#so many pawns

[swan-orpheus]

Love the big reveal on Level 8 when Kino and Cassian open the doors pull back the curtain to reveal the great and powerful Oz  the prison warden who commands everyone every day on the loudspeaker with a mechanized voice and he is... Just Some Guy. 

The voice of fear itself is some random Imperial dude. One of a set who switch out according to shift. He’s nothing special. He’s not even as proud as Mr. Nasty, the guard who first greets them in Ep. 8. He is just there. Working the console. And when a greater authority enters the room, he just cedes the power that he never truly had, as he was programmed to do. “On program” indeed.

The levels of artifice in all of this and what it says about performance, of playing a massive game built on strategy but also chance, who people are behind their comms, their messengers, their radio transmissions, their clothes, their jobs, their smiles, their masks, and the extreme thought being put into it is , as usual, blowing my mind. 

#star wars #andor #andor spoilers #andor meta #one way out #andor episode 10 #how many levels does Jung descend #to meet Luthen #and what is the symbolism there #what does it matter if Jung sees his face #it's another lie #so many pawns #on both sides

[deltamb3r]

Many people draw their Narinders with too much rizz (and that's a good thing)

Look how many handsome cats there are in the community, and these are just some of my favourite designs.

All these belong to their respective artists:

@kagamineriri , @lammydraws , @cotl-flower-crown , @iota404, @by-glass-and-waves , @lilpuffyart , @bamsara , @derpyjackarts , @huskyremix , @cotl-inspiteofyou , @thenovaartz , @midluuna , @bunnyiebon , @payasita , @dulciechi , @xmajordumps , @faery-the-diamond , @verysubarashi , @poppy-purpura , @skykiuwu

psst: If you dislike being tagged, sorry in advance, please let me know so I can fix it

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl au #narinder #narinder cotl #cotl gang au #lammy timeline au #cotl RoDAU #cotl 19th century au #the lamb and the cat prophecy au #coffee shop au #the rehabilitation of death au #cotl in spite of you #mercy gone wrong #black cat's pawn au #reborn baby bishops au #sotl #hime au #god that's so many tags #hope you like it! ^^

[newgroundstier]

i am once again missing niklaus hendrix [NARRATOR VOICE: SHE HAS NEVER LEFT THIS STATE]

#niklaus hendrix #jrwi #MISTEW HENDRIX UR PAWN IS DYING OF THE HORRORS CAN U STOP EATING POPCORN AND INTERVENE #gillion already used his get out of jail free (literally) niklaus card. abandoned his ass #also it wasnt a get out of jail free card there was a price. he wasnt the one that paid it though so maybe it is free #i dont ac2ally want him 2 intervene itd b pretty low stakes if nik just bailed gillion out all th time bc he owes him. But I Want To See Hi #so i certainly wouldnt complain if he Did intervene. ........................ #also guardian angel with a demonic design is a humourous concept #i typed too many words

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i have never felt this uniquely insane about a character <3 i cant get a read on him

#what is his DEAL #im usually really good at pegging a character's intentions / general vibe #BUT IM GETTING SO MANY MIXED SIGNALS THAT I JUST DONT KNOW #his off the charts rizz is fucking up my geiger counter #is he evil? is he a victim? a pawn/minion? does he have good intentions? neutral ones? bad ones? #I CANT TELL #welcome home #wally darling #i mean im team 'wally is a victim just trying to help / protect his friends (maybe the 'viewer')' #and home is maybe the main villian but also not bc the villain is the abstract force of cosmic horror manifesting as the chasm under home #and it has simply infected home or possessed it #and welcome home's whole deal is cosmic horror from a puppet's perspective #and they all need to stick together like glue to get through the Ordeals and Situations #and wally's just trying to keep his friends safe and the neighborhood together and fix home #BUT if it turns out wally is straight up evil then. yknow. i support his wrongs <3 #he could do literally anything and id be twirling my hair cheering and clapping #i love his big hair and gay little outfit #ever since i watched night minds video he hasnt left my brain. i think he's eating it #like i want him dead. i want him to be happy. i want to beat his little body against a wall until his stuffing comes out. i want to hug him #he is everything to me. he activates my maiming instincts but also my cherish instincts #i want him to get all the hugs from his friends #god i cant wait for this whole enchilada to kick off its gonna be a DOOZY #i trust clown's brilliant mind no matter which way they take this #absolutely fascinating stuff. i already know im in this for the long haul

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

#canada #so much of our infrastructure and critical construction such as housing #has been pawned off for decades to private companies #and i forgot to mention one (1) family owns the bridge that is a major international corridor between canada and the us #which is apparently fine even though they fought tooth and nail to stop a bridge they don't own from being built #like our housing crisis can be traced back to the government deciding to stop building public housing in the 90s #because they figured private developers would pick up the slack #affordable apartments don't bring in much money so we got decades of cheap-ass 'luxury condos' instead #and once airbnb became a thing we got entire buildings with units <300sqft #and of course when the party in charge rotates between conservatives and neolibs nothing changes and that can gets kicked down the road #and keeps getting kicked until something collapses and they see the chance to fully privatize an industry #something similar is happening to our healthcare system too #it has been left to languish for years/decades with funding freezes and cuts #and private companies are quick to jump in and get the government stamp of approval to do [thing] that the public system clearly can't do #when [thing] would absolutely be possible if it was actually funded and/or staffed #so many communities were cut off when greyhound closed up shop because there's no government inter-city transportation #we lost internet/banking/cell service/etc nation-wide because one of the big three decided to push an update to live without redundancies #and it bugged and took the entire company's network down #even the government agency that demands major companies have a backup on a different network was taken down because they ignored that #and they got a deal if they kept their backup with rogers while their main network was also rogers #so they couldn't even make an emergency statement or anything about it #half my province also lost all digital infrastructure because it's a private company and making a redundancy line would mean smaller bonuse #it's just so bad #joke all you want about how canada is nice and friendly #but you are wrong and it's hell if you actually live here #the only reason canada is seen as nice is because it's hard to not seem like the better option when the us is your neighbour #and because of decades of pr work to make canada seem friendly and nice and not at all problematic #in some countries you actually have to try to hide you're canadian because of how much we colonize and the damage we do to other countries #yes these tags have derailed from the post but ugh #i take major issue with people who insist canada is nice and has never done anything wrong

[pawnguild]

dd2 pawn swap, 1/?

trying to sketch pawns from the dd2 pawn swap! it might take a while, but hopefully i can get everyone eventually :)

featuring:

hes & niko (me 🙈) / avraham (@bardistraee) / fe'gahl (@thehappiestgolucky) / galapagos (@kuruna) / kassandra (@muralikesgames) / seresa (@themanwhomadeamonster)

#dragon's dogma #dragon's dogma 2 #dd2 #my art #tumblr pawn swap #dd2 hesperos #dd2 nikos #others' ocs #bonus niko bc i love my boy sorry #technically he was my ddda pawn sooo... he fits in 🙈 #anyways i always forget to take enough ref shots 🤡 all this power (photo mode) and i squander it #there are so many to do but this is a fun challenge #and i'm sketching these between other things so it'll take some time but stg. i WILL draw everyone. #(god help me if any names are misspelled bc i checked so many times...)

[raayllum]

And my favourite - the human mage, already tainted by darkness, and destined to play right into my hands. / Seems to me love's got a tighter grip on you than those chains round your wrists. So I'll do you a favour and set you free. / They said that, sometimes, we make sacrifices so that the ones we love don’t have to. It’s part of protecting them—part of protecting you. Taking on hard choices and going to dark places is an act of love. It’s a gift. So, please let me give you this gift, Callum. Stay safe, and stay in the light. / In the name of love, you may perform acts so unforgivable... you can never forgive yourself.

#i cried making this post lmao #pawns #i would do anything for you #tests of love #morally ambiguous fam #personal fave #in the name of love #screencaps #parallels #so many motifs all converging so beautifully #s5 #arc 2 #multi #s4 #LIKE THIS IS THE THEME I WANTED BRO #it was just red #clauderry #rayllum #caylangst #snake boi callum #tdp #the dragon prince #4x03 #5x02 #5x03 #5x08

[cadoodledoodleydoo]

Both haunted & holy. @amevello-blue and @alicat54c are back at it again feeding me with even more found family turtles™️. If you haven't checked out Pawn's Gambit yet on AO3 you're sorely missing out. Please enjoy this slinky little baby. Bardi my love. What a perfect big brother 💕

#Pawns Gambit TMNT #tmnt #tmnt au #rise of tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise tmnt fanart #Pawns Gambit TMNT Fanart #digital art #tw blood #blood #gore #blood splatter #yall i have too many fanfic tabs open #you cant keep doing this to me #but also please dont stop #im so hyped for this story #yall are so talented and inspire me to create!! #thank you for sharing your creativity and love for these turtles with us!! <3

[mdverse]

On a gless kick rn apparently? Warblers lineup for bella and that one person who asked

#my art #digital art #fan art #art #glee #gless #gleesource #the warblers #hunter clarington #sebastian smythe #can't be bothered to tag the others but they're there #genuinely never expected to draw the warblers again after that one klaine drawing but?? here they are I guess? #not enough named warblers to include the pawns but it's ok the pawns can have closed helmets anyway #so many feelings about this art but very few of them are positive #the most exciting part of gless now will in fact become making art of the nds absolutely wrecking the warblers i think? #gonna get real fucking nerdy about chess

[hungerpunch]

i've thought a lot about it and i have concluded that parents just shouldn't Be Like That about their kids doing sports, you know?

#this post brought to u by my inexplicable picking up of abby wambach's 2016 memoir #(who never even LOVED soccer btw?!?!?) #kids who grow up to view their bodies as transactional pawns and their pain & suffering as currency to buy love with #too many parents are too fucking intense about sports. please relax. god. that's a baby with an undeveloped brain be NICE to it! #yeah ur kid can love a sport. but you know what most of all? #most of all ur kid wants you. your love and your attention. #and what if ur kid DOESN'T love the sport they're just GOOD at it? #you need to reinforce that you will love your children even when they're not good at stuff so they don't end up committing their lives #to things they hate just to please you! #idk maybe we should just do something CRAZY like ban child athletics IDK i feel CRAZY about this!!! #i've just read too many stories about how parents ruin their child's life and destroy their sense of self with SPORT. ahhh!!! #i think all professional athletes are fucked up in an entirely preventable way!!!! #hear me out what if: if the sport cannot be performed past the age of 25-30 then it should be gutted and revamped #so that u can't START playing it professionally until that age! #and whatever it takes to make that feasible for 30+ SHOULD JUST BE DONE. #oh god i'm in a spiral about what we have been conditioned to expect athletes to do for our entertainment. #driveby post

[spider-man-2o99]

makes you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again makes  you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #vulture 2099 #marvel #comics #comic panels #something something idk man i justt enjoy these issues theyre Fun #whag do u want from me. the bungled potential is tantalizing when i Want to indulge in ripping and tearing into canon? #as i always say lmao vulture 2099 COULD be a really interesting character. like. the Potential's there #reinforces how Lucky mig was that he came from a life of having as many privileges as he had when he got mutated... and that nobody Saw It. #plus yknow. can also serve as a narrative Mirror for migs worst fears abt himself! what would YOU do if ur intrusive thoughts made manifest- #--called YOU a coward and a capitalist pawn 4 not wanting 2 kill and eat people . and all while wearing THOSE tassled PANTS.... #idk man just something real neat 2 me abt how vulture is the only villain mig kills On Purpose and even then he Runs b4 he hits the ground. #his anger burns out so Fast. he cant even like. make himself watch the Cannibal Gang Boss get turned into street pizza yknow #he feels worse about killing the VULTURE than he ever really did about killing the specialist because he actively CHOSE to do it this time #cutting the specialist's throat w/ his talons was just an Accident caused by him lashing out against an enemy determined 2 Kill Him y/k #yeah it still caused him a great amnt of Distress to accidentally Kill Someone but he does not spend any panels shedding tears over the guy. #but the vulture. the VULTURE stays on his mind for the next 30 issues AT LEAST...... #god this miserable little man. great power and greater guilt and responsibility both a burden and inherent.

[edgier-than-a-diamond]

🎇 Conall + Fire 🎇

Conall is @insufficientchill's lovely pawn from the Tumblr Pawn Swap!

+ bonus maelstrom

#i looove taking pictures of sorcerors casting meteoron haha #james got grabbed by a normal ogre... downsides of wearing charming corset... #might experiment with putting him in other outfits soon though. there's so many good ones #im never getting to endgame #dd2 #dragons dogma 2 #tumblr pawn swap #dragon's dogma 2

[little-tyrant-gortash]

You should kill them before they end up killing you. Be careful Gortash

"They are my ally. I will not kill them. And while your concern for my well-being is appreciated, I do not require it. With this in mind. Get out."

#Nonnie #Nonnie ask answered #|| Let's consider why Banites don't really kill - only if they don't have any other choice. #|| Ruling over others is much more useful for them. They're tyrants after all. Using assets to reach their goals is beneficial for them. #|| A dead person is not useful. #|| ...unless they prove to be a weak ally - in which case they're not useful so they're better off dead (us if we hand over the stones). #|| Or when they're just pawns and they've served their purpose (patriars). #|| Gortash's dynamic with the Bhaalspawn is full of mind games and tests. From both sides. #|| The Bhaalspawn had a test mission with Gortash and Gortash ''did miss this'' when he literally plays is fucked up mind games. #|| (He plays mind games with Tav too - demanding the stones and wanting them to refuse him. TWICE.) #|| ...I'd like to mention that I really found it interesting that despite the fact that as Tav we'd serve our purpose- #|| -in getting the stones - he doesn't WANT Tav and their group to be in the Accelerated Grand Design. #|| In one of his books in his office he recorded that he plans to find a place for us in his ''Golden Reign of Gortash''. #|| He wanted to keep Tav on his good side. As a strong ally who tells him no occasionally. A strong ally who rules with him. #|| He'd surely control them - but not completely. #|| ...just as he wanted to keep the Bhaalspawn alive and on his side. #|| Sigh. I have so many thoughts and feelings. 😩

[nova-reaper-universe]

I keep on thinking “who got evicted last night?” only to realize that nobody got evicted last night. It’s the beginning of the week.

#bb25 #so many switches #I don’t want Izzy or Felica to go #but I think Jared won’t use the veto #because of cam saying he would put cirie in as a pawn #btw screw cam

[cluescorner]

Some people: Kaeya’s bio father is an abusive monster who abandoned his son in order to achieve his own selfish goals. He is an evil man who deserves everything awful that might happen to him. 

Other people: Kaeya’s bio father did the right thing and leaving Kaeya in Mondstadt was the only way to give him a halfway-decent life. He is a better father than he is given credit for and should not be as hated as he is. 

Me: Kaeya’s bio father is integral to the general ‘war is hell and bad choices can reverberate across time’ thing that Genshin seems to be going for. He made unethical choices, but mostly because the ONLY OPTIONS HE HAD WERE UNETHICAL. If our understanding of the Alberich’s role in Khaenri’ah is accurate, General Alberich (my name for him until stated otherwise) was suddenly in charge of a hopeless and dead kingdom which begged to be saved. Assuming that there was a reason Kaeya specifically was chosen for this mission, General Alberich was forced into a position where he needed to choose between the lives/future of every Khaenri’an vs the life and future of his young son. Abandoning either is an awful thing to do and a horrible decision, but the bad decisions of Celestia and Rhinedottir have led to a scenario where General Alberich can only make bad decisions. In the end, he chose to prioritize his people and made his young son into a spy. We do not know the process for this, but knowing how much Hoyoverse loves to torment people (especially Khaenri’ans) we can assume that this process was horrific for Kaeya and could definitely be considered abuse. General Alberich is effectively making his son into a child soldier for a war that the majority of people never wanted or asked for, and one Kaeya was likely far too young to understand. At least, until he was forced to grow up far too quickly in order to fulfill his duty. General Alberich likely loathed everything about what was happening and even in his last moments with his son he asks for forgiveness. He knows that what he is doing is wrong, but to turn back now is to both abandon his subjects and make everything that happened to Kaeya in order to turn him into a child spy be for nothing. So yeah, General Alberich is a terrible person who made horrible choices. But war and the bad actions of others have created a situation where he has nothing BUT horrible choices and where being a terrible person is the only thing he can be. And that’s without considering how the curse/abyssal corruption could impact the scenario. 

#idk #I just think that Kaeya's father is kinda an Asgore situation #where the only decisions he could possibly make were awful and unethical ones but choosing neither would create an even worse outcome #also I want to clarify that both of the other interpretations that I parroted before giving my own thoughts are valid #because we are working with such limited information and yeah no shit people are gonna have differing thoughts #people have differing beliefs and perspectives on things which are CANONICALLY CONFIRMED to be clear situations with lots of info about it #so of course people are going to go in like 80 different directions with his character #BECAUSE WE HAVE NEXT TO NOTHING TO GO OFF OF #and basically every interpretation of him I've seen is pretty reasonable #Like yeah man's son is a child spy who was abandoned in a far away country for the purpose of being a spy for Khaenri'ah's interests #thinking that he was an abusive asshole isn't exactly unreasonable #nor is it unreasonable to believe that he was actually a decent man who left his son in Mondstadt as the 'only hope' of Khaenri'ah #because he just wanted Kaeya to live on and have a life outside of the Abyss #and Kaeya was mistaken when he thought he was simply being left behind as a pawn #Genshin is no stranger to unreliable narrators and this wouldn't be the first time a character story wildly mischaracterizes something #so like...both of those interpretations are valid #and pretty fair ones as well #But I think that it really is like an Asgore situation where yeah this guy sucks and he is an awful person who made so many bad choices #But also was left with nothing BUT bad choices through war and grief and other factors that were genuinely outside of his control #Sacrifice your son's childhood and happiness by forcing him to be a child spy and abandoning him in the middle of a deadly storm #or let your people (including yourself) rot away into nothingness while facing a fate worse than death while they all but scream to be saved #there are no good options #kaeya's father #don't take this too seriously I just really liked Undertale when I was younger and I'm getting Asgore vibes from General Alberich

[jaredthebc]

HI I REALIZED SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY ISN’T INTENTIONAL WHILE LOOKING AT N IMAGES ON GOOGLE

Does this sound familiar

again probably not intentional but OH MY GOD I WILL SEE IT AS SUCH UNLESS IT GETS DENIED I love the parallels of how the normal Pokemon traditions become so warped and sad when its in the context of N in particular

#natural harmonia gropius #n harmonia #n pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokemon bw #anipoke #pokemon #LIKE. SO MUCH OF N TURNS THE THEMES OF POKEMON FROM CHEERY TO TRAUMATIC #I still love how with N so much of what he strives to be without the context of plasma is pure heroic #like saving creatures from abuse would be seen so positively in other media #and it still IS shown as heroic but like. Its also signs of the brainwashing N went through #He was fed propaganda for so long. He was fed that people were the generic monsters and he had to quest to save them #its almost kinda like an old school anime setup. But instead of childhood wonder Pokemon itself gives to trainers #its instead tragic. Being so heavily sheltered before finally being let out to become the very best like no one ever was #but instead of being that just for fun and to bond. Its to be a pawn in a grand scheme #Theres so many parallels to N and every protagonist. Him leaving the castle was like the protagonist leaving the house at the start of games #even his HAT. THAT HAT IS SO SIMILAR TO MOST MALE PROTAGS #Had he been raised in different circumstances. Away from Plasma...I think he really would have been like one of the protags #of course speaking to Pokemon would impact that somewhat. But he still would have had a normal ish childhood #and even after everything. Hes allowed to recover. He is becoming the cheery protagonist he paralleled so long ago. Hes healing #Even with healing. He is using his experience to help others. He still holds some of his past views. #hes using what he learned with what he organically knows to his advantage and to continue his mission without Plasma manipulating him #sorry for the big tag ramble just....AUGH I LOVE N SO MUCH HIS STORY IS SO AMAMAZING #will forever love this dude and everything he stands for he means the world to me