#every pack was my favorite pack

[woohooincoffin]

Sometimes i feel really tempted to put in the work to making the sims 3 work for me. Like, all I’d really like is pets, seasons, generations, university, and the one with the vampires, late night? Oh and ambitions! And world adventures. And

#who’s doing it like her. #every pack was my favorite pack #i don’t remember the log in 😭 to all my packs #like i had bought them all. #i have no fucking clue

[aquanutart]

I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!

The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!

The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!

The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!

And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!

I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!

Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day! The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)

#pokemon #pokemon tcg #long post #i have deep affection for bulbasaur as well though and i also love the bulbasaur/ivysaur cards in this set #i SO wish we'd gotten art of the final evolutions in the same style as the pre-evos' standard cards!! #(yes i do love the full art ones but i also love the illustrations on the standard cards!) #from the way the settings in these two were going; i would have imagined blastoise to be set at night (??) #i LOVE pokemon cards. i can't keep up with every set but i started collecting again now and then a few years ago #and 151 has really got me wanting the full set the way i haven't since childhood. SO many beautiful illustrations (but there always are) #it's like having little pieces of art of my favorite characters and it's only.. slightly... less expensive than actually commissioning .... #i KNOW it's less expensive to buy the individuals online but it's so much less fun #part of the fun is having YOUR own pokemon journey ((going to the store)) and seeing what YOU encounter ((when you open the pack)) #i do buy them online sometimes but i usually dont form as strong associations with them as when i open a pack in a certain setting or place #i tend to try to save them to open right before a significant event like starting something new or a holiday. so that i form associations #and it's like 'oh that's the galarian obstagoon from when my mom came home for christmas' #and 'that's the snorlax who reassured me when i was hurt' #i don't buy them too often so i've got to make it count #anyway i know i should wait for the prices on this one to come down because it's absolutely ridiculous #i didn't buy anything at release because i was like $6 for one booster pack??? but i couldn't take just sitting and watching them sell out #i really like the poster because i can look at so many beautiful pictures all together #i could say stuff like this about literally every pokemon illustration (if i had time to write it out) and sometimes i've wanted to #i just chose these two because these are a couple of my original favorite pokemon and i just couldn't keep it to myself. i LOVE these

[themissingmango]

#my art #Just Plane Monday #okay but this one is my new favorite #I had so much fun with the colorrrrsss #plane #aircraft #aviation #flying #flight #fly #def gonna make a wallpaper pack every month that’s just planes #can’t stop won’t stop #plllaaannneeess

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneeping with his legs up over his head for some reason... weird boye

#cats #love the second picture... skrungly sleepy well rested boye face... #since he's an elderly boy now sometimes when he wakes up from a nap he looks a bit scruffy and squinty eyed #Hard to beleive he's like 15 though.. he still looks like a kitten to me.. due to his giant round creature eyes and childlike demeanor #I think it's interesting that like... baby cats are babies. kittens are kittens. and you can tell a cat is like 'young adult' phase #looking from like a few months to maybe 1yr or 2yrs.. but after that they just always look the same to me #a 5 yr old cat is a 10 yr old cat is a 15 year old cat. unless the cat in question is particulalry aged or youthful #I still have so so little energy... it's been icy here this week. like not even FUN but just scary icy even thoguh i lOOOVE the cold #and its my favorite weather. I think it'd be okay actually if I had a woodburning stove/fireplace/hearth thing. literally thats my only #concern with the power going out. I genuinely don't mind stuff like having to go to the bathroom in buckets or cook over a fire or do other #less conveninet things. Its just that if eveyrhtng is electric then you have no way to cook and all of that. well.. and I literally need #background noise to go to sleep lest my ocd sprials become so loud I am slowly driven into maddness.. but a few battery packs or something #and a phone with one downloaded video I could play on repeat is fine for that. I dont need internet. ANYWAY.. so so sad that my fav #orite season ever (winter) is here. and the first cold of the winter is like... just an ice storm that you cant even walk in. I #love like 4 feet of snow where you can play in it and stuff. But just a thin flat sheet of a few inches of ice over every imaginable surfac #is not really playable. the wind speeds are so high and so many trees fall it's actually not that safe to go hang out outside anyway unless #you were in a totally clear open field. which is SAD also because i love ice and high winds. i love to stand out there and get whipped in t #he face with ice crystals and feel like I'm in some dramatic movie or something. but alas.. the threat of being attacked by a falling tree. #I did go out some but again it's like. literallyyou cant walk on it. so I just squatted and dragged myself along the ground lol #One of my stories has a whole section where the main characters are trapped in a deadly cold environment for a week and have to use magic #to survive and etc. etc. so I'm always like.. ouuu.. I should go in the ice.. it's Writing Research actually.. *foolishly gets frostbite* #THOUGH yesterday I went on a harrowing evil journey down a bunch of icy hilly roads to go check on some person's cat because the cat #had been left in the house for like 5 days at that point with nobody to check on them and nobody else seemed to want to do anything #about it (like call all of the neighbors or try to get someone out there) so I just went myself with a roommate who agreed to drive me. #It seemed acting totally normal and I gave it more food and water but.. I am still worried about it.. Apparently the person will be able #to get back to their house tomorrow but.. I dont trust them. But I couldnt take the cat with me because it's like.. a stranger's cat #basically and also no carrier + very skittish.. so I feared if I just tried to carry them bare handed they'd definitely leap from my grasp #and then it'd be like.. sliding on a sheet of ice chasing a cat and so on.. I still think they need to be watched for health issues tho >:| #ANYWAY.... many cat adventures lately... and strange weather... I wish for a normal week without always so many Things Happening.. augh

[faeymouse]

I was kinda iffy about Vikings at first, but when they actually had the hot viking dude and his hot viking wife invite the priest into a three-way as I was typing their names into the AO3 searchbar I was like okay iffy rescinded

#babbles #faey watches #vikings #ripping my hair out in chunks when Athelstan is like ‘i have taken a vow of celibacy. i cannot touch a woman’ #as Ragnar Lothbrok and his rippling six pack is standing right there naked as the day he was born?!? #i feel like some physical logistics couldve been worked out here sir #also if you’re wondering yes watching the eagle (2011) led me to watching this show #it was a very roundabout path but looking back makes some sense #im also on the first season please no spoilers everyone ill discover on my own if it suddenly takes a turn at some point #my favorite part aside from whatever dynamic Athelstan and Ragnar have going on #are all the times they really obviously edit Ragnar’s blue eyes to literally glow the deepest blue imaginable? #i cant take it seriously i laugh every time they do it it reminds of that blue eyes meme #floki’s pretty cool too i love me a good fidgety weasel character #opinions about lagertha: i understand on a deep personal level why Ragnar goes into immediate malewife mode the moment she steps into a room

[sgxena16]

I just binge watched all 9 volumes of RWBY and I've found my newest obsession.

#and my newest ship #rwby #Yang is my favorite #why did it take me so long to watch this show? i remember it being all over my dash at some point #i was like 'who's the blonde and cat girl'? #which yes can refer to more than one show #and i love both ships #i want to hug all 4 members of team rwby #especially after v9 with all the emotional stuff that went on #haven't checked to see people's thoughts but im impressed they took an entire season to explore everyone's emotional state #to allow the characters to reflect on their choices and what's happened and what they should do next #or more who they want to be going forward #i was thinking i wanted stuff like this once they got to atlas and everything got even more intense #but i had no idea how they'd work character driven stories like that into an action packed season #love that they decided to put the plot on hold and allow the characters' stories to take center stage #the way this show could make me scream and cry and laugh every season #it's going in the vault

[calebs-hangout-corner]

I just think it shouldn’t be basically required to buy a “pass” to get more and better rewards for an event that you practically cannot finish otherwise. I think you should be able to beat limited time events without having to spend money.

#i like the new horrortown event #BUT #why #why are you doing this to us #i bought the monster pass I have no idea how you’d be able to beat the dang thing otherwise #ALSO WHAT DID YOU DI WITH JILLIAN’S SPRITE. WHAT HAPPENED. #WHY IS SHE HUGE #ALSO WHY IN THE AAAAAASSSSSSSSSS ARE YOU SHOWING ME THE PACKS FOR THIS EVENT EVERY FIVE SECONDS #I GET IT #I CAN BUY MORE STUFF #NOW SHUT UP #burtle screms #i think just based on organization and the money and the fact that it dropped out of NOWHERE this may be my least favorite event

[fistfuloflightning]

Văn Miếu, the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Originally founded in 1070 as Vietnam’s first university and in use as the Imperial Academy for over 700 years.

#and also one of my favorite places in hanoi hands down #văn miếu #temple of literature #vietnam #personal #every time I go back to vietnam I want to visit lol #it’s so beautiful and so much history packed into five courtyards #do yourself a favor and visit it if you’re in that corner of the world #photography #I couldn’t get a good pic of the first two courtyards where the students would study bc of a lot of foot traffic 😔 #but it’s all nice green lawns and gravel paths and big shade trees #place prompt

[tavina-writes]

HERE I have thoughts about Huang Yaoshi and Huang Rong and Huang Rong's childhood because I am ALWAYS brainrotting about how like, HYS had SO MUCH trauma re: the death of his wife Feng Heng. But he has never once blamed his daughter OR traumatized her in any way. Huang Rong is quite literally the last (1) shred of his sanity and the only reason he's still alive! (The narrator even tells us this at one point.)

Originally, Huang Rong was the Peach Blossom Island Master Huang Yaoshi's only daughter. Before giving birth to her, her mother had a turn for the worse, which caused her to be physically and mentally exhausted, leading to her death soon after a difficult labor. Huang Yaoshi had a fit afterwards, expelling all his disciples from the island, leaving only the father and the daughter alone there. Huang Yaoshi was called the Eastern Heretic because of his peculiarity of conduct. He often said that the etiquette and customs of the world were all nonsense. His love for his daughter was excessive and he naturally did nothing to control her, thus allowing her to become arrogant and willful. Although she was intelligent, she was not willing to focus her mind on learning martial arts. Her father was actually very proficient in the ying yang five lines, learning these methods from several classics. She was able to learn when still very young but even though her father had already reached a divine level, she was nevertheless unable to go beyond the Peach Blossom Island martial arts basics. One day, she was playing in the island when she came upon her father's enemy imprisoned in the cave. Feeling lonely, she conversed with that person, talking for almost half a day. The person's words were interesting to her so that she often returned, seeking him out only to speak with him, finding relief in that exercise. Afterwards, Huang Yaoshi found out and reproached her severely. Huang Rong had never been beaten or scolded by her father so she reacted with anger and self-pity. Her cunning and unreasonable temperament manifested itself suddenly and she took the boat to escape Peach Blossom Island, thinking that no one cared for her there. Thus, she cut all wish for it and disguised herself as a poor, miserable youth, going in all directions, dissolute, though in her heart she was still with her father. She thought angrily, Since you don't love me, then I will make the world feel most pitiful for a young beggar!" However, she did not expect to meet Guo Jing in Zhangjiakou. At first, she went to the wine shop with him to spend his money and cause a disturbance, intending to lay on him her resentment towards her father. Who would have thought that he would be so dumb with no idea at all, talking with her as though they were old friends and even giving her his horse, showing his concern? She was bitter and lonely, thinking about how she deceived him but he continued to treat her honestly. She was touched. Since then, the two of them became good friends.

When we DO see HYS on page for the first time Huang Rong's internal thoughts go "oh no, I haven't seen dad in a few months but he looks like he aged a decade worrying for me 😭." NOW, HYS had been mad for like maybe (2) days that Rong'er ran away, but then he'd been searching for her for the entire rest of the time. (This also builds on my theory that this man is good at everything in the world except asking for directions bc Rong'er had been running around in the same region as their home (Jiangnan) with a giant painted sign "HI I AM HUANG YAOSHI'S SPOILED CONWOMAN DAUGHTER" for months on end as well.)

At a completely different point in this book, the narrator tells us that HYS built a suicide boat to sink himself and his wife's jade coffin to the bottom of the ocean and he repainted this boat every year, but could neither bear to leave Rong'er to be raised by servants OR take her onto the boat with her parents so he kept putting off his suicide boating and vowed to go boating only after Rong'er was grown up and married and didn't need a dad anymore. (At one point during the novel he is lied to and told that Rong'er died at sea and this man has a full on hysterical mental breakdown while screaming at the sky.)

There are SO MANY lines in this book where it's like "because he was looking at his beloved daughter, he could not help but be happy anyway!" and "oh the huangs are hugging again" and "Guo Jing (erroneously) thinks that Rong'er's dad must be the best guy on the planet bc Rong'er is so wonderful."

(also lolsob uh, in HSDS we learn that he finally DID go suicide boating after hearing that his daughter's entire family died at Xiangyang. Guo Xiang comes to her grandfather's house on Peach Blossom Island and there's a line of "and the docks were empty, all of the boats had gone.")

#i'm forever brainrot about them #now #people would not be that wrong to think that HYS is my favorite loch character #considering how he has og blorbo status #and how I keep yelling about him #BUT #no my favorite character is Huang Rong bc Rong'er is the most wonderful baby conwoman princess to ever grace the page #it's just that her dad is so important to why she's like that! #this is a girl who ran away from home bc she's NEVER BEEN YELLED AT ONCE in 15/16 years #and when her father DOES yell at her #(for talking to the prisoner he'd been torturing every night for 15 years btw) #she PACKS UP her rucksack and RUNS AWAY #Oh! Oh! Dad yells at Rong'er? #Dad does not LOVE RONG'ER ANYMORE? #JAIL! JAIL! FOR DAD! JAIL FOR DAD FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS! #I just love her so much #I think she's a lot like Jin Ling except MORE spoiled #rs: daughter and dilf #huang yaoshi #huang rong

[chaeyablood]

kaeya would have an absol in a pokemon au. it's 4am im not making a detailed post abt this right now but he would. they are both well intentioned and misunderstood and i think he would adore the hell out of his weird dog.

#my post #miz's thoughts #he's got an entire pack of them change my mind. he's breeding them trying to get a shiny but he adores every single one. #kaeya has so many absols it's insane. crazy cat lady style #but he wants a red one bc it reminds him of diluc #ALSO absol is my all time favorite but i wouldn't call this projecting. i think it fits really well and it just so happens to also be my fav

[camellcat]

Played a game of WolfQuest with my friend where we played as the Dread Doctors (I was the Surgeon, she was the Geneticist, and we didn't have anyone to play the Pathologist) cause we wanted to see the Chimera Pack as pups. Here's some cute screenies we got from it!

and a goofy one from when Theo wouldn't stop FREAKING DYING FROM ILLNESS (Tracy or Corey probably had the most deaths by constantly running outside the den when predators were nearby, but Theo sure as hell gave them a run for their money)

anyways, transes your corey (I did not realize we had 3 females and 2 males when I was naming them but I thought it was funny when my friend pointed it out to me)

#this was a while ago but I thought it I'd share it cause why not #oh my goddd I remember being soooo angry at this playthrough tho LOL #literally we have NEVER had such trouble with pups!!! #they just kept getting themselves killed?!?!? #like canon complicate ig but holy SHIT #also good lord the loyalties on these pups was horrendous lol #we swapped every single pup except Theo who (despite my best efforts to shake) never stopped being mine dcndjnvdn #like girl pls all I wanted was Corey WHY wouldn't this little TWERP leave me ALONE #(this was before I watched s6 and subsequently fell in love with Theo I was soo UGH I just wanted my favorite not the character I hated) #(I will say tho I think having Theo as MY pup the ENITRE GAME helped me like his character in the show bc I just got so attached to him xD) #chimera pack #teen wolf

[cervinelich]

I grew up in a household that was *extremely* blunt about many things but especially about gifts.

in my family, if someone asks if you would like something as a gift and you genuinely don't think you'd use/like it, it's perfectly normal to say "no, thank you. please don't get that for me."

it's also normal to ask each other before buying it and if it's a surprise to always include the receipt with the expectation that it may be returned/exchanged.

we also tend to give each other comprehensive lists on what we do want for things like birthdays/Christmas. I remember one year my grandma wanted a really specific item and my mom and I went to like 5 BB&B to find it cause we knew that if we got something similar it would be returned. gift giving is kind of like a scavenger hunt sometimes.

I have found many people outside my family do not feel this way about gift giving lmao

#malus talks #just an observation #I feel bad sometimes cause people will be like “I saw this and thought of you” and I'll be like “that's sweet! but please don't buy it” #cause sometimes it's just that I won't use something or I don't like clutter or I don't have the space for it #every once in a while though I'll get a surprise gift and LOVE it so I definitely see the appeal in that approach to gift giving #one of my favorite gifts ever was a scent sampler pack from a goth perfume website highly recommend them they're called seance perfume

[frogs-smoking-cigarettes]

When did you get into rvb and how?

I got into it around 2013 so I think when freelancer had just finished (according to my old amino account I had to check lol). I was in middle/elementary at the time so I had already known abt rooster teeth though stuff like achievement hunter but got super into them when the first season of rwby dropped.

I think I first just watched freelancer for Monty Oum’s animation (cuz I was too impatient for new rwby eps to come out lol) but didn’t end up watching the whole series until my rwby rp friends on virtual space amino invited me to a RvB rp so I finally just watched it from the beginning to learn the lore and ended up loving the show.

#that whole era was crazy #shout out to those who remember #looking back at amino kinda painful in a cringe way but it’s been long enough I’m mostly nostalgic for it #we were just paling around #I remember my OC was agent georgia who I thought hadn’t appeared on screen #but I was immediately jumped on cuz I had missed the whole jet pack lore with him 💀 #rvb was a combination of every middle schoolers favorite things #violent video games edgy humor and themes that go over their heads #also cheaply produced YouTube videos that are surprisingly well executed #ah the stories I could tell about my days in the early rvb fandom #I just realized it’s been 10 years since I first watched it holy shit #ig that means I’ve rewatched it 10 times now #man I’m old #I don’t even know if I was on tumblr yet I think I didn’t make an acc till 2014 #I’ll shut up now #rvb #asks #my asks #red vs blue #sorry for taking like 3 months to reply I only answer tumblr asks when I’m in an adhd spiral #im like a 40 year old man who comments his life story on a random YouTube video #except instead of my life story it’s extremely niche rants about early internet #and instead of a 40 year old man I’m a 19yr old girl on 100mg of adderall #rooster teeth #rwby

[desirableendings]

The X-Files’ Pilot has everything. Alien abductions. Scary woods. The pinnacle of nineties fashion. Rainy sexual tension. David Duchovny looking like that. Family drama. A tragic backstory. Graveyard digging? And the most interesting choices for practical effects.

#the x files #have I ever talked about my relationship with the x files? because it’s kind of a funny story #the x files is like my dads favorite show of all time. or at least it was for most of my childhood #and my childhood was the epitome of dvds so my dad got every season on dvd. which meant that it was always on #like in the background. so I kinda ‘watched’ it growing up. but also not really. because I watched some episodes #some incomplete. most of it I don’t remember. not the details. but I know the general idea of it. I know milder and scully and aliens #and I remember more towards the end because I guess I was older by then and more likely to remember #so long story short. one of the goals of this year is to actually watch the x files. like for real in order #and I just watched the pilot and holy shit did they manage to pack a lot in it! #don’t know why I expected like some casual supernatural intro #not straight up alien abduction. but hey. I think it was great #I want more #so stay tuned for more casual posts about it

[angelboybreakdowns]

if gerard way could get out of my brain for like. 2 seconds that would be ideal

#forgot some of the lyrics to jet pack blues #and EVERY SINGLE TIME i get to the part ive forgotten in my mind brother starts playing instead #and like. i love brother its one of my favorite songs but i need it to shut up for a second #(i cant just look up the lyrics to jet pack blues bc that would be quitting) #rambling

[beemybella]

David/Darlin Comfort <3

#redacted asmr #redacted david #redacted darlin #digital art #redacted fanart #they/them darlin #my art #one of my favs i've drawn so far <33 #i probably say this about every drawing #the pack touching foreheads is my favorite thing