#spec ops: the line meme

[rebelwithoutaclock]

[offbeatghoul]

Spec Ops: The Line has been acquired

(Meme yanked from Instagram lol)

I'll stream gameplay for it - gonna decide on time in the next couple days and I'll post about when it scheduled for when I do ♡

yall should def watch me go thru the wringer with this game. I legit learned about it in an exhibit at a war museum- dead serious.

[toastedpopsicle]

Spec Ops: The Line is actually one of the best crafted ludonarrative satires to exist. It uses the medium of a modern military cover based shooter game to criticize imperialist militaries, military propaganda, *the game genre that it's a part of, the players who choose to enjoy that genre and the producers of them*. Narratively it's an adaption of Heart of Darkness, substituting the 19th century colonialism Jozef Konrad was condemning with present-day War on Terror imperialism. It was briefly a critical darling right before Gamergate ruined critical analysis of games for another hundred years, especially in the context of the ever-memed-on Ludonarrative Dissonance discussion. Primarily because it used ludonarrative dissonance as a satirical tool to examine the glorifying milprop aspects of its contemporaries.

So naturally is was a commercial failure and the studio that made it was shuttered.

[andmaybegayer]

Last First Monday of the Week Year 2023-01-02

it's that time again

Listening: Bought an Apple USB-C DAC so relistening to songs I know well for reference. One being Bad Religion's Let Them Eat War.

Bad Religion's bit gets me every time. Yeah he's. A PhD evolutionary biologist who does the militant atheist meme irl. Perfect band no notes.

Reading: In search of an entirety different blog post I did not find, The Alexandrian's GM Don't List. It's a good list, not really groundbreaking advice but good things to rein in some bad habits you may have developed at other people's tables and sensible reasons why you should avoid them.

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/37571/roleplaying-games/gm-dont-list-1-morphing-reality

A lot of these are just urgings to be consistent and predictable but that's so important at a table, nothing is worse for players than having a plan go awry even though the rules say it should work.

Watching: Knives Out: Glass Onion, which was great. It's really cool that it is actually basically the same overall setup in the abstract as Knives Out: Donut Hole but still a totally novel and interesting story.

Playing: Started and finished the Titanfall 2 Campaign over the new year. I like first person shooters in theory but many, many of them do not do it for me, I still haven't finished Spec Ops: The Line. Titanfall is fast paced and has the right level of "You're in a bad situation, what do you do, now quickly think!" that I like from first person shooters in particular and more generally from video games.

Frantic snap decisions are usually a terrible idea in real life but they're a lot of fun, and you feel good when they work out. Ping-ponging off walls and firing shots off only to land in the middle of a cluster of enemies, dropping a grenade and activating your invisibility power to escape is great. Movement is super good, albeit a little unpredictable as to when you're going to stick to a wall rather than swing past it to your death.

Making: I have done nothing but sew quilt patches for three days. Cut what will hopefully be the last batch of patches from the roll, it looks like I'm probably going to contribute about ⅓ of this quilt with my mother making up the other ⅔.

Tools and Equipment: The templates for cutting and marking seams on the quilt patches were originally printed, and they're worn down to the point of uselessness. Rather than running around to a printshop, I made the new ones by just drawing it by hand, so here's to a robust set of geometric tools. With a couple set squares, a protractor, a compass, and a good ruler you can do an awful lot of constructions very accurately. In particular constructing parallel lines with two set squares came in handy here for drawing the rhombuses.

[wasteland-soul-project]

Here's an insano list that will be continually updated so I have an online record of all that Im currently receptive to include. Consider this spoilers actually.

Greens got a spot on the timeline finalized.

White is sorted by era for workload

Agar.io, Saurian,Ancestors,Far Cry,Civ,History channel,The sumerian game,Hammurabi,Ass cred,Ryse son of rome,Ghost of Tsushima,evil dead,Kingdom come deliverance,western gun,Turok,Oregon trail,Samurai western,Call of Juarez,Red Dead Revolver,GUN,This land is my land,Bioshock Infinite,Valiant Hearts,Call of cthulhu,Sea wolf,Battlefield,Mafia, front line, endless war, the saboteur,Medal of honor,Call of Dutygenesisnoir,Capcom 1942,Commando,Castle wolfenstein?The incredibles,Cathode ray tube amusemen device,La Noire remember da whorient,Bertie the Brain,Nimrod,Destroy All humans,Christophers draughts,Fonzie road race,Atomic Heart,Tennis for two, gta,Spy hunter ,Spacewar!, xcom, metal gear, resident evil, 1967 world series, team fortress, afterburner, galaxy game, computer space, pong, silent hill, night driver, elevator action, E.T, space ace, uncharted, firewatch, jalopy, contra, gone home, portal, postal, prey, max Payne, illbleed, blood, FEAR, venture bros, manhunt, dead island, dead rising, kane and lynch , bully, cherry 2000, hell comes to frog town, burt reynolds flick, socom, saints row, mercenaries, half life,Alpha protocol,Outlast,Life is strange,Payday,Sleeping Dogs,Lollipop Chainsaw,Duck dynasty, hatred, tomb raider, Evil within,Dying light, edith finch, control, trad meme, alaskan road trucker, tume pilot, disco elysium, octodad, tacoma,Van Buren Tech Demo,Five lesbians eating quiche, thag cute radioactive couple,Fallout: Zero,System Shock,One man and a crate of puppets,Fallout: Frost,Wasteland,Fallout nevada,Atom RPG,Metro,Soma,Ashes twentysixty three,Fountain of Dreams ,Organ Trail,Employee of the month,Fallout 1.5 Resurrection,Squidward suicide,Stray,Horizon,Fallout Yesterday,Jazzpunk,xcom classic, breaking badFallout New Califnornia,Mad Max,Hwarts of Iron OWB, soace station 13,Storyteller,Fallout Lanius,Fallout nuka breakFallout 4 miami,All roads,Death Stranding,Morrowind,Outer Worlds

Fallout minecraft map,Fallout:Dust

Post war:Spongebob, 60 seconds, the story must be told, fallout revelation, starcraft, space quest, dead space, broken roads, breath of death, star heroine

Prewar: 2050+, idealized-era retroscifi jetsons, overwatch, series of unfortunate events, deathloop, f zero x, afro samurai, thief reboot

Prewar 2025-50, dystopia class struggle sci fi deus ex, cyberpunk, mirrors edge, cruelty squad, final fantasy

Pre war (big mess of speculative future) home front,dishonored, naissancE, space station 13, crackdown, timesplitters, kentucky route zero, red faction, dreambreak, attack of the saucermen, metal slug

My lived yearss that one 4chan comic in france, plants vs zombies ,the boys, slender, sniper assassin, stalker, hitman, the quarry, pandemic 2, black watchmen, alien hominid, police quest, tony hawk, ape out, ace attorney, the beginners guide, arma, aemy of teo , chimamande adichi, crysis, just cause, just dance, prototype, skate, various sports, dangenrampa, true crime, post void, burger tycoon, dino crisis, the cat lady downfall devil went through here lorelei, science adventure, goldsrc counter strike, detectives united, deadly premonition, freedom fighters, eternal darkness, unboxing, that unity game abt the painting, subnautica, perfect dark, famicon wars, the darkness, captain underpants

1900s fnaf, calvin and hobbes, papers please, mother, zaxxon, heros journey, stalin vs martians, x files, tom clancy, spec ops, gorillaz, the sims, GI Joe, leisure suit larry, pathologic, cold war game, hammer and sickle, jurassic park, evil dead, james bond Tropico, sims city, ikari warriors, spy hunter, time crisis, alone in the dark, syphon filter, gabriek knight, arma cold war, chinua achebe, camara laye, persona, shenmu, yakuza, brothers in arms, company of heroes, punchout, operation flashpoint, professor layton, sniper ghost warrior, sniper elite, undying, stanley parable, hotline miam, war in the east, wings of orey, men of war, 9th company, red orchestra, iron front, death to spies, mother russia bleeds, roller coaster tycoon, counterspy, esrls day off , gaiden, shin megami, suda 57, fatal frame, gorogoa, hotel room dusk

1800s thief, amnesia, samurai champloo, jojo, dark pictures anthology, wadjet games multiverse, bloodborne

1500s sekiro

1400s Europa Universalis

1300s Demons souls classic

1100s lionheart

1000s crusader kings, chrono trigger

800s prince of persia

200 silk

100 romanc eof the three kingdoms, dynasty warriors

Ancient 0ad, pharoah, the scorpion king, sphynx and the cursed mummy, age if mythology, noahs ark, empire esrth, rise of nations, total war, tak and the power of juju, hades

Cavepeople: dawn of man, jawa mammoth, age of empires, tork, tail of the sun, echo secrets of the lost cavern,roots of patcha

Old af: jurassic the hunted, nanosaur, a prehistoric tale, id software timeline, AVP TIMELINE OLD AF, evo, evolution games of itnelligent ligr, lynn margulis, civ dinosaur war like cthulhu mythos, robert howard books, cthukhu saves

[vincememes]

spec ops: the line starters

change pronouns as needed. all quotes were taken out of context from the game.

❛   orders ain't worth following if it means leaving people to die.  ❜  

❛   you brought this on yourself.    ❜  

❛   what happened here was out of my control...  ❜

❛   i- i didn't mean to hurt anybody...  ❜  

❛   how many are alive today, i wonder?  how many will be alive tomorrow?  ❜  

❛   your friends, dead. the world on fire. and you... alone.  ❜  

❛   you're a failure. finally, something we have in common.  ❜  

❛   welcome to hell. we've been waiting for you. ❜  

❛   someone has to pay for your crimes. who is it going to be? ❜  

❛   it takes a strong man to deny what's in front of him.  ❜  

❛   and if the truth is undeniable, you create your own.   ❜  

❛   we’ve all lived bad lives. we all sin.  ❜  

❛   forgive me, but... that's the problem. you don't know you.  ❜  

❛   the truth is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: a hero.  ❜  

❛   i'm here because you can't accept what you've done. it broke you.  ❜  

❛   you needed someone to blame, so you cast it on me: a dead person.  ❜  

❛    no matter what happens next, don't be too hard on yourself.   ❜  

❛    even now, after all you've done, you can still go home.  lucky you  ❜  

❛    and on you marched. and for what?  ❜  

❛   that guy? you shot that guy? i liked that guy...  ❜  

❛    he had a... dog... maybe? i didn't really know that guy.  ❜  

❛   you know nothing of life, my friend.  ❜  

❛   if you did, you would know the truth is whatever we wish it to be.  ❜

❛  how many people have you killed today?  ❜  

❛   there is no difference between what is right and what is necessary.  ❜  

❛   if you were a better person, you wouldn't be here.  ❜  

❛   you are still a good person.    ❜  

❛   can you even remember why you came here?  ❜  

❛    do you feel like a hero yet?  ❜  

❛   to kill for yourself is murder. to kill for your government is heroic. to kill for entertainment is harmless.  ❜  

❛    cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously.  ❜  

❛   you cannot understand, nor do you want to.  ❜  

❛   but this isn't real, so why should you care?  ❜

❛   we cannot escape anguish. it is what we are.  ❜  

❛   there is no escape.  ❜  

❛   life begins at the other side of despair.  ❜  

❛   no one can help you now.  ❜  

❛   collateral damage can be justified, if the gain outweighs the cost.  ❜  

❛   freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.   ❜  

❛   i exist and i find it nauseating.  ❜  

❛   you can't go home.  ❜  

❛    it seems that reports of my... survival... have been greatly exaggerated.    ❜  

❛    you're no savior.  your talents lie elsewhere.   ❜  

❛   i know the truth is hard to hear, but it's time.  ❜

❛   you're all that's left, and we can't live this lie forever.    ❜  

❛    if you don't mind me asking, what was it like? how did you survive all this?  ❜  

❛   ... who said i did?  ❜

[dapper-lil-catgirl]

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I saw these silent hill 2/spongebob posts and they’re so fuckin funy; me n my gf put together this simple edit. enjoy

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

Spec Ops: The Line (2012): Konrad was an amazing man, a real american hero. He fought to liberate Dubai, but during the evacuation he disappeared, and shortly after his team went rogue and began executing civilians. But I know a great man like him could never turn against America and its ideals.

Me, who has read Heart of Darkness (1899):

[thethiefandtheairbender]

also since it’s almost pride month here are some aphobic (ace / aro-phobic) or exclusionist dogwhistles

implying / stating outright that aces are cringy

“i just don’t want people to limit themselves” is basically what one of my family members said to me when i came out, it fucking hurt. don’t do it. you have no idea how much someone has wrestled with their identity

anti / ship policing, bc it’s predicated on purity culture and is a gateway to aphobia

saying that young people can’t be ace and that we’ll change our minds and just haven’t met the right person yet

“nobody cares that you don’t want to have sex” 

saying that aspec people are picky or just want to be special

calling us cishet 

getting upset when a character is headcanoned as ace or aro

only headcanoning characters as ace or aro and never shipping them - platonically or otherwise - with anyone

for that matter, treating ace characters and people like a punchline joke, including historical figures or memes. we’re not a cringe compilation

implying / stating outright that QPRs (queerplatonic relationships) are cringy or “you mean like having friends”

calling our history ahistorical and grasping at straws

reading our experiences and dismissing them as “oh but everyone feels that way” -- i got some news for you, bud

making fun of mogai instead of treating the damn thing with nuance

saying that asexuality or aromantic are a tumblr identity (we’re not and exclusionists destroyed our community here years ago, thanks for that)

aro erasure

“wow you don’t see these two characters as boyfriends because the line between romantic and platonic attraction is blurred for you? you must be homophobic” or “this relationship between two same sex characters that closely resembles a QPR isn’t Good Enough Rep and is homophobic because they didn’t kiss” (see: good omens)

making fun of heterosexual aros, heteromantic aces (particularly women bc you just love misogyny directed at “weird” people), and demisexual/demiromantic people especially

dismissing amatanormativity and saying that it doesn’t exist or isn’t a part of cisheteronormativity that fucks literally everyone up

taking posts clearly made to deride us or denounce as (i.e. aces don’t want kissing at pride, aros think all romance is Yucky) on face value and reblogging them as jokes and “discourse”

joking that it’s dumb/cringey/funny for people to want a queer safe space that isn’t as sexualized as clubs and bars

dismissing the fact that aros and aces experience comphet too (hi, op here: i definitely did and it fucked me up, thanks)

“just because you’re ace doesn’t detract from your gayness” and that only queer aces belong in the community (aceness is inherently queer)

an emphasis on lesbianism as Gold Star Gay (as aces often fell under the lesbian umbrella for similar reasons bi women did, historically) or gatekeeping

aphobic gatekeeping is often very similar to transmed or terf gatekeeping (sincerely an ace, aro trans person); if you can learn how to identify one, you can learn how to identify the other

along that vein, tagging things as q slur. i won’t trust you three separate fronts in case you’re a terf/exclusionist, congratulations

in other words, sincerely from an ace, aro spec, pan, nonbinary person

[wigglebox]

Jensen's answer today plus the past couple of cons has officially put my jackles long con tinhat in the garbage. It hurts how little he seems to care about cas and how quickly he's reverted to old bibro ways once he's on stage with jarold (looks like the jivorce is off too lol). Sorry for the downer ask, just don't know if I can get over this one, no matter how many cute cockles ops we get. Cas deserved so much better than this. 💔

fish it back out because he does not like the fact dean died did not like the finale etc etc.

he has not reverted back to his old bibro ways but i think we SHOULDN'T be rooting for a jivorce here. we don't WANT them to hate each other. life is better for everyone when everyone gets along and if they can get along again then that's fantastic news especially if more SPN projects are coming down the road.

you need to understand he's contractually obligated to be at these cons and he's going to get asked questions about this finale and he has to answer them while standing next to jared. like that's it, you need to accept it.

no one in j2 panels is going to ask about cas, especially gold panels, because cas fans aren't IN those audiences. some are, but they don't get to ask the questions, and when they do, jared hops in and just rambles on about whatever he rambled about at dencon. keep in mind jackles brought up 1518 unprompted at that con during their gold panel.

i know you may be feeling low right now, idk if you're a new fan or not or we just kind of forgot how creation cons have gone beacuse we hadn't had them for a year and a half but literally nothing about this is new.

but keep in mind that since like, july 2019 when i think he recorded the first michael rosenbaum podcast, he was talking about getting the band back together if they didn't end on a good note. by that point, he knew what the ending was going to be. he just didn't know what the reaction was going to be.

but he knows what the reaction was now.

but also keep in mind he has to straddle a line, be professional, and keep in mind who his audience is and what he can actually talk about.

and i think it's good for all of us to remember to never root for bad energy like a jivorce. the memes are fun, the spec is interesting, but we should never root for the ending of a friendship.

[littlesmartart]

Leverage AU thoughts

okay so I wanted to keep the worldbuilding for the AU in that specific photoset relatively short for the sake of how the post worked, but I've seen a lot of questions in the tags so here is some more information for you all, under the cut because it got LONG:

MORALITY: okay so I called this the "(sort of) Leverage AU" because it basically flips the Leverage concept of "criminals work together with one non-criminal for the greater good" into "one criminal persuades a bunch of non-criminals that law =/= morality and that sometimes to make sure the bad guys get justice you have to work around legality". Obviously some people are easier to persuade than others (Huaisang has always been pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about the law, but before he joins the team he insists all of his crimes have been Theoretical, and besides, pirating movies isn't real crime, da-ge, god), and some of them are a little troubled by it but have their own reasons for joining (Mingjue has a LOT of issues with it, but joins to protect Huaisang for That One Job, and then stays with the insistence that a. they don't kill anyone, b. they don't involve anyone who doesn't super deserve it, and c. that their goal is always to get evidence so the mark can be convicted and the mark is always handed over to the appropriate authorities at the end of the job. he has a little more moral flexibility than canon Mingjue because of his Complicated Past He Wants To Atone For, but he still has an incredibly strong internal moral code that he absolutely will not violate. Jiang Cheng cares more about the law in principle, rather than personally, and as soon as he sees that they can get Justice that the law can't, he's sold). Xichen has the hardest time of it; he jumps into the first job without protest because Meng Yao asks (and Meng Yao never ever asks for anything, so it... it must be important, right? And Jin Guangshan definitely deserves it). After that he has a lot of internal struggling going on, and he's usually the one in the team trying to steer them towards legal means, and going through the "correct" channels. He probably has a breakdown about it at the end of a season and spends the next season Travelling To Find Himself. He winds up coming back to the team when, on one of his travels, he watches a family he's staying with lose everything after being targeted by a conman, but because of a dirty police chief the evidence is destroyed. They refuse to take his money when he tries to help, and he realises that they only way to get them justice... is to call in the team. That's not to say he is 100% cool with everything from then on, and he definitely draws the line at certain criminal acts (stealing for the fun of it he is not okay with, for example, and he gives a Hard No on the suggestion of trying White Rabbit) but for the most part he accepts the concept of what they do as being for the greater good.

GRIFTER XICHEN: yeah it's ridiculous and implausible but hear me out... that just makes it better. Because this man is terrible at improv and can only lie when he's in character (you see that means it's not lying then, it's just ACTING) and doesn't drink and absolutely will not seduce a mark past the level of general flirting... and yet he's somehow a wildly successful grifter??? How??? I'll tell you how: he's so fucking handsome and kind and charming and cultured that pretty much everyone who meets him just... melts a little bit and, with some coaxing, gives him whatever he needs. IT'S LIKE A FREAKIN SUPERPOWER and it's absolutely ridiculous. With the added bonus that he's juuust famous enough that the average person might kind of think he looks familiar, which means he's very good at coming across like he totally belongs wherever he's seen. Of course he works here, he's been here for months... don't you recognise him?

NO WOMEN ON THE TEAM: look, in Meng Yao's defence, when he put together this team he thought it would only be for one job, he wasn't trying to future-proof it! But yes, it can sometimes be an issue if they don't have time to plan ahead, and he and Huaisang - as the most stereotypically feminine members of the team, and by far the best liars - will usually take on any female roles they need if they're in a pinch and can't call in outside help, although all of them are ready to take on roles of different genders if need be (female roles are actually the only way to persuade Huaisang to grift, and he has an extensive shoe collection for such roles that he likes to expand by billing to the company account... Meng Yao is deeply unimpressed by this).

OTHER CHARACTERS: when Meng Yao started this, he worked very very hard to keep his siblings and the rest of his family out of it, to keep them all away from any fallout in case it went wrong (and also to stop any pesky Moral Issues from getting in the way). When that was over and they started taking regular cases, he relaxed the rule a little - Mianmian will sometimes step in to help if she can be sold on how bad the person is they're taking down, Zonghui can be relied upon if they need extra muscle, and Wen Qing is their go-to Ask No Questions doctor. Wei Wuxian frequently gets roped in to consult, as, if you give him six packs of hot chips, ten cans of monster, twelve hours, and a laptop, he can become a specialist in almost anything. Jiang Cheng was very very resistant towards the idea of his brother being allowed in the team, even just as a consultant, but the MOMENT Wei Wuxian was given any access to Shenanigans there was no fucking stopping him. In the later jobs Qin Su accidentally gets pulled into one of the cons and turns out to be a WAY better grifter than anyone could have imagined, so she winds up on the "ally call list". Meng Yao is both perturbed and proud, but absolutely draws the line at teenage Mo Xuanyu being allowed to help.

PAIRINGS: flipping the "two parents + three kids" dynamic in Leverage, this AU has 3zun and Sangcheng - so "three gege + two didi". Xiyao have a One That Got Away sort of past, and Xichen joins the team SPECIFICALLY because Meng Yao expresses emotional vulnerability by asking for help fOr OnCe In HiS fUcKiNg LiFe. Nielan dated when they were teens, and are happy to be reunited, but Mingjue refuses to rekindle a romantic relationship until Xiyao sort their shit out because it's obvious to anyone with eyes how hung up on Meng Yao Xichen is. Nieyao have a certain amount of "I'll work with you towards a common cause but that doesn't mean I have to like you" vibe, but veeery slooowlyyy wind up bonding over doing stuff they're not proud of for something they were so sure was a worthy cause at the time, but now they just feel jaded and used (there's a lot of arguments along the lines of "oh, so my corporate espionage is worse than what you did in spec ops... because the military says that what you did was legal. RIGHT. OKAY. SURE."). After several years of will-they-won't-they struggle, 3zun do get together, and everyone is very relieved. As for Sangcheng... it starts off as Huaisang just flirting kind of obnoxiously with Jiang Cheng, who rolls his eyes and snarks back, and then naturally Huaisang winds up catching feelings and is like [meme voice] Haha, I'm In Danger! He is unwilling to act on his feelings because he doesn't believe that Jiang Cheng likes him that way, and continues to believe that right up until the day Jiang Cheng snaps, and grabs him and kisses him, and is like "if I didn't actually like you flirting with me I would have punched you in the face years ago" and Huaisang is like "huh. Yeah that's probably true."

[savior-of-humanity]

[expvrgction] "Welcome to Hell. We've been waiting for you." (Davoth @ Shinji based on the Spec Ops: The Line sentence meme. Is the latter abducted or has simply gotten lost in Hell? Who knows.)

Shinji had gone through many, many traumatic experiences in the short span of time he had been an Evangelion pilot for. Most of which involved hostile Angels hell-bent on the destruction of humanity.

Nothing could have prepared him for this, being dragged away into an otherworldly realm that looked to be - no, was - Hell itself. And to make matters worse, he was face-to-face with a horrifying all-too-familiar sight - the man with the blood-red eyes. The Devil himself.

"W-What do you want from me?!" He tried to shriek, to at least act somewhat defiant against this monster whose presence alone made every instinct in his body scream at him to RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN, but all he could force out was a choked whimper. Ikari was, truly, terrified.

@expvrgction

[swaps55]

4 and 6 for writin' meme!

Thank you!!!!

End of Year Writing Meme

4. Which of your fics this year was most successful?

According to tumblr, The Beautiful Kaidan Alenko, which is a ridiculously fun and silly thing I wrote on a whim.

According to Ao3, Cantata, which is not exactly a surprise. XD However, if you exclude Cantata, the next in line is What We Choose, which is all the AU first kisses. :D

What’s your favourite piece of dialogue you wrote this year?

Given I loved it enough to commission art for it, probably this:

Kaidan’s still chuckling when the water turns on in the bathroom. He pulls off his own shirt and digs though his bag for a clean one to sleep in when a throat clears in the doorway. He turns around to find Shepard standing there, naked save for a towel wrapped around his waist and a chagrined expression on his face.

Kaidan’s eyes flick to Shepard’s bare chest, something he’s seen hundreds of times before, but…not in the house he grew up in. Not kilometers away from the nearest Alliance facility. Not on shore leave.

“Hey,” Kaidan says, voice faltering just a little. “Um. Need something?”

Shepard blinks. “Uh.”

A flush builds at the back of Kaidan’s neck. Wait. Was he staring at me?

Shepard clears his throat. “I, uh, need your help, yeah.”

“In the shower?” Kaidan asks, then clamps his mouth shut.

“There’s a bug.”

“A…bug.”

Shepard gestures helplessly. The towel shifts alarmingly on his hips. “There’s a spider in the shower.”

“…Okay.”

“It’s looking at me.”

A slow smile spreads across his face. “Do you need me to remove the spider from the shower for you?”

“…Yes.”

“The N6 spec ops solider, XO of a frigate, and the most deadly person I have ever met—”

“Why thank you.”

“—needs me to take care of the spider.”

“Unless you want me to go find a pistol, yes. I am coming to you in my hour of need, Kaidan.”

Shepard readjusts his towel. Kaidan’s eyes wander again ever so briefly before he snaps them back up to Shepard’s face.

“You endured all that outside for me today. Least I can do is remove nature from your safe place.”

“You’re so good to me.”

[crackimagines]

[Note: I don't if this question is wiped out when your Tumblr glitch happened] If the Black Eagles Strike Force have All-Out Attack victory taglines (based on the ones in P5), what would that be like?

Persona 5 3H AU Masterlist

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These are the times I really REALLY wish I could draw lmao

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Black Eagles All-Out Attack Lines

Edelgard - “And ever we fight on...”

Hubert - “All I do is for the Emperor.”

Caspar - “Want some more? Bring it on!”

Ferdinand - “I AM FERDINAND VON AEGIR”

This isn’t a meme, that line could actually work

Linhardt - “How troublesome you were. Goodbye now.”

Petra - “The prey has been hunted.”

Dorothea - “Its curtains for you!”

Bernadetta - “LEMME GO HOME ALREADY!”

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(Ryuji) “Aw Bear, what the hell kinda all-out attack line is that?!”

(Bernadetta) “SKULL WHY ARE WE EVEN BEING THIS FLASHY?! WE’RE A SPEC-OPS FORCE NOT ACTORS!”

(Akira) “Fashion is half the battle you know.”

(Dorothea) “I concur!”

(Hubert) “Of course you would, Diva. I find it stupid.”

(Akechi) “Honestly I do too but...man if it isn’t satisfying to pull off.”

(Kasumi) “See? Even Crow agrees!”

[radoh]

You likely already know but that facebook post with the "non political games" is a joke.

Yeah, I thought about it after I put it in the queue that anyone referencing Spec Ops: The Line as being Apolitical is probably memeing but I didn’t care enough to take it out since it’s still pretty funny that at least three people besides me also fell for it.