#and theyre like ahhh i see

[skitskatdacat63]

2011 Monaco Grand Prix - Vettonso

#WHAT ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT 🤭🤭🤭 #not rly visible here but theres something about how theyre mirroring esch others pose #like both standing tilted towards each other with their hands on their hips #AND THEIR HAND BRIMS ALMOST TOUCHING IS SO 🥺 #their hat brims are kissing 🤭🤭 #see this is why theyre both catboys. they mirror each other. this is my narrative #i think its funny how often seb lowkey subconsciously leans down when talking to Fernando #and also what is that little flick of the eyes down to his lips seb 🤨 #ugh I've talked about this before but I'm forever obsessed with their contrast of blue and red #and the red on seb's suit being practically the same shade as on nando's ahhh #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #vettonso #we do a little bit of f1

[good-beanswrites]

A drabble for an anon asking about the prisoners watching their music videos! This is focused on specifically Mikoto’s initial shock at seeing MeMe for the first time, but just know that Double comes with a whole new set of shocks as he truly listens to John for the first time ;-;

Mikoto was no criminal. 

He didn’t know how to break into locked rooms, or hack into complex prison security systems. He figured there was no way in hell he’d be able to see these so-called incriminating videos that the Warden was recording, and had resolved himself to an eternity of wondering what they could be. He was shocked when he didn’t need to do a single thing to gain access to them – Es simply adjusted the computer monitor and told him he could hit play when (and if) he wished. Then they left the room.

“A-are you sure?” he called, but they were already gone.

Mikoto blinked at the screen. It showed a stretched version of his apartment couch, near his bathroom wall, broken to reveal sky above. He thought he could spot his tarot cards at the bottom of the frame. Had Milgram broken into his home to film this? 

He scoffed, and hit play.

Distorted guitar started up. He flinched as his own face appeared for a moment – looking directly into the camera and making a wild expression he would never have made if someone was recording. His body tensed up more as he heard his own voice start to sing lyrics he’d never spoken before in his life. He wasn’t even a good singer, and here he was sounding like a professional. 

There were plenty of ways to accomplish all of this, of course. Software could mimic one’s voice, making him say anything these crazy reality hosts wanted. A team could easily add some digital effects to a stunt double and match his appearance perfectly. Knowing that didn’t make the experience any less unsettling.

He watched himself commit a nasty murder. He watched himself return home bloodied. But it was all ridiculous. How could Milgram even claim that this was him? He’d never raised a hand to anyone in his life. Were the other prisoners’ videos as outlandish as this one?

But then, a switch. 

The song shifted to a new melody. He appeared to wake up from his couch, and suddenly Mikoto got the sense that this was him.

He was struck with how familiar this new segment sounded. It simultaneously felt like a favorite song he must have played on loop not too long ago, and one that he’d never heard before. As it played, each new note and lyric felt right on the tip of his tongue. 

It ended as quickly as it began. The song returned to the heavy-metal-murder aesthetic it had started with, and once again he felt like he was watching a cheap copy of himself onscreen. He watched another murder, a shower scene (had the warden seen all that? How embarrassing…) and then he turned to his bathroom mirror.

At the same time as his musical counterpart, Mikoto leapt backwards in horror. 

His eyes remained glued to the screen. His hand flew up to grab the lower half of his face. It was fake, he told himself. AI and CGI and all that. It was fake. It had to be. 

Something deep inside of him said “no. That’s real. That’s me.”

Something else deep inside of him echoed the sentiment.

The video was less than four minutes of music, but by the end he was panting and tugging at his hair as if he’d endured hours of prison torture. He burst out of the room. He sucked in breath after breath. The melodies still played in his mind, lines repeating in his memory as he tried to put as much distance between himself and that little television screen.

He found the others in the common room. They gave him a knowing look, but somehow he knew his experience had been very different from their own. Es approached him.

They studied his expression for a moment. Thankfully, they didn’t ask anything stupid, like “how did it go?” or “what did you think?” 

Instead, they just told him, “if you ever want to watch it again, just let me know, I can get it set up for you.”

He would want to see it again. Of course, it would be better, then. He would take a moment to calm down. He’d watch it later and everything would be okay. He’d have a clearer mind. He’d pick out all the little camera tricks they used to make it. He’d be sure it was a fake, and laugh about how ridiculous he was being now. 

Of course. Of course. 

He nodded to Es, unable to produce any words. Es left him.

The rules in this prison never made any sense, but in this case, he was grateful. He wouldn’t need to figure out any snooping or hacking to get access to the video again. After all, he was no criminal.

… he wasn’t, was he?

#milgram #mikoto kayano #thanks again!! this was super fun to do 👀 #i was so sad that they cant see their videos in canon so it made me so happy to work out how it may work/feel #you know when theres a song you used to love but its been too long and you sort of forgot the words #but as theyre playing youre like ‘ahhh i knew that’ #thats what im picturing #something unnervingly familiar #as mentioned in the hcs i think john would have a very different reaction #hed be happy to see himself but upset to see mikoto so afraid of him #:( #i like to think that john watching meme is what prompts some of his lyrics in double #i think the opening shots of bring it on would convince fuuta that someone had just hacked his cameras #but then there would be shots they shouldnt have any way to get #and the same for mikoto seeing his apartment/the train station and then suddenly himself in the shower… #he probably laughs it off with the others knowing that they came back a bit more calm than hes currently feeling #so he fakes it as long as possible before having another Moment alone in his cell that night #OUGH #drabbles

[gifti3]

Levi and orias's backstory and relationship is quite interesting...

Also the excessive soul eating has to be orias's way of coping with the trauma

#learning about the lore is what keeps me hooked #i think thats one of the games strongest points #i think fear of aging is pretty normal but hes next level #man does not wanna look a day past 20 years #ik he needs to eat constantly since he ages faster #but man is addicted #levi and orias are like trauma bonded too sbehhwhw #like kinda #at least from levis side #i was like ahhh theyre just playing around guys haha until orias attacked “him” at the end lmaoo #anyways i wanna see more or orias!! #bring his ass back #same with andrealphus #whb #what in hell is bad

[soups-archive]

Thoughts on Purgatory Day 4:

God what a fun day, and yet funnily enough a much more relaxed one.

It's gonna be interesting to see what the ramifications of blue's logout strat are gonna be because it's definitely going to be banned, but, from my understanding, blue used this strat to prove a point: that red's strategy was unfair.

Which is true, or at least I think it was true.

Personally, I feel like it was mostly unfair due to how difficult it used to be to get to global, but I feel like the admins have pretty fairly counteracted that and balanced things with today's introduction of the spawn portals.

Because with red's strat players HAD to physically travel to global and turn in the contracts within at least the last 30 minutes of gameplay. The portals now easily allow other teams to show up and at least put up a good fight, and we actually got to see how effective they are today with cellbit and charlie's assist they pulled for roier. If they had been just slightly quicker, green might've been able to steal back the win.

Which I think brings me to the other potentially unfair part of red's strat that I've seen be brought up which is that it isn't fair for streamers in European timezones/streamers who play earlier. Which is a fair criticism, but honestly I haven't personally been able to think of a way for the admins to balance the contracts around that without either: A) completely changing how contracts work, or B) unfairly punishing later streamers.

I think it's complicated, and I feel like the main thing that's gonna result from today isn't going to be them banning turning in tasks late but instead banning logging out right in front of the global NPCs. Knowing the admins, they'll probably figure out something I hadn't thought of and make the whole thing more fair for everyone.

Competition and lore wise, tomorrow is gonna be really interesting as well. A small alliance might be blooming between red and green and that might have massive ramifications going forward. That and I think (???????) that players might be getting their eggs tomorrow (?????). I know they described a period in which they had to keep them alive and the actual event ends on the 10th so I'm guessing they're arriving tomorrow. If they are, that shit is going to be crazy.

(Side note: It was also a delight to see teams casually hanging out more together today. As much as I enjoy the competition, I missed them all just chilling)

Overall, congrats blue on the win! Cheesy as fuck and they knew it but it was absolutely deserved! They worked their asses off! And green put up a hell of a fight! I hope they get their chance to win as well tomorrow!

#qsmp #soup speaks #it could be perceived that way but this really isnt meant to be a discourse post #i just like thinking about strategy and gameplay balancing lol #this event has been so delightful for me i love disecting possible tactics and ways the admins can make things more fair #while still rewarding interesting and smart strategies #because red's strategy WAS smart #and with the addition of the portals its a lot more fair and opens up opportunities for some sick ass skirmishes over global tasks #i think it also opens up a lot of opportunities for teams to get creative #because all the teams DO have streamers who log in later #even if theyre not their pvp heavy ones #off the top of my head blue has tina missa and rivers #and green has bagi quackity and roier #and not all of those people are the best at pvp but thats where creativity and strategy come in #id love to see blue team come running in with a bunch of explosives or poisoned arrows or other ranged attack methods #to try and stop red team or green team without getting too close contact #like AHHH!!!! i wanna see teams get really creative with this!!! i love fun strategies!!!! #theres so much fun bullshit you can do in this scenario #like god i could sing red's praises so much theyre so tactical and think so strategically its fucking awesome #their cave base made specifically so that it would be less detectable using cave layers? and convincing people they still live at spawn? #delightful #and shoutout blue team for the way they've let people play to their strengths #they caught on to so many good strats early on like moving their base off island and tea being the best food source #and god the way green really came back together today was such a delight to watch #i hadn't caught much of their pov prior to today but i tuned in while they were grinding to fight blue and it was so much fun #i hope them and red actually commit to the little alliance they've formed and try to secure green the win tomorrow #god this event spawns such shit discourse but also im so delighted by it #sorry for the fucking essay in the tags i just have so much to gush about this event kudos to the admins this is sick #qsmp purgatory #really putting the blog back in tumblr blog with this one huh

[twunkzilla]

Once you meet like cishet dudes that are actually cool and you can dudebro around its the funnest shit I'm like dude imagine for every birthday as a kid you just got barbie dolls and dollar store nail polish and they were like broooo that sounds awful I know your pain

#my straight boy friends are lowkey gay as fuck but #being the person i am i have an easier time with cis men than women #just cause cis men are much more overt with transphobia and they tend to see how im like them and appreciate my aggro male rigomoroll #with women i feel like ahhh im out of place youre all bathed and shit #you keep your voices at an even speaking level 😭😭 #jk straight cis girls scare the shit out of me and they tend to think im like them for some reason so ill see them make shit up and project #deffo been traumatized by both cisgenders but i think i focus more on trauma from women cause it lasts so long #with gossipping and snitching and making shit up to their boyfriends #so with men it was usually one and done id get my ass kicked but the cycle was perpetuated by their crusty girls #god theyre like fucking symbiotic species #anyway no hate all genders are valid both real men and women and cis men and women

[leenaur143]

lee min ho is so loved 💜

#he's just so precious #he just lives his life as he wants and has fun along the way #like he told us he often goes out for meals with his friends and he has soooo many like wow our lil social butterfly whos still an introvert #and he's been raised right cause he fully called the restaurant owner to say thank you for the meal and told him about the food its just #really endearing #he likes his little bubble and that is all you need in life fr 🥹💜 #lee know #stray kids #racha log #how he introduced his friends to the members too like the one they were talking about at the start of the episode and seungmin and han just #knew exactly who he was talking about and theyre even friends with him thats like so normal but we never see that shown in the media #which is a good thing (privacy and that) but this shows how you can just talk about it and its fine ahhh i just love him

[masonsystem]

also gosh i really do love the concept of kgpr's eye powers so much. i love how theyre so deeply rooted in every characters' individual traumas, while also relating to azami's own traumas, and i love how its not just a superpower received upon resurrection, but is instead an ailment that nearly every character is seen to be struggling with. and its also so important how the characters are only able to control their powers when they begin to resolve certain aspects of their traumas, like momo only learns to control her powers when she finally receives the specific attention she has long coveted for in the form of genuine friendship, and kido only begins to control her powers when she finally finds familial security which she was deprived of in her youth, etc. like its not just a matter of 'what if trauma gave you superpower', but more like, 'what if trauma WAS a superpower'. and i love that <3

#and also how like. so many of the ability holders wish to rid themselves of their eye powers at some point #except hibihiyo which oughhh theyre so good bc like. they have their eye powers for the shortest time in the story #but theyre the most.. grateful i guess? to receive it bc they are driven to use it to save their respective half from the daze #ILL MAKE THIS INTO A LONGER POST LATERRR but its so interesting to see the differences between #mekatrio + momomary whove had their powers the longest #compared to yuukei quartet + hibihiyo who had their powers for less than 10 years #ayano deliberately giving herself a power in subsequent timelines..... amazing #THERES SO MUCH TO SAY ABT THEIR EYE POWERS AND THEIR NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS ahhh ill make a massive post abt it later. #after i rewatch the anime probably #kgprambling

[wholelottiered]

.

#personal #feeling p weird about my life rn #delete later #The person Im dating is cool but like Im not sure how much of a future I see with them #Not sure how much of me staying is bc of genuine appreciation for them VS consistent physical and emotional affection #from a communicative and respecting partner no less #which is GREAT but it isnt inherently what causes that lovey dovey spark yknow #but like I date with the intention to progress and build a life together #but oh yeah THEY ARE MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN #and their kids are the sweetest things ever ahhh Im so awkward around children but theyre cool ppl and thats rad #also is v fun to deal with bc of how much of my trauma is directly from my moms significant others #and now DAS MEEEEEE hahaha fuck #this is fine this is fine this is fine

[1980ssunflower]

SCREAMS

#ot3: ❤rhyme💛easy💙 #tape entry circa 1980 #i forgot i didnt finish taking all possible screencaps from this ep and went back and WOO #dude aughh the color pallete for the end of this ep/ beginning of next ep is CRAZY its my favorite pallet for them in all the show #theyre scared during that scene tho so not ideal for gush posts but theres no way i wont use it lol #tbh im considering using one of those screencaps as my new header maybe #i just love the colors sm #BUT AAHHH IM SO SOFT FOR MY BABIES!!! #rewatching this ep i was reminded how much of a BASTARD min can truly be like JESUS min #my dude truly said some heartless shit to ryan like CALM DOWN #but i LOOOVE his line that acknowledges a HUGE thing for him #'so... waiting didnt work... you can mess up even if you stand still' #HIS ENTIRE THING IS STANDING STILL LIKE FREEZING UP AND BEING FROZEN IN MULTIPLE WAYS LIKE #AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! #i feel so BAD for ryan this ep for how shit he gets treated by min like MY BABY!!!!!!!! I WILL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF MIN FOR YOU BABY #and on TOP of that min YELLS at ryan immediately after saving him from falling to his death GHJSK #MY MAN DOESNT EVEN GET A BREAK!!!!!!! #BUT AHHH SEEING HOW GENUINELY TERRIFIED RYAN WAS WHEN HE WAS SURE HE WAS ABT TO DIE LIKE!!!! #NGL RYANS VA WAS SOOO GOOD IN EXPRESSING JUST GENUINE TERROR IN HIS VOICE THAT SOUNDED PATHETIC EVEN #made my heart hurt ;;w;; #tbh this ep really shows mins character tbh esp towards the end when he realizes he was wrong... but also ends up not apologizing #even when he was abt to #hfdjsk he can be so grouchy and bitchy but so so sweet and fun and nice and GHDFSJK FUNNY TBH W HOW MUCH OF A SMUG ASSHOLE HE CAN BE #HES REALLY FUNNY WHEN HE GETS LIKE THAT TBH #AOUHHH BUT THEY LOOKS SO CUTE THIS EP I GOT SO MANY SCREENCAPS OF MIN #SOME VERY CUTE ONES BUT ALSO LOOOOTSSS OF HIM JUST YELLING AND BEING ABSOLUTELY PISSED OFF HFDSJK #anways kissing them kissing them KISSING THEMMM #MY SOULMATES MY BABIES MIS AMORES TE AMO TE AMOOOOO #my heart hurts thinking of them rn i want to pet ryans hair while he lays his head on my lap while playing guitar #want to feel min wrap his arms around me and bury his face in my neck while i cook us dinner

[xamaxenta]

Sincerely though, how do people nail down a look/style for their favourite blorbo and stick to it?

Most of the time I’d love that kind of continuity because then it would be very efficient to draw the fave as fast as possible

But other times I’m like ah but i feel this way or I’ve been inspired by that today, so he won’t look like the Ace I drew yesterday idk maybe its a me thing

#xam scream #like I’d like to be consistent but when i really think about it im like ahhh but i could portray him otherwise #and then I see five interpretations of Ace and i get so jealous like I WANNA DRAW HIM LIKE THIS TOO!!!c. HES SO PRETTY!! #and then its all jumbled up #ahhh i love seeing everyone draw characters i like theyre all so unique

[ribcagewolf]

if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more (home, like noplace is there 2014 studio album by american emo band the hotelier)

#rant incoming XP i am always overflowing with emotion #the emo band poll is PISSING ME OFF and it literally wouldnt be if they called it the pop punk poll but theyre calling it emo and #mcrs gonna win and theyre my favourite band and the best there but #idk labels dont have to be serious but if yr gonna call it a genre poll then yk #im not gonna be like. MCRS NOT EMO 😡😡 bc they def do have elements and you cant fully seperate them from the genre #but those rly Arent emo bands emo is such an important genre to me #to me emo is about desperation and grief and its kind of inherently a suburban genre almost like #midwest emo is so much about the suburbs and the way it creates this desolate childhood trapped in glass forever #anyways the best band that represents this is HOTELIER !1!!!!!! #home is a fucking perfect album . #housebroken is actually the best midwest emo song and jusr one of the greatest songs of all time but they GET IT #achggg its so perfect the layer of it being about like. police abuse and that experience of teenage recklessness growing up in northamerica #the cycles the trap! #but also tje personal touch of like #i listen to that song and i remember why i started seeing myself as a wolf when i was a kid #lycanthropy loneliness cycle of abuse #your bark might seem bad but ill show u the scars from when the state sent you over to deliver your teeth #are you fucking KIDDING MEE AHHH #commitment to the pain when irs all youve ever known... try to take out my claws expect a visceral reaction try to muzzle me up #ill lash out ill bite back.. #anyways

[tillman]

reading the stuff that was inspired by stuff like ancient greek and roman literature before reading the originating texts has made my life so fun. i read the iliad and just cant stop going oh so this is where this medieval author got this concept and ohh this adds such a deeper level to this small scene in the vulgate etc etc. very very fun i love love approaching lit like this

#txt #theres a certain couple lines in teh iliad that i like had to stop because they are echoed so badly in the vulgate it made me ache a little #just this deep resounding rage at the loss of someone who treated you as a human. love or not. i really really enjoy seeing how across hist #ory people kept coming back to the rage that comes with grief . in a war setting i mean. #like there are more obvious things like the hart with the white foot including a scene gawain ties a man to his horse ala hectors horsing #but the more nuanced and subtle call backs. its like. its so obvious NOW reading it with another angle that theyre call backs. i would have #ever have thought that originally though. i really like it #AND JUST TO THINK. THE AMMOUNT OF CALL BACKS AND SUBTLE REFERENCES WE WILL NEVER GET BECAUSE THE TEXTS HAVE BEEN LOST TO TIME. #SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!! #just ahhh #and like its then reversed with stuff like dante. who explicitly references lots of medieval texts in his writing. which makes me smile so h #ard #EVEN IF HIS CONTEMPORARY IS MEAN TO GALEHAUT. BOCCACCIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ok hes not mean. but glares at him like an anime girl. HMPH!

[hemorrhoidbabe69]

Love playing spot-the-wol in ppls commission sheets

#Esp when theyre not xiv artists like ahhh theyve gotten to you too #Genuinely makes me rly happy i love seeing ppl get their guys. Oooooo weve all got the sickness #If i had moneyyyyyyy

[sensitivegoblin]

Y'all shhdshhfsdfgfdffff my crush makes me so happy ahhh never thought I could actually be wanted by someone and get affection cfdfghgff

#like I have so many awesome friends #but I was certain that I would never receive genuine affection that I couldn't brush away #like I can't be like 'theyre only nice cus we're friends' cus it's such a deeper form of affection #it's hard to explain but i think I'm getting closer to my romcom moment🥹 #trying not to jump off the deep end with my languge cus I don't wanna scare them away #but AHHH I love them sosososososososososo much #when I'm at a loss for words when we're talking I wish I could just hug em #highramble #like it baffles me when they're like 'see this? I WANT to do this to you' #it's like shgdsfhjhddfghgf ME? REALLY?✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋 #for once I feel like the main character I'm supposed to be🥰

[logsone]

#diary #eyestrain #her reaction to seeing this was the cutest thing in the world #she squealed really loud then had to hold her tail from wagging so fast& couldnt hold it on anymore #& ended up like knocking her head against the wall & i was like oh my god im so sorry are you ok #& she was like no im more than ok& she was smiling so wide i thought her teeth were gonna crack #needless to say she really enjoyed my creation of her ... #she doesn't have a tumblr so secret #angel wings are cuz shes an angel... to meeee... #also got them for free on help island #i love help island. generally just a big fan of like ancient shit in sl #like horrible prim creations #her tail & head are all prims :3 #i drew her eyes & theyre animated... they blink but are a bit off center #some things i tried to add were stubborn tho √—_—; honestly.. might give her a glowing unicorn horn #ahhh ermahgerd i want to make my friend too if that wouldnt be creepy #nah i really dont care lulu.... √^✓ girls gonna do whatta girls gunna do... fufuffufufu #not fuck you like im laughing like that #god so many tags im sorry

[astrangeghost]

getting a girlfriend would fix me. tbh.

#i already said this but i saw my gay cousins todayyyy ahhhh #i want a girlfriend.... #idk their exact sexuality gay as an umbrella maybe theyre both bi #one non-blood but still cousin and then the other married him #both my cousins now.ah ah ah (dracula laugh) #they live so far away so i never see them :(( im not sure they even know im a lesbian... #and when they do visit i can never talk one on one with em cause theyre always busy #but ahhh theyre so cool sending brainwaves pleaseee visit more #i see them like. once a year at the most<///3 #all my other cousins know im gay.cause i see em more like yes im the gay cousin #but like theyre MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #thats dope as hell.anyways i want a gf so i could bring her to meet my family and be like yes!!!!!! #but mostly i want a girlfriend cause.my hopeless romantic ass surrounded by pretty girls at my school #ahhh a couple days ago a girl passed me a note saying my eyes were pretty #ghfgnhgmhjmnmvn hgyjn bnjmn ;; ;; and i was like ohhh i could talk to her more !! #and then i found out shes like two grades below me so. no!! #ghjnmjhso many girls at my school and i know like none of them #why must i be cursed with an all boy/nb/someone under the usually masc genderqueer friendgroup #theyre all cool but like. ahh.i wish i knew more girls