#pre-enthusiastic

[puppyeared]

What did they do to you

#first image is botw and second image is totk #this did confirm my hunch that Link kind of.. matured? got more formal?? #I noticed his dialogue options in totk are shorter and more formal compared to the funny ones in botw :( #it’s a very subtle change. he is a little silly sometimes when he says stuff like saying ‘I am indeed’ when a kid asked if he was a voe #or a very enthusiastic ‘nope!’ when asked if he used a sand seal to get to Gerudo town #anyway don’t mind me I’m rummaging thru my notes and screen recordings because I’m chewing on this fucker like he’s a chew toy #It makes me wonder if this is him falling back into his persona from pre calamity #but he already went thru botw with amnesia and he doesn’t need to be as stiff anymore.. if anything he’s more relaxed abt it #tell me what u think #botw #totk spoilers #tears of the kindom spoilers #tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of Zelda #loz #yapping

[fandom-geek]

i think the thing that really gets me about pre-canon durge is their absolute sense of duty, and their utter isolation outside of the cult of bhaal.

most of the cultists seem eager to see durge upon their return, and one even says they were the first to feed him flesh. gortash tells them of an exhibition of a bhaalspawn's corpse and another bhaalspawn's creations and durge immediately plans to attack the hall of wonder to recover them. they then apparently entrust said bhaalspawn's corpse to sceleritas fel to "restore" through taxidermy. they deride orin for her artistry with corpses explicitly because "bhaal will never care" and because orin "[does] not understand lord bhaal".

even their infamous prayer for forgiveness is framed around their absolute submission to bhaal's plans, and the crime that requires forgiveness? admiring his rival's chosen. that's one line, and the next three paragraphs are swearing to carry out his plan exactly as they've been told to, all for his forgiveness.

hell, even their room reinforces this. orin has barely touched the place aside from installing her mother's corpse and her manifesto - and that is some of the only decoration. what was it before orin, an empty room with skulls, a bed, a desk, some chests and a wardrobe?

the durge didn't have any semblance of a life outside of bhaal, aside from gortash. and is it any surprise? the only other hint they ever had a life outside of the cult is the flashback of kid durge murdering their adopted family, all thanks to their father's urging.

bhaal even tries to force them back into isolation after they've been tadpoled by forcing them to kill alfira, and then trying to force a durge who resists him to kill their lover. if they continue resisting, bhaal kills them. bhaal will not allow them to have a life outside of him and, if it weren't for jergal, he would've succeeded.

#bg3 spoilers #the dark urge #honestly writing this all out it's weird that bhaal doesn't try to kill your party when you're at the temple #it'd be perfectly in line with everything else he'd done to durge up until that moment #also just makes me think of how sceleritas will tell an evil durge that the worst thing they've ever done #is giving a beggar a coin without asking for anything in return #ymmv and everyone has their own headcanons but pre canon durge was not a happy or enthusiastic participant as far as canon shows #which is reinforced by gortash saying you've always been better at controlling your urges than orin! #why would durge bother to do that when 'all father wants is death in droves death in numbers'! #honestly i think it's v reasonable to think that durge could've been tempted into bane worship given what little we know of them pre canon #anyway haven't played evil durge myself so very curious abt any insights from that route #baldur's gate

[flimflamfranky]

i think what i'm most excited about with the live action series is how different it's gonna be.

like, obviously, it's live action, so there's limits on what they can do in terms of the crazier stunts, places, and people. the actors will have their own mannerisms and quirks they'll add to the characters that will make them distinct. it looks like it's gonna be a bit more grounded and less cartoon-y. but most of all, it's just so so so much shorter.

season one looks like it's gonna cover all the way up to loguetown, which was original a little over 100 chapters and 50 episodes, in about ten episodes. that's a lot to cover, and while they're gonna have to cut a lot of stuff, i'm so curious how they'll condense and change the story.

(it makes me wonder, with oda working with them, if it'll resemble oda's original plan for the story, which was gonna be much shorter than it ended up being. though, we won't know that unless oda says something).

it's just going to be so different than the original one piece, and that makes me really excited, cuz it'll kind of be like watching one piece for the first time again.

needless to say, i'll be ready to burst into tears

#one piece #one piece live action #opla #i mentioned this before but it also seems like it's gonna be much more grounded and realistic which will be very interesting #like theyre obviously still including a lot of the wacky stuff #but there were scenes of the crew actually sailing the boat which we don't get a lot of in the original series #and as a ship enthusiast i am very excited for that #my stuff #god i just hope netflix actually commits to adapting the whole thing. or even just the pre-time skip stuff #if they cancel before we get to franky and brook i will be SO upset

[pagansphinx]

John Collier (British,1850-1934) • Pomps and Vanities • 1917

#art #painting #fine art #art history #women in paintings #portrait #paintings of women #british artist #pre raphaelite style #painter #early 20th century british art #beauty #pagan sphinx art blog #art blog #art appreciation #artwork #art enthusiasts

[emptyportrait]

Maekar's children are so funny like what do you mean Daeron the Drunken, Aerion Brightflame, maester Aemon and Aegon the Unlikely are literally brothers cause they all are at opposite ends of the spectrum!!

#they've a insane af fusion #a dragon dreamer with a wildfire enthusiast and there's courteous aemon and of course egg!! #love love love this dysfunctional family so much :) #house targaryen #pre asoiaf #maekar targaryen #daeron the drunken #aerion brightflame #maester aemon #aegon the unlikely #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf

[scalproie]

oooh my god there he is. thats my guy. hes spunky. hes cold. hes charming. hes ruthless. he has the range. there he is.

#WHATS WITH THIS MANGA??? I DONT EVEN KNOW 100% WHATS GOING BUT ITS FAIRLY SIMPLE TO GUESS WITH CONTEXT CLUES AND??? #THIS IS SUCH A GOOD TAKE ON PRE-T1 KAZ??? LOOK AT THIS 26 FUTURE PATRICIDE ENTHUSIAST #tagging later #also whyd they drew him so h

[charlie-pippin-faraday]

If House of Anubis had taken place like ~5 years later than it actually did I just KNOW that Joy and Amber would've been SUPER into K-pop and they would've argued viciously about who they stan and bias all the time, possibly descending the house into an all-out war at some point

#come on you know they would've loved k-pop #and they would've feuded and made the house a battlefield in the pre-sibuna days #alfie and fabian and mara start to fear for their lives at house meals #fabian gets overwhelmed and scared #they each keep trying to pull him to their side #at first alfie just enthusiastically goes along with whatever amber says #but then he eventually gets into it and starts forming his own opinions #mara enjoys the music but cannot bring herself into the drama #like fabian she doesn't like that it's starting a bunch of fights in the house #patricia and mick stay the hell out of it #patricia bc she thinks it's stupid and mick bc he's clueless and simply doesn't care #jerome is so fucking confused about all these details and lingo and drama he doesn't understand #and he doesn't much like the music either #and while he thinks it's dumb his confusion eventually clears enough for him to be able to use it to his advantage #to manipulate joy and amber with frightening ease #'hey amber i heard joy say that she stans [insert kpop member here]' #*cue outrage and a loud yelling match for the next few hours* #house of anubis #amber millington #joy mercer

[bragganhyl]

I...just had a terrible realization

I want to showcase it so you too suffer with me but also don't, hold on I'm gonna do it

#hablaty #i was looking through my blog for a post and i ran into that time i was messing around with that anime filter thing with pillars characters #and just uhhh let me just pre-emptively apologize to gale enthusiasts i'm really sorry

[inksandpensblog]

Send me asks about my AUs to answer when I get home from work 👀

#animator vs animation #animation vs minecraft #avm shorts #ava shorts #bug!Purple AU #NGD!verse #Rocket killed Gold AU #gladiator AU #pre-AvA6 AU Victim #ava enthusiasts

[borderlandspolls]

🎶 New poll tiiiiiimeeeeeee 🎶

This month’s poll will be!! *drumroll*

#And yet another poll!! #really enthusiastic to see the results 👀 #for those confused on AxEllie i’m like 90% sure they dated at least once #Oh but Mars you forgot Aurelia and Tro- #No I fucking didn’t #I simply elected that it was way too trash for me to add #Aurelia and Troy shippers dni 🥰 #/srs #but anyways let’s see how this poll goes!! #borderlands #borderlands poll #borderlands 1 #borderlands 2 #borderlands the pre sequel #borderlands 3 #tales from the borderlands

[puhpandas]

Did you hear about how recently it was revealed that Gregory is actually Scott’s favorite. That gives me a lot of hope for the future of his character.

WHAT? WHERE? wtf thats awesome. gives me hope theyll focus more on the cooler aspects of his character like ggy/the no man left behind doing whats right for the greater good. im not surprised that gregory is scotts favorite in that he has a similar/the same role michael afton did as the tragic hero. but i AM suprised that if you mean in all of fnaf and not just SW era, gregory is his favorite OVER michael?? thats insane

#i would love a source #if its true thats so awesome for us gregory enthusiasts #gives me hope #pandas.txt #gregory is always the favorite damn #lmao #i hope this means theyll want to focus on him in HW2 #ahem ahem ggy prequel #very much needed for gregory and also more insight on the glitchtrap content massacre #pandas talks #pandas asks #thoughts #gregory #pre help wanted 2

[morethanwonderful]

One of the things I think of a lot with regards to John is—why didn't he have any friends in his real life?

None of the beta kids ever seem to mention having irl friends that they miss in the aftermath of the apocalypse. And yeah, they've got a lot of other stuff going on, and it's not really in the narrative's nature to bring up people not somehow involved with sburb, but on a watsonian level, if any of them had other friends that died in sburb's aftermath, you'd think they'd say something about that grief at some point.

It's relatively easy to explain away the other beta kids' friendlessness. Jade lives alone on an island, Dave is Dave (raised in an extremely weird way that does not make him well-suited for regular life), and Rose's mom is strange and rich enough that Rose probably goes to some shitty private school or has an online tutor or something.

But John is such a public school-type kid through and through. He's just some guy. But the more I think about him, the more I'm thinking about why he must not have any friends. He canonically spends most of his time online.

He's into (poorly) coding, shitty movies, online games, and magic tricks, none of which are a particular recipe for popularity—especially not as a twelve year old in 2009. He also has a peanut allergy.

Unfortunately, that's also probably a social strike against him. Schools are historically really bad at dealing with kids with severe allergies. There's decent odds John was eating alone and isolated at an "allergy table."

Overall, he's kind of made for being a run of the mill social outcast. He's not Dave levels of weird, and he might not be horribly bullied, but he absolutely strikes me as the few to no friends sort in a really painfully mundane way. He's just some dweeb. He's painfully sincere and enthusiastic most of the time, yet clearly has some self-hatred issues deep down that he doesn't like to think about.

He likes unpopular things and lives his life online. And pre sburb, at least his online life seems happy! He has good friends! But I can't help but wonder what his hours not at his computer screen were like. It's hard being twelve years old and goofy and awkward and friendless.

All those deeply repressed internalized thoughts about how lame he is have to come from somewhere, y'know?

#john shines SO bright and is SO enthusiastic most of the time. aggressively so #he loves what he loves. and yet #lame kid. clowns. etc #it really makes me think about how those ideas end up in his head and what his school life must be like #and the peanut allergy on top of his interests—perfect unpopular nerd cocktail unfortunately #like John is the least angsty character in a lot of ways. esp pre-sburb john #he doesn't have a crazy horrible life like a lot of his friends #but the mundane relatability makes the struggles he does have all the worse y'know? #sorry I did warn y'all I was going to be losing it over John during this reread #homestuck #john egbert #homestuckposting #english major hours #andie rereads homestuck #and yeah I know that dave comic I linked is just a fanwork #but it rings SO real and true for me #it's canon in my heart and completely aligns with canon as far as I know #long post #ID in alt text #homestuck 72 #<<it's about multiple pages but the allergy page is what prompted this

[meowmeowmessi]

fab confirming pep tried to poach balde and yamal ooooh that man truly is the filthiest of rats

#'i would never try to steal messi from barça they're the club of my life they need him 🥺🥺🥺' to this loool kys you mentally ill fraud #'but but he's a culer 🥺🥺🥺' #that man is a known catalan poetry enthusiast spinning pretty words and paying lip service is practically his bread n butter #atp not even his fault citylona stans living vicariously through his success fall for the act. wake up he secretly hates you!!! #he is not the man he was pre oilcity you need to accept that there's a demon inhabiting his skinsuit now #the old pep can't come to the phone rn bc he's dead !

[yellourr]

and if I said that outta of the four, phoebe was the one who consistently had the best (and best looking) love interests

#[ ♛ ] ─── 𝘽𝙀𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙎 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃𝙀𝙎 #charmed #I’m iffy on cole- we have a love hate relationship but he was good pre s5 #jason was probably her best and they should’ve stuck it out to the end of the series #drake (my favourite) only lasted a few episodes #I’m a coop enthusiast but they needed more time together before declaring them to be true loves #miles was a rebound love interest- he was only made to die #leslie and dex practically don’t exist to me but they were pretty on screen😁

[lemongogo]

i love drawing uzui in this pose AHAH

#uzui #kny #lg doodles #i KNOWWW HIS DESIGN IS WRONGGGG but idc. IDKNT CAREEE #originally gna draw him like . pre rld and thn i was like augh no.ilove his hair down n shit .but then ididnt want to redraw his head n i #love his headband / beads.but i also wnted his EYEPATCH!!!!!!!. minus gems tho bc his headband #<--- prime uzui enthusiast who catalouges every little detail n commits it 2 memory #i was trying 2 draw misa n nothing came of it so he saved my night thank u<3 #i stiil need to wat h the last episode AHDAHAH i dont want to.sobs ccries. uzui season lives 4ever in my mind

[swampstew]

OOO I hope you like JJK!

Thanks Momo! I've literally only ever heard good things about it so I'm sure I will. I know certain characters and certain traits but only from context clues so I'm excited to get the whole idea. Plus I can finally understand everyone's fascination with Gojo, something I only superficially appreciate when I looked up his character design when I was commissioned to make my friend press on nails a few years back :)

#raven answers #momokujo #jjk pre-enthusiast #i also feel like ill really like sukuna #my curse - loving red heads