#Even if all the others somehow lost

[mirusx]

there's nothing I love more about lcf than the fact that almost all of the main characters are survivors and how it seriously engraves into you, again and again, the importance of being alive FIRST. It's so refreshing to see an mc who prioritizes safety more than anything else, who won't push past the limits.. like serious limits of everyone just for the sake of winning(now if cale can also do this and walk his talk, it would be perfect.. but that wouldn't make him the cale that we all know and love). it provides you with this mentality that retreating doesn't mean immediate failure, and that there will always be another chance to try again. that one closed door doesn't imply a dead end but a chance to open an alternative path. it's such a simple message and yet we humans tend to forget it when we're facing adversities, a lot of times we're convinced we're forced to make self-destructive decisions... cale would prob have plans A to Z but there would never be a single one among them that has the possibility of him losing anyone even himself. so yes!! being alive is the best!!

#and it gets even better when you think that theyre all survivors who have lost someone and doesnt want a repear of it #so now they think of everyone's well being first and somehow keep each other alive and safe and taken care of #i was reading some lcf reaction fics and when the scene where cale said being alive is the best came up i suddenly wanted to babble about i #lcf #cale henituse #tcf #lout of the count’s family #trash of the count's family #lout of the count's family #kim rok soo

[liquidstar]

who's ready for a repeat of the heartbreak of round 1?

#alien stage #the main difference is that mizi and sua were actually in love in round 1 but ivan's love is one-sided... #is that more tragic or less? im not sure... but i think that till is going to be the one who dies #hear me out #if we get till vs mizi (which has been set up in a way so i can see it happening) wouldnt that be the same dynamic as ivan vs till? #one person going up against their unrequited love and all #but if we get ivan vs mizi then its different... #1. both of them lost the person they were in love with but more pressingly #2. ivan might presumably resent mizi as the person who the person he was in love with loved #might even somehow shift the weight of his death onto her just so he wouldnt have to live w the survivor's guilt #the way mizi does for sua #so thats my prediction for the till vs ivan round... i think till is getting exploded sorry till #as for luka and hyuna we dont rly know much abt them yet so hard to say but i think luka will probably will against hyuna #and then mizi wins against luka so its mizi vs ivan in the final #thats my bracket #i have other thoughts but ill leave it at that for now

[combeferres-mothematics]

Anyone else ever get randomly smacked in the face with memories and immediately want to go write a kid fic?

Or is it just me?

#Aka Emile is remembering going camping with his friends as a small child #And how fucking chaotic it was #We were just allowed to run wild over the whole campground because our group rented the whole loop and everyone was watching out for everyo #I still managed to cross like 2 roads when I was 5 and got lost and they weren't busy but a stranger still stopped me to ask if I was lost #And all the boys would bring their lightsabers and nerf guns and we would have whole battles #We even made little forts in the woods and stuff and we were fighting to protect the 'dragon' (friend's dog) #I was always either the spy or the doctor #There was also the time my brothers thought it would be really fun to tell me to just pee in the woods instead of walking me to the bathroo #I was delighted #My parents were not #And the swimming hole was cold as fuck but we somehow still got in it every year #And jump off the giant rock in the deep end of the river once we were good enough swimmers to handle the current #Once or twice we went tubing there too which was my first experience with that #And there was hiking with waterfalls nearby so we'd go do that #And that one swinging bridge that was really fun to run across #And we'd stay for like a week sometimes #I swear all the parents got the best sleep ever when we went too even though they were sleeping on the ground lmao #all us kids would end up in each others tents if they were okay with it #And all I can think looking back at it now is that a les amis kidfic would be fun to write off all that #Emile's chaos #I have so many more camping memories too

[slowlyfadingaway5]

Okay SO! I'm a fairy tale folklore mythology girlie and this episode of neverafter hits so fucking hard.

BUT when the Sword of Truth was first introduced as gold and gleaming and PIB said that it was used to cut wood, there was a moment after that where it cut to Brennan's face and you know what kind of face he fucking has when the PCs say something off the cuff that has relevance later on or something he never thought of but might work later on. you know the look

And it reminded me of the folk tale/fable of "The Honest Woodcutter" and I fucking know it's an Aesop's fable and the sword is called the Sword of Truth and I feel like I'm grasping at strings here (ha) but in the promo for ep 8 the sword is potentionally a person? So MAYBE just maybe hear me out, the sword is Aesop

#neverafter #forever's post #neverafter spoilers #neverafter theory #neverafter ep 7 #its a long shot but please PLEASE let me be right #honestly a person whos also a sword isnt the most farfetched thing i can think of in fairytales #only thing else i can think of is if the sword is somehow caliburn or excalibur #but the legends dont say its gold #for those of you reading this and dont know the tale #basically a very honest hardworking woodcutter is out cutting wood when one day he lost his iron axe in a lake #he didnt have any other axe and no way to support his family so he prayed #and different versions will say its Hermes/Mercury or a nameless goddess or even just a lake spirit/nymph #anyway the primordial being pulls out a silver axe and asks if thats his axe #he says no #the being does the same thing again but this time with a *gold* axe #woodcutter says no again #the being asks one more time and the woodcutter answers honestly that it isnt his and he doesnt need it because it wont cut as well #the being so pleased with the honesty gives all three axes iron silver and gold to the woodcutter and he goes home rich #i think theres also a version where a neighbor sees what happens and tries to emulate the same response but was too greedy and lies #for the gold axe and is like fucking axed or something #anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk #and reading my tags

[vivy-nx]

hi!! look at my cool kirby walking simulator fangame i made over the course of last year!! i worked very hard on it!! it's downloadable for windows and linux!

#kirby series #kirby #kirby's adventure #my art #pixel art #it's got a little jank to it but i think it works about as well i could have hoped for. #unfortunately due to “my first time using this game engine proper” brain the two things i'd really like to have added if I could- #those being support for other screen resolutions and input remapping #were kinda. not something I considered at all #and trying to add them in retroactively was a bit of a nightmare #and i kinda lost steam on it and didnt work on the project for a long while #but i figured i'd rather have a release thats rough around the edges than an almost-perfect video game languishing alone on my hard drive #so i'm putting it out as is. #i hope you like it !!! #i learned a lot about godot engine making this thing. hopefully soon i will make even more cool things with godot!! #i can even try godot 4 now!! i've got no idea what that's like because when i tried to port this over to it all the visuals broke somehow #so i just stuck with godot 3.5 #anyway. please enjoy!!! #Youtube

[byanyan]

byan "i thought being a vampire would be sick as fuck but instead it's turned my life upside down, caused me to lose the few safety nets i actually had, and somehow given me less freedom where i thought it'd give me more" byun

#yes I'm still stuck on fledgling verse ok don't look at me #I JUST...... i have a lot of feelings about them discovering that becoming a supernatural creature is not as neat as they thought #I mean it's not like they made the choice themself or anything... but u know... #they had their hopes after the shock of their embrace wore off #but then it turns out they have trauma over the event??? and now they have to leave everything they knew behind??? #gotta figure out everything for themself and have no stable place to live so they're at risk of dying EVERY DAY bc of the gd sun #somehow they've become even more of an outsider & now they've got a hard time trusting other vamps bc most consider them better off dead #they're isolated and traumatized and overall just Not Having a Good Time #they're so ANGRY but at the same time so CRIPPLINGLY DEPRESSED that on any given night they're either breaking shit & getting into fights #or they're having the most impossible time finding the will to crawl from their hiding place to feed themself #and don't even get me STARTED on instances where they've lost control & hurt someone they care about UGH #yeah....... i love this verse it's so deliciously angst lmao #all this to say I'm gonna try to poke more of the prompts for it in my ask today #once I complete the last two full name prompts ofc uvu #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ verse: fledgling. #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don’t @ me.

[pavlovers]

actually nvm im not emo anymore 🤧

#will i ever be truly content with the ending ? no 💀 but ! everyone looks so cute nd im happy that my fav freaks are able to be silly :p #i have mixed feelings on chifuyu narrating this chapter tho lmao 😭😭 #i mean its great that he somehow remembers everything that michi went through nd their friendship wasnt lost #BUT I CANT GET OVER THAT LIKE. ONE TAKEHINA KISS PANEL AND ITS JUST HIS UGLY CRYING FACE AT THE BOTTOM 😭😭 #i kinda love that for him tho like shit make their day all about yourself king #i wouldn't have taken the whole takehina ending seriously either way #tokrev aint even about them at this point its about the collection of freaks takemichi collected along the way 😭 #what other thoughts can i put out there... #omg sanzu being an influencer is such a slay. i love how he looks exactly the same as he did in the bonten timeline #he just slays online now instead of yknow with a katana in real life ! #kazus adorable. izanas adorable #I LOVE THAT SOUTH IS JUST THERE. IDK HOW THEY MET IN THIS TIMELINE BUT FUCK IT YEAH HES INVITED WHY NOT #seeing timeskip mikey again just confirms my initial feelings towards manila mikey which is that he was ugly 😭 #IDK THE SHORT HAIR DOESNT SUIT HIM IMO 😭 I WAS HOPING THAT WAKUI WOULD GIVE HIM A NEW HAIRCUT THAT WE HAVENT SEEN BEFORE #its ok tho im happy that hes actually happy ! and that the future he wanted with emma and draken and their baby came true 🥲 #WAHH THAT TOO 😭 THE FACT THAT THEYRE MARRIED AND EMMA IS PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD LITERALLY SOBBING 😭 #its what theyve deserved this whole time !!!! #what wakui did to naoto was a crime tho 😭 why does he look like thatttt #bring back detective naoto 😭 current naoto looks more homeless than takemichi that doesnt sit right with me 😭 #im rocking with long hair hanma. shuji just some guy hanma 💀 #wakui making mikey looking at takemichi like that the opening panel like we know what they are 🙄 just had to remind us #thats all i think... its finally over 😭 i may have my grudges but i truly loved reading this weekly for over a year it was so much fun 💗

[when-wax-wings-melt]

something about the symbolism of cassius replacing all the unique covers of his books with identical covers so they blend together on the shelf

#something something. conformity at the expense of creativity #this fits into his whole personality too. he was bullied for being different when he was little (for being too smart wasn't it. too young ) #so when he can get his own books. make his own choices. he doesnt. #fitting things into their own little box #keefe expected to be the perfect golden child who skipped a grade just like he was #carbon copies... he doesn't like change. he likes uniform obedience #keefe looks just like him but he has done everything he can to look different. those books look like all the others #so keefe has altered them. scratching on new titles and vandilizing them #an attempt to make them different SOMEHOW #to prove that he can break out of his father's mold too #idk this is interesting to me. how cassius had his untouched chairs also and his one worn one. the comfy one. #he wont risk damaging the perfect ones so he just keeps messing up his favorite #because even though the other's are pretty and uniform and clean. the messy one is his favorite. #summer rambles #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities

[mo-ok]

Buckle in folks i'm gonna talk about Lost Galaxy doing a shot for shot recreation of my favourite Gingaman scene and why i think PR missed the mark.

FIRST THINGS FIRST this scene goes for about 2 and a half minutes in Gingaman but is stripped back to about 50 seconds in LG. Gingaman gives this scene time to steep in its apprehension, it makes you hold your breath and WAIT. LG on the other hand is a rapid fire shot to the conclusion that leaves very little time to actually build up the emotion.

The first big cut we see is in how much time the big brothers are given to come into frame.

We LINGER on Hyuuga coming up over the hill (where as Mike gets about 0.5 of a second). He's blurry, out of focus, framed by his brother and BullRiot as he stumbles over the hill. I'd love to tell you what Mike is doing, but the way Leo is holding the Magna Sword is just not working for the shot. It obscures Mike for too long, in a moment where him appearing is meant to be the reward for everything we've just been through.

Both these guys have spent months being possessed/controlled by a vengeful alien and have only just regained control of their own bodies. Hyuuga's still getting used to walking again, every step a struggle but he's not stopping. Meanwhile Mike is walking slowly through the sand like a triumphant action hero, which is FINE, but this scene is meant to be bitter sweet. Magna Defender DIED so Mike could be here, its not meant to feel triumphant.

Gingaman then gives us a great shot of Hyuuga, empty scabbard on his back (!!!), doing his best to keep staggering toward his team (very sad that LG cut this one out tbh)

I dont have an issue with this shots recreation - in fact i think it kinda nicely shows the differences personality wise between the two characters. Hyuuga is apprehensive, he KNOWS what he's put everyone (particularly Ryouma) through. Mike is relieved - its over, he finally gets to be home. Where I DO have an issue with Mike's reaction though -

is the complete disconnect between him and Leo. Leo missed his brother every single second that he was gone, he's still processing what he's seeing, and Mike just kinda... doesnt seem all that phased. It feels more like old friends seeing each other after some time apart, rather than brothers finally being reunited. Something else PR stripped from the scene was the camera angle differences. Ryouma is looking UP at Hyuuga, still not quite believing its really him - Mike and Leo are both on the same level.

Again, Gingaman gives us time to linger, it makes us hold out breath just that little bit longer before finally breaking the tension (I had to cut out a significant portion of the build up to Ryouma's sprint/the amount of time spent on their hug). Whereas this is all Mike and Leo get - a nice moment, but overall lacking in emotional weight.

Thats the crux of the issue really - the lack of emotional weight. There is a Hyuuga shaped hole left in Gingaman. Every character has history with Hyuuga, he means something different to all of them, everyone misses him. Him coming back was a DREAM to them, something they all wanted but assumed they couldnt have. Meanwhile half the Galaxy Rangers barely know who Mike is, he means literally nothing to them outside of "guy who pulled out the Quasar Saber and then died". Like can you honestly tell me Mike coming back meant as much to Damon and Maya as Hyuuga's return meant to Hayate and Hikaru??

What sucks is this scene COULD have been just as impactful in LG, but they didnt do the groundwork or give Mike the build up he needed. I love Leo, I wanted to see him get his brother back, I wanted him to get that closure, but instead all he got was a hollow, lackluster recreation of one of my favourite scenes in the whole franchise.

#power rangers #lost galaxy #gingaman #long post #like i KNOW i shouldnt be comparing the two shows #and there is so much about lost galaxy that i absolutely love #but when they literally shot for shot recreated the moment that had me sobbing like an absolute baby #and somehow managed to make me not feel anything #i knew i had to go on a bit of a rant lmao #like even down to the camera angles and framing it just feels so flat #also i feel that if they were gonna change it up and give Magna Defender a father/son backstory #they should have also changed Mike to be Leo's dad #that way Leo and Magna Defender would have kept that 'same situation but reversed' parallel #but i guess PR wasnt quite ready for a dilf ranger after the shit show that was kid-ranger Justin #'just keep them all the same age dammit these age gaps arent working' #but like could you imagine dad Mike??? #give him more history with commander stanton - make him a father figure to Kendrix and Kai while you're at it #hell make him a BAD DAD to Leo and then show me them coming to love and respect each other more through their shared warrior fates #i'm gonna stop now before i lose my mind lmao

[theinfinitedivides]

said a prayer for Jjong today.

#shinee #jonghyun #idk i don't usually yk. do things like that for people that have passed but it's been six years and it felt fitting somehow #six years ago i was what. 12 about to turn 13???? had already been to a fair bit of funerals but the only ones that had hit me before #this one were the pianist at our church who passed away suddenly from a heart attack and the regional club leader who had cancer #for like three years and passed just as the doctors thought she would go into remission #and those both happened around October/November so. going into the winter season has always been hard for me and Jjong #was no different. #it's gotten better slowly but it still hurts sometimes. some days i wake up and i can't even look at any of his pictures other days #i get up and put his albums on loop and laugh and reblog so many of his antics #it's funny bc when my aunt passed on New Year's in 2019 it was exactly two weeks after the 1st anniversary date rolled around. always has #been but i never noticed until we lost her and we had to go down for the funeral and i basically disappeared off the internet for a good #two to four months sans queue and checking in on Discord and sh*t and that year he managed to keep me sane. sounds f*cked up #but that year it was just me and Spotify and my playlists and Jjong's voice amid it all. i wish i could meet him and tell him in person #that he practically saved my life even tho the fandom was still raw af from losing him but the prayer will have to be enough #you did well Jjong. you worked so hard. you are our pride. love you to the moon and back 🌒🌙 <333

[everliving-everblaze]

GRRR BITE BITE BITE JAMES "the one good thing I've ever done, that i can be proud of in the past 17 years, was teaching you. watching you become better than me" BLACKBURN i'M GNAWING ON YOUR BONES

YEAH YEAH YEAH. when you said you were obsessed with blackburn so early on, i was like boy have you made the right choice. or exactly the wrong one in terms of emotional devastation ^-^

#his character is like. unforgettable. the way he and the others are dependent on each other even when they hate each other. #the way they're forced to care about each other when it's the last thing they want to do. #they always end up on the same side because they have to be. #he works alone because he has one goal and it doesn't involve other people unless they get in his way or can be used #but somehow he ends up using people who use him back and maybe just maybe remind him of what he lost #until they're forced to admit that. that neither of them ever really had families. and this family isn't better. there are so many families #that would have been better. but maybe found family is only so found after all. maybe it's found in dirt that's just just enough #less acidic and more convenient than the dirt you came from. not the perfect soil for you to grow in. the soil that you can TOGETHER #use to grow into something that can destroy the world. #or something. not that i have any thoughts about this series or anything. #asks #the insignia trilogy #s.j. kincaid #bookwyrminspiration #off topic

[lottieurl]

saw terrifier and didn't like it. need to throw a party about it and invite michael myers

#i was kinda liking it towards the end and then [spoilers ahead] he was all. alive somehow and just #bleh #sorry i hate when horror movies have an unkillable guy its so boring #the gore doesnt hit when the villain of your movie is indestructible #also for slashers i need those people all to know each other and need to see more of them first #or else i dont even feel slightly tense cause its like. okay yeah boo hoo he lost his head. why should i care

[damnprecious]

I just got myself an early christmas present in the form of The Great Wave Lego wall art piece and I built it and it's amazing and beautiful and perfect and I love it so much

#noopa rambles #I put it on top of my bookshelf #and moved my whale art print on the wall next to it #said print used to be on the spot where the lego piece went so it had to be moved #I wish the print was a tiny bit closer to the wave but sadly there's a pre-existing hook on my wall #so I can't exactly put the print there in any other position bc the hook would be in the way #then I was like 'lemme put all my nautical decorations around it to fill a few empty spaces at the edges' #and ngl I ended up cackling bc I didn't even put a single compass there before it was full #I have so much nautical shit and I'm Living for it #I put my little spyglass there and I put my little lighthouse lanter in there #I already had my japanese diplomatical ship wooden 3D-puzzle up there #and let me tell you. the ship fits the vibes of the painting perrrrfectly #and then I put a littel book my mom made me that has a plants-meets-nautical theme #despite all these things I still somehow have three compasses and some other nicknacks around #I simply do not want to overcrowd the shelf #so the compasses can just keep living on my lotr shelf bc they designated Adventure #and one of them has not all those who wander are lost engraved on the lid so jfdjfd #it clearly belongs there and this way all three can hang out #the only thing I really need now is a globe #the lego set was so frigging expensive but it was on sale at my local toy store so I went yolo

[drzephyr]

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#the israel's propaganda is eerily similar to the russian one that's being employed #the talking points are neck in neck #it's eerie to what extent actually #“they made us do it” #“we always had the rights to the land” #“that hospital full of children is clearly a military base” #“they want to eradicate us and you're letting them” #I'm not saying this to compare the Palestinian genocide and the war #I'm stricken by how similar empires act even when they supposedly have different interests and act like they're opposite to each other #and by how (white) people fall for it every time #from a us citizen that believes they won ww2 and the vietnam war to the european that buys the un's preaching #and to the russian guy that somehow thinks russia never lost in a war #and above all the people who act shocked when a conflict breaks out because “21th century was civilized so what happened to humanity”

[oatbugs]

they r soooo. anyway

#lol um anyway . i kissed them for the first time yesterday but it literally feels like a yr ago but it also feels like today #on a bridge at night against a cityscape. river looked like a painting...etc it was nice . and then. yh theres a lot to talk abt #so i dont wanna say it all rn bc im tired but yeah. they r . sooo. pretty cool etc etc. whatever im fine im just . angry that i dont get to #see them that often bc they live in a diff city etc. also took them to a spot which usually is like . relatively busy bc london is busy all #the time but it was cold and it was at night so there were like 0 people there. the view was so good but other things were better #also kissing smn w a vertical labret is actually just >>> #lol en ee way i miss them #im soo overwhelmed w life rn and theyre not rly helping but like. in a good way #i told my friend to lmk if he notices that im becomjng too engaged w romance to the point where im neglecting academics #and he immidiately said it. like according to him im thinking abt her too much when i should be thinkint abt philosophy too much #which is like. idk if that's true bc ik he has a rly skewed perspective bf he kind of swore off datint #etc but at the same time . wbat if hes right. omg. but also let me have this Moment #that was last week when i was forcefully taken to manchester by a university society . like we hadnt even kissed yet #i fell asleep bc ive been so exhausted and when i woke up i realised they briefly appeared in a dream i had #and then i started tearing up out of Fear bc like . whenever ive lost smn i loved the dreams were the worst #like . good dreams. were horrible. and now its like what if this turns out horrible ? but i dont wanna self sabotage bc i rly rly rly like #them . i gave them a rose and on the train home i could stop staring at their hands holding the rose #and i know theyve liked me for months and i know theyve been waiting for months but somehow its still like #what if it just fades. whatever happens happens ig. i took them a leaf compressed in a poetry book from #a book shop we found on our second date tgth. they gave me a necklace w a small vial and a tiny flower inside #its so pretty. thinking abt the way they put it on me + when they wrapped their arms around me when i was cooking for them etc etc #im FINE its FINE its OKAY . whatever !!!!! #[chroma blue]

[boomerang109]

spent my birthday money on replacing my loops cause somehow i lost them and this world is too loud

#i only just figured out i lost them yesterday and i wanted to wait a bit to see if i could find them #and then today every noise made me ANGERY #so I was like damn guess I need my loops #but I signed up for the one time student discount and got quiets and engage plus #and the ones I have from before are experience plus so even if I find them they’re technically different #one review of the engages said it’s better than the experiences cause it doesn’t make your chewing echo the way the experiences do and I’m #🙏🙏🙏really hoping that’s true cause by far that was my biggest complaint #like when you’re wearing both experience plus loops you want no noise no nothing and then you have to take ‘em out cause holy fuck it’s #making me own chewing echo in my head? those are the bad days lmao #but the engage plus doesn’t actually dampen as MUCH sound since it’s supposed to work better for being *engaged* so idk. could be good or #bad I’m not sure. we’ll find out #but that’s why I wanted to get the quiets too. Just in case #and hopefully my experiences will turn up and then I’ll just have ALL the earplugs #life of a boomerang #oh I just realized no where in this post did I use the word earplugs #if you’ve somehow made it this far and are still wondering what tf im talking about. loops are an earplug brand and my neurodiverse ass (and #many others. I’m not unique) swears by it