#punchy says

[punchy-mchurtyfist]

I love games where there's this mechanic where you basically bet on yourself, you can make the game more difficult for possibly greater rewards and I think that's just so much fun it's basically betting on how much of a badass you think you are I of course think I'm the hottest shit on the sidewalk so I always crank it up to the highest CBT levels as possible and have a blast

[gammija]

tiefling jon's first day at the Archives

[brother-emperors]

listen. listen, there's a kind of intimacy in having a dedicated rivalry, okay. who else is going to know you like this!!! also it's funny

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

and on della rovere’s soldier comment:

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, D.S. Chambers

and finally! regarding the delightful Mess of political-family relationships, including the marriage comment (altho the montefeltro family that giovanni married into did have sforza family ties, since giovanna's mother was battista sforza, but this is about the more immediate alliance based relationship and della rovere's hand in the rejection of a milanese match for his brother. and. this is not even remotely a serious comic, but now I am once again thinking about insular all these families are. the fucking medicis are here too, if you go half a step to the left on della rovere's family tree)

Julius II: The Warrior Pope, Christine Shaw

Giulio II, Il papa del Rinascimento, Giulio Busi (Bianca Maria Visconti is Ascanio's mom. btw)

panel inserts of the cards they're playing with are all from the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck! (I used public domain scans/photos for the comic itself)

ko-fi!⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

[looseinthecatroom]

Dreams just like us fr

He really saw Hob Gadling in 1589 and went: “You’re stable?? Happy?? Heterosexual*???

Boring.

I’ll be over there chatting with the art twink if anyone needs me.“

Then Hob comes back in 1689 like “I’M FILTHY, TRAUMATIZED, MISERABLE, YET FULL OF HOPE” and Dream is really like:

“At last. A blorbo.”

[meatmel]

do you guys like great tigers cat socks i sure do [hi i still draw things] Do not trace/repost my art! i do not mind it being used as pfps, though! [with credit:)]

[alibonbonn]

Guys I been sleeping awful lately

[patchw0rk-quilt]

inspired by an honest to god annoying orange video

[giantkillerjack]

PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS

PUSSY.

BIG FLAPPY WET JESUS PUSSY.

JESUS' SOPPING WET PUSS-PUSS

[Edited months after posting to discourage catholics from replying to this post after finding that both the nice and much funnier not-nice responses to this were equally bad for my mental health. I didn't wanna delete it bc I was quite proud of some of my responses and it helps to have a visual reminder of why I left an abusive organization. Also, this means that any catholic who has reblogged this in an attempt to convert me, has now reblogged a post that, if clicked, links back to this. Use MY post for propaganda, will you!]

Thinking about how it was never made clear to me in Catholic school exactly WHY Jesus died for our sins. I just remembered that I was literally never clear on who the dying helped??

I've heard theories as an adult, but basically what I'm saying is pointless martyrdom seems a little pointless, and also with enough propaganda the big logical gaps in a belief system get really hard to see. Especially if questioning anything is blasphemy.

I would have gotten in so much trouble for insisting the teacher explain how Jesus helped us by being tortured to death by Romans even when God could have prevented it! God sent his only Son, they would have said! Be grateful, they'd say! Be guilty! Stop asking why he did that!!!

[problemnyatic]

Being a good person means sometimes being uncomfortable and pushing past that because it cannot and must not always be about you.

It means you don't let your emotions get the better of you. It means taking the L because sometimes you just step in it because you are human, but so are they and it's about their hurt right now. It's about setting uncomfortable boundaries because disappointing someone is better than bottling it all up until you go emotionally thermonuclear.

Being a good person does not mean people-pleasing, it means respecting that other people are as deep and complicated and real and feeling as you are. They live full lives in first person just like you do and you need to respect your role as "someone else" in their life, for better or for worse.

[rotzaprachim]

someone will be casting an obnoxious young rich Spanish heir and Miguel Bernardeau will not even Wait for the answer

[mumblesplash]

Undertale did exactly that - I'm pretty sure theyre made by the same creator, Toby Fox.

Undertale, among many, many other things, is specifically designed to challenge modern AAA game structure and break away from the norm of video games. Its not just that you can befriend your enemies and you get punished for fighting; each different monster has unique, endearing possibilities for friendship. You jiggle and dance with slimes, there a frost-bird that tells terrible jokes, one monster desperately wants compliments on their hat. Each one is utterly unique.

There are three unique paths. Pacifist means you dont kill anyone. Neutral is the standard "kill when you have to/im used to video games where you kill every monster you encounter". Then there's Genocide.

There is a unique route where players methodically and maliciously clear every region of every living soul.

All this to say - in an age where most games allow you to murder monsters, enemies, or people for rewards, Undertale (and assumedly Deltarune) treats such behavior with humanity and empathy and the correct amount of abject horror that such actions should warrant.

okok yeah that definitely aligns with what i know/remember of undertale, and i do know toby fox made both games

the weird thing for me is that i’m not really familiar with the norms undertale was subverting

all the characters being unique and possible to either fight OR befriend resulting in different consequences seems completely reasonable from my perspective, i never had a reason to expect anything else

[punchy-mchurtyfist]

I hope they made SMTVV wicked dificil this time, the OG version was baby's first megami tensei so hope they put the bite back into it, I need PAIN

[imthepunchlord]

So while in the ML mood, wouldn't mind some feedback for this new set up of the Miracle Box, cause this is something I do go back and forth on.

[klaeus]

omg im going through 2.22 for scenes to gif and i'd forgotten how eerie it is when the music suddenly cuts out and leaves silence between elijah saying "my brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my own." and klaus calmly / politely saying "and so i shall." then elijah turns to find klaus right behind him and daggering him, fuckkk 😩

[possum-quesadilla]

Blucifer sketch dump bc this is the most motivated I’ve felt for drawing in months lol

[c-kiddo]

finsihed reading jonny appleseed by joshua whitehead last night 😢 wtf do i do now .