#this was needed

[centaurianthropology]

My thoughts on C3E77

So apparently this one was controversial?

I'm going to say right now, I really loved everyone's decisions. They all fit the characters, but more they fit the players. I know that there are claims that Tal ignored all the warnings, but I actually think Matt may have misjudged the situation going in.

Ashley made it clear on 4SD that she did not want the shard. I think she's not really feeling the Dark Fearne storyline (and that's fair), and Matt seems to have missed that she genuinely didn't want to go down that route. Maybe he thought she was playing coy? Maybe they've been playing together so long he thought he knew a story she'd enjoy and missed her signals that she wasn't into it. I've done that before with some of my long-term players.

However that went down, Tal and she had a conversation after 4SD about what they wanted to do, and it was clear going into the episode that they at least had it planned out who was taking that shard, and it was going to be Ashton from the off. The fact that Matt was not expecting that somewhat surprises me. As Taliesin said: he put a big red backstory-shaped button in front of Ashton, and Ashton is terrified of losing people. If Fearne didn't want the shard, Ashton was going to dive on that grenade head-first. And part of Ashton wanted it. They are told they can't do something, and they will go about proving that old tree and everyone else wrong in the most self-destructive way possible. They are intensely punk in that way.

Matt may have designed the shard for Fearne, but this is not the first time that an item meant for one player ends up with another. Deathwalker's Ward was made for Percy, but through the events in the Sunken Tomb, it ended up with Vax and led to a hell of a story. And now something meant for Fearne goes to Ashton, and I have a feeling we're now in for another hell of a story. Because Ashton is now, essentially, a lava genasi, with three impossible things crammed into their broken body. Will they survive the campaign? I have no idea, but it has become clear that they don't expect to.

And honestly? This may well be what the Hells need, not in terms of power, but in terms of really realizing how self-destructive they all are. Marisha may say that no one loves a martyr, but Laudna was very much ready to play that role earlier this episode. Imogen is very self-destructive. So is Orym. So is FCG. The only two who have shown any degree of self-preservation are Fearne and Chet. The rest are bombs waiting for the most poetic moment to go off.

And today one of them did for a moment. They finally saw the end result that their self-destructive tendencies get them: Ashton blown into a thousand pieces, scattered across the top of the ziggurat. Deanna's ring saved him. Fearne's Aura of Life and FCG's Aura of Vitality saved him. Ashton could only roll and take damage.

Matt may have not designed it this way, but this was absolutely Ashton's 'where do you get your strength from' moment of the campaign, but in a very different way than Grog or Yasha experienced them. Because Ashton might just need this realization slapped into them by all their friends: this was dumb and they would have died because they didn't trust their friends. Because their strength and their salvation truly came from the people that love them.

Ashton has been, up until this point, a bit gung-ho to die for his friends. Honestly, they all are, and it's about time he and all the others learned how to live for their friends.

Anyway, hell of an episode, and a brutal but thrilling last hour. I was grinning right along with Sam. The mad fucker pulled it off by the skin of his teeth and by the grace of two friends dumping every bit of healing they had into him.

[hagenwo43]

More Wetsuit action?

[sihtricfedaraaahvicius]

Okay well, feral hours are over for me! I'm going to bed and rub my feet together like a bug that's snug. Love you gremlinssons 🥰

[reformedmercymain]

YAY blizzard finally returning to all heroes being free. They don’t come in the battlepass/through unlocks anymore

[lolobizarreadventuresshatpost]

[yuauaua]

i want to beat whoever fucked up my mod folder

[serasennatonen]

Archen and Daou didn't need to do this

[dexter-erotoph]

[morathicain]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Laws of Attraction The Series (2023) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maya/Rose Characters: Maya, Rose Additional Tags: Friends With Benefits, falling asleep together, Making Out, the little scene which was missing after Chan came to visit, they're gay and into each other, i don't make the rules, Tumblr Shorts, Episode 2 spoilers, light ones, Laws of attraction Summary:

Maya turned, eyes half open, just to see Rose sitting down next to her, the mattress dipping under her weight. Her hair was still a bit wet and Maya watched a drop of water wander down her throat and across her collarbone in her haziness.

 They demanded to be written about and I followed that command <3

[ncteez]

personally I think some of y’all should calm down a bit, as this is just about pretty kpop boys and fics. anyways! that being said I’m waiting for you to write amazing fics where we can get our guts rearranged by our fave emo bf joongie <3 🥹

^ THANK YOU MY LOVE

yes. yes. i'm working to finish this mingyu fic up and I'll be probably working on some more ateez content after. I'll get some juicy hongjoong works out soon ksjdfjksd alt art boy joongie coming right up :D

[starlightfreed]

I have no idea what I did to deserve a one day work week this week but 🧎🏽‍♀️

[justlikeazzy]

I edited the outfit of myself and decided to draw it! I really wanted to add a poncho-cape thing so I did. It looks pretty cool not gonna lie. The shorts are inspired by my real life jean shorts. The socks are inspired by the compression socks my mom try’s to force me to wear because of this one time I almost passed out at school(to be fair, in PE). The shirts actually inspired by my design for me and my friends character Nix!

I wanted to re-design myself because I felt like a t-shirt and rolled up pants was to simple. Luckily tho, I don’t have to change my profile picture because I literally have the same top half still.

This drawing was kinda rushed at the end because it was getting late. It’s literally 11:34PM right now for me. I started this when it was light outside still. Sometimes… I seriously forget how long drawings take.

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

[transxfiles]

cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.