#skeletonsocks

[rinrindoll]

Happy Halloween 🎃 How many Mickeys do you see? 💀 ハッピーハロウィン 🎃隠しミッキーいくつある？💀 . . Dress: #angelicpretty Socks: #disney . . #rinrindoll #rinrinhalloween #隠しミッキー #ハロウィン #halloween #halloweensocks #skeletonsocks #骨靴下 #ディズニーハロウィン #disneyhalloween (at Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bplp6_4g1mE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9gnuzpgbod3i

[ilovesocksandsouls]

Happy Valentine's Day from Socks & Soles! #socks #skull #heart #skullheart #skulllove #skullsocks #skeletonsocks #willyoubemyvalentine #sockselfie #sockselfiesaremytrademark #happyvalentinesday #love #iloveyou #SocksandSouls #socksfetish #sockguru #socksofinstagram #socksoftheday #holidaysocks #valentinesdaygiftideas #socksubscription #socksale #sockgamecrazy #sockswag #socklover #valentinesdaygift #valentinesday #valentinesdaysocks https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4ksOkBNr6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mkoqm5ydryet

[darthtalon89]

I freaking love my #socks. #thesesocksareamazing #spookysocks #skeletonsocks #goth #gothgoth #gothic #gothgirl #gotica #gothchick #instagoth #gothsofinstagram #Gothgram #metal #metalhead #metalgothgoth #metalgoth #metalheadgirl #metalgirl #metalheadsofinstagram #metalera #metallady #metalchick #altgirl #headbanger #headbangergirl #darketa #gothtigerlily #horrorgirl #HorrorFanatic #HorrorAddict #HorrorFan #horrorobsessed https://www.instagram.com/p/BqPOilTgasy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2rbnb1dnce38

[frankslittlevampire]

got some spoopy goodies today! ☠🦇💜 #Halloweenshopping #Tiger #FlyingTiger #TigerHalloween #Halloween #skeletonsocks #skeletonsuspenders #JackSkellington #batbowtie #batpencil #notebook #spooky #creepy #thankslove https://www.instagram.com/p/BoeHPhoFD2d/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lckxmfmfply2

[shellhawk]

Some days, it's all about the socks. . . . #Halloween #skeleton #skeletonsocks https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0P7-fF84O/?igshid=1u6mkhsfrzv0d

[creepycuteunicornqueen]

Favorite socks 💀 @killstarco always having the best #creepycute goodies 👻🖤 #halloween247 #happyoctober #mybirthmonth🎂 #skeletonsocks #killstarco

[unitedstatesofweird]

Good dash.

s24!

[lesbomancy]

Thinking about them by skeletonsock

[pettyparentguide]

Scared myself in the mirror #skeletonsocks #halloweensocks #bestholiday https://www.instagram.com/p/BpFtQsxBnDw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g78anpr1odok

[ilovesocksandsouls]

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[segadores-y-soldados]

Transcript of a segment from The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcast, from an episode featuring Jeff Kaplan.  You can find the full link here.  Original start time is approximately 30:35, when Ted asks his question:

Ted Price: Who’s the oldest character?  Or what’s the age of the oldest character?

Jeff Kaplan: I think, um...I think it’s Gabriel Reyes, who is Reaper.  But it’s kinda not a fair answer, because technically Reaper is dead?  But I think that’s a little bit questionable.  So Gabriel Reyes was, like, Jack Morrison’s partner - they were Soldier: 76 - and he was in Overwatch, and then he kinda goes bad and there’s a horrific thing that happens and he becomes Reaper.

Important to remember: Jeff Kaplan later corrected himself and remembered that Reinhardt is actually the oldest character in Overwatch.  Gabriel Reyes’s canon age of 50 at “Retribution” (and approximately 58 at “Recall”) has not changed.  Jeff frequently forgets or misremembers details, especially with numbers.  The interview had also been going for 30 minutes nonstop, and this whole particular section - which was focused on exploring diversity in Overwatch - was focused “in context” but occasionally rambled (such as the above audio).  You can even notice where he accidentally calls both characters “Soldier: 76″ without bringing up “Soldier: 24″.

Credit: As written above, Ted Price conducted the interview on behalf of AIAS.  Attention was brought to this particular clip by @skeletonsock on twitter (you can find Phil’s original tweet here).

Related: @auttoton has audio of Jeff Kaplan giving a lecture about Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison from November 2017, which you can find here.  Also, Michael Chu’s March 2017 GDC talk, where he describes the relationship between Reaper, Soldier: 76, and Ana Amari, which is here (timestamp is 34:25 for the particular line).

More discussion under the cut.

It’s difficult to provide a full transcript of the entire segment where Jeff talks about the importance of incorporating diversity into the characters, story, world, and gameplay of Overwatch.  The whole portion goes over how Blizzard wanted to make each hero feel like “a real person” who did not necessarily represent “an entire group” but rather touched upon unique-yet-universal elements that weren’t always found in video games.  

Jeff: What we tried to do with Overwatch was not approach diversity from any sort of way that would feel pandering, and the example I always give is: we didn’t set out to make the game and have a spreadsheet of every group on the planet we thought needed to be represented, and were just trying to put like, checkmarks next to them.  We really did want to tell a story about a group of individuals who were people - we didn’t want to generalize anybody, or try to roll up any sort of race, religion, nationality, affiliation - we didn’t want to roll that up into one and say that, ‘All people are like this from that group.’  

We wanted these to be like actual people, so like, Tracer is Lena Oxton who was a REF test pilot.  And we know that her girlfriend’s name is Emily, and she lives in London and she’s a very real person, but that doesn’t mean that everybody in the U.K. is like Tracer.

Ted: Right.

Jeff: In fact, our U.K. office hates the phrase ‘Cheers, love’ - they’re always teasing me, they’re like, ‘Ah, it sounds so - we don’t say that!  It sounds ridiculous!’  And like, the rest of the world loves it.

Ted: (laughs)

Jeff: But that was very important to us, and I try to point out to people like, if our goal was just to represent as many different people as possible, because we felt an obligation to do it, we wouldn’t have ended up with like, two Japanese brothers.  It takes too long to make a hero - you know, why spend two of our ‘chips’ on two Japanese brothers, or the Egyptian mother and daughter?

Ted: Which I think is one of the coolest stories you have in the game.  I mean that - the fact that you have somebody who is that age as a playable character, and with that backstory is unique.  

Jeff: It’s awesome.  I think, um...For us...You know, I’m forty-five now, and I think, you know, when you’re in your twenties and your thirties, you think of like, anybody who’s heroic has gotta be in their twenties or thirties, and everybody else is ancient.  And now that, you know, I’m a little bit further along that trajectory, I start to have a lot of sensibility towards, you know, there are a lot of badass people at all ages, at all walks of life.  

We always remember the moment when we were watching ‘Fury Road’ - the latest ‘Mad Max’ movie - which was so amazing.  And they have those women at the end, the women snipers, and we were like, ‘Wow!  They’re really, really awesome!’  And so it made it easy for us to have characters like Soldier: 76 and Ana Amari, and just these, you know - there’s nothing wrong with being older, and that doesn’t mean you have to become like this sub-side character.

Ted: Sure

Jeff: You could just be an awesome badass and we could celebrate that.

(Start of clip)

Ted Price: Who’s the oldest character?  Or what’s the age of the oldest character?

Jeff Kaplan: I think, um...I think it’s Gabriel Reyes, who is Reaper.  But it’s kinda not a fair answer, because technically Reaper is dead?  But I think that’s a little bit questionable.  So Gabriel Reyes was, like, Jack Morrison’s partner - they were Soldier: 76 - and he was in Overwatch, and then he kinda goes bad and there’s a horrific thing that happens and he becomes Reaper.

Like I said in the description above, Jeff completely misremembers Gabriel’s age.  Ted goes onto ask:

Ted: And how old is Reaper’s age?

Jeff: Um - oh, Michael Chu’s gonna kill me.  It’s between mid-70′s and early-80′s.

So yes, Jeff is off on Gabriel’s age at the time of Recall by nearly 20+ years.  The podcast upload notes this, however, by adding the text on the webpage:

**NOTE: In the episode, Jeff mentions how he believes Reaper is currently the oldest hero in Overwatch. He now correctly remembers it is Reinhardt at 61. :)

The conversation on age stops there, and Ted and Jeff go back to discussing the idea of fan-feedback (and how to balance how many “voices” the Overwatch development team has to sort through). 

The reason I went to such lengths to show the context of the quote is that...it has no context.  The line “Gabriel Reyes was Jack Morrison’s partner” is stated completely out of the blue, and is almost entirely irrelevant to a discussion on Reaper’s age.  There are multiple other identifiers Jeff could’ve “gone to” when describing Gabriel: for example, “Gabriel Reyes was the commander of Blackwatch, he was in Overwatch, and then he kinda goes bad...” or “Gabriel Reyes was one of the founders of Overwatch, and then he kinda goes bad...”

Even as a description of Gabriel’s pre-fall relationship with Jack, “partner” is a...interesting choice.  If all Jeff meant was a platonic relationship, phrases like “friend” or “comrade” would have been significantly more appropriate than a euphemistic term for “spouse” or “boyfriend.”

This is the second audio clip where Jeff has described Gabriel’s relationship with Jack in rather deep terms: the first came from Auttoton (linked above) where Jeff gave a lecture and stated that “these guys loved each other” when describing Gabriel and Jack.

However, another interesting “phrase” comes from Michael Chu’s 2017 GDC talk (linked above), where he describes the relationship between Reaper, Soldier: 76, and Ana Amari here:

It’s a relationship that defines the story of Overwatch, and how Overwatch grew as an organization, and even now today, what they’re all up to is important to driving forward the current story of the game.  And what I really like about it is that it is a deep, complex relationship that’s not necessarily only driven by romance, and it highlights how different people can see and experience different events.  

At the time of the talk, most people believed Michael was talking about a possible romantic relationship between Ana and one of the other two characters.  However, since that talk, we have seen things like the Necropolis map (where Ana and Soldier: 76 sleep in separate rooms - according to an unused or broken interaction, this is actually Jack’s choice), the 2017 update to Junkenstein’s Revenge (where Reinhardt makes several more flirtatious or admiring comments about Ana), and the “Retribution” comic, where Ana not only never appears - she does not even show up as a “motivational” aspect to Gabriel’s decision-making process.

But Jack does.

In fact, the “Retribution” comic shows that when Gabriel had to make a heavy decision, it was Jack he turned to for advice and discussion.  The comic also goes to extensive lengths to portray both of them as “two halves” of Overwatch.  Later, in the actual in-game event, McCree asks how Gabriel is “going to explain this to the Strike-Commander”, and Gabriel replies with “You let me worry about what Jack needs to know.”

There is an increasing amount of information - both in-universe and from the game developers themselves - that the relationship between Gabriel Reyes and Jack Morrison was deeper than a working, professional one, and possibly deeper than just “friendship.”

They were partners.

[youredgedadsareshowing]

If your still doing the character thing: jack 🍞 morrison

Hell yeah dude!

favorite thing about them: I think what I like the most about Jack is the contrast between him and Soldier 76. He went from a guy who really had the best intentions and was just beaten down until he didn’t feel like it was worth it to get up in the morning. Except then he STILL can’t stop himself from doing the right thing when he’s trying to be a hard ass. I dunno, I think he has more going on than people give him credit for because he fits that “white hero dude” archetype, but that doesn’t mean he has to be boring.

least favorite thing about them: he wears socks with sandals. jack, why? (that may also be my favorite thing about him actually)

favorite line: literally all his lines from Mei’s snowball offensive. Oh and “Bones heal, pain is temporary; scars look good.”

brOTP: Jack and Ana, BroTP for life

OTP: who would have thought it’s Reaper76

nOTP: I’ve seen people who actually ship him with Hana and that’s… yeah. That does not doing anything for me except make my eye twitch.

random headcanon: Jack tried really hard to do Evil Knievel style stunts off his barn roof in his early teens

unpopular opinion: I don’t actually think he’s boring. Also his Hero short was preeeeeeeeeetty racist in hindsight.

song i associate with them: Breathe - Greenwheel

favorite picture of them: Ah fuck um…I think @ufficiosulretro does just my favorite look for Jack in general. I couldn’t point to a specific picture though. (That said, also love @skeletonsock ‘s Jack) but God now I’m double thinking.... there are a lot of good Jack artists...

[ao3feed-bemorechill]

chocolate

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RD7RGs

by skeletonsocks

michael mell suffers from hanahaki disease, a fictional disease caused by unrequited love. when suffering from this disease, you cough up flowers. it starts small with just petals, but soon they turn into full on flowers.

meanwhile, jeremy heere is doing perfectly fine with his girlfriend christine canigula.

Words: 947, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Be More Chill - Iconis/Tracz

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M

Characters: Christine Canigula, Jeremy Heere, Michael Mell

Relationships: Christine Canigula/Jeremy Heere

Additional Tags: Hanahaki Disease, hanahaki, Hanahaki!Michael, lots of hecking blood beware bbys, Unrequited Love, gay lmao, Fluff, Angst, lots of angst why did i even put fluff, boyf riends - Freeform, listen to chocolate by the 1975 while reading

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RD7RGs

[ilovesocksandsouls]

Thanks @hereiscyn for this awesome sock selfie with your new Socks & Souls Halloween socks and your pup! #socks #sockselfie #halloweensocks #skeletons #skeletonsocks #skeletoncat #catbones #socksandsouls #dog #dogsocks #dogsockselfie #crewsocks #animalsocks #animallover #halloween #blackandorangesocks https://www.instagram.com/p/CVEa196rpAT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[youredgedadsareshowing]

Did you know skeletonsock drew work for your fic? It's really good!

WELL I SURE DO NOW *promptly dies of flattery*

[subjectnought]

@skeletonsock yeah bc ppl cant say it lmao