#well mostly crow

[puppyeared]

beep beep im a sheep

speeddraw below the cut (audio warning)

song: "Cult of Dionysis" by The Orion Experience

[svtskneecaps]

i'm still stuck on the purgatories so here's a list of purgatory 2 moments simply off the top of my head that deserve to be remembered:

aimsey ducking all of axolotl team alone in a cave with literally half a heart

goose gang fucking descending on the raccoon base and absolutely wrecking shop

ethan crankgameplays clutching up for team panda during the capture the flag game by being the only one hanging out in the center and periodically checking the chests, earning them a shitton of flags and clutching multiple rounds

crow team's egg taking 0 damage

pac doxxing goose gang's egg in the last second

shelby shubble as the last member of her team online writing a letter to aimsey and sharing the world's most devastating ten minutes before her team was eliminated with one of the eye creatures (coco? i forgot lol)

badboyhalo absolutely fucking DEMOLISHING the battleship event on like 2 hours of sleep and a dream

wuant(?) stealing a tv from the battleship event and then playing portuguese ice age on it for the crows lmfao

tubbo djing for his team while waiting for the time for a goose gambit

theguill CRASHING THROUGH THE FUCKING CEILING of the raccoon team's hidey hole like the fucking kool aid man in a last effort to save his team and 4v1 or 5v1 ing team raccoon; he lost but that was such an epic fucking moment

theguill and etoiles pvping and each hyping the other's skills the entire time

seapeekay escaping cellbit and baghera and then stealing their boats and rocketing past to tease them about it; that shit was iconic

kenny going mad with power collecting sand on literally day 1

the english speaking squirrels taking actual physical notes on portuguese phrases (i think)

lgbtiba

i may add more this is an off the top of my head list but like got DAMN i like these events :D i like them a lot

[yuudamari]

show by rock dump but its mostly shuuzo. This one goes to the 3 sb69 fans left.

[aphroditestummyrolls]

The Only Way Out (is through)

3 times that Colm Fahey was acutely aware that Wylan Van Eck needed a better father, plus 1 time where he stepped up to be the da he deserved.

[absentlyabbie]

man i remember when my time at sandrock was still in development and there was some dev update introducing the town doctor character, fang, with his pretty delicate facial features and long shampoo-commercial hair, looking like every cliche of a "cold, reserved anime pretty boy" distilled

and then the update where they said they would make him romanceable/expand his backstory due to popular demand, and i rolled my eyes in utter disinterest at what looked like the same cardboard cutout love interest we've all seen a million times, cuz that is just not my bag, personally

and then i played the game and well fuck, so he's actually disabled due to deep childhood trauma, and you help him through his struggles to a place where it's less debilitating, learn he's extremely, passionately motivated to help others not suffer the way he did, and is in fact kind and awkward and a little bit of a dork

and oh no, whoops, i've tripped and fallen and married him

[kazscrows]

This just in from Ketterdam:

Local man is in shock to find that people (especially a woman) care about him.

[the-red-butterfly]

Crows On The Window

Based on a story that happened to a friend of mine. Aethir <- that's her AO3 btw. I was just so immediately charmed by the anecdote my mind just SPARKED.

And yeah, that's right, two posts in a day babyyyyy. With corvids too ✨ what a treat.

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Open for Commissions

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Discord Server: The Gregs

18+ Grishaverse book specific server! All ships and sides of fandom are welcome, just keep things civil. I’m aiming for a chill environment so please also keep canon bashing to a minimum.

We’re currently partly through a series read through! We’re starting Siege and Storm tomorrow!

Feel free to message me for a link

[effable-husbands]

Crowley is such a "Lady" gender

[shrekyaoi]

I think a big part why there's such an issue with mischaracterization and what not in cod is because a huge part of the fandom are teenage girls who have not played the game and who got into cod through edits of ghost or könig they saw on tiktok. Kind of mean but I digress. I don't think there's anything wrong with not playing the games though, they are military propaganda and a part of the proceeds do go to the us military so if you've got a strong moral stance against that I can see why people wouldn't buy them. They are also overpriced as fuck too. Pirating is very much a thing thought but I think it's a little beyond the know how of the average person in the cod fandom

believe me if you think i’ve dropped a single penny on any property activision has ever handled you’d be dead wrong. i’m not sure i’d target lock on the “teenage girls” because ultimately there’s a lot of misogyny buried in that belief, but it is because people do not want to engage with the games on any level deeper than character appearances and a few voicelines. people don’t want to read ghost’s comic (which. considering the content, i cannot blame them too much but they won’t even read a synopsis), they don’t want to watch playthroughs, they don’t want to read/watch analyses. it’s a little embarassing that there’s such a clean cut between the people that have and haven’t played the games. i saw it back a few months after mw2 2022 came out and the fanbase that HAD played the game thought it fucking sucked dick and balls but the part of the fanbase that hadn’t didn’t know/didn’t care. the contrast is wild. it’s kinda funny that the people that have played the games love yuri to a frankly offputting degree but the majority of the fanbase that haven’t don’t even know who this guy is. it’s weird! but it’s not unique. i did my time in the dc fandom and when i tell you not a single person wants to pick up a comic and read it i would still be understating it. people don’t really like doing the work if the only thing that compels them is designs plus what i shall here refer to politely as “baggage”

this is getting long so i’m cutting it

another thing is that it’s extremely easy to write cod off as propaganda because it is, but i don’t think a lot of people realise what that actually means. i don’t think they want to actually dig in and pick apart the parts that are very clearly the writers going, “hey, you see these guys? we should hate these guys because they’re different” or “you see this shit? this is why we should have a bigger military” or “wow wasn’t that horrible. don’t google it btw since it’s not the russians that actually did that irl but the americans 🖤.” it’s almost overwhelming but people don’t want to talk about it.

and i can kinda understand why, right. because people want to “just enjoy things.” they want to be able to turn their brain off and let it all wash over them so they don’t have to think too hard. this sounds a little condescending, i realise, and i’m sorry for that because there’s nothing wrong with it. that’s why we’ve got blockbusters. but, it’s also why we’ve got marvel movies, and marvel movies have been military propaganda since the very first iron man movie.

i can’t personally ever turn off the critical lens when i engage with art. it’s a problem of mine. so, this is that haunting third component to me writing the roach fic, the component i never really bring up except in the author’s note of the first chapter: call of duty is the crowning jewel of western imperialism and if i do not talk about it somewhere at some point my head will explode

if me actually digging into it here puts anyone off of the fic now from me saying it, i’m really sorry you’ve been sold something different than what you had anticipated. think of it as a plot twist. an explicitely-stated plot twist, but one nonetheless. it’s only been implied in the fic so far, but here it is in all its ugly glory.

anyway. while i have you here. watch this video for me

[russell-crowe]

inspired by russell his latest tweet i am reminded that this guy is just one soft romantic guy & because i feel like a lot of people think he is a walking anger complex, let me list some examples from just one (1) interview i read recently from 2005 where is being a big old cutie

- he relocated to sydney, because Danielle ( his ex-wife and partner at the time) was pregnant and wanted to be near doctors and hospitals and according to russell she was "100 percent in control", so he made sure to listen to her needs.

- he described taking charlie to his first football game and how he was just absolutely beaming with pride, being able to hold his kid and share that experience with him. "it was amazing, looking across at Danielle, who is smiling at me because Charlie is snuggled in my arms, and she knows that I am just on cloud nine because I have taken my little boy to a football match"

- he built a playing area at his farm for little charlie where he could play safely 🥹

and that is just from one interview. i believe him to be a romantic in the wider sense of the word too, and i always love how he is so fascinated by the human experience and the history of what we have been up to. [holds him tenderly]

[yarn-dragon]

For all the friends who follow the dnd shenanigans get ready for a lot of screaming during/after tonight's session

It's gonna be a good and normal time

[fourfoldfires]

this post got me with a sudden mighty need to make a Party Girl Paladin... messed around with the cc a bit and oops now she's got Lore

[redactedcrowart]

i've made a cohost both for my main and my art sideblog, as well as a pillowfort all under the same usernames (for the uninitiated, that is redactedcrow and redactedcrowart). i'm undecided if i'm actually going to use any of them yet, but they're there

[gigamuffin]

do you have any unpopular aubreyad opinions 🎤

i cannot stand Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin to the point were it lowers my enjoyment of the movie if i think about it too much. i dont really like Russell Crowe either but at least i can get invested enough while watching him to believe he's playing Jack Aubrey

but if that's not spicy enough i prefer the radio drama cast (not the master and commander one) for Jack and Stephen over the movie cast. if only in sound more so than as an adaption, because let's be honest it's not that good? David Robb and Richard Dillane sound exactly how i imagine they talk. it has the opposite effect, making me like it more than it deserves.

[kaoharu]

SCREAMS IN AGONY. BUSTAFE2 NEWS ??? AT ANIME EXPO ???