#might make that later lmao

[kadens-a-bee]

Figured I should draw a quick thing for them :D

So proud of him <3

[laddertek]

@countthelions (tumblr ate this when I tried to save my answer as a draft, so we improvise 🙃)

This one? :D

This whole stream was delightful. What a way to return 🤗

Tango was so happy energetic.

And from Tango calling Etho's storage system cute and Etho in gamechat going "CUTE?!" (00:41:07). To the razzing (and laughing) over shops (00:49:00 and 01:03:49). Etho taking Tango's head twice, and it all being so playful (00:58:11). Etho using Tango's catchphrases 🥹🥹🥹 It gets me every time! "porkchop power" "flee with extra flee!" And the way he said it was the cutest, and Tango's giggle about it too (01:00:59). Etho offering to give the tour Tango wanted. More mail talk and laughing guilt and planning and razzing and teaching Etho to do the stamps. Tango complimenting the path (and that Etho showed it to him when he first came back when Etho came to say hi) (01:15:41). They still plan on doing their sand-collection-off (01:35:06).

And of course the whole TNTificating with Etho's new "boom boom tech" (01:39:43--02:15:17) was just…the most fun. They are having the most fun together...it's an absolute joy. (And it's also them collaborating on how to figure out a redstone thing together which is just so satisfying.) Just...TOO MANY (!!!) (so many) fun moments in that whole TNT section that I can't even start on highlighting them all 😭 I'd need another mammoth paragraph...

Honestly??? Still smiling. Great great great stream 🥹

Timestamps are for YouTube not Twitch because Tango was so fast on getting the VOD up lmao

[milfjinart]

“You’re alive.”

[incorrecttigerandbunny]

[kenobihater]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

[astronomical-bagel]

A HUGE thanks to all the awesome artists who let me use their work in this presentation! credits below!

weaselmcdiesel

sweetest-honeybee - their youtube

ectoslab

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Don't forget to vote mumbo in the sexyman polls!!

[twogyuu]

[152]

pairing: vernon x fem!reader

genre: just pure gross fluff

warning: shots fired at jeonghan's dyson blowdryer

wc: 935

a/n: inspired by a friend who said vernon did not know how to style his hair at all and low-key agree. i let my intrusive thoughts win - i told you i would write this 👁️👁️

. . . .

"uh . . . is this okay?"

there's a waver in his voice that's not usually there.

vernon spoke with assurance and his words were well-founded.

you spun around in your vanity chair to find vernon side-eyeing is reflection in the full-length mirror, his fingers slick with gel combing through front of his dark brown (with a tinge of green per his observation) locks.

he smiles in your direction awkwardly - his eyes clearly full of worry, but his lips still pulled taut in attempt to look content with his work.

your own expression mirrored his - lips pressed into a tight line, not because you were embarrassed, but rather, you were doing your damn best not to burst out laughing at him.

it was mean and you knew you shouldn't, but, oh, with the way half his fringes stuck to his forehead and the other half was clumped together and curved forward skimming the tops of brows (but also not curving enough to cover them), did it make it hard to hold back.

"if you're gonna laugh, just laugh," he frowned.

you set your blush brush on the table to give yourself a moment to collect yourself. you play it chill and shrugged, "i wasn't going to."

"your voice is doing that thing again," he remarked. he points his fingers up to indicate the way it changes pitches when you're lying. "i'd rather you tell me and come fix it, rather than lying and telling me i look good - you're really going to let me out in public looking like this?"

it's only then you let out your chortle. it grew into a hearty chuckle, head being tossed back in the process. vernon shook his head, finding himself grinning as well. your laugh isn't what they say in the books - of music and windchimes swaying in the wind. it was breathy and loud, yet somehow silent because when you laughed too hard, all sound escaped you. nonetheless, vernon loved it - it was uniquely you and he loved how in a crowd full of people or if you were hidden from view, he could find you if someone made you happy enough to let it rip.

you're already shuffling over in your navy blue slippers, patting a spot on the edge of your bed, gesturing for vernon to sit down for you. he followed your direction, when the chuckling finally died down and the muscles in your face relaxed, a comfortable silence ensued as you naturally wedged yourself in between his thighs and get to work on his hair.

vernon closed his eyes as your fingers combed through, humming every now and then while you try to figure out the best way to part his hair and which pieces should stick out or how you should separate the clump.

once upon a time, this closeness might have made him nervous, but vernon's grown familiar with it and it has somehow come some sort of reassurance and security to him. your body heat wrapped around him like the couch blanket he used when he napped. your fingers carding through his hair wasn't bothersome because not only did you fix his hair more than once, but you also messed it up in the same fashion when teasing him or being frustrated over the late nights.

"stay still," you instructed as you teased a few strands, "i'm almost done."

you click your tongue against your teeth a few times as your fumbled to keep the last piece in place. a satisfied smile spread across your face when it finally stuck. you admired your work, hands naturally coming down to settle on his shoulders.

unconsciously, vernon raised his hands to wrap around your waist - it was too tempting to have you this close and not. for once, he'd let his intrusive thoughts win.

but it seemed like you had other priorities.

"i'm going to get the hairspray," you told him, "so it stays - i like it like this."

just as you're about to step back, vernon tugged you roughly into his chest - as if you were going to run and never come back.

of course, he knew that wasn't the case, but again, his intrusive thoughts were winning tonight.

"vernon," you said softly, though surprised. your hands rest against his chest, trying to push yourself off.

okay - maybe he lied a little bit. there were times where your close proximity still made him nervous.

like now, when the unexpected happens.

"hi," he gulped.

you pursed your lips and narrowed your eyes at him curiously. he did his best to give his puppy eye, but he recalled how you once told him he was more of a cat than he was a dog - whatever that means.

"what are you doing?" you asked.

"is it working?"

"again, what are you doing?" you chuckled.

he looked to the side momentarily before turning back to you. he gave you small squeeze, pressing you closer into his chest.

"thank you," was all he can muster to say.

you snorted and pressed a chaste kiss against his lips. this took him by surprise, wincing back as your lips parted.

"you're welcome," you peeled his hands off your back and started jogging towards the bathroom. you called back, "now, the hairspray or else you're hair is going to be ridiculous and we're going to be late trying to fix it!"

if this was love, vernon would be inclined to believe it's real and just maybe it's sustainable - forever, if he was being cheesy.

love was in the simple things: fixing your significant other's hair, pecks in the in between, and the teases before and after it.

jeonghan's new dyson blowdryer couldn't even compare.

[pivsketch]

back on my bullshit again-- i started this stardew villager sprite overhaul project like 8 years ago (2016!) and picked it back up recently. the great news (sarcasm) is that the game updates since then have given me twice as much work to do as everyone has cute little beach and winter outfits now? im going to endeavor to at least get shane done (#biased) but i did dream of getting to everyone. we'll see how far i get this time.

heres an elliott doing a silly dance because i saw the frames in his sheet and thought it was cute

[lampyri]

baby you light up my world like nobody else~

[icantthinkofagoidusername]

does anybody ever think about how sickly and weak shen yuan must have been to have died of food poisoning? like, the number of things he wouldent have been able to to growing up with such a weak immunity system and how, now that hes in a new, stronger body, he can do so many things he didnt think hed ever be able to do how stressed and overprotective his family must have been over him overbearing ?

like imagine, hes being offered something that he usually cant eat, around the first few years as shen qingqiu and his immidaite response is to decline but then he remembers he can eat that now!

or like one day shen qingqiu catches a fever or sm and hes like "oh! a fever. did not miss this!!!" and drinks some tea and takes whatever xianxias version of painkillers is and proceeds not to tell anybody bc he forgot that him getting really sick is normal and to him. until hes talking to someone about something and he takes a cake (bc he forgot he should not be eating that) and he starts coughing really bad and everyones panicing and binghes about to kill someone bc he thinks someone poisoned his husband

(imagine shen qingqiu gets sick. not even that ill! a common cold and remembers white on white, blue clothing and pitying looks from people. not expecting to live past 20 years for how sickly he is and crying, and binghe just feeling so helpless because his husband is sitting there and suffering because of some trauma and he dosent know what to do)

[minamill]

Slow progress on the ranch

[afterartist]

Dumb little WIP shots from an animatic I’m making cause I recently got a few of my friends into SolarBalls and I need to express my adoration for this fandom somehow-

[brookheimer]

roman is free in the sense that he is free from waystar, but he is not free in the sense that he has 'escaped the cycle.' roman realized everything is bullshit and left, but that's not what actual meaningful freedom would be for roman. what rome needs is for business and family to finally make a clean separation, for him to be allowed to love his family without molding himself into an image of logan that he isn't. waystar has always been the only way the roys know how to interact with one another, and it still is. in that sense, nothing has changed. roman's declaration about the nothingness of waystar is not actually a change, because he still marries waystar to family, and thus believes family is nothingness as well -- functionally, there's little difference between that and the opposite belief that both waystar and family have meaning and are 'real.' what the roys need is to realize waystar is bullshit and family is real, but roman went from thinking both have meaning (family has meaning thus waystar has meaning) to thinking neither do (waystar is bullshit thus family is bullshit). nothing changes, the cycle keeps on cycling. finally family has been severed from waystar (what he's needed all along -- he's never really cared about the business, only his family, and the business was the only way he could be with his family, so he tried and failed time and time again to mold himself into the businessman his dad wanted him to be), and while this is a good thing, it's coupled with his realization of the hollowness of the family itself. in hindsight, this was inevitable, i think -- if waystar royco was the beating heart of the roy family (which it was), there's no conceivable severing of the two that would allow the family to maintain functionally intact.

i do think that roman will have relationships with his family after the finale (shiv is definite, con is likely, kendall is also likely because roman is incapable of not being around his family and can't imagine a world in which they don't return to each other somehow), but he's aware for the first time of the nothingness of their bonds, something that everyone has already known except for him -- something, i think, that isn't even entirely fair. they do love each other. there is something there. and now that waystar is no longer part of the equation, maybe there's hope for real relationships beyond transaction, beyond business, beyond logan. but none of them believe that to be possible. roman always used to, but for the first time, i think he's not sure. he's free of waystar, but the roys never managed to functionally healthily uncouple family and business, so being free of waystar also means being free of family -- it has to mean that. he's convincing himself it's all nothing and he doesn't care, and that won't last. but, in my opinion, neither will the distance between the siblings. i think it'll take time, but they'll come back together, albeit in varying degrees (i doubt shiv and ken will ever have quite the same relationship again, for instance). roman is free of waystar but not because he realized it's not necessary for family -- because he 'realized' family is not necessary, that family is nothing too, that everything is nothing. it's an empty sort of happiness, unsustainable and hollow. but i do think there is hope. i think it'll be okay for rome in the long run (family-wise, at least). i just don't think nihilism is a salve capable of healing deep cuts, only a bandage allowing them to stay hidden for a little while longer.

in life and in death, waystar royco and the roy family are eternal partners, inextricable from each other -- and so long as the two remain conceptually married, it'll be hard for roman to find legitimate happiness: if one is dead, then the other must be too. he ends the series the same as he started it, believing fully in logan's conception of family as a business unit (meaning now that both are bullshit), people as economic units (meaning now that both are bullshit), and roman himself as the son who couldn't be the heir and thus was never much of a son at all. logan dominates his worldview just as much as it always has. sure, roman acknowledges that everything is bullshit now, but that's even more logan than his previous viewpoint which was a naive sort of belief in family. now, it's all just bullshit. everything's bullshit. it's logan with nihilism as the dominant frame (rather than capitalism), but regardless of roman's thoughts on the meaning of things, the structure of the world is the same one that logan taught him. he is free from waystar, but he is haunted by its ghost and always will be.

[mothellie]

Steve: Okay, let's try this again.

Steve, pointing at Nancy: This is my wife.

Steve, pointing at Eddie: This is the love of my life.

Robin: Wait, that's not the same thing as the first one?

Steve: Eh? It's complicated. Don't worry about it.

Robin: ...

Steve, pointing at Billy: This is the homewrecker.

Robin: Why would you want that...?

Steve: Why not?

Robin: I-

Steve: I'd risk it all for him.

Robin, pointing at Argyle and Jonathan: Uh.. okay.. Why are they here?

Steve: Oh. Them? Uh, they just kinda live rent-free.

Robin: Why?

Steve: I don't know, but I'm not mad about it.

Robin, pointing at Tommy: What about that one over there?

Steve: Oh. Uhhh. Y'know how some people make a pact that if they reach a specific age and they're not married, they decide to marry each other?

Robin: ... Yeah?

Steve: Yeah, that's him.

[magpigment]

ok so because it seems riptide is gonna be coming up on a VERY interesting point in the story in regards to reveals, with them on their way to the hole in the sea and on their way to arlin and etc etc etc, i figured i might as well put this hunch of mine here as a monument to see whether it’ll get disproven or not.

i have a feeling that chip is far more important to the story than we’ve been led to believe, not just to the story as we know it, but the WORLD of mana as a whole, or at the VERY LEAST with everything going on with the hole in the sea.

a lot of stuff is up in the air and very ambiguous, especially in regards to what actually happened to chip when down there; however, from what i remember it seems incredibly likely that he somehow learned celestial when down there, and is the only one of the og black rose pirate crew that we know of who can speak celestial and READ THE MAPS.

IN CELESTIAL.

ON CHIP, DRE, AND FINN’S AS BACKS.

from what we know, or at least what i remember, lizzy also doesn’t speak celestial. dre can’t speak celestial. finn probably doesn’t speak celestial.

it also seems that whatever caused all of them to not remember most of what happened in the black sea was INTENTIONAL.

there’s a near complete absence of memory for pretty much everyone after a certain point. with how the black sea canonically messed with dre, finn, and arlin’s memories in the one shot, corrupting their perception of their memories to make important moments to them instead be painful (as seen with arlins memory of picking up chip and taking him onto the crew being ruined with a sense of betrayal as an adult chip stabbed arlin, which i won’t even get into how that could make chip reuniting w arlin that much more tragic because arlin can only associate chip w betrayal now coupled w how many more of his memories might’ve been corrupted over the course of the past DECADE in the hole in the sea with him apparently being the most susceptible to failing the necessary save to not have his memories corrupted) which makes it incredibly likely that whatever influence the black sea has not only impacts MEMORY but also DESIRES.

this tracks w how almost all of niklaus’ deals involve people’s desires and twisting them, and when their desires corrupt them enough they begin to die and spew BLACK OOZE.

SUCH AS A CERTAIN OTHER LARGE BODY OF LIQUID COLORED SIMILARLY WITH CORRUPTIVE PROPERTIES AND TIES TO DESIRE.

in the one shot the weird egg thing and the entire area they were in dealt heavily in desire.

when corrupted people in the black sea are slain their strongest desires from when they were alive were passed on to the person who killed them (jays newfound desire to find the dread queens tomb, gillions desire to help the tree, and whatever chips desire was cuz i’ve completely forgotten but it’s probably incredibly relevant 😅).

whatever chips ties are to the hole in the sea, and possibly to the prophecy, and the entirety of the black rose pirates legacy, i feel like we’re gonna find that a lot of the things regarding chips past is gonna be a whole lot more important to mana than we thought.

and i’m incredibly excited.

[hellothereiplaygames]

Some thoughts on Asra's route...

Replaying Asra's route after having played Muriel's really hits different...

In one of the other routes Asra and Muriel appear to start a romantic relationship, and in Asra's route it's very clear that Muriel cares very deeply for Asra and dislikes the Apprentice. He mentions in one of the paid? dream scenes that he's worried about Asra and the Apprentice fading into their own world and leaving everyone else behind (again, apparently), and that he's determined to stop this from happening. His concern for Asra and initial hostility toward the Apprentice may be rooted in jealousy, not only because his oldest (and only) friend was more or less taken from him, but perhaps with romantic connotations as well.

In Book XI: Justice, Asra and Julian stage a mock trial by combat against Muriel. Though he apparently agreed to participate and is implied to have returned to the Coliseum of his own volition, presumably out of concern for Asra, who has been accused of being Julian's accomplice... he is still more or less backed into a corner and forced to play along with Asra and Julian's plan to stage a fight.

Now, to be fair to Asra, he states after everything goes wrong that it wasn't supposed to end this way, and it appeared that he was attempting to not only exonerate himself and Julian from their charges but somehow help Muriel overcome his past (he does disintegrate Muriel's chains during the fight no matter what choices you make). There was a point during this that I thought I could guess what Asra's plan was regarding Muriel's past, but being refreshed on how it actually pans out, I can't remember it now. Something about making the people of Vesuvia realize how barbaric the Coliseum was under Lucio.

The thing that stands out to me throughout this whole ordeal is that Asra knows about Muriel's trauma. He knows he was enslaved to Lucio and forced to fight and execute people in the Coliseum. He knows that Muriel is terrified of hurting other people, especially those he cares about. In Asra's route, the only person Muriel cares about is Asra, so hurting him is triggering for him. He literally is in a stupor after the board he was using as a weapon splinters off and hits Asra in the mouth, making him bleed. This is clearly meant to make the reader worried about Asra, but Muriel reacts as well, and appears hypnotized by the blood. I remember the first time I read this I thought he was going to have some crazy berserker-Hulk sort of reaction, but having read his route, it's way more tragic.

Though Muriel did seem to return to the Coliseum of his own volition, it does seem that Asra took this as a sign that he was coming to terms with his trauma. He was willing to exploit Muriel's care for him in order to save his own skin so he can be with the Apprentice. Though I recognize Asra's other toxic traits to some degree, I also have similar ones myself so they don't really stand out to me. This, however, where he more or less disregards Muriel's feelings on the matter, is actually really crushing. In Muriel's route, his whole thing is that he DOES NOT want to fight, he DOES NOT want to even spar with the Apprentice with blunt sticks out of fear of hurting them, so why would he willingly go along with this unless he was more or less in the same position Lucio put him in? Fight in the arena, or something bad will happen to Asra.

Asra knows this, and puts him through it regardless. During the whole fight, Julian's actions are written so as to make it seem like he's the one messing things up--he takes the "finishing blow" that Muriel was going to deal to Asra and gets knocked unconscious. Asra spends most of the entire time doing flashy, dramatic magic tricks that get the crowd cheering for him. After he "wins", he and the Apprentice are carried out of the Coliseum like heroes. Though Asra will try to soothe Muriel if the Apprentice so chooses right before the end, and he does look for Muriel in the crowd, he seems otherwise unbothered or unaware of the impact this may be having on his oldest friend. Which is pretty shitty.

Of course, Asra, Julian, and Muriel are all playing characters during their fight--Asra is the flashy magician, Julian is the rogueish BDSM dagger guy, and Muriel is the Scourge. Asra obviously can't show his concern even if he wanted to because he's supposed to be fighting Muriel. But putting his bro into this situation in the first place says a lot about his character. Though Julian is the one whose route is based around self-loathing because he believes he hurts everyone around him, Asra is the only one who gets what he wants out of this ordeal, and he even says so right before the chapter ends. Muriel was forced to relive his trauma and didn't get the resolution that was intended, and Julian gets KOed by a punch that literally sent him flying across the arena (though he probably enjoyed it tbh, he's a nasty little man like that lmao).

I wonder if this dynamic between Asra and Muriel was intentionally written this way in order to further amplify his tunnel vision when it comes to the Apprentice. Is this is how he acted in the past, causing Muriel to hate the Apprentice as he does and remark that he won't allow it to happen again? Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, but as a survivor of abuse and trauma it rubs me the wrong way much more than Asra's obsessive, clingy nature. Of all of the reversed ends, Asra's is the one that actually scared me and kind of haunted me, because it hits a little too close to home.

These are all just thoughts that I wanted to spill out because I thought it was interesting and I wasn't sure if anyone else has talked about it before.