#at least so far

[apollos-boyfriend]

apparently i never learn my lesson so. a quick familial relationship chart of the eggs and their parents.

#icarus speaks #qsmp family tree #notes: #yes i know foolish and slime had a kid. i don’t think they were ever named so i’m not including that #yes all the dragon eggs are biological siblings no i’m also not charting that #the only egg that gets that is gegg and that’s bc he is not an egg and just Actual Slime #since i removed all familial relationships from the polycule this is where they’ll be going instead #i think that’s everything? #at least so far

[chaoticvampirejedi]

What I really like about "Andor" is how real the Galaxy looks in it. Sure, it's still this weird world that we all love but it was nice to see how "normal" people live in it.

Because they just live in it, the same way we live here.

They ask for kaf in the morning. They live in communities where they help each other. They eat blue (!!!) space noodles. They use public transport. They run errands and go to their work.

These are just details, but showing ordinary everyday life made this world even more believable.

#also the plot is good #at least so far #andor #andor show #andor spoilers #star wars #andor star wars

[toomuchracket]

new au PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pretty please? (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

she is dropping this weekend!! tmr 1 year anniversary babeyyyyyyyyyy

#and actually. she is probably more of a series than my other work #at least so far #also love the emoji in this ask lol #mads answers asks #new au?

[comfortstars]

turns out classes and studying is fun when you actually care about what's you're learning

#is uni tiring? yes. specially if you go at night. #is it way more enjoyable than school? absolutely man #at least so far #lennie makes posts #lennie.personal

[thelonelywhale]

I'm thinking so much about Keyleth's discussion of anger with Orym in ep.66 and haven't been able to get this scene from campaign 1 out of my head:

Echoing Grog's advice back to Orym is just *chef's kiss*

She is the most character of all time.

#Matt nailed her character in that scene #critical role spoilers #critical role #cr3 #cr1 #keyleth #grog strongjaw #orym of the air ashari #I will stan Keyleth til the end of my days #people forget that she is ANGRY all the time and struggling with that anger and using it productively has been a core aspect of her #that unfortunately I think got lost in TLoVM #at least so far #S3 will probably address that more with Raishan #Keyleth deserves to be angry af #Youtube

[lukitachocolatecroissant]

Mbappe: “You know what they say, never sleep with the enemy.”

Ramos: “That’s not true kiddo. I used to sleep with mine all the time.”

Mbappe: “Used to? You mean later you stopped?”

Ramos: “He stopped being my enemy. I still sleep with him.”

#ramessi #fanfic #shortest Ramessi fanfic ever written #at least so far #leo messi #sergio ramos #psg #lionel messi #messi #mbappé

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Hello~ funny story time: me and my friends were doing career tests and I was wasn't going for anything specific cuz I've been playing ping pong with jobs ideas, so I do it the test and we all agree to get our results together, and BAM I get family doctor, friend #1 gets flight attendant and friend #2 gets plane pilot. So I'm so confused because THERE IS NO WAY I SHOULD BE A DOCTOR and my friends are like no, you'd be good at it, you have the grades and you're good with kids and yeah. My friend get to work on a plane together and I have to claw my war through med school, apparently

Haha well these tests are merely suggestions, you should definitely go with what you want to do, whatever that may be! I did the pre-med pathway in college, so if you actually do want that you can ask, but yeah. Family doctors are angels and we definitely need them!!

#you ask skye answers #lovely sunshineinagrove #I’ve never done a career test I wonder what that’s like #Time and Dusk would be your doctor buddies if you did it! #They’re the doctors in the healthcare au #At least so far

[overobsessedfanboy23]

Asana roasting Roa went quite differently in the dub but it was still quite funny!

For people who haven't seen the sub, Roa hit on Asana here (in a pretty sleazy way) to which Asana pretty much destroyed him by translating R6's whirring into "I'm not someone who calls girls 'baby' because unlike you, I'm a gentleman," which felt pretty earned and hilarious.

In my head, Asana is making up what R6 is saying (at least in this scene) in both versions so the dub felt a little harsh since Roa didn't really do anything but Roa's no longer a creep in the dub so it evens out.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh sevens #ygo sevens #sevens #asana mutsuba #roa kirishima #roa kassidy #this is what I mean by the sevens sub and dub are about even for me so far #the changes are mostly minor and there end up being pros and cons to both #the sevens dub is absolutely the most faithful YGO dub #at least so far #the final arc could do something absurd I'll just have to see

[autisticlancemcclain]

wip wednesday 13

since when did polls have more than ten options?? this is the only time i will do more than ten tho probably. anyways links for yall:

the loneliest series: 1 2 3 4

a mother's love: 1 2

MIA lance au: 1

blade lance au: 1 2 3

the applebees universe: 1 2 3

flower crown au: 1

new wips outline

racer lance au: 1 2

batb au: 1 2 3 4

#im in a class i was excited for #and it turned out to be boring #at least so far #rip 😔 #anyways #wip wednesday #wip wednesday poll #poll

[coquelicoq]

dammit. loved the end of the traitor baru cormorant. which means i'm gonna read the sequel. save me from myself. AUGH.

#i was so close...so close #i was feeling like this book was too much of a chore to read for reasons that i now know were necessary #and the themes. the themes! i can't resist them #the problem is i don't really care about the characters. that makes it hard to love a book. but the theeeeeeeeemes #this book reminds me a lot of the poppy war series which i read all three books of and then wished i had given up earlier #except the execution is better and idk. more coherent #at least so far #i guess it kind of depends on what happens in the other books lol #i wouldn't be sad if i never had to read another battle scene though. i'm realizing a lot of books that i can't get into #have a lot of battles. battle scenes don't do anything but bore and confuse me #the only books i can think of where i felt like i could actually follow the battles are the dandelion dynasty series #wow ken liu again you blow me away with the mastery of your craft... #books

[blood-darkened-moon]

Alfred, Alexia, and the Dragonfly

The infamous video of Alfred and Alexia torturing a dragonfly and feeding it to the ants can be found twice on Rockfort Island. The first time, you see it in the room with the Lugers and then again in Alfred’s office as the startup of his PC. Of course, it has a deeply person meaning to Alfred. We know about his obsession with his sister, and Alexia is in there as well. Maybe the video is the only one with her or the last one that was taken before her cryogenic sleep. It makes sense that Alfred would hold dear something like this. But is it just about Alexia, or is there more to it? After all, we even have to watch it twice.

The twins do not talk the entire time and barely interact during the video. The only noteworthy interaction happens during the last scene, in which Alfred and Alexia share a knowing gaze. The way they look at each other makes it clear that there is more to the whole scene than what meets the eye. It had a deeper meaning, which only they could understand. A secret they share with each other. Words are not necessary.

When I first played Code Veronica X, I assumed the video mainly existed to show the cruel and twisted nature of the twins, while it also foreshadowed what Alfred would become. But after replaying the game last year, I changed my opinion. The video isn’t about Alfred and Alexia’s general cruelty or torturing of defenseless creatures. The content represents something more personal to them - their revenge on Alexander.

It was never said when the video was recorded, but the twins aren’t small children anymore. Based only on their appearance, I would estimate them to be between 10 and 12 years old. Now, considering the content of the video, I think it was recorded after Alfred discovered the truth about their origin and after they came up with a revenge plan as the earliest possible date. However, it is more likely that they had already executed their plan some time before.

Let’s take a closer look. First of all, the visual language. The ants symbolize Alfred and Alexia. Alexia sees herself as an ant queen and refers to Alfred as a soldier ant. The dragonfly is Alexander. It is more obvious for Alexia’s third form, but Alexander’s mutated form resembles a dragonfly too. He has three appendages on his back, similarly arranged like three of four wings of a dragonfly. Additionally, these appendages are long and thin, like insect legs. In Darkside Chronicles, he even uses them to move around. Also, Alexander’s real legs are bound together with the rug, which makes his lower body look vaguely like the elongated abdomen of the insect. The belts even give it a segmented appearance.

The last similarity isn’t related to the real animal but to an item. To activate the self-destruct system, you have to assemble a dragonfly key. On the underside of this key is a prominent red jewel in the middle of its thorax, similar to Alexander’s exposed heart.

The dragonfly in the video is rather large. It has a blue abdomen with black markings and a yellow thorax. I tried to find out what dragonfly species we see there and found three possible candidates. One is the green hawker (Aeshna viridis), another is the southern migrant hawker (Aeshna affinis), and the last one is the emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator). (I’m not a dragonfly expert, though. Maybe there are other ones that fit better.)

The abdomens of the green hawker and southern migrant hawker are also blue, the thorax is yellowish-green, and they have black markings on their bodies. The emperor dragonfly has an apple-green thorax rather than a yellow one, but it would fit the other criteria. Other dragonfly species with a similar color palette have either more black markings, differently colored spots on the abdomen, a different body shape, or are too small. In all three cases, only the males have this coloration. The females are green or yellowish green instead of blue. Selecting a male dragonfly specifically could be another reference to Alexander. As for the emperor dragonfly and the southern migrant hawker, contrary to the green hawker, they also inhabit Great Britain, which delivers another connection to Alexander. And while Alexander is, of course, only an earl, not an emperor, an emperor dragonfly could still refer in a wider sense to his peer status.

From left to right: green hawker (male), southern migrant hawker (male), emperor dragonfly (male).

The general events of the video reflect what happened to Alexander. Only Alfred interacts with the dragonfly. He was also the one who initiated the revenge plot after discovering the truth about himself and Alexia, as well as the one who suffered subjectively more under his father. Alexia stays passive the whole time and only watches her brother, while in real life, she is the one who has carried out the experiments, not Alfred. However, even if she does not join her brother here, Alexia still contributes by providing an instrument to execute the allegorical revenge - her ants (and the virus in reality).

Instead of simply killing the insect, Alfred rips out its wings, making it incapable of flying away. Like the dragonfly, Alexander was still alive when he met his fate. The twins tranquilized their father before Alexia injected him with the virus, which caused his transformation. Afterward, Alexander’s confinement continued, and he was chained for years in agony, probably awaiting his death if he was still capable of having coherent thoughts.

The dragonfly’s death is not in vain. Feeding the insect to the ants serves a purpose. The ants can feast on it, and the colony can grow. Alexander’s life wasn’t wasted either. Alexia directed Alfred’s revenge plans from simply killing their father to using him for research purposes. Their “useless father” could contribute for once to Alexia’s research and the Ashford family. Even though the experiment was a failure, Alexia was still able to use the data she required from it for her benefit.

Why all the effort with the cryptic symbolism? Alexander was a terrible father. Probably not intentional, but this isn’t an excuse. He took the childhood of the twins for the sake of his own ambitions. He used Alexia to fulfill what he could not achieve and disregarded Alfred for not being as intelligent as his sister. Finding out that they were the result of a genetic experiment was the final straw, especially for Alfred. Their father then got what he deserved, according to them. Alfred hated Alexander with a passion. It must have been a great feeling to get rid of him, and to celebrate it, he (maybe Alexia too) wanted a keepsake. Direct photos or videos of their father were out of the question. Alfred even wrote in his diary that they have to be careful so that Harman (their butler) doesn’t discover what has happened to Alexander. The dragonfly video works well. It is cryptic enough that no one could understand its meaning without more background knowledge. People who see it randomly would assume it is a disturbing and slightly eerie home video. Alfred and Alexia, on the other hand, know exactly what it is about. It’s so important to Alfred because it does not only show Alexia but also their victory over Alexander. The insects are nothing more than involuntary actors. The real dragonfly and what is happening to it is secondary. The symbolic meaning behind the dragonfly’s death struggle holds significance.

Some notes as a closure that didn’t fit in the rest of the text: What makes the video so creepy, except for the circumstances you find it in, is the twins’ acting. Without them and out of context, the dragonfly video wouldn’t even be that unsettling if you consider some facts. The video was recorded in the Antarctic base. Dragonflies do not inhabit Antarctica. This means the dragonfly was bred there. The twins did not randomly catch it for the purpose of torture. What’s the purpose of breeding dragonflies? I assume it’s for (virus) research. We know that Umbrella performed experiments on other invertebrates. So, if dragonflies are bred in the lab anyway, why not use some as a protein source for the ants as well? More common insects for feeding ants would be mealworms and meal beetles, house crickets, flies and fly larvae, roaches, and plant lice, though. Also, dragonflies are predators and attack everything they can overpower, including other dragonflies. And unlike ants, they can fly. It makes sense to remove the wings first to prevent it from flying away or attacking the ants. Sure, ripping out its wings and not killing it first is still cruel, but at least the ants will take care of this soon.

#resident evil #alfred ashford #alexia ashford #alexander ashford #ashford twins #🩸🌙 #meta #re meta #uploading this video was the most bug-ridden thing i’ve ever encountered on tumblr #at least so far

[elliesbelle]

chapter 11 of ncty is gonna start out with a lot of exposition, i’m so sorry!!!!!!!

#i personally feel it’s necessary though!! #like i said this chapter might end up becoming the longest chapter of the series #at least so far #idk!! #belle speaks

[dateamonster]

dead end paranormal park is reminding me how much i miss shows where the premise is just "outcast but otherwise normal human(s) and the lovable rapscallion demon/monster/ghost that harasses them but like in a mostly harmless way"

#dead end paranormal park #im thinking abt the beetlejuice cartoon but im SURE there were more #ungodly screeching #the dynamic between barney/norma and courtney is my fav its literally just #*humans deal with personal problems* courtney: ummm ok lol *eats a bug* #at least so far #i love the her

[scratching92]

I started watching some of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films and the thing I like so far about his portrayal is that he balances out a lot of character traits of Holmes that I think can be a bit grating in certain portrayals.

He’s an intelligent, brilliant man, and he’s very confident in that, but he’s also got this gentlemanly quality to him that keeps him from ever being a little too smug, even though half these scenes you know he’s being coy about what he knows or suspects about the case. Just the right balance of “Yes, I’m brilliant” without being entirely obnoxious about it.

#Sherlock Holmes #Basil Rathbone #I'll confess I'm not a huge Sherlock fan in general #But I've seen enough portrayals and pastiches #And you do sometimes get actors playing him a bit too smug #But Rathbone gets the balance right I feel #At least so far #I've only seen two films #Maybe my opinion will change later

[awholelotofladybug]

Just how far are they going to push the whole “Gabriel is a terrible father” thing? I mean, seriously,

YIKES!!!!

#miraculous ladybug #gabriel agreste #season 5 #the Gabes I’ve written are father of the year by comparison #at least so far

[potahun]

sa weixiao has a SON!!!!!!!!!!! he meinan is his UNCLE!!!!!!!!!!

#im so shocked that they continued nznd :O #but without the original three!!!!!! #without he meinan present!!!!! that is really smart #even tho he jiong is there #they did not separate the original trio in spirit #at least so far #im invested