#one of my favorite games of 2023

[eric-coldfire]

Baldur's Gate 3's three acts really are just the three Mass Effect games.

Act 1 is Mass Effect 1, it's a rock solid game that could be own thing and promises a greater adventure.

Act 2 is Mass Effect 2, darker and more character focused.

Act 3 is Mass Effect 3, character stories reach their climax as allies are gathered and great enemies are finally felled. And the ending completely shits all over your character and robs them of any real choice during the endgame.

[daeyumi]

Exploring the depths 🌌🪻

[souperluminal]

CONGRATULATIONS GHOST TRICK FANS

[kcdoos]

GHOST TRICK HEADS WE WON

[saturngalore]

the universe of saturngalore 🪐🌈

[kankuroplease]

🌸 Crossover: Sakura as Taki 🌸

[shermangepherd]

cringetober day 17: fake anime screenshot

i love that throughout the whole of cater's halloween vignette he's having this massive crisis and is also wearing a dead flamingo.

that first backgrounds from twst, i didn't draw that

[celine-song]

✨ 9 favorite films that i watched (for the first time) in 2023 ✨

tagged by @animusrox thank you so much!

this year i really focused on catching up with my watchlist rather than watching new stuff which is very different from my usual MO. i debated including 2023 releases in this as well since i watched so few but i decided to rather shout out more of the older movies instead.

tagging @usershelby @madeline-kahn @talesfromthecrypts @pedro-pascal @rogerdeakinsdp @trainstationgoodbye @billy-crudup @bladesrunner @gresit

[driftingvoid-155]

SCREAMING OVER THE NEW HELP WANTED 2 TRAILER

LIKE

I KNOW IT WAS IMPLIED IT WOULD BE SISTER LOCATION FNAF 6 & SB BUT SEEING THESE SCENES IS SO COOL

HELPY WHY 😭

Proof that he’s possessed by Michael /j

BALLORA

#1 CRATE??!!!

LITERALLY SO EXCITED FOR THIS

[airoarts]

[image description: Digital art of a post-Miracle Mask Randall Ascot and Hershel Layton in a romantic embrace. Randall, with his hair down and no glasses, is grinning and tilting Hershel's hat backwards to lean into his face, and Hershel is smiling back, holding him around the waist. End ID]

the professor layton franchise is back from the dead so we as a society need to bring back layton yaoi.

[immoralkombat]

i'm going to be so mentally ill about evil ninja mime and fire lord johnny cage now <3

[sunlitmiracle]

smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

[cantevenbeachhere]

Love as a Force of Nature

Your love is like whiplash –– it comes in with the rain, it blows the doors wide open. When you fall in love, it is sudden and hard and immense. It is powerful. It is earth-shaking and world-ending. Nature is a force, and that force can be destructive if you're not careful. See how the world is doused in gasoline and set on fire –– your love consumes, your love takes, your love burns. You're hot and cold all at once, a hurricane and a wildfire bound together in skin, and when you're in love, it can feel like it's eating you alive from the inside out. When you love, it is with everything you have because it is everything you have. Be careful, darling, because not everyone survives the storm.

Tagged by @aeterna-auroral-avenger

Tagging: Ummm…I don’t know who likes to be tagged in things so uhh. Tag! 🫵🏻 You’re it

[wrenfea]

Hate that it's more acceptable to be nostalgic about ""boyish"" childhood stuff than ""girly"" childhood stuff like jeez I thought we were past this it's 2022 almost 2023

[iguessitsjustme]

I feel like you may have answered most of them already, but for your end of the year, what about 11, 14 and 15?

Oh goodness you ask the tough questions. I have to choose things???? Well if I must..

11. If you had to recommend just one QL from this year to someone, what would you recommend?

This one is tough because it would definitely depend on the person. I recommend my mother anything. My older brother I got to watch Oh! No Here Comes Trouble because that's more his speed. For a general audience? For a stranger I meet on the street looking for a good show and they want a little gay? I think I'd have to recommend Our Dining Table. It's simply too cute to exist and if you're looking for something the ends well and is just an absolute joy to watch than the answer has to be Our Dining Table.

14. What are your top 5 favorite tropes used this year?

In no particular order:

Soulmates - La Pluie. I especially loved the new take on having a soulmate but still choosing who to love whether that person is your soulmate or not

Age Gap - there were a few shows with an age gap and I learned last year that I love an age gap. So I'm grateful for Step by Step, La Pluie, and The Eighth Sense for feeding me this year.

Slow burn - honestly too many to name any specifics. But I love a good slow burn romance. (pair it with an age gap and I'm happy)

GOOD SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS - I know you know. But I need others to know. SIBLINGS. Top 5 siblings here

Forced separation - specifically how they did it in Kiseki: Dear to Me. Both couples. The jail time? Best angst. Best forced separation of all time.

15. What is your favorite scene from a QL this year?

I need you to know that I saw this question. Stopped. Went and changed my laundry to the dryer and made myself brunch all while thinking every every single possible scene I could answer this with. There are so many. I loved so many scenes this year. So, so many. But I think there's one that I keep going back to. So sorry to Ai Di and Chen Yi from Kiseki. Sorry to Last Twilight. Sorry to so many shows. But this scene from La Pluie where Lomfon finally confesses to Tien? Then Tien runs to him and smashes their faces together? That is my favorite:

Bonus: the song during this scene was one of the best chosen songs this year. Everyone go listen to Acceptance by Frankie Orella.

End of Year BL Ask Game

[chemicalbrew]

finished the base game of hat in time. now what 💜