#possible side project

[honouredsnakeprincess]

so, why do magical girls (when they are depicted with weapons) usually depicted as using weapons of a previous era? there are a hundred fencers, a dozen musketeers, but practically no magical girls with anything used after the first world war.

[hyakunana]

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[frostgnawdraws]

failure and futility

for day 2 of campfire fest! prompt: third eye (and i guess could also count for explosion, or a lack thereof lol) @outerwilds-events

[leifyposting]

i keep seeing people say that kaeya should choose mondstadt over khaenri’ah and obviously everyone has the right to their opinion but i honestly think that would be a disappointing end to his arc

because like. kaeya’s whole arc is marked by two things: 1) his split allegiances, and 2) the question of fate

on the first point: he’s torn between two homelands, two fathers, two loyalties. he walks that line very carefully. the worst moment of his life was when the scales tipped in one direction, supposedly freeing him but instead ensnaring him in a different trap:

on the second point: genshin makes a big deal out of the question of fate. in kaeya’s hangout he pretty explicitly says he intends to change his. if he’s forced to make a decision in the future, as mona’s voice line indicates, is he fated to choose one over the other? or are we operating within a false dichotomy?

from a thematic standpoint, why would hoyoverse set up these carefully balanced loyalties only to force kaeya to pick a side? why would they introduce the idea of defying fate only to force him to cave to his?

i was reading this post earlier and it got me thinking about how kaeya’s eyepatch represents his unwillingness to be forthcoming about his khaenri’ahn loyalties - and because he refuses to acknowledge that aspect of his identity, half of his field of view is obscured. to take that one step further, i’d suggest that to make him choose mondstadt over khaenri’ah (or vice versa) would be to make him keep the eyepatch on for the rest of his life. how can he see himself and his surroundings clearly when one eye is forever covered?

[arttsuka]

Stanley 'I once had to chew my way out of the trunk of a car' Pines

[dykedvonte]

there’s something i really adore about curly being revealed to being this beautiful blond man after we see him post crash like what happens to him is so awful and dehumanizing like he really loses everything but especially as a viewer/player watching this game i love the commentary it’s silently making and this uncomfortable feeling in my chest that i have to wrestle with. love it when stuff makes me feel

I think it’s so poignant that Jimmy never hallucinates or sees Curly as his pre-crash self. He only speaks to Curly about and in terms of his own thoughts and projections and rarely lets him have his own inner personal thoughts. Even before the crash it is like this. He is the perfect captain to him and to an extent the rest of the crew even if he is more actualized around the others.

So much of how Curly is dehumanized by Jimmy and the rest is representative of how the Pony Express and capitalism strips workers of their identity, into objects of service. Once he can’t do anything who or what he was is no longer important, worthless, a burden. He is both the dandy dish in HFIM, the idea of going up being before the crash, while the ball is after the crash, his forced decent downwards.

There is an argument he is dehumanized to less than an even object with how his ID card lacks a name and face in Jimmy’s hallucination. Even Anya gets her name, and identify. He is just an empty spot, a role to fill to a lot of them, which is think is why so many fans have a hard time pin pointing who Curly was before the crash and what he stood for.

So much of what we saw of Curly was a man on duty, a man serving under his job and starting to find conflict with that. We don’t really get to see Curly acting for himself and it think it tells about the way he has been molded along with the way he was trying to reshape himself outside of P.E before it was too late.

I always finding intriguing how people almost prefer to draw post crash Curly, to draw his suffering and continue, to an extent, him being the scapegoat, faceless and facing repercussions other characters and entities should. Being a figure to vent frustration to because he can’t fight back, we don’t know what he would say or how he would feel or what he would’ve done. We don’t really know that when he had skin either…

[skeletalheartattack]

Valve just published a blog post regarding plans for the first MVM update in twelve years for TF2 (to be released later this year, sometime after August), and it shaping up to be the first MVM update to involve community submissions (excluding Robotic Boogaloo).

[angelbitezzz]

Played ENA Dream BBQ and liked it so much I made an ENAsona.

[willowreadsgayfanfiction]

[pilotprojectvogelfrei]

Fashion Showoff (part 2)

A/N: Here’s the sequel of this thing that nobody asked for !

Designing outfits for him is actually pretty fun! Canonically in the fic he’ll have like 5 outfits at best, but whatever.

Source : @/haunthtml on Twitter, retrieved from Pinterest.

A/N: Also Holy crap dudes, it’s happening. Not entirely, but we’re frighteningly close to reaching it. Already he doesn’t look like a triangle at all, help. 😭

Now I wonder if Alex Hirsh ever browses the internet to see how his characters are interpreted by the fandom and what designs people come up with. It feels a bit like giving your children to an eccentric aunt/uncle and then getting them back and they look nothing like before.

[arcade-sekai]

*sings mesmerizer*

[mono-rogue]

"I will be okay, though I'll never be the same" Sam Haft the way you pain me so~

And that pain... is subdued with the timelapse below ;)

[copia]

btw i might start yapping about magna carta cartel so if you're staying away from real identities (of ex ghouls) etc then pls block that tag or unfollow or something. it's unlikely i'll have faces or even names on this blog but just being safe

[amelikos]

Thinking about how in the midst of the hostility currently directed at Amethio in-universe, Friede still remains the only one so far who expressed joy at his presence..

[fresh-outta-earthrealm]

Somewhat of a shitpost but I think AOS!Spock being known as the "straight" version of him is bi erasure. Yes he and Uhura are in a committed happy relationship. I'm not hating on that. They were cute together. He is still bi. EDIT: He made a PowerPoint which he then presented to Uhura as part of his coming out. I feel like he PANICKED. Probably sat with any sort of attraction he felt for a bit, just to see what exactly it was, chew on it a little. Still not quite sure, so he makes the presentation. He talks about his feelings with incredible reluctance, but communication! is! important!

[magentagalaxies]

oh my god why are high-quality video files so massive it literally took me two entire days to download the wide-angle of my KITH rivoli interview and i only needed it to check the framing of this one three-second quote