#Be My Third Order

[nerdyenby]

Sorry, your boyfriend got reincarnated. Yeah, he doesn’t remember that time you murdered him with your bare hands. He doesn’t know how much you love him. He doesn’t know that you’ve killed for him. He doesn’t know that you’ve killed him. He doesn’t know it’ll happen again. As he takes your hand and your heart, and you laugh from atop an animal the two of you ride together, he doesn’t know you’ve been here before. He doesn’t know it’ll happen again.

#in order we got: llama. horse. panda? llama. camel #sorry for trafficshipping it’ll happen again #scarian #hermitshipping #<- ig?? #idk they’re /p in my mind but I have no way to justify that lmao #traffic series #life series #third life #last life #double life #limited life #secret life #grian #goodtimeswithscar #nerdy’s traffic analysis #poetry #?

[chubs-deuce]

unstoppable force vs immovable object is one of my favorite dynamics

#I am a secret third thing: I can make them kiss #also this reads a little out of order bc the meme format doesn't sound right otherwise but the first sentence is charlie the second is Al #charlastor #radiobelle #hazbin hotel #alastor #charlie morningstar #fanart #sketch #my art #art #digital art #just realized right after posting that I forgot his monocle again- whatever it's not like he looks consistent in my style anyways lol

[topchomp]

YOUNG & TRAGIC ⬤ // a sad, sad nona playlist

#sad sad sad #THIS BOOK FUCKED ME UPPP *starts my third reread of the series* #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #tlk #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #also listen to my playlist!!! its organized in intended listening order!!!

[7roaches]

sick asl rn nd drew these laying down

#my art #art #adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #trans #🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #lesbian #💥💥💥💥💥 #i draw them soooo much but idc bc before this i would go like months barely drawing now i draw almost every day #but i’ll do other stuff soon i’ll draw diff at stuff nd maybe oc stuff nd also matbe do a tober challenge #i also might start posting art multiple times a day #idk why i dont do that already #also i lied i was only sick eyesterday and drew the first and a half ones laying down #today im better (good) but have to got o work (bad) #i put these in order but maybe itdve been better to switch the first nd third so they show up better in the more like this thing? #ok i have to go to work bye love you

[poppybros-jr]

I wanted to draw the elevator girlies too!

Please forgive any issues, I don’t draw Splatoon stuff often but Side Order demanded it. They were originally going to be smooching but I need more art practice before I can get that to work. Let’s just say they’re seconds away from doing so ^^;

I’ve been agonising over posting this one for weeks since I’ve only ever posted Kirby art on this blog, but it is technically a multifandom blog and I don’t really want to make a second art blog. People who follow me for Kirby stuff only and don’t want to see my Splatoon art, please feel free to mute the ‘poppy draws squidkids’ tag.

#poppy draws squidkids #splatoon #side order #pearl houzuki #marina ida #pearlina #acht mizuta #dedf1sh #agent 8 #the lesbians the wingman and the third wheel #my agent 8 is called melody and she is simultaneously a mum friend and an annoying kid sister #my kirby hyperfixation is dormant right now #the second we get a new kirby trailer it will reawaken once more #poppy draws #side order spoilers

[aro4aro]

in light of recent events

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon side order #side order #side order spoilers #?? i mean probably not really but w/e #dedf1sh #acht #aromantic #aro #icons #my icons #this octopus is romance repulsed!! #edit: used a better transparent for the second icon & added a third

[lovedeltaa]

"nintendo baited us with agent 4!!" mf you CONVINCED YOURSELF 4 was gonna be present BEFORE WE GOT THE DLC 😭

#side order #it‘s so nice not setting expectations for stuff #also splatoon fans gotta play more games than just splatoon #when the gameplay-focused game focuses on gameplay #wahhh its short ITS ROGUELIKE GO REPLAY THE DLC #sincerely a comp player who quickly beat it twice and am on my third run now #I‘m having fun idc

[senliin]

why was this the first thing laios asked. i know what u are

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #i've been thinking abt this for a while like #i think laios and falin both don't have much of a connection to gender aside from simply being older brother and younger sister #older brother is a gender #maybe this is my eldest sibling syndrome plus transness talking but #to me laios is just being a man simply in order to be a brother #no other reason #adding a new tag bc i didnt realize this actually got notes but like #yea. i am not a girl but i am an older sister #older sister is like a gender subset. like u click on my gender and there is a dropdown bullet point that says older sister #if this makes sense #i dont mean that in a microidentity way #it's some secret third thing

[thatsnotahoodjason]

in my experience of having siblings, the parent has an order when they talk about their kids

and this is what i think bruce's order is:

dick- usually the other person will bring dick grayson up, he's a media favourite of bruce's kids, and he has quite a few non-hero related accomplishments and media friendly stories for bruce to talk about

cass- i mostly feel like cass would be next as bruce loves to ramble about her, mostly talks about her ballet classes or school stuff. would talk about what a kind person she is

tim- in my head him and cass are the same age so when bruce is talking about cass' school work, it links tim in. he'd probably then talk about his photography or work at wayne enterprises

damian- damian hates the fact bruce is after tim in bruce's unconscious order. anyway, damian is next and bruce mostly talks again about his school stuff and new animals damian has adopted- "he takes after you, mr wayne"

duke- i dont actually know if bruce has adopted duke but regardless. bruce talks about how much duke gets along with the rest of the family. would probably do that talk about how much he's learning about pop culture with the teens these days (and then proceeds to give completely inaccurate examples)

jason- obviously jason is last as media still thinks he's dead and i can imagine bruce sorta tries not to mention jason much in public. but when he does 'the kid rant' he can't help it. obviously he can't talk about jason now, so he tries to only talk about him as a kid. maybe a bit about how much damian reminds him of jason. or how jason would've loved his younger siblings if he got to know them.

#he is so the person to have pictures of all of them in his wallet (older jason is hidden behind a picture of kid jason) #obviously this order isn't his favourites. the kid rant barely ever is based on favourites #im usually third in the rant out of my four siblings (i dont have a kid or a super good job but at im in university so. third place) #dc #batfamily #bruce wayne #batman #batfam #dick grayson #tim drake #cassandra cain #duke thomas #damian wayne #jason todd #steph and babs are not included at they're not bruce's kids

[weadapt]

I think it’s interesting storytelling how in the beginning of the game Cal says the Sixth Sister’s name, Masana Tide, and reminds her of who she used to be—and it visibly distresses her because it hurts what was done to her and Cal isn’t wrong in what he’s saying. The shocking thing for me was the moment when Cal said “It’s time to set you free”. It was such a surreal feeling hearing Cal say that, those kinds of words, to know he decided it was time to strike her down; it’s understandable because she killed his entire crew, but for Cal to be the executioner in that way was scary to see coming after only experiencing the young kid he was in Fallen Order. Now you really get the feeling Cal has been through a lot, he’s grown as a man since Fallen Order and he’s calloused, not entirely in a bad way given he’d have to be to survive but still in a depressing way, as a result. I know overall and gameplay wise, Cal has killed a lot of people, it’s nothing new, but storytelling wise it’s a serious moment for Cal. It’s a moment you know is going to follow him the rest of the game for character development. After he kills her, it’s made clear by the music and by Cal’s body language that this isn’t a good thing coming from him. It isn’t a triumph. Even BD-1 knows and worries for Cal with his little “Boop…?” and Cal is only able to respond rather shakily, “Yeah… I’m okay”.

When he meets up with Bode and Bravo and they ask him what happened to the Inquisitor, he gives a simple, no emotion, “Dead”. The long pause of Bravo not saying anything in response to me says a lot; it feels like he isn’t used to Cal having a reaction like that.

Then we have Rayvis. Cal defeats him in battle and asks him to join in the fight against Dagan. He doesn’t want to kill Rayvis—“You don’t have to do this”. The oddly tragic part to me is that Rayvis has dreams of seeing Tanalorr again. If Dagan succeeds his dream will be realized, but he’s given up on the dream and wants a warrior’s death now. He wants to die, and in his mind, honorably, by Cal’s hands, and he’s going to force Cal to do it. But for Cal it’s another execution on his part. He pauses before he lifts his saber and kills Rayvis. It isn’t a triumph. Again we’re given a sudden swell of music to tell us the emotion behind the action of killing Rayvis. You can see it’s affected Cal badly. BD-1 seems to ask Cal the same question as before, “Boop…?” but this time Cal doesn’t acknowledge the question and just replies, “We should go”.

Killing Dagan hurts for Cal too. Dagan is a Jedi, someone who held onto the Order, who tied his entire identity to it and all of his goals are focused on restoring the Order and fighting to change the universe. Just like Cal in a way. Dagan is single-mindedly focused on the mission, so obsessively, he lost himself and the one he loved as a result. Cal understands and see the parallel of that kind of drive in his own mission against the Empire and it terrifies him. Dagan could’ve helped him fight the Empire but it became another tragic moment of having to kill a once fellow Jedi. This is another tragedy. Bode doesn’t care about Dagan being dead on the floor but Cal does. Cal has enough respect to place Dagan’s lightsaber on his chest. Cal pauses to reflect but Bode immediately gets back to getting the compass.

We have this interesting arch of reactions to killing his opponents. They were each killed for the mission. It was necessary. They each started the fight against him. No matter the reason though, it’s still very painful for Cal.

Cal is being pushed into this direction of forcing him to question his beliefs and who he is. His whole identity at this point has been tied to the Order, of being a Jedi, and it’s very clear by his conversations in Fallen Order that it really matters to who he is. By the end of Survivor, we have three fallen Jedi: Masana Tide, Dagan Gera, and Bode Akuna. So who is Cal Kestis? What will he become? Is he doomed to fall like they did? That’s what troubles him—“Let’s just say I don’t wanna end up like him [Dagan]”.

He’s afraid he’s going to lose himself.

The fear is almost realized when he’s about to kill another opponent. The one behind the murders of his friends and mentors. Cal’s been killing each of his main opponents up to the point at Nova Garon—this one will be no different. Except killing the man who sent Bode on the mission to infiltrate his team is different. Cal is on the edge of losing himself to the Dark Side. In Fallen Order he pleaded for Cere not to use the Dark Side because “She’s stronger than that”, “[she] still had a choice”. But Cal is failing to remember any of that for himself. He wants to kill because he’s angry, grieving, and in immense pain. Merrin has to bring him back—“This is not you!” There’s a question of whether or not Cal would’ve been able to stop himself if Merrin hadn’t been there though.

When we get to the final battle, Merrin is warning Cal of what’s likely going to happen but he ignores her for a while which prompts her to say, “Well? Say something!” He doesn’t want to acknowledge that Merrin is right and they’re likely going to have to kill Bode, and with that, taking Kata’s father away—a loss of family Cal and Merrin know too much about. So they both try and give Bode every chance to stop and turn away from what he’s done, despite how much Bode had hurt them. Sadly, Cal once again is forced into using the Dark Side to prevent Bode from killing Merrin. It was worth it. It was worth using it to save Merrin. He couldn’t let her be killed. He couldn’t see that happen before his eyes like he had with all of his friends and mentors.

After everything is over, there’s this sickly feeling left behind. Not simply because of Bode’s death, but because of the impact on Merrin realizing Kata has lost family just like she and Cal had, but also because of the impact the death of Bode has on Cal. And after Cal carries away Bode’s body, the music changes to an eerie, ominous, high pitch, minor key when we see Cal board the Mantis. The kind of change in music which lets the audience know there’s something seriously wrong. Things are different now. Cal’s different. And he knows it.

He’s lost in time watching the pyre, reflecting on everything that had happened but also on how grateful he is to Cere, but he knows the impact of her loss will continue to be with him for the rest of his life. Just like Jaro Tapal. Another guiding force in his life is gone. With Cere and Cordova gone, there is no longer any Jedi wisdom to seek out. He’s now alone in that way as a Jedi.

“I’m scared… I almost lost myself… I don’t know if I’m ready.”

Cal and the audience are left with the dreadful realization—

“I don’t know if I’m ready for what comes next”.

#legit don’t know what I’m taking about . #I honestly don’t want a third game cuz I’m scared #sorry for the ramble I really think about this game too much #I’ve only play it once but I gotta play it again so I can be traumatized a second time #thanks for listening to my Ted talk #mc talks #sobbing #cal kestis #jedi survivor #merrin #star wars #merrical #jedi fallen order #jedi survivor spoilers #nightsister merrin #greez dritus #jaro tapal #kata akuna #dagan gera #santari khri #rayvis #Jedi #I don’t want anything to happen to cal #I really really don’t #I have so much more to say about cal but imma try #*cry #I gotta stop writing this stuff in my phone

[strawburrymeadows]

alright guys. nine months to make as many headcannons as i can about keefe in the forbidden cities before it becomes canon. lets get to work 💪💪

#first order of business: he learns what gay means #second order of business: he realizes he is allowed to like men #third order of business: buys dex a tshirt at disney world #shannon better not mess up what my mind has already filled in pls pls #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc keefe #kotlc 9.5 #kotlc unraveled

[front-facing-pokemon]

#skrelp #i shiny hunted this thing in sv. after i got Properly Into shiny hunting. it was the third-to-last pokémon i shiny hunted for my #all-shiny-dragon-types team. which ended up being dragalge‚ dragapult‚ kommo-o‚ noivern‚ flygon‚ and archaludon #and then i just. stopped. shiny hunting. there are other pokémon i would like to shiny hunt like shroomish but i don't have a ton of #motivation to since i beat the game basically. completed all the pokédexes and finished the story so getting shinies is like. well #what am i gonna use them for. why have them #guess i need to look for another game to play. what's next on the backlog… #i tried mirror's edge since that was on my backlog but i couldn't really get a grip on the controls and got frustrated after about 30 mins #so that didn't work. probably gonna have to play something else turn-based. i like turn-based and strategy games #where i don't have to have insane reaction time in order to play it #NOT you‚ yakuza like a dragon. YOU need perfect guards

[rise-to-it]

the post about how we can’t explain WHY Eugenides is the perfect unreliable narrator without spoiling the books did just remind me that I once convinced my friend to read the books and then she wanted multiple of them at once to read on a trip, so I created a carefully secured paper book cover to hide the title of the third book from her

#also the sheer number of people I have tried to pitch on these books. it is a hard one to pitch without spoiling lmao #like I simply can’t tell them anything about the second or third books which are my favorites without spoiling the first which is fantastic #I personally did not experience the plot twist in full bc I read them out of order bc I was 12 and got them in a random summer reading set #but I want everyone else to experience it !!!!!! it kicks ass !!!!!!!!!! #truly I need to put in writing somewhere that were I ever to get amnesia I want someone to give me these books one at a time #the queens thief #TQT #the queen's thief #the thief #eugenides #the king of Attolia

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

Have you ever wondered what shipping statistics look like for the Life Series on AO3? God I sure hope you have, cause this took ages!

As stated in the introduction slide, this project is inspired by @docmlm77 's Hermitshipping 2022 project from December! i had a lot of fun doing this so i may come back to it at the end of the year to see how things change, we'll see! and keep an eye out for the empiresshipping version, which i'll be posting soon!

A link to the full spreadsheet will be in the reblogs.

(transcripts for each slide will be in the alt text on each image!)

#trafficblr #third life smp #last life smp #double life smp #limited life smp #trafficshipping #this is also an open invitation: if anyone else cares and is better at spreadsheets than me #PLEASE TRY THIS AGAIN BUT INCLUDING POLY SHIPS #I WILL GIVE YOU ALL MY HELP I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO SET IT UP ON MY OWN #ive also realized i slightly messed up the order on cleo's but im NOT fixing it

[kirby-the-gorb]

if you eventually want to see the crochet lace work I struggled all day on fixing I am now sporadically posting my crafts on @sleepy-princess-craftery

#kirby #kirby makes stuff #(kinda) #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #see I'm using really old patterns cuz they're public domain #but after like 6 hours of work yesterday the pattern wasn't lining up quite right in the 17th round #I worked out this morning that the problem was the 9th round and I realized I'd misread the instructions for the 9th round #so I went all the way back and did 9-16 as actually-written #but that was wrong too! #the counts given in the 9th row are just wrong! #so I had to math it out myself and do 9-16 a third time #and I just now finished round 17 for real #but it all lines up properly now -u- #but wow that was so much unraveling and frowning and staring at dense text #it's a really neat pattern aside from that one error though! #there are rows worked within the rounds in order to make star points without the usual netting between #so the extra like. 9 hours? 12 hours? I turned off my timer around cumulative hour 9 #anyway the effort is still worth it #favorites

[taurgo]

For those interested in the Sandman series (or getting others to try and read/watch it)

[Image 1 ID: A black and white power point presentation with the text “so you wanna read some “the sandman” (but you have no idea where to start and comic orders can be confusing)”. “A handy flowchart/ power point disaster for the curious, peer pressured and suffering waiting for the August 5th TV release date, from someone who cares a fuck-ton about this series and needs to yogurt starter about it. This is just a fan PowerPoint I spent way too much time on”. There are two green circular characters with smiling faces and limbs. One has a bowtie and a pointer for instruction./.End ID]

[Image 2 ID: A flowchart that asks the reader if they are familiar with the story. There is the James Franco “first time?” image meme where there is a noose around his neck. A green path answering “yes” suggests “take a moment to reread anyways! (seriously it’s so good)”. A blue path answering “I am Jared, 19 (Don’t read) suggests “check out the Audiobooks (1&2). They cover volumes 1-6.” A circular green character with an open mouth says “James McAvoy voices the lead, what better reason is there?”. An Orange path answering “no” suggests “start with the original 10 volumes” and proceeds to the next page/.End ID]

[Image 3 ID: A power point slide of the original ten sandman volumes with pictures of each cover and the reading order. The top of the page lists volumes 1-5; (1) Preludes and Nocturnes, (2) The Dolls House, (3) Dream Country, (4) Season of Mists, (5) A Game of You. The bottom of the page lists volumes 6-10; (6) Fables and Reflections, (7) Brief Lives, (8) Worlds End, (9) The Kindly Ones, (10) The Wake. To the left there are bullet points with the following information: “They cover the original run of 75 issues since the 80’s. Read in order there is an A plot and a B to Z plot they’re all relevant. If it’s a genre of story it is in this series”. An orange circular cartoon with a smiling face, a bowtie and a pointer says “Now that we’re familiar with the dreaming, let’s look at the bonus content where order doesn’t matter (too much)”. An orange arrow continues to the next slide. /.End ID]

[Image 4 ID: A power point slide titled “additional stories and content”. A Flowchart prompt asks the reader “what’s your poison?”. A white arrow answers the prompt “give me more(pheus)”. The original poster suggests reading Sandman: Dream hunters, Sandman: Book of Dreams, Sandman: Midnight Theatre and Sandman: Overture. The original poster includes photos of the volume covers and two notes for Sandman: Overture. The cover of Sandman Overture is Morpheus standing in a flower field with his helm of power on. The first note says “WARNING: OVERTURE IS A PREQUEL FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES” The second note says “THE ART IS ALSO INCREDIBLE LIKE IT’S NUTS Y’ALL they sell a gallery version I’d kill for”. A second white arrow answers “I want meta info on the development”. The original poster recommends the Sandman Companion and includes a picture of the cover which is yellow with a golden mask on the front. The original poster clarifies it was published in 2000, and says “this is a book and it is amazing (art, interviews, breakdowns)”. A third arrow answers the prompt, stating “I want more cosmic sibling drama and/or goth girls only please”. The original poster recommends Sandman: Endless Nights, Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life. The original poster provides images of each cover. Sandman Endless nights has two masks on the front cover one grey, one multicolored patchwork. Both Death comics have the image of a pale skinned, dark-haired woman on the front with a grainy picture overlay. An orange circular cartoon character with a smiling face says “wait that’s it right, I read everything now?” an orange arrow continues to the next page.  /.End ID]

[Image 5 ID: This slide is titled “Oops Even More Content, Welcome to the New Age of The Sandman Universe”. The elmo on fire meme is visible on the right side of the slide. There is an orange smiling character with a bowtie and a pointer saying “Start with the Dreaming #1, It’s like a teaser chapter for a choose your own adventure in picking a story you want to read. This all happens after the original ten volumes (ish) YOU ARE WARNED”. The orange figure is pointing to the first edition cover where Dream and six individuals stand on the cover. An orange arrow points to the next flowchart prompt asking the reader “What did you enjoy most in the original series?” An authors note in the corner states “There is also a little crossover between characters in stories within the Sandman universe”. A Pink arrow continues to the next slide /.End ID]

[Image 6 ID: This slide has predetermined answers to the question of “What did you enjoy most in the original series?”. The first directional arrow answers with “LUCIFER!” The original poster recommends Lucifer (2000) that is 75 issues in one volume and Lucifer (2019) in four volumes. Both images of the covers are included with lucifer on the front bent over and then holding a sign. A purple circular character with their mouth open says “Yes this series inspired the Netflix tv show”. A blue arrow answers with “That one John Constantine Cameo”. The cover is included with John Constantine smoking on the front. The original poster recommends John Constantine: Hellblazer (2019) in two volumes. A Red arrow answers “Actually you know what? Give me a better Harry Potter that’s not written by a TERF”. A red circular cartoon character with a bowtie and a pointer recommends Books of Magic (2019). The lead protagonist, Timothy Hunter is on the cover holding a large open tome. The red character says “Based on the 1990 miniseries written by Gaiman of the same name.” A Green arrow and a purple arrow with the options “Gods and Mythos” and “The Dreaming Inhabitants” are included and continue on the next slide /.End ID]

[Image 7 ID: This is a PowerPoint slide that continues to answer the flowchart question of “What did you enjoy most in the original series?”. A Green arrow answers “Gods and Mythos”. The original poster recommends House of Whispers (2019) in three volumes. The cover of the first issue is included where a beautiful black woman stands in and holds up a mirror with a man inside it an a house in the background. The original poster provides a note saying “This one has divine feminine ™, family drama and some great queer representation. If you liked the Gaiman book Anansi boys, you’ll like this story”. A Purple arrow answers the question with “The dreaming inhabitants” which branches into three white arrows. The first arrow leads to the original poster recommending the Dreaming (2019) in three volumes. An image of the cover is visible with Dream and many inhabitants of the dreaming on the front cover spread around him. The author leaves a note saying this series includes “dream hopping. Giant moth baby. Absolute chaos”. A second white arrow leads to the recommendation of The Dreaming: Waking Hours (2021) with one volume. The cover is included and has Dream in the background with Lucien and Merv, and William Shakespeare in the foreground performing on a stage. The original poster leave a note saying that the story includes “Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Shakespeare walk into a bard… grad student pain. mages, nightmare and macbeth.” A third white arrow leads to the recommendation of Nightmare Country (2022) an ongoing series with four issues as of July 2022. The cover is included and shows the Corinthian in an American flag colored mask with his glasses partially removed. The author includes a note saying “The Corinthian gets a spin-off. So do other nightmares. Ongoing.” There is a purple circular character with a smiling face pointing at the Waking Hours cover, and a green circular character standing next to the House of Whispers cover. /.End ID]

[Image 8 ID: The slide is entitled “Congrats! You now have a good idea about where to start and what to read”. Next to this title is a teal circular cartoon that is smiling. The original poster includes a note that says “I could go into so much depth about why you should read it and why its great but its either do that or work on my master’s thesis and only one pays bills and its already 3 a.m. (frowny face).” A white arrow leads to a note that says “TLDR: THE ART IS GOOD, THE CHARCATERS ARE COMPLEX AND VOLUME TEN MADE ME OPENLY WEEP BECAUSE OF HOW GOOD IT WAS. IMACULATE ANTHOLOGY-esque STORY TELLING” a sub footnote says “I like this series so much I paid a guy for an advertisement of a sandman themed chess set that I have framed on my wall cause theres like no merch”. A green circular character that is smiling with a bowtie and pointer is standing next to the “preludes and nocturnes”, and “the dolls house” covers saying “season 1 of the tv show will be covering volumes 1-2 ish”. A picture of Morpheus in a panel with his hand outstretched from the comics is on the slide next to the “graphic design is my passion meme”. A large yellow crying emoji is on the slide with its hands in the air /.End ID]

#sandman #the sandman #sandman netflix #i spent an embarassing amount of time on this third grader presentation but my god i have feelings and i gotta share them #i dont care if this gets zero pickup i just remember when i was reading there was a lot of confusion about the order #morpheus #dream #sandman 2022