#def approved

[cto10121]

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This reel passes the vibe check

[syn0vial]

my gun-loving, car guy, "i'm the straightest man i know" brother who just finished baldur's gate 3 talking about astarion:

[hanaretabasho]

another personal favorite of mine from the morishige bday countdown arts i did on twitter last february! | (part 5 here)

💜 pt. 6/7 — cat pic with ms. yui! | twitter

what i wrote:

this idea was inspired by this amazing tweet, pointing out how the cat pic in morishige's phone in the missing footage ova kind of has mayu's "bangs" + eye color😭 as for the art itself, i'm aware canonically morishige tends to not make any effort trying to be friends with anyone other than mayu. regardless, i always felt like morishige (like all of their group) is quite fond of ms. yui. ...and so, what if he made a clumsy, but very endearing attempt at having a friendly bonding conversation with her? "oh, right, she likes cats.. maybe she'll like this picture i took.." i especially feel this way because (outside of HH) taking pictures seems to be the way morishige connects with other people and the world around him in the first place. it's quite clearly a comfort thing, and in my mind he also photographs things that made him *feel* something. but all of that is meta for another day. but this is why i feel that it is probably one of the easier ways for him to try and bond with someone that isn’t mayu, or that isn’t with mayu’s help.

[kaiju-krew]

Opinions on ShiMothra (Mothra x Shimo)?

[nami-moittli]

Back on my homophobic (against Azul) Ace propaganda again

[theviolenttomboy]

Ha, Yamamoto is intentionally making Scarlet's eyes/pupils smaller in an attempt to make her less conventionally cute. He may make them like Mack/Blaise's later? I wonder if that'll be something to be changed once we get to the full volumes.

Here's her at the end of her proper debut:

Yup, her pupils def got a lot smaller.

[loreandletters]

WarTrophy!Sokka thoughts...

Been thinking alot about WarTrophy!Sokka after going through an old fic, and I gotta say my younger self was cooking with the concept lol I really like the close-but-not-close vibe I gave it bc I remember wanting to give him a strong sense of class difference between him and the siblings. I was like a preteen at the time so i don’t think it came across that great lmao

Honestly all I remember is that I was really hell bent on making it super tragic on Sokka’s end. It made sense to me bc he had just been plucked from home, shoved into a viper pit of a capital, and told to survive. He was point-blank informed that he was only kept alive to be friends with a sociopathic-kid and her socially awkward bother, and that can really fuck with a persons head.

It made him super hypervigilant that his survival depended on Zuko and Azula’s approval, which in turn made him extremely conscious of societal rules (titles, seating arrangement, etc.) and extremely dedicated to his studies.

In his eyes, he’s always gotta be invaluable to the siblings (training against benders to prove his strength, being blatantly patriotic to show his loyalty, staying smart so he didn’t annoy them (azula), trying to be funny so he’s always interesting, etc.). In a way the siblings get it bc Ozai is breathing down their necks, but Sokka’s def in the worse position. He’s not a bender, he’s got blue eyes, and he was literally bought by a woman Ozai didn’t love. Plus, Zuko and Azula were attached to him, and Ozai din’t like that either bc a) he obvi hated Zuko ergo hating sokka, and b) Azula only ever should be loyal to him. 

Sokka was eventually gonna end up screwed either way without the banishment and for a kid thats a lot to handle

Having Ozai plus a bunch of politicians praying for your downfall is horrible but then the lady who got him (ursa) abandons him, leaving him with 0 protection. Personally, i think Iroh aint the best politicker out there, so he wasn’t much help to Sokka. (The guy literally stepped down and let his psycho brother become king-of-the-world basically (yes ik it was due to grief but still))

Sokka cares for the siblings greatly though, despite the extreme power balance (in his eyes) and it's what makes him put up with all the crap they drag him through, but at the same time is it because he has no one else to love, or is it because he actually cares? Does his loyalty mean anything when he thinks that if he doesn’t have it, he’s dead? Is that even loyalty at that point or just pure self preservation? 

It’s why I added the stockholm syndrom tag bc tbh Sokka never had any choice but to love the siblings and hope it made the lonely kids love him too. The other option was death and Sokka is too stubborn a character to accept that. He’s also prideful enough to keep his self-respect, so he’s not exactly a doormat. Just a very conscious person who doesn’t lie to himself about his status, and uses every arm of power he has to constantly reinforce it, so that he doesn’t end up dead. Even if he isn’t consciously doing it or thinking it, he’s def acting on it. I think in the story, I wanted to make it such a big and giant thing in his life (constantly making himself indispensable), that it’s just become a part of him to deeply and viciously hold onto his status and protect it.

(spoilers ig but not really bc who knows if i'm ever gonna go through with it) It’s why the whole ‘We’re-your-family-stick’ with his dad and sister was always gonna go south. In Sokka’s mind it wasn't just a simple reunion. To him it boiled down to two choices: a) go with them and be hunted by a nation you sunk 8yrs of dedication to and have made morally dubious decisions for, or b) exploit them as a chance to further prove your loyalty.

guess which one he goes with lmao

To me that was always such a cool concept, all that tragedy and angst all wrapped up in a super fucking toxic love. Great storytelling opportunities imo Maybe one day I’ll write on it lol

[uhohmichio]

Song: The Plagues (The Prince of Egypt 1998) - Ralph Fiennes & Amick Byram Game: Yakuza: Like a Dragon [YouTube Link]

[doriansbutt]

I have a new boy 🙃 (reluctant) durge oath of devotion paladin, Tallan. He’s a sweet boy trying to find Shadowheart’s soft spots…

[superfluffychickens]

Never thought to have a breeding stable in my head growing up ):

It’s never too late to start! I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s a great horse genetics calculator out there that I played with to learn how colors would be inherited. I poured over the pedigrees I could find of the horses I knew personally, read breed magazines to get to know what stallions are popular and produce good offspring, and used my breed’s website extensively. I was an American Saddlebred lover, and still am, although I’m taking a hiatus from riding.

Here’s probably the best picture of me that’ll ever be taken, along with the best horse I ever knew. He wasn’t super fancy and we didn’t win at the show, but he was basically a gigantic golden retriever with hooves - he was always happy to see me even when I wasn’t even happy to see myself. The day this photo was taken was one of the happiest days of my life. It didn’t last, he wasn’t my horse after all, but it’s a memory I’ll treasure as long as I live.

[gunnrblze]

MAYMAY😩 you’re actually killing me with these I just died

[voidfluid]

lawrence being john's (presumably) favourite apprentice is still so fucking funny to me

[rosetheocto]

…is it stupid that I’m starting to feel kinda scared with how suddenly relevant/“big” the community is getting...?

[sodrippy]

graaaa do i hit the gym tomorrow as usual to not break my routine + make up for skipping on monday OR skip the gym tomorrow and get in two more work hours to make up for skipping the last few hrs of the workday ughhh life is so lose lose foreverD

[erikahenningsen]

Imagine your crush shows up looking like this and then basically tells you to go fuck yourself in front of the entire school... very rough day for Regina

[coyoxxtl]

im currently playing with a mod that increases the party six to 6 total (including your avatar) and I cant wait until i progress to the part of the game where Halsin is a selectable member of the party because then I will be able to have a full time party of people who don't constantly complain every time I dont act like the sort of person who writes nonstop meta about how 'BLEH AANG TOTALLY SHOULD HAVe MURDERED EVERYONE EXCEPT THE CHARACTERS I LIKE'. My character, Karlach, Wyll, Halsin, and then everyone else in a pool of sorts, but a full party with a good mix of skills, and not having to deal with lae'zel or astarion constantly being passive aggressive

whats funny about that is that even lae’zel is more agreeable than astarion to me, i manage to be on great terms w her being my pretty-decent tav. enough to fuck her a few times im act 1 at least lol also as a women’s wrongs supporter shes more enjoyable/tolerable than astarion by a mile.

i do love having karlach halsin and wyll around tho theyre like the weighted blanket of bg3 parties.