papervo1d

[papervo1d]

sadie hawkman’s dance when?!

#deltarune

[papervo1d]

Another piece from earlier this year! My take on Tress from Secret Project 1!

#tress of the emerald sea #brandon sanderson

[papervo1d]

Just played 3 rounds of Uno with my family. I won all 3 games without even trying… I said “just call me ‘Mat O Shadows’” but they didn’t get it 🙃

#i love him #mat cauthon #wheel of time

[papervo1d]

I’m also interested hearing what exactly the ship is that you based your answer on, if you’d like to share!

(This was meant to be fandom specific but doesn’t have to be. Be free!)

#all my ships are oc ships tbh #it's not very often i feel drawn to canon ships

[papervo1d]

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#not very often but yes i do!

[papervo1d]

i hate you shein. i hate you wish. i hate you temu. i hate you aliexpress. i hate you fast fashion. i hate you consumerism. i hate you planned obsolescence. i hate you plastics.

[papervo1d]

ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

#malazan book of the fallen #i have had the first book on my bookshelf for about 4 years 💔 #one day!! #also the way of kings but i am actually going to read that one soon

[papervo1d]

so obviously drinking blood from someone's neck is incredibly homoerotic, it's a classic for a reason

but someone drinking from your wrist? getting to look at them as they sink their teeth in your skin?? being able to watch as their eyes flutter close and they barely hold back their instincts to devour you whole??? Being just as enthralled by that sight as they are by your taste???? hello?????

[papervo1d]

maaan Bloodborne is probably my favorite game

#bloodborne

[papervo1d]

you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

#early shift at work so could come home early #then nice big cuddles with my giant dog <3

[papervo1d]

ambitious idea rattling around my head for a bloodborne fic exploring the night old yharnam burned down

#while i haven't engaged in anything bloodborne in ages😅 #gonna have to brush up on my bb knowledge #honestly tho i really think that timeline wise the old yharnam burning was an incredibly significant event #and it might be a little too ambitious for my writing ability but nothing wrong with a little challenge!!

[papervo1d]

I do think that it is incredibly interesting that Miquella is seemingly just straight-up immune to the Scarlet Rot.

Like, he has been by Malenia's side all his life even before he was born, together in the womb, and yet there is no record nor indication that he ever caught the Rot. No missing limbs or scarring... nothing.

So then I start wondering why, he, in particular, is immune and it could be one of these several reasons:

Curses can't stack. Miquella is already cursed with eternal childhood so that means he can't be afflicted with Scarlet Rot at the same time. Something something Outer Gods powers/essence can't intermingle possibly????

Because of his eternal childhood curse the Rot cannot take a hold of him because his body is constantly being renewed/is eternally pure.

My blood theory, where Unalloyed Gold comes from Miquella's blood. So from a scientific perspective, since he was exposed to Scarlet Rot while in the womb his body developed enzymes which could combat/neutralize the rot thus making him immune. Awfully savvy of Miquella to purify his blood and natural immunity even further, to make it so every Outer Gods influence is nullified.

#elden ring

[papervo1d]

oh yeah since the easy mode debate is ongoing i’m giving my hot take: if you make fun of people for wanting one you’re a total fucking clown. soulsborne is not your special hard game series for elite gamers only 

the operative word in video game is GAME. for FUN. if there was an easier mode nobody is going to take away your normal mode so you can carry on flexing on the internet 

#i play ALL my games on easy mode if there's the option #because i'm playing for fun and i like to be able to do so without stress #that being said i do like the difficulty of souls games - to me it adds to the experience #but you can be sure i'd play on easy if there was an easy mode #easy mode is GREAT and not everything has to be difficult!!!

[papervo1d]

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

[papervo1d]

not to be pretentious, but a lot of stuff you guys complain is being ruined by capitalism/the algorithm/whatever can be solved by consuming something else than the most basic mainstream stuff that's thrown in your lap. "songs nowadays are getting shorter to fit entire tiktoks and it's ruining music" have you tried listening to something else than Spotify's Top 100 my dude? "fanfiction-to-publishing pipeline is churning out mediocre books and it's ruining literature" have you tried reading something outside the NYT bestseller list my dude? This is not a post about how algorithm based industries give visibility to the lowest common denominator art at the expense of actually creative and meaningful art that struggles to make itself known, which is a valid discussion for another time, this is about people actively not giving this kind of art their visibility because they won't get out of their way to discover stuff outside the mainstream radar and prefer to be passively fed what to consume while bitching that is not up to their tastes.

#exactly this #other

[papervo1d]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#other

[papervo1d]

the witch crowned with stars

#elden ring #sorceress sellen