#fear[is]sorrowful

[tagerrkix]

rage.

[deadscell]

[betterthanbatman1]

He’s so t i n y

[inonibird]

Well, then.

Nothing quite like the prospect of replaying MGS3 (thanks to my recent acquisition of the Master Collection) to pique the ol' nostalgia for something I worked on literally half a lifetime ago.

...Happy Valentine's Day?

[pastelpaperplanes]

I'm curious; why do Blitzwing and his parents look so,,,stricken? Horrified? To see each other exactly? LOVE the expressions tho

Anon is referring to this art post!

Their reunion is supposed to be both relieving and absolutely devastating. Their boy is alive after all these years through both the war and the Decepticon’s exile…Blitz is here and he is right in front of them, but this person is also a stranger to them.

They see that yes this IS their boy. And yes, Blitzwing is STILL Blitzwing, yet nearly not at all.

Wartime has not been kind of their son in the slightest, and to see how his continued survival through so many years of war has ravaged him, pulled him apart into pieces, cut away, and added so much to their boy to the extent that it takes so much more to recognize him as a triple changer—Papillon and Firstwatch are rightly horrified. Someone has hurt their baby.

Whats worse, Blitz readily assumes that he is someone they most likely no longer recognize, both in appearance and as their son. Those are his parents.

But do they know what stands before them? Would they even still see him as their son, and not just some “war-torn abomination “? Would they still love him? Could they even be capable of still loving him after what he was turned into?

But of course they recognize him, of course they love him and no force in the universe could change that. Those are his parents and he is their baby.

[pensive-and-cringey]

I think, especially now, viewing the sympathy pangs and empathic anguish forever felt at watching jaiden see bobby again, it re-affirms something I thought about forever earlier suspicion of her

And that's that his mistrust and caution surrounding her says much more about what he thinks about himself than it ever did about what he thinks about her.

[scarecrow-carousel]

Small cobras

extra eye differences testing

[pianokantzart]

Yes. I love angst... you all know this... but I'm also a big ol' sucker for happy endings where everyone gets to talk it through and hug it out.

I think if something happened to Mario– if he was presumed dead, even for only a few moments– Luigi would take up the mantel.

He'd do it with quivering hands and tears in his eyes, but he'd do it determined to honor his brother's memory in every way possible, even it means pushing himself beyond his limitations.

[ritasanderson]

Drifter likes to chill in Duviri with Cavalero but at the same time he kind of hates it because there's no easy way to hide emotions in here 😔

[irradiantflux]

Trying to ignore the darkness as I fight against the panic that consumes me. I could suffocate from the anxiety alone.

He knows that.

Now he’s exploiting it. That must be what he does—he uncovers your secrets, your fears, your flaws—and he uses them against you.

- K. A. Tucker, He Will Be My Ruin

[iluart1]

Hey op! Anon from a while ago, I was wondering if it isn't too much trouble if you could take a screenshot of all the Duviri spiral menus like you did with the Envy spiral without the UI? As a console player, I can't :(

highest quality i could get

[deadscell]

[theselfshippingrose]

the imagines aren’t enough anymore. I need the plushies to come out so I can hug them until I am physically pulled away.

(proship/comship do not interact)

[flowers-of-io]

Can somebody explain to me what in the nine hells is going on with the Greasy Luck lore. Is it Oryx is it Xivu is it connected to the Arcology collapsing is it something entirely different??? I see these "I love you I love you" lines and lose my fucking mind. The context would point to it being connected to the Arcology (especially that in another loretab, uh... the grenade launcher? there's a mention of a woman reading her late brother's poems as the wave is coming), but the flavour text and the knife metaphors is so Xivu-coded. My first theory was it being Oryx trying to communicate with her ("this will not reach you", "I see the waves / I see the ship / sinking"). It could also potentially be Xivu talking, but it doesn't really mesh with her other ramblings from the dungeon imo, plus why the "this will not reach you"? And the ship part doesn't work.

But then again the "the sky is filled with shadow" line doesn't fit here at all, and would rather work in favour of the Arcology interpretation. The waves and ship bits align with it as well. I am rapidly losing my sanity.

Also is it just me or the parallels between Titan and Fundament, with the inhospitable environment and the god-wave and the worm(s) in the depths (Ahsa being benevolent and protective while the worm gods were, well, everyone knows how that went down), and obviously Oryx's corpse at the bottom of the universe, looking up.... It works even better than Saturn, I think, because Titan really IS some backwater moon, and Fundament was that also, in a way--and still both of them harboured something that later turned out to be so important in the cosmic scale of things. Does any of it make sense or is it just 2 am

[gizmothorne-art]

Vamptember Day 3; Dream

You are in death as you were in life-- bittersweet