#choose me instead

[kyasunn]

Coming soon to a theatre near you

#secret life #life series spoilers #trafficblr #zombie cleo #zombiecleo #grian #fanart #on an unrelated note does anyone want to talk about this session's cletho with me please #that one moment in the zombie movie when the partner gets bitten but chooses to self sacrifice instead of infecting their partner #ky-posts-drawing #third life was desert duo... double life was ranchers... secret life is the series of cletho...! #1k

[fishbloc]

i want to see what life has to offer with you by my side

#grian #goodtimeswithscar #desert duo #3rd life smp #trafficblr #咸鱼.jpg #sticker/keychain design to go with the book.... i Think #there was another concept where its sadder but then makkz told me to choose this instead #because she said 'its something i would own as a keychain' so ok

[slavonicrhapsody]

Ranni has every reason to hate Marika. She is the figurehead of an order that has caused her and her family so much misery… and yet, in the Age of the Stars ending cutscene, Ranni holds Marika’s head with such gentleness. It feels less like Ranni is putting down a tyrant, and more like she’s laying her to rest, after many long years of torment. 

Ranni could have been Marika’s successor, but she rejected the guidance of the Two Fingers, slaying her own flesh in order to be rid of their influence: 

“But I would not acquiesce to the Two Fingers. I stole the Rune of Death, slew mine own Empyrean flesh, casting it away. I would not be controlled by that thing.”

Ranni goes to such drastic lengths because the most intolerable thing possible to her is to be a pawn; her will not being her own, but being at the mercy of a higher power. Ranni’s quest is above all about free will – it culminates with Ranni using the Fingerslayer Blade to tear her Two Fingers into bloody ribbons, at long last giving her full control over her own destiny.

Marika in the present day is a prisoner held in perpetual torment. According to Enia and the Two Fingers,

"Queen Marika is the vessel of the Elden Ring, carrier of its vision. A god, in truth. But after the Elden Ring's shattering, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree. A grim punishment for shattering the Order, despite her godhood. The Fingers speak... "Marika's trespass demanded a heavy sentence. But even in shackles, she remains a god, and the vision's vessel.”

Marika shattered the Order, going against the will of the Two Fingers, and was punished for it gravely. In many ways, Marika’s fate is Ranni’s absolute worst nightmare. This is exactly the fate she took such drastic lengths to escape… serving a higher power with her entire being, her will not her own, but the will of the Fingers, with any attempt at change met with violent suppression, her body essentially being used as a puppet to defend the last vestiges of the Order.

“I would not be controlled by that thing.”

I think that Ranni, seeing Marika’s broken body at the end of it all, felt nothing but pity for her in that moment, despite everything she’d done. To me, the act of Ranni holding Marika’s head in her hands feels like she’s saying, “you were my enemy. But there is no worse fate in this world than what you suffered. Now, you can be truly free."

#elden ring #marika #ranni #ranni the witch #queen marika the eternal #thee mother-daughter relationship that wasn't!!! #also the parallel that the fingers will us to become marika’s consort as elden lord #whereas we choose to become ranni’s consort though she tries to warn people away with her message on the ring #also also ranni being fated to become marika’s successor but she instead follows in the footsteps of rennala #rejecting her godly mother’s destiny in favor of the traditions of her ‘chosen’ mother #there's just so muchhhh #ranni's pause while she's cradling marika's head towards her chest makes me feel something

[tart-miano]

angry that your parody has a degree and you don't, victor

#back on my classic horror shit again #frankenstein #jekyll and hyde #rocky horror picture show #frank n furter #victor frankenstein #henry jekyll #edward hyde #dracula #van helsing #OK SO- #the j&h characters here are NOT Historian and Eddie- theyre the ones from the original novella- #while Historian and Eddie are meant to be modern parallels to them?? #the original j&h did everything wrong in life while their modern equivalents are choosing to be kind instead??? #theres an immortal character in their story whos like 'it scares me how much you two look like them' (referring to the og mad scientist) #and of course you got victor and the creature from the AU featured in the 'monster' animatic i made last october #they COULD be the original ones here and be mean to each other....but i do not want do that :'< #you can't sit with us #classic horror #my art

[djosephqueery]

Steve's pouting in a corner somewhere because he wants kisses :(

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as always shoutout to my co-conspirator @corrodedcoughin

Hope everyone's had a good week, and cheers to a good weekend <3

#Wayne makes an appearance! ... sort of #am I ever going to stop drawing puppet steddie content? #no. no I am not. #unfollow me now. #Eddie's such a dork I love him #he could be ACTUALLY kissing his ACTUAL boyfriend right now #but instead chooses to make the puppets kith #also they are cartoon puppets that live in my and Anna's imaginations #their eyes and expressions can change however I see fit #yes I reused the Eddie from the last one. so you don't need to mention it. #steddie #stranger things #puppet steddie #Len doodles #slowly replacing all st characters with puppets #drawing puppets making out was not something I foresaw for myself in 2023 #and yet

[puppyeared]

The garment, worn by those in good standing with Hyrule royalty, has been reworked with the latest improvements, such as a new shoulder guard.

#I miss my wife tails. I miss her a lot. I’ll be back #I love the champions leathers design but the story behind it is so sweet too like. she wanted to thank him so she went and #got some improvements added to it?? and she wanted to see his face when she surprises him with it hello????? #I think my favourite part is the half chest just for angst. I like imagining she was very particular about the armour placements #and had a chest piece added because yknow. right over the heart might I add #originally I wanted this to be more angsty but halfway through I was like wait this would completely miss the point #in my mind the armor isn’t just ‘I don’t want you to die again’ but also ‘I want to keep you safe as best I can’ #in her diary she was like links armor is wearing down so you know what? I’m gonna add more armor to better protect him!!! #and with her upbringing in mind (and the conversation she had with him about whether he would still choose to be a knight if things were #different) she could have totally asked him to stop doing it altogether. but she made the armor for him instead #sidenote she also got to be a teacher and scholar like she wanted and that is so. dont look at me I’m crying #I don’t know if ANY of this makes sense I’m just rambling. yes I wear the champions leathers every chance I get why do you ask #btw if you squint the leathers chainmail and sweater are taken from the hylian armor chestpiece! slightly modified on the tunic but cool #my art #myart #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #totk zelda #totk link #botw spoilers #botw #breath of the wild #loz #loz fanart #comic #tw blood #blood

[antimony-ore]

Someone should propose a bill requiring websites to disclose if an employer has accessed their employees social media, or requiring companies to disclose if and when they do.

I'm tired of MY social media being screened because my name is unique and easy to google search, when my medical history is not something I need to disclose and my social media is not legally recognized as a public record/not something they have a legal right to access

#this way I can choose not to work for places that don't line up with my ideals so I can stay at job and retire #instead of being exploited until I quit because I keep getting angry about the same things that never change and have to keep swallowing it #I ask to be accomodated once #if you don't take me serioisly you lose a good worker #you have to treat humans with respect if you want to continue profitting off their labor

[abyssruler]

cyno x gn!reader

“You’ll like him, I promise!”

“If he’s anything like you, I suppose.”

“Well…” You trail off, imagining you and your brother growing up and constantly being told how different the two of you are, from your personalities down to your looks. “Anyway! He can be a bit of a dummy, but he means well.”

Cyno nods, a thoughtful frown on his lips as he crosses his arms and waits for your brother to arrive at your meeting spot.

You spy the eye-catching ahoge from a mile away. You beam, raising your hand in a wave and turning to your partner beside you—only to blink as you realize that he left without your notice.

The sound of steel against steel in the distance blares an alarm in your head. Frantic, you whip your head to the direction of the sound and find two very familiar individuals duking it out.

Oh no.

“Big brother Haitham, stop!”

They both freeze at the sound of your voice for two completely different reasons.

Al-Haitham pulls you behind him and points his sword at your very confused partner, uncharacteristically slow to connect the dots. “Choose your next actions carefully, Cyno.”

Cyno completely lowers his weapon as he switches his gaze between the two of you as if in disbelief that Al-Haitham, the so-called Akademiya lunatic who he’s barely spoken two words to, is your older brother. You, the light of his life—but also an Akademiya drop out who only managed to get in through sheer luck after your random answers on the entrance examination turned out to be right—were related to him?

Impossible.

…Or so he would have thought a minute ago before his world was turned upside down and his partner’s brother wasn’t the most suspicious person in Cyno’s eyes.

My brother is really smart like you! He’s really nice and he used to help me study for my tests back when I still went to the Akademiya. A little, um, mean—but he’s actually a good person!

Hah, mean. A large understatement. It would equate to a scholar calling the General Mahamatra benign.

He suppose he should have expected it from you. You do have the tendency to think the best of people, even when they don’t deserve it.

“Brother.” You tug on Al-Haitham’s arm to bring his sword down, but he refuses to do so, unwilling to take his eyes off Cyno. Huffing in annoyance, you stomp on his feet and feel immense satisfaction when he turns his head to glare at you.

“This isn’t the time—”

“He’s Cynie!”

There’s a joke to be made about a pin dropping in the silence after your words and your brother’s dawning look of realization and the skepticism that follows.

He whirls his head to Cyno and points, “That’s Cynie?”

You nod with a growing smile, delighted that your brother finally lowered his sword so you can come up to Cyno and drag him close by the arm. “Cynie, meet my brother, Haitham!”

“…I told you not to call me that in front of others.”

“But it’s cute!”

“Only when we’re alone.” To this, he sends a baleful glare to Al-Haitham that your brother returns with a glare of his own.

“Oh, please. My sibling has told me everything that’s happened in your relationship,” then, as if to add salt to the wound, he strictly emphasizes, “Cynie.”

A muscle in your partner’s brow twitches.

“It’s great that you two are getting along!” You exclaim with a smile that could rival the sun.

They can’t say no to that face. They both have no choice but to reluctantly grumble a hesitant ‘yes…’ that has your eyes shining bright.

“I have our outing planned for today! I saw a promo in a restaurant that said if you can finish some kind of large meal in under an hour, you don’t have to pay for it! Not too sure how big it is, but I know I can eat it all. I also passed by this really cool place yesterday…”

They let you drag them by the arm across the city, shooting glares at each other and throwing subtle barbs when they think you aren’t looking.

You called that day the ‘brothers-in-law bonding day’. They hated every second of it and vowed to never talk to the other again.

Unless you asked them to, of course.

#in case ur wondering reader knows they dont like each other but is choosing not to acknowledge it #reader: i pretend i do not see 😑 #in the canon serious x airhead au haitham and reader aren’t related at all but instead good friends bc reader finds haithams sassiness funny #oh wow there’s canon and non canon versions now…..anyway #i love me my grumpy and sunshine trope it will always remain superior <3 #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #cyno x reader #genshin cyno x reader #gn reader #serious x airhead

[silvermoon424]

(from Gabi Belle's video "How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping")

YES OMG. I went to an anime convention a few months ago and saw SO many cheap bootlegs being sold as if they were authentic items. Being an experienced collector, I have a good eye for bootlegs so it didn't affect me, but I couldn't help but think of all the people who were duped into buying a crappy $30 bootleg that they could have gotten on Aliexpress for like $2.

#the most egregious case was this one person selling these beautiful light-up displays of fake bonsai trees with figures perched on them #they were going for well over $100 each #but when I actually looked at the figures it was obvious they were cheap bootlegs that probably cost the seller less than $10 #the light up displays were probably from AliExpress or Temu as well #it just pissed me off because finding authentic figures for relatively cheap is very possible on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan #but it's not as easy and cheap to use a proxy as it is to just order directly through a site like Temu #so guess what people choose to do instead #dropshipping #anti dropshipping #anime #figure collecting

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.

#oops it became a taang au how did that happen #i just think it wld be neat if the air nomads worked more like irl monks/nuns #not necessarily celibate but still made up of people who choose to follow the way of life #instead of the iffy implications of all monks/nuns having no choice because they were born airbenders #i dunno it's iffy to me #taang #my posts #atla #atla headcanon #do we need to rewatch Ice Age 2 ppl?? #repopulation is not a good reason for two people to be together! #avatar: the last airbender #i do also think that given them being nomads the fire nation probably want able to wipe the air nomads out completely #bu they just had to survive in hiding/ in a very diluted form #maybe like the sun warriors do #airbender!Ty Lee my beloved #also wld reflect the themes of unity vs division well if there were more than just airbenders among the air nomads #like how a waterbender can be a ruler of the Fire Nation or a Firebender can run a tea shop in the Earth Kingdom #toph x aang #edited cos someone got upset at my introduction and while i reckon they were willfully misreading i didnt want anyone to misconstrue #to clarify -> any child of aang's wld be an air nomad but there's no guarantee they wld be an airbender #esp if he had a child with an earth or waterbender #and we see how this had a negative effect in canon #hope that clears things up xx

[rainedroptalks]

Karna “In the end we are all rot” Solara vs Liam “The Bulb does not regard you. The Hungry One does not regard you” Wilhelmina in battle of “fucked up teens who are way too connected to this world’s version of satan”

#ramblings #dimension 20 #d20 #a crown of candy #acoc #d20 acoc #the ravening war #trw #d20 trw #liam wilhelmina #karna solara #they’re so important to me #you don’t even know #both of them connecting with the hungry one with karna choosing to give everything for it #while liam instead choose change #it’s crazy to be a teenager in Calorum

[bizarrelittlemew]

every time i see "Ed asks Lucius to write down his lyrics" used as an argument for claiming that Ed can't write i just want to. you know. point out that Stede has Lucius write down everything he says?? and does?? all the time?? and when he can't find Lucius he asks Frenchie (who actually cannot write) to do it instead of just writing it himself. and we know Stede can write. it's got nothing to do with ability to write, just that the captains don't seem to want to write stuff themselves when they have an employee whose job is to do that exact thing for them

#this is not with any specific post in mind but i think this every time that point is brought up #like idk if ed can write (i think he can based on the scrolls and books in his room and he can definitely read) #and he is a genius no matter what #but i just think it's ~funny~ how 'ed asks lucius to write sth down instead of writing it himself' is used to argue that ed CAN'T do it #when stede does it ALL THE TIME. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING #it's just fancy captain behavior and having lucius do his job (his actual job and not whatever izzy seems to think lucius' job is lmao) #ok now i got it out thanks this keeps bothering me #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #i guess #also it's hard to write while eating jam AND staring dramatically at a candle i totally get it #like if i had a scribey person in my employ i would also choose to dictate to them instead of writing myself lmao especially with quills

[comradecowplant]

me when people try to explain a blorbo i just cannot be asked to care about:

#obsessed with her facial expressions in this scene lmao. they speak to me on a primordial level #one day i will learn how to make gifs until then i will keep taking low to medium effort screenshots to make my point #star trek voyager #bride of chaotica! #i was going to be more specific with shows i think people over hype but i am choosing kindness instead. its the star fleet way o7

[melodybottles]

happy rune factory 3 special release day to all who celebrate

#rune factory #rune factory 3 #rf3 #doodles #sillies #i actualyl drew this like... a week? a week. ago. i was saving it for smth else #but am choosing to post it here / now instead. #anyways everyone wish me luck i have to play the game normally for once bc they took out multiplayer </3

[mellowwillowy]

Im srsly obsessed with yulian and the four kids lmaoo💀💀 imagine reader just spends more time n pays attention to the kids more and rarely to yulian cuz im scared what he'll act😭

People are all "aww. we are scared." until I hit and run you guys with all the fact that he holds no regard for children at all, just as bad as those neglectful parent figures. The sweetest I can offer right now is emotional negligence, anything past that... I might be in trouble (sweats).

Man regrets his choice and incapability of denying spouse's wish and can do nothing but wait for these brats to walk out of this house, maybe he should send them to a private school for their study.

#The fact that lots of people choose to ignore this is funny but ticks me off sometimes #Most of the times #I just write thinking of Adam instead of Yulian if they ask for children. #Yandere OC #Yulian the Corruption #LIfE Project #And for most of the times i just think of how Yulian clenches his jaw when an inbox about pregnant reader comes in lol

[crystallizsch]

*kicks down door* ehehehe it's luxe couture yuusha and rabbitwear yuuna :3

#IM FINALLY DONE WITH BOTH OF THEM RAHHHH #i love designing outfits so much #even if sometimes it doesnt make sense how it would work hgsjdkskl #this just took me a while bc i got caught up with other things 💀 #also drawing outfits is one thing #but choosing colors is another #i am SO indecisive with colors #but im pretty happy with how this turned out???? #we'll see how i feel in the morning o7 #[— #twst #twisted wonderland #twst art #twst yuu #twst grim #tapis rouge #white rabbit festival #(💜) yuusha #(💜) ramshackle duo #(🩷) yuuna #★'-my-art #—] #also also this reminds me i need to redo their intro posts hfdnsnhsh #theyre gonna have two separate ones this time instead of being only one post