#blorbos from my games

[rae-nimation]

You wont believe what I did for my bezold effect assignment

#loz totk #tears of the kingdom #botw 2 fanart #the assignment was to change one color to transform the artwork #wheeee #legend of zelda #legend of zelda fanart #blorbos from my games #flashing images

[letmebeagreekstatueyoumotherfuck]

A quick sketch of the blorbo while I decide what dress type would suit him best for something more detailed

#luigi #luigi x bowser #pencil #art #my art #blorbos from my games #bowuigi #blorbos #he canonically likes dresses #and so dresses he shall have #drawing #sketch #doodle

[eighthdoctor]

if jaina or sylvanas had a dog what kinda dog would they have

well, nathanos--

they both grew up with hounds

i'm not sure either are dog people anymore but the proudmoores absolutely keep a pack of foxhounds and jaina would be familiar with those. sylvanas would've hunted with alaunts, which are sighthounds that can also catch and hold large game.

terriers, property guardians, and herding dogs are Working Class, and neither would've kept a companion breed (ie dog just to be a dog). gundogs won't really exist in azeroth, but hounds are upper class & fit the windrunners & the proudmoores.

#asks for ts #Anonymous #the power to manipulate belief #blorbos from my games

[justanintrovertedartist]

match set i doodled in between customers at work today

thinkin about using autodesk and making these lil dudes discord emotes idk

#submas #subway bosses #these train guys have my brain in a death grip #subway boss ingo #subway boss emmet #bee art #yeah thats right i actually do draw things sometimes wild #ingo #emmet #the blorbos #blorbos from my games

[c4binet-m4n]

drew the pookies for inktober …. Can’t believe I actually liked it enough to post 🤯

#I’m so scared of posting my art here i improve too fast #they’re cute though #baby girls… #blorbo #blorbos from my games #ashley graham #ashley graham resident evil #re4 ashley #re4r ashley #ashley graham re4 #leon kennedy #leon s kennedy #re4 leon #re4r leon #resident evil leon #resident evil 4 remake #resident evil #resident evil 4 #re4 remake #re4make #re4 #re4r fanart #leon kennedy fanart #ashley graham fanart #leon s kennedy fanart #resident evil fanart #resident evil 4 fanart #resident evil 4 remake fanart

[catboyaramaki]

Deltarune doodles

#deltarune #noelle holiday #gaster #blorbos from my games

[silver-ace-of-spades]

Jet: Nice quills, weed boy.

Silver: It's not fucking weed, you piece of shit stoner!

#toxic electricity #incorrect sonic quotes #jet the hawk #silver the hedgehog #swearing tw #let silver say fuck #weed mention #blorbos from my games #source: 4chan #source: memes #source: original #kind of

[mr-kayser]

Unconscious day 6/14

Since she behaves so well, she gets to call her big sister five times a week (not enough for the younger's work of being annoying, but will do) and sweets for dessert on lunch time

#touhou #koishi komeiji #satori komeiji #i also wanted to make a pic of Koi and Okuu listening music together but i forgot :( #self harm #just in case #my art #blorbos from my games

[valcaira]

Gods I adore Shez' big thembo energy <3

#blorbos from my games #fire emblem warriors three hopes #shez fire emblem

[beecil]

sorry for getting back into touhou in 2022

#im not sorry but ill pretend i am #blorbos from my games

[kiviniik]

Wait. Last time I fell in love with a character with an hyper fixation (Ingo & Emmet) I fell into a deep hole of knowledge and I'm not obsessed with metro

But now I fell in love with Minamimoto from TWEWY does that mean I'll get obsessed with math??

I'm too gay for this I hate math! I don't wanna lose my gay card over a blorbo!!

#sho minamimoto #ingo & emmet #hyperfixation #blorbos from my games #i see a pattern there #im too gay to do math #but i wanna call people zectogram cause ots so funny??? #why Minamimoto WHY #kiv.talks

[subterra-rose]

I'm doing a randomizer nuzlocke and I started audibly cheering and applauding when they came on screen should I be concerned

No, this is the most valid response. In fact, I think you should’ve started yelling as loud as you can

#asks #lavendorii #BLORBOS FROM My games

[letmebeagreekstatueyoumotherfuck]

I hate it but I physically can’t stand to look at it any longer (T-T) here

Bowser looks so bad 🥲 I broke it

#luigi x bowser #bowuigi #luigi #art #blorbos from my games #blorbos #bowser #digital art #my art #pretty boys #in pretty dresses

[eighthdoctor]

So, as a fan of Forsaken Sylvanas I've always wondered how you view her more immoral or hypocritical actions. I don't mean the later stuff from when she was Warchief or even necessarily Vanilla WOW.

For me, I always struggled to like Frozen Throne Sylvanas compared to her Reign of Chaos incarnation because Forsaken Sylvanas employed mind control, IE the same slavery forced on her, onto others.

Specifically she had a bunch of different people possessed and used as kamikaze soldiers on Varimathras and then kept the survivors to be used later, IE Mug'thol the Ogre who only broke free thanks to the Crown of Wills which he was later assassinated for.

The act itself just always struck me as incredibly hypocritical given everything. It wasn't killing and then being magically enslaved but it wasn't much better and sort of set the tone for me not being surprised by Sylvanas and the Forsaken being kind of bastards.

That isn't to say I necessarily thought it was a good decision.

Nor is it to say that it couldn't be made into something thematically resonant. The victim perpetuates a similar crime done unto them if perhaps less extreme out of desperate survivalism but has complicated feelings about it, or the like.

But given that didn't happen, well its a lot like how I don't take Bartman's "no guns" stance seriously when his best friend is a cop. The narrative and thematic dysfunction breaks my vibe. But I am curious about your take on all this.

SORRY FOR THE MULTIPLE WEEK DELAY ON THIS I HAD LIFE HAPPEN REPEATEDLY and also wanted to put some thought into this

okay so required reading which will underpin a lot of this:

what is a war crimes on azeroth

how does Sylvanas see her job as the Banshee Queen

what's up with the Maw [ETA: I don't remember why I put this one in...presumably past!me had a reason?]

as per the war crimes post, I am not using any real world examples for my own sanity, and trying to draw real world parallels will get you blocked, because I'm not interested in getting into that cesspit.

anyway so! the question!

context for everyone else: the events in question happened very shortly (months to a year or so, the timeline is SUPER fake) after Sylvanas fought free of Arthas's control, with.......some number of supporters.

the number of Forsaken/free undead here is important. if Sylvanas is commanding a significant army, then she has many viable routes toward keeping her people safe. if she's commanding fifteen soldiers and an undead goat, then almost any action becomes justifiable.

an unexplored angle in the war crimes post because god knows it was long enough already: the goal being fought over.

we find war crimes/atrocities more palatable when they are being used in defense against invasion than when they are used in perpetuation of it. we find them more acceptable if done by the smaller, weaker force fighting for survival.

this isn't a "get out of jail free" card to do whatever the fuck you want. but if there's a limitless army of demons invading my city, a few atrocities to keep them from ending life on the planet sounds like a fair trade.

and then, of course, a huge POINT in the war crimes post is "we don't do these things because we get really upset when they happen to US", so the moment the OTHER side does a war crime it's now fair game for everyone.

which is to say: as of frozen throne, Sylvanas is fighting entirely for survival. there is not an organized force on Azeroth (or even most of the unorganized ones) who wants her & the Forsaken 'alive'. they are everyone's favorite punching bag. everything she does is for sheer survival.

so how many Forsaken are there? good question.

when poking around the wiki it looks like there are two different ways to estimate the size of the Forsaken at this point in time:

from WC3 gameplay

from WoW gameplay & lore (ex, the History of Warcraft fragment Civil War in the Plaguelands)

unfortunately these uh. contradict. the fragment explicitly says she got half the Scourge (well done Sylvanas holy shit), and god knows there's enough Forsaken PCs running around to validate this.

but WC3 gameplay leans very much toward "scrappy band of rebels" imho. the wiki has "With only a handful of ghouls and a few banshee sisters" (here) which is hardly half the Scourge. it looks much more like it's her, the Dark Rangers, a smattering of weirdass things she took with her in the divorce liberated in her escape and...Varimathras. everyone's fave.

let's put those two together.

let's say that Sylvanas did liberate half the Scourge. in particular, given various propensities among Forsaken PCs, she got a disproportionate amount of the recently dead and relatively few of the older abominations.

and when her tens-or-hundreds-of-thousands of undead came to awareness again, realizing who they were, what they had been made to do, the world they were now resident in--

they collapsed.

what if in frozen throne Sylvanas has a city's worth of undead who are collectively unable to defend themselves, unable to do anything, and she's got maybe a thousand who are actually viable fighters, and everyone wants them wiped out.

(the single arguable exception to this, the quel'dorei, are in the middle of whatever the FUCK kael'thas is up to. idk. i've read the relevant pages 10 times and it still makes no sense. he got afflicted with Gotta Carry The Plot disease and everything went to shit from there. point is, they're busy.)

so with that context.

it is, of course, horrible to possess people and use them as sacrificial soldiers. this is a Bad Thing to do etc.

it's also very strategically sound. it allows Sylvanas to hurt the enemy without risking anything. there's no possible drawback here except some squishy ethics, and "doing horrible things in defense of civilians" is, at least, a huge step up from what Arthas made her do.

if Sylvanas had had other options, if there were more functional Forsaken at that point in time, then different story, but WC3 gameplay strongly strongly suggests that no, a very small percentage of those who were going to make classic era Forsaken were actually fighting in frozen throne. how else was she going to protect her people?

but in general, much, much more sympathetic to people doing war crimes if they are horrifically outnumbered and otherwise going to be wiped out. that tends to provoke anyone into atrocities.

I've talked before--I actually talk in the latest chapter--about how Sylvanas is always defending Silvermoon. this is another iteration of that.

it's also VERY early in her....'character arc' might be a bit strong. trajectory. Sylvanas-on-Gor can set the moral limit of "no rape no slavery", because nothing that happens on Gor is going to change the fates of the Forsaken (well...it is, but indirectly). even Sylvanas-as-Warchief can draw that line, because she is Warchief and the Forsaken are considered part of the Horde, not the Horde's cannon fodder.

but the actions in question were done when Sylvanas wasn't in the Horde. before she'd even named the Forsaken.

to sum up:

I don't think it's hugely hypocritical, or rather, it kind of is, but desperate times etc, she was pushed into a corner and tore her way back out again.

Blizzard's failure to follow up on their own themes remains, as always, a problem. but it's not my problem and I'm perfectly happy to grab some themes and run.

I do think torturing/mind controlling Derek was hypocritical, which is why I completely wrote that part out of the fic. boring, Blizzard. and what was the point? far more effective to leave him just as he is and watch Jaina try to find the trap.

#asks for ts #tumblingxelian #the power to manipulate belief #long post for ts #blorbos from my games

[eldergremlin]

ok. we've reached the playlist level of obsession for dnd/bg3, so i have that going for me.

annotated tracklist (with what's there for now) under the cut because i'm extra like that.

bang gang - there was a whisper woke up and something's wrong (spoiler: she's dead)

elise trouw - awake dissociating 🫡

bernard herman - twisted nerve mariya's rage is less anger and more fear response: never again. never again. never again.

pedro aznar - décimas fuck this entire situation.

beabadoobee - tired camp thoughts: how are we all mentally ill??

radiohead - fake plastic trees she looks like the real thing... it wears her out...

the gentle waves - solace for pain shily flirting (i haven't decided with who. probably wyll?)

billie eilish - what was i made for? what's life without a little existential trauma? she's trying.

weyes blood - a lot's gonna change @the entire party & herself: everyone's got trauma, bitch. let's get you some fruit.

the autumns - please please please let me get what i want praying for vengeance

radiohead - exit music (for a film) finding a friend in the kennels (iykyk)

idkhbtfm - choke big bads but especially cazador / strahd

the smiths - asleep deep in the cell of my heart i will feel so glad to go

#blorbos from my games #mariya vibes #she's a barbarian in case that's not clear #playlist idiocy #game that i'm very normal about #sometimes i make my own posts #music

[idolatries]

saw someone point out how similar argenti looks to noelle aesthetically and now im gonna think abt that along with that short fic i wrote of diluc mentoring noelle

#keter.txt #blorbos from my games