#they're both my kids tbh

[batfamfucker]

Did I ship Velma and Shaggy in Scooby Doo Myster Incorporated? Yes.

Did I also ship her with Hot Dog Water? Yes.

Do I ship Velma and Coco (?) now too? Yes.

Did I ship her with Daphne? Yes.

Have I also shipped Daphne with Fred my entire life? Absolutely.

Have I always been happy Lesbian Jesus Hayley played Velma? Absolutely.

Do I think the gang would be great as a polygamous ship? Absolutely.

It literally depends on what era/series/movie it is and my mood. I accept everything and deny nothing. I love all of them. I will forever advocate for any of them being any sexuality and/or gender ever. I do not care. I will absorb Scooby Doo concent into my veins. I just love them no matter what. Scooby Doo was my childhood and Daphne was my sexual awakening. That is all.

#Scooby Doo #Velma my beloved #All of them #I love all interpretations and versions #I think I'll always ship Fred and Daphne tbh because I always have and like. They're both Pan I think tbh #Good for them #Fred is a himbo that does not care for gender and Daphne just loves people #That's it. #But also they're both hot and I definitely liked both as a kid #Fred was my straight settlement and Daphne was the denial but Still Gay Crush

[fereldanwench]

BOLD THE FACTS ft Valerie Powell

→ Tagged by the wonderful @corpocyborg--Thank you so much! ♡♡♡ → Answers are based on her status during the in-game events

✧˖°. PERSONAL

$ Financial: wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty

✚ Medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non-applicable / would be in great shape if not for the brain worm

✪ Class or Caste: upper / middle / working / unsure / other

✔ Education: qualified/ unqualified / studying / other

✖ Criminal Record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet / commits more crimes (bribes law enforcement) to avoid charges / yes, but charges were dismissed

✧˖°. FAMILY

◒ Children: had a child or children / has no children / wants children

◑ Relationship with Family: close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased

◔ Affiliation: orphaned / abandoned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent(s) / not applicable  

✧˖°. TRAITS + TENDENCIES

♦ extroverted / introverted / in-between

♦ disorganized / organized / in-between

♦ close-minded / open-minded / in-between

♦ calm / anxious / in-between / highly contextual

♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in-between

♦ cautious / reckless / in-between / highly contextual

♦ patient / impatient / in-between

♦ outspoken / reserved / in-between / highly contextual

♦ leader / follower / in-between

♦ empathetic / vicious bastard / in-between

♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in-between

♦ traditional / modern / in-between

♦ hard-working / lazy / in-between

♦ cultured / uncultured / in-between / unknown

♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown

♦ faithful / unfaithful / unknown

✧˖°. BELIEFS

★ Faith: monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic

☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / in a manner of speaking

✮ Belief in an Afterlife: yes / no / don’t know/ don’t care / in a manner of speaking

✯ Belief in Reincarnation: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / in a manner of speaking

❃ Belief in Aliens: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

✧ Religious: orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious

❀ Philosophical: yes / no / highly contextual

✧˖°. SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION

❤ Sexuality: heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual

❥ Sex: sex-repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naive and clueless

♥ Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless / romance suspicious

❣ Sexually: adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious

⚧ Potential Sexual Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

⚧ Potential Romantic Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

✧˖°. ABILITIES

☠ Combat Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor/ none

≡ Literacy Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✍ Artistic Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✂ Technical Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

✧˖°. HABITS

☕ Drinking Alcohol: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / alcoholic / former borderline alcoholic turned sober

☁ Smoking: tried it / trying to quit / quit / never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / chain-smoker

✿ Recreational Drugs: tried some / never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / addict

✌ Medicinal Drugs: never / no longer needs medication / some medication needed / frequently / to excess

☻ Unhealthy Food: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / binge eater

$ Splurge Spending: never / sometimes / frequently / shopaholic

♣ Gambling: never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / compulsive gamble

Tagging: @medtech-mara, @vayneoc, @themermaidriot, @itzsassha, @elfjpeg, @morganlefaye79, and @vox-monstera ♡

dividers by @saradika | masterlist here (awesome resource--thank you so much! ♡)

#oc: valerie v powell #g: cyberpunk 2077 #tumblr: dash games #gotta ramble some now: #i wasn't really sure how to characterize her finances during 2077 #like she's not destitute but it's definitely not great #gig paycheck to paycheck sorta sitch #and she had a rich kid education #so lots of private tutors and travel experience #and she likes to read a lot #but she doesn't hold any fancy degrees or certificates #and both her parents have been deceased for 14+ years (if i remember my own timeline) by 2077 #and she's introverted but she's an isfj so like the most social of the introverts #she's inclined towards caution but she can be swayed into reckless decisions if the right person (jenkins; jackie; arguably goro) asks #i feel like 'sex favorable' might undersell her libido a bit tbh lmao #combat and tech skills might get some tweaks post-2.0 depending on what build i end up rolling with #currently i see as her as VERY VERY good with firearms but less so with melee and blades #i think she's really sexy holding a katana tho and the ninja build or whatever they're calling it looks fun af #she was a work hard; play harder corpo party girl in her early 20s and did everything under the sun #but her mother died as a result of her addiction which *eventually* made valerie choose a totally sober life #and the medication is actually used for proper medical reasons not recreational #long post

[essektheylyss]

This isn't inherently related to last night's episode, but it did feel very present even in absence and I was reminded of it, so:

I talked about this a while ago here, but Caleb and Essek actually communicate astoundingly well, once they are willing to approach each other without imposing their own fears upon them—either because Essek is afraid of being found out or because Caleb is afraid that Essek is too much like himself to be trusted. It's simply that they talk in such a way amongst themselves in particular that those around them (and, frankly, fandom) do not parse it as clear communication, but every time they have any significant engagement after the Nein come back to the outpost, they seem to proceed with the air of having reached an understanding.

And I've talked about that, and you can read the post linked above, but the thought I had about it that I haven't really discussed is that it is a PHENOMENAL choice for playing two assholes at or over 20 Intelligence in a relationship.

They're talking in circles and sounding enigmatic! They're dancing this strange dance about who reaches out when and on what terms! But the thing is, as bewildering as that may seem from the outside, they both give the impression that they understand the other implicitly, because they're operating on very similar wavelengths.

That is their communication. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a level to which that's intentional—what is between them stays between them. Likewise, it felt last night like Caleb did not necessarily want to make whatever their arrangement is known to the rest of the Nein, and that is part of it; they understand each other, and they're comfortable with their relationship at whatever pace and stage they're at, and letting other people know about it or be party to their discussions would allow a level of external scrutiny that they have no interest in.

It's just a really fun choice on a meta level, and it's what makes them insufferable to write, and I absolutely love them for it.

#critical role #cr spoilers #shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #cr meta #i was laughing parsing through my meta tag to find the linked post cuz like #man i really only write meta when theres a wizard on screen apparently. #head empty no thoughts unless wizards. #like sorry!!! i just have a lot of feelings about high int characters with former gifted kid complexes! #but anyway i still maintain that the ninth floor scene was on the level of a dtr relationship. #not inherently in the sense that they were then IN a relationship but #they both left that room with a very firm sense of their priorities and how they featured in each other's #they are insufferable to write though this is why if an emotionally charged scene with them isn't working i have to go cut dialogue lol #tbh it's also why imo they get VERY thrown off if the other is hiding something #even down to Caleb having no idea how to parse Essek's loyalties before finding out he was the traitor #like if there's active deception happening they're just [confused white lady surrounded by math.gif]

[howlhawk]

charlie was a very angry teenager who then turned into a very angry adult. the difference between them is, of course, the added touch of Regret™

#oc art #superhero oc #human oc #my art #oc drawing #comic books #stanley does art #charlie grimms #i think this like. the first actual colored serious art of charlie as a kid. that isn't just the one on his timeline of course #he's not that short btw i just slid him down so that both of them would be visible #and then that gave me the idea to put present day charlie's hands on his younger self's shoulders #so they're actually to scale with one another like their heads are the same size #i drew them on top of each other and used the symmetry tool for consistency of course #i actually really like the result tbh esp the differences in the faces #that the younger one still has a square face but isn't all harsh angles just yet

[origamiyoda]

Me trying to explain how, in comparison, Wolfwood is more of a Christ figure in the trigun narrative than Vash, who fits the role of the prodigal son or Cain or even Lucifer, which lends itself to the reoccurring subversion of christian themes prevalent in trigun:

my cat and her two day old kittens:

#I cannot stop thinking about this #the only thing i will say is that ww & vash DO have a weird. Judas/Jesus thing going on and thats where i can see vash as a Christ figure #BUT THATS IT. #TBH. #im insane. #I HAVE NO ONE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO. CAN ANYONE HEAR ME #normally id just ramble to my sisters but they're both Good Christian Kids and get vaugely uncomfortable when I'm weird about it #trigun is making me remember why I had a bought of vauge religious mania as a child #anyway. Idk. Does anyone understand #trigun #Leo yells

[scattered-winter]

ok winter...it's my turn now: jaykyle. i am intrigued, and i'd like to know as much as is feasible to tell me. (it's killing me to send something this open-ended but i feel like i don't actually know enough about them to be more specific.)

TEEHEE <3333 SOOOO GLAD YOU ASKED BECAUSE I CARE THEM <33

jaykyle is a ship between two of my favorite dc characters, jason todd and kyle rayner. they're both sooo fascinating on their own AND as a pairing and I just <3333 this is gonna get long because 1) they both have very long and complicated stories that's gonna take a bit to unpack and 2) I love them <33 and I love to talk about them <333 a bit of forewarning, but comics storylines are RIDICULOUSLY complicated and pretty much every single character has more origins, timelines, and personalities than you can shake a stick at. in the comics fandom we take marie kondo's words to heart because if we tried to stick to What Canon Says, we would be running in circles all day because everything contradicts itself. everything is canon and nothing is canon and if it doesn't spark joy, it isn't true <3 I'll explain everything to the best of my ability but it's gonna get Real Complicated Real Fast

tw for death (child and otherwise)

jason todd (playlist) is part of the batfam (group of vigilantes associated with batman) and he's also part of the wayne family (by adoption). I looked everywhere for the panels to show how he was introduced because it's objectively the funniest way to introduce any character but alas, they have eluded me so I'll just tell you: he grew up in the poorer parts of gotham city with his parents, catherine and willis todd. willis got caught up in two-face's gang (because gotham city as a whole has a trend of eating its people alive/forcing them to do crime because they're desperate and have no choice etc etc) and ended up getting killed because of it, and catherine died of an illness, leaving jason to fend for himself on the streets.* he is brought into the story by jacking the tires off the BATMOBILE, and getting caught by batman himself. in response to this he hits batman with a tire iron, calls him a big boob, and runs away (and in the process making bruce laugh out loud in the same place his parents died which makes me SOO OUGHOUGHOUGHOUGH)

*catherine and willis both loved jason very much, but recent comics have portrayed willis as abusive/catherine as neglectful, which doesn't spark joy for me personally so I tend to ignore those ones and stick to the others where they were genuinely loving parents who fell on hard times.

the original robin, dick grayson, recently moved on from the mantle and went to live somewhere else,* so bruce adopted jason and started training him as the new robin. he was a very bright, very loving boy who enthusiastically went to school and read books and loved bruce so so much and bruce loved him because that was his KID.**

*I can't remember if he went to live with the titans or went to gotham's sister city, bludhaven; but in any case he ends up in bludhaven eventually and operates there as nightwing

**In more recent comics, jason's robin days are portrayed as him being brash and violent (new drinking game: take a shot every time a comic describes robin jason as "angry" or "reckless" smfh) and of course while being a vigilante involves violence, and being a well-rounded character, jason did indeed have moments of anger, I strongly dislike this way of thinking because it takes so much away from his character and you'll see what I mean by that in a minute.

however, the happy days weren't gonna last. jason discovered that catherine todd wasn't his biological mother, and he had found some evidence pointing to who his birth mother was. (I think it was a birth certificate that was partially damaged so he couldn't see the whole name but it's been a while since I've read the comic where that happens so don't quote me on that) but regardless of how he found out, jason set out to find his real mother. he'd narrowed down the list of possible mothers to a few different women, so he found them each in turn and ruled them out as he went. he ran away from home to go on his little self-discovery mission, and the only reason bruce didn't go after him was because the joker had a big scheme with a nuclear missile that kinda took precedence. but by pure happenstance, they ran into each other and decided to work together for both their goals (stopping joker AND finding jason's mom). eventually jason and bruce narrowed the list down to one woman: sheila haywood. they travelled to ethiopia to find her, and jason actually did, but moments after meeting her, sheila betrayed him and handed him over to the joker, who proceeded to beat jason within an inch of his life with a crowbar while sheila watched.

(batman: a death in the family)

he then tied up sheila and left them both to die in the warehouse because he rigged it with a bomb. jason, despite being betrayed by her literally minutes before, stopped to untie her to get her out instead of saving himself. but the bomb went off with them both inside, just in time for batman (who had been frantically rushing to the warehouse as soon as he heard that jason had been captured) to see the explosion <3

(batman: a death in the family)

and the thing that REALLY fucks me up is that even after everything she did to him, jason still used himself as a human shield to try and protect sheila. these two panels have literally caused me lasting damage

(batman: a death in the family)

this is also why the narrative of jason being reckless makes me so angry. he didn't die because he was a reckless idiot who rushed into danger without a thought, he died because he tried to save a woman who nearly got him killed. he died shielding her with his own body even though she betrayed him literally a few minutes earlier. some comic writers have rewritten the scene to take out sheila entirely, but that takes away a huge part of the story!!!! jason didn't die because he was reckless!! he died because he was trying to save someone!!!! I will literally fight people on that to my grave smh

bruce brought jason's body back to gotham and buried him, and was never really the same after that (but that's a topic for another ramble because this is about THE BOY <3)

this is where things get a little trippy <3 first thing you gotta know about comic books is that death is RARELY permanent. the exact details are lost on me since I tend to avoid the big crisis events (and the headache they give me) but basically superboy-prime punches the fabric of the universe and kinda .. breaks some things. and jason wakes up in his coffin (slightly zombified), six feet underground. after clawing his way out of his own fucking grave, jason gets hit by a fucking CAR and is then taken in by talia al ghul (one of bruce's past lovers, daughter of ra's al ghul [leader of the league of assassins]). talia put jason in something called a lazarus pit, which is basically a pool of green bubbly goo that can resurrect someone (ra's al ghul is hundreds of years old and keeps himself alive with the pits). jason came fully back to life and stayed with talia for a time, during which he travelled the world to be trained by some of the best/most notorious fighters and assassins all over the globe. at this point, he'd been dead for quite a while (a year AT LEAST) and so when he finds out that the joker is still fucking ALIVE, it's .... a shock, to say the least. it's a very complicated issue because batman's deepest-rooted rule is to Never Kill, and there were a lot of underlying circumstances preventing him from killing the joker right after jason's death (despite really, really wanting to) but the thing is. the joker just keeps killing and hurting people, and he gets put in arkham asylum, and escapes and kills more people, then gets put in arkham again, and it's just a vicious cycle where the joker just keeps hurting more and more people. and like. jason got murdered by the joker and the guy is still fucking alive and murdering more people. so he heads off to gotham with a huge plan to confront bruce and make him choose once and for all: kill the joker, or let jason die. this whole arc is my very favorite comic book of all time, batman: under the red hood <333 basically jason becomes a crime boss called red hood (which was the joker's old alias before he became...well, the joker) and plots CIRCLES around bruce, joker, and the other crime bosses. they're literally his pawns the entire time <3 but this all comes to a head when jason traps batman, the joker, and himself in a room where he finally reveals his identity to batman and gives him an ultimatum: kill the joker, or kill him. he had the whole place rigged with explosives so that no matter what bruce chose, they would still blow up (as a form of insurance? as a form of suicide? who knows!)

I'd like to point out the obvious and say that jason was NOT in a great state of mind during this whole thing. like. this post highlights it very well imo, but tl:dr jason didn't really...make a plan for after the showdown. it was clear that he had a single goal in mind, which was facing off with bruce and the joker once and for all, and it was also clear how it would end because he knew deep down that bruce would never kill the joker. so he knew he would die going into it but he didn't really care. he did in fact die at the end of under the red hood, since he was originally meant to be a one-off character, but he was so popular that dc sorta erased his death at the end of utrh and established him as a main batfam player.

jason's post-resurrection characterization is REALLY inconsistent, but really at his core, he's deeply traumatized and angry, and his driving motivation is to save gotham in what he deems is the "right" way: killing criminals so that they're no longer a problem. which, considering how many times supervillains break out of arkham and wreak havoc, isn't really that far of a stretch. but because of batman's firm moral stance on killing, the two have a very .... complicated relationship. but regardless jason has one of the coolest designs in the entire batfam in my opinion <3

(batman: three jokers)

(red hood and the outlaws) (I hate this comic for what it did to the other characters but the art was pretty at least)

sometimes he's drawn with a white streak in his hair (a side effect of the lazarus pit) which is one of my FAVORITE looks for him <33 and he's a regular contender for my icon because he's my blorbo bingus blob boy <3333

BUT ANYWAY <333 ON TO KYLE <333

disclaimer: I haven't been reading kyle's comics as long as I have jason's (jason was my gateway character who first got me into comics in the first place so I had a lot more time to really dig into his comics and characterization) and there's a lot of info about each character that's kind of...absorbed over time. because there's so many different stories and comics about each character, it's hard to find everything they appear in, and since I haven't been reading kyle for as long, I don't consider myself an expert on him in any way but I'll do my best to talk about him because he's my favorite green lantern <3

(playlist) in order to explain kyle, first I need to explain hal jordan. he's the Original green lantern (meaning when you think of the dc superhero green lantern, he's probably the one who comes to mind despite there being more lanterns than I can count. he's the most well-known by FAR) but basically, the green lanterns are an intergalactic military/police force led by the guardians (a bunch of really tiny blue guys). they use green power rings that are fueled by willpower, and so only someone with a lot of willpower (specifically, the will to "overcome great fear") can be a green lantern. (there's a ring for every color on the spectrum, but that's another ramble for another day). hal jordan had been losing faith in the lantern corps for a long time, but the last straw was when his hometown, coast city, was destroyed. hal basically went into a massive grief spiral and tried to bring back the entire city and didn't have enough power to do that, so he took on the name parallax and murdered pretty much the entire corps, and most of the guardians to absorb the main green power source to get enough power to Resurrect The City. but one guardian managed to escape to earth, where he found kyle rayner and gave him the last green power ring.

being practically the only green lantern left, kyle had to defeat parallax and restore the corps practically by himself. and the thing about kyle is that he's the GOOFIEST guy on the planet (affectionate). upon finding out that he's now a superhero he proceeds to immediately go tell his ex-girlfriend about it (alex <333) and they have a photoshoot of him in his suit. I fucking love them <333

but alas!!! happy days don't last <3 kyle leaves alex alone for literally only a few minutes to go be a hero, and while he's gone, one of green lantern's biggest enemies breaks into her apartment and murders her. kyle comes back to find her dead body stuffed inside the fridge (fun fact: that's actually where the term "fridging" came from <3) and he proceeds to. torture and almost kill the guy who did it. we love an unhinged icon <3

(green lantern #55)

it's been a while since I've read his origin comic, but kyle eventually defeats parallax. further down the line, he becomes a white lantern (mega-powerful because it has the powers of all the colors in the spectrum, not just green) and in my personal favorite comic, also becomes ion (basically the living embodiment of green lantern power. also basically a god) and tbh it's his BEST look of all time

(ion: guardian of the universe)

like I said, I don't really have as clear of an idea of kyle's timeline since there's a few gaps in my reading, but the essentials is that he literally can't keep a girlfriend because they keep dying, and he continuously gets the power of a literal god and is so humble and heroic about it that it never goes to his head. but he also consistently tortures and kills without really showing any remorse whatsoever <33 he has the range <33

BUT. AT LAST. WE GET TO JAYKYLE. THE THING YOU ASKED ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE. there's only ONE comic that I know of where they actually interact on-panel, and that's countdown presents: the search for ray palmer. it's tied in with countdown to final crisis, which is one of the biggest dc events of all time, and I haven't read it and probably never will because the big crises always give me SUCH a headache to try and understand </3 but I HAVE read search for ray palmer because <3 of them <3

essentially it's a story where the atom (ray palmer) gets lost in the multiverse and so 3 people who are already kind of...Outside the Mainstream Timeline embark on a multiverse journey to find him. those 3 people? jason todd, kyle rayner, and donna troy. jason is only alive because the timeline shattered, kyle was literally a time-and-reality-altering god not just once, but multiple times, and donna troy has also died and come back and like. is the only comics character with Self Awareness (remember when I said every comic book character has a gazillion different origins and reboots? donna remembers ALL of them <3) and so all three of them are affectionately referred to as "cosmic mistakes" because. they're literally irregularities in the cosmic timestream. and I love them for it <3

the reason I'm a jaykyle truther is because. they're so fucking funny in that comic. they argue in pretty much every single panel they share, but their internal monologues are....very, very homoeretic.

(kyle, about jason) (countdown: search for ray palmer: wildstorm)

(jason, about kyle) (countdown to final crisis #33)

and honestly, it's about how fucked up they would be together. they would tear each other apart and also tear apart everyone else and it would be a horrible time for everyone involved <3 there are ships for cute cuddles and then there are ships for fucking killing each other and jaykyle is the second one <3333

#i kind of. ran out of steam by the time it came to talk about jaykyle which is. funny. given that it's what you Asked about #but listen. they're so so messed up. it compels me <3 #i wrote a lot of fic for them and tbh i didnt really lean into the fucked up-ness of their relationship as i could have <3 #but like. they do care about each other in their own ways but they're both so headstrong and almost...Too different that it wouldn't last #like. jason is Very repressed. my mans is batman's kid he's learned from the best when it comes to Not Feeling Emotions #and kyle has literally mastered the entire emotional spectrum to the extent that he could wield the white ring. #you have one guy who's ruled by his emotions because he can't express/truly feel them on one end #and you have a guy who's ruled by his emotions because he wears his heart on his sleeve and follows his heart with everything he does #and factor in how they're both so stubborn? and how they're both so damaged and traumatized in their own ways?? #they're a disaster <3 #anyway. i lomve them <3 #tysm for asking this literally took me hours to write but it was the BEST few hours of my life #typing with the biggest goofiest look on my face <3 #jaykyle #leo 🌻 #jason todd #kyle rayner #fun fact! for a while i was one of the top jaykyle blogs <33 #probably not anymore since my 911 blogging has kinda taken over my dc blogging for the moment #but still. for a while there i was winning <3 #there are also quite a few mutuals of mine who definitely could have explained this better but alas. #very very glad you came to me with this it made my day <3333333

[swashbucklery]

Hey question, if I, a grouchy lesbian with extremely specific tastes, have almost zero interest in male characters unless they’re 1) sensitive gay artistes or 2) very tender and gentle unproblematic nerds, will I actually like playing God of War?

I’m curious about Ragnarok because I’m craving a big open world that doesn’t have SKITTERING HORRORS in it (see: Elden Ring, Bloodborne) and a lot of reviews recommend playing the original God of War first but also the reviewers are all clearly men who are deeply moved by a story about being a shitty father and then learning to be a good one (?) and I think I. . .don’t care?

#i can count on one hand the number of male characters i like #and none of them seem like this tattooed axe man #who is mean to his kid #also if anyone has a rec for a better video game please hmu #but don't suggest horizon unless you are also going to come to my house and beat the tutorial level for me so that i can advance #to the open world #i rage quit it back in september and the situation is uhh not looking great for picking it back up again #i'm super excited for forspoken and i know that comes out next week #but i have video game time TODAY #also i know the reviewers also hate forspoken but tbh it feels like when they hated valhalla and odyssey #both of which i've cheerfully sunk 90+ hours into #because kassandra and eivor are not FOR THEM they're for mE #my perfect bi disaster jocks <3_<3 #sometimes i play a video game

[astrxealis]

good morning 🥺

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #sorrey ... not active ..... lots going on but also not (?) #IDK anyways i've reconnected w an old friend who's a childhood friend bcs shes the daughter of my mom's friend ^___^ #she said she's gna get into the 1975 more !! but she's alrdy going to the arctic monkey's concert soon which is super cool #and i rmbr our mom asked me and lune if we knew them too <3 but we didn't know there was a legit concert SOBS #yeah miss her a lot and it's sweet how wnvr we do reconnect a bit it always so happens we're into the same thing of sorts :(( #AND THEN! wow idk i've grown a lil less hesitant. somehow. idk. literally replied to the story on ig of a guy ik but haven't talked to in ag #ages* purely bcs he kept posting like woaaa based game and then ff6 best ff so i was like SO TRUE but have u played 14 #and he has NOT but does want to and then wow we could have had a lil convo but i left to watch a movie sorry bro <//3 #what else ... hmm ..... WELL. an old friend from all the way in 6th grade. okay so we often message each other a bit just like 'hey wna be #grpmates' or smth like that and that one time where they gave me a lil help for the chem grp work and i'm like. just comfy talking like #myself fr BUT THENNN messaged me sometime last week bcs. like smth w a grpwork and they got anxious they did smth wrong #bcs no one in the gc replied to them (sorry i didn't either SOBS) T___T ended up turning the convo to 'hey wt abt i finally try to talk w u #properly more' and HELL YEAHHH we both r the kinds that talk/type a lot but sometimes dip and disappear how lovely /gen LMAO <3 #idk. uhm. with the school fair we have booths and shifts for the booths and my group is the one with uhh the 4 kids who i'm often groups #with and they're all the. yk kids. ppl who i'd get along w and i've been classmates w all of em b4 but you see they're a grp of friends now #RAGHH ONE OF THEM IK LIKES PERSONA (MULTIPLE?? IDK. they once were like yo apollo u seem like u like persona lol #IDK WHAT THAT IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN but yes i do have akechi and ren charms on my backpack for school #AND THEN ONE is into like gi pjsk a lot of rhythm games and gacha mobile but all like uhh. yeah? tot love live bandori ... still cool fr tho #she's rlly nice tbh lol ^___^ wait tbh all of them are HELP but uhm idk but it's nice when ppl r nice to me #tbf that's literally how i got my first crush BUT WE DON'T TALK ABT THAT !! yk sometimes i unconsciously wonder abt her or look for her and #then i did see her again after a few months since seeing her early in on the school year bcs shes in basketball and i hung out at the uhh #covered court w my best friend whos in another varsity bcs we stayed late at school that day to help out w fair preparations! #i refuse to like her again but i realize i like that familiarity with feelings and uhmm yeah shes cool ig i kinda wish i was less. uhm. shy #back then? you see i barely cld talk to her ... LIKE. she'd be like. heyy! and do shit sometimes and i WOULDN'T TALK or just smile and #mumble RAFGHHHFHFHDHH but she'd say hi to me and include me in things and jokes and it made me rlly /@!(@/'dmdkzn okay #AND sometimes when i do talk back I am SOOOO GODDAMN AWKWARD GOOD GODS anyways now i'm like. less awkward. or maybe i've just accepted it n #i'm cooler now B) and a lot more confident zEjfhejdjsnk. yeah. and uhmm yeah that's it #BUT YEAH nice classmate she asked me for a hug once lol and i notice she's affectionate w her friends n it reminds me of m y own bestie awhh #she sometimes talks to me which i rlly appreciate even if it prolly seems like i hate her sorry i just suck w talking

[unluckystreak]

If you are OR WERE an ADHD kid and an adult, teacher, or other authority figure has ever told you, "you just need to apply yourself." or anything along those lines, I need you to know that you're NOT incapable of being motivated (lazy), you're NOT intrinsically incompetent (worthless), and your brain DOESN'T "work wrong" (stupid).

You are not defective for needing guidance. And it's not your fault if the don't know how to give it to you.

#anyway hearing that over and over again as a teenager made me want to bash my skull in so #if anyone needs it #things i wish i realized when i was a teen #and now tbh #i know there's a lot of posts about (former) gifted ADHD kids #and that's great /gen #those conversations definitely need to happen #and whole i don't think this topic is purposely or at all being neglected #i want to talk about the quote unquote low preforming adhd kids #the kids the teachers didn't pay any mind to #the kids that were exhausted by school #even when they didn't do any hw #the kids who compared themselves to everyone that breathed #the kids who got bitter when someone complained about a better grade or overall standing than you #and feeling guilty being bitter in the first place #because you know they had their own problems and their feelings were valid #but you couldn't help thinking I WISH I HAD THAT PROBLEM DON'T THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TAKING FOR GRANTED #and you ping pong from bitter to guilty for that bitterness to steeping in both at the same time #the kids who wish they were the smart kid that just didn't try #but just felt genuinely stupid kid and everyone knew it #the kids who knew they were being looked down on #and the kids who didn't blame them you just wanted them to know AT LEAST that you knew you were inferior #and felt guilty thinking any kind peer might look down on you at all isn't that just a product of your own evil and malicious nature? #the kids no one expected anything from #the kids who didn't get the material #the kids who completed classwork and tests slower than anyone else #the kids who like their classes and like their teachers but just can't do it #the kids who hate their classes and hate their teachers and just can't bear to do it #the kids who feel nothing about their classes and their teachers and just wish they could stop feeling numb #i didn't resent the adults for telling me to just apply myself i just wish i knew how to make them understand

[marshmallow-biscuit-blog]

Shut up they can marry if I want they want too.

#not main tagging because it doesn't need to be clogged with my ocxcanon bull #mugmanxrooty #tbh I was just kinda upset and they made me happy so- #Rooty hates all the cracks on herself; really insecure about it ya know #they're both adults here fyi #just wanted to add that #otherwise they're both kids so no harm either way #rooty float #oc x canon

[rubberbandballqueen]

now that i've been working w/kids on a much smaller scale, i'm starting to understand how uncommon it is to meet kids you can easily connect with

#finding kids who like you isn't too hard so long as you're nice to them #but that often ends up with sitting there n nodding as they babble to you abt stuff you don't fully understand lol #i've said it a couple times but i don't really feel like i know how to talk to kids bc i don't really know how to like #tailor my language to them; n a lot of kids are surprisingly incurious n won't ask if they don't understand smth #but yesterday we had a kid who seems pretty sharp; n when i explained things to him he seemed to actually sit n absorb it #then again he's also approaching the age where i find i can actually talk to kids bc they're more likely to start turning brains on #his younger brother has a speech impediment n his mom mentioned it n i was like 'haha it'll be fine #then the younger brother opened his mouth n i was like. 'the mom was not wrong. that speech sure can be impeded.' #the older brother understands at least so i am Desperately Trying to figure out what's going on there for now #they're both pretty obedient kids which is also really nice tbh; their mom seems to be pretty good at like #raising them in a way that is conducive to society/group settings #the worm speaks

[arch-dieangelo]

ON MAKING PROMISES AND FOLLOWING THROUGH

¹ the titan’s curse, rick riordan   ² an impromptu therapy session with jenny slate, jenny slate   ³ the titan’s curse, rick riordan   ⁴ karma, ajr   ⁵ the mark of athena, rick riordan   ⁶ fang, chelsea wolfe   ⁷ the house of hades, rick riordan

#mutuals can interact plz dont if ur a personal #SELF. #MINE. #grumbles. i dont think i like this as much as i liked it at 2am but if i look at it in my drafts any longer im gonna delete it so #the way both percy and nico hesitated making the promise but nico actually made it and was able to follow through ack #<- not blaming percy at all btw dont get it twisted. #and like percy didnt promise anything other than doing his best #but from nico's perspective... well he was a little kid... how could he have known or been able to process all of that correctly? #i dont think nico would ever let anyone promise him anything ever again tbh. #but he? he'll make promises up and down even if they're impossible and he'll follow through or die trying

[anghraine]

Mesmers are my one true love in both GW1 and GW2, and in general I lean towards squishy spellcasters in virtually all games (my level 14 D&D character is currently a sorcerer with 12 AC, lol).

That said:

I made a Guardian in GW2 (short version: heavy armor+most weapons+AOE support buffs+holy damage) years ago because I do have a great fondness for clerics and paladins in a sort of archetypal way and the class fits that vibe really well. I only played her to around level 50 (out of 80) and then mostly did nothing until I realized a few months ago that she already had some levels in the Weaponsmithing crafting profession and I could use her to make cool weapons. So I still didn’t play her, but would work on advancing her Weaponsmithing when I didn’t have the brainpower for anything else and eventually got her to max level in Weaponsmithing. GW2 crafting levels also gives you some standard XP, so doing nothing but crafting with her had gotten her to around 70, and I just used her to craft high-level materials that my other characters couldn’t make.

Then I realized that she had to be level 80 to access some account-wide features that would let her craft even more things. She’d only halfway completed even the beginning maps, so I just put on an XP booster and ran through Queensdale (human beginning map) doing events and getting exploration points. And it was super fun to play her, actually, because she’d just run around to low-level groups struggling against various bosses or actually dying, heal/resurrect/buff everyone/absorb damage enough for them to take out champions and such. My mesmer can’t usually do much for other players, so it was really different and the other players were like “oh thank you thank you,” so a nice experience all around.

...She was still stuck at 79, but then the Shadow Behemoth spawned, lol. So now she’s 80 and I’m going to outfit her with awesome equipment and run her around some more when I don’t feel like living on the edge as a mesmer.

#also i'm fond of her storyline even though it's not my number one favorite #hers is basically an au of althea's because she actually is a character in althea's story but obviously not the commander in that one #when althea goes to ebonhawke and is talking to people about various identity issues and uneasily realizes #that her cousin victoria probably wouldn't be accepted as much because she's adopted and there's this more ascalonian than thou shit #that victoria is my guardian! and she has the whole backstory around being adopted as a little kid #and never knowing what happened to her bio parents until the spies of the crown arc plays out #and i imagine she relates to langmar and ascalonian identity in subtly different ways than althea even though they're quite close #and they're quite different in personality—althea can be aggressive at times but she's a lot more slippery than victoria #victoria just looks around and is like Something Must Be Done (Preferably With a Large Hammer) #so although their starting backgrounds are similar (both blessed by kormir etc) #althea ends up in the order of whispers (i think even non-commander!althea in victoria's story would end up there) #and victoria in the vigil #it makes a certain amount of sense tbh that althea would end up going to ebonhawke because it's her birthplace and she has family there #and a lot of emotions for it in general—but ultimately she goes because she /wants/ to #while victoria has never been there in her life when the vigil sends her there to help and she's trying /not/ to have Emotions #anghraine babbles #long post #anghraine's gaming #ascalonian grudgeblog #victoria langmar #althea fairchild #honestly i do like missing sister much better than the dead parents backstory on the writing level BUT i do like the possibilities of both #anghraine's headcanons

[fxa]

tumblr is my only social but occasionally i do indulge in visiting other sites and looking up people i didn't like in high school to rejoice in how awful their lives are now

#one of my school bullies had 3 kids and another on the way when we were 20 lol. few years later and now she has 5 kids. different dads too #idc how toxic it is to say this but i love to see a good failure story #like yeah it turns out everyone saying “they bully you because they're unhappy. your life will end up better than theirs” was right! #my life IS better than 100% of the people i hated by the end of high school whether they bullied me or i simply didn't like them #mfw i have a steady white collar job with a pension waiting for me + the best health insurance + i put >25% of each paycheck into savings #it's not like i'm living a high life but none of those people will ever see a retirement working fast food in our hometown til they die 😳 #the funniest ones are who i ended up graduating college with. like babygirl we both had the same opportunities... you CHOSE fast food? okkk #my awesome job isn't even specific to my degree. literally anyone with a bachelors can do it. liiiiiike #keep complaining to facebook about working at Popeyes with your bachelors girl imma bump up my TSP from 10% to 20% real quick #TBH there is not a single person from elementary/middle/high school that i would voluntarily “reconnect” with #the older i get the more i realize i didn't like a single mf from school even if i thought i did at the time. except for my number 1 bestie #i remember at about 16 i slowly cut off all my other friends for various reasons. literally could not have improved my school life more #i didn't make a single friend in college whatsoever and by god was i so happy. i would go to college forever if it were free #professional loner student #damn no wonder i got a personality disorder slapped onto my record 🤨 like ok girlfreak calm down with the edge (@ myself) #anyways thank you social media for letting me see this on the days i wake up feeling petty!!!!!!!!! #bluh

[espytalks]

i should stop taking naps after dinner.

I just had a frickin weird one, cause ive been playing a lot of suiika game and heldivers 2, of all combos, and i drempt i was calling in these tanks? and i kept dropping them on more tank things so they'd fuse and make bigger tanks.

There were a lot of enemies (cant remember what they looked like) and just? a lot of noise and gun firings, and they kept shooting down my tank thingies so i kept dropping more tanks, which i'd see from the same perspective as calling in reinforcements in the game, which wasn't as disorienting as it sounds.

i woke up when the chaos died down, and i woke up super relaxed, my dudes, which is weird because i hate guns and military-esque games, so by all means that shoulda been a nightmare.

#espy talks #my brother got us both copies of the game #cause HE likes those kind of games and asked me to play with him #and it's easier to live with people when they're happy so i tolerate it for him #and tbh i'm decent at the game. i'm not good enough to play by myself though #which i really don't want to. #and ive been playing this other game (which i'l call watermelon cause that's what it means) #which is just this cute kid's matching puzzle game #which is actually really fun #but i started playing it cause i'm so sad from all this loss around me #and i'm afraid i'm gonna die alone #so i'm playing this cutesy game that i'm bad at obsessively to get The Thoughts tm outta my head

[mothbeasts]

okay cleaver in dst would be interesting too i think personally. Something something can couriers survive HELL. cleaver voice ummm i dont think this is the mojave.

#bee's buzzing #benny fnv is there too they dragged him along for the adventure #benny is rapidly losing sanity and cleaver is skipping along and having a great time #they are foraging for berries in the woods #the worst thing for cleaver would be. no med-x. SAD oh well theres other couriers #theyre crumpled on the ground going through the horrors when they run out of their stash but like #otherwise? theyre so fine w/ this #they stare at wx with their autism eyes and go “technically im part robot. can i stick my hands in your wires” #what else. umm. cleaver would like several of th guys i think #theyre fascinated with wilsons pathetic guy swag #theyre like a weird aunt to all of the kids #i think theyd get along with just about everyone actually #debatably rocky start with maxwell if they know he got the others stuck here but like. shrugs. what can you do #they would also like wigfrid specifically i think. they're particularly fond of any performers tbh. #cleaver voice hi you seem cool. dont mind me staring with my autism eyes #THEY ALSO both have diets that primarily consist of meat. though #in cleavers case. they mostly eat. dubiously safe to eat raw meat off the ground like some kind of animal