#can't wait for that next event!

[bigkickguy]

enforcer and executor are my arknights favs

[pinkrose05]

No. Fucking. Way

[cakesmelons]

Epic did it! He rizzed the MTT(mettaton)! .....right?

[trivialbob]

When I went to Target the other day I didn't hear any crying children. So I wanted to give Target another chance. Sheila and I went there today.

We heard one wailing toddler this time. The universe is back on its correct axis.

Sheila and I purchased hand towels, four dark blue for one bathroom and four light blue for the other. The cashier was chatty, in a good way. She was in an express lane (10 or fewer items) with no customers. We had at least a dozen items and politely declined her offer to help us (because I'm a rule follower). She laughed heartily and said "It's fine when no one's waiting!"

She asked us if it was okay for the light blue towels to go in the same bag as the dark blue towels. Of course it was. I want as few bags as possible. It made me wonder what customer experience she'd had in the past that would precipitate such a question. Then I wondered, could a frozen pepperoni pizza share a bag with a sausage pizza? Or a pepperoni and sausage pizza?!

Those towels... I have plenty of hand towels. They're old but functional. They don't all match. Most are faded. I remember recently feeling pleased when, after doing laundry, I'd ended up with a set of matching towels in one of the bathrooms.

I should try to be pleased more often.

The old towels remind me of a guy I worked with years ago. He was a genuine miser. The man owned two sweaters. He wore them on alternating days. Both had holes in the elbows. "But they still work," I'm sure he would have said had I asked why he wore rags to work every day. He was not poor by any measure.

If I want matching towels I can have them. There's no need for me to dry my hands on rags.

Later in the day I went to see my dad at his apartment building. I brought Oliver along. That dog likes to meet people. He's not a fan of the elevator though.

My dad and I sat in a public area, chatting. Oliver greeted people who arrived via the front door. Several bent down to pet him. One guy did a really good job of scratching Oliver's ears, because when he stopped, Oliver put his big fat paw on the guy's arm to remind him to keep scratching. When that man stood up to leave Oliver also stood up and followed him until he ran out of leash.

[manawari]

I AM ON FERAL FOR THESE TWO!!

First of all, I am so enchanted with the way they develop the romance! A little sprinkles here and there, yet the bond is palpable. Not to mention, they made everything about this ship worth it!

Shin Nouzen, the boy who lived to fight.

Lena Milizé, the girl who fought to live.

They are perfect for each other!!

Even when they hadn't met each other face-to-face, they became each other's emotional support. And eventually. . . An anchor to hold onto when the other is slipping away.

Not to mention, after Shin was saved, he finally found a reason to live. All his years of being alone, living as a weapon, and watching every single person he cares for die. . . The cycle finally stopped. He found another reason to fight and stop letting all those burdens crush him — Lena.

SHE SAVED AND HELPED HIM IN WAYS THAT WERE BEYOND HIS EXPECTATIONS AND HIM REALIZING IT WAS HER IT'S SO AJSGSKDHSJDBSJBJDHDJD

Now on their reunion.

Shin looks so good in here and with that small smile on his face because for the first time ever, he was about to meet the girl behind that voice when he was in the battlefield.

HER FACE AFTER REALIZING IT WAS HIM 😭💖💖

DON'T GET ME EVEN STARTED WITH THE SOFTNESS IN HIS EYES AS HE STARED AT HER HAFSJAVSJWHSJSHJEKWOWHD

AND THAT BLUSH UNDER THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES

THAT BOY FELL IN LOVE. EVERYONE KNOWS IT. and I'm pretty sure that HE KNOWS IT. HE KNOWS HE'S GOING TO BE BY HER SIDE NO MATTER WHAT AND THAT HE'LL CARE FOR HER WITH ALL HIS HEART.

I AM SO WEAK—

NOT EVEN LESS THAN A DAY OF MEETING EACH OTHER AND HE ALREADY GOT THAT PROTECTIVE ARM AHSHSJDGSJHDJSHDKJS

I love that their hands formed into '86' which signifies that they'll be fighting alongside each other and look after each other! They found new purpose and reasons to keep on going.

Pls. . . I love these two so much:')))

[alittlebirb]

Some irreverent chaos from the MCC 24 Green Geckos!

Gem saying Oli is too loud and him replying "you can turn me down to zero if you don't want to hear my ~funny bits~!"

TapL saying he didn't vod review Turtle Run and everyone demanding he watch it RIGHT NOW, OPEN IT UP RIGHT NOW

I also need to mention this is the first time I've watched Oli and his sound effects+music is the best thing I've ever heard

"Do we know left from right? That's important to know before we start doing call outs. If you need a reminder just keep an L by the side of your screen." -Gem

Oli and Gem getting excited over saiko posting their fanart for the event

"They really know how to make me look like an anime protag!" -Oli

"Are we doing a cage stream? We will be doing two cage streams! But for this I've been freed from my cage!" -Oli

5up saying he's getting "bored" of SOT and he needs to "spice it up"

THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING A ROTATING SANDKEEPER???

Oli freaking out over his sound and Gem shutting him down that she "does NOT want to hear about his tech problems right now."

"If you eat a burger, it slows you down." -TapL

"You are the mother duck, we are the ducklings. Go forth." -Gem to 5up in MD

TapL immediately following that up with a series of obnoxious quacking noises

Oli just flying through an empty map after he died, until he finally figures out how to teleport to mid

The disaster of that fight with Yellow, compounded with the fact that Oli turned his narrator on during the fight. That deadpan robotic voice describing their losing fight while Oli frantically tries to turn it off was a work of art.

Everyone just marveling over how cool MD is while watching the last fight

Oli's FAT DUMPY breaking the elevator

"This is it, after all the pvp teams are like, YES!, their mental high note, here is where we crush their mental." -5up, employing psychological warfare in SOM (Sands Of Mart)

The unhabitable conditions of the block rooms, with pillagers and skeletons breaking their concentration every 2 seconds

Oli and Gem occasionally fighting like bickering siblings

Oli accidentally dropping a "fucked up" in Gem's presence and immediately covering it up with "messed up"

Gem giving the brutal review that "our coms are rougher than I thought it'd be, not gonna lie."

"That remix helped nothing and hurt everything." -Gem

TapL spilling a "dollop" of water on his keyboard

"I've had a big scream!" -Oli

"I need to get my energy out in a stabby game, where I can punch and kick and flail!" -Oli

The chat calling them "the green anxiety's"

Half of the team getting frozen during the vote and demanding a recount

Oli beefing with Joel in the chat over the wait for 5up to rejoin

Oli giving Sapnap permission to pee, and TapL truthing that he didn't wash his hands

5up going through the most stressful experience in his life attempting to reconnect to MCC with the weight of 40 people's expectations on his shoulders

Gem calling TapL "our little green boy" as he flies in RSR

"I got a kill on Sparklez, so that's good. Gotta keep the old man down-" -Oli

TapL calling the way Illumina hit Purpled off the edge and won second round "sexy"

Oli coming in and interrupting 5up's pep talk, and Gem shushing him

TapL digging a hole in mid during SB, getting ferreted out by Pink, and then proceeding to slaughter 3/4 Pensioners

Oli asking if they can take Hamnah and Jojo, and Gem just responding with the most affronted "no."

TapL and Gem winning the second round!

"We've got our spirits awfully down for a team that's in 5th!" -Gem

TapL talking about how, when he was rushing to find a Turtle Run vod, he instead found results on a place called Turtle Run in Illinois

Gem being very rudely awakened about the amount of lava present in the BB map

Oli getting lost about how to get down to middle even though that was what 5up's pre-game pep talk was all about 😭

TapL whaling on Captain Sparklez and screaming "I'M SORRY. I STILL WATCH YOUR VIDEOS!"

"I got shot by The Gay." -TapL after getting killed by Scott

"Not THE GAY!" -Oli

"We don't follow rules 5up, we aren't even listening to our own words!" -Gem

TapL producing an AI generated sentence as an example of Things He Would Say In SOT

Oli eloping with Martyn in HITW during the Mega Chicken Vote, making them the only two HITW enjoyers in the dome!

TapL planning to speedrun AR and putting together a hype playlist (which sadly does not include the Jellyfish Jam from Spongebob SquarePants)

Just the wildly different vibes between each stream, with Gem and 5up being very chill, Oli blasting the loudest hype music available, and TapL listening to the MCC Update video on accident

Both TapL and 5up once again freezing??? 5up straight up crashing????

"They should just give us stimulus coins, for the oopsie." -TapL

TapL predicting his win the second time around and dubbing it TurtleGate

Oli narrating his AR journey and consistently improving the whole way through!

Everyone on Green finishing in a row, aside from 5up who finished a single place apart from them

The absolute travesty that was HITW getting chosen over GR. Who decided this. One of you is going to pay for this. 👁👁

TapL saying he's reaching for the moon this HITW round because it was Techno's philosophy, and getting first place!

"How are you feeling?" -TapL

"HOT." -Oli

Gem and 5up asking Oli if he knows what the colored walls mean in SOT, and the dead silence when he says no (as a funny lil joke, just a silly jest)

"No risky things!" -5up

"Oh no, I did risky things!" -Oli

"...I need to be unlocked." -Oli

5up getting locked in at the end, and Oli declaring "that's showbiz, baby!"

TapL putting on videos of cats to relax

"The reddit predicted us 9th...and I guess they were right!" -Gem

"The reddit can read me like a book." -Oli

TapL putting on the Benny Hill theme during DB

This MCC was a straight up fever dream.

Green Geckos finished MCC 24 in 9th place!

[hinaichi]

It's always a shame that the days off from work are the ones that go by the fastest

[doodleswithangie]

doodleswithangie’s 2023 summary of art

As is tradition, I picked 12 pieces of mine from this year that I think came out really well, or that I'm really proud of making, or remind me of good memories! All these posts (and more that couldn't fit!) can be found in my art tag “doodleswithangie” and on my Instagram.

[Image Description: Previews of twelve pieces of art made by this artist in 2023. The second, third, and fourth images show a selected piece of art made during that month. All images are captioned “doodles with angie’s 2023 Summary of Art”. Brief descriptions of each month’s art is under the cut. End ID]

January: Fanart of Ryan Akagi and Min-Gi Park from "Infinity Train."

February: Comic of the adult Losers Club from "IT Chapter Two."

March: Sketch doodles of Richie Tozier from "IT Chapter Two."

April: Fanart of Luz Nocera and her friends from "The Owl House."

May: Screenshot redraw of Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach from "Our Flag Means Death."

June: Fanart of the PCs from Dimension 20's "The Ravening War."

July: Fanart of the PCs from Dimension 20's "Dungeons and Drag Queens."

August: Fanart of The Sugar Plum Fairy and Lapin Cadbury from Dimension 20's "A Crown of Candy."

September: Fanart of he PCs from Dimension 20's "Mentopolis."

October: Comic of Ed Teach from "Our Flag Means Death."

November: AU scene of Stede Bonnet, Ed Teach, and their crew from "Our Flag Means Death."

December: Comic of Aziraphale and Crowley from "Good Omens."

[anaalnathrakhs]

people won't fucking FORGET me i can't handle this anymore there's always a friend who wants to go someplace a friend who needs someone to go to the store with a friend who hasn't seen me in a while who wants to hangout, and i can't let those friendships decay i just can't i can't be this kind of asshole again, but it feels so shit it feels like i can't fucking relax cuz there's always something tomorrow something next week and something to do at school between classes and holy SHIT leave me ALONE please fucking stop talking to me i just want to relax and do things i enjoy.

[hellbatschilt]

A little Starsending Idia since his card came out on TWST EN today :^)

[bigkickguy]

exeforcer doodle ! -

Had a silly thought about Ezell getting coffee for whoever goes on tough missions with him - but when he asks Federico what he wants Federico says he doesn't have a preference.

After going through the process a couple times Ezell just starts ordering him new random things and tries to see if he can figure out what the guy likes. It turns into a tradition for them to start any team up with maybe?

[plants-and-thingz]

hi guys look ! i am helpful sometimes and not just a common household pest :p

[resoyani]

The boyband team finally makes an appearance--

[teabutmakeitazure]

Today marks the one year anniversary of twisted but tender :D

A huge thank you to all the lovely readers for all the love and support <3

I hope you're ready for the next update whenever that may be

[reginrokkr]

𝐂𝐋𝐈. Coming up next is the last part of the trilogy of posts of Requiem of the Echoing Depths, a very emotional quest in too many levels to describe. To check the previous parts, you can go here: ✦ ✧

✦ After their brief encounters, there is no doubt that Halfdan, within what little self-awareness he must've left (and even with that little Dain would say it's a miracle), recognized Dain and wanted to help with his investigation to have a clearer understanding of what's been boiling down in the Nameless City by showing him a bigger hilichurl campo. However, since yesterday when I paused at this point of the quest it occurred to me that there could be another option —which isn't inconciliable with the former and can coexist with it perfectly fine— and it is the fact that he wanted to seize this opportunity he had of seeing his captain once again after so much time to show him the result of his work.

Thinking about what will come to pass later when Halfdan chastizes himself for failing to follow Dain's words and the latter telling him that he's proud of what he and the other men did, I think it carries another layer of meaning that even if some hilichurls have already passed and Halfdan wanted to honor their death by bringing something to them that is reminiscent of home (a bouquet of Inteyvats), he did everything he could and in seeing this alongside understanding that the Black Serpent Knights were protecting the hilichurls all this time, Dain was prompted to give recognition for his hard work so he could pass away in peace.

✧ ◜Trying to remove it [the curse] by force will achieve nothing but inflict further suffering. So you are clear in your mind. You have to tell yourself: They are no longer human. If you cling to false hope and allow yourself to become too emotionally invested, the only way is down... You will end up just like them, mired in hypocrisy. Save your strength for something worth saving.◞

For some reason, similarly as when he talked about the curse and said that no one understands it like he does, this once again feels like out of experience. Firstly as if he had to convince himself that neither the hilichurls or those who are part of the Abyss Order are no longer humans and that this could be easily a reason to lose sight of what's important, which for one is that the Abyss Order seeks to destroy all the nations under the Seven and the people with it. This alongside another matter I'll touch later is a clear expression of hypocrisy in bringing ruin to other innocent ones like many of Khaenri'ah were. And secondly, about Lumine as the one who went down this path out of her sense of guilt for being unable to do anything when the destruction at the hands of the gods happened (I won't expand more on this as it'll have its moment in Caribert).

Lastly, while his last line may sound harsh and as if implying that for example the hilichurls aren't worth saving, I don't think he says it out of malice. But because 500 years after, they have already established their lives, got used to this new way of living in their own tribes down to choosing how they want to meet their end. It's not that they aren't worth saving as much as choosing for them when most likely they have already chosen. And this can apply to the Black Serpent Knights too, who still choose to protect the hilichurls as is, no matter the form they take— they're still the people they once protected in Khaenri'ah (looking at it in retrospective, it reminds me a bit of Nahida's second story quest and the lack of importance the shape one takes has). This will be touched again a bit later.

✦ One of the things I adore about Dain and that it's seen so rarely is that he doesn't mind following his own path without Aether and that actually, he could do all these things he does on his own. As painful as it might be, because as he states in Shenhe's miscellany, he doesn't relish the solitary life he has and even he knows the heartache of the Adepti which includes the poison of solitude.

✧ [...] ◜The Abyss' actions here directly dishonor he final wishes of Halfdan and my other compatriots. I cannot allow this to proceed.◞

This here is one of the reasons of weight why I always differentiate between the deeds of those who are obsessed (Abyss Order-aligned even before the Cataclysm) and those who highly likely wouldn't want to take part in any of this, before and now. In what concerns this part of the story specifically, and the second reason why the Abyss Order has fallen into hypocrisy is for deciding on other's behalf in a similar fashion as the Heavenly Principles do with everyone that is under them (so far sans the sovereigns, as Neuvi claims that he's unaffected) through the fate system.

✦ ◜Am I too late...? Must they also be in agony as they meet their end?◞

I can't describe how heartbreaking it must've been to Dain to think that he's late to save his people... again, after being unable to do anything for anyone back when the destruction of Khaenri'ah happened. As for the second line as per in CN (thank you to the lovely @jueying for telling me about this), it has so much strength that he says that they're in agony because he can feel it— in that moment, he was in agony too. As he kept saying one time after another before this scene, cleansing the curse by force would only bring more suffering and this is where the Abyss Order fails x2: not only in deciding for the hilichurls and Black Serpent Knights, but for making them suffer (and who knows if they made plans to stay away from that place so that they wouldn't be affected by this if its influence is only in that area as I think it is, which would make it worse as it would seem like they're using those who are around as experiments to see if later they can use it on themselves or not).

✧ Lastly but not any less important, Halfdan's sacrifice to protect the hilichurls, his other compatriots Black Serpent Knights who he's been working hand in hand to protect them, Dain and his act of kindness to honor their deaths. It's touching to see that Dain's recognition and vocalized pride on him and the rest of the Black Serpent Knights made Halfdan happy, maybe a tad embarrassed too as Dain is still his superior.

And his question, if Khaenri'ah didn't fall since Dain is still there. I think that this has a double interpretation: in a literal sense or a more metaphysical one, alluding that since Dain is still there, the spirit of Khaenri'ah didn't fall into complete oblivion nor fell completely. Personally, I like the thought that Khaenri'ah lives through Dain as Halfdan would imply if this is exactly what he meant, which once again clashes with the Abyss Order's ways even though a significant part of them must be of Khaenri'ah, too. Whatever values Khaenri'ah had that have nothing to do with these obsessions, Irmin and Gold's deeds are carried by Dain.

There is also the notion that Dain lied to him if what Halfdan meant is the former interpretation to make him feel better, which might be questionably less or more noble of him to do and I'm keeping that in mind. However the case, I think that even if Halfdan meant the first interpretation, souls are said to still have sentience even in the "afterlife" as implied in Tsurumi Island. And that they have the capacity to visit people in their dreams. So whatever the interpretation of Halfdan's question may be, one way or another there are chances that he knew what was happening before his sacrifice or after, as it seems that his soul was released from the darkness of his physical body, corroded by the curse and the Abyss separately yet intimately connected with one another.

✦ Bonus: ◜More than one kind of strange power exists here. Souls are no strange sight under such circumstances. Still, if you intend to venture deeper in and continue your investigation, you ought to be careful.◞

Dain, mr. Sir. Just how is your sentience in order to feel the Abyss and the sapphire nail despite how much deeper underground and farther than the Nameless City's location was? And this comes from the perspective that he was never in the Chasm before.

✧ Bonus #2: ◜"Vacation"? Huh, the very notion. This word has no business being in my vocabulary.◞

[strangerbis-alt]

I honestly love the byler community here on tumblr so much!! I've only been here since June and only really been posting since July but I think this is one of the best fandom communities I been apart of! We been through so many highs and absolutely insane lows (which we'll hopefully learn from), but somehow manage to stay positive overall as a community!

So thank you to everyone who has made this place somewhere I look forward to come on everyday! I don't know what's going to happen in the next 2 years, but I'm definitely excited to see! As always crazy together!