#it defeats the purpose of the original

[son1c]

if u guys want to keep ur custom icons that u edited to be ur ocs/faves then i think u should. just cuz it started as an april fools joke doesnt mean it cant be more than that. if it sparks joy it sparks joy. do what makes u happy

#originally it was Just a joke btwn me and sonlc. so i mean #''defeating the purpose of the bit'' is kind of moot when this was never the intention in the first place #go. be Free

[eerna]

also while I don't mind Yato dying, I absolutely Do Not Want him to reincarnate. either he lives as he is, or he is gone forever. no inbetweens.

#i guess there is still the option of his reincarnation if he is dead and hiyori remembers him but that was his original plan and it SUCKED #my reasons: all that talk of reincarnation as a ''better'' option because he believes himself too damaged and too evil as he is #so if he were reincarnated and ''brought up correctly'' he might be better for his loved ones #it defeats the whole purpose of ''gods can change despite everyone claiming they can't'' #his redemption can't end in him just hitting restart. it can't. that would be so cowardly. that would be the bad kind of tragedy #but living the rest of his existence as this selfless wonderful god? #or dying knowing that hiyori's mortality is more important than his immortality? now THAT is the kind of a story i could get behind #noragami liveblog #noragami spoilers

[pichupurin]

tumblr wont let me post my smutty human au zasr :(((

#it's pretty old stuff just fyi #i have been trying to get more into original art lately so #i'm still into zasr tbh but i feel bad because i'm only ever thinking about the human au #but yeah i wanted to post all that unfinished stuff in one big post and i even censored the sexy stuff #like so much it kinda defeated the purpose of even posting them lmao but they still nuked it pfff #the reason i wanted to post it all in one go to is bc i'm probably leaving tumblr soon enough in favour of artfol and kofi #so i thought it be a nice goodbye or whatever if anyone still cares ab my silly shipping art lol #zasr

[vriskabot]

i think about restarting dailyvriskas like 3x a week but man. MAN. if i really were to run it by myself (because having other mods has literally never worked out) i would REALLY have to learn how to actually enjoy drawing. or lower my standards. probably both.

#original post #its all about the fucking speed you guys #i just CANNOT crank out pieces quickly for a multitude of reasons aside from just being a slow artist #but even when i was trying to do like. hour timed pieces i would be sat there like #oh this is NOT done enough #and give myself more hours until eventually i was okay with where it was at #BUT THAT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF THE TIMER. AND TRYING TO SET A TIME LIMIT SO IM NOT SPENDING ALL GODDAMN DAY DRAWING #BECAUSE I HAVE SO MANY OTHER THINGS I WANT TO BE DOING!!!! #RAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH #okay. im normal now <3 #taking all counsel on the matter btw.

[meanttobeyourz]

i know jd killed people and did really bad shit but the fandom treats him like an evil monster who doesn't deserve life when he was an actual kid and two of the people he killed were actual rapists.

#whatever #the babygirlification of jason dean #heathers #people forget that when the original heathers was made school shootings weren't really a thing. #jd wasn't designed after school shooters he's a weird child with mommy issues and a god complex #i keep seeing people say shit like 'veronica should have killed him' but #doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of 'jd's bad because he murdered people >:( #anyway ram and kurt deserved it #and jd x veronica is god #so stfu

[whostoleallthecookies]

ok as promised here's the post about botw-adjacent hyrule castle's theorized main entrance

so: as anyone who's explored the castle in breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom knows, there are limited entrances to the interior of the castle. there's the docks, some tunnels, the balcony of the observation room, etc. then there are a couple of side doors, like the ones to the guards' chambers, the library door that leads outside, the door(s) to zelda's room, etc. but like, none of those is a *main entrance*. you'd think it's obvious, duh, it's the door to the sanctum!

but here's the kicker. the sanctum doesn't lead anywhere.

you can't actually get anywhere else from the sanctum. you can get on top of the sanctum, sure, and you can get outside, but it does not connect to any other parts of the castle. There aren't even rubble filled doorways that would indicate that you could! (this is Very Likely so that you wouldn't accidentally end up in the boss fight in botw while exploring the rest of the castle, and like, that makes sense from a dungeon design point of view, but not from a *liveable castle* point of view.) this is ESPECIALLY frustrating because Creating a Champion literally states that Zelda's room is where it is so that she could get to the sanctum in less than 5 minutes without going outside. SHE CAN'T, NINTENDO, BECAUSE YOU REMOVED ALL INNER THE DOORS TO THE SANCTUM!!

so this creates the question: where was the main entrance before calamity then?

well, youtuber banan039 has an answer: under the observation room balcony! genious, i thought, that makes so much sense omg why wasn't that in there in botw. (by the way i'm in love with banan039's pre-calamity mod's progress videos they give me so much strength on my harrowing journey to trying to figure out intact hyrule castle's layout please go watch them and support the creator if you have the means.)

but uh yeah anyway turns out the door isn't there in botw because there's a cliff like right in front of it. well that's inconvenient, i thought, but idk, maybe the calamity caused it and collapsed the door.

NOPE! that door was never in there even pre-calamity in breath of the wild canon!

(https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/7xkavh/hyrule_castle_town_on_its_prime_before_the/)

this screenshot is from the cutscene in champion's ballad where king rhoam appoints the champions. if you look closely, you can see that the area underneath the observation room (right above the castle gates) is the same texture as the cliffs around it, and you can see the bit of grass there, yeah, that would block the front door.

(also, minor spoilers for tears of the kingdom: you couldn't have anything under the observation room anyway because of the royal secret passage.)

and actually then i got to thinking: if the front door was under the observation room, what would be the purpose of the gatehouses??? and, as a friend pointed out, the narrow winding path that would be difficult to climb, heightening the castle's defenses????

so what makes the most sense is that the main entrance would be in the sanctum after all, especially since it was said in creating a champion that it would have had an indoors access to zelda's room. my current working theory is that there was a spiral staircase in one of the corner towers of the sanctum's lowest floor, but i have not yet been able to explore that area in depth enough to confirm that it could have been possible. however, it seems... plausible, likely even if i happen to find a spot with a lot of rubble on the floor, because that could be a staircase hole filled up. it's not the most conventional castle architecture but eh, it makes more sense than the front door being before either of the gatehouses, straight on the line of attack after the castle gate gets broken.

except.

THERE'S A FUCKING FRONT DOOR UNDER THE OBSERVATION ROOM IN AGE OF CALAMITY

(https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Hyrule_Castle?file=Hyrule_Castle.jpg) (and a bunch of aoc cutscenes, though i wasn't able to find the one this screenshot is from.)

sigh.

#the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk spoilers #anyway like botw hyrule castle is a great dungeon design but they clearly left it at that and did not think about the castle's #original purpose i.e. you know a castle #but then in aoc they had to think 'wait a second how is the royal family supposed to use this' #and added a front door lol #BUT IT COMPLETELY DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF THE GATEHOUSES AND THE REST OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE #i told my spouse about my findings and they went 'the front door is what stopped the calamity' #AND I MEAN- #maybe botw rhoam was so prideful because he thought his house was infallible #but aoc rhoam realized he had a shitty front door and had to accept alternative means of protection if it meant saving his skin #aslgjldjljlskjgl #age of calamity #hyrule warriors age of calamity #hyrule castle

[sxlphie]

To be honest, I don't want an FFVIII remake. The junction system was special, and the likelihood of it surviving the current gaming generation is small. Plus, I just think they would totally butcher it. I like FFVII remake, but it's a sequel that plays on defying what we know of FFVII as a collosal pop culture piece; I therefore feel that any heavy retconning they would do for VIII would merely be scrubbing away at anything that made the original have charm.

I also just don't agree that the only way to preserve a game's legacy is through remakes. I appreciate FFVIII for what it is, and so long as it remains accessible to play then I think it's completely fine.

#ab.txt #I have complicated thoughts on 7r #I like it. I like the compilation #but the concept of 7 as a game is constantly being reinterpreted over and over again by different writers #obviously 7r wants to bring as much fanservice to the table as possible #which imo sometimes means canonising things I think defeat the purpose of or undermine the original game #but the thing is VIII does not have that legacy #it has no other prominent adaptations #maybe I'm a killjoy though who knows #I would still give it a fair shot if they ever did make one and that goes for any FF

[quibbs126]

Who do you like better, Chelmey or Grosky?

#I’m bored #but also curious about this #who do people like better as the inspector? #personally I think I like Grosky more #just because of how animated he is #and it’s fun to say “Grosky of the Yard” #but Chelmey’s cool too #I suppose I could add Inspector Hastings to this too #but tbh I don’t expect a lot of people to choose him #and this is more about the original Layton game cops #also Alfendi isn’t listed here bc I know he would probably win out #and defeat the whole purpose of this question #oh yeah I could add Barton I suppose #but again the question is Chelmey or Grosky #not anyone else #sorry I think I just have to keep telling myself to stay focused on the topic at hand #anyways yeah #professor layton #inspector chelmey #inspector grosky #I dunno what their tags are #questions #random stuff

[certainkindofscientist]

ANOTHER one?????

#silk #my art #digital art #art #original character #oc #heehee i decided to make her closer to a clone? before she wasnt even the same SPECIES #which works for the two polar opposite clones experiment story #but it doesnt work for design coherency. you wouldnt associate her and lychee if u put them next to eachother #which defeats the purpose!! #anyways silk is sweet strong and dumb as rocks #shes a total coward. she flakes on every single event shes invited to. she could break a wooden board over her head and walk away fine #shes is stronger than lychee PHYSICALLY. but like lychee wins every single fight. #shes not actually that stupid. shes closer to SUUUUPER vapid and airheaded #shes still super kind and will go out of her way to help people

[feuer-bluete]

The other day I had to scroll forever on my phone to find my own fucking commission so i thought I will collect them all together in one post so I or others mind find them easier, also including gifts. (sorry artist for the pings but I wanna have your credit right in this post as well)

FYI all links ONLY link to tumblr posts.

Winterhawk

Clint and Bucky with Lucky and Fubar by @yawpkatsi (Its also my blog banner)

Clint/Bucky at their wedding by @sleepwalkerindreamersclothing

Clint and Bucky taking a Selfie by @stitchyarts

The boys on the couch eating Pizza featuring the Pizza dog by @natowe

Forehead smooches traditonally drawn by @foxprints

Shopping Chips at 3am by @natowe

Marriage Proposal Scene from a ficlet I wrote by @elenorasweet

Domestic bliss/cuddles by @latelierderiot

Eating ice cream in pyjamas by @kelslk-art

SteveTony

PostIW Steve actually saying the magic words by @mirthandstar

Tony being horrible at undercover work by @natowe

Both

Steve, Tony, Bucky and Clint on the couch during movie night from @sciderman

After a day at the fair, non-supersoldiers are tired by @zappedbysnow

And the "How to sleep with your significant other" series which is a co-comission with @ishipallthings drawn by @natowe

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

#okay its not all of them #there are some missing that are non of those pairings but oh well #stevetony #winterhawk #I was gonna make this with nice little previews but tumbl r only allows 10 weblinks per post and that would meant I had to split it #and that would kinda defeat the purpose of having this post no? #also i made it not reblogable #because this is suppose to be an overview #if you wanna reblog the art please do that with the original posts

[seabeescribbles]

I've wondered for a while why like every other villain in the books has a moment where they think "What if I just kept this boy", and you just have to consider, well what if they DID just keep this boy. Things could go wrong so easily in every book and so many of the bad ends are just Villain Kidnaps Artemis Permanently (or semi-permanently depending on how one wants the story to go)

So I drew a few bad ends. I'm only marginally meaner to this teenager than the book series is I swear,

#tw injury #tw blood #blood #injury #artemis fowl #artemis fowl ii #artemis fowl fanart #artemis fowl bad ends #first one is atlantis complex and it's the least visibly interesting but that's on purpose #there's no more personality only magical rune #turnball is one of those villains and it's like okay whoa there #what is he going to solve your rubix cubes for you #don't you think your wife is going to question this #and then the second is jon spiro who I imagine would not want to just release artemis after kidnapping him #but killing him is kind of a waste if he can create advanced technology to sell for unlimited money #and the man isn't exactly nice #then the last one is the vaguest one but also the most interesting because I have no idea how to conceptualize his motivations for this #he's like presumably just to rub it into everyone's faces how powerful he is that he defeated everyone against him #but the time spell is already breaking up so it's like what exactly happens if their original plan is interrupted #considering all of the time and dimension shenanigans conceivably anything could happen #but very few good things #I wouldn't be surprised if this interested nobody but me but I might as well put it out there #sorry to everyone following me who isn't here for obscure 2000s YA book series content #the tags messed up on this for a second so it sounded like I was positing to the audience what if I kept them as a pet #which is very threatening

[tuesziday]

Am I the only one who doesn't mind the "tap the blank space in the header to get to the post" feature?

#maybe it's because I'm a mobile user and that's been broken for a long time #at least tapping the blank space reliably takes me to the original post #what I'm really annoyed about is how the search feature is broken on my blogs #i can only search tags if i tap the tags on a post #i can't use the search bar #meaning i have to scroll down for who knows how long to find a fan art post if i want to search fan art #which defeats the purpose of searching tags

[scketcht00n]

[image description: A quickly drawn 5 panel comic. First panel: Jamari is holding a piece of paper sideways, staring intently at the instructions listed on it, she says “You’d think they’d make more than just two pages of instructions, with all these pieces they included...” Second panel: Jheri is taking a bite of one of the gingerbread house’s pieces, she says “It just means we’ve got extra for taste tests!”, chomp sound effect. A surprised Jamari nervously exclaims “Heey, don’t eat any of it!!” Third panel: Leona is holding the gingerbread house’s box, smiles and says “It’s okay! The packaging says there’s a couple of extras included!” Jheri turns around and asks “Leona, would you like to try?”, Leona responds with “Sure!” Fourth panel: Jheri points the gingerbread piece to Leona and she takes a bite. Jamari, in the back, says “Jheri, just don’t go overboard, I’d like to actually make this gingerbread house...” Fifth panel: Jheri and Leona look towards Jamari smiling, Leona cheerfully says “It’s very good Jamari, you should try it too.” Jheri excitedly chants “Yeah, yeah, try it!” Jamari, a little shocked and sweating, stammers “U..um... Sure...” End description.]

I’ve never made a gingerbread house, but watching one of Brutalmoose’s old VODs inspired me to make this comic. lol

It’s their first time making a gingerbread house! They succeeded... of course with a door and one and a half walls missing (throughout the process more “extras” were “taste tested”), but still a success.

#original art #anthro #doodles #colored #Yeah that huge image description but I think it defeats the purpose of one hiding it in a Read More #plus it makes more sense to have descriptions right after the image #Jamari Ciro #Jheri LaMonda #Leona Maiyo #ocs

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

frankly, i don’t care if our government is more or less “democratic” (whatever that really even means). i just want it to be good.

and this is something that’s never addressed. people will say something like “the electoral college/supreme court/some-other-institution is undemocratic” as if i’m supposed to care. so what? why does that matter? why are we just expected to uncritically accept “democracy is good and we must maximize it without any other considerations”?

#depending on how democracy is defined #i may be either pro- or anti-democracy #if i could repeal one amendment it would probably be the 17th #that amendment was a result of this same kind of thinking #and totally defeated the original purpose of the senate #the senate is supposed to represent the states #so let the states elect them #it's also supposed to be a more mature and sober minded deliberative body #to temper the passions of popularly elected representatives #so they should be elected by experienced politicians #make the senate undemocratic again

[woahajimes]

how was your history test

mine was. well i guess it could’ve been worse

LOL! (<- me too ..)

#no so listen. we are given 3 extracts from like random texts. and one political cartoon. (source I was the cartoon. source J was a letter f #rom the time/event. source K and L are like. much later written sources about the event #our event was the treaty of versailles so all the texts and cartoon were abt that right. in the actual ib exam (not this may but the next) #we would have 1h to answer 4 questions #1a: what does source J say about german [bdfkjhfkfhg]. (3 marks) #1b. what does source I say about {sdkfjhdfkds} (2 marks) #so u gotta make 3 points for 1a and 2 for 1b. easy pz. QUESTION 2. #''Considering the Origin. Purpose. and content. determine the values and limitations for a historian studying the treaty of versailles.' #(4 marks). but he wants one paragraph for values and 1 for limitations so 2 paragraphs #btw ques 2 is in relation to source J. #anyways Q3! Make a compare and contrast paragraph about Sources K and L #so another 2 paragraphs <3! woth 6 marks so basically 3 points each paragraphhhh #Q4!!! MAKE A MINI-ESSAY DEPICTING... #idk what the actual q was because we didnt do that lol bc it was a practice paper but still worth for marks yk #ANYWAYS we were given the extracts the weekend b4 so we could technically write the whole thing at home but then that wouldnt help at all #with the actual IB exam next may #so i just did background info and made starter sentences right #i wasnt even panicked like i admitted defeat ngl #hashtag over it. #OH BTW ON THE ACTUAL MAY EXAM. YOURE NOT GIVEN THE EXTRCTS BEFOREHAND so u go in with pen and paper and u rlly rawdog it #THIS IS PAPER 1 BTW. there's 3.... #previous years got only 1 and 2 bc of covid but today we gotta do every single paper im so mad #theres three papers for each subject. i have 6 papers. #subjects**

[cuchufletapl]

seaweed

For Edling Week 2022. Day 5: Myth | Heartache | Summer

AO3

The shocking thing wasn’t that he had apparently been kidnapped (rescued?) by a creature that was half-human, half-fish.

Ed had met his fair share of human chimeras. Once you had seen a guy turn his head into a bull’s, there wasn’t much else left that could surprise you.

However, they had been the result of alchemy, of experiments that, while breaking every possible ethical boundary, used the rules of chemistry that Ed understood and utilised as well as he knew how to speak. Even though he would never replicate it, he understood the theory to do it.

As this—boy?—had noticed that he couldn’t breathe, instead of bringing him back up to the surface, he had just slotted his mouth against Ed’s and a burst of air had expanded into his lungs. His chest felt like a bubble. He hadn’t needed to breathe after that.

It defied everything he knew about physics—he should have been dead ten minutes ago. And yet here he was, tied to a rock on an undersea mountain, perfectly alive.

“What the hell kind of chimera are you,” he finally said, underwater, his voice sounding exactly the same as it did on the surface.

What the fuck, what the ever-loving fuck.

“Hey! That’s not very nice,” the fish-guy pouted.

He spoke in something. It wasn’t Amestrian, or Cretan, or any other language that he knew. It wasn’t Xingese, definitely, which would have made sense geographically given that Ed had fallen out of the ship when it was getting near the Xingese coast. He hadn’t ever heard whatever he spoke, and yet he understood it—and even though it was impossible, Ed’s intuition told him that it had something to do with the breathing transfusion.

“I don’t know what a chimera is,” fish-guy continued. “I’m a merman.”

Ed frowned. What? “A chimera is the result of the transmutation of two or more animals into the same creature using alchemy. Or alkahestry, I guess,” he explained. “Which, yes, you are a chimera, you’re literally half-fish. Call it a merman, call it a triton, it’s still what it is.”

Fish-guy’s eyes shone with interest now. He swam slightly away, putting more distance between them, as if to showcase his body better. They weren’t that deep into the sea, but it was dim enough that the little light filtered through water gleaned on his large, yellow tail and made it the brightest thing Ed could see.

“I was just born like this, like all my ancestors before me,” he said jovially, as if he wasn’t taking a wrecking ball to Ed’s worldview. “But I knew there was something powerful to human magic if you’re able to do that. And that,” he started as he swam closer again, leaning his torso forward, “is what I need you for, my dear friend.”

“I’m not your friend,” Ed spat. He tested the green, seaweed-like fibre pinning his hands to the rock and away from each other, but they did not budge. “And the only thing you need me for is to untie me so I can kick your ass and get back to my ship.”

The merman cocked his head. His black bangs floated around his dark, thinking eyes. “Hm, no, I don’t think I can do that. I’ve seen you fight those men on board of your vessel and your magic. I need to inherit my father’s throne for the good of my people, and right now, your help is my best bet at achieving that.”

Ed clenched his teeth. He needed to find a way to get out of this bullshit right now. And then he’d have the freak-out about discovering that a mythological creature was an actual intelligent and apparently magical species later.

“By the way, I’m Ling Yao!” the merman said, goofy smile back in place. “I promise I’ll let you go soon, and I’m really sorry about the inconvenience, but in the meantime, you’ll see that we’ll become good friends.”

#this isn't actually romantic which may defeat the purpose of edling week but honestly #to me it feels true to their early-canon dynamic #edlingweek22 #edlingweek #edward elric #ling yao #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood #fma #fmab #edling #I'm editing to add that tag bc I've just realised I forgot to add it lmfao #my original post #fma fanfic #jester writes a thing #fanfiction