#honestly that whole scene was amazing

[rachelfoleyisntdead]

Diablo IV Spoilers

I can't be the only person who sat up a little straighter in their chair when Lilith mentioned their son. And I know I'm not the only one who went "get him, girl!!!!" when she stabbed him and started ripping his wings off.

#diablo 4 #diablo 4 spoilers #lilith (diablo) #inarius #honestly that whole scene was amazing #worth it

[elitadream]

As soon as I began receiving asks about Junior regarding my body swap concept a few days ago, I knew I wanted to add him in a short sequence. 💙

I've considered many different scenes in which he would be included, but there was one in particular that kept coming back to my mind, and it was the exact moment he would agree to safely lead Luigi to "Bowser" (aka Mario). In this specific scenario, he would be mostly oblivious to what's going on, and would thus show palpable mistrust towards Luigi at first, who he doesn't really know and hasn't yet opened up to. But upon seeing how distraught the poor man is, Junior would feel for him and let his guard down. 🤲

#I've hesitated SO MUCH on which scene to pick for this one omg #There was the whole other hypothetical tangent in which Jr would meet with Bowser!Mario first and realize the truth sooner #Which Keakruiser did admirably well!! 👏 #Btw please go check out the oneshots they made and which I've shared on my page - I really love their version too 🥺✨ #Everyone who has written something about my AU: y'all are AMAZING ❤️ #The different interpretations are great honestly :3 #And for this one I kept wanting to portray how much Luigi has been affected emotionally by the ordeal so far ;_; #so much so that even Junior would be swayed by it #The kid has a softer heart than his dad 💖 #Mario #Luigi #Junior #Bowser Jr #body swap #personal concept #drama #mild angst #hurt/comfort #unexpected support #Super Mario Bros #fanart

[flamestar126]

I feel like they really did enjoy performing.

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#hi im not done #god they were amazing in this whole scene #this was the bit i saw that tempted me to watching the movie in the first place #throughout the whole scene when they were fighting the trolls they looked like they really did enjoy themselves and performing #i really hope we get to see more of them in the future #this drawing is a lot more prettier in my head but im tired and dont know how to render properly loll #i lost track just how many times ive listened to this song on repeat its honestly concerning #love them sm #trolls 3 #trolls #trolls velvet #trolls veneer #velvet #veneer #also aware that this lyric doesnt exactly link up to this moment lol! #flame draws

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

if dorian didn't show up, do you think louis would have shot minnie?

I do. I know some people think either he wouldn't have or he would've missed so that's why the writers had him shoot Dorian instead, but mmmmmm no, I don't personally think so. I like to think that if he had taken the shot, his shaky hands would've caused him to shoot her fatally.

Mostly because I'm already so normal about the fact that of the Ericson crew, Marlon and Louis are the only ones with a body count. Well, that we know of, but shown to us in the game, at least. Plus, we know it's Louis' first kill.

Like yeah, Clementine and AJ become part of the crew and they have bigger body counts, and if we're counting indirect kills caused by actions, then Tenn has a count... and I guess everyone has blood on their hands for blowing up the boat... but I'm talking about killed directly with a weapon like....... I lied, I'm not normal about that at all, Louis and Marlon are the ones who have killed someone in Louis' route. I'm also not normal about the fact that Louis kills Dorian and then even as he's clearly in shock, he tries to go with Clementine to get AJ, and then later on when they talk about it, he says it feels like bile but not quite and he's glad he has it in him to do it.... listen, listen, listen... I'm obsessed with that.

Anyway, so if Louis shot Minerva, I think he would've accidentally killed her and can you imagine? He's already enough of a mess after killing the woman who pinned him down and tried to cut his finger off [or succeeded] but he knew Minerva, they were friends before the twins were taken. Even Violet couldn't kill her even though that would've been the smarter thing to do, and we know thanks to meta knowledge that killing her would've saved lives, but Violet couldn't, and I don't think Louis would intentionally either.

Speaking of Violet, if Louis killed Minerva, I hate to think about what that would've done to Vi. I think she might've actually left at that point, like what was planned before it got changed to her being burned. I don't think she would've attacked Louis over it, though, like yeah she attacked Clementine in the cell but Louis? I don't know, but I don't think so just because it's Louis and he'd be a mess about it anyway.

Though if he did kill her, it would be a neat parallel to draw... y'know, because Louis forgave AJ for killing Marlon even though he was pissed and heartbroken, and Violet was annoyed with him the entire time... but could she ever forgive Louis for killing Minerva? Y'know? We already have a similar parallel with AJ shooting Tenn, but still.

If Clementine killed Minerva in that moment, though, then I could see Violet attacking her since in her eyes, Clem proved her right.

So yeah, I get why they added the Dorian kill to his route. It adds another compelling element to Louis as a character, but we also need Minerva alive for episode 4; Louis can't kill her, he can't miss, and he's not going to stay with her because we need Violet to stay on the boat and him to be on shore for all routes.

#asks #twdg louis #twdg minerva #twdg clementine #twdg violet #twdg marlon #twdg tenn #honestly whenever i see someone say louis is the boring option i'm just like '.......that's your opinion but also how can you say that??' #then again i'm sure other people look at me saying violentine just isn't for me and they say the same thing so y'know... i can't talk haha #also time is such a weird thing because i look at the entire cell scene in louis' route and like... i'm not even mad about violet anymore #like yeah i still don't believe she was brainwashed like i'm sorry y'all only believe that because kent said something about it #not because there's all this evidence toward it in game like vi being pissed at clementine makes sense she doesn't need to be brainwashed #for it to work like her being vulnerable and easily manipulated into submission makes perfect sense especially with minerva there #it's like everyone was pissed that she attacked clementine and people needed a way to excuse it so it's not violet's fault when like... #that's literally what makes it interesting like calm down it's okay if violet is pissed and scared and behaves accordingly #also my controversial opinion of the day that i'll hide here in the tags so maybe people won't find it sksksk but #I personally find the concept of vinerva and the doomed tragedy of it more compelling than anything violentine did #like i'll defend violentine and i do believe it's an important and good ship it's just not my personal favorite #anyway but then the whole thing with lilly and minerva is so good and louis screaming FUCK YOU at minerva?? amazing love it so good #i love when the soft character who never chooses violence is so pissed off that all that anger they have boils to the surface and it's raw #like... he's SO mad he's SO furious he's SOOO UPSET like he wasn't even like this when marlon died or anything like he hit his limit #and then shooting dorian through the mouth while an accident is just well done i love it and i love his reaction of mortification #and apologizing and YET he still tries to go with clementine he's trembling and can barely string together a sentence but he wants to go #he wants to help her he wants to save aj THAT is the gut reaction he has after everything that just went down #'louis isn't loyal or good for clem because of the vote' babe tell me you don't understand any nuance of louis' character without telling m #it's fine IT'S FINE you don't have to agree and i just have to remind myself that it's fine not everyone likes louis we're okay #this drives me crazy in the best way like y'know what? i love the cells scene in louis' route all of it even the stuff i used to rant about #even the stuff that used to piss me off now i'm just like 'no wait past cj was dumb she wasn't looking at it this way aaaaaaaa' sksksks #that was my tag ted talk about the cell scene thank you

[ghostlypanda]

reasons to watch rise: "wow leo, that's... remarkably accurate."

please go support rise of the tmnt by watching the movie and the series over on netflix! 🧡

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise ep many unhappy returns #rise leo #rise raph #rise mikey #rise donnie #rise splinter #rise april o'neil #rise shredder #legit my fave ep #leo consistently asking his dad to trust him the whole time #and splinter absolutely not until leo proved himself capable and clever t^t #then leo asking raph to trust him the one time and raph says he does and i just #leo absolutely shines in this ep esp his leader skills when he's fighting the kraken #i love leo sm omg t^t #honestly debated which scene from this ep to post bc the whole thing is amazing #but ultimately decided to go with this one since raph lets leo have the trust he's been asking his dad for t^t

[corvid-ghost]

Batman vs tmnt is an amazing movie you should all go see it it's wonderful and amazing and is so dear to my heart and I love it with everything in me it's amazing and have I mentioned how great it is

#leo kicks a dude in the balls #and has an amazing line right after and does ninja shit #donnie is a ailly goofy guy #honestly one of my favorite mikeys so far #hes so silly #and raph did a whole speech to batamn and told him to stop driving people away #and the mandatory traumatize leo scene is there too dont worry #the robin os damian and his interactions with the turtles are so akznxlfme #bvtmnt #batman vs tmnt #tmnt

[trashwalkingintotrash]

Ugh, can't get over how the woman Porsche tried to sleep with had a dress so similar to Kinn's pyjamas he wore last time Porsche saw him. And how the man Kinn tried to sleep with had an outfit, similar to Porsche's bodyguard suit, which Porsche was wearing last time they saw each other. The details in this show, they're gonna be the death of me

#kinnporsche #and wow don't get me started on the whole scene in the bathroom when porsche was thinking about the night before #as a viewer it was intense and emotional and so good #but as someone who is also editing? #i wanna marry the editor honestly #it was so fucking good #the flash to white transition with the lighter? ugh amazing #and we love a high pitched noise.wav slowly building up #and the noise transition between the moan and porsche's scream #i could go on all day it was so good ugh #this show man

[selamat-linting]

your faves' activism is going to a rich people event dressed in pink, my faves' activism is throwing dead rats at a government building, we are not the same.

#jefri nichols my beloved #also shout out to morgue vanguard the guy based his rap career writing protest songs #he organized thursday actions and is a legit commie/anarchist #honestly i'd love to give appreciation to underground music scenes theyre amazing as a whole #EXCEPT for .Feast tho fuck feast #indoposting

[minniemariex]

okay

can i just ask

WTF 😳

that was intense

way more intense than KP scenes

wasn’t expecting that but also was expecting that

nevertheless loved it

#kinnporsche #kinnporche the series #vegaspete #pete x vegas #wow #that was something #honestly the amount of trust this scene had to have #props to bible and build for doing amazing job #loved it #just so you know i was screeching like an owl the whole time lol

[franeridan]

I love sabaody.... but I also hate sabaody...... you know what I mean...........

#I don't think I've ever managed to properly go through this arc again after the first time #I'm always skipping ahead and jumping scenes somehow I just can't stomach it #but at the same time i love it so much?? #luffy and honestly the whole crew are spectacular through it and law finally shows up!!!! #there are some scenes that I adore but also some scenes that i just can't go through #it's so heavy the mood is so heavy #it's not like bad things don't happen over and over in op but sabaody is really the first time you see just how ugly the op world is right #the reframing of the world you've known for fify volumes by that point isn't THAT big #but it's just the right shade of disturbing that every time it gets to me like it's the first #maybe even worse than the first since i know it's coming? #anyway #I'm getting ready to properly read it without skipping ahead for the first time in...about fourteen years #wish me luck it's going Amazing atm i reached the first panel law shows up in and then slammed the volume shut like #SAW THE BOY NO REASON TO LINGER THIS'LL BE A PROBLEM FOR TOMORROW ME HAHAHA #........ it'll take me a week to read two volumes if this is how it'll be

[punchy-mchurtyfist]

Chained Echoes a whole lot of fun I see why it had so many high scores now, probably one of the best RPGs I've played since Yakuza 7! my only real complaint is it's taken me 30+ fuckin hours to get to the character that uses the fist weapons but at least she's rad as shit I love her design

#the princess that uses guns is pretty cool too I like her a whole lot but she's too weak to put on my team right now #punchy plays #Chained Echoes #another slight complaint is you can tell the devs lack of skill in art rly held back a lot of the scenes that were supposed to be impactful #some of the effects and cut scenes are kind of just straight up lame and you really got to just imagine what's happening #but honestly that's not their fault and I can't really make that a mark against the game they still made an amazing game despite

[carlytayjepsen]

watching howards end and someone describes joseph quinn's character as handsome with sad eyes...... yeah

#also there's a scene where they ask him to play with puppies and he leaves as fast as possible ajsdhdjd #honestly such a good show though!!! #whole cast is amazing

[larkusthefriend]

is there honestly anything cooler than fighting a respected protagonist in the sequel to a game cause i'm having a tough time thinking of anything that beats that

#like to me it is SUCH a cool idea and it is usually ALWAYS done right #even in games I don't like such as The Last of Us Part II fighting against Ellie as Abby as a scene by itself is honestly amazing #not because of any real interesting setup in the story or anything like that cause Abby as a protagonist is hard to root for #I just think facing against a fully armed Ellie is really neat #That and the back of the theater where the battle takes place in with its intense shades of red is such a striking scene #It's hard not to like it #that's based on the battle by itself by the way not the game cause as a whole TLOU II SUCKS and I WILL fight people on that #It is pretty and gameplay is fun but its story drags it down immensely and it does NOT deserve the high praise it gets

[inkskinned]

no, actually, where is the whimsy?

my ex had a best friend named larry who asked me once: what do you think comes after irony?

we were at the bar where larry worked. it was a quiet night, and he'd hopped over to sit with us on the patron side. i swirled the lemon around my limoncello martini.

earnest positivity, i said, while my ex said, art self-destructs.

i stared at my ex. he stared at me.

his argument was the cinemasins argument: look how bad media is becoming! look at the loopholes and the dumb shit!

it was roughly 2011. galaxy print was still in. at the time, i had a favorite shirt that was a wolf howling at the moon. it got ripped in half in the wash and i honestly still mourn it. i dressed like effie stonem, because everyone did. and irony was the name of the thing. men liked MLP "ironically." the internet liked the kind of crass, "anti-mainstream" vibes of things like fuck romance, touch my butt and buy me pizza. we put cats in sunglasses everywhere, which was because we only liked things in irony.

and media had the same vibe in it: anti-hero white men would be "hard to love" and then storm off the scene. nobody was just earnestly trying to save the world: they were jaded, angry, unoriginal. mad you even asked them to try to help.

my ex ends up not being wrong. cinemasins becomes super popular. a lot of people start viewing media with this lens that is the cruelest, most jaded depiction. it's wrong for your character to have unexplained powers, even if the entire movie is about how strange it is she has unexplained powers - that is still considered a "loophole." characters make thoughtless, panicked choices? loophole. characters are actually kind people, despite hardship? loophole. features a woman doing literally anything without assistance? loophole. movies become hyper-aware of scrutiny, and now irony rules the media.

which means you go to a movie, and the character has to turn to the screen and say "beats me!!" or one of the side characters has to have some kind of quip like "are you seriously telling me that you think this is normal?" because nothing can happen in earnest. like a sitcom laugh track, we now anticipate the fourth-wall break: the moment that the media acknowledges it is telling a story. the media has to apologize for itself, or else someone like my ex rolls their eyes.

but here's the thing: i wasn't wrong either.

the difference might be that i am (and always have been) so soft-hearted that any crack in the light of this world will spear me into the ground. and i was the poet in the relationship. (he thought that was the same thing as being naïve and stupid). i was making things daily. i knew how all of us artists are driven by some strange desire to evolve. he notably liked to critique art, not to create it.

so yes, i've made things that are bitter and angry and even ironic. i've made long, sharp poems with all capital letters, and i've made poems about how the silence stretches out like a song. someone wrote once that we will spend our whole lives just circling the place we grew up. i think it's more that we spend our whole lives trying to remake a home. i think it's that as we age, it becomes less exciting to build the castle on the beach - we become aware of erosion, of windforce. we realize what we really want is to come home to our dog, castle or not.

and while art in the foreground is mired in white male violence and irony, and aggression, and not taking anything seriously - i don't think that's true of all art. i think more and more artists are leaning in to the things we love. the world has changed so much. they have taken so many things from us. the only thing we have left is love. at the bottom of the moving box - all we get is the faint sense that we have to appreciate what little we've got. i can't enjoy this stuff ironically anymore: what room do i have for irony? if it makes me happy, that is an amazing thing. there are so few happy places left for me. i want to be happy because of how leaves shiver beside each other like nestling birds. i want to be happy because of the color pink, and how magenta doesn't exist. i have spent so much of this life suffering, i have earned my right to a gentle ending. if nothing matters, i get to assign meaning to the nothing. i get to create meaning. i am an artist first and foremost, which means creation is my thing.

where is the whimsy? wherever i fucking put it. because if this is my last fucking chance to do any good in this world - i want to do it earnestly. i want to write things that make you happy. that make people feel heard and seen. what comes after irony has to be positivity.

it was close to my 21st birthday. in 7 years, i would end up writing a book about this relationship, which is hopefully coming out somewhere around May 2024. i come back to this bar scene in my memories a lot. i keep thinking of how pale my ex was. the look that crossed his face. how i looked back at him. how for a moment, both of us couldn't recognize the other person. like the gulf between us was a suddenly wide and cavernous thing. like we were alien to each other. he never took my opinion seriously, and he always seemed surprised whenever his manic-pixie-dream-girl ever broke free of the plot. like in the whole time we were together, i wasn't human enough.

this knowledge: where he said nothing comes after, my only instinct was what comes after is love.

#spilled ink #writeblr #this is a real story lol #looking back i liked larry as a person SO much more than my ex hollyyyyy shitttt #compulsory heterosexuality will do you DIRTY #edit to correct effies name my apologies to effie and effies family

[roaringheat]

ANOTHER THING is I am absolutely obsessed with the way the gang's relationships with each other evolve so naturally throughout the game whether for better or for worse. I've only just started chapter 4 but seeing them grow and have problems or resolve them over a long period of time is so impressive... literally no other game compares to that level of effort and writing

#vark posts #v live blogging #its actually insane how fleshed out these characters are im gonna SOB #i mentioned Karen and Susan already but i love seeing them get along #John seems like hes on track to actually be a father figure #Molly and Dutch got some beef now and even tho it hurts to see how theyve changed its crazy good that a game can make that hurt #Sadies whole character development is incredible i love her and am kissing her #It might just be special party lines but Charles being openly happy got to me #he'll probs revert to his old lines after this scene but im still counting it cause i like seeing everyone happy lmao #im holdin out for that major Charles development hes gotta have something he deserves it <33 #Javier is just perfect in general and i love how the gang flocks to him especially when he plays his guitar #he just has such amazing energy and i havent seen him have a negative interaction as far as i can remember #maybe bill says some shit but i honestly dont pay too much attention to him #I FORGOT KIEREN #hes like such a big example of my original point #going from the gangs captive to literally saying joining the gang was the best thing to happen to him ohhhh my god #i hope those kind of lines stick cause i need him to be happy so bad #im sorry im literally typing down like every thought im having lmao #can you tell i like this game #im so excited and a little scared to see how everyone develops throughout the rest of the game #idk how much there is left but seeing as I only just start chapter 4 i feel like theres a lot to go

[the-hype-dragon]

#babey this whole fight sequence is sooooo perfect I love everything about it #the meeting between Anakin Padme and Obi-Wan #the acting #the light saber carving up the hallway #the fucking. DROP KICK lmao #the magma river #the droids zipping around in the background just trying to work #the choreography #THE MUSIC #honestly it's like Lucas took the fight scene from an ollllld-ass epic movie and plopped it into ROTS and it's amazing #a lot of gen x'ers shit on the prequels but they had the best set pieces imo #Youtube