#mini lore drops i love this game
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20/20 Vision | j.jk
-> pairing. wolf shifter!jungkook x human!reader (f)
-> genre. slow burn, fluff, f2l (friends-to-lovers), pining, mutual pining, unrequited love, drama, high school!au, university!au, eventual romance, eventual smut
-> rating. 13+
-> w/c. 897
-> warnings. Literally nothing this is pure fluff 🥹🤍
-> a/n. Glasses!Kook origin story!! Y/N lore drop!! (P.S. This takes place before Because It’s Soft!)
-> collection. mini-series
-> started. Dec. 9th, 2023 @ 10:03
-> fin. Sun., Jan. 28th, 2024 @ 12:31
-> edited. Thurs., Feb. 1st, 2024 @ 17:44
-> divider credit. @mmadeinheavenn
You knew something was up when Jungkook—a boy who’d once spotted a squirrel in the road while driving at nearly 100kph—started squinting at the projector not even five meters in front of him.
Even though the two of you sat around the middle of your class, you’d frequently turn to find him angrily squinting at the board, struggling to read your smaller than average handwriting even though he’d never found it difficult before.
Now, sitting in your living room with homework strewn all along the floors and Jungkook nose deep his English textbook, you finally come to the conclusion that his vision might not be so 20/20 anymore.
“Jungkook,” you say concerned as he lets out a frustrated sigh, sitting upright with a frown etched deeply into his face.
“I can’t see,” he complains, groaning and rubbing at his temples. “And my head feels like it’s about to explode.”
You reach out to run your hand through his hair, biting on your lip when he unhesitatingly leans into the touch. “You can’t see?”
“No,” he pouts. “Everything’s blurry.”
“Jungkook.” You rub at his earlobe once before pulling away, searching his face with a pitying smile. “The font isn’t that small—I can read it just fine from where I’m sitting.”
He manages to look offended. “Okay. And?”
You sigh, placing your hand over his, like you’re about to deliver some bad news. For someone so smart, he can be so dumb. “I think you should see an optometrist.”
His doe eyes widen. “No,” he whispers, genuinely afraid-sounding.
You smile apologetically and pat his hand.
He pulls away from you to press the palms of his hands into his eyes, fake-crying into them like the drama-queen he is. “Fuck,” he whines.
You push up from the kitchen table and walk around to massage his shoulders, as if he’s a football player getting hyped up before his next big game. “It’s okay,” you soothe.
“I need glasses?” He sounds so sad, you can’t help but laugh a little.
“It’s not the end of the world!” you laugh. “Besides, I think it’ll suit you.“
“But what about soccer? I can’t play with glasses, they’ll get broken, or, or—“
“Contacts are a thing, remember?”
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Now, a couple of days later, you knock on the packhouse doors with an eager smile, greeting Jimin with a long hug. “Is Jungkook home yet?”
“Yeah, he’s upstairs.”
“Thanks!”
The way to Jungkook’s room is a familiar one. As soon as you enter the pack house you turn right and head a single flight of stairs to the second floor where all the rooms and main bathrooms are. What is new, is all the various pictures hanging on the wall.
You take a moment to admire the new frames you assume either Seokjin or Rosé hung up between today and the last time you were here (around three days ago, now), smiling fondly at the closeness and joy in each picture.
It’s a large 24x48 canvas framed in a beautiful burgundy wood with golden highlights (which seem to have been painted on by hand), and it makes your heart stop.
It’s of a photo you took with the pack a few days after your birthday.
Your heart aches sweetly at the sight of Yoongi with his arms wrapped brotherly around your shoulders, free arm hoisting his whiskey into the air, a large grin on his face. Next to him is Jungkook, both hands in the air, yelling at the top of his lungs with one of those bottled glasses of coke. And around you, the rest of the pack.
Rosé and Jennie crouched beneath you, forming hearts with their arms on either side of your legs; Jisoo, Hoseok, Jin and Taehyung laughing at their brothers off to the side; Lisa yelling at the top of her lungs while being carried bridal style by Namjoon; Jimin on the floor at Rosé and Jennie’s feet, slightly blurred around the edges from setting up the camera.
It was the best night of your life.
“Y/N?”
“Hm?” You look at Jungkook with a smile on your face, which quickly turns into an appreciative grin. “Why, look at you!”
Jungkook laughs shyly, reaching up to self-consciously push his glasses further up his nose. It’s a simple frame: black metal, kind of large but not overly so, a little boxy.
“It looks good!” you say as you finally make your way up the stairs, giving him a quick side hug before making your way to his room.
“You think so?” He holds the door open for you and then lets it slide halfway closed, joining you on the edge of his bed where you’ve already taken up one of his controllers.
“Definitely. Really frames your face.”
He groans. “Not you, too. Jin hyung’s been making glasses jokes all day.”
You laugh, nudging him in his side while starting up It Takes Two (a game you’d asked him to get so you could play together). “I would too, Four Eyes.”
He growls, not even giving you time to think before his hands are at your sides.
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Downstairs, Jimin shakes his head at your loud pleas for mercy and defeating scream-laughter with a fond smile, handing Jin another plate to dry off. “I wish those two would get together already.”
“Patience,” Seokjin chides with an equally fond grin. “They’ll figure it out eventually.”
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Ooc, did you change Raven and/or Sparrow's name to match the bird theme or did the game generate them?
I did change their names to match the bird theme! I unfortunately didn't write down their original names anywhere, so I don't remember them. I'm not good with code or anything, but if anyone knows how to check that and they let me know, I'll check and edit the post with their original names.
The bird names are actually very into the lore that I've cooked up and I don't know when I'm going to get the chance to talk about it again so mini lore drop.
Previously in Featherclan before the fire, cats named with a bird prefix were only done so if there was some sort of sign that indicted they should be named after a bird. Say, a kitten was born and not so long after that a bird started singing for the mother to hear. It's seen as a honor and it's wasn't uncommon for the cats named after birds to have strange things about them, maybe prophecies that specifically had to do with them, or a stronger connection to starclan than most or some other fun things. It's rare and unusual for cats to be named after birds when there was no sign prior, but it does happen.
In Featherclan now since they're rebuilding, I've decided that any cat that is clanborn will have a bird name, at least for a little while. If any new cats join from outside the clan, including kits, they don't have to change their name and in fact it might be seen as rude if they try and change their name to a bird's name.
That's some of the lore I have around the bird names and I totally know you didn't ask about it, but it was related, and I love talking about it. Please don't hesitate to ask lore related questions y'all! I have a ton of stuff. Actually, in manifesting, I'm gonna make a lore tag. #fclore is now the lore tag.
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⚠️Request rules⚠️
1; Be specific and unique
For example, the prompt "Sole dies". All characters would be sad, or angry. But the prompt, "Companions travel through a haunted forest and lose each other" has a lot of ways it can go. Vague prompts can be difficult for me to write, as there's often not much to write. Or if there is, it ends up feeling samey, or too short. There's only so much I can write about Sole dying.
Some prompts are answered in canon, and don't need to be answered. For example, Companions react to Sole speaking like the Silver Shroud. You can easily go on a wiki or find a compilation video on YouTube.
Also, I prefer to write about the companions, not Sole. So, requests about the Sole Survivor are likely to sit in the inbox for a while.
2; Be mindful of dark subject matter
Guys. You know miscarriage is a real thing, right? A horrible, traumatic thing that fucks up entire families? And same with rape, or abuse, or anything like that. Use your best judgement asking about heavier topics. These things aren't scenarios to generate angst. They're traumatic events. That real people go through.
I'll never forget following a react blog who was asked to write about miscarriage, only for them to apologize and refuse, as they had suffered multiple miscarriages themselves.
Rule 3; No fetishes or second-hand embarrassment prompts
So, I said be specific and weird...not with your own fetishs, please.
For non fetish stuff, I really do not care for toilet humor. Or anything meant to evoke second-hand embarrassment. This is another 'use best judgement'. I'm very easily grossed out by body fluids/excrement and there's no prompt that I'm willing to do with it.
Rule 4; I don't do Fallout 3 or New Vegas content
Masterlist
Newest first
Reacts V
Freaky Friday Episode
Sole vanishes, oh nooooo
Beach Episode
Companion at the zoo
The Oberland Alien
Sole gets their name tattooed
Sole finds a baby and wants it
Companions play Minecraft
Gage only; Come to the Galactic Zone if you want an asskicking
Companions and a magpie of a person
Sole with bad motor skills
Companions react to a synth of themselves
Companions as Roommates
Modern!Companions and Halloween
Sole just kisses them already
Sole sick but refusing to rest
Sole who cries when yelled at
Sole gets hurt saving their life
Touchy Sole
Overhearing Sole realize they love them
Sole breaks down crying in their arms
Companions work at a grocery store
Companions react to the Scorched Plague
Companions on Social Media
Headcanon posts V
Religion and stuff
Grab bag 4
Drinking habits
Coming out
Who they'd end up with
Losing their virginity
Modern au
Sexuality and ideal partners
Dreams and nightmares part 1
Companions' tells that they love someone
Companions' fursonas
What they'd eat in general
NSFW grab bag 3
Companions and stress
Companions spend time at a settlement
Gage fluffy-shippy-sad headcanons
Interior design
Companion Headcanon Grab‐bag
Gage Catchup Lightning Round
Favorite songs on the radio
NSFW Gage Headcanons
NSFW; Libido/sex drive
NSFW; Intensity in bed
Variety NSFW headcanons 2
Variety NSFW headcanons
Comfort food
How often they bathe
What they do/wear on days off
Danse headcanons
Laughing headcanons
X6-88 Headcanons
Physique headcanons
2 headcanons per companion
1 headcanon per companion
Meta stuff V
Synths as trans allegory for pride month
Polyamory and infidelity in games
Curie's quest is pretty dumb
A bunch of mini-essays on all the companions
Danse and autism
Oc appearance meme
Isadora ramblings and lore drops
Cait breakdown and critique
Minutemen Questline Rehaul
Florence, Isadora, and Gage
Wasteland creatures i want
Gage Name Meaning
The Gage Essay I wrote while baked on leftover lasagna
Thoughts on Piper, Strong, and Codsworth
Strong Character Bingo/Rant
My thoughts on Porter Gage before playing Nuka World
Peer-Reviewing "The Synthetic Truth"
Piper rant 2
I swear I am normal about Piper
Things I love about the companions
Biggest complaints about each companion's writing
Meme stuff V
Getting Hulk smashed by a baby (game clip)
How id compliment them
Sole gets a pet-claw
...hi (game clip)
Bad timing, dude (game clip)
Who smokes weed
Cat X6-88
Shaun gets a pet-claw
Cannibal perk
Companions as video games
War-shta-sure
Four frenchspeakers screamingn in a room
Danse's favorite shirt
Egg
muppets
dickless nickolas
mall cop
Memes 2
Memes 1
What the companions get canceled for
AITA For trying to blow up my crush's blimp?
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This is my OC Adrianna Gardner and this is her story and abilities and what not if she were in the game. *I also wouldn’t mind other artists and stuff Doug. Drawings of my character of making fan art if you guys want to. Just let me know or tag me. I’d love to see your guys ideas if you’re up for them.*
Age: 23
Birthday: April 28th
Height: 5’6 ½
Weight: about 145
Her small intro:
Adrianna desperately needing an escape finally got the opportunity and traveled around Texas looking for peace. However, all she found was terror and a warm welcome to a family with dark twisted ideals. Can her years of surviving keep her alive long enough to see another Texas sunrise?
Her ability Willpower:
Who needs a bone scrape when you have Will and adrenaline? When there is a chase Adrianna can defend herself. Clicking the ability button will start a close encounter mini game. No bonescrap needed. She’ll save herself with a swift punch.
~side note: depending on leveling up you can make the ability to win the mini game easier. For the last tier if you choose she can immediately win the mini game.~
Stats
Endurance: 32 strength: 40 stealth: 25 proficiency: 15 toughness: 45
Cosmetics would be different colors but I just drew the basic outfits.
Her lore:
Adrianna’s beginnings weren’t the best. For the first eight years of her life she did her best to avoid her family, the fighting, yelling, and physical altercations however sometimes even if she tired she still was in the crossfire or prey upon without reason. Eventually at the age of eight someone picked up on the chaos at home. Soon enough, she was moving around home to home, some families better than others. Finally at the age of 14 she found a forever family, she was so excited but tried to remind herself that things weren’t always what they seem. To her dismay she was right. For the next few years she remained trapped in a home no different than her first. After a particularly horrible night she decided to escape for sure. Packing up she went hitchhiking all over Texas looking for a place of peace to settle down. After being dropped off by a trucker she began to travel again by foot and met another hitchhiker. Although odd, he took her to a gas station where there was food, water, and promise of a break from the blistering heat.
Some voice lines
Match start
“Where am I? This place is…awful.”
Idle
“I knew I shouldn’t have trusted that guy.”
“These people are screwed up.”
“I should have known better.”
Encounter start:
“I’m not losing to you!”
See corpse : *gasps and gags* “Don’t look, just don’t look.”
*gasp* “no, oh no. Oh this is bad. This is so bad.”
Sees enemy
*gasp* “No, no, no. Please just go away.”
“You better not come over here.”
Use ability
“You’re not gonna win this!”
Ability win
“How did that taste!”
“Enjoy that!”
Trap disarm assistant
“Hey, hey, it’s okay. Don’t move I got ya.”
“Take a deep breath. This is going to hurt.”
“Hold on to me. I got you.”
Collect bonescrap
“Is this real bone?” *pause* “it doesn’t matter now, I think I can use this.”
Collect tool
“How can I use this?”
“I can use this for something.”
Doors open successfully
“Yes, I got it.”
Exit enter
“I have to get out of here! I need to get help!”
Hit enemy
“That is what you get!”
“Hope you like how that feels!”
See another survivor
“Who are you? Are you alright?”
“Hey, it’s okay, I’m not going to hurt you.”
“Let’s get out of here alright?”
Low health
“No, no please, not like this.”
“This hurts, so bad.”
Lose enemy
“It’s quiet. They must not be around. This is my chance.”
Noise check fail
*gasp* “no, please don’t let them hear that.”
Trigger trap
“Ah! Please someone Help me!”
Trap mini game
“Come on, come you have to hurry Adrian!”
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MISS TIFF im so late to your selfship game but i still wanna know!!!! what kind of dates do you and eren n jean go on? what would they do if another guy hits on you?? what kind of flowers do they buy you?? i LOVE tiff+jean and tiff+eren i cant wait to hear more!!!
spicy selfship asks
omg tysm for asking!! dw i love talking about my lil guys 🥺
dates!
with jean, dates are always very elaborate and planned out days in advance. he's got a table booked at a fancy restaurant, a new outfit picked out for the night, and maybe some fun activity planned for after dinner as well, like ice skating or mini golf.
he always treats date night like he's still courting me, rather than us being together for however long, so he pulls out all the stops to make it memorable and romantic.
eren doesn't really plan dates unless it's for a special occasion: valentines day or an anniversary or birthday. eren and i are always sitting on each other's laps any moment we're together, so he doesn't really feel the need to plan out any elaborate "date" when we're already together all the time.
although, he loves going out and running errands together. dropping by at a cafe for a little treat on the way or maybe checking out a pretty park nearby, going for an impromptu hike because this trail sounds cool and he packed our stuff in the trunk, just in case. to him, these aren't dates, they're just "hanging w his gf". and also, every once in a while, we'll bail on some plans we have with friends last-minute and just hang out together and watch tv and order takeout.
jealousy!
jean gets really quiet when he's jealous. he'll see someone hitting on me from afar and suddenly his jaw is tense and his hands are balled up into little fists. he would never intervene because there's a part of him that's insecure about our relationship, so he's waiting for me to run off with this other random stranger and leave him alone, but i never do.
(and he will absolutely make out w me sloppy style when i come back to his side after being hit on. "that guy was being so creepy to me" is all i have to say and suddenly jean's tongue is in my throat and both hands are grabbing at my ass)
ummmm, eren's not like that. eren will see someone talking to me and immediately he'll rush to my side and give the other person a murderous look. he will make this person feel so uncomfortable for even daring to look in my direction and won't relax even long after the other person leaves. eren will be angry at me for getting hit on.
he'll get it out of his system and go back to normal after he's completely split me in half with his dick 💀 and then it becomes a joke. "remember when that guy thought he had a chance with you?" or even "hey, why don't you ask your little boyfriend to help you?" and he refuses to acknowledge the fact that he was so jealous he was shaking.
flowers!
first off, a bit of tiff lore!! but when i was younger, my dad passed away, and i got so many flowers and bouquets delivered to the house, so now i always associate flowers with death and grief and i don't actually like receiving flowers as a gift. i appreciate the gesture, especially from people who don't know that fact about me, but.......... i don't like flowers lol
jean knows this about me, so he gifts me candy or chocolate or stuffed toys instead. after dating for a while and getting sick of candy and having waaaaay too many stuffies in my room for a woman my age, i tell him to cut it out and find something else to get me instead.
so this is why he plans all of the elaborate dates and experiences, rather than gifts.
eren also knows this about me, but he constantly forgets. he will get me roses on valentines day and an assorted bouquet on our anniversary or my birthday. he will remember several days later (usually when armin or mikasa mention something to him) and then make it up to me by buying something else--usually jewelry.
it takes a while, but eventually, eren starts remembering on his own so he sticks to getting me jewelry for special occasions. always emeralds to match his eyes or gaudy heart-shaped necklaces that i would absolutely never buy for myself.
(it takes him a while to realize that i also am not a big fan of jewelry, so then he just gets me lingerie because "i don't know what you fucking want!" and so he can tear it off of me and have an excuse to buy more)
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What's your opinion on the subject of filler and episodic television? Is it "dying" as some have bleated on about? Are stories that keep up plot momentum better or worse?
By "episodic," I don't strictly mean that there's never any continuity so much as the Myth Arc across a given season is flexiable enough so certain episodes can be ordered a certain way with enough care. By contrast, any given Netflix series may be episodic but with a set order that cannot be flexible.
First off, we have GOT to clearly define the word "filler" so people can stop misusing it. "Filler" occurs when a show is being adapted from a different original source (typically manga, games, or visual novels), but the studio ordered more episodes than are needed to complete the adaptation, and writers must create additional episodes full of stories NOT included in the source material in order to "fill" the episode quota. You can usually spot this in extremely long-running anime series when the plot catches up to source manga (Dragon Ball, One Piece, Bleach, etc) and the writers have to get creative while they wait for a new volume of source material to be released.
Anyway, what was the question again? Oh right, episodic shows.
Serial vs episodic: neither is better or worse, they're two different types of storytelling, and they work to different ends. I'm a fan of both honestly!
Episodic shows only seem to be "dying" because there's been a huge rise in the popularity of serial shows lately. If watching reaction channels has taught me anything, it's that modern audiences have started really undervaluing episodes that don't drive the plot forward or reveal new Lore or Character Development. And y'know, it's fine to have a preference for serial shows, I get that, but I don't understand the sheer disdain for light-hearted episodes or self-contained adventures that don't lead into something bigger. You can blame Marvel movies if you like, but I blame TVTropes and CinemaSins and Youtube comment sections personally. These places have fostered and created a generation of people who LOVE feeling they're somehow "smarter" than the show they're watching, rather than just, y'know, watching the show and coming to their own conclusions all the same.
I have a special fondness for episodic shows that take on a mini adventure every episode. A staple of my childhood was a show called Mighty Max, about a kid who fell into the possession of a magic baseball cap that could open hidden portals that took him all over the world. Every episode, he and his two semi-immortal guardians would be tasked with saving people from weird B-movie sci-fi and horror creatures, which required them to travel to foreign countries on the regular. Max would get a message that the world was in peril and have to find a portal located in some completely random location, - for example, the frozen food aisle of a local grocery store - that would drop him off in the middle of the wilderness in Sumatra or an ancient castle in Scotland or wherever. By the end of each episode, the world would be saved and Max would try to get home before curfew so he wouldn't get in trouble with his mom, and before the credits, would take a moment to talk about the geography and culture of the place he visited in that episode. No overarcing plot (just some occasional recurring villains), just a classic case of Putting A Guy In A Situation, and it played a huge part in my love of travel and culture and geography, which then led to my love other multi-cultural media, like Cowboy Bebop, The Fifth Element, and Adventure Time.
^ That's the sort of thing modern audiences seem to dislike though. Episodic shows aren't "dying" so much as people are just less fond of them than Serial ones these days.
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I love matpat so much guys <3
But a lot of things has my curiousity peaked.
Because certain things definitely wouldnt be on a pirate ship
So that has my curiosity for maybe next chapters or for something major
Then it has a lot of stuff that involves sinking or being in the sea and not above it. LOREEEE MAYBE? Maybe MJ lore or maybe reader drowns or almost drowns like how they did whej they first met hobie.
Then these
Ballroom dancing? Hmm, i got a couple of theories or ideas. I see you (i love the pinterest boards though and i could call out more about it but thats like the main things i wanted to call out)
But thats just a theory<3 (not really nothing in here is theories its just me pointing out the obvious or making observations)
But maybe who kmows we will get to see mjs past or what happened to mh, i mean Hobie definitely doesnt trust reader. What if its because of something MJ had done, because hobie immediately thinks reader had brought or had the navy following them, what if MJ actually did something like that. Or maybe she drowned. Or maybe both because hobie had to force her to walk the plank even no matter how much it mightve hurt him or the crew but who can say since MJ couldve been a traitor, a backstabber. So thats a theory, maybe or it could go other routes. (Is it easy to tell how invested in all your stories and previous stories youve wrote? I love them. Also when your done with the pirate hobie series you should make a cowboy hobie series/j)
I do love your stories though and your writing and im utterly excited for pirate hobies next update, whenever i see you post i get happy and immediately read it if i can, drop everything for your stories to stay updated fr fr (im sorry for going on a mini rant and with the photos it makes it longer)
Me when someone finally looks into the whole pirate hobie board 🤭🤭🤭
A GAME THEORY AND CUT!!
I seriously love seeing your thoughts! It literally invigorates me to keep on writing so thank you so much, angel!!! 🫶 (All I can say is there will be lore in the next chapters and some burning questions answered)
Don't tempt me with a cowboy Hobie series bc that one has actually been plaguing my mind since I've first talked about it. I gotta at least finish bdas first lmaooo but yes I'll definitely make it someday! (And I'll make it the coziest series ever!!! No sad, maybe, just a lil bit perhaps 🤣)
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dragonflight is a masterpiece so far btw. it is so charming and beautiful, and im having so much fun. the world itself and the characters in it have always been my favorite part of wow, and dragonflight definitely delivers on the exploration theme of the xpac. so many wonderful little side quests make the world feel vibrant and alive and every npc, no matter how minor, feels like a unique character with a history and a family. i absolutely love the amount of props and doodads spread throughout that make habitats feel lived in, cities and towns populated, and add to the overall landscape. paintbrushes, teapots, baskets, rugs, cooking tools, books and letters, potted plants—these are some of the reasons suramar felt like a real lived-in city in legion, and why boralus and dazar’alor had so much color and life. the differences in architecture and all of these cultural assets further flesh out the races we meet in the dragon isles, and feel natural to their environments and lifestyles. further environmental details like all the flower clusters on the plains, the kelp and chunks of ice in the floes, the bright lichen and fungi in the zones with decay give the land itself even more identity and character. it’s all gorgeous, imbued with love, and most of all, alive.
it feels like wotlk in many ways, and not just because the tuskarr are here: the threat is formidable and present, but manageable, perceptible, domestic. the lich king was a threat, and his touch was felt everywhere, but there was still a visible and familiar world all around us worth saving. the land felt old and new at the same time. the dragon isles seem to borrow from this ethos and have rolled everything players loved about wotlk into the new zones. the azure span is by far the most “mini northrend” of all these: a pine forest that slopes from autumnal down to wintery lowlands and arctic shores, topped off with a nyckelharpa soundtrack. considering that the main antagonists of dragonflight are the primalists who want to throw the elements into chaos, it makes sense that there is so much focus on the beauty of the natural world and the order needed to maintain it.
the story is cohesive and woven so well into preexisting lore. so many names and places are being dropped that haven’t been talked about since the original rts games and their books, and it’s nice to see the return of so many old faces. even the most minor npcs are someone’s favorite, and it’s been a blast seeing all the cameos of characters from previous expansions, some even as far back as tbc and vanilla. i’m not big on dragons or their lore, but as a longtime fan i can palpably feel the influence of other longtime fans on the development and structure of the story. terran gregory’s hype alone on twitter feels like the metzen days where he is genuinely excited for others to enjoy the expansion and “geek out” alongside him.
mechanics-wise im really loving the expanded professions; professions are one of my original loves in wow, and it’s been a thrill to return to the days where being a tailor meant i could craft gear that was actually useful. i like the specializations too and their mini talent trees; it’s been fun coordinating with other people in the guild to see who will prioritize what so we can cover all the bases. this might be an unpopular opinion, but i love the explosion of reagents, especially things like meat and plant and animal parts; it feels better to craft something where you can trace it back to where it came from, versus the esoteric gold-sink reagents of shadowlands that called for things like “orboreal shards” and “progenitor essence”. it was more thematic for the xpac, yes, but as a matter of preference it feels more productive to skin an animal and be able to loot meat, skin, and fur or feathers from it. not to mention the profession equipment is a cute, immersive touch that adds more personality and identity to crafting, and it’s given major boosts to “secondary” professions of fishing and cooking (my favorites in any video game). my top priority, of course, is that the cooking recipes in dragon isles are cute and silly and sound delicious, which sold me on dragonflight from minute one.
anyway, i’m having fun. i hope the rest of you guys are too. i have both laughed out loud and cried during several different quests and i’m still not even finished with the main campaign storyline (i’m trying to get there though... i want world quests!!). this is wow that feels like wow without relying on the faction war to do so, which is new territory for me. the truce is tenuous, but not on the shores of the dragon isles. it feels amazing. i want to avoid saccharine words like “wholesome”, so all i can say is that the love is definitely there. there is love and hope in dragonflight, which is all i have ever wanted, and gotten, from wow.
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Following last night's rp live was WILD LMAO
I was on a zoom call with a friend of mine when the, "sorry i killed our dad" line happened and when they saw my jaw drop I had to do a mini info dump just to explain why my eyes were bulging out of my head DBSKDKJS
@sansofficial @officialpapyrus and @gasterofficial I gotta tell you. You guys are all so cool and this arc y'all put together was amazing!! LIKE DAMN Y'ALL ARE GOOD AT WRITING THESE CHARACTERS!! I'd also like to just say your whole friend group, even people I didn't tag like Tali or even folks who aren't doing the rping themselves like King, really warms my heart! I don't have any friends who are as obsessed with ut as I am and that has been a consistent experience ever since I first got into the game bc I don't really know how to make friends online, so seeing people kinda like me all being friends and being unapologetic about their love of these games has made me feel a lot less alone. So uh yeah! Genuinely, thanks for that!
Anyways, I also drew this part of the lore while it was still going on bc I thought it was pretty funny lmao
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No Harm, No Fowl (Yet)
Dean comes to Cas's garden with a surprise.
Suptober prompt: Red
Flufftober prompt: "I hate you" – "I love you too"
Fictober prompt: "You’re looking, but you don’t see."
Inktober prompt: Fowl
(Read on AO3)
This fic is a continuation of Keep Me Fed All Year although it also makes sense as a standalone...
Dean finds him in the garden. Of course he does. Why did I bother looking anywhere else? he wonders. He's keyed up, jittery with excitement over what he's about to do, but he stops anyway, stands outside the low fence that surrounds Cas's flowerbeds, and looks.
He surveys the flowers, hundred and hundreds of assorted blooms that crowd every inch of the available space with a riotous splash of colors. He checks over the little fence that he and Cas built together, noting its continued sturdiness with approval. But most of all he watches his husband, follows his movements as he tends to his plants, ogles the way his biceps bulge his sleeves when he carries a tray of seedlings.
He only intends to pause for a moment, to enjoy the view and collect his thoughts, but he loses track of time. He might have stood there all day, except that eventually Cas looks up and sees him. The smile that splits his angel's handsome face in that moment washes out the floral rainbow in Dean's sight. Flaming red dulls to maroon. Sunny yellow fades to beige. Natural splendor whomst? Dean thinks besottedly. Don't know her. Only one beauty worth admiring around these parts...
“Dean!” Cas calls, standing up off his kneeler. “I didn't hear you get back. How were your errands?”
“Good, good,” Dean replies. The jittering anticipation is back, and he struggles to keep his tone light. “Dropped off the books at the library, picked up your order at the yarn store, checked the PO box...”
“Anything good in the box?” Cas asks, because he knows that Dean uses that box to order all sorts of useful and unusual things off the internet. His weekly trip to the post office has become something of a mini holiday between the two of them. Some weeks he comes back from town with a new bronze knife or an obscure book of lore, some weeks it's a box of fancy liquor-filled chocolates or a bottle of high-grade lube. This week there was only one package to pick up – deceptively small, metaphorically huge. Dean keeps his mouth shut, though, just smiles and nods.
Cas cocks his head and furrows his brow at Dean's unexpected silence. “Are you going to tell me what you got?” he prompts.
“Try and figure it out,” is Dean's reply. He assumes parade rest position and smiles serenely.
“Figure it...?” Cas repeats, squinting. Dean hums and waits.
“Did... Is it something I already knew you'd ordered?”
Dean shakes his head no.
“Is it for us to use together?”
An emphatic yes.
“Intimately?”
Tough call, Dean thinks, answering with a waggling, equivocal yes but not like that kind of head movement.
Cas stops asking questions and stares hard at him for a full minute. If Dean wasn't absolutely sure that Cas's remaining “10% angel” doesn't allow for direct mind reading any more, he'd throw a flag for cheating. Still, it's uncanny how focused and direct and on target the next question is.
“Is that a new t-shirt?”
“Brand new,” Dean purrs.
“Come closer, I can't read it.”
Dean files this piece of information away for later discussion. He's suspected for a while now that Cas needs glasses. He allows himself one fleeting fantasy – a vigorous round of “stern librarian and naughty patron” with his newly bespectacled hubby. Then he mentally tables the issue and steps forward.
Cas reads his shirt and gives him a nonplussed look. “I don't get it,” he states, voice flat.
“You're looking, but you don't see,” Dean says, throwing a little sass into his tone.
His husband gives a huff, already exasperated with this game. “It says 'FOWL PLAY' in big fancy letters. So it's both cryptic and badly spelled.”
“Nope, the spelling is correct.” Dean can see the burgeoning annoyance in his husband's features. It's time to make the big reveal before the fun turns into frustration. “Do you give up?” he asks with a soft smile.
“Ugh, you know I hate to give up, but yes. What's the deal with 'Fowl Play'?”
“It's the name of our farm.”
“Our...?”
“Farm, Cas. The farm we're buying, where you're gonna be able to raise chickens and keep bees and grow flowers. You can even plant a vegetable garden and I promise I'll eat what you grow.”
“Dean, what?”
“It's about seven miles from here. Good land. A little over five acres. There's a farmhouse, three bed two bath, and a barn, and there's already a nice big chicken coop with a covered yard. I put the word out in town a while back that I was looking, and the owners of this place got in touch with me a couple weeks ago. They're good people. They're heading down to Florida to retire, and they want their place to pass to someone who will love it like they have. They're ready to sell, and if you like it, we're ready to buy.”
Cas is speechless, one hand against his mouth in shock.
“We've both been wanting to get out of the Bunker and into a place that's a little more... Us. This place is perfect, baby. Think of it as an early anniversary present.”
His still-bemused husband laughs at that. “I hate you. An entire farm as an anniversary present? I'll never be able to top that.”
“I love you too, sunshine,” Dean replies fondly. “But technically, really, it's only a farmette. And besides, this gift is for both of us. So do you like the name? I figure, we need a catchy name if you're gonna sell your honey and eggs and stuff at the farmer's market like you always talk about. And Fowl Play's pretty cute, right, cuz of the chickens? I had a shirt made for you, too. I even thought of a motto!" He turns around to show Cas the back of the shirt. "'They lay, we play'. Huh?”
“We can workshop it,” Cas replies tartly, but Dean knows it'll stick.
Hot damn, he thinks. We're gonna buy ourselves a farm.
Concludes Continued here...
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Glad you're feeling a little better!! Maybe one of your favorite locations from Frontier? I haven't played it but it looks beautiful from what I've seen
Thank you for this ask, Twig. It was a wonderful excuse to paint a background, which is my most favorite thing♥
I have to say, I waffled on this decision because there's so many things "your favorite location" could mean; most story memorable, most beautiful, place with the best music, etc.
Eventually I decided on the game's second dungeon,
LAVA RUINS.
In a way, this place is none of the above; it doesn't have my favorite music from the game's soundtrack (that would be the Snow Ruins).
It isn't my most beautiful (Raguna's homestead or the Town Square with full Runeys, just, yes).
It isn't the most story memorable (that, again, belongs to Snow Ruins. Notice a pattern?)
BUT. This place won out over its wintery cousin in this art choice because it has personal significance, in the place where I got nearly softlocked in this game for four. years. all because I had the WORST rng known to mankind.
A tip, if you ever get one or two pieces of silver at this point in the game, covet them. Make them into an icy hammer, or a nice sickle. Then you unlock the rest of the game. Try to not be like me, who simply never got a silver drop, who had to kill mini golem after mini golem after mini golem in vain hopes that were almost never fulfilled. My younger self, in my first year of college, could only find the time to play this game during summer and winter break. And it took... several tries.
I have such a love-hate relationship with it. I hear the first minute of this place's theme in my head, and can remember the run to a certain junction where those golems spawned. I remember the RELIEF, and how FAST I got things done after I got that little piece of ore. The white whale of my Rune Factory life was slain. It is also just, an amazing place lore wise that sets the tone for the rest of the game; a Rune Research Facility, destroyed by some experiment done there years and years ago... These Raguna games are subtly dark, yo, and I love it.
All in all, this is not a true to life representation of this place. I no longer have a save file where I can run around and take screenshots, so I decided to not base this on any particular area. The patterns on the place's walls seem to be mainly geometric from screenshots I found, so I decided to make up my own patterns. Two of the game's bosses are hidden in the walls, and a Terrable is in between them. Because, well. I can.
Also, the dungeon theme for the road;
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#Margot's RF Art#Rune Factory Frontier#Rune Factory#RFF#RF#Rune Factory Raguna#RF Raguna#but I am learning a routine that lets me get more time#Fun fact- this was not the first of my covid requests that I started. It is the second#It got finished first as it is mostly background#Also I've started to rename my headcanon Raguna silver wolf lately#I've been calling them Howl instead of the keymash name I made up as a kid#Still a semi dramatic and wild sounding name.... with a very silly context in reference to a certain Wizard#Rune Factory Monsters#RF Monsters#Rune Factory Silver Wolf#RF Silver Wolf#Rune Factory Furpy#RF Furpy#They are Furpies I promise fff. The amber distance overlay just turned them from blue to red
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I'm sensing that you wouldn't be opposed to talking more about Bioshock 🤔 Soooo... favorite levels in Bioshock 1 and 2?
1: It's gotta be Arcadia/Farmer's Market for me, for the atmosphere, Julie ofc, and as far as the Farmer's Market goes, where else can you take out a Splicer by using telekinesis on a wheel of cheese or a sausage and hurling it at them?? (On easy difficulty at least 😂). Fort Frolic is iconic tho.
2: I think I like Fontaine Futuristics best. Can't really explain why, but I loved roaming around there with my named security bots. Pauper's Drop gets second place.
HI THANKS FOR ASKING
You’re so right, Fort Frolic’s iconic and it’s the one I gotta go with 😭😭 the splicers covered in plaster only moving when you look at them reminds me of the weeping angels (from Dr Who? I think?) and horror games are a love of mine and it really just scratched that itch for me. Also the whole idea of it being a sort of mini-Vegas in Rapture is the sickest thing, it’s like a giant Dave and Busters.
The locations in Bioshock 2 went crazy imo. They were all so memorable but Persephone wins it for me. The Sinclair lore drop had me smiling and kicking my feet (even if it was just him abusing people) and the adrenaline rush I got with Subject Omega (trying to avoid putting too many spoilers) showed up :( got me in tears. What a banger of an ending tho, nothing would've ever prepared me for that level.
#also naming the bots was the best thing to ever happen to me#mine were always getting named walace#answered#bioshock
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The one thing I kinda wished they did for the mini series instead of the anime style was the ones they did for their WoW expansions. Lords of War, Harbingers, Warbringers and Afterlives were so gorgeously done that imo the mini series wouldve felt like it had more gravitas and weight had it been done in that pseudo animatic style
I can see what you mean. Overwatch as a game has a very specific art style, so I can see why a higher rendering might work for it.
I do feel like the lore drops would benefit more from like... more "origin story" art splash videos that expand more on different points in the lore. Or heck, more 'Origin Story' videos just for old guard characters who never got them. Like, I would love to see an 'origin story' video talking about how the omnics co-opted Torbjörn's inventions during the crisis and turned them on humans, or a Reaper origin story that basically serves as a foil to Soldier 76's, or an origin story about Zarya giving up an amazing athletic career to fight against the Siberian omnium, or for fuck's sake a video that talks about Lúcio and Symmetra's whole subplot!! Also, are we ever going to learn how Cassidy lost his arm? I think another tough thing with Genesis is like, even if it is expanding on this very crucial center of the lore, this is 30+ year old backstory. Like even if I'm glad for media that brings these aspects of Overwatch lore to life, I'm still stuck wondering like, "okay but what questions is this going to answer?"
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Tell me alllll about your leauge of legends stuff
this GAME. This STUPID FUCKING DUMB TOXIC-PLAYER-BASE-HAVING-ASS GAME.
Their lore is amazing, this is the game that spawned Arcane after all. And the band skin lines have always had a special place in my heart because if there’s two kinds of Au’s I will forever and always be FERAL for it: it’s dance AUs and Band AUs.
Lol has 4 band skin lines.
A metal one named PENTAKILL, which is the first one they ever did.
A Kpop girl group named K/DA which is when I got dragged in BY MY WIG
A rap group called True Damage (which has a member of K/da in it cuz she started it)
And the newest one: The boyband Heartsteel.
Each of these have at the very least one full, 3 minute song to their name. K/DA actually popped off so hard they got a mini album.
Heartsteel has been wanted since K/da first popped up like 4 years ago and their song Paranoia dropped about an hour ago. In the upcoming days, Riot (the company that makes all this shit) has been dropping peices of discord calls between the Heartsteel boys and I love them so very much I don’t know how to cope.
One of the calls is just one of the members being bullied because he was basically musicverse Justin Bieber.
I have two different ideas for this cringe man to have a secret girlfriend I swear I get so obsessed with lol characters when I’m obsessed with them I hate it here
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After playing Rayman Revolution and reading a bit mi head started thinking about Jano and his cave and his mini versions of him and I came to the theory that Jano isn't as bad as is depicted In the lore.
Lemme ramble bout this a bit ok? And I'm just taking Rayman 2 in consideration cuz I think he has been misinterpreted in other games (RO manual and Rayman GBA, idk any other) but let's all agree he's still a nightmare and the first one or a powerful one cuz it has sense to him being a type of guardian (idk I'm trying, bear with me).
First point, he waves at Rayman when he's arriving, an evil guy would do that? Prob but he looks cute.
Second point, he gives Rayman an elixir for Clark if he proves himself to be worthy (crossing the cave and rejecting the gold), a bad guy wouldn't do that even of you win in his own game.
Third point, he worries about Rayman spilling the elixir and tells him to guard it carefully, he's worried about the one in need of it (he knows is for Clark, he reads minds)
Fourth point, Clark knows so much about him like- about the elixir and the cave's name. Seems like there's only few ppl aware of this info and Clark is one of them, either it is bc he's one of the first creatures or bc he personally knows the guardian, meaning Jano is social in some way.
And my favorite, the fifth point. His mini janos drop useful items when Rayman defeats them, it's understandable in the cave cuz he was testing Rayman, but in the sanctuary of stone and fire?? He sent a mini him with a plum. Yeah theres plum trees in the zone but none of them have the plum-sprout-thing so I like to think he was like "hey, let me help you but be worthy of my help" or smthing like that.
Also I love the fact that in the cave the item guarded is an orb, a reflective made out of crystal (prob) object guarded by many small minijanos but in the sactuary is a plum guarded by a larger and healthier minijano. Like if the orb was making them many but weaker and the plum being nothing special was keeping the nigtmare as one.
I'm trailing off, so yeah Jano is helpful but he's putting challenges to get his help and I friking hope him as well as many other discarded creatures from the games make their return oh gosh we need a new game.
But that's just a theory, A GAME THEOR-
#It's 3am I can't sleep#rayman#rayman 2#Rayman jano#rambling#I have more theories regarding rayman games#Specially R2 cuz is my fav game and the loooooore duuuuude
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People tend to enjoy my Souls takes and opinions, so here’s another list.
Bloodborne Boss List (Best to Worst)
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: This fight is incredible for many reasons. Lore significance, blood arts, the cutscene, the arena, but what really makes it good is the fact that even though it’s not the hardest fight in the game, I always enjoy it.
Orphan of Kos: This man is THE fight in Bloodborne. You know the one. This man woke up and chose violence (literally) and is going to smash your head in with it. We love him. Great fight and definitely one of the best ever.
Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos: This fight makes me nervous whenever I walk in because how the fight goes is determined by what kind of mood she’s in. Either way it’s a fun fight, but I swear she bullies me sometimes.
Gehrmann, The First Hunter: Talk about a way to end the game. Great arena and he has such a cool vibe. The music when you fight him is also gorgeous so that helps.
Father Gascoigne: Dude is Bloodborne’s first real skill check. He is like Genichiro in Sekiro. He’s here to make sure you know what your in for and he’ll beat you with experience AND his fists.
Ludwig, the Accursed/Holy Blade: Dear Lord, this dude hurts. The only reason he’s not higher is because this dude’s hit boxes can be really aggravating sometimes. And when he hits like a freaking steam train, that can make a girl salty right quick.
Mergo’s Wet Nurse: Her design is fire and she is a scary fight. Not because she’s hard, but because one wrong move will put you on the wrong end of 8 scimitars slashing you to death.
Martyr Logarius: Logarius is the only fight in the main game that makes me really put on the tryhard pants. His zoning game frustrates my aggressive style and his projectiles hit harder than they should.
Vicar Amelia: She hits me when she really shouldn’t, but her design is cool, so I like her.
Darkbeast Paarl: Cakewalk. Truly me laying the smack down on an electric bone puppy.
Moon Presence: He looks SO cool, but as the last boss in the game, he definitely fell short for me because I practically abuse this thing every time I fight it.
Cleric Beast: Easy first boss, but he’s definitely not the worst and he’s kinda fun early game.
Laurence, the First Vicar: Cleric Beast but fire type. He has some new tricks and more health, but really nothing I hadn’t seen before.
Blood-Starved Beast: Kinda the average line in this list. Really nothing special, but the poison does create a bit of a nuisance.
Witches of Hemwick: Easiest boss in the game bar none, but I don’t actively hate them.
The One Reborn: Annoying. I take a lot of random damage in this fight and I’m not really a fan.
The Living Failures: A bunch of toddlers in a garden that can call down meteors. And they hit pretty hard. A nightmare for my ADHD.
Micolash: Haunted house meets projectile spammer. Not hard, just annoying. He’s also a smug, delusional asshole, so smacking him around is really a public service.
Celestial Emissary: Worst game of Whack-a-mole ever.
Shadows of Yharnam: Worst gangbang I’ve ever been a part of. Too much range and not a ton of cover. They hit hard and eventually giant snakes spawn unless you stop them. Endlessly frustrating and definitely not a fun gank fight.
Rom, The Vacuous Spider: The only spider I’ve ever not liked. Hoards of spiders that do too much damage, insane range, and lots of meteors. Lots of damage output for a creature that doesn’t do much. Frankly, it’s not him, it’s his entourage. The mini spiders make this fight an absolute drag and I despise dropping into his arena.
Amygdala: Bad boss design. Plain and simple. What makes him the worst is his lack of consistency. His arms and head are his ONLY weak spots, but they are rarely ever in reach long enough to hit for decent damage. You can break his arms, but even still, he attacks with those. He’s not hard in the base game, but in Chalice Dungeons is where you really see the flaws in this boss’s design.
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