#its bleak

[meoneru]

I turned a blind eye to ao3 for months in hopes that when I came back I'd have lots of pm Yuri fics to read ......it's down........

[icestardragonhc]

I don't know what's worse, the fact that after 16 straight years of CDU that (indirectly) caused most of our current problems in Germany, boomers still vote for that party or that AFD got voted second place by mostly people who are younger than me. We are literally doomed. The old generations dying will not solve anything. The right has already groomed the next generation into facism. In the enterity of Europe. I love this country and this continent but I fear there will be a time in distant future when I don't want to live here anymore

[parkore]

everyday is me saying im not gonna die while doing this face but not in a mirror just doing this face and motion

[cuckerfailson]

If fascists werent the biggest loudest stupidest motherfuckers on the planet they would have such an easy time convincing so called liberals that death camps are a good idea. halfway convinced that they wont need to, but regardless

[cowboyishbabe]

This preview for the next ep of summer house mv…. jasmine, girl……….. shouldn’t you have known this man’s mindset before you married him??? Like, what was the rush on marriage before truly learning him? Or y’know maybe actually being ready for the life changes that commitment brings?

[frogchiro]

Also I was thinking about something slightly...darker i guess?? I'm in a very weird headspace rn and this is my therapy

cw: legal age gap, creepy Simon and generaly unsettling behavior, obsessive and possessive Ghost, he's a pushy dick in this and very much a scumbag, he kinda gets off on seeing you helpless

How about reader who got recently kicked out by her shitty parents, 'she's now an adult and needs to start acting like that', except now she's barely in her 20's with little to nothing to her name except her clothes, the little money she managed to save over the years and a job as a waitress in a small café.

Putting together the saving she manages to rent out an apartment that was almost suspiciously cheap, not to mention the shady landlord who only contacted her through the phone but she couldn't just crash at her friend's place forever.

The moment you arrived at the destination you knew why was the place so ridiculously cheap; this build was...something. An old dilapitating apartment building, four stories high with old wooden-framed windows, some of them smashed. Empty beer bottles laid smashed next to the stairs mixing with cigarette butts, graffiti covered the ground floor walls and a very sad looking patch of grass that you think was supposed to be a garden were solemnly staring back at you as if taunting 'come on, try and run'.

Imagine sleazy neighbour Simon, dishonorably discharged from the army and now living in this shithole too, who takes a deep interest in the pretty young thing that moved in recently, almost growling when he first caught your scent; fresh and kinda sweet, feminine and clean. Definitely not the smells that he's accustomed to here: stale cigarettes, the stench of alcohol and wet dirt and fuck knows what else those creepy fuckers are concocting in their holes in here.

You're clearly new to...this. Simon can almost taste it; you were probably kicked out after pa and ma decided they're done with you...But who could throw out a pretty flower like you? Soft, trembling body, wide doe eyes almost brimming with tears of fright, fuck it does things to him.

Simon sure as hell wouldn't mind the company of a soft young woman like you, and he's pretty sure you wouldn't mind being protected and taken care of by a big, strong male like himself, right?

Even if you do, it's not like you have any say in that.

[stil-lindigo]

reverb in an empty hall.

prints (all proceeds go towards aid for Gaza)

[56childreninatrenchcoat]

pokemon tmrw :) ill unblock the tags after i beat the game :) til then. the only things i know is the starters, the box legendaries and some miscellaneous character and pokemon designs by accident lol. also the games are underbaked. i knew that going in tho. im going quaxly!!!! baby

[alcorian-cycle]

for a kids franchise, transformers is just... so fucking bleak. their planet is dead. their species is dying. they've been fighting this stupid fucking war for 4 million years and they destroyed everything over it. their planet can no longer support life. their species is dying out as, without the Well, they can no longer reproduce. the few that are left are scattered to the stars as lonely sentinels. its only a matter of time before the current generation dies out and cybertronian life, history, art, love, knowledge, everything is gone. and yet... and YET... they continue to accelerate their own demise by fighting this STUPID FUCKING WAR. they're a species, a people consumed by war. they let their own hatred and violence destroy themselves.

transformers is a tragedy.

[handweavers]

never forgetting the christian hindutva anti-communist anarchist moron i am distantly acquainted with irl who tweeted with complete seriousness "criticizing the caste system is racist because before british colonialism it didn't mean anything bad, caste was just the people you hung out with" it lives in my head rent free. verbatim "caste was just the people you hung out with" this guy's mind is a desolate place

[jewreallythinkthat]

Once again thinking about how when I was on TV, talking about being Jewish, I then ended up on a call with the CST (a UK Jewish charity that does security for synagoges and Jewish events, recognised by the UK police and government as "a unique model of best practice") about my personal safety going to work and on trains in London.

This was in Jan 2020. There was legitimate concern that I would be targetted for being Jewish.

So when people say "antisemitism doesn't exist" or "well it wouldn't be a problem is Israel hasn't retaliated after October 7th", honestly fuck you. You have absolutely no fucking clue what it's like to be constantly on edge that you're going to be attacked in broad daylight and have no idea if passers by will try and protect you and help, or join in.

[mamaangiwine]

Witch capitalism is so funny because it's like:

"Hey! Hey! You like the moon, right? What about moon phases? What about this snake-thingy that's eating its tail? Can I interest you in a LARGE UNBLINKING EYE? What about the astrological signs? Do you want these shitty unsourced crystals? Something vaguely Harry Potter-ish? Clever wordplay with the word "witch"? This sinister looking pentacle? A poster with random herbs? This drawing of a tree!!? You're all some flavor of surface level western media style witch, right!!? Right!!?"

[fate-defiant]

🦋~I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me I want to drown in this moment of captivation~🦋

(I fucking did it dear god that was so many fucking layers)

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | Season 5 (2020-21), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

[ganonfan1995]

And it's not exactly that all fans ever want linear games (some do~) Most people I've spoken to who didn't like BoTW, simply wanted a game with a bit more depth and energy put into the story and the world.

While I don't fully agree on that front with BoTW (personally I think BoTW was one of the most concise LoZ games to date) ToTK only amplifies BoTW's weaknesses, rather than its stengths.

I understand the desire to expand on Hyrule, to make a truly vast and vibrant world, flush with exploration. Now with next-gen consoles and better hardware, there's a lot more opportunity for these types of games to take front and centre.

But at the same time, large procedurally generated landscapes can often break immersion while feeling bleak and unnatural. Even if landscapes are generated to be as natural as possible, worlds are as much a character, as well...the characters. (I could go on a whole tangent about design here, but I digress..)

I think what people miss from LoZ titles, is the human touch and energy invested into making Hyrule, feel like a place, rather than an idea.

BoTW wasn't perfect, but it was their first swing at this type of world and gameplay. I do think it can be improved on, and honestly, I was expecting progress on that front in ToTK.

But given that ToTK (past the demo lmao) was nothing more than a 100$ expansion on BoTW...I'm not feeling too confident myself moving forward with these open-world Zelda games.

Despite being linear games, growing up OOT and WW felt open world enough for me. LttP was a super fun play that had both a linear story line, and open world possibilities while giving the player full access to all the dungeons and tools off the bat.

If sacrificing genuine, thoughtful, world-building and design is what it means to have a truly open world Hyrule...I kind of don't want it either.

I dunno just some thoughts

[bruhstation]

you who I called brother, how could you have come to hate me so?