#snap from the heart

[bryonyashaw]

𝘽𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙛𝙪𝙡 because no matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

𝘽𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 because if you start each day with a positive thought & a grateful heart.

𝘽𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 because no matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

𝘽𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 because you cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things.

𝘽𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙

Kindness is not what you do, but who you are.

#yourblendedfamily #tales from outdoors #visit Lincolnshire #earth focus #she is not lost #naked planet #adventureculture #folk scenery #off the beaten track #travelling our planet #water mirror #village uk #waterfall #simple and still #positive affirmation #best of england #quiet in the wild #snap from the heart #hike further #lake life #country life #walking #your community hubs #our seasonal stories #lincolnshire family #summer time #summer #greenery #outdoor kids #this delightful life

[mortispoxi]

Seeing Twitter users recommending the People Make Games documentary as a good way to get insight on the issue is so….

I know, I’m always extremely disappointed whenever I come across someone who thinks it’s the end all be all explanations regarding the Studio ZA/UM situation.

Recommending that video always comes with a heavy caveat from me that the person needs to stop around the 40 minute mark since the interviewer shows a very clear bias that’s unbecoming of a journalist.

Regardless, now that more people are finding out about these layoffs, which might take out members of the studio that have been there since the beginning, it could finally help smack some sense into those Twitter users that actually thought, FOR SOME REASON, Rostov, Kurvitz, and Hindpere were lying for shits and giggles rather than seeing what's ACTUALLY going on which is that the investors have a very obvious agenda against the real wronged party. Hopefully this'll also open their eyes to how the People Make Games video fed into this twisted narrative that Kurvitz was somehow at fault/responsible for the theft of his own IP, but that might be asking too much from their concrete brains. Here's hoping though!

#disco elysium #studio za/um #za/um #people make games #and I’m not even getting into Bratt’s response to the criticism he got #this man deleted so many YouTube comments that pointed out the inconsistencies and bias #it’s such a reddit conspiracy theory but at the time I briefly thought Kompus paid him off to push the narrative in his favor #now I’ve talked about this before in a post from almost a year ago #but i truly believe Bratt’s heart was initially in the right place but let his anger cloud his judgement #after kurvitz rightfully denied him a way to wrap up his video in a neat little bow cause he knew the studio would use his words against hi #something in Bratt must've snapped cause all the blame got pushed on Kurvitz for no reason other than he felt slighted by his response #it's kinda tainted PMG's work for me b/c moving forward I'll have doubt if the story truly is being accurately reported #my response #mp

[bonefall]

do you have any plans for snaptooth or flywhisker, ever since I saw that fake map I've fallen in love w flywhisker lmao

You know, for the longest time I've been planning to have Snaptooth and Flywhisker be adopted kits of Toadstep and Lionblaze, but I'm writing an SE rework for Nightcloud right now and I have a temptation.

I found a good moment to send off Snapstorm, the best friend of Brushblaze, as a complication of a boar hunt gone wrong. It's right around the time that Brushblaze's kits are being born, and something feels odd about the fact he didn't name any of his kits after someone who was by his side for his entire life. SO I'm thinking about shuffling Snaptooth over to HIS litter.

Which leaves Flywhisker over in ThunderClan.

Lionblaze is the adopted father of Dovewing and Ivypool... and his terrible parenting caused Dovewing to leave ThunderClan, and Ivypool to be permanently traumatized. He breaks up his false mateship with Cinderheart to go be with the cat he really loves, Toadstep, and Flywhisker is adopted after being found abandoned.

Lionblaze's destruction of the ThunderClan family tree has been undone; so now he would only have three children. Ivy, Dove, and Fly. I like it, because Fly is growing up with all the expectations of being Firekin, but also holding the knowledge that her loving father... wasn't always the best, to her older sisters.

It would be cool if Fly was always a little bit of a rebel, and found a really good friend in WindClan. I could work her into the conflict of TBC better too, being accused of being in a HalfClan relationship when the truth is that Snaptooth is more like a brother to her. Then, of course, have them leave the Clans together.

Brushblaze's litter would be Snaptooth, Smokehaze, and Galerunner... and so, Galerunner would be left alone after his brother leaves permanently with Flywhisker.

But I'm still unsure. It's a big change, because I'd been planning for Fly and Snap to remain siblings in BB. But it does seem to work better, thinking about it...

#Especially since I didn't need BOTH Snap and Fly in that role #Fly can do everything with Twig and have all the complicated feelings all on her own #and something seems very painful about the idea that Lion put his heart and soul into spoiling his youngest daughter #desperate to make up for what he did to dove and ivy #...Only for him to be unable to save her from the Impostor's treatment. #Since he himself is a target for being halfclan #For Fly he did nothing wrong. He tried so hard. He thought he had improved and he did #and it wasn't enough... #And TOADSTEP meanwhile is going to be fucking PISSSSEDDDD #Because Thorn is dead. Spiderleg is taking his roles #And SPIDERLEG is who was causing the troubles that ultimately caused Fly to decide that she was going to leave with Snap #Once again his shitty dad is taking everything from him #Something about this feels like it works Better for Fly to be targeted by the imposter and also the only member of her litter #better bones au #BB!TBC #BB!Flywhisker #BB!Snaptooth

[warriormoustache]

Got my first shrimp goby pair last week and this is my impression of them so far.

#Art #Fish #Fishblr #Fish art #My art #The fish is fine btw just a coward #Though I do think he might have gotten a small concussion from his two escape attempts #Jumped out of the tank literally at one in the morning and then an hour later at two in the morning it was a miracle I was awake during this #I have since covered the food holes in the lid with heavy objects #It gave me a heart attack on day two cuz I thought it was dead #I even poked it with a stick and it didn’t react at all #Luckily I left it in there and it was up and going about six hours later and has since been behaving normally #It is eating tho which is a good sign #Tested my paremetres and there’s nothing wrong with the water so ╮(╯_╰)╭ #Shrimp is delightful to watch #She explores the tank a lot and is super cute #Idk what the sex of the fish is but I’m pretty confident that the shrimp is a girl #Has snapped once and I was unprepared for how loud they actually are in person #The fish cuddles the shrimp with its tail and they’re super cute #They gave me a stress for a few days but everything’s stable now so #10/10 aquarium pets #Aquarium stuff

[oatbugs]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

#he keeps falling asleep almost on my shoulder and waking up and readjusting but i want to tell him its ok weve seen a lot #of each other ive seen your brainwaves you called me crying a few nights ago. research partner right now is a potentiality #friend is a certainty. i met a banker passionate about finance. he said his advice made the lives of others better and he likes the numbers #more than he likes anything else. on a high rise near canary wharf the view was wonderful and the people even moreso #he said i loved her but i spent 33 grand on her and i cant do this anymore. his voice cracked talking about her. he did love her. #and she talked softly she grabbed my hand she bought me a pack of Marlborough gold she told me to snap #the russian menthol cigarettes of the tortured polish man near us with my teeth i kept staring at her teeth #bright white and sharp. i couldnt find her heartbeat but i did find warmth and i did find her lips and i did feel #how she felt pressed against a wall. a pretty boy held my hand and i gave him my number. i couldnt stop smiling about her no matter #how many runways youve walked on how many collections youve designed how many students youve taught. senior lecturer teaches me how to do #very unethical things ethically over a double shot of vodka made by the half-persian with broken farsi. she talks softly #and she says her eyes are hazel but they appear a shade of red. pure gold on her hands and leather on her back and her fingers on my lips #(she talks softly sees through me she says something i cant hear but i wont forget the way she flies) she talked to my research partner #about the possibility of moving to sunny dubai with the rest of her family and my heart felt pierced. on her arm i traces a tattoo of a #knife passing through a rose. she told me she thought there was romance in severing so i kissed her some more. #he sat me down and asked me what i loved and i told him and he said no romance no person no tragedy will take that from you. #the room was filled with a collection of people in love with something that wasnt a person and i kept looking at her. #red eyes bitten jawline beautiful hands. it is 3 degrees Celsius my head is on his shoulder i miss my friends #we walked out the lecture hall with arms linked a photo of two years ago and we both said #jesus christ. i miss you all. and i miss logic metatheory lectures. im glad i get to stare at the depth of your eyes #i wish i had met you years ago. #crushposting

[mushroom-winners-proof]

you know nothing you understand nothing etc etc

#kh #kh1 #khi #kingdom hearts #kingdom i #kingdom hearts 1 #ansem #ansem seeker of darkness #snap sketches #not the triple art post today #pparently im just in a doodlin mood #i have a file for another drawing just titled 'i'll do this tomorrow' and it been there since last night #LOOKS LIKE IT AINT GETTIN DONE 'TOMORROW' #naw im lyin ill work on it after i post this. maybe. #but for now Ansem cause it been a long while since i drew him #i dont mean to use the same shadow three times in a row but its a favorite of mine leave me alone </3 #also it just fits the past three ones now donit #but oh well thats all the art from me for the nexttttt #month ??? who knows when i draw kh again i surely dont

[anxiously-sidequesting]

**slips and slides into the room with socks on and breaks the wooden table as i fall down on the floor in a haste** so anyways i actually just scared myself because i thought of exactly how deep Malorn's and Malistaire's parallels went. like in post-updated tutorial malistaire was said to have been kind and caring towards his students right. just like malorn right. just like malorn, right? isn't that just like malorn? hey everyone doesn't that sound just like malorn? kind and cares for his students? 'kind' and 'caring' are certainly two adjectives that describe malorn arent they huh? (is slowly sinking in quicksand as i desperately reach out to you as i say this) so if we are to say that malorn and malistaire are two sides of the same coin then what is truly stopping malorn from having one traumatic event from shaping the rest of his life into a descent of madness, grief, and isolation? Guys tell me what the difference is between this reality and an Evil Malorn AU guys? guys hello? hello guys? **(the quicksand has actually transported me to the Backrooms now, no one can hear me call out in distress)**

#not to say that malorn is the exact same as malistaire and would have the ecact same visceral reactions malistaire once did btw #like this isnt me expecting him to become The Joker one day but like can yoy guya think about. can you guys think about- #just how easy it is. for a well adjusted sane person to become the opposite of that. didnt the vampire guy from bdg3 say smth like this #im literally trying to find a serious way to say joker's incredibly memeable “one bad day” speech IEJSHSSJ #what's malorn's switch. what's his very last thread that he's hanging on #what THE FUCK MAKES MALORN SNAP?????? (grabbing at your shirt in a panic) #thinking about malorn of all people suffering malistaire's same fate much less trauma in general hurts my heart dearly. he is fictional #i should not be upset over fictionals. (<- she said insincerely. very much being upset over fictional characters) #malorn has certainly CHANGED from his experiences (in my fantasy la la land) but at most he's resentful and angry. jaded. but not in crisis #evil malorn au....... #wizard101 #wiz101 #w101 #text posts #malorn ashthorn #malistaire drake

[thelemonsnek]

au where volo works at walmart :) initially conceptualized by @curiositykilledtheradiostar

[image id: a series of drawings depicting Volo from pokemon legends arceus as a walmart employee. In each drawing he wears his usual yellow and blue cap, now with the walmart spark on the front, a yellow tshirt, blue vest, and blue jeans. In the first drawing, he's bent forward slightly, an expression of extreme anger/frustration/murder on his face as he clutches his box cutter so hard it shakes. Next to it, text says: "team lead just asked him to run all of housewares + domestics alone". There is an asterisk next to "team lead" which at the bottom elaborates, "nice corporate name for boss". In the second and third drawings, it shows Volo overly happily waving to a customer, saying very cheerfully, "thank you for shopping at pokemart!" In the next drawing, his entire demeanor changes, his hand falling down and his face going completely flat. He looks very tired and annoyed with the customer. In the final drawing, he stands holding a box outstretched away from himself, visibly disgusted with it. The box is dripping some sort of awful green goo. He holds his other hand out in front of him, flicking off great globs of that awful green goo from his hand. His jeans are noticeably dirty, and text reads, "4th spill of the night". End id.]

#art #my art #digital art #lemon yemon #pokemon #pokemon volo #it can be interpreted either way but in my heart i need you to know that in this au hes from the future and was arceus's first attempt at #fixing things in hisui #so he worked at walmart. then came to hisui and worked in retail AGAIN #as a walmart employee myself. i too would fully snap and try to restart the world if placed into that situation #and btw theres a WHOLE THING with arceus deciding that volo just wasnt working out as the savior of hisui #its verrry fun #(not for him it isnt but for me it is :) )

[todayisafridaynight]

and if i say hehe

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza 7 #yakuza like a dragon #arasawa #masumi arakawa #jo sawashiro #snap sketches #this the sauciest we're getting i QUIT #the one rare occurrence where im having jo be smooth for once. he aint even smooth he screamin on the inside trust me #this is a shitpost in my heart but i also had to sleep before finishing it. #i said id have this done at 4AM and it is 8:36AM WHAT HAPPENED #im getting slower..... this had no reason to take up so much time that i had to force myself awaY BYE #WHATEVER. i dont have anything else to say. probably. #im gonna do a comm after i take a lil break cause I Expected To Have This Done Last Night/This Ass-Crack-Of-Dawn Morning #then when i finish THAT i'll probably take a break from drawing for the day #This the thing i was struggling to draw the other day. btw. for some reason ???????? brain was broken plain and simple #ok bye bye it's my break time if parts of this look wonky or w/e i do not care we're MOVING ON

[pimsri]

I'll see you again when the stars are mine

#heart broken about them again #specifically about how mittermeyer tried to tell reinhard to stop and reinhard snapped at him #Oh the hope in hopelessness born from grief #siegrein #logh #legend of the galactic heroes #siegfried kircheis #reinhard von lohengramm #pimsriart #pimsriart2023

[we-love-morioh-cho]

Screaming crying throwing up - Barbara Ann gets to appear on screen and be a character and interact with her children?!?!?! This is all I've ever wanted!!! (praying she isn't just the oblivious and 'dumb' mum character who is a plot device for the Jojo)

#we win. we fucking win. #reading the jojolands #mine #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #gif #art #the jojolands #barbara ann joestar #I also hope her absence from the jojolion family tree is explained but I know in my heart of hearts that is not fucking happening #I get why jodio was a bit short with her but this better not be the blueprint of their interactions or I will do something drastic #let her be a character! let her have a nice relationship with her children! let her have a story! #if she is just used for jokes about silly oblivious mothers and women I will snap #......god it is still crazy to me that I get to read a part in real time as it releases #this is so much fun and I'm so glad I get to have this experience at least once with jojo #I regret not reading jojolion sooner because I know following it would've been crazy but at least I get part 9 :')

[ainosgarden]

conversation-ending etc etc...

#succession #shiv roy #roman roy #kendall roy #fanart #not me drawing the roy kids laughing from their hearts #at their father's verbal abuse #bc the saddest thing is that logan's right #they just said the biggest number #they don't have the money #they were just putting half a bil on top of half a bil #and desperately trying to hurt their dad #and petting each other on their backs when he snapped #if they weren't together they'd be so scared #my

[oxbowreality]

I'm transferring my files to a new computer and I found a whole bunch of unfinished fics from my Mechs phase and I think I might finish and post the ones that are nearly finished. Just reading some of them gave me such a swell of emotion that I really do want to see if I can finish them.

Most of the files I have are unfinished Mechstober 2020 fics, so you can see how long it's been.

#oxbow.txt #The Mechanisms #'why are you—' my old laptop is currently threatening to snap in half #which would sever the connection between the screen and the rest of the machine rendering it useless #anyway if you remember me from the Mechscord 2.0 I'm the guy behind No Heart To Break and not much else #some of these fics link to some old fan theories I'd posted back then #some of those fan theories were copy/pasted into this folder if I was overly fond of them #I left the server years and years ago

[mushroom-winners-proof]

i forgot to inflict him upon everyone yesterday

#kh #kh bbs #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts birth by sleep #terra #snap sketches #i meant to draw him yesterday i truly did but i got wrapped up in the terra plushy edit instead #anyway inspo from the fact i was on twitter and that Daily Terra account posted and i was inspired #my challenge for this one was to finish it before the spyro speedrun im watching is done #and im happy to say im done with it :) #i am forcing myself to be done with it :)) #do not TOUCH it anymore you freak it's FINE #*edits it a little more* OK ITS DONE NOW IM DONE IM HITTING POST

[sapphire-weapon]

My favourite thing ever is the way Ashley gets Leon to smile. Honest to god, his most sincere and genuine smiles are the ones he's given Ashley.

Now if she could just get him to laugh, that would be something completely unprecedented.

Sorry, it just occurred to me literally today that Leon never laughs -- even one time -- at any point in this series. Other protagonists, at the very least, laugh at how stupid a villain's plan is sometimes. Not this guy. Not our Leon. He's too dead inside. Bro doesn't even laugh at OG Salazar, who may as well have circus music playing in the background any time he's on screen. We stan a depressed king.

I was actually thinking about this a little last night -- again, in the context of the whole "Ashley is Leon's anchor to reality/his road back to himself" thing that I've talked about before, while also paired with the shitpost-but-not I made the other day about Leon's sense of self-worth and identity.

Leon drifts further and further away from himself as the series goes on, and not only does he not smile anymore, he becomes downright sullen. There was a time -- a significant period of time, actually -- where you could have said that one of Leon's defining traits was his optimism. That stops being true by the time of Damnation; Leon's optimism is replaced by hollow machismo in a poor attempt at a coping mechanism in that movie -- and, by the time of Vendetta, even the machismo has fallen to the wayside. By the age of 37, Leon has completely and utterly embraced the creeping sense of despair that's been hounding his steps for years.

That has never been who he was. But it's who he is now.

And, as soon as I had that thought, something occurred to me that I somehow had not noticed in the 18 years since RE4 OG has been out:

Ashley is a foil for Ada.

That wasn't her intended purpose when she was created, but it's the narrative role that she's come to inhabit as the series has gone on and Leon's character has progressed without her.

In OG canon, Leon thinks of Ada as a part of himself that he can't let go. But the longer he clings to her, the less of himself he becomes.

And the last person to actually see him as his true self, lifted up from the despair, and without hiding (fully) behind a veneer of machismo was Ashley -- someone he did let go. Even in OG, he is very genuine and very sincere with his affection for her (platonic or not) in a way he really isn't with anyone after RE4.

So, when you point out that his smiles for her are genuine, there's really something to that. He trusts Ashley with a piece of his heart that he doesn't show to anyone else post-RE2. Like, literally, the last person who probably saw him like that was Sherry, and we already know that Leon estranges himself from her almost completely after they're taken into CIA custody following RE2.

And the Remakes make this way more obvious than the OG games did, too -- not only because of the RE engine being great for facial expressions, but because of the way the script changes make certain parts of Leon's character more noticeable. If you go straight from RE2make to RE4make, the entire opening sequence involving the cops and the hunting lodge is absolutely horrifying. If I was a new fan coming in from RE2make to RE4make, I would be knocked on my ass and going "This is not my Leon. This is not the sweet boy that I know. What the fuck happened to him?"

RE4make does such a good job with sharply juxtaposing who Leon was with who he is now. By the time of RE4make, Leon is so beaten down and tired and closed off and angry and, honestly, scared -- that he almost kind of feels like a completely different character. Except, he's not a different character. He's still Leon -- just, Leon with his blinders ripped off and his heart broken.

And, we know that he's still Leon, because every once in a while, the sweet boy that we know comes back. It's infrequent, and it's only for a few moments, but he's still in there. And it always -- every single time -- is only ever Ashley that pulls it out of him.

And Ada? She forces him to retreat again immediately, and he locks himself back up tight.

So, when Ashley gets permanently erased from Leon's life and Ada becomes more of a permanent fixture in it, that sweet boy from RE2 disappears, and he's replaced entirely by the version of Leon that's heartbroken and angry all the time -- because Ada is a constant reminder of all that he's lost, whereas Ashley, as his only true success story, was a hopeful reminder of all that he could potentially be.

I honestly don't think that Capcom even realizes that this is how they've written Leon's character. I don't think it was intentional for Leon's smile to fade with Ashley's absence in his life.

But that's just kind of how it happened.

#resident evil 4 #leon kennedy #ashley graham #meta analysis #this one kind of hurt my heart ngl #i mean i love that leon suffers don't get me wrong #a happy character is a boring character #but goddamn man #can we give this guy a fucking break #can we get him some pussy that won't bum him the fuck out for once #will somebody please just be nice to him #and then fuck him so hard that he temporarily displaces from time and space #and when he snaps back into it he realizes how ridiculously hard he just came #and how stupid the look on his face probably was #and he just starts breathlessly laughing #CAN WE DO THIS FOR HIM PLEASE??? #CAPCOM??? #HELLO???

[dinitride-art]

It happens in a split second.

They’re running- they’re going to make it to the portal. It’s right there. They just need a little more time.

A sound thunders across the burning air and crashes like waves into the rocky ground. The dust swells up around them. Will hears Mike coughing as it tries to choke them both- filling their lungs and stealing what little air they keep.

It’s the fourth strike. They don’t have any time left. But they’re so close.

They’re so fucking close.

“Mike,” Will says, grabbing his hand. “We- we’ve got to go- c’mon- we can still make it.”

Mike looks at him and a calmness Will can’t place drags across his face.

“Yeah, we can make it. Let’s go.”

“Together.”

“Yeah. Together.”

And they’re running again, hand in hand pulling each other along when the rocks fall away into the growing chasms beneath their feel. They’re going to make it- Will reaches for the portal.

Mike lets go of his hand.

And he’s shoved through the portal.

For a moment, he sees Mike’s face, resigned to his fate, but looking at Will like he’s worth everything.

“I love you.”

And he’s gone.

Will hits the floor hard. There are people around him but he doesn’t care. He needs to get back- he needs to get back through- someone’s holding him back as he’s screaming. And screaming.

And screaming.

“Your okay, you got out. You got out, Will,” someone says.

Will begins to burn.

“No.”

“Yes, you got out. You’re right here,” someone else says.

Something spreads from his heart, painful and overwhelming and new.

“It’s not okay.”

Into his lungs.

“We know kid-.”

Down his spine.

“It’s not fucking okay!”

And into every vein, right into his fingertips.

“I’m not letting him die,” Will whispers.

There’s a hum in his chest and his head and his veins. He closes his eyes and lets himself feel it, deep into the core of his being.

His mom. Flashes and memories and warmth and more crayons than he can count. And more love than he can bear as she yells at doctors and does everything she can to keep him safe.

“Will- what’s happening?”

“Fuck!”

“Holy shit, holy fucking shit!-“

Jonathan and reassurances and safety and a conversation in the back of a pizzeria. His brother, who will always be his brother, no matter what.

He burns. And burns and burns.

“Will…”

Mike. On the swings, in the basement playing D&D with the party, holding his drawings to his chest and acting like they’re the most precious things in the world. Holding his hand even as a cruel being seeps into his mind.

Pulling him away from the cracks eating away at the ground. A hand in his.

Telling him he loves him, and not giving him a chance to say it back. Like there was a world that could ever exist that Will let him go that easy.

Will screams.

And this time, he’s going to make it count.

He steps towards the portal, opening again, reversing itself.

Giving them more time.

Mike is on the other side, wide eyed as a clawed hand reaches for him. Eyes rolling back and raising up from the ground.

Will steps through the portal. Flames flicker across his vision. He looks at Vecna.

“Don’t fucking touch him.”

And he burns.

———

Once again, Mike’s fine. I don’t know why I keep writing him in dangerous situation. It just feels… logical.

#byler #my writing #mike wheeler #will byers #don’t know where all this dramatic angst is coming from #and why it’s directed at mike nearly dying #and wills heart just snapping in half #as he obliterates the world around him #but it’s what’s on my mind aparently #whoops