#dude is driven

[bellobambino]

getting close to luigi is probably extremely intimidating. like orbiting a star. his aura is crazy.

he seems hard to soothe, hard to handle, and hard to read.

his fire burns really bright and drives an efficient motor inside. get too close and you could get burned

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Puppet is burden with knowing the truth,,

[alienssstufff]

sooooo curious how did Usagi die????

you ask like that's NOT such a loaded question

I'm like - NEVER - too shy going to post the full execution it's 13 pages but I am willing to show bits and pieces I made for it - like the visuals

Some context: Usagi (ult Alien) is my oc for a fanganronpa I play in. And he is declared guilty as the culprit for Chapter 5. He's also the 'son' of the character who (in lore) builds all the physical infrastructure for the killing games (NOT the mastermind, just some evil shareholder) - so he gets a different kinda death

This is a (scrapped) falling animation loop of when Usagi falls through the floor - the final ver is simpler without the sparkles. The writing later gets 4th-wall breaky and I wanted the pages to match.

The execution itself takes inspiration from the same story as Kirumi (NDRV3) did of the Spider's Thread - though instead of climbing one (1) thread to heaven, Usagi goes through several obstacles (zombified ex-culprits) to reach his spaceship (his one chance to escape the kg).

Random doodle of said culprits of the kg. This isn't in the execution but just a reference of the competition Usagi was up against.

Another unique thing about his execution is that it uses dice rolls to determine how well he survives something. These are some of the gifs I made based on his results - these would show up on the screen of his chest cavity. The third is a unique decision not made by Usagi but by Yuto (guy with the yellow colour code)

Chest cavity animation for when Usagi rolls the nat1 that seals his fate and is ultimately killed by his narrative foil (awful stuff - tldr they beat the shit out of eachother).

And that's how Usagi died!

[total-drama-brainrot]

Assistant Noah AU, since Noah isn't a contestant, Ezekiel takes Noah's place as a member of Team Chris...

Ezekiel doesn't lose the stick, so there's no eliminations in the Egyptian Episode...

Ezekiel had become Lindsay's and Beth's platonic BFF, and now has a new better respect for women...

Ezekiel is also a bit smarter, and somehow sees through Alejandro's tricks...

How would Alejandro honestly feel about Ezekiel? 😉

I'll take any oppertunity to "save" Ezekiel from his canon treatment, and having him substitute onto Team Chris in Noah's place is a great idea.

But I don't think Alejandro would like him at all.

You've got to understand; Ezekiel is the equivalent of a very misguided, very lost puppy. He's not exactly sure what's going on at the best of times, and after Island his response to the culture shock between his homelife and his life on reality TV is to adopt a fake "cool" personality from whatever pop culture he's managed to consume... which only serves to make him more insufferable to the people around him than his clueless farmboy demeanour ever did.

Had he retained his pre-Total Drama personality and naivety, then Alejandro would tolerate him, if only as an exploitable pawn (much like Tyler). But it's repeatedly shown in canon that Ezekiel is unpleasent to be around by design. He's talkative and outspoken at the worst times, oftentimes with opinions that aren't exactly palatable, he doesn't understand the concept of personal space and acceptable social behaviour, he smells bad, ect ect. Pair this with him mimicking the stereotypical "rapper" demeanour, and you have the perfect foil for Alejandro's nice guy act.

Because Alejandro is very many things, but patient isn't one of them. At least, not in the context of being around people who annoy him. Just look at his canon relationship with Owen; if he couldn't stand to be around Owen of all people, then he'd really hate Ezekiel.

That's not to say that I think Ezekiel is a hateable character. Quite the opposite, really. He's so interesting to think about from a writer's standpoint, since he has a surprising amount of characterisation for a character who spends the majority of his screentime feral and non-verbal. Just enough to base characterisation on, and just little enough to expand upon in whatever way you'd like and not have it feel out of character.

In the given scenario, I'd have him form a friendship with Owen and and Izzy (by this point in the series he's been educated on how his father's mindset is very outdated and toxic, so he's more than happy to befriend a girl). The two of them aren't concerned with things like "coolness" and social acceptability, which would be a huge part of Zeke's character arc in this season - learning how to accept himself for himself, instead of trying to conform to his skewered perspective of what the media deems "hip".

Pairing this with the somewhat limited but amicable relationship he shares with Lindsay on Team Victory, and the intangiable but nonetheless just as impactful influence of Beth who's stuck on the Aftermath, and suddenly Ezekiel has a whole support system of genuinely kind people who can and will help him learn the ropes of modern society. (Give Ezekiel Friends 2k24‼️)

A direct contrast to Alejandro, who's whole deal is presenting himself as a perfect, infalliable person who doesn't really form any friendships. (Unless you count Heather and maybe Courtney?)

See here's where the two of them play the role of "contrasting narritive foil" for each other. Alejandro and Ezekiel are both fueled by their need to prove themselves by winning, but their methodology is entirely different; Alejandro's game plan is to be as fake and perfect as possible whilst sabotaging the competition and inadvertantly isolating himself, and Ezekiel is just doing his best to play fair whilst learning how to be the most authentic version of himself in the proccess with the help of his friends. (Something something the power of friendship...)

Something to note here: Both of them are trying to prove themselves to their families. Alejandro's trying to prove he can be more than second place (to José, or just in general), and Ezekiel is trying to prove that he can withstand the challenges of the world outside of his family's farm (which he never got the chance to, given he was the first boot of the previous two seasons).

As for Ezekiel being "smarter" and seeing through Alejandro's tricks; I'd like to veto that idea and offer you this instead.

Ezekiel has gullibility and naivety practically woven into the threads of his character, so of course he'd be in the same boat as Owen and Tyler. That is to say, he'd initially be one of Alejandro's most staunch defenders, since he doesn't have the intelligence or the instincts to see past his fake exterior, as Ezekiel isn't worldly enough to know how to spot a fake.

And that's exactly what causes Alejandro's downfall.

As stated before, Ezekiel is annoying by design. Pair his enthusiasm with an idolisation towards Alejandro (for being an objectively strong competitor, or whatever reason you want) and you've got the perfect recipe for Alejandro to blow up at Ezekiel once his already negligable patience snaps. Probably in a scene similar to the confrontation he has with Owen in the Amazon.

All of a sudden, Ezekiel has seen Alejandro's true colours and the rose-tinted glasses he's been blinded by come shattering to the ground - and the knowledge that's been painstakingly imparted onto him by Lindsay and Beth comes into play. Alejandro is a bad guy, just like Zeke's dad.

From then on, Ezekiel is hesitant around Alejandro. Quiet, uncharacteristically so. The sight of unapologetically loud and obtuse Ezekiel being subdued (scared?) of Alejandro has the other contestants beginning to question his performative geniality. If Zeke of all people doesn't trust him, it must be a bad sign.

[megapteraurelia]

another day, another jelly-gets-harassed-at-work-by-a-59-year-old-man :)))

[borgialucrezia]

lowkey wish we had seen cesare's reaction after finding out that his whole dovecote was killed by the falcons that rodrigo ordered to sweep the city of the pigeons he had been beefing with. like something about rodrigo, despite having his oldest son as his adviser and confidant, he never seems to consider his feelings (tbh he always neglects his children's feelings because he's blinded by ambition). he fails to regard that those falcons might attack cesare's beloved doves (or he thinks cesare wouldn’t care much about it perhaps?) like it's just a tiny detail that juan briefly mentioned about cesare loving the doves while drunkenly attempting to evoke brotherly love in him. their father always scars cesare without even realizing it, just as he used juan as a grinding stone to provoke him, leading to the tragic outcome where cesare ends up killing his brother. he never foresees the consequences of his behavior and what cesare might be able to do by constantly stepping on him (metaphorically). he helped create the tyrant that cesare became in the final season. the cesare that he feared so much to the point where he thought his own son might end up usurping him as well lol

[bonefall]

Are you keeping Hallowflight's and Ivypool's odd friendship they had going on in the DF as apprentices? I know the Erin's forgot about it after the great battle, but honestly thought it was kinda sweet how they became friends in literal cat hell and how Hallow tried to comfort Ivy after she perma-killed Ant. I just thought it was neat and something unique.

I see Hallowflight, after the BOTTE, as really wanting to distance himself from the friends he made there.

With his new Honor Title and this almost immediately legendary story, he went from an outcast loser to suddenly being a hero. His bully Mossyfoot died, and his other bully Troutstream changed her tune. Cats wanted to know him, calling him brave and commending his turnaround.

But that's not the case in the other Clans. ShadowClan outright exiled Redwillow, with the other two being killed in the fight. WindClan is furious at their trainees, and ThunderClan has the guy that almost snapped his son's neck.

Hallowflight's life got better because of his time there, but everyone else is worse off, and associating with them hurts his own shiny new reputation.

And like... that isn't something he's proud of. He knows better than anyone that ALL of them got pulled into the DF because they were angry, lonely, looking for meaning. Almost everyone who was a hard ideologue (Thornclaw, Whiskernose, Ratscar) DIED fighting for those ideas.

And yet, still, he is willing to stay quiet about Dodderheart, Shredbloom, and everyone else, only exchanging an awkward nod at Gatherings, not offering himself as a counterexample in their defense.

If they want to think he's a coward... so be it.

But of all the DF trainees, he's definitely closest to Ivypool, and I think he's willing to throw an endorsement of Harespring once he's out of his Dishonor Title and acting as deputy. He simply won't endanger his own reputation; Hallowflight has a family to consider.

(And then he loses two of his kids to the Impostor anyway, on both sides of the conflict, and Harelight's view of him is forever damaged... so, see how well neutrality worked out in the end.)

[emberglowfox]

i thought this post was funny. they would

[spilling-blood]

Coworker I dislike the most got let go.

[bluebellhairpin]

Nothing urks me more than seeing a woman pull up in her car, fumble with 2+ children, and go on her merry way to do some shopping all the while her male partner sits in the front passenger seat and doomscrolls on his phone. What a useless prick.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I don't get why people hate the timeline so much, its not like you can't pretty much completely ignore it when you play the games. The only time it even approaches mattering to the story is when there is an explicit sequel like botw and totk or zelda and zelda 2

Hey sorry your ask got lost in the sauce of my broken tumblr, but: yeah!

I mean, I get why in some sense. It's been a heated point of debate and I think some people understandably resent the space it has taken not only in fandom discourse, but in how people began to understand the game and its narrative aesthetic choices. There is such a thing as over-rationalizing everything to hard logic, and sometimes it's just not the fandom for that --especially when you begin to forget it's all just fan theory and start to forget what the games are supposed to be like and evoke beyond just strict facts displayed in a linear way.

What I think bugs me with TotK in particular is that it both evokes and relies on continuity and the idea of a timeline, of archeology, of history itself, while being so loose and vacant with it that it both is doing Timeline Shit while also completely failing to understand why some parts of the fandom were invested in Timeline Shit to begin with.

But that's just my two cents of course!

[satoriberry]

i asked my mom why men aren't fitnah the same way women are considered fitnah, hence the hijab, and her answer could really be boiled down to victim-blaming. like there's no substance in her argument. i'm so disapppointed and i don't know why.

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[unofficialadamtaurus]

That epilogue…yikes.

[taffy-glitch]

It is VERY fun when two characters have a lot of similarities even if the vibes don't really quite align. Anyway this comparison's been drawn before but. Larry the Florida Man from CPU Kerfuffle and Kiriya Kujo from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid:

Mysterious dudes who wear Hawaiian shirts and fun eyewear

Work in a hospital/lab

Associated with death in a professional capacity (coroner vs what is essentially a necromancer)

Also associated with death bc he fucking died once

Dw he got better. In both cases

Closely tied to a major villain with a god complex (whether they like it or not)

Also has a close relationship with a nerd ass gamer who wants to help people

I think they are both neat <3

[rambling-robot]

ngl guys I understand the hockey rpf fic writers. the most important and thrilling parts of this game (besides scoring goals) is when the increasingly-angry men pin each other as aggressively as possible to the wall with anything but their hands.