#i'm......tired a bit

[iamverprost]

(falls down asleep on their study works)

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

Saw a reddit post today about a girl who was upset that her childhood best friend replaced a photo of the two of them in his wallet with one of him and his girlfriend. And while yeah, she was being unreasonable with a lot of what she was saying, I totally understand the sadness of a friend "replacing" you with someone they have romantic feelings for. Makes it worse when the top comment is this

Every single comment on this post is about how family and romantic relationships always take precedence over friendships. I don't have anything more to say to this aside from the fact that... this is why it's hard for aroaces to imagine futures for themselves. Society drills it into your head that you're going to live in a world where you are no one's priority if you don't have romantic relationships and it fucking sucks

[nouverx]

Pov the cannibal overlords are judging your outfit (or discussing how they're going to cook you tonight, your choice 👀)

Based on very cool outfits for them I saw on twitter! Here's Alastor and here's Rosie

[bibxrbie]

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

[khytal]

liar, liar

[crabsnpersimmons]

"Slow down, Sunshine. You're not falling behind and you are loved for more than what you do for others."

[chimchiri]

I'm trying to capture the vibe I want for them and getting out a first test. There are still many rough parts which need revision or more detail - but! At least I like the hair.

[xulips]

the you i fell in love with

[suaimhneas-gairid]

his bits

[expelliarmus]

[vaxxman]

What do you think about 5cp TF2 map Gullywash?

Getting autobalanced on Gullywash feels especially tragic.

More sketches and more impressions under the cut.

In order to draw this, I watched some highlander matches on Gullywash, due to finding no matches in competitive, and the aimbots going rampant in casual. I was only able to play 5 proper matches on casual, (2 of which my teams won purely due to team imbalance,) so some of this is based on what I saw other people were doing in competitive match recordings, as well as how it feels to play on community servers with AI train bots. No one was playing whenever I was queueing up :(

I learnt very fast that Gullywash is one of these maps where you will die a lot, or steamroll the capture points, and there is no in-between, because you either position yourself correctly or you don't. While this goes for every map in tf2, I never really felt frustrated when dying here. I could always find a reason for my mistakes and generally it turned out to be a very rewarding learning experience.

I think Gullywash is extremely fun and fast paced. I especially enjoy giving scouts and pyros overheal buffs, because of how much flanking you can do here. The symmetry of the map is immaculate and the amount of objects that just lie around allows demos to place a lot of traps and players to just hide in corners.

(Using Scouts as your Uber Driver here is also especially fun, so many near death situations!)

For some reason, the soldiers and demos who play on this map are really good at protecting medics? That's the impression I got, everyone knew when to retreat and not push, everyone turned around when they saw my health go down, everyone was shooting the spies for me when we were in the open and I was too focused with healing the people fighting death matches at the front so we could capture.

(My personal heroes who just rocket jump over to you just to shoot the spy 2m away from you, and then just rocket jump away again)

Snipers aren't much of a problem, since there are so many options for hiding properly while still being able to reach your team mates. The same sadly doesn't apply to spies and I think I have died more to spies on this maps than to sticky traps.

While I love the vaccinator, I think Stock and Kritz are the better options on this map. Nothing cries geneva convention war crime more than entering the door to the last capture point and ubering a soldier who starts spamming everyone with rockets in this rather crammed up room where everything can give you splash damage.

Shoutout to a pyro called Joey who carried the last game I played, it was a blast ubering you through the last capture point.

[geebeeskoos]

You know what, the Voice of the Smitten actually has a point. Yes, he's certain the Princess is his soulmate no matter what she does or what she is, and he clearly doesn't actually know her that much on a personal level. Okay, I understand why it feels weird to you.

In the real world it would be so, for sure. But the in-game reality is very different from the real world. On a fundamental level.

Consider this. There's no one in it but you, the Princess, and some disembodied voice who is more often than not isn't very likable and sometimes straight up antagonistic. Oh, and there are also other disembodied voices, but they're just shards of you, so do they really count as other people? Not really.

So the Princess is basically the only one existing being rather than you.

And that... Reminds me of one of the lines the Shifting Mound has to say.

I personally think that the same logic works for the Smitten as well. Of course the only visible being with a physical form who isn't you is going to be important. Especially for a shard of the consciousness whose whole thing is about being in love with someone.

How would you survive without each other? How could you live in such loneliness, how could you live having no one but yourself?

Moreover! The voice of the Smitten proves to be correct in the end about the soulmates part. Even if the Smitten couldn't have known that and it was just his gut feeling. The Long Quiet and her are the gods that apparently used to be one. What is then, if not being literally made to complete each other? What is it then, if not being united together by fate? What is it then, if not being soulmates?

So... Make fun of him for being an oblivious lovestruck fool all you want, but. In a sense, he was right all along.

[clockwayswrites]

“Then let me give you gentle, one monster to another,” Danny pleaded. It wasn’t… he couldn’t… but oh how he wanted. Jason’s head tilted, just barely a nod and Danny didn’t hesitate to lean in and meet the motion, kissing the helmet over where Jason’s mouth was. Jason closed his eyes and pretended it was a real kiss. “Can I?” Danny asked when he pulled back from the kiss. “Please.”

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 115

“Seriously old man?” the rumbling voice nearly caused Tim to jump, his eyes darting away from where Ras was sitting, the Al Ghul almost seeming to perk. It was kind of hard to miss the man… teen… being? It was kind of hard to miss the owner of the voice what with how their hair looked like it was on fire. 

They motioned around at well, everything, crimson eyes looking exasperated. “Really?” They were definitely motioning towards him, interrupting Ras when he opened his mouth to talk. “No, I don’t want to hear it, I swear- Did he kidnap you?” That was definitely aimed at him. 

“N-no?” Tim was feeling slightly unbalanced and may be on hour sixty without sleep at this point, if the hour long nap was counted. “I need help finding my not-dad who's lost in time.” 

The being let out a strangled noise that Tim could nearly swear was almost another one, but couldn’t vocalize his slurred thoughts as the dude muttered something, motioning around as though he was tempted to strangle something or someone. 

Ras cleared his throat, looking almost awkward which was how Tim knew he had to be dreaming or drugged. Probably drugged. “Jordan, how good to see you, it’s been so long-”

“Can it Pops,” the being-named-Jordan scoffed, finger pointing towards the Demon’s Head. “Moms still pissed and isn’t coming back any time soon with you still pulling this shit.” 

Tim felt his brain stall, process for a moment, then process some more over what he just heard before his mouth ran before it could catch up. “Ras is married???” 

[legowerewolf]

The summer before our trio's senior year, there's a national competition for high-schoolers. The prize? An all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., including exclusive tours of the Smithsonian and a face-to-face meeting with the President.

This is the chance they need to escape the prison that the GIW has turned Amity Park into and get them shut down, permanently.

Tucker rigs it.

Danny is out to the class by now. Lancer is keeping his mouth shut. He's a mandatory reporter, sure, but he won't speak up and put his student in more danger.

Danny is very, very happy about the visit to the Air and Space museum.

Then it's time for business.

First, the confession: they weren't the rightful winners.

Then, the introduction: they're not just a class trip.

They're the diplomatic envoy of Phantom, the High King of the Infinite Realms of the Dead. And by diplomacy or by force, the American government will stop torturing and experimenting on his subjects.

Everyone in Amity Park is forsworn by the US government as long as the Anti-Ecto acts are in force; they're all contaminated enough that the GIW has the right to snatch them up and cut them open.

They're all voluntarily Danny's subjects instead. He, at least, has no need for taxes.

[dailykeiji]

Keiji in a sexy santa outfit pretty pls

today's keiji is: all i want 4 christmas is youuuuuuuuuuu