#this one's a cheap shot

[tomsmusictaste]

You got me turnin' blue, whoo-hoo, we can't put down our pride

Every Avenue // This One's A Cheap Shot

[indigowallbreaker]

In before the update tomorrow

Here are my predictions/wishlist Stardew Valley 1.6 update! These range from "could happen" to "just let me dream":

Children aging past toddlerhood; gain ability to change their outfits

Another set of romanceable NPCs (eyeing Sandy and the Wizard particularly)

More post-marriage dialogue/events. Like an anniversary date

Festivals changing as the years go on. For example: after getting 8 hearts with Sam, Abigail, and Sebastian, maybe their band plays at the Stardew Valley Fair; the governor brings his wife to the Luau the year after you make the soup taste Delish

The ability to properly befriend certain NPCs like Marlon and Gunther

Separate screen to keep track of farm animals, similar to villager screen in the menu (helpful to me when I play a file I haven't logged into in a while and discover after 3 in-game days that I have sheep)

Non-binary farmer option

Please let me interact with the stuff in the community center I spent my whole file trying to fix

NPCs will repeat dialogue to you after you've spoken to them already during a festival to avoid the creepy situation of wandering around an event and not being able to speak with anyone like they've suddenly become statues and you're the only living thing left in town

Other bachelors/bachelorettes getting together after you're married (little bit of the old Harvest Moon rival system)

More NPCs that move to town the longer you live there, like Kent arriving in Year 2

Morris shows up every once in a while after you complete the Center just so you can appreciate how much you ruined this man's whole life. Or he experiences Growth from being in the Valley, whichever

Heart events occurring more than once. For example: replaying Abigail and Sebastian's gaming/RPG heart events; Leah can hold more than one art show to sell exclusive art; Elliot will have a new book for you to hear an excerpt from every year or so; help Penny teach the kids again; etc.

More ways to increase max health

Could I have a birthday please Mr. Ape ;_;

Fix the "Leek Surprise Gift" cutscene unlocked after Evelyn's special request so that I don't wanna crack George over the head afterwards just because I picked the dialogue option that would give his poor wife credit

Make George Nice To His Wife Every Once In A While patch

Option to fist fight certain villagers, either instigated by them when their friendship gets too low or instigated by you if you've just always hated them and wanna do something about it

At 10 hearts Jodi runs away to travel with Emily and Haley's parents because apparently no one on that street actually wanted to be a parent

Give me ten good reasons Willy can't adopt me

[mattzerella-sticks]

Listen, I think the Boys should end with a powerless Homelander and an exhausted Billy having the world’s worst fight and by that I mean the most pathetic - they’re rolling around in the dirt, Homelander slaps Billy, Billy has Homelander in a chokehold, there’s hair pulling and name calling and it’s completely undignafied until someone separates them but I also think that would be the perfect ending to such a build-up to their dynamic.

[pianokantzart]

Okay, we know that Mario and Luigi spent their life savings on the commercial, but how did they get the money for the van and its custom paint job? Hear me out: what if... let's say... Luigi raked together some extra cash by putting his poker skills to work? Maaaybe behind his brother's back to try and surprise him?

[triviallytrue]

I don't judge anyone for declining to engage with I/P (and indeed have an entire tag on my blog dedicated to letting people filter it) but if you solely engage with it through vagueposts and refuse to ever engage on the object level, I do consider this far more pathetic than avoiding it entirely

[fionnaskyborn]

In the wake of the Steam Autumn Sale, here's me holding up some games and telling you to buy them if you wanna have a grand ol' time.

MCC is DIRT cheap right now, Titanfall 2 is a must, DMC5 is less than 10 euros WITH Vergil's DLC, both Portal games can be bought for less than two euros, Every Valve Game Ever is less than 15€, and Every Doom Game Ever can be bought for under 30€. Eternal with TAG 1 & 2 is reasonably priced at the moment and 2016 is going for four euros, but I didn't grab a screenshot of those.

my final meeessage

Play Gaem

[smilesrobotlover]

So insurance is a huge pain and it has been keeping me from getting my glucose monitor and my insulin pump so I’ve been doing diabetes care the old fashioned way which is…. So annoying, but I had to get a new meter because the one I brought to college with me for emergencies just like this for some reason doesn’t work cuz the strips aren’t going in, and look at absolutely tiny this mf is

[babyiamperfectforyou]

Okay but why is this ⬇️

the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this ⬇️

💀💀💀💀

[gaytobymeres]

Wheee I got back the first roll of film that I shot on my Leica! Shot it entirely in my house/garden because uni was very busy and I didn’t have time to go out and shoot it but I wanted to make sure both the camera and lens work which I’m pleased to report they do. Still getting used to using it but I’m having a great time with it

[pagesofkenna]

sorry to keep talking about homestuck music but like

do y'all know about that 'Longest Joke in the World' thing? it's like a 50k word story about a guy who gets lost in a desert and it goes on and on, it's so long but it's interesting, and when you get to the end it ends on a punchline that's legitimately funny but part of what makes it so funny is the fact that you had to get through this entire lengthy story to get there. like, you can find a short summary and it won't make it sound funny; forcing yourself through the long narrative gives you certain context to make the thing funny?

anyway, Homestuck is like the emotional reverse of that. all of Homestuck is a lengthy narrative giving you the context to make you ugly cry like a baby at Do You Remem8er Me. Remem8er is the emotional climax of the story and everything else is just wind down. it will be decades later and I will never be over Remem8er

[aldieb]

posts like this make me so fascinated by the differences in how i vs some other people like to play with the same toys (the fantasy genre). like often my go-to line about why i write sff is that i’m interested in having a discussion with a certain subset of humanity and one of the most effective ways i’ve found of getting that subset in a story/room together is by cleaving to certain genre conventions—but then i also occasionally read things that make me go “oh we are not having the same discussion at all”

[tomsmusictaste]

Every² | One favourite line from every Every Avenue song (x)

Every Avenue // This One's A Cheap Shot

[skyllion-uwu]

I'm so desperate I'm genuinely considering buying a tarot card reading so someone can tell me the future is going to be okay and I will be able to be the way I used to be before

[emotionally-charged-arson]

2am Transitus thoughts since I can’t do fanart right now.

I am THE number one Lavinia apologist, idk what exactly Arjen was doing with her but her being desperate and going to Henry because she wanted the screaming ghosts in her head to stop and Daniel happened to have this dickhead for a brother makes a lot of sense to me.

On the flip side, I have no idea why they threw the “also I’m totally cool with killing my daughter for monetary gain” motivation in there. I’m sorry it makes zero sense to me and I hate the Wicked Stepmother trope as it is.

Why is she married to Abraham in the first place then? What solid reason do Abby and her have to hate each other when Abraham seems like a grounded, reasonable human being he who knows an evil white lady when he sees one? Why does Lavinia, in a conversation WITH HERSELF, say that she regrets what she did to Abby and should go and comfort her after Message From Beyond? Why is the character designed to resemble the “”Gypsy”” archetype a greedy and untrustworthy troublemaker for no genuine reason??

Last point notwithstanding, her motivation in canon just confuses the hell out of me. Through the entire second act she oscillates between a desperate, suffering woman who just wants Daniel to leave her alone that Henry takes advantage of, and a calculating evil witch character that’s just as shitty as Henry himself. Pick a lane, lady.

I have this pile of retcons and headcanons where I just completely got rid of the inheritance-chasing fortune teller persona and made Lavinia’s ability to see Daniel completely spontaneous (though she does have some backstory it makes a little sense for that I completely made up out of thin air, may talk about that later but we’ll see how this post does). The short version is that she’s the same as everyone else. A normal person loves their family, who endures a horrible experience, whose horrible experience is only amplified by their low socioeconomic status, and who is brutally taken advantage of by Henry to a violent end. She did some awful shit but ultimately it comes down to Henry being a manipulative asshole. Lovely.

…but then my aunt bought me this little aesthetic pack of tarot cards last nigtt he and I started reading about the history of this occult stuff in Western countries. And it got me thinking about another way she could be characterized.

I’m not gonna go into a tangent about this but the point is all that divination stuff like tarot cards, ouija, crystal balls etc became popular as novelty in the 1880s and 90s, especially in England and the United States. There were of course occultists who took it seriously but in widespread terms it was sold as what it was today. A harmless little game.

I dunno. Maybe Lavinia got really into that stuff as a hobby and that’s why it’s not weird that Abraham is married to a “”witch.”” Maybe she has it in the back of her head that none of it is real, just a way to kill time and a quirk of her personality.

Then Daniel dies, and she starts seeing spirits. With no genuine explanation. In desperation she associates it with her stuff and tries to talk to him that way, but it’s like Ayreon and his visions. He doesn’t know about Time Telepathy and she doesn’t know about the “crossroads” world Daniel is spending an unusual amount of time in. Little pointless explanations of something far bigger than they can envision.

Abraham doesn’t believe her and thinks it’s just her being way too serious about her occult stuff while he’s busy trying to keep his daughter from regressing any further than she has.

Henry is the only one who will talk to her and go along with her terrified ramblings, not because he believes her but he sees an opportunity in a clearly hysterical woman and she’ll be more cooperative if he pretends all of it is real.

Then she dies, and through it is forcefully disillusioned from her little games even though they’re all she could hold onto for an explanation.

I dunno.

[nonuggetshere]

I need to draw something with PK and Hornet there's not enough of these two together in my art

[maeofthedead]

exhausted by fatphobia in media

like...I’m just so tired