue has is different from our current rivals magneto

[marsreds]

also, ngl, i was not expecting kaisei to be My Type™ the way he is? like. yesss king, there's something deeply wrong with you, lemme see you make it everyone's problem👏👏

[hsslilly-blog]

okay this is the stuff claire does throughout her life i think. i've mentioned she played volleyball too but not very often so i'm not including that. ballet is a childbel thing and she was taken out of it when she was 12. she played tennis once or twice and thought it was fun so her father ruined it and made her get lessons at 15. cheer is a high school thing of course. she started roller skating by late teens and it's the only thing she still does regularly besides hitting christopher winters with tennis balls every saturday morning. it's cool how none of these activities are terrible for her foot.

[danwhobrowses]

5 Underrated Things or Tactics That May Aid Bell's Hells to Victory

Spoilers up to Campaign 3 Episode 116 below

Well Critters, it all comes down to this.

Vox Machina dismantled the Malleus Keep, killed Ozo (the Bozo) Kruft, and freed the Champion of Ravens which removed the tidal lock on Ruidus, and now the Mighty Nein have disintegrated the Weave Mind, completing essentially a full dismantling of the Kreviris Imperium, all of which quicker than I anticipated. All that's left is the Hallowed Cage, where Ludinus Da'leth and his inner circle are using his harness to try and fully destroy Liliana Temult. Bell's Hells begin a race against time to save her, but also a race to defeat Ludinus before he unleashes his intentions unto Exandria and its Pantheon with Predathos, and then decide for themselves what they do with the God Eater.

Suffice to say, and I dunno about everyone else but, I am terrified. I believe they can win but Ludinus is not to be underestimated, this second harness means he may be stronger - and he was already the strongest wizard alive - and have access to more powers compared to his simulacra, plus Predathos may come during or after this battle, which can put the Hells in a weakened state. Matt has likely prepared his best and worst for this final battle too, but the Hells aren't Lv. 20 combatants like the other groups; there's no 9th level spells, no Divine Intervention, and the group lost their cleric ~20 episodes back, so even though VM and the Nein were ultimately successful within 1-2 episodes having to use both of their auto-succeed Divine Interventions from their two clerics in the process, this is the battle. And with that is a ridiculous amount of tension for Ludinus and for what comes after. For all we know, the cast may've already recorded ahead enough to have finished the final fight, maybe even finished the campaign (though I hope not, partly because I don't want it to end yet but also I feel like the dawn of the new era should be explored regardless of what choice the Hells make, plus some characters could use a bit more resolution after the big fight and the pressure of stakes and time sensitivity have been alleviated) but for us it's a nervous wait, and a wonder of what can be done to win and what choice will be made to determine the future of Exandria, Ruidus, their faith and their people. So, this is my indulging into that first part, 5 lower-key things or tactics that might not have been initially thought of that could make things easier to defeat Ludinus.

Liliana, the Inner Circle, and the Arcane Battery Provided that the Hells make it in time to stop Liliana from being totally destroyed by the harness (which is very possible since Laudna does have that tracking spell on him since Aeor, it's all about speed and not running into enemies) she will still be without her magic to fight. Ludinus' inner circle holding her down is comprised of Reilorans but also other Ruidusborns, and that's something the Hells can expose. Liliana cannot fight, but Ruidusborns can take spell slots from each other, so Liliana and any KO'd Ruidusborns from the inner circle can be used as spell slot fuel for Imogen and Fearne. Ludinus also gave a 9-slot fully-charged Arcane Battery to the Hells in order to trigger Delilah within Laudna for his escape, the battery can help recharge Laudna's slots too which makes this tactic handy for the witches of the group.

Dunamancy One of Ludinus' most important tools for his plan has been Luxon Beacons, a device able to unravel even divine magic, but much like the Harness it can prove his undoing. Dunamancy hasn't been touched upon as much as early C3 hinted it could have, but for lack of a better phrase, the possibilities are still endless. The Hells have multiple Potions of Possibility at their disposal to aid with rolls, but they also were given a Sphere of Dunamantic Restoration by the Kryn, which will trigger the effects of a Short Rest and a health and spell slot recharge - which can be handy in a pinch and to reuse some once per short rest abilities. Ashton is the key factor though, I've mentioned it a few times already but we don't know if these items will behave differently with them, via their own internal dunamancy abilities. Given the unknown factor, that's why it's not deemed as much of a tactic as it is a Hail Mary, but it is one that could lead to Ludinus' own magic unraveling, and maybe even Predathos' too

The Whirling Dervish & Conditional Advantages In Vassalheim, Dorian received his family sword: Gambolcleft, the Vortex Blade. One of its yet to be used abilities involves a once a day repetitive use of striking an enemy, similar to how Ozo killed Vex, provided that they attack with Disadvantage. Dorian is already looking at a high attack roll given Gambolcleft's +3 to attack and hit rolls, and Master's Flourish means he doesn't have to use a Bardic Inspiration to stack a Blade Flourish (Defensive Flourish is probably best, the damage is also doubled by Gambolcleft), the only quibble is the disadvantage. Fortunately, most of the Hells have skills that can force Ludinus into conditions where attacks would do advantage on him: stunning and rendering him prone being most likely, but paralysis is possible if a Hold Person is successful. It would of course require his Legendary Resistances to be used up first, but if Ludinus gets stunned or knocked prone within Dorian's range, Gambolcleft could easily carve its way through him with continual hits, stacked potentially by Bless and Mark of the Messy End, for perpetual damage and make Dorian himself impossible to hit on his next turn. Stunning or Proning Ludinus also leaves Ludinus at the vicious mercy of the martial players, especially for conditions that auto-crit when hit.

The Hole (or the Bag of Holding) Occam's Razor. An old but gold tactic of the Hells could very easily be used against Ludinus too. The portable hole or the bag of holding are devoid of air, left in one long enough with it sealed would mean suffocation as have been the fate of many of the Hells' past opponents that they didn't have time to deal with. The Hole's downside is that a Strength check can lead to a creature forcing their way out, but the Hells do have plenty of skills that can impose disadvantage on Strength rolls and the aforementioned conditions could help that, Ashton's Hammer may also make it more difficult to unfold the Hole if its Immovable Rod is propped atop of it - but that'd be down to Matt's discretion. The Bag of Holding doesn't have the strength save, but it is smaller so it may not be able to fit him in it. I'm not sure if Ludinus can use Gate to escape either, dunno if that leads to the whole extradimensional rip thing that happens if you open one while in the other, but if he does it's a concentration spell so the Hells could just keep knocking him back from the other side, a bigger group of enemies in either also reduces the time needed before they suffocate.

The Harness and the One-Chance Polymorph Right now Ludinus is using a harness to destroy Liliana, comparing it to the one in Moleasmyr it'll potentially take about an hour to finish the process providing that this factor wasn't improved upon. However, removing magic within a being for a whole day only required a minute of contact in the Hells' one and maybe Ludinus', thus his creation and reason for long life and power can also be the key to his downfall. Holding Ludinus down for a minute is of course not as easy as it sounds but that's where Polymorph can come in. Polymorph lasts at most an hour, so as long as Ludinus is changed into a creature that can easily be restrained they can use the harness on it and remove Ludinus of his entire arsenal in order to finish him off without the risk of his high level spells. The tricky part is getting Polymorph to succeed; Wisdom is after all a Wizard's bread and butter, but there is a single gambit that could make it work. It requires all Legendary Resistances to be gone of course, and for Laudna and Braius to be conscious; Braius has a once per long rest ability to change a Wisdom saving throw to a Charisma one, which he used to allow Dorian to succeed in making the Dominox dance in the live show, Laudna's Void Puppet can force disadvantage on saves to those within 5ft of it, which will negate his magical resistance to just a clean roll. Orym can also use Hex to impose a disadvantage, which may be able to stack, but this would also hinge on Ludinus' charisma not being super high and if the Polymorph fails once it will likely not be able to be tried again.

The fight won't be easy, but there are avenues that can make it less dangerous, a strategy is very much required for such a foe. All the while my strategy remains keeping up the prayer circle. Deep breaths everyone.

[lala-blahblah]

I will never make this because it would be for an audience of one (me) but ever since reading "If we Were Villains" (story about serious drama kids in college who perform shakespeare and deal with a murder) I have been entertaining the thought of a crack fic crossover with High School Musical The Musical The Series where the staff decides they will no longer put on shakespeare after the tragic accident that happened at Thanksgiving, because Shakespeare plays would only increase the tension and drama. So they hire Ms. Jen who decides their spring play will actually be High School Musical (which exists in the 90s in this universe) and it ruins the vibe so much that everyone gives up on being dark and mysterious because they're universally pissed at Ms Jen for making them learn choreoraphed basketball dancing.

[amelikos]

Not sure what to think about the preview for HZ102.

Any thoughts about that one Pokemon from HZ057 (Carbou) making a return?

[telesodalite]

Been thinking about idw1's outliers lately, and how sort of wild the whole concept is from a worldbuilding standpoint, and it struck me that most confirmed outlier abilities tend to be really useful, or flashy, or powerfully dangerous, and few to none tend to be like, really boring, or totally impractical, or even entirely useless? Which, doesn't really make sense when considering the fact that outlier abilities are seemingly random.

Surely not everyone who's born an outlier gets something useful?

And I don't mean like, "good" useful, but any sort of useful, even if that means you can kill people with your voice, or give a power boost by exploding yourself, those are still "useful".

But surely there had to be some with abilities that were totally impractical, or nonbeneficial, or at the very least just insignificant or purely aesthetic and pointless?

[itspileofgoodthings]

I showed my students some Rosings scenes yesterday and in my last period class I let it play a little longer so that it continued into Darcy’s first proposal (even though we hadn’t read it yet) and it played all the way up until the exact moment that Lizzy drew breath to answer him. The bell rang and then they shouted at me in a unison of disappointment and disbelief anskskskskksks.

[fisheito]

event silhouettes are having a teehee moment and i am nonebeef'd about it ~(￣▽￣)~

[starguider]

Here’s the animation from the final evolution. Crimson Feather: Rebirth

[forensicfabulist]

went on arementalkingtoomuch.com to see how hazbin hotel would do and. oughhhhh

i only did the first 4 episodes rip. if you wanna double check these or do the other 4, tag me pretty please

EP1

EP2

EP3

EP4

[wormchaser]

you are complaining about complaining too much while complaining about the fact that maybe people dont like you because you complain too much while complaining about being alone. just stop complaining and do something about it. talk to people. reach out. dont just wait for someone to come to you first.

i have tried reaching out to different people in the past year or so but it never works. i understand its my own fault for letting relationships decay because of my own insecurities and issues but that doesn't mean i can just will myself to think or believe different things about myself. it's a self fulfilling prophecy ; i think people don't like me so i don't reach out so people don't like me etc . i am sure you do not want to hear me list all the things i want to say in response so i will put them in the tags.