#too long i’ll tell you that

[mxgyver]

off to do a little Christmas shopping & decided to not wear jeans for once 😌

[annagaw]

Stop staring at me, Granger, I’m trying to study.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Tagged by @rewritetheending @eddiebabygirldiaz and @wildlife4life for fuck it Friday, so fuck it I’ll reveal the concept for what the new wip is about… what if a classic near death confession but Buck isn’t the one Eddie gives the confession to…

Eddie’s eyes open, look straight into his, and his next words are remarkably clear. “I love him, Bobby.”

“No,” he shakes his head, a strange and frantic panic bubbling up inside him. “You can’t tell me this- you can’t tell me this-“ a hundred smiles shift slightly to the left in Bobby’s memory. It’s barely a surprise, really, he picked Eddie out for Buck himself, years and years ago. He thought they’d make a fine pair. “You have to- we’re getting out of here and you’re telling him yourself, you can’t-“ He remembers holding Buck after the well collapsed. He remembers watching the kid’s heart crack open and having the irrational thought that Bobby had to be ready to catch the pieces when they fell out of him so they wouldn't get muddy. “Don’t make me do this.”

"Please." Eddie's gaze is getting swimmy. "He has…" God, there's blood in his mouth, it's coating his teeth. "H- he needs to know he’s loved- I didn’t get the chance-“ Eddie’s inhale is a rattle, he makes a sound that’s sort of a laugh and sort of a sob without enough air for either. “I didn’t get the chance. He- he’s everything- he deserves- please, please you have to- to tell him-“

“Eddie,” Bobby says, his own voice cracking. “Don’t-“

Eddie’s hand squeezes, once, where it’s still limply grasped around Bobby’s arm. His eyes search and then focus. “Please.”

He says it like Bobby asked if he wanted toast with his eggs. It’s the ease of it, the lack of desperation, that has Bobby saying “Alright, okay, just- I promise, Eddie, now you just stay with me and we’re going to get out of here.”

@tayf-ghost @jeeyuns @devirnis @shitouttabuck @forthewolves @anxieteandbiscuits if you have anything to share!

[sableeira]

always wanted to arrange my artworks in a gradient and since I started drawing again over a year ago, I was finally able to put this together 🫶

[rowynri]

The fallen child…

[vigilskeep]

i just wanted a simple name for him and i was like halfway through the origin before i realised that rory and rica’s names are way too cutesy similar. too late now

[goldkirk]

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[weezerlvr228]

rivers if he was absorbed by poisonous gas but didn’t care too much

[hplonesomeart]

Going to post this small snippet spoiler for another SMG4 animatic I’m cooking up for viewing pleasure (and also simply because these characters are slowly seeping into my subconscious. As we speak Mr. Puzzles is directing my actions so that I can push his name into stardom with “gloriously animated content” HE’S KEEPING ME HOSTAGE HELP /J)

IT’S NOT FINISHED IT’S A POTENTIAL WORK IN PROGRESS

I love musicals and Mr. Puzzles strikes me as a theater nerd so I figured Hairspray (song being Welcome to the 60’s) was a good fit, plus wouldn’t it be fun to see Meggy try and help him along to start a redemption arch? Like how could they not carry a bit of sentimentality over the time spent together? I feel like her resilient passive aggressive energy pairs well with how he can be stubborn sometimes too…she can give him the push (or more like a well-intentioned shove) he needs to get his act together and give it another try! Because a part of me feels like he would want to regress into unhealthy past habits after facing so many defeats at the hands of SMG4 crew; shut himself in solitude and stare at a screen. So think the animatic would start with that scene and then lead into the musical number :D

[goldenhypen]

i tried. i rlly rlly tried to hold it back but,,,, GUYS IM IN LOVE WITH BEOMGYU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😫😫😭🥹🥹😭🥲🥲😆🫠🫠🤭😭🙄😭😭😭

[sisididis]

I might be giving away my age here, but one of the first games that got me into Greek mythology was Poptropica. (I did say that I might be giving away my age.) I haven’t played it in ages, but the Mythology Island quest was truly top-tier. And that mission where you have to rinse off the graffiti on the entrance to Hades’ realm?

“Hades is a deadbeat.” 

After reading the Percy Jackson series, I can honestly say that out all the gods and goddesses, Hades is the least deadbeat parent. On the contrary, he might be the best parent out of all of them, at least according to godly parent standards. 

[nanashisabonten]

paralive 30 day challenge challenge

DAY 1: favorite unit

The Cat’s Whiskers (and 1nm8)

first an introduction… i stumbled upon this challenge and it looked really fun !! i was gonna do it last month, but i was too late.. anyways !

so ! tcw !!

anyone who knows me knows i adore them !!

i think you can’t understate the sentiment of found families… i love their dynamic, and all of the characters are my favorites.

i think everyone can recognize my shiki obsession, but… also ! i’m a huge fan of xxxx. saimon, especially, is one of my favorite paralive characters, so ofc i like the remnants of xxxx as part of tcw… i don’t see enough people being insane about them, is it because people don’t read the novel..? anyways…

also, them being my favorite group might be a little bit of wish fulfillment… see, i really relate to shiki a ton!! like , a lot. so , i think it’s so sweet to see him being taken care of so enthusiastically by everyone else . as someone who shares a lot of the same struggles as him, it’s comforting to hear yohei and saimon offer him comfort in various scenes , and to see ryu give him physical affection .

i know a lot of fandoms have problems with certain groups being too strictly divided between “parents” and “children” dynamics to the point of diminishing each character’s original traits (cough… ryusetai discussions)…

but i don’t think that’s the case for tcw. i think saimon and yohei are meant to be seen as parents to ryu and shiki ;; it’s cute !

and also, not all people see this the same way, but ryushiki is like, my second favorite paralive ship, if not my favorite…

one thing i can’t stress enough to every person i end up talking to is how i have multiple conflicting but coexisting interpretations/hcs for my favorite characters .

like yes , i do hc shiki as aroace, but also, he’s part of some ships i really love, too, so i can see anything… i personally prefet bae as platonic soulmates, but it’s still cute seeing fanart for them and everything..

basically, what i’m trying to say is that just because i love ryushiki as a ship, doesn’t mean that i can’t also see them as brothers some days .

but like… they’re so cute omg… ryu always biting shiki… the scene in fate where ryu cries in his sleep and shiki wakes up and comforts him is so cute… the love voice drama part with ryu talking about shiki is so cute too… the beginning of the rooftop friends voice drama with ryu eating shiki’s food… the official short story which speaks for itself… i just love them…

so !!! i love tcw !!!

though… 1nm8… i love them just as much, i can’t pick a favorite…

aaa. i love. rokuta.

(i think it’s obvious since im a rokuta yumeshipper ;;)

he’s my favorite character… and, just, the miyama siblings are my favorite as well.. so tragic… my lovelies… and itsuki… i could talk about him forever too…

but, i’m feeling sick now so this part won’t be as long as tcw’s, but like…

family. unconditional love. itsuki’s devotion to kei. everything about rokuta ever. kei.

what is there not to love about 1nm8…?

so, i love them too..,!

so. those are my answers for day 1…! 🫶

(sorry i’m now a day late , i’ll try to fit in two days in one later on to catch up…)

[white-weasel]

Ideal Hypothetical Saw Film Reroll episode(s)

(This is something I’ve been thinking about as I’ve watched through the movies and @afoxnamedmulder also formally asked about it so I took that as full permission from him to just start spewing my every thought about these two things together. This post is hyper niche and for literally like 3 people but idec lets gooooo)

So the first thought is if the Film Reroll crew were to ever reroll Saw it would obviously be the first one. It’s the most culturally relevant one and the one that most fits with what I can see the show doing. In the case of rerolling Saw I, ideally the players would not have seen the movie. Like I said, since this is the most culturally significant one this might be hard but I’m gonna go off of both vibes and play style for this one and just hope that it works

For the GM it’s gonna be Paulo. I just feel he could do the cramped space of the bathroom justice and bring in new “challenges”/obstacles to keep things moving.

Playing Lawrence Gordon, and this is gonna sound crazy please bear with me, I think we get Carolyn Faye Kramer. My reasoning for this is that the Lawrence of Saw I is someone who, despite his task being to kill Adam and cut off his foot, does not actually have the ability to do it until the very end when his family is threatened. If we put Jon or Scott here, Gordon is shooting Adam within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Carolyn I feel can play someone very conflicted about the choice and also won’t immediately jump to trusting whatever Jigsaw is saying on the tape. She’s willing to cooperate with her fellow player and only if she’s pushed to take things into her own hands will she start trying to make moves, which I feel is fitting. (Also she’s the only cast member I feel like we can say 100% has never seen these movies lmao lest we forget the infamous Friday the 13th “I know who the killer is” fiasco” happening because she doesn’t like scary movies)

My first choice playing Adam Faulkner-Stanheight would be none other than Joz Vammer themself! I think they could really get the tone of the character down full stop. The mixture of outbursts and jokes, but then also throwing things at the wall to see what sticks in getting them out of there. I feel like Joz also would not accept the zero sum game presented by Jigsaw and would work to find a way for both Adam and Lawrence to get out together, which is really what you need for this movie. In my heart I feel like Joz has seen the movie, but for this scenario I would hope not because…

The twist in this reroll would be there has been a 3rd PC the whole time: Zep Hindle. I would LOVE for Tim to play Zep. He could 100% play this quiet, envious guy given instructions to carry out his part of the game. My imagining for this would be he and Paulo had a session before the main game that was all about how Zep handled the set up stuff with Alison and Diana.

And then I’m envisioning the bathroom game sessions are happening on a Zoom call or the like, and Tim is sitting with Paulo in his apartment, letting him know what Zep is doing if/when phone calls to the outside world are happening and stuff. Also Paulo could totally call for “breaks” in recording where he’s actually conferring and rolling with Tim on what Zep is doing. The knowledge Zep gets is basically the equivalent of him getting to know stuff because of the camera set up in the movie. This would probably be a logistical nightmare to actually record, but I like to think that the payoff would be awesome. Like it gets revealed there was a secret third player in the episode, Joz and Carolyn are shocked, and then the edit goes back in time to show key tidbits of Tim’s turns and such. They could even release the full audio of it then on Patreon lol

The reveal at Zep being a PC rather than an NPC also kinda parallels/coincides with him not actually being Jigsaw from the original movie too. He’s not the one actually making things happen, he’s all a pawn in the game as well

HOWEVER I also had the thought - if the crew does Saw they don’t HAVE to do the first one. They didn’t do the first Friday the 13th and hell, their first episode is literally Back to the Future 2, not the first movie. If the crew just wanted to do a Saw episode to focus on the trap aspect when they’re playing, I think they could play as the Fatal 5 from Saw V (blatant Saw V bias showing here, don’t look at me, but also I genuinely think this is the group game most conducive to being rerolled). It’s also very likely that none of them have seen Saw V, so the “twist” with the traps being all survivable wouldn’t be known to them

It was between Saw V and Saw II because those are the two group games where all of the participants are free to work together and it’s not reliant on one person. I like Saw V better because I feel it can be self contained more than II. With II you have to deal with the fact Amanda is in on all of it and idk I feel like that just doesn’t work as well for a ttrpg setting. Casting for this one is a lot more vibes based and I have less concrete answers, so I’m open to suggestions

GM - Paulo once again. King of making this all work

Ashley Kazon - Carolyn (don’t know too much about Ashley but I want Carolyn in this movie and feel she could work this)

Charles Salomon - Scott (he could do it. He could bring the smarmy vibes and even though he wouldn’t know the line “I’m an Investigative Journalist for 👆The Herald👆” he would know it in spirit)

Luba Gibbs - Jon (first of all, we don’t get Jon to play women enough on this show. I love him playing Annabelle in Jumanji. Secondly, I think he can play Luba’s cut throat nature well. However I also wouldn’t mind Lisa in this role. I think she could play it well also)

Mallick Scott - Andy (he might be a bit too sedate for this, but also he’s the one I trust the most to play into the inevitable guilt complex that would be put on his sheet so)

Brit Stevenson - Kara (she could 100% do corporate woman who cares only for her own survival until she realizes that she doesn’t HAVE to care only for her own survival. I believe in her)

No twist in how the gameplay happens here, the only fun thing would be to see if the cast would be able to figure out Jigsaw’s message in that they can all actually work together to get through the traps.

FINALLY the most self indulgent thing and the thing they would never actually do because it technically wouldn’t be the movie itself is they would give us an apprentice campaign with the mainline apprentices working together before the start of Saw III/Saw IV, each of them with their own specific, secret objectives they’re hoping to achieve:

GM/John Kramer would be Paulo

Amanda would be Joz (Fairly self explanatory I feel. They have the range to play her. They would GET her)

Lawrence would be Andy (I feel Andy could pull off apprentice Lawrence. Lawrence strikes me as someone in the shadows during his apprentice work, biding his time, and I can see Andy bringing that sort of thing to Lawrence. At the same time there’s some room to develop apprentice Lawrence’s motivations and character so I would be interested in seeing what he’d do for him)

Hoffman would be Scott (Hoffman was the hardest for me to pin down in this line up but I think I like Scott as my pick for now. Open to more thoughts about this one though.)

In every scenario there would be will rolls up the wazoo. I feel like will stats in this would be fairly normal, it would just be the penalties that would make the rolls hard. So I like to imagine that cutting your own foot off is probably a -5 penalty or something, but if you’re in immediate, imminent danger or you have credible reason to think your family is in danger you’d get some bonuses back to make it a less tricky roll. Also numerous fright checks would also be on the table I’m sure, as well as senses of duty or different traits people will have to resist. I think building the character sheets for this would be fun, though it would be interesting to see how it would get balanced out by Paulo when actually playing

[monitorkernelaccess]

I think it probably is more likely that Falin chimera was purposely trying to disarm Laios by crying for help, rather than that part actually being genuine. Cause it happens at a moment when she’s temporarily disarmed from being electrocuted and then she does make a smug face afterwards. But I’m sentimental and I Want To Believe

Uhh it could also maybe be both? Like both an intentional tactic (from the dragon side?) and also a sign that at least some part of Falin is in there and wants to be saved

The way they animate it, her eyes go from dragon-like slitted pupils to normal round pupils as she says it. And then a tear falls from one eye, while the other eye stays completely dry

Looking at all that again with a bit more context and possibly a clearer mind, that looks like it’s all to make the ruse look more realistic. If it were more of an outburst as I originally believed (or was trying to convince myself), then the pupils wouldn’t have changed probably? It seems like an intentional move

In addition to the pupil change, the single tear seems forced as well. Like she could only muster up one fake tear while the other eye remained completely dry.

On the other hand…it’s kinda hard to force tears at all, especially so quickly. And if we imagine for the moment that the tear was genuine, could the fact that it only fell from one eye mean that only half of her was crying? Like maybe the dragon is really mostly in control, but it let Falin out as an emotional manipulation tactic. Meaning that the cry was both genuine and just a combat strategy/self-defense measure.

And I’m still not sure what to make of the fact that she pushes Laios out of the way before crushing Kabru. Like was it just an accident then? Or is it more just a side effect of Laios being essentially the main character and no one in the main party gets killed in that scene? Or…could it still be that maybe, deep down, Falin doesn’t want to hurt her brother?

[e-m-p-error]

I have decided to make some muses Discord Only so that I can clean up my muses some! The following I'll still write but they will only be available on Discord.

St. Peter Sera Ace Apple Clara Dodie Fizzarolli Hen Moxxie Odette Paradise Verosika Lilith Cherri Bomb Eve Vaggie

[goldkirk]

I opened Pinterest for the first time in months.

That made me realize a lot about how bad I was actually doing and how much of a Waffle House Index use of Pinterest is for adult me, apparently.

I hadn’t realized it had grown that foundational to me in a healthy-brain-exercise-and-hobby-joy way. Nice to know moving forward! It’s another sign I can keep track of and use to spot correlation/indicator patterns earlier my behavior.

I love this kind of thing, it makes me so excited!