#the last one before The Dawn

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Good Omens S2 + Onion Headlines (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Aziraphale Special | Crowley Special)

+ bonus

#good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley #aziraphale #onion headlines #i know i keep annoying you all with these but this is officially the last one my work is done #the last one before The Dawn #before we bid a misty eyed goodbye to the Wait & See era #and welcome in the Watch & Sob era of post-s2 release #its bittersweet but we had some good times we danced we sang we cried and now we shall do it all over again #its been a tough road to walk but we fucking did it besties we did it #the devil works hard but me with an onion headline works harder #gomens shitpost

[amaranthdahlia]

[chapter 408] extended cut - sewer chase scene

#oh yeah you knowwww where this was based from🤧🤧 #im kinda sad how mid this turned out rip i hnstly thought i was cooking with the idea (the execution blew tho</3) #anyways yeah the idea just popped in my head when i was looking at the cover redraw i did #and i was like hm the talk of izukus possessiveness here.....woah this scene would be real good with the dawn of quirks era cast #at first it was gonna be the other way around with kudou taking yoichi and afo going batshit and screaming GIVE HIM BACK #but then i was like wait no THIS is a cleverer idea #cus another thing!!! i always like to think afo-yoichi-kudou-bruce had a confrontation before they all started running and yoichi dying #which would further expand afos angry impulsive choice #cus after this scene yoichi has alot of words to say about his brother after he gets out of his grasp and then runs to kudous side #and boom the chase scene . the handhold was the last straw for him #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha manga spoilers #mha #bnha #mha all for one #mha afo #shigaraki yoichi #yoichi shigaraki #mha kudou #mha bruce #second one for all user #third one for all user #dahlia.art #second ofa user

[xamiipholia]

Since it’s been a year since Burning Shores came out, some thoughts on Seyka:

TL;DR: Great character, really happy with her as a love interest for Aloy. They do some really interesting things with her that I never really see addressed so I wanted to talk about them.

She is tangibly shown to be much more of a match for Aloy through gameplay. Compared to other npcs, she solves things faster, does more damage, is a much more formidable melee combatant, faster climber - she even has a fucking Valor Surge using her Focus that does pretty significant tear damage to large machines like Slaughterspines. Environmental storytelling- Seyka’s skiff has at least 2-3 Tiderippers’ worth of parts, meaning she’s been out on her own killing the things to build boat motors, and she has some ambient dialogue that strongly suggests she’s fought and killed Slaugterspines before. Is some of this npc tech advancements in Burning Shores? Maybe, but it feels intentional. 

Seyka has a natural probing curiosity about the old world that for the most part Aloy’s other companions didn’t have without some significant hand-holding from Aloy to get them started, and some of her close friend (but not base team) characters just don’t have at all. I don’t mean this as a moral judgement, everyone is different and has different strengths and priorities , but it’s absolutely critical that a partner for Aloy have that kind of curiosity - it’s such a big part of her character. While she lives in this new world, she’s never going to be entirely a part of it. Like she says, she finds belonging in individuals, and not really the tribes. I don’t really see Aloy settling down in Meridian or Mother’s Heart. She needs to have a life of exploration and discovery and Seyka seems cut from that cloth too, whether she was always that way or being marooned gave her a fresh perspective.

Seyka did risk death using the focus and decided to do it anyway- in Rheng’s notes he calls for capital punishment for her. The threat is never *too* present but honestly I think that’s a broader critique of the series and pretty consistent with the writing of conflicts in Horizon. I agree they could have played up the dramatic tension a bit, but this is a person who weighed the risk of a military execution by a totalitarian state and immediately decided it was worth it to save her sister and others. I think Aloy can intimately relate, given what she went through for Beta.

Even though it’s a DLC, she has a TON of screen time, probably comparable to Kotallo in HFW, and Horizon does SO much storytelling through gameplay and ambient dialogue. I think she’s given a LOT of narrative space to breathe. She’s also has her own musical cues and leitmotifs that do a ton of foreshadowing work through the DLC - in terms of musical cues and framing she’s very associated with the acoustic guitar, and the flute melody in ‘Her Sky, Her Sea’ has for Aloy and Seyka the same function that ‘It Can’t Last’ does for Ellie and Dina in TLOU2 - next time you play Burning Shores, listen for it. That and the guitar cues from ‘The Idea of Home’ and ‘For His Entertainment’ do a lot of emotional work. It’s great stuff.

Okay and lastly- YMMV on this one - I’ve def talked about it with friends before but I don’t think I’ve said it on Tumblr. I’m a firm believer that meta narratives and the way that stories are situated and created in our own world matter and that art deserves to be taken seriously and dissected. I love Horizon, but it, and Aloy as a protagonist, are absolutely drenched in white savior and colonial storytelling tropes. Every time I play Frozen Wilds, all I can think of is Jack Sparrow going “and then they made me their chief”. There’s a lot of iffy stuff in the games, as much as I absolutely love them. We’ll have to see how H3 goes, but Burning Shores is MUCH better about this and honestly Seyka is a huge part of it. The story centers itself on a queer woman of color who is pretty tangibly presented as Aloy’s equal with her own strengths and weaknesses throughout the story and takes the lead just as often if not more than Aloy does, which I find really refreshing. It doesn’t entirely fix Aloy’s white savior issues but I think it’s a really good move for the narrative that continues the themes found in HFW about community and connection.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (2017)

#Seyka #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #horizon #horizon zero dawn #guerrilla games #hzd #horizon burning shores #hfw seyka #horizon critical #The musical leitmotifs are gooooood shit #It was one of the things that really hooked me with the dlc because Horizon had never done that for a character relationship before #Also the last point is not a personal attack #I like lots of vaguely problematic things

[pzyii]

BTVS + text posts pt 6

Pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 7, pt 8, pt 9

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #text post meme #spike btvs #willow rosenberg #xander harris #buffy summers #dawn summers #anya jenkins #tumblr text posts #buffy fandom #the scoobies #the funniest thing about the last one is that taht was true before dawn in a way #i actually font have more after thus at the moment

[jamietwat]

Yeah, Jamie taking Roy to the windmill was romantic and all. But do you know what else is romantic? Them getting up before dawn and watching the sunrise together every day

#And I could so see Jamie calling him on it out of nowhere one morning #Like you know if you wanted to watch the sunrise with me every morning you could have just asked #And Roy would ignore him and roll his eyes but get that amused little smile the moment Jamie wasn’t looking because he was distracted by #his training anyway #They’re up and outside before dawn and training out there well into the morning so it must be happening #This both is and isn’t related to my last post #RoyJamie #Roy Kent #Jamie Tartt #Ted Lasso #Mine

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

it does something incomprehensible to my little writer’s soul whenever alex articulates a phenomenon of the writing process i’ve always picked up on and then goes on to describe it in exactly the same way

#when i first heard him say this when i was watching the interview i legit had to pause the video for a moment #because it was like he’d actually taken my words straight out of my mouth #literally for years i’ve been fascinated by the little timeless pocket between dusk and dawn where there’s so much freedom #to explore creativity uninhibited and unobserved and without fear of consequence #the way it allows you to create things almost as if they don’t really exist #or like the rest of the world doesn’t #and the magic of that freedom #like if you create things on the cusp of dreams it’s almost as if they don’t count #they’re liberated from any usual self doubt or self criticism that invades the imaginative space during the daylight #why am i making myself sound like a creative vampire 😭 #i’m going to stop rambling in the tags now sorry #i fear absolutely none of this makes sense #kudos to anyone who’s read the whole way through this #the gist of what i’m trying to say is that it’s such a special feeling when someone whose writing you adore and connect to so much #puts into words elements of the process that have always resonated with you #and this is just one example too #right i’m going to stop rambling now #but one last thing before i go #on a more superficial note: can we appreciate how softly spoken and soft fluffy haired he is here?? 🥺 #alex turner #humbug era #arctic monkeys #alex vid #lulu posts

[causeitsagame]

UNTITLED ANGST PROMPTFIC THE THIRD (out of four, I am guessing)?

Sequel to this and this, and will make zero sense without them.

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"So as I have said, all this time," Peko quietly finished, "Fuyuhiko has not given up our location."

Hajime's heartbeat thudded irregularly in his chest. It was exactly two months later, and he'd demanded the long-promised explanation even before anyone could eat.

Since they'd left the islands, he'd settled on one awful outcome as the most likely path. Fuyuhiko had promised to distract their would-be captors; he'd do anything to protect the knowledge he held; he'd said a rescue would be pointless after two months. One week after fleeing, a horrifying potential explanation for all of that had erupted into Hajime, unbidden: a suicide pill.

He spent the next weeks trying to think of absolutely anything besides that worst-case scenario. Over and over, he'd failed. When the day finally arrived, he'd grabbed Peko early as possible, wanting to collapse that quantum state of "dead" and "alive" into some known truth, whatever it was.

Never had he considered something even darker than Fuyuhiko offering himself up to die.

Hajime's jaw hung open at Peko's explanation, useless. No words came. It felt like his throat was swelling shut.

"And you did not stop him?" Sonia demanded, teary-eyed.

"Stop him?" Peko's eyes were just as glossy. "It was his idea. His choice to make. His decision that saved all of us."

Kazuichi looked lost, like some young child. "You both lied to me. I wouldn't… I wouldn't have sent the plane."

Peko's gaze drifted slowly downward. "It was the only way. He knew that, and so did I. If any of you pretend otherwise, you're diminishing his choice and his sacrifice. I won't allow you to dishonor him like that."

"Fuck that," Hajime spat. His blood surged hot as nightmarish memories crowded his mind. He remembered exactly what it had been like to be slowly sanded away to fit inside someone else. "And fuck you."

Peko looked back up and met his gaze with bloodshot, hollow eyes.

Hajime regretted the words as soon as they clawed out of him, but he swallowed hard and said nothing.

For a while, there was silence. A measured voice eventually broke it. "Ultimately, this was Fuyuhiko's decision. Peko is not his keeper. This has been a heavy burden for her to bear, I'm sure." The Imposter's face was solemn and determined. "But now, the rest of us can help. Hajime, it's fortunate that you negotiated that two month timeline. We'll put it to good use, now."

Sonia nodded slowly and lifted a shaking hand to her chest. "I'll start listening for any directions we might pursue. Kazuichi, can you please work on enhancing the ship's surveillance?"

He nodded, still bewildered and heartbroken over how he'd been used months earlier.

Inhaling, Sonia turned. "Ibuki, when I begin listening to those streams, will you help me work through the static?"

Ibuki looked up from where she gnawed on her thumbnail and nodded.

With clearly feigned confidence, Sonia forced a smile onto her face. "Then everyone, let us all do our very best with all of the tasks before us. Teruteru, I know you will have a wonderful meal for us to start our day. Let us do that first, and then get to work."

In silent unison, nearly everyone filtered out of the meeting room on the ship they'd adopted as their new home. The remaining duo took a while to say anything.

"I'm sorry," Hajime eventually mumbled.

"Perhaps I should have spoken up earlier." Peko gripped her wrist. "I am supposed to be making my own decisions, after all." After a heavy pause, she looked toward him. "You can't go."

Hajime's jaw set. "I have to."

"You were the main factor behind his decision. If we all only faced death, he might not have left. Simple death probably isn't worth these extreme measures."

It felt like the room's shadows abruptly deepened. For an instant, Hajime was back across the Pacific, feeling himself be stripped away. "So, if not for me, Fuyuhiko wouldn't have…"

"No. I really don't think so." Peko's gaze softened with understanding. "I know you want to help. But it's like he said, months ago: if you get captured, everything he's gone through will have been for nothing."

"But… I won't, they won't get me. But I'll get him."

"What do you think he'd do if you said that to him?"

Hajime tried imagining that, and could only picture soul-deep betrayal if he even made the attempt. "I just…" Biting his lip, he looked toward a porthole. Through it, he could see the cliff face that their ship was anchored along, helping to hide it in this small, tucked-away bay. "It's my fault. Something worse than death, and it's my fault."

"We'll get him back."

Hajime felt the ship tilt under his feet. They'd gotten used to living on the waves, but he was suddenly dizzy as it moved. He again remembered the unspeakable claustrophobia of feeling like his entire existence was closing in, followed by endless, useless freedom after that existence shattered. Will we?

It took another sixteen days until the question was answered. C O L L E C T E D, came each letter with agonizing slowness. The obscure data route was undetectable, but the speed meant that they hadn't been able to update everyone else on their progress.

Hajime's heart leapt as he saw Peko's transmission. Finding Fuyuhiko meant he'd been alive to find. And even better, she wouldn't have sent that until she, the Imposter, and their target were safely back on the helicopter they'd acquired. (From an abandoned Canadian base along the coast, and modified to remove absolutely all tracking elements.) "Mikan, get the infirmary ready."

The rest of the group was waiting behind him, unable to see the small communications screen. "For everyone?" Mikan risked asking in a tiny, tremulous voice. "Or did the mission… did things not go…?"

Hajime turned, grinning like he'd almost forgotten how to do. "For everyone."

Relief ran through them in a messy, joyous surge. They allowed themselves a few rounds of hugs before Mikan demanded to be let through, with the sort of confidence that only came to her for a patient's sake. Hajime's own relief practically felt like it had hollowed him out, and his hands shook as he moved to follow her there.

As the two of them worked on preparing the small infirmary, Hajime's mind skittered away from considering what state Fuyuhiko would be in when he arrived. His mind didn't allow him to view today as anything but amazing, and so every darker thought that piped up was quickly squelched. "He might hate how cold it is, up here," Hajime cheerfully said as he took inventory of their medical supplies. "Of course, he complained about how hot the islands could be."

"He might like it more here," Mikan agreed with a bright nod. The infirmary was on the other side of the ship, and its portholes looked out over water and onto the evergreen forest beyond. It might be Canada out there, or might be Alaska, but there were no still-living towns for a hundred miles in either direction. Unless someone knew exactly where to look, the Remnants were undetectable. There was food out there, too: berries and fish and meat and various other things that only Teruteru and Hajime could name.

It didn't feel like a home, but it had been okay. Maybe it would feel like home when all of them were together, again.

The two of them needn't have rushed. The helicopter had a long path to fly, and needed a stopover at an abandoned base in the Aleutians to refuel. Slow letters appeared again as the next dawn touched the trees: A L M O S T T H E R E.

"Stay in the infirmary!" Hajime ordered Mikan as he ran for the landing pad at the back of the boat. "I'll bring him in!"

The message had taken long enough to arrive that he could see the approaching helicopter when he ran outside. Hajime threw an arm halfway over his eyes to block the whipping gusts from its blades, but unlike the rest of their group, he kept walking forward against the wind. He could see the Imposter at the controls; Peko must be at the back of the craft with Fuyuhiko.

He's here, Hajime thought, and felt his eyes swim with sudden tears. We got him.

When he could finally slam the helicopter's door open and see inside, Hajime's heart twisted with mingled joy and fear. Yes, Peko was in the back of the aircraft, tenderly holding a slender figure wrapped in a blanket, but that figure was absolutely still. It took Hajime a moment to process that Peko's expression would look very different if she were holding a corpse, and he forced himself foward.

His heart twisted again; this time, only with agony.

Fuyuhiko's exposed skin was a mass of overlapping bruises and cuts, new and old and poorly healed. The scar over his bad eye had been further mutilated; there was probably no going without an eyepatch, now. And beneath everything, his skin was sallow and dry, with cavernous hollows under his eye sockets and cheekbones. One arm extended out of the blanket, and its wrist was awkwardly, painfully prominent. Fuyuhiko had never had weight to lose, but they'd stolen it from him, anyway.

Hajime looked at all that, and at the ragged red tips to all of Fuyuhiko's fingers, and felt a crimson wash pass over his vision. Focus on him, he thought, and balled his fists until they hurt. Think about them later. "I'll get him to the infirmary."

"Careful," Peko whispered. Her cheeks were marked with tear streaks, some fresh.

Hajime's arms shook as he slowly picked up Fuyuhiko. Despite his care, Fuyuhiko hissed as soon as his torso twisted even a bit. Probably broken ribs, Hajime thought, and began cataloguing the injuries as he walked forward. Limited movement prescribed for that. Significant dehydration; IV fluids. And…

The group split as he approached. Gasps and soft cries welcomed Fuyuhiko back to them, but everyone had more sense than to make any noise louder than a whisper. If he hadn't needed to limit the jostling that Fuyuhiko's ribs received, Hajime's arms would have shook by the time he stepped back into the ship's interior.

As he walked into the infirmary, Hajime whispered, "We got him."

Mikan's eyes filled with tears, and she moved for her supplies.

Fuyuhiko still hadn't come to, but faint groans and uncharacteristic whimpers suggested that consciousness was just below the surface. At one of those soft, vulnerable sounds, Hajime's heart seized anew. He couldn't help but kneel next to Fuyuhiko's shoulder, so their faces were close. "Hey. It's okay. You're safe."

That seemed to work, at least a little, so Hajime tried again. "It's okay. You're back with us. I'm right here and I'm going to help you. It's okay."

Fuyuhiko's good eye slit open. His gaze roamed slowly around the infirmary and eventually settled on Hajime, though he seemed to have trouble focusing. "Where's Peko?" The question came out as a cracked, tired sigh.

"We'll get her," Hajime promised, and nodded to Mikan. She nodded back and darted out of the infirmary. If Peko had been the one to actually carry Fuyuhiko to safety, he could only imagine what a relief she must be to see. They should have thought of that and insisted that she come along right away, despite the infirmary's tight quarters.

Fuyuhiko tried to run his gaze around the infirmary, again, but even that appeared to exhaust him. "Who're you?"

Hajime's heart skipped a beat. The optimism he'd used to brick off Peko's explanation of Fuyuhiko's horrifying plan began to develop thick cracks. "It's Hajime. Remember me?"

Fuyuhiko stared back at him, still unable to focus his vision. "You…"

Hajime barely kept himself from grabbing Fuyuhiko's hand to try to encourage him. Mikan hadn't bandaged the many, many wounds there, yet. "Yeah. Me."

"You must be all sorts of fucked-up," Fuyuhiko managed. "Looking at you feels like a whole burnt-out library."

Hajime's arms felt to weigh a ton apiece, suddenly. They hung heavy.

For the first time, Fuyuhiko's eye managed to focus, but he wasn't looking at Hajime. The relief and trust he'd hoped to see directed at him were finally there, but aimed only for the woman walking through the infirmary door. "So. What's the situation?"

"You're safe, young master," Peko whispered.

Hajime shook his head. Young master? He'd gotten her to stop saying that soon after waking up.

Fuyuhiko studied Hajime as critically as his barely-there energy stores would allow. "You mind?"

This couldn't be happening. It couldn't be as bad as Peko had described. It couldn't be that bad, not really. Not when he was back and alive. "Mind?" Hajime dumbly echoed.

"Private conversation."

"I. Sure. Okay." Numb, Hajime stood and stepped past Peko. She brushed down his arm with quick sympathy, but then stepped in to take the spot he'd vacated at Fuyuhiko's bedside.

Perhaps Peko didn't realize that he could still hear from there, or perhaps she didn't care. Maybe she even wanted him to hear. "Young master, these are the people I mentioned. You can trust them all."

"…You sure about that?"

"Yes. I am."

"'Cause I must've burned them out for a reason."

"You did. You were protecting them all, because you care very much. You even went back to memories of meeting them, it appears. Doing so much was very." Peko's calm wobbled momentarily, as did her voice. "Very brave."

"I get that. But." Fuyuhiko took a long pause. "I didn't burn out a chunk of stuff that was just about me. That way, I'd still know what year it was, and shit like that."

"That makes sense."

Fuyuhiko took a longer pause. "So I remember what I did."

Peko was silent for a while, in return. "Things are different, now. Very different."

"If these people know me… did they do that kind of shit, too?"

More silence. "Things are different, now."

"What about the guy who just left?"

Holding his breath, Hajime flattened himself more against the wall, like they'd somehow notice him eavesdropping.

"Hajime? What do you mean?"

"I look at you, and I know I burned out a lot of big memories starting in high school. I looked at that fat guy, and I burned out anything big, too. But that guy just now… everything. I burned out every goddamn thing I know about him. Why?"

Hajime's knees weakened, and he barely kept himself from collapsing where he stood. It took him a second to realize that Mikan, unable to hear the quiet conversation inside the room, was asking if he was all right. He ignored her.

"He was who you were most concerned about. You found it absolutely unacceptable for him to be at any risk of capture."

"He's who got me all fucked up, then? That guy?"

"Young master, that's not… the situation is very complicated. It is not Hajime's fault."

"Sounds like it is. Heh." The soft noise earned a hiss of pain.

That, Mikan was able to hear. With an apologetic look toward Hajime, she murmured something about needing to interrupt them and walked into the infirmary.

After a moment, Hajime walked away with slow, heavy steps, again feeling like his existence had been shattered.

His mind spiraled, veering between Fuyuhiko's horrific injuries, those dismissive words, and his own memories of existence burning away. With each such cycle, he spiraled tighter and lower, and everything began to overlap into a screaming, endless chorus. Soon, the doctors who'd stolen his own memories were the faces torturing Fuyuhiko, and they thanked Hajime for showing them the way.

Hajime started running. He barely made it back outside and to the ship's railing before he doubled over and coughed up a stream of bile. A large, strong hand gripped one shoulder while a metal one gripped the other, and both men asked if Hajime was all right.

"No," Hajime said dully, staring into the distance. He wasn't.

Because Fuyuhiko was right. And he'd been right, when he said it to Peko.

This was his fault.

#my fic #darkest before the dawn or something #last one will have more light but uhh it'll be a cloudy day?

[mattodore]

how did you two meet?

she offered me her hand.

#simblr #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 screenshots #echthroi #matthias evanoff #imani haut #river dipping #🦇 #they're 11-12 15-16 18-19 here respectively :) #first photo: imani introducing herself to the creepy boy studying alone #second pic: matthias reaching out to grab imani's hand one last time before his parents take him away #(if you read that little ask i got abt matthias's backstory this is when they took him out of school bc of his father's ego and health) #third pic: matthias's eighteenth birthday. imani showed up to take him away from the awful school his mother sent him to out of spite. #(note the uniform change) #he was finally able to leave after turning eighteen. it was one of those ''reformation'' schools #where they've even got the law enforcement in on it yk 'bring them back to us if you find them'' #they hadn't seen each other in person for three years. she showed up at the break of dawn to get him. ugh. #um. anyway this took me forever. happy late birthday matthias <3 here's a tribute to the first person to show you love <3 #HE'S GAY. just fyi. if that wasn't clear. i know this is kinda romantic looking but it's not djknhfkjnh

[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

[blowingoffsteam2]

My theory: This whole mural in the Keyblade Graveyard labyrinth, read from top to bottom, is depicting the final passage of the book of prophecies- Riku’s sacrifice (the solar symbol on top, the demon tide being split around them, Sora below) Sora’s heart breaking (the splitting of the heart), and subsequently the descent into the “abyss” (the coffin shaped chaos (greek khaos) symbol beneath the ground). Riku’s sacrifice was the last thing MoM saw/wrote down, hence why the final passage appears on screen when Riku and Sora are covered by the demon tide. “And so, as foretold, darkness prevailed and light expired.”

“The word khaos means "gap" or "chasm" being the space between heaven and earth.” “In Christian theology, the same term is used to refer to the gap or the abyss created by the separation of heaven and earth.”

#soriku #just a theory #but remembering the chaos symbol made me realize how the coffin shaped one there fits into the story #Riku's sacrifice being the last thing MoM saw before the abyss because way to dawn broke #breaking that link #of course No Name still exists so he should still have been able to see what happened next #but I don't think it's a coincidence he ended the BoP right then and there #mural #keyblade graveyard

[evakant]

top first watches of 2023 — tagged by @sensazioneultra (thank you nico ily baci baci 🧡🎥)

i only watched forty-two movies last year and ten-ish of those were re-watches, so there's not a lot to pick from for my top watches. that being said these are what i enjoyed the most, for one reason or another

i'm definitely going to try and get back into movies this year because i miss them and my watchlist keeps getting bigger and bigger <3

in no particular order:

call me chihiro / bottoms / polite society

they cloned tyrone / ballerina / mockingjay part 2

not tagging anyone, but if you'd like to do this and haven't been tagged yet then i'm tagging you

#fra.txt #log.txt #it is/was a running joke between me and my sister - the fact that i never watched the two mockingjay movies #AND the two breaking dawn movies when they came out #despite watching the movies before it AND reading the books #for breaking dawn especially it still baffles her to this day that i haven't because it used to be my absolute favorite part of the saga #like i would sometimes just re-read part two of breaking dawn at random #i didn't /not/ want to watch them i just.... didn't get around to doing it lmao #but last year she was like. no. we're rewatching the hunger games AND you're finally going to watch mockingjay for the first time #and it was a really good time #i think there's a lot that they could have kept from the books but as a whole the hunger games movies are probably one of the few #books-to-movies adaptations that was done well (or well enough)

[graveyardmouth]

its that time of the night

#and the year. #really makes me feel like summer especially middle school and before #completely isolated from all my friends panic attacks every time the sun went down hiding from my mom trying to block out screaming as #best i could staying up til dawn drinking dr pepper stealing my moms books listening to my dads cds stealing chocolate chips and eventually #wine from the kitchen puking in the bathroom reading the perks of being a wallflower goinf out for bike rides in the early morning walking #to the library and collapsing on the way home cause i hadnt eaten in 2 days walking past the church holding a knife in one hand #biking because i just knew there was somebody waiting to kill me dying my hair three times begging for escape from the monotony making #friends on twitter and discord in bad places getting attention from strangers for my relationship with a razor blade staying up all night #for the quiet because i needed to be alone because i couldnt sleep to feel something besides numbness getting yelled at for keeping my room #messy and crying thinking about people knowing i was eating finding a book that made me happy and knowing that once i finished it id #return to awful numbing boredom nothing could fix god ive typed a lot #sorry im feeling nostalgic about feeling bad and summer has always been one of many low points in the year for me #anyways ✌️ #dw about me im actually in a really good place mentally rn i just. am worried for how long itll last #and quite scared about getting taken off my antidepressants tbh #bug shut up #delete later #Youtube

[tragedykery]

ok I’ve been thinking about taituk’s attitude towards murder lately and I think might have come to a tentative conclusion. the main problem is that if I make taituk just “ok with murder” is that, by letting (part of) their crew stay there, I would imply that attitude extends to the entirety of the tribe. but taituk being against killing in any and all cases would not be realistic, considering their job (pirate captain), and their background (grew up half on a farm in the earth kingdom where killing animals for meat presumably wasn’t rare, half in the south pole, where the main source of food is animals—both of which would lead them or others to question what the difference is between killing animals and killing people. are people of higher worth than animals and do they therefore deserve to not be killed? does that mean that animals don’t deserve to live? etc)

so I think the most realistic opinion for them to have would be that killing needs to save more lives than it takes. hunting for food, killing somebody to prevent them from hurting/killing others is okay, but hunting for fun and murder out of anything other than necessity is not.

#in any case I’d need to research the yupiit beliefs abt death and probably the vietnamese ones too if I can find any sources #abt those before colonialism #elli rambles #oc tag #oc rambles #taituk #the birates #wind in the sails #I’m still thinking about what exactly sita and hira would eat on the ship #& their presumed vegetarianism in general #I imagine growing up in an orphanage hira would not have eaten much meat bc that shit’s expensive #what would their attitudes towards killing animals be? I can’t imagine there’s a sustainable food source other than fish in the middle of #the sea. I know air nomads are allowed to eat meat when relying on others for food/if that’s what’s available (see: the dawn of yangchen) #but would sita choose to do so forever… #and what would hira do when finding out air nomads don’t eat meat? #with the desire to connect with her culture that’s so important to her character it’d be likely she’d immediately eschew meat #but like. is that possible in this situation? #they crew would definitely buy rice and dried foods at ports but that doesn’t last forever when you’re at sea… #hmm I could also play with those air nomad beliefs #bc I’m playing with the worldbuilding anyway which includes there being multiple ethnic and religious groups within the air nomads #and adding hindu influences so

[drawnecromancy]

Find the word

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier !

Tagging : @the-stray-storyteller, and an OPEN TAG because i still can't remember who does/doesn't do tag games

Words I have to find : Blue, Beauty, Cloud, Blink

Words YOU have to find : Sleep, Sun, Glasses, Tree

As always I'll be putting an excerpt or two from whatever i can find in my files and note where it's coming from afterwards. And, uh, considering I haven't written in english much as of late... I hope I can find more than one, lol.

BLUE

"He froze when Winter’s sword sank in the ground right next to him, the intricate and all too familiar spellwork glowing blue, reaching towards memories of someone he’d killed. He tried to get up and move - she was dead, she was dead, this was nothing - but his legs did not respond." – Winter's Rage

BEAUTY (had to cheat a little for this one)

"He laughed softly, before looking up at her, catching a playful glint in her eyes. She was the most beautiful girl in the world, he thought, and he’d give everything for her to look at him like this all the time, for this instant to replace every argument they’d ever had, to just be with her." – Winter's Rage

CLOUD

"The Emperor shrugged, a cloud of marble dust erupting from the millions of little cracks on his shoulders." – Lumeria and the Emperor

BLINK (this one is making me realize HOW OFTEN the Emperor in particular just. stops and blinks at least twice when he's surprised. i had a lot of things to choose from !)

"Velannen blinked once, twice. Sighed, and sat further back in his chair, putting some distance between himself and the image of righteous anger before him. As he grabbed his infusion with his free hand, a deep look of disappointment and sadness washed over the linguist’s face." – Velannen

#tag games #find the word #for once i have the time AND energy to respond :DDD ive been missing out on the games as of late #winter's rage #break of dawn #before dawn : the age of the gods #my writing #also if anyone's wondering about that last one : Velannen IS the Emperor. just before he's called that

[eldest-sibling-tournament]

ITS RAMADAN I AM SUPPOSED TO WAHE UO IN 2 HOURS BUT I CANT SLEEP BECAUSE BOTH MY PEOPLE ARE LOSING

:(((

oh no! ramadan mubarak though <3

#who even needs suhoor anyway ive never woken up to eat before a fast day... but also obv it's a different circumstance #both bc theres no pre-dawn prayer in judaism (not that i do regular prayer anyway lol) and bc you dont need a pre-dawn meal if the fast #only lasts one day. bc there are no sequential jewish fast days #asks #anon

[peapod20001]

Haha uhm... 👉👈 would anyone care to hear some of my oc voiceclaim songs..

#random post #ahmm. off the top of my head of ones I haven’t shared. Stormi. Piper. Robin. Nellie. Lucas. Fanny. Symphony and Melody. I haven’t explicitly #shared Elodie’s. I haven’t shared Noel’s. Adalene. Pierre. Carolina. Budgett. Fleur. Dawn #Beau. Bubba. Pinot (I say those last two cus I changed em from the last time lol) idk if I ever explicitly shared Louis’ #I’ve got some for Blondees kids notably Chloe. Pearl. Tyler. Lila and Mia #I changed Charlottes voice but I’m still debating it. I changed Casey’s. I have Daphne and Blair. I don’t think I ever explicitly shared #Ellie’s. I got some for John Al and Nina. I’ve got some for Tercero Paulo and Shiho. I got one for Kibi! and Anona. London. Charmaine and #Lorraine. I’ve got one for Ayo and arguably one for both Chaz and Kandy. I’ve got one for Kolten and Adie and Joka #arguably one for Félicien. oh! I have ones for James’ sisters and his son. I got one for Aoife too! I got 2 different ones for Gabriele #and I got some that aren’t songs like Ike and Frances. honestly my shapeshifter god peeps can sound like anything. but they still have VIBES #yknow? like I have some for Teuflisch too that are like him vibes #FUCK that’s still a lot. and I narrowed it to ones I haven’t shared !!! gah. anyways #hell. fuck it yknow what? even ones I’ve shared before. if u don’t wanna have to sift through my whole voiceclaim tag I can just share em #again for u. I really don’t mind at all lol I like sharing them <3