#or maybe all of them

[lorrainestea]

Lady Dimitrescu: Are you really sure you want your daughter back?

Ethan: What kind of question is this? Of course I do!

Lady Dimitrescu: I see...

Ethan: Shouldn't you understand? You have three daughters yourself!

Lady Dimitrescu: That's why I know exactly what I'm talking about. You know, I might be an immortal, not aging vampire, but-

Bela: *runs in the room* Mother! Cassandra just forced Daniela to eat sand and told her she'll get superpowers if she eats it!

Lady Dimitrescu: *sighs* But these three gave me my first gray hair.

Ethan: ...

#resident evil village #incorrect quotes #lady dimitrescu #ethan winters #bela dimitrescu #cassandra dimitrescu #daniela dimitrescu #rose winters #Alcina is doing her best okay #but those girls are pure chaos #also making your sister eat sand is the most sibling thing ever and I know at some point this happened #and cassandra doing the middle child things as she should #I'm convinced that at least once really desperate Alcina told mother Miranda if she still wants a daughter she can take one of hers #or maybe all of them

[lordspectrus]

The Property of Hate - Thoughts, ideas and things that bug me

While we're all waiting for whatever Deus ex machina appears to get Hero and RGB out of the current quandary, I feel I need to verbalise some thoughts. Here be spoilers, obviously.

First things first: I really don't understand RGB's behaviour. Let me explain why. (Some of this is already a couple of days old, and therefore slightly outdated.)

When he introduces Hero to the World of Make Believe, he does not explain anything. You can argue that it's better for her to figure things out. But if he wants her to save the world, surely she should have some idea of the scenario that will eventually happen?

The trees. Clearly he recognises the tree in P.O.V. (since he tells the whole story later), but does actually not want Hero to do anything with or for it. Yes, he didn't know that Assok was keeping it alive. But surely he knows that restoring the sun should be a major part of saving the world?

The same issue crops up again when Hero remarks that now they have to liberate the other four trees. RGB does not seem to be aware that Hero falling onto a branch is what started the tree's regeneration and shedding of the ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. But he also says that there's nothing they can do about the other ones (something that their experience with the next tree should have dispelled by now). So, again, he's not telling her what the purpose of her journey is, only what isn't.

If this is his standard way of dealing with heroes, I'm not surprised they all failed. The new update suggests he may have done this on purpose but I don't get what the point of that would've been. To stop the story from ending? The way things are going, it could just as well end despite his efforts, and setting heroes up to fail wouldn't have made a positive difference.

That said, both of the tree rescue operations so far would have failed without the help of former heroes (Assok in the first case, Melody in the second). Which begs interesting questions about their respective proximity.

When RGB arrived in this world, he failed, being the first hero in all but name, and by his own admission, he was pretty green. (Weirdly enough he already had the TV head, whereas the other heroes seemingly were only transformed after failing.) But currently, he seems to know a lot about this world, including stuff that happened long before his arrival. Where did he get that information from? Time?

If the folks from the emporium were heroes brought into this world by RGB, where did he get his shirt from? (Cell doesn't seem to be one, but Tailor...)

Why does Hate only intervene at two points so far? (First cutting Julienne and Melody out of the story, then snipping into Time's speech bubble, which seems pretty ineffective.) If she's really all-seeing and omnipotent, her lack of direct interaction is weird.

What's the point of the train in the desert? It's not sent by Hate (as witnessed by the blackout on her screen), and RGB has no idea what it's about. Honestly, it's the weirdest part of the story to me. It's captivating but feels like it doesn't really belong, and right after it, the whole story significantly loses steam (a-hem).

He traded his memories for time. But if I'm not mistaken, the iron only starts appearing after he was ironed by Tailor, so maybe we're all interpreting too much into those nightmares.

Returning to the question of his motivation. What is his goal? Going to the market was just an intermediate destination. He clearly seems to want to advance somewhere else. But again, he never tells Hero about it... who also never asks what her function as a hero is actually going to be.

Assok knew what to do with the isolator around the tree's roots, but that implies, again, that RGB must have explained the basics of the matter to them. He didn't seem like he wanted to tell Hero.

And without the liberation of the tree, he wouldn't have the ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ to trade in the market. What else could he have offered? Or was going to the market only something he decided to do after that happened?

Why are there suddenly three suns? Even RGB doesn't know. And we don't see if the phoenix-tree is going to join them. (However, since that bit is set in the future, we might learn about how the three suns came about soon. (Confirmed by Mod now, thankfully.))

Maybe freeing the first sun automatically led to the next one being liberated (since the first one sets into the sea and one part apparently sunk there), but so far no explanation.

Madras is the only other character openly aware that this world is ending. But she doesn't seem too fussed, despite RGB's later explanation that if the World of Make Believe ends, all other worlds end too.

As a commenter on SmackJeeves said, most of the concepts we've seen so far are negative (pun intended). Time is neutral (and on the protagonists' side) and the tempers seem somewhat positive. If Time and Hate are the two big factors, would love be the third, and be represented by the (shattered) sun?

EDIT: Another thing. In the current part of the story, it appears RGB is telling Hero that he died. Shouldn't this be more significant? After all, she asked on page 8 whether she's dead and he says "I hope not".

Now onto the positive. While I wouldn't put it beyond Mod to subvert our expectations again, I do expect a happy ending of sorts. Why? Well, consider that the current hero is front and center of the story, while all her predecessors only get time to shine in flashbacks and supporting roles. And of course Time is on her side!

#tpoh #tpoh spoilers #tpoh theory #given how much mod has planned ahead i'm sure a lot of these #or maybe all of them #have an explanation #but sometimes i get stuck on these things #so many questions #and a lot of stuff did get explained at some point #i can't imagine the agony of being a first-hour reader #i think I can see where some of these are going #the train still grinds my gears though #excuse the stupid pun #don't get me wrong #i LOVED the dynamism of that scene #but it sticks out like a sore thumb #almost as if it doesn't belong in the story

[bokkerijder]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

#rambles '24 #ok to reblog btw #all my posts are ok to reblog #if not i would make them unrebloggable lmao #edit: i am a fool #i said that thinking this would maybe get 5 notes or something #and now we're here lol

[neighboringheart]

[spitting up blood] what if fort max had some crazy wild interface with some of the scavengers...

#or maybe all of them #nh text #will elaborate later

[frownyalfred]

Dick is probably the nicest civilian ever when he’s in Bludhaven and all the little old ladies who bring him baked goods and his coworkers at the station have no idea he spends the night beating criminals half to death with his escrima sticks, has the kind of insane family & family loyalty you can’t buy, and would have the entire Justice League at his side with just one phone call.

#disorganized dick grayson thkughts #just his secret identity #out of all of them #save maybe Clark / #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman #nightwing #dc comics #dc #thoughts

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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#cw: blood #cw: gore #cw: dismemberment #cw:death #hope im covering all my bases there #the emily carroll inspiration is really jumping out on this one #tbh her comics were the main reason i started making them in the first place so maybe i can count this as a homage #snow might personally be one of my more beloved protagonists #she eats people but she does it in the name of love so its fine actually #i stand for womens rights AND womens wrongs #literally the type to rip a man's chest open and go 'oopsie!' #love you snow #ash will be getting her own comic later down the line #comic art #lgbt #horror #sapphic #queer comics #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know #im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie #or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them #snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow! #but then shes gone…. for a while…… #and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book #that i knew wouldn’t translate to screen yet still cant help but miss #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tbosas #lucy gray baird #not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration #but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause #like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not. #snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time #he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets #and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets #he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved #but he does not let himself and it is everyone’s downfall #he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires

[chloesimaginationthings]

The secret good ending for FNAF ruin,,

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #fnaf vanessa #fnaf vanny #fnaf cassie #mask bot #fnaf #security breach #fnaf ruin #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #guys I promise this is a canon ending #yall just missed it 🩵 #Vanny adopting all them kids she’s all their big sister now #Also for the 5 fans of mask bot THIS IS FOR YOU 🩵🩵 #mask bot mentioned 🔥 #I want to do mor game centred comics #tbh I’ll give anything for Cassie and Vanny to talk #they’d have sm to speak about from the mask to Gregory to even Cassie’s dad/Vanny’s co worker #maybe in a future game we’ll get something #for now I’ll draw about it myself 😤

[clover-mouse]

drew up a pretty quick design for a harengon swarmkeeper ranger/rogue for a oneshot i'm playing this weekend ♡ their name is fennel and they go by fenn (they think it sounds much cooler)

#art #ID in alt text #furry #d&d #d&d art #harengon #perhaps i'll dig up the old umbel family art i did a while ago to post here. i think you all would like it #this lil dude's whole family is named after parsley family plants #actually maybe i should even.. redraw them.. i like them a lot

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[happi-dreams]

Woahza!! Spongbob critterpants?! (Again?!)

As well as huggy hassleholf

And another art because im insane

#i was thinking about posting all these in lil bunches #but ehh its fine #poppy playtime #smiling critters #dogday #catnap #huggy wuggy #poppy playtime chapter 3 #art #ppt #im very normal dw about me #hopefully this dosen’t look to bloated hwbhd #oh dogday and catnap my beloveds #maybe ill do the last bit and ask people for their lil smiling critters ocs to be shown #cause thees a bunch of fish #why are catnap and dogday underwater #silly of them #tbh

[pato-roldnart]

While is still winter💦, here are some of the pieces I did for the drarry zine @hdwickedwixen . I'm happy I could take part in such a fun project!💕

Probably i'll post later my other pieces :3

#drarry #drarry fanart #ufff I think i went wild with them #i don't know how i managed to draw all of that #and their clothes!!! #someday i'll try to draw more clothes like that #maybe #this was supossed to be for christmas but... #well #drarry art #draco malfoy #harrry potter #pato's art

[moodyseal]

I was poking fun at how unexpectedly silly the CHB kids looked in armour in the first two episodes of the PJO show (acting like an almighty army and all) and then it hit me. This is exactly how some of them will look like when they will be dying in the final battle. Silly. Tiny. Literal children

#i'm sorry i always knew that they were children but #when i read books the characters' ages. idk. don't really register completely #maybe it's because i know their internal pov and don't hear their voices or see them #but these are. 12 y/os #fighting things #and only now that i see an actual live action rendition of pjo do i realize the weight of it all #they're so young oh my god #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #lonely thoughts

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Tim is the first to find out the Red Hood’s identity and from then on sticks to Jason during patrol like glue (much to Jason’s chagrin, dammit, it would feel wrong to beat up Robin when he’s that starry eyed…)

Cue: PANIC from the rest of the Batfamily, who still think Hood is a forty-something year old crime lord and now assume they’re dating.

#misunderstandings #miscommunication #protective batfamily #dick is NOT having it #neither is Bruce #I connected the dots- YOU CONNECTED SHIT #I connected them #Tim is very confused about all the ‘you can tell us if anything is wrong’ talks #are they talking about the one time Jason shot at him? because honestly it was pretty obvious he wasn’t even trying to hit him it’s FINE #if I see anybody add something that comes even CLOSE to ship bashing I shall make this Jaytim out of spite #no bashin in this house nah-uh #maybe some mild joker bashing #but it’s still ok if you like him #let’s keep this ✨harmonious✨ #jason todd #dick grayson #batfam #bruce wayne #robin #tim drake #red hood #fic #Nightwing #Batman #prompts #this is part of my fic roster btw hehe

[araneapeixes]

fuck it. sketch poast

#i have 3 comms to finish rhen i finish this then maybe another one for me THEN id like to open coms again:) #so idk when i finish this so i wanted to shareee #its the first time ive drawn all of them #i decided to do modern clothes just because but the added bonus of not having to draw armor is a life saver #anyways whoever wins gets to fuck shadowheart in the bathroom #its not the point of the arm wrestle or anything but it is an implied outcome #bg3 #sketch #karlach #lae’zel #shadowheart #astarion #gale dekarios #wyll ravengard #bg3 tav