#but also what the FUCK are the devs smoking

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

why is steam constantly updating. it still looks like absolute shit so theyre not doing anything

[derangedfujoshi]

Lord forbid a woman does anything.

People are always yapping about women's rights to own their own bodies and be sexual and have fun because Fuck The Patriarchy but the SECOND a female character owns her body and is sexual it's "OOOHH THIS ACCURSED FANSERVICE BEING SHOVED DOWN OUR PURE THROATS!!!!" It's always "mommy sorry mommy sorry" in the comment section of some sexy fanart but always "the devs are disgustinf for sexualising her like this" about canon content.

DO YOU GUYS WANT THE SEXY LADY OR NOT?? PICK A FUCKING STRUGGLE! Jane Doe is a grown adult with a personality, thoughts, ideas, humor, all very well portrayed in the game itself and she's ALSO smokin hot and she KNOWS it and uses it/has fun with it, that is NOT what a sexualised character is.

If you're too immature to watch a woman confidently owning her body and sexuality even when said woman is only fucking pixels on a screen, then maybe you're not old enough to engage with that content or maybe you're not the target audience and should turn your head towards other things instead of the sexy domme rat lady!

The fact that people so blatantly lust over characters to the point of objectifying them (which is fine, they're fake anyway) but the SECOND an actual game/book/comic/whatever says "ok cool you like smoking hot characters let me give you some candies to lick" they all start screaming "NO! NOT WHEN YOU DO IT!!" just doesn't make fucking sense to me, like, they're giving you the content you want to see! They're giving you canon content to lust over but when they do it it's bad fanservice but when you on your blog do it's completely fine?? Make it make fuckins sense.

Anyway I'm not like you, I'm busting a fat one at all the Jane sexy bits and falling asleep satiated. Goodnight.

[mediocreshake08]

This was mostly made for @rabid-raccoontail but whoever wants to get into Mortal Kombat, this is your lucky day. So welcome everyone to the...

Also this is going to be my biggest post yet so if you like to read this is the place for you. If you can't picture the characters I name, look them up on google.

Also this contains heavy spoilers for the ENTIRE series.

So sorry for the wait, I hope you enjoy this

What is a Mortal Kombat?

To get a basic understanding of the series you got 3 canons to work with. You have the Midway games (Original Dev team), you have The NRS reboot (the canon most people are known with) and you got the The New Era ( the one that changed it all).

Classic games

The first game takes place on an Island owned by Shang Tsung, the final boss. The whole premise of why everyone is fighting on an island is because of the Mortal Kombat tournament, which happens every generation, and is a tournament mostly against Earthrealm and Outworld. Basically how it works, is if your realm wins 10 tournaments in a row, your realm gets fused with the winners (but also you can choose not to do that because fuck it). Outworld won 9 tournaments and with this one, one of the biggest villains of the franchise, Shao Kahn, fuses Earthrealm with Outworld and fucks up the entire human race. Our champions, Liu Kang a Shaolin monk, Johnny Cage the actor and Sonya Blade a Special Forces Commander, led by the thunder God Raiden won't let that shit slide. Oh also Kano is here and he's a proper Aussie, ye m8? Anyways, Liu Kang sweeps the floor with everyone, including a four armed hurdling mass of muscle named Goro, kicks Shang Tsungs ass and practically saves the Earth. Bonus fun fact, Scorpion kills Sub Zero because he thought he killed his family and clan and as revenge, he spit roasts him.

MK2 takes place some time after that with Shang looking a little sexier and asking the Earthrealmers to join a second MK tournament. If they don't oblige, they're gonna invade Earth (save that for a little later). Also Sub Zero is back, except not really the one who got killed by Scorpion was Bi-Han, and this is his younger brother, Kuai Liang. Getting back on topic we got some new characters like Jax, Sonya's partner from the Special Forces, Kuai Liang Sub Zero, Kung Lao who's the cooler Shaolin monk and also has a hat that's also a throwing weapon, Kitana, who is the main villains step daughter (sorta), Mileena, who's a test tube baby made by Shang Tsung for Shao Kahn, Reptile, who as you could guess is a lizard, and Barraka, who has Nosferatu's face (but also like, his species is tied to Mileena's creation because she's half Tarkatan. Anyways, some shit happens and Liu Kang beats the fuck out of Shao Kahn.

MK3, instead of being yet another tournament, Shao Kahn says FUCK IT and invades earth with the Outworld armies. Not only that, but the Lin Kuei (Sub Zero's clan) are being turned into cyborgs. All but one of them escaped, that one being Sub Zero. One cop survives New York, Johnny Cage gets killed by a centaur, there's a speedster with swords and fireballs coming out of his face, and boom, bang BING, we got some new characters. There's Stryker the Cop I talked about a few seconds ago, Kabal the speedster because the co-creator really wanted to make a psycho killer flash, Cyrax Sektor and Smoke who are the cyber Lin Kuei, Rain, who appears in like 5 games but only does something in 3 and isn't playable in one of the games he's in, Night Wolf who's a native American, Ermac who uses they/them and Sindel, the biggest bitch in the fucking seven seas. Oh also Bi-Han is back and he's edgy. He now goes by Noob Saibot, which if you read backwards is Tobias and Boon, the creators of Mortal Kombat. No time for that though because somehow Shao Kahn returned after being fisted, Johnny Cage gets brought back to life and Liu Kang kills Shao Kahn once more again, the end.

If that's not confusing enough, we aren't done yet because now we got

3D games

I'm not doing Mortal Kombat 4

Deadly Alliance starts with Shang Tsung and his boyfriend Quan Chi snapping Liu Kang's neck so he can't interrupt them in reawakening Onaga, the king of all scalies and one of the most powerful forces in the realms. And now Liu Kang is a zombie, Raiden kicks Shang and Quan's asses or at least tries. Also we're introduced to Kenshi Takahashi the blind swordsman with a magic sword, and sexy vampire pirate lady, Nitara, more on her later.

Deception takes place right after that, where Raiden is trying to fight the Deadly Alliance (who are literally just Shang and Quan), failing. Raiden dies, Quan Chi kills Shang Tsung which somehow awakens Onaga. Quan can't do piss and trying to fight him, somehow brings both Raiden and Shang Tsung back to life... Okay?? And then Raiden nukes himself and Onaga walks it off. Deceptions protagonist is a little shit called Shujinko, a student of Bo Rai Cho, the same man who trained Kung Lao and Liu Kang. He then gets encountered by Damashi, a glowy ball that tells him he has to help the Elder Gods by retrieving the Kamidogu (which are basically Jewelry that hold the fabric of the universe). And Shujinko, being the gullible idiot he is accepts. And from this point on, the game turns into you fixing everyone else's problems like finding Bo Rai Cho's sodding watch, getting water back from another realm, and beating the shit out of Wesley Snipes. Speaking of Blade we got other sick characters like Kira and Kobra, Black Dragon members and one of them is named after a martial art/movie, Havik who is a klerk of chaos, Hotaru the Policemun, Dairou who's an outlaw loose and runnin', and Li Mei, voiced by Kelly Hu in the latest game. After all that, you find all the Kamidogu, you defeat everyone + Scorpion is the final boss (don't ask me, I don't fuggin know why) and what's your reward? Realizing you've been deceived the whole game and not seeing a final battle between Onaga and Shujinko (even though Shujinko can definitely beat Onaga but fuck it).

Armageddon begins with this schmuck named Argus, an Edenian God who did it with a mortal woman Delia and they had two boys who had to be put in stalagmites because Argus knows the apocalypse is on its way. Thousands of years later, Daegon and Taven, the two brothers wake up. Daegon basically made the Red Dragon clan, named after Caro who's basically Taven's spirit animal and he helps bring about the apocalypse. Taven's character can be summed up to "Who are you? Who's that? Uuuuh..." But that's what I love about him. Anyways, Taven looks for his asshole brother, de-frosts a bad bitch and kicks everyone's ass. Which translates to what Armageddon really is. All the characters choose sides. We get one of the coolest fmv sequences in PS2 history and everyone dies trying to take Blaze's power. Blaze is a demigod-esque creation made by Argus to warn Taven and Daegon about the apocalypse, but also whoever kills him, gains his power and basically becomes the developer of the game. But because Taven is the main character, he has to kill everyone he encounters, a few of those people being one's he was proud to call friends. He climbs to the top, kills Daegon, destroys Blaze and saves the universe, the end.

Yeah I lied lol

Netherrealm Era

After Armageddon, Midway shut down, Warner Brothers bought Mortal Kombat and Netherrealm studios took over the franchise and this is where it all went downhill.

Mortal Kombat 9 starts with the end of the previous game. Except it doesn't, because Taven is somehow not here and Shao Kahn walked all the way back to kill him after being carried away by Onaga. Before Shao Kahn crushed him, Raiden sends a message to his past self saying only three things. "He Must Win.". We are now in the first Mortal Kombat except it's HD and Johnny is down bad for Sonya. Sonya is here just so she can find Jax who's lost on the island somewhere, Bi-Han is a bit of a prick and Shang Tsung is the only character in the game who has common sense. Liu Kang beats Shang Tsung, Jax gets his arms ripped off by Ermac, Johnny only gets to win if he has a suit and Mileena gets the most revieling outfit in fighting game history. Kitana and Liu Kang have an on and off thing, Reptile gets bullied (poor thang) and before Kuai Liang can kill Scorpion for killing his brother, he's taken away by the cyber Lin Kuei because Raiden saved Smoke from being cyberized and he says there's nothing he can do (that's bullshit but okay). Anyways, Kung Lao is doing pretty good in the tournament and then Shao Kahn snaps his neck. Feeling horrible by the death of his Shaolin brother, Liu Kang jumps in the arena and fists Shao Kahn. Sometime later, we learned that Shao Kahn survived because they put him in the Soul Chamber, a place in the Outworld arena that heals any and all wounds. He then gets the idea by Quan Chi to invade Earthrealm which completely goes against the laws of Mortal Kombat. And Shang Tsung knows and wants to stop them, but Shao Kahn doesn't fucking care and erased him from existance. they get guns from Kano, and they start blasting. Army can't do shit and somehow, a single cop (Stryker) is able to fight off A lizard man, a fire breathing cat and the only thing in Outworld that knows what pronouns are. Kabal was here too, but only for the first two fights. But he doesn't get his super speed here because he's just an average dude and maybe dating Stryker? I don't know. Anyways Kabal gets roasted by a big buff cat, taken to the Black Dragon and given a respiratory device by Kano that helps him breathe. He's basically Deadpool - the guns + super speed because the magic atmosphere of Outworld gave him that. Don't ask how anyone else got that after going to Outworld, idk🤷‍♀️. Anyways Quan Chi and Bitch-han bring back Sindel and mind control her to do their biding. Meanwhile, our heroes that consist of Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Jax Briggs, Night Wolf, Cyber Sub Zero, Smoke, Kitana, Stryker, Kabal, Kitana and Liu Kang sit and do nothing. The Bastard Sektor walks in and with his Cyber Lin Kuei to tire out the heroes until Sindel arrives, the worst scene in MK history plays because the purple bitch kills damn near everyone and kicks Smoke in the nads, and then Night Wolf, the most forgettable Mortal Kombat character kills Sindel by Hail Mary. Raiden looks for help of Quan Dale Dingle, but he instead of helping, brings everyone who died back as revenants, which are basically zombies but with memories of the ones who died and they are pretty strong. Raiden fights three at once, Kills Liu Kang because he fears Shao Kahn is going to kill him and with the power of the Elder Gods, Raiden goes super Saiyan and does a Kamehameha, killing Shao Kahn. Yeah all of that was one game.

Mortal Kombat X (or as dip shits would call it mk 10) starts with Johnny, Sonya and Kenshi fighting revenant Sub Zero (who's a human revenant because of MKX prequel comic nonsense don't worry about it), Smoke who isn't even playable, Sindel who's a bitch through and through and Jax, who in a minute turns back into a human because of unexplained reasons, but I guess by killing his revenant, Liu, Kitana and Lao who are some. it turns out they were going to the Jin Sei chamber (earthrealm's life force that is pure light) where Quan Chi and his boss, Shinnok exact their plan of taking over Earthrealm by putting Shinnok into the Jin Sei, corrupting it and turning him into a super Saiyan but he looks like a devil, so kind of like a ssj4 thing? Doesn't matter because Johnny learns he has God killing powers and uses them to punch Shinnok in the nuts. Raiden seals him and the rest of the game is now a 20 years time skip. And now we have the next gen of kombatants, called the Kombat Kids by the fans. You got Cassie Cage the mc, Jaqui Briggs, who's basically Jax 2.0, Kung Jin, Lao's cousing who fights with a bow and Takeda, who has whips, bombs and a fuckin lightsaber. Anyways other new characters you have are Kotal Kahn who took over the throne, Erron Black who is the Cowboy and D'vorah, a character that absolutely everyone hates because she kills Mileena, who had a civil war with Kotal for the throne. Also Scorpion, now Hanzo Hasashi kills Quan Chi after learning it was him who disguised himself as Bi-Han to kill the Shirai Ryu out of spite I guess? D'vorah betrays Kotal, Almost kills Johnny but does get wrecked by Cassie who does also have the same God killing powers as Johnny, and he uses them to punch Shinnok in the nuts. Raiden puts himself in the Jin Sei Chamber because Shinnok corrupted it. Raiden purifies the Jin Sei and everyone gets a happy ending. Except Shinnok, who gets decapitated by dark Raiden.

Mortal Kombat 11 is a flawed masterpiece, and that flaw is the multiverse bullshit. So basically, Shinnok's mom Kronika who's like the keeper of time, wants to kill the entire universe because it's not balanced (shut the fuck up, ya bitch). Anyways, we got Geras, who can never die because he's a fixed point in time but is mostly known for pounding ass in the next game, Kollector who is the IRS and I hate him, and Centrion who is Shinnok's sister. There's also he Frozen bad bitch from earlier and her name is Frost, who is like Sub Zero minus but she's cyberized like Sektor and Cyrax who are in this game but unplayable (WHY NETHERREALM!). Anyways while remaking the timeline, Kronika accidentally summoned past versions of Liu Kang, Kitana, Kung Lao, Jade (who was dead but I didn't give a shit to introduce her at the start) and also she has maybe done it with Kotal (LITTERALY oc x canon shit) ((Also Jade doesn't kill D'vorah when given the chance, the stupid bitch)), Jax and a past version of Erron Black, even though he's still alive??, and also Shao Kahn with the coolest design of all time. Also Barraka is back, because I forgot to mention the bug bitch killed him too. Anyways, now we're spending the game beating up but rarely killing beloved characters. The cyber Lin Kuei and Frost and old Jax invade their ship that they use to get to Kronika's keep. Young Liu Kang dies, but Raiden fuses with revenant Liu Kang and that turns Liu Kang into a fake Gogeta, aka Fire God Liu Kang (any of this starting to sound like fanfiction?). Anyways they make it to the island where Kronika's keep is and then, everyone but Liu Kang gets Thanos snapped. Liu kills all the leveled up revenants, Glasses Kronika and brings back Raiden to help him rewrite history.

JUST KIDDING RETCONNED FUCK YOOPUUUUU HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAJ FUNNEE

uuuuuuugh alright I got two more story modes to do, holy fuck it's okay I can do this shit

The MK11 expansion, Aftermath, brings back Sheeva, who is now queen of the Shokan, the same species as Goro and Kintaro (the fire breathing cat from MK9), Night Wolf, Fujin the wind God and brother of Raiden, and Shanga langa ding dong. Fujin, Night Wolf and Shang were all locked away in a place beyond time until just now somehow (just roll with it okay? Okay). The plot of this story expansion is basically, Liu Kang wants to reset the universe, but he can't because he doesn't have Kronika's crown, which is needed to do the universe reset. So our boy Liu takes the two idiots and Shang into the past. I just now realized, Raiden is the only smart person in this game, because he knows Shang Tsung is planning something devious. Liu maybe knows but plays it off. They go back to previous points in the game to get the crown, revive Sindel who says she was mind controlled but later she says she's evil from the start (holy fuck I want to kill her and then myself). They get a boatsman, Kahron, to take them to the keep. In the process, D'vorah kills the poster boy of the franchise (Dominic I will fucking end your bloodline). Sindel gets Shao Kahn, heals his eyes that were sliced out by Kitana, they kill Liu and Lao, Shang reveals that he wants to reset the timeline (Fujin you stupid) , he Soul sucks Sindel and Shao Kahn, kills Kronika, but before he can do anything with Kronika's Hourglass, Liu Kang breaks in, kicks Shang Tsungs ass and reboots the series one more fucking time, which brings us to...

MORTAL 1 KOMBAT (or Mortal Kombat 1

This game starts with Shang Tsung being a failing snake oil salesman because he can barely survive. Then someone who looks like Kronika comes in and he makes this face

Best game of all time.

Anyway, we're introduced to Kung Lao and baby boy Raiden, who are farmers but also train Martial arts under the belt of Madame Bo, this universes version of Bo Rai Cho and she runs a kitchen, what more could you want with a grandma. Later, the Lin Kuei invade and we get the return of my boy Smoke who now has a Karambit and is voiced by Spiderman. He's Joined by Kuai Liang who is now Scorpion, and Bi-Han Sub Zero, the worst he's ever been i hate him. It's like they took his personality from Mortal Kombat 11 and slapped it over a poor man's imitation. Kung Lao kicks all three of their asses but only because they were pulling their punches. They join Liu who is basically Raiden now, and look for Johnny Cage, who's having a one-sided argument with his wife, and then she leaves and doesn't come back. Then, Kenshi breaks in, wanting Sento, the sword of his family which now lays on displayed on Johnny's wall. They fight, and Johnny beats him effortlessly. Johnny ties him to a chair and interrogates him until Liu Kang, along with Scorpion and Sub Zero walk in, which leads to one of the most iconic moments in the franchise

They want to untie Kenshi, but Johnny doesn't want that and thinks this is a prank, so he tries to play along but ends up being tossed into a million dollar statue, which triggers him and Johnny starts beating the shit out of Bitch-Han. Liu intervenes before Johnny can do his second fatality on him.they all go to the Wu Shi monk academy, where they train for the Great Tournament between Earthrealm and the realm of Outworld (that's LITTERALY what they call it, I'm not joking). Raiden beats them all using the one move he has, advance Cartwheel kick. Winning, Raiden is chosen to represent Earthrealm. And for winning, Liu Kang gives him a lightning amulet, which gives him lightning powers so he can fairly combat the Outworld fighters. Entering Outworld through a portal created by Liu, they are introduced by Kitana, Mileena and the palace guard, so-called the Umgadi, featuring two returning characters, one of which does nothing and the other was just a barrier. The one's i speak of are Khameleon and Tanya, the first canon lesbian in Mortal Kombat who has a thing going on with Mileena. Li Mei is back and... She's voiced by Kelly Hu. No wonder I forget she's in this game all the time. but along Li Mei, we have Shao Kahn, who is now degraded to General Shao, and his second in command, Reiko. I forgot to mention that Sindel is in this game and for the first time in the series, I don't mind her. She's a sweet, caring mother who is actually a mother to both Kitana and Mileena. Shao is now jobbing more than ever, from losing to a farmer, to being wrecked by queen. After winning the tournament, Liu Kang sends Kung Lao, Johnny and Kenshi to look for Shang Tsung, as it's word that he's somewhere in Outworld. The tremendous trio find a colony of Tarkatans, Outworlders infected by a disease called Tarkat, which deforms and debilitates. Shang Tsung is there and plans to harvest their marrow for a cure for Mileena, who as we find out, she has Tarkat. After a few fights, Kenshi pushes Johnny out of the way, as Mileena has gone feral, took some sais of the table, and stabs Kenshi's eyes out. As this happens Shao and tiny ass Goro walk in and take them to Shang Tsung's true lab, the Flesh Pits where Reptile works for him because Shang says he has his family captive. But as it's revealed, this isn't the case, as Shang already killed them many moons ago. This makes Reptile (aka Syzoth) have anger. They toxic gas the place and we get a Test Your Might to survive. They escape, but as they walk through the Living Forrest, they encounter Ashrah, a demon from the Netherrealm killing demons and almost killing our heroes. Also she says Demons funny. Like... DEE-MUNZ!

Anyways, she joins the party and they search for Quan Chi, who used to be dead, but is now an escaped cole miner and also black. The way Ashrah knows where Quan Chi is because she has a magic sword called the Kriss, and she uses it to purge evil from her soul, by killing other demons. We then find Quan Chi and his jobber squad consisting of Havik who is horribly lame in comparison to his older version and design from Deception, Sareena, Ashrah's so-so sister, Darius, aka Wesley Snipes' Blade with a dash of A-Train from the boys on the side, and the absolute dog shit tier downgrade of all time, Nitara is back, and nothing that made her cool is here. She isn't cool, her design is mid at best, her head looks like an onion, and the one thing that everyone hates about Nitara in this game, is that she's voiced by Megan Fox. Megan, Goddamn, Fox. Her performance is so goddamn awful that people actually prefer Rhonda Rousey's Sonya Blade from MK11. Anyways enough bitching, because Ashrah, with the help of a Reptile kameo beats the jobber squad, but just too late to stop Quan Chi from making a tornado of souls, which he uses to create Ermac, and then does this "who's mans is this" lookin' pose as he says kill them.

In between this and Ashrah vs Quan Chi and Ermac, Johnny thanks Kenshi for saving his life, and gives him Sento, which he uses to assist Ashrah in the clobbering of Quan Chi. Now they return to the streets of Outworld's capital, Sun Do to look for a way back home. They disguise themselves, run into the Umgadi, get away and now it's Li Mei's turn to shine.

I forgot everything that happens in her chapter.

The Lin Kuei infiltrate a palace where Shang Tsung is, but while they are terrible at being stealthy, they aren't in beating Shang and Quan. But In the process, Bi-Han admits he let his and Kuai's father die, just so he can be the Lin Kuei's grandmaster. Smoke waits outside and does nothing till Kuai Liang escapes. And when Bi-Han comes out and leaves a scar on Kuai's face, even then, Smoke does literally nothing. All the characters who had their own parts in the storyline + Mileena (as it's her time to shine). They head to the Fortress where Ermac almost rips off Bi-Han's arms, fight Ermac, but it turns out the soul of Mileena and Kitana's father, Jerrod is inside Ermac...

That came out wrong... Or did it?

Anyways, they break in, Kitana almost fools General Shao and Shang Tsung right before Shang Bang puts on a crown, that awakens the Dragon Kings army and a a fake Sindel kills the queen, but Jerrod, who is still in control of Ermac, takes her soul before it leaves her body, storing Sindel as a part of Mac n' cheese. They head all come to discover that it wasn't Kronika at the intro, but instead was Shang Tsung from another timeline where he won in MK11,

HOW

DO

YOU

DO

FELLOW

KIDS???!!!

Anyways, 11 Shang, who we will now call Titan Shang, has a plan to rewrite Liu Kang's timeline (the one everything else I just talked about in this entry takes place) and bring absolute fucking chaos with his team of evil time lords. Liu Kang, being the reasonable person he is, summons an army of good time lords and they all fight on the same pyramid that Armageddon's ending took place. For the first time in the entire series, you get to pick your own character for the finale. And based on the character you pick, you get a different variants of characters, most commonly fusions of already existing characters. Finally, you beat Shang and Quan, you get a thanks from Liu, and sent to Madame Bo's, where the Earthrealm heroes enjoy food and tea.

*HEAVY BREATHS*

So, that's the entirety of Mortal Kombat. Any questions?

[aztarion]

Happy Valentine’s Day, lovely person 🌹

It’s been wonderful to see your art! I really love how you draw Mason and your style in general and am looking forward to seeing more of your art!

Here’s a romance-themed OC question for any OC(s) of your choosing (no pressure to answer on Valentine’s day itself, or at all):

What combination of random objects would your OC use to describe their LI? What do they represent? Bonus question: What would their LI use to describe them?

AND HAPPY belated VALENTINES TO YOU 🥹

im sorry i didnt get to this earlier, i was waiting to be more awake but im literally getting worse LOL. but it made me so happy ;_; thank you thank you thank you, for being far too kind abt my art 😭 im so fuckingglad i finally got a tablet during my crazy ass wayhaven renaissance because there could not be a sweeter group of people to share stuff with 🫂♥️

for the oc ask… well i just gotta do dev/mason theyre in my minds microwave 24/7 rn (hope the ceiling fan falls on them btw)

some of this is a bit more association than true description of character bc i could go on forever listing stuff for both of them.. but for dev w mason it would be two big things at their current standstill:

- marlboro reds; her favourite — she is in the middle of quitting smoking in book 1 so him constantly lighting up with her cigs of choice, as well as just being rude and grating on her already thin nerves, drove her barking mad insane. by book 2 she is floundering hard and asks for one after he shows up at the station. when he says no and that she’s supposed to be quitting she gets a bit pissed and makes him put out smokes anytime thereafter out of pettiness. also reds…… strong, numbingly intense, addictive, etc. sums up the early stages of their arrangement :D

- definitely the wolf cub from the carnival game! deva is hugely sentimental (to a concerning degree — she is a hoarder yay disaster apartment option) though would never admit to it. she still keeps raggedy decades old stuffed animals from when rook was around that she just cannot say goodbye to 🤦‍♀️ and she refuses to let herself get attached to mason on any meaningful emotional level so those budding feelings in book 3 kind of manifest on the wolf cub without her realizing it (i was so glad there’s a little part abt the detective saving their carnival prize after the apartment gets flooded because Very Deva, that thang is her whole support network) (plus when mason inevitably bails during the night she has smth to cuddle because objects dont leave no sir . Rebecca get this girl a therapist)

- and one smaller thing im still playing w is red jasper crystal 🙇🏻‍♀️

maybe she sees them in the crystal store. I colour pick from these when i draw him LOL

for mason wrt deva — not an object but just straight up chaos tbh. at where they are in book 3 i imagine every time he sees the detective his brain is going question mark question mark. and hes definitely not sentimental in the way Dev is that certain objects would have any sort of emotional stir in reminding him of her. mason definitely goes more on how she makes him feel; really fucking good, really fucking confused, really fucking messy (like her apartment which he HAAAAATES), and on a few occasions now… weirdly serene. cant make sense of it; doesnt even understand why hes bothering TRYING to make sense of it but here he is and it’s happening and it has never happened before and THAT is probably the best way he could encapsulate her at this point in their relationship… other than, yknow, encapsulating in other ways 🫢

ty so much for sending this and sorry for sleepy rambling!!!! AND COME OFF ANON LET ME DRAW SMTH FOR YOU♥️♥️♥️

[cwarscars-a]

this like, brief moment is so heid coded that i need to put it here so you guys know how much sgt barnes in platoon inspires my characterisation of heid. like, in this scene - the guy is SCREAMING in agony and barnes just grabs him, demands he 'take the pain' and the guy goes quiet pretty quickly.

i imagine heid is like that A LOT and was especially like this during his days on the front lines. i take a LOT of platoon as inspiration for my characterisation of heid. and if biggs being heavily based on sheen in this movie is any indication, i like to think that maybe the devs were inspired by sgt barnes too when creating heid.

i always quote his line -

"Now, I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that in any of you. Not one."

and i feel that suits heid SO MUCH and is why i use it so often. it's that idea of remaining within the structure and dedicating yourself entirely to something for better or for worse. barnes ( and heid ) see non conformity as trouble. they see things in black and white. if you're not with me, you're my enemy. this line and one of the things it so heavily inspires about my portrayal of heid is the fact that it alludes to the idea of maintaining balance and structure. it's an almost obsessive mindset - it's convincing oneself that you're the good guy. you're in the right.

i also love the addition of 'not one' at the end. it implies a zero tolerance policy to anybody who wants to stand out or rebel. i grab this quote with both of my little raccoon hands and apply it to heid DIRECTLY.

there's another line barnes says before this that i also allude to but rarely quote and that's when he's mocking the soldier's drug use and says -

"Why do you smoke this shit? So as to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be."

i very much take from this again for my portrayal of heid. they're the kind of men who 'take the pain', they roll with the punches. they have the toxic masculinity mindset of dealing with any degree of hardship with a stoic attitude and willingness for danger. the line in particluar;

"i am reality"

really fucking resonates with my heid because it's so brutal, unforgiving and unafraid of the world around them. it's a fuck you to their enemies, an outright challenge to anybody 'too weak to stand against or beside' them. i just-

*mwah*

[888-fr]

As someone who had a... Lively discussion with someone on the dev post about how yes actually UMAs are an incredibly important part of the site and just because you don't engage with them doesn't make you right they just are the most willfully ignorant people imaginable. Like they're just borderline delusional about the actual impact of UMAs or people's concerns over mass pings. I just had to stop engaging with them because they were just speaking nonsense to me.

And they claimed to have used the site for 10 years and had NEVER heard of GASP. In 10 years they had never interacted with UMAs outside of fest stuff. In their minds it was just a thing people do on the side. It's not an economic insengive to thousands of players and probably the devs themselves. If they fuck up GASP there will be actual financial reprocussions for FR.

The game won't dissolve into a puff of smoke or anything but where do you think the gems are coming from that pay for the developers beyond the originals who do it for the love huh? Who's paying the code monkeys? People buying gems on UMAs and G1s. Just drove me absolutely insane. I almost blocked them I was so mad.

Your arguments with that person is part of why I typed up my post! I wasn't about to argue with them on site, and I get a lot more mileage out of posting to my own blog than in an on-site journal. It is truly deeply infuriating to see people say 'what about x amount of users who drive the economy of the site' and have the response from casual players be 'well actually you guys are a minority and therefore have zero impact on the site at all'.

I can count on one hand the number of skinmakers on site with my level of success, it's true, and it's also true that skinmakers in general make up maybe 0.1% of the player population. But it's just false that if all skin artists disappeared overnight the site wouldn't change at all.

Maybe most of the players on Flight Rising are casual, don't do much in terms of events, only participate in dragon sales, list everything on the Auction House, and get most of their currency from gathering/occasional fairgrounds. I can believe that someone can play for 10 years and never heard of GASP or UMAs - that's very feasible to me. But even if that's 99% of the players active ever, that is not 99% of where the actual activity and economy of the site lies. And it's just not something that a casual player can see, let alone comprehend the impact of if they only stick to their own corners of the game. Yes, it's dumb to say the economy will disappear if GASP disappears, but I haven't seen anybody actually say that. I've only seen people poking fun at how 'self important' the idea is that any of this could affect the community at all.

That's why I wanted to let people know - hey, yeah, what you guys are doing is important. Your concerns are important and you should keep giving staff feedback about what is important to you, and how these features could be implemented on site. They're listening to us! We just have to keep letting our voices be heard.

[bisluthq]

Re: Camille and Harry

A former friend of mine, Lauren Caris Cohan (we aren’t friends anymore that’s why I drop her government name fuck her lmao) was rooomies with Camille while she was dating Harry, but they haven’t been friends in years. They cross paths sometimes and like, fake smile at each other, but they were like sisters for years.

Camille was dating Devendra Banhart, I’m talking spring 2017. They’d been dating for like two years and had been talking babies marriage the lot. He was touring Japan with his band and she was there visiting when out of nowhere she up and left. She told Lolo (Lauren) that she felt she was wasting her time with Dev, that she was bored because he was an old man. But she didn’t break up with him then. She went to NY and ranted to Lolo (who was friendly with Dev so it was awks), and it was basically white girl messy “idk what to do.” She has to go to London then for a shoot, and she met up with Alexa Chung (who’s also friends with Lolo and relayed all this to her eventually).

She basically told Alexa the same shit she said to Lolo, except she made it sound like she and Devendra were over and that it was “about time” because she’d been bored for ages and she needed to see what was out there. Alexa then tells Camille “well one of my friends has had a crush on you for a while” like, as a joke. Camille was kinda infamous in their group for going from one man to the other, but they didn’t really encourage it. Camille is like “who?” cause she knows Alexa knows a lot of “important” people. Alexa tells her it’s Harry and Camille seems mildly interested, and she’s like “well give him my number if you want.” Keep in mind, she was still dating Dev, Alexa didn’t know this.

Alexa gives Harry her number but is basically like “use it at your own demise she’s kinda crazy.” He’s an idiot who was already super into her, so he texts her.

He invites her to his house in London and offers to cook her dinner. Interesting tea: apparently he cooks very well but very sparsely, and nothing overly complicated. They have dinner, drink wine, and fuck. He’s already in love, and she still has a boyfriend, which at this point Harry doesn’t know.

She stays in London for a few weeks and they continue to meet up, mostly to fuck. Eventually he wants to make it official and she’s like “well I have a bf.” And he’s like ????? But continues to fuck her. Because men.

She does leave Dev before June ends iirc. I had to go back to read my gc with my Harrie friends after Lolo spilled the tea but I didn’t have the detail of when exactly they broke up, but I THINK it was in late June.

She and Harry make it official and he’s already planning the wedding while Camille is like, completely unaware of how bad he has it for her. This is the impression Lolo got after they met, btw. Like, she could see his heart eyes and she was mostly fascinated by the attention he got (not necessarily in a positive way, though at first not in a negative way either).

There isn’t really much tea at the beginning of their relationship, other than the fact that apparently it’s the healthiest Lolo has seen Camille. She struggled with an ED & a coke an addiction on and off her whole life, but it got a lot better after leaving Dev because Dev is a heavy user. Funnily enough Lolo is under the impression that Harry had never used before Camille, because at first she basically stopped. She also stopped smoking and gained some weight. Like, it wasn’t necessarily that Harry was great for her, but more so that Dev was a bad influence. Though Lolo said Harry’s circle is pretty wholesome, like, Hollywood wholesome, so not Disney Channel, yanno? But still, more wholesome than Dev’s and the NYC model circle.

That didn’t last long tho, because Camille got bored again, and she was annoyed at how much weight she’d gained, was worried she wasn’t gonna book anything. So she amped the coke use, and dragged Harry into it. As in, he started using. Perhaps not heavy or worryingly, but he indulged on something he’d avoided his whole career. As a fan, I do remember him saying that he never did drugs while in the band because he was scared he might be found out and get in trouble, and also that he said in an interview that when he was living with Ben and Meredith Winston it helped him stay off it even while surrounded by people who did coke because he didn’t want to show up high at their house. But I assumed he’d tried it before Camille, Lolo seems to think he didn’t. I think she has a very negative view of Camille so that colors her opinion, but, anyway, she met him and I didn’t so what the hell do I know.

Lolo never confirmed this, but I read it between the lines after a song of his leaked. Lolo basically said that something big happened when she was about to leave LA to film Hosea that fucked with their relationship and it was never the same.

Harry has a leaked unreleased song that says “and there’s you, looking lost in a hospital room, weakened mind of guilt, and you cry. I think you wanted to keep it.” Other fans theorized, and I kinda see it, that she got pregnant and either had an abortion she wasn’t convinced of or miscarried. I can see a scenario for both tbh.

Lolo implied that Camille’s coke problem got even worse right around the time Harry went on tour, and he was completely oblivious. Like, he thought they were just having fun for the longest time. Camille goes on tour with Harry, but Harry wants to be sober while on tour so she ups and leaves cause it gets harder for her to score in the middle of random European countries where she doesn’t know anyone. She goes back to LA and tells Lolo that she’s bored again, that she thought dating Harry would be like dating Andy (her ex) but it’s nothing like it bc Harry is too into wellness and Camille is more or less over that.

She goes back to see him during his tour and basically tells him they should break up, but he begs her not to. They agree to take a break, basically they still fuck but they can also fuck other people.

Camille starts seeing Alexander Skarsgard which gets back to Alexa Chung who’d recently broken up with him. Alexa cuts Camille out of her life completely and presumably tells Harry. Lolo didn’t know for sure, but apparently Harry started throwing jealous temper tantrums and Camille was like “wdym? I know you’re fucking around too. Don’t be a hypocrite.” But ig Harry thought they’d just have one night stands on the side, not full blown relationships (this is my guess, not Lolo’s).

Harry’s MSG shows come and he invites Camille who goes, but at this point they’ve been fighting a ton because of Alexander and other stuff. After the show he goes out with friends and gets high and wasted and calls Camille up and they fuck but right after they have the biggest blowup fight, mostly because of Alexander. Camille says he’s behaving like a child and kicks him out. After that, Harry fully ends things.

Camille had known Theo Niarchos for a while, and they’d been fucking for a couple of weeks, so she starts seeing him more frequently and soon are dating officially, because Camille cannot be single.

Lolo really resents Theo, she says he enables Camille’s worst habits and basically cut her off of her entire friend group, Lolo included. Last Lolo heard of Camille, she barely talked to her own parents and consumed more coke than water.

Basically, Camille has always been a mess, but neither she nor Harry were fully to blame for what happened, there wasn’t any cheating involved between them (but they did cheat on Dev), and it was messy as fuck, especially the breakup.

Keep in mind Lolo is very vindictive, like, once she has a negative opinion on someone it basically colors everything she sees about that person, so she may have exaggerated a lot of things about both Theo and Camille. She’s not Harry’s biggest fan but I think it’s more about the fact that she felt like Camille was finally doing better and him being oblivious and too career focused messed with that possible recovery.

Lolo also has very loose lips so multiple people have probably heard this story FYI. Oh and she’s SOOOO fake. But that’s my negative opinion lmao

def could be fanfic idk

[silver-wield]

So it seems like, the streamer who didn't like aerith at first liked her in rebirth because she's mature here and has a great friendship with tifa and cloud? They didn't say anything about how she's treating zack tho. All I'm going to say, with everything we heard, saw, and just tbh with you, that so called "context" needs a miracle level typa shit. But this also means that she'll also get away from all her bad behavior? Uh, she might turn into a mary sue for real this time. I don't think we'll be hearing an apology at all. I suppose, even though she does questionable things, as long as she does something good, it's all fine.

Idk what that person saw but everyone in my GC also mentioned this and was like wtf has she been smoking? No offence.

Aerith is rancid in every single scene. She literally cosies up to Tifa so she can steal Cloud by learning what Tifa knows about him. She hears about the water tower being a date spot in Nibelheim and demands Cloud take her up there, then drags him up there and then waves at Tifa who's in her room at the time.

That's the bitch that person thinks is nice and mature.

Cloud gets pissed in every optional response in that scene and doesn't even wanna be there, so that's literally the only redeeming thing about the situation.

Genuinely, I believe the devs goal is to make everyone hate her and see that everything she did was fucking disgusting, two faced and harmful. There's no other way to interpret it.

[on-a-lucky-tide]

9,10,13 for the ask game :)

Good to see you're still about, droid!

cw: mentions of sexual assault.

9. worst part of the canon

In the Witcher games, I feel like the devs tried to make the Bloody Baron a sympathetic figure, and I hate that. The quest grinds on me every time I have to do it. Also, I shouldn't have to use mods to put Black people, Asian people, anyone who isn't white, into my video games. That sucks. In the Witcher books, it's a toss-up between the scene where Yennefer tears into Geralt while Ciri watches and Dandelion narrates, and Ciri's rape by Mistle. Both are horrific for different, yet overlapping reasons.

10. worst part of fanon

"Jaskier is amazing and witchers are dumb" (sic)

Although, rereading the books and replaying the games has meant re-finding some love for Jaskier/Dandelion, which is nice.

13. worst blorboficiation

My own crime? Eskel. I've written him so many different ways because there are so many ways to interpret his character from the little material we get, what we glean from Geralt, the witchers in general, etc. You can write him soft, calm, and polite, but in the background you know there's a shit-ton of trauma there. He's my biggest case of projection; he'll bottle it all up until it explodes. He won't talk about it. He'll ignore it, perhaps drink, fuck, or smoke it away, but talk about it? N'aw. He's been a great vehicle for coming to terms with my own feelings about masculinity too. Weird, I know, but I'm a hobby writer, not a professional, so I feel I can do what I want.

Everyone else's crime? You know who. You know, droid. But he's here to stay and eh, the world's burning, so people deserve their pixie dream boy.

Good talk. [Choose Violence Ask Game]

My request for you:

(12) the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

(22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

[scalproie]

3 and 4

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

essay about the whole mk1 scorpion situation over how kuai liang cant possibly be the new scorpion even tho he has kuai liang's brother, best friend, position in the lin kuei, and face model by stating things that are either personal interpretations instead of facts from the 11 games we've had (and that are easily debunked by said facts btw) or just simply plain wrong. Also the constant denying that mk1 scorpion and sub zero are blood related even thought the game devs cannot make it clearer at this point. AND the implication that kuai liang cannot appear in a story unless bi-han has died. What the fuck do you mean he has to stay "hidden and protected" hes a lin kuei warrior. He's the other son of the grandmaster why would he be low-ranking. HIS BROTHER IS NOW GRANDMASTER WHY WOULD HE STAY LOW RANK WHILE HIS APPARENTLY "ADOPTED" BROTHER SCORPION GETS TO HAVE THE MEANINGFUL NARRATIVE STORYLINE WITH BI-HAN??? WHAT??????

alternatively. a youtube "theory" about how smoke's family was killed by the lin kuei while hunting and hanzo's family was killed by the lin kuei so smoke obviously is hanzo now.

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

petty dam moment but that first essay was over for me when they kept saying kuai liang started as sub zero in mk3. its mk2 he started and stayed as the definitive sub zero in mk2 thru mk11. thats basic sub zero lore. And it wouldve been fine if it was like a one time mistake but no they kept going. lore is so serious to me you have no idea

[nibwhipdragon]

For the choose violence asks, 9 and 10 for Sonic

OK OK I ANSWER THIS NOW!!!!!! YIPPEE

9. Worst part of canon

Ok I'll be real here. I haven't gotten through too much Sonic media atm (slowly working my way through, was only dragged back into it like in november) so I don't really have much to go off of for this. However, game plots are canon. Obviously. So I will use this to complain about my biggest plot complaint in any Sonic game I've played yet.

Sonic Frontiers. Literally almost Everything about the ending was basically the devs throwing stuff at a wall until it sticked and called it a day (with the time developing the game and the dev team size? I don't blame them, I blame the higher ups. Doesn't mean I can't be disappointed with what could've been). But the thing I hate the most about the plot?

SONIC'S CYBER CORRUPTION. OH MY. I LITERALLY CAN'T.

They spent a significant amount of time (hell Rhea was all about it) building it up. Sonic getting worse as he progressed through the islands. It came up so much to the point of having a whole island's story beat dedicated to it, making it CLEARLY a VERY IMPORTANT thing.

AND THEN THEY RESOLVE IT WITHIN SECONDS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHY.

Nothing at all? Just. Amy and Tails and Knuckles holding hands around him and for an unexplained reason going back to cyberspace and freeing him? Not only does it not make sense, but that is such a BAD RELEASE for plot tension!!!! You gotta drag it out!!! Slowly build up, then BOOM EXPLOSION!!!!!! and then the smoke fading from the explosion afterwards, but in plot format. If that makes sense. Even if they did something like a little cyberspace level where Sonic runs through a crimson red cyberspace with no rings + more than usual hazards, with little Amy/Tails/Knuckles themed things to help you get through it damageless, that'd be more satisfying than what they did. Literally what the hell. I hope that that was because of development hell and wasn't like that originally. Because if it was then I'll be in more Agony than before because WHAT THE HELL. WHY.

Oh yeah and also. Not really a thing I hate hate but. Not a fan of how Frontiers also made the IDW comics canon to the games via Sonic mentioning Tangle in a random voiceline that can happen or smth like that iirc. I feel like all the different canons (games, IDW, Prime, X, etc.) should be kept completely separate from each other yk. That's also a peeve I have with Prime, as much as I love it (even though I haven't finished S2 yet...). "Sonic Prime is part of the game canon" No it isn't ❤️

10. Worst part of fanon

If I'm honest. I don't really interact with the Sonic fandom as a whole the way I do with like. Monster Hunter and jjba and stuff. Only with my friends and a few select sonic blogs (thoam comic blog, starjoy, themetalvirus [egghog AU is VERY good], neurotypical-sonic, etc). But from what I've seen? Where would I begin.

I step 0.0038101 cm outside my typical Sonic group to look at new stuff and the likes and:

"He would not fucking say that" "He would not fucking do that" "She would not fucking do that you're just making her like that to get her out the way of your mlm ship" "Cool concept but they would not fucking act like that" "cool concept but there's nsfw" "Why are there so many werehog nsfw fics" "ok that's shipping sonic and tails. blocked" "he would not fucking do that" "damn the sonic/eggman shipping fanbase is surprisingly larger than what I expected" "He would not fucking say that" "absolutely insane fic of sonic getting everyone he knows into communism I never expected for actual communism theory to be in here but it's a crackfic so I'll let it slide just this once" "the ship dynamic is wrong they would not fucking act like that. They wouldn't even act like this in general"

There's only 2 people so far that I can 100% trust for good, in-character sonadow: Kirsten, and you. And even then Kirsten hasn't written too much for them (understandable) so it mostly falls onto you. You are my light in the darkness man. All of your Sonic fics are QUALITY. You get the characters. Your sonadow is fucking great. Like, you get them on a pretty damn intimate level. You can take their characters and put them in very different situations than usual (DNA Collision for example) and be able to show how they react to the situations and others, and how that'd affect things like relationships AND keep them in character the whole way! Also the way you like. Used sonadow and Tails' (understandable) reaction to Sonic forgetting about their plans and planning the date with Shadow over it to show the issues that'd eventually end up piling on top of each other and growing and festering until it would eventually turn Tails into the threat he is in the future. It's great for that too, you're not only writing them in character but you're also putting them into and applying them in very interesting situations! Relationships affect the people around them in many ways and I feel that (understandably) a lot of fics don't really show this. But you do and it's awesome. Impactful Skip is GREAT. And ofc the whole situation and having it be sonadow also creates a VERY interesting dynamic between Sonic and Shadow. Love that.

.....yeah ever get carried away. Yeah. That was just meant to be me talking about how you and Kirsten (mostly you bc you simply have more of it) are the only 2 people I can reliably find good sonadow from to show how Bad the state of fanon is when it comes to sonadow but it just turned into gushing about your fics. Got a little sidetracked from the violence and hate and turned to love. Hope you enjoyed the me loving your fics jumpscare 👍

[colintrumanarchive]

FULL NAME: Colin James Truman FACECLAIM: Fionn Whitehead GENDER: Cis man PRONOUNS: He/him AGE + BIRTHDAY: 27 + August 24, 1996 LENGTH OF TIME IN FAIRFORD: ~1.5 years HOUSING: A townhouse Downtown OCCUPATION: Remote software developer for a large tech company

MORE STATS.

Nickname(s): Col Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Religion: None Nationality: American Ethnicity: White Hometown: Eureka, California Education: BS and Master's in Computer Science from SFSU

Height: 6'2 Tattoos: Tba (Right bicep and left shin) Piercings: Both lobes but not usually wearing anything in them Scars: Tba

Mother: Joyce Truman (Deceased) Father: Shane Truman (Deceased) Siblings: None Pet(s): None

PERSONALITY.

Pos. Traits: Analytical, intelligent, persistent, focused, logical, erudite Neg. Traits: Pretentious, aloof, judgmental, uncreative Likes: Old PC games, long drives, the beach, seafood, smoking weed, metal and 80s music, live music, dive bars, gouging electronics to look at the insides Dislikes:  Most mainstream/top 40 pop, most social media, vegan substitutions for meat, people who call instead of texting for no reason, most stand-up comedy Fears: That his parents weren't even good people, growing old alone, getting old in general, regret, unfulfilled potential

TL;DR.

Grew up in Eureka, California, and lost his parents at just under five years old, after which he went to live with his maternal grandparents one neighborhood over. Was a quiet but still relatively social kid in school, got good grades but not as good as they could have been if he'd focused more instead of smoking weed and going to concerts. Went to SFSU after high school for his undergrad and then also got his Master's in Computer Science there before moving back in with his grandparents and landing a high-paying remote software dev job with a company based out of Seattle. Moved to Fairford to be a little closer to the company and because he wanted to get out of Eureka. Semi-quiet metal head tech boy who can can't produce art to save his life but can fix your computer in twenty minutes.

CURRENT CONNECTIONS.

Dumbass stoners with @mackmontgomery

Fwb with @phoebebaker

Unlikely friendship with @thaddcarter

Dark-sided friendship with @tysonchapmans

Unofficial IT for @aylinerdogan's restaurant

HEADCANONS.

Always stoned but he's so high functioning you wouldn't know it if he doesn't want you to

Crazy fluent with computers and most technology, he's everyone's go-to for troubleshooting and he can even do it over text usually

Type of person you think hates you at first but he's just got resting unimpressed face and is a little judgy but he's not at all mean or unpleasant if you actually talk to him

Unless he actually doesn't like somebody, in which case he's the first one to say something. He's got zero problem with confrontation

Prefers a smaller number of close friends to a large number of acquaintances and can be hard to get close to as he gets older because he isn't necessarily looking for new friends

Will get really excited about a new person he genuinely vibes with though

Really into music and a little pretentious about it but won't necessarily shit on what you're listening to unless you ask HGFKJHDS he's a metal head but he's also super into 80s post punk alt rock bands like Bauhaus and listens to (mostly indie) pop but is picky about it. Forever in love with Lana though

Despite being kind of aloof and not the easiest person in the world to get close to, he's a pretty sociable person. He can carry conversations easily when he wants to and has not even a touch of social anxiety so striking up conversations with strangers is a no-brainer

Has a horrible fear that his parents weren't actually good people. His maternal grandma's always been weird about talking about his dad and he's convinced it's because she didn't like him

Fucked around in high school too much and still got good grades but not as good as they could have been. He was one of those kids that frustrated teachers because he'd do well on tests and only sporadically turn in homework

His personal essay was what pushed him over the edge in his application to SFSU because otherwise he wouldn't have gotten in on his grades or extracurriculars alone

He's a great writer and has always wanted to write a book but can't get himself to actually do it and is loathe to let anyone help him or read his stuff

BIOGRAPHY.

**trigger warnings for accidental homicide, suicide, death of parents

His therapists have always told him how much repressed trauma he carries with him, but Colin doesn’t remember finding his father’s dead body in the backyard one summer morning when he was four years old, and he’s grateful for that. Pills and alcohol, he’d discovered much later, though he doesn’t know what kind and he’s grateful for that too.

Colin was born to Shane and Joyce Truman in the middle of a late August heatwave that brought Eureka’s temperature into the nineties, and with the exception of his dad’s constant battle with alcoholism, life was pretty good in the beginning. Most of Colin’s memories of those days are from the beach, with one very distinct memory of visiting the Redwoods for the first time and listening to his mom tell him about how some of the trees had been around since even before Jesus, which to Colin sounded like they were there at the beginning of time.

About a month before Colin turned five, his dad came home one morning, drunk off his ass after a night out, and hit his mom with the car while she was gardening out front. She died in the hospital a few hours later, with a stunned Colin, still in his pajamas, watching from a few feet away and his grandparents sobbing on one side of her, his dad nearly catatonic on the other. A few weeks later, on a morning two days before the court date, Colin found his dad dead in a lawn chair out in the backyard.

He went to live with his maternal grandparents, whose house was one neighborhood away but may as well have been in a different universe, as far as Colin was concerned. A place where he’d once spent fun nights with his grandparents was now his permanent home, and even though he loved them, it could never be the same.

The most terrible thing of all was that life went on, and by the time he was starting high school Colin had spent twice as long without his parents as he had with them.

He was relatively quiet but always unexpectedly charming when he felt like it, and from the time he was in grammar school all the way through his years getting first his bachelor's degree and then his Master's in computer science at SFSU, Colin kept most of the same close friends, picking up new ones here and there along the way.

Almost immediately after finishing his Master's and returning home to his grandparents' house in Eureka he landed a remote job doing software development for a large tech company based out of Seattle, and within months of settling into the job and getting comfortable with the high salary, he decided to uproot himself and try starting his own life somewhere new that wouldn't bog him down with half-formed memories.

Washington, up near the Canadian border, was somehow perfect. Not quite Seattle, but close enough in a tranquil beach town, and Fairford was an easy pick because it reminded him of Eureka if a little more touristy and populated. He's been here about a year and a half, living well but going through the motions of life and wondering what the hell he's still missing.

WANTED CONNECTIONS.

A few besties

Weed smoking buddies

Computer nerd friends and/or people he's always helping with tech stuff

Someone who tries to teach him guitar or piano or smth!!!

Music lover friends

Someone who's like a direct opposite of him (really emotional and creative and passionate) and can challenge him a little

An ex from FF in the last year and a half

Anyone who thinks he's a pretentious twat

Other pretentious twats to discuss pretentious things with

Neighbors downtown

Hookups/fwb/etc

[blueskyheadleft010]

Warframe: The New War, is f*ing blowing my brain

Finally finally got enough cobbled together parts to build a Necramech + made sure I at least had rank 5 in all the Railjack upgrades, so I felt pretty confident starting the questline The New War tonight.

[Some spoilers ahead; yes, I know I'm late to the game. Also, sorry for sloppy image insertions.]

Dear god I was not prepared in the least.

I’ve already logged about 3 hours into the quest and i’m not even a quarter of the way done. 

Can I just say; HOW IS THIS FREE TO PLAY GAME THIS DAMN AMAZING?!?

Like holy shit, you guys. Like GUYS. THIS FUCKING GAME.

It just cranked up the difficulty by taking away your ‘warframe’, and giving you multiple quests as other npcs (that were oddly interesting to play as. I liked some more than others. Teshin was a welcome surprise, but his gameplay was aggravating, and I felt too enclosed in the maps despite how spread out they were), then popping in old questline characters like cheeky nostalgia bait, but 9,000 times more interesting than just being a cameo, and then topping it all off with some amazing interactive cutscenes.

I mean, I kinda consider myself a vet (gameplay wise I have 30 days total of logged playtime, which... Yeah, probably not getting back that time irl ._.’), but even by my standards the gameplay was pretty damn difficult. 

Also, god bless the game devs. This. Is. Epic. 

The amount of dialogue, maps, cutscenes, homages to gameplay styles, and all around really cool enemy designs is great!

I’m loosing my mind over how many themes, and art styles they’ve thrown in here and I'm not even done playing! 

Good lord, I thought to myself, ‘meh, that warning box about it taking several hours is just a suggestion. I’ll have this done in 3 hours tops.’

No. No way am I anywhere close. The devs literally placed a game within a game and I’m loosing my absolute marbles over this. 

I’m having to James Bond style sneak around and not die (or literally in one part, I kept getting my head blown off cuz I kept getting caught), use smoke grenades, stun batons, hack into systems guiding my cursor backwards in order to disable security, to just stay alive. 

[These are the weird mirror hacking consoles I was talking about.]

I was literally screaming in panic at all the (as I’ve lovingly dubbed) ‘void spiders’ that kept killing Teshin before I could hit the energy beacons with his disc. 

This is Warframe on crack; but I fucking love how it never feels like I’m being overwhelmed. (except for the ‘sneak around and don’t get seen or you blow up’ quest. I cried a little.)

Also the art design?? Stellar!!

You’ve got kingdom hearts styled evil floating priest cloaks.

Egyptian motifs, evil brainwashing helmets, bizarre angelic quotes;

[Ballas thinks he’s freaking Pharaoh now I guess...]

And then, the insane flashback to the Zamarian Ten-Zero that literally feels like it jumped out of Epcot’s Horizon’s ride.

(WHAT IS THIS THING?! IT IS SO TERRIFYING!!)

I honestly did not expect the game to pull a ‘PowerPoint’ old-school presentation on me, and then quiz me on it. Not only is this Cephalon lady terrifying looking, but she made me answer multiple-choice questions about spacetime.

[I hate you robot lady!! D:< ]

In conclusion; I am grateful that the game lets me pause in between big missions (since I have work tomorrow ;w;’) because this questline is so large my poor brain cannot deal with it all in one run.

(Also, people should just pull up a playthrough of all the interactive cutscenes and playthrough. It should at least be viewed as the beautiful art that it is. It literally felt like I was in a Star Wars movie (with all the cloak and dagger and space battles and cool shit), and I am living for this kind of content.)

[dxrkdreamer]

Not So Bad

Modern Sukuna x Reader

Working late had been the bane of your existence, only getting worse when a certain man started showing up to your store’s parking lot to light his joints.

Word Count: 2.7K

Warnings: 18+ implied sex, mentions of weed.

(A/N: should I make a part 2? It seems pretty popular

Couldn’t come up with a name for the store so I used Anavrin from ‘YOU’)

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“11:00 pm? Again?” you rubbed the back of your head trying to hide your frustration, the store manager nodded his head, sighing you agreed to stay late at work again since the closer frankly did not want to stay. So now here you are grumbling as you finish sweeping the floor and checking it off your log. You worked at a high end grocery store named Anavrin, a store that swore to sell organic produce and products to the best of quality. You took up a job here in your senior year of high school, planning on working for a few months to save up for college. And yet… 4 years later you’re still here grumbling at the extra hours you had taken. After your second year of working you had a promotion to supervisor… woo hoo!!... but it turned out it was more responsibility than expected. But it paid a little more and you could not argue with that.

‘I should be a little more optimistic, I’m graduating uni this year’ you’d tell yourself anytime you wanted to pull your hair out because of your measly job. You finished turning off the lights and locking the door, sighing as you felt the cold fall air hit your tired face, taking a deep breath of fresh air… wait a second “Who the fuck is smoking weed!” you yelled in a girly voice, as if this day was not long enough. Since you were in charge of a proper closing you marched off towards a tall man leaning against the back of the store, laughing and conversing on his phone. It was a little nostalgic, you remembered your highschool days, sneaking around and smoking pot in strange places. But he was not as young as a teenager, in fact his build made him look older than you.

“Hey! I’m going to ask you to leave, this is a smoke free property” You tried saying sternly gesturing to the sign right above them that read “no smoking” in bold letters. But your short stature compared to the man made you look like a kid waving your arms around attempting a snake dance.

“What on earth is this?” a man with pink hair and face tattoos said “I’m so scared, I should be so ashamed for not reading the sign” he cackled as he pressed the joint to his lips and inhaled again. “My apologies”

He did not look sorry at all.

“Look, I’ve had a long day. I’d like to go home so please go to a proper location or I’ll-” but you’re cut off with the joint stuffed to your pretty lips.

“You’ll what cutie?” he smirked as you stared at him dumbfounded, the joint stuck to your lip as you tried to figure out a reaction. But the man was already on his way towards his motorbike. Of course he had a motorbike. “First one’s always free darling, next time I’ll charge ya” he winked as he put his helmet on and sped off.

“Mother fucker” you swore and banged your head against the brick wall. ‘Never am I staying late again’ you groaned. You walked to your car, but not without tucking the joint safely in your pocket for when you got back home.

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And that was your first of many nightly encounters with the pink haired man. You were not surprised to see him anymore in the parking lot, either smoking, laughing with friends or just sitting on his bike staring at his phone. You learned his name was Sukuna… you had asked for it during the nth time you threatened to call the cops. You also learned he sold weed to the store manager, so he pretty much had a free pass on smoking here.

“Working late again (name)? My, they must pay you a lot for you to stay here.” he smirked, watching you with grinning eyes. Your annoyance shot up at the mention of your little over minimum wage pay. They definitely were not paying you enough for the store, but giving you a delinquent like this guy… you had written your resignation letter a few times after his nightly visits. You ignored him as you walked to your car, heavy footsteps followed “I brought ya a little something” He grinned handing you a baggy with a cookie “It’s on the house, made ‘em myself”. Eyes narrowed as you tilted your head up to glare at him, but realized you were a lot closer than you expected. You could hear him breathe, feel the heat off his body and smell the spicy cologne he was wearing as you breathed a little too loudly trying to inhale the scent. “Not today darling, that package is for another date” he winked.

Oh my God.

What have you done? Sure he was hot and you didn’t mind the view, but his mouth made up for that. He was like an evil version of a talking cat. Opening his mouth to smite you, prideful like one and given the opportunity would sit on your face if you were lying down. Wait what?

“I’m not interested in you like that!” you squeeked.

He tilts his head to the side, resting his cheek in the palm of his hand “Then how are you interested in me?”

“I’m not interested unless you’re a customer, or an employee here or something!” Frustrated, you grabbed the zip loc with the cookie in it “And I’ll be confiscating this!”

“Sure thing, I made it just for you. It's a special recipe”

“I’ll let the cops know!” you yelled getting in your car, throwing the cookie on the passengers side as you sped home for the night.

“So if I was an employee…or something...” he wondered gazing at the stars, his thoughts frenzying around as his mind came up with the most brilliant idea. Cackling loudly “you’ve really outdone yourself this time me.” Laughing as he got on his bike, speeding towards his apartment.

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“A new employee?” You mused, It was pretty hectic at work recently, one of your employee’s had quit and they finally found a replacement “I wonder what they’re like”. You asked yourself as you prepared a training checklist to go over, making sure to not make it too hard on the new guy- you heard it was his first job after all. “Hello! And welcome to the Anavrin family!” you say smiling with closed eyes, as you open them your mouth went agape. ‘What the….’ had the demon cat from the parking lot shrunk and gotten more youthful?

“Hi, I’m Yuji Itadori. You must be my brother Sukuna’s friend. He said to write your name down as someone who referred me to the job”

Chuckling nervously with the clipboard in hand you checked off the box for introductions “I’m (name) the grocery supervisor, and you would be working under me mostly.” Friends with Sukuna? Cutting your wrists open and watching them bleed sounded like the better option.

As the shift progressed Yuji showed you he was the complete opposite of his older brother. Always finishing his tasks, being kind and sweet. Everyone else loved him too, just on the first day. He was stocking milk and eggs the way you had shown him, one of the last tasks of the night. The crowd of customers thinned out as it got late and the store was closer to its closing time. You watched to make sure he was doing them correctly and if he needed any help. ‘This wasn’t so bad’ you thought, closing your eyes and leaning back.

“So how’s my little brother been (name)?”

Your eyes shot open at that voice God no please. “He’s been amazing, but you can’t just put my name as a referral without asking me-” There stood a tall Sukuna in a dress shirt with his sleeves rolled back, probably coming after finishing his day job. Majority of his tattoos were covered except the lines on his wrists that were exposed, making you gulp inaudibly. Suddenly feeling underdressed in your uniform’s polo shirt and measly work pants and sweater as you stared up at his glory.

“Sorry darling, I can’t do what?” he smirked. Mentally praising himself as his plan got into action. He couldn’t lie, (name) was interesting. Always yelling at him, cursing him and swearing that she would murder him if it was the purge. His usual charm not working gave him more of a challenge. Not to mention the way she was kind to younger brother made his heart swell a little.

The annoyance returned once you saw his shit eating grin “You can’t write my name down without asking me!”

As he opened his mouth to speak, the intercom went off, notifying everyone that the store was now closed and any remaining customers should bring their purchases to the front to pay for them.

“Yuji you can go home now, I’ll put this away and start heading out myself” you say massaging your temples with your fingers.

“See you soon (name).” Sukuna winked as he walked towards the exit, waving behind at you as he went outside to wait for his brother.

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Unfortunately soon had never come… at least not for the last 3 weeks. Making you miss the tall man in more ways than one. Maybe he wasn't so bad now that you thought about it. The usual nightly teasing might make you seethe but you’d be lying if you said you didn’t laugh about it later in your car. Somehow his laid backness and mocking smile made your night light up a little. And the weed that you would “confiscate” really did help you unwind after a long shift.

“Maybe it was because he saw me in my uniform” you grumbled. That had to be it. You weren’t a sore look on the eyes. Right? But compared to him… you hissed as you felt your lower half heat up and tremble at the thought of the man. “Well it's only 11:00 pm… and my first class is at 9:30 am… and then I have work at the 4:00.” Debating your options…. ‘This is why I’m probably so grumpy all the time, I think too much’

“And probably need to get laid” you said aloud. Living alone did have its perks, no one could call you crazy for talking to yourself. Your friends always nagged you about your dry spell too, but one night stands weren’t really fun to you anymore. They were too shallow and you always found yourself feeling more frustrated by them than relaxed.

Quickly rummaging through your drawer, you found your lovely device and turned it on. The buzz filled the room as you fell on the bed and groaned. Your mind was wild as you thought dirty little things about the man. Your eyes rolled back and you felt little whines erupt from your throat as you imagined him on top of you with his signature smirk, choking you and teasing you, calling you terrible names and whispering dirty things in your ear.

But as quickly as you heated up, the device buzzed and suddenly stopped. Too hazy to think straight you tried turning it on and off again, soon realizing it was the battery that was dead. “For fucks sake” you threw the vibrator and it hit the wall and fell with a loud thud. Good. Pulling your covers up, scowling as you shut your eyes to sleep.

The next day only went further downhill. Your lecture was long and uneventful, you forgot there was a guest speaker instead of the usual prof, most of the class skipped anyways so you sat alone and pretended to be interested. And as you went home from campus, your car broke down on the way leaving you stranded in the heat as you waited for the tow truck. You really just wanted to buy some batteries and get some time to yourself before work. But life had another thing planned once you got home, you only left with half an hour before you had to leave for work. Which barely gave you enough time to shower, change into an excuse of an outfit, grab your uniform and run out the door. You heard a few whistles as you ran to the bus stop, most likely because of the skimpy outfit which was pretty much just a long t-shirt made into a dress with stockings. But this was not the time to be picking fights.

Work was more mundane as ever. Emptying, stocking, organizing and talking was all that seemed to happen. You frowned for the nth time in the day when you saw Yuji was not scheduled to work today and you remembered him mentioning that he was going somewhere with friends for the next two days. The boy could always turn a bad day around. He was a blessing to the department and the store as a whole. The long day finally came to an end and the weekend awaited. Stuffing your uniform in your bag as you walked out you saw a familiar motorbike and a man leaning against it getting ready to light a joint.

You didn’t think, all you could hear were your footsteps smacking against the pavement as you ran to the man. Blood rushed to your head as you slowed down, stopping barely an inch away from him. He was wearing jeans and a dress shirt and most important, that smirk.

“I didn’t realize you missed me this much darling, otherwise-” but he was cut short as your hands gripped his head and pulled him down to your lips for a not so innocent kiss. You had to admit, you liked the guy. But as he responded by deepening the kiss and sliding his wet tongue into your mouth to taste you, you realized you wanted more of him. And you found yourself in his apartment, stripped down with his face buried between your legs as you came down from your second orgasm. Him licking you clean and not missing a single bit.

“When” you panted “when is Yuuji-” but he shushed you by gagging his fingers deep in your throat.

“Not until Sunday at least” he smiled with a sinister look, your wetness coating his lips “we have the whole weekend darling” He had waited almost two months for this so he was definitely going to take his time and relish the next few days. How could he not? You were beautiful with a fiery personality, and that showed by the ways you disobeyed him on his bed to get a reaction. It seemed the roles were reversed, but this time there would be consequences. For you at least.

He was relentless but you were no pussy and would not back down either. Both of you with fire and heat taking over your bodies as you brought spark and life into the night, wanting to explore every bit of each other, not stopping until you noticed the sun starting to rise causing exhaustion to take over.

He had let you stay to sleep in, provided you with a clean shirt to wear and even made breakfast for you. Presented you with a “gourmet plate of eggo waffles with the finest Aunt Jemimah maple syrup” he said which earned him a giggle from your pretty lips.

“I can make pretty good waffles from scratch” you told him proudly, puffing out your chest in pride. But these were special to you, the whole moment was special.

“I intend on trying them,” he spoke after a moment. He thought it was out of character for him to ask for a relationship but he wanted to be with you more than just a few times. And wanted more of you in different ways. He wouldn’t get his brother involved if it was a casual fuck relationship that he wanted. Which reminded him he owed the brat 50 bucks.

“Maybe you should come over sometime” you smiled sweetly, blushing a bit.

“I’d like to see you more, take out and get to know you” he said, interrupting your invitation.

“I’d like that too.” you said smiling.

[beiplaysffxiv]

I dunno why I am writing this, honestly. Probably because the wisdom tooth eruption has been ruining my week and I am just fucking annoyed at the discourse. I don't really have a following here yet, so I essentially risk nothing.

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There's an on-going discourse on Twitter dot com, about whether or not Lalafell are kids and should they be allowed into NSFW content. This came up after Lalafell players started speaking up about the unnecessary hate and harassment they receive from others, simply for choosing to play the potato-shaped gnome race.

Lalafell are NOT children. They are NOT child-coded and regardless of what some of you think, they were NOT based on human toddlers. I don't know how many times it has to be said at this point. Pretty much all of the Lalafell we meet in game (including our WoL) are adults. The only exceptions are maybe 1-2 vague NPCs, that appear in a seasonal quest of some sort and only exist, because the Devs don't bother making child models for every existing in-game race.

All of the Lalafell/Dwarves we meet in sidequests and MSQ are adults. Some of them are middle-aged. There are in-game mentions of them being in romantic/sexual relationships - interracial as well. There are married Lalafell. There's a pregnant Dwarf in the Nier questline as well. Hell, everyone's "favourite" Lalafell villains in pre-Heavensward story are adult men.

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The general argument against Lalafell being adults are their "child-like movements and high-pitch voice" along with some piece of Lalafell description, mentioning how "difficult it is to tell their age". I'm going to go into realism right now, but do you know who else fits under this description? People with Achondroplasia.

They exist. Due to their bone development their movement is obviously different from your regular person, which is sometimes compared to how a child moves. They often have a high-pitched voice as well and in many cases it is difficult to tell their exact age until they grow much older (look up Quaden Bayles and the whole drama surrounding his age). These people are the actual closest irl example of what Lalafell would be. Not literal fucking children.

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Does that make Lalafell fitting for NSFW content? I'd say that depends on your approach. Canonically Lalafell do have sex and nothing you do or say is going to change that. I sincerely do not see any issue with people who portray their very obviously adult Lalafell in mature situations (sex, drinking, smoking etc.). They do not hurt anyone by doing so and they make it clear they do not infantilize their characters. Hell, I see a lot of people wishing they could at least modify their Lalafell to have more mature features. Which is somehow ALSO frowned upon?? and pretty much all Lalafell modders have been shunned by the community at this point.

That being said, people who sexualize Lalafell while also purposefully infantilizing them are still creeps. They do not represent the Lalafell community. Just like people modding their catgirls to wear diapers do not represent Miqo'te players.

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tl;dr - My stance on Lalafell is that they are absolutely NOT children and shouldn't be seen as such, unless the player very clearly and specifically makes it known their character is underage. Lalafell should also be allowed in NSFW content without being ostracised as long as they're not purposefully infantilized.

[cabinetduo]

im like not finding the game scary at all, but that might just be due to how i havent found fnaf in general scary in like a billion years. like its to the point that ill put on videos of people playing fnaf to sleep. i found the part where broken ass chica was casing gregory around the sewer or whatever actually pretty creepy though. but that might be because she was making weird computer noises and that shit freaks me out. the jumpscares are lame as hell too. except for the fucking staff bots dear god what the fuck is with those things. actually makes me jump a little. what were the devs smoking when they made them the only scary bitches in the game. also i saw a video on twitter of vanessas jumpscare just captioned “white woman jumpscare” and i havent been able to take it remotely seriously since

WHITE WOMAN JUMPSCARE