#and boy howdy did i get into it

[thebiggestmenace]

How long have you been a fan of the last of us?

since march 14th of 2023!

I forget things really easily when watching shows weekly, so I figured I'd wait until the day after they were all released. I was able to watch it all in one go, which made a little brain goblin move in (and definitely did not empty me because of all the emotions I went through in less than 24 hours). after watching the show a couple times, I went through and watched a game play of the first game and the dlc cause i wanted to see what they changed :) (and also the "oh, he ain't even hurt" scene that everyone was talking about) I wanted to go into the second season blind, like I did the first, but I saw too many spoilers for it and alas, I had to watch the second game (although I'm sure brain goblin would've had me watch me it at some point)

#menace once again rambles for a simple ask! wooo! #i believe my sibling was into the last of us as kids? #but i never watched it cause at the time #the only games i cared about were minecraft cod and guitar hero #but i vaguely remember them talking about the last of us #but i didnt get into until this year #and boy howdy did i get into it #rambling menace #menace answers

[clownsuu]

How do you feel knowing you converted most of the welcome community to Howdy lovers

The howdy propaganda

W O R K E D -

[mini cw link has mini caterpillars in it]

#So guys we did it HCHCGDHDDH #All it took was giving the caterpillar absolute b a z on g a s #And making him buff as shid LMAOOOO #It was only a matter of time til howdy will finally get the recognition he truly deserves smhhhh #Also if (other) clown sees this I am so sorry for making your worm boy jacked JDHCGHHDJJDJ #And I mean it in my most aro/ace way possible- I purely drawn him buff for headcanon characterization and the goofs #It’s just my thing drawing buff bugs JCHHFDH #Specially large wholesome fuggin buggies #Howdy my beloved smhhh #Welcome home #welcome home howdy #howdy pillar #Still can’t believe the propaganda worked JFHFGFGDH

[starrystevie]

hi can I request the valentine prompt for steddie with: I could marry you right now

thank you :)

"i could marry you right now."

steve freezes, his fork halfway to his mouth, and looks at eddie over the candlelight. he has his eyes closed while he comically over-chews to show how much he loves the pasta with his curls bouncing around every time he turns his head for dramatic flair. eddie grins and opens his eyes, flashing a wink over to his boyfriend before taking another bite.

he knows his own eyes must be as big as the dinner plates on the table with eddie's words bouncing around in his now empty head. the ring box that's felt heavy in his pocket through the whole evening feels even heavier now.

"i take it it's good?" is all steve can come up with, muttering out the question before shoving his own forkful of fettucine into his mouth. it is good, he knows it is, he's been working on perfecting the recipe for weeks now. this whole valentine's day has been in the works for the last 4 months, starting with the dinner plans and ending with finally paying off the silver band that's currently burning a hole through his slacks.

"good? steve, i would have your babies if i could and tell them as soon as they're old enough that they are only here because of this pasta."

eddie slurps up a noodle and steve chokes on his own. something burns bright and fierce in his chest, like his last bite held a star that found a home in his heart.

he can see it, is what it is. he can see them with a couple of kids running around their too-small house, eddie chasing after them, curls of all different colors flying in the wind. he can see eddie shushing a tiny little thing in his arms while steve helps another with math homework at their kitchen table, something bubbling over on the stove. he can see all of them piling into their bed one stormy night, someone tucked under his arm and another curled up on his chest with eddie telling tall tales to scared faces in an attempt to distract them from the thunder booming outside. he can see it, and it's all he could ever possibly want.

"i love you," steve blurts out, suddenly a bit more teary than he expects. eddie looks up, his teasing face smoothing into something softer, something lovely.

"i love you too, baby."

steve's fork drops onto the plate with a loud crash as he fumbles to stand up on his hopefully still functioning legs. eddie startles and flinches but steve's there just like he always will be, a hand on his shoulder to sooth him back down. he bends down and places the smallest of kisses to eddie's lips, thumb stroking over the bit of skin at his collarbone that he can reach.

"i hope it's not just the pasta or the wine talking," he starts as he lowers himself to one knee, his free hand tugging out the velvety box from his pocket. it's now eddie who's eyes grow big and beautiful and god, steve could stay on his knees like this and look at him everyday for the rest of his life if eddie would just keep looking at him like that-

"steve," eddie breathes out, watery smile and all.

"you said you could marry me, so i hope the offer still stands."

the band is small, shiny silver with a few miniscule diamonds for eddie and alexandrites for steve inlayed in the vine going though the center of it. the candle light gleams off the gems sending broken specks of shimmering light to dance over eddie's flushed cheeks. the ring shakes in his hand as he pulls it out, holding it up for the love of this and every life to see.

the small but there nod eddie gives steve is the only answer he needs as he grabs eddie's hand, slipping the band onto the only finger it could ever fit, sealing it with a kiss that starts the rest of their lives.

#ask meme #anon #thanks for sending this in! #BOY HOWDY DID I TEAR UP WRITING THIS #i could write about eddie and steve as parents for the rest of my life and never get tired of it tbh #i also could write a whole monologue for steve to propose with but then i really will cry and i'm at work so #steddie #steddie headcanon #steve harrington #eddie munson #my writing #steddie drabble #steddie ficlet #steddie fluff

[royalarchivist]

Whether it's already the 1st or still the 31st for you, Happy New Year everyone!

I've updated the QSMP VOD Timestamp Archive to include a section for 2024 timestamps. It's wild to think I've done this for (nearly) a year.

#mod talk #Going to try and dial it back a bit this year #went way too overboard on timestamp stuff in 2023 and boy howdy did that eat up my time and energy #I say this every few months but I'm actually going to TRY and relax a bit this time #Also I know I'm behind on messages - sorry! If you've sent timestamps thank you #I'll get to your message soon I just haven't been on the computer much lately and I don't want to respond and forget to add the timestamps #@ _ @

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Full on cried during the Donbros ending waaaahaha! Maybe one of the weirdest pieces of television i’d seen in a while but i adored every second of it✨

#super sentai #donbrothers #avataro sentai donbrothers #momoi tarou #kitou haruka #saruhara shinichi #sonoi #inuzuka tsubasa #kijino tsuyoshi #momotani jiro #donbrothers spoilers #didn’t think donbrothers would get me like it did i was keeping it so together during the cake and the onigiri but then boy howdy oden! #oden buried me #the little moment of panic on his face gaghhhhhh #good work donbros…

[sea-buns]

Holy fuck, man. What a trip Fearne has been on, huh?

You tell her how grateful you are to have her in your life, you flatter her, you tell her you need her, that you have to do this together. You have her make a promise that has this woman, born of chaos and fey, agreeing through shaking hands and a trembling voice.

You make her deceive your friends; you make her follow where they cannot know; you make her help you into this contraption; you make her feed this thing into you despite the fact that you both have been warned extensively of the risks. You make her watch you crumble and splinter and shatter and fracture and burst and implode. You make her watch you die, over and over and over and over, for a minute in agonizing bullet time.

You make her do all these things, because when she tries to back out, when she tries to not be the one who let you do this—how could you do this—

you tell her, "YOU PROMISED."

Because if there's one thing you know, it's that the fey do not break a promise.

#cant wait for her to fucking pissed for a very long time. shes really packing the entire human experience in a very short period of time. #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e77 #fearne calloway #ashton greymoore #bells hells #just gonna get ahead of the um actually mfs and state that i am aware that its not confirmed that thats why ash brought up the promise #but boy howdy would it make for some great drama down the line huh? #edit: apparently i did not get ahead enough cuz ive had to turn off replies #since ppl were somehow interpreting this mini introspection piece as me infantilizing fearne?? #anyway the first line is now changed to something a bit more neutral. after sleeping on it i do see how it was a bit aggressive at the top #other than that im not sure how else to reword without completely disregarding the core of the post #i might make more posts addressing this but im not sure yet. i wanna try to approach it in the best way possible. #but if it helps any the point of the post was not to say fearne had no agency. she had plenty of moments where she tilted one way or the #other. the POINT was to just shine some light on the emotional pressure she had been put under. #hasnt your friend ever asked you to keep a secret or promise that felt wrong or unsafe or made you anxious? #it has nothing to do with the amount of agency she had. ash wasnt holding a knife to her throat and forcing her to follow against her will #all i was trying to do was take this detail about his reminder of the promise that i thought was interesting and have some fun writing an #overview of the kinda stress she was under BEFORE theyd reached that scene. this entire ep was everyone discussing how grateful they were #for this family theyd made. and while im not saying ash was PURPOSELY emotionally manipulating fearne.. #there is a level of unintentional manipulation when you pair the severity of his request with the convo theyd had 2 seconds prior #as well as the desperate need they all have to save each other NO MATTER WHAT. #ash was giving incredibly strong energy of a friend who peer pressures you into helping them do something that you know in your gut WILL #cause problems. hes a fucked up guy. theyre all fucked up guys. even if he didnt mean to “force” her into anything the pressure was THERE. #<- i feel like all of this overall gets my message across. i think maybe ill clean it up later into its own post. #im gonna try not to rush myself to get it done tho. #im under no obligation to explain myself. especially when ppl approach the misunderstanding by being rude af. but i do think it CAN #be clarified so id at least like to try to some degree

[leupagus]

Wait WHAT

#I legit thought it must be a fanmade thing #really high quality don't get me wrong but no way was there a tv show #AND THEN MICHAEL EMERSON SHOWED UP #which of course he did Jonathan Nolan is his bestie no way would Emerson NOT be in this #also I am already in love with Dogmeat #and the ghoul #and maximus #and lucy #although lucy does look to be very much the rpg progagonist type of bland—which let me be clear #is a good thing #anyway YAY CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS #also godbless walton goggins for being like 'ok guys just fuck me up' #fallout boy howdy #Youtube

[xx-vergil-xx]

currently experiencing the total cognitive dissonance of realizing that westley from the princess bride (1987) is also dr lawrence fucking gordon from saw (2004). his ass should not be in that nasty bathroom !! he’s literally the dread pirate roberts !!

#i have a terrible face blindness sometimes how the fuck did i not notice sooner #i mean i respect the range #good on you cary elwes #westley could survive saw (2004) but dr lawrence gordon would get his ass handed to him by inigo montoya #dread pirate roberts one hit kill john kramer #i was (am.) so in love with westley it’s actively deranged that i didn’t just. make this connection #well. #saw #saw 2004 #the princess bride #<- boy howdy are those two things that do not pair!

[golvio]

I absolutely LOVE how they reworked the Stranger’s route and design! It’s so much better than anything we saw in the demo! The themes of that chapter cohere so beautifully, and the Princess’ final design is so wonderfully nightmarish that I infinitely prefer it to even the first Stranger design. Abby and Tony really outdid themselves here, I can tell Nichole had a lot of fun doing the voicework for this chapter, and kudos to the sound mixer who handled Johnny’s lines for the part where everything starts happening all at once!

#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #stp spoilers #the stranger #i was afraid i’d be disappointed but BOY HOWDY did it exceed my expectations! #I don’t want to describe it in detail yet because it really must be seen to be believed #seriously go look it up and watch it for yourself right now if you’re curious #or better yet get the game and experience it firsthand! #you’ll be supporting the dev team that gave us this wonderful story while you’re at it!

[utilitycaster]

Because I still have Midst's most recent episode on the brain, it really is a little frustrating to see how characters like Jonas Spahr are so frequently maligned over a single incident and characters like Liliana Temult are so frequently given infinite excuses. I say a little frustrating because I think by and large the respective fandoms of Midst and CR do find Jonas a flawed but ultimately sympathetic and heroic character, and Liliana a person who perhaps began with good intentions but has been so warped by years in a cult that she is now openly manipulating her daughter, so this is about a relatively small group. But it is very much an extant group.

I think for me the real hangup is that the reason the Jonas Spahr archetype (of which, for those who know CR and not Midst, Fjord is not quite the same but similar enough for this particular example; this post is definitely about him as well) receives criticism for being harsh towards, for lack of a better term, a wetter and sadder cat of a character. And how is that different from Liliana, who is at the very least staging a public shaming of her daughter? For all their methods, and for all their personal history, characters like Fjord and Spahr have never been terribly manipulative towards the sympathetic protagonists, just openly angry. And when they've been angry, it's always come out that they are consciously holding back from what was visited on them.

But Liliana. Liliana isn't trying to shield Imogen. She says she is, but she continues long after it stops working. She won't listen to the daughter she says she's doing this for; she treats a grown woman like the toddler she abandoned. I don't think Liliana means "did she know there were children in this music hall" because she told Imogen that last episode. She invoked that there were children here to try to excuse her own behavior. She knows Imogen knows about that. This is about the assassination attempt. She wants to know if her daughter knew this was coming. And the answer is that Imogen did, and she tried to stop Liliana, and she tried even to advocate for a more measured attempt with a group for which she lacked the built-up good will. Unlike Liliana leaning on her ultimately useless showy warnings and claiming she does this all for a greater good, Imogen didn't try to curry favor with her mother (nor should she have to; Liliana's the one who left). I doubt Liliana would have taken kindly to being captured, but Imogen still tried and didn't try to score points with her mother for it.

The response to Liliana when juxtaposed with the response to Spahr does feel like this trend, again of a small subset of people but certainly a subset often unaware of how to act reasonably online, that craves the most basic subversion and simultaneously fears and hates conviction in those characters who are not part of this childish "what if the BAD GUYS were RIGHT" group. Specifically they hate an individual conviction that allows one to break out of a larger ideology - one that Spahr has and Liliana clearly lacks.

I'll admit this is really more an observation - I don't have a thesis statement or true conclusion, at least not one I'm going to share widely - but it still sits so strangely that people will hate characters for a single harsh word to their favorite and then try to brush away the decades of harm Liliana has, ultimately, visited on Imogen. Did the word "Run" ever comfort her? It certainly didn't work. Did Liliana ever answer a direct question? At some point, when you're dealing with a fully functioning adult, you can't just say "I'm doing this for you" without their input and be taken seriously and yet Liliana does, repeatedly. At least with Spahr I believed the people who disliked him liked Phineas, but here, I don't think the people defending her care that much for Imogen except as Liliana does - a sweetly misguided morality pet whom they're doing this all for, hush, don't interrupt my noble sacrifice for you with your actual needs and wants. It feels like the campaign-long denial, within some of the fandom, of Imogen's agency, down to how people talk carefully around how the reason Bells Hells wasn't at the assassination is because Imogen chose not to be (and told the others they could not go either, and they respected this). I think we're reaching a point where those who have been so scornful of leadership are fighting against the fact that that is how Imogen is positioned: as leader and as a hero. Ironically, as we've learned from how they treat characters like Spahr, there's nothing they hate more than that.

#i did not get the spam ask and I suspect it's bc i have a hunch who it is have them blocked for past spam #but if i'm right. boy howdy they have maybe the most broken character morality radar in the fandom as well as just don't know how to act #cr spoilers #cr tag

[raynavan]

a drawing for @liminal-station's au! Ingo and Emmet sure are having a Time!

#submas #submas au #ray's art #boy howdy did i fiddle around with the lighting on this one hgirepohgiperh #i really want to draw ENA ingo and emmet again- they are fun to doodle! #for now they just get torment gbrueoghbuore #really curious how this particular arc is going to go down...

[nattikay]

A few favorite tracks from various Avatar media!

#avatar #avatar 2 #way of water #frontiers of pandora #afop #with a1 in particular it was really hard to pick a specific ''favorite'' #this one wound up ''winning'' for reasons i will make a separate post about shortly lol but a lot of the others are great too #as for a2 though that pick was very easy for sentimental reasons #though ''into the water'' gets an honorable mention because it gives me a huge sense of nostalgia #is it weird to feel nostalgic for a movie that's been out barely more than a year? probably but boy howdy that song sure does it #na'vi river journey was the first thing i ever tried to translate :'D #armed with nothing but a lyric video; nerdy enthusiasm; and the non-searchable learnnavi.org dictionary page #i think i did pretty well with it all things considered lol #there are some lines i'd re-word based on what i know now but i got the gist of it hrh

[flamboyant-king]

when yer in a creative rut, try doing a redraw. it'll make you feel better.

it wont make harvey feel better though...

#it just feels nice #both the og drawings were from two years ago #almost said to YEAHS ago. youre always improving #cause i just learned how to draw a profile...the chin is farther out from the neck than ive been drawing it #improving is learning. and learning is power #and boy howdy will i be powerful when i get off my butt to learn #the first redraw i just did cause my background on my ipad is that pic and i craved to redraw harvey's soft face #the second one was on valentines but that was juuuuust before one of my meltdowns so its been on the backburner #please appreciate my improvement as i disappear into mist again. also i ate a whole bowl of grapes yahoo #redraw #harvey #camellia #grow as we go #sketches #the first pic. its like a collaboration with my past self #now my sketchy lines make a bit more sense lmaoo

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Well it begins, vld rewatch here i come

First up they should have killed Sam Holt, not because i hate him or anything but because the line, "My life's work would be complete" would have been an excellent foreshadowing/death flag

#empty thoughts #voltron legendary defender #1 minute and 16 seconds and i am already trying to get white characters killed #'We could be the first humans to meet aliens' HAHAHAHA #Technically Keith's dad was the first one and boy howdy did he Meet One #Shiro looks so healthy here. So innocent and stress free #Sure hope nothing bad happens to him/j #empty rewatch

[canarydraws]

Updated Victor’s portrait

#art #dnd #artificer #reborn #dnd character #dnd art #Victor #do his scars match the style from the last time I drew him? nope #will they change again? maybe! #I actually do love how these look. I overrendered the scars the first time and they kinda looked like a mess #these are less detailed but still really nice #also in terms of story not much has happened yet #we’ve been on a very long hiatus so we haven’t actually done much exploring yet #but right before the hiatus started we did a level up so at least I get to look forward to trying new things when we go back! #he’s my first artificer and boi howdy they’re a lot

[jamiesfootball]

🎃 trick or treat 🎃

You get a long snippet (act surprised):

Roy flipped to a page at random:

'Ah, la belle dame sans merci who lived in his heart, made known to him in transitory fading splendor by dark eyes in the Ritz-Carlton, by a shadowy glance from a passing carriage in the Bois de Boulogne!'

The book Ted had given Roy had started with, ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’

“Oi!” Jamie started, sitting up to give Roy a concerned frown. “This one isn’t the first in the series.”

Roy shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. They’re all supposed to be self-contained stories. Don’t think I’ve ever met a person who read Wodehouse in order.”

Mollified, Jamie settled back into the cushions with Roy’s book, seemingly unaware of the puzzle Roy was rotating in his head.

Within the first few pages, he had a good idea what Ted intended by giving Jamie this particular book. He also couldn’t help but notice that he’d been given a book fit for his six-year-old niece, and Sam had been given Ender’s Game, and somehow Jamie had been the unlucky bastard with a reading assignment that would make any university student want to stick pencils in their eyes.

Also Anthony Patch was a posh rich twat.

#trick or treat asks #ask game #snippets #partway through suffering through The Beautiful and The Damned and BOY HOWDY DO I HAVE OPINIONS ON THIS BEING JAMIE'S BOOK #i tried to find you something fluffy but instead I found this and I am having STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT IT #anyways the fluffy part is that Roy spends a good chunk of time trying to find A Book for Jamie #partly to undo a little of what Ted did (and he does not even know the whole of THAT yet) #and partly because he has assigned himself Coach Homework to work out what he would've done in Ted's situation #and partly because jamie struggling to finish this stupid book is excruciating to watch. because jamie is not enjoying the book like at all #so here roy has literally just. traded him books. so Jamie can curl up on the couch with Wodehouse #and roy can suffer through the realistic disintegration of a relationship into emotional (and physical) domestic abuse and alcoholism #and like. ted couldn't have known. but wow wow wow this is not a light read #anyways #abuse mention cw #for the tags at least #roy kent #jamie tartt #fic: oh god you're gonna get it (you have not been given love)