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[vaxxman]

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#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #tf2 engineer #tf2 soldier #It's the end of the week and I get to choose my work procrastination method #I started playing right on the day the Smissmass 2023 event started btw; absolute information overload with all the maps and modes #I hope you look at that picture of myself like you'd look at shoebills when they look at you from the front vs their resting goof face #If you are reading this and you want to do this meme; I hereby tag you to do it

[total-drama-brainrot]

TD World Tour AU, where Noah doesn't tell Owen that Alejandro is an eel in London... In Area 51, Noah is accidentally splashed with an alien truth potion (which wears off after a few days) and he talks to Owen... Owen asks Noah what he truly thinks about Alejandro, and Truth-Potion Affected Noah says this: "I have mixed feelings for Alejandro. He's a brilliant, interesting guy and I like him, but I don't trust him. He's like a slippery eel dipped in grease, swimming in motor oil. Basically, Heather with social skills. Wait a minute, why am I telling you this?!"... What if Alejandro secretly heard Noah call him all those conflicting things + Alejandro also learns that Noah is affected with an alien truth potion? 👽

Alright, you got me. I'm an absolute sucker for truth potion plots, especially when the character(s) effected by them are usually either pathological liars or incredibly secretive- of which Noah absolutely falls into the second category, given he shares so little personal information.

I'll gloss over why Noah declined to shit-talk Alejandro in London (though there's so many ways this change in behaviour could be justified) since the focal point of this hypothetical centred around their time in Nevada, so let's start from the beginning of the Area 51 challenge.

Area 51:

Before we start, it'll have to be established that no one was eliminated in London. Let's say that the majority vote went towards Duncan (team CIRRRRH voted him out immediately because they found his re-admission to the competition unfair, I guess. I imagine he'd also vote himself, if not as a plan to escape the competition he'd been actively skiving from, then just as an act of spite) but Chris instead claimed it was a rewards challenge- much like he does in Greece- because he doesn't want to let Duncan slip away again so soon.

I see no reason to alter the first part of the challenge- the sneaking into Area 51 portion- since team CIRRRRH's course of entry is fairly straightforward. Noah's presence doesn't make much of a difference to how it would play out; the majority of them throw their rocks and run, Owen gets lasered over the fence and Owen-napped, ect ect.

When both teams have managed to make their way into the Black Box Warehouse, Noah immediately suggests they should prioritise rescuing Owen. Tyler's quick to agree, since he's a firm believer in the "no man left behind" mentality (and he probably makes a not-so-subtle jab towards Noah for his chance of tune compared to London, where both he and Owen did leave Tyler behind) leaving Duncan and Alejandro to split from the group- Duncan in search of Gwen, and Alejandro just takes the opportunity to finally be free from his 'incompetent teammates' and prioritises finding an artifact.

Noah and Tyler come across the contraption Owen's trapped in, Tyler punches it in a futile effort to break it open, and the face hugger cube drops into Noah's hands. This is where the point of divergence comes into play; Tyler has his E.T. moment with one of the face huggers, but Noah- who's a tad bit more observant than Alejandro, and used to dodging surprise attacks from his various older siblings (and Izzy)- anticipates his own face hugger attack and promptly starts a game of cat-and-mouse with a taser alien hot on his heels.

The commotion of which attracts the rest of his team. Alejandro and Duncan arrive on the scene to see Tyler being electrocuted by an alien and Noah running in circles evading another.

Duncan attempts to rip the face hugger from Tyler's face, finding success at the cost of sending Tyler trampling into Owen's captive contraption (essentially taking Alejandro's canonical place in this scene) and inadvertently freeing Owen.

Meanwhile, Alejandro swipes up the nearest box he can find and snags the alien chasing Noah, who's still very loudly panicking as he flees, and succeeds! The alien is swiftly captured into the box, netting team CIRRRRH their artifact, and Noah promptly goes careening into the nearest tower of junk in his face hugger-fuelled hysteria. This causes another box to topple from the peak of the tower, landing directly on Noah's head and spilling its contents onto the bookworm- glass vials filled with a mysterious, luminescent cobalt blue liquid shatter into pieces drenching Noah in whatever they contained. (i.e. truth potion.)

Owen has his false-amnesia moment, characterised by his Joker makeover, and Alejandro enacts his revenge post-hypnotic suggestion after being addressed as "Al" one too many times.

Noah, understandably, swiftly objects to Owen's treatment and demands that Alejandro snap him out of it. Alejandro concedes, and Owen's brought back to himself. At least, for a moment, before the fatigue of having his mind messed with sends Owen into near-catatonia (the same as canon), meaning he has to be ferried through the Warehouse and back to the Jet by Alejandro and Duncan.

Things carry on canonically from there; Noah's just sort of there for the most part, though there'd be a minor hint to his newfound proclivity for honesty. Something along the lines of him giving an uncharacteristically honest answer to Owen as to who he's voting- Tyler, of course, since he was the one who ultimately threw the challenge for them... and also because Tyler still holds some resentment towards Noah for what happened in London, and Noah feels guilty about it every time he looks at the jock. Wait, why did he say that?

Sometime between this and the elimination scene, Noah wipes the truth-goop off of himself, but not before the effects have already started.

Tyler's voted out, yada yada yada.

The Jet:

Thus begins the start of "Picnic at Hanging Dork". Team CIRRRRH, consisting of just Alejandro, Duncan, Owen and Noah, are slumming it up in the Economy Cabin. Alejandro tries to rally his team by asking how to break apart Courtney and Heather's tentative co-operation. Owen suggests having Alejandro seduce Heather, since it worked for both Bridgette and Leshawna. Duncan makes his "Babe Olympics" comment. Noah pipes up that playing with someone's feelings is pretty scummy, even for someone competing for a million dollars.

Alejandro takes Noah's reluctance towards his methodology poorly; he hadn't spoken up before, when Alejandro had utilized the same strategy against other girls- and even Owen noticed that, so surely Noah did too- so why was he to outwardly against him using the same tricks? Duncan agrees, and offers ''his'' idea of having Alejandro flirt with Courtney to throw both her and Heather off their games (since Heather has an obvious crush on Alejandro), and things follow canon.

Then, the scene between Alejandro and Courtney happens. Noah scoffs at the display from the side lines, prompting Owen to ask him why he's so against Alejandro's plan.

"I mean, you never said anything before, when he flirted with Bridgette and Leshawna." Owen comments, light-hearted in nature but with an underlying questioning tone.

Noah's eyes flicker with a cobalt glow, easily mistaken for a trick of the light, and he speaks without even thinking.

"Yeah, because I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Bridgette was happenstance, and Leshawna's whole deal could've been a coincidence, or some massive misunderstanding. But this?" Noah extends an accusing hand out towards a smug looking Alejandro, then pans it over to a flattered Courtney, "He's outright toying with Courtney's feelings after she was cheated on in front of an international audience. It's scummy."

Owen nods in understanding, momentary contemplation evident in the pouted curve of his lips, and he chimes in.

"Does that mean you don't like Al?"

"I never said that."

"Well, how do you feel about him, then?"

Again, a flash of blue light against the hickory backdrop of Noah's eyes, and he responds thoughtlessly.

"I guess I have mixed feelings about him. On the one hand, he's slippery, like an eel dipped in grease, swimming in motor oil. He's like if you took all of the worst aspects of Heather, wrapped them up in a pretty package, and gave them social skills..." He holds his hands out before him in a scale-like manner, with the left tipped downwards and tie right raised by his chin. Then, the two hands swap positions.

"And on the other hand, he's brilliant. I've never met anyone as talented as Alejandro; he's smart, he's athletic, he's funny. It's almost unfair just how perfect everything about him is- even his face is perfect. It's ridiculous! Infuriating, even. It's so hard to dislike him, even when I know he's bad news, but that doesn't mean I trust him."

Owen stands slack jawed beside his best friend, both impressed and stunned at the raw honesty of Noah's tirade. Noah, now a little more aware of himself, realises that he's said more than he intended to- more than he thinks he's ever spoken in one go throughout the entirety of Total Drama. He's not usually one for speeches, after all, let alone honest ones.

He's always been the type to play his cards close to his chest, so why...?

"I, uh, didn't mean to go off like that."

And he also didn't mean to admit it, either. What was going on?

The look Owen gives him is, in a word, vivid. The blonde has a shit-eating grin stretching across his face, a sort of elated smugness practically glowing from his features.

"Sounds like someone has a cruuuush!~"

What? No? No! Not at all, where would Owen even get that idea?!

Noah splutters to correct Owen's assumption (to disastrous results, because he does sort-of has a crush on Alejandro, so the truth potion doesn't allow him to outright deny it), and in his preoccupied state he misses how a calculating pair of sage green eyes never seems to stray from him.

Alejandro has a lot to think about in regards to a certain cynic, it seems.

#I'd like to apologise for taking this idea and running with it. #Cutting myself off here before I breach 2k+ words or else I'll be here all day. #Sort of entered actual Writing Mode at the end there instead of Outline Mode but this idea is. So Full Of Potential I couldn't help myself. #But from here it'd basically be Alejandro using his newfound knowledge of Noah's crush on him to his advantage. #Whilst Noah's doing his best (and failing) to deny that he has any feelings for Alejandro. #Eventually leading to the two of them having a Bonding Moment where Alejandro gets Noah to divulge some personal information. #And in turn- or an effort to garner some trust (to be abused later)- Alejandro also lets himself be vulnerable towards Noah. #Something something Alejandro tries to use Noah as a pawn but ends up catching feelings of his own. #Then of course the potion wears off and Noah goes back to being just as prickly and standoffish as he was before. #A point of conflict maybe? Imagine bearing your soul out to someone only for them to close themself off to you not even days afterwards. #...Also imagine being practically forced to divulge information about yourself to someone you don't trust because of a truth potion. #Oh yeah. That's some good angst material right there. #Especially is you have Alejandro be- if not fully aware- than at least suspect that Noah's not being agreeable on his own terms. #Anon why have you given me The Thoughts?? I can't keep brainstorming AUs when I already have fics to work on!! #ophe's ranting in the tags again #total drama #td noah #td alejandro #team chris is really really really really hot #alenoah #-ish #silly ideas #other's ideas #long post #replies #kinda drafty in here (posts from the drafts)

[t4tails]

ive been fucking around on cohost for a while now and honestly i think its biggest problem is the counter-intuitive ui. for instance clicking your profile at the top right doesnt bring you to your profile, it just refreshes the page youre already on, which is probably your dash. if you want to get to profile, or settings, or notifs, etc, you have to use the left side menu. but oh no! the menu is stuck at the top of the dash, and doesnt scroll with you, so if youve been scrolling for a while youll either have to scroll all the way back up or refresh, thus losing all your scrolling progress. this is so enraging i went out of my way to download an add on to fix it

#og post #also less important but it keeps the ugly purple and even some parts of the main white background even when youre on dark mode #very annoying #it seems to prioritize minimalist design rather than information even more than modern tumblr #oh AND despite arguably being aesthetic changes pinned tags are in settings not profile customization #theyre sandwiched between changing your password and filtered tags. once again weird

[lavander-galaxy]

Something I’ve been curious about is how exactly Husker knows that Alastor sold his soul

I don’t understand why Alastor would tell him ??????

Is there another way he could’ve been able to tell cause Alastor owns his ???

Surely not that last one cause Alastor probably owns so many souls that if that was the case it wouldn’t be a secret

But I just can’t find a reason why Alastor would feel that it’s necessary to tell Husk

#hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #alastor #hazbin husk #hazbin hotel husk #I’ve been thinking about this detail ever since ep 5 came out #and I haven’t seen enough people talking about it #cause Alastor went crazy mode on Husk when he brought it up #so why would he tell him in the first place ???? #He clearly doesn’t want people to know about it #so like why would Husk have this information ??????

[ebonytails]

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

Heart rate has reached dangerous levels❗️

Initiating culling procedures.👁️‍🗨️

#Nyxus #Doe1 #ebonytailsart #did you know that ‘nyxus’ is censored on roblox bevause of the xus part. what the hell #anyway i love you horror boy #i want to get more horror images drawn for him so my first art of him was this of course #copy pasted from twitter? : #I wanted to try drawing Nyxus’s “Tunnel Mode” #which is almost like a “second stage” boss form if you were looking at it from a game perspective #But this is what happens when his system reaches its limit (like getting overwhelmed with information) #which tales a LOT to get to #Shakes you shales you do you understand. that I need to draw him and keep working on his story #im going to get a carrd pro lite subscription after jan 28 bevause im so crazy i need to add every secret and lore into his carrd #ive already made so much progress and i hit carrd limits TWICE on two different sites #i cut his site into two just to get past ot and i still failed #(spins in a circle) #from kris p #i like this a lot so im posting it to main and then ill move it to my personal blog

[girlytips]

Popularity ranking of lolita, girly kei, and goth punk brands based on readers choice voting in "Alice a la Mode" magazine (vol. 4, released 2010).

#alice a la mode #ガー��ー #ガーリー系 #ロリータファッション #ゴスパンク #girly kei #lolita fashion #goth punk #jfashion #information #jfashion history

[sukugo]

noticed something while watching jjk s2 and it's that gojo doesn't have the shiny pink glossy lips characteristic of him in s1 or the movie

while before his lips always looked like this, with the pinkness + shine:

in s2, there's no pink or gloss:

which leads me to my conclusion: gojo only started using lip gloss as an adult

#important information....... #LIKE in s1 his lips were very eye catching and i feel got a lot of focus on them #they were always THERE #but in s2 it's not so.. #yeah it's probably bc of the s2 simpler shading style #but SHHHHH LIP GLOSS!!!!! #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #gojo #gojo satoru #f.txt #im going full gojofucker mode again........ sorry guys i am NOT normal about this man

[trident-dragion]

Every Yugipedia tips page has at least one or two of these: "This card can be searched by {20 different cards, very few of which are actually good}" "I saw an anime character do this once" "This card pairs extremely well with {card nobody in their right mind would use in the same deck as subject}" "If you're playing a modern deck and your opponent is playing a deck from 2005, you can try this" "This card has a weakness that can be addressed with this card that has no use outside of that particular case. You can simply just draw it after you have the subject on your field"

#yu-gi-oh! #look i love the tips pages because they can be genuinely helpful sometimes #or they can inspire funny decks like red dragon archfiend/assault mode + yubel #but i imagine if you're trying to get into competitive play and you're looking for guidance #it's got to be frustrating seeing that the vast majority of information in tips pages is useless in any typical deck or scenario

[mildlyeldritchcats]

rough nabatean family tree

1 - rhea states that she 'called [herself] Seiros' (teaspoon translations says the same), which implies that it isn't her first (i.e. the first non-dragon-title (i.e. not the immaculate one) name that she went by), but it's also not stated whether rhea is another alias or not

2 - going by both this reddit comment and teaspoon translations, rhea's statemtn that she is sothis' 'last child' means that she was the youngest nabatean to be born directly from sothis, rather than just the last surviving one

3 - while flayn calls both indech and macuil her uncles, they aren't necessarily brothers of seteth or each other; if flayn's mother was a nabatean, they could either both be her maternal uncles or one of them a paternal uncle and the other maternal

4 - as far as i am aware, nothing in three houses, three hopes or heroes states whether indech, macuil & seteth were direct children of sothis or not; the term 'children of the goddess' (which seteth uses to refer to himself and flayn; teaspoon translations translates it as 'kin of the goddess') refers to nabateans as a whole rather than just sothis' direct children, and none of them (indech, macuil or seteth) ever refer to sothis as their mother or to rhea as their sister

5 - as far as i am aware, the species of flayn's mother isn't stated anywhere; all that's stated is that she was flayn's mother, seteth's wife, she met seteth in enbarr, that she liked fishing and the rhodos coast (which is where she was buried), and that she died in a battle (presumably during the war of heroes). i've seen quite a few people say or suggest that she was human, but there doesn't seem to be anything significantly supporting this

image sourcing:

three houses placeholder portrait and adult sothis from the cutting room floor

three hopes portraits of seteth, rhea and flayn from the fire emblem wiki

three houses portraits of indech and macuil from the fire emblem wiki

#things i've contributed to #fe3h #sothis #rhea fire emblem #saint macuil #saint indech #seteth fire emblem #flayn #it's not that good visually but it hopefully gets all of the included information across #i had to change the line colour and add white boxes behind the text because i remembered that #because it's transparent the black text and lines wouldn't show up properly on dark mode

[bobbinbugs]

hornet does not get flustered, ever. ok? she doesn't blush and she doesn't freeze up. she'll think about her rival getting all up in her face, blowing a kiss, etc at 3am and her gaze will harden and be like 'hm. this is hatred. i have to kill her'

#lacenet #headcanon #it's extremely hard to tell even from an outside perspective that she has a crush!!! #her wires are hella crossed from all the trauma #silksong #and the autism as well #her modes are 'attack' and 'probably don't attack' #with a hefty side of emotional repression #(hornet internal monolouge) she blew me a KISS... she was trying to HUMILIATE me...... I MUST DEFEND MYSELF. (takes a bullet for lace) #(multiple times) #forge-daughter: that is not hatred. (thumbs up) good luck girl #lace finally is like ok. i'm pinning you against the wall because i want to kiss you. do you need a moment #and hornet has to process that information & unpack her shit for like 3 days before she comes back deciding that sounds nice actually #bobbinbugs originals #hornet

[deceptigoon]

terrorsaur!!

#terrorsaur #beast wars #transformers #maccadam #my art #i wanted to do a scientifically informed take on his beast mode :]

[disformer]

I'm begging pleading on my hands and knees to know ur usual coloring process

I’m gonna be completely honest anon I enter an Eckhart-esque trance state and let the will of god guide my colouring so it’s usually different every time

#The jazz one is literally just a light blue multiply layer for shadows #and then a schmillion layer modes until i got a sunset #my colour theory has always been pretty weak rip otherwise i’d have a more informed process #ask

[bluebriarr]

Me now realizing Heath is the genus plant name for the berry shrubs of Blueberry fruits. Nintendo being clever or me being not smart, probably the latter.

Also Briar thinks Raifort is hot. They should kiss over being ne’erdowells.

The end.

#ooc. { ✹✧ #mobile mode #it’s been two months. time for useless information

[music-for-them-asses]

#THE WAY MY MOUTH DROPPED OPEN #I'm never going to sleep again knowing this information #your honor they are sus #Martin gore #Andrew Fletcher #Depeche Mode

[lemonlilypufftangerine]

I have bought Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy and i just know I'm going to spend 100+ hours in the Orchestra Hall.

Comparing Great Ace Attorney Chronicles to AJ trilogy solely as collections of games, I'm conflicted. AJ has literally more content but different as well.

None of the art or music has commentary to read like TGAAC but the presentation i feel is so much more. Maybe it's the RE engine, idk. I wonder what engine the other games were on?

So bc I'm a big ol nerd, i technically prefer Chronicles because i LOVE further insight into games. But AJ is still an outstanding collection with extra content for all the games. If only any of these collections actually came with ALL previously released DLC (Sengoku Basara costumes and asinine ace attorney cases).

#The music is just too good omg #I've been hoping praying and begging for an in game music player with playlist ability and now i finally have it #😭 #Ajaa trilogy #ace attorney #Ajaa #Apollo Justice #Informal review #I don't feel like replaying all these games #But i do want the accolades. If only the story mode wasn't so tempting

[golmac]

Looking for people to "read" Repeat the Ending

With the final (I hope) release of Repeat the Ending around the corner, I am looking for players to evaluate an all-new "story mode."

What it is:

Read the story comfortably, with walkthrough commands automatically entered.

Pause the walkthrough to explore, examine, etc. at any time!

Read a comprehensive critical guide to the story without interrupting the walkthrough.

This mode was inspired by my many friends who do not enjoy parser gameplay or find it inaccessible. If that's you, please consider trying this out. You are my target audience. If you know people who might be interested, please pass this along!

Repeat the Ending is a recipient of a Spring Thing "best in show" ribbon and placed in the Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time poll.

Every reader that gives feedback will be credited in game.

#interactive fiction #parser #inform 7 #repeat the ending #story mode