#the horde are good guys!

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I want to write some stuff for this but am actively nodding off so y'all just get an info dump before I forget it instead. (My baby loftwing being all fluffed and happy on my chest is not helping me focus lol)

Anyway! Miphlink baby!

I think it would be pretty neat if he was hard of hearing. The mix of Hylian/Zora genes mostly goes fine, but that's the one thing that just gets him. Part of it is because Zora and Hylian ears are different - Zora ears are small openings hidden under the side fins on their heads, and we all know about Hylian ears. Zora rely on different hearing sensors when underwater, hollowed out structures in their heads that allow, essentially, for echolocation. Miphlink baby is born with Hylian ears tucked behind thinner side fins, no structures for echolocation, and not the best hearing. So Link and Mipha have to sign with him most of the time, though he does hear a little better underwater since sound travels better underwater.

While Mipha's color scheme for her scales is like crystla red and creamy white, baby's color scheme is a lighter shade of red paired with Link's skin tone. He doesn't have claws, either, but he does have sharp incisors. He's got his dad's blue eyes.

As for size, when he's full grown he'll stand around the height of an adult Hylian man, so he'll be taller than his dad but short by Zora standards (I figure Mipha seems pretty short for her people's standards too - she is a teenager, of course, but like... she's shorter than Link. Girl is tiny). He's got the structural fins like any Zora, but his body proportions are those of a Hylian (longer legs, shorter torso, whereas Zora are shorter legs and longer torso).

He grows at a rate similar to Hylians - Zora age twice as slow as Hylians until they hit adulthood, and then they just... are adults for a million years. But Miphlink baby grows roughly at the rate of a Hylian, maybe a little slower, and the rest of the Domain is just floored at how fast this kid is hitting his growth milestones.

He definitely has that cute "head tail is too big for his body" thing going on that Sidon had <3

#miphlink #I love seeing people's takes on a miphlink baby #I am still cackling at the idea of Link being a Tired Dad working Too Many Jobs #with Mipha being a Mom Who Overstretches Herself Too Much #so both their parents and friends have to step in to save them from self destructing #meanwhile Zelda is a Stressed Queen and Link and Mipha are trying to support her too because they're all besties #and it's just a hilarious combination and I adore it #and then totk happens and Link gets to channel his inner Abel and be completely Done with everything #Link: *fighting monsters* #Miphlink Baby: *waving frantically and signing he has to pee* #Link while killing a horde of beasts: NOT NOW-- #Miphlink baby doing the pee dance: But I gotta goooooo #guys I gotta make this like some silly little series or something good grief XD #mipha #age of calamity link #aoc link #age of calamity #with eventual totk lol #legend of zelda

[omnomnb]

not that levi kissing them to keep them alive wasn't super romantic and one of my fav moments of the season so far, but did mc seriously not even think to cast a precautionary water breathing spell or smth before going to the house submerged in a flood 😭

#obey me spoilers #nightbringer spoilers #like BRO. DID YOU NOT CONSIDER THAT THE ROOM WOULD BE FULL OF WAYER #lowkey everyone was just Stupid this chapter #building a single massive ark is way more efficient than multiple smaller lifeboats well done guys!!!!! #chasing after no. 3 in a massive horde totally won't scare him away even more!!!! #sending mc to a house submerged in a flood without a water breathing spell is a good idea!!!!! #LIKE AT LEAST GIVE THEM A SCUBA DIVING KIT OR SOMETHING #what was even the point of the two angel blessings if they drowned anyway 💀 #obey me leviathan #obey me mc #levi x mc #leviathan x mc

[art-of-wackylurker]

Ok so I have good news, actually I DO have another guy to accompany Smasher today

Meet Vorskel, a nature nerd who just vibes but actually wishes he'd be something more. Also he's probably going to be the only clean-shaven guy in the squad lol

#artists on tumblr #clone trooper oc #my ocs #oc sundays #star wars oc #ct 1399 #I'm anger. Vorskel turned out so good but Smasher just *had* to be messed up. wtf hands #anyways whoever senses a witcher reference - you're right #I mean at first he just referenced a battle from late 14th century war between Lithuania and Golden Horde but then I went #''Y know what why the fuck not. I'll make a witcher reference'' #because Eskel never truly left my brain. I'm still thinking about him #also like I should make one guy like as much 'in the regs' as possible. Probably Jax. Or Rayg. Or Both #anyways fun fact Vorskel is a horse girl (gn)

[gemstarstarlight]

If I have learned anything in life, it’s that the Single Handsome Boy who does Bad Things will be adored.

Regardless of morality or level of Bad Things.

I think I want to call it The Ted Bundy Precedent.

#this post is inspired by #yoon gwi nam #specifically #I have filters up for reader fics #and gwi nam’s tag is so full of them I had to scroll for a while #to get to any gifs from the show or analysis or anything #(longer than I remember for any other character) #(this includes Steve Harrington) #these are real people but kpop idol tags are also gross offenders and a huge reason why I keep the filters) #it never fails #I will also accept The Edward Cullen Precedent #or The Dabi Precedent #but I like The Ted Bundy Precedent because it shows how this is not a new concept #I wonder if there are any other earlier examples of this? #or what the psychology behind it is? #I’m not gonna take a moral stance on the precedent because to me that would be like taking a stance on gravity #it’s gonna happen #I do hope people know that you are thirsting after a guy who literally threw people to zombie hordes to get what he wanted #this is not the guy who is going to give you a good experience #or put you first or take care of your needs or anything #he would Fuck You Up and not in a fun way #(also gwi nam is a high school student so some of these imaginings are fucked up on even if he weren’t a literal psychopath just saying) #they usually don’t but #as long as people know that fantasies do not make a good partner #and you shouldn’t pick them because of it #then I guess it’s fine #just buck wild #philosophy takes #bad boy syndrome #current status

[tovaicas]

I think the main reason the way the dravanians are handled (other than the kinda shitty implications of this game wanting to have its cake and eat it too re: the dragons, so that it doesn't have to engage with the honestly terrifying and extremely sad plight of the dravanian horde so that the player can still have mindless dragons to fight that you don't have to feel bad abt killing) annoys me so much is that heavensward had an honestly good curated experience of you learning gradually and then all at once just like an ishgardian would that the dravanians are real people with lives, families, customs, and dreams and not the mindlessly hyper-violent animals you've up until anyx trine you've been made to believe they are, something that is started in ARR with midgardsormr but really hammered home that all the dragons, even the ones you've killed, are sentient, intelligent beings with lives and many simply want quiet lives away from the war and don't want to lose their children to it. up until then you've been made to fear dragons and think of them as deserving of violence in turn simply for being what they are under the assumption they're mindless swarming beasts...just as the ishgardians do. heavensward does an honestly very good job of mirroring the ishgardian mindset and viewpoint of the war to you so that you can experience what ishgard feels when the truth is finally laid out for you.

but then as soon as we get anywhere close to actually engaging with that nuance, with what that says about the situation of the dravanian horde and ourselves, combined with the previous, initially offhand lore that the dragons literally cannot ignore the calls of their sires (which is the entire potential crisis that drags aymeric in for his first on-screen appearance, because midgardsormr can drag every dravanian currently alive into the war if he wants) and that maybe this is a far more complicated and tragic situation for all sides than we initially expected, and that maybe nidhogg's brood suffers in a way that's actually very similar to the ishgardians - we drop all of that. we drop it so that we can have an enemy in dungeons we don't have to feel bad about killing, so that we don't have to feel too uncomfortable with our actions or with running these two dungeons.

#saint.txt #spoilers #major spoilers #ishgardposting #long post #like I cannot reiterate enough that neither the vault nor nidhogg are the 'good guys' in this situation. #nidhogg's anger is justified but some of the things he has forced upon the horde (most of which are his own children) are arguably worse #than the vault's crimes. the dravanian horde literally cannot resist nidhogg's war song without literally losing their entire selves. #nidhog's literally engaging in the selective breeding of his own children. the horde - MOST OF WHICH ARE HIS KIDS - are just weapons to him #not to mention the pure horror that comes when you realize a not-insignificant portion of the horde are transformed ishgardians #many of whom are unwilling dravanians who are also not going to be able to resist nidhogg's call to war. #like the tone difference in some parts of HW is staggering. one daily in anyx trine has you chasing around a dravanian child in #what he thinks is a really fun game of hide and go seek and he plays just like literally any other kid would. it's humble. humanizing. #and then you load into sohm al or ESPECIALLY the aery and you're killing dragons in their own homes and sacred spaces #many of which ARE actual children like with whelp models and everything and there's just no commentary. #dravanians are people except for the ones we've inexplicably decided are mindless and Okay To Kill - many of which are children. #tioman is presented is irrationally angry but she had a point. you invaded a sacred place and just started slaughtering indiscriminately.

[mrs-kelly]

What if I took on a project to get pictures and a gif of Charlie from every episode of aIways sunny 👀

#i would never need the tag again... afjkdsl #i'd horde them all for myself too like you guys can see but fandom people wont be able to rb or anything afjsdkl #literally it will just be for me <3 #i think that'd be fun! #it's so easy to find moments i love <3 #in every single episode ajfklds #literally any time i see him i have heart eyes so #it'll make good use of it ajfklds #ren speaks #renlie

[iamthescalesofjustice]

an eclectic group of wardens trying to figure out why they arent being swayed by the calling all the other wardens are getting and figuring out they were all joined either with the substitute archdemon blood from soldiers peak or by this one specific guy who apparently may not even be a warden. and then once anders meets up with them he hears this and gets visibly five times more exhausted and then he opens his mouth to finally start laying out the surana deep lore he has pieced together and well, its good news and bad news.

#also baffling news revelatory news and terrifying news. #tldr up at soldiers peak avernus has what he and surana says is zazikels heart. its in a complicated apparatus that keeps blood pumping #through it. by using draconic blood they can make substitute/postmortem(?) archdemon blood. this would have been fine if zazikel was #inactive the way the rest of the past archdemons are (aside from urthemiel whose soul went into kieran). instead surana is Connected to it #in a way that he has never coherently explained but which he has seemingly-contradictingly claimed is not entirely unlike the situations of #kieran and the magisters sidereal and the sentinels of mythals temple. functionally this amounts to him being the acting #leader of zazikels horde (which they partially comprise) as a semi-separate thing from the general darkspawn horde. fun fact the real #actual canonical term for this is 'omega'. surana has been taking psychic damage from this term since before the veil went up. #none of this is even getting into the really crazy parts yet. anyway yeah bad news we are technically a darkspawn horde good news our boss #isnt interested in obliterating our personhoods beneath his call. but we are still sort of instruments of his will and if any of you here #have not met this guy let me assure you this is going to be a bumpy ride bc on his best days the guy has a death-grip on what few hinges #he can scrape together. but if you want to get paid for all this tell him that and he will definitely try. okay ted talk over'

[fipindustries]

btw, to the surprise of noone, shadow weaver is my favourite character now, because, yeah, you guessed it, she did Absolutely Nothing Wrong

#like at the very least she was 100% justifyed in her actions in mystacor #maybe she shouldnt have joined the horde but on the other hand that allowed her to shit on catra which is always a net good #this is what im talking about when i say that it would have been cool if miss had been a tad more overtly sinister #she-ra #also catra is the objective worst character #i love that now shes just like #hanging on bright moon #she's just there #still looking as grim and sinister as always just working for the good guys now #top character dynamic right there love to see it

[kissingwookiees]

brotherhood of steel loyalists are actually the most annoying fan faction in the fallout fandom...

#theyre only the good guys when theyre pitted against the enclave #and even then... #theyre still a military unit that hordes technology under the guise of 'keeping it out of the hands of those who'd use it for ill' #while also using it to their own nefarious advantages when it suits their whims #and then you know the fans hand wave straight up authoritarianism whenever they need to bc 'but the enclave/institute/etc would be worse'

[tenitchyfingers]

so anyway people are always criticizing anyone who's interested in true crime but I feel like cyber sleuths should get a healthy dose of bullying too because like yeah ok you may think people who read and listen to content about true crime cases are insane (arguing the point is not in my best interest) but the fuckholes who'll harass people and push them into suicide because they think they know something they clearly don't and like they can do a better job than the people who investigate professionally? yeah no those guys are the actual psychos

and yes this is about the Elisa Lam documentary on Netflix

#i'm actually kinda really pissed #because that metalhead's music is butt hair and i'd never willingly listen to it in my entire life #but it'd be one thing if a couple folks wrote to him and told him that his music is ass and then left #which is legitimate #boy believe me i cringed so hard at this dude's music it's so low quality #and i'm saying this as someone who appreciates metal including some good death metal #but it's a different thing when hordes of strangers come at you and accuse you of murder with NO evidence whatsoever #and holy shit this guy almost killed himself from the pressure and stress #bottom line: she didn't take her meds which she was supposed to take after she decided to travel to a whole other country alone #and she kept not taking her meds for days and that's how she ended up drowning in a hotel's water tank #that's all it is #and the folks who harassed this innocent guy never even said they were sorry - the fucking cowards #'but they had good intentions!' no they didn't - all they wanted was to be under the spotlight and that's all it is #people who have any actual good intentions will try helping and not broadcast it to the whole internet #and if the detectives and professionals tell them they're not necessary they'll sit the fuck down and shut up #/vent #btw yo remember when that case happened and everyone went insane phewwwww i'm so glad it's over

[alteredphoenix]

It’s funny how as much as I love playing elves in MMOs (read: WoW) I’ll role a beast race character first thing in others such as Argonians/Khajiit in ESO, Charr in GW2, and Mi’qote in FF14 (ironic, considering how much I loathe the portrayal of catgirls), but I can’t bring myself to main a tauren because the anti-heroic/villainous elements they do have - read: non-Horde Grimtotem tauren - is insignificant next to the more heroic/lawful aesthetic that comprises them.

I think part of the reason is because, for someone that’s supposed to be their racial leader, Baine is...pretty much a non-character. I guess he can be forgiven for that one-dimensionality due to his age - and I think he can be considered young - but if you were to put him next to pre-Legion!Anduin he may as well be almost the same character, just he’s a cow-guy and not a human. Then again, even pre-Legion!Anduin has strokes of leaning into anti-heroic qualities a’la using Void magic on his allies in MoP, but he’s still mostly good.

Baine is such a non-sequitur that for all intents and purposes he’s Just There. And, like, okay, I don’t mind him being good but I do mind him not being fleshed out enough to make him stand on his own and apart from Anduin.

So, yeah, that’s my take on why I don’t roll tauren (except the one I do have, but he’s an alt and I just use him for farming mogs).

#warcraft #i know ppl meme baine for just Sitting There through almost all of SL #but at least you can argue he had the most realistic reaction to being tortured in torghast - that's fine #but he needs *more* #not just his strengths but his weaknesses #i'm not expecting him to be edgy but he kind of sticks out like a sore thumb #next to ppl like rokhan - who doesn't even have a unique model but we get just enough of a glimpse to know his character #and thrall - who's one of the more fleshed out characters in the series #if anybody has to be the token good guy in the horde it's going to be calia - she fills that niche #thalyssra counts too but we see a bit of haughtiness in her w/ the druids in the suramar rebellion #so yeah listing all this makes baine *really* pale in comparison to the other horde leaders #fuck cairne has more of a personality than his own son & he died all the way back in cata #so that just tells me baine is waaaay overdue for some character development #anyway this was supposed to be a post about me talking about my beast race prefernces #which instead turned into a mini-rant on baine #so uhhh yeah

[nexus-nebulae]

i am rapidly beginning to have too many animals in my minecraft house

#echos #so far i have two parrots two cats an ocelot a frog and a shibe on the first floor #there are currently 5 endermen in my basement (no idea how the fifth one got there he just Appeared) #and then outside i have four skeleton horses. and a bee that kinda just Stuck to the horses' fence post for no discernable reason? #like he doesn't move he doesn't even hover or flap his wings he is just face first into the pole on the floor #i wanna build a little house for my little friends #the only issue is the endermen #i would like to Not have them in my basement unfortunately moving entities in boats is. not fun. #and one of the boats is occupied by two endermen meaning i can't move them unless i manage to get them both into separate boats #i'm considering naming them all after the horde of Really Tall Guys In My Brain #(aka Ro and Iris and Jade and Gabriel and that fifth one that might be there idk he's an enigma) #because i think that would just be really funny #idk about names for my pets tho #the frog is probably still gonna be Clark i always name my frogs Clark #i have no fucking clue why Clark was the name i always went for i have literally zero reason for it #it just seemed Right #other than that tho no idea i am not good at naming pets

[vydumaj]

I think I’m cursed bc why is it always the absolute most boring cishet men that hit on me

#tb to my first day of university ever when the guy was surprised I knew what the Golden Horde is bc no one he knew had ever heard of that #what??? #I think me being too good at the course made him drop out after like two weeks tho so it’s good #do I look like a boring straight woman tho…maybe I do…how do I work on that #but then he was from hörby I’m not surprised ppl there don’t know what the Golden Horde is sadly

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

shera 1985 oh ow i want to live in the villians evil lair

#she ra 1985 #1980s cartoons #hordes evil lair #skulls #i love skull designs #tho the good guys have greyskull island and thats cool too #filmation

[korattata]

can i please just get an ursaring/ursaluna massive mass outbreak spawn that leads into an alpha horde already so that way i can suffer and die when i go through all possible permutations of the spawns without finding a shiny

#i practiced earlier to make sure i had the method down on a growlithe horde. and i got a shiny alpha growlithe! #i was also just fucking bored and wanted to get something cool already #i am now in actual focus mode where i'm not bothering with other pokemon at all. please. i just want a cool bear for raids in SV #but i do big fear that like. i will finally get the setup and yet still not be able to get a shiny due to bad luck or something #or bad luck being that i get a fucking teddiursa first round which would! be not great. because it's much harder to battle those! #*new creative post tag here* #ok back to hunting and watching videos instead of whining. #this post probably makes no sense to some people. good you don't want to understand it trust me #the youtube video i watched to make sure i was doing this method right literally had the guy say like. #i don't recommend this shiny hunting method because i do not think it is fun

[abrakophile]

I PLAYED WoW ALL FUCKING DAY TODAY OH MY GOD WHERE DID THE SUN GOOOO???

#i am playing an undead priest #and thats a pretty big deal because one i dont even play horde #and two i dont play priest either! but i was able to quest with a guy and healed him up sooo... #im pretty good at it i guess lol