#mb plays a game

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

I do like the canonical confirmation (meaning not from an event) that the Traveler has spent actual years in Teyvat looking for their sibling

[quiteros]

Leviathan x Secret Otaku!Reader

18+, Suggestive, gn!reader, minors dni, ageless accounts blocked

Thinking about Leviathan excitedly showing off his physical game collection, there’s a bunch of different genres, some vintage, some new, all he could ramble off in great detail about.

But there’s one section you realise he has been subtly steering you away from, quickly picking something to show you each time your eyes start to drift. You still get glimpses of the titles, seemingly innocent to anyone else, but to a secret nerd like you, it’s clear as day.

It’s porn.

Levi’s got a stash of porn games brazenly out and decorating his shelves. He’d become a little too confident in thinking he was the only nerd in the house. That only he’d be able recognise such a thing. That it’d be fine to have them out, no one would know.

And though growing anxious, he still thinks he’s safe. You can only see the spines, the covers that censor the truth of the game’s contents. You don’t play games like he does, you wouldn’t get it.

But then you reach out to grab one. He almost moans in relief when the cover is tame. A pretty cover, graphics of pink frills and bows, nothing to hint at it’s true, salacious nature.

“This looks cute.” He wants to snatch the thing out your hands, but the interest in your voice is mild enough that if he does, you’ll get suspicious.

“There’s not much story. It’s just a regular puzzle game.” Leviathan tries to sound casual as he pulls out a game with a much flashier cover. “This one’s awesome, I swear, it was nominated for six categories in the annual game awards.” He’s shoved the thing over the one in your hand. “It’s about this guy who—”

“I like puzzles.” You bring the game back to view. It’s fun watching Leviathan attempt normalcy. “And it looks so pretty. C’mon Levi’ let’s play.”

Before he can even argue, you’ve got your hand on his, dragging him to the console in the corner of his room.

“I’m not sure this is the right console.” Leviathan tries to lie, but you tap the little label on the cover. “Oh haha, I guess it is...” He’s scrambling for a way to get the game away from you. “Still it’s been a while, I should check the disc.”

“Looks fine to me.” You’re being cruel, you know you are, but the sight of Levi’ so distraught is too good to ignore. You continue the act of indifference, tongue peeking out just for show, as you go to put the disc in. “Hmm, here’s the drive!”

“No— [Name]! I don’t think—”

“Aaaahhhhh!”

He thanks demons as he’s saved by the bell— or Mammon, the screech of the man running down the halls capturing both of yours attention.

“Dammit.” You huff, slipping the disc back into its case, allowing Leviathan to finally let his shoulders sink. “Sorry Levi’.” You look at him like you really mean it, like he isn’t basking in relief. “Let’s go figure out why he’s making such a ruckus, huh?”

Leviathan nods his head, eager to be out his room, away from all the games he will be sure to put away from now on. “Yes! Let’s!”

[ibunyang]

i finaallly got to play one of my dream games WEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEE

[zavzz]

whiteboard yaoi

[lavampira]

d'alia made a new friend <:

[venuscaotico]

⠀ ⠀ ♪ ♪ 📶ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ ̳̳̳̳̳̳̳̳̳ᩘᨯ

[lesbianralzarek]

being able to criticize something you love isnt a chore youre morally required to do, its fucking freeing. yeah, i am "critical of my interests" and after some self-reflection ive determined that everything i love fucking owns even when its bad. im taking an honest look at it, and deciding which parts to hype up without feeling like i also have to downplay its problems, or get huffy and defensive, or be vigilant about steering the conversation away from its issues

"you like this? how can you ignore all of its flaws?" well first off, im not ignoring shit, im aware of all that and dont judge anyone for considering them dealbreakers. second off, did you know ronald reagan died of ligma?

[separatist-apologist]

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[bdor1995]

I didn't realize but ralsei is probably the horned headband Kris had since they were young, seeing as it's been mentioned a few times and it's not anywhere to be found

[sunsetcurveauto]

Crystal Palace, #3, Striker

An excerpt from the popular exy blog, Don't Be Daft:

A Crystal in the Rough

These days, it is not uncommon to see an American playing on a British exy team. What is uncommon is the path Crystal Palace had to take to get to where she is today.

Though she considers herself an American—indeed, her accent gives as much away—Palace grew up with parents heavily involved in the realm of art, and thus traveled around the world in their wake. It was during one of her parents' projects that Palace found herself drawn to exy, and she began to practice her skills with a racquet when she could carve out the time between travel and performance and press. In no time, she was a novice striker.

There were positives to being a child of those seeking the limelight: whatever Palace asked for was granted to her, which included a private exy coach. By the time Palace was 15, she had moved to a heavy racquet and had surpassed what her private coach could teach her. Then based in London, Palace scoured the city for a team worthy of her time and talent. She found what she was looking for in the Selhurst Demons, a premier youth team that was more than happy to welcome her into their ranks. It was no surprise that at 16, Palace was one of the Demons' starting strikers.

While Palace was able to challenge herself on the court, there came interpersonal challenges, too. A relationship with a teammate and subsequent falling out resulted in a not-so-accident during one of Selhurst's games. Due to the circumstances of the injury, Palace took a leave of absence—only later did she tell the public that it was because she had developed retrograde amnesia. It was during this time that Palace decided to switch courses, eventually joining the team at ULF.

"In a way, I'm glad my injury took me out of the game for a bit," says Palace. "It gave me the chance to think about who I was in the moment, and who I wanted to be, rather than worrying about who I was. Now, I'm back and better than ever."

That much is crystal clear.

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Just declare your everlasting love to me or whatever that's less gay

[yerisitos]

┄ ❒ @j-eongi 𖨂 ✎ ⁺

[goozeghost]

Hands wip 🙏‼️

[morrigan-sims]

I'm back on my sword-making bullshit. Or in this case, taking 3 other meshes and mashing them together to get something that looks halfway decent.

(Absurdly long and skinny image under the cut.)

[nanalite]

that one minecraft christmas map

[charliefqirie]

What made you so drawn to Ozzy

you know, i’ve also wondered that myself for a while, but i think i figured it out.

ozzy, at first, did not stand out to me when i first got into the game. ozzy was just, there. my favorite was ted when i started.

ozzy’s a side character that doesn’t have much going for him. literally his only purpose in the game is to be killed. he’s just there to die. and he does not show any likeable traits to the average player, he’s a whiny, annoying, self-centered brat who’s constantly complaining every time you speak to him. he even told madison to take a bath first thing after she escaped (which i really don’t believe makes him a jerk, i mean being covered in unidentifiable slime is kinda gross don’t u think) who would like a character like that? ozzy’s really the most forgettable character in the game. these are thoughts i’ve noticed people always have abt ozzy. i didn’t really share these sentiments and didn’t think of ozzy as annoying but i certainly wasn’t that interested in him before, he was just neutral to me.

buggs and cindy are less liked than the rest of the characters but they’re still more liked than ozzy because they are fun and hilarious characters, with interesting dynamics to explore. i feel like the SLIME GANG, the characters who have like 3 lines of dialog at most get more love than ozzy. gives people a lot of room to explore the potential of what their characters could be. and ozzy? ozzy’s just there.

but maybe, that’s the reason why i started to like him?

i’m not much for genuinely hating characters without reason, the very idea makes me sad and pitiful. i never hated ozzy, he’s just five, of course he’s going to act like that. but i wasn’t that drawn to him back then either. (i also dont like it when people hate on cindy to a concerning extent. like yeah she’s a little brat i can understand why people would dislike her, i don’t like it when that happens but i still understand why people would, but to the point of genuine burning hatred is when it’s concerning and disturbing. she’s still just five. ah, but that topic is for another day. i’ll continue abt ozzy.)

back then in the old fandom, i had a friend who loved loved ozzy a lot, ozzy was their favorite and they cherished him. they shared their thoughts on why they loved ozzy and the potential his character has. it was their love that made me start to appreciate ozzy a bit more. but ozzy was still not my favorite still. i appreciated him a bit more but he was still kind of put to the side with me.

then kg3 got announced.

with the new game coming out, i found myself returning back to my old roots, with new people to share the interest. i didn’t even realize there was still a fandom after all this time. a small one, sure, but it’s still just as lively. it was around this time when ozzy started to shine to me.

i looked back at previous memories, looked back at old kg convo’s with friends, and one person stood out to me. this person, very obviously, hated ozzy. it was upsetting to me to see, especially since i had a friend who loved ozzy. they cut ozzy out of his own canon friend group a lot, made jokes of “who cares abt ozzy” and made his character quite unlikeable in their au’s. made madison break up with ozzy even, and made ozzy into this pathetic mess of an unlikeable character. essentially made him even more unlikeable than canon. all of this, genuinely upsetted me. i hate seeing characters treated like this. maybe they had a valid reason for disliking ozzy, maybe ozzy reminded them of a toxic friend they used to know or smthn, but looking back at old convos and seeing all that ozzy hate really perturbed me. i couldn’t stand seeing characters treated like this. and it was all that hate that made me realized really just how underappreciated and exaggerated ozzy was in the fandom.

seriously, ozzy really wasn’t as bad people thought. and he’s NOTHING like tweek from south park?? he’s not spazzy and nervous at all? he’s really more angry and uptight! (AND BY THE WAY MADISON DID NOT ASK FOR A HUG AND I DONT KNOW WHERE PEOPLE CAME TO BELIEVE THAT SHE ASKED FOR ONE WHEN SHE DIIDDNNNNTTTTTTTTT ITS A COMMON MISCONCEPTION IN THE FANDOM AND IT MAKES ME ANGRYYYYY. LITERALLY LOOK UP A CREATURE FEATURE PLAYTHROUGH, SKIP TO THE END AND YOU CAN SEE SHE DID. NOT. ASK. FOR A HUG. Anyways,) and, he was even willing to make friends with kidd after an act of kindness (which, tragically, ended in ozzy’s demise.) he was just sad. he was just sad and miserable that his friends were gone suddenly, and he lashed out. but people focused on his tantrums, they didn’t focus on why. all they say was a whiny brat who constantly complained and it was all of that that made the fandom turn their backs on him. people didn’t even remember ozzy CANONICALLY HAS FRIENDS. HAS A GIRLFRIEND. madison and ron. barely did i ever see them all in one post. BARELY. i was an avid member of the fandom and saw lots of fanarts and i saw almost NOTHING of ozzy and his friends. ozzy was always by himself. madison and ron were always paired with alice. ozzy was literally REPLACED with alice to make the slime gang. ozzy’s friends were paired with alice instead. ozzy was fucking replaced and it made me genuinely upset to see. did no one fucking pay attention to that? did everyone really fucking forget when ozzy literally complained about missing his friends all the time? why was ozzy replaced?

it was all this mistreatment that made me pity ozzy. perhaps this was why i started liking him. perhaps it was out of pity and anger at how much his character was mistreated. and with all this pity, all this anger, it made me pay attention to him more, it made me see his potential as a character.

it opened my eyes.

i started to think abt him more, thought about his good sides and moments, thought abt how fun his character could be and the potential dynamics he could have. and with his little quirks and traits, i even started to headcanon reasons for it. why’s he so germaphobic? haha, perhaps it was dr danner’s fault and he traumatized him. why does he like destructotron so much? perhaps his friends introduced him to it, and now that toy is his favorite, as it is the only memory he has of them now. and, i think ozzy’s more kinder than people think, he opened up to kidd after a single gift, ozzy’s really just mad at the new kids that they took his beloved friends away, but with that single act of kindness made him realize, ah, maybe they aren’t so bad. really, he’s just lonely, you know? my pity for him opened my eyes to how much potential his character has, especially since he wasn’t as developed as the other characters, so i did it myself. i developed him myself, gave him lots of headcanons, as i am passionate about him and i believed in him, all this pity was the stepping stone in me starting to enjoy him a lot, lot more. he has a lot of potential and i want to use it. i believe he’s an underappreciated lovely, lonely child who’s angry at the world. and i like to believe he’s genuinely kinder than people think, and that he cares. (i believe he felt a heart dropping amount of guilt when he told madison to take a bath. how could he say that after seeing her again? his germaphobia is somethign he cannot control and he hates it, it inconveniences him and now it’s inconveniencing his loved ones and he hates it. i believe the next day, he gave madison (knowing that she already took a bath ofc) a hug and a gift because he truly missed her and felt guilty he couldn’t hug her before.) he loves and cares and he laughs and cries. he loves his friends and he loves his toy and he loves his games. and i cherish him, and i want to give him something to be happy about. i want to be part of the tiny tiny club that truly enjoys ozzy as a character because he deserves it. he deserves some people who genuinely like him in this cruel fandom who only saw him and ignored him because of his whiny tantrums.

I believe he’s a good character and I like him.

perhaps it is pathetic to be so passionate about a fictional character, but does it really matter? i am still passionate. i am passionate and it gives me a drive.